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Yuffie tossed and turned almost every night that week. It always felt like forever until the first rays of the sunlight peeked through her window. "Thank God!" She muttered as she quietly left the house. As Yuffie walked down the street she began to realize the truth. Life on her own was BORING! "This town is soooo dull!" She muttered.
"I can liven things up for you." Seifer said as he came from around the corner and smirked at her.
"I told you. Not interested." Yuffie answered with a quick fake smile. "Now you can leave."
"There are a ton of girls who would die to be in your position." Seifer took a step closer, his tone getting menacing.
"Well I would RATHER die." Yuffie answered with a roll of her eyes.
"What is your problem?" Seifer asked. "Would you rather be alone? You obviously have no one considering the fact you're alone in an apartment in this dinky town."
His words hit home. Yuffie had been trying to push back her feelings but it didn't help that the next day was her birthday. "Look, I'm in love with someone else ok?"
Seifer just smirked at her. "You're wasting your time. You could have me." When Yuffie didn't move he made a strange noise and walked off, obviously pissed.
Yuffie just stood there. She hadn't even been on her own for very long and she had to admit it, she was lonely. She felt so immature once again.
"Hey there Yuffie!"
Yuffie turned around to see Olette walking towards her. "You look upset about something. I saw Seifer talking to you, did he say something? He can be so mean sometimes."
Yuffie gave a small laugh. "No, he didn't say anything. It's just... I feel kind of lonely even though I've only been on my own for like a week! I wanted to prove to the others that I was grown up enough to be on my own but I'm failing."
Olette nodded, but looked a little bit confused. "How old are you?"
"I'll be 18 tomorrow." Yuffie answered and sighed at Olette's shocked face. "Yeah, I know that I look younger then I am."
"Actually... I thought that you were older." Olette answered looking at her feet.
Yuffie had a feeling that she was lying but she felt better anyways. "Heh... thanks Olette."
After that Yuffie hung out with Olette and the rest of her friends who threw her a smallparty. Feeling so much better Yuffie walked home alone that night. "I'm finally an adult." She muttered to herself. For some reason she wasn't tired, so instead of heading to her room she decided to climb up on one of the buildings and stare at the sky.
Of course she closed her eyes and felt something on her nose. She opened her eyes to see that it had started to lightly rain. She giggled and put out her hands to feel it. Suddenly she felt like someone was watching her and she turned to see Cloud. For a moment she felt frozen. "W-what are you doing here?" It was dark so she couldn't really see his face.
"Aerith was worried about you." Cloud answered her.
Of course, as if he actually CARED about me! Yuffie gave a fake smile before carefully standing up, making sure not to lose her balance. "Well, you can tell her that I'm just fine, now you can be on your merry way."
"It's your birthday." Cloud said. "You're an adult."
"Not in your eyes." Yuffie answered. "I'll never be in anyone else's eyes..."
Cloud didn't say anything so she just shook her head. "Do you want to stay in my room? It's late and to rainy for you to head out." Cloud didn't answer so Yuffie just carefully began making her way down. Suddenly her hand slipped and before she could scream Cloud grabbed her hand and she regained her balance. "Thanks." She muttered, embarrassed. Instead of letting her go though Cloud just held on to her hand for a moment. Yuffie felt her face turning red, as she pulled her hand away and made it the rest of the way down without any incidents.
They walked towards the house in silence, though Yuffie couldn't help but think that if they were a couple, how romantic it would be, walking together in the rain. Ugh, I cannot start thinking like that... I'll just get my hopes built up for nothing. Suddenly Cloud stumbled and Yuffie grabbed his arm to prevent him from falling. "You alright?"
Cloud didn't answer and in the streetlight Yuffie could see his face. His eyes looked slightly glazed over. "Are you DRUNK?" Yuffie asked shocked, She had never seen Cloud drink in her life.
"I'm fine." He hissed. Yuffie could tell that he held his alcohol very well, yet his footsteps weren't quite straight. Luckily they were almost to the house.
"If you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you didn't let anyone see you." Yuffie informed Cloud as she quietly unlocked the door and slipped into the house. Cloud didn't answer, (What else was new?) So Yuffie just led him to her room, went a got a couple blankets and came back. "Here you can..." Yuffie trailed off when she saw that he had made himself comfortable on her bed. "That's my bed!" She hissed.
Cloud pretended not to hear her, or so she thought but Yuffie realized that he had actually fallen asleep. As she looked at his face she realized that he was completely out. "Humph, he shouldn't be drinking!" With that she began trying to pull him off the bed to no avail. "I am NOT sleeping on the floor in my own house." She muttered. With that Yuffie pushed Cloud to the other side of the bed and laid down, making sure not to touch him.
A sudden knocking on the door woke Yuffie up the next morning. "Yuffie, Yuffie it's Olette!" Greeted her and before Yuffie could move Olette unlocked the door. Apparently Yuffie had forgotten to lock it thenight before."Good morn-" Olette stopped when she saw Cloud lying next to Yuffie. His arm had somehow made it's way around her waist, Yuffie noticed.
Yuffie began turning red and realized what she had to be thinking. "Oh no, it's not what you think, seriously, he's just an aquiantance and... um... wow..." She pulled herself away from him and jumped out of the bed, standing there awkwardly.
"Don't worry about it Yuffie, you are older then me." Olette gave her a small smile and left without another word.
"Oh crap..."
Cloud chose that moment to wake up and he yawned as a look of confusion came upon his face for a minute. "Where am I... Oh."
"I let you stay the night since you practically keeled over! You were drunk!"
"I was searching for you." Cloud answered, not replying to the drunk part."Sora wouldn't tell us where you went either."
"Well don't I feel special." Yuffie answered sarcastically. "You found me, now you can leave."
"Stop these foolish games Yuffie." Cloud answered, a look of anger coming across his face. "You don't belong here." He stood up and winced as he put his hand to his forehead. He had a hangover and Yuffie wasn't helping.
"I don't belong back in Hollow Bastion either!" Yuffie answered clenching her fists. "I've always felt alone, none of you have EVER treated me the way that I deserved."
"If I treated you the way that you deserved then you wouldn't be able to walk."
"And if you weren't such an asshole then I think that we would all benefit greatly." Yuffie crossed her arms and smirked at him.
"So I'm an asshole?" Cloud took a couple steps closer to her. "Well they must be your type of guy then."
"What are you insinuating?" Yuffie asked feeling butterflies in her stomach. He was SO CUTE! C'mon Yuffie, you can't let him win this! Don't back down!
"You know perfectly well." Cloud answered. When Yuffie didn't say anything he let out an exasperated breath. "I honestly don't care if you stay here, after all you're nothing to me." He knew that would get a rise out of her.
"Then why are you here?" Yuffie hissed. "Also, I already KNOW that I mean nothing to you!"
"Because Aerith asked me." Cloud didn't answer the other part of what she said.
"Oh yeah, you have to do exactly everything that she tells you. Well I'm sorry, but I'm not going back with you. Thanks for asking so nicely though. Now you can leave." Yuffie walked over to the door and opened it and waited for him to leave.
Instead, Cloud slowly closed the door back and stood over Yuffie. "I'm not leaving without you, why won't you come with me?"
Yuffie could feel tears in her eyes. "Can't you see you blind idiot? You're just making things harder, I want to get away from you... Why can't you just leave me alone?" The tears began running down her face.
Cloud seemed mesmorized by her tears as he lightly ran his finger across her cheek to wipe away one of the tears that had fallen. "I'm sorry to have caused you pain." He said softly.
"That's just it! You haven't done anything, It's my fault... I used Aerith so that I could get close to you. I'm the scum of the earth."
"That doesn't sound like the Yuffie I know." Cloud said. "The Yuffie I know would blame anyone else before she blamed herself."
Yuffie gave a small laugh and hiccuped. "I feel stupid."
"Taking the blame is what an adult would do." Yuffie's eyes widened at his words.
Cloud's head felt a little heavy and dull. Maybe, he told himself, that was the reason that he found himself lowering his face down towards Yuffie's and wiping a strand of hair away from her face. And maybe his hangover was the reason that he bent down further, intending to kiss her. Yuffie's eyes widened, she wasn't sure what to do.
A/N: ACKKKK yes, the cliffy of horror! I'm sorry, I had to do it. I won't be able to update for a couple weeks because I'm leaving, but please leave me lots of reviews for when I get back :) Thanks guys!