It has been 12 hours since she first locked herself in her room. And she was still battling hard to forget about their little fiasco.

Suddenly she heard heavy footstep climbing the stairs and walking towards her room, a few moments later a tiny note slipped under her door and she hears the heavy footstep again only this time they were walking away before disappearing with the sound of the crickets outside.

She laid there eyes focused on the note and expectedly curiosity got the better of her and she went for it carefully lifting the neatly folded piece of paper into her hand and read it.

Ms.Tifa Lockhart,

You can't hide yourself forever in that room you know, you have to come out eventually. Denzel has been bugging me all day and to conclude it I'm sick of his constant babbling, the kid doesn't shut up! So now please, please, please, please…come out I'm dead seriously sorry about this morning.

Yours truly,

Cloud.

And just as her eyes wandered further down, she caught a little tiny message.

P.S: I cooked dinner.

And as if on cue her stomach rumbled loudly, her hand quickly reaching for it to quiet it down. She crumpled the note and threw it into the dust bin, twisting the knob as silent as possible she tip-toed out of her hiding place and turned around to close the door.

"I knew you come out," a voice said from behind her.

Her heart was racing as fast as a Formula 1 car, she whirled around and was ready to punch whoever was behind her.

Cloud saw the attack coming but he didn't dodge receiving the blow full force on his abdomen.

"CLOUD! What are you doing sneaking up behind me like that!" Tifa said realizing what she just did.

"Gah! You just mashed my internal organs Teef!" Cloud griped, even though it didn't really hurt.

"Serve you right for sneaking up on me," She replied as she raised her hand to his forehead, "I see you got your zing back, just a slight fever though… where's Denzel?" She asked as they both descended down the stairs.

"I put him to bed already," Cloud said, before abruptly stopping their journey down by side-stepping in front of her, his hands clasp on her shoulder so that she couldn't run away.

"Look, I totally humiliated myself today…" He said his shy face clearly red with embarrassment, "And I'm sorry you had to see whatever it is that I think you saw… but can we just forget about it? And if you look at it in another angle it's just like a free anatomy class, or if you look at it through another angle you won't be so shy when we get married cause you already seen those part of me you that you would see and that way w- Err... Umm… Heh," Quickly forcing a smile after realizing what he had just said, 'Damn my big mouth and this stupid Nitrogen Narcosis side-effect.' He cursed himself, mentally kicking himself on the head repeatedly.

"The nerve! What makes you think I would actually want to marry you!" Tifa said standing on the tips of her boots with one hand on her hip so that she could look down on him.

"Aww… come on I see the way you kept looking at me…" He said before biting his mouth shut when he noticed the change in her face, 'What the hell is wrong with me today!' He screamed mentally, "Tifa no that's not what I meant!" He tried to explain.

And with that Tifa marched back upstairs, "Shut up Cloud!" She screamed, silencing him to a mute.

"I'm sorry I know you're not yourself right now… Ju-Just… talk to me when that stupid nitrogen gas is out of your system."

But before she could reach the last step a hand stopped her, turning her around.

"Let me g-mmhh!" She stared at him in shock before fully realizing what he was doing. His warm lips was molding over her own cold ones as her eyes fluttered close. With every move his kiss deepened further and further before she finally gasped when he dipped her, feet in the air with one arm around her waist supporting her weight and the other around her knee balancing her in the air.

She could practically melt right there in his arms as he continued to spread fire over her lips. She grinned when she felt his fingers moving down and pulling her shirt back to reach for the string of her bra.

"Oh no you won't!" She said as kicked legs up, using the arm on her waist as a pole to swing and landing with great agility at the bottom of the stairs.

And with her one thumb she brushed her nose playfully, "If you want me, you have to catch me first." She challenged, finishing with a one eye wink.

Cloud gave her a smug smile, shifting his weight on one leg, arms crossed in front of his chest.

"The things I'd do for a girl…" Cloud whispered loud enough so that Tifa could hear and with that he raced down the stairs causing Tifa to shriek and run.