A/N: Omg, guys! Thanks so much for the reviews! *pulls them all into a big group hug* I wish I could thank the anon reviewers in person and tell them how awesome they are, but this is the closest I can get to that. :P It's funny how I got most of you to wonder/look up if "awesomer" is an actual word or not. I had the same reaction when I wrote the previous chapter; "What if it actually is an existing word? Then I'll only make a derp out of myself...again." XD Strangely enough, the content of this chapter was requested by an anon reviewer...but I had wanted to write the same thing for this chapter anyway lol. Terra's still 16 years old, and Aqua's 15. Enjoy. ;D

Thank you: Guest, Shadow, HawkRider, fakepuesdo, AuthoressSai, Coolgal342, Amulet Misty, Juliette Stark-Barton, and StarryEyedd. :)

~ "Please don't be sad, Aqua." He truly hated seeing her like this. ~

Where was Aqua when you needed her? the brunet teen thought with a frown. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen his best friend all day. Well, save for lunch, but she had seemed all quiet and distant...

Something was definitely not right then. Deciding to go look for her, Terra quickly made his way to her bedroom. When he knocked on the door, however, no response came, so he granted himself permission to enter not-so-unknown territory.

"Aqua?" he started carefully when he caught the pretty bluenette sitting near her window (she hadn't even looked up to acknowledge his presence, which was rather peculiar). "Why are you sitting here all by yourself? What's the matter?"

"I...miss home."

Her reply had been a faint whisper, but Terra had heard it nonetheless. Oh, he'd been there, countless times before. But that had all been before he had met Aqua. Terra didn't know why, but for some reason, Aqua made him forget about his pain, or how much he missed his mother's soothing touch. In some ways, she even reminded him of his late mother.

Aqua just made everything better by simply being by his side.

He shut the door behind him and walked over to her, slowly, as though she was a little bird that he didn't want to scare off. "Please don't be sad, Aqua." He truly hated seeing her like this. It made him feel so powerless, because in Terra's head, he was supposed to make her feel better, just the way she did with him. "I'm sorry to hear that, but you know, you can't really miss home...because home is where the heart is...literally. This world, with us, this is your new home now and I know that sometimes, things will be hard. But me and Master Eraqus, we'll be there for you when you need us."

"I guess you're right, Terra. Thanks."

She smiled sweetly at him, but the smile wasn't quite able to light up her eyes like it usually did when she was happy. Terra refrained from shaking his head. Did she honestly think she could fool him when he knew her so well?

On a complete whim, he shuffled closer to her and hugged her from behind. His first thought was to pull away immediately, thinking that he had made a complete fool out of himself. Seriously, what in the worlds was he thinking?

However, when he could practically feel how her smile slowly grew, despite her stiff posture, Terra knew that he'd done the right thing this time. She seemed to relax and after a while, actually hugged him back. And naturally, he couldn't help but feel elated at the fact that it was him who made her feel like this.

Mission accomplished.

A/N: Guess what? :D I finally finished BBS! After three years... orz So now I can say to anyone who will listen that I wrote Terqua even before I had finished the game. XD Anyways, the next chapter should be up tomorrow.

Next chapter: "Uhm... Do I even want to know what all of this is supposed to mean?"