Selphie Kinneas
"Journey To The Past"
Chapter Thirteen-Deling City
Rin listened to the row rumbling of the train. Squall sat staring aimlessly at the window. She looked sympathetically at him. "Squall?" She whispered.
"Yeah?" He mumbled.
"… I'm sorry."
Squall turned to her blankly, "For what?"
"Look how much I've put you through. Going city to city, looking for a nobody with barely anything to look with. I just… I feel like I'm not acting grateful."
"Pft, it's not a problem Rin. I'll do… anything for you."
Rin smiled as she leaned back on her seat, I love you Squall.
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Some time passed and they arrived to the city. It was loud and full of sounds all over. As the two left the train station, a different emotion consumed Rin.
Rin awkwardly gazed the busy environment and turned to Squall.
"This place… I know it. I mean, I-" She broke off confused with herself. Squall walked over and shrugged,
"Don't worry about it Rin. You must've come here at least once in your life."
How else could she have known the Julia Caraway song?
The two slowly walked down a stone stairwell passed a gushing water fountain to a near bus stop. Rin smiled as she laughed.
"You know, it's funny… I think this bus will take you to the Presidential Residence in two stops. Heheh, I don't even know where that came from!"
Squall forced a smile, but watching Rin's forged laughter he sensed something wrong. Rin halted her laughs as they boarded the bus. Sure enough, two stops later Squall and Rin set eyes on the Presidential Residence.
"You know, what if I once lived at the Presidential Residence… like Vinzer Deling's long lost daughter or something!" Rin teased herself without any feedback from Squall. "What do you think…?"
"Whatever…" Squall grunted not taking much interest. Rin stood shocked for a moment; she shook her head and returned to gazing out the window.
The bus passed a green park as Rin noticed two children. One was a blonde boy running with a girly kite and the other a raven haired girl shrieking at the boy. "Look at those two." Rin smiled.
Squall slowly turned his head, "What are you talking about?" He asked bluntly.
"Those kids in the park." Rin repeated.
"I don't see anyone." Squall yawned as he sat slouched on the bus seat.
That park… has a lake in it. No, maybe I might've saw one in Trabia like it. It was… was it? I'm, I can't think. Rin sat puzzled watching the scenes flew passed her window.
"Galbadian Hotel." The bus driver called out.
"Come on Rin, our stop." Squall beckoned as they took their leave. Rin followed her handsome escort out the bus and into the luxurious elegant hotel. Squall stepped to the front counter as a lady who arrived from a set of velvet maroon stairs in the left side of the room passed them.
She stopped abruptly, and then slowly turned. She gasped. "Whoa! Has anyone told you that you look like Julia Caraway!"
Rin blinked several times, did a change of fashions, poor to rich, have such an impact? "No," Rin replied in a most frank way.
"Really! You do! I used to come and watch her play the piano before she became famous and it swear you look like her." The worker called excitedly.
"Thanks." Rin blushed imagining her resemblance to a celebrity's.
Squall finished his business at the counter as a bellhop arrived and took their bags. Rin waved goodbye to the worker as she rushed back down the velvet stairs.
Rin walked behind Squall keeping her eyes on her feet. Squall had acted so peculiar lately. Always sullen and quiet, not taking interests in conversations. Was he sick of this never-ending search? They had only been on it for not more than three weeks. Worse, had she done something?
Once the bellhop had left, Rin step forward to Squall. "Squall…" She called meekly. The gray-eyed turned his attention to her as he sat comfortably on a bed.
"Yeah?"
Rin gulped as she scanned her mind for the correct words, nothing came. Her mouth opened and she prayed something to slip out, and it did. "Are you mad at me?" She cried.
Squall pondered confused, "Should I be?" Rin let out a small cry, she buried her face with her hands and rushed to Squall's arms.
"Oh Squall! All this time I focused on me, me and me only! I never even took a minute to think about how easily you could have hit and run, how you could've abandoned me at the hospital, how you could have let me go back to Trabia knowing I'd never see you again! I never thought about it, and now you're angry with me!"
Squall sat with a blank gaze then slowly broke a smile. "Rin, I didn't know why I did that. But this my promise, I don't regret any of it for a minute. I-I'm sorry since I've been acting different… it's just… this is how I was before you were around. I don't know why I suddenly changed but soon I just got so comfortable I let the full me… it's just it's hard for me to open up, and when I do I get scared sometimes and I clam up again. I guess I got scared… I don't know what's going to happen when you find out whoever your family is. What if, you…"
"Don't love you afterwards?" Rin asked quietly. Squall nodded. Tears streamed Rin's face as she threw her arms around his neck, "NEVER SQUALL! NEVER! I was scared of things too Squall, but when I found you I didn't think of those fears, you've… you've taken them away Squall. And I… I love you. I do, I would never say yes if I didn't. And I always will!"
"…I'll always love you too."
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Squall rubbed his eyes to the morning light, he turned on his side to see Rin sleeping soundly. He sat upright and watched her; she was so beautiful, even in slumber. He stroked her black bangs that lay on her temples.
He yawned as he placed his bare feet on the floor. He blinked and scanned the room. Again he sat clueless for what he was going to do for Rin. Just perfect… NOT!
A small sound came from behind him. Rin stretched her arms as the silky sleeves of her gown slid down. She lifted her head and squinted. "Good morning Squall." She winked.
"Morning Rin."
She slowly rised allowing the moving air in the room move her gown as she swept the ground. "Where we going today?" She asked happily.
"Leave that to me." Squall replied, though he truly hadn't the slightest on where they could start. Maybe breakfast… than who knows where. He placed his head near her cheek and gave a small kiss then whispered in her ear, "get ready." Rin nodded as she leapt up onto her feet.
Nearly thirty minutes later Squall and Rin left the hotel. The busy streets of Galbadia were unusually quiet. Rin pondered for a moment.
"It must be like this in the day, and really busy every night." She concluded.
Even though it wasn't as busy, it still was a hard concept to find where it was you wanted to go. For the following half hour the two scoured the town to find a suitable café. Their efforts were wasted for in the end they rested in the park.
"Were you really hungry Squall?" Rin asked guiltily for she set him in the wrong path three times.
"No, were you?" Squall considerately replied.
"I'm fine darling!" She winked.
Rin stepped into the fine greenery inhaling the morning freshness. She spun around joyously hearing children's laughter echoing in her canals.
"It must be a lot of fun to play here…" She thought aloud. She lied on the grass and whiffed the wildflowers. "It's possible… to never be unhappy here."
Squall sat at his first position watching with a careful eye and listening attentively.
"Playing in the lake then lying on the cold grass to dry. Then sun always peering down on you… wouldn't it be lovely Seifer?" She whispered without thinking.
"What?" Squall almost snapped. Rin spun around in confusion.
"Wha… what did I say?"
"You called me Seifer." He explained.
"Seifer… no, I couldn't have!" Rin replied franticly. Squall gulped as he laid on the tall grass that caressed him.
"It is beautiful here Rin, I could actually rest in peace." Rin rushed to his side and stroked his fine hair,
"I want you too. Don't worry about anything just lay." She closed her eyes and softly sang the lullaby.
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