Hi guys! Aerith here. So this is the compilation of all the Zack and Aerith stuff I've ever written, and it will be continuously updated...because I never will stop writing about these two. They are the sweetest couple in all worlds ever created, and I'm glad they're together in the Lifestream :). Love lasts forever, no?

This song is called Tears in the Rain by Robin Beck. It fit Zack and Aerith perfectly...I can say that I cried a little bit while listening to the song, it was that fitting.

Enjoy!

Tears in the Rain

Pink. White. Yellow. The hues of her flowers. The only colors left in her life after he had left. Without him, she was too afraid to look up towards the sky, at the blue that she loved but just couldn't bring herself to enjoy...

There had always been a faint link between him and her. There, but almost not. The girl made sure that she never let it out of her sight.

And just like that, it had snapped.

It had been subdued and quiet for four years...then the sudden spark, a reawakening...not as gone as it had been before.

But now it was, if possible, even more clouded than before.

It's a rainy night and it's over

Tears are gonna fall any minute now.

And I know that it's you I gotta get over

I know I do but I don't know how.

She had collapsed in the midst of the flowers after the realization had dawned on her...he wasn't coming back home. No, he's coming back...he's coming back...he's coming back...he said he would...She kept saying it to herself over and over, trying to convince her aching heart of it...but in the depths of her soul, she knew it to be true. So why could she not stand up? Fear of falling back down? No...there's no one to catch me anymore. That's what I'm afraid of.

I pretend that I'm in control now

I won't fall apart till I walk away.

And I say to myself you're gonna be stronger

I tell myself it's better this way.

She could not, no matter how hard she tried, convince herself that she had to move on. She could not convince herself that she could move on. She only knew that she must, no matter what...he would have wanted it.

You can't see tears in the rain,

No matter how hard you try.

You'll never see anything,

Only the rain in my eyes.

She had always smiled by day...reassuring, protecting, laughing, smiling. She was a light, a precious flower of the filth that characterized her home. Treasured and needed by everyone. By night...she would lie curled up in her bed, the inner fear free to shine through at last. Twisted recollections of needles stuck into her chubby baby arms swirled over her, taunting, teasing. Horrifically altered memories of him, dead or dying or calling her name, sneered and snickered and tried to pull the bedsheets off of her.

But by day, to everybody but herself, she was the flower girl.

Nobody would ever know how much pain she was in.

The time has come

I'm letting go now

I'll put it all behind me and turn the page

And I'll make you believe that it don't matter

You'll never see it's all a charade...

People hadnoticed the absence of the flower girl's bright spirit...one would notice the only light in a pitch-black room go out.

And the flower girl herself was aware of this. She couldn't help it, though...the fact that he wasn't coming back was too huge for her to comprehend.

She was staring blankly into her flowerpatch, only for the first time in months noticing the browned petals and leaves, the scattered clumps of dead flowers. This only brought on more tears...tears of apology, but tears nonetheless. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was so caught up in my own problems that I haven't been noticing the problems of everybody around me...

Her tears splashing off the delicate blooms, she absorbed herself in watering and weeding them, flinching every time she had to uproot a dead flower to make space for the new ones. Their soft whispers grew louder. You have to leave the past behind, they said to her in their quiet voices. You are the flower girl, the only light in this dark place. They need you. The world needs you.

"I'm just a flower girl, though," she said out loud, absentmindedly wiping some tears off her cheeks and smearing dirt on them in the process.

You're not just a flower girl, the flowers protested, waving indignantly even though there was no breeze, You have a destiny that is closely intertwined with the Planet's. You cannot let the past block the path of your fate.

She didn't respond to this, for she knew it to be true. Ever since she was small she had known...she was different, and that difference made her important. To everyone...

It was then that she made her decision.

"I'll never forget you," she said softly to the air, hoping that her words would reach his wandering spirit. "But I've got to move on. For everybody's sake."

The flowers nodded their heads in approval.

And from that day onwards, the flower girl was the flower girl once more, her light set ablaze with a fierce passion. She shone so bright that all who had worried and wondered about her forgot that her spirit had been extinguished altogether.

Nobody, even after her death, ever even guessed the existence of the pain she had suffered.