[A/N This one's in the POV of Squall. Hope it's okay… Review if I should continue! I'm done with the Squinoa! Need to make the Quiefer and Selvine.]
Undiscovered Light
~*Squall*~
Staring at the moonlit sky, I wondered what had come upon me. What had changed me into the different Squall who was watching the stars with intent wonder?
The answer walked up behind me in a blue dress and black shorts.
"Hi, Squall." An angel's voice echoed into the night. A near smile crawled to my lips upon hearing her voice.
"Why are you here, Rinoa?" I asked her. The voice not anymore a cold and empty sound, but instead one of a person who was content and finally happy. Or something closer to being happy.
She smiled. "Because you're here." She looked at me with her bright brown eyes. "Besides, I figured you'd want some company seeing your out here all alone."
"It wasn't feeling lonely..." But I was glad that she had decided to join me. Her presence made me feel something that felt a lot like comfort. But I hadn't felt that in a long time so I wasn't so sure.
"Really, Squall." She said softly. She leaned against the railing and stared up at the sky. The silence didn't feel awkward or harsh like it might've before, instead it felt kind of nice.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" She said and her eyes sparkled from the glow of the stars.
I nodded, not wanting to break the perfect silence.
"You know," She began, sensing that she should speak up. "This is just like my dream... The one I told you about in the garden." She stayed quiet for a second, wondering if she should continue.
"...except you're with me, because I found you." She smiled wider than before and pointed to the sky, to the shooting star that just passed. It looked very much like the time she had asked him to dance. "I think I kind of like this better than my dream... and look, we finally get to see the shooting stars."
Her words made me smile. My first true smile in a long time. It wasn't just a smile to make her happy or to be polite, but one that was because I felt sincere happiness there with her.
Then I did something very unlike me, I pulled Rinoa close and we stood there for a while. Finally, I lowered my head and our lips touched, we kissed into the night and that was the beginning of our love.
I touched her hair softly with my gloved hand and she smiled, I felt it within the kiss.
When we finally pulled away, we stared once more at the sky until Rinoa spoke, "Finally."
Squall smiled and Rinoa rested her head on my shoulder.
We stood like that until we heard muffled giggles and someone whistling.
We turned around only to see Selphie, wearing Irvine's hat, shriek and Quistis covering her mouth with her hand to stop her uncontrollable giggling. Irvine was grinning, and I figure he was the one who had whistled.
Both Rinoa and I turned into the darkest shade of crimson you possibly could turn and after that I couldn't look at them.
"You guys!" Rinoa whined, still pink.
Selphie, unable to hold it in anymore, burst into laughter. "Sorry!" She squealed.
"How long have you been watching?" Rinoa demanded to know, even though smiling and slightly less red.
Quistis stopped giggling long enough to answer her, "Just after Irvine's camera ran out of battery. Only since you two..." She was unable to continue her sentence due to the laughter that had erupted from her mouth.
I was still red but I wasn't really mad. Not at all, just embarrassed.
"Too bad we didn't have that on tape." Irvine teased.
I didn't say anything but I grinned sheepishly.
"Oh, come on you two!" Quistis said. "It's not that surprising anyway." She grinned as well. "Get back inside before the others suspect other things..."
I took Rinoa's hand and pulled her back into the Garden.
The first thing I saw was Zell, cramming at least three hotdogs into his mouth and Michele, the library girl, watching him lovingly.
"I wondered why Zell wasn't out there, invading our privacy with the others." I commented. Rinoa laughed softly and watched Zell and Michele for a second.
The Garden floor shook a little and a hotdog fell off Zell's table. I realized that the Garden had landed and we were back home.
I continued to watch Zell until Quistis nudged me with her elbow. I turned to see Cid with Edea... or Matron, as she now was to me, waving to call my attention.
"Rinoa." I said, she turned to me and also saw the couple looking over at us. She nodded and she held onto my hand as we walked to them.
"Squall..." Matron smiled warmly at me. I kind of remember that smile, it was very familiar. It looked like the smile that I had seen whenever I accomplished something as a child, and the smile I had seen when I was first brought to the orphanage. She looked different from the person who had thrown and icicle at me nearly costing me my life.
"Matron." I said. She smiled as she noticed I called her Matron, not Edea.
"Rinoa. I'm glad to see you... and with Squall I see." She said softly, raising one eyebrow, but still smiling her trademark smile.
Rinoa smiled too and blushed slightly. "Yes..."
Music began to play in the room and I realized that some people were dancing.
I heard someone call for the headmaster so we left them and returned to Zell and the mystery of the disappearing hotdogs.
"Angelo!" Rinoa squealed. I turned to see a brown dog appear and run to Rinoa, The dog barked gleefully upon seeing her. She petted him and hugged him tight. I smiled when I saw her enthusiasm.
"Hey, where's Irvine, Selphie and Quistis anyway?" Rinoa asked me, still holding on to her beloved dog.
I started to shrug but then someone's voice stopped me, "Here! ...Where's Quistis?" It was Selphie, with Irvine behind her. They came out of the balcony. I wondered for a second how long they had been out there since Irvine looked a little dazed and Selphie looked a little pink.
"Isn't she with you?" I asked and frowned slightly.
"No, she was but when the Garden landed she disappeared, I think she went outside." Selphie said. "But I stopped and figured she might be with you guys."
"You wanna go out? Maybe we'll find her." I said to Rinoa. She nodded and we ran out of the Garden.
As we went out I couldn't help but smile as I looked at her. I couldn't stop staring at her, her smile, her sparkling brown eyes, they way she was and the way she acted. She noticed me smiling and asked me, "What are you looking at?"
I smiled wider and kissed her again. "You."
