A/N: hey this is the edited version of this story, i didn't change much but i did clean it up. (this is what happens when you write on 2am!) anyway read it again :) i promise it's clean XD
Chapter 17
Meet Miss Keena
The doctor let Rinoa out of the hospital after a day of being confined. Her aunt came by in the afternoon, on the verge of crying, she hugged Rinoa as tight as she can and was hysterically talking about her being worried sick.
"You made me worry so much! When Squall called earlier I didn't know if I would tell your mother or not…" she then looked at Squall, "I don't want her to meddle in things here but I also want her to know what happened to you." Then she sobbed.
Turning purple by the second because her aunt was squeezing her too much, Rinoa was gasping for air like crazy and her aunt doesn't seem to notice. Squall held her aunt back saying that Rinoa just went through hyperventilation and here she comes to choke her again.
"Aunt Cecile! Please let Rinoa loose…. She just went through hyperventilation and we wouldn't want her to have another one because you squeezed her too much." Squall explained.
Aunt Cecile calmed down and let Rinoa go, sobbing in the process, while Rinoa gasped for air and asked her if she DID tell her mom. "Uhm," gasps "aunt, did you tell mom about this?"
Her aunt just shook her head and Rinoa let out a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Auntie!" then Rinoa talked about what happened to her. When she was done Aunt Cecile seemed to have calmed down even more and asked, "Rinoa, do you mind if I do not stay here? I need to tend to the business tomorrow, so I don't really have much time in my hands, and I think your classes starts tomorrow… so I guess you'll be needing to go straight to the Uni… but then I won't be able to help you get there… see, um, because… uh…" then she gasped for air and was utterly torn.
Squall interjected and told her he'll be the one to stay there for the night and he'll also take Rinoa back to the dorms at the University. "She'll be fine, Aunt Cecile, don't worry." Squall assured the nervous woman.
"I just hope this doesn't get to her mother… oh well, thank you dear and now I guess I got to go." Then she collected her things, gave Rinoa a kiss on the forehead and went home.
"Auntie, I want you to know that mom knows this happens to me almost all the time." She thought earnestly for a situation she could tell her aunt. "Um…Like this one time when I won captain for the cheerleading squad… I fainted and didn't wake up till dusk 2 days after." Then she gave the nicest smile she could muster. Her aunt seemed to have calmed down after her little explanation.
"Well, I believe you. But please don't make such a scene next time… okay?" Her aunt motioned to the door and Squall opened it for her.
"Whew!" Squall breathed. "And I though she was going to take you back to Deling." He strode to Rinoa's side and whispered: "Because, surely I'll go there and carry you on my back and take you back here."
Rinoa had goose bumps rise on her back as Squall whispered and rested his head on her collar. "Uh…Squall… the nurse might be coming any minute…. Um…" Rinoa said but Squall seemed to have dosed off to dream land.
"Um..Squall? Hun?" "Mmmm… lemme stay like this for a little while longer…." Then he wrapped his arms around Rinoa and fell asleep.
Oh Hyne, why is doing this right now? I'm getting stupid thoughts and I am sick! I am supposed to be sick! HYNE HELP ME. Rinoa fidgeted on her bed while Squall started to snore.
"Um…" just before Rinoa woke Squall up to make him move the door opened to reveal Selphie. Oh shit I thought visitors weren't allowed anymore?! Maybe she persuaded them again! "OH! I'm so sorry for not knocking!" Sephie turned furiously red and turned around to give them a bit of privacy.
"Oh no no, don't worry! Um…he fell asleep while waiting for me to wake up and I think he thinks I'm his pillow. HAHA." I hope that excuse worked.
"Oh I see, he's such a nice guy… unlike what they said when I first got to the Uni. They said he never talked to anyone and was one of the best students there." Selphie was now sitting on the couch where Squall should be.
"Well, he's not really a man of many words…but even his father said that he changed a bit when he met me." Rinoa said thoughtfully.
"Wait! Rewind! You actually MET his father?!" the brunette was now standing near the bed and was grasping the bars to emphasize her point.
"Well, yeah of course, over my first week here… I did." The raven haired girl tried to hush the excited brunette just not to wake Squall up. "We became "We" then."
The brunette clasped her hand over her mouth and whispered: "You've met, like, the King of Esthar. We all dream of meeting him, even the bitch Keena." Then she went back to the couch.
Squall shifted his position letting loose his grasp on Rinoa. She took the opening and removed his arms around her so that she could crawl to the end of the bed and chat with Selphie. "Tell me Selph," she said as she folded her legs. "Who's Keena?"
The brunette stood from the couch to sit in front of Rinoa. "Well, to start off, she's the most popular freshman in our campus, well that was until the magazine clip of you and him." She added while pointing to the pillow hugging Squall.
Rinoa looked at him and smiled then asked Selphie, "How did you know her?" Selphie thought for a while and remembered the incident where she met Keena. "Well, I met her on the Uni tour last May. She was my partner since she was an old student here she was my tour guide." Then she snapped her fingers.
"What? Why? What exactly did she do?" Rinoa asked the now excited Selphie.
"Of course! That is why she was really furious when I saw her this morning! She couldn't be? Him and her?!" then her eyes travelled from left to right then up to down.
"Um…Selphie are you okay?" Rinoa was worried and thought she might be having a seizure or something.
"Huh? Yeah of course I am. I was just talking to myself I do that most of the time." She explained.
Rinoa looked at her intently and asked, "What's this about her and him?"
"You see when we were in the tour Squall was also a tour guide. She always gave him side glances whenever we came across his pair." Selphie thought.
"I think they were already over by then… and Squall didn't look happy either." She continued.
Rinoa was now thinking and was kind of curious about why they split or was there even something between the two.
"So what happened this morning?" She asked just to break the ice.
"Well, this morning I saw her holding this magazine and you were there! I saw you in the mag and you were squashed under his face! The picture was so intense and she was too!" Rinoa gulped as Selphie continued her story.
"She tore the page into two and went back to the dorms. I think she may be jealous." When Selphie was done Rinoa was pale and was nervous.
"Um…you don't think she'll want to kill me? I mean it's not like it's my fault…Squall took me there and and…" Rinoa was lost in her own imaginations and thoughts that only Selphie noticed that Squall was now behind her.
"Rin, calm down, she won't bother you." He whispered into her ear. Rinoa faced him and said, "But, she was really furious with the picture! She must really hate me! I don't like to be hated!" she panicked like crazy that Selphie found it funny.
"You know what Rinoa, you better get used to it by now…"she said.
"Because a lot of girls are now jealous of you and some idolize you. Anyway, I gotta go now, see you later or tomorrow in the dorms…" then she waved.
"Oh and by the way, they moved the start of classes to next week." Selphie then stood up and left the two to sort the problem they now have.
"Squall what do I do? I'm not used to people hating me! Jealousy and idolization I could handle, but hate?!" She was obviously panicking and Squall found it cute.
"You know, you're cute when you panic." He said as Rinoa blushed furious and realized that she had bed hair and was wearing a hospital gown. How can I be cute now?! Squall hugged her and said, "Lemme explain everything okay?"
"She was my girlfriend and we dated for a year," Squall explained as he positioned Rinoa in front of him. "We were the quintessential couple of the senior year in Esthar High, everybody knew about us and we were both popular and rich as heck."
Rinoa seemed to have calmed down just by hearing Squall's voice. Squall noticed and went on with his story. "She transferred there when we were in our sophomore year, her friends and my friends were friends so we ended up being friends with each other." He said while staring at her intently.
"We were the only one in our group that wasn't paired with each other and they often teased us. She became furiously popular whilst I, remained popular as ever." He paused to check up on Rinoa, which was now calm and intently listening. "The teasing went on but this time it got worse they were pressuring me to for it and ask her out. But come time we entered our third year, she was gorgeous but she also had boyfriend."
Squall then smirked as he remembered an obviously funny memory. "She was with one of the football players, and they were great together. But I already had my eyes on her so we battled for her, she didn't want it to happen but me and my friends were all decided and determined to win her. So we had soccer match, me and her boyfriend, winner gets to take her to the JS prom." He then smiled as he recalled the story.
"Of course, I won." He continued. "I made my move then and won her heart. We dated the whole senior year, but I left her for a reason she thought she was the only one who knew." He then frowned and continued his story while checking if Rinoa was okay with this.
"She screwed her ex on the night of our first anniversary, according to her friends, she was drunk and they didn't want me to tell her that I knew what happened." Rinoa was now sitting up again and asked, "How did you find out she screwed her ex?"
Squall was caught off guard a bit by Rinoa's sudden question but he answered. "Well, I saw them at it, my friends saw them first, like two times before me and they tried to tell me, stupid me didn't believe them but I did saw them doing it." He continued. "She promised that she was only going to do it with me when she feels the burn and need to do so, but heck she was better with him than she was with me when we did it."
Oh Hyne, that's a big hit for me to take! No worries, me and Squall would eventually come to that…I mean…oh heck what am I thinking? Better listen to Squall now…Rinoa, FOCUS NOW!!!! Squall noticed Rinoa's uneasiness and asked if she was okay.
"Yeah I am, it's just my dextrose is so painful and itchy, nevertheless I am all good, please continue." She said as she massaged her, really, painful hand. Squall took it and kissed it for her. Rinoa blushed and thanked Squall. Oh hyne… he's such a nice person.
"So there, I didn't bust them when they were doing it; I waited for the next day to break her dear heart. But, being the bitch she is she pretended to not be wavered by it. When I talked to her friends to check up on her, they said she was still crying over the whole break up thing." He said while looking massaging Rinoa's hand.
"I didn't want to graduate there because of that reason and another was that I hate the military style of graduating. She was a regular student though." Squall then added, "I never took her to meet my family although she knew I was the son of the president."
Rinoa fidgeted again and asked him, "This maybe a stupid question, but please indulge me." Squall raised his eyebrow and asked, "In what way?" He then kissed her left cheek.
"Not that type! Gosh!" Rinoa blushed scarlet and Squall laughed his ass off.
"What's so funny?!" she asked in outrage.
"It's your face Rin; anyway what is your question?" Squall tried hard to contain his laughter and Rinoa gave him a pout.
"Will you please be serious?" She asked.
"Okay, I'm sorry. What is it?" He asked her again.
"Well, I was just curious," she finally asked while eyeing him. "You said you caught them in the act, where exactly?"
Squall thought for a while then spoke, "What a weird thing to be curious about, but I think I saw them under the bleachers of the soccer field." Then he smiled. "She had a weird fetish and loved to do it in places that she thinks she'd get caught."
Rinoa remembered Derrick and the times they spent together. She shuddered in thought, Squall seemed to notice but he just smiled at her. "Ooh, she's really something." That was all Rinoa could say.
"Well, we did it four times, if you must know," he continued, "first was in the teacher's dormitory shower rooms. The second was in the fourth floor girl's CR. The third," he was thoughtful for a moment then spoke, "I think it was in her parent's bedroom, she was really excited then."
Then he thought earnestly, again, for the last one, "Oh we just did it thrice, because the fourth was supposed to be on our anniversary but she did him then not me."
Rinoa's mouth was curled into a frown when he finished with his story. Squall noticed and immediately asked if she was okay. "Are you okay Rin? Is your hand hurting again?" His face was so near hers when he asked that Rinoa was startled.
"No, no, I'm okay!" she said. "I was just thinking." Squall's face formed a frown.
"I'm sorry for making you listen to all those parts, I should've noticed… I'm sorry okay?" Rinoa just nodded and hugged him. "Okay, I got my bed time story; maybe I should go to sleep too. Um… if it's not too much to ask Squall, but can you please sleep beside me tonight?" she smiled at him and patted the extra space on her bed. "No problem."
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The next morning Squall took Rinoa back to the dormitories, people here and there were looking at her and were all wearing concerned looks, some even asked if she was okay. Rinoa always just nodded and gave them a smile. Quistis was atop the stairs waiting for them to arrive.
"Rinoa! I was so worried! I wanted to visit but," She then looked at Squall. "My car was not here and I couldn't commute there. Also, Tilmitt didn't ask me to come with!" The blonde rushed to her and hugged her so tightly.
"I'm okay now Quistis, Squall was there to take care of me." She said.
"Quistis she'll talk to you later, but right now, she has to go to sleep again. The travel made her kind of woozy again and she needs her medication." Squall interjected.
"Oh, of course, how stupid of me!" she said as she slapped her forehead and led them to her room. Squall opened the door for her and then bade her goodbye the instant she was settled. "I need to take care of some business back at our house now, I'll be back later."
He gave her a kiss and went on his way, leaving Quistis and Rinoa alone. "Okay, I'll personally get you a maid!" Rinoa laughed.
"I thought you were going to say you're going to personally take care of me." She teased the blonde whose face bore the look of worry.
"You dream too much, anyway I'll leave you to settle and you could come down anytime you need to." The blonde instructed before she shut the door. "Thanks Quis!" Rinoa said.
Okay now I am all alone in my room… I should sleep for a while and I'll go out in a few.
Rinoa dozed off in a couple of minutes; she didn't even change her clothes. When she woke up a couple of hours later, everybody was already busy in their own rooms and she didn't want to bother anybody, so she went down stairs and got herself some food.
Heck, I'm hungry I better see what we have in the pantry.
She opened the cabinet and saw nothing she liked. "I better just go out and grab dinner in a restaurant; I wouldn't want to bother Squall so I'll walk." She said to herself.
She grabbed her jacket and went out to go to the restaurant in the campus. "Selphie said the food here sucks, but what the heck."
As she approached the door to the restaurant a group of women were talking loudly and it stopped her from opening the door. One of them seemed to be on the phone and the others were talking with one another.
The one on the phone was screaming, "…I said I didn't know! I just found out too!...oh, no! Don't blame me! It wasn't my fau—don't start to be my mother because you are just a step!" then she heard the phone shut.
"Hey girl, don't fuss about it, it'll be fine just don't take it out on me." All of them laughed and commented about the statement. Rinoa decided to not wait for them and go in the restaurant.
"Welcome to Esthar U Burglar Burgers!" said the door speaker. Rinoa immediately approached the counter and was now thinking what she'd get.
There are no people here. That is super odd; I guess its high tech here.
"Well I'll take the U burger with fries and a soda." She said to nobody, the computer responded, "That would be 5Gil."
Rinoa paid and took her ready order and sat down on the corner table when the group she over heard busted in.
"What shall we order today?" one asked.
"Well, I'm sick of food here, just get me a soda." Another one said. And the one on the phone asked the other one to get her a large fries and a soda.
She then settled herself on the table on the other side of the room. Rinoa took no mind of them and ate her burger silently. The other girls were whispering to one another.
"I think that is her….hey, Keena! Don't you think she looks like the girl that was in the pic?" one asked. The blonde extended her neck and said, "Yeah I think it's her…" then she left her friends to talk to the oblivious Rinoa.
"I'll go introduce myself." Then she winked at her friends, "You better back me up on this one." She stood up and went to Rinoa.
"Hello there." She said.
Rinoa looked up and swallowed her burger. "Yes?" she asked.
"Aren't you the girl from the magazine?" she asked.
This girl is rude.
"Yes, the one in the big photo, which is me. Why?" Rinoa answered, clearly annoyed.
The blonde flipped her hair and said, "Nothing at all, I was just curious…" she said. "By the way, Rinoa, my name is Keena Williams; I bet you have heard about me, because I have definitely heard of you."
Meanwhile, Squall went to Rinoa's dorm to check up on her only to find out she was missing and no one saw where she went.
A/N: i told you it was clean~er LOL thanks! R &R xD
