"I realized...it wasn't his memories that made me love her, it was me myself. I fell in love with her." Cloud admitted.

I was sitting near him, both of us in Vincent's cave but he was gone for the moment.

This punctured my chest. It felt like all my emotions, love, and life flowed out of me from that puncture wound. I wouldn't have thought. If anyone I thought it would be Tifa. But Aeries. His best friend's girl.

" I realize now that the feeling I have for you was the same I had for her. I'm still in love with her. " he continued.

If he would have left it at the first half, maybe that wound would have healed faster. But I'm not upset at him or mad. Surprisingly.

I clenched my fist with rested on my lap. Blood pulsed in my ears and I wanted so badly to run. Run far away. But I couldnt...

There was no way I would be able to hurt Cloud like that. Not after we became so close. So I sat and bared it.

Even now, everytime I hear him say her name, that wound gets a little bigger