Reno was woken up by something soft being pressed against his lips. He opened his eyes and realized that it was Cloud who had just kissed him. He smiled and kissed him back.

"Good morning, Reno…."

"Well, with that kind of wake-up-call, how can it be a bad morning?"

Cloud smiled and leaned in for another kiss. Reno answered it with a smile. This morning was the best in a very long time. Reno moved closer.

"Reno. We have to stop now. We have to go to work."

Reno totally ignored him and lowered himself that he could kiss Cloud's neck.

"Reno…"

Once again Reno ignored Cloud. He caressed Cloud's chest and kissed him again. This time Cloud's defense was down and he gave in. The kiss got deeper and more intense.

Suddenly the door flew wide open.

"Cloud! You better wake up now. You already missed breakfast. If you don't hurry up, you'll be…"

Tifa stopped in the middle of the sentence.

"Re…no…"

Her face went blood-red and hers was not the only one.

"I… I… I…", Tifa stuttered.

"Out!" screamed Cloud.

Tifa was paralyzed.

"OUT!"

Cloud took one of his pillows and threw it at Tifa.

"Get! Out! NOW!"

Tifa slammed the door shut and Cloud could hear her steps as she quickly descended down the stairs.

"Well that was the end of that secret."

He looked at Reno, who had frozen by the shock. He was still as red as before and his lips were shaking. Cloud kissed him softly to calm him down.

"Reno, calm down. It really wasn't that bad."

"Not that bad! Where you in an other room, or what? She… she saw us."



Reno got out of the bed and quickly put on his clothes.

"She was bound to find out sooner or later. Or did you honestly think that we could keep it a secret forever? I don't believe that you're that good in keeping secrets."

"Oh, shut up!"

"I'm actually surprised that we made it through a week of midnight visits, without being discovered. I didn't even want to keep it a secret. Reno, I love you and I want everyone to know."

Reno, who had been silent for a while now, felt how tears were filling up and he fought them with every fiber of his body. It was the first time Cloud actually said the words out loud, but he couldn't have picked a worse time. Reno wished that he was just dreaming and that when he woke up, everything would be as it had been the last week. Just him and Cloud. Just the two of them waking up together.

Cloud stood up.

"Come here," he said and wrapped Reno in his arms. "So she knows. I think it's better that way."

"But she wasn't supposed to find out this way."

"Does it really matter?"

Reno pushed Cloud away.

"Of course it does! I thought you wanted to tell her not have her stumble upon………upon this! She still loves you for god sakes Cloud! And all the others hate me! This was a mistake all of it!"

"Reno…"

"Save it! I don't want to hear it! Just… just leave me alone!"

With those words he escaped the room and left Cloud still sitting on the bed.

Two Days latter Rufus had came into the bar looking confused.

"Rufus whats wrong?" Tifa asked placing chairs out

"Reno hasn't been to work the past three days have any of you seen him?"

Tifa looked back at Cloud giving him a worried looked. Cloud simply looked out the window lost.

"No sorry Rufus…." She lied

Reno stared forward. He hated this feeling of being lost. Not knowing what to do, how to act or how to feel. Everything had felt so right, until Tifa had entered the room. After that everything had seemed so wrong and forbidden. But that wasn't the real problem. The real problem was all the horrible things he had said to CLoud. He felt so upset. Not much of it had been true. And the things that really were true, Reno had twisted a little. Deep down he too wanted to tell everyone. But that actually meant telling everyone. Not having them walk in on him and Cloud. And it wasn't a mistake he loved Cloud and still did.



Right now he was angry at everybody. At Tifa for storming in like that. At Cloud for saying that it wasn't that big of a deal. And at himself for reacting the way he did and for saying all those horrible things.

And now he didn't know how to move forward from here. He didn't know how to move toward Cloud. He must have been really hurt by hearing Reno say those things.

"Damn. I've ruined it all. As I do with all I touch. He's probably better of without me."

"Cloud. I'm really sorry about this morning. I'm really, really sorry."

"I'm not the one that needs to hear that. Shouldn't you be out looking for him?"

Tifa lowered her head.

"I have looked. He just doesn't want to be found."

Cloud studied her as she explained how she had searched everywhere.

"Hes a turk so I guess when he dosent want to be found he wont be" Cloud stopped and thought for a while. "And how come you haven't noticed him sneaking into my room every night in about a week now?"

"Ive been really busy with the Bar and Marlene and Denzel I thought you would be fine if I left you alone."

"It's all your fault he's even gone in the first place, you know that right!"

"Of course I do. And I've already said I'm sorry. "

"And I told you, it's not me that needs to hear those words. I've already forgiven you."

Tifa smiled

"Thank you."

"Tifa, Reno said you were still…um….inlove with me…is that true?"

"He dosent know? Cloud ive been dating Rude for the past month."

"Stupid Stupid redheaded turk"

"you can yell at him when you find him, lets go."

"I'm dying."

Reno looked around. Snow everywhere. His whole body was cold and his fingers didn't feel long from turning blue. The cold made his whole body shiver and the tears in his face to form ice-crystals under his eyes. He didn't remember how long he'd been sitting there, just looking at the snow fall, at the people passing by. All he knew was that it had been hours.



He hadn't had the courage to go to Work, it made him worried that Rufus may know.

Reno felt how his whole body shivered. He missed Cloud. Holding him close and feeling his warmth. Then he wouldn't freeze. Never be cold.

"I'm dying."

He felt how his body started giving up and he fell down. When his face touched the snow, everything went black. He could hear his own heartbeats slowing down.

"I'm dying."

"I'm dying." Cloud couldn't figure out why but those two words had been stuck in his head it worried him greatly.

"Any luck?" Tifa said

"No. He's vanished out of this world it seems."

Now Cloud really started to worry. "Reno, where are you?"

He sighed "one last place to check…..sector 7" he muttered

"I'll wait for you here call me, please, if you find him"

Cloud nodded. Going outside he hoped on his bike heading towards Sector 7. It look Cloud longer than expected due to the heavy snow fall. Once there he looked around before walking. That's when he saw the red haired unmoving figure.

A sense of floating. A feeling of being carried. Bright stars, blue eyes and a warm body. Reno couldn't figure out whether he was dead, living or dreaming. All he knew was that whoever carried him, and wherever they were going, he wished that he could forgive Tifa and tell Cloud how much he loved him. Just one last time.

Suddenly all movement stopped and instead of being carried, someone held him gently. He felt absolutely safe. Now he knew where he was and this time he didn't fight the tears.

"Reno. Don't you ever pull a stupid thing like that again."

Reno's body shook violently. Both from the cold and from crying. Cloud held him closer and kissed his eyelids softly. Then he carefully removed Reno's frozen clothes and wrapped Reno in dozens of blankets.

"Let's try to get you warm, before you catch a cold."

"C-Cloud. I… love you!"

Cloud removed his own clothes, slipped down beside Reno and put his arms around Reno's waist.

"I know Reno."



"A-and I'm so-sorry that I-I said those horrible th-things. I…"

"Schhh. Sleep now."

"But I called you…"

"Reno!, who loves you more than anything, tells you to go to sleep."

"But…"

"not buts! Sleep"

Reno sighed slowly closing his eyes sleep claimed his weaken body right away.

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Hey um…..my new computer! Lost all my fanfics! So sad………well I want to idk dedicate this to Beka Strife for keeping my entertained and getting me into this pairing next chapter will be up either today of next weekend.

Roxas