28. Change
"Why not?" It's a challenge, one she can't answer, one she doesn't want to answer.
"Seifer..." His name is a sigh on her lips, and he doesn't know how badly she wants to touch him again, but she won't. "Things have changed."
"Tch." He picks up his bag–it's falling apart at the seams, and it'll be a miracle if he gets it to the car with all his stuff intact. There's a silence she hates, but he breaks it before she has to. "Look, Quistis...I'm sorry. For what it's worth, I'm sorry."
Irvine returns then, and puts his hand almost possessively on Quistis' shoulder, and for that moment, she hates Irvine for the pain and anger that abruptly appears on Seifer's face when he realizes just how much everything has changed. "We goin'?"
She shrugs his hand off her shoulder. "We're going."
I can explain...she wants to say as Seifer storms past them to the parking lot, and knows that she can't.