Aeris was very helpful moving me in. Her stepmother had moved out of the house a few months ago. Aeris said she moved out because Marlene knew where she lived, so she went into hiding. I got my own room even though I planned on moving out as soon as Mother and I could find a new house, but Aeris wouldn't let me simply have a sleeping bag in the front room. I carried several boxes of stuff upstairs to my room, and Aeris unpacked everything and had fun interior decorating. The nice thing about my room was a window which if I used binoculars, could see Mother's tube. I couldn't check on her right away because Aeris kicked me out of my room until she was done. She wanted it to be a surprise. I was ordered to go outside and barbecue some hamburgers for dinner. She also said I could invite Mother, but Mother doesn't eat, so I decided to have dinner with just Aeris.
     While cooking the hamburgers I got a great view of Mother's tube. She was having a lot of fun cleaning it up and making it pretty. She was ridding the entire thing off all graffiti and decorating it with all sorts of Japanese decorations like those ball things with candles in them, and those things with butterflies on them that spin with the wind. Edwardo was sleeping outside, and Tiffany's bowl was on a stack of old tires and empty soda cans.
     Hi Sephy! I'll bet you're wondering why I can find all this Japanese stuff and I can't find a decent stand for Tiffany. Well, she hates foreign stuff, and she ordered me to put her on something American made.
     "Mother," I said across the town, probably sounding really dumb, "we aren't American you know. We're-"
     I know that, Sephy. Do you think I'm retarded? We're not American, but Tiffany is you see. And as an American, empty beercans and tires are just her thing.
     Mother kept talking about how American Tiffany is, but I stopped paying attention. The burgers were done, so I took them into the house and set them on the table.
     "Aeris!" I yelled up the stairs, "food!"
     "Coming!" she yelled back. She ran down the stairs eagerly and looked around the room to see if I invited Mother. I shook my head, she cheered, and we ate.
     Knock knock!
     Mother was at the door. I think you know how I knew it was her. I continued eating, as did Aeris. After dinner, Aeris cleaned the table and I answered the door. Much like I expected, Mother took off and left a note on the door. The note was an invitation to her very own tube-warming party. I showed the note to Aeris.
     "You gonna go?" she asked.
     "No," I said, "I'll just check it out from my room. Did you finish my room? And did you find the binoculars?"
     "Oh goodie! Let's go!"
     Aeris raced ahead of me and took off up the stairs, and I followed. As I approached the top of the stairs I saw Aeris guarding my room's door. She was way too excited about this.
     "Okay, you ready?" Aeris asked me enthusiastically.
     "Ah, no," I responded sarcastically mocking her enthusiasm, "but let's see it anyway."
     She gave me the brief 'I hate you' look, then swung open my door. "Ta da!"
     It looked nothing like my room. In fact, all my stuff was still piled up in the corner in boxes.
     "You said you wanted to keep your stuff easily accessible for when you move out, so I just used some stuff I had lying around to make your room."
     I don't know what kinds of things Aeris keeps lying around, but this was a nice bedroom. I had a racecar bed, a desk by the window with binoculars and a brand-new laptop, and several posters of girls in bikinis. Aeris was staring at me, swaying from side to side while squeezing her hands together nervously.
     "You like it?"
     "It's great," I said while picking up the binoculars. "I'm a bit worried by what you keep lying around, but thanks. If you don't mind though," I pointed out the window, "I'm a bit curious."
     "Oh go ahead. I'll just busy myself elsewhere."
     She left. I tested the binoculars for grease on the eyepieces (one tends to do these things after living with Mother). After the grease test, I used the binoculars to spy into Mother's party. But of course, Mother had to be... Mother... She put up a convenient black tarp in front of the tube just so I couldn't see in. All I could see is Aeris walking around the tarp to join the party. Oh what the hell. I'll go. I ran out of my room, down the stairs, out the front door, and over to the tube.
     Her party was pretty happenin' I guess. Everyone from the sector was there. That was about five people, but to look at it optimistically, it's one-hundred percent of the locals. I went around the tarp and saw everybody inside Mother's tube dancing to Mother's funky beats. Who would have thought 'What is Love' on repeat would be so appealing to a bunch of drunks.
     Outside the tube was Tiffany, still on her tires and beer cans. She had a post-it note on her bowl that said 'bouncer.'
     Sephy... This is Tiffany... No seriously, it's Tiffany. Are you on the guest list?
     "Mother, be quiet and let me in. What am I talking about? Nobody's holding me back. I'm coming in."
     The party was pretty lame until the very end, so we'll skip to that part.
     *******skip to that part********
     Whoo hoo! Alright everybody, for the final song tonight, we have 'What is Love,' so let's have some fun! And to make things really interesting, I stole some of my son's materia!
     "Oh you didn't!"
     But of course I did, and now, it's time to cast Comet 2 on the entire town. Quick everybody, into the streets to play 'I hope it doesn't kill me, my family, or my things!'
     Mother thought everyone was playing, but they were actually scrambling to get their valuables and flee town, which they did. All of them.
     "Oh cool!" Aeris said. "I got a great idea. Let's start our own Sector 5! Nobody will protest. They all left. It'll be fun. Like playing Sim City or something. You can build you own house right next to mine, and we could lock your Mother up in her tube!
     That last part was my idea! I'll be like a zoo attraction!
     I knew this wouldn't go over well with the Shin-Ra executives, but after what they made me resort to, I'd like to screw them over as much as possible. The first thing I did was call up everyone I knew to see if they wanted space in the Sector 5 slums. These calls went out to the Turks, Tifa, Yuffie, Rufus, and dare I say them, Barret, Dyne, and Cloud. It's not many people, and I did kinda invite Marlene very indirectly, but there's no turning back now...