Chapter 4
Believe me
The pain and anger that I am feeling right now can hardly be explained in words. Aren't your friends supposed to trust you no matter what? Shouldn't they believe you when you say that Sephiroth has been staying in your house, and that he is a changed man who needs our help?
It may sound crazy, but shouldn't they at least listen to me, shouldn't they find out the truth? This fact had been upsetting me all day.
I was mainly upset at Cloud.
When Cloud woke up this morning and finally got over his hangover from the night before, he listened to my story and declared me crazy. When I told him that Sephiroth had punched him out the night before, he denied it, saying I was the one who had punched him. I even had Sephiroth sit beside me, and Cloud still told me that Sephiroth was dead and that he saw nothing out of the ordinary. He saw so Sephiroth.
Cloud saw me, sitting alone on a couch, telling lie after lie.
The only thing is...I was not lying!
"Tifa, your just remembering. Hallucinating. Sephiroth is gone."
Cloud told me I should lay down and dragged me into my room. I got into the bed, only because I wanted him to leave me alone. He, however, sat beside me. He pulled out his PHS and called Barret, telling him that I was having horrible hallucinations and that I believed Sephiroth was back from the dead. I suppose they both had a good laugh. Now I had no way of getting help from my friends. I was sure that Cloud and Barret would spread the word to the other Avalanche memebers, making me look crazy and leaving me with one person to turn to.
Sephiroth himself.
As Cloud exited my room I yelled to him.
"Leave the door open for him! I don't care if you don't believe me! I know the truth!"
Cloud only shook his head,sighing.
I sat up in my bed waiting for Sephiroth to enter. I didn't know what we would do now that we had no help. I also didn't know why Cloud hadn't seen him, even when he sat right beside me. Was I going crazy?
Finally, Sephiroth came in to talk to me about everything. I could tell he was about to reveal something he hadn't told me before, and that made me scared. Scared that everyone was right and that Sephiroth was just some imaginary figure I had brought back from the dead to keep me busy.
"Sephiroth, no one believes me. No one can help. No one can see you. Why?"
Sephiroth pulled a gloved hand to his chin, as if he were thinking long and hard. Somehow, I felt as if he already knew the answer.
"Sometimes we see things that others cannot. Hojo can see me. You can see me. I believe this is because the person had to want me to come back, to see me once agin. They had to wish that somehow, in someway I was here, back on earth. I assure you that I am real, but that still doesn't explain everything. Why would you, someone who had tried to kill me, wish for me to return?"
I had never wished for Sephiroth to return. I would have never wanted him to return, not after all of the horrible things that he had done.
"I never did. I would have never wanted to see you again!"
I saw that this,comment brought pain to him, even if it was understandable that I felt this way. The scary thing was, I didn't seem to feel the same way about Sephiroth as I had before, back when he was not himself. I truely knew that this man was different.
"Sephiroth. I..am glad now though, to see how you have changed."
His face now turned emotionless. He only nodded at this comment that I had made.
"We still have to try and stop Hojo. We will leave in the morning."
Hojo. Yes, that is what Sephiroth was here for. That is why he had returned.
Until it hit me.
I had wish for Sephiroth to return. I hadn't wished for him exactly, but I had wished for something to go wrong in the world to bring Avalanche back together again.
If that is why I could see him, did that mean Sephiroth would do something to betray my new trust. I had wished for something to go wrong.
Now that my friends have no belief in me, it really doesn't matter. Now I have no one to trust.
"Yes, Sephiroth.We shall leave tomorrow."
----This was a short intermission-like chapter, just to put in something for the storyline. More updates willcome after I get over writer's block!---R&R!
