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Chapter 14

~Quistis~

Shortly after my arrival at Trabia Selfie is giving me a more thorough grand tour of the school in preparation of my first day of classes next week. The idea of being back in a classroom is so motivating I am truly happy to have something to look forward to. The distraction from a certain green-eyed knight is just an added bonus.

I follow Selfie down corridor after corridor she is very proud of the efforts they all put into rebuilding the school to its former glory. I had to admit I was impressed after having seen it when the missiles hit I never thought it could be repaired fully. The residents are Trabia are proud and I think I can learn quickly to fit in here and help out as well as best I can by teaching the next generation.

"And finally here are the dorms" Selfie says happily, "I have had your luggage brought to your room already, room 602 down here on the right"

"Thank you Self" I say following her down the hall "Honestly for everything, I really like it here. The opportunity is wonderful and the people are very welcoming"

"I'm honestly just happy to have you here!" she exclaims happily, "Maybe we can work on kidnapping Zell to come up here next!"

"Yea good luck with that one, I think he still goes to Balamb on weekends to have his Mom do his laundry" I giggle as she opens the door for me and passes me the keycard for future use. The room was a similar size to the ones in Balamb but completely different design instead of the white sterile walls everything is painted rather warmly with hardwood floors and a brightly colored pink bedset. Her things were all neatly stacked at the end of the bed and without hesitation I immediately start to unpack excited to make this place feel like home.

"So you need any help unpacking Quisty?" Selfie offers.

"Would love it" I respond, we spend the remainder of the afternoon unpacking and catching up even though I definitely leave some fairly eventful recent gossip out of the topic. So distracted by the conversation and getting my room setup I fail to notice my phone which is on silent has been ringing almost constantly for the last hour until Selfie picks it up off the desk and hands it to me Xu's face is splayed across the display.

"You've barely been gone a day, she already miss you" Selfie jokes. Then I notice all the messages glad Selfie hasn't seen them.

At least fifty all caps messages ranging from the happy Xu "PLEASE CALL ME HUNNY JUST WORRIED" to the furious "FUCK BUT SERIOUSLY ALMASY?! WTF CALL ME NOW"

"I'll call her later I'm sure it's nothing" I ignore yet another call and turn off my phone knowing this is not a conversation to be had in front of Selfie. But then Selfie's phone rings and it's Xu.

"I'm assuming it's for you?" Selfie adds now getting curious and holding out her phone to me, Xu was a very caring friend she always looked out for me but this time her protective nature is totally blowing up in my face.

I quickly answer the call "Xu Xu relax, can we please talk about this later," I beg.

"So it's true?" Xu prods angrily my eyes look up at Selfie who is trying to read my face concerned, as I am sure my normally cool demeanor is now looking quite alarmed.

"Xu I'll call you back" I plead pinching the bridge of my nose in frustration.

"I knew you we're in a dry spell but what level of desperation did you have to reach to go to bed with Almasy?" I roll my eyes in an effort to seem nonchalant for Selfie.

"Yep I'm sure" I say .

"Are you even listening? You know if anyone finds out about this" She starts freaking out.

"and then what happened" I add completely off topic trying to play dumb.

"Seriously Qu, I'm buggin" Xu says knowing I'm trying to dodge her now.

"Right Right, I'll call you back in ten" I respond "Talk to you soon hunny"

"Ugh Qu, you friggin better call me back" She says as I end the call and hand back the phone to Selfie.

"So what was it? Boy trouble right? It's always boy trouble" Selfie laughs.

"Yea well you know Xu" I reply "Thank you so much for your help Self, I am totally beat. Do you mind if I turn in for the night"

"Oh no not at all! I gotta go meet Irvy anyways" The petite brunette says cheerily throwing her arms around me in a quick goodbye. Giving her a few minutes to make sure she has made her way far from the door I hastily redial Xu, she answers on the first ring.

"What the Fuck Quistis" She says. I know she is angry when she uses my full name.

"Okay calm down Xu, where did you hear this from? Sounds very made up" I throw in an attempt at lying.

"From the asshole himself, you didn't think I would notice when you didn't cancel Raijin's mission to Deling? Obviously I followed him, I could tell there was something up with you when you got back from vacation. But this I mean what the fuck" Her voice becoming more concerned.

"I-Uh" I stammer not even knowing what to say.

"What happened? Why would you? I don't understand…" She asks, "Did he hurt you? Drug you?"

"No-no" I quickly reply, "It wasn't like that, Hyne Xu stop"

"You voluntarily slept with Seifer Almasy?" she retorts a bit of anger in her voice. When I do not respond after thirty seconds she adds "no-no ewww seriously, you don't like that prick? How could you? After all the shit he's done" Still no response from me I hear her sigh on the other end of the line "I mean if Selfie ever find out or Squall oh Hyne. It would be sweet revenge to go after him for all the stuff he's done" she rambles out.

"He's not like that anymore" I say barely a whisper tears welling up and the edges of my eyes. I know I have to keep Xu quiet and don't know how I will negotiate that given how angry she is.

"Do you know where he lives?" She demands.

"Xu stop please, it's over done—Okay" My voice cracking I wipe my tears.

Realizing how far she pushed me Xu finally calms "Qu oh Hyne Qu I'm sorry, please don't cry over that shithead. Seriously we can go and kill him literally. Will that make it better?"

"No-Hyne no, ugh" I moan trying to get my composure admitting out loud to her something I didn't want to admit to myself I blurt out "Don't you get it Xu, I fucking fell for him. Hard. Now it's done over okay. So fucking drop it and I don't want to hear about it again. So don't tell Selfie or Squall not even Nida get it. There is no point unless you want to hurt me" My hand shaking as I hold the phone up long moments pass without Xu responding. Silently I pray my friend cares enough to know when to butt out which was in essence against her nature.

"Alright Qu, understood." She finally responds, "I won't bring it up again, just know if you ever see him again I will not hesitate to have him killed. Pardoned or not many people want him to pay for what he has done myself included." With that, I hear the line disconnect.

Months pass with little to no interactions from Xu. I don't know if our friendship will ever be the same, but her promise was true and she didn't say a word so at least she respected our friendship that much.

Classes are going great and my students are very receptive to my junctioning methods. It didn't take long to start a whole new group of Trepie's who started worshipping the ground I walk on. I smile at this having my confidence back as well as just being happy to inspire those around me again. Life is finally turning around.

It is mid-spring when I run into Gladiolus again he loves camping in the mountains here so much turns out he spends many weekends up here in the spring and summer months. It isn't long until he convinces me to start accompanying him on his weekend trip's every now and again. It is a nice change of pace calm, fun and normally unplanned, I genuinely start enjoying our time together although I know, I knew at least for me it could never grow to be anything serious.

After the events with Seifer I took his advice, I could never let anyone in again, although short my time with Seifer has changed me, and ending it almost destroyed me. Things with Gladio could never get that intimate and I don't think he wants them to get to that point anyways.

Life is finally going well, I am happy in Trabia I often even bring Gladio along for on our double dates no longer feeling like a third wheel. Him and Irvine even become quite close friends while me and Selfie are almost inseparable.

Yes things are finally great for me perfect right. That is what I tell myself at least… every night before bed while I try and get thoughts of Seifer out of my head.

A/N

Making up for lost time 2 updates in 2 days

Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors I'm very new at this fanfiction publishing thing.

Although I have been writing it for my best friend and myself since I was 12 and am now several decades older. Well this is my first time putting it out on the internet instead of in a furry blue diary.

Hope you are all having a lovely summer 3

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