Author's note: It's Aeris's turn...

Warning: this chapter is insanely sad. It deals with, in part,the horrible subject that is... roadkill...

As such, I won't blame you if you want to skip this one.

If not... well... enjoy, brave soul, enjoy...


"Okay, Yuffie, make sure your seat is properly adjusted and-"

"Yeah, yeah. I already went through all that with Tifa. Let's get this hunk of junk rollin'!"

"Um… sure. Just be careful coming out of the driveway. Take it nice and slow- there's a stop sign… hm, that's odd… where did it go?"

"That stop sign? I think I took it out when I went driving with Barret yesterday."

"Oh, my…"

SCREEEEEEECH!

"Yeah, baby, yeah!"

"Yuffie, slow down!"

"Ah, don't get your skirts all tangled, Aer. This driving stuff is easy! Watch me make this hairpin turn at 60 mph!"

SCREEEEEEEEECH!

"Okay, um, very nice, Yuffie- but I think you should slow down. There's a stop light up ahead. It's yellow, so slow down. Um…now… Yuffie!"

"What!"

"The light's yellow! Slow down!"

"That's not what yellow means!"

"What! Then what does it mean!"

"It means speed up so you can beat the light! Hang on to your flower petals!"

"Yuffie!"

"Whew! Made it. And just in the nick of time, too. Another second and we'd have been caught in the cross-traffic!"

"… Yuffie…"

"Ye-e-e-es?"

"... nevermind. We'll work on it. We're on a nice straight street here; just keep it going nice and straight."

"Right."

"Good."

"Hey, Aeris, look up ahead! A little squirrel!"

"Yuffie, watch out! It's running into the road!"

Bump, BUMP!

"NOOOOO!"

"Wow, that was a pretty big 'bump' for such a little animal!"

"Yuffie… you… killed it!"

"Yeah… that's kind of sad… but what can I say? It should've looked both ways before it crossed the street."

"It was just an innocent little forest creature... sniff…"

"Hey, look! Another squirrel!"

Bump, BUMP!

"AAAAAGH! YUFFIE!"

"Look, Aeris, what do you want me to do! I can't just swerve into the other lane to miss some little piece of roadkill."

"You didn't seem to have a problem with swerving into the other lane before!... you're right, though. Just hitting it was the best-"

"Hey, look, Aeris! It's a whole FAMILY of little squirrels!"

Bump-bump, bump, bump-bumpity, bump-bump, bump, bump, BUMP!

"Sob… no! All the little baby… sob sob… tear… turn around Yuffie…"

"You want me to run them all over AGAIN!"

"No! I want to go home… pull into this driveway up here and turn around."

"Pull into the driveway? Nah. I've got a better way. Just give me a sec and I'll whip this car back around so you can head home. Hold on."

"Whip the car…!"

SCREEEEEEEECH!

"Alright! Changed directions in less than five seconds! That was much faster than pulling into some driveway, wasn't it?"

"…I honestly don't care at this point, Yuffie… just… don't hit anymore-"

Bump, BUMP!