Yay it's chapter 10!! It's getting harder for me to write. Also, I'm moving within the next two days, so IDK if there is an internet I can hack into at my new house.
Chapter 10
I slept very late the next morning. When I woke up, my hair was messier and choppier as ever. I stumbled down the stairs.
"Whoa!" a boy yelled.
I jumped back in surprise. There was a boy about twelve sitting by the table eating pancakes. He had Geostigma on his forehead.
"Hey, you're the girl-!"
"You're the boy-!"
"You two have met?" Tifa sounded amused.
"Yeah, when Kadaj took us. She was on the truck." This must be Denzel. He frowned at me. "Why is she here?"
"She needs a place to stay for a while," Tifa simply stated.
"Oh. Okay." Denzel started eating again.
"Sen? Do you want some pancakes?"
"Uhm… no thank you." It was all very strange to me, a mother, a son… and then me. "Is… Cloud back yet?"
"No."
"He's looking for Light… right?"
"Your brother? Yeah, he is." She didn't really know what to say. "I found a picture in one of your pockets. Your brother's tall and blond, right? And he's got Mako eyes, right?"
"Mako?" I said.
"You know… in SOLDIER."
"What's SOLDIER?" I asked. Tifa paused from making pancakes and turned around to me.
"You don't know about SOLDIER? You know about Shinra Electric Company, right?"
I nodded. "Daddy used to work there."
"Well… Shinra had an elite group of warriors called SOLDIER. They are much more advanced than normal humans like us… they have Mako in them. Mako is an energy source that comes from Jenova. Jenova was an alien that fell from the sky about two thousand years ago. Anyway, children all over the world would try and join SOLDIER. They would go to the SOLDIER academy and receive Mako injections. The Mako would give their eyes that pretty color and strange glow. But your brother has Mako eyes."
"How old do you have to be when you join SOLDIER?!" I demanded.
Tifa shrugged. "Cloud joined at fourteen."
Fourteen…
I felt myself sway and I quickly sat down before I would fall down.
"Sen? Are you okay?"
"Light was a part of SOLDIER," I said. My voice was shaking. "Before… he lived in the slums. That's why… his eyes are like that and… he's stronger than most people…"
"Sen?" Tifa put her hands on my shoulders.
"I need to talk to Light!" I yelled. "I need to tell him!"
"Okay, shhh. Cloud is finding Light as we speak. He'll be here in no time, hmm?" She gently put some of my hair behind my ear. My breath was coming out in short sobs. I needed Light. I hadn't seen him for two days. I had never been separated from him for longer than twelve hours at a time, and even bordering ten I would sometimes crawl out of bed and sneak into his bedroom so I could lay beside him. He would always return me to my own room in the morning, but now, Light was gone. I started crying. Tifa hugged me and rocked me back and forth.
"There there, you've been through a lot. It's okay…"
My first day was spent watching TV, not eating, and being doted on by Tifa. The mentioned Marlene did not arrive, but Tifa didn't seem to worry about that, seeing as I slept in her bedroom.
"I asked Barret to keep her for a few more days," she explained to Denzel and me as she braided my hair once more. "So Sen can stay in Marlene's bed." I felt a bit bad for intruding in this Marlene's space, but not bad enough to leave Tifa's house.
My half-bangs wouldn't cooperate with Tifa's plans.
"Your hair is annoying!" Tifa yelled. "But it's also adorable."
"Eh?"
"I like how it's…" Her voice trailed off. "How would you call it…"
"Choppy? Messy?"
"Yeah. I like it! It makes you look very cute."
"Thank you…" I tugged at my braids. She was the first person who had ever done my hair besides Mom and then Light.
My second day was pretty much the same as the first day. Tifa tried out new braids on my hair and cooked these delicious dishes that gave me a stomach ache by just smelling them. And the third day was the same as that.
"Do you think Cloud will find Light?" I asked Tifa multiple times.
"Yes. I'm sure he will," Tifa said firmly before continuing her braiding.
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