Tifa showed up at Barret's house the next day. She knocked on the door until Barret answered. "Barret, have you seen Cloud?" Barret laughed quietly to himself, he knew she would be asking him, and Cloud didn't say he couldn't answer her. "Yep, he was by a few weeks ago. Said he was heading north, to Bone Town." Tifa just stared at Barret for a few seconds then stomped her foot, "Ugh, I can't believe him! He can't just get over her!"
"Maybe you should let him keep at it until he realizes there's no way to have her back," Barret suggested. Tifa just gave him an angry look, "Barret, does it look like I can just wait until Hell freezes over!? That's not just going to happen, it's been 3 months since she died, and he's still in denial. At this rate by the time he realizes this, I'll be 80 years old!" Tifa was obviously sick and tired of waiting around for Cloud, but she wasn't about to give up on him yet.
"How is he getting there?" Barret thought about this question for a moment and then remembered, "Oh, yeah, he was taking a boat from Junon. If you go that way you might be able to follow him, and with his chocobo and your buggy, you might catch up to him. It'll take him at least another 4 days to get to Junon. Not including the Midgar Zolom." The Midgar Zolom was one of the most feared creatures on the continent since Ultima Weapon was defeated.
Tifa left right then and there. No goodbye, or anything. She just hopped into her buggy and drove off. Barret stood in his doorway watching her leave, chuckling to himself, "That girl is persistant. Stupid, but persistant."
Driving across the fields in the buggy wasn't easy. The monsters still attacked her, and even though they were definately no match for her, the bits of damage starts to accumulate after a while. At the chocobo ranch, she stopped and paid the old man to let her spend the night.
That night, she sat awake half of the night, thinking about Cloud's obsession. "He's crazy... She's been dead for 3 months, and he still won't give up." She saw the day that she, Barret, and Cloud witnessed Sephiroth's slaying of Aeris, a beautiful girl in her early 20's, dressed in a pink dress with a red vest over it, her hair brown, long and tied into a ponytail behind her head, flowing past her neck and down her back. The sword went right through her, and there was no blood, no pain... Just instant death.
"Hell, I liked Aeris, obviously, we were all friends. But I got over the fact that she died, Cloud didn't. He needs to learn to get over the past, and look forward to the future." She didn't realize how loudly she was talking to herself until Billy started banging on the wall and yelling, "Could you keep it down in there?? I'm trying to sleep!"
"Sorry..." Tifa took one last look at the wall before she dozed off and dreamed about Cloud... The boy she had liked ever since they were young...
--End of Chapter 2--