Where You Want To Be
Chapter Two: Invite me, Rinoa
By: Black Demon567

"Feelings and emotions get the best of us,
But that's what makes us human."

Author's Note: I've decided to call Zell's girlfriend Leah. Thanks whoever gave me the name... but I've also taken to the name Lee. So... it'll be her nickname. So, Leah Lee... anymore confusing equations?

Summary: Squall and co. have arrived in Deling City and got to meet the famous pianist, Rinoa Heartily. What will happen now...? (I don't know! It's plotless!)

Status On Story: No plot! I ain't trying to rush the romance...but I think I'm gonna have a little twist and pain with Squall...and I figured I didn't write enough description.

Author's Status: On Story: I still hate my writing capabilities and have no idea why I'm writing still...someone find a therapist.

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy or Square Enix for that matter.

"Hi." She gave a warm and welcoming smile. "I'm Rinoa Heartily."
"It's nice to meet you all!" She said happily. "Even if Seifer's one of them." Seifer scoffed and got up.

"Oh, it's nice to see you too Rin." He mumbled sarcastically. 'I swear this day should be crowned Make-Fun-Of-Seifer Day.' She nonetheless gave him a hug.

"RIN!" A hyperactive voice was heard loudly. Rinoa turned to see a petite brunette in yellow clothing rushing towards her and practically tackling her.

"Hi Selph..." Rinoa patted her head and returned the embrace. "How are you?"

"Good!"

"That's good," Rinoa looked to Seifer. "Well, I've greeted everyone I know, so how about you introduce me to everyone?"

Seifer merely nodded and turned to the rest of the group and started to point out the people and state who they were. Each person when stated stood up and shook the pianist's hand.

"This is Quistis." Seifer smiled inwardly as he pointed out the blond haired girl.

"Ah, the infamous Instructor Trepe." Rinoa giggled. "Seifer's told me a lot about you." Quistis gave her an awkward look, then looked to Seifer who gave a: Yeah, so what? grin.

"I doubt that any of it was good," She said matter of fact.

"No no, it was all good things," Rinoa smiled. "He gives much respect to you Instructor."

'What...?' Quistis' mind was a blur. Seifer said nice comments about her?

"Moving on..." Seifer pointed to the spiky haired blond and his girl friend.

"That's Chicken-wuss-"

"Hey!" Zell pouted. "Ugh...my name's Zell, it's nice to meet you."

"Likewise." The pianist smiled. Zell rubbed his hand on the side of his baggy shorts and placed it out. She shook it. Seifer then pointed to Zell's girlfriend.

"And she's uh...well...uh...I don't know...Library girl?"

"I have a name." The girl sighed. Not many people knew her name and only called her library girl.

"Then...what is it?" Seifer mumbled getting ticked off.

"It's Leah, but you can call me Lee," She shook Rinoa's hand. "It's what Zell calls me."

"I'll keep that in mind." Now all that was left was Squall.

"And this is Commander Puberty," Was the first thing Seifer said. Squall looked up at Seifer with a cold glare from his icy blue eyes.

'Nice eyes...very cute...if only he'd smile...' Rinoa thought. Irvine rolled his eyes and spoke.

"His name's Squall Leonhart...I've told you about him, haven't I Rin?" Rinoa nodded.

"So this is Commander Leonhart, it's nice to meet you." She held out her hand but he only looked at it, then crossed his arms and looked away.

"Whatever." Him and Rinoa chorused. Rinoa began to giggle.

"Irvine's told me that's your favorite word, or at least your most used." Squall rolled his eyes, but somewhere in his mind he let out a smirk.

"Well, I hope you guys enjoy dinner!" Rinoa said now seated, she looked to Zell. "By the way, Irvine told me you love hot dogs so I had an order of them just for you." Zell looked at her shocked and with so much happiness, he then turned to Irvine.

"Can we keep her?" With a childish expression of want adding puppy eyes for effect.

Irvine laughed, "I guess...if she's a good princess." Rinoa smiled and nodded. The food came out and everyone ate. It was quite a delicious meal, so much which most had seconds and Zell was now on his fifteenth hot dog. By the time they had finished it was 7:27 P.M.

"Well... now what do we do?" Quistis asked. "It's only 7:30...there's no way I could possibly go to sleep at this time."

"She could go all night," Seifer said with a smirk. Quistis elbowed him in the rib. "Ow!"

"We could go to town." Rinoa added in. The others looked at each other with agreement.

"Alright! Let's go!" Leah said excitedly. She stood up quickly taking Zell by the hand to her room to see what she would wear.

"What's there to do in town?" Seifer asked.

"You idiot..." Irvine sighed as he got up to go see the driver, Cid.

Rinoa's eyes went wide, "Shopping of course!"

"Quistis!" Seifer pleaded for the millionth time. "Please, please can we go back to the mansion?"

"For the last time, no."

"But we've been shopping for hours!" Seifer moaned checking his watch. It read 8:13. 'Okay...so maybe not hours...'

"Seifer... I'm warning you... I really want to get some shopping done."

"Why?"

"...personal reasons."

"Bull shit."

"Pardon?"

"Nothing... ugh." Seifer groaned. Quistis looked around and her eyes opened with pleasure spreading across her face as a smile tugged on her face.

"Let's go there... the clothing shop!" Seifer's eyes went wide as he looked to her.

"WHAT?"

Zell, Leah, Selphie, Irvine, Squall, and Rinoa heard a yell throughout the mall.

"The hell was that?" Zell asked.

"Quistis probably dragged Seifer into a clothes store... you know how he gets." Selphie giggled as Irvine just shrugged with a smile. "He hates going shopping." Selphie tugged onto his coat and he pulled his head down so she could whisper into his ear. He grinned and hooked his arm in which she placed her hand through and they walked off saying anything.

"They're so cute." Rinoa smiled discreetly as she saw the petite 'train girl' take the cowboy's hat and put it on her.

"Yes, they are..." Leah trailed off.

"Hey, Lee? Wanna go in there?" Zell asked her pointing to a book store.

"Zell, are you sure?" He nodded a bit reluctantly. "Okay!" Faster then you could say 'bookworm' they were gone, leaving Rinoa and silent Squall all by themselves.

'Great, I'm stuck with her...'

'Great, I'm stuck with him...'

"So...um... Squall..." Rinoa gave a nervous chuckle. "What do you want to do?"

"Go home."

"Ah... I see, well..." Rinoa bit her lip. This was going to be harder then she thought. "How about we get ice cream?" She looked up to Squall, who was silent and quiet, his back pressed against the wall. There was no nod and no shaking head left to right. "Alright, let's go!" She took him by the wrist and dragged him, literally, to the ice cream shop.

"So, what do you want?"

"Nothing, I don't like ice cream." Well, that was kind of a lie, since he did like ice cream... but he just didn't feel like having any.

"Okay! He'll have a butterscotch ripple and I'll have some rocky road." Rinoa said to the register lady.

"I said I di-"

"-dn't want any, yes I know. But who cares, it's fun to eat ice cream." She said with a cute smile. The lady came back with two ice creams on cones.

"That'll be five gil." Rinoa smiled and nodded and began to rummage through her purse when she heard a cling hit the counter. She looked up to see five coins sitting on the counter and one of the ice creams gone. The lady took the coins and put them in the gil register. Rinoa took her ice cream and turned to see Squall walking to an empty table where he sat and ate his ice cream with a serious expression.

"Um... thanks." Rinoa said sitting down on the other side of the table.

"Whatever..."

"You know, you'll get wrinkles from being that serious all the time."

"Whatever."

"Is that all you say?"

"No." Rinoa looked at him with curiousity.

"I see... so, what's it like..."

"What is what like?"

"Being a commander?"

"It's a job, a lot of paper work, always busy."

"Sounds like fun..." Rinoa said in a sarcastic tone of voice.

'Yeah... it's tons of fun...' Squall thought to himself with a hint of humor.

"Look Irvy! There they are!"

"Well, let's go see em'!" Irvine said about to walk when he felt a tug on his arm.

"No come on! Rinoa got Squall to talk! They're having a conversation!" Selphie told him. "It's a miracle! And plus, don't they look cute together!"

"Selphie, what do you mean?"

"I mean, wouldn't it be just perfect if Rin got with Squall? He needs someone in his life!"

"No, Selphie... don't play matchmaker."

"And why not?" Selphie asked him with a pout, placing her hands on her hips.

"I just... uh... don't you think Squall'd get mad?" Irvine said with hesitiation.

"Well, it's not like you could tell with that serious face of his!"

"I'm just sayin' darlin'... let him work it out on his own."

"...I...um... f-fine." Selphie sighed. "I won't do anything."

"Promise?"

"...promise." Selphie replied. As Irvine kissed her forehead, Selphie smiled as she untwined the two fingers behind her back.

"Oh thank God! I can breathe!" Seifer said taking huge breaths.

"Relax Seifer, we were only in the perfume department for five minutes!"

"But Quistis, that stuff is air poison!"

"Are you saying that woman don't smell nice in perfume, but it can kill you?" Quistis asked him in disblief.

"I... well, I wouldn't be surprised if there was poison in those bottles!" Quistis looked at him as if he were a child.

"You're so immature." Quistis turned and frowned sighing as she thought, 'Well, there goes that perfume I'm wearing...'

Seifer watched her walk away... 'Great Seifer, there goes your chance of being with her...' "Hey, wait up!"

"You're kidding me right? You had to clean the girl's bathroom all because you gave the cleaning crew a day off when it was spring break?" Squall just ignored her. "Not only is that funny, but that is so lame!" Rinoa burst out laughing.

"And why IS it lame?"

"Because, you missed spring break! How could you miss spring break?" She said between laughs.

"I had work." He replied coolly.

"They do call it spring break for a reason." Rinoa calmed herself and tried regain herself.

"I see, and so you had a spring break too?"

"Well, kind of. You see I got to go to Esthar during it, but I had a piano recital." Rinoa smiled. "Hey, you know what? I need to go to practice tomorrow for the Ice Ball... you want to come?"

"Whatever..."

"I'll take that as a yes. Then it's settled." Rinoa grinned and flipped her hair back.

A set of pale blue eyes stared on the raven haired girl with the brunette commander. He gritted his teeth as he saw the girl smile at the man that was sitting across from her. Then as his eyes were settled on her, she saw her get up and get a napkin as she walked to the commander's side. Apparently he had gotten ice cream on his jacket and she began to wipe it off ignoring that gunblader's refusals and such.

"I'll kill him..." He murmured to himself as his eyes narrowed.

Author's Note: Didn't think I'd update huh? Well, even thought it LOOKS like it, I don't have a plot... this story is just pointless fluff and such. And I just noticed that I made it through the whole story without making one A/N in it! Yes! Thanks to everyone for their reviews and if you guys review a lot this time too, I'll update... as soon as I figure where this thing is headed... if it is headed somewhere... hm...

Just a little taste of what might happen next...

Next Chapter: Squall goes with Rinoa to the practice, but finds out something that bothers him, but he doesn't know why it bothers him... what could it be?

Selphie the Matchmaker is on the move, along with her accomplice, Leah. Could these two cause more trouble then they're worth?

And will Seifer ever say the right thing? Let alone will Seifer day ever be over?

Find out next time. Til' then, tune in! Review!