A/N: sorry it took so long! LOL anyway here's the 21st chapter :)
Chapter 21
New and Old
Squall woke up facing the bed post and groaned. He didn't want to wake on dawn, in fact he hated it. He checked his watch and it was only 4am. Rubbing his eyes, he tried to shift to his left side and heard a faint moan from behind. He immediately looked behind him, thinking he fell asleep in the wrong room. He was mildly shocked to find Rinoa there. As he went to take a closer look he came to find that she was nude. What the—
It was then when his brain jumpstarted and he was able to recall what happened the night before. A smile spread across his face when he covered her up with the blankets. She looked like an angel and Hyne knows he didn't wanna leave her side, but he had to attend to his car's "blood" problem. He sat up on the edge of the bed and then finally stood up to wash his face in the bathroom, only to find out his usual toiletries weren't there. He shook his head and looked for his clothes, which were all stacked on the bottom of the bed. He quickly wore them and waited for the locks to be lifted from the doors.
The doors wouldn't be unlocked in another hour so he went to sit on the love seat beside the door. But he decided that it's too tedious to just bum around on the couch and he fears he'll fall asleep again. So he stood up and went to the window. He stared outside and saw a shooting star; he laughed recalling what Rinoa did when she saw one that fateful summer night. He laughed heartily and then he heard the lock lift from the doors.
He went out and headed for his room. Once in he fixed himself and decided to grab some breakfast. As he approached the Master's bedroom door on is way to the kitchen, it suddenly opened and Laguna came out. Squall just gave him a stare and asked where he was heading. "I'm heading to the kitchens, I'm starving." He said.
Squall just continued on his way and said, "I'll see you in the kitchens."
"Wait son! I need to tell you something." Laguna called after his son in an attempt to stop him in his tracks. Squall spun around and released a yawn. He then cocked an eyebrow at his father and asked, "What?" ever so flatly.
"I'll show you some pictures; I bet you don't even remember." Squall gave his father a perplexed look but followed him nonetheless. They both went into the Master's bedroom; Laguna went to collect the albums from the top of his huge dresser. I wonder what photos he's going to show me, I don't even have time for this.
"AH! Here it is!" Laguna exclaimed from the dresser, and went out with a rather old looking album.
Squall watched his father intently as the man frantically searched through a swarm of photos. When he finally stopped on a page he quickly called Squall to his side and showed him the picture.
At first, Squall just stared and asked what the relevance of this was. "What exactly am I supposed to be looking at? It's just me playing in the rain with a couple of kids from kindergarten."
Laguna smiled widely and said, "Look closely at who you are playing with." He pointed to the little boy that the tiny Squall was playing with. Squall looked at the picture again, lifting the album in the process to see clearly who the little boy was. "It's just a little boy I played with randomly in the playground, what's the big—"he said, but he was cut off in midsentence with his father by pointing to the little boy's name tag.
"Look closely on the name tag!" Laguna said. Squall took the album again and read, "Rinoa" on the name tag of the little boy. "What's the big deal dad? It's just a coincidence that that little boy carries the same name as Rinoa."
Laguna shook his head and laughed. "It's no coincidence! It is Rinoa! That little boy was a little girl that studied in Deling and was on a field trip on Esthar." He said.
"Look at the back right there," he said while pointing on the picture. "That's Cecile Heartily right?"
Squall just nodded as he noticed the uncanny resemblance of the woman in the picture to Rinoa's aunt. "I don't believe it."
"Well believe it! Ellone took this photo and I recall her telling me that you won't let go of this little girl's hands!" he beamed as he watched Squall took the album again and stared at the photo.
"How did you come across this?" he asked his father. Laguna explained that one time he was looking for his crocodile skin loafers that album fell on his head and opened on that exact page. He took the time to look at the photo and research on it as he saw the name "Rinoa" on the little girl's nametag.
"So…you mean to say me and her are friends from before?" Squall asked.
"Yes, I bet Cecile just forgot, but I think she knows. Anyway, we might wanna eat before we discuss anymore of this." Laguna suggested as he ripped the photo from the album and gave it to Squall. "You keep it, it's yours, show it to her sometime."
And with that he kept the album and opened the door for Squall and they both headed down the kitchen to eat.
Rinoa awoke alone in the huge familiar room. She took a couple of seconds to gain complete composure and it was then when she remembered the events that took place a couple of hours ago. A smile found its way to her small lips and then she let out a tiny laugh.
"Squall's not here." She muttered to herself as she scanned the place, "I guess he must be out." Rinoa tried to sit up and then she felt soreness… all over.
Gaah I feel like I just had cheerleading practice for 6hrs straight! "Dammit." She said as she gathered the covers and wrapped it on herself.
"I wonder where all my clothes are." She muttered as she held a finger to her lips.
She then stood up from the really comfy bed and went to search for her missing garments. She found her brassiere on the bottom of the side table, her panties on the far edge of the bed and her shirt… her shirt was hanging on the frame of a painting, a meter away from her. She laughed as she carried all her garments and went to the bathroom to wash off. Her hair was all tangled up; it was the result of not washing it for two days.
She went into the bathroom and set her things on the counter, as she did; she glanced at the mirror and saw that her bruise had turned from reddish brown to purple. It was bad.
Crap, how am I supposed to go to school tomorrow? She contemplated in front of the mirror and then realized and suddenly yelled, "DAMN! SCHOOL!"
She then had a bad realization of how she's going to explain herself to her "sisters" and how will she go to her classes with her looking like she just went through a boxing fight against Holyfield?
I need to heal this…. But I don't think Curaga will be able to fix this since it's not an open wound. She shook her head and decided she'll just have to live with it for the next weeks. Heaving in a big sigh, she went and showered.
Once done, she went outside the bathroom; her hair was all seaweed like but not anymore tangled with filth. She went to sit on the bed and think about the incident Squall rescued her from and who would do that to her. She contemplated on it for a long time, all while staring into nothing. She was roused from her thinking when a sudden knock on the door was heard.
"Rin?" a voice on the other side could be heard, and as if she expected it, his familiar face turned up from the open door.
Her head jerked up and shot straight to the door's direction as if a little girl caught talking to her dollies. "Oh good, you're awake." He said as he went inside the room.
"Are you okay?" he asked tentatively as he saw the bruise on her face. She nodded once and then smiled at him. "I am starving though." Then she gave him a nudge and asked him to feed her.
"I didn't know you were able to act this way." Squall complained as he threw the clothes to her. "There. Wear those; they came from Ellone." He told her. "And hurry up, we have to get back to campus now, or else they'll think we're delinquents."
Rinoa took the pile of clothes thrown on her lap and went into the bathroom. I don't know why she needs to go inside the bathroom just to change; I've already seen everything anyways. He thought as he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms on his chest.
"Sorry." She said as she got out of the bathroom looking rather normal for a person who just got beaten up and "battered" on the same day. "Do I look okay?" she asked Squall, who was currently staring out the window. "Squall?" she asked again as if he didn't hear her.
"Yep?" he said finally turning around. "What did you say?"
"I said, do I look okay in this ensemble?" she muttered the last few words to her feet. Ellone gave her a plain blue tank top and some ragged looking jeans, she looked normal.
"Yeah you look fine," Squall finally said. "You just need to cover up that bruise and you'll look even better." He then threw her some flip flops and went out of the door. "I'll ready the car." He called back to her.
The flustered Rinoa went back to the bathroom for one last glance in the mirror. "Ungh." She muttered to her reflection and finally went out of the bathroom and room. She then hurried her steps to go to the main entrance.
There she found Ellone talking with some maids; she seems to be asking them a favor. Rinoa thought she'd thank her but decided not to because she looked really busy. But as soon as Rinoa reached the bottom of the stairs, Ellone came to talk to her.
"So, I think blue really is your color." Ellone whispered to her ear as she indicated the clothes. "How're you feeling?" she asked.
"I'm okay now—thank you for asking." She added. "My bruise still hurts a bit but other than that, I am all good."
"Good, good." She muttered to herself as she turned off the alarm on her PDA. "Look 'Noa, I think you'll be late if you don't go now."
"Yeah!" she suddenly gasped as she saw the clock on the 2nd floor balcony. "I better go!" and with that she ran flat out to the door. As she pushed the double doors open, she called out to Ellone: "Thanks for the clothes, by the way!" Ellone just waved and smiled at her, like on cue or something, Squall honked at her.
"Hey! Do you wanna grow old there?" he yelled through the Ferrari's window. Rinoa then went down the last set of steps and went to the right of the vehicle. "I thought you didn't wanna leave there anymore."
"I didn't." then she smiled to herself.
Meanwhile in the Iota house, Quistis was currently debating with Selphie about going out that Saturday night.
"But Quis, I really wanna go out on Saturday night!" the brunette protested as she dogged the blonde, who was currently busy trying to locate her missing PDA.
"Look Selph—" she stopped her line as she stopped walking and stared at something.
"Why? What is it?" Selphie asked the stupefied Quistis. "Did you find it?"
"No, but I did find these." The blonde held up a pair of blue suede shoes to Selphie and raised her eyebrows. "Who wears these nowadays?!" she suddenly blurted out and laughed. The brunette laughed too as she saw the shoes. "That's just mean Quisty! But truthfully, I don't know who those shoes belong to."
Quistis shrugged it off and threw the fugly shoes to the closet nearest to her. "Might as well bury it in a closet… it's like an artifact. Anyway," she continued. "What I was about to say, before I was interrupted by a fashion faux pas, was… I'll make you a deal."
"What deal? You don't want me to kill someone for you because I'd rather just stay home then… although… I miss using my nunchucks." Selphie said thoughtfully.
"You use nunchucks? I use a whip!" the blonde said as she smiled widely upon hearing that a sister of theirs was a weapon wielder as well. "But, not swaying from my original topic," she cleared her throat. "We'll go out on Saturday night,"
The brunette cheered and danced but Quistis was fast enough to raise her hand to stop her. "In one condition," she continued. "You have to search for my PDA too." Then she smiled. "Because, my schedule for tomorrow is wretched and I need my PDA to survive!" Selphie laughed at her and nodded.
"Sure I'll look for your PDA, oh and by the way Quisty,"
"Yep?"
"Squall rang a couple of hours ago and he requests that you help him with something once he's here… and Rinoa needs help too."
"Oh. Okay." I wonder why they need my help now, I haven't seen those two in two days now.
"Hey Rin, wake up, we're here."
Squall gently tapped Rinoa's arm to wake her up from her nap. She can't possibly be that tired, I mean c'mon.
"Rin?" he asked again this time trying to make her hear the words. Her eyes fluttered open and stared blankly at Squall. I just can't get over those damn eyes.
"Um, you okay there Rin?" Squall asked again as he reached down to her seatbelt and unbuckled her. "Oh!"
"So sorry! I thought I was dreaming…anyway, where are we?" She asked suddenly aware that her face is beat red and that the surroundings were all dark. Squall smiled at her and said, "we're at the, umm, Gamma's garage."
"What? Why didn't you bring me back to the Iota house first, I mean I think I might be able to get to my class! I don't I mean I did miss all three days of class because of this!" she then pointed to her face and went to out of the car only to stumble back in. "What the hell!" she exclaimed.
"Rinoa, calm down." He said as he opened the lights and revealed to Rinoa, a garage full of bikes and cars. "And by the way, you knocked over Zell's bike." He said as he indicated the Ducati Superbike that was now on the verge of falling. He reached across Rinoa and stood the bike up. "Whew, I almost got my ass kicked." Then he smiled.
Rinoa was in a state of shock. "Oh… um…" Squall put his arm around her and led her outside. "Don't worry about it. C'mon, I'll walk you to the Iota's."
As they walked to the garage door, a booming voice could be heard from inside of the house. "What do you say? Squall's back?! Where is that da—SQUALL! THERE YOU ARE!" Seifer called out the window. "YOU MISSED AN EFFING LOT! HEY HEY, COME BACK HERE!" Seifer was yelling atop his lungs as he rushed to get to Squall.
Squall laughed and said, "I'll be back to explain in a few minutes, I'll just take Rinoa back to her dorm."
"YOU BETTER COME BACK!" Seifer called back as he shook his head. "Damn Irv, I hate him when he's like that."
"Well, it's better than the usual a-hole he is when he was single."
The weather was all nice for a walk that day and as Rinoa and Squall walked people kept staring at them. "Um… Why are they staring?" Rinoa whispered as they walked pass a clique of girls who all whispered together. "Hmm? I don't know. Maybe they're jealous of you."
Rinoa rolled her eyes and sighed. "Something's not right with our relationship." She said. Squall cocked an eyebrow at her and asked, "And what would that part be?"
"You being the so-called "prince of Esthar", me being the new girl in town and the idea of us being together, don't you think it's wrong?" She asked. "Do you think it is weird?" Squall answered her back with a question. "Yeah I do,"
"Well, for one, they shouldn't give a damn who I choose to be my girlfriend, another…" he stopped his tracks then and heaved in a big sigh, "You're my friend beforehand."
Rinoa stopped too. "Wait, I'm confused, friend beforehand? I don't recall ever meeting you before that day on the airplane."
Squall just chuckled and said nothing; instead he shook his head and led Rinoa to her dorm.
On the way there, Rinoa kept on bugging Squall about what he said. "C'mon you don't plan on hiding this for long now do you?" she asked for the nth time. "You can just tell me! I mean I am not good at guessing or at predetermination, as you can see!" she said and she pointed to her bruised cheek.
Squall just laughed and said, "We're here Rinoa save your questions for some other time I'll see you in English." Then he gave her a peck on the lips and gave her a small push to get her walking to the door.
That idiot I wonder why he won't tell me shizz.
Rinoa knocked twice and hurried footsteps can be heard through the door. "OMG, I think it's Rinoa!" someone from the behind the door said.
"Shhh!"
Rinoa cocked an eyebrow and fixed her shirt, as the sisters inside finally decided to let her in. "Hello." She said flatly while eyeing them suspiciously.
"Rinoa!" someone from the staircase could be heard. "OMG, how are you… OMG! What happened to your face?! My Hyne! We have to get you fixed up! I mean class starts in 20mins!" Rinoa tried her hardest to stop Selphie from jumping up and down and trying to decide what color concealer should she put on her.
"Selphie! Calm down! I'm okay now… I just need to get my things!"
"Oh yeah! Sorry bout that I was just excited to see you, I was really worried!" Selphie smiled goofily and Rinoa just laughed. "I'm fine, really, thanks Selph."
Rinoa went her way to her room, when she was stopped again by none other than Selphie. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Quistis wants to see you, I don't know why but she's in her dorm room."
*gulps*
Rinoa continued to ascend the stairs and went to the last room in the 2nd floor. "I wonder what she needs… I'm nervous!"
Shaking a little, she opened the door to reveal a huge pink room with a lot of trophies and medals everywhere; there are also sashes and crowns everywhere. She really is popular! Rinoa thought as she went to the, kind of an out of place desk with a huge chair, which was currently facing the window. Oh Hyne, here we go.
Rinoa cleared her throat to announce her arrival. "Are you okay now?" the person behind the chair asked without turning the chair to face Rinoa.
"Um, yes… look Quis, I'm sorry to worry you but… err… I have no explanation." Rinoa was fidgeting like a kid confessing a crime to her mom.
"I'm not asking if you have." Then she turned to face Rinoa, Quistis looked stunning as ever. "I called you here just to know if you were okay, I didn't want to have any concerned parent seizing my sorority because of something like this."
"I am not blaming you." Quistis said as she raised a hand to stop Rinoa from talking. "I am just concerned about the others, I mean it's hard for them to get into the Uni alone, what more to this prestigious sorority."
She cleared her throat. "I know you have class in 10mins and I assure you, you'll make it on time." She then removed her eye glasses and said, "On a more, serious, serious note," she lifted a piece of paper containing a single strand of blonde hair. "This was found by our Investigative Journalism major sister, Annie Stratford, at the scene of the—" She was caught in midsentence but continued nonetheless. "Mishap."
Rinoa then tried to speak but found no words, Quistis finally smiled and said, "We'll get her soon Rinoa, we'll just need to analyze this hair sample and pin the crime on her… do you even remember anything from then?" she suddenly asked.
This time Rinoa, shook her head and said, "I still can't remember anything…even if I try to."
"It's okay… Squall knows about this latest update and he says if ever we identify the person who did this to you, he'll set the whole Presidential Guard on them."
"I don't think that would be necessary! That's just too much!" Rinoa protested as she raised her hands to stop this "abuse-of-power".
Quistis smiled and chuckled at her. "That's what you get when you have a 'Prince' as your boyfriend."
Rinoa started to laugh with Quistis when the blonde stopped her and said, "You have 5 minutes before your next class, you better start running."
As if jolted with thunder, Rinoa jumped from her position and hurried to her room and get her bag.
Oh there it is! She thought as she saw it atop her very neat bed. I haven't even slept there yet!
Then she flew down the stairs, feet barely touching the steps, and there she saw Selphie.
"HEY! We don't wanna be late! Professor Krumps was absent for the past 2 meetings and she says we better be there for the 3rd!" she said as she pulled Rinoa by the wrist and ran as fast as they can to the all-glass building to their English class.
They ran flat out, jumping over rocks and benches and bumping into almost everyone that was on their way. Panting, Selphie pressed the 3rd floor classroom and after a few seconds the doors opened to the huge classroom.
The room was already half filled with all the freshmen that were currently taking general classes. People of all kinds of courses and walks were there. From where she and Selphie were standing, everybody else had their back against them. Students were mingling with their fellow sorority, fraternity, or both, members. It looked like the professor was not there yet and paper planes started taking off from the back row. Rinoa walked with Selphie to find a good spot, as she looked around she suddenly thought if the person that hurt her was here. She was caught in her steps when she saw a blonde who was talking to her girlfriends on the other end of the room. But she just shook her head and went on.
Wonder if the others are here waiting for us.
She went to the last 2 seats in the same row as the girl's been intently looking at. Selphie, tripped and toppled to her seat and laughed, this woke Rinoa from her trance like state and made her giggle.
"Selphie, next time, you should be more modest!" the ebony haired woman laughed hard and sat down beside the brunette, who was blushing to the utmost height.
"I didn't mean to be this clumsy!" the brunette retorted.
"I bet you didn't," she told the brunette without looking at her. "I wonder where the others are."
As she spoke the last 2 words of her sentence the blonde from the other side of the row turned to look at them and then smirked. Rinoa found this peculiar since this time they weren't looking; instead their looking was called upon by the sudden burst of laughter from the blonde's clique.
Nonetheless, Rinoa brushed off the smirk thinking it could have been a mistake and went to talk to Selphie.
"Rinoa, I think I see them." The brunette suddenly exclaimed in the middle of their conversation, which was soup.
She shot her head up to the direction where Selphie was pointing at, to see if they found their friends. "I don't think that's them Selphie, I don't see a cowboy hat."
Selphie scratched her head and smiled at Rinoa, before she stood up, spontaneously, on the chair. "Nope! It's them Rin, see!" she said as she pointed to the bag beside the man Rinoa saw, and revealed a ten gallon hat.
"Ah there they are." Rinoa concurred as she squinted on the lights from the back of the classroom. "We better go there then." And with that they stood up from their seats and went up to sit beside Irvine and Zell.
"Hello gents!" Selphie said as she claimed a seat beside Irvine. The cowboy grinned hugely and removed his bag from the chair.
"Hey Selph, hey Rin!" Zell exclaimed from Irvine's other side. "Rin I don't think there are anymore chairs available in this row, you might wanna sit on the last row."
He gave her a wink and said, "Good seeing you!" Rinoa was about to retort when she realized that he was speaking the truth and the back row was right behind them.
Since today was the first "real" day of classes for them, the students went full force to the classroom and as a result even the students from the other section went to sit-in in their class. As a result, they were short of chairs. Only two more remain, and they were the ones on the last part of the room.
"Oh well, I guess that's my seat." Rinoa said as she rolled her eyes and went to the seat. She lifted her bag and went to sit at the far left side of the last row. She settled herself in and placed her bag on the seat beside her. "Hmm, I better save a seat for Squall—if ever." She muttered to herself.
She then got her binder and her pen. I should've gotten the black binder instead of the blue one. She thought as she saw her bag and pen. Now everyone will think I'm a blue freak. Good thing they know nothing about my old school.
She scribbled down some notes and began to write something that was supposed to be a poem, when she suddenly squinted in the light that was reflected from the keychain of one of the guys in front of her. They were so loud and Rinoa was getting pissed off.
What is taking the professor so long?!
She rummaged her bag to locate her iPod. Good thing my iPod is white. She put on her earphones and hit shuffle. She didn't care what the song was just as long as the people in the room were drowned out.
Unlike Rinoa, Selphie seemed to be enjoying herself with Zell and Irvine, laughing as though there was no tomorrow. Rinoa just shook her head and started to write. As she reached the 3rd line of her poem, Keychain Guy stood in front of the class, clearly announcing something. I wonder what he's talking about.
Rinoa removed her earphones and went to look in Selphie's direction. The brunette was on her feet and so does the familiar blonde up front.
"She wont attend this class again?!" the blonde said.
"We've wasted 3 meetings!" another one said.
"We should just leave." Selphie said.
People could be seen nodding and saying yes. Keychain Guy was being thrown paper at, and Rinoa didn't know why. She collected her stuff and went to Irvine.
"Why are they throwing stuff at him?" she asked Irvine. Irvine was shocked to find out she was there and as a result he threw his cowboy hat on the floor. He picked it up and shook off the dirt. "Well, it's because people were passing around this attendance sheet because they wanna leave this place, since the professor is late again."
"Well, that attendance sheet came from one of his friends as a joke, and people got ticked off because they believe we have been wasting our time here." The cowboy then shrugged and got his bag. He signaled to Zell and he quickly picked up the signal and got his bag too.
Next thing Rinoa knew, they were both well on their way to the door. "We're wasting our time here! Better leave!" Zell yelled when Irvine was out of the room. Rinoa thought that a stampede would occur, so she pulled Selphie, while dragging both their bags out of the room.
"You okay?" she asked Selphie.
"Yeah I am, thanks." She replied as removed a couple of hair strands from her face. "That idiot, he was wasting our time big time! And he ticked off most of the people in the room! Including Keena!"
Rinoa looked at the others that were going out of the room when suddenly someone grabbed her wrist and forced her to look at him. "Hey, you okay?"
She recognized the voice immediately and said, "Yup, Selphie's enraged though." She pointed to Selphie and laughed. Squall looked at Selphie and laughed too. "I think she'll be fine, we better go."
He pulled her by her wrist and she tried to wriggle it out of his grasp. Ow, ow, ow! Squall went to look at her as she tried to pull her arm. He gave her the "What-Gives?" look and raised his eyebrows. Rinoa was getting teary eyed and really pissed when Squall finally realized that he was grasping her wound; well, used-to-be wound.
"Oh Hyne, sorry Rin." He whispered to her ear then patted her wrists. "I better take you to the infirmary."
"Next time," the kind young nurse said as she placed fresh bandages on the ebony haired girl's wrists. "Be more wary of her condition, okay dear?"
Squall nodded in response as he mouthed an "I'm sorry." to Rinoa; who was currently writhing in pain as the nurse tightened the bandages so that she may be able to tie it.
"And you," the nurse said again as she fiddled with the bandages. "You better not forget to put bandages on wounds like this."
"Comprende?" she snapped at her. Rinoa jumped a bit but regained composure as she gave her an apologetic smile. "I know you don't want to look like a LOSER during these crucial weeks of classes, but you have to remember your safety." The nurse continued as she fixed her glasses and collected her thing. She placed them on her table and sat down on the other side. "Okay, now I need you to sign here." She handed Rinoa a blue record book and a pen.
Rinoa took the book and signed, wincing in pain as she tried to write with the tight bandages on her wounds. "Thank you Nurse Swan, I promise I'll put bandages on them next time." She said as she pushed the record back to the nurse.
Nurse Swan took the book and placed the date on the page where Rinoa just signed. "What do you mean next time?" she snapped at her as she snapped the book shut. "You need to change those before your 5th period." She went to get some bandages from her cupboard and gave it to Rinoa.
Rinoa just nodded and collected the bandages that she gave her. Squall thanked the nurse and collected their things. "Next time dears, call me Nurse Swan and not Ma'am." She said jokingly as Rinoa and Squall started for the door. "Gosh, I'm not that old." Then she gave a hearty laugh and shooed them out.
"She's a nice woman." Rinoa said as she tried to loosen her bandages. Squall immediately stopped her from what she was doing.
"Yeah she is," he said as he put her arms to her sides. "That is why you need to respect what she said and follow it." Then he resumed walking to their next class, which was ALGEBRA.
Rinoa looked at her wrists one last time before she grabbed her bag from Squall and went on their way. "Hey!" he exclaimed.
"I'll be carrying these, c'mon!" she said as she ran past Squall. "We'll be late!" and with that she sprinted to their next room. Squall just shook his head and walked to her direction. He noticed a lot of people in the quadrangle were looking at them and he gives them his usual glare and they quickly went back to what they were doing. I wonder if they ever get tired of making issues about us… we just can't be normal huh? He thought as he passed by two junior level girls who were giggling at the scene that Rinoa made just now.
"Rin, be careful." He said as he caught up with her. "You might get hurt again."
Rinoa just smiled at him, not even panting. "I miss the workout, I used to get it everyday." She thought as she reminisced her cheerleading days. All those mornings and afternoons of training and practice…boy it was tiring but she really missed the thrill and uncanny stress it gives.
"You miss cheerleading?" Selphie asks as she joined Squall and Rinoa on the corridor.
"Hey Selph," they said in unison. The ebony haired girl smiled at the brunette as she guiltily nodded in agreement of what she just said.
"I do miss it… very much." She said in a contemplative tone.
"Why don't you start one here? I'll help." She said in a happy and excited tone.
This could only mean…
"Why not?!" Rinoa exclaimed as she and Selphie jumped up and down.
They immediately started making plans and have already decided on who would do the accreditation and the member gathering. They went through algebra talking about this nonstop. They didn't even stop as Rinoa was called to the board to write down the correct answer.
She was really clueless as to what they were talking about in class, being too engrossed on the new cheerleading squad. Good thing, Squall was able to slip her the correct solution and answer before she went up to the board. When she was finished the professor let her go back to her seat and called upon another student to explain the answer.
"Whew!" she whispered to Squall. "We're even." Squall just looked at her and said, "Next time, please be attentive." Then he went back to what he was doing, which was taking down notes. Selphie and Rinoa just giggled at what happened and resumed their planning.
Once class was done Squall bade goodbye to them as he went off to his next class, which was Estharian History. The two continued talking immediately after Squall gave Rinoa a smack and walked to the other side. They were so immersed in their conversation that Selphie didn't even notice that Irvine showed up and was walking right beside her. The only time she realized that he was there was when he placed his cowboy hat on her head.
"What the—Irvine!" she exclaimed as she fixed her hat to make her see. "What's your next class?" she asked him. "I've no more classes for the day." He said as he asked if he could sit in their next class.
Selphie thought of this as very thrilling and agreed. "Rinoa you can sit beside me and Irvy will sit at the back row." She suggested to Rinoa.
Rinoa just laughed and went to sit on the chair nearest her and Selphie followed soon after. They thought of the squad, and Selphie went to ask Irvine about the necessities for one's org to be accredited.
"Irvine promised to help us Rin!" she said as she gave Rinoa a white piece of paper with the requirements. "He even gave me the list!" she beamed.
"We'll get started on the Squad as soon as possible!" Rinoa exclaimed as well.
A/N: to make or not to make LOL anyway the delay was caused by stress so yeah, anyway review it if you liked it and even if you didn't! Muah! XD
