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Chapter 2 – The sorrow. Your strength is your weakness as well.
I have to get away and start to search. There is information in Esthar I know it. Rinoa finally had her chance to travel there. Transportation there from Deling City was finally available. A train was built and she was on it that night. It was late and hardly anyone was on it.
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"Hey you think Squall will change if he gets himself a chick?" Irvine said curiously with his arms behind his head relaxing in his seat.
"Dunno. Did I change you?" Selphie asked with a smile on her face.
"Don't change the subject. I want to help hook this guy up."
"He doesn't need help so stick with your own problems like the one your going to have now" Quistis said overhearing their conversation.
Irvine scanned Selphie who wasn't in her delightful mood as she stood before him. Her arms were crossed and she was tapping her small foot. "You didn't answer my question" she said.
With a door sliding open to their private first class section on the train Squall entered. "I checked the cars on this train... I didn't see her."
"We've been on this train all day. You really think she's going to be on this train?" Irvine asked.
"She will be on this train. It's perfect. Is Zell out searching?"
"Yeah and completely bored about it" Irvine reported.
"Alright, I'm going to take a rest. When the train finally stops I want you three to be on it."
"Where are you going?" Quistis asked.
"..." He said nothing and walked out of the room.
Squall walked to the last car on the train. He looked around to see only some hooded person sitting in the center seats. It was Rinoa with her black hood up and cape closed. Squall walked to her and slowed his pace when he heard small crying sniffs from her. He stood in front of Rinoa not knowing it was her.
What is this? She slightly looked up to him but not enough to which the train lights would shine fully on her face. What... what does this man want?
Squall looked to her face that revealed only half of its beauty. He thought of what Selphie had told him one day. She had told him "Squall, you can't stay the way you are! The people that care about you can't take you being cold. We're trying to be your friends and if you don't want to be alone you have put that guard down. You'll feel so much better and have an easier life if you just make some friends. You also need to remember to help some one not because you were ordered to but because you want to!"
"Hi..." Squall said when he sat across her face to face. He kept looking at her. She still had tears in her eyes.
"...Hello" She replied back, staring at the side. She sniffed and wiped a few tears with the side of her hand. With her guard down she lifted her face up to him and smiled to assure she was okay. The light removed her shadow and her hair bounced down to the side of her face. He stared into her beautiful smiling face only to make him smile. "How... how are you? You're upset?" Squall asked with a stutter at first. He didn't want to stare at her face but was a bit drawn to it. The tears shined her eyes and her beautiful dark yet confident look on her face glistened.
"I'm actually fine. I just needed to cry a little." She told him shaking her head and smiling more. Just a little time to cry. Squall's smile removed slowly away.
"Cry... okay" He said and sat back pulling his face away looking up toward the light. He went into his deep thoughts and sat silently.
She stared at him to understand what just happened. Caraway scolded my crying. I remember it made me cry more. Rinoa stared into his emotionless face. He said okay... Rinoa's eyes sparkled once more and her vision got blurry from her tears. Mom would hold me. I want... I want my weakness... I want the warmth of arms... the warmth of care. Something as silly as that. Her heavy head couldn't take it anymore so she released her despair only for it to dry up and come back again one day.
