Insanity… Or Love?
-Dreams and Wishes-
Cloud walked out of the forest back to where he had left his fenrir. Getting on the bike, he revved the motor and rode off. Hills and tress rolled by as he sped towards Midgar.
"Everything will be okay, I promise."
Her words echoed in his head, her shimmering image burned into his mind's eyes. The road began to disappear and he saw only a light. Memories…
"Are you alright?"
"Neh…?" His vision was blurred and his head was pounding. 'What happened?' he thought. He tried sitting up only to pushed back down again. "Hey!"
"Lie down! You fell from pretty high… luckily the flowers broke your fall."
"Who…?"
"Aerith Gainsborough, and you?"
"Cloud, Cloud Strife." He tried to open his eyes, wincing at the light. "Ow…"
"You'll be find, just rest here a while."
There was the sound of music… a little sad, kind of haunting.
'Wait… that's not right.'
Cloud blinked and he was back on the road, driving fast. He blinked and looked down to where his phone was. The song it played had brought him out of the trance-like state of mind he had been in. He stared at the phone for a minute longer, shook his head and brought his eyes back up to the road. The phone continued to ring, but he ignored it as usual. Shortly after it had stopped ringing, he pulled over and flipped open the phone. He dialled his voice mail and listened.
"Why don't you ever answer your phone? Where are you, Cloud? We're all worried about you… Denzel's sick now… and Barret called, he's coming next week," – there was a pause and a sigh – "Call me… I wish you would come home…" – another sigh - "Bye."
He deleted the message and sighed. "Looks like you'll get your wish, Tifa." Snapping the phone shut, he returned it to his pocket and drove off.
There it is, chapter one (the first was a prologue…). I think I'm just going to do really short chapters… but I assure you the next one won't take as long as this one for me to get up. Let me know what you think… and Cloud's ring tone (thanks to Yume-Yume) is Roxas' theme (Kingdom Hearts II). Email me if you want me to send it to you. Anyway, thanks to anyone who helped me trying to figure out the ring tone for Cloud's phone.