Disclaimer: FF8 belongs to Squaresoft, the song belongs to Madonna.......
Note: The song may seem like it's from when they were at the orphanage but it's not, sorry. Also this is an older Squall(29) looking back on his time with his friends, and his one and only.....
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This used to be my playground [used to be]
This used to be my childhood dream
This used to be the place I ran to
Whenever I was in need
Of a friend
Why did it have to end
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Squall Leonhart sat on one of the inner benchs in Balamb Garden, calmly thinking to himself until a face was plunged into his stare at the ground, he was quickly shaken out of his thoughts. "oh! hello Rinoa!" he sat and kissed her ont he cheek she blushed lightly and gave him a hug, "you hungry?" he asked. "Of course!" she said happily swinging around him her arms still attached to his waist. "Why are you so hungry all of the sudden?" he asked her kissing the top of her head lightly. "How am I supposed to know?!" he shrugged and they both began to walk to the cafeteria hand in hand. Once at the cafeteria they were greeted by a loud ruckus, they quickly found there friends in the corner trying to avoid most of the noise, not talking and not eating, they both gave each other puzzled looks and quickly walked over to them, "What's wrong!?" Squall tried to yell over the noise, they all stood up and began to leave the cafeteria they motioned both of them to follow. Once outside the room of noise Quistis said, "Were going for picnic, wanna come?" Rinoa quickly nodded her head in agreement Squall shrugged. "Whatever the lady wants!" he said happily squeezing her hand tightly. When they were outside Squall began to duck as Quistis pulled something round out of her picnic basket......
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And why do they always say
Don't look back
Keep your head held high
Don't ask them why
Because life is short
And before you know
You're feeling old
And your heart is breaking
Don't hold on to the past
Well that's too much to ask
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"Get down!" Squall yelled to Rinoa, she obleiged and fell to her
knees just as quistis turned around and chucked a water balloon at Squall's
former position, Squall let go of Rinoa's hand and rolled over to Quistis'
basket, picked a water balloon out of it, and hurled it straight at her face,
direct hit. Squall stood up and took the basket into his hands and led
Rinoa around a large tree so they would both be protected from any water blasts,
Squall, knowing that he would get wet took off his leather coat and unbuttoned
Rinoa's dress (is that what it is?) and took it off for her. "What was that
for?" she asked looking at Squall holding a water balloon. "Well I
don't want your dress(?) to get soaked, but I do want your t-shirt too!"
Rinoa giggled at his comment but grunted slightly as she felt something wet
smash into her and explode, "Squall!" she screamed, Squall gently
pushed her aside to throw a water balloon at Irvine, he laughed and ran away to
avoid more attacks. Squall handed her a water balloon, "You wanna
have some fun?" he asked, she giggled and took off on her own running
passed Squall, but turned around quickly as she saw a barrage of balloons
heading her way, she ducked avoiding them but instead hit Squall square in the
face he laughed wiping the water off his face.....
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Live and learn
Well the years they flew
And we never knew
We were foolish then
We would never tire
And that little fire
Is still alive in me
It will never go away
Can't say goodbye to yesterday [can't say goodbye]
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After about an hour or two of water balloons flying everywhere, everyone was
very tired. "I'm so hungry!" Rinoa whined, "and all you people
brought was water balloons!" she began to scold them. "Oh no! rinny!"
Zell said walking over to the basket, he fished in and pulled out a sandwhich
which made her lips curve up. "Gimme!" she yelled, Zell lightly backed
away at the sudden command, but obliged and threw the sandwhich over to
her. She began to slowly eat, but sped up figuring watching the food
slowly go into her mouth made her even more hungry. Once she was done she
decided to take a nap on Squall's stomach, she lifted her head onto his chest
instead, she quietly dozed off to the arms of unconsciousness. Squall,
began to feel quiet tired, since he couldn't very much do anything except lie
there while she was sleeping, he fell asleep quiet quickly as well.
After about an hour of 'dozing' he felt something shake him till his eyes were
open, but he quickly shut them from the bright sun that was beaming with all
it's glory down on to the party and all of garden. Rinoa quickly seeing
that her love was trying to shield out his eyes from the sun she decided to put
her head between him and the sun's beautiful rays. "The sun isn't always a
good thing" he said blinking a few times. "Then what's better?
Rain!?" Rinoa asked sarcastically. "Well actually yeah!" he said
getting up but Rinoa just pinned him down in order to finish the convorsation
they were having, "Rain, it wash's away your sorrow and takes away the
pain, doesn't it?" he said smirking at his good reason. "I
guess..." she said hesitantly, "yeah your right!" she got up from
him de-stapling to him the ground, but was a bad choice on her part as he
quickly pinned her onto the grass and began kissing her all over her face.
The others just giggled at this site.....
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No regrets
But I wish that you
Were here with me
Well then there's hope yet
I can see your face
In our secret place
You're not just a memory
Say goodbye to yesterday [the dream]
Those are words I'll never say [I'll never say]
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Irvine lightly walked to the cooler where the water balloons rested, he opened the lid and examined the many water balloons bobbing up and down in the icy cool water, he picked up one and began to sneak behind Selphie. 'The white tiger is about to pounce on his prey' Irvine thought playfully, 'the beautiful creature, Selphieity, is un-expected of the danger that is lurking behind her,' he thought as he raised the water balloon high above her head ready for it to drop, Selphie lightly turned her head to see Irvine about to punce on her, 'Oh no! The wonderful creature has seen him!' Irvine just stoos there not knowing what to do, when suddenly Selphie spun around and nailed Irvine square in the face with a water balloon, she began to laugh and before long she was rolling on the grass laughing holding her stomach to keep her sides from splitting, but the laughter quickly halted as she felt something wet splash all over her face, she quickly got up and began to race to the cooler full of water balloons, but Irvine caught on to her idea and began chasing after her and to the cooler. Irvine was gaining, fast! Selphie, knowing she would lose rolled directly infront of Irvine's feet, his feet caught under her back and he fell forward, landing on his face. Irvine and Selphie both began to laugh, and soon everyone began to notice and everyone began to laugh at the seen.....
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This used to be my playground [used to be]
This used to be our pride and joy
This used to be the place we ran to
That no one in the world could dare destroy
This used to be our playground [used to be]
This used to be our childhood dream
This used to be the place we ran to
I wish you were standing here with me
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Soon all the water balloons were gone and the sun was setting it's golden rays into the ocean and it's lovely face, Squall and Rinoa stood outside leaning over one of the many Garden balcony railings. "Squall," began Rinoa, "I had a really good time today, how about you?" Squall smiled and smirked. "I had a wonderful time, with you of course, but I didn't plan this at all. You should be thanking them and-" but Squall was cut off by a quick kiss to his lips. "I could be thanking them right now, but first I'll thank you for...for..." she just couldn't get the words out, he gave a worried look to her, "Thank you for everything is what I'm trying to say!" she said rubbing her head against his chest, he put his chin on her head. "I love you" were the only words that came and could come out of his mouth at the moment, he pulled he head back and looked straight into her eyes, his eyes softening quite a bit by just a quick look to her face there faces moved closer until there lips were upon each other. Selphie and Irvine looked on at the two from a good distance away. "How sweet!" Selphie quietly said not to disturb the two lovers. Irvine put his hand around her shoulder and pulled her closer and gave her a soft yet quick kiss on the cheek, she blushed furiously, and she felt her heart beat at 100 miles an hour, she couldn't take it anymore, she pulled on Irvine's collar and forced her lips upon his not letting him go, he didn't want to anyways....
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This used to be our playground [used to be]
This used to be our great escape
This used to be the place we ran to
This used to be our secret hiding place
This used to be our playground [used to be]
This used to be our childhood dream
This used to be the place we ran to
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Squall smiled and he felt a tear run down his cheek from the happy memories, he hadn't seen them in years he missed them terribly but he especially missed Rinoa who moved far from Garden when he was just in his early 20's planning on getting married to her, but she didn't know it, she constantly wrote to him and he constantly wrote back saying how much they love each other, but he was interupted by a splashing noise that seemed to had his deck, he looked up to find a lone figure standing there with another water balloon in hand, it was Rinoa, his eyes widened, but she just hurld another water balloon to his deck. "You wanna play with us?" she asked as all of his friends came out from behind trees and bushs, Squall stood up. "So who's on my team?".....
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The best things in life are always free
Wishing you were here with me
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A/N: was this as good as Take A bow well I can't say that because Take a Bow was a romance so forget that question! =^-^= ! I'm so sorry that this took awhile to post but I'm working on three other song-fics at the moment, most likely going to be put on at the same time....more will be posted, if you people want, well I don't care, there fun and I'm already half done with them all!! R+R!