Drabble #39: Pain
Summary: Cloud Strife thought he could handle pain, until he fell in love.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but the plot. Characters and places belong to SquareEnix
There were many feelings and emotions that he had never experienced and many that he had not held in a long time. The thought of most of them scared him, especially love. He was scared of falling in love because he saw it as weakness. As far as he was concerned, when you fell in love you lost all your awareness and senses and just didn't think properly.
Of course, this hate for love was before he had met the beautiful, kind, sweet, Aeris Gainsborough; a flower girl who was a descendent of the old Cetra race. The emotions hit him so quickly; he could not have stopped himself even if he had wanted to.
Every smile or look she directed at him made his heartbeat soar and he found himself blushing every time. It was rather funny to everyone else in the group to see a full-grown twenty-one-year old man blushing like a schoolgirl. However, he couldn't say it was particularly fun to experience.
He forgot all about his past feelings about love, finding it the best feeling in the world. He just wanted to be with her all the time. She was his guardian angel and he really thought he would marry her someday.
Of course, he soon regretted falling in love because all his previous thoughts were proven true at the fateful moment where Sephiroth stabbed her.
Then another foreign feeling overcame him.
It felt as if, in that single moment, his heart had been ripped in two; the pain was so great. His eyes stung so much from tears they began to burn.
Cloud Strife thought he would be used to any kind pain…
But that was before he fell in love.