A/N: Here we are, my dear readers, at the final chapter. I'm thankful you followed me on this six chapter journey of blossoming love. I hope that this final chapter will leave you with the closure you need, as well as the heavy feels I wanted you to have (doubtful).

Also, fun fact, the song I listened to while going over this is, "Everytime you kissed me", composed by Yuki Kajiura, vocals by Emily Bindiger. It was a complete coincidence, but after listening to it as I went over this chapter, I feel like the lyrics fit it pretty well.

And, Thank you everyone for reading this story. I'm really glad you all stuck around and- hopefully -have been enjoying this. Thanks for the favs, the follows, and the review! Now let's get to the story.

"How are you doing today?" Tai asked.

No response.

"Are you giving me the cold shoulder?"

No response.

"Summer, don't you know it's rude of you to ignore me?" he asked, placing a hand on the small stone in front of him.

There was no response...

"I guess it's fine though." His eyes were filled with unshed tears as he spoke.

There never would be a response. Not anymore.

"Ah, you're probably curious about the girls, right? Yang's doing better now. She's finally accepted her cybernetic limb. She took off recently too. Ruby... she's still away... But our girls are strong, so I trust they'll be okay." He smiled.

He reached his hand up, wiping away a warm tear that escaped his eye. He briefly shifted his gaze to the sky, bringing it back to the stone in the ground a few seconds later.

"Hey Summer," his voice cracked as he spoke, "I really miss you..." The tears he kept in his eyes started to flow down his face, dripping onto the stone he was kneeling above. "I miss you so much."

He brought his hand over his heart in his vain attempt to suppress the pain.

"Summer, it hurts..." he sobbed. "It hurts so very much to lose you..."

He slammed his fist into the ground beside the small rock.

"I still don't get it! Why did it have to be you!?" He pushed his palms over his eyes, his fingers slipping into his hair. "Why wasn't I there? Why couldn't I protect you? Why couldn't it have been me?"

He felt something soft and warm brush his cheek, causing him to remove his palms from his eyes. With his blurred vision, he could almost see a person wrapped in white kneeling before him. Someone was here, but she also wasn't.

She smiled at him. That smile he thought he'd never see again, it caused the tears to flood out even faster, and it brought even more pain to his heart. She pulled his head into her chest, holding him as he cried.

"This is cruel of you." he whispered.

She held him silently.

"It's so cruel of you."

Still, she stayed silent.

"But it's also... very nice." he sobbed.

As he cried into her chest, it was almost as if, within the wind, a familiar voice whispered to him...

"Don't hold it back anymore."

With those familiar words, he let out all the pain he had been holding within his heart.

A/N: The end. I hope you all enjoyed this story. I also hope you guys found this sad... I don't think I'm quite at the level yet where I can write sad things. I'll probably get there eventually.

Now, I ask, was this the spirit of Summer Rose, or was it the hallucinations of a broken man? Was this her comforting him, or his imagination torturing him? I want for all of you, my dear readers, to decide for yourselves whether or not this was Summer. You can give yourselves a bittersweet ending by saying it was her, or you can break your hearts further (if it was broken to begin with) by saying this was all within his mind. Of course, there are probably some of you who will find it more sad if it actually were her. Anyways, I leave it with you all to decide for yourselves what is what.

And what is it that I've decided for myself? Well, I think it's best for me to keep that to myself. But I will say this, I don't think spirits of the deceased are a thing in the canon RWBY-verse. But you know... this isn't canon, so...

I'll be going now. It has been a fun journey. Goodbye.