Squall's POV:
From the moment I saw him sitting there, my stomach felt empty. I don't know why I was so annoyed but I glared at my cousin with full force. Cloud should have told me that HE'D be here. Again I found myself vaguely wondering why I was so annoyed about it but didn't reach any sensible conclusion. Cloud whispered a quick apology and asked me to at least give them a break since they were new and hadn't made any friends yet. I nodded though it did nothing to appease my annoyance.
I think he realised this since he turned his gaze away from me and smiled at everyone before leaving the room. My gaze returned to Seifer and his to mine, the feeling of emptiness in my stomach was soon replaced by the rather ticklish sensation which most people would have attributed to having "butterflies in the stomach".
Why was I feeling like that? I asked myself before Cloud came back into the room and announced that dinner had arrived. The two girls stood up and exited through the door into the hallway and headed towards the dining room. As Seifer followed suit, I shot him an icy glare which would have frozen water, though his attempt at returning it looked more like a pained grimace. He strode past me and followed the girls.
The feelings of guilt running inside my head were now nauseating. Breathing heavily, I suppressed the urge to be sick for the second time today and followed behind Seifer. Seeing food laid out on the table like that only rose the urgency though I still managed to hold out. Seifer had sat between Selphie and his sister – Quistis I reprimanded myself – and cloud was sitting opposite, a space available on either side of him.
I chose the spot between him and Selphie, feeling safer between the two of them. Once I sat down, Cloud handed out the plates that were stacked in front of him and everyone helped themselves. I only took one slice, deciding that to be safe, I'd best not eat too much until I was assured that I'd be able to stomach it. "Does anyone want to listen to music? The majority of CD's I have are in Estharin sorry" Cloud announced. Everyone nodded to the idea and Seifer asked "What sort of music do you listen to?"
"If you're talking about Estharin, then I like a bit of everything except rap. If you're talking about English then Trance, Techno, Punk and dance are good, anything else I can't stand." He laughed. "I wouldn't mind hearing something in Estharin" Quistis said. Selphie and I were used to hearing Estharin music. Being around Cloud, Lenne and Yuna so much had made our skills in the Estharin language fairly strong. Indeed, we spoke it almost fluently since Cloud, Lenne and Yuna had all been teaching us for as long as we'd known them.
"Alrighty then, if you guys don't mind listening to Estharin then I can play the song I've had in my head all day." He laughed again. Seeing him this cheery raised my spirits a little though I can't pretend I still was rather annoyed. "Let me guess – Passion by Utada Hikaru" Selphie announced. Cloud nodded and stood up, heading to the side table, opened a cupboard and switching on the CD player, ran back into the lounge and returning with a CD.
I liked this song and for the duration of it, I was happily enjoying the soft singing from the seat beside mine.