When they all meet
Chapter 1: First impressions
The building was huge and there were students all around him. Some were hyper and excited with the classes starting but others, looked sad and bored thinking "Oh no! Another year to forget..." but he, Cloud Strife, was motionless like always... He didn't care much about classes since he was always a good student. He felt that he didn't need to study study study, he just understood everything and then it was just write in a paper teachers gave, in other words, tests! And that's the way Cloud Strife "sees" school. But now, it was different. Now he was in... 10th grade... A whole new year in a whole new school with nobody he knew. He sighed as the thought crossed his mind. He gave one step forward when someone collapsed with him. A girl... A girl with long brown hair and beautiful green eyes. She was dressed in blue jeans and a pink sweater and a demin jacket covering her arms and back. Not that Cloud cared about her clothes, but her beautiful eyes turned his attention.
"Oh! I'm so sorry!" The girl said in a low voice. He could tell she was timid since she kept looking at the floor instead of looking at him. Cloud just nodded and the girl walked away. Boy... This is going to be a long day! He thought climbing up the stairs to enter the building. Another person collapsed with his shoulder again. Damn this school! He thought watching a tall boy with silver hair and green eyes walking away without saying he was sorry.
"Hey! That's mine!" He heard one red haired man yelling to one black strong man. Later, Cloud realized they were fighting for a football ball.
"It's not yours! This is my ball, I brought it from home!" The black man yelled back. His expression was rigid and he was really pissed.
"It's mine! I told ya it's mine!" The red haired man fought back. Cloud caught himself staring at the two boys so attentively that he didn't notice someone approaching him by his left side.
"Impressed with them? And you haven't seen nothing!" One blond boy, from his age, informed shooking his head. "They are always fighting like that! They know each other since primary school. It's been like that for ages! Somedays they are the best of friends, other days they hate each other... We'll never understand them..." Cloud looked at him and said nothing. "Oh! By the way, I'm Zidane!"
"The name's Cloud." Cloud said not showing any emotion with the fact that it was his name and he was proud of it.
"Ok! So... From which class are you from?" Zidane asked interrested in making a new friend. Cloud looked at his timetable.
"Hum... 10th 7. Yeah... I'm from class seven." He finally said after he had analized his timetable.
"Too bad.... I'm from class 9! Well then... I'll see ya around Cloud!" Zidane said and left waving at him who sighed and headed to his classroom. Classroom seven... I bet Zidane is from classroom nine! Well, glad I made a friend in this odd school... He thought walking again. Finally, after four mistaked classrooms he finally found classroom seven. All the students inside turned their attention at the late blond boy. He noticed it was a small class. The girl who collapsed with him outside was there too... Looking dreamly out of the window to the cold street. The black man who was argueing outside in the corridors was there too. A beautiful girl with long dark brown hair and brown eyes looked over at him and smiled shyly. The silver haired boy was there too. He heard the teacher telling him to sit down next to one boy with long black hair, dark eyes and pale skin. He nooded thoughtful and sat down next to the boy who gave him a quick smile. He would have done the same, but he wasn't the kind of guy that smiles very often.
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At the end of the first class... Tidus was already surrounded by girls sighing for him and dreaming about him. Does it has to be always like this? He thought trying to get away from his fans.
"Wakka! Wakka!" He called his friend, hardly waving a hand at him. Wakka, watching what was happening to Tidus burst into laughter. "This is not funny Wakka! ...... Do you mind?!" He said to the girls who walked away disappointed. "Damn..."
"Hey Wakka!" Another voice called behind. "I want to introduce Cloud to you!" The black man said tapping, no other than Cloud Strife, on the shoulder.
"Who is this, Barret?" Wakka, the red haired man asked looking at Cloud who kept his motionless face.
"Cloud Strife. He is going to join the team!" Barret informed proudly. "I heard he's pretty good with football!"
"Oh, hi Cloud! Welcome to the team then... I'm Tidus and this is Wakka!" Tidus introduced stretching one hand to the blond boy who accepted it and shook firmly. A little too firmly for Tidus! "Ye... Strong hand you got there!"
"You know? You're not the first one who says that!" Cloud said cooly.
"Don't we just like this boy?" Barret cheered. By the corner of his eye Cloud saw the girl who collapsed with him at the entrance to the building. She was with a girl from his class, Yuffie, he remembered her name, but the other girl he didn't know the name. He stared at her for a few seconds. The few seconds that were needed for Barret to notice Cloud was looking at her. "Aaahhh....! Looking at Aerith aren't ya?" He teased with an evil smile.
"What? No way!" Cloud quickly replied back at him.
"You sure have a good taste!" Tidus said, also playing with him. "She's free, you know? Go ahead and make a move!"
"I'm not interrested!" He said angrily.
"Sure sure! I'll give you... one month! You'll see you'll be dating Aerith!" Wakka dared jokely. Cloud shrugged his shoulders.
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"Did you look at Cloud Strife from our class?! Oh he's the hottest guy from school!" Yuffie said passing a hand through her short brown hair. The others nodded slowly.
"Yeah... He is really handsome, don't you think Aerith?" Tifa, the girl who smiled at Cloud asked smiling at her friend. Aerith nodded with her cheeks going red.
"He may be handsome, but Tidus from my class! Oh my God! He is gorgeous!" Yuna, from class ten, confessed shyly to her girl friends.
"Huh huh! And he is sooooooo kind! He's the boy all girls dream to have!" The blond girl Rikku, said sighing in a dreamly way.
"Hey Rikku! I saw him first!" Yuna said angrily.
"Yunie!" The black haired Lulu exclaimed smiling brightly. "I never saw you with that kind of thoughts!"
"Ehehe... Sorry..." Yuna said in a rosy smile.
"I have a handsome boy in my class too..." Garnet said in a lowering her voice as she was speaking.
"Really? Who is it?" Tifa asked interrested in knowing who the handsome boy was.
"Zidane..." Garnet answered lookind at the floor. The others stared at her and smiled. Aerith, watching and hearing them talking happily couldn't avoid a smile upon her face. This is going to be a loooong year... She thought sighing deeply.
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"I do not!" Barret yelled to Wakka.
"Yes you do!" Wakka yelled back at Barret.
"Guys?" Cloud tried to interfere with no sucess.
"I don't suck at football!" Barret yelled again at his... friend?
"GUYS! Stop it! We can't interrupt the trainings just because you remember to argue with each other! Now, get your asses back to the game and MOVE!!!!!!!!!" Cloud yelled to the two surprised boys who stared at Cloud. As he turned his back at them, Barret stuck out his tongue at Wakka who did the same thing to Barret.
"Wow! Cloud is good with this kind of things..." Tidus whispered to Zidane.
Damn... Why do they have to be like that? Cloud thought mad at them. It was then, when he saw Aerith and Tifa sitting on the stands from the pitch, watching the football practises and talking distractly. Was Cloud Strife blushing that time?
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In the end of the trainings Aerith and Tifa came to the boys, for Cloud anxious heart.
"Hi Cloud! Hi... boys!" Tifa cheered to the team.
"Why don't you just say... Hi Cloud, goodbye boys?!" Barret said smiling and wincking an eye to Cloud. "We'll be going... See ya tomorrow." They said the goodbyes, leaving Cloud with the girls. He watched them go. They will regreat this! He thought silently. He glanced at Aerith who was looking at the floor and blushing.
"Hum... Cloud! I was wondering... Can you come with me to the bar...? Just to eat something... What do you say?" Tifa asked smiling at the blond guy. He nodded.
"Are you coming too?" He asked to Aerith. She looked at his blue eyes in a way that made him feel strange and shook her head.
"I have to go home... It's getting late for me... Thanks anyway! Have fun you two!" She said and left with an empty expression on her face.
"Aerith... is very shy... But she's really a nice person! You coming?" She insisted touching his arm.
"Sure..." He said althought he wanted Aerith to come as well. Maybe a next time... He said to himself.
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