A:N/ I am once again on a roll! This chapter was really hard to update, mostly because I had to change so much. The end of this chapter is completely different than it was before, mostly because I felt that the pacing of the story was going wayyyy to fast. Anyway, Heres the update of chapter four, and I hope you enjoy it.
My heart was racing, and my stomach was doing flips inside of me. I was wearing pink skinny jeans and a black t-shirt. Yuffie picked them out, and threatened that if I didn't wear them she would force a black party dress on me. And of course I being a guy, who didn't feel like getting the crap beat out of him, chose the outfit she intended for me to wear.
So I stepped inside finally, and the small thumping of the beat I could barely hear from outside had completely overtaken my ears. It was literally shaking the floor as I walked to Yuffie, who had a black mini dress on. She smiled brightly grabbing my wrist and pulling me into a hug. Vanille and Rikku were there with her and poor Tifa was in the center of them. Tifa was dressed in a green t-shirt with a black skirt, her make-up was light, but Vanille seemed to be trying to thicken it up, and Tifa was about to slug her in the face.
"You look…" Yuffie began with an excited tone.
"FABULOUS!" Rikku finished for her, practically screaming it. Rikku was wearing an orange mini dress with black heels; her hair was put in a ponytail with intricate braids. Vanille was wearing an orange t-shirt with a pink mini skirt, and brown dress like thing flowing from the back. Her pink hair was in two curled up pig tails without the braids. Her green eyes were brightened from the small amount of blue eye shadow she was wearing.
I blushed and nodded toward Rikku thanking her for the compliment. I sat on the couch where they were sitting slightly moving my body to the beat of the music. I closed my eyes and continued to move my hips to the beat nodding my head as well. Someone poked my back making me snap my eyes open and look around. What I found were beautiful amethyst eyes staring into mine.
"Want to dance?" a deep voice asked me, and all I could do was nod. I stood up and was led to the dance area in the living room. I followed his lead dancing to the beat adding my own movements into the steps, his body ground into my mine in an almost erotic manner so I reciprocated. It had been so long since I had even imagined myself dancing, and now I was with a complete and utter stranger, even though I knew his name I had no idea who he was.
When the song ended I stopped dancing and laughed. "Thanks for the dance; it was a lot of fun."
"My pleasure…" He said. And I walked back over to the couch where my friends were sitting, Yuffie of course was bouncing up and down in her seat practically about to burst in excitement.
"Okay Yuffie spill your thoughts before they burst out and you embarrass yourself." I said giggling.
"CLOUD, do you have any idea who that was?" She asked excitedly, and when I nodded she squealed, making me laugh. "Come on Cloud, it's amazing he even talked to you, let alone practically dry humped you." She said still bouncing in her seat. I sighed softly and blushed knowingly, though now I felt like I had cheated on him. My heart squeezed slightly in my chest at the thought of the red-haired angel. Now more than ever though I knew it was time to let him go.
I excused myself with the excuse of the need to use the restroom, and made my way through the crowd to the stairs following them up to the first open door. The room was nothing short of what would be called the master bedroom. The bed had to be king size, and there was some type of expensive looking computer on a desk off to the corner of the room. But that was all my brain could really register because it was still jarred from the intense beat of the music down stairs.
I closed the door and slid to the floor, I needed this time to think over what had just happened downstairs with Zack. I'm sure that he didn't even know who I really was or that I was completely broken but still he seemed to be everywhere I went. It turns out his father owns the cinema hence the name Fair Valley Cinema 21. I could guess that he got free movies whenever he wanted due to that fact.
And not to mention that he worked at hot topic, the store that had become my second home. So in a way it felt as though he were stalking me. But to be honest, in a way I knew it was vice versa, he had been there for god knows how much longer before me.
There was a knock at the door so I stood up and opened it. And of course it was Zack, like I said he was stalking me. I sighed. "Zack, what are you doing up here?"
"I needed to get away from the crowd, and in all of the other bedrooms were the serious couples, so I decided on the room without moaning and groaning." He said as if it were an everyday occurrence, which in his world, it probably was. So I did all I really could at the moment, nod and step to the side inviting him in. once he was in I close the door and sat back down in my place on the bed right next to it, turning this time to have my back against the headboard. He took a seat right in front of me flashing a heart stopping smile. I dropped my head and gazed intently at the floor, biting my lip.
"Are you okay?" He asked. My reply was a quick nod with a fake plastered on smile. I had gotten pretty good at faking during my zombie phase, and I knew that if I could convince Tifa that I was okay that I could convince someone that I hardly knew I was. But he didn't look fooled and I frowned. "You know, saying that you are okay, when you clearly aren't isn't good for your mental health, if you aren't okay, don't try to force yourself to be okay.
I spoke up quickly. "I am really okay, I'm just not used to this scene anymore: this is the first party I've been too since well, a year ago." I said, avoiding the name of the person that I went with to the last party I was at.
"Oh, yeah I forgot, I used to see you two together all the time at these things, you two always seemed to be in your own little world. It was sweet to watch the way you two always seemed to move as the other moved." He said smiling gently. "Reno was a great guy, and I am very sorry that you lost him the way you did Cloud." He said with a genuine sincerity, and it made me smile.
"The last party we had gone to was in this house, and we danced to a slow song, after that song something big happened, and well, it's just crazy being here again." I said shaking my head.
"What exactly happened? If you don't mind me asking…" He said with a worried tone. I closed my eyes and stood up biting my lip.
"He proposed to me. We set the date for two months after we graduated." I said sullenly. "Then a week later I was at his funeral." I shook my head and laced my voice with fury. "Life likes to throw you the biggest curveballs, and this one, it wasn't one of the good ones; this one left me lying on the cold hard floor with my heart bleeding."
His eyes widened at my sudden anger. "I honestly don't know what you've been through, I don't know the feeling of losing someone that you love like that so suddenly, especially when you had planned to spend the rest of your life with this person." And I could tell that he meant it, the sincerity in his voice was clear.
I closed my eyes and bit my lip feeling like I could cry at any moment. "It's a hard thing to go through." I said biting my lip harder. "No it's not hard, hard is too easy of a word, it's an excruciating thing to go through."
"I don't doubt that one bit." He said touching my arm. I closed my eyes and subtly moved away from him clenching my eyes tighter shut, holding back the tears that tingled at my eyes.
"I would hope not." I said with a quivering voice. He placed his hand on my shoulder and I didn't bother to move away, I just let him do it, I opened my eyes and the tears that I had been holding back began to fall down my face and I stubbornly wiped them away hoping in vain that if I wiped hard enough that it would be like they were never there in the first place.
"It's okay; it's all going to be okay Cloud." He said pulling me close. I cried for what seemed like hours, but he never broke the hug, he kept his arms wrapped around me until I had finally stopped crying.
After the hug ended he looked into my eyes and I bit my lip wiping away the remainder of the tears. "Thank you Zack." I said with a small voice, it was still quivering and it was hard to talk above a whisper, thanks to all the crying.
He nodded and smiled a bit. "You're welcome." He said staring into my eyes so deeply it was almost as if he was staring into my soul. I blushed and looked down. He took his finger and lifted my chin leaning in and placing his lips against mine. I slowly wrapped my arms around his neck, and he deepened the kiss. At this point I had let go of any self-control I once had, I needed this kiss, and I needed the person that had his arms wrapped around me. He let go of me and I adjusted myself.
"I am so sorry." He said and I shook my head.
"Don't be." I said offering a small smile.
"I have to go." He said and hurried out the door, I didn't wait long to follow behind him, I walked down the stairs slowly and bit my lip as I thought of what had just happened, Zack had kissed me, I had kissed him back. I shook my head lightly and smiled, what a party.
I walked over to my friends all the while still smiling cheekily as I squirmed through the crowd awkwardly, when I finally made my way to them I plopped on the couch that they had made themselves comfortable on, looking at them each of them looked at me like I was crazy.
"Are you drunk or something?" Rikku said in a teasing voice.
"No!" I said defensively and I looked over to see Tifa eyeing me to see if I was telling the truth or not.
"Then why are we all smiles and sighs, hm?" Yuffie said walking over to me poking me in the chest
"None of your business?" I muttered under my breath and looked away from her, then completely froze as I looked at the door. "Reno?" And at the utterance of his name, I knew I had gone completely mad.