Problem Child

by JediMayukiDaAWESOME

Hope Estheim hates his home life. Everything needs to be perfect and proper, and that makes him sick. He rebels against his parents and runs away from home at the age of seventeen. So what will happen when he meets Sergeant Claire 'Lightning' Farron while on the run? HopeXLight, SnowXSerah, FangXVanille, AU. Rated T for drugs, alcohol, swearing, and smoking. Rating may go up to M.

2. Chapter 1: One Last Rebel

Chapter 1: One Last Rebel

It was 12:00 at night, the beginning of a new day.

Hope had his backpack bag packed with clothes, food, bottled water, toiletries and medical supplies. He put his wallet into his jean pocket, shoved his Airwing Boomerang in the back of his belt and attached his Bowie knife to his left hip on his belt.

He slunk downstairs with a can of red spray paint and started spraying graffiti everywhere in the kitchen, the lounge room and the walls on either side of the staircase. He did the same thing to the bathroom before going upstairs and packing the spray paint in his bag. He then grabbed his 'science project' and stood at the top of the staircase with it in his hand.

It was a low-powered bomb.

He activated it and ditched it downstairs, letting it land in the space connecting the kitchen to the lounge room. He quickly slung the backpack on his back and stood on one side of his bedroom before running to his window and jumped through it, just as the downstairs bomb exploded.

Hope tumbled to the ground, rolling to break his fall and watched the lower story of his house crash and burn. His mother's screams were heard from outside, along with his father's yelling. He scoffed at this and sneered "So long, you bastards."

He started running into the night, pulling the hood of his black hoodie over his head.