[RL] Seventh Heaven

[xfinal_heaven]

Marlene had known better than to say anything at Tifa's obviously worsened mood. In fact, she had even convinced Denzel to be compliant and immediately go upstairs to sleep when Tifa asked them to, which left the woman standing at the bar by herself, staring down at a sink full of dirty water and dishes. She slammed her hand down against the

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[xfinal_heaven]

Tifa's eyes snapped open when she heard the door creak. She hadn't been expecting anyone to come in this late, she had the closed sign up. Her first thought was Rufus, in all actuality. Coming to continue his arrogant prancing. She looked up to confirm this and saw Cloud standing there.

She wasn't initially able to believe what her eyes were seeing. When she finally managed that much, it was still a chore to find appropriate words to put to the anger that was rushing through her at seeing him. Her fists clenched but she forced herself to loosen them and just moved to go back to the dishes as nonchalantly as she could manage.

"You're home early," under normal circumstances, the words would have held a certain cheerfulness to them. However, after their earlier argument, she couldn't put anything but scathing accusation in them. Clearly, he wasn't as busy as he liked to think.

[xfinal_heaven]

"There were things to get done. And if I don't do it, who will?" She was pretty obviously taking another stab at his reliability, each dish she cleaned getting slammed onto the counter beside her recklessly. She didn't care for the attitude he'd taken with her earlier, and she cared even less for his apathetic behavior, now.

Had he chosen to simply forget it had happened? She wouldn't be surprised. Cloud's coping skills were minimal. And, as she'd just recently discovered for herself, people didn't change unless they wanted to. And he could care less the state of Seventh Heaven and all of its residents.

Glass after glass and plate after plate were hitting the counter, seeming to voice her agitation for her as it mounted with the growing silence between them.