Hanging out in the quad

[bg_lore_antalya]

Who: Lore, Rinoa, North
What: Being bored
Where: Quad
When: Wednesday, around 2 p.m.
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Lore was sitting on the pool table in the quad. Okay, so maybe it wasn't technically a chair, but it had a great view of the TV. Being on the short side, she always had a hard time seeing over people's heads. That made the pool table her ideal seat.

She

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[bg_rinoa_hearti]

Feeling listless and just a little bored, Rinoa wandered the halls of the Garden barefoot. She'd taken off her sandals to enjoy walking in the grass, and must've left them behind when she'd come back in. The fact was, with her light course load and almost boundless free time, she just didn't have enough to do. And when he was idle, she got restless, and when she was restless, she got unhappy

[bg_lore_antalya]

Lore grinned. "Oh, please do. Finally, human contact. I'm so bored I thought I was gonna lose it." She swept her arm over the table, knocking some of the pool balls out of the way.

[bg_rinoa_hearti]

Pleased with the uncomplicated, friendly gesture, Rinoa planted her hands on the pool table and boosted herself up. It was warm out, so she was wearing cutoffs and a sunshine yellow tank top, but she didn't feel awkward in the least. She looked just like she was -- a normal teenaged girl.

Well, apart from being a Sorceress, but she really didn't like to think about that because, well, she didn't feel like it was her. She was Rinoa Heartilly, period. If she had to deal with the Sorceress aspect of her life, she would. Otherwise, she just wanted to be herself.

Puckering her lips against dreary thoughts, she swung her legs out and examined her toenails again. She'd probably spend the night painting them another color, just because she could. "Me too. I was taking a walk outside and I realized I just did not want to be by myself."

Glancing over, she smiled impishly. "I was going to go terrorize Squall, but I ended up here instead. I guess his ritual daily torture session will have to wait."

[bg_north_anthon]

(OOC: North wants to hang out with Rinoa and Lore, he just doesn't know it yet. XD

[bg_lore_antalya]

Lore smiled again. "I guess he got lucky...this time," she replied in a teasingly ominous tone. The idea of someone threatening to terrorize Squall, Garden's until-recent leader at war and one of the leading figures in battle, amused her

[bg_rinoa_hearti]

(OOC: Gack, sorry. I just worked a ton of full days in a row (11 A.M.-10:30 P.M. and I've been beat.)

It was best to just pretend that the boys across the room weren't very obviously trying to scope her out. Maybe see if she sprouted an extra head or four. After all, it would just simultaneously irritate and depress her, and she'd always found that holding two strong emotions in one body at the same time guaranteed messy results.

Kind of like the time she'd been weeping because of something her father had said, and then had thrown a priceless vase at his door. Yeah, messy

[bg_lore_antalya]

((OOC: That's okay! That is a LONG day

[bg_rinoa_hearti]

Rinoa reached up to finger Squall's ring in a timeless, almost absent gesture. She'd gotten so used to having it that, these days, she really never took it off. But it was starting to look a little dingy. It was probably time to take it in, have it professionally cleaned.

Maybe she could surprise Squall with that! Though... why would he really care? Better to find something that she intended to give back to him and get it fixed up. Or something.

Dropping the ring, she considered. Squall probably wouldn't want to do anything at the festival. He would only go, she was sure, to make her happy. Which meant it was entirely up to her to get him there, drag him around the events, and make sure he had at least some semblance to fun.

"If it's the last thing I do," she began darkly, "I'll get Squall to the festival. Unless, of course, he has a mission... but I really hope he doesn't. I need some quality time with my boyfriend, you know

[bg_lore_antalya]

Lore made an exaggerated face of disgust at the prospect. "There's so many things wrong with that I don't even know where to start.." she agreed. "It must be hard," she continued more seriously, "being in a relationship with a SeeD

[bg_rinoa_hearti]

Rinoa sighed in response. It was true. Despite knowing that fully well, she seemed to always be attracted to the soldier type. She'd grown up with her father, and knew what being in the military did to you as a person, did to your family. She was no stranger to the long nights, the absences, the worrying and the wondering if they were going to come back from this mission all right. More, she'd seen firsthand the way politics warped strong ideals, how they manipulated good men until they didn't know what they were fighting for anymore.

Knowing that, she couldn't say why she fell for people like Seifer and Squall. They were soldiers, there was no doubt. They'd pledged themselves to that before they'd even met her, and somehow, something about them had called to her. She liked to think it was their personalities, though looks were a big part of it. Still, she'd recognized something in both of them.

Vulnerability. A need that she'd been able to fill. She'd fallen recklessly, headlong into infatuation with Seifer, and when that flame had

[bg_lore_antalya]

Lore cocked her head to the side, thinking this over. "Yeah? I'm an army brat. I think that's maybe why this appealed to me." She imagined it was a significant factor, though she often wondered if she would have made the same choice no matter what her dad's profession was.

"I think that's also why my mother didn't WANT this to appeal to me," she offered with a shrug. Her mother had been less than thrilled when Lore announced that she wanted to go to Garden. She could still remember how her mother had stayed upstairs with a headache for four straight days the week before Lore left. Lore supposed she couldn't blame her, especially when she tried looking at it with the new perspective Rinoa had offered.

You couldn't ask someone to change what made them, them. But it didn't mean that you could stop it from driving you nuts, either.