A/N: I didn't know exactly how to get Angeal's memory back, so I decided to do something really cheesy... Spoiler whoops. my bad...

It's officially the gods of this world want to ruin my life. I swear to god that they do, they take my mom away from me, they make my dad mad at me for running away with Zack and they make him lose his memory of me, and now my car is in pieces. What did I do to deserve this? WHAT?

Sephiroth and Genesis went around the house with Angeal looking at the photos that were mostly hanging on every ceiling and on every shelf, trying to see if any of them trigger a memory. Zack and I were up in the attic looking for boxes of old stuff that Grandma had given to him when he moved out.

The attic was musty and very dusty. It was rather disgusting, and freezing. Zack was standing on the ladder while I was in the attic doing the dirty work.

"Eww…. SPIDER! SPIDER!" I screamed as I jumped onto an old dresser.

"Your in SOLDIER and you're afraid of spiders?" Zack said laughing.

"Don't laugh! It…it was huge!"

"Really?"

"Yes really…" I mumbled, not sure if he could hear me. He was on the other side of the attic. Although we live in a town house type house, the attic was pretty huge or at least long. "Here, I think this is the last box."

Zack took the box and went down the ladder. I grabbed an old dusty stuff animal that I saw in a nearby box and threw it at him.

"AHH! SPIDER! SPIDER!" Zack screamed tossing the stuffed animal away and hitting himself to wipe away the so called spider. I laughed hysterically, and I fell from the attic, but my feet got tangled in the ladder. So I was hanging upside down on the ladder laughing.

When Zack stopped laughing, he glared at me. "Haha. Very funny."

I couldn't reply, due to laughing. "Help me down."

"Nah, I think your good…" Zack said as he took the boxes downstairs.

"Zack! Help me!"

"What? Can't hear you."

"Zack!"

"What's going on?" Angeal said as he came up the stairs.

"Zack left me to hang…" I said, pretty sure that my head was now red.

"Why?"

"Because I threw a stuffed dusty big spider at him."

"Why?" He said trying to hold a laugh.

"Because he laughed…"

"Ah. I see…" Angeal started to walk away.

"Daddy!" I said grabbing the rim of his white buttoned down shirt. He looked at me and sorrowful eyes. "Angeal…" At this very moment, I don't know what to call him.

Angeal helped me down, and when I was back on solid ground, Angeal still had that sorry look on his face.

"Sorry."

"For what? You didn't do anything. You just helped poor little Layla from an awkward position on the ladder."

He smiled, but it faded. "I'm sorry for not remembering you."

My smile also faded. "I-it's not your fault… But I hope you can remember. I mean, your in a house full of memories. It will just take some time…" I kissed his check and gave him a smile before heading back down stairs.

"Is he okay?" Aunt Riona said attacking me with a hug.

"Huh?" I was surprised, I knew that she and Grandma were out having dinner, but I didn't know that they would be back so soon.

"Your father! Is he okay?"

"I-I guess…" I was still on the stairs FYI.

"What do you mean 'you guess'?"

"Well…uhhh… Angeal is healthy… it's just-"

"Angeal!" Aunt Riona basically just pushed me to the side of the stairs so that she could run up to Angeal and hug him and ask him tons of questions.

I shook my head and went downstairs to see Grandma was still at the front door. I helped her take off her coat and sat down with her on the couch. Genesis brought us cups of tea and coffee.

"So is everything really okay with Angeal?" She asked as I gave her tea cup to her.

"Healthy. There is one…problem though…."

"What? What is it?" Grandma said placing her cup down on her lap.

"He… he doesn't remember me." Grandma's face frowned a bit, but she placed one of her hands on my check and pecked me on the forehead.

"He will. You just have to get his brain a good whacking." She smiled and gave me a wink. I smiled back.

The next day was a quiet start to the morning. Zack had gone back home to freshen up and get a change of clothes, along with Genesis and Sephiroth. Grandma made her family famous M&M pancakes while Aunt Riona made eggs. Angeal wanted to help around, but both grandma and Riona told him to sit down and to relax.

When I got down stairs, Angeal was reclined in the recliner flipping through the channels on the TV. He nodded when I walk through the living room and into the kitchen.

"Hmmm… smells yummy." I said as I took a seat on the high chair behind the counter. "Any help?"

"No thank you dear," Grandma said smiling. "Why don't you go chat up a storm with your father… you know. Try to jog his memory."

Aunt Riona was going to say something but Grandma shushed her. I gave her a smile and went back into the living room. I sat on the couch and hugged one of the couch pillows.

"How you feeling?" I asked.

Angeal turned off the TV, finding nothing on to interest him. "Okay. A little sore, but good. How about you?"

I stretched. "Tired," I yawned. "Remember anything?"

Angeal shook his head. "No… sorry…Although I do remember something. It's a bit blurry though…"

"Well try your best to describe it, but maybe I can try to tell you what it is. And maybe that will help."

Angeal closed his eyes and took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "It's cold, and it's snowing. Maki... Maki's there. She's smiling and laughing. She kisses my lips and runs off with someone... She runs off with a little girl... The little girl is blurry, but she's saying something... I think she's calling out 'mommy'. Maki...she lifts the girl into her arms and hugs her...and then... the scenary...it changes..."

"Changes to what? What do you see?"

"Ice. We're on an ice skating rink. Maki's teaching the littler girl how to skate. I'm standing near them...with...with a video camera..."

"A video camera?" I basically shouted. Causing Angeal to open his eyes and give me a look. "Sorry... But god! I'm so stupid!"

"Is everything okay?" Grandma comes in holding a mixer bowl and a wooden spoon.

"Yes. Everything is fine, Grandma. I just forgot something that could drastically help Angeal regain his memory! God I'm so stupid! Someone call the guys!" I yelled as I ran upstairs looking through my closet. I was looking for home movies. I knew there was a lot of them. Mom wanted the memories to last, so when she was in high school she bought a camera and recorded everything. She had gotten Angeal into it while they were dating, and she made sure that didn't miss a single day when I was born.

The videos were in my room, because the last time we watched them was sometime ago. I was bored one vacation and decided to go through the movies. And all I remember was shoving them in my closet in a box. Half of the videos were video tapes, and the rest were made into DVDs.

By the time that I found the three boxes worth of home movies, Sephiroth, Genesis and Zack were already over. Zack had help me bring down the boxes. Took me about 15 minutes to find the very first movie that mom had made with my dad. Their first date.

"I thought this was about restoring Angeal's memories about you." Genesis said.

"It is..." I said plugging in the VCR from my room to the living room TV.

"Then why are we watching the first date of Angeal and Maki?"

"Because... I want too... besides... it has me in it... I'm just... not... conceived...yet... awkward..." I put in the video tape and sat down between Angeal and Zack.

The tape started with Maki just in a bathroom towel. "Riona! What are you doing?" She said laughing, holding her towel.

"Recording you! Your going on your first date with this guy! I need to record you!" Riona said laughing.

The scene cut to Maki putting on a red dress. It was a spaghetti strap that went a little above the knees and went to about her ankles from the back. (imagine this dress just in the color of red: .?BRANCH=7~72~&ProductDisplayID=14504&dept=Venus+ClothingDresses&prod=shoulder+tie+dress)

Riona had put the camera on Maki's dresser, while Maki sat down in a director's chair. Riona began doing Maki's long dark brown hair, while she talked to the camera.

"Hello future self! If you are watching this from...whatever years into the future and you don't remember why your dressing up...it's because you are about to go on your first date with a handsome SOLDIER, name Angeal Hewley." Maki said smiling, you can notice that Riona too was smiling. Even right now, Rion's smiling and crying from remembering her older sister. I hand my loving aunt a box of tissues as she mouth the words "thank you."

"You should tell your future self on how you met this older man." Riona said as she grabbed a curler.

"Hahaha. He's only two years older than me, Riona. Not much of a difference. But you are right, I shall tell my future self on how I met this man. I met him two days ago. I was... trying out my new roller blades, it's nothing like ice skating but it's close... anyway... I was trying them out in the city and he was at a coffee stand with his friends... " Maki laughed. "I didn't know how to stop, and I accidently crashed into him...We exchanged names... and it was like time stopped. We just looked at each other's eyes. And his eyes... god... they were beautiful. And I blurted out if he wanted to go out on a date..."

"Yeah, that's right. You heard her correctly. My own older loving sister was the one to ask and not the man himself. Brave..."

"Oh shut up, Ri!" Maki said laughing,. "Anyway... since it will be somewhat awkward to bring a camera to our first date. Riona is going to stalk us with our brother, Axel."

The scene changed to a dark summer night with lights all over the city. Rion and Axel was sitting in a car just in front of the restaurant. Maki and Angeal had gotten seats outside and near them, but not to near them so that Angeal couldn't notice.

"Remind me why we're doing this again..." Axel asked.

"Because you can drive, and I can't. And plus both Maki and I agreed that we will pay you. Now be a nice older brother and pay attention to our sister's date!"

"Nah. I'm good. Beside's I can feel how happy she is. You know that twin thing that we got..."

"Dumb twins..."

"What?"

"Nothing..."

The camera zoomed onto Maki and Angeal who were both smiling while looking at the menu of the restaurant. Then the scene changed to Angeal holding Maki's hand while she walked on the edge of the bench. You can somewhat hear Angeal and Maki's voice.

"Come down from the bench. I don't want you to hurt yourself." Angeal said as held Maki's hand.

"I'll come down if you promise that you will dance with me at Dancing Square!" Maki smiled.

Angeal sighed and gave Maki a smile. "Okay, I promise."

"Yay!" Maki said jumping into Angeal's arms, who spun her around then gently placed her back on to solid ground.

The scene changed once again. This time it was at Dancing Square. Dancing Square was a place downtown that music will play and anyone can dance. It was also broadcast live, though some didn't know that and where doing the craziest dance moves that no one has ever seen. Marky Mark was the host of Dancing Square, he was also the owner. I remember meeting him once, with mom. She told me that Marky Mark's real name was Marcus Queens, and that Marky Mark was just a nickname.

"The next song is Once Upon a December! So pick a partner and start dancing!" Marky Mark said on the mic. Riona and Axel got front row seats. For those who don't dance or just want to watch, can sit down and eat. Dancing Square was outside in the streets of the city, the streets would be closed to cars but open to walkers. It's complicated to explain...

Riona or Axel or whoever had the camera zoomed up to Maki and Angeal who Maki, lead on to the dance floor. The music began and Maki had helped Angeal get into the dancing position. Then he was all set from there. He lead while Maki was getting impressed. They danced around other dancers, and eventually went near Axel and Riona (not knowing it of course). And when the song ended, they slowed down and Angeal kissed her, you could see Maki's eyes widen and kiss him back.

We went through the movies very quickly. We watched as my parent's relationship progressed, to their many months of dating, the day that Angeal finally proposed to Maki, to the day that they got married. Angeal was crying at some point. Then we finally had to watch the day I was born. I mean had. I actually wanted to skip that movie. But Genesis said no, and insisted on it. There was nothing that I could do or say to stop him. So while my mother gave birth to me, I was in the bathroom with Zack who was throwing up.

After that we began to watch most of the movies of me. From the day I was born, to the my first steps, and till the day we stopped recording, which was the day that my mother had died. And during those last few moments of watching my mother's funeral, everyone was quiet and shedding their tears, and even those who I thought never shed a single tear. I was putting all the movies away until Angeal had slipped another one that we hadn't watched. He said that the title had seemed very familiar to him.

And it did. The movie started out as what he was describing to me earlier. Maki was teaching me how to ice skate, smiling and kissing me everytime that I fell down. Angeal was recording, until Maki had taken the camera away saying it was his turn. Angeal had skated towards little me, and swooped little me up. Little Layla was giggling and smiling so was Angeal.

Angeal paused the video. "I-I remember..." Everyone looked at him. "I remember. I remember having a daughter. I remember her being so cute. I remember her first day of school, and how she would never let go of Maki's hand or my leg...I remember...everything... Laya."

"Daddy? You-you remember me?" Tears were on the verge of letting out, and eventually started to flow.

"Of course. I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry that I forgot. I can't believe that forgot my baby. My precious Ice Skating Princess." I gave him a hug while he was still sitting on the chair, I buried my face onto his chest and began bawling my eyes out. He kissed my head, and began combing my hair with his hands. "Thank you for making me remember everything, Lay."

"Your welcome..."

"Although... I really wish to forget the fact that you are dating Zachary... and do you want to tell me when you joined SOLDIER?" I pulled back to see my father's face.

"DADDY! YOUR BACK!" I said kissing his face and hugging him tighter.

"ANGEAL!" Zack said crying also, hugging him.

"Zack get off! Your dating my daughter! I don't want to talk to – are you guys are just going to sit- That's not what I meant! Not you too mom!" We all gave Angeal a hug pile.

My loving father is back.

A/N: See cheesy. I don't really like it... and I don't like how I ended it... Now I don't know what the next chapter will be. haha...