A/N: And I'm back! Hehe, what a holiday. Its amazing how time flys when you're having fun. Im sorry that I put "Bundle of Life" and "Perfection" on hold. I just wanted to enjoy my holiday. And i did. So now I'm back! I was actually going to update next weekend, but the reviews keep coming in and so, I just couldn't resist but to put up chapter 13. :) Thanks for the reviews and thanks to everyone who reviewed to "Can You Keep A Secret"

His nervousness soon edged away as they sat together outside on the steps of Seventh Heaven. The rest of their friends remained inside with their never ending laughter of their drunken state. It was one of those things that adults did that always seemed to amaze children. The generation of children always wondered, Why drink and get drunk, and feel sick the next day? Who wants to be sick anyways?

Outside together sat the couple. The new found couple of which had discovered a love not more than a few hours ago. Things truly had changed and it wasn't just between this blonde haired man and brunette woman. A warrior and a fighter. A sword fighter and a hand combat master. But there in the skies sat another change, in a place where the clouds soared and the birds flew. It was a place where a stream of white foam would pass over mountains and buildings, in a place where two people sat watching. This was made by them. The outcome their doing.

Who set up the child there? Who took the child's father away and left him to fend for himself in the streets? How possible was it for a child to survive 32 weeks without being harmed? Only the touch of an angel would secure even the most insecure of men alive.

/"They deserve this,"/ a warrior who stood beside the lady mumbled quietly.

She nodded/"Yes, they do."/

His brows arched as he caught her eyes. /"You never really loved him did you?"/ he asked.

A smile broke upon her lips as she looked away and back into the fogged covered river in which they watched the living. /"His heart belonged to her even before I met him."/

/"So you loved him then?"/

She shook her head and turned to the warrior beside her. /"Not in that way, I loved him as a friend."/

/"Have you ever considered loving someone in that meaningful way?"/ he asked.

She flashed him a smile and took his hand which hung close beside her. /"Yes."/

Back in the world of the living, the couple kept silent as they sat and stared at the day went on. Traffic was normal. There was no screech in breaks or beeps in horns. There was the sound of cars and bikes passing; the laughter of children down the blocks, and the parents who called after them.

His face was readable for once. One could actually read the line of his forehead. 'Man in love.'

"Tifa," he said, it sounded more of a question.

She shivered from the cool breeze but then turned to him. "Cloud," she answered back in the same way.

He took her hand in his gently and sat it on his lips. "I love you a lot," he didn't quite know the right way to say it.

"Yeah," she sighed and leaned her side closer to him. "I um.. have a question," she began, sounding very nervous.

He slipped his hand around her waist and pulled her closer, "What is it?"

"I just..I.." she was beginning to be very fidgety, "Why do you love me?" She turned to him.

Silence.

What was he to say? What if he say too much and she found it too stupid? Wouldn't his words be dumb? They were after all too cheesy.

He opened his mouth and somehow the words seem to come out freely. "I love you because.."

/"Let the words come from your heart."/

He smiled warmly, "Because no matter where I go, or whatever I do, somewhere in my mind, I am thinking of you constantly," he looked down at their hands which were now laced together. From the heart was where his words lay. "You've always been there even when I didn't even notice and then that day at the chapel," he paused and looked up to her, "I saw you lying there and I realized that I didn't know what to do if you were.. if you were.." he couldn't say that word.

She reached up and brushed her finger over his slender cheek as she drew her face closer to him. "You won't lose me Cloud," she said easily. "I'm not going anywhere."

And he smiled a genuine smile. Their laced hands glued together tightly as they leaned in slowly. The touch of the sleek skin electrified his bones as he edged closer to her. They had never done this slowly before. It was all new to them. Their nose tips touched and edged further to rest on each other. His lips were just a millimeter away and already she was beginning to blush from his breath on her lips.

It didn't occur to her until now that Cloud had a very genuine smell. His smell wasn't sharp and neither was it faint. It was rather calm, secure and like a lullaby. He smelt much like the sky, a smell that she only smelt once a long time ago. It wasn't like flowers, more of the rain, the water that dripped down from the sky.

Their lips touched briefly, as they kept them there still. She felt his smile and couldn't resist but to smile too. Their hands were still laced upon his lap.

She drew back her lips but rested her forehead against his. He smiled down to her and stared into her eyes. Though his vision was blurred by the closeness of image, he didn't care.