❝ you just seemed a little UNCOMFORTABLE, sorry; sorry, didn’t mean to concern you. ❞ why did he feel so NERVOUS? this was only CLOUD; he shouldn’t feel like a timid school girl. in the past; link would’ve just held his face & smile like an idiot; but now; he felt himself become SHY, & rather aloof. GUILT crept into his stomach as the others words hit his ears, mentally wanting to HIT himself for being such a damn fool.
❝ … i was just afraid, cloud — but there… wasn’t a day i didn’t have you on my mind. i just — … didn’t think you’d be BACK. ❞
“I did– ?? Oh—- I wasn’t uncomfortable, I’m just still getting used to that sort of thing.”
At least that, he could say in truth. Even his own feelings could sometimes feel alien to him, he’d buried them for so long. Cloud was hoping this reunion was going to be a bit easier, alas, it seemed that he never really had luck when it came to this sort of thing.
“I hope you can forgive me for being gone so long, truth be told, I worried about the same thing a lot of the time. I couldn’t wait to see you again, but at the same time, I was scared that when I came back, you’d be gone.
