So so. Uhm. Lol. I guess here goes the twelfth chapter. I'm sorry it took me a little while to update.

Oh and to be honest with you all I was considering quitting this story.

But then a very great person by the name of Night's Mirth reviewed and added the story to their faves, alerts, that stuff, and it made me realize someone wants this to continue, so for that someone, this will be finished and well. :)

Enjoy!

Tifa's POV--------

"Tifa...I have to tell you something." Zack was saying, but I was barely listening. All I knew was Cloud.

Needed me. Aerith had left him. Why was I sitting here?!

"And what would that be, Zack?"

"I....I slept with Aerith."

I turned slowly to face him.

He had done what?!

Zack was staring at me, a sad expression on his face.

"Zack...I can't do this. You're going to have to leave."

"What? What do you mean?"

"I mean I'm calling off our engagement."

Zack's eyes widened. "Why?"

"Why? Are you seriously asking me why?!?!" I shouted.

"Because you cheated on me! Slept with our wedding planner! God you are so freaking....UGH!"

I collapsed on the couch, frustrated.

Zack came over to me, wrapping his arms around me. "Tifa...it was a stupid mistake. I love you."

"No, Zack. We can't do this. Just go."

"But Ti..."

"Go. Please. Like...now."

He looked at me, a sad expression on his face, before going into the room.

A little more than thirty minutes later, he had packed up his belongings. I heard his car door open and shut, then he drove away.

He was gone.

And I was sitting here, not sad, and found myself pressing speed dial 3.

Calling Cloud.

Cloud's POV------

"Tifa?" I asked, slightly surprised at the call.

"Uhm...can you meet me somewhere? I need to see you."

I was confused, to say the least. But I couldn't say no.

"Yeah, totally. How about the park, and we can talk there? I'll leave Skye with Reno. Sound good?"

Tifa replied..."Y-yeah. See you there."

We hung up, and I took Skye over to Reno's.

It felt so...weird...not having Aerith around. I didn't know what I was going to do.

And Skye was out a mother, which she didn't deserve.

Reno agreed to watch her, and I headed over towards the park, relishing the walk. It felt good, walking in the silence.

I saw Tifa, sitting on a bench. She looked...so...unhappy.

I sat next to her. "Hey." I said softly.
Tifa didn't look up. I glanced down and realized she was clenching her hands together around each other, and I remembered this as one of her frustrated habits.

And I also realized her left hand was bare.

Which pleased yet worried me.

"What's going on?"

"Zack cheated on me...with Aerith...I called off our engagement...I'm frustrated and want to just....hurt somebody!" She said, still clenching her hands.

I wrapped my fingers around hers. "Calm down."

Then I realized what she had said.
That was why Aerith had left me?? She'd cheated with Zack?!?!
"I can't just calm down Cloud, you know me better than that."

She seemed to just realize I was holding her hand. "Uhm...we shouldn't be doing this." she muttered.
But she didn't let go, instead, leaned against me, her head on my shoulder, tightened her fingers in mine, and sighed softly.
"Cloud....why did you leave, those few years ago?" she asked softly.
"My dad got transferred back to Nibelheim."
"Why...why didn't you come back? After you turned 18?" she asked, and I could hear the depression in her voice.
"We had broken up, Ti. I went home. Did the responsible thing...I'd left a pregnant Aerith in Nibelheim. I married her three days before she had Skye, at graduation." I sighed.
"I wanted you. That first day you were gone, I told myself that I'd let any feelings for you just fly away.
But even though I started dating Zack...I still wanted you." Her voice broke.

Sighing, I turned to where I was facing her, letting go of her hand. "Tifa...I dreamed of you. Wanted to know...needed to know...if you still thought of me. But I was too caught up. In doing the right thing. In trying to be the man I needed to be."

Tifa looked into my eyes. "You were always enough for me. Things were so...dramatic..the short time you were here in senior year. But I knew...that someday you'd be back in my life."

"But that didn't stop you from getting engaged to Fair." I pointed out, softly.
Tifa nodded. "I know. I had to go on with my life, Cloud. And I loved him too...I didn't deserve either of you. I still don't."

I sighed. "Tifa...you're perfect for me."
"Then why didn't things work out?" She said, and I heard the tears in her throat, fuzzing over her voice.

That's when I made my desicion. "We can be."

Tifa looked genuinely puzzled. "What?"

I wrapped my fingers through her hair and pulled her into a bruising, passionate kiss. She smiled into my lips and wrapped her arms around my neck, deepening our kiss. I'd waited years for this. To feel this again.

"I love you Tifa." I muttered when we pulled away from each other.
She sighed and pressed her lips back against mine in another searing kiss.
"I love you too, Cloud."

super short. But that was all I could think of. (: Thirteenth should be posted by the first. Hopefully.