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Hello readers! Here is chapter 7. It didn't take me long to write but I had gone to Mexico for the weekend, leaving my laptop at home but I'm back now so I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Final Fantasy characters what so ever! All characters belong to their rightful owners!

Warning: This story does contain inappropriate language/ situations so if that's not your cup of tea then I don't recommend you reading this but I'm also not stopping you.

~Let's begin shall we

Chapter 7

Cloud

I had made it to Tifa's, luckily for me the traffic had cleared and I was able to get there quickly before I crashed and died. I stumbled into the bar and I heard Tifa's voice from the crowd.

"Oh no wait I think I see him!"

I was leaning against the wall because I know at this point; I'm too much in pain to even keep my balance.

"Alright everyone out, we're closing early!" Came Tifa's booming voice. She then shooed all the customers out of the bar.

Once the bar was empty Tifa helped me up the stairs. "Are you ok Cloud? What's wrong?"

"..Ch-chest hurts…" Was all I could manage to get out.

We had made it to her living room and she laid me on the couch. I wish there was something that I could take for this but I knew this was something that I would have to wait out.

"I'm going to get you some water." She sounded a bit panicked and ran off to her kitchen. I looked around the place. Where's Vincent? Is he not here? Tifa returned with a glass of water. I was only able to take a small gulp but that was it because it was just hurting too much. She had set the glass on the floor.

Tifa's door then opened and closed, maybe Vincent was back. The footsteps came towards the living room but instead of seeing Vincent's face it was Zack's, it didn't really help my situation and at this point I just didn't want to see him.

"Cloud." No, don't come closer…

"Get out." I couldn't be around him right now. How could he do this to me when he knew I was engaged? I could feel the anger starting to form. "I can't stand to look at you right now so get out!" maybe screaming wasn't such a good idea, it hurt really badly. I shut my eyes real tight; I wanted to block everything out.

I kept my eyes closed until I heard Zack leave and slam the door shut. Some of the pressure then subsided.

After a while my chest started to feel normal. Tifa stayed by me, giving me water any chance she could get. I was able to sit up.

"Where's Vincent?" I finally asked; he's obviously not here since he didn't make an appearance for an hour now.

I was waiting in the bedroom that I was staying in. It was 3 hours now that Vincent hasn't appeared yet, I was beginning to worry. I had tried calling him a few times but it sent me straight to voice mail. Maybe his phone died? I sat on the bed staring at the digital clock on the dresser; it read 11:43 PM. I was beginning to doze off when I heard the bedroom door open. I looked up to see Vincent standing in the door way with a plastic bad in hand.

"Where were you?" I asked. I was too tired to feel any anger, I was just curious.

"I was walking around, thinking…" He said as he entered the room, closing the door behind him. He sat down on the bed with me and started to dig through the bag. He pulled out a chocolate bar and juice and handed them too me. I smiled and took them.

We had sat there for a while just munching on our snacks.

"I got a call from the publishing company…" He stated as I downed the last of my juice.

"What did they want?" I asked; I know he had gotten a week off work. He sighed and laid down, he stared up at the ceiling.

"They need me back over there…"

"What, when?" I turned to look at him. Is he going to have to leave soon?

"I booked both of us a flight for tomorrow morning." He said. Wait? Both of us? No no no no…I need to stay here for the two weeks so I can get those divorce papers signed.

"Vincent I have to stay here…" I slowly said, preparing for a fight. Luckily he just agreed and went to bed.

I had woken up the next morning alone in bed. I sat up and saw a note left for me on the night stand. Vincent must have already left. The note was written by Vincent telling me that he is gone and that he would call me later.

It was late when I decided to get up and get ready for the day. I seriously didn't know what the hell I'm suppose to do. I don't want to see Zack because he pissed me off and Tifa will be working.

I had walked into the kitchen after my shower to find Tifa reading a book at the table.

"Tifa?" Doesn't she have a bar to run? She looked up from her book and smiled.

"Hey Cloud, how are you feeling?"

"Oh I'm fine but aren't you supposed to be working?"

"I'm closed today. I have to run some errands." I had sat down across from her.

"Ah okay…" We were both quiet for a while when.

"Hey Cloud, I know about the kiss…" I looked to her in surprise. Zack must have told her. I let out a sigh and nodded.

"Yeah…I don't know what to do…"

"Is that why you're mad at Zack?"

"Well yeah, I mean he knows that I'm engaged so how could he do that?"

"Did you kiss him back?" She asked very bluntly. If I were drinking something I would have spit it out.

"W-what?" I asked, maybe she said something else.

"I asked if you kissed him back."

"No!...well…kind of, sort of…" GUH! "Yes, I kissed him back!" I finally admitted. Though Tifa's face was serious and determined her eyes seemed to have gotten brighter.

"Well sounds like you both owe each other an apology…" She snorted and quickly hid her face with the book. Was she laughing?! I got up and pulled the book away from her. She was trying to hide a huge grin on her face.

"Tifa this isn't funny!" I yelled which caused her to break out in laughter. "Gah, whatever!" I threw my hands up in surrender and went back to my room. I sat at the small desk and started taking out some papers. I had decided to work a bit on my novel to get everything off my mind. I was a couple of hours into my work when my phone started to vibrate. I took it and saw that it was Vincent who was calling me, I felt a bit disappointed. Wait why? No I was not hoping that it Zack, no, no, no! I answered and held my phone up to my ear.

"Hey" I said, it felt a bit awkward.

"I just wanted to call and tell you that the lawyer will be there in about 2 week for you and Zack to sign the divorce papers…"

"Yeah… ok…So-" The line then cut off. He hung up on me? What the hell?! I threw my phone on the bed and laid my head down on the desk. I thought back to when Zack had kissed me, I started to kiss him back, and I couldn't control myself. Damn it…

"I have to go and apologize…" I got up and took the rental car keys. Tifa was already gone doing some of her errands. I locked the door on my way out and trotted down the stairs. It was already dark out, holy crap what time is it? Before I opened the car door I check the time on my phone, it was 9:15 PM. Well I'm sure he will still be up. I got in the car and went on my way.

It took me about 15 minutes to get there and I was hoping that it would have taken me longer so I could have more time to prepare myself. I haven't been this nervous in a looong time.

I parked the rental car in the very back. There was more parking in the front but I guess you could say that I was stalling a bit, stalling to the point that I was walking painfully slow to the huge building but I guess I could use this time to admire the large lights that spell out 'The Honey Bee Inn' with a few other lights in the shape of bees around the lettering.

I had made it to the front of the building. I took a deep breath before entering. Let's fucking do this…

I entered the building and was immediately greeted by the honey bees.

"Good evening sir welc- Oh Cloud! Look everyone its Cloud!" One of them started to call out to the others, I started to feel embarrassed. The honey bees immediately stopped what they were doing and started greeting and hugging me, I guess I should get used to the hugging part.

"We missed you Cloud" some of them said even though they literally saw me yesterday.

I finally spoke once they were all done with the hugging. I had looked to the receptionist who had also gotten up to hug me; I think her name was Jill or something. "Do you know where Zack is?"

"Oh he's at a party right now, he will probably be back around 3 in the morning." She answered, she looked a bit pale. Jeez 3 in the morning? She said it so casually.

"O-ohh okay, well I guess I'll have to come back tomorrow then." I said but that just caused all the girls in the room to go 'awwww'. I laughed nervously. "Aha well I don't want to wait till 3 in the morning and I'm sure you guys don't want to get distracted by me so…" Jill then grabbed my arm and with a pleading voice she said.

"Can you do me a favor? Please Cloud?" She almost looked as if she were at the brink of tears. I'm not good with crying women.

"W-well that depends on what you need…" I answered.

"I can't handle the pressure right now! " She yelled, not out of anger or anything but she did sound stressed. I really did not know what to do in this kind of situation. Some of the honey bees had gathered around her to comfort her.

"Please Cloud, could you fill in for me for a few hours..?" She finally asked. That's it? She just wanted me to fill in? Well I guess I could…

"There's a catch though…" One of the honey bees said.

"Yes…" Went Jill, "I know you have experiences with cross dressing-"

"Oh no! No, no, no! No way!" I began. I could not go through that again!

"Cloud please! If there's a male receptionist the Inn won't get as much customers! Please, Cloud I beg of you" She began to cry.

"Oh honey please don't cry..."Cooed some of the honey bees. Oh jeez….

"Ok I'll do it! Just please stop with the crying." I gave in. Jill then ran up and gave me a too tight hug. How does this woman have this much strength, I can't breathe.

"Oh thank you thank you Cloud!"

…and that's how I ended up in the honey bees' dressing room…

I sat in front of a mirror in the honey bees' dressing room. Some of the honey bees where doing my makeup while Jill picked out dresses for me to wear. Why am I so weak with women? WHY?! They even went into details as to painting my nails red.

Once they were done with the makeup and my hair (Which they had a very hard time taming) came the corset… The corset was just as tight as Jill's hug but it did make me a bit curvy which was…weird. Then came the weird dress.

"The poofy shoulders are to hide your broad shoulders, the turtle neck is to hide your adam's apple and the poofy butt is to make you appear curvier" Jill explained with a smile. They were all smiling, admiring their masterpiece. I looked in the mirror and almost fainted. Why do I make such a good girl?!

My hair was curled and I wore a black ribbon for a head band. The contouring of the make-up made my face appear more feminine. The dress was very old school looking (very very old…) It was purple and had a red bow in the back.

"One more thing!" Said one of the honey bees as she came with two water balloons. At first I thought she was going to throw them at someone but it turns out…

"You need breasts." She stated and started to shove them into the dress where it was un-buttoned in the chest.

"W-w-wait! I'm fine without those!"

"They will make it more realistic Cloud! Now stop squirming!"

"Why does it have to be water balloons?!"

"Because they are nice and squishy!"

After a few minutes of squirming and arguing they finally manage to button up the dress. They were all panting.

"We…" Pant "…did it..." Some of them did high fives.

They all lead me out of the room and stayed close as they lead me to the receptionist desk in case I tripped over the heels that they made me wear, turns out that my feet aren't all that big…

Once I was seated Jill started giving me instructions on how to be a receptionist. Turns out that it's not all that hard, I'm great at multi tasking!

"Hey there beautiful, are you available?" Came a man. This was the 5th time I got this shit and I was really close to punching someone in the face but I kept it professional and smiled.

"I'm sorry, sir but all I can offer you is a room and a honey bee. I'm afraid I'm not included" I said in my most feminine voice I could make. I was pretty good! "We have 1st, 2nd and a 3rd class rooms." The man had started to talk again but then something caught my eye- Oh shit! Shit shit shit!

Zack entered the Inn, I looked to the clock and saw that it was a little past 10 o clock. What the hell happened to 3 in the morning!? Okay just play it cool Cloud, you will be fine… But then I saw the Don had also entered; he was accompanied by his two body guards and some woman. Okay now I'm panicking!

"Oh Zack you did get new meat!" The Don said rather loudly. Meat?!

It didn't even take a second for Zack to notice me, first he looked confused then his eyes widened in realization. Zack and one of the Don's body guard's started to whisper to each other. Oh shit what do I do?! The group then started to make their way toward me with the Don practically leading the way. The closer he got the more disgusting images came to my head, I remembered Jill telling me that she kept some kind of knife under the desk. I slipped my left hand under the desk and felt the handle of the knife. If he so much as tries to touch me I will stab his ugly face. I wasn't joking either; this man is a horrible disgusting person that deserves to fucking rot in hell.

The Don had made it to the table before everyone else. He leaned in, his face looked red and flushed, maybe he got good exercise from that walking. I leaned back in my chair; keeping my left hand on the knife handle, I wanted to keep as much of a distance as possible.

"My my, look at you…" He licked his lips as his eyes started to roam my body; I had to keep myself from gagging. "Oh I will definitely have you…" The rest of the group finally caught up. Zack looked just as panicked as me. His eyes looked into mine but then they were brought down to where my left hand was, he then jumped into conversation with the Don. "Yes she's just volunteering right now but how about we start on that tour!" But the Don ignored him and asked.

"What's your name darling?" The endearment almost made me puke but I managed to smile at him and act.

"My name is Clou-" Shit! " Ah… Claudia…" Just then the desk phone started to ring. "I'm sorry but I must get back to work…" Thank you phone! Zack took it as an opportunity too and was finally able to convince the Don to start on the tour.

I must have been holding my breath or something because once they were out of sight it felt like I could breathe again. I jumped at the vibration of my cell phone. It was a text from Zack, it read 'Stay where you are I will have them leave from the back. DON'T MOVE.' I couldn't tell if the capitals where him being angry or not…

Zack finally came back alone an hour later. I jumped out of my seat and walked around the desk; out of the receptionist spot.

"What. The. Fuck!" Was the first thing that came out of his mouth. I started to feel like a kid being lectured by their parent. "What are you- Why are-" He seemed to be at a loss for words. He started to walk back and forth probably trying to think of something to say.

After a minute or two he finally stopped in front of me. "What are you doing?!" He finally said.

"W-we-well I'm doing Jill a favor…" I was looking around to try and avoid his eyes. Zack then put both hands on my shoulders and started to shake ma a little.

" I can't even imagine what would of happened if he recognized you!" he yelled. Oh well that's a simple thing to answer.

"I probably would of stabbed his eyes out, that what would of happened." But wait…Why he is so worried if the Don recognized me or not… I was about to ask him when he grabbed one of my water balloon boobs.

" and what the hell are these!?"

"…water balloons…" He was quiet for a second but then started to squeeze the water balloon until it popped.

"Ahh! You basterd!" I now had one boob and a wet dress…

I was in Zack's bathroom washing the make-up off my face in his sink. I was back into the clothing that I came in.

Zack was sitting on his couch; his head was laid back and his eyes where shut. I couldn't tell whether he was asleep or not. I walked up to him but he still sat there, so I decided to shove my finger in one of his nostrils. I seriously don't know why I did that…

Zack jumped. "Ah!" I had pulled my hand away and watched him rub at his nose. "The hell man!"

"That's what you get for popping my boob!" He stopped and stared at me, we where both quiet but then we broke out in laughter. I guess hearing a man complain about his boob getting popped was pretty funny, it was.

After we calmed down we sat back on the couch.

"So um…" I began; I remembered that I still needed to apologize. "…Sorry for being an ass hole, the kiss was my fault too."

"I'm sorry too… how about we just forget about it, eh?" Zack said. Sounded good enough to me.

"Okay…" The room became quiet. So should I go or…? "So that girl, Sam, any word from her?"

"No, I still don't even know if she's just ditching or if something bad happened…" Zack sounded stressed about the whole situation, I felt kind of bad.

"You think you should call the cops or something?"

"No, no cops. I can't risk this place shutting down with me and the girls going to prison…" Oh, never thought about that. I put my hand on his shoulder as an attempt to comfort him.

"Maybe we can start our search tomorrow. We can ask around and-"Zack's phone let out a sound. He picked it up and unlocked the screen. After a second or two of looking at it he jumped up from the couch.

"It's from Sam!" He exclaimed. He had a smile on his face so I was guessing it was all good. He turned to look at me; still wearing a huge smile. "She says that she's alright!"

Things where starting to look up…

END CH 7

I really enjoyed writing this chapter and I hope you enjoyed reading it. The upcoming chapters will start getting even better so please stick around.

Thank you for reading!