A.N. Okay...actually this chappy should be the finale now...but I had to write a chappy as a...some kind of bridge (if you know what I mean...) And I didn't really know what to write (which you can see how I named this chappyX'D) Well, I promise next chappy will be the finale!
Disclaimer – I don't own FFVII or the other character who appears in this fanfic
Love triangle at Midgar High
Chapter 12: What to do on a Sunday?
Cloud awakes with a start on the next day again. Not again! He groans because he got "this" dream again. Cloud holds his forehead, trying to dismiss these pictures from "this" dream, as he noticed something...again...Yeah, his member got hard again...Cloud groans once again and let himself fall in his bed again, his left arm resting on his forehead. Why do I have these kind of dreams? I mean...She would NEVER do this! He sighs a long sigh. I have to keep calm...Cloud goes off his bed and walks to the door, but then he remembered that Aerith slept over here again. I hope she's still asleep...He quietly opens the door and looks around. It's really quiet and Aerith's nowhere in sight...Guess she's still sleeping...Thank goodness...He quickly but quietly runs to the bathroom to take a shower.
Once he finished his shower he get dressed in his usual black clothes and walks to the living room. It's really quiet...I wonder if she's still here...Cloud looks to the couch to see Aeriths sleeping form. Cloud chuckles quietly at this sight. She lies there snuggled in a ball and her blanket lies on the ground. He picks up the blanket and covers her with it and watched her for a few more minutes before he goes to the kitchen to make breakfast.
Aerith awakes as she noticed a delicious smell in the air and stands up lazily. She enters the kitchen where Cloud still is. „Good morning, Cloud.", she murmurs sleepily while rubbing an eye. Cloud quickly turns to her. „Oh, morning. Uhm, breakfast's ready."
„But you're still too sick to do something...", she says yawning. „I'm fine.", Cloud reassures her but she isn't convinced and examines him, which causes Cloud to blush. „I don't think so. You're still red!"
„Uhm...That's just...", he begins but stopped as Aerith walks to him and leans in to him, her face just millimeter away from his, while Clouds blush grows. „Hm..." Aerith lies a hand on his forehead. „Hmhmhm...", she hums, perhaps out of boredom...Her hand glides down to his cheek. „Hmmmm..." Clouds blush deepens to the maximum and his heart beats rapidly in his chest. „Hm...", she hums one last time, while Cloud gulps to keep himself calm. „You're still hot, which means you're still sick.", she says and put her hands on her hips. „And THAT means: Once we finish eating you'll go to bed instantly!"
„No! Come on, Aerith! It's too boring!"
„So what? If you want to recover, you..."
„I know, I know!" He turns away from her, crossing his arms over his chest and sighs loudly. They stay like this for a few minutes in silence...Cloud squints behind him to see Aerith's looking at him with her puppy-dog-look and Cloud immediately regrets looking at her and turns his head away from her again and stubbornly keeping up the silence.
A few seconds later he risk a quick glance at her again...She's still staring at him, her emerald green eyes glittering with tears. Cloud gulps and the first tear escapes her eyes. Cloud sighs and turns to her again. „Okay, okay, sorry for yelling. You won! I'll sleep afterwards. Happy now? Just don't look at me like this!", he gives in and Aerith immediately looks happy again and get in a fit of giggles. „Yay!", she yells and raised a fist.
They eat in comfortable silence. „Oh, I should go now.", Aerith says as they finished eating. „Tifa and Yuffie wanted to come over to me."
„I'll walk you home.", Cloud offers her but she just shakes her head. „That's not necessary, it's not dark anymore, hihi! And besides you're still sick and you promised to sleep now." Cloud sighs in defeat. But I'm afraid you'll meet HIM again...They stand up and Cloud led her to the front door. „So, and you go back to bed and sleep!" Cloud groans. „But I'm still not sleepy.", he murmurs.
„Cloud Strife! You go back to bed and sleep! NOW!", she says with a stern voice, which let Cloud wince slightly again. „Okay...", he murmurs in reply, while Aerith smiles at him and ruffles his hair. „You're a good boy, Cloud." Aerith turns around and walks away, giggling. „I'm not a dog!", Cloud calls after her. Aerith turns to him, still walking and calls back:„That's right! You're a kitty!" Cloud let his head fall, she always knows how to counter and he could hear her laughter. He watches her for a few seconds before he shut the door and walks to his bedroom. He lies down in his bed and covers himself, but then he realizes what he just did. Why...Did I do this? She's not here anymore! I can do whatever I want! Cloud stands up again and just in time his cellphone rings.
„Yeah?", he says as he answered the phone. „Cloud, lie down! You promised!", Aerith says with a stern voice. „And what if I don't do it?", he asks her challenging. „Then I'll make sure you sleep!"
„How?"
„I'll call Zack." Cloud chuckles slightly. „Yeah, yeah. I bet he has better things to do as to babysit me!"
Aerith just giggles. „I wouldn't be so sure about it, if I were you!" And with that said she hangs up.
Cloud sighs loudly and lies back down. Well whatever...I don't have other things to do anyway. And it's actually not that bad to do nothing on a Sunday. He closes his eyes and drift into sleep again.
About two hours later the door bell rings, causing Cloud to wake up. Cloud stands up and walks groaning to the front door. Who is it...? He answers the door just to see Zack, Leon and Vincent standing in front of him. „What are you doing here?", he asks them sleepily but with a annoyed tone in his voice.
„Aerith called me to make sure you're sleeping.", Zack replies. „Well, I don't need you. I just slept till now."
„Well, then we make sure you continues sleeping." Zack pushes Cloud away and enters his apartment, followed by Leon and Vincent. „How shall I sleep with you guys here?", Cloud asks his friends as he shut the door and follows them into the living room. „Just ignore us.", Leon simply replies. „We'll be so quiet, you won't notice us.", Vincent adds.
„Yeah, I believe you two to be quiet, but ZACK?"
„Hey!"
„Don't worry, we'll make sure he stays quiet.", Leon reassures, while Cloud begins to chuckle. „I wanna see it." Zack looks at him with a devilish smile on his face. „Hey, Cloud! Did you had this dream again?", Zack asks him and begins to laugh. „ZACK!", Cloud yells and starts to blush. „I take that as a yes!", Zack says and continues laughing. „What dream?", Vincent asks them curious. „You don't wanna know, believe me.", Leon says with a light chuckle, while Vincent just shrugs it off. „And what are you guys doing now?", Cloud asks the curious.
„Don't know. Aerith just said we have to make sure you're sleeping.", Zack replies and sit down on the couch. „Actually I don't really care what you're doing...As long as you don't destroy my apartment...", Cloud says sighing and walks back to his bedroom. He enters it and lies down again to sleep.
Cloud tosses and turns around in his sleep and awakes with a start while shouting:„AERITH!" on the top of his lungs. Cloud looks around hectically and sighs in relieve as he noticed it was just a dream, but not any dream, it was his worst nightmare. Zack, Leon and Vincent enter his room. „Cloud, are you okay?", Zack asks him worried. „I'm fine...", he replies panting. „Just a nightmare..."
„Do you want to talk about it?", Vincent asks Cloud. „There's nothing to talk about...I just dreamed that Aerith chose to be with Sephiroth..." The three friends look at each other. „And...", Cloud adds with a shaking voice, getting full attention of his friends. „She said...she hates me. She said she doesn't want to see me ever again and...that I just replaced Sephiroth and now that she found him I'm nothing for her anymore...And she felt absolutely nothing for me..." Zack walks to him and put a hand on his shoulder. „Hey, you know this won't happen."
„But...What if..."
„No! Stop with your "what ifs"! I know she likes you!", Zack yells at him. „That's not enough...", Cloud just murmurs. „What Zack meant is...She loves you.", Leon corrects Zack. „And how do you know this?"
Everyone went quiet. Nobody really knows how Aerith feels...Cloud sighs loudly. „...Hey, that's why we train you! You'll kick Sephiroths ass and she'll fall in love with you instantly!", Zack says, trying to cheer his best friend up a bit. „I don't think so...It's not that simple, Zack. She won't fall in love with me just because I'm stronger than Sephiroth. She rather would love someone who can make her happy."
„You already made her happy, Cloud.", Vincent says with a sigh, while Cloud looks up to him and stares at him like he's crazy. „Vincent's right.", Leon agrees with him. „She's cheerier than normal when she's with you."
„She's always cheery.", Cloud says with a long sigh, while Zack groans annoyingly. „Cloud, what do we have to tell you so that you'll believe us?"
„Well...when you tell me she'll never love me I would believe you. Why would she even fall in love with someone like me...?" Zack, Vincent and Leon sighs in pure annoyance. „You know that's not true!", Leon says while holding his forehead.
„I don't know anything..." Suddenly Zack pulls Cloud up on his collar, loosing control of himself. „That's right, you don't know anything! But you know what? I rather would drag you to Aerith right now and urge you to tell her already! Since the last two weeks you're acting like this! Just because Sephiroth won one fight! Pull yourself together already!", Zack yells as loud as he could, while Cloud just stares at his best friend, totally taken aback by his sudden outburst. Zack let go of Clouds collar and he falls down on his bed, while Zack tries to regain control of himself again.
„Zack's right, Cloud! You finally have to tell her!" Now it's Leon turn to yell at Cloud, who just looks away from them. „Cloud, look at us.", Vincent says rather calmly, while Cloud hesitantly looks to his friends. „When will you tell her?" Vincent stares into his eyes, urging him to answer. „I...", Cloud starts hesitantly. „I don't know..." The three friends sigh again. „I suggest we return to my plan!", Zack says with his normal voice again and with a big grin on his face. „We train till Cloud can kick Sephiroths ass. Aerith will see how strong Cloud is and will fall for him and defiantly choose him!"
„Do you really think this plan will work?", Leon asks Zack sceptically. „Of course! Girls have a thing for strong guys, don't they?" Everyone went quiet. „Hey, you get advice from a pro!", Zack says, his grin widen. „Oh, is that why you hadn't had a date for ages?", Leon asks him teasingly, while Zack pouts. „'cause they already know your tricks.", Vincent adds. „Hey, come on guys, it's not like you can't see through HIM.", Cloud joins they're teasing. „Hey!", Zack yells to stop them, but ruffles Clouds hair. „But it's good to have you back, Cloudy-boy! I thought we'll have this grumpy-Cloud forever now..."
„Don't call me that!", Cloud yells.
Somewhere else...
Aerith, Tifa and Yuffie decided to go out together. They just walk through Midgar out of boredom. „I wonder why Nanaki didn't want to go with us...", Tifa asks her two friends. „He doesn't want to be found by Shin-Ra.", Aerith replies. „But I thought he's your bodyguard?", Yuffie asks Aerith curious. „He said as long as I'm with you two, Cloud, or one of the other guys he has no reason to be worried about me.", Aerith says with a smile. „Aaww that's so cute!", Tifa and Yuffie say in unison.
They walk around a corner and suddenly Aerith collides with someone. „Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!", Aerith apologizes quickly, but stops as she heard a familiar chuckle. „It's okay, Aerith.", says a low manly voice to her and Aerith looks up to him. „Sephiroth! I'm sorry, I didn't saw you!", she apologizes again. „It's okay.", Sephiroth repeats and looks to Tifa and Yuffie. „Friends of yours?", he asks Aerith, who nods. „Japp, Tifa and Yuffie."
„Ah, I remember. You told me a lot about them. I'm Sephiroth, nice to meet you." Tifa and Yuffie stare at him in shock. He seems nice...What's Chocobo-heads problem?, Yuffie thinks and introduces herself quickly. He looks suspicious...I wouldn't even trust him if I had eyes on the back of my head!, Tifa thinks and looks at him suspiciously, but plays along with it and introduces herself too. „Where are you going, Seph?", Aerith asks him curious. Seph?, thinks Tifa and raised an eyebrow at his nickname. „I go on a new mission."
„Oh, I don't want to hold you back. Good luck! And take care!"
„Sure thing.", he says while pass them and disappears around the corner. Hm... Tifa looks suspiciously for a few seconds in the direction Sephiroth just disappeared. Poor Aerith...She's too naive to notice he's not the nice guys he pretends to be...„Tifa?" Aerith interrupts Tifas train of thought and she quickly turns to her friends. „Yeah?"
„Are you okay?", Aerith asks her worried. „Yeah, sure! Come on, let's get going!", Tifa reassures her and goes ahead, while Yuffie and Aerith follow her.
They continue walking till they arrive the church in Sector 5 (they walk in a circuit). „Hey, look! Over there's a church!", Yuffie says and points to the church. „Oh! Let's go!", Aerith says excitedly and starts running to the church, leaving a bewildered Tifa and Yuffie back. The two friends look at each other curiously and follow Aerith into the church. As they arrive the inside of the church they see Aerith's already kneeling in front of a flowerbed in the middle of the church. „Waaah!", Yuffie yells and runs to Aerith. „It's so beautiful!" Tifa follows Yuffie and stops next to Aerith. „It really is beautiful."
„I plant them.", Aerith says proudly. „You? Wow, that's amazing!", Yuffie compliments. „Hihi, thank you!"
„How do you do this, Aerith? It's absolutely impossible to plant flowers in Midgar, but you plant here some flowers and at your home too!", Tifa asks her curious, but impressed at the same time. „I...", Aerith starts but was interrupted by Yuffie. „Is it because of your magic? I mean...You could use some Cetra-powers to...I don't know, heal the earth so flowers can grow, or something like that!"
„Uhm, yeah, something like that.", Aerith replies with a big smile on her face. „R-really?", Yuffie asks her again, surprised that she's right. „Japp."
„Wow, that's so cool! Your magic is amazing!", Yuffie yells excitedly and tackles Aerith in a tight hug. „Yuffie not that loud! It's a secret, remember?", Tifa reminds her that Aerith told them not to tell anyone about the whole Cetra-story. „Oh, sorry, but you're so amazing, Aeri!", Yuffie squeals in excitement.
„Thanks, Yuffie." Aerith giggles and hugs her back.
Yuffie clears her throat and let go of Aerith moments later. „Okay, Aeri...What do you think about...Cloud?", Yuffie asks Aerith suddenly. „What do you mean by that?", Aerith asks her and tilts her head. „I mean...do you like him?"
„Uhm...Sure I like him...", Aerith replies, not getting what the point is. „...More as a friend?", Yuffie asks again, getting finally to the point. „Uhm...You mean...?"
„Japp! Do you love him?"
„Yuffie...", Tifa sighs and holds on her forehead. I said we have to ask her carefully! And I meant to just hint it! „Uhm...I don't know.", Aerith replies. „You don't know?", Yuffie yells in disbelieve.
„No...I never thought about it..."
„Really? Why not?"
„Yuffie, stop it!", Tifa interrupts Yuffie. „Okay..." Aerith looks at them with a confused expression. „Just forget it. You know Yuffie.", Tifa says and laughs nervously. „But you said we—ugh!" Tifa hit her with her elbow in Yuffies stomach to silence her. Aerith looks at them more confused than before, while Tifa and Yuffie start to laugh nervously. Aerith tilts her head and continues to stare at her best friends, while their laughter dies down. „Oh, you're flowers are really beautiful, Aerith!", Tifa says to change the subject and kneels next to Aerith to examine her flowers.
„Oh, yeah yeah! Really beautiful!", Yuffie agrees and kneels down on Aeriths other side and examines the flowers. Aerith looks to Yuffie, than to Tifa over an over again. „H-hey, what kind of flowers are they?", Tifa asks Aerith. „When did you plant them?", Yuffie asks Aerith the next question instantly. „How did you found this church?", is Tifas next question.
„Did you really use your magic to plant them?", asks Yuffie.
„Was it difficult to plant them?", asks Tifa.
„Do they look so beautiful because of your magic?", asks Yuffie.
„Wasn't this the place where you found Nanaki?", asks Tifa.
„He's very cute!", says Yuffie.
„Oh, yeah, very cute!", Tifa agrees.
„Guys..."
„He said he's from the Cosmo Canyon, right?", Yuffie interrupts Aerith. „Guys...", she tries again but was again interrupted by Tifa. „Where you ever there?"
„No, she said she never left Midgar till her date with Cloud.", Yuffie reminds her. „Oh yeah. Did you like Nibelheim? It's my and Clouds hometown, you know?", Tifa asks Aerith. „Guys, listen..."
„Cloud said you beat the hell out of him at the Gold Saucer, is that right?", Yuffie interrupts Aerith again. „I bet it was priceless to see Cloud loosing against a girl!", Tifa says giggling.
„Oh yeah!", Yuffie agrees. „Guys!", Aerith yells and earns Tifas and Yuffies attention instantly.
„What are you talking about?"
„Uhm..." Tifa and Yuffie look at each other. „Nothing!", they quickly answer and went quiet instantly, while Aerith still looks at them confused.
Another time, another place...
Cloud dreamed about this nightmare over and over again, and it got worse every time, for the last 4 hours and Leon, Vincent and Zack had always to comfort Cloud afterwards.
„Hach, come on, Cloud! Can't you dream anything else?", Zack sighs as Cloud awakes from the same nightmare again. „Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't control what I'm dreaming!", Cloud yells at Zack sarcastically. „Leave him alone, Zack.", Leon says with a sigh. „Come on, guys, I need some training.", Cloud says and stands up. „Woah, hold on!" Zack held him back. „Aerith told us to—"
„I know that! But I'm alright now, and I'm sick of these dreams! I have to distract me!"
„But you're still..."
„No, I'm not!", Cloud interrupts Vincent and goes out of his room, while his friends follow him sighing. „Cloud are you sure about—"
„Yes." Cloud takes his cellphone from the kitchen table and dials a number. „Who are you calli—?"
„Sshh!", Cloud silenced Zack and put the phone on his ear, waiting for an answer. „Jo?", a cheery manly voice answered the phone. „Tidus, meet me and the others on the usual place."
„Eh? I thought—"
„Well, think again. We train. NOW!"
„Okay, okay! I'll come. See ya later.", Tidus say sighing and hangs up. „Let's go.", Cloud says and walks out of his apartment. Leon, Vincent and Zack follow him and shut the door behind them.
A few minutes later they arrive the gates of Midgar (Cloud and the others used their motorbikes, Cloud and Zack on Fenrir and the other two on Leons), where Tidus already waits for them. „Hey, guys!", Tidus greets them all. „Let's train.", Cloud says with an emotionless tone. „Uh, grumpy aren't we?", Tidus says as Cloud passed him. „He's the whole day like this.", Zack informs him. „Why's that?"
„Don't ask me, man."
„Let's train already!", Cloud interrupts Zack and Tidus' little chit chat and pulls his swords out of his motorbike and put them together into one. His sword is larger now, looks almost like Zacks, but cooler and is of course heavier too, but Cloud holds it up like it weights nothing. „Okay, okay...", Zack sighs and takes his sword off it's holster on his back as well and Cloud immediately runs towards him, ready to attack.
They train for the next few hours till nightfall again, everyone are totally exhausted except for Cloud, he still wants to continue. „Are you crazy? We're exhausted and tomorrow's school again!", Zack protests, while Cloud sighs loudly. „Okay, take a break. We continue tomorrow after school!" Everyone sigh, but agrees anyway. After a few minutes to catch their breaths everyone drive home again.
Cloud arrives his apartment and finally notices how exhausted he really is, his legs are shakily, he barely can stand let alone walk, but he manages to enter his bedroom and let himself fall into his bed. He covers himself and drives slowly into sleep, hoping he wouldn't dream about "this" dream and the nightmare again...
A.N. The next chappy's done. Yay...ouf I don't really like this chappy 'cause I had to improvise everything...(okay I improvised almost EVERY chappy, but...this chappy wasn't planed to come)
Like I said, next chappy will be the finale. The finale will be split up into two parts. Then there will be...another chappy and an epilog one. I already planned everything it'll be so great!^^ You can look forward to it^^
please review! ;3
