Strange How You Have Changed
(Tifa reflecting on her feelings after Cloud left in the past and when she first meets him again in the present.)

Your gone,
and I never knew you.
We lived beside each other for such a long time.
Yet we hardly ever talked.
I had my group of friends, and you were the outcast form it.
Then one night you ask to see me on the well.
I was so supprised, startled, maybe even a little scared.
But I went out to the well under the star lit sky and waited.
And you came.
You said you were going away.
Not to get a job like the other boys,
But to become a part of soldier.
To become another Sephiroth.
To make me notice you, which I did not know at the time.
I wondered at the reason you were telling me this then.
But I wasn't as shy then, as I am around you now.
I asked you to promise me to come and reascue me if I was ever in trouble.
You did keep that promise.
You rescued me at the reactor.
I told you I would look in the papers for stories of your greatness.
Then you left.
And I wondered about you.
I did look inthe papers.
But I never found anything.

Five long years and I now see you again in Midgar.
How you have changed.
Your eyes glow strangly.
Your tougher, stronger, more silent.
And something else. Some sort of confused difference.
You dont care about me much.
Just trying to get a job to make a buck.
No great life quest to strive for.
You already made soldier.
You dont seem to care about anything.
I watch you continually to find the changes.
There reasons.
You dont even seem to see me.
It bothers me.
I like you, dispite everthing.
Strange how love picks its victoms and their subjects of desire.
Funny how life is in general.
You spent your childhood trying to make me notice you.
Will I spend my whole adulthood trying to get you to notice me?
Strange how the tables have turned.
Strange how you have changed.
I will watch and wait and see what happens.
Cloud.
Who are you now?
And who were you before?
And will you ever be with me?