Cry

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TerrisMoon

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of FFVIII; those belong to their respectable owners SQUARE-ENIX. I do, however own the adorable plot of this one-shot series. This is the first in the series, 'Flower'.

Author's Notes: This is strictly a series of Selphie x Seifer drabbles. It's not so popular though…

Seifer watched as Selphie's body shook erratically, her breaths were uneven and her sobs were continuous and it was almost palpable that she was sad about something, scratch that it WAS palpable. He found it odd to see Selphie the usually chipper and flamboyant 'messenger girl' crying, furthermore she had skipped out lunchtime. If memory served him right, wasn't that the time that she usually passed out flyers to her other peers? Well, whatever, Selphie definitely needed some consoling—even if she was a bit intolerant at times.

Seifer crouched beside her in the dim light, still seeing streaks of her mascara stained on her round cheeks, and her once light sparkling green eyes seemed unusually dull and stark. He hated seeing her like this. Seeing that his apparent concern for her had no affect on her, Seifer chose to rather hesitatingly sit beside her and he laid his palms across one another. Sapphire-blue met emerald-green and Selphie sniffled loudly. It just so happened that for some odd reason (Seifer still wondered why he did this), Seifer still carried some spare unused tissues and he offered one to the hysterical girl. Selphie thanked him quietly and blew her nose noisily.

"Messenger girl?" Seifer called to her, Selphie stopped her blowing momentarily to gaze at him questioningly, and then she asked shakily, a bit hoarse from crying still:

"What, Seifer?" she barely called him by his first name; usually she'd make up these irresistibly cute pet names for him instead, like 'Seify' or 'Seif'. Seifer had grown fond of them….so this was a shocker.

"Why are you crying? You almost never cry, messenger girl" he asked, truly concerned now, which confused him—maybe it was apart of friendship…

"I don't wanna talk about it"

"Yeah, well I do, and quite frankly I think the whole school could hear your bawling" Seifer retorted.

"WELL, Seif, I DON'T wanna talk about it, okay!" Selphie attempted to get up and sort of staggered a couple of times, before trying to walk, tears lined her eyelashes again, splattering messily unto her cheeks. Whoa, Selphie had a short temper when she was sad as well, Seifer definitely needed to watch out for that just for future references.

"Wait...well, I care okay. I just don't want to see you cry, Selphie" Seifer said in a stern voice, his eyes weren't holding that mischievous look in them that she was used to seeing. No, his eyes held warmth and passion in them, beyond anything Selphie was used to. But, the girl turned around and started marching indignantly away from him, so Seifer had to jog up to her and pull her into his chest.

"LET GO OF ME! LET GO OF ME, SEIFER, UNNGH, STOP!" Selphie wailed, screaming until Seifer had to finally cover her mouth and use his free hand to restrain her flailing arms. His legs held her own ones together, and the two sat down in this awkward position—her in his lap, and him holding her there.

"Shh, now will you promise to shut up when I let you go?"

"Yes"

"Now, what happened?"

"Squall, Squall, he…we had an argument, and—and I—I don't think we're gonna be friends anymore " at this point her voice had raised about an octave higher than Seifer thought was considered normal.

"Oh, well, Squall you know him, he's a big softie. He'll come around, now we gotta get you cleaned up, messenger girl. Lay off the crying too, you'll make your face sore" Seifer commanded, and so he took five minutes gently wiping stained mascara marks from her cheeks. He rubbed vigorously at her nose which sported a visible mascara stain on it too.

"Thank you Seify" Selphie thanked him, sniffling loudly, and Seifer had to resist the urge to smile just then. She smoothed out the creases in her trademark yellow dress.

"Whatever see you in class, Selphie" Seifer said before walking off. And Selphie realized that he'd said her first name twice for the first time since she'd known him.

FIN

A/N: This just tells of a random stupid time after Selphie and Squall got in a stupid argument, and Selphie was crying…so R/R!