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Chapter 1: The Date

Haven's Place was packed with hungry customers. It was the most popular fine dining restaurant on the entire island. Critics gave it an A plus on environment and food, but if they could grade higher than that, they would do it in a heartbeat. And the prices weren't too ridiculous either. There just wasn't anything bad to say about the restaurant. Tonight every table was filled with people and near the left wall, at a table set for two, a college girl with aqua colored hair could be seen sitting alone. She nervously looked around at the other diners, happily chatting and eating. Then she looked back at the empty chair across from her. She definitely looked out of place. Why did I agree to come on this stupid thing? She asked herself. Just then the bell above the door chimed as someone stepped through into the restaurant. It was a young man. He looked a little older than the girl. He was freakishly tall and skinny. It didn't help that he wore tight fitting clothes either. His hair was strange: long, spiky, and flaming red. As if his appearance wasn't striking enough, his piercing green eyes added a creepy, almost devious, aura to him. And his attitude didn't seem to be any better than his physical appearance. He shouted at someone outside as he held the door open. He was so loud the girl could hear him all the way from her lonely table.

"I don't CARE what the rules are! I'm parking there!" No one else seemed to notice his outburst though. He walked up to the hostess near the front door and started asking her something. She peered over at the blue haired girl and then grabbed some menus. Oh god no. Please, no! The single girl thought. Despite her wishes, though, the two walked toward her table.

"It seems your other guest has arrived. May I start you both off with some drinks?" The waitress asked, placing the menus down: one in front of the girl and the other in front of the opposite chair that had now been taken by this crazy guy.

"Just some water, please." The girl said in a mellow voice.

"And I'll have some Coke." The man said rather demanding. When the waitress left, he looked right into the cobalt eyes of the girl hating her life right now. "So…" he smirked. "You must be Aqua."

The girl tried to be as polite as possible. Maybe he wouldn't seem too bad after she got to know him some. But after that comment, with that playboy tone…she doubted it. She nodded anyway, deciding just to go with it. "And you're Axel?"

"Yes, I am."

"Well it's nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. I-I don't usually do the whole 'blind-date' thing, but Yuffie insisted…" she trailed off.

He chuckled. "Yeah, Yuffie does that, huh? I never seem to stay with one girl for too long." Gee, nice to know, Aqua thought. "And Yuffie being my friend and all, she's always trying to find me "the one" (he made quotation marks with his hands), you know?" He rolled his eyes. He. rolled. his. eyes. Oh, this guy's a keeper. Aqua thought sarcastically.

"Um, sure." Aqua smiled for the heck of it. "I just haven't dated in a while and Yuffie got kind of tired of it." She shrugged. "She's my best friend, so I let her set me up."

The crazy redhead leaned forward, resting his arms on the table. "Lucky you," he said. Yeah, lucky me…Aqua thought.

"Here are your drinks!" The waitress said with a tone that was a little too cheery for the awkward atmosphere. Well, awkward for Aqua at least. The waitress gently set the drinks on the table. "Ready to order?"

"Cheeseburger. Extra bacon. Ketchup. No mustard." The rude boy said.

"K!" The waitress smiled as she scribbled down the command. "And you ma'am?"

"Um…hmm," Aqua searched the menu quickly. "I'll have the Italian sandwich please."

"Great! Your food will be ready shortly!"

She walked off and Aqua slowly turned back to face Axel. The two stared at each other in silence. Aqua felt awkward and uncomfortable. Axel felt perfectly content as his took in the sight before him.

A long and painful hour later, Aqua and her "date" walked out of the restaurant's front door together. "And then you know what I said to that? 'Nuh-ah, no way, man. You are not gonna have sex on my couch.' Haha, man he was so pissed." Axel finished up his story, pretending to wipe tears from his eyes. Aqua was just about ready to facepalm. "So where are you parked? Maybe you could follow me over to my place to hang out."

The girl's eyes widened, kind of saying "are you kidding me?" "Um, no thanks. It's pretty late and I…I promised to meet Yuffie to tell her how the date went." Aqua lied. Well it wasn't a complete lie. She was going to call her at least and tell her what a douche this guy was. She found it hard to believe that Yuffie was even friends with him.

"Oh, w-well okay." Axel scratched the back of his head. It was the first time all night that his persona was broken. He wasn't used to being rejected. "Well I'll see you around then. I guess."

"Yeah," Aqua looked down at her feet. She felt kind of bad. "Hey," she looked back up to him. "Thanks, though, for the date. It was nice to get out."

"Ha, yeah," Axel winked. Well he doesn't stay down for long. "Catch ya around." Then he was off, and Aqua left too.

Walking down the sidewalk, Aqua opened her purse and searched for her phone in the dark. Celebrating a slight victory in her head, she pulled out her iPhone 4 and dialed her best friend's number immediately. "AQUA! OMG, how did it go?" Yuffie practically shouted through the speaker.

"Haha, well I'm calling you on the cold, long walk to my car alone. So how do you think it went?" Aqua stated sarcastically.

Yuffie gasped. "Oh, it was really that bad? Wow, I'm sorry, Aqua." She said sounding truly sincere.

"Aw, don't worry, Yuffie. But seriously…how are you guys friends? He was…gah, I don't even know! I mean, Yuffie, the guy put his fork on the edge of his plate and used it as a catapult to launch fries into his mouth!"

Yuffie giggled. "Well, I admit that is pretty bad."

"Yeah, I don't know what you were thinking with him. But it's okay, you know how I am. Boys and I just do not mix."

"You got that right. Haha, remember that time you went on a date with Cloud and you guys had an argument over who was taller?" Yuffie started cracking up at the memory.

"Hey, I can't date a guy who's shorter than me!" Aqua stated in defense.

"Aqua," Yuffie said in a whiny voice. "Cloud was a perfectly good guy. I'm sorry, that was a stupid reason to break up with him. Plus he so is taller than you, or at least the same height."

"No way, it's just his hair. It makes him look taller." Aqua pouted.

"Sure, sure. Well, anyway, sorry about you blind date. Shop with me tomorrow to make up for it?"

"That'd be great! I totally need–" Aqua's sentence was cut short by a loud screeching noise. She turned around to find the source and saw a truck drifting around the corner. Aqua stood still on the sidewalk watching as the truck sped down the street. It was all over the place. Running over the curb and then into the other lane. The truck turned slightly and its headlights blinded Aqua. Oh God! Was all she was able to think before her world went black.

A/N: Really short chapter...blah D: But I hope it's sufficient enough for an introduction.

I've had this for a while, but I wanted to plan out the rest first to know where it was going. This is my first major story so bare with me please. :)

Oh, and let me know what you think! Critiques are always welcome too!

Thanks for reading!