When You're Gone
Chapter 10: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Morning finally broke through the endless night. I'd had a fitful sleep dreeming of being surrounded by light trying to find myself. Then there was a beeping noise coming from flowers that smelled like skunks which were randomly falling like bombs that hadn't been there two seconds ago. Then I opened a door and saw Tifa and Shelke kissing and Vincent and Cid talking (and by talking I mean Cid swearing at Vincent). Then I head my head on a lightswitch and woke up.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Oh, you're awake!" Tifa said, "Well, Shelke and I were just thinking that as girls we should go hang out, since this whole Deepground thing is gettin in the way of everything."

So, the three of us went out. We got massages, facials, manicures, pedicures, and had our hair done in three hours. (Tifa payed, on the price I'd return Cloud's stolen materia. I'd made a fuss saying that just because materia randomly vanished it didn't automatically mean it was my fault. She didn't buy it...)

I must say that I hadn't had this much fun since I stole Cloud's materia last week. It was soo relaxing.

Then we went to a fast food restaraunt,

"So, how's everything?" I asked Tifa.

"They're fine. Last weekend Cloud brought me out to this reallyfancy restaraunt." Tifa launched into a full story about her date for the next five minutes, making sure to remember exactly what happened down to how many times Cloud used the bathreoom. Finally, she took a breath and said, "What about you?"

"How many times we went to the bathroom?" I asked.

"No, no," Tifa said, obviously embarassed, "How are your lives going?"

"Pretty well," Shelke said, "Vincent and I are going out if no Deepground issues come up."

"Speaking of Deepground, did you guys ever go out?" I asked for no apparent reason, but somehow it seemed very important.

"No, not really, but it was rumored that Weiss and Rosso got together for awhile," Shelke said, "And Azul claimed he walked in on Restrictor and Argento doing it, but if he did, they would have killed him, so the reallity of the situation has to be decided..."

I smirked at that.

"For awhile, I liked Nero, but then I gave up on that," Shelke continued.

"I wonder what it's like in Deepground," Tifa wondered aloud.

"It's...different."

"Let's talk about something else," I suggested.

"Yeah, like your secret lover," Tifa teased.

"Well, that wasn't what I had in mind," I said nervously.

"Come on, tell us!" Tifa begged.

"Well, he's a little taller than me, he's got dark hair, red eyes," I said only what he had told me.

"Oooh, he's a mysterious stranger!" Tifa said, "What's he like?"

"He's..." I didn't know what to say, but then suddenly I said this: "He has many secrets and is really deep. He's gentle, bet firm and strong. Just being around him is comforting. He's caring, and sometime's it's like he's calling my name..."

I remembered last night, the beauty of how I could feel his presense, reaching out to me, as though the dark was calling me.

"Wow," Shelke said, "He sounds...interesting."

I saw her glance at me suspiciously.

"You're so in love," Tifa sighed, "You describe him like a vampire. It sounds like you got over Vincent."

Over Vincent. Yes, I had. I didn't love Vincent like I loved him. This was different. This was a feeling that burned in my chest. It stung, but in a beautiful, beautiful way.

I knew why he'd left. He didn't want me to hate him, or be disgusted by him. How could I be disgusted by someone so amazing, someone I loved so much?

Or I was just fooling myself. But as I'd thought before, it was like he was calling and to me, and I was calling back.

"Yuffie?" Shelke asked.

"Yes, Tifa," I answered Tifa, "I'm over Vincent."

This wasn't just love. This was a feeling that his existence was simply enough.

Beyond a physical feeling. Just knowing that he existed seemed to warm my heart, and send a wave of energy through me.

It was like filling an empty hole inside of me.

Gah! The charectors are so OOC.

Now, I must say that this is all told from Yuffie's POV, so this is how she sees things. Please, please, please understand that. I know that I totally murdered the charectors, but this is just so much fun to write!

Now, please, please, please review! Reviews make the world go round!