-1 I heard Reno heave a loud sigh. He skipped another rock across the ocean. The three of us had been at the Junon beach for a few hours. Boredom had infected Reno since the first hour we were here.
"This is boring.", he complained.
"Well Reno no one is forcing you to stay here.", Tifa said. She turned back to her meal. It was her idea to have lunch on the beach. Reno and I were in charge to get the fish. So after a few hours worth of attempts we got enough for a decent meal. I took another bite when I heard a rhythmic chirping. I looked over and a dolphin was examining Reno.
"What do you want you stupid fish?", Reno said irritated. He threw a rock at it and the dolphin swam off. "Serves you right ya sardine.", Reno said chuckling. His laughter ended with a splashing sound and chirping that sounded like laughter. The dolphin was swimming backwards on it's tail and it looked as if it was clapping its dorsal fins together at Reno's expense. "YOU DAMN FISH! SPITTING ON ME! I OUGHT TO FRY YOU!", he shouted. Tifa could barely keep herself from laughing.
I heard a phone ringing, Tifa took out a cell phone from one of her pockets. Opened it and put the receiver, "Hello?", she asked. Non-audible words were heard. "Yeah Cloud's right here. We just got done with lunch at the beach.", what came next was a torrent of death threats. "NO SERINA! It's not like that. Cloud lost his memory I'm trying to help him get it back. Call Dr. Grissom if you don't believe me.", there was a few moments of silence. "You want to talk to Cloud? OK", Tifa handed me the phone.
"…Hello?", I asked unsure of who might be on the other end.
"Hi Cloudy-poo!", a high-pitch obnoxious voice answered. "I heard what happen. I'm sorry about it. Please remember everything soon and come back. Oh and don't even think about messing with Tifa cuz I know where you sleep.", she ended in a sing-song voice. Right about now I'm worried about my life. Thankfully she hung up.
"What was that thing?", I asked.
"Your psycho-bitch girlfriend.", Tifa said displeased.
"You don't really like her do you?", I asked.
She flush a bit red a little embarrassed. "Well you don't like her too much either.", she said quickly. "Especially after the knife incident.", Tifa said trailing off with a little fear in her voice.
"Why don't I just leave her?"
"Last time you tried that she nearly burnt down the house.", Tifa said. Then the memory came back. Serina psycho-bitch professional. Of all the women I had to see selling flower. Why the hell did I even ask her out? Three hellish years under her psycho reign.
"You should probably go see Pricilla Cloud.", Tifa said. "She'll be excited to see you."
"The little girl I saved here?", Tifa nodded. We left the beach, if you could call it one, and proceeded into the town. Reno followed us. The house we went too was taller than the others had to take a flight of stairs to reach it. When we got there I knocked on the door.
"Hello?", a little eight-year old girl said answering the door. "CLOUD!", she shouted and ran up and hugged me. "Where have you been?", she asked me.
"Here and there.", I said.
"We just stopped by to say 'Hi' Pricilla, Cloud kinda lost his memory.", Tifa said uneasily.
"WHAT? Cloud you gotta stop getting yourself hurt! You can't marry me if you get yourself killed!", Pricilla protested. She sighed, "I don't even know why I try sometimes.", she said. Reno was nearly on the ground laughing himself silly. "Shut up meanie!", Pricilla yelled running up to Reno and kicking him in the shin.
"Ow! Why you little bit…..", Reno's sentenced ended with him screaming. He fell down the stairs. The three of us went down there.
"Serves you right Reno.", Tifa said. "Come on Cloud we need to get going. Nice seeing you again Pricilla.", she said waving to the 8 year old. I said my goodbyes as well as we walked over the whimpering Reno.
The two of us entered an elevator. I remembered at one point it was guarded and we had to pay 10 gil for it. Wonder where that guy went off to. "Any of this looking familiar Cloud?", Tifa asked me as the elevator slowly moved upwards.
"A little.", I said. "Thanks Tifa."
She looked at me weird, "For what Cloud?"
"For helping me through this.", I slowly said rubbing the back of my head.
Tifa blushed slightly, "Oh well it's nothing.", she said.
"It's more than nothing to me Tifa. You're the only one helping me right now even though it might not work.", I paused. "You've must have been my best friend before this happened Teef."
Tifa redden a little more. "Yeah, friends. Cloud there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time, I'm just afraid you'll get mad at me.", she said.
"Tifa I won't get mad at you."
"You mean it?"
I grabbed her hand without thinking, "I promise.", Tifa's face lit up. She nodded and turned around looked like she was asking herself something. She nodded again and it looked like she did a small little jump but just stood on her tip-toes. The elevator stopped and Tifa turned around smiling.
She stopped dead in her tracks and screamed.