V Day Ch. 5
Wow, chapter 5...never thought I would get here. I always assumed I would have lost interest by now, but I suppose that's not a very good writer's complex... Anyway, on with the story!
Paine quickly steeped in front of Nooj's view, hands on her hips. Heart racing in the hopes he wouldn't announce the existence of the card in front of Gippal (and with that, putting her stranight on the stand for some first-class public ridicule and teasing), she asked him, again, what he was doing there. Nooj snapped back to reality, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, right," he murmured, rubbing the back of his neck. Something he did rarely, Paine noticed.
"I'm marrying LeBlanc," he stated shortly, supposedly very uninterested in their opinions on the matter. Paine, with her quick observing skills, knew otherwise. Gippal, on the other hand, choked on Paine's breakfast. Paine slapped him around the head, partly to stop him choking, and partly because it was her breakfast he was choking on. Nooj began to walk towards the windowsill, intent on finding out what was in the card, and Paine was too busy trying to prise away her toast from the red-faced Al Bhed to try to stop him.
Then the doorbell went. Again. And Paine thought her head might explode. Gippal eating her food, Nooj just about to read her Valentine's Card, and her doorbell being worked so hard it would soon be applying for retirement was enough to make her scream, very loudly, and rip open the door.
She was met with a huge bunch of roses.
"Happy Valentine's Day!" smiled Baralai, slightly red-faced, clutching the flowers and a bunch of chocolates.
Now, in addition to having a splitting headache, Paine thought she might just throw up.
"Wow, 'Lai!" screeched Gippal, apparently fully recovered from his choking fit. "Who would have thought you were hot for Paine!"
"And now we've blow their secret relationship," added Nooj, obviously slightly amused by the whole scenario.
Baralai blushed slightly.
"That's not it," he said, shaking his head. "It's Valentine's Day, and I thought that Paine probably wouldn't get anything, so-"
Baralai was cut off by Paine, who swiftly punched him in the face, snatched up the chocolates, and slammed the door, breathing heavily.
"Ooh, burn!" snickered Gippal, stealing 1st place on Paine's Most Hated list. "So even Baralai thinks you have no chance of a date! Ha!"
Gippal was about to meet the same fate as Baralai, when Nooj piped up.
"You're all wrong. Paine got a Valentine's Card," he said, waving said card up in front of Gippal, who pounced on it like a hungry cat.
"You must be joking! Paine?!"
Paine's skills were shown off yet again, as she grabbed the card off Gippal, slapped him hard around the back of his head, threw the card and the chocolates onto the table, and kicked both Nooj and Gippal onto her doorway with Baralai and the rest of the garbage, all in one movement.
"Now, listen up," she said, seething. "Baralai, bin those flowers. NOW. And don;t even try to talk to me again after that. Gippal, get the hell out of the building before Rikku comes and just be grateful I'm still babysitting for you after you ate my breakfast. And yes, there will be a fee. I'm charging you 2500 Gil an hour, no discussions. And Nooj, go somewhere else to celebrate your engagement to that...whore."
And with that, she slammed the door.