Whoo! Finally out with this story!
It took me a while, but I didn't forget. I just had to have everything nicely planned out, like which teacher teaches which class, which student becomes queen or king. Or which student becomes president.
I also made a very detailed list for each OC. Their courses, their classmates, their teachers, and their clubs, teams, etc. were all very well explained for each character. I also had to make sure to check to see if every character connected within the storyline. And I also made a time-line for each Character.
So really, this project took about three months, believe it or not.
So, without further ado, I present to you, 'Square Ace High'.
-Claps-
Chapter One: Square Ace High
"High school, those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that."
Steve Carell
Marie
She was a little nervous, no doubt. High school was a big deal, and Marie didn't want to do anything to ruin her experience. She already had the school mapped in her mind, due to the fact that she was present at freshman orientation. She was quite glad that she didn't end up going to Enix High, as she was personally invited to attend that school. Her parents weren't quite fond of Enix high, as a lot of bad seeds went to that school.
Marie took a deep breath, and went to look in her bag for her schedule. A nice touch that Square Ace High had against Enix High was that they would send the student's schedules before they entered school. In Enix high the students would have to wait until their very first day of school.
As she searched for her schedule, she saw her cell phone, and saw that it was blinking. She took it out and noticed that she had received a text message. Upon reading it, her green eyes lit up and she couldn't help but smile and blush.
We have lunch together.
Meet U the big pink. LYSM.
Riku
She started laughing lightly to herself. She went to text him back, and started walking to her first class. As she was texting and walking, a small but firm and strong hand latched unto her shoulder. She jumped out of fear, and quickly looked behind. As she did, her fear suddenly turned into annoyance.
"Sora!" she yelled. "I told you not to sneak up on me like that!"
A young man with spiky brown hair, tanned skin-tone and very bright blue eyes was standing near Marie. He had a huge smile on his face, and started laughing while scratching his head with his right hand.
"I know," he replied. "But it's fun."
Marie scoffed while Sora laughed a little more. They both began walking towards the entrance of the school, and Marie finally took out her schedule. She looked at her first period, which was her job class; swordsmanship. Sora took a peek of her schedule and noticed they both shared period's first and third. He also noticed her taking out her cell phone, and she started texting someone. He peeked in closer and saw the recipient as Riku.
"Can't believe you guys are going out," he mumbled. Although he didn't mind that his two best friends were dating, sometimes it felt lonely. All Riku would want to do is be with Marie, and she would want to be with him. He tried making it so they all could be together, but he gave up when it proved useless. He would always hang out with Riku after school, and hang out with Marie during school.
"Mika couldn't believe it either," she replied. "She was all like, I can't believe he's your first boyfriend."
Marie hugged her cell phone at the thought of Riku currently being her boyfriend. It was truly something to boast about, since many girls wanted to ask him out during his freshman year. Sora gave Marie a weird look as she practically hopped along to their shared class. He sighed and walked beside Marie as she hopped and hummed, and with her medium length blonde hair swinging from side-to-side.
Aura
Merixa, or Aura, as she stated, leaned against a tall green and luscious tree. Her green eyes watched as students entered the school, and took it as a sign that classes were starting. She parted from the tree, and began walking, albeit slowly. She noticed a bunch of people hanging at the bridge of the school, and they were all just chilling and laughing. One of the members, a spiky red-headed guy, caught her attention. This guy was a rather close friend to Aura, and his name was Axel. She smirked and decided to approach him and his friends, until of course, she was bumped.
"Argh! Why are you just standing there? You're gonna be late for class," A red-headed, blue-eyed girl said. She looked very impatient, and it was clear that she was in a rush to get to class.
"Mind your own damn business, ginger," was all Aura said before fixing her short brown hair and walking to her class. She had left the young red-head speechless, and she just stood there as Aura walked inside. Once Aura was inside the school, she took out her schedule from her side-bag. She looked as her first period was swordsmanship.
"Well, now. Something that sounds interesting," she said aloud, smirking. "something that's just gonna help me beat up more people."
Mika
Listening to her MP3, Mika walked quietly along the way into school. She was quite content as she had downloaded a batch of new piano classics in the morning. She was pretty eager for school to end already though, as she wanted to practice the songs on her piano.
She walked inside the school, and noticed her best friend, Hope, standing and reading some paper. Her golden eyes softened, and smiled to herself as she walked up to him. "What's up, Hope?"
Hope turned around, and got slightly scared at Mika talking to him from behind. He had almost thought she was a boy, with her black hair being so short. He placed the paper he was reading, which was his schedule, down and smiled at Mika.
"Haha, nothing. I'm just reading my schedule," he replied, pointing at his paper.
"Oh, what do you have first period?" she asked, taking out her own schedule.
"Um, healer job class. You?" he said.
"I have the job class gunman," she replied. She was so excited of getting her own pair of guns. When she arrived at freshman orientation, they told her that students were only allowed to get their weapons back during their job class, and after school.
"Well, I gotta go, meet you at lunch?" Hope asked, getting ready to leave.
"Sure, I'll be waiting by the line-up."
Carmen
The alarm clocked ringed for the fourth time, and after struggling to turn it off, Carmen finally awoke. She yawned quite loudly, and stretched for a long while as well. When she rubbed her eyes, she looked towards the clock.
"OH—For the love of bagels!" she yelled. "I'm gonna be late for my first day of high school!"
Carmen quickly got out of bed, and rushed to get ready. The only person to not attend the freshman orientation, she was nervous about going now. She had originally planned to go early and give herself a quick tour, but that proved useless. She was now going to have to suck it up and try and figure out where the classes were, and she gave out a huge groan of annoyance.
As she finished brushing her teeth, fixing her hair and putting on her uniform, she started packing her binders and her pencil case. All throughout the time, Carmen couldn't help herself but just sigh and groan out of annoyance. Although she loved sleeping in during the summer, that all had to change.
She looked in the mirror before she left. Her long, straight black hair wasn't as neatly brushed, but she didn't have time to care. Her dark brown eyes were a little puffy, but again, no time to care.
She walked through her kitchen, and grabbed a toasted bread before leaving. Her mother had already gone to work, with being a teacher at a middle school near her place. She walked outside of her front door and locked it. She was pretty thankful that her school was pretty close, but she still had to walk a good twenty minutes there, and she couldn't afford to lose that much time.
So she did what had to be done.
She ran faster than the wind to school.
Kendrix
Kendrix walked down the hall way with her binder in her hands, and smiled while looking at the other students. She noticed a blonde tail, and her forest green eyes lit up. She started walking towards the tail, and touched it before fully grabbing and pulling it. The person who had the tail jumped and screamed, although not so loudly.
He turned around, cheeks puffed with an annoyed look. Kendrix started laughing, and the tailed boy turned around. "Kendrix, geez. That really hurt."
"Gosh, Zidane," she replied. "have a little fun, will ya?"
"I'm all about fun..." he said, cutting his sentence off. "Just not when you pull my tail, please."
Kendrix began laughing a little harder, and Zidane sighed. Her friendship with Zidane has been a long and enduring one, mainly because of Kendrix's grandmother. She never fully approved of Zidane being her friend, but has made no move to keep him away from her, for fear of her bad side. But to Kendrix, Zidane is like her brother. They have been there for each other, and are both orphaned. Which is why they understood each other so much.
"So what class to you have first?" she asked, looking for her schedule.
"Thief, you?" he asked in return.
"Hey! I have that class as well!" she shouted in joy. "Since it's a shared class, we'll be together!"
Zidane laughed, and Kendrix started walking happily to her class. She stopped after a while, and got out her phone. "Wait, I have to text Cloud before I start my class. Just to see what he has."
"I'm sure it's not with you," he replied. "Cloud has swordsmanship. You're new to this school, so you haven't seen him in real action. He's pretty fearful with his huge sword."
"I've seen it a couple of times, it is really wicked," she said. "Oh man~ I can't believe we're dating. And he's a junior!"
"Yeah, you're pretty lucky," Zidane said. "a lot of girls want him. Just like this kid in my grade—Riku, he's dating some girl named Marie in your grade."
"Cool, I guess we just attract older men," Kendrix giggled.
"That sounded really wrong."
Ivonne
"Angeal," she calmly said in her cell phone. "Just focus on getting better, sweetie."
"I know," he replied before coughing. "I'm just a little upset that I couldn't accompany you while you enter Square Ace high for the first time in a long time."
"Yes, it certainly has been a very long time," she replied. She was sitting in her car, and leaned on the driving wheel for a while. "I'm just glad Claire is here, as well as Snow."
Angeal laughed nervously before speaking. "Genesis is also teaching at the school, so you'll defintely see him there."
"Oh."
"Is that all you can say?" Angeal laughed. "I'm sure he'd be heartbroken if you don't see and talk to him. We've all been friends after all."
Ivonne scratched her tied-up red hair. Her dark blue eyes filled with worry as she looked at the school. "I am a little worried. Only the three of us have always been around, while Sephiroth was kept in the dark. I could see the hate in his eyes whenever he spoke to us."
"Unfortunately, we cannot do anything about that," replied Angeal. "I know you still keep in contact with him, but don't fall too deep with him. He's cunning, and different."
"I understand. But it's such a shame that he teaches at Enix high," she said. "I wish he taught here."
"I know. Well, I'll let you go teach. Have fun, and don't worry about anything," he said.
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
-x-
"Square Ace High has the reputation of being one of the best schools, it neither comes in second nor is in first due to the fact that it is always competing against rival school, Enix High. Many students who wish to strive to success are often placed in this private school, and are welcomed to a variety of courses and activities. The fun, as well as learning, never ends at Square Ace High," Cid Raines, Square Ace High's principal, said over the microphone.
"New students coming in, enjoy your years! You have an exciting adventure ahead of you, so take in everything that you learn and experience, for it will aid you in your future," he finished off.
Marie and Aura – first period Swordsmanship class
Marie and Aura paid close attention to the teacher, which was a supply. Her name was lightning, and she insisted everyone call her that, or else. She was quite serious, and didn't smile at all. She had informed the students that their regular teacher, Angeal came down with a minor cold and would return to school the next day. The moment she stopped talking she took out her blade, and ordered everyone to listen. Or else.
Marie sat down quietly, while listening to the teacher. Riku, Sora, and her other friend, Roxas placed their desks together, so they could talk. While Marie made notes on what the Lightning was saying, Riku talked to Sora and Roxas.
"I wonder what Angeal is like," Sora wondered. "I hope he's not as strict as she is." he pointed to Lightning.
"He's not, but he is." Riku stated. "He's pretty calm and relaxed, and he likes to joke around. But if you don't listen and talk to someone else, he'll get angry."
"Man! Roxas doesn't talk much, but I can't go a second without talking to someone, right Roxas?" asked Sora, who looked at Roxas staring at Aura. "Roxas?"
"Huh?" he said. "Oh, um. Right."
Riku face palmed, and looked at Aura. "I heard she's real tough, and that she's been training at home on her own. Without the help of anyone."
"Really!" exclaimed Sora. Getting looks from everyone. Lightning looked at Sora, and had a furious look on her face.
"Sora, can you enlightened us on what's so interesting?" she asked pointing her blade at him, angry that he just blurted out words during her lecture.
"He's just so intrigued with your lecture," Marie filled in. "Don't worry, it won't happen again."
Lightning nodded her head to a smiling Marie, and she returned to her lecture. Marie gave a light smack to Sora's head, and told him to be quiet. Riku and Roxas laughed, and she continued to write notes. All the students still kept their eyes on the group, but only one student didn't seem interested at all, and that was Aura. She was looking out the window, and just thinking of random stuff. She would often look at Lightning giving her speech, and the student in front of her, which identified himself as Seifer. She noticed he kept looking back, and it was kind of funny, but annoying. She decided to confront him about it.
"So, may I ask why you keep looking back?" she asked him. He jumped a little from the random confrontation, but nonetheless kept his cool. He turned halfway through his chair, that way he was able to see Lightning and Aura at the same time.
"Well, to be honest I've never seen someone as good-looking as you," he said, smirking.
"Oh, so your the flirting type. Well, you're not gonna make me fall easily," she warned, smirking back at him.
"I don't expect you to," he replied. "I know your type, you're the hard ones. But I can break your walls down."
"Is that a challenge?" she asked, raising her eyebrow while smirking.
"If you want it to be," he replied.
"Well then, let the games begin," she said, giving him one final smirk before paying attention to Lightning.
Mika – period one
Gunman class
Mika sat in her chair, and watched as her teacher, a dark-toned man named Sazh gave out the unique guns to his students. He had given the guns to the seniors, as well as the juniors. He was finishing off the sophomores, and was about to give the guns out to the freshmans.
"Mika? Come get your gun," Sazh said. She walked up, and waited for her gun. Her class was a little complicated as she had to start her training from scratch since the school didn't permit students to buy their guns before hand. Students in the swordsmanship, fighter, lancer and thief class were allowed to buy their weapons. Square Ace High had special guns, so they would hand them out for students to keep.
Mika received her gun, two actually., along with the bullets. They were pistols that were black and had a white dragon design on them. She thanked the teacher, and walked back to her desk. The pistols weren't loaded, so she examined them closely. They were very nice guns, and in her head she couldn't wait to try them out.
She texted Hope, writing that she had gotten her weapon. He replied back saying he got his weapon as well, and she smiled to herself. She and Hope had been friends since they were six, and they met at the cafe where Mika works at. Both of their late mother's were friends, so they had no choice but to meet each other. Hope was there for Mika when her mother passed away at age eight, and she was there for him when his mother died a few months ago.
After a few exchange of messages, Hope ended it by reminding of their lunch date together. She put her phone away, and started copying notes Sazh placed on the board.
Kendrix and Carmen – period one
Thief class
Kendrix sat in class, bored out of her mind not because of her teacher, since he was pretty awesome, but because she had nothing to do. Zidane had his feet placed on another chair, and just leaned back looking relaxed. Their teacher, Bathier, was pretty good at teaching about being a thief, he told them short stories about his adventures, and they were pretty interesting.
Zidane and Kendrix met when they were little, specifically on the anniversary of her deceased mother. She told him that her father left her mother when she was pregnant, and was orphaned. Her mother took her in after. Zidane explained that she wasn't alone, since he was an orphan, and the two created a very strong bond. They treat each other as siblings, and it's been going well.
"I'm bored as heck," Kendrix said. "Swing your tail or something, anything to keep me entertained."
"It's still damaged from when you pulled it," he said, quite obviously still annoyed about it.
"Oh, you're such a drama queen," she said, exaggerating the whole sentence. "But I'm still bored."
"I don't know what to do then," he replied, looking at Bathier. "Go smack your head against the desk or something."
"I'm shocked that you think I would even do that," she said, looking at Zidane, who gave an unconvinced look. "Oh fine! I'll just doodle on a sheet of paper."
Kendrix took Zidane's binder and ripped out a piece of paper, and started drawing whatever was on her mind. Halfway through the class a girl walked in, and was out of breath. Bathier and the students, including Kendrix all looked as she bent down to catch her breath. She took quite a while, but then got up to look at her teacher.
"S-sorry... I got lost somehow," she said, still slightly out of breath. Bathier laughed out loud, and walked over to the girl.
"Carmen, I assume?" he said, while she nodded. He took walked over to his desk and picked up a handful of papers, then walked back to Carmen and handed them to her. "Good thing you came, or else these sheets would've piled up even more."
"Thanks," she said. She took the papers and walked over to an empty desk at the back. Kendrix looked at her for a second, but then shrugged it off as she continued drawing. Carmen looked over the papers and sighed, she regretted not going to the orientation, for the school was huge, and she really needed it mapped out in her head. She figured she would have to spend her lunch getting to know the place.
Which sucked, real bad.
Sex ed – Females
A rather awkward class for every new female student, sex ed was definitely awkward. The girls were just thankful they didn't share it with the guys, for it would get really awkward. Marie sat beside her best friend Mika, Kendrix sat by herself along with Aura, and Carmen was yet to appear. Their teacher was Lulu, as she called herself. She started the class by handing out a couple of notes to the girls, and they were notes on the basics of what the class was going to be about.
Marie took out her phone, and started texting Riku. "Do you wanna come eat lunch with me, Mika?"
"Ah, can't. I promised Hope I would be with him today," she confirmed.
"Oh, well you can bring him along," Marie asked. "I'm sure Sora, Riku and Roxas won't mind."
"Roxas?" Mika, asked, blushing. "Who's that?"
"He was never around when you, Sora, Riku and I hung out," she said. Placing the sheets in her binder. "But he's pretty cool, you'll like him."
"Okay, where do we meet you?" Mika asked.
"Cherry blossom tree, the big one," Marie replied. Mika nodded, and they both looked as a student came rushing in the classroom. The same student who was late for her first period class, Carmen, came inside with short breath.
"Sorry... got lost again," she explained. She bent down to catch her breath, and got up to look at Lulu giving her a bunch of papers.
"Well, that's what you get for missing orientation." Lulu walked back to her desk, and informed Carmen to take her seat. Lulu explained to the class what they would expect for tomorrow's class, and to bring in all their materials. The school bell rang, and the girls got up to leave for lunch.
Marie couldn't help but notice about Carmen, and Mika knew right away what she was planning to do. "Uh-oh. You're gonna help her remember the school aren't you?"
"Well, it's a nice gesture. Plus she won't be late for classes anymore," Marie explained.
"So, I'm guessing I'm gonna be the only girl today at lunch?" Mika asked, a little annoyed, but glad her friend is very helpful.
"I'll owe it up to you. Movies at my place tonight!" Marie shouted before leaving to find Carmen.
Mika laughed lightly, and started heading to lunch. She texted Hope to meet her at the cherry blossom tree as he was going to meet some of her friends. Hope texted back agreeing, and Mika was well on her way to lunch.
Lunch – Marie and Carmen
Marie ran looking for Carmen, she didn't know why she was all of a sudden in a helpful mood. Carmen seemed like an interesting person, and Marie was interested. She bumped into a couple of people, one of them being a spiky red-headed guy. He looked back at Marie, and smiled. He went back to talking to his friends.
"Carmen!" Marie shouted. "Carmen, wait!"
Carmen turned around, and saw Marie running up to her. She caught her breath after a while, and smiled at Carmen. She explained to her if she wanted a tour of the school. Carmen thought about it, and agreed. She didn't have any friends at this school, and it would be great if she stopped coming late to class.
Marie smiled, and started walking with Carmen. She started by touring the science department, and then went into the English department. As they walked and talked, Marie and Carmen couldn't help but notice that they both had a lot in common. They laughed, joked and smiled all throughout the tour. This was going to be the start of an inseparable friendship.
Aura
Aura walked through the tables of students eating their lunch, and looked for an isolated place. She was immediately stopped however, by a guy named Axel.
"What do you want, Axel?" she said. "Can't you see I'm trying to—"
"My friends want to meet you," he said, smiling. "We want to invite you into O13. So come, damn you!"
Aura sighed, and gestured her hand for Axel to lead the way. He smirked, and walked outside of the school towards the bridge. Aura began to notice that the group of people she was seeing were the ones she saw earlier. She started getting a bit interested, and walked with a little more confidence. They approached the gang, and they merely stared until one of them spoke.
"So you're Aura?" the man asked. "I'm Xemnas, leader of O13. Axel told us about that grand fight you had a while ago, and how you won."
"Oh, he did?" she replied. "Well, it was nothing. Three drunkards are no match for me."
"Well then," he said. "How would you like to join us? You'd give us a really good name."
Aura smirked. She knew about O13, as Axel was part of it. She knew that these guys were hardcore, and they were pretty confident. She also knew that these guys should never be messed with, so without hesitation, Aura accepted their offer. Xemnas nodded, and introduced all of the members. Xigbar, Xaldin, Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Saix, Axel, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, and Larxene were all present when he introduced them. Aura took notice when she noticed only twelve members.
"You guys are O13, but you only have twelve members in your gang," she said, looking at each and everyone of them. "What gives?"
"Well, a recent member, Roxas, left the group," Zexion filled in. "And we had another member, Xion, as well."
"What happened to them?" she asked.
"Roxas chickened out," snorted Demyx, which caused Axel to glare at him. "And Xion passed away about a year ago."
Aura was never one to keep on asking, so she left it at that. She didn't care to know why Roxas left, and she didn't want to ask further questions about Xion. She nodded in understanding, and the group so far welcomed her with opened arms. Well, the more laid-back members did. Except for Larxene.
Kendrix
Kendrix was sitting on one of the tables near the junior section, with her boyfriend, Cloud. He had bought lunch for her, and watched as she ate. A strand of her soft auburn hair covered her face, so he pulled it away.
"You should have seen me! I pulled Zidane's tail and he totally flipped!" she said, munching on her lunch. "It was really funny."
"I would have thought by now you stopped pulling pranks," he admitted. "But you're still the same. Even back when we were kids."
"Well, some things did change, you and I for instance," she replied, smiling and taking hold of his hand. "We fell in love with each other."
Cloud smiled, and lightly kissed Kendrix's forehead. He held her hand tighter, and started chuckling. "Yeah, it really was a god change. Hey.. you took Vocal, right? For next semester?"
"Yeah... But I want to drop it," she said, not feeling confident about singing.
"Don't, you have a beautiful voice. I really want to hear it," he said, smiling to her. She thought about it, she loved singing, but she would feel embarrassed if she sung badly. She sighed deeply, and agreed to stick with the course. Cloud smiled and kissed her right before the bell rang for third period. "Guess we gotta go. I have boring math next."
"I love you," he said. She smiled, kissing him quickly.
"Love you, too."
Math – Marie, Aura and Kendrix
Marie, Sora and Roxas walked in class, and sat all the way in the back left corner. Kendrix was already sitting at the back, so they sat in front of her. Sora saved a seat for Kairi, while Marie and Roxas sat beside each other. Aura walked in after, and sat opposite from Marie, Roxas and Sora. Kairi was the last to walk in, and she smiled as she saw Sora. She ran to the seat and sat down to give Sora a very big and delicious kiss. Class began, and they were introduced to their teacher, Mirage.
"Geez, and I thought Riku and I were worse," commented Marie, while making gagging noises. Roxas didn't respond, and she noticed. "Dude, what has gotten you so distracted?"
Marie looked around the room, and noticed that Roxas was staring at Aura. "You know, my dad works with her's. If you really want it that badly, I can find out more about her."
"Really!" he shouted, which caused everyone to stare at him. Minus Aura, who was texting. Roxas lowered his head, and whispered. "Really?"
"Yeah no problem," she said, smiling. "I'll try to find out something soon."
As Aura finished texting Axel, she looked up in front of her. She was staring at Seifer, who smirked at her. "Can't take your eyes off me?"
"Please, you were just in my way," she responded. "But I find it pretty amusing that you sat in front of me, Mr. Flirt."
"Well, what can I say? Pretty girls attract me." He looked around the room and noticed Roxas staring at them, with a worried look. Seifer mentally laughed to himself, and flirted even more. "So, beautiful. You wanna hang with me and my guys?"
"Love to, but I got a date with 013," she said.
"You're with them?" he asked.
"Yeah. And quite proud, you got a problem?" she asked in response.
"Nope. I like a dangerous girl," he said. She scoffed, and they both laughed. Roxas scribbled on his paper as he saw what was happening. Dangerous flirting.
"I don't like Seifer, he could be a bad influence," he said. Marie, after copying what was on the board looked over. She had a little thing for Seifer, since he was very good-looking. Perhaps Aura has a thing for him as well?
"We're girls, Roxas," she said. "If we see a cute boy, well... we want that cute boy."
great..." he mumbled.
Kendrix was looking around the room, and was yet again bored. She wanted a little fun, and looked around the room to see if she could have that fun. She looked inside the desk she was sitting at, and found green washable ink inside a container. She looked in front of her, and Kairi just so happened to be sitting in front of her. She smirked.
She lightly took Kairi's hair and dipped it inside the container. She left it there to dry, and when it did she hid the green ink in another desk, and waited for hilarity to ensue. As Aura was talking to Seifer she turned around to check on her bag, and that's when she saw Kairi's hair. She smirked. "Well, well. Looks like you're not so ginger."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Kairi said smiling, trying to be friendly.
"You've got Christmas all over your hair, all that's left is a Santa hat, and you're well on your way," she replied. Kairi was confused, and Sora noticed the stain of green all over the lower half of her hair. He informed Kairi, who took a picture to see if for herself. She screamed at the top of her lungs, and turned around to face Kendrix.
"What is wrong with you!" she shouted. "You just totally ruined my hair!"
"Well, I was bored!"
"Oh my, Kendrix!" shouted the teacher. "I'm afraid you'll have to go to the office, this is unacceptable."
"But—"
"Go."
"Man..." she said, picking up her stuff and walking towards the door. She passed by Aura, who actually commended her on her awesome prank. Everyone glared at Aura, minus Marie, since she it wasn't any of her business. Aura high fived Kendrix, and she left the class smiling.
At least someone thought the prank was funny.
Music class – Ivonne, Carmen and Mika
Ivonne had already arrived at her class, and was just waiting for her students to arrive. She was getting everything prepared, such as papers, what she was going to say and of course her introduction. She was quite nervous about teaching at her high school, and she could already tell that so much has changed.
Teaching at Enix high, however, was worse. The students were definitely bad, and didn't bother to finish their homework or even attend class. So the students in Square Ace high were probably more friendlier and willing to learn.
Genesis walked in, and noticed a very concentrated Ivonne. He lightly tapped on her shoulder, and she looked up.
"Genesis!" she said, in slight surprise. "I was planning on seeing you, but you did me the favour of seeing me first."
"Yes, well," he said. "Claire had notified me of your appearance."
"I see," she replied.
"So, Ivonne. How have you been?"
Ivonne looked down at her desk, and started thinking back on some things. Genesis and herself haven't kept much in contact, so he didn't know or heard that her parents had passed away recently. It was about five months after she had graduated from Tr-university, and they passed away while in a car accident.
"I've been good, Genesis. I'm currently with Angeal, and I just transferred from Enix High," she replied.
"Our enemy..." he said, laughing. "I remember when we were in high school, and the troubles we had with some of the students at Enix high."
"Yes, and ever since, the two schools have always been rivals." Ivonne stacked some of the papers she was going to hand out to the students. "How have you been? How are things with you and Quistis?"
"We're married, actually," he replied. Ivonne was surprised by this, considering that he had a lot of problems with Quistis. She did note the strained look on his face at the mention of Quistis' name.
"Well, you sure look happy," she said, to which he gave out a frustrated sigh.
"We're having some problems, but nothing to be worried about," he said.
"Well, if you need someone to talk to," she said. "I'm always here."
Genesis nodded, and bade Ivonne farewell. He left the class, and then some of the students came walking in. In soon time, all of the students arrived, and found their seats. Ivonne sat at her desk, and waited until the last student arrived before introducing herself. When the student arrived, she got up and prepared herself. She looked at the class and smiled at them.
"Hello class, I'll be your music teacher," she said. "I'd like to tell the younger students, and remind the older ones that at this school or any other high school we like to be called by our first names. It gives us a sense that we are all friends."
Ivonne walked to her desk, and picked up a pile of sheets, and started handing them out to each student. "For your first and very quick assignment, I want you to look over this sheet of paper. It lists the instruments that this school can currently order."
Everyone looked over at the paper, and some of the students looked happy, while others didn't say anything at all.
"This is a beginner's class, and some of you may have experience from other classes you took, or from classes out of the school. I want you to write on the same sheet of paper the instrument you want to play, so I can order them," she said, moving her hand and about. "we do have mouth pieces for certain instruments, so you'll start with that tomorrow."
Each student started looking over the list, and started thinking of the instrument they wanted to play. Others had already made up their mind, and simply wrote the instrument down.
Mika was one of those students. She had written down her instrument of choice, and it was the piano. She was already taught on how to play the piano, so there was no need to go over basics for her. She looked over to Hope, who was also in the class, and saw that he had already filled out the form as well.
"Alto saxophone?" she asked. "Why that?"
"It has a really smooth sound," he replied. "Plus I really like how it looks compared to tenor and the baritone sax."
"Cool, I can't wait to hear it," she said, smiling at Hope.
Carmen had also filled out the form, to which she chose drums. She had been another student who had experience playing an instrument, and was pretty good with the drums. Her phone began to vibrate, and she looked at it.
She had received a text message from Marie, asking if she had arrived on time. Carmen laughed, and texted back saying she did. After she was done, she noticed a certain mullet-styled blonde staring at her sheet.
"Why are you hovering me?" she asked.
The guy laughed it off, and scratched the back of his head. "I just noticed that you play drums, I've been playing the Sitar for a while now, in fact I'm pretty pro."
"Are you?" she smirked. "I'm pretty confident in my drumming skills."
the guy smiled, and took out his hand at Carmen. "I'm Demyx."
She smiled back, and shook his hand while introducing herself. The bell rings, and Ivonne dismissed the class. As Carmen left with Demyx close by, they both handed in their form, and as they did their hands touched. Carmen blushed while looking away, and Demyx smiled awkwardly.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" she asked, trying to change subjects.
"Yes, you will."
Biology – Marie and Carmen
Marie walked towards her biology class, but was suddenly stopped by a running Carmen. She turned around and smiled at her, and when Carmen met up with her, she stopped, caught her breath, and smiled back.
Hey," Marie said, smiling. "I see you're getting the hang of this school."
"Yeah, well," Carmen replied still breathing heavily. "It is a pretty big school."
The girls laughed, and began talking about their previous class. Marie told Carmen how a girl inked Kairi's hair, and she laughed in return. Marie felt bad about the whole prank, but it was pretty funny. As the girls entered the classroom, they sat down in their desks, and got out their papers and pens. Kairi, hair soaked from having to clean off the ink, walked in the class and headed towards Marie.
"Hey, Marie," she said. "Sora can't hang out with you after school, I really need help with my math homework, and he offered."
Kairi had a slight blush on her face, and both the girls noticed. Marie's shoulders dropped, but she smiled back, saying it was alright, and to have fun. Kairi smiled in return and Carmen raised her eyebrow.
"What gives with the tension?" she asked. "And we don't get math homework on the first day of high school!"
"I know," Marie said, lowing her face. "It was just an excuse so they could hang out with each other instead."
"Huh?" Carmen asked, looking at Marie. She noticed that the blonde looked pretty down, and found it odd. "Okay, what gives? You're taking this harder than it needs to be."
"Uh," Marie said, looking at the desk while sighing. "I used to like Sora, but then I found out that he liked Kairi. So I just sort of... gave up."
"Sort of?" Carmen asked. "Do you still like him?"
"...Sort of," she replied. "But I like Riku now. So that's the way it is, now."
Carmen gave a sympathetic look at Marie, she felt bad about her love dilemma, but at least she was being strong about it. Their teacher came in afterwards, and introduced herself as Fran. She began to hand out outlines for the course, and all the students paid close attention.
Gym – Aura and Kendrix
While in their white t-shirt and black shorts, Aura and Kendrix sat on the big blue mat in the gym. Their teacher, Cid H, had already introduced himself and had begun lecturing them on the lesson for the semester. He looked at the students, and one of them, a guy named Reno raised his hand.
"What?" asked Cid H. "Got a question 'bout the class?"
"Actually," replied Reno. "I noticed you smoke a lot. How the hell are you able to teach us? I bet you can't run for long."
Some of the female students gasped, while other male students snicked or let out a chuckle. Cid, completely ticked off, threw his toothpick at the floor, and pointed at Reno. "Alright, you wise-ass. Think your smart-ass can get you out of this one? give me fifty push-ups and ten laps around the gym, now!"
Reno's jaw-dropped, but refused to move. Cid growled, and took out a bat he had lying near him. "Us teachers don't give a crap if you kids get a good beating, heck, we'll allowed to give you guys a good beating or two. So unless you don't want this bat to say hello to your rear, you better do as I say!"
Reno, without hesitation, got up to do his push-ups. There was no way on earth he was going to let a lat greet his butt.
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After a while, the students had begun to stretch for the remainder of the class. After hearing lectures, the students were quite happy to be doing some stretches. Aura had been stretching her legs, while sitting beside Axel. She wasn't really up for doing much so she had been stretching very slowly.
"That's Roxas," Axel said, pointing at the spiked blonde with blue eyes. "I'm pretty good friends with him, you know."
"Why'd he leave?" she asked.
"I'm not really sure, but I think it was because of Xion," he replied.
Aura snorted, and had told Axel that their stories were sounding more and more like romance novels. She told him those kind of stories were overrated, and Axel had begun to think on it.
"There's this kid, named Seifer," she said, changing subjects. "I think he likes me, but I've been playing that hard-to-get type with him."
"Wow," he replied. "Someone likes you?"
"Shut-up," she replied, hitting his arm.
"So, you thinking of ever dating him," he asked.
"Nah," she replied. "I don't fall in love."
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Kendrix had received detention for her little prank, but it wasn't serious, she thought.
Other than that, she had been staring at Cloud talk with Zack the whole class, while sitting next to Zidane. She had gone saying how lucky she was for having such a manly man for a boyfriend, and in return, Zidane went on to make gagging noises. Cid walked towards the students, and raised his hand to get their attentions.
"Keep stretching," he said. "I'll be right back."
Kendrix, along with many of the other students, nodded. She got up, and decided to use one of the yoga balls near her. Not even taking a step, she had bumped into someone.
"Sorry," he said. "Didn't mean to bump into you."
"No it—"
"Hey, mafia boy!" shouted the tall blonde known as Rufus. "Did daddy pay the teachers so your stupid self could pass?"
the boy, who had jet black hair with flicked ends, and royal blue eyes glared at Rufus. "I'm surprised your fat-ass dad didn't already."
Rufus, having been offended, cracked his knuckles, which signified that a fight was going to ensue. The boy had also cracked his knuckles, preparing for the fight. Just then, a girl with short brown hair, and two different eye colours ran in between the two. She was known as Yuna.
"Stop!" she shouted. "You're going to get us all in trouble if you start fighting! Save it for later, okay?"
Rufus scoffed, and walked away, while the boy growled. Kendrix's eyebrow rose, and she looked at the boy. "what was that about?"
"Dad's in the mafia," he replied. "And the name's Noctis."
"Kendrix," she said, taking out her hand for him to shake. He chuckled, and shook it. Kendrix invited him to sit with her and Zidane, and from then on they began to talk.
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Aura sighed, and had told Axel that school was turning out to be a bummer. Axel laughed, and noticed Roxas walking up to them.
"Hey man, what's up?" greeted Axel, while doing their secret handshake.
"Nothing, Sora went to ask Namine some questions about Kairi," he replied. "So I decided to talk with you."
"Huh," he said. "Well..."
Roxas had tuned out of what Axel had begun to say, and looked at Aura stretching. They both had three classes together, and Roxas was pretty happy with that. He sighed however, after remembering that she had been flirting with Seifer. He wished he had the confidence to be so upfront with girls, but his shyness always triumphed over.
Aura, after having stretched, noticed Roxas had been staring at her. She raised her eyebrow and then glared at him. "And just what are you looking at?"
Roxas jumped at her talking, and quickly turned around and blushed. She scoffed, and began to stretch again.
"What a freak."
Math - Mika
Mika sat in her desk, and write down some notes that her math teacher, Mirage, had written down. Luckily for Mika, she shared this class with her best friend, Hope.
"Hey, hope," she said. "That boy, Roxas, is reeeaaallllyyy cute!"
Mika giggled, but Hope had a serious look on his face. "You know, he carried extra weight on his back."
"What, why?"
"I overheard one of the members of O13 talking about it," he said. "Apparently they were responsible for Xion's, a girl that was in the group, death. A big trial was held, but there wasn't enough evidence to prove it was them."
"And how is Roxas involved?" she asked. "Oh no... He didn't?"
Hope shrugged. "I dunno, but it was rumoured that he and Xion were a thing. Nowadays, everyone is scared of 013."
Mika began to reconsider her adventure on getting Roxas as her boyfriend. Maybe it was better if he just stayed a crush instead.
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School had ended for everyone, and it was late in the evening. Marie had promised Mika a movie night, and thus Mika had gone over to her house. While at her house, Mika couldn't help but tell Marie what she had heard about Roxas. Marie, however, simply smiled, and stated how she already knew.
"Why didn't you ever tell me?" Mika asked, a little hurt.
"I'm sorry, it's just," Marie said, looking away for a bit. "Roxas doesn't want people to remember."
"Where was I when it happened though?" she asked. "I've never heard of it."
"It was when you were out of town for three weeks," Marie replied.
"Oh," she replied. "How is he handling it all, though?"
"He's fine," she said. "He's finally moved on. You know, he really did love Xion. Everyone was heartbroken when they found out."
Mika decided to leave it at that, and grabbed some popcorn from the bowl. Marie had placed in the movie, and the two began to watch as it played. Mika had felt bad for Roxas, who knows what went on in his head when that had happened. However, she did not receive the answer she was looking for the most.
Did Roxas kill Xion?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING SACRED, I HATH FINALLY COMPLETETH THIS CHAPTER!
phew, finally got that out of the way. Took me a while, but I finally got it done.