Disclaimer: I do not own anything.
Ori: Back! Sorry I took really long, I was just finishing off another fic.
And School's out now, so I guess I'll be spending more time on this fic.
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Vincent ran to the park and managed to be first followed by the others.
Last was Barret. Barret ran around the park trying to catch everyone.
"Come here!" Barret said running over to Cid and tackling him down to the
ground and started giving a little of his light punches. "No touchbacks for
30 seconds!"
"Grr!" Cid growled running up the slide and pushing some other kids in the
park down. "I never get it!" Cid yelled kicking Red.
"What the hell? What was that for?" Red growled wagging his tail. "I'll get
you one day!" Red growled again leaping off the jungle gym. With amazing
speed, Red leaped on Vincent.
"Take that fruit face!" Red laughed jumping away. Other kids in the
playground started to back away as the game of tag started to increase in
violence. Vincent ran to tackle Cloud and Cloud ran to tackle Cid who ran
to tackle Yuffie. Tifa was sitting on the bench with the look of utter fury
on her face. Aeris was hiding somewhere, avoiding being caught.
"Ok, this isn't fair, everyone is teeming up on me!" Cid growled removing
his face from the ground. Red laughed and leaped on Cid burying his face
once more in the sand. The kids who once played in the playground looked at
them terrified, afraid to get hurt.
"How come Tifa ain't playing?" Barret asked. Cloud in the mean time was it
and decided to use a materia to slow down everyone.
"Mega fire!" Cloud yelled as Vincent yelled in pain.
"No fair!" Vincent yelled as Cloud touched him saying, 'it.'
"That's for the stupid curse thing!" Cloud said grinning.
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Everyone walked home with sweat hanging off their faces. Tifa took lead as
she didn't walk home but she was power walking, and muttering angry curses.
Barret, Cid and Vincent decided best if they started to jog home. Cloud was
walking next to Red talking about battle strategies. Aeris walked behind.
'I don't understand.' Aeris thought looking up at Cloud's back, she started
to blush. 'Do I like Cloud?' Aeris thought eyes burning as she glared at
his back.
"Hurry up kiddo!" Cloud said to Aeris. She started to trot.
'Well, he is nice to me. But I can tell that Tifa likes him, it's obvious.
But he won't like me in that way. I'm a six year old girl and he's 21!'
Aeris thought looking down to the ground. "Oh!" Aeris gasped. Cloud and Red
turned around. "I forgot the flowers I picked at the park!" Aeris said with
tears in her eyes.
Cloud looked at Red, "Let's go back. Red do you want to go with Aeris or do
you want to tell the others where we have gone?" Cloud asked the feline.
"I'll tell the others." Red said walking away from them.
"Come on." Cloud said grabbing the little girls hand in his own and
slowering the pace. Aeris smiled and started to blush, she hide her face by
looking down so that Cloud wouldn't have any hints.
They reached the park. The kids who tried to avoid them during the tag
battle went back to playing in the park. Aeris let go of Cloud's hand and
began to look for her flowers. Cloud sat on a bench and stared at the park
watching the kids run around. He heard Aeris giggle and turned around. She
was talking to a boy around her age. Cloud frowned and kept looking.
"You're pretty!" The boy said grinning goofily.
"Thank you!" Aeris giggled picking up her flowers. Cloud couldn't help
noticing the blush on Aeris' face.
"Do you need help picking up those flowers?" The boy asked still grinning.
"Ok." Aeris smiled as they both picked up her flowers. Cloud frowned and
turned around looking at the park again.
'Ok. That was weird. Now, I would tell Aeris that I love her, except now
it's a little hard. Like, I'm a 21-year-old man and she's a 6-year-old
girl. I am now confused on what to do.' Cloud thought looking to the
ground. He heard Aeris again and turned around.
"Do you want to be my girlfriend?" The boy asked grinning goofily.
Aeris looked to her flowers and then up to him, "Um." Aeris said. Cloud's
jaw dropped.
'What? What the hell!' Cloud thought sitting on the bench glaring at the
boy. Aeris looked up to Cloud and saw him glaring at her. She ditched the
boy and ran up to Cloud. "Cloud mad at Aeris?" Aeris asked.
"Do you have all your flowers?" Cloud asked in a dead voice.
"I'm missing a pink one." Aeris said looking down o her flowers.
"I see." Cloud said turning around.
"Um." Aeris murmured and walked back to the boy and the flowers searching.
'Was he jealous?' Aeris wondered.
"You're back! Great, so do you want to be my girlfriend?" The boy asked
again, his grin coming back.
"I'm not sure." Aeris said. She spotted the pink flower and quickly picked
it up. "Um, good bye." Aeris said walking up to Cloud once more. "Cloud? I
found my flower." Aeris said shyly.
"Good." Cloud said getting up. He started to walk away. Aeris walked behind
him once more. 'Why is he being mean all of a sudden? Was it something I
said? Was it something I did?' Aeris wondered trotting.
They reached home. The sky had darkened greatly. They opened the door and
found Tifa sitting on the couch watching TV. She turned around and stared
at them. "Welcome back." She muttered.
"I found my flowers." Aeris said running off into the kitchen to find the
vase that held the other flowers she previously picked.
Cloud sat beside Tifa. "So, what happened?" Tifa growled.
"Nothing." Cloud said leaning back.
"I can tell something is wrong." Tifa said in a more concerned voice.
"Nothing is wrong. Everything is as cheery as cheery can be." Cloud said.
"I think I'll go to sleep." Cloud said walking away.
"Night." Tifa said.
"Night." Cloud responded. He walked up the stairs and right into the room
that Vincent and Cid shared. "Guys?" Cloud asked looking at them both.
"What time is it mommy?" Cid asked in a light voice that did not suit him.
"Vincent you up?" Cloud asked.
"Yea, what's up?" Vincent asked yawning.
"I d-don't think that I can do it." Cloud muttered.
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Ori: There we goes. Cross fingers, hope that I can update sooner.