Remembering Love

By: Miyu

Chapter 1: Here's To the Night

"I can't believe this is the last time we're gonna see each other in months" Selphie said sadly and looked at Quistis, Rinoa and Fiona who were standing in front of her, all dressed up and with champagne glasses in their hands.

Rinoa smiled. "It's not like we're gonna be gone forever you know"

"Yeah, it's just a couple of months" Quistis nodded and squeezed the shorter brunet's shoulder. "'Sides, you've got Irvine with you on your mission so you shouldn't be that sad"

"But I'll miss you guys" Selphie pouted and then lit up. "Let's make this a GREAT night so we'll remember it forever"

Fiona, the library girl and Zell's girlfriend raised her glass into the air. "I agree, here's to the night ladies"

"To the night" they all chorused and brought their glasses to their lips.

"You nervous about your first mission?" Quistis asked Rinoa.

Rinoa let out a groan and nodded. "Like crazy, but I've got Zell with me so I'm pretty sure I'll be okay"

"Pscha, it'll be a piece of cake" Zell answered and slid his arm around Fiona's waist. "We'll be back in no time"

Fiona nudged him in the ribs. "You better"

Seifer came up behind Quistis and slid his arms around her waist and she leaned into his embrace. "What're you guys talking about?" he asked.

"We're toasting to the night" Quistis answered and kissed him on his cheek. "Selphie's sad about all of us going away for months"

Seifer frowned. "I'm gonna be stuck on a damn military base close to two months and you're gonna be running around with puberty-boy, chasing some escaped convicts"

Quistis rolled her eyes and Rinoa slapped his shoulder. "Would you stop calling him that?" the black haired sorceress asked.

"Smile" Irvine exclaimed when he came up with the video camera.

"Oh Hyne, not again" Quistis groaned since she'd just spent the last hour trying to avoid Selphie when she'd had it. "Don't you EVER run out of batteries to that thing?!?"

"Hello children" Edea smiled softly when she came up to the group together with Cid and Squall. "You're all looking so nice tonight it's making me sentimental, I remember when you were all little children and look at you now…all grown up"

Cid padded his wife's back. "There, there, love, they've grown up you know"

Seifer chuckled into Quistis's hair while the others just smiled. "I wanna dance Squall" Rinoa said and pulled her boyfriend with her onto the dance floor where several other SeeD's were currently dancing slowly to the soft tunes coming from the speakers.

"This has to be the best SeeD ball yet Selphie" Cid smiled and Selphie blushed. "You've done a great job"

"I wasn't alone" Selphie mumbled.

Zell laughed. "Since when did you get this modest?"

Selphie punched him with a giggle. "Shut up Zell"

"Hey, don't you hit my baby" Fiona laughed and playfully pushed Zell behind her and flexed her thins arms. "Don't make me use these swelling muscles"

Selphie laughed. "Oh no, the horror, the horror"

"Are you all ready to leave on your mission's tomorrow morning?" Cid asked.

"Yeah" Zell nodded. "But it's a bitch that we'll have to leave so early in the morning, especially since we've got the SeeD ball tonight"

Cid shuffled sheepishly. "I'm awfully sorry about that but there was really nothing I could do. If you want to leave to get some sleep I won't hold it against you"

"I'll sleep on the train tomorrow" Seifer said.

Quistis nodded. "Me too, 'cause tonight will be our last night together in a while"

That sent Selphie into a sad state again and she sniffled. "Oh Selphie sweetie" Irvine said and hugged her.

Seifer rolled his eyes and then loosened his grip on his girlfriend and took her hand in his. "Come on Q, let's dance"

Quistis let herself be led to the middle of the dance floor just as Lifehouse's 'Everything' began playing. Seifer rested his hands on her lower back and smiled as Quistis slid her arms around his neck. "You look nice tonight" she commented. He was dressed in a black suit with a wine red shirt underneath and a black tie to sum it all up.

"You too" he whispered and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. Quistis wore a long dress in the same color as Seifer's shirt that left most of her back bare and had a rather deep cleavage. Her long golden hair hung down in soft curls and he let his fingers trail one. "I'll never love as much as now"

Quistis looked up at him and had to blink back tears. "Mine either…but you sound like we're never gonna see each other again"

"Of course we are, I just got this strange feeling…I don't know" he shrugged and then let her go and pulled out a small box from his pocket. "I almost forgot, this is for you"

"For me?" she asked and looked at him before opening it. Inside was a beautiful silver necklace with a sparkling blue crystal. "Oh God…it's beautiful, thank you" she whispered and pulled him into a big kiss.

"Glad you liked it" he chuckled afterwards. "Let me put it on"

She happily turned around and let him place it around her neck. They then kissed one more time and then continued dancing.

(…And how can I stand here with you

And not be moved by you?)

A couple of meters away Rinoa rested her head against Squall's. "I'm going to miss you so much" she said and felt his arms hold her harder against him. "I've never been away from you this long since we first met"

"I'll call" he said. "You just make sure you follow Zell's orders so that nothing happens to you, kay?"

She took a step back so that she could look at him. "Of course"

"Good" he whispered and kissed her.

(…Would you tell me

How could it be

Any better than this)

"They're soooo cute" Selphie sighed happily as she filmed Seifer and Quistis and Squall and Rinoa on the dance floor.

Irvine placed his arm around her shoulders. "Don't you wanna dance too?"

Selphie looked at him, turned off the video camera and eagerly followed her cowboy boyfriend into the dancing crow. Cid smiled and entwined his fingers with his wife's. "Look at them…perfectly happy, let's hope they'll become like us"

Edea smiled at him. "After all these years I still love you, you silly old man"

"Glad to hear it" Cid laughed and then looked at his watch. "It's getting rather late, do you want to go home?"

"Let's dance first" the ex sorceress said and then the married couple walked out to join the others. Out on the balcony Zell and Fiona moved softly underneath a star filled sky, wishing the night to never end.

(…'Cause you're all I want

You're all I need

You're everything

Everything…)