I do not own any characters from Final Fantasy 8, Square Enix does.
Memories From The Heart
Chapter 1
Rinoa shot up with a cold sweat. "It was all a dream," she said to herself with relief. She laid back down and cuddled with Squall who was sleeping peacefully with a content look on his face. Rinoa layed back down but she couldn't fall back asleep, 'what is wrong with me, I've never had that kind of dream before' she thought as she tried to fall asleep. She gave up and slipped out of bed, looked at the clock, which said 5:30 and got in the shower. She wiped the mirror and could have sworn she saw something behind her, something so horrifying she screamed and then it disappeared. Squall sprung out of bed, and ran into the bathroom. Rinoa was cuddled up in the corner of the bathroom floor hugging her knees. "What's the matter Rin? What happened?". "I saw saw a ghost in the mirror" she pointed with a shaky hand to the foggy mirror. Squall picked up Rinoa and took her to the couch. He sat her up and kneeled in front of her. Pulled her wet hair out from in front of her face and tucked it behind her ears. "Are you sure you saw what you saw?" She was still shaking, and started to cry, so he got up and sat next to her and embraced her to calm her down. After she stopped, Squall pulled her away, and she had falled asleep. He layed her down on the couch, and went to check the bathroom again.
After he finished checking the bathroom, to make sure everything was in it's right place, he went to his dresser and put his clothes on. He pulled out a white t shirt, and black pants. He turned around and Rinoa was standing there, with all her hair infront of her face, and he jumped. "don't do that to me Rin, you know it's not safe to scare me. You're lucky I didn't have my gunblade in my hands." He got closer to her and pulled her hair out of her face and noticed it wasn't Rinoa, she was more wrinkly and had rotten teeth, with black eyes, with an evil grin on her face. Squall backed up suddenly to the dresser and screamed. Rinoa heard him and woke up. She looked at Squall and saw he was stunned. She looked at him like he was psycho, but he looked back at her as if he had seen the ghost too. He ran over to her. She was about to ask him what was going on, but he grabbed her wrist and ran out of the room. She caught up with him, and asked him what was going on. "Remember that 'ghost' you saw in the mirror?" "Ya, what about it?" "Well when you were sleeping, I went to go check out the bathroom, and nothing was there, and so I went over to the dresser and put my clothes on, and turned around and you were there, but then I pulled away her hair, because you know how I don't like it when you have your hair in front of your face, but you weren't you." They went to the cafeteria and got some food, and discussed what had happened and Rinoa described what the ghost looked like.
"She looked old and tired, but she had something in her eye that was just frightening, oh ya, she had this like evil looking grin to her and she made this low rumbling growl." "Is that all you can remember?" "yup" "cuz the ghost that I saw looked just like you but had the same facial features as you described. The only thing that was different was she didn't growl at me." Rinoa couldn't stand to think of what had happened, and started to cry. They both heard high pitched squeals and laughing. Selphie and Irvine came walking into the cafeteria hand in hand and saw Rinoa and Squall. "Rinnie!!" Selphie came running over, but stopped dead in her tracks. Irvine came walking up slowly, "what's the matter butterfly?" "What's the matter with Rinnie? She's crying." "This isn't like you Selph, usually you go and find out what happened." Selphie shook her flipped out short brown hair, and ran over to Rin to find out what happened. Irvine walked over and sat down next to Selphie with his arm around her. They filled in Selphie and Irvine what had happened, and Rinoa just started to cry even harder and Selphie had this frightened look on her face. "A ghost," Selphie said.