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-Lightning's POV-

The light shone brightly against my eyelids. I slowly fluttered them open. They were a little blood shot, Vanille had brought some guy to the dorm last night. Figures, she always jumps into things way too fast. I just feel sorry for the guy, Vanille was a player and she usually left before they did, making it extremely awkward for me.

I shuffled outta my bed, and glanced at the digital red numbers on the clock. 6:58. I was amazed that I was awake at this time, I mean judging by all the noise that the two were making.

I smiled at the thought of god's gift to man, coffee. I sluggishly walked out of my bedroom, rubbing my eyes, I walked to our moderately sized kitchen area. The coffee machine had already dealt out my own personal brand of crack. Beside it on the counter was piece of pink paper with thin, fine cursive. It read:

Claire, here is your coffee, you crackhead. If my date hasn't left yet, you might get to meet him. I left to my morning classes. I have probably kept you waiting long enough. ENJOY!

-Vanille

P.S- He is kinda quirky! And weird…

I stopped going by Lightning and started going by my real name. I left all of my past life behind me the day I left. I lost contact with my best friends Tifa, Zack, and…Cloud. The memories of graduation day came flooding through my mind and sunk down to the kitchen tile floor. I was tearing up, until I heard a voice.

"Are you okay?" the voice sounded oddly familiar.

"What? Oh, yeah. I'm fine. Coffee just makes me….emotional.." I said getting back to my feet and wiping my face. I looked at the dark haired guy. His hair was spiked and his eyes were bright striking blue. He was a=obviously muscular, as I observed from his lack of pants and shirt. He was only in boxers, which just made it awkward.

He was staring at me with his jaw hanging and with a shocked expression.

"Do I have something on my face or do you have a staring problem?" He was so familiar…I just couldn't put my finger on it.

"No, but it's just you look really familiar. Did we ever fuck?" I took a step back and scoffed.

"Yeah, like I would crawl into bed with a tool such as yourself."

"Sorry, that made me sound like a complete jackass," I nodded in agreement. "What's your name?"

"Claire…" I answered sipping the cup of coffee I had poured myself. He thought about that for a minute then shrugged.

"Nice name. I'm Zack, Zack Fair." He outstretched a hand as I spit all my coffee in the sink.

"What did you say?"

"My name is Zack. Are you okay?"

Then it suddenly clicked. No wonder, they were blasting Celine Dion last night trying to cover up the 'deed'. Standing in front of me was one of my childhood friends.

"Z-Z-Zack. It's me, Lightning." His eyes widened.

"No way! Well now that I do think about, how many pink-haired chicks do I really know?"

"I can't believe it's you. I mean I haven't seen you in what...4 years! It's good to see you…a little too much of you" I said awkwardly scratching the back of my head.

"Wh-oh yeah…probably should get dressed." He started walking back to Vanille's room.

"Yeah, you probably should.." I mumbled as he left, and with that I left back to my room to get dressed out of my pajamas. As I walked out, Zack attacked me with a hug.

"AHHHH!" I screamed in complete shock. I nearly had a heart attack.

"Sorry! I just got a call from Tifa at the bar, I gotta go to work."

"Wait, Tifa works with you…" I hadn't realized how much I missed all of them until now.

"Yeah. You should drop by sometime, it's called 7the Heaven. But like I said I gotta run!" He rushed out grabbing his jacket. I couldn't believe him and Tifa still talked after what happened, actually I never really knew what happened after he chased her down at graduation.

I looked at my wrist watch…..7:53. Shit. I was going to be late to class if I didn't hurry.

I locked the dorm room as I rushed out. The campus of Cocoon University was fairly large, but I knew my way around.

I was sprinting down a hallway and as soon as I turned the corner, I bumped into someone. I was knocked on my butt, and I was winded. Our heads had collided as well.

I looked up at the someone I had just literally ran into. He kneeled down to my side with a worried look on his face. "Oh gosh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get in your way."

"Well I'm sorry I bumped into you like that." I looked to notice he had a few bags with him. He was obviously new here.

"I am not the one with a cut cheek."

"Is it bad?"I touched my cheek, and I brought my fingers to my eyes and a small amount of blood was present. He helped me off the ground.

"No, I mean you aren't going to die or get any battle scar from it. I'm sorry, really. Here." He dug through one of his bags and pulled out a Band-Aid. He tore off all the useless paper surrounding it and placed it ever so gently on my cheek.

"Are you new here, or something?"

"Can you tell?" He walked back towards his bags and threw on over his shoulder. I laughed a bit. "Yes, actually I was looking for the dorms and then I ran into you, rather you ran into me."

His short silvery hair swept across his forehead, but didn't cover his eyes. Good thing too, because they were a sea of blue and green, you could get lost in them for hours.

"Why don't I give you the grand tour?"

"You should probably get to where you were going."

"I think math can wait, besides it is the least I can do for your band-aid." Smooth Lightning, smooth…

"Are you sure I'm not burdening you like a lost puppy?" I shook my head no. I walked with him around the campus towards the dorms. I explained what everything was and it's purpose.

We finally reached the dorms, he gave me a small piece of paper that had his dorm room number listed.

"I guess I have a new neighbor." I said looking up from the parchment with a slight grin. "you are right across the hall."

I led him to his dorm room, room 335. I knocked on the door wondering if his roommate was in. After a few knocks, a guy with brown hair that sept across his face answered. He was dressed in blue. "Are you my new roommate?" He asked confused.

"No, but my buddy here s. His name is…ummm….psst what's your name?"

"Hope. I'm you're roommate"

"Noel. Come on in." Hope shuffled in and I started down the hallway, leaving to get to get something to eat, I was starving.

"Wait!" I turned on my heels to see Hope running towards me. "I never got your name." he said plainly.

"Oh right, I'm Claire Farron." I gave a small smile, he returned one back.

"Hope Esthiem. Thanks for the tour."

"nice to meet you, and your welcome." There was a moment of silence between us.

He rubbed the back of his neck. "Do you wanna get some food? Breakfast, I guess."

I thought about it, then as if my stomach had a mind of its own it growled. "I'm game."