Memories
Chapter 2:
Camping

"Camping?" the blonde man repeated and stared into her brown eyes. She had never ever cared for camping before, if this was one of her sick ways to save their relationship, then she could drop it. He wasn't interested. "Not interested." He added and closed his mako enchanted eyes. And since the day he had lost Zack, he wasn't really interested in anything.

"Why sound so amazed?" She murmured, she loved the idea and really wanted to do it. She needed a break, she needed a break from 7th Heaven, and she had a feeling that the blonde ex SOLDIER needed a break too. She brushed her brown hair away from her face and sighed, why couldn't he just agree with her for once in her life? The brunette had already ordered the vacation, and couldn't cancel it. And beside, she really wanted it.

"Why? Maybe because you've never camped before, and you've never been interested in camping… I mean, camping's not like a hotel room with room service, that's what you would like to live like, am I right?" he murmured, Tifa's cheeks turned red and she slammed her fist into the table in front of her.

"Room service?" She wondered, the blonde man nodded and she closed her brown eyes for a moment, crossed her arms under her breasts and pouted, she didn't need room service she could live without those lusts for s couple of days, maybe weeks or months too. She could eat food out from boxes; the brunette didn't even need to make the food herself. The brown haired woman wanted to live in the forest like normal people did constantly. He stared into her brown eyes for a moment, knew she was pissed but didn't really care. "The only reason why you don't consider this, is because you would rather stay home here, having sex with me and drink beer all the day, your other interests are also sitting on your ass and think how fucking miserable your life is. Get a grip!" she yelled, Cloud sighed, he thought this would go smoothly, like she was a little bit more like Aerith, since the two of them had been best friends. They'd been together for some months, maybe a year, but they already acted like a married couple in their 50s.

"I do not need sex all the time." Cloud protested and Tifa headed for the front door. The blonde man stared at her and crossed his arms. "Where are you going?" he added and Tifa snorted, opened the door and slammed it.

"Why is the idea with the camping thing so stupid? I don't think it's stupid!" Tifa snorted and dropped one of the beer glasses. It crashed, ended up in a million pieces on the floor. "Oh Fuck!" She murmured and collected the pieces, 7th heaven was opened, it was one single person in the bar, and she hadn't noticed him. He had shoulder long black hair, and mako eyes, she stared at him for a moment and sighed. "Can I help you?" she wondered, but the person didn't answer her.

The person was quite familiar, but it was something about his hair… she couldn't figure it out. The raven black colour was familiar, and so was the face. But the hair wasn't spiky, it hang down. Then she knew who he was, she walked backwards and accidentally tilted the glasses over the edge and they fell to the floor as well. It couldn't be Zack, he was dead, the brunette hadn't freaked out, not yet, she couldn't see dead things, or earth bound spirits or whatever they called them. "You're not here, you're dead. This is a nightmare and I want this fucking dream to end, now!" Tifa added and Zack rose from the table and stopped in front of her. She stared into his mako eyes for a couple of seconds and then he looked away. Dead people couldn't come back to life that was what she'd been told as a kid. Zack Fair was dead; he was not standing right in front of her smiling.

"Would you give me a chance to explain?" he murmured and looked at her, she shook her head firmly and tried hysterically to push him away, tried to get him out of her bar. The brown haired woman noticed that she could touch him, if he was dead, her hand would have gone though him or something like that. Zack took her wrist and held it, stared into her brown eyes and grinned.

"They told me you died, you can't be here…. not for real…" The brunette murmured and closed her brown eyes, wasn't he dead? Had Cloud lied about that, or had he been honest? Maybe Cloud had been honest, his tears had seemed real. After all, joking about something like that wasn't humour, it wasn't funny.

"I want to tell you something, in fact, it's quite a story." Zack murmured, was she interested in listening to a guy she had looked at as dead for over one year? The brown haired woman cocked her head to one side and grinned back. Maybe he was alive; after all, he did seem to be alive.

Authors note:
This chapter ended up a little bit longer than the last one, I'm sorry for late update, as usual, I own nothing. Characters are (C) to Square Enix. Enjoy.