1 CHP 5 FEELINGS REVEALED AND RETURNED

sigh, hello again everybody. Unfortunately, I'm not in my usual happy, go lucky, save-the-trees mood. Why?...aunt Flo came to visit me yesterday and for some reason she's kicking my ass more than she usually does.-.- I you don't know what the fuck I mean, its better that you don't, but for those who do understand, yeah. Feel my pain. However, I will not let her influence this chapter...much. Just know if there is some extra moodiness in the chapter that why. ANYhoo, hope you enjoy!

Another emotional day...

Squall did not have many of these as you can imagine. Emotions were something squall felt were not needed. They got in the way of so many things. Friends, school, eating habits, social life, sleep, god the list just goes on. So squall chose to not show his emotions as much as he would have liked to. Despite his efforts though, his teammate had learned to read his actions and knew just what he was feeling. This is something he both hated and loved. He hated how they could know just what he was feeling just by looking at him, like you would with a child. He loved it because they knew how to handle him without him telling them anything. If he was mad, they knew and they left him alone or tried to get his mind off whatever it was he was mad at.

This time though he needed to see Rinoa, he needed to actually tell her how he felt and see what she thought of it all. How did Rinoa feel after all? He didn't really give her much room to talk or even explain...what if she had missed him like he had her.

In the elevator squall tried to think of how to vocalize his thoughts but found it much harder than he had anticipated. He walked towards the dorms, the whole time trying to think of how to talk to Rinoa...but when he came to the entrance to the dorms he didn't know what to say. So he left to go somewhere else to think.

He tried the library but they told him he had to study or read so he left. The cafeteria, but eventually it got too crowded. He tried the gym but really wasn't in the mood to work out. He went to the training center and fought a few monsters but found that he didn't need violence right now...it seemed to influence his mood and he didn't need that when he talked to Rinoa. He even went to visit Dr. Kadowaski, who talked to him about Rinoa and how he should approach the situation. Sadly, he wasn't listening to what she had to say and decided to leave.

Finally he ended up in the quad. It was already sundown, the day had just about half an hour left before night took over. Squall looked out at the horizon. They were on the coast line of the main continent so the ocean was in plain view. A light breeze blew cooling the air around squall and causing his necklace to jingle. He looked down at it. Suddenly he remembered something.

His ring!

Rinoa should be wearing it right now.

Suddenly squall found himself running out of the quad and to the dorms. On his way he passed Irvine who was walking with Selphie. They both looked at him and squall could tell Irvine had said something to him as he passed but he didn't hear. In fact he couldn't hear anything, not the sound of his breathing, nor of his pulse which was racing an account of his running. He just heard the jingle of his necklace as he ran which fueled him to run faster.

Finally he came to the dorms and ran towards them. Turn left for guys, right for girls. He has guessed that she would be staying in a Seed dorm since they were much nicer than the original dorms. And she would be next to selphie so that meant she was around room number...

301...302...303...

304, Selphies room, so then...

305 had to be Rinoa's.

squall stopped in front of Rinoa's door panting heavily. He stood there for a few seconds before he lifted up his hand to knock on her door. Suddenly the door opened and there stood rinoa, with a now shocked look on her face. They both stared, until Rinoa spoke, "...Squall? What are you doing here? And why are you breathing so hard?" Squall stepped closer to her, bringing him inches from her. There was here scent again. Didn't it ever wash out! "Do you still have it?" Squall breathed out. Rinoa seemed to be confused, "Still have what?" It pained squall a bit to know that she forgot but he asked again, "My ring. Do you still have my ring?" Rinoa blinked and smiled. "Of course I have your ring. Why wouldn't I?"

Squall stared at her. That was all it took. One smile, and a few words of reassurance to calm him down. How is it that only she could do that for him?

In his state of ignorance, rinoa became a little worried. "Squall?" Squall blinked and snapped back into the world around him. Rinoa tilted her head to the side, "Are you alright?" Squall took one big step and gathered Rinoa in his grasp. Rinoa was caught totally of guard and didn't know what to do. "Squall...what's going on?" Squall's heart had calmed down from the run, but had sped up once again. "Rinoa I'm so sorry I treated you that way...I didn't mean to be an ass really I didn't, its just...I didn't like how you just left and didn't tell me, and...and..." Squall realized he was rambling and stopped. He loosened his grip on Rinoa and looked at her face. She looked confused and still so innocent. He smiled. She saw him smile and felt less tense. "What are you smiling at?" Squall laughed and shook his head, "nothing." He looked back up to Rinoa, who was just smiling at him. Squall was unsure of something and suddenly had to ask. "Rinoa I love you," Rinoa's smile faded away to surprise. Her mouth opened slightly, but then closed agian. Another smile crawled across her lips, "Love you more."

Squall's heart skipped a beat at the sound of her words. He leaned down and placed his lips on hers in a soft kiss. Rinoa smiled against his lips and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him closer to her. She knew that things would get better now. No matter how many different problems came to them they would overcome it. Squall opened his mouth and ran his tongue across her bottom lip. She granted him access to her mouth and he slid his tongue to hers.

How long had it been since he had tasted her mouth. It was like peppermint and cotton candy mixed into one flavor. Squall thought it was the most delicious thing in the whole world. He tilted his head to the side and sank into her, trying to rediscover her mouth. Rinoa ran one hand through his hair feeling their silken texture. One thing she always loved about him was his hair, it was the perfect length to grab and hold if she wanted to.

As much as they would have liked to say like that, oxygen was needed and the kiss was broken. They returned to their previous embrace. Squall swore he would never let her go again. There were so many things he had to catch up on with her. But they would have plenty of time for that later...now that they were together again.

Squall looked down at Rinoa. "Wanna go to sleep?" Rinoa shook her head. "There are too many things to do. We don't have time to sleep." Squall smiled and kissed her again before he led her out of the dorms. They spent the rest of the night together. First, eating in the cafeteria, which ended up as an all out food fight with the whole place, on account of Rinoa's bad aim with ice cream. Then the secret spot at the training center. Then they ran into Zell, Quistis Selphie and Irvine and they all hung out until it was late and everyone was tired. Zell yawned and said he was going to sleep. Quistis agreed, but selphie and Irvine decided to stay out longer. Rinoa was barely able to walk, so Squall caried her back to her room.

He entered the dorm and walked over to the bed. He set Rinoa down, and brushed her hair from her face. He was going to turn around to leave when he felt a hand on his wrist. He turned around and saw Rinoa's half asleep eyes looking at him. "...don't...go..." Squall knelt beside her bed and placed his hand on her face, "I can't stay here Rinoa, I have to go back to my room." But Rinoa refused to let go. So squall took off his shoes and crawled next to her. He had forgotten her warmth and how soft her skin was. After all this time, it sure did feel nice to be sleeping next to her again...and so squall gave into sleep. Gave into her smell, and her touch, her breathing and the feel of her hair as he stroked it.

Yeah...I'm not happy with how this chapter came out...but whattya gonna do. Oh well. My opinion does not matter...as long as you the readers liked it everything is fine. So, read and review. I think the next chapter will be the last one...please don't kill me! Its better to back out before you're kicked out. Besides this is my first fanfic, cut me some slack! The next one I do will be better. BUT ANYHOO...read and review! Thank you!

P.S. I do not have an abusive Aunt Flo, if you still don't know what the hell I mean.