Tifa sighed hard as she zipped her packed bag up, she turned around and grabbed the pictures off the bedside table and threw them into her last bag, and she took one more look around the room and then walked out.
“Leaving early, miss?” Asked the young looking man behind the counter.
Tifa nodded slowly.
“Ah, yes, I can hardly stand being away from home that long either,” smiled the man.
Tifa frowned and didn’t bother to say see wasn’t going home, she just picked up her bags after making sure he had signed her out and paying, and left.

“Cloud?”
The sound of Aerith’s voice rang through the house.
“Cloud are you home?”
“I’m upstairs,” he called.
Aerith nodded to herself and slowly made her way up the stairs, “Cloud, I was thinking, ppick flowers for the-” she stopped herself from talking when she saw Cloud packing, “Cloud, what on earth are you doing?”
“I’m going on a search, Aerith,” Cloud didn’t look at her as he threw some more clothes into his sack.
Aerith nodded as she walked up to him and put her arms around him, “for Tifa, correct?”
Cloud nodded slowly as he turned to face her, “I need to find her Aerith.”
Aerith nodded with no further questions, “then go.”
Cloud looked up into her light green eyes, “I won’t be long...”
Aerith smiled sadly, “Take as long as you need, Cloud, I just want you to be home in time for our wedding...”
Cloud smiled faintly, his mind still deep in thought, “alright, I promise...”

Tifa had chosen a hotel a few miles away from the last, though it was not very big, it had a beautiful over few of a lake, that had a long fishing dock on it. It was beautiful and peaceful, and not all that far away from the town of Gongaga. Though she felt warm inside just being there, she felt a strange panic inside her chest that didn’t seem to go away...
“I’m going to look in Gongaga first.” Cloud informed Aerith as he finally did his sack up, “that was the last place she stayed.”
Aerith nodded, “I just that would make sense, more likely to find her there.”
Cloud nodded, “the problem is, I don’t know where to go from there, I suppose I could call all the nearby hotels, but she might find out and leave by the time I get there...”
“Hey,” Aerith touched his shoulder softly, “everything will be fine... You’ll find her, I know you will...”
Tifa looked down into the water at her reflection, her face pale and her eyes swollen from her tears, she turned her face up in distaste from the look of her.
“Look at what you’ve become...” She whispered softly to herself.
She felt a small tickling droplet of a tear roll down her cheek, she wiped it away with her left, mad at herself for crying again, as she went to put a hand down, she saw the sprinkle of her diamond engagement ring, she ripped it off with anger and leaned as far over the dock as she could and dropped it into the lake watching the ripples of the wave effect.
“Well that wasn’t bright.”
Startled Tifa fell forward almost falling into the lake, but she felt two arms tug her body back up onto the dock, she spun around to see who had spoken, but stopped right away, her eyes widened, “Zack?”