Chapter 4:
Squall, Selphie, and Zell came as quickly as they
can when they had received a call from Zone. He dashed out of the train
station, Selphie and Zell finding it hard to catch up to their commander.
He saw Watts and dashed up to him.
"Where is she?!" Squall demanded, he hadn't even
combed his hair.
"Whoa sir, you look like a mess!" Watts stood there
shocked.
"Where is she?!"
Watts didn't reply, and just walked, leading them
to a little house by a street. "Um...sir...she's in there, but I'm not
sure if..."
"Move aside!" Squall pushed back and knocked at
the door.
Rinoa answered the door. "If this is for cookies,
or donations, I'm not interested."
"Rinoa!" Squall's heart started to beat so fast,
he couldn't hold away his smile. He embraced her tightly.
Rinoa wriggled about, and out of his arms. "Excuse
me! Do you mind not hugging someone you just met?!"
Squall dropped his arms to his side. "Rinoa...I
know that you must be really mad that you saw...well....Quistis and me...but
it was all a mistake!"
Rinoa looked at him with confused eyes. She had
decided to once and for all chage her name back to Rinoa since everyone
says that she is Rinoa, and so she probably was Rinoa when she had her
memory still. "I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are saying...who
are you?"
Squall looked over to Zone and Watts. They give
him a signal to come with them into the living room. Squall glanced over
to Rinoa and went off with Zone and Watts.
"What the hell is wrong with her?! Is she that mad
that she doesn't want to know me anymore?!" Squall demanded right when
Watts had closed the door behind him.
Zone looked around the room uneasily. "Well...we
don't know how this story really goes, but she did explain some parts."
"Basically...she lost her memory..." Watts sighed.
"She doesn't remember us at all! Doesn't even knows that she's Rinoa!"
Squall looked at them, and started to laugh crazily.
"You...you're all just joking to me right?! RIGHT?!"
"...I'm sorry sir..." Zone said softly.
Squall plumped down onto a couch near by and buried
his face in his hands. She doesn't remember a thing...all the times we
spent together...all the times I saved her...all....all the memories we
shared with each other!
"...So...I know it's hard for you sir, but it is
even harder for Rinoa to accept that she can't remember anything at all..."
Watts said from the back of the room.
Squall felt numb, "How did...did she loose her memory?"
"She jumped off a cliff..."
Squall buried his face deeper into his hands. He
felt like he was a little boy again, all alone in this dark gloomy storm.
**Flashback**
"Sis?!"
"I'm wite here!" Ellone giggled.
Squall cuddled closer to Sis. "Oh." Squall looked
up into Sis's eyes. "I thought you weren't dare... I was so scawed."
"Don't worry Squall! You won't be awone when I'm
always here!"
"Sis?!"
Only the wind and rain.
"Where are you?"
Pitter patter...
"...Sis... I'm alone aren't I?"
**End flashback**
Zone and Watts quietly left the room, leaving a close
to tears Squall on the couch. Rinoa came in after a few minutes.
"Um...I heard your name was Squall?" Rinoa walked
closer to Squall, who's back was facing her.
Squall wiped his eyes on his sleeve, then slowly
turned around to meet the eyes of his angel. "Rinoa...I'm so sorry... I
didn't know that I would get drunk and everything...then all this wouldn't
have happened..."
Rinoa sat down beside Squall, a meter away though.
"...Well...I don't know why you're saying sorry, but I guess I knew you
before didn't I?"
Squall felt like his heart just had been grabbed
out of his body and thrown into a garbage can. "...You knew me before?
...Yeah...you knew me.... you knew me so well, you knew me alright..."
Rinoa looked at him with her soft brown eyes feeling
sorry for this man. "...How well did I know you?"
Squall couldn't hold back anymore. He cried, cried
onto Rinoa's shoulder. "Rinoa...why can't you remember me?! Why..."
Rinoa felt odd having someone crying on her shoulder.
"...I'm sorry..."
"No...it was all my fault wasn't it? It was all
my fault..." Squall buried his face in his hands once again, but not before
he could see Rinoa's necklace, and he sat up again.
He reached for Rinoa's neckalce. Rinoa let him hold
it. Squall looked at the one ring on the necklace. "...the other one..."
"What other one?" Rinoa yanked back from Squall's
grasp of her necklace. "Another ring?"
"...I'll tell you a story Rinoa..."
"Erm...ok..."
Squall leaned back on the couch. "Do you believe
in angels and fairies?"
"...I guess..."
"Well, I'll tell you a story, this is a real story..."
Squall starred out at the window, the blue sky seemed so peaceful. "There
once was a quite and cold boy. He rejected anyone that wanted to be his
friends... he never told anyone how he felt. That boy was changed however,
when at a dance, he saw an angel. A angel radiating with light and beauty.
The boy had never seen
anything as beautiful."
"Wow..."
Squall continued slowly, his voice cracking a bit.
"After the dance, the angel flew away. The boy thought they would never
meet again, but he was wrong. He met this angel once again, in a mission
he had. Maybe it was destiny, but that mission had led the boy to his angel.
After that mission, the angel had changed this boy. Changed him in every
way possible. The angel even made the boy smile, and accept his friends.
When one day, something had grabbed this angel away from the boy. The boy
knew he would need that angel to survive. So he fought, fought for his
life and for the angel's. Once again, destiny was on their side, and they
reunited."
"That's so sweet..."
Squall watched as a bird soared out of a tree. "After
a year, the angel and the boy were happy together. When one day, there
was a misunderstanding. The angel once again flew away from the boy. The
boy knew that destiny was always on their side, would it be this time?
The answer...was no..."
Rinoa stayed silent. Squall looked frantically at
Rinoa. "Don't you remember?! Rinoa...remember please!" He started to shake
her by her shoulders. She jumped out of the couch.
"That was a beautiful story, but sorry! I have no
idea who you are, and role you played in my life before." Rinoa walked
out of the room.
Squall's eyes were red and puffy now. He looked
out the open window once again, and watched as another bird soared through
the sky to join the other bird before.
Fly fly, fly away... memories to be told, memories
to be forgotten... memories just fly away...
Author's note: Chapter five is going to be the last chapter. Yes, this
story was short, but oh well. Anyways, Chapter 5 should be up soon, please
R&R.