Rhea's alarm clock went off at 7:00 am, waking her up. She slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes lightly, clearing her vision. She got up and staggered to the bathroom then looked in mirror, staring at her black eye. She lightly touched it then cringed at the pain, seeing that had not healed one bit. She sighed, brushed through her tangled hair, got dressed and went to the kitchen for breakfast.

"Good morning honey, are you sure you want to go to school today?" her mom asked as she placed Rhea's breakfast on the table.

"Yes mom, I'm sure that I want to go to school." Rhea mumbled as she headed over to the dining table for her breakfast. The breakfast that her mom had prepared consisted of two slices of lightly buttered toast, freshly cooked scrambled egg with a dash of pepper, and a glass of orange juice. Rhea ate her breakfast, grabbed her book bag, which had a bunch of books for school,her school bag that had all of her classwork and homework, and a lunch that her made had prepared for her. She left the house and headed to school. I wonder if any of my friends are there already, Rhea thought as she walked. Halfway to school she saw 4 motorcyle riders stop in front of her and saw that it was Sephiroth, Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz.

"Listen, I don't have time for you guys right now. I need to get to school." she said as she walked around all 4 of them, not giving them the chance to say anything and headed the rest of the way to school. That damned Kadaj... Rhea thought as she remembered what he did to both her and Vincent. After about 5 minutes, she made it to school to see that Tifa and Yuffie were just getting dropped off by their father.

"Hey, Tifa." Rhea said as she approached the dark haired brunette.

"Hey, Rhea. How's you eye?" Tifa asked.

"Not healing much but what would you expect from a black eye?" Rhea said sarcastically.

"Well I hope it heals soon," Tifa said while looking around," Have you seen Cloud? We were supposed to meet up at school at 8:00."

"No, I just got here actually." Rhea said and saw Yuffie was just standing there staring at Rhea, "What is it Yuffie?"

"Your eye, are you okay?" Yuffie asked. Rhea sighed.

"Didn't you hear me talking to Tifa? It hasn't healed yet." Rhea said, slightly annoyed. Yuffie shifted her attention to Tifa's phone.

"Oooohh! Calling Cloud?" Yuffie nudged Tifa and gave her a wink. Tifa blused slightly.

"Well... I was supposed to meet up with him and he isn't here yet so I want to make sure why he's running late." Tifa responded.

"This is Cloud Strife we are talking about. Probably got caught up with something like usual." Yuffie said in a irritated voice. Rhea sighed and sat down on a bench outside of the school. School isn't going to start for another 20 minutes but they normally all met up in the morning before heading to class. Rhea stared out at the streets before seeing a spikey blonde haired boy and a spikey ebony haired boy pull up on their Fenrirs.

"Cloud! You're 5 minutes late. You told me to meet you at 8. You don't let a girl hanging like that." Tifa scolded the blonde.

"Sorry! It was Zack's fault. He decided to come over and didn't want to get off his butt to go to school." Cloud blamed Zack. He just smiled nervously while scratching the back of his head.

"Don't you normally pick up Aerith?" Rhea asked, questioning why a certain light haired brunette wasn't there.

"Not today. Aerith wanted to walk because she hasn't walked in a while and she likes the morning breeze." Zack said in defeat.

"But wouldn't you get more breeze if you were on a motorcycle?" Yuffie asked. Zack just shook his head and shrugged. Before anyone got a chance to say anything, Reno and Anicula arrived at the school.

"Has anyone seen Vincent?" Rhea asked.

"Why? You miss your boyfriend?" Zack teased and Cloud slapped his shoulder but also chuckled.

"Hey! We're not late right?" Anicula asked dragging along Reno with her.

"Nope." all of them said in unison before turning and looking at each other. About two minutes later, Aerith arrived, smiling like always.

"Aerith!" Zack exclaimed while running up to her and picking her up.

"Z-Zack!" Aerith yelled in surprise as she dropped her bags. Yuffie made a disgusted sound, Tifa giggled, Cloud sighed and Rhea just had an expressionless face.

"Almost everyone is here...we're just missing a certain dude with red eyes." Yuffie said and it was like she summoned him or something because he pulled up right as she said that. Rhea blushed when she saw him and Zack snickered.

"I can hear you, Zack Fair!" Rhea exclaimed. Vincent parked his motorcycle and got off to go meet the rest.

"Ugh, why must September be so hot? It feels like July right now and its morning!" Rhea complained, not noticing Vincent approach her until she heard Zack and Reno snickering. She turned around and almost stumbled backwards into Tifa when she saw him.

"Rhea, watch where you stumble. You could've knocked me over." Tifa said as she noticed Rhea's face reddening. Rhea ignored what Tifa said and just gazed at the Vincent.

"H-H-Hi..." Rhea stuttered.

"Hey... how long have you been here?" he asked.

"About 5 or so minutes." she mumbled knowing that if she tried to speak out loud, she would end up stuttering again.

"Oh..." he said before noticing that her eye hasn't healed at all," Kadaj is going to pay for hurting you." Vincent clenched his fist and gritted his teeth before Rhea placed her hands on his fist and shook her head.

"You've done enough...I don't want you getting into more trouble..." Rhea said with her eyes closed. He released his fist and held onto her hands. Yuffie was speechless at the sight. Are they together? How come no one told me? Yuffie thought as she blinked back tears that were threatening to spill over. The short haired girl ran off into the school leaving Tifa behind.

"W-What?" she asked before realizing that Vincent and Rhea were together and Yuffie had a crush on him, "Great!"

"Huh?" Cloud asked.

"Yuffie liked Vincent..." Tifa said. That caught Rhea's attention immediately because her head shot up immediately.

"She what?" Rhea asked, hinting jealousy in her voice but also shock. Tifa dashed into the school followed by Cloud, Zack, Aerith, and by Vincent and Rhea.


The crew met up and sat at their usual table.

"Hey! I forgot to tell you, my parents are leaving for a business trip for 2 whole weeks and we should definitely throw a party!" Zack exclaimed as he sat down at the table.

"I don't know if that's such a good idea. Remember the last party you had?" Rhea said.

"Oh yeah, that party."

Zack's parents were out for the weekend and he had decided to throw a party. Everything was going great until Zack heard the footsteps and everyone ran, not giving him any help. His parents had returned early then expected and Zack was left with the whole mess.

"Zack! We're ho-" his mom said before catching sight of the house. There were cups of half druken alcohol and soda everywhere, plates and bowls were scattered, one of the windows were broken, the sink had food in it and the whole house reeked of alcohol. Zack just stood there, trying to look as innocent as he could even though he was panicking

"ZACHARY FAIR! WHAT ON GAIA WERE YOU DOING? THAT'S IT MISTER! YOU'RE GROUNDED FOR A 3 MONTHS!" his mother shrieked at the top of her lungs.

"M-mom I-I can explain. J-" Zack stuttered.

"GO TO YOUR ROOM! WAIT NO! CLEAN THIS MESS UP AND THEN GO TO YOUR ROOM!" his mother yelled.

Everyone bursted out laughing but Zack who hung his head low.

"This time, it will be different." Zack mumbled.

"That's what you said last time." Cloud stated.

"Well, it will be different!" Zack yelled.

"Ok, ok sheesh!" Cloud said, rolling his eyes and snickering.

"Anyways, party's this weekend at 6:30 pm," Zack began, "and its going to be a big party."

"Please don't tell me that you are planning on inviting the whole school." Rhea said, running her fingers through her hair.

"Not the entire school but maybe half?" Zack said. Rhea rolled her eyes.

"I don't know if my dad will let me go..." Tifa said, sounding slightly sad.

"Yeah, I don't know if my mom will let me go either." Rhea mumbled.

"You can say that you're going to my house and then we'll go to Zack's." Aerith said, trying to make the two girls happy.

"I guess..." the two girls said in unison.

"Yuffie's going to try and tag along so make sure to keep the alcohol away from that girl." Tifa muttered.

"Alright! It's settled then. We'll meet at 6:30." Zack said, pumping his fist into the air. Everyone was having a great time until four familiar faces walked up to the table.

"If you guys are here to start trouble, I don't want to hear it." Vincent stated, eying Kadaj and slowy balling his hand into a fist.

"That's not what we are here for." Sephiroth said, calmly.

"Then what are you here for?" Cloud asked, sternly.

"We're here to say sorry for the trouble we caused yesterday." Sephiroth and Kadaj said, sarcastically while eying the teacher that made apologize.

"Hmmm, not sincere enough." Zack said, smirking.

"We're here to say sor-" the two began but Zack cut them off again.

"Try again." Zack's smirk got more devious.

"We are here to say sorry for the trouble that we caused with you guys yesterday." the two said as sincere as possible while the other two nodded.

"Mor-" Zack said but Aerith cut him off.

"That's enough Zack." Aerith said, leaning on his shoulder. Zack sighed in defeat.

"Fine, we accept." Cloud said, no emotion in his voice. Tifa nodded, Anicula and Reno just sighed and nodded, Zack looked angry but nodded because Aerith forced him to, and Aerith nodded. Kadaj turned over to Vincent and Rhea and noticed that they were sitting fairly close, closer than usual and that her hand was intertwined with his. Kadaj stood there, speechless.

"Are you two going to accept?" Sephiroth asked even though it wasn't really a question.

"Yeah, whatever." Rhea said, no emotion in her voice. Sephiroth nudged Kadaj but he didn't respond.

"Hey, Kadaj. What's wrong?" Sephiroth asked his younger brother. He turned around and saw the expression on his face, "Kadaj? What's wrong?"

"They...she...no...I can't...believe...why..." Kadaj managed to say before backing away from the crew.

"Kadaj?" the older silver haired asked. The younger silver haired boy storm off, not responding to the older one.

"What did you do to upset my little brother?!" Sephiroth asked, getting angry.

"What?" Rhea asked.

"He normally doesn't storm off like that. What did you do?" Sephiroth said as he reached to grab her shoulder but his hand was smacked away by Vincent.

"Don't touch her." he said, putting an arm around her. Sephiroth backed up a little before running off after Kadaj, the other two silver haired boys ran off after Sephiroth.

"What was that about?'' Cloud asked, slightly confused.

"Don't ask me." Zack said and turned to the rest of the crew. They all shook their heads. Zack noticed that Vincent had his arm around Rhea and smirked.

"Awwwww, so cute!" he teased.

"Shut the hell up, Zack." Rhea said, blocking her face with her hand.


Sephiroth managed to find Kadaj in a dark corner of the school, sulking.

"What's wrong?" Sephiroth asked.

"She's taken." Kadaj replied.

"Who?" he asked.

"Her."