It was sweet and simple
Yet horrible and complicated.
cleris/clerith
In other words, simply complex.
simplex
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She was student in high school, senior year.
He was an English teacher.
her English teacher to be exact.
They were learning Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet actually.
Aeris hated Romeo and Juliet. It was depressing, sad and disheartened her. Why did they both have to die?
Mr Strife however, persuaded her to read one page.
one page
Then she just kept reading. On and on, until the end.
When she finished, she ripped the book in quarters and flung it in the air and the debris just came floating down, slowly and sadly.
Mr strife frowned and gave her a detention.
'You will have to pay for the book.' He said. 'Why did you rip the book aeris?'
She told him what she thought about the book.
She told him what she though about him and how he should shove his stupid Shakespeare books up his ass.
But, let's get on with the story, shall we??
Right from the start.
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"Aeris! Oh my god, AERIS!" Yuffie ran to Aeris, tackling her. "Check out our new English teacher!"
Outside classroom 705, a group of girls were crowding around the door, squealing. The bell rang and all the previous fan girls rushed in with a hurry. The two friends walked in a more dignified way and yes. Perhaps the English teacher was a damn hot guy.
"How much hair gel does he need??" asked Aeris, a single eyebrow raising up. Dressed neatly, the new teacher wrote on the board as more students started to file in.
MR STRIFE. WELCOME TO ENGLISH.
"As you might know now, I am Mr Strife. Welcome to my English class. Miss Greenwell has retired and will take over. Our first subject of the term will be Romeo and Juliet." He introduced.
Aeris frowned slightly. Romeo and Juliet was little bit too depressing for her tastes.
Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. They fall in love then die.
Not to mention that Juliet was thirteen at that time.
Thirteen!
Romeo was twenty at that time or something. Paedophile.
Mr Strife came around handing a book to each student.
"I want you guys to finish reading Act 1 in two days alright??
Aeris raised her hand.
"What if I don't want to read?" She asked boldly.
Mr Strife looked at her for a while before replying coolly.
"Well, if you don't complete all assignments or complete them up to the expectations, then you might have to repeat a year"
Aeris just looked away, annoyed. She was a straight A student and this teacher was not going to mess it up.
Now, Aeris is not a bad impolite student. She would be one of the first to let someone else take her seat on a bus. But this particular teacher just got on her nerves. Perhaps it was his hair that defied gravity and annoying resembled a chocobo from
"CHOCOBO SAVES THE WORLD – THE MOVIE"; or maybe because he didn't smile. Even Miss Greenwell tried to smile. Tried.
So for the rest of the lesson, Aeris remained a grumpy girl who ignored everyone. Even when Yuffie asked her what homework was from math.
Even when Mr Strife asked her to stand up and recite to the class some sentence from Romeo and Juliet.
He gave her a detention when she refused!!
A detention
"Agh! You- you – you can NOT do that!" she shouted, standing up.
"I am your teacher and shall give you how many detentions I want" He replied in his 'I'm so awesome' tone.
Aeris opened her mouth to retort but the bell rang. She grabbed her bag and stormed out, being watched by her fellow students and teacher.
"Detention is on Tuesday afternoon!" Mr Strife called out loudly.
"UGH!"
English was so bad that Aeris wasn't herself for the rest of the day.
"Um… Aeris"
"yes??"
Yuffie peered at Aeris cautiously before shrinking back at Aeris' mean death glare. She look at what Aeris was glaring at.
Ah. Of course.
"ENGLISH OFFICE"
Ahem. Anyway.
"So… are you going to read Romeo and Juliet??" asked Yuffie.
Aeris turned around slowly before giving an indefinite,
"no"
Before continuing her phase of mentally shoving knives in a certain blue eyed English teacher.
With chocobo style hair.
"Er… Yuffie. What happened to Aeris?? She looks like Tifa on PMS." asked Leon as he sat down beside Yuffie, slowly edging away from Aeris.
"I heard my name! Hey! I don't look like that!!"
Tifa sat down next to Aeris and joined in the conversation.
"Oh my god. Guess what?? I KNOW the new English teacher! He's a family friend, and I can't believe he's teaching here!" She gushed happily.
"You know him?" Asked Aeris as she whipped around.
"Oh yeah. Known him for like, what? 10 years?? I don't know! But he's quite a catch, eh Aeris…? Er… You don't like him?"
Aeris' gaze hardened as she turned back around before staring hard into the English staffroom.
"You mean the English teacher there? Mr Strife?" Inquired Leon, pointing over near a table, looking at Aeris before shrinking under the table as she turned around slowly to death glare at the teacher.
"Oh my god! Yeh! HEY CLOUD! COME HERE!" Yelled Tifa as she cupped her hands around her mouth and beckoned the teacher to go over to the table.
"You know, he's really young for a teacher" Said Yuffie.
Mr Strife, or rather, Cloud walked over to the table and waved to Tifa.
"Hi Tifa. Oh an and it's Miss attitude herself."
Cloud smirked before patting Aeris on the head and engaging in a conversation with everyone else.
To put it this way: Aeris was fuming.
yay. my first chapter of my first story..
Thank you for reading this! I appreciate it heaps. I would like reviews to see how i'm going or what i should change.
lol.i use to go on quizilla until the staff screwed up the website. Plus, there are so many mary-sues there. shudder
Second chapter shall come up... soon?? haha. Don't know.
xx simplyxcomplicated
