the trick is to keep breathing

Honestly, she's very good at reading people. She knows when Rinny and Squall fight because she can pick up the vibes they both give off, and the way they avoid public areas like the plague. She knows when something big and bad is going on politics-wise because Quistis has a tendency to stare vacantly past the lid of her coffee cup. She knows when Irvy is going to try and ask her to the movies again (and subsequently when she's going to have to think of a very good reason to be very busy that night). She's good at reading people.

But Seifer is hard. He doesn't do things like the others do, and he distances himself so far she can't pick up on his normal habits and actions. And she doesn't quite know what to think when he swings his gunblade at the T-Rexaur looming over her as her magic piddles out and she realizes she doesn't have as many spells stocked as she thought she did. After all, where had he even come from, anyway?

Best not to think too far into it, she thinks. Move along like always, that's the best idea.

But then he goes and dumps a piece of chocolate cake on the table in front of her during lunch, and she knows that it's the last piece because the line for the dessert buffet dissipated quite suddenly, and she doesn't know what that means, either.

Of course, when he pulls her aside (rather harshly) outside the second floor classroom and kisses her, it's hard not to put two and two together.

Even if he does walk away afterwards like nothing had happened at all.

Besides, Selphie is awfully good at reading people.