Chapter one: Road to Deling by Anne

It was hot today. And it looks like it was going to be hot
tomorrow. Qustis stared out at the cloudless sky and nibbled on her
chocolate cookie. At the orphanage, Matron use to always bake cookies
with Selphie, since Selphie always loved to cook. The chocolatey
sweetness filled her mouth and she closed her eyes to savor the
flavor. Yep, this was definitely her favorite type of-

"Do you enjoy watching me suffer Instructor?" A male voice
asked suddenly, breaking into her thoughts.

Quistis spun around in her chair, the wheels making a small
whirling sound from the sudden movement.

"Wha? Wh-What'd you say?" She looked surprised, and she
didn't bother to hide it.

"I said, do you enjoy watching me suffer?" The man stared
back at her through dark emerald eyes and lazily crossed his arms
across his lean body.

"Um…" Quistis scanned her brain for something intelligent to
say, but the question was so out of the ordinary it was-

"Uh…I wasn't watching you!" She blurted out, several seconds
after she said these words she mentally slapped herself, what the
hell had she been thinking?

"Well…I was watching you." He stated simply, a smirk on his
lips.

"I-uh…I…" Quistis licked her lips, it was suddenly extremely
dry. She watched his eyes go dark for a moment, and clear up
suddenly, as if the sun had came out after a storm. She shivered for
a moment, what was happening? What's going on?

"What the hell are you talking about Seifer?" She laughed,
nervously. "Stop talking to me, you're in here for detention."

Ok…that sounded REAL mature…

"Oh. I see how it is. Students arent suppose to talk to
instructors huh? What? Am I not good enough?"

"What?" Quistis furrowed her brows and looked at him, he
looked completely cool and serious, but at the same time, there was a
layer of uncertainty, as if he was a little kid, needed to be assured
that he was as good as the rest of them.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Quistis popped the
rest of her cookie into her mouth and chewed angrily and scowled
silently. It was all the cookies fault, if she hadnt start eating it,
none of thing would have happened. She sighed and ran a hand through
her messy hair, maybe she should let it down-

"You should leave your hair down instructor."

Again, her most annoying student startled her once again.

"What?" She looked around her and back at Seifer, "Why?"

He shrugged. "I think itd look better."

Quistis flushed and looked away, raising her nose in the air,
she said haughtily, "Well what would you know?" The comment was more
to herself though.

But he still heard her. "I just know these things."

Quistis flinched. Yes, he would know these things. Seifer had
always been some kind of playboy. It was probably his looks that drew
him all the attention, all the girls at the garden draw to him like
bees to a flower, and there was probably more outside of the garden.
They didn't know him like she did though, he was a sneaky, immature,
little boy, underneath all Adonis appearance, soft looking golden
hair, and that gorgeous deep green eyes-

Wait, did she just say gorgeous? No, she didn't mean
gorgeous, she meant sinister green eyes, devilish- delightfully
devilish- wait, wait, stop right now. She felt herself blushing and
turning red, something she was unable to stop.

She groaned and threw her face into her hands, shaking her
head rapidly to get ride of the image of Seifer running naked in her
head. Why the image was doing in her head, shed never know.

"Did I say something wrong?"

Him talking snapped her out of her trance immediately, "Youre
still in here?" She opened her mouth and closed it, "I mean…just go,
go ahead and go early, whatever youre doing to make yourself annoying
as hell so I can let you go- its working."

Seifer smirked and gracefully got up, swinging his gunblade
as he went. "Thank you." he mockingly bowed.

Instead of leaving towards the door though, he walked towards
her desk, something she was unaware of, because she was busy sorting
through her papers to care what Seifer was doing- and she was busy
chasing images out of her head.

She knew though, that he was standing right there when all of
a sudden, the papers she was holding was stolen out of her hands and
fluttered into a pile on the floor.

"Hey! That was-"

"What are you doing tonight instructor?"

"wha-"

"Im asking you what youre doing tonight."

"N-nothing…" She stammered and closed her mouth tightly,
after realizing how close he was to her. She can practically see the
little specks of gold scattered in his iris.

"Im going to Deling." He stated.

She titled her head. was does that mean? Was there suppose to
be a meaning to `Im going to Deling'?

"Yeah…so…?"

She watched him roll his eyes, and suddenly she felt
angry. "What?? What the hell does `Im going to Deling', mean anyway?"

"It means I want you to come with me."

She felt her eyes grow big and her mouth drop open. And maybe
she even stopped breathing, much less functioning correctly.

"Wh-what? Like what? A date?" She blurted the words out and
immediately regret them when Seifer started laughing.

"That's…one way of putting it." He ran a rough finger along
her jaw and automatically, she shivered under his touch.

"So what do you say? Want to come to Deling with me tonight?"

"B-but…why? Why me?"

Seifer laughed and shook his head, "Why not you?"

"Well- I- theres tons of beautiful girls that are dying to go
anywhere with oyu, why me?"

"Maybe because youre not dying to go with me?"

Quistis narrowed her eyes. "Oh, I see how it is. You just
think of me as a challenge. Well, you know what Mr. Almasy, no, I won-
"

She was cut off by the sudden force of someones mouth descend
upon hers. It was achingly sweet, and it made her feel dizzy, and you
would think it would be weird kissing someone who watched you pee
your pants until 4 but no, it was surprisingly…pleasant.