Luckily, all the girls were uninjured. Sadly, Cloud was uninjured too. Well, he was uninjured to a point. He had a huge bruise on his forehead from where his head hit the steering wheel-
     And you call that uninjured?
     The large part of Cloud's injury was not physical, but mental. Apparently he went from well, to put it gently, from his original mentality to Mother's mentality during the accident. It might wear off, but for now, he was friken stupid. I think it was an instant turnoff for his female companions who now flocked to none other than...Dyne. They must have head injuries too. Then I remembered.
     "Hey Aeris," I said. "How 'bout that date?"
     "Huh?" she said confused. "I thought you were going to date Tifa-"
     "I'm not picky. She can come too."
     "No no no," Tifa said. "I specifically said Aeris. Leave me out of this."
     "You can't just elect others," Aeris said. "Can you?"
     "Sure you can," Tifa replied.
     Tifa looked evilly over at Yuffie.
     "Underage," Yuffie said. Aeris and Tifa sighed in disappointment, and started a game of rock-paper-scissors.
     "Ha! I win, now go out with Seph," Tifa said.
     "Huh? But you won," Aeris said.
     "Wait. You want to go out with Seph?"
     "Who wouldn't? Wait, you didn't?"
     I'm starting to really like Aeris. It's a shame I killed her that one time. Things will never be too great between us. Still, I haven't had a date since high school, so even a bad date would be fine with me.
     "Good thinking Sephiroth!" A semi-mysterious voice came from behind me. I turned and saw Rufus standing behind me. How come every mysterious voice belongs to him? Never do I turn and see someone worth seeing. "What better way to get at Fatty then staging a date at the restaurant he's currently eating at? Good plan. I'll find you and Aeris some good disguises so you can get in and pretend to be real people. While you wait, go take a shower. Both of you. You'll need to change your hair 'cause that pointy bangs look is a dead give away. Meet me here in about ten minutes."
     Rufus ran off to an expensive clothing store while Aeris and I looked around for public showers. It just so happened there was a building of public showers only a few feet from us that I was amazed I hadn't yet noticed. Aeris and I went to see if they had any that weren't being used. The guy behind the counter was kind of scary looking. The man wore tight black leather pants, a fishnet shirt, one leather glove, and strangely enough, a pirate hat. His name tag said 'Hi, my name is Brucee.'
     "Can I help you sir?" he asked.
     "Yeah, do you have any showers left?" I asked.
     "We sure do."
     "We'll take two," Aeris said. Brucee looked down at his key rack.
     "I'm sorry woman," he said. "We've only got one left."
     "Oh rats," I said sarcastically.
     "We'll take it," Aeris said. She paid Brucee and took the key.
     "You want me to wait while you go?" I asked Aeris.
     "Rufus said ten minutes. That's not enough time for both of us." I think she said the next part in slow motion. "I guess we'd better go at the same time then. Let's go."
     We got to the door to the shower and she stuck her key in the lock. She turned the key and opened the door. At the same time, another shower opened up and this fully-clothed, yet still disgusting fat lady walked out. She threw her key to me. "It's all yours," she said. Those words also seemed to be in slow motion.
     "Oh good," Aeris said. "Now we each have our own shower. Go quickly." She closed the door behind her. I felt like crying.
     I went into the fat lady's shower which was the most disgusting place I've ever been. There was enough steam already in the room to turn me into a human raisin in no time flat. The hot water was all used up, and the ground in the shower area and in the non-shower area were covered with giant lady leg hairs. I heard a banging on the wall next to me followed by Aeris's voice saying 'hurry up, not much time.' I striped down, threw my clothes against the door, and stepped under the freezing cold water. After a couple minutes, I heard the creaking of my door opening. I thought it might be Aeris, but the door closed immediately after. I guess somebody accidentally bumped it open and closed it after notice he did. Once my hair gel had completely washed out, I turned off the water and grabbed for my towel, when I realized I never got a towel. Oh man. I decided my only option was to try to shake off a bit, then just get dressed and head out. I did the shaking off part, but the dressing part was difficult because somebody had taken my clothes. Now I was officially screwed. Mother...
     I thought about thinking of a solution, but instead, I draped my hair to cover anything and everything that needed covering, opened the door, and walked slowly toward the counter to get a towel. I didn't want to go too quickly because if a strong enough gust hit me, I was screwed. At the same time, Aeris came out of her shower, which would have been incredibly embarrasing for me, except that she had the same problem, and the same solution as I. I would have looked more closely at her, but turning my head would mean hair turning with it, so I just continued on my trip to the counter, with her probably right next to me.
     "Can I help you?" Brucee said, checking us out. Mostly me.
     "A towel would be nice," I said.
     "Okay, let me grab a couple for you." He looked under the counter and popped his head back up. "None left," he said. "I'll go get some more real quick, I'll be back in a jiffy. Don't go anywhere. I just need to step outside for a minute." He headed for a door in the back, leading to the outdoor path to the laundry.
     "Wait, door? Outside?" Aeris said frightened.
     "Oh shit." I said.
     The door swung open quickly, and the wind rushed past us, our hair blowing in the wind. Aeris covered herself up for the most part with her hands and arms, but I gave up, put my fists on my hips, and stood proudly as my hair flapped in the wind. We were now dry, but both still very naked. Aeris covered herself up when the door shut again, and looked me in the eyes. I raised my eyebrows in curiosity.
     "Well," she said. "At least I know I wasn't the only one with a cold shower."