Sup guys. Well, my nerdy older brother did something with the computer, and now it doesn't have Word. So forgive me for all of the mistakes, and blah blah blah, etc. So, 2nd chapter for Dancing! (Oh, someone thought this wasa one shot. Nah, its a 3 or 4 shot)

Pauline stared out the window at the rain falling down. Here she was, 21 years old, and she doesn't have a boyfriend. Well, there is him...
Don't think about him. He is gone, proabably never to return again to Redmont. He'll stay in Coledale, or maybe Meric if he gets moved anytime soon. Proabably forgot all about her, all the good times they had with each other and Crowley from Whitby fief, who got to visit very often.
"BUt thats all in the past," Pauline thought bitterly. He is doing Ranger stuff now, with his shiny little necklace.
A knock sounded at the door of her apartment. Who...?
Oh. It was just a servant, who came to see if she was in need of fresh water to wash in. She smiled at the young girl through her melancoly. She was, after all, a trained Diplomat. Well, who did you expect? she chided herself.
She knew who she wanted it to be.
Damn it, why did HE have to make things so diffucult?
The rest of the day passed by in a haze, everyone always wanting something, knocking on her door.
She wanted something. She wanted HIM back.
Its not going to happen. Get over it.
She went to a feast that night, celebrating some Lord's birthday or something. Whatever. Pauline excused herself early tonight, the baron mused. Ah, well. It can't be helped. Arald was always good at seeing through to other peoples feelings. Even Diplomats.
She practically ran back to her rooms. She sank to the floor, finally sucumbing to the emotions she had been feeling all day. And she knew why. Today was the day she first met Halt. There, she said his name. She pushed a little sink in the wall of her room. A door unlatched, and she pushed it open. This secret passage way was the key to her sanity. She used to use it so she could slip away from her mentor and go to her little hidaway, to escape the hustle-and-bustle of the world for a moment.
It was a serene little stretch of beach next to a lake that was smack in the middle of Redmont Forest.
And that was where she met him.
She would take the passage outside of the castle, run like hell to the forest, and carefully make her way to it following the subtle markers she made to help her on her way.
One day, she just got back from a mission that ending with the Lady of Eastpole fief screaming "DELIQUENT!" and having a spaz attack. She had ditched her horse and ran, crying, through the trees. She had stumbled on the bech and he was sitting there, arms around his knees, staring at the water.
*FLASHBACK*
"Um... hi." she said tentatively.
He continued to stare at the water.
"Who are you?"
He cocked his head a bit, almost unnoticeable. She was beginning to think he was mute, when he replied in a voice that sounded Hibernian, "Halt. Apprenticed to Matthew, Redmonts-"
"Ranger." they said at the same time.
He turned back to look at the moonlight reflected off the calm waters of the lake "Yeah."
*END FLASHBACK*
She pushed through the clump of bushes that were the entrance, and stopped.
In a strange sense of deja vu, she saw him staring out at the water.
He turned around, with that weird sense that lets him know if people were watching him.
"Hey."
She was shocked, too shocked to move, almost too shocked to breathe.
"Listen, I"m-" He was cut off because she hurled herself into his arms.
"I thought you would never come back. I thought you had forgotten." she sobbed into his chest.
"I would never forget."
And then she awatted him.
"Ow. First your crying all over me, and next you hit me?" Halt complained.
"Do you know how sad I was? Do you know how... emotional?" she cried.
"Yeah, because everyone knows that Diplomats and Rangers don't have feelings." he said in his familiar sarcastic way.
She stood with her hands on her hips, feet spread apart.
"Make it up to me."
"Make it up to you? Hm... how do I do that? Oh, I know!" he said, in a triumphant manner.
"What?"
Halt didn't waste time with words. He just grabbed her hand and led her in a smooth, steady waltz.
Minutes passed, and sunset turned to nighttime.
"You've been taking lessons." Pauline croaked out. Because she had gone to dances with him and he had fumbled around.
"Yeah. I got Lady Merissa to help me." he said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
"How long have you been planning this?" she demanded.
"Um..." he stuttered.
"How. Long?"
"5 months..." he mutttered.
"Oh, my god. Really?"
She couldn't help herself. She felt great that she got so much thought. But then she had a thought.
"I didn't know that you were coming, so I didn't get you a present..." she murmured, looking down at her feet. "I know what my present should be."
"What?"
With that question, he pulled her hand, which he was still holding, and brought her into a kiss.
She would definatley miss him when he's gone.

When You're Gone, Avril Lavigne

I always needed time on my own I never thought I'd need you there when I cry And the days feel like years when I'm alone And the bed where you lie is made up on your side

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you

I've never felt this way before Everything that I do reminds me of you And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor And they smell just like you, I love the things that you do

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you And when you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

And when you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you

We were made for each other Out here forever I know we were, yeah

And all I ever wanted was for you to know Everything I'd do, I'd give my heart and soul I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me, yeah

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you And when you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

And when you're gone All the words I need to hear will always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you