#t__________t

Zack stepped forward with his arms held wide open. His perfect (they were so damn beautiful) blue eyes filling with more tears when her legs obeyed against the strain of her muscles, finally closing that yawning distance between them.

Instead of slipping through him, watching him dissolve like smoke like so many grief-fueled visions over the years, Aerith instead collided hard with a loud thud into that thickly muscled chest.

SOLDIER strength the only thing keeping Zack on his feet from the force of how hard she ran into him, her feet leaving the ground and legs suspended in the air knowing for sure that he would catch her - he'd never let her fall.

Upon feeling him, his body thrumming with life, warm and solid beneath her hands, Aerith collapsed against his chest. Not caring in the least that they were making a scene in the center of this small town. It was as if her and Zack were the last living creatures on Gaia at that moment. She didn't care who saw them and all the questions and concerns that flooded her mind were completely ignored as her arms wrapped across his thickly muscled shoulders and around his neck.

Aerith found herself silent upon looking at his face, into those gorgeous eyes she fell in love with seven years ago, his breath warm and steady as it brushed against her throat and he looked at her as if she hung all the stars in the sky.

It was as if her heart instantly stitched all its broken pieces back together…

Zack's pulse in his neck a steady thrum of life against her arm, Aerith could take it no more. Tears slipping down her face as she closed her eyes before leaning in to kiss him.                                         (Keep Reading)

Guys,

this is the first battle of the Toman

without...

me too, bud.