Here it is! Chapter two! W00t!

"Have you ever danced alone in the rain?"

"Uh nope, haven't done that either. Sorry Selph"

"I'll find something, just you wait"

I don't know how I ended up here. Had you told me yesterday that I would be sitting on a rooftop waiting for the sun to rise with Selphie Tilmitt I would probably laugh at you, but yet here I am. She promised she would make me have some fun, and did she ever. This girl knew how to find a good time like she lived for it, but I guess she kind of did. Or at least that is what she wanted everyone to see.

"Have you ever sang in the shower"

"Cant say I have"

"Oh come off it! Everyone has done that"

"Not me"

"Fine"

She took me out on the town. And not just any old place either. She knew all the best places. I really expected her to take me to a club or a bar or something like that. Most people would have told me, 'hey it's just Seifer! Let him drink away his emotions' but not her! First we went to the park and fed pigeons. Ever had a pigeon on your head? I have now. Then it was a street performer, and small Chinese food restaurant, and a market with little shops everywhere. And just as morning was itching closer she took me up to her roof top to see the sunrise. 'Best time of the night' she called it. Well seeing as we still had time to kill she came up with these questions.

"Have you ever had dinner alone?"

"I could never do that"

"Oh? And whys that"

"Everyone staring at you! Knowing your alone…its awkward"

"Its not that bad"

"Selph…"

"Umm next question"

Spunky crazy hyper happy Selphie. Messenger girl. All I ever knew her by was some label or another. I never gave it a second chance that there might be more to her then she let on. I don't think anyone did. They all saw her as either annoying, or cheerful. Always went to her to be cheered up, always looked to her to make something fun. Must get tiring after a while mustn't it?

"Ever skipped in the streets"

"…the hell…NEXT!"

"Have you ever-"

"Selphie…"

"Hmmm?"

"You can drop the act if you want to"

I didn't have to say anymore. She knew what I was talking about. Instantly gone were the constant giggles, the bounce and the overdone smile. She looked more relaxed…more…natural

"Thanks…you don't understand! I smile and laugh to make other happy when they are sad...and even if im sad I think of others and smile but it's tiresome. Smiling for everyone can be pretty tiring, and others dint seem to realize it. So now when I don't smile all the time people are like what's wrong so much that I just am like screw it and smile...then I get so tired its like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. And when I don't smile I get pestered...it's like I don't have to all the damn time. See I do like to smile. And to make people laugh. I enjoy it, but when im tired people seem to not notice, as if they think I don't get tired to, as if I don't get upset.
behind the smile is someone who gets mad to, who cries to...but all everyone sees is the mask...they don't look hard enough so when its gone, im not left alone until its back"

When she was finished she was out of breath. It took a lot of to say what she said, and more to do what she did, what she does. Everyday, a smile people take for granted

"You don't have to fake a smile with me. If you happy then smile, if you sad then show it"

She looked up at me gratefully

"Thank you"

Of course, I just had to ask. While we were putting things out in the open I felt it was something that had to be asked. And I knew that with asking it could destroy everything we did today

"Selphie…why are you being so nice to me! After everything I did! After everything I put everyone through"

The look I revived from her was almost heartbreaking. She looked as if I broke a life long promise

"You really don't remember do you Seifer"
"I don't remember a lot of my past"

"Oh…well it wasn't important anyway…I just like helping you"

She was lying I could see it in her eyes. But I didn't press it. If it was something I was supposed to remember then I doubted she would tell me.

"Seifer! Look the sun is rising! Look, look at all the colors! Aren't they so pretty!"

This wasn't an act. She was truly happy to just sit on the roof and watch the sunrise. Such a simple joy, a simple pleasure. But one of the best. And if I could share it with her, it made it all the better. So I took her hand in mine and watched the sunrise with my childhood friend

How could he have forgotten our promise…?

"Seify?"

The small girl approached her friend on the beach slowly. She looked like she had been crying and looked almost scared of the boy in front of her

"What"

"I...umm...IM SORRY"

It was all she was able to blurt out before turning on her heels and running away.

"WAIT Selphie! Sorry...for what"

"I uh...kind of...lost your hat"

The small girl began to sob and the little boy could do nothing but stare

"Sephy im not mad at you"

"But I lost it! It was your favorite hat!"

"So, your friendship means more to me then my hat"

The girl's sobs turned to quiet sniffles

"Really"

"Yes really. No matter what you did I would never stop being your friend"

"Let's make a promise then"

"Promise?"

"Yes, no matter how old we are we will always be friends! No matter what! Promise?"

"I promise!"

That's it for this chapter! More to come!

Small not on Selphie smile outburst…everything written in that paragraph is taken from my journal. I know that I come across to a lot of people the way she does and it made me wonder if she feels the same way I do…this is just my thoughts…

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