AUTHORS NOTE - Reviews yay! Didn't I say if you reviewed there would be more. Not much more admitably, but more. Also there is something else already written, but I have a reason for posting just this one short chapter. From the next chapter onwards there will be dialogue! Yes actually dialogue, not just me rambling on. So I thought I would post what follows separately, as really it should have been added on to the end of the first chapter. It is getting late, and as you can see I am digressing so I will be quiet now.
DISCLAIMER - Squaresoft own Final Fantasy VIII. I've just borrowed them.
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Many years had passed since that day that Squall had stood in the rain, watching Seifer leave. Over the years the nagging in the back of his mind had remained, though mostly ignored as life continued around him. It was only when it rained that that feeling, the feeling of something being off, became clear enough for him to focus on it.
These periods did not last for long however.
The years had been good to Squall, both emotionally and physically. Physically, though he had allowed his hair to grow a little longer and his face had became a little harder, the face of a man not a boy any longer, he retained the same ethereal beauty he had always possessed.
Emotionally he had been able to open up, the ice had melted further and instead of fearing being left behind, that one of his newly discovered extended family may leave him, he found peace. A peace he had not had since early childhood, if ever.
The feeling he had that day so long ago however remained despite this new found inner peace, though often overshadowed by the love radiated by his friends, birthdays, holidays and a whole host of other distractions. Yet he knew something was missing.
Someone was missing.
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