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Chapter 13: Another Day
Aeris sat, wrapped in a towel, next to the bed, asleep. She had been asleep since the previous night after attacking Sephiroth. And oh yes, the man had something clever to say about that when she woke up.
Why is she sleeping for so long? She's been asleep for seventeen hours, he thought bitterly. Okay, yeah, so maybe she's gone a couple of nights with not very much sleep, or with uncomfortable sleeping conditions but Holy, this is ridiculous! She isn't even actually ON the bed so what the heck?
Minutes later, Aeris opened her eyes, finally awake. She yawned and stood up, still clutching the towel as she immediately remembered that her clothes were hanging to dry and she was in her underwear. Now, ordinarily that wouldn't bother her if she happened to be alone but she was with Sephiroth…self-explanatory, I believe.
"Where are my clothes?" she asked, her voice bitter from just waking up.
"…Why should I tell you?" the silver-haired man challenged, turning to face her, arms crossed at his chest.
"Because I said so!" she snapped.
"Fine. They're in the bathroom. By the way, last night, when you lunged at me…" He chuckled. "Honestly Aeris I didn't know you felt that way about me!"
"YOU'D BETTER BE JOKING," the woman screamed as she slammed the bathroom door to change.
Sephiroth approached the door…Just because they were in different rooms didn't mean they weren't allowed to speak to each other.
"Why would I be joking? Usually when someone lunges at someone else when they're wearing nothing but their underwear it means something," Sephiroth said…Just because his voice sounded dead serious didn't mean he wasn't teasing her.
"Sephiroth," Aeris growled warningly. Her muffled voice indicated that she was about halfway into her shirt.
"Aeris," the man replied in the same manner.
"GOOD! Now that you know my name would you kindly leave me the hell alone?" the Cetra woman barked, pulling on her jeans, pushing on the door to go to the bedroom to put on her shoes and socks.
"…Nah," Sephiroth said with a smirk, pushing on the door so that Aeris was stuck in the bathroom.
"Hey…LET ME OUT!" she hissed.
"…Nah."
"SEPHIROTH!"
"AERIS!"
"You idiot," Aeris snapped.
"Good girl. You've MASTERED insults, haven't you?" said the ever-sarcastic Sephiroth.
"Grr…" After realizing that her demands were useless, she tried pounding and pushing on the door.
Feeling her new struggles, Sephiroth chuckled and stood to one side, one hand still on the doorknob, keeping the door closed without any trouble. After a few seconds, he very quickly yanked his hand away, laughing as Aeris tumbled onto the ground, obviously, to put it simply, pissed off.
"Jerk…" she groaned, standing up, face hot from anger and embarrassment.
"I may be a jerk but you know you like it…Anyway, good morning we're leaving soon, so get whatever other stuff you brought together in ten minutes," Sephiroth said.
"…Did you just say, 'you know you like it'?" Aeris asked, stunned.
"Huh? No, I—uh…I meant to say…Oh…forget it…just shut up and get ready," Sephiroth hissed.
Aeris gave him a mock salute. "Fine, but when are we eating? I didn't have anything to eat yesterday and the day before that all I ate was a roll so I'm pretty hungry," she sighed.
"We'll eat later."
"How much later?"
"I'll tell you what…The next time we see a restaurant we'll eat, okay?" the silver-haired man offered.
"Fine with me," Aeris said with a shrug. "So long as we get to eat…Where are we going anyway?"
Sephiroth shrugged. "…I'm not sure. Maybe we'll go to Costa del Sol or somewhere around there? We can stop in Gongaga to grab some food, maybe, if that's fine with you."
"Actually, can we stop at Cosmo Canyon to eat? I kinda want to visit Red…and why Costa del Sol? I thought you HATED happy places…" Aeris said, suspicious.
"I do. Yet at the same time I just want to see if anything's changed. We can eat there, too. The bar there's not bad…well…at least when I went there last time it wasn't bad, and that was ten years ago," Sephiroth said with a shrug.
"How come you're suddenly being so nice…?"
"How come YOU'RE suddenly being so nice?"
"I'm usually nice by nature. I was just being nice because YOU were being nice."
"Don't worry. I'll stop being nice after a while…"
"You know," Aeris grumbled, "that actually sort of DOES give me something to worry about…"
"Just hurry up and get ready."
"But I AM ready."
"Then let's go. It will probably take the day to get to Cosmo Canyon…We'll stay the night there most likely, then go to Costa del Sol," Sephiroth explained.
"Sounds good to me…though I still don't know why you, of all people, want to go to Costa del Sol…" Aeris muttered.
"I just feel like it." Besides, I SORT OF want to see you in a bathing suit…just sort of…just to see what your preference between one piece and two piece would be, that's all…really.
Yumesuta: Well that ends the chapter! Hopefully the next one will be longer. I hope I get some reviews on this.
