Love In Unusual Places
Chapter One
Waking up early on a Saturday morning usually made me cranky, but today being the day of the dance for our school, I was out of bed before dawn. I went through my closet, tossing my unwanted clothes over my shoulder repeatingly, searching for my long violet skirt. I finally found it along with my white fleece sweater. I picked out a matching violet top and decided to wear my regular black boots. I took a shower while I thought. I wonder why Scott would ask me to the dance? I continuously thought. He is the most popular boy at school and I am considered a freak.
Just yesterday, Scott had came to me house. I wondered why until he asked me if I would go with him to the school dance being held at the church. At my school near the Slums, I was an out cast. Sure I got good grades and I tried hard at mainly anything but everyone thought I was different, strange, or I had problems. Scott used to be the biggest bully, what had changed him?
I finished taking my shower and got dressed. I quickly ran down the stairs at my house after tying a violet ribbon in my long, braided, dishwater- blonde hair. (some say it looks like the color of Autumn.) I ate a few pancakes I made, waking up my only guardian, my step mother. She was very kind to me and never treated me poorly.
"My, *Yawn* , you're sure up early." She said, still in her robe, "You look so beautiful, too."
"Thank you" I said looking down at what I was wearing. She had bought me this outfit a month ago for my eleventh birthday.
"I'm off to the dance mother!" I said as I ran out the door.
"Have a great time, sweety!" she replied.
It was already a quarter after ten, Scott still didn't show. He promised me he'd be here by ten. I had arrived here about fifteen till ten. What if he doesn't show up? I thought silently. A small tear was about to fall but I wiped it away, I was not about to give my hopes up just yet. So, I waited.
An hour had past. I gave up. He had pulled the most embarrassing trick on me yet. I began to cry as I picked myself up from the church steps and started down them. The music boomed out of the church door behind me along with laughter that faded from the music. I began to run from the front of the church, out of the peoples sight. I carelessly tripped over an empty pop can and hit the dirt hard. I stayed there, afraid to get up, and I cried.
I watched the ground as I went through a long alleyway. I suddenly heard faint yelling and gun firing from the corner up ahead, but before I could look up.Bamm! I was knocked hard to the ground and was toppled by someone.
"Hey, you big Jerk! I am tired of your stupid pranks! Leave me alo.." I started to say but stopped when I noticed that who I thought was Scott, wasn't. A tall boy with long shiny silver hair that reached his waist quickly stood up and looked surprised. I stood up and brushed myself off. "Excuse me, I thought you were someone.."
" I am sorry! I did not mean to.." The boy began, as our eyes met. His eyes were the purest green I had ever seen. They shone like brilliant turquoise just like mine, this was the first time I'd seen these eyes out of a mirror. The boy looked about five years older than me and seemed strangely handsome. I almost gasped but before either one of us could say or do anything we were cut of by someone yelling from behind the boy.
"Excuse me, you should leave as well or both of us will be killed!" The boy said as he grabbed my arm. He led me up the stairs of some old building until we reached the roof. He looked around frantically before he ran over and jumped into a large air shaft.
I landed in the air shaft with a soft thump. Feeling the smooth, but dusty, steal floor, it was very cold. I felt something brush up against me and grab me, pulling me out of the light that flowed in from the opening of the air shaft. I gave out a little shriek but a hand quickly covered my mouth. The warmth of the hand reassured me and made me realize it was just the teenager. As soon as that accrued we heard voices from the opening of the airduct.
" I thought I heard something, let's check up here" One of them, a male with a rugged voice, suggested," he could not have gotten far"
"The sooner we find him the sooner Hojo will shut his mouth" Another said.
"Be quiet and follow me" the boy said.
Trying to get into a crawling position, my hand slipped on the shaft floor, causing a large cloud of dust to shoot up. I couldn't stop myself from sneezing.
" Achoo!"
"What the hell was that?! It came from over there!" Someone had heard.
"Probably a damn rat" A mellow voiced man said, causing both the boy and me to sigh in relief.
We started to move through the darkness ,I was careful to not get lost behind the boy. He constantly turned around to make sure I was still there. We made a few turns though the shaft, then we went down a six foot drop. From there on we went straight, making only a right turn. Before long, we had reach a light and as we got closer I realized it was our exit. The boy kicked out the screen that covered it and jumped down. He reached up and gently helped me down to the ground.
The moment my feet touched the ground I looked up at his face. I caught his eye and I continued looking into his hypnotic gaze. It had seemed that we both blushed and looked away. As he let my arm go he finally spoke up again.
"I am sorry, but they were dangerous. I must go this way" he said pulling out a gun from his belt as he scanned the area.
" Hey, I head that way too" I said throwing on a smile. "To my house. My name is Aeris." I held out my hand to shake with him.
"You are bold to announce your name to someone you do not even know. Yet, excuse my rudeness, Sephiroth." He professed as he took my hand and gave a quick shake.
"What is going on, I mean with those people chasing you and who are they?" I asked pointing over the building.
"Long story, but I tell it anyway if we get going." He replied. "I guess you can say I am, or was, guinea pig all my life to Shinra. The leading scientist, Hojo, has tortured me, giving me countless shots per day, making me exercise until I cant move and still made me work through hundreds of tests every single day until I manage to take out my guards and escape and I have gotten this far. Those guys are a special group called the Turks, they do all of Shinras dirty work. Their job is to hunt me down and bring me back to Hojo." He turned to me with a solemn look upon his face. "Please, you would not turn me in would you?"
"That's horrible, of course I wouldn't. By the way, thanks for saving me. They would have wanted to capture me as well." I said half to myself.
"Really, what is the reason they are after you? You are not wanted or anything are you?" He asked.
"Well, I'm sort of different than other people and, well, they say they need me. So that they can reached the Promised Lands." I answered.
"What are the Promised Lands?" Sephiroth inquired.
"Well, I don't know really, I know it can not be found anywhere by normal people. I have only heard about it in stories my real mother used to tell me." I stated solemnly, "It's no big deal."
"Well, I think they'll be too busy worrying about me to want to capture you at the time being." He seemed very serious. We walked through several allies until we reached my small bucolic neighborhood. We quickly jogged through it and around a house and one of the many mountains of steel and concrete until we reached my front yard.
"Nice house, you even have a garden. Well, I guess this is goodbye, Aeris." He said as he waved and turned to leave.
"Hey, wait! Uh, do you want to come in?" I asked Sephiroth. I could sense no hostility in the young man but only a sad past, I had empathy for him and knew somehow that he wouldn't threaten me. I couldn't help but offer him some hospitality. "I mean, if you are being chased, you should at least have a soda."
" I can not say no to that!" Sephiroth said as he walked up the steps of my house.
I looked through the fridge, looking for a few cokes. I continued to rummage through the fridge until I found one and a lemon lime drink. I frowned as I turned around to see Sephiroth sitting at the counter.
" Which one do you like?" I asked holding up his two choices. "Lemon lime or coke?
"I do not know, which one tastes better?" He answered making a funny face. "I have only had pop once and it was like. eleven years ago when Professor Gast took care of me. He was the only one who ever treated me like a human being but he died when I was six and left me with Hojo."
"They really do torture you don't they" I sulked as I handed him the coke. "I would hate to live like that. Have you ever had Ice cream? So you are seventeen? I'm only eleven, my birthday was a month ago. "
"Really. Well happy belated birthday." He replied.
I rushed back to the fridge and pulled out the Chunky Fudge Chocolate Ice cream and threw it onto the counter next to my pop. He stared at it bewilderedly and examined it as if it were a new life form.
"I figured," I said smiling. "want some?"
"okay" he said coolly as I scooped the Ice cream into two bowls. I slid one of them over his way with a spoon. I watched him take a bite slowly and shivered and then smile. He then began to devour it like an animal.
"Careful! You will get a brain freeze if you eat that fast." I informed him giving out a little chuckle. Luckily my mother was at work, selling Materia, so she wouldn't be home until eight. I smiled as he slowed up a little. Then I began to eat my ice cream gracefully compared to Sephiroth.
When we finished I washed the dishes and put them up as I explained what happened today, I couldn't help but babble on, I felt like I needed to release all the things I never really talked about with anyone, save my mother. Yet he listened intently and it made me happy. I looked back over at Sephiroth when I finished talking about my garden and I noticed him looking at me strangely at me for some reason.
"What's wrong?" I asked him.
"Huh? Um, oh nothing." he said looking away sheepishly.
"You are very silly. Am I boring you? If I am, sorry, I get carried away." I said feeling truly childish talking to an older boy.
"No, not at all, it's just. Ohhhhhhhhhh, My head hurts." Sephiroth groaned.
"I told you not to eat too fast!" I laughed as I headed to my room to get the chessboard. Sephiroth and I decided to play a game of chess together. I came back with it and we began. We played for quite a while, silently.
" Are you sure you want to move there?" he asked timidly as I removed his hand from his rook.
" Yeah why?" was my reply.
"Check mate" he said smiling as his queen took my rook and cornered my king.
"darn!" I said as I hung my head. " That is the nineth time you beat me, which was every time."
We heard a knock at the front door. I got up and ran over to open it. It was Scott and his friends with a large smile on their faces in the peekhole.
I opened the door and glared at Scotts beaming face. He held up his hand holding pictures that were me sitting on the church steps. I was about to break down in tears but Sephiroth stuck his head out from behind me realizing what was happening.
" What a loser you are! You fell for my trick today and I got proof with me!" He taunted waving the pictures back and forth. "We're ganna post these all over town!"
"Then you are Scott, I have heard a great deal about you." Sephiroth said as he stepped outside. "Would you like to tell me why you are so rude to Miss Aeris?"
"What's it to you silver assed Grandpa bitch!" said Scott giving Sephiroth a push. Both boys were real tall and about the same height so it wasn't obvious Scott was a bit scared. Scott looked back at his gang, smiling. "You want to mess with us?"
"Surely, I do." Sephiroth replied as he quickly grabbed Scott and threw him to the ground. Scott and his friends were surprised as Sephiroth pulled a gun to Scott's head. It startled me a bit to see that he had a gun, yet I knew he would not use it. "If you want to hurt her, you must go through me, understand?"
He kicked Scotts side hard enough to knock the wind out of him. I was surprised how angry Sephiroth was. It made me smile. Scott and his friends ran like the wind. Sephiroth smiled as he turned around.
"They will not be back" He assured me. I laughed as we went back in. I caught a glance of him picking up the picture Scott had dropped and looked it over before quickly shoving it in his pocket.
It was eight o' clock and we spent the rest of the time talking while we played video games. I had no idea why, we had just met that day but it felt like we were the best of friends and we had known each other forever, or even he made me feel like I had an older brother. I was happy to have someone to play with me. Just a bit after 8:26, I heard my mother come in the door.
"Sweety, I'm home. How was the dance?" I heard her say.
"I didn't go." I answered as I focused on the game
"What?! But what about Scott? Didn't he take you?" she asked.
"no."
"What? Why?!"
"It was all a prank."
"Damn punks these days, I'm sorry sweaty."
"Who is that?" Sephiroth asked.
"My step-mom," I said.
My mother walked into my room where Sephiroth and I were. She looked so mad that she was turning purple.
"Who in Hells name said that you could ever have a boy in your room while I'm gone?!" My mom raged.
"You." I said coolly.
".No, I never said while I am away. We're going to have a long talk when he leaves." She freaked out.
"Please, mom! I just wanted to play with someone. His name is Sephiroth, he saved me from the Turks, kicked Scott's butt because Scott was being mean and been the nicest guy I have ever met." I said. "I've done my chores. Please, let him stay a little longer."
"Oh, fine. Glad to meet you, Sephiroth." My mom gave up.
"A pleasure to meet you." He said politely, yet probably feeling a bit awkward in the situation.
"Well I'll leave you two to play your games, I'll go start dinner." She turned and left. She poked her head back in the room a moment later. "What should I make you two for dinner? How bout some soup, or some spaghetti?"
"OK"
Sephiroth and I had finished the game and ate dinner.
"What do you want to do now?" I asked, smiling up at him like an eager little sister to her big brother.
"How about a movie." He suggested.
"K!"
We stayed up until eleven watching an action movie. When it was over we got up and stretched.
"I am exhausted" Sephiroth said.
" Me too." I said with a yawn.
My mother walked in the room," There are some people that want to see you Aeris."
"Who?" Sephiroth asked, "You didn't say I was here did you?"
"The Turks, never do I give them information, Why?" she said.
"Sephiroth, go out my window." I told him as my mom headed back to the stairs.
"But aren't they after you too?" He asked
"Don't worry, you said yourself, they are too busy with you and you are going to get killed if you don't!" I said.
"As you wish." He said.
"We will see each other again wont we? You'll come and play with me some more, right?" I asked as he looked down at my eager face. "Please come back and play with me again, I had the best time."
"As you wish" He repeated as I gave a quick hug. He was not sure how to react; yet tentatively he hugged me back. When I drew away from him I smiled up at him. He returned the smile before stepping next to the window and pulled out his gun. He pulled something from his pocket. He put it in my hand and I looked at it. It was a silver ring, a bit big for my childlike fingers. "Here, if we can not see each other again. Keep it. "
"Take this then, if you don't make it back. It's my favorite ribbon, so don't you lose it." I said as I untied the ribbon in my hair and handed it to him.
"Thank you for your hospitality, goodbye." He said as he went through the window.
"Bye big brother." I said as I saw him smile in the faint light. He turned and vanished in the night. I marched off down the stairs to see the damn jerks.
I was relieved that they weren't after me that night. Yet, I had to convince them I wasn't involved with Sephiroth and that I knew nothing of him. They said a boy and his gang, which was probably Scott, told them that a teenager that fit Sephiroth's description had threatened him at my house. I told them that Scott was the kind of guy that would that sort of stuff for his five minutes of fame.
They finally gave up and left. I then took a shower while thinking of Sephiroth and got ready for bed. That night I felt great.
Author Notes: Hello! Was that lame, if so, please understand. It my first one. I'm hoping to make it better with the many chapters that will follow. I'm not telling to poke the purple button to your bottom left hand side of this screen with your cursor but I wouldn't mind knowing how it was; bad or good, it doesn't matter though. Thanks for at least reading it. (Aeris, the white mage of the Cetras)
Chapter One
Waking up early on a Saturday morning usually made me cranky, but today being the day of the dance for our school, I was out of bed before dawn. I went through my closet, tossing my unwanted clothes over my shoulder repeatingly, searching for my long violet skirt. I finally found it along with my white fleece sweater. I picked out a matching violet top and decided to wear my regular black boots. I took a shower while I thought. I wonder why Scott would ask me to the dance? I continuously thought. He is the most popular boy at school and I am considered a freak.
Just yesterday, Scott had came to me house. I wondered why until he asked me if I would go with him to the school dance being held at the church. At my school near the Slums, I was an out cast. Sure I got good grades and I tried hard at mainly anything but everyone thought I was different, strange, or I had problems. Scott used to be the biggest bully, what had changed him?
I finished taking my shower and got dressed. I quickly ran down the stairs at my house after tying a violet ribbon in my long, braided, dishwater- blonde hair. (some say it looks like the color of Autumn.) I ate a few pancakes I made, waking up my only guardian, my step mother. She was very kind to me and never treated me poorly.
"My, *Yawn* , you're sure up early." She said, still in her robe, "You look so beautiful, too."
"Thank you" I said looking down at what I was wearing. She had bought me this outfit a month ago for my eleventh birthday.
"I'm off to the dance mother!" I said as I ran out the door.
"Have a great time, sweety!" she replied.
It was already a quarter after ten, Scott still didn't show. He promised me he'd be here by ten. I had arrived here about fifteen till ten. What if he doesn't show up? I thought silently. A small tear was about to fall but I wiped it away, I was not about to give my hopes up just yet. So, I waited.
An hour had past. I gave up. He had pulled the most embarrassing trick on me yet. I began to cry as I picked myself up from the church steps and started down them. The music boomed out of the church door behind me along with laughter that faded from the music. I began to run from the front of the church, out of the peoples sight. I carelessly tripped over an empty pop can and hit the dirt hard. I stayed there, afraid to get up, and I cried.
I watched the ground as I went through a long alleyway. I suddenly heard faint yelling and gun firing from the corner up ahead, but before I could look up.Bamm! I was knocked hard to the ground and was toppled by someone.
"Hey, you big Jerk! I am tired of your stupid pranks! Leave me alo.." I started to say but stopped when I noticed that who I thought was Scott, wasn't. A tall boy with long shiny silver hair that reached his waist quickly stood up and looked surprised. I stood up and brushed myself off. "Excuse me, I thought you were someone.."
" I am sorry! I did not mean to.." The boy began, as our eyes met. His eyes were the purest green I had ever seen. They shone like brilliant turquoise just like mine, this was the first time I'd seen these eyes out of a mirror. The boy looked about five years older than me and seemed strangely handsome. I almost gasped but before either one of us could say or do anything we were cut of by someone yelling from behind the boy.
"Excuse me, you should leave as well or both of us will be killed!" The boy said as he grabbed my arm. He led me up the stairs of some old building until we reached the roof. He looked around frantically before he ran over and jumped into a large air shaft.
I landed in the air shaft with a soft thump. Feeling the smooth, but dusty, steal floor, it was very cold. I felt something brush up against me and grab me, pulling me out of the light that flowed in from the opening of the air shaft. I gave out a little shriek but a hand quickly covered my mouth. The warmth of the hand reassured me and made me realize it was just the teenager. As soon as that accrued we heard voices from the opening of the airduct.
" I thought I heard something, let's check up here" One of them, a male with a rugged voice, suggested," he could not have gotten far"
"The sooner we find him the sooner Hojo will shut his mouth" Another said.
"Be quiet and follow me" the boy said.
Trying to get into a crawling position, my hand slipped on the shaft floor, causing a large cloud of dust to shoot up. I couldn't stop myself from sneezing.
" Achoo!"
"What the hell was that?! It came from over there!" Someone had heard.
"Probably a damn rat" A mellow voiced man said, causing both the boy and me to sigh in relief.
We started to move through the darkness ,I was careful to not get lost behind the boy. He constantly turned around to make sure I was still there. We made a few turns though the shaft, then we went down a six foot drop. From there on we went straight, making only a right turn. Before long, we had reach a light and as we got closer I realized it was our exit. The boy kicked out the screen that covered it and jumped down. He reached up and gently helped me down to the ground.
The moment my feet touched the ground I looked up at his face. I caught his eye and I continued looking into his hypnotic gaze. It had seemed that we both blushed and looked away. As he let my arm go he finally spoke up again.
"I am sorry, but they were dangerous. I must go this way" he said pulling out a gun from his belt as he scanned the area.
" Hey, I head that way too" I said throwing on a smile. "To my house. My name is Aeris." I held out my hand to shake with him.
"You are bold to announce your name to someone you do not even know. Yet, excuse my rudeness, Sephiroth." He professed as he took my hand and gave a quick shake.
"What is going on, I mean with those people chasing you and who are they?" I asked pointing over the building.
"Long story, but I tell it anyway if we get going." He replied. "I guess you can say I am, or was, guinea pig all my life to Shinra. The leading scientist, Hojo, has tortured me, giving me countless shots per day, making me exercise until I cant move and still made me work through hundreds of tests every single day until I manage to take out my guards and escape and I have gotten this far. Those guys are a special group called the Turks, they do all of Shinras dirty work. Their job is to hunt me down and bring me back to Hojo." He turned to me with a solemn look upon his face. "Please, you would not turn me in would you?"
"That's horrible, of course I wouldn't. By the way, thanks for saving me. They would have wanted to capture me as well." I said half to myself.
"Really, what is the reason they are after you? You are not wanted or anything are you?" He asked.
"Well, I'm sort of different than other people and, well, they say they need me. So that they can reached the Promised Lands." I answered.
"What are the Promised Lands?" Sephiroth inquired.
"Well, I don't know really, I know it can not be found anywhere by normal people. I have only heard about it in stories my real mother used to tell me." I stated solemnly, "It's no big deal."
"Well, I think they'll be too busy worrying about me to want to capture you at the time being." He seemed very serious. We walked through several allies until we reached my small bucolic neighborhood. We quickly jogged through it and around a house and one of the many mountains of steel and concrete until we reached my front yard.
"Nice house, you even have a garden. Well, I guess this is goodbye, Aeris." He said as he waved and turned to leave.
"Hey, wait! Uh, do you want to come in?" I asked Sephiroth. I could sense no hostility in the young man but only a sad past, I had empathy for him and knew somehow that he wouldn't threaten me. I couldn't help but offer him some hospitality. "I mean, if you are being chased, you should at least have a soda."
" I can not say no to that!" Sephiroth said as he walked up the steps of my house.
I looked through the fridge, looking for a few cokes. I continued to rummage through the fridge until I found one and a lemon lime drink. I frowned as I turned around to see Sephiroth sitting at the counter.
" Which one do you like?" I asked holding up his two choices. "Lemon lime or coke?
"I do not know, which one tastes better?" He answered making a funny face. "I have only had pop once and it was like. eleven years ago when Professor Gast took care of me. He was the only one who ever treated me like a human being but he died when I was six and left me with Hojo."
"They really do torture you don't they" I sulked as I handed him the coke. "I would hate to live like that. Have you ever had Ice cream? So you are seventeen? I'm only eleven, my birthday was a month ago. "
"Really. Well happy belated birthday." He replied.
I rushed back to the fridge and pulled out the Chunky Fudge Chocolate Ice cream and threw it onto the counter next to my pop. He stared at it bewilderedly and examined it as if it were a new life form.
"I figured," I said smiling. "want some?"
"okay" he said coolly as I scooped the Ice cream into two bowls. I slid one of them over his way with a spoon. I watched him take a bite slowly and shivered and then smile. He then began to devour it like an animal.
"Careful! You will get a brain freeze if you eat that fast." I informed him giving out a little chuckle. Luckily my mother was at work, selling Materia, so she wouldn't be home until eight. I smiled as he slowed up a little. Then I began to eat my ice cream gracefully compared to Sephiroth.
When we finished I washed the dishes and put them up as I explained what happened today, I couldn't help but babble on, I felt like I needed to release all the things I never really talked about with anyone, save my mother. Yet he listened intently and it made me happy. I looked back over at Sephiroth when I finished talking about my garden and I noticed him looking at me strangely at me for some reason.
"What's wrong?" I asked him.
"Huh? Um, oh nothing." he said looking away sheepishly.
"You are very silly. Am I boring you? If I am, sorry, I get carried away." I said feeling truly childish talking to an older boy.
"No, not at all, it's just. Ohhhhhhhhhh, My head hurts." Sephiroth groaned.
"I told you not to eat too fast!" I laughed as I headed to my room to get the chessboard. Sephiroth and I decided to play a game of chess together. I came back with it and we began. We played for quite a while, silently.
" Are you sure you want to move there?" he asked timidly as I removed his hand from his rook.
" Yeah why?" was my reply.
"Check mate" he said smiling as his queen took my rook and cornered my king.
"darn!" I said as I hung my head. " That is the nineth time you beat me, which was every time."
We heard a knock at the front door. I got up and ran over to open it. It was Scott and his friends with a large smile on their faces in the peekhole.
I opened the door and glared at Scotts beaming face. He held up his hand holding pictures that were me sitting on the church steps. I was about to break down in tears but Sephiroth stuck his head out from behind me realizing what was happening.
" What a loser you are! You fell for my trick today and I got proof with me!" He taunted waving the pictures back and forth. "We're ganna post these all over town!"
"Then you are Scott, I have heard a great deal about you." Sephiroth said as he stepped outside. "Would you like to tell me why you are so rude to Miss Aeris?"
"What's it to you silver assed Grandpa bitch!" said Scott giving Sephiroth a push. Both boys were real tall and about the same height so it wasn't obvious Scott was a bit scared. Scott looked back at his gang, smiling. "You want to mess with us?"
"Surely, I do." Sephiroth replied as he quickly grabbed Scott and threw him to the ground. Scott and his friends were surprised as Sephiroth pulled a gun to Scott's head. It startled me a bit to see that he had a gun, yet I knew he would not use it. "If you want to hurt her, you must go through me, understand?"
He kicked Scotts side hard enough to knock the wind out of him. I was surprised how angry Sephiroth was. It made me smile. Scott and his friends ran like the wind. Sephiroth smiled as he turned around.
"They will not be back" He assured me. I laughed as we went back in. I caught a glance of him picking up the picture Scott had dropped and looked it over before quickly shoving it in his pocket.
It was eight o' clock and we spent the rest of the time talking while we played video games. I had no idea why, we had just met that day but it felt like we were the best of friends and we had known each other forever, or even he made me feel like I had an older brother. I was happy to have someone to play with me. Just a bit after 8:26, I heard my mother come in the door.
"Sweety, I'm home. How was the dance?" I heard her say.
"I didn't go." I answered as I focused on the game
"What?! But what about Scott? Didn't he take you?" she asked.
"no."
"What? Why?!"
"It was all a prank."
"Damn punks these days, I'm sorry sweaty."
"Who is that?" Sephiroth asked.
"My step-mom," I said.
My mother walked into my room where Sephiroth and I were. She looked so mad that she was turning purple.
"Who in Hells name said that you could ever have a boy in your room while I'm gone?!" My mom raged.
"You." I said coolly.
".No, I never said while I am away. We're going to have a long talk when he leaves." She freaked out.
"Please, mom! I just wanted to play with someone. His name is Sephiroth, he saved me from the Turks, kicked Scott's butt because Scott was being mean and been the nicest guy I have ever met." I said. "I've done my chores. Please, let him stay a little longer."
"Oh, fine. Glad to meet you, Sephiroth." My mom gave up.
"A pleasure to meet you." He said politely, yet probably feeling a bit awkward in the situation.
"Well I'll leave you two to play your games, I'll go start dinner." She turned and left. She poked her head back in the room a moment later. "What should I make you two for dinner? How bout some soup, or some spaghetti?"
"OK"
Sephiroth and I had finished the game and ate dinner.
"What do you want to do now?" I asked, smiling up at him like an eager little sister to her big brother.
"How about a movie." He suggested.
"K!"
We stayed up until eleven watching an action movie. When it was over we got up and stretched.
"I am exhausted" Sephiroth said.
" Me too." I said with a yawn.
My mother walked in the room," There are some people that want to see you Aeris."
"Who?" Sephiroth asked, "You didn't say I was here did you?"
"The Turks, never do I give them information, Why?" she said.
"Sephiroth, go out my window." I told him as my mom headed back to the stairs.
"But aren't they after you too?" He asked
"Don't worry, you said yourself, they are too busy with you and you are going to get killed if you don't!" I said.
"As you wish." He said.
"We will see each other again wont we? You'll come and play with me some more, right?" I asked as he looked down at my eager face. "Please come back and play with me again, I had the best time."
"As you wish" He repeated as I gave a quick hug. He was not sure how to react; yet tentatively he hugged me back. When I drew away from him I smiled up at him. He returned the smile before stepping next to the window and pulled out his gun. He pulled something from his pocket. He put it in my hand and I looked at it. It was a silver ring, a bit big for my childlike fingers. "Here, if we can not see each other again. Keep it. "
"Take this then, if you don't make it back. It's my favorite ribbon, so don't you lose it." I said as I untied the ribbon in my hair and handed it to him.
"Thank you for your hospitality, goodbye." He said as he went through the window.
"Bye big brother." I said as I saw him smile in the faint light. He turned and vanished in the night. I marched off down the stairs to see the damn jerks.
I was relieved that they weren't after me that night. Yet, I had to convince them I wasn't involved with Sephiroth and that I knew nothing of him. They said a boy and his gang, which was probably Scott, told them that a teenager that fit Sephiroth's description had threatened him at my house. I told them that Scott was the kind of guy that would that sort of stuff for his five minutes of fame.
They finally gave up and left. I then took a shower while thinking of Sephiroth and got ready for bed. That night I felt great.
Author Notes: Hello! Was that lame, if so, please understand. It my first one. I'm hoping to make it better with the many chapters that will follow. I'm not telling to poke the purple button to your bottom left hand side of this screen with your cursor but I wouldn't mind knowing how it was; bad or good, it doesn't matter though. Thanks for at least reading it. (Aeris, the white mage of the Cetras)