Matchmaker, matchmaker | By : Purplepenguin Category: Final Fantasy VIII > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 769 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 8.
….
Selphie knocked on Zell’s door at eight o’clock in the morning, not early for the martial artist who got up early for training.
“Oh hey Selphie!” He greeted, as he opened the door. “Early for you isn’t it?”
“I have work to do.”
“Work? A mission?”
“No silly, dating agency work.”
Zell frowned. “Oh.”
“I wondered if you’d seen Squall, I sent him on a date last night and he’s not in his dorm or in the training centre or in the cafeteria or in his office or-”
“I get the picture, so where do you think he is?”
She grinned stupidly. “With Irvine.”
“Irvine?” Zell stared. “You set him up on a date with horny the horndog?!”
“Well yeah they’re nice together don’t you think?”
“You’re terrible at this! I’m starting to think maybe I should pull out now before you do something stupid involving me.”
She hit him.
“Ow!”
“Hey don’t be so mean and don’t you forget that I’m helping you towards love!”
“So what are you even doing here? Go and find Squall, ask Irvine if he’s seen him.”
“Come with me!” She tried to pull him out the door.
“What? Why?”
“I want you to and I can’t find Rinoa.”
“Oh I see! So I’m second best, a replacement, might as well hang out with Zell is that it?”
She rolled her eyes. “Come on!” She pulled him out the door and down the corridor.
“I can walk on my own.” He tugged his arm from her grip and knocked on the door in Irvine’s room.
No answer.
“Looks like he’s not there… oh well let’s go.” He turned to leave and Selphie grabbed him.
“No so fast.” She hammered on the door. “Irvine!”
No answer.
“You see? He’s not in.”
“I’m not beaten yet.” She dug into her pocket and came out with a silver key.
Zell stared. “You have a key to Irvine’s dorm?!”
“Of course he gave me a key to water his plant on a mission once.”
Zell frowned. “Irvine has plants?”
“A plant, a girl gave it to him, a special girl.”
“Ah and he didn’t want the key back?”
“He did and I gave it back….” She grinned. “That’s why I got a copy before I gave it back.”
Zell smirked. “You’re sneaky.” He looked horrified for a second. “You haven’t got a copy of my key have you?!”
“Now that would be telling.” She smiled and put the key in the lock, opening the door.
Zell followed her inside.
Irvine was sitting on the sofa half naked and rubbing his head he had a pillow on the sofa arm and rumpled up blanket at the other end of the couch.
“Did you have to yell like that?” He whined, holding his head.
He frowned suddenly realizing Zell and Selphie were in his room and he didn’t let them in. “How did you get in here?”
Selphie shrugged. “Door was open.”
“It was?” He groaned. “I must have been drunker than I thought last night.”
“Aw have you got a hangover sweetie?” She sat down beside him.
He nodded, pouting like a child.
“Why are you on the sofa?” Zell asked.
As if to answer his question Squall stumbled out of Irvine’s bedroom, leaning on the doorframe looking very pale. “I don’t feel so good.”
He was wearing even less, dressed in only a pair of black boxers he stumbled into the bathroom with a hand over his mouth.
“So….?” Selphie squealed. “How’d it go?”
“Um… okay I guess, I don’t really remember a lot.”
“What do you remember?”
“Well we went to a bar, to a couple of bars and had a few drinks you know he really starts to relax when he has a few drinks in him.”
“And then?”
“And then err we headed home… I don’t actually remember walking here but I guess we must have done.”
“Did you kiss him?”
Irvine rubbed his face. “I don’t think so, I mean I did think for a moment when I woke up but maybe I dreamt it.”
“Dreamt what?”
He shook his head. “Doesn’t matter.”
Selphie looked disappointed. “So it wasn’t a real date, oh I had big hopes.”
Zell perched on the coffee table. “That’s another failure for your business Selphie.”
She frowned. “Shut up! I was so sure about this one too.”
The toilet flushed and Squall stumbled out again looking a little better, he disappeared into the kitchen.
“Painkillers?”
“Top cupboard near the fridge, get me some too please.”
Squall came back with a pack of painkillers, clumsy fingers struggling to get into the packet going more and more frustrated before throwing it on the floor in annoyance.
Zell chuckled, picking up the packet. “Want me to open that for you Squall?” Not waiting for an answer he picked up the packet and removed some painkillers, handing two Squall and two to Irvine.
“Thank you.” Irvine muttered.
Squall perched on the arm on the sofa, reaching for Irvine’s glass of water with the cowboy reaching to hand it to him at the same time. Their hands met on the glass, their eyes met and Squall got a sense of de ja vu.
A memory of…. Something.
He quickly moved his hand from the glass, letting Irvine hand him the drink then staring at his lap to try and remember.
“You okay?” Selphie asked. “You’re gone quiet.”
“Squall’s always quiet.” Zell said.
They started bickering but Squall tuned them out. He had the exactly memory of reaching over for a glass of water and Irvine doing the same, only they weren’t sitting on the sofa he was…. In the bedroom, he was on Irvine’s bed. He blushed suddenly.
“Are you alright Squall? You’ve gone all red.”
He frowned and disappeared back in Irvine’s room. He remembered getting back to Irvine’s room feeling crappy, his friend had handed him a glass of water, which he had grabbed at too and had ran the cool glass over his forehead and face. He remembered flopping back on the bed drunk claiming he was too tired to get undressed…. But yet he woke up in only his boxers. He couldn’t remember what happened in between just as he didn’t remember walking to garden or even leaving the last bar. He collected up his clothes and headed into the bathroom.
Irvine shooed Selphie and Zell out of his dorm after telling him he didn’t think anything interesting happened last night.
His “dream” that he remembered when he woke up explained how he got to the sofa and Squall ended up in his bed.
A much more relaxed Squall had flopped spread eagle across his bed, rubbing himself in the covers after drinking a whole glass of water, struggling to get his belts undone. The tipsy cowboy had laughed, easily dropping down on top of squall to straddle his thighs and undo the many belts for his friend. Squall’s hands had a mind of their own and he was very touchy feely suddenly, hands on his ass, under his coat, rubbing his thighs.
Irvine pushed him away with a chuckle, pulling Squall’s leather pants off along with his socks and shoes.
The brunette had pulled him back in when the cowboy got off, pulling him down over his bare legs and trying to get into his friend’s shirt.
Irvine batted the hands away. “No no you’re the one getting undressed remember? Not me.”
His hands fumbled on Squall’s buttons, getting it wrong a few times and distracting him to Squall stroking his hair and slowly pulling him in.
“What…. are you doing?” He asked, when he bumped noses with Squall, finding that he couldn’t move his head away from the brunette.
He moved his hand back to try and loosen Squall’s grip on his hair as their lips get closer and closer together.
Suddenly the grip was gone and the cowboy propped himself up on his elbows, Squall lay past out on the bed.
Irvine sighed, relieved and disappointed at the same time.
He continued to take Squall’s shirt off, letting him keep the bed he pulled a pillow off the bed and took a blanket from the cupboard before heading out to the couch for the night.
…..
“Well how much money have you got?” Rinoa asked Selphie.
“Well let’s see.” She dug into her pockets and pulled out two tissues, six gil notes and a couple of boiled sweets.
She looked sheepish.
“So just how are we going to pay for the trip to Deling for Seifer and Zell, you know Seifer won’t go if he has to pay..”
“He might if we convince they this is a good idea.”
Rinoa looked doubtful. “Look I know Seifer, he doesn’t like feeling played or tricked and he definitely won’t want to pay to feel like that.”
“But we can’t pay for it, how much money have you got?”
Rinoa frowned. “I’m not paying for it on my own, I might have split the cost with you but you’re broke.”
“We could raise the money.” Selphie suggested, with a grin.
“Raise it? Do I even want to know?”
“We can do sponsored events.”
Rinoa gave her a look. “Well you can do a sponsored silence, everyone will be thankful for that.”
Selphie frowned. “Well you can do a sponsored…” She waved a hand, trying to think of an insulting sponsor. “Dressing well…. Thing.”
“We’ll both do a sponsored silence, the place will be much more quiet!”
Selphie nodded. “Sounds good to me.”
“How much do we need?”
“Well for a good rooms with the room service and food included we need 400 gil per person.”
“You raise 400 and I’ll raise 400.” She rubbed her hands together. “And people say we always have bad ideas.”
~><~
Tbc
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