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People were beginning to stare at the pair of them: Squall enraged and practically dragging Kelsey because she wasn't walking fast enough, through the halls and down to the SeeD dormitory corridor. He walked straight to a room and threw Kelsey on the ground in front of the door, still crying. He pounded on the door with his fists, leaving slight dents with each additional time he hit it. He heard a woman's voice from inside.

"Will you hold on? I'm coming! I'm coming" She said through the door. She opened it quickly - quickly enough to be face to face with Squall. She inhaled sharply as her eyes landed on Kelsey, weeping onto the floor. "Ohhhh my."

"Quistis Marie Aliala Trepe, how dare you" She stepped back but she had a nasty side too.

"How dare I what" She said, her temper getting the better of her and stepping forward into his face.

"How dare you tell this girl the story of my life! She has no right to know - ABOUT ANYTHING! MY LIFE! MY SISTER! HOW DARE YOU GO SHOUTING IT AT ALL" His eyes began to bulge out as he screamed. Quistis narrowed her eyes but spoke calmly.

"This girl is a student in this Garden and I am a teacher at this Garden and when a student asks a question the teacher is supposed to respond to the best of their ability." Quistis knelt beside Kelsey and helped her up.

Luckily for them, most of the SeeDs were still in their offices and very few people were still lingering about the Dormitory Corridor or Cid would have already been down there, breaking the fight up. That was that last thing they needed to make the situation worse: Cid, but although Squall knew this, he wasn't bothering to keep his voice down. He was so enraged, he was berating Quistis with all of his might. He was also lucky to have caught her in her room, or he'd have marched straight into her office, amidst the other classrooms on the second floor, Kelsey being like a rag doll, and Cid would've been there in the blink of an eye.

"I thought you had the decency to keep your mouth shut! God damn it Quistis, it's NONE OF HER DAMN BUSINESS" Kelsey began to moan loudly, taking short breaths, tears still streaming down her face.

"This girl came to me with a plea Squall! A plea for some god damn help and I called her Lisse when I saw her damn face! LISSE! LISSE, GOD DAMN IT"

"I don't care who the hell she looks like." He said angrily, turning away from the pair of them.

"When a student comes to me with a need I do the best job I can. She was going to run away to meet Lisse! What was I supposed to do?" She asked harshly. Kelsey sank back onto the floor.

"How the hell should I know what you were supposed to do but GOD DAMN IT YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL HER! GOD DAMN IT - SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW ANYTHING." He roared, stepping up to Kelsey. He didn't know what he wanted to do, maybe to help her up, or maybe to strike, to end it all. Quistis stepped in front of him.

"This girl does not belong to you." Quistis whispered fiercely.

"She damn well better do as I say!"

"Just because you're a damn SeeD you think you can order people around well news flash Squall-"

"It's not because I'm a SeeD, Quistis! It's because she's my sister" Quistis choked, and swallowing hard, knowing from the evil look in his eye that he was telling the truth, her eyes landed on Kelsey, sobbing uncontrollably at these last words.

"Then she has every right to see her sister." Quistis spoke, quivering.

"YOU TOOK HER TO SEE LISSE" He roared. "HOW DARE YOU" Quistis lost control, her hair falling out of it's neat bun, teeth clenched, fists balled and her little round face, red with fury.

"How dare I? HOW DARE I? Am I nothing? LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING SQUALL LEONHART! LISSE LEONHART WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND I WAS A LOT CLOSER TO HER THAN YOU KNEW, THAN YOU EVER WERE! GODDAMN IT SQUALL, SHE DIED IN MY GODDAMNED ARMS! NOW YOU TELL ME WHO HAS MORE RIGHT TO BRING ANYONE TO HER GRAVE, ME OR YOU AND LET ALONE HER SISTER BECAUSE HER BROTHER NEVER TOLD HER ANYTHING!" She raged into her room and slammed the door. The building trembled for a few seconds before Squall stormed away in a fit of absolute anger and hatred, leaving Kelsey screaming on the floor.

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He went down the hall to his room and slammed the door. The GFs had totally affected his brain. He had forgotten Quistis had known. He should have known her better than to leave his secret to her and he should've never mentioned Lisse to Kelsey and trusted his father to never tell her something he was so ashamed of.

He was fuming.

But back in her own room Quistis was crying.

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Beep Beep Beep Beep. Quistis reached over and hit the snooze button. Sitting up, she saw that she had cried herself to sleep. She stretched. She looked at the clock and saw that she was running late again. She got ready; the events of the night before still playing like a broken record in her head. She had time to get her lesson together after she'd gotten quickly ready and gone to her office. She thought about calling Cid and telling him that she was sick and couldn't teach today. She plopped into her chair and knew that she'd have to face Kelsey in class when the time came. She put her head down on her desk. There was a knock on her door, even though it was wide open. She lifted her head up. It was Xu.

"You okay." Xu asked.

"Ya."

"I heard you and Squall got into a fight."

"From who?"

"Selphie."

"Selphie?" Quistis wondered aloud.

"I guess she was leaving and came out and saw you two. She ran for Zell but when they got back you guys were gone and neither of you were answering your door."

"I was sleeping." Quistis told her.

"Oh. You're sure you're fine then?"

"Yes."

"Okay." She left. Quistis was feeling a bit apprehensive. She hadn't seen Selphie at all since their last mission and didn't remember seeing her anywhere near the Dorms before the fight. She knew Xu wouldn't lie to her but that's what it sounded like. She didn't want to question it at the moment. She didn't remember anyone knocking on her door either. She had concluded that she must have been asleep by the time they came around knocking. She put her head back down. Lisse was on her mind.

Her words had been true. Lisse, Squall's older sister, had died in Quistis's arms. They'd been best friends and neighbors as long as they could remember. They were planning on growing up and attending Garden together but when Lisse was eight years old, she was diagnosed with Leukemia and their mother refused to let Lisse go. And of course, conjoined at the hip, Quistis had not wanted to go without her. Quistis's mother had let Quistis stay home from Garden too, to be with her sick best friend. After a while, Lisse began living at one of the children's hospitals. Quistis stayed with her through thick and thin, always by her side. Then Lisse died and Quistis went on to Garden alone, confiding in Squall, who had loved Lisse beyond anything too. But he'd forgotten last night. He'd forgotten those long hours they spent crying over her, mourning over her. He'd forgotten they once shared the same pain...that they still shared it.

It was also true that the GFs had made him forget, as he had forgotten most of his childhood days with his mother before Lisse was sick. All he did remember of his mother were the times he was forced to be away from Lisse while she was getting treatments. He hadn't been able to see her the whole month before she died and then his mom lied about Lisse's death to try and get him to forget about her before she had to break the news to him. After that, he told her to stop visiting him at the Garden. Cid took him in and cared for him with his wife, before she too had died of cancer.

His parents were released from the Garden and moved to Balamb. He barely remembered his father and Kelsey. They used to visit him on the weekends until he was old enough to be alone when Cid was gone. Even then, his father would leave Kelsey there for the weekend and pick her up on Monday mornings. How had he never mentioned Lisse to Kelsey? He at least thought she knew she had an older sister. He thought was an insult to her memory that their parents never told her and that she had to find out this way.

Would Lisse ever rest in peace? Squall and Quistis were both furious with each other. They both missed Lisse. If only she were alive, she'd have known exactly what to do.

The bell rang. Her first class that had been mingling outside began to file in. She put her head down on the desk again. She wasn't ready for them. Kelsey was in her second class but she knew that if she faced the first class she's eventually have to face the second class to and the thought of coming face to face with Kelsey would rip her heart out. Kelsey had purposely not told Quistis that she was Lisse's sister. She felt betrayed. She was the one responsible for their fight. Quistis had just been doing what she would have done for a sister if she'd had one. She told her the truth. The second bell rang. She would need to go teach.

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