Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Second Chance ❯ Knowing each other doesn’t means I’m sympathizing with you ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3: Knowing each other doesn't means I'm sympathizing with you

 

There was a heavy silence when Danielle walked to the front

 

“You are… Jenvian” went Quistis

“Danielle Jenvian, that's my complete name”

“But... you're supposed to be a guy!” said a student

“She's fooling us!” cried another and then everybody started to talk loudly.

“Silence!” commanded Squall and all the voices hush, he looked at the girl

“You say you are Jenvian” said Squall “The guard that saved Edea”. At this, Danielle reached for an envelope she kept in her pocket and hand it to Squall.

 

“Mrs. Kramer asked me to give this to you” she said. Squall took the envelope and read the letter contained inside. “I thought she told you about it. Whoever told the newspapers about what happened in Esthar said I was a guy”

“It is her” said Squall, everybody started to murmur of what had happened

 

“We will have to re-assigned her” went Quistis

“The girls dorms are full, where should we place her?” replied the brunet “I'll have to inform the Headmaster about this” and then he looked at both students “You may leave now”

“Where should I go?” asked Danielle

“With him”

“Squall, I didn't know you like mixed dorms” mocked Seifer, but Squall preferred to ignore him

“I'm afraid there's nothing I can do in the moment” said Squall to Danielle

“Why don't send her to the Quad?” went Seifer

“Are you really that afraid of me?” replied Danielle

“Just on stepping on you, I can barely see you”

“Why don't you get on your ego and jump? There's no chance you'll survive from such fall”

“That's enough!” stopped them Squall “I shall report the situation to the Headmaster, but you shall not be able to change dorms until you demonstrate you can get along, understand?”

 

Danielle and Seifer look at each other. It had to be a sort of joke, there had never been a boy and a girl in the same room in all the history of every Garden in the world. It was going to be quite a challenge for both.

 

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Irvine was waiting outside the dormitory waiting for the arrival of the students that would be there. He still couldn't believe it that Seifer would be sharing with Jenvian. How the guy could be so lucky?

 

He suddenly spotted the blond down the hall along with the girl Seifer had been following.

 

“Hey, Irvine, guess what?” said Seifer the moment he spot him “I'm sharing a room with the famous Jenvian”

“I heard about it” replied the cowboy with a confused look at the sight of the girl in the male's dorms

“It's her” smiled Seifer “She's Jenvian. And I'm sharing the room with her”

“You're kidding” went Irvine

“About sharing the room or that she's Jenvian?”

“Both”

“Those are the commander's orders until new arrangement. I'm Danielle, by the way” Irvine couldn't suppress the mischievous grin towards Seifer.

 

“Are you gonna need a king size bed?” mocked the cowboy to the blond

“Maybe two so he can fit perfectly with his ego” smiled Danielle and she walk pass them

“What do you have with my ego? Are in love with it or what?”

“It's the very first thing you see even if you are kilometers away” and she entered the room

 

Seifer was trying his best to not go and hit her, there was no way he would tolerate such commentaries even if they came out of a girl. Irvine in the meantime was trying to not burst into laughter about Danielle's audacity to say such things.

 

“She's a rude one” said the cowboy

“She's a fool” replied Seifer as he walked towards the dorm, but before he could enter, the door closed right in his face and once again, he suppress the need of taking Hyperion and throw the door down.

 

“I think she's sexy” chuckled Irvine, earning a menacing glare from the blond and he raise his hands innocently “She's all yours” and he turn around to walk away

“Hey, how the hell am I supposed to get inside?”

“Beg her?” chuckled the cowboy again but he then walked back and showed Seifer the code to open the door “There you go”, but the blond went inside without even saying thank you.

 

“Those will be getting along very well at the end” shrugged the cowboy and he walked to his own dorm.

 

First thing Seifer noticed was how the dorm was much bigger than before. There was a big study table enough for four people, a double couch, a small TV and a bathroom. He looked inside the opened room and saw the bed, a desk, and closet. He then noticed a door had been installed in each room and that's when he realized that Danielle's room was closed.

 

He sighed remembering Squall's words. “…you shall not be able to change dorms until you demonstrate you can get along…” Squall probably did it in purpose, he wanted to test him and once he got the results he wanted, everything will change… right?

 

He entered the one that shall be his room and let Hyperion's case. As he took of his trenchcoat, he couldn't stop thinking about Danielle's attitude. Different from everybody, she acted as if she didn't fear him at all. Maybe she didn't knew who he really was

 

//No, she knows it// he thought //That was the main reason why I wanted to rip her head off//. At the same time, there was something pretty familiar on her. Well, if she had been in the army, he might have seen her around, but he actually couldn't remember very well. Well, there was only a way to fins out about it.

 

Not going through the formalities of knocking first, Seifer opened the door of her room. She had take off her vest and was checking her injury. She was so concentrated she didn't hear the door opening. But she suddenly felt observed and she realized Seifer was by the door starring at her.

 

“What do you think you are doing?” she went as she placed back in place her shirt. “Who gave you permission to come in?”

“I didn't see any sign that said I couldn't come inside” he grinned. He never expected that Danielle would approach and push him out of her room to once again close the door.

 

Seifer sighed and said “I'm going in again”, but before he could even touch the handle, the door open and Danielle's hand peeked out placing a paper with big red letters that read “Go away. No Almasys allowed”

 

“Very funny” muttered the blond and he tried to open the door, but it was lock. He had to options: throw the door or knock. He opted for B; he really didn't want for things to get worse.

 

“What the fuck do you want?” cried Danielle's voice when he knocked

“Can you please open up?” went Seifer with gritted teeth. Hell, not even with Fujin and Raijin he was this kind

“Why the hell don't you go away and leave me alone?”

“Are you on your fucking period or what? I'm trying to be friendly and you just keep pushing me away”

 

The door suddenly opened to reveal how mad Danielle seemed to be. “I can't tolerate you being such a bully a moment and the other moment trying to be nice with me. I'm not happy either for this arrangement. So until things change stay away from me” and she tried to close the door away, but Seifer stopped her from doing so.

 

“Listen up, I have been here before and I know how things work better than you. In case you didn't hear well, they shall not separate us until we learn to get along, which is not the same to ignore each other. If we don't learn to tolerate each other, we shall never be able to work properly and that will not only probably cost us our lives, but shall probably keep us together until the graduation, which is really far away from now”

“Why are you so worried about getting along?”

“Because the faster we give them the results, the faster we shall be free one from the other”

 

Danielle seemed to think about it. “Fine” she finally said “but don't expect me to act like we are the best friends in the whole wide world, understand?”

“I must say the same and add that don't expect me to act like a gentleman”

“I already realize you aren't” she smiled as she got inside her room, not noticing Seifer enter right behind her

 

“How old are you?” he asked leaning to the wall

“What does it matters? And I didn't gave you permission to enter my room, so out” she replied as she sat in her bed

“I'm curious. And even if you don't tell me, I can find out”

 

Danielle sighed frustrating and placed her head in her hands. //Why the fuck is he doing this?// she questioned herself, but she answered anyway. “Seventeen”

“You're a year younger than me and too young to have been in the army”

“You would never understand”

“Where are you from?”

“What's this? Twenty questions?”

“I haven't count them yet” he grinned again. It made her feel so strange. It made her feel so vulnerable, like he could do what he pleased with her.

 

Danielle shifted her gaze away to look through the window. She only wished that Seifer realized she didn't really wanted to talk and he would walk out. Little did she know that Seifer didn't really have plans of giving up. He walked and sat right besides her to then hold her chin forcing eye contact. Seifer always would look to the eyes when he spoke to someone, no matter who it was. Danielle however didn't seem to like this.

 

“What are you doing?” she went trying to hit him, but Seifer took hold of both wrists. But Danielle only struggle harder and he wasn't really thinking when he got above her, immobilizing her with his weight. Now she did stare at him with a certain fear.

 

“I'm not going to hurt you” he tried to calm her. He would also be scared to have a guy above him if he were a girl.

 

“What if I refuse?” she dared to ask, regretting immediately when Seifer grinned playfully

“We stay like this all night. I don't think you'll be able to got anywhere” He almost started to laugh when Danielle tried to put her best furious expression but instead it was more like embarrassing, the blush of her cheeks betrayed her. He couldn't deny it make her look so cute.

 

“I was born at FH, but I moved to Deling City at two”

“How did your parents ever let you join the army?”

 

He suddenly realized he touch a sensible chord there. Danielle closed her eyes and she shifted her head to the side. “Why do you want to know about me?”

“I'm just curious of my roommate”

 

Danielle was able to release her hands from Seifer and she pushed him off her. She then got on her feet and signaled the door saying “Get out”

“You still haven't answer what I asked”

“Stay with the doubt. Now get the fuck out”

“Make me”

She hated to be challenge, he could see it in her eyes. She approached to him and tried to grab him by the collar of his shirt, but once again he took hold of her wrist and pulled her towards him. Not really expecting such, Danielle tripped on her own feet and landed on Seifer's lap, her eyes to the level of his.

 

He felt fascinated by them. He was right, they were the color of Shiva's ice, a very light blue that contrast highly with the black pupil. They were so beautiful; he couldn't remember seeing any other human being with such color. At the same time, he perceived something familiar in them.

 

“Get the fuck out” she demanded interrupting his thoughts

“I'm not done yet”

 

She pulled away from him and walked to the door “Then I'm leaving if you're not” she said and slammed the door behind her.

 

He wasn't very convinced of letting her around his stuff, but he actually didn't have a choice. In the moment, he just wanted to sleep, the trip to Balamb and the exercising had been exhausting. So Seifer took off his boots and shirt, to then get comfortable in Danielle's bed and he slowly drift to sleep, those crystal blue orbs never leaving his mind.