Chapter
11:
Safe from danger
Tifa
woke up and stared blindly up at the strong, blue heaven over her
head, uncertain of where she was. The green grass under her felt
quite familiar, the brunet heard footsteps not far away from herself,
and tried to get herself over in a sitting position, to check out who
it was. The footsteps stopped next to her, but she had still some
problems with moving, and then she heard someone sigh.
"I
found you… even though I had no idea you would be in this shape"
the boy over her muttered soft and sat himself down next to her.
His mako coloured eyes scanned the girl beneath for damages, but so
far it was just some wounds here and there. "Lets get you home,
huh? Unless you want to stay here" he joked, but got serious again
when she didn't laugh with him. He took one of his arms under her
knee, and one behind her back and lifted her up. She made a low,
pained sound as she was in his arms, and he apologized and walked
back to there he had parked his motorcycle.
After
nearly an hour with driving, Zack had managed to get back to his own
house. He went up the stairs to his room, with Tifa in his arms. The
dark haired man opened his bedroom door, and placed Tifa careful down
on his mattress, then he leaved the room and closed the door silent
after him.
A few minutes later Zack returned to his room and sat himself down on the edge of his bed, on the white sheet. Tifa lay with her head on a white pillow, on her stomach. the dark haired man glanced at the sleeping woman next to himself.
Tifa came to herself again, and peered up into the ceiling in the room. This wasn't her room, this wasn't 7th Heaven. The room felt unfamiliar, and the dimensions wrong, and by judging the man beside her, it was Zack's room.
"welcome back!" he murmured softly and patted her head. The woman's brown forehead hair looked fluffy after she had slept on the pillow.
"what happened?" she wondered and pinched the bridge of her nose. He looked confused, but smiled a little. He peered out the window, not sure what he should tell her, he could lie, but then again lying wasn't nice at all. But the truth was a little bit complicated, and he wasn't really sure of what he should tell her.
"that was what I'd hoped you could answer me… and by the way, you're in my room, if you wondered" that was the best he could come up with? Man, he felt like a total looser at the moment, but he had to break that embarrassing silence that had filled the room. She looked around in his room, and nodded before she replied.
""thought so" she replied with a smile, and he looked at her white teethes, it was like they were taken out of a tooth past commercial.
"what do you think?" he laid himself back on his bed again, and Tifa used a few moments to scan the room with her eyes before she judged it. It didn't look that bad, at least it was clean, and not many boy rooms were clean. Or had a system at all.
"about your room?" she hesitated and he nodded.
"uh-huh" she bit her lower lip as she tried to find something nice to say, and after awhile she had found something.
"well, it's clean at least… one of the best male rooms I've seen for a good while" she said with a grin, and he touched her palm gently, but pulled his hand away again when she reacted on his touch. She didn't bother to say anything to him, or protest, but his cheeks turned a pale pink colour.
"pleases me to hear that" Zack muttered and glared at her.
"where's Cloud?" her question came so unexpected that Zack felt his heart sank in his chest, she still wanted to send time with Cloud, even though she was in his room. The dark haired man had hoped that she would miss him a little too,
"I don't know Tifa…" he lied, but didn't really care if he lied this time. But he was a terrible liar, and Tifa knew that Zack lied.
"oh well, I don't care anyway… he's not done with Aerith, even though she's dead." She muttered soft, and the man with the mako enchanted eyes grinned.
"what's dead should stay dead… there's nothing else he can do than move on!" he agreed, and the brunette nodded soft.
"pleases me to hear that, you're right." He didn't think over the situation, and kissed Tifa soft on her cheek. Her brown eyes widened a bit, and Zack pulled himself back and blushed. It was a long moment of silence, before Zack came up with something to say again. His mako enchanted eyes tried to look up at the ceiling, but his little incident had made him so embarrassed that he wasn't sure where he should or should not look.
"I'm sorry" he sighed and looked at her with eyes that wanted safeness and comfort, but she shook her head gently and smiled bright to him. Her left palm covered his cheek and he smiled back to her.
"no… don't be sorry… you didn't do anything wrong you know…" Tifa assured him and smiled gently at him. He had kissed her, who cared if it was on her cheek? It was still worth it, it was still a start. And for a long time, he was the first one that had ever cared, and wanted to be together with her.
Authors
note:
Sorry, short chapter, but it was at least a kiss in there,
right? So I did make thing all right again, didn't I? Longer
chapter next time, I promise!
Characters (C) Square Enix.