Twenty one

Mrs. Strife opened the door to Cloud's room to give him his freshly laundered clothes.

"Cloud, here's your-" She stopped and gasped in panic when she saw Cloud taking multiple pills in one go. "CLOUD!" She ran to him, hugged him from behind and tightened her grip forcibly which made the pills to fall off his mouth making a clatter on the floor. "CLOUD?! What were you thinking?!" His mother yelled on top of her lungs while she held his face with both hands, shaking him at the same time to snap him out of it, but he didn't respond and just burst into tears. It broke her heart into a million pieces and she sobbed once more. "Oh Cloud!" She hugged him tight while she cried. "Why would you do that?" But he didn't respond and pulled away from her while he still sobbed. He then curled up in his bed while he shook violently. His mother was overwhelmed that her son was going to commit suicide, it made her cry more when she thought about if she was a minute too late, she would have found the dead body of her son and it made her break down to the floor.

"Cloud... Just why...?" She asked him but she didn't expect an answer. She proceeded to clean the pills on the floor then grabbed the bottle along with all of his pills from his drawer, as well as the razor blades and anything he could use to kill himself. She hurriedly went to her room to get her phone while Cloud was distracted and she dialled a number.

Tifa picked on her food absentmindedly while she stared at it with blank eyes, she remembered her encounter with Zack earlier that day and the incident with Cloud. A tear escaped her eye and she hastily wiped it away. She remembered how he rejected her help and it hurt her, but why would he be mad? He was the one who cheated on her. Thinking about it made her blood boil. Her thoughts were cut short when her phone rang, she jumped slightly then got up to answer it, she flipped it open to see who it was, her eyes widened when she saw that it was Cloud's hesitated for a while but answered it anyway.

"He.. Hell-"

"Tifa!" She could hear a sob and she was instantly on alert.

"Mom? What is it? What's wrong?!" She asked in panic with her eyes wide in fear. "Mom!"

"Cloud..." She paused. "He tried to kill himself..." She said quietly while she cried harder, Tifa was in complete shock at she had heard and couldn't find the words.

"What...?"

"I found him ingesting a lot of painkillers, if I was a minute late, he would have been dead!" Tifa started to cry when she said that.

"Mom, I'm coming over now!"

"Okay sweetheart please hurry, he needs you right now... Please..."

"I'll be there." She said while she started to run to get her keys, she flipped her phone shut and started to cry loudly while she ran to her door, her hand clamped to her mouth.

Cloud...

She frantically fished out her keys to Cloud's house as she reached it, her shaking hand tried to shove it to the keyhole but failing.

"Shit!" She exclaimed loudly. Just then, Cloud's mom opened the door for her and she went inside hurriedly. Tifa didn't waste a second and ran towards the stairs to check on him, she went inside his open door and her heart broke when she found him curled up in his bed while he cried.

"Cloud!" She ran towards him while he lifted his head to look at her.

"Ti..fa..?" He asked then he bolted up to hug her desperately as she approached him. She clung unto him in equal desperation.

"Why would you do that Cloud?!" She yelled at him when she pulled away to cup his cheeks with both hands.

"I'm tired Teef... I'm tired of everything..." He whispered while his tears were unstoppable. Tifa wiped them away. She cried with him and hugged him again.

"I'm here now... I'm here Cloud..." She reassured him, Mrs. Strife watched the scene at the door. Tifa pulled Cloud towards the bed to sit him down and she sat beside him.

"I'm going to go get some groceries for a while, I need to prepare some food and we're out of stock. I'll be back okay...?" She told the lovers while she kissed their foreheads.

"Okay mom..." Tifa responded while Cloud still clung to her. The older woman proceeded to the door and closed it behind her. They heard her car starting after a while then it drove off.

"Cloud... Please... Don't do th-"

"I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry I hurt you..."

"I know-"

"No, you need to hear this. I didn't do it on purpose, I was so drunk that I can barely see and I remembered how she pretended to be you while she dragged me inside the bedroo-"

"Cloud... I don't want to hear about it, it hurts..." He looked down in shame.

"I'm sorry..." He said while he sobbed, he cupped her cheeks with both hands. "I'm sorry Tifa..." Tifa held unto his wrist. She looked at his eyes full of love. She felt ashamed suddenly that she didn't let him explain,but who could blame her?

"Cloud..." She whispered unto him, then he leaned forward and kissed her hungrily while she did the same.

"I missed you..." He whispered in between the kisses while she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I missed you too..." She whispered back. Their kiss grew deeper and more intense and she felt herself being pushed down to her back on the bed, his lips never leaving hers.

A/N:Sorry,full blown make up sex will be on the next chapter and expect it to be a little wild people. Thanks for the reviews!