Okie chpt 3! Hmmmm I'm just going to write what ever comes into my head cuz I have no clue what I'm going to do for this one….

"What!" Mr. Valentino yelled in the middle of the dinning hall when the panting and sweating group told him what had happened.

"They're locked in" Yuffie gave a nod.

"How did this happen?" Mr. Valentino shook his head.

"I was leaning on the door and kinda fell" Reno shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Oh my gosh, this was not suppose to happen. Grade 12s should be better then this" He paced back and forth. "All the other hikes to that location are cancelled, it'll be a break day for other students. You and your group will continue on as usual while staff go and fetch them in the morning." "Why not now?" Yuffie asked. Aerith had pointed out the hours before but Yuffie had forgotten.

"We can't be walking back through the woods that late at night. They'll be fine. They have food" He shook his head. His tone of voice made them think he thought they dissevered it. Aerith sighed. She sat down at a table with Cloud and Vincent after Mr. Valentino had shooed them away.

"I can't believe that!" Cloud laughed after he heard their story. "Rufus and Tifa will most likely kill each other by morning" "Lets hope Tifa wins any fights" Yuffie gave a nod. Aerith just sat there in worry. What if everything wasn't okay?

"I call the bed" Tifa spoke up. She was pacing back and forth around the room while Rufus was standing in the corner. She had just remembered the bed and she wanted it. "No way, I get it" Rufus glared at her, "I'm a ShinRa, I always get what I want" "Not today, I called it." Tifa put her hands on her hips.

"Fine but I'll be sleeping on top of you then cuz I'm not sleeping on the floor," Rufus snapped.

"You better not cuz…. Um.. Um… I… I sleep in the nude!" Tifa finally found a lame thing to say.

"Perfect" He smirked, Tifa frowned, this wasn't going to work.

"Fine we'll have to share" She glared at him. He stuck his tongue out at her.

"Fine" Rufus agreed this would be interesting. Tifa walked over to the window. Stupid bars, they could've escaped by now. Tifa looked outside. It was getting dark. Her watch told her it was 9 pm.

"It's so dark" She said more to herself then to Rufus.

"Scared?" He smirked.

"No" Tifa bit back. She rolled her eyes and walked to the middle of the cabin.

"You never know what'll happen in the dark," Rufus told her; she rolled her eyes. She heard him walking up behind her. He started running his fingers up and down her arms, mimicking spider legs. Tifa shivered lightly.

"Quit it Rufus" She rolled her eyes once again.

"What if I'm not Rufus" He deepened his voice to a whisper and leaned closer to her ear. "What if I killed him and he's lying dead in the corner" "That would be a good thing" Tifa smirked, his voice did sound different but she wasn't fooled "What if you turn around and it's not Rufus, it's some cold blooded murderer" He purred into her other ear. It was very dark, and he did sound very different. Tifa was only slightly scared. There was always a small possibility the boy running his crawling fingers down her arms wasn't Rufus but she doubted it. Tifa turned around and sure enough it was Rufus, looking smug.

"Dork" Tifa hit him in the chest.

"You were scared, admit it" Rufus chuckled.

"I was not" Tifa laughed, "I'd be more scared if I was outside but we're safe in here." "Sure" He turned around and walked back over to the bed. He sat down and looked back over at her. Tifa didn't want to sleep but she was really tired. She decided to keep walking around the room. Tifa wrapped her arms around her self in a hug. She was cold; she only wore a tank top and jeans since she somehow didn't think this was going to happen. She shivered but continued walking. She knew that was the only way to warm herself up.

"Tifa?" Rufus asked from the bed as he looked up at the ceiling.

"What?" "What's it like to have a mother" He questioned and sat up. Tifa stopped walking and looked over at him.

"What's it like to have a father?" Tifa asked him back. "Oh" Rufus got it; her mother was like his father. Having them didn't mean you actually did have them.

"Yeah" Tifa walked over to the bed and sat down.

"How old were you when it happened?" Rufus asked her. He reach up and touched her hair. He moved it behind her ear and behind her shoulder. Tifa recoiled slightly. His gentleness was freaking her out. Tifa guessed it was a momentary laps in judgement and he would be back to insulting her in the morning. Tifa lay down beside him.

"I was three" She said, "What about you?" Tifa knew all about Rufus' family since it was always in newspapers.

"Four" He told her, he rolled over and propped himself up on his elbow. He looked down at her.

"You know you could live at ShinRa if you wanted. Then you wouldn't have to pay rent," Rufus said surprising even himself. Tifa's eyes widened as she looked up at him.

"What?" She wasn't sure how to react. This would solve all her money troubles. She could work less and have a normal teen life. Was he serious? "Are you serious?" "Yeah" Rufus made a mental noted to remember and not forget, even if he fought with her. Tifa's eyes filled with happy tears and she jumped forward and hugged him. Rufus fell back and chuckled, he was almost happy to see her this way.

"Thank you" Tifa got off of him and wiped her eyes.

"No big deal" Rufus smiled, the first time she'd seen him actually smile. Tifa lay back and wondered, she wondered about her mom. She would have to mail her and inform her of her knew address. Tifa hoped she wouldn't get mad. Tifa stared up at the ceiling. Rufus stared at her. What had he done? He knew this would help her but now he was stuck with her. But, somehow he didn't mind. He could tell she was thinking. Tifa turned her head to look at him. She miscalculated the distance between them and her lips ended up locking with his. Tifa's eyes widened, but to her surprise Rufus didn't pull away. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to him. Tifa felt warm and softly closed her eyes. Rufus deepened the kiss. He knew it was accidental but he didn't care. This was the third time he had held her so close. The first time didn't really count since he was trying to hurt her, but it was the third time non-the less. Tifa broke the kiss and stared at him.

"Sorry" She didn't know what to say, so she said that.

"For what" He smirked.

"I… I don't know" Tifa laughed a little and rested her head under his chin. Rufus smiled and closed his eyes.

"Lets try and sleep okay?" Rufus asked.

"Okay" Tifa agreed. She closed her eyes as well. She wasn't sure how but she was in love with someone she purely hated only moments ago. She rapid change of heart scared her but she didn't care. If he never talked to her again she wouldn't care, this moment was more then enough to make her happy.

"Aerith lay down!" Yuffie told her friend who was nervously pacing around the small cabin.

"What if she's hurt or hungry or Rufus tried to kiss her!" Aerith stopped pacing and sat down on what should have been Tifa's bed.

"Rufus wouldn't do that" Elena commented.

"I dunno, Tifa's pretty hot," Yuffie laughed.

"Yuffie, this is no time for jokes" Aerith exclaimed.

"Aerith breath!" Yuffie commanded, "Tifa and Rufus have food, they have pop, they have no warm but they can huddle together if they really need to. They'll be fine, they're not lost in the woods with nothing they're just locked in a cabin." "What if a murder comes!" Elena suddenly sat up.

"Here? In these woods, not likely. And besides if they can't get out murders can't get in" Yuffie told her. Elena lay back down. She was just as worried as Aerith.

"How can you be so calm?" Aerith asked and crawled into her bed.

"Because I know they'll be fine. We can sleep easy and have a fun day tomorrow. And around lunch time they'll be back" Yuffie shrugged.

"Yuffie your too calm" Aerith shook her head. She pulled her sleeping bag over her head. "Please be okay Tifa" "Aerith they'll be fine" Yuffie rolled her eyes and turned around. She closed her eyes. She was worried too but she knew they would be okay.

Tifa woke up freezing cold. She knew Rufus was too since he was shivering. She was still in his arms.

"Tifa?" He asked when he saw she was awake.

"What?" She looked up at him.

"I'm sorry" "What?" She was surprised to hear those words from his mouth.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think such a harmless prank would be this hard on someone" Rufus hugged her tighter to stay warm.

"Neither did I" Tifa sighed; this was the stupidest thing she'd ever done. But in a way she got a new home out of it. She checked her watch. It was 11 am. They had slept a long time. Tifa thought about her teachers. They would probably get up at 6 am, which meant they would be there soon. Tifa got up and left Rufus' grasp. She looked out the window and sure enough she saw Mr. Valentino and Mr. Gilmore coming towards them.

"Hey we're saved" Tifa smiled and rushed over to Rufus. She pulled him out of bed. He shook his head to wake himself up and joined her at the window. He saw the two teachers and couldn't help but smile. They unlocked the door and Tifa ran outside. She flung her arms up in the air.

"Free!" She laughed. Mr. Gilmore smiled.

"We're glad you're safe, now lets head back okay?" He said.

"Okay" Tifa smiled.

"You know your going to lose marks for this" Mr. Valentino snapped.

"We know" Rufus frowned and rolled his eyes.

"I don't care" Tifa shrugged.

"Excuse me Miss Lockhart?" He gapped.

"I'm free, I can have a shower, I have put on warm clothes, I'm alive, I don't care about grades at the moment" Tifa told him. Though she was never worried about living, she added that in there for dramatic effect.

"Oh" Mr. Valentino frowned. "Maybe going through this was punishment enough. Never mind about the marks. Tifa smiled. She felt refreshed, having slept so late. She was cold and hungry but fine otherwise. She walked beside Rufus the whole way back. Once when Mr. Valentino and Mr. Gilmore weren't looking he held her hand and squeezed it briefly. Tifa knew it was a 'We made it' gesture. Rufus still seemed to hate her but just not as much. He didn't smiled or speak once during the walk back.

"When are they coming back?" Aerith asked nervously and Yuffie and her paddled their canoe. Reno and Elena were in another canoe having pretty much the same conversation.

"Probably around 4ish, maybe" Yuffie told her.

"Do you think they're okay?" Elena asked.

"Yeah of course" Reno told her.

"Okay" Aerith and Elena sighed. Aerith and Yuffie pulled their canoe up onto shore. They slipped their paddles inside the canoe as they were told to. Aerith and Yuffie grabbed their journals from the backpacks and sat on the dock writing. Their canoeing was done for today. It was the only activity that had noting to do with hiking. They had to write about water and it's creatures. Aerith's mind was obviously somewhere else but she tried to focus on writing.

"You look worried, pretty thing" Aerith looked up when she heard Zack's voice. She hadn't spoken to him since he asked her out.

"A little" She smiled weakly. He sat down beside her and put his arm around her.

"Tifa right?" He already knew the answer.

"Yeah" Aerith told him.

"She'll be back with Rufus anytime now" He assured her.

"You don't think bears got her do you?" Aerith asked.

"No, no" Zack chuckled. "I meant to ask you…" "Yeah?" "How's about that date you promised me 'um… um… later,'" He said quoting her.

"Well it is later. So I say yes" Aerith smiled. She remembered the talk she'd had with Tifa. She wasn't sure if she wanted to but when Cloud had said nothing to her on the bus she was sure it was time to move on for a while.

"Great, see you later babe" He gave her a kiss on the cheek and stood up to leave.

"Bye" Aerith blushed and continued writing. Yuffie looked over at her.

"What about Cloud?" She asked.

"Maybe later but right now he just doesn't seem interested" Aerith sighed.

"Oh okay" Yuffie accepted her answer. She looked over towards the shore. She saw Cloud walking by staring at them, his gaze moved to Zack and the to the floor. 'Sorry Cloud' Yuffie thought. She looked over to the trail they had taken yesterday. She wasn't sure what time it was but she was hoping to see Tifa come through it. She stared at it for a while until she saw Tifa's smiling face.

"Aerith, Aerith" Yuffie jumped up and pulled at her friend. "Tifa's back" "No way" Aerith jumped up and looked over at the trail. Both girls dropped their journals and sprinted towards her. Tifa looked up to see Yuffie and Aerith flying towards her. She was clear out of the woods and it felt good. She couldn't wait to shower. Mr. Valentino and Mr. Gilmore left them after giving them permission to have the day off.

"Tifa!" Yuffie and Aerith cried and tackled their friend into a hug. Rufus smirked and kept walking.

"Are you okay?" Yuffie asked checking her over.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just cold and kinda hungry" Tifa smiled.

"Lets get you into a shower fast." Aerith pushed her friend towards their cabin. Yuffie ran back to the dock to collect their journals. She looked over to see Rufus talking with his friends. Elena was hugging him and he was rolling his eyes. Reno patted him on the back and grinned. Yuffie smiled, it was nice the Rufus had at least two people who cared about him.

She walked back to the cabin and looked inside. It was empty. She figured Aerith had run Tifa to the shower room after Tifa had gotten new clothes. Yuffie threw their books onto Tifa's bunk and headed back out the door. She ran over to the washroom and found Aerith sitting outside.

"She's in the shower," Aerith pointed back to the door.

"Okay, I'm glad she's back" Yuffie grinned "Me too." Aerith agreed.

Tifa decided this was the best shower of her life. She felt warm again and clean and refreshed. Tifa was more then happy at the moment. She loved shampoo, she love conditioner, she loved water, and she loved big sweaters. Tifa washed her hair and after that stepped out of the shower. She wrapped a tower around her long hair and got dressed. She slipped into clean jeans and a big sweater. She knew that camping didn't mean you had to feel clean all the time and she didn't care she hadn't had a shower. But after staying in that cabin for the night she just needed to feel clean. Tifa combed out her hair and flipped it put into a clip. Several strands fell out and lined her face. She moved her bangs out of her eyes and smiled.

She grabbed her old clothes and headed outside to meet her friends. Yuffie and Aerith stood up and headed to the dining hall. It was just about dinnertime so they grabbed a table.

"So what did you do?" Aerith asked.

"Well we ate chips and power bars," Tifa told her, "Then he tried to scare me, so I hit him. Then we went to sleep" "Weren't you cold?" Yuffie asked. "Yeah" Tifa gave a nod.

"Did you have to sleep on the floor?" Aerith asked.

"No there was a bed," Tifa told them.

"Only one?" Yuffie raised an eyebrow, "You had to sleep with him!" "Yuffie not so loud. He's not that bad, and besides I didn't have a choice, we're both to stubborn to sleep on the floor." Tifa explained.

"Oh" Yuffie smiled.

"It's not that big of a deal, I mean it's mostly my fault" Tifa admitted.

"Huh?" Yuffie and Aerith stared at her. Tifa explained what she had heard and what she told Reno to do. Aerith and Yuffie's mouth slowly started to drop open.

"No way!" Yuffie was shocked. " I can't believe you did that." "Well I didn't know what I was getting into. I wish I hadn't" Tifa sighed, "It wasn't worth it though I got a place to live." "What?" Aerith questioned.

"Rufus said I can live at ShinRa" Tifa said, Yuffie and Aerith were once again shocked. "Really? Um that's… well I don't know what that is. Good because you won't need to work so hard but bad cuz you'll be stuck with him," Yuffie giggled.

"He's not that bad" Tifa repeated.

"I think you like him" Aerith teased, "Or… something happened!" "Oooooo what happened" Yuffie leaned closer to her. Tifa leaned back away from her.

"Nothing geez" She laughed. All further questions were put to a stop when all the students piled into the dinning hall. Yuffie volunteered to get the food and left her row friends. Zack, Cloud and Vincent came to sit with them. Zack put his arm around Aerith and Cloud glared at him.

"Glad to have you back Tifa" Cloud messed up her hair. Tifa swatted his hand away and giggled.

"Yeah, I'm glad you survived" Vincent grinned.

"Thank you" Tifa smirked. Yuffie came back with their food. Tifa ate mostly in silence. She looked over at Cloud. He looked fine but every time Aerith smiled or laughed at one of Zack's joke his expression would turn angry. Tifa couldn't feel sorry for him, she did warn him.

Tifa lay awake in her bed. She was happy to be in her warm sleeping bag. Still she couldn't sleep. Tifa sat up and stared into the darkness. She could hear Elena and Yuffie snoring and nothing from Aerith. Tifa knew everyone was sleeping soundly, she wished she was too. Tifa decided to take a walk. Maybe the fresh air would do her some good. Tifa got out of bed and slipped a sweater over her pjs. She opened the door quietly and headed outside. It was early in the morning and the teachers who usually keep watch over sneaking students were fast a sleep. Tifa padded out into the cold air and headed down to the beach. She stood at the waters edge. The lake was so quite it made you want to jump in it. Tifa smiled to herself. She had only 1 memory of her dad. They were singing together while Tifa sat on his knee. She knew every word to the song and vowed never to forget it.

"I'm just so tired… wont you sing me to sleep. And fly through my dreams so I can hitch a ride with you tonight and get away from this place have a new name and face I just ain't the same without you in my life" Tifa sang softly. She smiled at the memory. Every time she sang this song when her mom was around her mom would scold her. Tifa frowned at that part of her memory.

"late night drives, all alone in my car I can't help but start singing lines from all our favourite songs and melodies in the air singin life just ain't fair sometimes I still just can't believe you're gone" She continued as she strolled slowly along the beach. She felt peaceful now. A hand clamped down on her shoulder.

"Miss Lockhart, what are you doing out here" Tifa jumped at the voice. She knew it wasn't one of her teachers. It sounded like… "Rufus" She quietly hissed.

"You were scared. Admit it" He smirked down at her.

"Was not" Tifa defended, but she was and he knew it.

"Suuure" He chuckled. "What are you doing out here?" "I could asked you the same thing" Tifa said raising an eyebrow, "I couldn't sleep" "Same, to cold" Rufus shivered.

"It's warmer then the cabin," Tifa laughed.

"Nooo the cabin was warmer" Rufus told her in his usual whiny tone.

"How's that?" Tifa asked as she turned her back to him to face the lake once again. He snaked his arms around her waist and pulled her up against him. He leaned his face close to her ear.

"Because you were there with me," He purred. Tifa couldn't believe her ears. By the sound of things he liked her. She was shocked. There was no way he could like her, he was well… Rufus. Ack annoying boy! Always confusing her.

"What ever" Tifa laughed, she placed her hands on top of his. "Tifa I want to date you, you know" Rufus told her. He was bold with girls. He didn't care if this was a girl he hated up until yesterday night because he liked her now and that was all that matter. He'd had a change of heart the second she asked him what is was like to have a father. Something just struck him and he started noticing all the wonderful things about her he'd missed before. Her sensitivity and kindness, gorgeous smile and body. Everything about her seemed perfect now.

"I… know" Tifa closed her eyes a little.

"We'd have to keep it a secret until further notice" Rufus said.

"Yeah I know" Tifa turned in his grasp to face him. She knew she could never tell Aerith or Yuffie. They'd kill her or at least think she was nuts. Cloud would be supportive but hate it. Vincent... Well he wouldn't really care. Reno would be fine with it. Elena would freak out as much as Yuffie and Aerith.

"Are we agreed then?" Rufus asked.

"Agreed?" She laughed, "It's so formal" Rufus gave her a look. "Agreed" she smiled.

"Good" He kissed her forehead. "Now go to bed" He pushed her of in the direction of her cabin.

"Fine" Tifa grinned and ran back to her cabin. Rufus watched her leave and smirked.

Aerith had to wake Tifa up in the morning. Yuffie was already off with Vincent having breakfast.

"Tifa, Tifa" Aerith shook her.

"What…." Tifa groaned.

"Wake up" Aerith sighed; it was like this every time she had to wake Tifa up. The girl just loved to sleep. Aerith was more of a morning person, but Tifa was defiantly not.

"Okay okay I'm up" She sat up and stretched. Tifa flipped her hair back and put it up. She put on her big sweater and new jeans. Tifa headed out the door with Aerith.

"You missed breakfast you know" She shook her head.

"Oh well, there's always lunch" Tifa smiled.

"True. Come on it's time to do another hike" Aerith grabbed her hand and they took off in the direction of the trail. This time they'd be hiking for an hour and doing archery at the end of the trail. Tifa saw Yuffie, Elena, Reno and Rufus all waiting for her. "Tifa! Learn to wake up" Yuffie snapped.

"Yeah gees Lockhart" Reno snickered. "Miss Lockhart you've kept us waiting, do it again and your losing marks" Mr. Gilmore told her.

"Sorry" Tifa smiled. Mr. Gilmore would accompany them since archery had to be supervised. Tifa used the walking time to write in her journal, so did Aerith and Yuffie. Tifa wrote about the trees and blah blah blah what ever would please the teachers. She found this boring; the whole point of the trip was to learn about the different types of geography. So far all she'd learned was cabins are cold and Rufus Shinra isn't' so bad. Tifa finished first and put away her paper. She once again had to pull Yuffie off the side of the trail before she hit a tree.

"Yuffie it's not that big of a talent to stay straight you know" Tifa giggled.

"It is for me," She said without looking up from her paper. Tifa just smiled at her friend. She put her arms behind her head and enjoyed the short hike. She started walking slower then the others. Not something she did with purpose, the scenery just distracted her. She stopped and looked at the lake. She would love to go swimming. Maybe she would one night when everyone was asleep.

"Move it Tifa" Rufus told her as he passed her. He was at the back of the group like always.

"Fine, fine" She walked on.

"I think we should have another bet" He smirked.

"Hmm?" Tifa raised an eyebrow, "What this time?" "First person to get a bulls eye, or closest to it wins" Rufus told her.

"Okay, if I win… I get… " Tifa put a finger to her chin in thought. "Your room in ShinRa" "What!" Rufus's eyes widened. He thought about if for a second, smirked, and then agreed. "Okay, if I win then I get to go swimming with you" "What?" Tifa questioned.

"Tonight at 4 am in the lake" Rufus told her.

"Okay deal" Tifa accepted. She had to win, she wanted his room, and she knew it was the biggest in ShinRa.

"A kiss seals the deal," Rufus told her quietly.

"But…" Tifa looked at everyone. All of them had their backs turned but threatened to turn around at any second. "No one's looking" Rufus grinned. Tifa gave him a quick kiss and ran up to join her friends. Rufus smirked. He won either way. She said she wanted his room, she didn't say he had to get out of it. Rufus knew Tifa wouldn't share and so she'd get the room she would've anyways. Tifa ran up beside Aerith and Yuffie who were still writing. They looked as if they hadn't even noticed she was gone. Aerith finished writing and put her paper away.

"Where'd you go Teef?" Aerith asked, so they had noticed.

"Just to look at the lake," Tifa told her.

"Okay" Aerith smiled.

"Almost done Yuffie?" Aerith asked.

"Yup" Yuffie stopped writing and put her papers away. "Done" "Hey look we're here," Aerith pointed.

"Me first!" Yuffie grinned at ran towards the open shack with targets in front of it. Tifa and Aerith joined her and waited for the other 3 to catch up. Mr. Gilmore went over all the rules, don't shoot each other, don't shoot at animals, don't shoot until your told and so on.

"Okay first pair up" Yuffie and Reno stepped up and took up their bows. Yuffie got one good shot in. Her other 3 arrows went in very which direction. Reno got all of his on the target but it was Yuffie's target he hit. They retrieved their arrows. Aerith and Elena were up next. Aerith got all of her on the target and one in the bull's eye.

"Good job!" Yuffie bounced around. Aerith smirked proudly. Elena did pretty well; she got all the arrows on the target but missed once. She got her pretty close to the bull's eye as well. Tifa and Rufus stepped up next. Tifa aimed and fired. She got a clear miss. She watched as Rufus hit the target. Tifa tried again. She got it in the ring right outside the bull's eye. So did Rufus. The third one landed in the large white area around the circles. Rufus missed. Tifa smirked they were even so far. They both aimed and fired. Tifa and Rufus watch the arrows fly threw the air and one hit the bull's eye.

"Yes!"

Done chpt 3! This is another bad editing chapter. Sry! Yeeeeah my fanfics, 99 of the time, will have a song in them P I just like music hehe. Hope you liked it!