Does countenances reveal one's true identity?
FairxGainsborough
Reminder: "Haha, it's funny… It's been half a year now, but still you are stuck on my mind.
I were never abounding you… I were looking for you, searching, hoping to find you again.
"The upcoming days we spent together and talked about literally everything. It felt as if… I were floating on clouds.
"Please do let me spend one more day with you."
The distance reduced and soon she would fancy the illusion of a hallucination.
And finally he opened his mouth.
"Yes, correctly spoken I needed to discuss something…
"What's up? Did you come over here to pick a fight?
"Tell me, Zack… I mean, you are missing her, aren't you? … What can I possibly do to fix this?!"
Chapter three: Goodbye.
"It's cold outside, this time of year… isn't it? I cannot tell since the seasons doesn't change up here. Zack… now it's been two years. I tried to talk to the Cetra, but they told me that I couldn't escape from my obligations just yet. If I kept aging like you do, I would have been twenty-four years old now... You were born in nineteen-hundred-eight-four, right?
That makes you twenty-five years old tomorrow. I am… sorry that I can't make it to your birthday again, though… you should be aware that I am thinking about you and even if you end up forgetting who I am in the very end… I'm glad that I could stay in your memory this long. In fact… I want you to forget… about me. Live on, Zack Fair. Don't let my spirit haunt you any further. Because you… you deserve so much better. I've tried to let go, but it was unbearable. Simply… it won't work without your help. Are you with me on… this one?
Consider it well, your Aerith."
That should have been a dignified farewell. The brunette felt so… relieved. A few days ago she received a message when she stood in the greenhouse and looked after her dearest seeds that grew up to blossom in the spring as magnificent flowers. She picked up a few ones and gingerly placed them in her basket and that was when she could hear a… kind of call inside of her mind. It seemed odd since she usually only were able to contact him by the lifestream and at first she thought that it only were her imagination, but soon she came to realize that these words he uttered… actually were for real. Awaiting and heedful she slowly knelt down on the ground, next to the flower bed, and listened for a while…
He told her what day by day… he lost hope. He started to doubt the assertion that she could return someday and it somewhat… teared her apart on the inside. He wondered if it was time to give up. She had… actually been questioning it herself as well a few times, but never indicated it in public.
That day… everything changed. She didn't show this very jovial and delighted expression in her physiognomy as she used to. Her head was lowered and her eyelids… they signed tediousness. She could barely think furthermore and everything that circled around in her head were just… discomfiture. They couldn't make it together, it was already too late.
Maybe… their love wasn't strong enough? If he doubted, then… how was she, the weaker half… able to set things straight?
A few days were all it took. Fortitude and self-esteem, check. Determination and no misgivings… check. She was ready.
If he just would let me kiss him goodbye one last time and throw my arms around him…
beg him pardon and not to let me go… Feel the embrace of a hug… his hug… Hear him whisper through my ear that I am the one and only one for him and that he never will look at another woman the way he does with me… Just feel a gentle touch, cheek to cheek and notice the temperature of his skin… is he cold or warm? Tell him how much he mean to me…
I want that. I want it all…
But, well as spoken… it's already over. I have to move on, I have to, for his sake.
Earth:
"Zack Fair?"
"Yeah, yeah…"
It was his turn, already. He couldn't get much sleep last night… nor the night before that or two nights ago… He have had troubles with sleeping for quite a long time now, to being honest. Not even pills worked. He inhaled due to tiredness and wobbled unsteadily forth to the manager's office. As he opened the door he almost stumbled in the doorway before he could sit down on the other side of the desk in the big and airy room. This was a professional agency of which manufactured cars, suitable for civilians, and other combat vehicles, meant for war circumstances.
"Good forenoon, Fair. It seems to me like you didn't have a comfortable night's sleep last night… and, it also seems as if… there is an unsolved issue in your life? Is there something you would like to discuss with a therapist about in privacy? Of course I can always book a meeting with the company's if you want?"
Zack shook his head from side to side with a rather rapid move as he insisted that he were alright.
"Oh, really, is that so?"
The man snapped his hands over the desk and glared at him with a rather distrustful glance.
"Look. I am just, just…"
This was too unprofessional, even for someone like him. Before he knew it… he fell out of his chair with a hasty move, hit the floor and slumbered in.
"Zack? Zack, can you hear me?!"
"Zack?"
"A-Aeri-…"
Once again… she was there. The scenario was reviewed. He laid there in the church with closed eyes. He frowned once he woke up and opened his eyes with a peer.
Just like that… he had turned nine years younger. A young and stupid, easily attracted teenage boy who didn't know much about life and its wonders.
"Hello."
She called… oh, that troubled face, those worried eyes and a tilted head… she were gorgeous, no matter what she expressed.
"W-what?..."
The boy sat up on the floor, greatly confused. He viewed the surroundings…
A big church with stone walls… still it felt… confined somehow. The only light source you could spot were from a crack in the roof above. Wooden benches and a big altar he currently sat on. Upon the altar were… a flower bed, and next to him were…
"Hey there."
The girl greeted with a hand waving from side to side.
"Are you… an angel?"
His comment made her laugh, though she tried not to show it as she slightly turned around and bit on a hair lock.
"Don't be silly…"
She mumbled and looked back at him over her shoulder.
"Then… I have to thank you somehow for this one favor, right?"
"What favor? All I did was calling hello till you woke up."
But still… she wanted to hear his offer. She felt… curious to find out what it could have been.
"Still you stayed with me and I stole some time of your day, didn't I? So…"
He jumped up to his feet.
"How about one date?"
The black haired male suggested as he pointed out to her with a convincing face.
With a light pink tint of color on her cheeks she blushed lightly but still decided to play "hard to get".
"A date? What's that?"
Her response seemed to have… lowered down his mood a little… but, that was alright!
He had soon "recovered" and went for another shot.
"But, I really need to show my thanks in some kind of way…"
She played with her bangs in insecurity without his seeing.
"How about you invite me for a tour in this town then… I would gladly show you around."
"Really?"
His face shinned up, just like a kid's. She found it adorable…
"Are you coming?"
He seemed to have spaced out in a dream scenario for a bit, because before he knew it she stood in the doorway and awaited his company.
"R-right…"
He scratched his head with an awkward smile before he nodded in assent and followed in her lead.
Later that day she asked him how he found this place? From her point of view he literally had… been crashing from the roof, it was a relief that he didn't land on the flowers.
He just shrugged with his shoulders and uttered:
"I am not really sure… maybe it was destiny."
They both laughed and during the late evening… they shared their first hug before it was time to say goodbye.
At first sight… they had clicked. How could two souls that were made for each other… say goodbye, forever?
(End of chapter three ^^)