Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ FF8 SeeD and the City (Series) ❯ Unhappiness ( Chapter 1 )

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SeeD and the City: Unhappiness

 

Todo aquel que piense que la vida siempre es cruel

Tiene que saber que no es así

Que tan sólo hay momentos malos

Todo pasa

 

Todo aquel que piense que esto nunca va a cambiar

Tiene que saber que no es así

Que a mal tiempo buena cara

Todo cambia

 

¡Oh, oh, oh, Ay! No hay que llorar

Que la vida es un carnaval

Y es más bello vivir cantando

 

¡Oh, oh, oh, Ay! No hay que llorar

Que la vida es un carnaval

Y las penas se van cantando

 

-Celia Cruz-

 

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- At the restaurant Fogón de Carlota La Loca in Balamb City fashionable Spira District -

 

…

 

“So, have you guys done it yet?”

 

“Xu!”

 

“Huh?!”

 

An exasperated Selphie looked up from her Chipotle Soufflé and intervened …

 

“Rina, she wants to know if sex with Squall is good!”

 

“SPILL”

 

Hell, for someone as incredibly laconic as Fujin Naosu, she sure gets her point across with precision and force. I've been so busy lately with mission detail that she's taken over my duties for ranking SeeD. Ever since she's started there's been zero complaints! Hmm…It must be that eye patch… Today she looks very nice wearing a military cut short sleeved jacket over a mini-skirt! You go girl!

 

“Selphie! That's such a personal question!”

 

All of us turned to stare at a red faced Quistis (Rinoa included). I couldn't help but wonder out loud.

 

“I see. So he hasn't bagged you yet… Humph, I'm truly surprised!”

 

“PATIENCE”

 

“Yeah, Fu…you're right…You know our man best…”

 

“What are you guys talking about!?”

 

It's amazing, truly amazing that someone as bright as Quistis Trepe could sometimes be so dim about certain things in life, or maybe she just does it on purpose…sorta like playing dumb so she can avoid answering questions… Hmm…It's a very distinct possibility.

 

“Y'know Quisty, sex with the right person can be very, very, very good… Take Irvy and me for…”

 

“Hey, Selph! We know more than we care `bout what you do with that flirtin' sharpshooter of yours!”

 

“TRUE!”

 

“Awww! You guys are just jealous!”

 

“RINOA”

 

I like that about Fujin, she never gives up! I'm just trying to imagine our esteemed Commander shagging with our resident Sorceress… Wow! Many images come to mind but I wonder which ones are likely? I look at Rinoa… She's come a long way from the clingy girl who wouldn't let go Squall's arm! She's found her niche in B-Garden, although tending people's injuries and sewing them up doesn't seem so great to me, but Rina likes helping our Dr. Kadowaki and is actually enrolled in the medical programme at the University of Balamb…

 

“Oh! Squall's good!”

 

“Whaaat? That's it?”

 

“Geez! Okay! I was Squall's first …”

 

“NO!”

 

“-Giggles- He was so cute! He blushed so much…”

 

“How can you tell with guys?”

 

Okay, so maybe my initial assessment of Quistis holds true. She's fucking clueless! Of course, poor thing, how would she know? She's spent practically her entire life instructing people on how to junction GFs and get their limit breaks (completely ignorant of the fact that probably three quarters of the student population were and are having wet dreams involving her in various poses and positions…). I suppose there's a price to be paid for being so precocious. SeeD at fifteen, Instructor at seventeen…the price tag: no social life (translation: no sex). It doesn't help that she's so beautiful, I think people place her on some sort of pedestal and are afraid to approach her. Afraid to touch her… Too bad! It's their loss! And of course now…well, no one would dare to try get closer for fear of their very life since we all know-Sigh-Except Quistis-Sigh- Who has her staked out…

 

“That's sooo sweet! When did it happen?”

 

Now take Selphie Tilmitt for example, she's as extroverted as Quistis is reserved. She won't hesitate in explaining with all sort of Technicolor and special sound effects how she gets along with her `Irvy'… Hyne, just look at her… Today she's wearing a short lime green sun dress with puffy sleeves, she looks so sweet and innocent! It's so deceptive! No general in the entire Galbadia army could order people around the way `sweet' Selphie does, specially in Garden Festival mode! Shit! She even gets Squall and Seifer to run around for her! Yeah! Girlish my ass! Our resident bomb expert is everything but…

 

“Selphie! What kind of question is that!? That's just so personal!”

 

“ -Giggles- It's okay, Quisty… It happened shortly after our acquittal, y'know…at the celebration party…”

 

“You mean, when Selphie was going nuts with her camcorder?”

 

“Yup!”

 

“In the balcony?!”

 

“No, no! We went to his room!”

 

“Whoa! I missed it!”

 

“You got kinda involved with Irvine, Selph…”

 

“Yeah… Hey, he likes it when I'm only wearing his hat…”

 

“Hyne, Selph! The whole of Garden knows you guys fuck like rabbits!”

 

“FACT!”

 

“You don't make it sound too good…”

 

“Shut up guys! You're freaking Quisty here!”

 

“Don't worry, sugar, she ain't gonna die a virgin! Trust me!”

 

“CORRECT”

 

“Hey! Don't talk about me like I'm not here! And I am NOT freaked out! I know all about sex!”

 

And she says it with such pride…Awww! I wonder which textbook she checked out for that… And no one died violently of recent, so I know no one dared. We all looked at each other intrigued by Quistis's forceful statement.

 

“Uh-huh…So where did you read about it, Quisty? Did it have pictures?”

 

-Smirk- Trust Selphie to go to the point rather bluntly, sometimes… It's not that we don't think Quistis will ever get laid, it's more like we're surprised she hasn't been laid! I was so certain… What the hell is wrong with him?!?

 

“Let's not tease Quistis… I mean, she's only here for a week, right?”

 

“Well, we're scheduled back this Friday… We're to meet SeeD teams from Trabia and Galbadian Gardens because the exploration of Lunatic Pandora has become an international effort… As you all know Seifer's leading our team…”

 

She speaks earnestly about something she knows very well: The international effort to explore Lunatic Pandora and to try to regulate Lunar Cry so that it happens in a predictable pattern. As it is now, it can happen at any time and ever since Time Compression, the frequency and strength of the monsters have increased tenfold! Garden can barely keep up with the demand for SeeD teams to be deployed into troubled areas!

 

“…cleanup is proceeding slowly. The thing is three miles high! But according to Dr. Piet and Odine the core is located somewhere in the middle…”

 

Aha! How typical! The guys sitting next to us are drooling over Quistis. (They're actually quite cute!) Hyne! It's so unfair! She's not even trying! Ah, shit! It pays to be tall and curvy, Quistis looks good with just `bout anything. I mean she's only wearing a very plain shirt over a pair of jeans, her hair swept back in a plain pony tail… Just quit it guys! She doesn't even know you're alive!

 

“So, how's it working out with Seify? Matron told us you guys are sharing an apartment! Is he a good roommate?”

 

“-Humph- I don't want to talk about that …that slave driver!”

 

Oh-oh! So that's why… I wonder what he's done this time to make her mad… Though … now that I can take a good look at her, she looks more sad than angry. I know she likes him, eyes do not lie and hers follow him around. Of course she's unaware of it and we don't really say it to her face; although we've all noticed. We know you well Quistis, and we love you… You need to work this out by yourself. Sometimes being friends means just that…to be there for your friend, like we're all here today in your favourite restaurant killing our taste buds with this incredibly spicy hot food!

 

“Xu!”

 

“Huh?”

 

“We wanna know `bout you and Jack…”

 

“Yeah, you glued yourself to him at the graduation party and from the looks of it he seemed very interested…”

 

“Ha! Wouldn't you bunch wanna know!”

 

“Well, Xu… You guys were pretty tight at the party, but I haven't seen you with him since…”

 

Trust Selphie to be the observant one, must be those copper locks and green eyes they must infuse the owner with some kinda foxy slyness…

 

“Awww! C'mon! At least tell us if he was any good…”

 

“He was okay, but I don't think I wanna have sex with him again. Too little too quick.”

 

I shrugged, poor `Jack' from my old C.C. group, he was too involved with himself at the moment to be of any good to anyone. He'd just been dumped recently and spent the entire night talking about his ex. Too bad, he's kinda cute, but I guess I'll just be his friend and look elsewhere for that `special someone', but I don't know why I even bother. Very soon I'll have to fulfil familial obligations…As it is, I'm getting too many messages `requesting' that I return home. Ha! Not until I get my fill!

 

“Oh, and I just loved your dress! You looked sooo good! Was that from Frills&Frocks?”

 

“Nah! I find their stuff overpriced, believe it or not I found it in this little boutique I found around the corner from here called Modern Vintage, they sell real cool looking second hand clothes and accessories!”

 

“Hey! Let's go after!”

 

“AFFIRMATIVE”

 

“Hey, Rina! Weren't you Seifer's girlfriend at one point?”

 

Aw, shit! Selphie! D'you think now's the time to ask what I fear you're gonna ask?

 

“Uh-huh…What of it?”

 

I notice Rinoa taking a quick peek at Quistis, who bends suddenly over her plate, almost like she discovered something very fascinating in her food.

 

“Well, what's he like?”

 

“CURIOUS”

 

I almost groaned out loud, not you too Fujin! For a moment I thought Rinoa would not answer, but she put a very determined look on her face and said rather seriously.

 

“He's very gentle…and…” Suddenly she grins, “Oooh! He's amazing! …but I love Squall…”

 

Yeah, Rina! Cover your Ass, I always say… She directed the following at Quistis's bent head.

 

“He's definitely worth it!”

 

Yeah! I bet that arrogant bastard's pride would only be satisfied until he hears his name yelled out loud multiple times! -Humph- I wonder if anyone has ever faked an orgasm on him? …Doubtful, the rumours I've heard around Garden `bout him confirm what Rinoa's saying… Huh!? Wow! Quistis's face is red as a beet… Aha! So he's probably been hmm…third base? Yeah… That's definitely a third base sort of blush… Well, well, well, Quistis, so maybe you didn't read everything you know… It makes me wonder about their Centra mission.

 

“Hey Fujin, how's Raijin?”

 

“What `bout Raijin? I figure he must be like a machine!”

 

“STAMINA”

 

“Lucky you! Though, somehow I'm not surprised…”

 

I remarked dryly. Fujin just winked at me. That girl is always a contradiction to me…She actually manages to look contented and stern at the same time! Fu's an enigma, when I think about the powerful Naosu clan…

 

“You guys wanna know somethin'?”

 

“TELL!”

 

“Squall loves the missionary position!”

 

“And my Irvy likes to pretend he's a cho…”

 

“Okay! Okay! We get the picture!”

 

Whether we wanted to or not! I'm not really surprised our Commander's into the classic style, those two just got started and he's got ways to go…Lucky Rina! As for Selphie and Irvine, what haven't they tried?

 

“Ahem! I have an announcement to make.”

 

We all looked at Quistis highly intrigued. That lingering sadness in her eyes …I wonder what she's gonna tell us…

 

“I'm going on a date when I return to Esthar.”

 

Huh? He's going through the entire courtship process? Wow! I'm so shocked that he's willing to do…

 

“Remember Frederic Jenssen?...”

 

Who the fuck is that? Where did he come from?

 

“You mean the guy from our after-the-movies coffee shop here?”

 

“The one Seify almost strangled?”

 

Selphie, sometimes your selective memory is frightening! Of course, I never heard of the incident since I don't like watching movies…

 

“Ahem! …Yeah, he went to Memorial University at Esthar and I bumped into him at a shopping concourse so…He asked me out on a date!”

 

“Err… What does Seify think `bout this?”

 

I know Selphie was just trying to warn Quistis to be cautious, but looking at her bewildered face she was not getting it at all…

 

“What do I care what he thinks?”

 

“ROOMMATE”

 

Ah, Fujin! You are sooo discreet!

 

“He goes out every night! And sometimes returns home reeking of alcohol and cheap perfume…I don't care what he thinks.”

 

Oh, I see… I wonder what's got into him! Awww, Quistis! Now we know why you look so unhappy… but going out with this Jenssen guy will not solve your problem, nor will it remove that sadness from your eyes! You're just not that kind of person…and besides …you might be endangering that poor guy's life in the process.

 

“You mean you're having sex with Fred?!?”

 

Yup! Trust Selph to be direct and to the point. Of course, one look at Quistis beet-red horrified face is enough to answer that particular question!

 

“NO! He never suggested that! He's a gentleman! We're going to watch a play and then he's taking me to dinner.”

 

“Will he be picking you up?”

 

I know that we all wanted to be there, like a fly on the wall, when that happens! Please forgive us Quistis, but this is way too juicy! That bewildered face again! Shit! How can you be sooo clueless Quistis Trepe!?!

 

“Well, yes… Aren't dates like that?”

 

“Err…Yeah, sure!”

 

“Besides, Seifer's usually not home at night, so I hardly think we'll interfere…”

 

“Oh…I see…”

 

Yup, Rinoa! We all saw, just make sure your comm unit is 911 ready Quistis, your poor escort might be needing it…

 

“So…I need you guys to help me get a nice outfit!”

 

“Ah! You've hit our area of expertise Quisty!”

 

Oh-oh! Selphie and Rinoa have a very militant gleam in their eyes! I exchanged a knowing look with Fujin, if I were Quistis I would be very, very scared…

 

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FINIS

 

 

absolutely useless a/n:

Frocks&Frills eventually merged with Modern Vintages to become Meijin's (Fujin's daughter) and Sylvie's (Selphie's daughter) store Krazie&Posh.

 

a/n:

Translation from the Spanish:

 

All those who think life is always cruel

Should know that it's not like that

That it's only bad moments

That they'll be gone

 

All those who think this will never change

Should know that it's not like that

That we should put on our best face

Everything changes

 

Oh, oh, oh, Ay there's no need to cry!

Life is a carnival

And is better to live singing

 

Oh, oh, oh, Ay there's no need to cry!

Life is a carnival

And our sorrows will leave when singing