A/N: Chap 4! (My new avatar is one of my drawings; the idea is from a cloti image I saw. I drew it and added the sun and the moon) Checked by 6jrz422

LTS: "A short one!"

Zack: "We are living together now?"

LTS: "Yes, this one is placed on the first week of living all together."

Cloud: "Teef is going to be the one cleaning after us, right?"

Tifa: "I don't mind it Cloud, and LTS is helping me with this place."

LTS: "Well, it's my own dream world, better to keep it clean."

Zack: "Are you going to start?"

LTS: "You don't give me orders." *glare*

Kou: "... Disclaimer: LadyTeefStrife doesn't own anything."

Title: The first week.

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The first week was awkward. Cloud didn't know how to act while living with his best friend, his best friend's sister and his own teacher, all in a two-story house. He really liked to live alone.

After the first day -thanks to the free days of the Golden Week holiday, they had plenty of spare time to adjust to their new lives. Everyone started to fall into his or her roles.

Cloud supported himself completely by working as a delivery boy -because with that and by living at Zack's, he didn't have to depend on his uncle- from six to nine in the evening of every weekday, so he was the one who picked up Tifa after her babysitting job.

Tifa was really incredible, she was the 'housewife'; the boys only made things worse when they tried to help. She also worked as a babysitter to pay for her studies. She refused Zack's parents' offer to support her -even though she was like their own daughter- so she kept working herself out every day.

Zack wasn't working; his parents had money to spoil him, even if he didn't want to be. And Angeal paid his own part with his income from teaching.

Life was really strange.

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It was four in the afternoon on a Saturday and Tifa needed to go buy groceries. Two men and another that loved eating weren't helping her fridge stay stocked. Tifa straightened up from where she had been leaning to look into the empty fridge.

"Cloud?" No more than ten seconds later the boy was in the doorway of the kitchen waiting for her to continue. "I need to go buy some things, I'll be right back, okay?" Tifa asked as she grabbed her purse and put on her jacket.

"Mind if I go too?" Tifa's eyebrows rose as she studied Cloud. Why would a man want to go buy groceries? Sure, Zack liked to, but that was because it involved buying food and spending time with his sister, two of his favorite hobbies. "You would need help with the bags. Buying food for two isn't the same as buying it for four." And with that, he put on his own jacket and opened the door for her.

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Zack returned back home at four thirty to only find Angeal locked in his room. Zack was on the high school basketball team, so most of his days were spent training. After his shower, his futile search for food, and his even more futile search for his beloved sister and best friend, he picked up his cell phone and called his other best friend.

"Zack?" Zack's friend's monotone voice sounded on the other end of the line.

"Wazzup, Vince?" Zack knew how much Vincent hated that nickname, but after the first five thousand times of warnings and threats, Vincent learned that only Tifa could ever make Zack shut up or even listen.

"I was wondering were you were right now."

"What do you mean?" Zack leaned forward.

"Your sister is shopping with Cloud."

"That's not fair! I want to go too!" He threw on his jacket and darted out the door with his phone still in his hand. "Vince, is she okay?" For once, his tone was serious.

"She's smiling." Was Vincent's response.

Zack grinned. "Good."

"When are you going to tell everyone she's your sister?"

Zack sighed and gazed at the sky. "I don't know man..." He looked at the floor and stopped walking. "I know she doesn't want anyone to know, but I can't keep up with this. You don't know how hard it is to not be able to embrace her or-"

"-You sound like a man in love." Zack blushed and choked. "So? Are you going to tell the truth then? People are starting to grow suspicious. And some think she's your girlfriend." After a few coughs, Zack was finally able to answer.

"She's my sister! I love her as a sister-"

"She's not. You aren't related by blood, and you asked her once."

"Oh, c'mon! We were fourteen! I was young and stupid!"

"Must I remind you that you are only seventeen now?" Zack kept silent. "You love her?"

Zack thought about it. He had always been her friend until her parents... Until her parents died and they became siblings. He had always loved her. Loved? Was it really love? "Vincent." That he was using his entire name meant he was being serious. "What is love?"

"If you are asking me that-" Zack understood it then.

"-It means I'm not in love with her." Zack smiled as he finished Vincent's statement.

..

"Hey guys!" Zack's voice sounded from the other side of the street. He was waving at them. "Cloud! Tifa! Wait for me!" They looked at each other and Tifa shrugged.

When Zack finally made it across the street he took the bags from Tifa and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Spiky! I hope you treated my sister-"

"-Sister?"

A/N: Muahahaha! I'm evil! (Not so much, chap 5 is right there!)

Tifa: "Who is it?"

Zack: "Someone has discovered our secret!"

Cloud: "Zack... You love Tifa?" *Cloud ALMOST receives a punch in the face.* (If it weren't for me...)

Zack: "I love Aerith! Right, LTS?"

LTS: "Yeah! This has Zerith. But..."

Zack: *nods his head* "... Wait! What's that 'but' mean?"

Kou: "Disclaimer: LadyTeefStrife doesn't own anything."

LTS: "R&R! And thanks for reading!"

cloti is happiness! 7/2/2010