Wind

I leaned against the bed with a sigh. "Just like a sleepover, huh."

W were inside the ShinRa mansion. No one actually wanted to sleep on the bed, and none of us really wanted to be near the door to the basement, so we were all sprawled out along one side of it. All right, so between the three of us we didn't really fit well. I've been travelling with Cloud and Vincent so long that we're used to cramped quarters.

Even if I prefer to sprawl.

"A...sleepover," Cloud muttered, disbelieving. His eyes glowed as he stared at me. It's strange, the way their eyes glow. It startled me at first, especially at night, but now it's kind of comforting.

I tilted my head back and let my eyes fall shut. "Yeah. A sleepover. You know, where you stay up all night and talk about what guys you... like...Oh."

Vincent just sighed.

"Eheh, yeah, so I guess none of us have a whole lotta experience with that..." I muttered sheepishly. Cloud laughed and slung an arm around my shoulder.

"S'ok, Yuf. We can talk about girls, hey?"

I started laughing and shoved him off me. He tumbled to the ground and into Vincent, who sighed again and rolled his eyes. "Heh, yeah, I guess you're right. Who's first?"

Cloud pushed himself up, 'accidentally' poking Vincent in the side, and grinned at me. "Your idea, so you first. So. Talk." Then he winced slightly. "Although, I may hit you if you go on about Tifa too long. I don't think I can take that."

"Hey! What happened to not hitting girls?"

Cloud snorted. "That rule so does not apply to you."

"Dammit..." I muttered. "Uh, okay...I...uh..." I found myself falling silent.

After about five minutes I sensed Vincent and Cloud starting to get annoyed. "Sorry...it's just that...I don't think I'm all that interested in Tifa anymore."

Cloud blinked. "Well, I can't say that I'm not relieved. Why, though? You really cared about her before."

I shrugged. "It's just...It's like there's this chasm between me and Tifa, and she's on one side and I'm on the other. And I can see her side, and there's some good points and some bad points to it, but I can see the whole damn thing from here. And on my side, there's you two, and there's twists and turns and it's impossible to know what'll happen next. Certainly it's rougher and more dangerous than her side, but it's a lot more fun." I shrugged again, feeling slightly stupid. " I can see her side, and I know I used to be over on that side of the chasm, and that I even used to be able to cross back and forth...but now I don't remember how. I can't cross back to her side, and even if I could, I wouldn't want to. It's just...She wants a different life than I do."

We were all silent for a long while after that. Vincent had just opened his mouth to comment, when a soft noise at the door made us all look up sharply.

It was Tifa.