"Whew! Finally made it off! Now what..."
Scene 14
- Sneak Out At Midnight -
(Cloud and Aerith hop down from the rooftops across pieces of debris. They land on a dirt road)
Aerith
"Whew! Finally made
it off! Now what..."
(She looks around, then scampers forward)
"My house is over here. Let's hurry before they get here!"
(Cloud and Aerith travel through the Sector 5 slums to Aerith's small cottage. They go inside.)
Aerith
"I'm home, mom."
(Her mother, Elmyra, walks over.)
"This is Cloud, my bodyguard."
Elmyra
"Bodyguard.....? You
mean you were followed again!?"
"Are you all right!?
You're not hurt, are you!?"
Aerith
"I'm all right. I
had Cloud with me."
(Elmyra nods.)
Elmyra
"Thank you, Cloud."
(She goes upstairs.)
Aerith
"So, what are you
going to do now?"
Cloud
"...Is Sector 7 far
from here? I want to go to Tifa's bar."
Aerith
"Is Tifa...... a girl?"
Cloud
"Yeah."
Aerith
"A girl... friend?"
Cloud
"Girlfriend?"
<CHOICE>
No way
Yeah, that's right
***Cloud
No way!
(Cloud shakes his head quickly.)
Aerith
"Hee hee hee...."
"You don't have to
get THAT upset..."
(She moves toward Cloud... a small step.)
***Cloud
Yeah, that's right
Aerith
"Oh, how nice."
<//>
Aerith
"Well, that's... nice."
"Let's see, Sector
7? I'll show you the way."
Cloud
"You gotta be kidding.
Why do you want to put yourself in danger again?"
Aerith
"I'm used to it."
Cloud
"Used to it!?"
"....Well, don't know...
getting help from a girl..."
(She makes an amusedly angry gesture.)
Aerith
"A girl!! What do
you mean by that!?"
"You expect me to
just sit by and listen, after hearing you say something like that!?"
(She calls upstairs.)
"Mom! I'm taking Cloud to Sector 7. I'll be back in a while."
(Elmyra comes downstairs.)
Elmyra
"But dear... I give
up. You never listen once you've made up your mind."
"But if you must go,
why don't you go tomorrow? It's getting late now."
Aerith
"Yeah, you're right,
mom."
Elmyra
"Aerith, please go
and make the bed."
(Aerith goes upstairs. Cloud speaks to Elmyra.)
Elmyra
"That glow in your
eyes... you're from SOLDIER, right?"
Cloud
"Yeah. Rather I used
to be..."
Elmyra
".... I don't know
how to say this, but..."
"Would you please
leave here, tonight?" Without telling Aerith."
(Cloud goes upstairs. Aerith meets him.)
Aerith
"You need to go through
Sector 6 to get to Sector 7. Sector 6 is a little
"dangerous so you'd
better get some rest tonight."
(Cloud walks toward the bedroom door.)
Aerith
"Cloud...."
(He turns to her.)
Aerith
"Good night."
(She goes downstairs.)
Cloud
"Oh, man..."
(Cloud goes to bed. He dreams, we presume.)
"...seem pretty tired......"
Cloud
".......!?"
"I haven't slept in a bed like this ....in a long time."
Cloud
"....Oh, yeah."
"Ever since that time."
(The scene fades in. Cloud is lying on a bed in a one-room house. A woman is in the room, working in the kitchen area. She stops and walks toward him.)
"My, how you've grown."
"I'll bet the girls
never leave you alone."
Cloud
"...Not really."
(She paces a bit.)
"...I'm worried about
you."
"There are a lot of
temptations in the city..."
"I'd feel a lot better
if you just settled down and had a nice girlfriend."
Cloud
"...I'm all right."
"You should have..."
"an older girlfriend,
one that'll take care of you."
"I think that would
be the perfect type for you."
Cloud
"I'm not interested."
(The scene fades back in. Cloud is lying on a bed on the second floor of Aerith's house. Aerith is in the next room.)
Cloud
"...I must've fallen
asleep."
(He gets up.)
Cloud
"Sector 7's past Sector
6... I should be all right by myself..."
(He sneaks past Aerith's room and goes downstairs. He exits the house,
leaving Aerith behind.)
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