Chapter Two: Oh, dear!

After travelling several miles around the area of her and Cloud's council house, Aeris was beginning to feel a little tired. She had drank over two bottles of strong vodka and the sun was starting to set. Aeris looked at her watch, not noticing the old woman that was in the middle of the road. 7:34pm. Tifa cried out at Aeris and swerved the steering wheel to avoid the old woman. After Aeris' and Tifa's pulse rate had returned to normal, they looked behind themselves and saw the old woman gesturing a rather vulgar finger expression.

"That bloody old woman!" Aeris shouted. "It's a road, it's a road! What the bloody hell does she think she's bloody doing? She's going to get herself killed. And what a nerve, to shove her finger up at us." Aeris spat out as she drove along Midgar Second St.

"Just keep your eyes on the road, Aeris. Blimey, you almost got yourself, me and that old woman killed. Anyway, it's been a while since I've been fingered like that, last time was in secondary school, but you know how cruel teenagers can be sometimes." Tifa replied.

Tifa sipped on her martini as she looked over at the horizon. If you're wondering where on Earth they got all these vodkas and martinis from, they had stopped around half an hour ago at a petrol station and decided to buy a few bottles of drink to cheer themselves up. It's a crazy idea though, Tifa thought: 'Why the bloody hell do they sell alcohol at places where drivers stop!'. But now she was thinking: 'This is the life. The wind in my hair, the strong taste of alcohol in my throat as I drive along with my friend. I guess every bad thing does have a good side!'. Whilst Aeris was thinking...: 'That bastard, that bastard, that bastard. I can't believe he'd cheat on me. Oh, I'll get him back, I will. He may think stealing his car was enough, but it ain't, I'll get him somehow, I will. Oh, that bastard, that bastard..'. Her line of thinking was cut off when Tifa screamed into her ear and something flew over their bonnet.

The car's brakes came into effect immediately after this event, as Aeris' reflex actions took over her normal actions and her heartbeat increased to 120 bpm.

"What the hell was that?" Aeris whispered. The sweat dribbled down her forehead as the bitter taste of vodka and vomit welled up in her larynx. Tifa was shaking all over, her throat felt like it was drier than a desert.

"I think it was a person. ... Oh, shit. I think it was." she replied. "We were only travelling at 70mph, maybe he or she is still alive." she hoped. They both stepped out of the car and ran around to the back. About half a mile up the road was a person in the middle of it. Luckily for Tifa and Aeris, the road that they were on, the Midgar Third St. was empty until around 8pm, so no one was witness to this manslaughter. They ran up to the body and saw immediately that it was a woman. Tifa plucked up the courage to turn the woman face up, because at the moment she was face down in her own blood. Aeris shrieked.

"It's that bitch that was shagging Cloud!" she laughed. "Oh, what a coincedence! Life is certainly a funny thing." This wasn't the alcohol talking: after she had hit the bitch she sobered up aruptly.

"Aeris, this isn't funny! You've just killed someone!" Tifa croaked out. Aeris looked over at Tifa in a camp way, her hand automatically placed on her hip as it swerved to one side.

"In a car YOU hotwired, honey." she replied.

"That's beside the point! Well, look, we're both in the shit now!" she fell to her knees as she said this and banged her head in the palms of her hands. Aeris knelt down beside her and patted her on the back.

"It can't be that bad. Look, why don't we just.. pretend we never saw this cow? Pretend we never killed her? We could just hide her corpse somewhere?" Aeris whispered. Tifa looked up from her hands, the mascara she was wearing had smudged all over the eye area of her face as she cried.

"What are you saying?" she coughed.

"Look, we already killed the bitch, we're both going inside the slammer if we confess! And it was an accident! What goes around comes around, remember? It's her own fault for rolling about on top of my husband wearing nothing but a scouring pad." she spat out.

"A scou.. what! Look, I don't know what you're talking about, but you're right." Tifa wiped her eyes and stood up, Aeris following suit. "Let's get her into the car and ditch her in Midgar's only lake, the "Midgar Lake."

"Oh, shit! We can't!" Tifa cried. Aeris gave her a wonderous look. "Don't you know? They have that new fangled bloocy fan-fan technology. If a corpse got in the lake it would be filtered out. They'd find out the last place where she was by Cloud's sperm sample after the autopsy, and you'd be the prime suspect once they find out that Cloud's car was stolen and that he's your boyfriend!" Tifa slammed her hand down hard on the ground.

"You're absolutely right, but I've an idea. It's not going to be pleasant though." she looked over at the woman's corpse. After going through her wallet whilst Tifa was talking she found out her name was Yuffie Kisaragi and she had arranged a meeting with Cloud tonight at 2am. 'Bitch.' she thought, as she took out a pen knife.

"What are you going to do?" Tifa asked, her facial expression was one of horror. Aeris placed the knife on the side of Yuffie's corpse's neck and pressed down hard. Yuffie had a date tonight, she certainly couldn't miss it for fear of Aeris and Tifa losing their freedom. They may still have it, but they've lost something else: their sanity...