Serah opened the door with a warm smile that seemed to grow when her eyes landed on the trio.

"Light! You're finally here." she said, kindness dripping from her voice.

Lightning smiled at her sister as she came inside the house. The two teens followed her into the house and stared at the huge crowd of people. Both came to the conclusion that Serah was the total opposite of Lightning, just by the sheer amount of people here.

"My name's Serah. What's your name?" she asked.

Neither spoke, obviously not good with meeting new people. Serah, noticing this giggled to herself. They were like Lightning was when she was younger.

"Don't be shy," Serah spoke, an sincere smile gracing her face. "You can trust us."

Xion spoke up. "I'm Xion and this is Zexion. You'll have to excuse him, he doesn't talk much."

Serah smiled and gave her a hug. She tried to do the same to Zexion but he had a touch-me-you-die look on his face. Snow came over to them, an unhappy look on his face.

"Honey! This is Zexion, and that's Xion. They're Light's, er, kids?" Serah said, not knowing the exact name to call them.

Snow nodded in their direction, which Zexion returned.

"You'll have to excuse Snow, he's an idiot." Lightning stated.

Xion giggled.

"Ay! I am not!" he said, rather loudly. Lightning just rolled her eyes as she moved pasted him. Zexion went the opposite direction, finding a nice place to sit and read. Xion just stood there, not knowing what to do.

Awkwardly, she began to move around the room. her eyes searched the room, as if looking for a familiar face. She found none.

"Whoa there!"

Xion turned to see who she bumped into, a blush creeping up to her face when her eyes met his. he had crazy blue hair that was everywhere, like a lion's mane. But it had style to it.

He grinned. "Hey there, pretty girl. I'm Yuj."

Xion returned the grin. "X-Xion."

"What a beautifully unusual name. Does it have a meaning?"

"It's a flower that means *remembrance."

"How fitting." he stated. "Age?"

"14."

"16."

"Yuj! We're going to play truth or dare- who's that?" a boy asked as he approached. He had spiky-ish blonde hair with a pair of goggles resting in them.

"Oh, hey. This is Xion. Xion, this is Maqui. Let's go play! Come on, Xion!" Yuj grinned as he hauled her off.

Zexion was silently reading his book when he saw Xion getting pulled away into another room with two boys. He growled and shut his book with a semi loud "bam!" He jumped up and marched into the room, ready to kick some punk asses.

But when he got there, all he saw was a bunch of normal semi normal looking teens in a circle with an empty wine bottle in the middle.

"Zexy?What are you doing here?" Xion inquired. A bright smile broke out on her face. "Did you come here to play with us?"

Zexion's face twisted in disgust. "Play? I don't play, Xion. I don't have time for things like that."

Xion's mouth made a silent "oh" as she looked down at her lap. "I'm sorry. I should've known better." She looked up at him, blue eyes wide and apologetic.

Zexion groaned inwardly. That face. He could never say no to that. He looked around the room and came to the discomforting realization that all of them were boys- besides Xion, of course.

Zexion growled and gave them the if-you-try-anything-I'll-make-your-lives-a-living-Hell look.

"No worries, 'Zexy.'" a silver haired boy said. "I'll make sure they won't do anything."

Zexion gave him a look that said, who are you?

"I'm Riku Estheim. You can trust me, my little bro's here too."

"I'm not little!" the boy next to him yelled.

"Whatever, Hope." Riku chuckled, giving him a nuggy.

Zexion stood there, silently debating whether to leave them or not.

"Fine. Anything happens, it's on you." Zexion said, leaving the room.

Lightning stood at the back corner of the room, sipping wine and ignoring everyone. But there was this guy staring at her. From the corner of her eyes she saw him there, spikey blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. She had a feeling she'd seen him before, but she couldn't quite place it.

"Looks like someone's checking you out."

Lightning jumped at the sound of Sazh's voice. She glared at the chuckling man, wanting badly to kick him or something.

"Hello, Sazh." Lightning rolled her eyes and shifted her position.

"Hey, Lightning. You know, I heard you got two little munchin's on your hands."

"Word travels fast, I assume. Serah always has been a chatter box about these things."

Sazh nodded. "You should go talk to him."

She scoffed. "No."

"You scared?"

"Hell no. I don't have time for this."

"Lightning, you're turning 21 soon. You need to get out- go clubbing, date, have fun. You're taking care of two kids now- you need to be fun and understanding."

"Sazh, I'm a soldier. I can get called out at a moments notice. I can't get too attached to anyone."

Sazh sighed, shaking his head. "Worry wart."

Lightning huffed, swirling the glass of wine in her hand. She ignored the rambling man and gazed around the room once more. Much to her annoyance, that guy was still watching her. Oh, how much she wanted to walk up to him and slug him.

"I... feel kinda bad for those kids." Lightning sighed, leaning against the wall. "I'm not a very reliable guardian."

Sazh shrugged. "In my opinion, you'd make a great mother. They won't make a single wrong choice because you'd kill them right then and there."

Lightning smiled, a small laugh escaping her mouth. "Of course."

Zexion sat in the chair, eyes dancing from page to page. He hung on every word, excitement was shown in his pale blue eye. He was lost in the world of Katniss. And right when he was getting to the climax of the story, an annoying voice filled his ears.

"What'cha readin, there?"

Zexion's eyes snapped back into reality as he met ocean blue eyes that were way too close to him. Zexion moved away and brought his eyes back to his book.

"'Hunger Games.'" he read the title. "Oh! I've heard of that! My friend's boyfriend read it. He said it was good."

Zexion said nothing.

"My name's Demyx. You might have heard of me. I'm in a band called 'Nobody's Business.'" he said, grinning ear to ear.

"Never heard of it."

Demyx's smile fell. "Really?" Zexion nodded. "Well I have some of our songs on my iPod. Wanna hear?"

Zexion sighed and got up from the chair. Shooting a glare at Demyx, he left the room.

Demyx followed shortly after.

"So, Xion," Yuj asked, a sly look on his face. "Truth or dare?"

"Truth." she said automatically. Yuj sighed. "What?"

"You keep choosing truth- it's getting old. Why don't you chose dare?"

"W-well... I don't know. I just don't want to."

"Come on, Xion! Pick a dare!" Maqui cheered loudly, flailing his arms. "Don't be such a girl!"

Xion glared at him. "'Don't be such a girl' you say? Fine, I chose dare!"

"Xion, you don't have to-" Riku was cut off by Yuj.

"Alright! I dare you to..." he thought for a while before breaking out into a wide grin. "Take off one article of clothing."

"What?" Xion yelled, shocked at his dare.

Yuj grinned. "You chose dare..."

"Yeah but I didn't want to end up stripping!"

"Yuj, that's a bit extreme." Hope said, louder then his usual voice, yet still quiet.

Riku nodded. "Not cool, Yuj."

"Guys, guys!" Maqui yelled, gaining their attention. "He said one article of clothing! Not all of it!"

Xion continued to glare at them both until a thought popped into her head. She smirked and kicked off her flats.

"There. Done." Xion turned to Riku. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

Xion thought it over. "I dare you to tell the girl you like that she's a barrel!" Xion giggled as they stared at her, not getting her joke. "If you watched PewDiePie, you'd know what I mean."

Riku shrugged. "Fine. Hope, truth or dare."

Hope seemed surprised for a second. "Hunh? Uh... um... dare? Wait! Ugh!" Hope groaned, obviouly not meaning to pick dare.

Riku chuckled. "I dare you to go to school in monday without underwear."

Hope's face paled. "What?"

Riku grinned. "A dare is a dare. Deal with it."

Hope glared weakly at him. "Fine."

Cloud watched the girl across the room as she spoke with Snow and Sazh. He couldn't look away from her. He knew he'd seen her before, but where?

"Hello? Cloud? Cloud? Earth to Cloud!"

Cloud's eyes snapped away from the girl to his raven haired friend.

"What were you saying, Zack?"

Zack shook his head. "I was saying, if you want to talk to her, go do it. DOn't just stand there and stare like some wierdo. Unless, you're scared."

Cloud glared at him. "Scared? I'll show you whose scared."

Cloud turned and made his way over to the girl, trying to play it cool by acting like he was coming over to say hello to Snow.

"Hey, Snow." Cloud lightly smiled as he looked at his friend.

"Yo, Cloud! I didn't know you were here!" Snow grinned, giving him a friendly hug. "Cloud this is Sazh, and that's my now drunk sister-in-law."

"'M not drunk, dahmit!" Lightning slurred. "A soldier's nevah drunk!"

Snow sighed. "This is wierd... she's usually never drunk but..."

"Aye! Chocobo boy!" Lightning pointed at Cloud. "You 're a weirdo! Stop starin' at meh!"

Sazh and Snow snickered at Lightning's comment before being silenced by Cloud's glare.

"Lightning, are you drunk?"

The three turned to a shoeless and pantless* Xion.

"I thought you were wearing jeans." Snow commented.

Xion blushed. "Yeah, um, I ended up playing truth or dare... Anyways, I wanted to ask if we could go home. I don't want to look like a chicken, but I honestly don't want to lose anymore clothing. Plus, RIku and Hope said it'd be best if I left before Yuj tried anything."

Snow glared, getting angry. "Yuj made you do that? Freakin' pervert."

"Sorry, babe, but I don't think Lightning should drive like this." Sazh said with a sigh.

"I could take them." Cloud butted in. "I don't mind."

"You sure?" Snow asked. "You don't have to. I can-"

"No, Snow, this is your party. You shouldn't leave."

Snow nodded. "Xion, go get your things and your brother."

Xion nodded before walking off.

Xion grabbed her pants and shoes and put them on before going to find her brother. She giggled when she saw him argueing with someone, talking a lot more then she'd ever seen him.

"Zexy, time to go." Xion smiled at her brother before looking at Demyx. "Thanks for taking care of my brother."

"No problem, little lady."

"He was NOT taking care of me!" Zexion growled, grabbing Xion's hand and stomping away with a major headache.

"Bye, Zexy!" Demyx yelled.

"Don't call me that!"


*Her dress was short but you couldn't see anything unless she bent over.