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Here's the first chapter people…

The Movie in My Mind

By: Ai have a boring life

Chapter One

Balamb

1975

Zell Dincht was up to no good once again inside of his humble abode dreaming of new ways to get rich quick. He had a dream, and that was to own the largest hot dog chain in the world. But for now, he would stick to the family business.

His family owned a brothel and Zell was the new owner. It was called Dreamland. This was his moneymaker, for it all had to deal with his new plan. He would hold a beauty contest for all the whores in Dreamland. Miss Balamb, he would call it, it would pick men's pockets clean. They'd buy a raffle ticket. The winning ticket would be drawn and…Voila! He'd win Miss Balamb. Of course, he needed just one more girl.

"Zell! I know you're in there! Open up, you chickenwuss!" shouted a girl standing at Zell's door.

That would do it. Rinoa had been knocking, well, banging more likely, on that door for over an hour. And Zell thought it was just his head pounding and brushed it off…until he heard someone say "Chickenwuss." Now that just made him angry. He had been called that all his life, and he hated it. That person would pay if they called him that name one more time.

Zell walked over and opened the door. "Who the hell do you think you're calling 'chickenwuss'?"

It was then when he had his arms around the girl's head that Zell realized he was choking his best friend. He let her go.

"Oh yeah, it's great to see you too, Zell."

"I am so sorry, Rin! I didn't know it was you! Anyways…it's great to finally have you come visit me! Come here!"

He observed her. She seemed different, rags for clothes and hair that looked as if it hadn't been brushed in days. Rinoa ran to his arms and burst into tears.

"What happened?" he asked her, and she cried all the more harder.

"They're gone, Zell. My parents…they're…they're dead."

She told him what happened over some hot cocoa and fudge.

"Those damn Galbadians!" he yelled.

"I know Zell. But there's another thing…" she trailed off.

"What?"

"D'you remember Seifer?"

"Your cousin? The one always made fun of me? Yeah…I remember him…"

He hated Seifer, ever since the first time he saw him. Zell and Rinoa were five, Seifer was six. He was the one who started the whole 'chickenwuss' thing.

"Remember when we were little? Remember how he always said that he was going to join the G-army someday? Well he did. And guess who led the army into my village?"

"That bastard!"

"I hate him!"

"I told you he'd be trouble one day. It's a pity you have to marry him."

"I don't have to…that promise died when my parents died."

"Where are you going to stay now?"

"I don't know…I just can't go back there…I can't."

"You can stay here with me….but you'll need to get a job."

He had found his Miss Balamb…that is, if she became Miss Balamb…

"Wait a minute…let me get this straight. You own a WHOREHOUSE? Can't you like, get me some other job? You know…something like a cook or a maid? I can't work in a place where women sell their bodies for money!"

"Hey! It's a family business!"

"Family business my ass! I thought you told me your family owned a restaurant here!"

"Well yeah…but we went bankrupt so Dad turned it into a brothel!"

"Ugh! I can't believe this! And your mom consented to this?"

"Uh huh…Look, you can either take this job or go back home. Nobody else is hiring. It's hard to find a decent job these days. It's your choice—do you really want to go back to Timber?"

She couldn't say anything to that.

"Argh! F-fine…but do I really have to…"

"To what?"

"You know…."

"Oh…that. Well yeah," Zell said as if it was no big deal.

"But I'm young…and inexperienced! I don't wanna! I don't wanna!"

"Yeah, I know you don't want to…but how else are you supposed to earn a living? Huh? Tell me," he said amusedly. "I only want the best for you, my little Rinny!"

Great. So her best friend was a con man.

"Oh, you're good, Zell. Real good."

"I know. It's a gift."

End Chapter One

Author's Note: Wow….people are gonna come running at me with torches and pitchforks….I know, but I have good intentions. Thank you to Amy1993881205. My first reviewer! Yay! I'm glad you liked it. Yes, this will be a Squinoa. At least someone in the world likes me!

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