[She can sense that giant Cloud-shaped elephant in the room, looming over her like it always has. He wouldn't be wrong to think it—it wouldn't be her most well-kept secret, but when he says it like that... That he would be another complication tacked onto the rest, it makes her stomach sink. It was exactly what she was afraid of, were she to ever force herself to move on. Cloud wasn't here, so why should it even matter?

It does. It matters a lot, but that didn't mean that she didn't think she felt something towards him... Or else she would have said no to all of this.]

Yeah, probably...

[She isn't going to deny it outright, so Tifa quietly agrees with a nod of her head, and she picks up a piece of fruit to eat but pushes her plate away. She's suddenly not feeling hungry anymore.]

That's why I think we should just press pause, you know? Figure all this out, and if it's... something we both actually want. Or can do.

[Figure out how much of her own feelings are genuine, and how much of them are just her missing Cloud, and trying to fill that hole that he's left.]