This woman was on fire. She put on a sweet smile in front of her students, but as soon as the last one filed out of the room, she slammed the door. Her breathing wasn't quite back to normal yet, and her body was covered in a thin sheet of sweat. Not only was her body smokin', but the anger she was emmitting towards me was enough to burn me to ashes. I'm confused at whether or not I'm attracted to Tifa, or I am doing this because of our supposed hate towards eachother. Either way, I'm finding this very entertaining.

"Just who in the hell do you THINK you are, barging into my class like that? And how in the hell did you know which school I worked at?" she broke the silence.

"I called Yuffie and asked her."

"I ought to kill her..."

"No you ought not. Because I had to lie to her to get it out of her. By the way, the whole 'gang', as you would call it, already knows that I'm stayin' at your place. Word travels fast, huh?"

To put a good bit of distance from me, she walked over and leaned on her desk with her arms crossed. "What in the hell are you talkin' about?"

"I told Yuffie to tell everyone where I'm stayin' at."

"You motherfu-" she said as she began to rub her forehead with her hand.

I smiled and interrupted her. "What a dirty mouth you have, Mrs. LeBeau. Now, about those tattoos... I began to walk towards her. I was gonna have my way with this girl whether she liked it or not.

"Go to hell you dirty, rotten, piece of shit."

"Haha. I've been there. I already told you that," I stopped right in front of her, and smirked. She would not look at me, so I put my hand on her chin, and me her look me in the eye. " We had a bargain, Tif. If I'm not mistaken, I won. So...you have to hold up your end of the bargain."

I could see the anger in her eyes.Her face still looked sweet, but it was those eyes that gave it away. I had to surpress the chills I got from looking her straight in the face and seeing that she wasn't lying when she said she couldn't stand me. There was a long moment of silence, before she finally sighed, looked away and said, "Fine."


Yeah, I'm sure he's real pleased with himself. I can see the happiness all spread out on his retarded-ass face. He won. Everyone let's have a freakin' parade. It's a plum damn shame that my tattoos are in all the wrong places. My husband's the only one who has seen them...well him and the tattoo artist, but what do you expect. I don't go publicly displaying these things.

Cloud had a look that was all too familiar in comparison to Louis. that look was lust... And to tell the truth, I was quite scared to show him the tattoo on my hip.I had my hang on the elastice part of my pants,when Cid came through my classroom door.

"Well if it ain't 'ole Spikey!" He exclaimed, with a big grin on his face.

Praise the Lord for Cid Highwind.

"What's goin' on Cid?" Cloud said with a disappointed look on his face.

"Just got done with my last class of the day, and was gonna see if Tif here wanted to get some grub." He said while glancing at me.

"Of course. Where do ya wanna go?" I asked Cid, with a sly smile on my face.

"Doesn't matter to me, darlin'. Spike, you wanna come?"

"Nah. I think I'm gonna head on back and take a nap." He said while turning towards the door. He was pissed.

"Alright. I hear you stayin' with Tif and Gumbo." Cid said with a laugh.

"Yeah. I'm stayin' with Tif, ya buddy Louis has left town to clear his head for a little while."

What an asshole! He just did that out of spite!

"That true, Tif?" all attention was directed toward me.

It took me a minute, and I looked at the floor while I said it. "Yeah...some crap happened last night, and he had to go down south to take care of some business down there. He called this mornin' and said he'd be back pretty soon, though."

Cid came over and patted me on the back, "We'll talk about it over lunch. Hey- are we all still gonna have our usual get-together at your bar tonight?"

"When have we not?" I replied, with a smile on my face. The Idiot now knew that 'the gang' has a party at my bar every couple of weeks, and with that new information he left. I bet he's goin' to get ready to show up at Seventh Heaven, too. Cid spoke to get me out of my train of thought.

"Yeah..I get your drift. He been givin' you any problems?"

"Who? Strife?" He nodded. "Put it this way, Cid. I want him out of my house now, 'cause I didn't offer for him to stay. I've put up a hell of a fight for him to just leave."

My friend just laughed, and put an arm around my shoulder and led me out of the room. I explained the whole story to him when we went to lunch and he just shook his head. What was there to say? No one expected this crazy behavior out of Cloud and Louis, but that's the story of my life. Unexpected things tend to jump out and bite me in the ass.