Blonde Ambition
A Cloud & Tifa Fanfiction
- Amaranthos –
Chapter 10: Hanging out
Stupid Shera, she didn't understand the importance of Vincent knowing me and moreso understanding the bigger picture of someday marrying him. I knew I would marry him, because I once had my hand read by a futurist who said I would marry a man with Hearts… when she said that back in the day, I asked her for an instant refund… but now my future was looking up and Shera really wasn't being supportive…
As I stood in the line I saw a popular face, not to mention a bitch himself…
Sephiroth…
He was absolutely so full of himself. A group of girls were crowding around him as he sat on the rock stage tuning his guitar…
I actually thought he was alot different, but seeing him with some of the prettiest girls swarmed around him, I couldn't help but feel repulsive thoughts at him. In fact I felt quite angry…agitated, annoyed…
I'm not sure why exactly why I was totally upset with Sephiroth, but I knew I was angry at him. Perhaps I thought he was different and maybe he honestly wasn't shitting around with Tifa or how she felt… but seeing what the trashy media could somehow do, and by that affect his high-status repertoire… I wasn't sure what there was left for him…
I bought the two waters and found myself being driven to him out of shear anger… as he descended the stairs. I followed him.
"Hey you!" I called out…
He looked at me. His infamous death-pretty-boy stare couldn't do shit on me…
He said nothing…
"I need to speak with you" I made my disposition clear…
He looked at me almost in the most bored way.
The girls around Sephiroth dispersed and we were left to speak alone.
"You know" I started hastily, "you're absolutely totally full-of-it… I actually thought you were different from us 'normal' people and our petty outtakes on life, but gosh, you're no different" I said it…
He touched his brow and then narrowed his eyes, "should I know where all of this came from?" he stared at me…
"Yeh you should… this came from the article Scarlett wrote about you and Tifa and then you just acted as if, your reputation will sorely damaged. It's like Tifa's being insulted you. You didn't want to have anything to do with Tifa. You know, I can't believe you"
For the first time I could honestly see an honest confusion… it was like what I said… he didn't realize…
But then again, I wasn't about to assume that for a pretty boy like him.
It was about fifteen minutes later we saw Yuffie, during that time Shera bought herself a water. And we had long finished our meals…
She came back with the same cheery expression teasing Shera…
"I could have died if I was in need of water" I spoke to Yuffie…
"Yeh yeh, you ain't dead" Yuffie handed me my water…
"So where did you run off too?" asked Shera…
"My business" she informed…
"Um… by the way, your fish and chips got cold" I spoke…
Yuffie fumed…
'It was Thursday, one of my favourite days in the whole week. Usually I would go to school, have my Physics classes and then for a long time talk with Yuffie and Shera on the campus lawn about all sorts of crud.
It was excellent gossip time Yuffie called it. But as much I wanted to disagree, that's exactly what we did…'
"So today you look pretty Tifa.. I see you're not wearing your frumpy-granny dresses anymore" Yuffie bit one of the slices of her apple and looked at Tifa.
Tifa rolled her eyes, "I guess so…"
"Hey hey, look at these cute dresses Forever 21 now brought out" she showed the girls the website…
"You know what we should do, we should go after school and check out the store in the mall… oh my gosh we can get some really cute dresses" Shera sounded very excited…
"Since when are you into dresses galore?" Yuffie asked…
She gave a wicked smirk, "well I realized that if I take my favourite nerd and make her the most desirable girl with just some nice makeup, clothes and hair… it's bound to work for me, especially if I got 2 out of three already" she teased Tifa…
Tifa stuck out her tongue…
"So if it's nice clothes I need, esp dresses then sister I'm so gonna get some" Shera scrolled down looking at the different pictures of the dresses that were hot for this spring.
"So have you guys began studying for your Ad English exams?" Tifa asked flipping through her huge textbook.
Yuffie groaned before lying flat on the grass…
"Do not even bring up English or exams, or anything with studying…or school" she covered her eyes, "I'm like screwed when it comes to English…" she sighed, "honestly I can't keep getting a friggin 52 in English. Mrs. Takada keeps reminding me I need a 60 to pass and every time I try and really focus on studying, I end up with a lower mark…" she sighed again, "I'm beginning to think the fates don't like me"
Tifa nodded, "I don't blame you. I absolutely hate the subject and Mrs. Takada is like so critical when it comes to English, I swear she honestly fails people for the sheer fun of it…" Tifa looked down at the time and saw it was 10:25 AM… soon it would be intermission..
"Why are we talking about English?" Shera asked, still surfing the net.
"Urh because mid-term results are coming out tomorrow woman, la duh!" Yuffie spoke…
"Ah, right…" she seem to sadden a bit.
For a long time the girls just sat there thinking silently. Tifa noticed how both girls were really taking in the results of their English… then she started on a new note…
"Sooo, Shera…" Tifa stated…
"Tifa!!" someone called out…
Looking up it was Zack.
"Oh look, it's the boy who thinks we're not good enough to help out. Whatcha call him again, Zack?" Yuffie was keen to remember what Zack said.
Tifa laughed. Tifa got up and ran to his side…
"Hey" she smiled…
"Hello missy… I got a message for you" he started…
"Oh?"
"Um, Rufus Shinra wanted me to give you this…" it was a plain white envelope…
"Who?" I questioned before taking any envelope…
Zack scractched his head, "urh, the blonde guy with blue eyes… he's in our English class… um, oh, Scarlett fancies him" he spoke…
"No… I still don't know who you're talking about"
Zack took my shoulders and pointed me into the direction of 'Rufus'.
'Ahh, I remember this punk, he was the one who just stared at me and I swore I was gonna be pinned against the wall… ack!'
"I don't think I want anything from him…" I weakly smiled…
"Alright then" with that he left…
Tifa observed Zack giving Shinra the package back. Tifa turned her back and made her way to her friends.
"What was that all about?" Yuffie asked staring at Tifa expectantly…
"I dunno… some guy call Rufus who nearly pinned me against a wall wanted to give me something" Tifa explained…
"Oh my goodness! Tifa… do you know who Rufus is?" Yuffie grabbed Tifa's shoulders, almost being frantic about her friend's actions…
"Urhh.."
"That's what I thought you'd say…" she paused. For a long time she looked at Tifa before slowly cracking up. "I'm only messing with yah… I have no idea who that is, thought it might be funny to wrap your head" she winked…
Tifa pelt her empty cup at Yuffie…
"Such violence…" Yuffie pointed out…
"Violence, ohh, that's nothing"
"Shera come help me" Yuffie got up and began running off with Tifa hot on her heels…
"Nope… too busy" she continued to surf the web..
"Some friend you are… leaving me to die…" Yuffie screamed seeing Tifa right behind her…
After a full day of school the girls headed to the mall. The mall, thought the girls. It was always packed with tweenagers, adults and little children. It really wasn't the kind of the place they enjoyed anymore. But today being Thursday, the mall wasn't that crowded. As usual the girls would buy themselves some nice pink and purple cotton candy and some multi-coloured pop-corn and walk through the mall window-shopping. Every dress or fashionable piece of clothing they saw they would glue their faces to the window before realizing it would be a gazillion dollars to get.
After eating their food, they entered one of the forever 21's in the mall. Immediately the three girls went into the dresses section. There was every type of dress for every type of occasion in every colour. There were dresses for spring, for parties, for casual outings and more. Shera began looking at the really formal cocktail dresses whereas Yuffie and Tifa fell into the category of casual Spring dresses. The colours this year were really pretty thought both girls…
Tifa picked out a couple affordable dresses, knowing she couldn't exactly splurge the way she'd want since she was still paying apartment fees and the only money she had was from the many years working before she came to Tokyo University. She couldn't use money like a wild woman, and so, the only things she could purchase had to add up to a maximum of hundred dollars.
Yuffie and Shera were different. Yuffie was born naturally into a rich family, so her parents funded all her shopping escapades and Shera worked in a high class restaurant as an assistant manager, so her pay wasn't too bad for her to splurge every once in a while.
Tifa showed both Yuffie and Shera her dresses. They were cute, very feminine as always and short since they were Spring dresses. Shera and Yuffie implored Tifa to find a nice cocktail dress that she would wear sometime for a future party or event on the campus. Tifa reluctantly agreed and found herself looking at a plethora of dresses she didn't understand. She confessed more than once she was not the dress-up type, and this was a clear example of such.
Tifa eventually chose one but both girls scrapped her choice saying it would not accentuate or even be suffice for the new blonde and beautiful Tifa Lockhart.
In the end both girls chose an entirely different type of dress for Tifa. In a million years Tifa would have never wore a dress like that, but… here it was her friends were buying her things she necessarily didn't … like…
Yuffie jumped at a red dress, loving the smooth satin texture. She rubbed her face against the material.
"It's so smooth, imagine me in this and Vincent walking toward me in a black tuxedo… ohh, I could die now" she day-dreamed…
"You know you should really stop day-dreaming aloud" Shera reprimanded…
"Why, jealous I can actually day-dream about the guy I liked and you can't?" she snapped her fingers in a semi-ghetto manner…
"Urh, no… I can day-dream honey… but at least I don't need to get annoying like you when it comes to Cid…" Shera spoke …
"Whatever…" Yuffie paused, "so I just wanted to inform you girls I'm inviting you guys to the Reach a Mile competition, you know the one where I swim to Jushun island. Well I was informed by Mr. Katashi that it's gonna be aired on television, and there's gonna be a bar-be-que where all profits go to helping nations in need. It's really gonna be great, because after the competition, people are just gonna have a great time bathing in the ocean, wearing their bikinis" Yuffie stared at Tifa…
"Oh no I'm not wearing that thing… I was given a present I necessarily don't have to oblige too" Tifa informed…
"Yeh, well you'll be destroying the code" Shera explained…
"What code?"
"You know, the code. Everyone knows about the code" Yuffie pointed out.
"Everyone except me. You guys are messing with me aren't you?" Tifa asked them…
"Messing with you? How could you be so cruel… I mean, I would never… Shera maybe, but me, no no" Yuffie tried to sound innocent…
Shera glared her daggers…
"The code Tifa, is nothing short of what Buddhist monks call the final order of karma. They say when you transform yourself… or rather reincarnate who you are, there must be a symbol or gesture of completion. A single object which finishes and signifies the transformation. I know, sounds epic but its true" Yuffie explained…
"You girls are such bad liars… Buddhist monks!" Tifa could hardly believe her friends…
The both girls laughed…
"At least you were falling for it" Shera poked Tifa…
"I was not"
"Yeh but really, you better wear that bikini, it's an original from Astrid. It's a one of kind kid…besides it costs good money so you are ABSOLUTELY OBLIGATED by wearing it… no buts, none, zip, dot, el fin" Yuffie spoke…
Tifa sighed… "not a bikini"
"Why not, what's so horrible about it?" Shera asked…
"Yeah, what did bikinis ever do to you?" Yuffie leaned in.
Tifa looked down, "it's just… I've never gotten into anything that skimpy before…" Tifa explained…
"Oh Tifa… bikinis will never be given a good name due to the skimpy meaning" Yuffie explained, "I mean I'm pin thin and I wear a bikini… but it's more of an accentuation tool" she explained…
"An accentuation tool?"
"Yeh, it gives the pin thin the extra umph they need, the square-shape's like me, the pizzazz and the voluptuous like you only more of the edge…" Shera explained…
"Yeh, but it's still gonna freak me out wearing one in front of all those people… and besides it's just so skimpy" Tifa seem to be hitting on one point alone…
"Look Tifa… your transformation has opened up several doors for you. It's given you a new perception on how you look at yourself and how you see life. And honestly, holding on to something as trivial as a bikini being skimpy, is something the old Tifa would say. This new Tifa should accept this bikini and look herself in and realize it's all a good challenge and a new refreshing change… come on kid, life is meant to be lived… so live it up" Yuffie pat her friend on her back…
'Live it up huh?'
To be continued…