Author's Note – Well, there's a wee bit of interest out there. But not much. Maybe after this chapter I might get a few more interested parties.

WARNING – This story will contain pretty explicit adult content in later chapters, so if that's not your cup of tea, then please don't read any further. Although I must comment that there are much, much more explicit stories out there than mine will ever be.


Chapter 2

Monday Morning, March 24

I yawned and stretched, slowly opening my eyes to the glorious sunshine streaming through my window. As feeling came to the rest of me, something definitely didn't feel right. My legs felt incredibly heavy. I bolted upright and gasped so loud, I threw both hands over my mouth.

Lying sprawled and faced down across my legs was Cloud. He looked dead. Someone had killed him and tossed him at the foot of my bed.

To my unbridled relief, I noticed him stir.

In the next instant, Cloud lifted himself up to a sitting position, yawning loudly and running a hand over his face. Realization slowly came to him and his eyes quickly darted in my direction. "Uhh…"

Yeah, I was equally speechless.

Cloud nervously scratched the back of his head with a slight grimace, probably trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for why I woke to find him sleeping on my bed. "I…I came to…uh... to tell you something last night. And uhm…you were asleep…and I guess I was so tired I never made it back to my room."

Okay, so it sounded alittle reasonable. Mainly because there had been plenty of times I found Cloud sprawled in various places around the apartment, snoring away as if he didn't have a care in the world. Like at the kitchen table with his head down on his arms…or on the couch in the TV room with half of his body hanging over the side…or in the bathtub after having too much to drink…or on the lounge chair in Marlene and Denzel's room…and now add the foot of my bed to his repertoire of places to find him sleeping when he was too exhausted to make it to his room. It made me wonder if maybe the mattress on his cot wasn't very comfortable.

We spent an awkward couple of minutes staring back and forth at each other before I decided I just had to break the silence with something…anything.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?"

He rubbed a finger under his nose and frowned a bit. "I…I don't really remember. Guess it wasn't all that important." He crawled off my bed without another word and quietly walked out, closing the door behind him.

I fell back on my pillow, heaving a sigh of relief at his departure. And then I felt a moment of utter panic at the sudden recollection of the dream I had woken from before finding him lying on my bed. I covered my face with my hands and groaned outloud.


Later That Afternoon

Dear Diary:

God, what is going on? I had another dream about Cloud this morning before I woke up. We were at the beach in Mideel. I was sitting on my towel and he came out of the water. I couldn't stop staring at him and thinking how gorgeous he looked. When he came down on top of me, I started kissing him and he was loving it. Then I woke up and found Cloud lying at the foot of my bed. Of all the strange places he picked to collapse after riding around on deliveries all day, he decided on my bed this time around. Like it's not bad enough I'm having these intimate dreams about him. And man was it a nice dream, too!

I put my pen down and stared dreamily in front of me, focusing on nothing in particular.

He rose out of the water like some kind of God, with orange and yellow hues of the sunset silhouetting him from behind. As he approached me, his features became more distinguishable. Spiked blonde hair, bleached by the strong southern sun…passionate cornflower eyes that made me oh so weak at the knees…sensual lips that promised infinite pleasures beyond my wildest dreams…His mere presence besieged me.

I wanted him with every fiber of my being. The feeling was so intense, I shivered in anticipation because I knew that his hands would caress me slowly and bring me to a fevered blissful climax that would suck the very life out of me.

Closer and closer he came until he was standing at my feet. I gazed up at him from my reclined position on the sand, admiring the water beading down his solid, rippling chest. Then he dropped down to his knees and crawled over me. He bent toward my face, nuzzling up against me and I could feel my mouth watering, waiting for the kiss I ached for…

"Teef…"

As he pulled back slightly, his blazing blue eyes met mine, silently telling me all that he wanted to do to me.

"Teef…"

I heard my name being called, but oddly enough, it had a higher pitch than his normal timber and even odder was that his mouth wasn't even moving. As he slowly brought his lips closer to mine, I felt my entire body weaken from the intense desire burning inside me. Closer…closer…waiting for those lips…

"Tifa!!"

I jumped up, nearly falling out of my chair. The pen in my hand sailed across the kitchen and pinged off a plate hanging on the far wall.

Two sets of eyes stared at me. Marlene and Denzel…

I turned to the clock on the wall. 3:15pm. They must have just come home from school. I slammed my diary shut and got up. "What would you like me to make for dinner?" I asked, wanting to immediately deter the direction my mind had gone only moments ago.

"Chocolate sundae!" shouted Marlene.

"Pepperoni pizza!" shouted Denzel.

I sighed. "No and no. Chocolate sundaes are not for dinner." As I walked toward the refrigerator I bit back a comment about never again making pepperoni pizza…ever. I browsed through the contents in the fridge and thought about what to make. Hopefully it wasn't something else that would cause me to have another strange dream tonight.

It irked the heck out of me because not only was I involuntarily dreaming about Cloud, but now I was voluntarily conjuring up fantasies. I was going out of my mind. That was it. I hadn't been on a date in ages. Maybe I needed to pick up the phone and call somebody…anybody…

But I knew I'd never do it, using the same old excuse…that I was just too busy to have a boyfriend.


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