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Dear Diary,
Well, today is the day mom and I leave our little home in Mideel. It was sad watching our little village sending us off.
The children had made little baskets and bottles full of sea shells, white sands and little white flowers for us. It was cute! But very sad too. I didn't want to leave, but mom had been given a chance to be a second hand at a cafe'/book store in Midgar. It's going to be quite the drive. But, seeing as how this is to be my way of 'exploring new horizons', as mom puts it, I'll take this chance to introduce myself, Diary! Hehe ^^
My name is Aerith. Aerith Gainsboro. I'll be 16 in a few weeks. I look a little tall for my age, but my neighbors always told me that it's a good quality of mine. Since I was little, I had been schooled by my entire village, Mideel. The village was too small to have multiple schools. Therefore, our mayor decided to just be one big family and teach our young the best we knew about survival,
speech, writings. The basics. ^^;
But now that mom has a better job, and since Midgar is INSANELY bigger than my tank little Mideel... I'm actually kinda worried.
What if I get lost just TRYING to get to school? Let's see, I'm 16, or soon to be, so I school be in a High School, right? Wow.
This is scary. What if the people in Midgar are mean? I've heard about toxins erupting from the surrounding towers. Many poor chocobos have died because of the toxins. It's so sad! Not only that, but I have heard they place many bets with this tacky casino called 'The Golden Saucer' on chocobo racing. If it were natural, harmless, racing of wildlife, I'd enjoy it. But to place bets on these beautiful creatures? And to add to that, they torture them by placing spiky-looking collars on them! How disgusting! Their feathers are going to ruffle and become weak! This must be against the law or something!
*sigh* Mom says we'll be at Midgar in a few hours. This is great. I'm moving to a polluted, ugly hung of junk full of cruel people!
*GASP* WHAT IF I MAKE NO FRIENDS?! I-I'll NEVER get a boyfriend at this rate!
"Aerith, honey! Welcome to our new home!" My mother, Elmyra Gainsboro, cheered at my side, pushing me towards the actually cute little cottage. The scenery, on the other hand, could have improvements. I liked the waterfall in our back yard. It reminded me of the sea, in a way. But the rest of our land was nothing but barren soil. Has no one even stepped foot here? "It's cute, but where's the color? Midgar is so..." "I know sweetie. But you know what? It's still Spring break for the schools. That should give us enough time to spark some life in this musty part of the Sector!" I smiled and laughed at mom's enthusiasm. She can be so encouraging sometimes. "Alright, mom! I'm going to unpack!" I continued laughing as we both charged for the upstairs of our new home.
Our new home, huh? Boy this is scary. I wonder if there's any where I can find some good flowers?
X/X/XX
Dear Diary,
It's been a few weeks since mom and I moved here in the Sector 5 Slums of Midgar. I miss seeing the sky and the smell of the sea.
But seeing as how Midgar's 'Mayor', cruel title for such a stubby porky ugly little man!, had built the city to be separated between the rich on top of the Plates, and the poor folk below the Plates. Unfortunately for my mother and myself, money was never a large part of our concerns, until now. So, of course, we live in the Slums below the Sector 5 Plate. Every now and then, we'd explore the upper parts of the city, only to get lost. I suppose it's a good thing we found the train station nearby.
Actually, that reminds me! We took the train to Sector 7 today. Mom wanted to go meet a friend at a grocery store there. Her friend,
Celes, had roamed my mother's cafe' book shop the other day and quickly became friends after discussing a book on flying machines called 'Air Ships'. Can you believe it? Haha! But that's not what I wanted to talk about.
I was right to have my worries for Midgar. There are SO many GANGS! Bad ones, too. I remember back on the train, we'd pass through Sector 6. I had never been to a...well, 'Club', before...and there's no WAY I'd wanna go now! I thought Clubs were suppose to be filled with music and dancing and joy!? But seeing those women move like that...and IN THE STREETS no less! There were CHILDREN around! But any way, back to the gangs.
I remembered seeing many graffiti on the walls in Sector 6. Well, there were larger ones EVERYWHERE in Sector 7. They all said 'AVALANCHE'. Why Avalanche? And are the motorcycles necessary? There were quite a few in front of this bar I passed by. The name sounded cute, but the atmosphere around there creeped me out. The bar was called 'Tifa's Seventh Heaven'. Names can be deceiving. Good thing I didn't enter. There was a big man with a gun on his arm, LITERALLY as him arm, leaning on the door cursing at the street folk something about clouds. Very strange man. There's no weather in Midgar. Well, not unless you live up top.
But what made him get angry about the clouds for?
Despite all of the strange and creepy things I've come across these past few weeks, there was one thing I enjoyed. I met this cute little girl named Marlene. She really liked my basket of pink and red roses. I've been planting SOOOOOO many flowers in my yard!
(Don't worry, Diary! Once I get my photos developed, I'll paste them in your pages for you ^/^) Anyway, Marlene is 6 years old and it looks like she's the daughter to that gun-man back at that bar. I was shocked at first, but if she was such a nice girl, I'm sure the father must be a good enough parent too. I hope. Anyway, since she loved my flowers so much, I gave her one of them. Well, I first wrapped it in my handkerchief before handing the flower to her. I didn't want her to to prick her fingers on the thorns.
She asked me if I wanted it back, but I told her no. I've made so many lately ^^;. I'm sure I don't need another. *sigh* Having no friends is hard. I've got nothing to do but explore the Sectors and plant my flowers in our yard. Oh yeah! I forgot about the Church!
Did you know there's an abandoned Church here in the Slums? I don't know why it's abandoned. But it's beautiful and peaceful.
Inside, there's broken flooring at the back of the church. But a little speck of light emerges from the broken rooftop, shining down to hit the perfect spot for gardening. At first when I arrived, it was just dirt and a few little weeds here and there. But I've been spending a lot of time there and each time I'm there, I tend to the beauty of the church. It's sad no one uses the church anymore. I wonder why? Oh well. If I'm ever alone or afraid of the people surrounding me, I always find myself back to that church.
Anyway, it's late and I have my first day of school tomorrow. I'll be attending SHINRA High. It's a SUUUUUUUPER tall building on the upper plate. I'll have to take the train every week. I'll also be wearing it's uniform. I wish I could say it's cute, but it's not.
How could anyone enjoy gray plaid mini skirts with skin tight white blouses? I had to re-sew my uniform just so I could be comfortable.
I wish I could make the skirt longer. But at least there's no rule against leggings. I'll just have to wear my pink ones. My tan ones have been torn while we were moving. Opps. Oh well.
*deep sigh* Wish me luck, Diary! Hopefully I'll make some friends tomorrow. I desperately need some. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll find a cute boyfriend too. Too much to hope for? Well, for now, I'll just look for friends.
I'm super scared... Well... Goodnight .
~Aerith.
