A/N: OMG! It's a Final Fantasy fanfiction story! :O Follow the story between Angeal and his daughter Layla and...Zack...! :3 Enjoy!
First Snow Fall
Chapter One
"Dad, look!" I said, running towards the window, it was snowing out. The white snow flakes fell from the dark sky onto the city streets. I loved snow, it was cold, and beautiful. I loved how the snow would pile up on the ground, and on the bare trees. Kids going playing in the snow, making snowmen, having snowball fights, making snow angels. It was fun.
And yet… I didn't like the snow. The snow reminded me of something, that I wanted to forget. Forget forever. But whenever it snows…It comes back to me. What comes back, is the memory of my mother's death. It was snowing out when she had died. The memory of my mom laying on the snow, with blood spilled everywhere was stuck in my brain, no matter how I try to block it out.
"It's snowing out…" Angeal, my father said as he walked up behind me. It was Christmas vacation, and I was in Midgar, visiting my dad, as I always do. In short, I was a Daddy's girl. I was my father's little princess. My father was a first class SOLDIER, in the Shinra company. He was facing danger every day, and I was facing fear everyday.
"When it piles up, really high…can we make snow angels?" I asked, for a seventeen year old, I felt like a little kid.
"Depends, Layla, you know that I'm working-"
"Yeah, yeah I know…SOLDIER is working you hard this year…I get it." I didn't mean to say in a annoyed tone, it just came out that way.
Angeal looked at the clock that was haying on the wall, and then he looked back at me, with a look of sorry. I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Sorry, Lay…" He said as he kissed my forehead.
"Yeah, whatever. Just do what you have to do." He walked down the hallway, leaving me on the floor of the SOLDIERS. I sat on the couch that was in the waiting area, and watched the snow fall. I know my dad means well and all, but I barely get to see him. I remember, when I was little, that we would was go to see Grandma, up in Banora, but lately…we haven't gone.
A girl can get bored very easily, when your on the SOLDIER floor, doing absolutely nothing. I started to hum, and ignore the looks and the "Who's that? She's hot!" comments from the other soldiers. If I mentioned that my father was Angeal…they would never say or look at me ever again.
"You look bored." Said a voice. I looked towards the voice to find that it belonged to a tall man with black spiky hair and a scar on his left cheek. I knew he was…Zack Fair aka "Zack the Puppy". Did he know me? No, probably because no one knows that my dad has a child. The only people who know is his two best friends. Genesis, and Sephiroth.
"Probably because, I am bored." Zack sat down across from me.
"We don't see many girls here, unless your working within Shinra, or in the Turks…are you with the Turks?"
I laughed. "No. I'm not. I'm just here on vacation from school…"
He smiled. "That's good. So why do you wanna go to Midgar for vacation…it's not very…vacationy…"
"Vacationy isn't even a word," I laughed some more. "I'm just visiting…a relative of mine." I don't want to tell Zack who my father is, it would ruin my fun.
"That's cool. So does your relative work in Shinra?"
"Something like that."
"Layla?" said a familiar voice. I looked down the hallway, to where the voice came from. It belonged to Genesis.
"Hey, Gen. Hows it going?" I said getting up, I put my hands behind my back and bent down, and smiled at him.
"Very good…What are you doing here, with Zachary? Nice hat by the way." I was wearing my Christmas hat, that had pom poms and ear flaps.
"Hey! I was just having a conversation with her!" Zack said in defense.
Genesis smiled, and looked back at me. "So why are you waiting here for?"
It took me a while to answer him, because I didn't have answer myself. "Honestly… I have no idea…"
"Wait, Genesis. How is it, that you know her?" Zack asked with a confused look on his face.
"She's Angeal's, daughter."
"WHAT?" Zack said shocked, so shocked that he took a step back and looked at me from head to toe.
"Oops...Guess the cat's out of the bag..." I singed, and smiled.
"WHAT? YOUR ANGEAL'S DAUGHTER? Angeal has a daughter?" Poor Zack, he was very confused.
"Yup. I'm Layla Hewley. Age? Seventeen."
"I can't believe your Angeal's daughter!"
"Do you need a chair?"
"You don't look alike!"
"I have my moms face and eyes. I got my dad's black hair."
"Who's your mom?"
"No one that you know..." I mumbled, I always get mad when the subject of my mother comes up, I don't know why.
"Zack, don't you have somewhere to be?" Genesis asked annoyed.
"Nope! I'm waiting for Angeal..." Zack said with a smile.
Genesis sighed, and shook his head. "Don't let him do anything to you, Layla...You can kick him in the balls if you need to."
"HEY!" Zack said making a upset puppy face. No wonder dad calls him Zack the Puppy.
A/N: It's something different than my Welcome to Hell story. :D REVIEW! Please?