Amara felt sick just looking at herself. The mirror was lying to her; the beautiful woman she saw was not as graceful as it reflected. Amara traced her face in the mirror, why was she so disgusting? Rinoa bounced around the room, grabbing random things to help perk up Amara. Rinoa made faces, did silly dances and even imitated headmaster Cid. She coudl tell that her attemps were meaningless and annoying to Amara.
"Come on Amara wake up! Are you upset about squall?"
Amara clutched her necklace and lowered her head; feeling her chest pound. Biting her lip she felt the tingle in her face; the feeling she hated. She didn't want life to be like this, she didn't want Rinoa to live in the shadows of their secrets. Rinoa put her brush down on the vainty next to amara. Sitting down on the surface of the vanity, she brushed back amara's hair and picked up her face. "Hey, he dosen't really hate you, just..he's not the best on his emotions" Rinoa smiled, it was the most sincere smile Amara had ever seen.
"Im..such..a horrible person Rinoa" Amara pulled away and burried her face into her hands. This had to end, Rinoa was being so sincere, so sweet, so understanding and all Amara could do was sit here; sullied with her lovers stains. "No your not! Amara.." Rinoa fell to her knees and pulled amara to her, she let amara sob onto her shoulder. It was a comfort to Rinoa, she wanted amara as a friend but she never could get her to really embrace her offers friendship. Amara wrapped her arms and around rinoa and sobbed into her. "No..Rinoa..i am...I'm sorry." She clenched onto her shoulder tighter and whispered, "Squall..i..love.." Rinoa pulled her away, "Hey i know! Getting you dressed! Once you see how sexy you look, youve lost weight..are you eating?" She jumped up and quickly ran to the hanging dresses. She unzipped them and layed them onto the bed, "Ohhh! wow! This is sexy! I get that ugly..seeD thing.." Amara wiped away her tears, she felt frozen; how could rinoa be so happy? "Thanks..i bought it from a store in dollet." Rinoa eyes widened, "That grungy town? they make dresses like this there, wow.." Amara closed her eyes,she forgot about the lights, Rinoa, the attack, Seifer, everything. She just wanted to be with him, god that's all she wanted.
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"excuse me, can i have a drink?" Squall raised his hands to the waitress walking by. She handed him some of the sparkling cider, half the kids in the garden wern't old enough to drink. He looked around the ballroom, Just like his before. There were girls in dazzling dresses and new garden students wearing their outfits for the first time. Crowds were everywhere and the room was freezing. Squall's eyes scanned the room, he wanted to find rinoa before Amara. If he found amara, he might do something stupid, say something else that would tear her apart. Squall gulped down his drink, no he wasn't afraid of saying something to her, he was afraid he would leave with her. "Maybe i would never return.." Squall threw that idea away, he knew he would come back. "Jeez why is this so complicated?" Squall looked around the room again until he saw a blur of zell running toward him. "Squallll!" Zell ran right up to him and shoved his shoulders, "hey man!" Squall fell back with a loud thud against the wall, "woah im sorry!" Zell extened his hand and patted him on the shoulder. "Isn't this awesome? I think this is better than ours was, sorry man..." Squall still tried to balance out, he was trying to put together what had just happened. "Uh, yah.." Squall stood back up and took another sip of his drink. A minute or two of silence passed between them till zell whispered, "Hey man, Amara looks hot huh" Squall turned fast to look at zell, "where do you see Amama?" Zell looked at him with suprised eyes, "what you gonna yell at her again? shes right there.." Zell pointed toward the door that lead from the girls dormatoriy; Squall stood in awe frozen by something he needed. She glisted in the glow of the lights, she appeared as if she had just stepped out of a sultry jazz song. Her low cut red dress fell so sleek onto her curves. The skinny straps hadrly hanging on, as if they were inviting squall to hold them. The satin hugged her hips as if it was a child clinging to it's mother. The dress seemed to melt onto her skin, from her shoulders all the way to how it gracefully fell onto the floor at her feet. Every inch of her skin ratiated and her hair pulled up, yet still her soft curls fell through. She looked up and immediately felt squalls eyes calling to her. Her green eyes burned with desire, she wanted to go to him; she felt the brilliance of her smile return his calls. She slowly stepped down from the stairs slowly, wanting this moment to go on forever.
Squall placed his drink on the ledge behind him and began to bustle through the crowds of students to reach her. He felt the urge again, he knew that if he got to her his plans to avoid her would be ruined. Suddenly He could tell that this is what she wanted. He pushed through silently, watching her move across the floor to him. He had almost reached her until he saw him. Seifer ran up from behind Amara and gently kissed her neck, pulling back on her waist into his. He spinned the surprised Amara around into circles and took her deep into the dancefloor. Squall watched as Seifer whispered into her ear, he watched as seifer tugged at the straps. The straps that were just inviting squall had now found it's new guest; pulling as far from squall as they could go. Seifer looked up from Amara to face squall, and with a gruemsome taunt he kissed amara's neck with a complete sensuality.
Squall stood there, not knowing what to feel. He backed away slowly, pulling away from something that seemed inevitable.
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Squall felt red with heat; Not only was Seifer kissing her, touching her and kissing her; he flaunted it the whole time. What was this? Did seifer know about squall's feelings for amara? He backed away feeling embarassed and ashamed, running over people cursing at him for pushing them aside. Squall couldn't care less he just wanted to leave. He turned around and ran swiftly toward the door bumping into a careless quitis, causing her to spill her drink all over herself. "Oh, um..I'm sorry" Squall bent down to pick up the shards of glass on the floor; Quitis stood amazed. "i was sure, he would have just left me here." her thoughts were growing more anxious as she watched him pick up the broken peice. Squall stood up and handed her a satin napkin. Quitis searched for something to say, something sweet and flirty. "ok quitis, don't blow this.." Quitis cleard her mind and took the napkin from squall. "That was truly valiant squall" a smile stretched upon her face, this was the moment that decided if squall cared. Was he putting on a show? Had her good deeds and crushes on him finally payed off. Quitis expected some sort of confession from squall,
"quitis, i must admit the truth, i love you, now lets run away together."
The thoughts nearly brought her to tears, that was the one thing she wanted; now it was clear. She brushed away her hair from her face and looked up at him again. "Thank you my knight" faking an obnoxious giggle she heard Rinoa do; Squall slightly pushed her away and grunted, "whatever"
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Squall walked onto the balcony and leaned over the ledged. The wind swirled through his hair, drying the beads of sweat pouring from his head. If seifer knew, did that mean the entire garden knew as well? He buried his hands into his face, exhaling deep breaths he heard steps coming toward him. "squall?" the voice startled him, he jolted up and turned around to see Rinoa standing there silently. "Oh, hey...your seeD outfit. Looks good" Squall turned back around and looked out across the sea. Rinoa smiled, pulling her hair back out of her face she glanced at the moon. "Wow, the moon looks beautiful.." Squall didn't respond but only dropped his head even lower. She walked over to squall pulling at a frustrating peice of hair. "Are you ok? What's been bothering you latley. I..I really would like to know" Squall turned to her, her eyes were so filled with worry and concern. Squall hated himself at that moment, he was causing Rinoa's face to look as melancholy as it did. He smirked and opened up his arms, inviting Rinoa into an embrace. She gladly took it and smothered herself in his jacket. Squall held onto her warm body, carassing her arm and kissing her head, her sweet scent filled the air. Rinoa looked up at squalls face radiating in the moonlight, "squall, i love you." The comment had returned squall to the world. It was what he needed to hear to get amara out of his head. He returned her glance and with a simple smile he leaned in and returned his affection. Riona felt dizzy as squall kissed her, she felt weak and lightheaded. With each lingering taste after kisses she felt more alive and more aware of her love for squall. His lips were soft and smooth, delciously comfortable. With each new kiss she felt how much more he wanted her, how much more he wanted to explore. Squall pulled her closer and inbetween the kisses he whispered, "i love you to" Rinoa let go and layed down on his chest once again, she felt immensly intoxicated with him. Squall grabbed her hand and interlaced his own hand in her's. Her fingers were so much more smoother than his own, this moment was perfect. Rinoa laughed soflty, "your almost 20 squall, we've been together for 3 years almost and you've never looked more upset than you do now." She smiled and kissed his chest. "I want you to tell me everything, tell me what's bothering you." she dug herself even deeper into squall. Squall didn't know how he knew, but he knew Exaclty what Rinoa was hinting at. Was he ready for it? He brought both of their hands to his mouth, and kissed her hand with a sincere tenderness. "Rinoa, nothing's wrong..i've just been thinking"
"What have you been thinking about squall? Am i involved?" she poked his stomach and giggled.

"Well, yes you are."

Rinoa's heart stopped, Had he caught on? Squall turned Rinoa around to face him, the shock on her face was so recited it made him laugh. "What? Don't act like you haven't been expecting this.." Squall pulled out something from his poket, a tiny gray box that held Rinoa's entire dreams inside it. Squalls arm felt shaky,"I don't want to use this as an excuse to get rid of amara, but..." he exhaled deeply before bringing words to his lips. "I had picked this up, well to be honest, a year or so ago but something intervend with my orginal plan..but i think i can get over that." He looked up at Rinoa, the look still fierce with sheer excitment. He griped Rinoa's hand and brought it down with him as he got onto one knee, tryng to be as tradtional as possible. "Rinoa, uh, im not good at this, i don't really know..what to say..so um.." Rinoa couldn't beleive it. She wanted this more than anything, she was only 19 but she couldn't picture her life without squall. It was the whole reason she wanted to be a seeD, so that he would propose to her when she was ready. "This is so squall" Rinoa giggled as the thought entered her mind, "poor thing, he's so nervous" Squall took the ring out of the box and with it's stunning brilliance he placed it onto her finger. He kept holding onto her hands hoping she would anything, something, soon. Squall dropped his head and slowly let go, "rinoa?...i.." Squall felt her body fall ontop of his. She placed her cheek next to his own, and squall felt the warm wetness from her tears. "yes squall..yes"