Title: Midnight Show
Word Count: 293
Summary: At the theater, it was all pretend. And they could pretend for each other, if only for a little while. Only when it was needed. ((Squall x Yuffie.))
Midnight Show. It sounded creepy. Phantom-of-the-Opera-ish. In other words, a murder mystery, with blood and ghostly screams and oohs and aahs from the posh ladies of the audience.
Well. Good thing she wasn't a posh lady, then.
Yuffie beamed. Her whole being beamed, whenever she saw Leon, from the bottom of deliberately scruffy black leather shoes to the very top of smooth shiny black hair that never seemed to be quite in place. Especially when aforementioned man was in a black suit affair, like now. But that was okay, because she was Yuffie, and Yuffie was allowed to be like that.
Of course, she waited for a raised eyebrow when she joined him- not a bark of laughter, because laughter was above (or maybe beneath, she sometimes mused) her mate. Because the usual comfortably ragged Yuffie was in a shimmering crimson dress suitable for opera, or, as for tonight, theater. It didn't come, and for that she was rather relieved, for she felt slightly ridiculous in such getup, as though she didn't belong.
He noted her comforted expression and wondered what it was for. She said nothing, though, simply smiled dazzlingly at him and took his arm in her own with a small, awkward, adorable curtsey and they walked along the red carpet to where hundreds of persons of high society waited, chatting in small groups, with shrill fake laughs and hidden smirks.
And he and Yuffie would join them, and be glad when the lights finally dimmed and the play- Midnight Show- that Aerith had bought them tickets to began, and take off their masks when the red velvet curtain was drawn up, and replace them with sighs when it fell down in a flourish.
Because for each other, they could pretend.
This one was PRETEND. Obviously, after all the talk of masks, and the last line (saying 'pretend', y'know...)
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