Misconceptions

All Yesterday's Parties

Disclaimer-I do not own Final Fantasy, It belongs to Square not me.

(A/N- okay it's been a long time since my other chapter, and here is the last chapter of my story! I'd like to thank everyone who made this a great story, and I hope you guy will read my other one! Enjoy the final chapter in 'Misconceptions')

Mira awoke with a pounding headache in a room she couldn't quite place. She turned her face to the other side and felt her face peel from the shaggy rug on the floor. A grunting from above her made her get up.

As she stood the bed came into full view. On it were several people, however none of them were Calli. Mira shook her head and picked up her shoes from around the room, before leaving and closing the door quietly behind her.

It was now morning probably around 10 a.m. and everyone was still fast asleep. Students bodies littered the hallways some passed out, some simply needing a place to sleep. As she entered the elevator Mira noticed dried vomit on the walls, and stains from other unknown origins.

"Ew," Mira commented stepping out of the now open elevator. As she rounded the corner and headed toward her dorm she saw more passed out students, and stains. When she reached her dorm she unlocked the door, and entered. No one was there which Mira was happy about. Not having strangers in her room was a blessing.

She threw her shoes in a corner and entered her bathroom. As she looked in her mirror she examined her face. Her eye shadow was smudged, and it ran in one side. Her lip-gloss was in her blonde hair and it made it look a different color than it actually was.

It was then that she realized the party life wasn't for her. Sure she didn't need to be a boring Betty the rest of her life, but she didn't need or want to wake up every morning not knowing how she ended up on the floor of a stranger's room, with seven people passed out in a bed.

She undressed and got into her shower. Her new revelation on life was assured, but she still smelled like throw-up.

XXXXX

The blare of a cell phone woke Calli. She turned in her bed and picked up her phone. The caller I.D. read 'Rinoa', she picked up the phone, and offered a sleepy 'hello'.

"You have to get to the Headmasters office now!" Rinoa clicked off, and Calli placed her phone back on her bedside table. She stared at her ceiling for a good three minutes before throwing her feet over the bed and standing. Calli extended her arms in a yawn and looked over at the chair she had in the corner of her room.

There asleep in her chair was a man with golden brown hair. He stirred a little from the noise Calli made but he did not wake. She tiptoed to her bathroom and washed her face putting an eyeliner and lip-gloss in her purse.

She crept back into her room and searched through her dresser for something to wear. She undressed from yesterday's clothes and slipped on a pair of fitted jeans, and a white girl-wife beater.

Calli turned to put on some flip-flops and smacked her toe on the table near her door.

"Damn it!" Calli stopped and stared at the man who was asleep in her chair, but now he wasn't asleep he was slowly coming to, and then realized she was awake staring at him.

"Hi," he offered.

"Um…hi," she responded.

"Sorry, I'm here I just wanted to make sure you were okay, yesterday-"

"Let me guess," Calli interrupted. "You found me passed out at your doorstep and being the great guy you are you went through my purse and found my room number, then you brought me back here and slept on my chair to make me think you were so nice, but you really have a girlfriend and you just wanted a make-out session with no strings attached."

He stared at Calli for a second.

"Actually, your name is Calli Ronnes, and we have a Self-Defense class together. I've tried a zillion times to talk to you but I always end up saying something incredibly stupid, and you probably wont remember me."

Calli searched through her memory, she did recognize him he was the one she thought had speech problems, but she decided not to mention that. "Oh, I recognize you now."

"But you were right about something," he continued. "I did find you passed out in front of some creeps room, he was going through your purse and that's how I found your room number, your student I.D. was in your wallet, which he was going through. So I brought you here. An I slept on the bed, because I am a nice guy."

Calli stared at him. She was so busy looking for the right guy for her, but she never looked in the right places. She went to clubs to find a fun guy, o the gym to find a hot guy, but she never looked for the right guy. Maybe this was fates way of telling her that the way she lived her life wasn't the best.

"I'm sorry," she finally said.

"For what?"

"For judging you when I should have been judging myself." He smiled at her.

"Well I should probably go now," he said standing. He stretched and Calli watched as the muscles on his arms flexed when he extended them.

"Wait," she said. He turned to her. "If your such a nice guy then shouldn't you stick around with me to make sure I'm okay." He smiled again at her.

"My names Ryan."

"Nice to meet you Ryan," she responded looping her arm with his. "Now come on I have to meet my friends." She dragged him out of her room and to the elevator.

Once inside she thought of something.

"What happened to the guy who was going through my stuff?"

"Oh, he's unconscious in front of his room."

Calli smiled. This guy seemed like her kind of guy.

XXXXX

Selphie stared at Irvine for a minute, than looked over at Zell. Irvine's face was shifting quickly from shock to rage.

"What the hell is going on here?" he demanded taking one step closer to the bed they were both on. Selphie moved from under Zell and stood in front of Irvine.

"Calm down Irvine I can explain everything," reasoned Selphie as she lightly tried to move him from the room.

"How can you possibly explain this? Did he trip mouth-first onto your neck?" Selphie thought for a second then shook her head.

"Listen Irvine we need to talk…away from here."

"Talk about what, how you cheated on me, with my best friend? How all these days I've been trying to find you, you've been sleeping with Zell."

"If you had to find me than you weren't here, were you?" she spat back at Irvine. "I couldn't find you for days, I left messages on your phone, and asked everyone I knew where you were, no one could find you! And you say you were looking for me? I don't see a voicemail on my phone do you? Any missed calls?" Irvine stared at her a while realizing her point. In the background a phone rang.

"That's no excuse to sleep with Zell," he replied a little calmer than before. Selphie looked down at the floor. "You can't explain that can you?"

"Um…sorry to interrupt…" said Zell.

"What is it?" demanded Irvine.

"Cid's in the hospital."

XXXXX

When Zell, Irvine and Selphie arrived at Cid's office everyone was already there. Calli took one look at Selphie's face and knew something was wrong.

"We need to clean the Garden ASAP," stated Calli taking Selphie by the hand.

"Why?" asked Selphie gripping Calli tightly.

"Cid sprained his ankle and was in a hospital in Deling for the past while, and he's coming home today, I just got a call from the doctor there. He'll be here within the next 2 hours. Rinoa's alerting the students and we need everything the way it was now," briefed Quistis quite business like.

"Right so let's go," said Calli. "Mira go with Zell, Ryan this is Irvine go clean up the Garden with him, I'll go with Selphie. We'll start at the infirmary, someone take the training centre, and the hallways, if you see a competent student tell them what's going on." Calli began to drag Selphie out the door, we'll do the front when we're all done."

Calli and Selphie were outside the door before anyone could question them and the two went to the infirmary in silence.

When they reached the infirmary Calli broke the silence.

"Do you want to tell me what happened?" Selphie retold her tale while cleaning a room in the infirmary. There were broken shards of glass, and the beds looked slept in.

"That is so retarded," replied Calli while she stacked papers on the front desk.

"I know and I don't know what to do, I mean it wasn't entirely Irvine's fault I'm sure, and me and Zell haven't really talked about anything, and it's not like I no longer car for Irvine and-"

"You're saying too much all that doesn't matter," interrupted Calli.

"Then what matters?"

"We are going to play a game okay? I'll give you two options and you say the one that you prefer okay, say it quick right off the top of your head okay?"

"I don't see how this will help…but I do love games."

"Okay ready? Blue or Red"

"Yellow."

"That's not how the game works Selphie say one of the two," scolded Calli moving on to another room in the infirmary.

"But I would clearly pick yellow," replied Selphie moving on to another room also.

"Fine we'll start again. Blue or Yellow?"

"Yellow"

"Dry or Wet?"

"Dry"

"Night or Day?"

"Have I seen a scary movie lately?"

"Selphie!"

"Okay-okay…um…day"

"Miniskirts or short shorts?"

"Miniskirts."

"High heels or flip-flops"

"Flip-flops"

"Rock or pop?"

"Pop"

"Deling or Timber?"

"Timber"

"Train or bus?"

"Train!"

"Zell or Irvine?"

"Zirvine"

"Selphie! That is against the rules!" Selphie shrugged then realized that Calli couldn't see her from the other room.

"Well it's not like there's a winner or a loser so I don't lose."

"Selphie…"

"What?"

"When you think of the future do you see yourself with Irvine or with Zell?" Selphie walked into the main room and Calli emerged from the room she was in too.

"It used to be Irvine but…lately…"

"Lately?"

"Lately I've been wondering what life would be like with Zell, I mean we were always really close, and he knows a lot about me…What do you think?"

"I think your kids will never sleep." Selphie smiled at her friend. "Come on, let's get this Garden cleaned up."

XXXXX

After an hour the Garden was almost completely clean except for the front. The students all helped out knowing the punishment for this would be dire. About 30 people were cleaning the front. Calli was on the floor with a sponge and bleach trying to get rid of the stains from the nights before. Ryan was helping her.

Rinoa and Quistis were working on a stain that was on one of the walls.

"How the crap did someone get a stain up here?" asked Rinoa clearly annoyed.

"The same way they got that underwear," replied Quistis. Rinoa looked where Quistis was and the two started to laugh. But they stopped abruptly. Everyone looked up to see Cid and Edea along with the other missing personnel standing in the front grim looks on their faces.

Everyone was silent for a while until Selphie jumped up from cleaning near one of the speakers, "SURPRISE!" Cid gave her a questioning look and then everyone jumped up wit her.

"WELCOME HOME!" they cried in unison. Cid smiled.

"You guys did this for me?" he asked happily.

"Yup," replied Selphie, "We even rented out speakers for you," she lied. "We were hoping you wouldn't be home so soon," she said honestly, "but now that you're here let the celebration begin. Cid smiled.

Zell took Selphie's hand, "Good one," he whispered.

"Thanks," she replied leaning her head against his shoulder. "It looks like they all fell for it." They looked over at Cid who looked incredibly content as people were signing his cast and congratulating him on his future recovery.

I guess that everything is going to work out for me, Irvine will be mad for a while but he can't possibly be mad at me forever can he? My luck has finally turned around, I mean there are no other big secrets that I have to deal with anymore. Except the party but that's not an issue now!

It was then that the underwear attached to the ceiling fell onto Cid's head.

Crap.