Hey :D look a new chapter! AND ITS LONGER THAT CHAPTER ONE FINALLY! haha sorry im just really proud of myself for it :) anyway so as you can see its Zack's POV right now :D let me know how i did mkay?

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-Zack-

"WHAT?" I jumped and just like the rest of the class turned to look at Cloud. Before I could recover and talk to him Hojo had already kicked him out and ignored his correct answer to his question.

"Zackary, please answer the question" I rolled my eyes.

"27"

"good, at least someone is paying attention in this class" when he turned around to continue writing on the board I flipped him off making a couple of girls giggle at me as like the few guys that snorted and nodded in agreement with my gesture. The bell rang and I ran from the class looking for Cloud but the sea of students was too hard to pass through and I ended up in the school parking lot. I grumbled to myself about asshole students being all asshole-y until I noticed Aeris leaning against the orange and yellowed leafed tree on the grassy area around the parking lot where a good majority of students like to hang out.

"Hey Aer" I smiled as I walked up to her, determined to take her out tonight.

"Zack" she smiled and nodded in greeting before she turned at the sound of a motorcycle leaving the lot and barley catching the back half of the bike before the rider sped away. I frowned at the spot where the rider was 'that looked like Cloud's bike'. "Hey, Zack?" Aeris asked when she turned back to face me.

"Hmm?" I said distractedly

"About that date tonight," my neck snapped toward her from the parking lot entrance/exit and my eyes went a bit wider in anticipation. "I changed my mind, I'll go" she smiled at me and I grinned back.

"Yes! I promise Aer, you won't regret it" I picked her up and spun her around making both me and her dizzy in the process. I put her back down on two feet "how does the carnival sound?"

"Cliché, but that alright" we both laughed "alright Zack, come to my house around 7-ish and we'll go okay?"

"I'll be there" I gave her one last grin before she walked to her brother Genesis's car. He glared at me and I glared right back at him. We put on a façade whenever Cloud's around that we like each other, when we hate each other. Why we, well why I do it is because I don't want Cloud to feel like he has to decide between friends. Me and Genesis don't like each other for many reasons, one being that ideas frequently clash about some subjects. A frequent subject we come across when we're pretending to be civil is in fact his obsession with LOVELESS. He tries to make it his life mission to completely understand the damn play when I'd just say screw it and proceed to tell him how much I don't give a damn. I got in my car finally and left the lot excited for tonight. When I got home I had remembered about the Hojo incident to which my excitement glowered a bit but I grabbed my phone and decided to call Cloud and ask him what was wrong. The first time I called I got his voicemail, second time he hung up on me, third time I called his house and his little brother Roxas answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Yeah, hey Roxas its Zack, Cloud home?"

"Uh, yeah he's home" we sat in silence for a few minutes

"Well, can I talk to him?" I asked slowly

"he-" Roxas got cut off by Cloud "what Zack?"

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine Zack why wouldn't I be?"

"Well I mean you kinda were extremely surprised I'm bi and kinda glared at me before you left" the line went silent and I took my phone from my ear to check if he had hung up on me. When I saw he didn't, I put it back to my ear.

"It was a shock, that's all" I snorted

"Yeah, that explains the yelling now what about the glaring thing? Are you mad at-" and that's when I realized that when Cloud came out he was gay I was the first person he went to but, I didn't go to him. "Shit"

"Seems like you've figured it out"

"Isn't this a bit over the top? I'm sorry that I didn't come to you first, I don't know why I didn't"

"Whatever Zack, I'll see you tomorrow"

"Hey! Wai-" the dial tone greeted me "dammit" I looked at the time and noticed it was close to 6:30. I yelled down the stairs to my parents that I was taking Aer out to the carnival tonight and that I was leaving at 7 before I got into the shower. When I got out I hurriedly got into my black jeans, dark blue button up with all the buttons not in the holes, a plain white shirt and my black shoes. Before I could get out the house my dad called me into the living room. "Yeah?"

"So who's going tonight?" he asked, scratching his slight stubble on his jaw.

"Just me and Aeris, why?"

"Cloud's not going?" I chuckled

"It's a date dad, and besides I don't like cloud that way pop" he frowned and my mother came in.

"He'd be good for you" I groaned and rolled my eyes

"Good bye parents who wish to make me late" I ran out the house and into my car before they could say anything else. When I was safely in my car and driving to Aeris I started to ponder what my parents were talking about. Like what did they mean when they had said 'he would be good for me'? Is there something wrong with me? I sighed and pulled over and put my face into my hands. People say tell me that me and Cloud would be a great couple and we should be together but I just feel like that toward my best friend, do I? I shook my head, if I'm starting to question myself how can I expect others to believe me. My phone vibrated and I saw it was a message from Aeris saying she'd be outside in 5 minutes. I was about to put the phone down but it vibrated again this time telling me I had a text from Cloud. My heart started to beat a little bit faster before I finally opened the message.

'Srry about earlier. A lot to deal w/ 2day. Not mad c u 1st.'

I stared at the message and contemplating on texting him back.

'I'm still srry bout not tellin u frst , but I'll call u wen I gt hm frm the carnival w/ Aeris k?'

As soon as I pushed send I knew I made a mistake sending that, I'm not sure how or why I felt so bad taking out Aeris when I've hardly hung out with Cloud as of late but it just felt like things between the two of us were changing for the better or worse I couldn't tell. I pulled away from the curb after the phone vibrated, I couldn't look at the message he replied with and I couldn't muster up my signature grin for Aeris when she got into the car, so I settled for a small smile and the gnawing feeling in my stomach something was going to happen that I didn't like. When we made it to the carnival luckily it was as packed as I thought it would be so we decided to hit the booths before the actual rides. As time trickled by so did the people and by 8:45 Aeris and I had been on almost every ride and I had almost been arrested when I beat up a drunk guy harassing a mother and her two crying children, to which Aeris calmed them down and gave each of them a stuffed animal I had one for her. After that the security guards allowed me to discipline the drunks that were harming, close to harming or were verbally abusing women and children but before I actually got to work Aeris dragged me onto the Ferris wheel, that had not stopped leaving us at the top but had broken down, so we sat in silence a few short minutes until a question had unintentionally exploded from my mouth.

"Do you think me and Cloud could become a couple?" not even a second after I asked the question Aeris answered confidently and without hesitation.

"Yes I do" I stared at her and she stared right back her eyes lit up. I looked straight ahead again and leaned back in the cracked plush material covered seat and sighed.

"not you too" I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose, not in frustration with her but of myself of bringing up the damned question on a date, with Aeris no less.

"Zack, what's wrong with dating Cloud? Is it that your just not used to dating guys?"

"there's nothing wrong with him it's just I don't feel that way about him, look I know I'm the one that brought it up but can we just drop it?" she gave a smile and hugged me.

"I'm not trying to pressure you into Zack, if you honestly didn't like him I wouldn't push you but I can see just like everyone else except Cloud that you feel something for him." I stayed silent again thinking about my relationship with Cloud. I liked him, sure, as my best friend but really liking him more than that is possible. Lately I've been thinking more of him, with the exception of today, and it isn't entirely uncommon that I've thought of what it would be like to kiss him but I just assumed that it was me just being a hormonal teenager. A question popped into my head from my mom.

"How would Cloud be good for me?" Aeris let go and grinned at me, which looked beautiful on her showing that she was happy I was actually contemplating my feelings for my best friend.

"well, he'd be good for you in the sense that he may be the one to actually love you for you," I shifted in my seat when she mentioned 'love', ever since I started dating whenever I told the guy or girl I dated 'I love you' they'd tell me that they 'loved me too' but then I'd find them with someone else either kissing or other things so lately I haven't given the thought of loving someone lightly "and for Cloud he may even gain some sense of self-worth that he needs" I nodded in agreement and imagined myself making Cloud laugh, making him Smile and kissing him finally "Zack? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, what makes you think I'm not?"

"Well, you kinda just," the Ferris wheel lurched before stopping again "as I was saying, you just started smiling for no reason" I was still smiling.

"Maybe you're right about the liking Cloud thing but I'm still not convinced" I saw Aeris physically slouch in sadness "but, I'm also willing to actually think about my feelings for him" she shot up and hugged me again and I laughed "why are we discussing Cloud on our date?" Aeris bit her lip.

"He's kinda the reason why we're even here," I looked at her confused "he convinced me to come" I grinned

"Then I'll have to thank him" the Ferris wheel lurched again making us stop on the side of it. "This is a piece of sh-crap Ferris wheel" I caught myself before I cussed in front of Aeris.

"Zack you know I don't mind when you curse" she giggled and I shrugged.

"I don't like cussing in front of you"

"Reno does"

"Remind me to castrate him tomorrow"

"Sure thing" I looked at her surprised "I'm kidding Zack" I laughed nervously and inconspicuously scooted away and demanded the wheel to let me off.

"Ha ha yeah, I, I knew that" she rolled her eyes and finally the Ferris wheel started to turn and we got off not a moment later. I check my watch and was both surprised and pissed off "they kept us up there for nearly an hour!"

"What time is it?"

"10:28" Aeris gasped grabbed my arm and ran us toward the car.

"What's up?" I asked her struggling to avoid the smaller kids.

"I told my parents id be back by nine!" I picked her up and ran the rest of the way to the car tired of being dragged

"I don't see why they don't just get you a phone" I put her don't by the passenger side door. She hopped in and I slid over the hood and jumped into the driver's seat.

"Can I use your phone?" she asked and I gave it to her forgetting it was still open to my conversation with cloud. As I drove I looked over at her when she was done talking to see her reading something.

"Aer?" silence "Aer." More silence "AERIS!" she jumped a little in her seat and looked at me nervously "what are you reading?" she shook her head.

"Nothing important"

"Uh huh yeah sure, seriously what are you reading?" she stayed quiet again until we pulled up in front of her house.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow okay? And say hi to Cloud for me!" she said in a rush before leaving me momentarily confused. Then I remembered my conversation with Cloud and groaned before slamming my head on the steering wheel. Now she really thinks that I want to be with him, great. I pulled away from the curb and began driving to the quiet in my car to my house, until I remembered Aeris said 'say hi to Cloud for me', I wasn't going to his house I was going to text him. I pulled over and checked the message he sent last.

'Just come ovr, going to sleep at 11 and u knw we text forever -.- I need zzzz'

I laughed and texted him back.

'Got stuck on stupid ass Ferris wheel that broke dwn, just dropped Aer off, stll wnt me 2 come ovr?'

I pushed send and waited for his reply, not a few seconds later Cloud texted back.

'Sux for u :p, if you wanna idc bt i mite as well bring clothes to change in the morning 4 skool'

I texted him back okay and drove home to get my stuff. Maybe spending the night with Cloud would be good and I could finally figure out if I had feelings for him or not. I got to my house and headed straight for my room and grabbed my clothes for school. I popped my head into the living room.

"I'm going to Clouds to spend the night guys" my parents face's lit up and I inwardly groaned

"ok, have fun!" my dad yelled when I made it outside. I turned and looked through the window and saw my overly excited parents talk about something before my mom ran to the kitchen to use the house phone. My right eye twitched in annoyance before I took off in my car to Cloud's house.

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