A New School Year Ch. 2

Note: I don't own any kingdom hearts character and I may use Final Fantasy characters so while I'm at it, I don't own Final Fantasy characters either but I'm totally jealous of whoever does. They're one lucky bastard. I can't promise anything to come in my fanfiction. I kind of start typing whenever a brilliant idea crosses my mind so I'm going to be just as surprise as you guys. I hope you enjoy.

I slip into more comfortable attire and let my hair out of the hair tie I usually keep it in for school. I run my hand through my hair a few times before I check my watch for the time. I should probably be going soon…

I grab my coat and head out the door. I get into my black 2014 Nissan Altima and it isn't long before I arrive at Tifa's Tavern. I get out of my car and check my phone for a spam of messages Zack may have left on my phone. Surprisingly I didn't have a single message.

I put my phone back in my pocket and walk into the Tavern. I'm greeted by a few familiar faces. Zack comes out of nowhere and gives me a bear hug that has me nearly gasping for air.

He looks at me with lidded eyes and blush plastered across his face, "Heyyy Axelll..," He slurs, " I'm surrised you madeittt."

I roll my eyes, "Yeah, well I did say I was coming." I say as I try to get out of Zack's death grip of a hug. "You smell like a liquor store."

Zack giggles, "N you smEll lick strawmerries," He manages to get out as he sniffs my hair.

"Alright Zack," Genesis says as he pulls Zack off of me, " I think Axel has had enough of you." He looks my way and smiles, "Hello there, Axel."

"Hello.." I shyly reply.

If there was one person out of the whole staff at our school that I wanted to be like it was Genesis. He has been teaching the Creative Writing class at our school for about six or seven years now and he is absolutely amazing with his students. Not a single one of his students has gotten and "F" in his class. Partly because he patiently helps students after school and has such an approachable demeanor. Nonetheless, he is my role model and I want to be just like him, and approachable teacher who is loved by his students.

I snap out of my thought when Genesis coolly replies, "Well, I'm going to take this puppy (meaning Zack) to a seat before he starts undressing someone in here." He chuckles and drags Zack to the side bar.

It isn't a minute later before Aerith greets me. She smiles, "It's rare to see you at a staff gathering outside of school. Are you feeling sick?" She asks with a smile as she teasingly puts a hand to my forehead.

I smile back, "No Nurse Aerith, I'm fine. I just thought I come to one of these gatherings for a change. I had nothing else planned tonight anyways."

"What's new?" She asks sarcastically as she grabs my hand and takes me to the bar area and sits down.

I sit down next to her and Tifa, the owner of the tavern, looks my way.

"Hey there, long time no see." She says as she cleans a cup.

"Yeah, yeah." I reply.

"What can I get for you tonight?"

"Give me a Long Island Iced Tea." I say without thought.

"Such a strong drink for someone who has a class first thing in the morning." Xemnas says as he sits down to the right of me. "I hope you don't plan on getting hammered tonight."

Who's dumb idea was it to invite the principal here? I think to myself. I look at him and reply, "Didn't even cross my mind sir." I smile.

He hesitates for a moment and smiles back, "Alright, don't be late for school tomorrow." He says as he stands up and leaves the tavern.

I never really liked Xemnas. There was something about him that bothered me but I couldn't really put my finger on it. Whatever it was it didn't take long before my mind got distracted by the drink in front of me. I admired the drink sitting before me for a second before drinking half of it down. The liquid stinged as it went down. I let out a sigh. Maybe I should try to have a little fun tonight. Who said teachers were boring?

It isn't long before I get into a drinking match with Zack. For someone so much bigger than me he couldn't drink as much as I thought.

Throughout the night I did much drinking and dancing with my fellow teachers and every now and then a few more teachers would enter the tavern. It was a great way to celebrate the end of a successful first day of school, or so I thought.