Chapter 1: Memory Lane

[Lightning]

Saturday, bright and sunny like usual Cocoon days were. The oldest Farron was resting her head upon her hands admiring the clear sky above. The sound of her twin brother, Cloud playing with her younger sister Serah could be heard in the other room. Her parents were shuffling through some boxes.

The Farrons had just moved in. Lightning was less than excited to have to adjust to a new neighborhood, for a 6- year old year that was a difficult task.

"Claire, why don't you go check out your new room, it's ready." Her brunette father suggested, noticing his daughter's bored expression.

"Okay daddy." She walked up stairs and found her bedroom. Her bed was made and her bookshelves were stocked, everything was in it's proper place. Lightning had always been a little more mature than other kids her age. She made her way to a window, she stood on a chair from where it was by her desk, looking threw the window she noticed a big tree.

It was blocking most of her view. She could see a window that obviously belonged to the next door neighbor's house. What a boring view, she thought. Her eyes wandered down to the neighbor's yard. In the front yard Lightning noticed a few boys her ages playing. Maybe I can play too!, she excitedly hopped down from the chair and skipped down stairs, clumsily putting on her shoes and rushing out the door.

"Aerith, what was that?"

"That was your daughter, Squall. I have never seen her run that fast." Her parents laughed a bit before going back to setting up their new house.

Lightning skipped cheerily toward her fence that she could barely see over. As she approached it, she saw three boys around her age playing with dolls. Two had dark hair, one had all his hair slicked back into spikes and the other's was smooth with a few locks of hair going across his face and had spikes in the back; the other boy had fire engine red hair, that had spikes in the back as well but a sort of pony tail coming from the back. They hadn't noticed her yet.

"H-hi." She nervously spoke above a whisper. They clearly hadn't heard her. "H-Hello." She spoke a little louder, their heads turned in her direction.

They were silent, again Lightning spoke. "Hi, I'm Claire. I live next door, can I play dolls with you too!" she flashed a smile, a few teeth missing. The Red-Head smirked and then winked, the two dark haired boys laughed. One of them spoke.

"There aren't dolls, they are action figures get it right." his almost seemed to flicker red, but Lightning just believed it was the light playing with her mind.

"Noct, she is a girl you gotta play it cool with the ladies." the red headed boy stated cooly. The other dark haired boy rolled his eyes.

"Noct? Is that your name? What about your friends?" Claire curiously tilted her head, letting some of her pinks locks to fall across her face. Strange how her sister and brother didn't have brown hair like their parents, but she thought it made them unique and so it never really bothered her.

"Only my friends call me Noct, you can call me Noctis, and the red head is Reno, and he is Zack." It came out almost harsh, she didn't know why he was being so mean to her, all she wanted to do was make a few new friends.

"Hi, anyways, can I still play dolls with you guys?"

"They aren't dolls, they are action figures!" Noctis stood up and came closer to the picket fence, his head barely peering over as well.

"Sorry, But can I?"

"No, we don't play with girls. They'll give is deadly diseases like cooties!" Zack shouted. This time Reno rolled his eyes.

"I don't have cooties! I want play action figures with you guys, that's all!" Lightning defended.

"Get lost, you pink haired Clown! Clown! Clown! Clown! Clown!" Reno and Zack joined in with the chanting.

"Stop it!" Lightning backed away, tripping over herself. She was crying and she stained her shirt. She got up and ran back to her house heating the faint chanting still. "Clown! Clown!"

[4 years pass..]

"Mommy, I can do this by myself, I'm a big girl!" the younger Farron girl was smiling brightly up at her mother. "It's just Mr. Highwind, he like planes or something, right?"

"Yeah, but I'm still making your sister come with you." Serah made a pouting face as her mother went upstairs to get her older sister. Cloud her brother was doing his clarinet lessons. They all had to have a musical instrument, why? Because that's what Aerith wanted, three bright, talented children, and they were. Probably the most involved children in the city, from dance to academics to music and everything in between.

Serah was unstacking and restacking her wagon of cookie boxes out of boredom. Finally, she huffed in impatience and got to her feet. She slowly headed out the front door, pulling her wagon behind her. It was harder getting it down the steps when she was being quiet. Serah smiled when she reached her gate, and turned to her neighbor's house, going toward the rather large front door.

She knocked twice. As soon as the resident of the house opened the door, she knew she wasn't at the right house. A dark-haired boy, who looked around Lightning's age answered, he was clearly annoyed.

"Hi, my name is Serah-"

"Ew, aren't you Claire's little sister?" he interrupted rudely.

"Y-Yeah, she is the bestest big sister ever-"

"Don't care. Give me your cookies."

"You have to buy them." she nervously said.

"No I don't, I'm bigger than you, and I can take them for free." he slightly pushed outta the way and stole the wagon taking it in his house.

"Claire, sweety, can you take your sister around the neighbor hood so she can sell those cookies for Girl Scouts?"

"Sure thing mom." Lightning put on her shoes and went downstairs. "Mom! Where's Serah?"

"She probably got antsy, she should be next door."

"Wait, at the Highwind's or-" Lightning was interrupted by the front door slamming open. Serah came rushing in, tears streaming down her face. She was saying something through heavy sobs, Lightning grabbed her by the shoulders and looked at her. "Serah, what happened?"

"That mean...kid...next door...took.. My cookies!" she said through sobs. Cloud came out of the den with his clarinet reed still in hi mouth, confused.

"What's wrong?" He took the wooden reed out of his mouth and guided Serah on a chair and hugged her. Light was seething with rage. She stormed towards the Caelum residence and pounded on the door. Noctis answered with a cookie in his hand.

"What do you wa-" She socked him right in the nose. He stumbled back touched his nose. It had to be broken, blood was trickling down his face. For a 10-year old girl, she sure did pack a punch. She returned home, with the wagon, to her tall father tapping his foot in frustration.

[6 more years pass...PRESENT]

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEE-

Her hand flung onto her alarm clock. Lightning lifted her head up and was greeted by the familiar sun shining through her window. She stretched and glance at her clock. 6:01.

She got up and rummaged through her neatly organized closet for her usual school uniform. She was ready by 6:20. Hair and clothes neatly done. She grabbed her backpack before hearing loud, obnoxious music from her least favorite human being. Lightning walked over to her window and pushed it open.

"Caelum! Caelum!" She shouted several times before he finally heard her. His hair was unruly and he had no shirt. Most girls would have killed for her room, but once you break past the amazing physique, you found a bag of douche. That's all he was in her eyes.

His feeling towards her were just as negative. Little Miss Perfect, everything she did, she was good at. And that was annoying as hell, Noctis was supposed to be good at everything, and he was, but so was she. Being Miss Perfect got her a reputation, after she broke the most popular kid in school's arm using little force, she was looked upon as a freak. "Did you need something, Cloud?" He turned down his radio. Lightning's face turned red with anger.

"I'm Lightning! Not Cloud."

"Fooled me. What do you want anyways?" He scoffed.

"I was just wondering if you could turn off your ghetto-blaster for once and not assault my ear drums with it's explicit songs!"

"No can do, you see, I would but it annoys you and we know how much I love that look on your face when you're mad." he smirked. She rolled her eyes and shut her window.

"Light, are you up? It's time for breakfast!" She recognized her brother's voice.

[Noctis]

"Noct, so how's Tifa?" his dark haired friend asks walking with him and Reno towards the front gates of the Chrystallis Academy, an elite academy for only the best of the best, be at sports or academics.

"Zack, that's my sister, touch a hair on her body and I will kill you." he slapped the back of his head, causing Reno to snicker.

"Hey look isn't that you neighbor?" Reno saw Lightning walking confidently with her taller twin brother Cloud. They both were like the perfect children, and scary alike in appearance and in personality. Unfortunately for that reason, not many people talked to them, thanks to Lightning's short temper towards others.

"I swear, it's like she gets hotter every year." Reno smirked, while his attention diverted lower and lower.

"Reno, shut up!" Zack slapped Reno's head. The bell rang. "C'mon let's get to class."

It's an idea that has been on my mind for a while now. I think it's a little slow now, but it'll pick up later on. I hope you liked it, I get a little writer's block when major ideas, like this pop into my head. So I am getting them out now, so I can clear up my mind. That's it:) Alrighty BYE!