Disclaimer: I do not own anything quite literally, I do however own Sky-Blue.
Rated M for Reno's and my OC's filthy, filthy mouths, and for later sexual contents.
This is my first multichapter fanfic, so please bare with me. I may come back and redo some chapter. I would be very greatful for any reviews and comments to help me improve.
I sat on the old crumbling, neglected roof of the school in sector two watching the debris fall around me. I swear I can almost feel the heat radiating from the sector one plate above me as a part of it blew up. I could hear people screaming in the distance and rushing to and fro, suddenly my quiet sanctuary is disturbed by the wounded, the scared, and the just plain nosey. I take this as my queue to leave.
It took me two hours to get to my home in sector four, the security was extra tight this evening, every ten minutes the train was stopped and checked. I heard some old people gossiping next to me, they heard from a friend of a friend, of a cousin of a friend that the explosion was a mako reactor. Probably that Avalanche group I've been hearing about. I haven't got anything against them personally, but I've always had this attitude towards everything; if it doesn't affect me, I just don't give a shit.
I walk through the front door, through the main hall and stop short of myself upon the slap of skin on skin, and the moans that I can only describe as like from a very bad, amateur porno. I turn around and decide to go upstairs instead, being careful of the fifth eroding step. Unfortunately I caught enough of a glimpse to see the source of the noise; I could see some random bloke on top of Leanne - my mum banging away. On a closer inspection I realise that he hasn't got the birthmark on the right butt cheek that her more resent boyfriend has. I guess they've had another argument. I go into my room and dig out the box of cereal I've kept hidden under my bed, get my tattered and dog-eared school books and start on my homework.
I awoke the next day with Leanne screeching at me, tears falling down her worn and old beyond her years face. "It's all your fault he left me!" I'm trying to fend off her slaps and hair pulling while fighting the hazy fog of sleep. "You couldn't be assed to get to know him! It's your fault he doesn't want me. You bitch!" by this time I was on the landing being pushed and thumped as I fled down the stairs. "Get the fuck out of my house you skank, fuck off! Don't come back!" Before I could state the irony of her calling me a skank I was pushed out of the door with it slammed behind me.
Without my books I couldn't go to school, so I decided to scavenge the train graveyard close to sector seven for parts I can sell. If I'm going to be homeless for a few days I don't mind sleeping on benches but there's no way I'm going hungry if I can help it. I wonder how long she'll be mad at me this time, the longest Leanne's locked me out what when I was nine and she convinced herself that I broke the TV she smashed up the night before while on LSD. She wouldn't let me back in for a week.
I hunted the graveyard for a good few hours, and all I found was a couple of potions and a fire materia, i then went to sector six Wall Market to sell my finds. I really didn't want to sell the materia, but if I wanted to eat I knew I had to. As I left the shop I bumped into a mate from school, Timmy. Timmy isn't actually his name but I can never remember it. I don't do friends and he's as close to a friend as I'll allow. In the slums it's hard to trust anyone, mostly because there's no one that's fully trust worthy including me. The wutai approached me, with his usual friendly smile and his innocent eyes "Hey Sky, why wasn't you at school today?"
"Leanne kicked me out."
"What'd ya do this time?"
"Honestly, I didn't do anything. Can I crash on your sofa again?"
"I'm sorry; some relatives have come from Junon so there's no room. Hell, I'm sharing my bed with my brother and man does he snore."
"That's alright, somthin will turn up. See ya." I walk away from to him and headed straight behind another shop. Damn Timmy, where do you work there's 600 gil in there! Looking around me making sure no one sees I stuff Timmy's wallet into my pocket. Poor kid he can't help being innocent, I've taught him a valuable life lesson today. Sorry Tim, maybe in the future I'll pay you back, if I'll ever be to afford it, if I remember.
With Timmy's 'borrowed' gil I decide to rent a bed for the next week in sector seven. The young boy renting beds above his dads shop goes to my school so he gave me a half price discount, I would like to think that it was out of the goodness of his heart but something tells me it's to try to get me to pay for a couple more nights. As I started settling into sleep the door burst open, I shot up out of the bed startled with the blade that I hid under the pillow firmly in my grasp. As my eyes adjusted to the bright light that invaded my room, I mentally prepared myself to defend against the intruder. "Whoa, Sky chill. Your ma's not well. We-we were doin' some shrooms, good stuff my cousin picked them from around Fort Condor. I think she took to much coz we was dancing and then next thing I come back from havin' a piss, and found her face down in her own vomit. She stopped breathing. I heard you were stayin' here." It took awhile for what he said to sink in, and I'm almost surprised that I'm not really bothered. The man turned out to be Jeff, one of Leanne's regulars. It turns out that after kicking me out Leanne thought she'd throw a party celebrating her newfound freedom, from both me and her bloke. The damn brat that sold me the bed wouldn't refund me the week's worth of gil I gave him, Jeff dragged me out of the shop and into his car before I smashed the little punk's face in.
