Disclaimer: I don't own ff8.…but one day Squall will be mine!

A/N: well hello. Yes another chapter! Many thanks to all you lovely lovely people from last chapter: Kuro Kin'youbi, AngelWings, acho111, SJsilver, rinnyheartillyizawesome, Leonharted, Sayuri21, CrazyTurkey, Rebekka, Rinoa2005, lilnaych, Rinny Leonheart, Selphie ivy and Zellycat. Hmm so general feeling was lots of wondering what happened to squall and Rinoa. Well you find out next chapter I promise and there are some familiar characters who crop up in this chapter….read on and see what you think….thanks x

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"Morning hunny" Rinoa said cheerily as she walked into the sunny yellow kitchen the next morning. It was the first morning of her knew life as Jays fiancé , a new life she was sure was going to go so well.

"Morning" Jay said, grabbing her waist and pulling her towards him "Sleep well?"

"Yep" Rinoa nodded, kissing him.

"Are you working to day?"

"yeah, in an hour unfortunately" Rinoa sighed "but I am looking forward to telling Callie and Christie my news" she grinned, "that reminds me, how would you feel about having an engagement party, like next week maybe?"

Jay leant down and kissed her "If it is a party you want, then a party it shall be" he said with his trademark smile "I trust you'll be consulting Callie and Christie, professional party planners"

"Well I don't think I'll have a choice…you now how they get when they here the Word 'party'"

"yes indeed" he grinned " so are you planning to tell almost everyone you know and invite them all?"

"well of course!" she smiled

"Hmm" Jay said "I wonder if I should tell my sisters and my parents. That would require speaking to them though"

Rinoa knew that Jay didn't particularly get on well with his family. They didn't really speak about family much. Jay more recently learned the truth in some small part about Rinoas family and so it was a subject neither wanted to discuss. But Rinoa did know that aside form his brother Zack, he had a sister Evie who lived in Trabia and another sister who he did not get on with and never really talked about. All Rinoa knew about her was she was younger than him and lived somewhere pretty far away.

"Oh yeh, what about your other sister, your younger sister. Where does she actually live?"

"Oh, I think she lives in Balamb, in that Garden place"

Rinoa froze "She's a SeeD?"

"oh yeh, I suppose she might have been around there the time you were. You might know her. Well, at least that's were I assume she is, we haven't spoken since she left. It must have been like…7 years nearly"

Rinoa thought back to the years she was in Garden. She didn't remember meeting any Marquezs

"What's her name? I don't think I met anybody Marquez"

"Oh she doesn't use Marquez, she took my moms name. She uses Reynolds, Tanya Reynolds."

Rinoa felt her blood run cold. Tanya Reynolds? As in the Tanya Reynolds?

The Tanya Reynolds that was in fact Tanya, Squalls Ex? Throughout the whole time Rinoa had liked Squall before they got together, he was with Tanya. This was absolutely unbelievable. She was engaged to her ex fiancés, ex girlfriends, brother?

"Are you okay Rin?" Jay asked at her sudden silence

"oh, um yeh" Rinoa decided it was probably best not to mention it to Jay just yet. It was years ago. Besides which, she had never gone into much detail with Jay about her relationship with Squall, only how long they were together, how they split up and what brought her to Timber. She had never even told him exactly how they got together. She hardly ever thought of that herself anymore "I don't think I know her"

"I'll probably have to ask my mother where she is. She probably wont care anyway, its not like we've ever got on."

"Yeh" Rinoa said distractedly "anyway I think I'm going to go and make some calls before I go to work"

":Spread the good news and all?" Jay said, hugging her.

"yeh" Rinoa kissed him and then headed upstairs to her room. She knew exactly who she had to call first. The only person who would understand. After locking the door and sitting on the bed, she dialled a familiar number.

After several rings the cheery voice answered "Hellooooooo?"

"Selphie!"

"Rinoa? Is that you? It's so good to hear from you."

Rinoa had tried to keep in touch with Selphie after she left Garden, and she spoke to her about once a month. Selphie and Irvine had also come to visit her in Timber about half a year ago, but she had not been back to Garden since 3 years ago. Selphie was still there, she still was friends with Zell and Squall and dating Irvine, everyone was there except her. But she could not go back. Too many memories.

"I have news." Rinoa said excitedly

"ooh spill!" Selphie squealed

"I'm engaged!"

"oh my gosh! Jay proposed?"

"Yeh! Lat night! And I said yes!"

"Oh, Rinoa I'm so happy for you!"

"Thanks, I'm so happy too. But you'll never guess what I just found out."

"What?"

"Jays sister, well one of them, is Tanya."

"Tanya, Tanya" Selphie muttered to herself as if trying to remember something "the Tanya?" she asked suddenly

"Yeh, that Tanya" Rinoa sighed. It was like no matter what she did she couldn't escape her old life.

"that must be so weird, you guys are going to be…sisters in law."

Rinoa sighed again. Her ex's ex's sister in law. It was way to weird.

"That's a point" Selphie said suddenly.

"What is?"

"Are you…are you going to tell him. Squall, I mean? Are you going to tell him your engaged?"

Rinoa had to think for a minute. Was she going to tell Squall? She hadn't seen him in 3 years, hadn't spoken to him. Could she really ring up out of the blue and say she was engaged. She wanted to put him behind her. In fact, she had put him behind her.

"I don't think I am" She said into the phone

"really" Selphie said, sounding a little shocked.

"Well, Selphie, I haven't heard from him in 3 years, since the day we broke up. I'm not exactly going to be inviting him to the wedding, so what's the point, why stir all the past up again."

"I suppose. But Rinoa, can I ask you something, a little personal?"

"Okay" Rinoa said hesitantly.

"Do you ever…think about him?"

There was silence for a few minutes as Rinoa thought about Selphies question. Being truthful to herself, she knew the answer. Yes, she did. Every now and then she would think about him. Think of how he acted, how he talked, how he looked, how they were when they were together. But that was natural, she had been in love with him. She had moved on, and she loved Jay, but she couldn't deny that she did love Squall once. He was her first love, it wasn't like she was just going to completely forget him. But she had moved on now and it was only on rare occasions she ever thought about him.

"Now and then" she admitted to Selphie

"I see" she responded carefully.

"well, I have to go Selphie. But can you do me a favour, and if you see him, don't tell him."

"Don't worry, he's out on a mission at the moment."

That didn't surprise Rinoa. He was constantly off on missions when they were together. It was one of the things that had contributed to their relationship coming to an end. But as soon as Rinoa hung up the phone and headed out for work, she shook the thoughts from her head. It was her past. What did it matter now?

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"Let me see the ring!" Callie demanded as soon as Rinoa walked into work.

"Huh?"

"The ring! Let us see it!" Christina chimed in, jumping up and down.

Rinoa held out her hand fro her friends who admired the sparkling diamonds "how did you guys know?"

"Well we've known for ages. Jay told Zack, Zack told Christie, she told me." Callie explained.

So instead of work, which they seemed to do very little of, they set about planning Rinoas engagement party. Callie and Christie had even taken the liberty of bringing in piles and piles of invitations and stamps so, as Callie put it, they could waste work time, instead of spending their free evenings stamping and addressing them all.

So with the occasional break to actually serve some customers, they sat down and decided who to invite. And with Callie and Christie chiming in the list suddenly became very long! After her shift, Rinoa rang to check all the arrangements with Jay, who agreed as he said he did not dare risk with Callie and Christina when it came to parties. So with his agreement she stopped off at the post office on the way home to get the invitations sent.

Much to her annoyance there was a massive queue that stretched nearly the length of the whole shop. She must have waited for nearly an hour in line untill she got to the desk.

"I need to send all these" she said to the girl behind the counter. The girl carried on filing her nails and blew a bubble in her gum before saying "Sign this" and shoving a piece of paper across the desk.

"Do you have a pen?" Rinoa asked, but the girl didn't bother answering her. Eventually a man behind her handed her a pen and she signed the form and sent the things. But glancing at her watch she realised it was much later than she thought. She turned around quickly to leave but as she did she managed to smack directly into someone and a whole bunch of folder went skidding across the floor.

"I am so sorry" she blushed, dropping down to the floor to pick up all the files. She scooped them all up and then stood up to hand them back. That's what she planned to do…but when she stood up she froze completely. Because when she stood up she found her self staring fixatedly at the person she had bumped into. And that person was Squall Leonhart.

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Omg Squally is back!! Hehehehhehehehehe!!!!!well I hope you liked the chapter and let me know what you think. And yep next chapter you will find out what happened with the two of them and then we get really into the main point of the story. Thanks guys xx