4 Chapters! It's true. I'm officially biggest lying procrastinator on the planet. Sorry for everyone who was reading the story and then jutted stopped. I'm actually guessing that those of you who were reading this story before should know that I'm an ass hole and have given up on new chapters, but I'll give you all replies for your stuff you told me anyway. I kept getting side tracked but that was like 5 months ago so I should have no excuses. Well here's the fourth chapter. Hope you like it. But first! Replies to all the reviews sent!

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The Boarding House

Chapter 4: A Dark Morning

Riku's eyes slowly opened. His vision was a little blurry but he could tell that he was on his bed. He started to sit up. A searing pain shot through his head. "Oh crap!" He said slowly lowering himself back on the bed. "Hangover. That's a really bad sign." He tried getting up again, this time slowly. He got up and stared walking towards the door. His head was throbbing. He got close to the door and leaned against it. Sora came bashing in and knocked Riku on the floor. He felt his head pain multiply. "Augh! Sora!"

"Good morning sleepy head!" Sora nearly screamed. "So ready to get up and have my hang over cure?"

"Sora could you shut up!" Riku hissed in anger. "Not so damn loud. Ugh, What the hell happened last night?"

"What happened indeed!" Sora said still not lowering his voice. "It was a psychotic night on your part my friend!"

"Sora please quiet down. If I pissed you off last night, I'm sorry but whatever I did, it was because I was drunk ok? Now please tell me why my head feels like it's going to split open?"

"Why? I don't know. Maybe because you were DRUNK!"

"Dammit Sora!"

"Okay, Okay. That was the last one. Here drink this."

Sora handed him a brownish thick liquid. Riku took it with hesitation. "What the hell is in this?"

"I could tell you…but I don't think I will, for your sake."

Riku held his nose and drank it all down as fast as possible. "Now explain, Sora. What happened?"

Sora stared up at the ceiling and put his hands behind his head. "Well…we got into the club and started drinking and dancing and all that crap. Y'know, doing what people do in a club. We're there for a couple of hours and I was trying all night to keep you away from Aeris."

Riku was completely listening. He could tell that it would get bad pretty soon.

"Only problem," Sora continued. "…was that I met this girl there and I kind of got side tracked from what was going on."

Riku knew that the worst was coming soon. "So what happened?"

Sora got a hesitant look on his face. "Now before I tell you this, bare in mind! I was with a girl that had the best body ever. Knowing that, the Man's Code protects me from any physical attacks from you--"

"Sora, just tell me what happened!"

"…well…You guys started hanging out at the bar, from what I can gather. From what I actually saw, you must have gotten really drunk and you spilled a drink on her clothes."

Riku stared at Sora trivially. "Well that's not so bad."

"I'm not finished yet… After you did this you got a pretty happy look on your face and then said that you would get it off with your mouth…and you proceeded to lean towards her breasts, and…"

"OH MY GOD! I DIDN'T REALLY DO IT DID I?"

"No! Just calm down. Tifa came up and punched you in the eye before you were there."

"Oh… well this still sucks."

"It's still not over either. You see, after all of this, I came towards you to tend to you, and then out of a drunken rage towards Tifa, you ended up kicking me in the nuts. Then you turned towards Aeris and asked her if you could, and I quote, 'eat out her sparkling Cetra pussy' unquote. Then you passed out…at least you were straightforward. I think they like that."

The room went dead silent. Riku looked at whatever he could desperately trying to find something that worked into his head. This was a dream. It had to have been. How could things have gone so wrong in one night? He had to find Aeris, and soon.

Rinoa's eyes opened up to see the ceiling of her room. She had work today but she didn't feel like going anywhere. She wanted to just call in sick, but she didn't want to go all the way downstairs to get the phone. She just felt lazy today. She had had another dream about Squall last night. Rinoa was obsessed and she knew it.

"Morning!"

Rinoa rolled over and saw Kairi sitting up looking wide awake. "Oh, God. You're a morning person.

Kairi smiled and let out a laugh. "I've been up for an hour and a half."

"What time is it?"

Kairi looked over at the clock next to her bed. "It's ten. So what are you gonna do today?"

Rinoa looked at her pillow. "I don't know. A little this. A little that."

Kairi got a sly smile on her face. "I know what you're gonna do. Your gonna ask Squall out aren't you?"

Rinoa bolted up in bed. "Who told you that!"

"Tifa did. Uh, was I not supposed to know that?"

Mentally, Rinoa screamed at the top of her lungs. "No one was! Dammit!"

"It's okay, you can trust me. I'm not gonna tell anyone."

Rinoa sighed. "It's not you I'm worried about Kairi. If Tifa tells one person, she'll tell everyone. And no one should know about this."

"So what are you gonna do?"

Rinoa knew that there was only one thing she could do. If she didn't tell Squall, than it would leak to everyone really soon, and she didn't want him to find out that way. If anyone was going to tell Squall than she was. Today was judgment day. "I'm going to do exactly what you said I was gonna do Kairi." Rinoa got out of bed and went to the bathroom to get ready.

Squall ate his egg fast. He went up the stairs and headed towards the bathroom. Now was the time. He had to let Rinoa know how he felt. He would brush his teeth and then wait for her to wake up. She had to work that day, but it was raining outside meaning she would probably not be going anywhere. This meant she would sleep late so Squall had plenty of time to make himself physically and mentally ready for this.

He was about to open up the bathroom door, but someone from the inside was already doing it. He backed up and moved to the side, and out came Rinoa.

They both froze in their tracks. Both of them were thinking the same thing not even knowing it. They weren't ready yet. This wasn't supposed to happen so quickly, but they didn't have a choice now. They had to say something. They both went "So." They closed they're mouths immediately. Squall decided to keep going first.

"Uh, I'll go first. I was just hanging out around the house yesterday and…"

Rinoa was now really intrigued. "And what?"

"And…I was just wondering if--"

"Good morning comrades!" Seifer came down the hall yelling loud as hell.

Squall knew exactly what was coming and he just wasn't in the mood for it. He thought of a quick excuse for talking to Rinoa, which was, " I was wondering if you put my conditioner somewhere."

Rinoa's hopes went straight down the toilet. "No, I didn't do anything with it."

Squall whipped around and walked right past Seifer. He wanted so bad to kick his ass but he knew that now was not the time, nor the place for such an outburst.

Seifer walked up to Rinoa and waited until Squall was out of earshot. "So what did the giraffe want?"

Rinoa raised an eyebrow. "Giraffe?"

"Yeah. You know, because giraffes don't have voice boxes."

"…"

"Because Squall doesn't talk a lot."

"No, I get it."

"…so anyway, what are you doing on Tuesday?"

"Seifer, we broke up okay? Please just drop it."

Rinoa walked right past him. Seifer was sick of this. What did Squall have that he didn't?

Seifer went into the bathroom as Tifa came running out of her room. She went straight over to Cloud's room and went inside. He was still fast asleep on his bed. She walked over and curled up next to him. It was thundering outside and Tifa hated thunder. She had had a sort of phobia for it, for her whole life.

Cloud's eyes jutted open. Tifa was in his bed, pressed up against him. "It's a little early for this isn't it? It's okay though, you know I'm always up for it."

"No! It's not that. Look outside."

Cloud took a moment to see what she was talking about. Raindrops were pelting the window. Cloud grinned. "Baby, when are you gonna get over that?"

"I can't help it." Tifa said rubbing up to him some more.

Cloud laughed. "So let me get this straight. You're a black belt in two different fighting styles and have the physical body of a goddess but you're afraid of a little thunder? Come on Tifa."

The thunder got louder for a second and Tifa pushed towards him and held her arms around him. "Sorry. I wish I wasn't but you know how it is. Hey Cloud…do you still think about Aeris?"

Cloud looked down at Tifa trivially. "Sometimes. I mean we dated for six months so it's gonna enter my mind sometimes."

Tifa bolted up. "Six months? But Aeris said you guys were only dating for a little while."

Cloud suddenly remembered. "Oops--uh I mean--"

"Oops? What the hell does that mean!"

"Well…Aeris and I just thought that--"

"You lied to me didn't you!" Tifa got out of Cloud's bed and stomped out of the room.

"Dammit," Cloud cursed. He got out of bed and struggled to put some pants on, falling down in the process. He ran out of his room and chased Tifa down stairs. He looked around and saw that she wasn't anywhere to be seen. He went to the front door and saw it sitting open. Tifa was standing outside shivering in the rain. He went to the door and was met by and angry glare. "Tifa…"

Tifa continued her evil eye towards him. "When we started this relationship we said that we wouldn't keep secrets, remember?"

"Tifa, it wasn't my idea. We were pretty sure that you would get mad if we told you. Aeris and I did break up but it was only for a day at first. We were actually together still for about four months after everyone thought we were done. We just didn't want anyone trying to tell us whether we should or shouldn't be together so we kept it a secret."

Tifa's evil eye faded away. "So…you weren't still with her when we got together?"

"No. We had already ended it for good three or four days before that."

Tifa looked up at him with tears streaming down her face. "I get it now. I was just your rebound fuck wasn't I?"

"What! Tifa it was nothing like that!"

"Who broke up with who?"

"…she broke up with me but it was--" Tifa came up and kicked Cloud dead in the face. He dropped to the ground as Tifa ran outside.

She knew now why Cloud was with her and why he had gotten with her. She knew for sure now. He was still thinking about Aeris, and if he'd lied about this than he could be lying about anything. This completely explained that week at the beginning of her relationship with Cloud why he had broken up with her. He had felt guilty. Apparently his guilt passed and he got back with her. She ran down the houses driveway knowing that she could easily catch pneumonia being out in the rain in nothing but some pajamas but it didn't matter. Even the raging thunder didn't matter. She could finally tell. All the times he had started to tell her certain things and then changed to subject. It was all because of this. He still loved Aeris. Well if he loved her, he could marry her for all she cared, because it was over.

She looked up trying to decide where she was about to go when a car came zooming up the driveway Tifa screamed in horror and jumped out of the way. The car slid on the wet pavement and bashed into the side of the house, making a loud sound of screeching metal and wood. It's passenger side opened up and out stumbled a beautiful brunette. It was Yuna.

There's chapter four. It was a short chapter, but still a good one. This doesn't mean they'll always be this short from now on though. And I've decided to name all the chapters instead of the whole generic thing. Chapter five will be up but I don't know when. I don't want to break another promise.