Unexpected Surprises
Two Weeks Later
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Knock knock knock. The light taps on Squall's door barely fazed the sleeping resident. He merely shuffled in his bed to find a more comfortable position underneath his pillow.
Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Squall groaned at the door, still not getting up from underneath his covers. As warm as the fall was, he still slept with a blanket over him. The knocking stopped, until he his doorknob beginning to wriggle like someone was playing with it. Only one person knew how to get his door open…
"Almasy Annoyment and Sarcasm Services at your service, Mr. Leonhart!" Seifer chimed. He was clad in blue jeans and long sleeve black shirt, a red cross on his left and right arms.
The young blonde man snickered at seeing his best friend still lying underneath the covers.
A smirk slowly crept over his face. He grabbed the edge of the blanket between his thumb and forefinger and gave it a yank, revealing a pair of black chocobo-covered boxer shorts on a cringing Squall.
"…" Squall gave his best glare possible; as possible as it was when you were discovered in your chocobo boxers and had just been waken up.
"Chocobos?" Seifer managed to get out before laughing out loud, holding on to a nearby chair.
"Shut up."
Squall sat up and threw his legs over the side of his bed, grabbing the pair of sweatpants and putting them on quickly to avoid anymore embarrassment. He walked over to Seifer, who was now sitting in the chair, laughing like a hyena. He grabbed the blanket and threw it back onto the bed before walking out the door and in the direction of the bathroom.
But as awake as he was, his senses were still groggy. So he didn't hear the shower already running.
Seifer came out of the room holding his side, laughing subsiding slowly. He saw Squall walking to the bathroom, scratching the back of his head and yawning.
"You might wanna---"
Squall opened the door three words too late.
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An ear-piercing scream was heard throughout the entire building, waking up two young women in the middle of some very nice dreams. Two doors opened at the same time, both revealing a pajama-clad Rinoa and blanket-covered Quistis, both looking down the hallway, in the direction of the scream. They looked at each other before trekking out the door and seeing a very flushed Squall.
He stood on the outside of the bathroom door, face beet red and breathing rapidly. His hand was clenched tightly around the doorknob, knuckles turning white.
Above them, they saw a young man, about the same age as Squall, lying down on the floor, laughing like he had seen the stupidest act on Earth. Unknown to them…he had.
He was laughing, holding his sides and rolling around on the stairs. Squall looked up at him and looked at him with a glare that would send a Ruby Dragon packing for the Deep Sea Deposit. Seifer looked up, tears in his green eyes, not even fazed by the icy glare. He shook his head slowly, laughing ceasing slowly.
"I was gonna tell you to knock, but I guess you didn't wanna listen." He said, smile still evident on his face. He kept on smiling, completely unaware of the two women that were down below him, watching him, and trying to figure out who the hell he was and what he was doing here.
"What the hell is going on?" Quistis asked, making Seifer jump a good three feet into the air and onto his feet.
Seifer was holding his chest, feigning a heart attack. "Where in the Hell did you come from?"
Quistis looked up and gave him a glare equal to that of Squall's. Seifer's face cringed at the fact that someone else had the ability to give glares like Squall. He looked to Squall, whose face was returning to normal and his breathing was slowing down.
"Why in the hell didn't you tell me that someone else can glare like you? The world is gonna end soon now!" Seifer shouted, completely ignoring the glares that were sent his way. Glares that can bring about the next Ice Age.
Squall shook his head quickly, ridding himself of the images that were running through his head. He walked over to the stairs, stopping suddenly at the sound that was a door opening.
Out stepped a completely red Selphie, wrapped in a towel, eyes wide like an extra large pizza. Her entire body was red, and it wasn't from the hot shower she just took. She was walking slowly, almost as if she were trying to race a flood of molasses.
Squall didn't bother to turn around, for he knew who was walking slowly to the rooms below his. Quistis and Rinoa just both looked at Selphie with questioning looks, wondering what was going on that made Selphie scream like that. When they both looked back to Squall, they saw his face turn red again, and it dawned on them. Their faces went from questioning to shock just as fast as Selphie was walking.
"Sorry." Squall quickly spat out before bolting up the stairs and past a dazed Seifer, and through the door, closing it quickly, but not before Seifer heard a scraping noise being pushed up against the door. He barricaded himself in…again.
Seifer shook his head and walked down the stairs and to the living room, plopping himself down onto the couch and reaching for the remote. If he knew Squall, which he did, he wouldn't come out until the next damn blue moon. He began to search the channels for anything that would be remotely interesting before he died of boredom.
Quistis and Rinoa walked over to Selphie and put their hands on her shoulders. She looked up, dazed from the fact that their roommate now knew VERY intimate details about her body.
"Can I shrivel up and die now?" she asked quietly, still walking like a snail in a salt bin. The three women walked through the door of their part of the apartment, but not before two of them looked back to the blonde 'hottie' that sat on the couch, channel-surfing.
Seifer felt their stares, and smirked to himself, knowing that getting 'acquainted' with these women would be quite interesting.
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Squall sat in his room for a good three hours, doing nothing but thinking and rewinding thoughts in his mind. He now knew where everything was on Selphie. All the way from the little mole on her left shoulder all the way to---NO!
'I can't think like that. She's my roommate. I have a reputation to uphold too. I can NOT be doing this kind of thing!' he thought, trying to keep his mind of the morning's events. He soon found himself thinking about not only what he had saw in the clear doors of the shower, but also about two certain women who had walked out the doors of the their part of the loft.
He thought about what Quistis had looked like. Her hair was slightly out of place, and was not in the usual bun she had everyday. It fell to about her shoulders, and she looked great without her glasses on. She clad in the blanket, but he could still see what she wore underneath. She had really, really short shorts on. She was also wearing a large white t-shirt.
But his mind found his eyes wandering down. She had wonderfully long legs, appropriate for the strides she made everyday. They were slightly tan, and probably just shaven the night before, due to the little shine they gave off when the light hit them.
'Argh! Why am I even thinking about these things? I am a respectable man! I'm not supposed to be like Irvine! Thinking about how good these women might be in bed! Must. Stop. Thinking. Argh!'
But with Squall being who he is, thinking is the only thing he can do when alone. It was then his mind's eye began to focus on the other half of the immaculate duo.
He had seen Rinoa in her pajamas, her shirt and shorts being a light baby blue. Her shorts came down to her knees, while her shirt was somewhat tight on her torso. He saw her curves, from her hips to her chest. He saw her face, her raven hair tied into a ponytail. He saw her creamy white face, and then noticed how she postured herself. She had her arms crossed, making her chest protrude slightly---
His mind wandering as to what he could've done underneath it all.
'AAHHH!' his mind screamed. He smacked himself on his face hard, trying to rid himself of his dastardly and quite inappropriate thoughts. 'Here I am, thinking about how my roommates look, and what I could do with each of them! This is insane! I'm acting like a damn teenager! I'm 21 for crying out loud, I'm not supposed to be doing things like this!'
He dropped his head into his hands, trying to think with his brain, not his head. He let out a long sigh before looking at his two gunblades on the shelf above his bed. He was contemplating whether or not he should kill himself for acting like this. He never acted like this! Especially when it came to women. The only time he acted like this was when…when…when…he never acted like this!
He sighed once more before getting up and taking down the chair he had propped up against his door to ward away any prospecting intruders. He walked out to find Seifer, Irvine, and Zell sitting around the tv, watching Jerry Springer. It had something to do with sisters having sex with their boyfriend's parents or something like that. All of his show had some type of incest involved.
He walked behind them, heading for the kitchen fridge. He got out the orange juice and poured himself a cup. He was in the middle of drinking when Irvine opened his mouth.
"So I heard you walked in on Selphie when she was in the shower? What she look like?"
Squall choked on his drink and raced to the sink, spitting it out before he died drowning on his juice. Seifer and Zell turned around, smiles on their faces. Squall glared at them before drinking what was left of his juice and washing his cup out. He looked at Irvine, ice in his eyes. Irvine thought that he saw a couple of penguins walked by when he realized how cold that stare was.
Zell and Seifer didn't bother to look at Irvine or Squall. Neither wanted to be buried alive under a ton of snow thanks to the Ice Prince.
Squall sat down silently, not bothering to answer Irvine's question, or to look at the others, even though he knew that Seifer was bound to say something sooner or later. Too bad it wouldn't be later.
"I thought you should know something. It's not everyday that you walk in on your neighbor taking a shower." He looked over to Squall, a small smirk playing his features. He wiggled his eyebrows a couple times to get his meaning across.
Squall rolled his eyes as the others laughed wildly. "Look, just because I walked in on her doesn't mean I saw anything."
"Oh sure Squall. Like you didn't see anything in a shower that has clear doors on it." Zell quipped. His smile was spread to his eyes.
"Alright! So I did…see some things, its not like I saw her whole body or anything!" He stammered out, trying to defend himself.
Everyone just stared at him as if he had just stolen something. He shook his head in defeat. "…So maybe I did, SO WHAT?"
No one heard the knocking coming gently from the door that led to the stairs. They were too busy trying to get Squall to tell them what he had seen…exactly.
They didn't stop either when three women walked out of their rooms yelling at each other over something. It wasn't like the guys were listening or anything. Rinoa came out first, dressed in a tight green shirt with gray sleeve sticking out from underneath, and a pair of faded jeans. Selphie followed, with a little pink shirt that showed off a bit of her stomach, and she had on shorts that would classify as a scarf. Quistis came out shortly, in a pair of capris and a black sleeveless shirt on.
They were arguing amongst themselves about what they should do tonight, and they completely ignoring the chiding that was going on beside them among the guys. With the tv on, no one heard the door being pounded on. It was only when the door opened that everyone stopped arguing and looked at the door.
In came a rather, professional looking woman, her black hair in a tight French braid, wearing a knee length white skirt and long sleeved green turtleneck on, and had ankle length boots on. They guys stared, if not drooled at the new arrival, while the women gave her evaluating stares.
"Hi guys!" she said, before looking around briefly and setting her eyes on her objective. She walked briskly over to Squall and sat on his lap, although you can't classify jumping on someone as sitting. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek before smiling widely, white teeth shining.
Quistis, Rinoa, and Selphie each looked as if another dog had walked into their territory and pissed and shit in it. Their wide eyes slowly narrowed, each woman intent on ripping off a body part and roasting it on a fire for bite bugs to pick at.
It was only then that Squall had noticed the glares that he was receiving from the women, and the raised eyebrows that the guys were pointing in his direction.
"Uh…everyone. I'd like you to meet my girlfriend, Xu."
The second Ice Age just started.
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A/N: well now…isn't this just something to gawk at. Squall already has a girlfriend. ! What the hell is all that? I'm not sure myself, but I'm certain that there will be claws and teeth being thrown around soon. And what about the guys? Who knows what they're gonna do to Squall. Well, I know…but you don't. But it'll still be a triangle! And that'll change soon! Wait till next chapter!
