Hatred to Love
A/N: Thanks for all your reviews! Even if I didn't get them, I would've continued with this story anyway Oh yeah, if you're wondering how I do get inspiration for my stories, they're actually based on some of my real life events! As always read this chap and review! Thanks!
Chapter 2 – He's my science partner!?
"I really can't believe that you broke it off with Mandy," Irvine said raising one of his eyebrows.
Squall shrugged. Why do people keep on bugging him about Mandy? He broke up with her because she was cheating on him. Mandy used to be a sweet angelic person, until she made friends with the popular crowd. She then turned slutty and was nice only to the popular guys and girls. Then she found out that two boyfriends were way better than one. So she cheated on Squall with Paul. That was when Squall had it with her manipulative behavior and broke up with her.
"Look, I'm tired of talking about Mandy, ok? I'll just take a walk, since the homeroom teacher is going to be late as always," Squall said coldly and then walked off.
Irvine looked at Zell. They were both thinking the same thing. Before Squall met Mandy, he was an anti-social person. He was cold-hearted, even though his parents, Raine and Laguna and his half-sister Ellone were still alive. They knew that he was cold-hearted because he lost his twin sister two years ago and ever since that tragic event, he was afraid of opening up to people. But when he met Mandy, she opened up his heart and loved him. And he loved her. Now, thanks to Mandy, he was going to be anti-social once again.
Squall felt people staring at his back when he left the room. He didn't really care that girls were going to be lining up at his locker and asking for dates now that he was single again. He really didn't care about anything right now. All he wanted was his sister back. But that could never ever happen. She was dead.
Oh big sister, why'd you have to leave me? Squall thought bitterly.
"Mandy? Who're you dating now?" Erika asked with a hint of curiosity.
Mandy turned away from her conversation with one of the popular guys and gave Erika the evil eye. "Isn't it obvious? I'm going to win back Squall's heart! And in a week or two, he'll practically be proposing to me,"
Erika couldn't help but laugh noisily and announce loudly, "As if! Squall's over you!" That caused the rest of the students in the class to turn around and stare.
"Quistis?" Selphie said.
"What now Selphie?" Quistis said with a tone of annoyance.
"Do I need glasses like you, or is Irvine and Zell telling us to sit near them?" Selphie said in a daze.
Rinoa turned around and saw Irvine and Zell saying "Come over here!"
"Please?" Selphie begged.
Quistis saw that some people in the class were now staring at them, rather than at Erika. It was embarrassing since Selphie was on her knees and looked like she was about to burst into tears if Quistis said no to her.
Quistis scowled and muttered, "Whatever, let's go,"
Rinoa laughed softly and they all stood up and walked over to where Zell and Irvine were sitting.
"Great they came! Irvine ask her already!" Zell said playfully.
Irvine kept on shooting Selphie nervous looks. What was going on?
"Uh….Selphie? I was wondering if we could…you know…go out sometime…if you want…" Irvine mumbled while he was blushing.
Quistis and Rinoa had no clue what Irvine was going on about, but Selphie looked like she had just won a million gil.
"Yes! I'd love to!" Selphie squealed and ran over to Irvine and hugged him.
"Rinoa, Quistis, sit down," Zell said.
"So, Zell, did Squall ever date anyone else before Mandy?" Rinoa asked casually and Quistis nudged her and gave her a look which meant "Don't be so nosy!"
Zell however, didn't seem to mind that Rinoa had asked that question. "Well, let's just say that Mandy was his first and only girlfriend,"
"So does that mean none of you dated those sluts?" Rinoa asked eagerly.
"Look Rinoa, even if the popular guys do have a reputation for dating sluts, I never did. Irvine dated some of them once in a while and Squall only dated Mandy even though many other girls in the school begged him for dates," Zell replied.
Then they heard a loud bang. Everyone looked up to see who it was and the popular girls screamed in high-pitched voices. It was Xu. Smartest girl in the whole grade and the author of the school's gossip column in the school newspaper. She was at the door holding stacks of paper and looked exhausted. She walked in and placed them on the teacher's desk.
"Finally!" Someone called out.
"What took so long?" Another called.
Xu blushed as she walked over to her group of friends.
"All right students! I know that you're meant to be in first period right now, but sorry that I'm late. I was caught up in a staff meeting," Their homeroom teacher said.
He then called the roll and paused at Squall's name. "Where's Mr. Leonhart?"
"Right here," A cold voice said.
"Nice to have you back Mr. Leonhart, now take a seat," He said in the same tone of coldness Squall used and then continued to mark the roll.
Squall sat down next to Rinoa and stared out the window.
Rinoa never knew this before about Squall (since she never really got a good look at him), but he looked hot. Could this really be the guy that she hated so much? So she kept glancing at him every now and then, and sometimes he caught her staring at him. Then Xu came over and gave her a timetable. Rinoa quickly studied her timetable and it stated that she'd be having science right now.
"What are you having first period?" Quistis asked.
"Science," Rinoa replied.
"Me too and same with Irvine and uh, Squall," Selphie said.
"Darn it, I have PE with Zell," Quistis moaned.
Most of the students had already left homeroom so they could quickly get to first period on time. Quistis, Selphie, Rinoa, Squall, Zell and Irvine started to make their way out of the classroom until someone blocked their way.
"Can't we just talk please Squall?" pleaded Mandy.
"……."
Mandy looked into Squall's ice blue eyes. She couldn't give up now.
"Mandy, let us get to first period already," Zell said calmly.
Mandy looked at Zell helplessly and walked away with her clique.
Finally, they were out of the classroom and on their way to first period.
"So Rinoa, who's your teacher for science?" Quistis asked.
Rinoa looked at her timetable where it said the teacher's name. "Mrs. Kramer. Is she the principal's wife or something?"
"Yeah she is, haven't seen her yet though but I heard some guys say she's pretty hot looking for a science teacher. And very tough," Irvine said.
Rinoa looked confused.
"That's true Rinoa, most science teachers you read about in books or see in movies are old people, but Mrs. Kramer is really young. Probably around 28 or 29 years old," Zell added.
"See you later Rin and Selph," Quistis called.
"Quistis! Wait up! I have PE with you as well!" Zell called out running after Quistis.
Rinoa looked over at Squall. He was walking with them, but it was almost as if he wasn't there.
"Squall? What do you have next period?" Rinoa asked.
Squall looked at Rinoa with surprise. He definitely thought that she hated him, because of all the notes he sent to her last year.
"I have English next Rinoa," Squall replied softly.
Rinoa was also shocked that he replied to her. She thought that he hated her for being annoying to him.
"Rin, why are you blushing?" Selphie asked.
"Selphie, I'm not blushing," Rinoa replied.
"Hey ladies, we're here already," Irvine said.
The four of them quickly walked into the science lab and sat down.
"You four are late," Mrs. Kramer said.
"We're really sorry Mrs. Kramer, but we got lost," Selphie said.
"A likely tale," Mrs. Kramer said smirking.
"Now as I was just telling the class, I was about to tell you your science lab partners. You can't switch partners unless you have a good reason why you should switch. Now your partners will be your partners for everything. Science lab experiments, assignments, the whole lot. When I tell you your partners, please go sit next to them. And in addition to me telling you your partners, I will also be giving you an assignment, which I'll talk about later on," Mrs. Kramer explained.
"Hey, Rinoa, pass this to Squall, ok?" Leanna, one of Mandy's friends whispered and handed Rinoa the note.
Rinoa took the note and dropped it in front of Squall. Squall picked it up and quickly read it. When he was done he looked over at Mandy and gave her a disgusted look.
"Ok now, I'll tell you who your science partners are," Mrs. Kramer said.
"Maybe if I'm really lucky, Squall will be my partner, so he'll have to talk to me then," Mandy whispered to Leanna.
Mrs. Kramer flipped through her roll book until she found the page where she wrote down who was partners with who.
She called out names until there were only a couple of students left without partners.
"Miss. Tilmitt you will be partners with…Mr. Kinneas,"
"Miss. Heartilly, your partner is Mr. Leonhart,"
Mandy immediately shot out of her seat. "What the hell!?" She cried out.
"Miss. Portman, take your seat at once unless you want detention for disrupting my class!" Mrs. Kramer said coldly.
Mandy closed her mouth and before she sat down she shot Rinoa a venomous look.
"Just ignore her Rinoa," Squall said quietly.
Selphie stuck her tongue out at Mandy.
Mrs. Kramer then went on to explain about their assignment. It was due in two weeks and was to be a report on chemical reactions and chemical equations and was to be done with your partner.
"Rinoa, we can start on the assignment after school at my house if you want to. I can wait for you," Squall said distractedly.
"Sure Squall," Rinoa said kindly.
Mrs. Kramer then went on to explain the work on their report, but Rinoa was too busy thinking about something else. Something named Squall Leonhart…