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Squall entered the room to find her sprawled on the white floor, her hair shooting out on every direction. He looked around and saw that her equipment was all over the place, the lights, the big light reflectors and her camera still up on the tripod as a couple of lenses were neatly placed on the big desk at the corner of the room with her computer half open.

"Hey." He whispered, slowly walking to sit down and lie down next to her.

She looked at him and smiled, the paleness of the studio bringing a certain light to his features and she felt herself catch a breath, "Hey back at you…"

He turned his neck to stare at the ceiling and she did the same, both of them lying down in silence and they both enjoyed it. It wasn't often that the two of them were alone, let alone in silence, but when it happened and they weren't too busy going at each other's throats it was definitely serene and enjoyable.

"So, who did you shoot today?" He asked her as she turned her head to face him, he was still facing the ceiling.

"Quisty," She said shifting the weight of her body to lie on her side. "Sorry about Siren."

He turned and looked at her, a smile blessing that perfect face of his, "Not your fault," He said and then turned back to look at the ceiling, "She was pretty cute, though, not gonna lie there." He heard her chuckle and looked back at her, "How are you feeling?"

She sighed and softly placed a hand on his arm, feeling the muscles that flinched as she touched him and swearing there was nothing more perfect than that feeling, "I'm good… Just baffled at how I couldn't bring myself to just fall in love with him," she laughed as he laughed at her remark. "He wasn't grumpy enough for me," She laughed with him.

Squall and Rinoa had became good friends over the past couple of months, they'd talk about their kinks and about their problems, suggesting that they should go out and date other people, give themselves a chance after the heartbreak they'd been through, but the many times they'd attempted at it had ended up in nothing more than another failure added to the book.

"I guess it's not as easy as most people make it seem," He told her. He stretched his body and he could feel his back pop, sitting down and smiling. "I was talking to Zell earlier today." She sat down next to him and hummed to lead him on, "And next thing I know I'm texting Xu and we have a date tomorrow?" He finished that statement but it sounded more like a question and she quirked her eyebrow at him as he brought his blue eyes back to her.

Her reaction was something between a scowl and a frown and he couldn't help but to laugh at it. She quirked up and looked at him, pounding him on the shoulder, "Whatever happened to not going back there?" She questioned him, "Whatever happened to not being attached to anyone, or to just giving yourself time to heal?" She asked him and he looked at her, baffled.

"Whatever happened to you looking for passion? You're one to talk as you go around meeting new guys and breaking up with them before hitting the three months mark?" He replied to her, feeling the blood rushing to his face.

Oh, she knew how to push buttons. She was good at it, and he didn't know why in heavens name he had even made an effort to cheer her up. This was a waste of time and he could think of a thousand and one reasons to not listen to her and her yapping right now but he just couldn't think of a reason to just let it go, nor did he want to. If Rinoa Heartily wanted a fight, that's what she will be getting.

"Xu… Xu, of all people?" She asked him, standing up and cleaning her shorts, stretching her arms and her cropped shirt revealed her mid-section, fixing her hair that was tied up in a bun. "Are you… This is ridiculous!" She yelled as he stood up and stared down at her. "You're pathetic! Can't you just be by yourself?" Her arms went up in the air.

Squall squinted his eyes at her and closed the distance in between them. "What is your problem? Don't you believe in second chances?" He barked at her, gritting his teeth as she stared back at him, "Do you think you know everything? Do you think you have your shit together? Who are you? The most responsible human being? Who do you think you are?" He asked and he was fuming, his face red and she stood her ground.

"You make the worst decisions ever! I'm so disappointed at you!" She stomped her foot, "You're ridiculous! You sell yourself short!"

"You're the one that's ridiculous!" He held her by the shoulders and shook her, "You're crazy! All you spit is nonsense!"

"No! You just don't want to hear the truth!"

"You know what I would like to hear from you? Nothing! Utter and complete silence!" He spat and he saw her take deep breath, closing her mouth as unspoken words died on her throat and she looked away, puffed her cheeks and stepped away from his touch. "I don't need your help, Rinoa!" He screamed and she turned around, her shoulders slumping.

"You're a jerk!" She screamed and ran out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

He sighed and felt his heart tugging at him, "Way to go, you idiot." He told himself.

"Way to go indeed," Zell muttered as he eyed Squall. "You really are an idiot. I didn't say those things so you could go running back to Xu and try to make things right." Zell said as he took a bite out of his hot dog and walked towards Squall.

Squall shot daggers at him, "Then why?"

Zell sighed, talking to Squall had never been the easiest thing to do, ever since they were small the brunette had the tendency of keeping everything in and whenever you'd give him advice he would take it quite literally and everything would just end up in one big clusterfuck. "My situation was different Squall. Stacey and I were never in a serious relationship, we just screwed around and then I'd be gone for long missions and that was that. We changed, I grew up and so did she, we're no longer 18… You and Xu, though… She dumped you because you had changed, because you were different than the Squall she knew and she didn't want all that baggage… And yet you go running back to her like an idiot." Zell finished his sentence and took another bite off his hot dog, smacking his lips as he ate.

"It'll work this time…" Squall muttered and repeated the sentence to himself again as he looked at Zell who only shook his head and walked away.

"Apologize to Rinoa," Zell said, this time licking his fingers and standing by the door as Squall looked up at him and shook his head.

"No! I won't." He said and Zell rolled his eyes, "She said a lot of things that were out of line. That girl likes to push buttons and meddle into other people's business. She drives me insane! I just wanna kill her sometimes!" He screamed at Zell who just laughed and disappeared, not before reminding him that he had some serious apologizing to do.

A/N: I finally updated! Yay! I'm sorry if you guys expected more Irvine and Zell in the story, but truth is that this is more SquallRinoa centered, even though I have a little bit of IrvineSelfie, SeiferFuijin and maybe some Zell and Library Girl (I need a name for her!) but it won't be as much as the main two.