A week in Flanoir
By Fenris Amon
Day Two: Schemes
Celsius
The next day was a strange one, no matter how much we looked, we couldn't find the Rehairds, apparently the wind might of taken them, or been buried in the snow. So Sheena sent out a carrier bird to Mizuho to see if they can track down the Rehairds. Basically, we're stuck her til they're found. It was cold again, so we decided to stay inside. I found myself drifting towards Lloyd's room, seeing if I could set Sheena up on a date with Lloyd, or maybe something of the sort. It's been so long since I did something like this, But I love setting people up like this. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk. (Mental note, find Yuffie in Mizuho and kill her for laughing like that.)
I knocked on his door, thank goodness he was the only one there, "Come in!" he yelled.
"It's me, Celsius." I walked into the room to see Lloyd messing with some paper, folding one into a paper bird. "What'cha doing?" I asked rather crudely, trying to sound as if I had nothing planned.
He glanced at me quickly before refocusing his eyes on his creation. "Oh, I'm making a paper bird, Sheena showed me how to make on a little while back, now that I have some paper, I can make some of my own." I sat down next to him and took one of his pieces of paper. "Oh, you know already how to make them?"
"Birds? Nah, I can make a 'special' flower though." I said, trying to get his interest.
"Special?" he asked, now that was he interested, I started to pull the lure in to get him to give this to Sheena.
"If you make this flower out of a certain type of pink paper and give it to your love, you'll be together forever!" I said rather enthusiastically.
"Huh? How do you know this?" he asks.
"A friend from Mizuho once told me how to make one. He was nice to me and maybe someone whom I loved. I can't believe I told him this, but Lloyd was more interested in the flower, for once I was happy he wasn't concerned about my past.
"Oh, can you show me how to make one?" he asked, staring at the paper I held in my hands.
"Sure, just be sure to get it right on the second time! I have one sheet of the sacred paper." I pull out a carefully folded sheet of paper, it had strange symbols on it and was colored pink. I placed it next to the ordinary sheets of paper. "First we'll start with ordinary paper…make a crease there …" time past rather quickly, maybe a half an hour, maybe more. "…finally, you fold this down."
Lloyd looked at his creation carefully, it was perfect, "heh, my hands are dwarven trained, so I can do a lot of stuff." I forget that Lloyd's father is a dwarf, he speaks of him so much, I'm ashamed that I forgot …well, not really.
I begin smile softly, wait? Me? Smile softly? Damn. Is it just me or am I getting soft all around? "Yea, it's perfect." But I was being honest, it's hard to get it right on the first try. "Do it with the sacred paper now. Make sure to take your time, and don't mess up!" I scolded him before handing him the paper.
I watch as he nods and takes the sacred paper carefully, he places it in his hands as he begins to fold. His hands are so graceful, I hope he makes Sheena happy with this gift I'm giving them. When he finished, I made note that it was perfect. He then got up after having me inspect it and placed it next to his bed on the small table. "Thanks Celsius. Why did you decide to teach me this anyways?"
"Nah, I don't know. Spur of the moment." I smiled, I noted the time and forgot that dinner was being prepared, so I begin to leave the room after a short chat with Lloyd, but before I closed the door, I mentioned, "Sheena is planning on going to the Terrace tomorrow night." and I shut the wooden door.
I walked back toColette, Sheena's and my room. It was strangely noisy. They're fighting over who gets to cook, not again. Regal, Presea, Zelos, Raine and Genis were just sitting there, waiting for me and Lloyd to arrive. "Hey! Now that my cold little ice-beauty is here, where's my bud?"
"He's coming. I think." I add, sitting down next to Raine and Regal.
"…Fine, fine Colette, you can make the lobster, but I want to make the curry!" Sheena finished, it seems that they've finally came to an agreement. You should of seen it this morning for breakfast. That was a riot. We ended up having some kind of avant-garde food pile. Well, that's what I called it at least.
I heard the door open and Lloyd walk in, finally we can get ready to eat, Lloyd say down in between Colette and Sheena, maybe the worst spot he could of sat in, I prayed to myself that no fight would start.
"So, how was everyone's first day?" Regal asked politely, scanning everyone.
"Man, it was A-NOY-ING! Zelos here snores like an elephant's stampede" commented Lloyd, getting a dirty look from Zelos.
"You're the one who hugged his pillow all night sleep-talking about Sheena!" He accused, why am I not surprised?
Sheena looked frantic, trying not to pay attention to Zelos. Lloyd, tried to defend himself, "Did not! If you had a cell phone (Me: What the hell is that? Lloyd: I dunno) You'd be up all night talking to your hunnys and keeping everyone else awake!"
"I don't even know what a cell phone is!"
"I sense that Lloyd is hiding something, and he wishes not for me to say that Zelos is correct." man, Presea is still as dense as ever, Presea was aging slowly, but her maturity often told that she was already twenty-eight...hundred.
Raine, Regal, and I just sipped our tea and watched the two guys fight. Once dinner was ready, we preceded to eat.
After the meal we broke up for the night, each of us retreating to our own rooms. Colette decided to mess with her hair in the bathroom, so I laid down in the bed next to Sheena. She was looking at her picture again. "You're really obsessed with him, aren't you?"
She smiled, "Yea, I guess you can say that." She placed the picture next to her and looked at me. "He's just so perfect in my opinion. Can you imagine someone who always knows what your talking about and can relate?"
"Explain." I encourage, looking over at the leader of Mizuho.
"Look at our pasts, outsiders from the village bringing death. Lloyd was abandoned as a child and taken by a dwarf, an outsider. I was abandoned as well, taken by the chief of Mizuho, a group of outsiders. Then we both bring disaster upon our towns. Like me, he acts purely on instinct, doing what is right when it's needed." Sheena seemed to be in a daze as she held the picture close to her heart.
"I see. I wish there was someone like that for me." I do envy these people sometimes, they live so privileged and better lives. I sit up to take a look at the picture, it was Lloyd alright, smiling his signature smile.
"What are you two talking about?" Colette just walked in, missing our entire conversation.
"Nothing in particular." I add.
"Well, that's good…oof!" Klutz, she tripped again, this time next to Sheena's bed. When she stood up, she pulled out a cloth, long and white, she recognized it. "Hey, isn't this Lloyd's scarf?"
"No! No it's not! It's…um, something I got from Mizuho!" okay, now I'm pleasantly freaked out.
I gave her a sly look, "Liar. I'm a bit frightened about how obsessed you are with Lloyd." man, I understand the picture, but his hand-made scarf?
"…Sheena, Just tell him your feelings. Or else someone else might and you'll loose him as well." Colette looked sad, she wanted the best for Lloyd as well.
"But…" she pleaded.
"But what? Your so obsessed with him it's not even funny anymore! You stare at him so much I think your eyes are going to bleed, you have a picture that's always with you, and you carry around his scarf that went missing!" I was getting a bit irritated at Sheena being so dense. She takes after Lloyd in so many ways sometimes.
"But…How will I tell him? What if he rejects me?" she argued.
"He won't. I know he won't." I tried to use my most comforting voice possible, which isn't very good, which sounds exactly like when I'm killing something. I need to work on this skill.
Sheena took a deep breath and closed her eyes, "I don't know…"
"Goto the Terrace tomorrow night. Meet him there."
Zelos
Tomorrow on the Terrace? I guess I have to be there! Man, I guess the girls are going out of their way to get me and Sheena together! Hehehe, man, I can't wait! How should I do this… I think inwardly to myself, I'm positive that they're talking about me, who else? I lost my own scarf long, long ago. And I did hear that Sheena likes me. Finally falling for my charms again, eh my voluptuous hunny?
Man, well, I walked back to my room to find Lloyd laying down on his bed fantasizing about something or another. "What's up bud? Not like you to think."
"Oh, hey Zelos. Nah, nothing in particular." He motioned towards something on the dresser subconsciously. It was a paper flower, pink and made out of some kind of paper.
"What's this? You got a flower from someone?"
"Nah, I just made it. Don't touch it though, it's rather fragile."
I nodded, "Whatever." I fell down onto my bed and fell asleep almost immediately.
Aht uv lrybdan
