I carefully washed my face, I had to do it carefully, or else I might wash out my hair
dye. As a matter of fact, I had to be careful about everything I did nowadays. Why?
Because I have to be someone I'm not, and let me tell you, it's not as easy as you
think! Sure, you might be able to act for a play, but doing it day to day is even harder, especially if you're a woman pretending to be a man... Why am I doing this? Well, I
have to; I have to take of my care of my siblings, by myself. Why? My parents are
dead, and it's my fault, no don't try to convince me otherwise, because it iis/i my fault.

I straighten up and look into the mirror, I see a feminine looking young man with
black hair and green eyes staring back at me. I shake my head, that's me, or at least my mask, I work as a man because it's the best paying job I could get with my little
education, and ~excellent~ fighting skills. I smirk; everyone believes I'm a man, and I
get along well enough. I'm not rich, but I make enough money to take care of my
siblings and I, barely.

My name is Shaylee Loran, but if you ask anyone in the Shir-ra Building or
Neo-Midgar, I'm Lee Narol. Oh, you didn't know Shin-Ra still existed? Well, as a
matter of fact, the Weapon that was supposed to have killed Rufus Shin-Ra, well, it
didn't. He lived, barely, and now 600 years later, his decedents have rebuilt the
company.

If you believe that what had supposedly occurred 600 years ago had really happened, then you'd know that apparently, the past is reenacting itself. Well, without Sephiroth that is, everything else is the same, Shin-Ra is killing the
planet with their Mako reactors, and a very rebel factions exist, the most emanate
being one being historical named after the original faction that helped save the
world, Avalanche.

Though, it doesn't matter, they'll never get into the actual building, much less to the
President Leo Shin-ra. He's seen me as a girl, but he didn't know it was me, though I can still remember it...

* I had just started my job at Shin-ra Inc., but back then, I still had my night job as a
bar waitress in the best bar in Neo-Midgar, Cloud 9. He was there, he had just
become President because his father had died, and he was here celebrating with
some of his friends. I had been given the ~honor~ of serving him, he had hired me,
so when I came over to take his order, he noticed the ~tattoo~ around my right eye,
it's actually a birthmark, but no one knows that.

"I'd like five Wedges please," he had said before looking at me, he looked rather
surprised, " What's you're name?"

"Shaylee Loran, why?" I had asked, wondering why he had been asking.

"Because, I just hired someone with that same exact tattoo around his right eye."

"Oh? Really," I had tried and succeeded in keeping calm, "What was his name?"

"Lee Noral." He had said, looking at me up and down.

"Lee?" I had asked, still trying to sound as normal as possible.

"Yes," he said, eyes narrowing with suspicion, "You know him?

"As a matter of fact, he's my ex-boyfriend," I said, thinking quickly, "we had decided
to get the same tattoo in the same place when we iwere/i going out."

"Oh really?" He had asked, grinning, his friends had been checking me out, and it
had made me quite uncomfortable at the time.*

I sighed, I never knew then that a month later, after keeping my job at the bar, that
he'd stop by and ask me out on a date! I'd accepted, fearing he might fire ~Lee~ if I
didn't, I have been going out with him ever since, he apparently likes me, but I
hate him. Although as a girl I'm taken, as a guy I'm available, and a lot of girls like me, because my ~ex-girlfriend~ is now dating the President of Shin-ra.

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Lee Noral turned around to leave just as his friend, Linus Thor, came in to get him
out. He nodded and returned to his post as the day Body guard of the President. His
shift was over for the day, and it was time for him to go home. He hopped into the
elevator and rode it down to the first floor. He found his motorcycle in the Shin-Ra
parking lot and rode home. His house wasn't in Neo-Midgar, but in Lotten, half a mile away.

Lee walked into his house only to be greeted by two 5 year olds, Jenny and Jeri, but
they didn't call him 'Lee'; they called him 'Shay'. He hugged them both tightly and
headed to the bathroom for a shower. He shook his head as he entered the
bathroom, locking the door behind him.