Seasonal Romantics

- Midnight Snowstorm,
(Winter; December)
Rinoa, Squall


The weather had been severe for the past few days on the island of Balamb with many heavy snowfalls blocking the roads and stopping anybody from getting anywhere. The people of Balamb had been strongly advised to have a large amount of food and drink and to have back-up generators to keep their electricity running if there were to be any power cuts. Of all the places associated with the town the one people thought would be safest was none other than Balamb Garden, but unfortunately, this was not the case.

Squall had been away in Trabia for the past month and well, he had missed Rinoa so much that it was unbelievable. And what made it even worse was that once Squall arrived back in Garden, Rinoa was working from the afternoon until late at night and was always too tired to satisfy his needs as a man... Coincidental, or what?

So, Squall had planned a nice night in for the pair... "It's eleven forty-nine, Rinoa. So we've still got around ten minutes till the strongest part of the storm hits us." Squall was pacing around his room whilst on the phone to Rinoa. "Are you coming to my room or me to yours?" He sighed, "Just say! Right. You come to mine then, your room smells anyway. Whatever you say. Right, see you soon." Walking to his bedroom, he pulled out a pair of pyjama's and a large comfortable looking duvet. After having a short fumble trying to get his pyjama top over his head, he carried the duvet into the room with the small sofa and threw it over it. He then took many of the random cushions lying about his room and flung them all onto the sofa. Finally, he jumped into it. Good, comfortable.

Rotating his sofa ninety degrees so that it was facing the window, Squall grimaced. He never liked the snow after slipping in it when he was younger and crashing face first into a wall. Snow brought pain, physical pain. He disliked physical pain- He already got enough of it from Rinoa's "playful" slaps. A few moments later and a soft tapping could be heard at the door, "One second!" Squall shouted, checking his watch. Eleven fifty-five, nice timing Rin. He casually opened the door, "Surprise, surprise."

Rinoa was dressed in navy woolly pyjama bottoms and a large t-shirt saying, 'Do it', which was obviously too big for her. She smiled sweetly then slapped his stomach... He winced. "You asked me to come." Gliding past him on her tippy-toes, she planted herself right into the middle of the sofa bed that Squall had converted a few minutes before. "Good, comfortable." She winked, "...Veeery comfortable."

Blowing his nails and wiping them on the side of his pyjama top, he gave her a smug look. "Well, you know me- Veeery thoughtful." He pointed to the window, "I even rotated the sofa so you can watch the snow..."

""...And you know how much I hate snow.."" They both said at the same time.

It was now Rinoa's turn to look smug, "Ahh Squally, I know you too well. But, thank you. You're such a thoughtful little grump. Now c'mere!" She patted a large cushion beside her.

"Hold up a moment." Before approaching the sofa bed, Squall lit a few candles here and there; made sure the heating was turned on and opened the window ever so slightly so that they could hear the sound of the snow falling and the light whispering of the wind. He winked at her, "All set." Turning off the remaining lights he had switched on earlier, he scrambled to the sofa bed, jumped under the blankets and started to rub his feet. "I'm freezing."

"Wana share some body heat?"

"Huh?"

Coughing, Rinoa said,"Aww shush, give the heating a second."

Squall blinked momentarily, "You should be the one rubbing my feet, you know."

Rinoa raised an eyebrow, showing a peculiar look, "Alrighty, give me your cheesy feet." She grabbed his feet and stuck her fingernails into them. "The day Zell stops perving over girls, is the day I'll rub your cheese balls." Laughing, she threw his feet off of her and plumped her own one's onto his lap, "Now you rub mine, please."

"Ha!" He slapped her feet, "Nobody insults my feet!" Lifting one of the soft cushions beside him, he raised it high above his head, laughed menacingly and then smacked Rinoa straight over the head. "Now be quiet and watch the snow with me." Lifting an arm and placing it around Rinoa's shoulder, Squall felt her body go stiff. Thinking something was wrong he asked her nervously if she was okay.

Rinoa stayed silent and just stared of into the distance, she waited until her boyfriend's face was right in front of hers before she began her attack, grabbing hold of two cushions sitting beside her she began to pelt Squall multiple times on the face and back. He immediately flew a few feet into the air. "Never, ever, hit me with a cushion again!" Several minutes later and a satisfied looking Rinoa offered Squall her hand. "Even?"

Mumbling something inaudible Squall took her hand and pulled himself onto the sofa bed once more, "..."

The snow outside was much heavier now as the weather forecast had predicted and Rinoa clapped her hands with glee, like a child. "We should go out in it!" She looked at Squall and started to nod her head, thinking it would somehow persuade him. No chance.

"Are you insane?" He looked at his watch, "It's midnight Rinoa. This is the heaviest part of the storm, we'd probably get swept away by the wind if we went out there."

"...Yeah, youre right..."

Suddenly a large gust of wind swept through the window, a frightening howling sound could be heard as it swooshed through the room, blowing out the candles that Squall had lit, then, the lights in Squall's bedroom switched off and the entire dormitory was in darkness. Squall could feel Rinoa searching for his hand, he grabbed hers and they entwined their fingers.

"Do you think there's been a power cut?" Rinoa's voice cut through the darkness.

Squall put his free arm around her shoulder, "Looks like it. Back-up generators should be up and running any minute though." He could only see one half of Rinoa's face, thanks to the moonlight and damn did she look beautiful. Squeezing her hand subconsciously, he gave her a reassuring smile. "Anyways.. We only had one light on before, won't really make a difference if the electricity starts up again." Removing his arm from around her should Squall scratched his back and yawned. A strange noise escaping as he did so.

"I suppose... But all the candles are out now though, the romantic feeling's sort of disintegrated, eh?"

Huh?! "...I wouldn't exactly say that..." You ruined it when you smacked me around with a few pillows. While deciding to keep this to himself, he noticed one of Rinoa's eyebrow's raise.

"Oh, would you not?" Smiling deviously, Rinoa looked to the ground. "It's just..." She pouted, "I heard you yawning and stuff... So, I assumed you were tired. Didn't think you could handle a night of being awake, y'know..." Struggling to contain her laughter she also added, "Maybe you wouldn't have the strength...?"

Feeling insulted now, Squall shifted his body weight so that he was facing directly at Rinoa but, while he was in the middle of moving, he lost his balance and embarrassingly fell face first into Rinoa's breasts. Veeery soft... Hey wait!-This is better than my pillow!! ... Sick thoughts... Embarrassing... Escape. "Ahh! So sorry about that Rin! ...Lost my balance." He muttered hauling his face from Rinoa's cleavage.

"Ahh Squally, Squally, Squally." Rinoa tutted, "You know if you would like to get into my breasts that bad, all you gotta do is ask! No need to 'pretend' to fall." She winked at him. "Or! Maybe you just... fell asleep? 'Cause of the yawn and all..." Chuckling evilly in her head, she grinned.

Whaaaaaaaat!? "And maybe you're just doing this to torture me?" After a few seconds of trying to come up with something smart, Squall also threw a, "And a man can only take a certain amount of torturing Rinoa..." onto the end of that sentence.

She laughed, "Now... How did we get from rubbing feet to 'torturing' you?"

"I believe that was your fault."

"Ahh yes, you yawning started it." Rinoa said, smiling at Squall. "If you weren't so ignorant by yawning in front of your girlfriend then we wouldn't be having this conversation now, would we? In fact!" She rubbed her chin, "We could be making love to one another under these very blankets, yes?"

Squall's eyes went wide at this moment and he had to remember to breath after a few minutes of pure silence. "...Maybe?" He eventually croaked. After another few moments of silence, he spoke up, "Too dark though, all I can see is half of your face."

"Bah! Get the candle's lit."

"Again... All I can see is half of your face."

"Oh yes... I remember now! It's me who's the sorceress!" Within a few seconds Rinoa had located the candle's and lit them with weak fire magic. She smiled seductively at Squall from over the top of one of the candles, "Bright enough for you?"

"Get in."

"Woo!" Scrambling over to the sofa bed thing, Rinoa pranced under the covers and Squall immediately joined her. "Why'd the candles needed to be lit if we're under the covers?" Squall shrugged. "You're such a woman." Whilst going in for their first kiss of the night, the two stopped in their tracks when a continuous banging noise came from their door. "Squall." Rinoa whispered, "What the hell is that..?"

Squall shrugged once more and gently climbed out from under the blankets. While the candles flickered in the background, Squall tip-toed toward the door where the banging was still coming from. Making his hand into a fist, he raised his arm and opened the door quite suddenly only to have something or someone fall on top of him. "AHHHHHHHHH! IT'S A GHOST! KILL IT!! RIIIIIINOA!!"

"Relax!" Rinoa cooed. "It's simply..." She trotted toward the thing lying on top of Squall, "...Zell?!"

"Ugh..." Zell rubbed his head, struggling to stand on his own two feet.

Squall, who was still lying on the floor looking shocked simply shook his head and crawled onto his feet. "Zell." He said firmly, "What the hell are you doing wondering around Garden at this time? It's pitch black out there!"

Zell simply rubbed his eyes. It seemed to take him a few minutes to realise just exactly where he was, "Huh? Squall? Rinoa? What are you doing here?"

"Uhh Zell?" Rinoa piped, "This is sorta... Squall's room. Why're you wondering the halls so late at night?"

"Aww no! Serious?!"

Rinoa nodded.

"No waaay! Shit guys.. I'm so sorry! My sleep walking problem must be back up again. Aww damn! I thought it was gone! After Cid spending that much money.. Shit! Damn!!" Zell swore for a bit before analysing Squall's room, "Ahh! I see what's going on here. You two had a little somethin' somethin' planned for tonight, riiight?" He winked at Squall. "Good man."

"Zell!" Squall growled, "Get out!"

Glancing back out to the dark hallways, Zell groaned. "Why's there no lights?"

"Power cut. Now go!"

"Whaaat?! You can't throw me out in the dark man, don't you know it's a full moon!! Friggin' werewolves are out there!"

Squall sighed, "...Hopefully they won't attack you." He said sarcastically.

"Look here Squall, you'd rather have one little sex session over my life?!" Squall put on a thoughtful look, to which, Zell simply pretended to spit. "Despicable, man. You disgust me."

"Zell..." Rinoa said, smiling "I highly doubt that there'll be werewolves running around the hallways of a Garden on a December night. It's too cold for them! Squall will walk you back to your room, right?"

"Wrong." Quickly shoving Zell out of his room, Squall closed the door and locked it.

"DUUUDE!" Zell continuously slammed on the door. "It's so dark..." He banged for a few more minutes.

"Harsh." Rinoa commented, plopping herself onto the sofa bed. They could hear Zell's footsteps retreating futher and further away from the room. "You should have brought him to his room. He doesn't like the dark."

"You're making him sound like he's three." Jumping onto the sofa bed and pulling the quilts over his head, Squall smirked. "Now Miss. Rinoa, where were we?"

"You know... I'd rather just watch the snowstorm. My romantic mood has sort of... Evaporated. Maybe another time?"

Squall was now having mental images of killing Zell. Stupid back-up generators ruining my flippin' night. Reminder to kill Zell. God damn! -.-

Howdy. :) So, this one's between Squall and Rinoa. It didn't really turn out how I wanted it to but sure, what can you do? Well thank you very much for reading. Bye!