FF7 Fiction

CHAPTER 4

"Where were you?" Vincent gestured to his watch.

"I had to run all the way here," She managed between her panting, "Car is in shop."

When she caught her breath, she excused herself to the bathroom to freshen up. She didn't look that bad after her marathon over her, and she did quiet well. Not a single rip in the seams of her dress. Her hair had been given volume from the wind in her face, and he cheeks didn't need any blush.

Satisfied, she returned back to the table. The other three smiled at her when she arrived, and gestured to the waiter that they were ready to order.

Tifa seemed a bit apprehensive towards Dania the whole night. They had jus finished dinner, when Tifa started to get a bit irritated. "Sweetie," she motioned to Cloud, "Why don't you two go to the bar for a few minutes and catch up on things with Vincent."

Dania looked at Vincent and nodded.

They both left, and Tifa turned in closer to Dania. "I saw you and your friends at the bar last night."

Dania felt the air being sucked out of her. "Oh?"

"Was it a birthday party?" Tifa pulled a few threads around the topic for a few minutes, then her mood turned sour, "you got drunk. I saw you with Cloud. He was pissed too."

"Wait, wait. What are you talking about?" Dania tried to save herself with the innocent act at first to see if her black haired nemesis would bend to it.

"You can't just sit there and say nothing happened, I saw it. I work at that bar, you know."

"I don't remember anything that happened after I downed a whole jug of snifter."

"Right, right. Tell me the part about you waking up beside him."

"What?"

"Don't act innocent, I know you're not!" She snarled, "we have been best friends since we were children, and I've always known Cloud and I were meant to be, and now you come along and ruin everything we have!"

"Why don't you ask Cloud's side of the story, I don't remember a damn thing, and that's the truth. All I remember is waking up, and getting out of there faster than a bat out of you-know-where!"

Tifa thought for a moment trying to think of something to say. She seemed to be contemplating the idea of asking Cloud what had happened.

"Well…"

"Yes, please go call him over here, would also really like to know what went on last night. Did you ever think that he might not have been drunk, and taken advantage of me? Who came onto whom? He's hurt you before you know, left you without telling you his destination."

"How do you know that?" She whispered angrily.

"Vincent told me about you two."

Tifa seemed to believe her story, which was the truth, not the tangle of lies that had been thrown into the air earlier. She gestured Cloud and Vincent over, and that's when Dania realized Vincent would find out in less than a few minutes of her rendezvous with Cloud. A lump caught in her throat. He would never forgive her after this. It was over for them. "Vincent," Dania looked at Tifa, then Cloud, who was looking a bit worried at the moment, probably because he was watching her and Tifa's heated conversation, "There's something I ought to discuss you."