Disclaimer: Challengingly not mine.
A/N: Written for the challenge community Fics 20 in 20 on LiveJournal. I'm not an official competitor, since I missed the sign-up date, so this is just for fun. The premise is this: 'authors will write twenty stories in twenty days. Stories should be between one hundred and two hundred and fifty words in length, no more and no less. Each day will be assigned a theme or prompt for that day's drabble, and all drabbles must be finished by June 20th'.
Small Packages
© Scribbler, June 2011.
1. Together
He felt them playing at the edges of his consciousness. He could be doing anything and their presences would suddenly brush against him, like the swish of a lover's hair as they turned over in the dark. When he was cleaning his bike, he was suddenly hit by Zack's smile that time he made chilli and the pot exploded. When he was on the road, weaving in and out of traffic, he smelled lilies. Watching Tifa draw a line on the doorjamb above Denzel and Marlene's heads, he tasted sand and smelled cordite, the sound of Zack's panicky voice loud in his ears.
Forget the bad stuff, you idiot, whispered that same voice. You have it good now.
But I don't want to lose you, he thought back.
You won't, she murmured. We're not going anywhere.
But you'd better, buddy. You deserve to move on and have a happy life. We'll be around.
But –
Count on it.
"Cloud?" Tifa looked over at him, the pen still in her hand. "Why are you smiling like that?"
He shook his head. "No reason. I'm just happy."
Glad to hear it.
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