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You guys and girls are awesome! I love you all, my sweet porcelain unicorns:) hehehe. Anyways...kinda boring chapter. Sorry . It'll get better when school ends. I'm almost done 10 more days! WOOH! Next Chapter will pick up speed..
Kristie and Skylee were huddled under the oak desk, trying to be as quiet as a mouse. Unfortunately, Kristie was feeling a sneeze forming. Her face startled to scrunch up, until she let out a tiny peep of a sneeze.
"Bless you." A voice said from above her.
"Thank you-Oh hey...Mommy." Kristie realized when she looked up. Skylee smiled innocently. Lightning was standing next to the desk with a disappointed look.
They sighed and got up; following as Light moved back to the door. They had both of their heads down. Light stopped, forgetting that she just burst into the Crown Prince's office with no warning. She turned on her heels.
"Hello, I'm Claire Farron and I'm assuming you already know these two." Light awkwardly stated, ruffling her girls' hair. Noctis and his friends were still amused at the whole scene.
"Nice to meet you, I'm-"
"The Crown Prince, Noctis Lucis Caelum." Skylee interrupted, using her imitation announcer voice.
"Just Noctis is fine." He chuckled.
"Right, it's just Mr. Noctis, not Mr. Prince Noctis." Kristie said, then lowered her voice and scoffed. "Famous people."
"Kristie!" Light stared at her dark haired daughter.
"It's fine, really, it's actually quite refreshing."
Lightning felt her face burn with embarrassment. Then she wondered what the actual reason for her kids being here was. Turning back to Noctis, she said. "Can I ask why my kids came here, they must've said something?"
"Don't replace them with puppies, please, have the decency!" Prompto suddenly shouted. She gave him a quizzical look.
"Mommy, we were helping Mr. Noctis find a wife." Skylee answered.
"And who exactly did you have in mind for him?"
"You." Noctis answered quite simply. Her face reddened again. Noctis smiled noticing the faint blush.
"See, ! I told you our Mommy was single and also ready to mingle!"
"Skylee!"
"What? It's true." She defended.
"We're going home. Well, I regret having to meet you under these circumstances, Pr-Noctis. I think it's best if I go, before I take up any more of your time." Lightning walked briskly with her two daughters out of the office. For some strange reason, she felt like she'd meet the Prince before. Of course, she'd seen him in every piece of media, but it was like they had meet before this very awkward encounter.
Kristie and Skylee cringed as their mother held a trip grip on their hands. The car ride home would not be cheerful.
"We certainly had an eventful morning, now didn't us?" Ignis broke the silence that ensued after Light had left. Noctis wasn't quite sure what had just happened in the last ten minutes but he was stuck feeling a small dejá vu.
"Prompto, I need you to do a little snooping around? Find out who Claire Farron is."
"How come he gets to do the stalking this time?" Gladious whined. Prompto doing a small fist bump into the air. As the three men exited, leaving the Prince to his thoughts about the very familiar pinkette.
"Who are you?"
"What on Etro's good green Pulse, were you thinking?" Light's angry glare met her daughters' apologetic ones in the rear view mirror as she drove towards home.
"Mommy, I was just trying to help the Prince and you!"
"And that gives you the excuse to skip school?"
"Why won't you just let me explain-"
"I don't care what you were trying to accomplish, Kristie, you worried us all half to death."
"Why is it just my fault?"
"I never said it was."
"But you're just yelling at me and not Skylee!"
"Don't drag me down too." Skylee whispered, nudging her sister with her elbow slightly.
"Skylee, you know it was half your idea!" The dark haired girl directed her yelling towards her sister.
"You're the one who wanted to go today!"
"Yeah! Well...you're just a big pile of-"
"Shut up, both of you are in trouble for worrying us all! I and Aunt Serah almost had a heart attack!" Light interrupted, silence filled the air.
"No it wasn't."
"Kristie!"
"It wasn't my complete idea! Aunt Tifa said it was okay! It's not my fault we are just trying to help you out! I just want a dad like Cousin Nick! "She was quiet until adding under her breath. "I hate you." Kristie's words rang through Lightning's ears but struck a blow to her heart.
They were there with good intentions, but approached this in a ridiculous manner. Light had known that one day, they would want a fatherly figure of their own, but she hadn't expected it to come so soon.
Her glare softened as she pulled into the driveway. The air in the car was tense and when Kristie pushed the car door open, it was like a deep breath. The dark-haired girl stormed into the house, not even waiting for her sister or mother.
"Mommy, Kristie doesn't hate you. She just wants you to be happy."
"I know, Skylee." Light walked to the front door with her pink-haired daughter. Skylee had always been the calmer of the two, and Kristie was more like Lightning as a kid; her temper had a short fuse. When Lightning stepped foot in the house, Kristie had already thrown her shoes haphazardly in front of the door, and was most likely in her room.
"I'll go check on Kristie." Skylee disappeared down the hallway. Lightning was left with her thoughts about what happened. She was concerned about her daughters' plans, yet even more curious about why they thought the Prince was a wonderful and logical idea. Of all the people in the world, that's who they had to pick.
Speaking of whom, she felt an odd feeling of familiarity when speaking to him. She felt like she seen him in-person, face to face before today. She racked her brain but pulled a blank on the subject. Well, there could be one chance, but it was a long shot and not to mention, absolutely crazy to think.
Lightning whipped out her cellphone and dialed Fang's number. If anyone ought to know about that night, Fang was one to talk to.
"Sorry, they wanted to see the girls as well." Fang smiled, amused more than apologetic. She came in, followed by Snow, Serah, Hope, Vanille, Tifa, Zack, and Cloud. Lightning always wondered how the befriended the owner of the bar, they only went to once. She was sure they went to Lebreau's more. But, the more the merrier, right?
"Where are Sazh and the little ones?"
"Probably sleeping. Old people and kids, ya know." Snow chuckled at his own joke.
"He couldn't make it. As for the little ones, it's still school-time, remember?" Fang answered, unamused by Snow. "So what happened after you left Serah's house?"
"Well, my kids decided it was the perfect time to set up their mother with a stranger. Scratch that- a Prince, then when I was driving home, Kristie declared her hatred for me. Just a wonderful morning!" Her voice was filled with sarcasm and laced with stress.
"If it makes you feel any better, this hate will only prepare you for the future years; when you get to witness the wrath of two teenage girls."
"Snow, your words of encouragement are really helping me out of the hole in my life. I can finally live life knowing it'll only get worse!"
"I don't need your sarcasm." Lightning rolled her eyes at the offended larger Blonde man.
"What would you know how teenage girls act?" Fang raised an eyebrow.
"No comment."
By now, everyone had taken a seat wherever a free spot was. Snow was still standing as well as Fang, Tifa, and Serah.
"Hey, where are the girls, by the way?" Serah asked.
As if it was the cue, Kristie and Skylee emerged from the hallway. They quickly ran over to everyone, greeting them with hugs.
"Girls, I heard about your little fiasco with the Prince. Why exactly did you-"
"For the last time! Me and Skylee were trying to set my stubborn mother up with Mr. Noctis! Is this concept that hard to grasp?" the darker-haired girl complained, and stomped over to the other adults in the room.
"Sorry, Auntie Serah, Kristie is a little upset." Skylee apologized.
"Its fine, she reminds me of your mom, when she was younger. Your mom was just like Kristie. It's funny to see how different you act from her."
"I probably get it from my dad.." Skylee's face dropped, and Serah was quiet. Skylee went over to talk to some of the other guests.
"So what is it you called me over for exactly?" Fang started the conversation back up.
"Well, you see, it's about what happened seven years ago...I need that tape." Light demanded.
"Why? Half of it is Fang making out with random guys." Vanille giggled.
"Maybe something in the background will help me figure out what happened."
"Alright, I'll look around for it, but I can't guarantee anything. That tape has some very incriminating evidence on there. I may or may not have burned it."
"Thank you, Fang."
The group was now talking casually amongst each other. Skylee was now speaking with the least interested person in the room.
"Uncle Cloud, why you so depressing?" Skylee asked the blue-eyed blonde who seemed out of it.
"What?"
"Why do you seem sad all the time?"
"I'm not sad, I just don't feel the need to smile."
"Is it because you don't have any teeth?
"What? I have teeth."
"I don't believe you! Show me!"
Cloud stared at the pink haired girl. She was the splitting image of Lightning, minus the hair-do and eye color. He sighed, parting his lips a little.
"I don't see anything!" He opened them a little more; he probably looked stupid from an on-looker's point of view. "Nuh-uh, still nothing!" Finally he just flashed a toothy grin, and heard the little girl laugh. "I like your smile! You should do it more often!" he went back to a straight face. "It takes more muscles to frown than to smile."
The pink haired girl skipped merrily back to the brunette woman across the room. "Wow, you're good. I never thought I'd see the day that Cloud Strife smiled." She complimented handing her a few dollar bills.
"I can't take this! I'll look like my day job is being a stripper!" Tifa was shocked at her response.
"Exotic dancer and what would you know about that?"
"Internet." She smirked and handed her a five dollar bill instead.
Noctis sat swirling around in his swivel desk chair, another boring day ahead of them. Gladious had just issued another interviewing session. This day's questions were along the lines of: 'What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?' and 'Can you count to ten in Spanish?'.
"You don't think this is that same girl from the last time?" Prompto who had been thinking, surprisingly to Noctis, spoke up.
"I don't know, I can't remember much from that night or the morning after."
They both sighed. "I think we can hit up that Public Records Library tomorrow. Trust me, something has got to come up to prove that it is 'Lightning.'" An odd name for a mysterious girl...
Late night writing, filler chapter...ehh, too tired to type anything else. Toodles, maybe the next'll be longer :P GOOD NIGHT! well for me anyways... :)
yes, that means it will be longer :O