Broken

Chapter III

The banging on the door was loud enough to wake the dead, and just barely loud enough to wake the slumbering Selphie.

She was crippled with a hangover and didn't yet feel up to leaving the safety of her bed.

"It's me!" She heard a familiar voice call from the other side of the door.

"Come in…" She said quietly.

She turned her back to the door and hid her head under covers, not ready for the bright light of the hallway. Her best friend walked in and plopped down on the end of her bed.

"Come on, sweetie! Time to get up!" She lightly smacked the lump under the covers.

"Sweetie!" She said, losing patience after a bit. She ripped the covers off and found her friend curled up in the fetal position, wearing the same dress she had worn to dinner last night.

"Damn," Quistis laughed, "Were you that tired when you came in? You couldn't even put your pajamas on?"

Selphie smiled bleakly as the events of what happened in her room last night slowly began to come back to her.

"No…I just fell asleep…I was gonna call you, but I didn't. I just fell asleep." The brunette explained.

"Why didn't you call?"

"It was so late, Quisty."

"That's no reason. If you have something to say, call whenever…" An awkward silence passed.

"Did you have something to say?" The strawberry blonde asked.

"Maybe…" Selphie replied coyly.

"Out with it!" Her friend replied.

"Let me brush first!" The brunette giggled, walking slowly to the bathroom, fighting a head rush.

She carefully put the toothpaste on her toothbrush in the darkness of the bathroom.

Her head couldn't handle the light.

As she brushed, Quistis made herself comfortable on the bed, trying her best to wait patiently for the story she knew she was about to be told.

Selphie finally emerged from the bathroom with a smile.

"What…happened?" Quistis said slowly, infected by Selphie's smile.

"I had sex is what happened."

"What! Who! Where!" Quistis asked, growing excited and sitting up.

"About right where you're sitting, that's where." Selphie laughed.

"Gross!" Quistis laughed, moving back to the foot of the bed. "Who?" She asked, pulling her friend down to the bed so they could sit eye-to-eye.

"Promise not to laugh."

"Promise."

"Seifer."

"Seifer!" Quistis laughed in spite of herself.

"What's wrong with Seifer?"

"Nothing's wrong with him, he's just no Irv—"

"Don't go there!" Selphie silenced her friend.

Quistis attempted to smile innocently.

"So…" She finally asked, "How was it?"

"Well…it…didn't take long…" Selphie tried to choose her words carefully, but she couldn't find a way to sugarcoat her statement.

The girls laughed together.

"I mean, come on…You can't tell me you don't think he's sexy." Selphie said through the laughter.

"Okay, yea…He's got a great ass."

"I know!" The brunette laughed.

"Shit…but, wait…Are you two dating now?"

"Hell no, Quisty. We've been over this."

"I know, but…you're just gonna fuck him and then…you're done?"

"Pretty much."

Quistis burst into laughter again.

"I don't think we should let Irvine find out about this…" She said cautiously.

"Shit, Quisty, I don't think we should let anyone find out about this."

After a few more minutes of the girls gushing over Selphie's sexual escapades the night before, Quistis proposed that they go to the cafeteria for some breakfast.

Selphie conceded to meet her down there after a quick bath.

The friends parted ways and Selphie made her way into her bathroom. She sat on the edge of the tub, watching the water fill up slowly, contemplating where her life was at this moment. She slowly removed her dress.

Finally, the tub was full and she stepped in, submerging her petit body in the delightfully warm water. She took the bar of soap from the side of the tub and began rubbing it on her thighs. She put it down when she found something more interesting.

Her hands touched where Seifer had been mere hours earlier. She tilted her head back and closed her eyes as she began to rub herself slowly, her breathing becoming slightly more rapid.

In a few minutes, she was lightly moaning to herself, her eyes squeezed shut. As she moved her free hand up to her breast, a startling picture popped into her head.

The cowboy standing before her, his hair blowing so gracefully in the wind. That playful smile on his lips. Those lovely, beautiful eyes…

She stopped immediately, shocked at what the pleasure had made her think of.

Selphie quickly finished her bath, neglecting to finish the other project that she had started. She got dressed and met Quistis down at the cafeteria, curious about how she was supposed to take what had just happened up in her bathtub.