Hatred to Love
A/N: I know, I know. I start many fanfictions and never bother to actually finish them off. This time for this story, I promise that I'll finish this, cos' I have a pretty good plot for it and its going to be a great fic! (At least I hope it is going to be!). Oh yeah, this is a high school story!
Disclaimer: I don't own FF VIII! It belongs to Squaresoft! (Lucky them!)
Chapter 1 – Rumors
Rinoa Heartilly hated him. She really did. He was one of the popular ones and he mainly dated slutty girls. Most of the girls in her year would kill to go out with him (or any of his friends), so to impress him, they wore slutty revealing outfits, made out with their friends' boyfriends and were snobbish to other people. None of this ever worked on Squall Leonhart or any of his friends.
Rinoa sighed. Her alarm clock just rang. It was 7:20 am and she had to get changed into her school uniform, brush her teeth, wash her face and eat breakfast by 7:40 am. At that time, she had to meet her two best friends Selphie and Quistis at the corner so they could walk to school.
"Damn it, where'd I leave my uniform?" Rinoa mumbled to herself.
It was a new school year as well and in a couple of months she'd turn 16 years old.
Rinoa continued to rummage through her wardrobe throwing her clothes everywhere until she found her uniform hidden behind all her other clothes. The uniform at Balamb High was really nice, for girls it was a plain white blouse with a navy blue skirt with short socks and for boys a long sleeved white shirt with navy blue trousers. Although most of the boys preferred to roll their long sleeves up.
She pulled on her skirt, buttoned up her blouse and quickly put on her socks. Then Rinoa ran to the bathroom to wash her face. Luckily for her, her bedroom also had a bathroom. She quickly splashed some water on her lily white face. The water felt so cool against her skin. Last night, it was really hot in Balamb.
She then walked down the stairs and waltzed into the kitchen. Her father, General Caraway was probably at work right now (he lived in Deling City while Rinoa lived in Balamb with her mother) and her mother Julia Heartilly (who is still alive!) might still be sleeping.
Rinoa was humming her favourite song 'Eyes on Me' written and sung by her mother. It was a beautiful song and Rinoa kept on humming it while she was making herself breakfast. When she was finished cooking it, she placed her bacon and eggs into a plate and got out a cup of orange juice. She ate in the kitchen. Her house did have a dining room, but Rinoa was too bothered to eat breakfast there.
I wonder if I'll have any classes with my friends this year? Rinoa thought.
After she was done eating, she quickly ran upstairs to brush her teeth again and fix up her hair. Her hair fell into place, after she combed it. The two brown streaks in her raven black hair made her chocolate brown eyes stand out more.
Oh crap, it's almost 7:40 and I'm standing in front of the mirror admiring myself! I got to run!
Rinoa ran out the door and raced up to the corner where Quistis, Selphie and herself normally met in the morning. She ran so quickly that she had to dodge many kids walking to school.
"Sorry! I'm late!" She called out to the kids.
Quistis and Selphie were already at the corner and were patiently waiting for Rinoa to come so they could walk to Balamb High together. Actually, Quistis was the one waiting patiently.
"Rinny's late on the first day again!" Selphie whined.
Quistis kept on looking at her watch. She hated listening to Selphie's winching because it was painfully annoying.
"Quistis? Did you even hear me?" Selphie snapped. Selphie hated to be ignored.
Quistis finally looked up from her watch. Rinoa probably got a chauffer to drive her to school, after all her mother was a famous piano player/singer/songwriter and her father was the president of Deling City so they both made a lot of money.
"Let's walk to school without Rinoa instead," Quistis suggested.
Selphie was excited. She definitely wanted to see Irvine Kinneas again. Over the school break, she had developed a crush on him, but she probably would never have a chance with him since he was part of the popular crowd at school and the popular guys mainly liked the popular girls.
They started to walk until Quistis heard someone running. Both Quistis and Selphie turned to see who it was. Rinoa Heartilly was running as if she was going to win a million dollars if she reached the finish line. When Rinoa finally caught up to them, she was panting and very red in the face. Running like that on a summer morning would definitely tire you out.
"Why are you so late Rinoa?" Selphie asked as all three of them began walking.
"I was daydreaming," Rinoa replied glumly.
Quistis smiled. "If you tell that to Xu, she'd publish it in our school newspaper's gossip column!" Quistis said teasingly.
They continued to talk about their holidays, boys and who'd they get this year for what classes.
"Look! School!" Selphie said happily.
Rinoa and Quistis weren't that excited to be back at school, they definitely preferred the holidays and sleeping in.
The three of them had to stop off at their lockers to get their books once they got inside the school building. Usually they met the sluts on their way there. Unfortunately that day, they did.
"Who let the freaks out?" Mandy, Squall's girlfriend said smirking. Her posse then started to laugh in these high pitched voices which made them sound like dead birds.
"Well, who let the sluts out?" Selphie snapped back.
They eventually managed to walk past them to their lockers, but the looks on their faces were venomous and ready to kill.
All of their lockers were near to each other's so it was easy to get their stuff out and walk to classes.
"I need to go to the toilet," Rinoa said softly.
"Is it your time of month already?" Selphie said loudly.
"Selphie!" Quistis said threateningly.
Rinoa shook her head. Quistis gave her a small smile, which meant go on. Rinoa ran down the corridors and past some classrooms and finally found the exit. She then ran inside the toilets and hid there. She wasn't exactly snooping, but on the last edition of the school newspaper in the gossip column it said that Squall and Mandy broke up. The girls' toilets were a great place to get the latest gossip and the stuff you heard there was normally true. But Rinoa had to listen to them to see if it was really true. Squall Leonhart had dumped another girl! Who's next?
Normally Mandy's posse stayed in the toilets in the morning, between classes and lunchtimes to put on make up. To tell you the truth, once they came out they looked like pandas that didn't sleep much.
After a few moments, Rinoa heard footsteps coming towards her and people talking. They opened the door and walked in.
"Mandy, dry your tears sweetie," A girl said.
Mandy sounded like she sobbing hysterically. She also sounded like a wailing duck.
"What's wrong Mandy dear? Why'd you burst into tears and run away when you saw Squall?" Another girl asked.
Mandy was still sobbing until she stopped and said, "We broke up,"
"No!" The girls said together.
"You were a cute couple!" One of the girls said.
"He was going to ask you to the formal!" Another said.
"I know why they broke up! Mandy was cheating on Squall with Paul!" One said proudly.
"I now know why they call you the big mouth Erika," Mandy snapped angrily.
Rinoa wanted to hear more, but the bell for school to start was going and they had to get their first semester timetable in homeroom.
Finally they left the toilets and Rinoa had to sneak out of the toilets and run to homeroom.
Great, more running, this will help me fit into a bikini, Rinoa thought.
She didn't exactly look where she was running because she ran into someone. She didn't bother looking up to see who it was. Rinoa could easily tell who it was by looking at his necklace. It was a chain necklace with a lion on it. Squall called it Griever.
Squall looked down to the girl that was standing really close to him. That girl was Rinoa Heartilly. He hated her so much. She annoyed him in lessons and she was in love with the school's bad boy Seifer Almasy. He got that juicy little detail from the school newspaper's gossip column and he never forgot to remind Rinoa that she liked him. He sent her notes all the time that said Rinoa loves Seifer.
"Sorry," Rinoa said without looking up.
Squall quickly brushed past her and walked right to his seat in homeroom near his friends, Zell and Irvine. They were meant to receive their first semester timetables that morning, but as usual their homeroom teacher was late.
Rinoa found her seat near Selphie and Quistis and she sat down.
"Find any interesting gossip Rinny?" Selphie asked curiously.
"Yeah. It's official. Mandy and Squall broke up," Rinoa said.
Quistis snorted. Rinoa knew that she would, because Quistis hated discussing other people's love life.
Hey, this is only the beginning of a new year.
A/N: Tell me (by your reviews) if the story was good or not, or it was too long or short! Thanks, you reviewers rock!
Next chapter: He's my science partner!?