When You're Gone
Chapter 18: For the Heart I Once Had

I walked into Tifa and Cloud's bar.

"I brought some flowers," I told Tifa.

"Oh, thank you," Tifa said. She set them on the counter. "Hey, Yuffie, do you mind helping me dust?"

"Sure," I said and set to work.

"It's strange," she went on, "We've missed you. You haven't been yourself recently."

I bit my lip. "Well, I don't know. I guess it's just changing."

"What's changing?"

"I am."

"Reeve called us all over tonight," Cloud said over the phone. I sat at the restaraunt, filling out paperwork with whatever thoughts came to mind.

"Where?" I asked, although I already knew.

"Our place," Cloud said. "You were just over today, remember?"

"Ok," I said. "I've just got some quick errands to run."

"So we'll see you there? Are you going to bring your boyfriend?"

"No way," I laughed out loud, "But I will be there."

"Ok."

As soon as we hung up, I went and payed for my meal. I ran to the house I'd been living in with Vincent and...Shelke. I looked in the window and saw Shelke. No matter. I slipped up to my window, scaling the side of my house. I climbed into my room and proceeded to strip off my clothes. I grabbed some mini-shorts my hoodie tank-top. I pulled my shoes on, then reached into my bag and pulled out an ankleband. I clasped it on my ankle and pulled socks up to my knees.

I heard Shelke walk up the stairs. Shoving my clothes in the closet with one swift movement, I then jumped out the window, gracefully landing on the ground.

I navigated my way across the city to the warehouse. Carefully I pulled out a penand scrawled my message on the floor. I hoped that Nero would be able to understand it when he saw. I knew that no one else would, but would he?

I looked back at my work.

"Look at yourself," I could hear my inner self say. "You just have to have better. Not content with what you have. You have people to love you. Yet you give it all up for your bad boy, don't you? Do you even see yourself? You'll never be happy."

I looked. It wasn't too late to undo everything, to go back to living with Shelke and Vincent...

I turned and walked out, whispering, "No."

I checked the time. 6:00. Perfect. In two hours...

I grabbed the pills Reeve had given me and swallowed them. It would take two hours, then they'd take effect. No turning back now.

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The title is the song 'For the Heart I Once Had' by Nightwish.

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