Rinoa was an orphan she grew up with Squal who was 5 years older than her. That day for the first time, the 17 year old Rinoa gathered up all her courage and confessed her love for Squal. She said, "When I get to 18 and if you still don't have a girl friend by then… Can you marry me?"He smiled and patted her on the head, "okay…" She was so happy that she couldn't sleep for three nights.
One whole year passed Rinoa was 18 and Squal found a girlfriend. He opened a coffee shop and Rinoa dropped her last year of high school to work in Squal's café. She looked at him in disappointment. For a long time neither of them said anything until Rinoa struggled to put a smile on her face. "I'll wait for you. If you ever break up with her then will you still marry me?" Squal felt a deep sorrow inside him but he didn't know why he felt this way. There was again a long pause, than Squal gave Rinoa a simple answer. "Okay…"
"Promise?" She looked into his eyes with her irresistible bright eyes.
"Promise!"
3 years passed. The café became very popular in the local area. Everyone who visited the café liked Rinoa. They liked her existence and they liked to be around her. They say she was friendly and beautiful. Most of them only visited the café because of Rinoa.
"I'm sorry Rinoa. I have to cancel the wedding because I'm leaving here to go to America." He sighed and then quickly continued. "I want to start my own business over there. It's my dream, please forgive me Rinoa."
3 month later, at the airport. He told Rinoa, "I won't be back for a very long time so you don't have to wait for me. If you fall in love with someone else you can marry him instead." Squal gave Rinoa the café and left the country for six years. During the six years Rinoa wrote over three hundred letters to him and every page was soaked with her tears.
When Squal went back he was the boss of a computer company in America, a very rich man indeed. But Rinoa was no longer the same. She had cancer and there was only two month left. She lost her beautiful long black hair because of the radiation therapy. Her cheeks were pale and her eyes are no longer bright but rather dim just like her life. "Squal, if I ever walk out of here will you still marry me?" She looked at the hairs that scatter on her pillow and then she cried. Her tears ran down her face none stop, she kept on crying until she became weary and fell asleep. After she fell asleep Squal sat next to her and said, "If you walk out of this hospital, I promise I'll marry you this time. So you have to get well again! Please…"
Two month later. Rinoa dying on a life support machine, she asked him ."If there is heaven will you still marry me?" Squal felt hard to breeze all he could manage was, "yes." Her hand still grabbed Squal's fingers tightly even after she died. She gave him her whole life without regret just because of a simple "yes." She waited all her life and still waits for him in her eternal slumber. Rinoa died at the age of 28. Perhaps it was the sadness and the heartbreaks that killed her rather than the cancer.
Short story is not really my best thing. I hope I written it okay. Thank your for reading.
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