Problem Child
Summary: Hope Estheim hates his home life. Everything needs to be perfect and proper, and that makes him sick. He rebels against his parents and runs away from home at the age of seventeen. He gets into drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and fights and becomes a juvenile criminal. So what will happen when he meets Sergeant Claire 'Lightning' Farron while on the run? HopeXLight, SnowXSerah, FangXVanille, AU. Rated T for drugs, alcohol, swearing, and smoking. Rating may go up to M.
Prologue
Hope Estheim slams his bedroom door behind him, pissed off beyond belief. He locked the door and stormed over to his bed, slamming himself down onto it and ripped off his shoes and jacket, tossing them to the floor. He lay down on his back and gave a frustrated cry, thinking about what happened today.
He came home with a 'D' on his History test, and a couple of yard duties for fighting.
His parents were furious.
His father yelled at him for them both, and Hope yelled right back. His mother, while she was mad at Hope for the fighting and for the grade, tried to break up the fight before it got too far but the damage was done.
Hope had snapped and had punched his father in the face, knocking him out.
His mother screamed as she watched her husband go down and she rushed to his side, tending to his head. Hope grimaced in disgust at this and had thundered up to his room, in pure anger.
He finally had enough of the crap: 'You must get the best test scores, Hope', 'You must behave yourself, Hope.' He had enough of this shit life. His father never supported him or gave him praise, his mother never told him to just do his best, and when he was younger and had gotten bullied, his father didn't deal with it, he just told his son to take it like a man.
So he fought back against the bullies, and his father punished him for that.
He turned around and punched his wall, leaving a hole in the wall. He had enough of this shit.
He was so breaking out of this hell.