Finally! An update! I do hope 3,512 words is enough for all of you great and fantastic readers!

This chapter is a bit different in scenario, so I hope you enjoy it.

I promise I will update this in a few days!

Trouble for Me

Since Cloud got back from his deliveries, he couldn't help but notice how strange Aerith had been acting. She was watching her weight more. Dressing in clothes Cloud thought she would never wear. She even started to spend more and more time around Yuffie and Tifa. He knew something was up… but didn't know what. He tried putting the little clues together to find out what was going on but he kept drawing after the girl's night out, Cloud grew even more curious about what the three women were up to.

When Aerith arrived back at their house the next morning, Cloud greeted her with chaste kiss and the crisp smell of lemons invaded his senses. He pulled back from the kiss to say; "What is that?"

Aerith remembered the day before and came up with a random and untrue excuse; "Oh, it's lemon juice. It's good for your skin. Yuffie told me about it."

Despite not believing her Cloud acted as though he did, "Oh," as soon as those words left her lips, Cloud felt Aerith pull away and walk into their room, noticing a big bag in her hand. "What's in the bag?" Cloud asked as she left his sights. Without turning around, she continued in the room and answered nervously; "It's, um, got some cosmetics Yuffie's letting me borrow."

Cloud nodded his head and sighed. That he could believe. After all... girls and make up go hand in hand? Still, he knew she was hiding something but he couldn't figure out what or why. After a few moments Cloud followed Aerith into the room, he wanted to get to the bottom of this mystery once and for all. He saw her heading into their bathroom. "I'm taking a shower, all right?"

Even though he would rather ask her what's been going on with her... he knew it'd be best to just let her do her own thing rather than interrupt her. Letting out a sigh, Cloud replied; "Yeah, I gotta head out anyway."

Aerith stopped and turned to Cloud; "What for?"

"I've gotta deliver a few things, I'll be back around 3 or 4."

Aerith watched Cloud leave the room and then got into her shower.

x-x-x

Only a few hours passed by from when Cloud left and it was about 5:00PM now. Despite hating being alone, Aerith was keeping herself busy making the best of a lonely (and boring) situation until Cloud came back. She was right in the middle of one of her favorite parts of a film when Aerith heard a knock at the front door. Even though she was in the middle of watching one of her favorite tragic love films she muted the t.v. and rushed to the door. She cracked open the door and before she could say even a hello she saw her two best friends waiting for her. Wide grins were plastered on Yuffie and Tifa's faces as they rushed in.

Noticing the mischievous looks on their faces Aerith had to ask what was up. "What's going on guys?" without answering, the two girls dragged her into her bedroom, plopping her onto the bed abruptly. The two friends plopped besides her and dumped out two bags. Aerith glanced at the pile of items. There was a couple pieces of clothing, some different makeup items, and a few pair of shoes.

"What's all this for?"

"You." Yuffie proclaimed.

"But I already have this kind of stuff."

"No," Tifa cut in, "not like this."

Aerith dug through the pile and picked up a slim black dress, "I have 'sexy' dresses" Aerith defended. "I picked them out myself, guys." She crossed her arms and placed the dress back on the bed, a look of confusion on her face.

Tifa began to explain, "Well, Aerith, your clothes are sexy. But we needed some really sexy clothes for tonight."

"Why?" Aerith mumbled, half not wanting to even know what was going to happen tonight.

"Well—"Tifa started but then Yuffie beat her to the chase; "Because we're going out tonight… we're going out clubbing!"

"Clubbing?" Aerith repeated. Her mouth in the shape of a circle as she thought of what that could ever possibly mean. Yuffie recognized her best friend's expression of confusion and felt the need to explain just what the term meant. "You see Aerith, clubbing is going to be us(you, me, and Tifa) dressed up really really sexy and thennnn—"she stretched the n sound in the last word before continuing; "we're going out to the hottest joint," she interrupted herself to inform Aerith what a joint was; "and in case your innocent mind is unaware, a joint is where people dance and drink and meet hot guys… so that's where we're going!"

"Doesn't it sound fun!" Tifa proclaimed happily as she punched Aerith's arm lightly. As the two friends stared at Aerith, they noticed how… unenthused she looked.

"Guys, I don't want to go out and do that. I don't like drinking! I don't like dancing—to be honest, I'm terrible at it! And I don't need to look for men! I have the best one a girl could ask for." Her face softened to a small pout; " I just—" before she could finish Tifa butted in; "Look, Aerith. If you're in a sexy element, being sexy will cling to you. Instead of trying to act sexy for Cloud then failing and looking more innocent then before, you could go out, meet some random guys, try your moves on them and see if they work and then come back and work your magic on Cloud."

She paused briefly, "I know it seems different or useless, but believe me, it'll do you a lot of help."

"Yeah, Aerith," Yuffie chimed in, "After you show Cloud how sexy you can be, there's not gonna be a doubt in your mind that he'll always want you and not some bimbo after this!"

Aerith let out a defeated sigh and looked to her lap as Tifa patted her back; "Now, come on let's get ready to go."

As Yuffie and Tifa rose off of the bed, Aerith couldn't help but think… "he won't leave me for a bimbo…if I act like the bimbo…" that somehow didn't seem right to Aerith, not in the slightest. However, who was she to question advice that two obviously gorgeous and sexy women were giving her. She should count herself lucky she was getting the inside scoop. A chance to keep her man wanting only her. She thought of Cloud getting bored with her and she felt her heart drop. She would never want Cloud to leave her because she wasn't mature enough in certain areas of a relationship. So, she made up her mind. If doing all of this was going to help their relationship last longer, then so be it! Even though she wished her true self could be seen as sexy, she pushed the thoughts aside and watched as her two friends readied themselves and her.

"Aerith, pick one!" Yuffie chimed as she dangled two small mini dresses in front of her. Aerith glanced at the one in the left hand. It was a small form-fitting black tube dress, no sleeves, and was cut a few inches below her thighs (definitely shorter than most dresses). Aerith scrunched her nose and made a displeased face as if she smelt something terrible all of a sudden.

She looked at the other dress and saw that it wasn't nearly as bad as the other. She pointed at it; "That one!" A few moments later Aerith found herself locked in the bathroom putting on the sexy dress. It was a small number, just the same as the first one. Only this dress was white and its bottom half of the dress was designed in a balloon-shape, puffing out just the tiniest bit. It had a low-cutting sweetheart neckline; its material was smooth and overlapped itself creating a folded shape all over. Slender spaghetti straps, that seemed to glide off of her skin almost too easily, complimented her porcelain skin and finished off the dress wonderfully. The material of the dress was so smooth and so form-fitting, much different than any other dress she ever wore. It hugged ever curve of her body, from her breast to the bends of her hips.

She stepped out of the bathroom and Yuffie and Tifa greeted her. "You look hot, Aerith!" Tifa shouted in bewilderment. Yuffie nodded and added; "Yeah! You look like a model!"

The girls took Aerith by the hand before she could say her own thoughts on how she looked and started to put makeup all over her face. Dark shadows behind her eyes. Her long, thick lashes were darkened with mascara. Her lips were brightened with a dark pink gloss. Baby pink blush accented her cheeks. And her hair was bunched into a loose bun, small dangles of curls and tendrils fell loosely around her face and shoulder, giving her a goddess-air to her look. Each girl took turns as they themselves also got themselves ready for their night of clubbing.

Tifa wore a small bright blue halter-top tube dress that had diamond cut-outs along her rib area and over the cleavage of her bust. Her hair was down(as always). Yuffie wore a small black tiered skirt, and a gray t-shirt with a scoop neckline and short dolman sleeves that showed her belly. The shirt read; "rock my world" with a little heart next to it.

Each girl stood in front of the mirror and looked over themselves; and in unison Tifa shouted "We look hot!" as she pulled the dress tighter against her body to show off her bust, while Yuffie shouted; "I am way too cute for my own good" as she dabbed away a spot of lip-gloss near the corner of her lip. The two friends stared at Aerith, waiting for her to say something… anything! She knew by their faces that they were expecting her to say something good about how she looked. But honestly, what could she say? She looked at the mirror, and gently scratched the back of her head as she tried to search for the right thing to say. She tilted her head and looked at herself through a different angle. "I look—"she paused and continued to take in her image. "…like…" she looked up at her friends to see if her words were heading in the right direction but their expressions were quite blank. She backtracked her words and changed them to; "I mean, I feel like a playboy bunny?" their expressions were the same as before and Aerith once again changed her use of words; "you know what? I just feel sexy. I feel… so sexy." Even though she was lying, she decided lying about how she felt would be better than telling them otherwise.

It was about 9:45Pm when all of the women were about ready to go. And just as all three of the girls were about to leave Aerith remembered she had to tell Cloud that she was going out. Aerith told her two friends she had to do one last thing and ran to the living room table and took out a piece of paper and pen. She quickly wrote a quick note;

Yuffie and Tifa are taking me out to a dance club called 9 Lives for a few hours.

I'll be back later on.

Just as she was about to place the note down, Aerith thought about something special to do for Cloud on this note. She placed a kiss on the note, her lipstick leaving a perfect lip imprint on the paper, giving it a flirty touch.

She grabbed her bag and quickly left the house, locking the door behind her as she hurried to the car Yuffie and Tifa were waiting in.

Fifteen minutes passed between the time they left the house and got to the club. As they approached the club's entrance Aerith could already hear the load thud of the dance song's bass pounding through the air. There was a bright pink rope blocking the entrance, with a tall, muscled man as the club's bouncer. Yuffie approached the man; "Hey, this is Tifa and Aerith, they're with me, biggie." Aerith noticed how the man and Yuffie seemed to be acquainted.

"I ain't ever seen them before, Yuffie… but if they're any friends of yours they're a friend of the club's. Get your asses in here." The man unlinked the rope and showed 'em in, a friendly grin on his face. Aerith took one last breath of the cool night air before she stepped into the club. The music grew louder and louder the farther they walked until finally, they were in the man dance room.

The beat of a deep, slow electronic beat pounded through Aerith's ears as she walked out on the dance floor. It was a song she recognized; "trouble for me". What a fitting song to be playing at that moment. The club flicked back and forth through bright strobe lights. It smelt of different alcohols and smoke(not to mention dozens of terrible smelling perfumes) and Aerith didn't like it one bit. She hated when Cloud would drink as it was, so this was way over the top for her.

"Let's get some drinks!" Tifa shouted over the loud song. Not wanting to get lost, Aerith followed Yuffie and Tifa as if she were their very shadows until they reached the alcohol soaked bar.

"We'd like three City Girls, please" Tifa shouted to the host. As soon as Aerith heard Tifa order three drinks, she knew she should be worried. Her gaze, snapped towards Tifa, as her usually calm jade eyes glared at her dangerously. Giving up, Tifa changed the order; "make that two city girls and ONE VIRGIN city girl, sheesh!" Happy to hear her drink changed to a nonalcoholic beverage Aerith turned around to check her phone for any calls. As she was expecting, none. Making sure Aerith wasn't paying attention, Tifa told the bartender to make it three again, instead. The man handed them their drinks, each girl taking a sip here and there. Little to Aerith's knowledge did she know that her drink had strong alcohol in it as well.

"This tastes a bit weird," Aerith said to Yuffie.

"Ah, it's probably jus' the drink you don't like." Tifa insisted as she overheard her comment.

"I guess you're right." Aerith muttered. After a few moments, Yuffie and Tifa made their way to the dance floor, insisting Aerith follow them. Instead, Aerith shook her head.

"No, I don't like this song. I promise… I'll get the next one I swear!" Aerith pleaded. But against her will, the two girls dragged her onto the dance floor just as a hit song began to play called "Marry the Night"

Aerith was a bit lost in the midst of everything. All around her were girls grinding on men, guys making moves on women, and even people just making out in the middle of it all. She tried for a few seconds to copy a girl next to her dance moves but she didn't get a hang of it so she stopped. She could never move like that, even after the dance lessons she had once. She glanced at Tifa and Yuffie and they both seemed to be naturals at this type of dancing. Aerith, however, she was a disaster waiting to happen. A while went by as her two friends danced the night away. And Aerith felt like such an idiot standing in the middle of a dance club not even dancing, so… she coughed up all the bravery in her body and gave it a go. She gradually started to rock her soldiers up and down in some sort of dance-way as she rocked her hands left and right in a chachacha manner. And for a moment Aerith thought she was doing pretty good… that is. Until she saw two bleach blonde women staring at her as if she was the biggest idiot they had ever seen.

Aerith felt her blood run cold for a moment as she realized how much of a fool she was making herself out to be. Feeling her cheeks heat up with embarrassment Aerith brushed her neck with her hand, resting it there as she turned to her two friends avoiding the judgmental women that were glaring at her. She saw that her friends were lost in a erythematic dance with two men and let out a sigh of disappointment. She was turning to head back to the bar when all of a sudden the two women from before approached her.

Stunned, Aerith just stared stupidly at the women unsure what either wanted with her. They surrounded her and one spoke; "Those were some sick moves out there!" Aerith's mouth dropped at her comment. Sick? Her dance moves were sick? Just then the other one added; "Yeah, you wanna dance with us? We couldn't help but see your friends kinda left ya alone!"

She couldn't believe it, they weren't being mean, they were being nice! Aerith couldn't help but stammer a reply; "S-s-sure." The two women dragged Aerith out onto the dance floor and started to dance around her as Aerith continued her awkward dance that appeared as if it was a bad 90's dance. All of a sudden Aerith saw the two men approach the two women and start talking. She noticed one gesture her head in her direction but thought nothing of it.

x-x-x

As Cloud opened up the house door he noticed how quiet and dark it was. He flipped on the living room light and called out to Aerith but there was no response. He assumed she was out with Tifa and Yuffie again and sighed heavily as he plopped onto the couch. He caught notice of the note and picked it up to read. As he began to read the sentence, his eyes widened at what he read… Club 9 Lives?

"As in DANCE CLUB?" Cloud pleaded in his mind frantically as he rose to his feet. He was not okay with that. Dance clubs involved dirty dances, horny men, and danger for women. He had to get to her.

x-x-x

A few more minutes passed as Aerith continued her completely unsexy dance moves. When all of a sudden there was a small crowd gathering near the two girls. They started to murmur and even laugh. Unsure what was going on, Aerith ignore it… until she heard one of the girl's say; "She's such an idiot." One of the guys mocked her dance moves and then burst into laughs. She knew what the group was doing now… she was the center of a cruel joke. Aerith felt very light headed as her eyes started to glaze over. She knew she shouldn't have done this. It was such a stupid idea. She pushed pass the small group of people and made her way back to the bar. She buried her face in her hands and started to weep. She didn't even have a way to leave. There was no way she was going to tell Yuffie or Tifa what happened so she would have to stay longer. She didn't even want to be here in the first place…

All of a sudden Aerith was offered another drink by the bartender; "want another drink?" She looked up at the man through tear glazed eyes. She shook her head left and right but as the man almost turned… she changed her mind; "No, wait. I'll have a drink. Whatever you choose" Aerith proclaimed proudly. A few moments passed and the man gave her the drink and Aerith gulped it down. After she finished she could already feel herself getting more brave. She had a few more drinks, each one taking away her worry about how she could become more sexy.

to be continued...

Okay, this is leaving off on a cliff hanger-type moment. It'll pick up with this same situation next chapter, promise! And yes! Those are real songs from our world. I suggest listening to them for this chapter. ^_^

I wrote this today in a few hours so I hope you won't mind too many typos, as always I will edit and fix the next day.

Lots of smexy scenes are about to happen real soon!