Chapter one: Welcome to Midgar High

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The alarm buzzed annoyingly throughout the house. A hand rose from beneath the blankets to slam the stupid thing shut. She never was a morning person, specially when you work during the night to provide for her daily and monthly expenses.

She groaned as she slowly sat up from the bed, scratching her head while smacking her lips together. She yawned loudly then stood up to stretch. She looked around the room and sighed. Tifa Lockhart was living on her own in a studio type apartment, where you can see the kitchen across from the bed. Her parents are already dead so she had to help herself to survive. And she's been doing that for a year now, her father only died last year, and the money he left her only lasted a few months so she needed to work at night.

She moved to Midgar from Nibelheim two months ago, before the new school year starts. She wanted to leave the life she had in her hometown to have a fresh start.

"There.. all done." She looked at herself in the mirror carefully. She had her hair in twin braids that goes down her shoulders, and bangs that almost covered her eye, in which black rimmed glasses was worn. She wore her dark blue jacket with a black dress shirt under, her red plaided bow tie neatly in place. Her red plaided school skirt that matches her bow tie goes just above her knees, and her socks were white and short with brown formal shoes. She twitched her mouth sideways then she stood up from her vanity to get her book bag, grabbed her keys and walked out the door.

Her bike was parked outside her apartment building. She wore her backpack then swinged her leg to the side to ride her bike to school. She adjusted her glasses from her nose and sighed.

"Here goes, first day of senior year."

As she was nearing her destination, she was already seeing students who were also on their way, those who knew each other were chatting away happily, some were walking alone. While she went past a number of students, they gave her funny looks and some girls were snickering and whispering to each other. A group of boys smiled at the sight of her, one of the boys called out with his hands cupped in front of his mouth.

"Nice wheels, geekazoid!" The rest of group laughed. Tifa ignored them and just went on her way.

She made her way inside the gates and she was getting more funny remarks and looks from other students. She parked her bike and unmount it, dusting her skirt and sleeves before she walked towards the building. She heard a loud roar of a motorcycle entering the premises, then the students suddenly went wild, the girls in particular. She went to look behind her shoulder to see a blond guy, with hair sticking out in every direction getting off the scandalous bike. Tifa found him extremely hot, so as the other girls, for they were now surrounding him and shrieking like idiots. She shook her head and walked away.

"Hey your grandmother called, she wants her skirt back." A girl named Scarlet told her as she walked past her and her group of girls. She was blond and her black dress shirt was open on the first four buttons, exposing her cleavage, her skirt was extremely short, one movement and you can see her butt cheeks. She also wore a bright red lipstick. They were all laughing at their beloved leader's remark. Tifa ignored them again making it look like they weren't even there.

"This year is going to be fun." She said smirking while looking at Tifa's retreating back.

She was organizing her things in her locker and putting her needed books inside her bags. She shut her locker door only to be surprised and ended up yelping. On her left was the blonde guy from before, looking at her with a puzzled look, his right hand suspended inside his locker which was next to hers. She hurriedly closed her backpack, adjusted her glasses and walked away hastily. He followed her with his eyes, shrugged then looked back to his locker.

She walked towards her first class, which was P.E. and she was not enthusiastic about it. She went over to the locker room to change into her P.E. uniform, when she got there, her half naked classmates were everywherw, happily chatting with each other until she made her appearance. Everyone stopped to look at her and gave those funny looks again, but she was getting used to it and ignored them. She put her bag down and hid herself at the back where no one would see her change. She removed her bow tie and jacket, then her dress shirt revealing her huge breasts, even if her outer appearance were questionable, she was gifted in most part of her body, particularly her chest and buttocks, she was curvy and toned but it was hidden beneath her unflatering outfits. She changed to her long shorts and an oversized tshirt, hiding everything that would catch the hungry eyes of the male student population.

When she was done dressing she made her way out, slightly fidgeting and her head bowed down. She went to take a seat at the benches and watched some guys on the ring playing basketball. Then, she saw him again, the handsome blond guy was playing hoops with expertise, making the girls crazy. He was covered in sweat but it made him look even hotter. There was another hot guy playing as well, his hair is just as spikey but it was black and he looked really cheerful compared to the blond guy. He was also covered in sweat.

Tifa adjusted her glasses and cleared her throat, getting the attention of the two female students who were sitting beside her. She noticed them looking at her so she bowed her head in apology and moved a little further away from them. She noticed the black haired guy smiling and waving at their direction, she looked at her left to see who he was waving at and it was the two girls from before, one of them has brown curly hair and shining emerald eyes, her skin was porcelain and delicate making her look like a doll, she was really pretty. The other one has short raven hair with round brown eyes, she has a bandana on her head and wearing a cheeky smile on her face, she was also very pretty. It turned out that the spiky haired guy was waving at the green eyed beauty and she was giving him flying kisses, must be his girlfriend. The short haired girl and the blonde guy were both rolling their eyes.

"Everybody line up!" A loud booming voice echoed on the gym making everybody jump. A large build man entered who was holding a clipboard and a whiste on his neck, Tifa figured it must be the teacher.

"My name is Barret Wallace but you will call me Mr. Wallace and I will be your P.E. teacher." He cleared his throat and looked his clipboard. He started calling their names for attendance, when their name was called, they raised their hand, Tifa waited for her turn while pursing her lips. She was standing at the back a little farther away from the rest of the class.

"Aeris Gainsburough?" The green eyes girl raised her hand. "Yuffie Kisaragi?"

"That would be Yuffie, the white rose of Wutai sir!" The short haired girl said, annoyed, her hands on her hips. Barret rolled his eyes.

"Cloud Strife?" The blonde guy's hand rose in the air, his expression blank, Tifa looked at him, her eyes under her glasses filled with longing.

So that's his name...

"Zack Fair?"

"Right here!" The other spikey haired guy raised his left hand while his right one was around his girlfriend's shoulder, sporting a cocky grin that made the girls swoon.

"Tifa Lockhart?" She didn't respond."Lockhart!"

"Here..." She said timidly while slowly raising her hand. She earned snickers and some whispering from her classmates. A brown haired guy said something about 'Geeks' and 'Dorks'. She slowly looked at Cloud's direction to see him looking at her as well, she quickly averted her eyes and looked at her feet.

When everyone was called, the teacher told them to do some sprints then play a sport after. Volleyball for the girls and basketball for the boys. Tifa was along the first of the students to play, though it was against her will. She stood at back again, avoiding the rest of her teammates. The opposing team were already in position, a Blond girl with short hair was already at the back, preparing to serve the ball. Tifa stood still at her place, not really paying attention to what was happening.

She suddenly felt a stinging pain on the top of head and she fell backwards. Laughter erupted afterwards.

"Way to go loser!" One of the girls on her team said, another set of laughter errupted, Aeris and Yuffie were both shaking their heads at the behavior of their classmates while Zack pursed his lips in disappointed. Cloud remained stoic but his eyes were glued at the laughing stock currently on the floor.

"Alright that's enough!" Barret shouted. "Just continue the game and play fair, no insulting each other, Lockhart, you go up front."

Tifa looked at her teacher while pointing her fore finger at herself.

"Me...?" She said in an almost whisper.

"Yes, you, now go." He said gesturing at her position at the front.

She hesitated but went over to the spot anyway. She adjusted her glasses once more and braced herself for what was about to happen to her again. The blonde girl at the other team served the ball again, this time, her red haired teammate got it hitting it towards the other team again. The ball went back and forth but it had never reached Tifa's spot, for which she was thankful for.

But it unexpectedly came into her direction which fortunately and unfortunately, she noticed, her reflexes moved on their own, making her gracefully jump high in the air, hitting the ball with the sole of her palm with ease and making it land straight in face of the girl in front her from the other team with unbelievable force, losing consciousness in the process. Everyone gasped and Barret rushed to her to check her bleeding nose. Everyone's mouths were wide open and slowly looked at her direction. Cloud was looking at her in disbelief, a rare thing for he never showed any emotion on his face. Zack and Yuffie were almost laughing with their mouths hanging open and Aeris' hand was in her mouth. Tifa looked down and nervously played with the hem of her shirt in her spot.

Crap.

A/N: Okay okay what was going on with Tifa? It looks like she is hiding something and hopefully we will find out sooner or later. Anyway, next chapter will be up in a few hours so stay tuned!