Chapter 2
Laguna awoke to see sunlight coming through the windows and looked over to see Ward and Kiros already awake. A little girl around 4 with large green eyes and light brown hair popped up, making Laguna gasp.
"Hwello." The girl said smiling, her voice full of cheer.
"Um hi." Laguna said and Edea walked in.
"There you are Selphie! I told you not to come in here. Now go play with the others." Edea scolded.
The little girl pouted and left the room. "Here's your things that we found." Edea said and put them by the door. "I need to get back to the children." She said and walked out, shutting the door.
The three went though the bags and found some cloths to change into. After dressing and using the bathroom they walked out of the room and into the kitchen.
"I'm sorry I didn't make you three anything to eat, but you were sleeping." Edea apologized. "You're welcome to anything in the fridge or cupboards."
"Okay." Laguna chuckled. They quickly fixed themselves some toaster pastries and ate. Children watched them as they entered the living after they finished.
"Is this all the children?" Ward asked the Matron.
"There's a few cleaning their bedrooms." Edea said. "That's Irvine." She pointed to a boy with long brown hair and violet eyes who was playing with the girl Selphie.
"That's Quistis." She pointed to a blonde hair blue eyed girl, who was trying to tell Irvine and Selphie how to play 'right'.
"That's Seifer. He's in the corner because he keeps picking fights." Edea said pointing to a blonde boy with green eyes who was indeed sitting in a corner.
"The ones cleaning their rooms are Xu, Zell and Nida, but there's another in the bathroom." She said.
"I thought there would be more." Kiros said.
"Well this place is only big enough for the ones I have, but I do own another one, a ship." She said.
"Oh, that sounds cool." Laguna said and another boy walked in. He was smaller than the other boys, with brown hair and blue eyes.
"This is Squall." Edea said and sighed when the boy backed away from them. "Don't worry Squall, they're not going to hurt you." She said and pushed him lightly forward. The boy looked at them then ran out of the room and Laguna looked after where he went.
"I'm sorry, he's intimidated by others, especially men." Edea said.
"It's okay, we understand." Kiros said and Edea went after the small boy.
"He's a cute little guy." Laguna said and Kiros and Ward looked at each other.
"You know Laguna, he kind of looks like Raine." Kiros said.
"And you." Ward put in.
"What? You guys are just yanking my chain." Laguna said looking at them with wide suprised eyes and they chuckled.
"We wouldn't lie about something like that." Kiros said and Laguna frowned, sitting down on the couch.
"I don't know. It's probably nothing." Laguna said.
"Don't get upset about it." Kiros said. "Kids look like anyone at this age." He assured him.
To keep their mind off the situation they helped clean the house until 1:00 P.M.
"Maybe we should go see what the kids are up to. Edea brought them down to the beach." Ward said.
"Yeah then you can see that kid." Kiros said and winked.
"Whatever man." Laguna said and they headed out the backdoor and down to the beach. Selphie and Quistis were building something with sticks while Irvine played with a small blonde boy they haven't seen.
"Squally baby!" They heard a kid yelling. "What the matter baby? Mess your diaper?" They turned to see the boy Seifer picking on the boy Squall.
"Hey! Leave him alone or you're ass will be stinging." Ward threatened and Seifer spit at his shoes before running off to Edea.
"Are you all right?" Laguna asked and Squall went to run, but Laguna held him. 'He does look like Raine.' He thought and the boy struggled.
"Weave me awone!" Squall yelled.
"Hey it's okay." Ward said, trying to calm the boy down.
"We're just trying to help." Kiros said and Squall kicked Laguna's knee and bit his hand.
Laguna let him go and looked at his hand which was red with tiny bloody teeth marks. Squall ran off quickly and Edea went over to them.
"He bit me!" Laguna exclaimed and Edea looked his hand over while Laguna looked at his knee which was fine.
"I am so sorry." Edea said and Laguna waved it away.
"It's okay, it's my fault. He wanted to go, but I wanted to talk to him and held him back." Laguna said.
"I see. He shouldn't have bitten you though." She said and waved for Squall to come over. He did, though very slowly. "Say you're sorry Squall." She said and he shook his head in defiance.
"No! I was defending mysewf!" Squall said and Edea sighed.
"They weren't going to do anything, they just wanted to talk." Edea said and Squall looked up at them.
"...Sowwy. I guess." Squall mumbled and Laguna kneeled down.
"It's okay." He said. "So...you're name is Squall huh? Do you have a last name?"
"Yes." Squall said and Edea interrupted them.
"Guys don't bring that up." She said and turned to Squall. "Squall why don't you use the bathroom, dinner is coming soon." Squall walked away and a few kids ran away from him as he passed.
"What's up with that?" Laguna asked with a frown.
"I don't know. The other kids just don't seem to get along with him." Edea said. "Well I better start on dinner. Cid won't be home until Satruday. Come help me clean up the kids." Edea said and with looks at each other they followed.
TBC