The first four classes were boring like usual but Rhea could barely focus on anything except for the events of yesterday. She sighed and tried to focus in her class before lunch but it lead to nothing. Ugh, what the hell? she thought as she answered the first question on a worksheet before she spaced out again. The bell rang and Rhea looked down at her paper and groaned. Great now I have to do this for homework, she thought as she left class and headed outisde to the courtyard.
The crew met up and sat in their usual places when they noticed that Rhea wasn't there.
"Where's Rhea?" Zack asked.
"I don't want to talk about..." Vincent said in an even more emotionless tone then normal. Suddenly a very pissed off Sephiroth came marching over to their table followed by his gang of brothers.
"You little snitch!" Sephiroth exclaimed as everyone looked over to seen him clutching Cloud's shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" Cloud asked.
"I got in trouble because of you!" Sephiroth retorted.
"Awwww, is little Sephy mad because he got a spanking from his mommy when he got home?" Zack teased. Sephiroth grabbed Zack by the collar and lifted him from his seat, bringing them face to face.
"You wanna say that again?" he said in a low growl.
"Hey, lay off." Vincent said in a serious tone.
"Hey Freak, this doesn't concern you." Kadaj said while rolling his eyes and crossing his arm, then realizing the seat next to Vincent was empty, "Oh, you're just grumpy because your little girlfriend is there to protect you." Vincent stood up quickly, making his way to Kadaj and smacking him in the face. Sephiroth quickly looked over at Vincent and then tried to lunge at him before Cloud grabbed his shoulders. Loz and Yazoo, seeing how things were getting heated, stepped in to help, before they knew it a fight had broken out.
Rhea had been peacefully eating her lunch when she started to notice a crowd forming around her usual table. What the hell is going on over there, I should go check it out, she thought before getting up and make her way over to the crowd. Rhea tried to see what was going on through the crowd of people but it was difficult due to her height so she decided to push through everyone. When she was able to see what was going on, she was horrified at the scene. Vincent, Cloud, Zack, Reno, Sephiroth, Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz were all fighting each other. She was mostly horrified at how Kadaj was repeatedly punching Vincent in the face.
Uncontrollably, she pushed through the remaining people in front of her and rushed into the fight, blocking Vincent and, taking the punch for him right in the face. Someone from the crowd had grabbed her right away after taking the blow, though she couldn't figure out who it was because everything started to become blurred, the last thing she saw before blacking out was Vincent brutally attacking Kadaj.
Rhea woke up to find herself in the school's infirmary, she had no idea how she got there, probably the student who grabbed her after she was hit, I guess I fell asleep, she thought to herself. She sleepily rubbed her eyes then noticed someone was sitting by her bed. She quickly looked over to see Vincent looking at her very concerned.
"Are you okay?! Do you need anything, water, food, ice?! I brought you some ice for your face." he said so quickly that she barely even caught what he said. Rhea slowly sat up and declined all of his offers.
"I'm fine, really." Rhea said. She noticed that there was a bandage on his face and that he had a busted lip, "You should worry more about yourself."
"It's nothing." he said, shrugging then cringing and grabbing his shoulder.
"Oh my god are you okay?!" Rhea asked, reaching toward him.
"Yeah." He breathed out "Sephiroth bashed in my shoulder pretty hard after he saw what I did to his brother. The fight broke up when a teacher stepped in that Tifa and Aerith got, oh and Anicula was the one who dragged you here." Vincent explained.
"Here let me help you." she said as she grabbed a roll of bandage. Vincent took off his shirt revealing his badly bruised shoulder, and his very muscular body, not that she was staring or anything! She quickly, but gentley bandaged his shoulder and then helped him struggle to put back on his shirt as he cursed from the pain. Then, like usual the awkward silence began.
"Why do you always do this?" she asked seriously.
"Do what?"
"This. This silence between us. No talking. Just...quiet. Do you not like talking to me? Why can't we be like how we used to. We always used to talk and not just normally, cheerfully, not like how you did with others, I was special! Do you hate me now?" Rhea asked as her voice cracked.
"What!? Of course I don't hate you! It's...er...um..." he exclaimed, then looked down embarrassed.
"It's what!?" Rhea insisted.
"It's the complete opposite!" he yelled while looking her straight in the eyes, slightly blushing. Rhea blinked a couple of times trying to process this information.
"Wait what!?" she squeaked, her face red as a tomato.
"I-I really...um like you...more than just a friend." he said turning his face away in embarrassment. This only made Rhea's face even hotter as thoughts raced through her head.
"B-But it's okay if you don't...I'd understa-" Vincent stuttered but was cut off by Rhea pulling him down into a soft, gentle kiss, but then the door opened. There, standing in the doorway was Tifa, Aerith, Anicula and Reno witnessing their kiss.
"Oh sorry we'll leave you two to your love making." Reno said smirking and giving them a wink, Anicula of course smacked him for this. They shut the door and ran off to inform the others. Rhea and Vincent just stared at the door in horror, both extremely blushing. Rhea bolted up from sitting on the bed and grabbed Vincent's hand.
"Hurry! They're going to go tell Zack and Cloud!" she yelled before hurrying to the door and running down the hallway with Vincent barely keeping up.
They made it to the principal's office where they saw the crew standing outside talking.
"Zack, Cloud! Don't believe anything they say!" Rhea yelled as she ran to them, along with Vincent.
"Oh, like how Reno saw you two making out on the bed in the infirmary?" Zack teased.
"It was just a little kiss!" Rhea and Vincent said in unison. Cloud, Zack and Reno busted out laughing seeing how their faces both heated up.
"That's a nice color on your face Vincent, I'm sure Rhea loves it!" Cloud snickered.
"Sh-Shut up!" Rhea yelled in protest which only made them laugh harder.
"Well it had to happen sometimes soon." Reno said shugging.
"We were actually thinking of a set up plan to get you two together but looks like Vincent's little kiss solved that problem." Zack smirked.
"She kissed me..." Vincent said quietly.
"Ooooh! Rhea you tiger!" the said in unison with Reno and Cloud making what was supposed to be flirtatious growling noices. Rhea was just so done at this point that she wouldn't be surprised if she just suddenly punched them all in the face. The door of the office suddenly opened revealing a very unhappy principal standing in the doorway.
"Vincent Valentine, there you are! Come inside, we have to dicuss your punishment and call your father!" The principal said sternly, tapping his foot with impatience and glaring at the others.
"Yes sir." Vincent said, returning to his usual unemotional tone. He glanced at Rhea before stepping into the office room. Rhea looked down not really knowing what do when suddenly she heard a voice call her name. It was her mother, rushing down the hallway towards her looking very panicked.
"Oh honey! Look at your face! It's so bruised! We need to get you to the hospital right away! Who did this! Whoever did this I'm going to press changes against them for hurting my baby!" Her mom exclaimed practically freaking out.
"Mom it's okay, and it be much better if we didn't mess with 's sons." Rhea said calmly trying to sooth her mother. Her mother sighed and agreed with her daughter then hugged her.
"Well I'm still taking you out early so you can rest." her mother said persitantly. Rhea nodded and then went into the office to tell the attedence lady that she'd be leaving early. After they finished that up, they left the school to go home.
Rhea plopped down on her bed with a groan. It had been a long day and she was exhausted. She turned on her phone and was surprised to see a text message. She smiled and blushed as she read it then fell asleep on her bed, holding her phone close.
"Hi Rhea. I hope you feel better when you get home. I love you. See you tomorrow...girlfriend."
