My Guilty Pleasures

by BANEHiwatari

I had nothing left. I was the black sheep of the family who witnessed her parents and brothers get killed. Then, they came to me under the condition that I'd look after them. They came and became my new family. Then, they left... GenesisxOC Sequal is up!

21. Chapter IXX: Ending with Idiocy!

Chapter IXX: Ending with Idiocy!

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The bell rang and I stood up from my seat amongst a pitying silence-filled table. "We have to get to our next class. All of our classes are in the same hallway."

On the walk to our classes, the others tried to get me to talk to them. We departed from Adiana as we headed towards the History section of the hall. I pointed to the door across the hall for Reno, the door next to us for Yazoo, and the hidden door in the side corridor for Weiss and the other two seniors. While not speaking, I led the rest into our history classroom.

They sat close to me and continued to get me to talk. As the other members of the class entered, I began to remember my brother. My eldest brother was the best older brother I could ever want. He would surprise me with random gifts. I always loved them, though. He got me the books I wanted, and even gifts that I never said I wanted. He just knew. That's why I can't have him replaced. I can't have anyone who died replaced, especially if they were close to me.

I ignored Kadaj's poking. He had been trying to get my attention by doing many random things. I guess he ran out of ideas. That's why he resorted to poking the silence out of me. It wouldn't have worked if I was emotionally stable, but I wasn't.

I slapped his hand away, "Leave me to my misery, Kadaj."

He wouldn't accept that. Grabbing my hand before I could pull back, he began to beg me, "Please talk to us! I'm sorry for hurting you and bringing up bad memories! So please don't ignore us!"

I don't like it when people beg me, so I immediately caved. "Fine. Just don't bring that subject up again."

Kadaj, Zack, and Cloud nodded furiously, "We promise!"

The bell rang and two figured walked into class. Mr. E and Tseng… wait. Did he even have a last name?

"Alright class, sit in your seats." Mr. E announced weakly. Once the class had silenced, Mr. E made a 'very important announcement'. "I have a very important announcement to make." He gestured to Tseng, "Mr. Camui here is our new student teacher. He'll be teaching some of our lessons, so be nice to him!"

My right eye twitched. Camui? Of all the last names in the world, it had to be Camui? I began to quietly bang my head against the desk as I sat in the back.

Zack poked me. "What in the world do you think you're doing?"

I stopped and turned to face him, "Tseng chose the last name of my idol… THIS SUCKS!" I wailed, giving my head a final bang on the desk.

"Are you feeling alright, Maigen?" Tseng asked, blowing his cover. "I'll call Rude to take you home if you're not feeling alright."

I groaned, "Didn't Rufus tell you to not blow your cover?"

Tseng nodded, "But you are under our jurisdiction. So if I feel the need to, I am allowed to forget my instructions."

Mr. E glanced between us, "Do you two know each other?"

Tseng nodded, "She's my niece."

I headdesked, again, while whispering to Zack, Cloud, and Kadaj. "Nobody tells me anything!"

Kadaj pat my back in an attempt at comfort, "We're sorry, little sister."

I sighed, "There is nothing you can do about it."

Mr. E nervously began class again, "We have some knew students today, so why don't we all introduce ourselves and tell what we did over the summer and the past few months."

Mr. E started it off with the row closest to the exit. We were in the rows closest to the window, which was basically the last row there. I liked being near the window because there was always a nice breeze for me, although it would be a pain during the spring because of my allergies. Most of the responses and introductions were half-assed and the same. The normal 'I stayed home and did nothing' response from most people.

When it got to me, I merely lifted my head from the desk and grunted, "My name is Maigen Tsurugi. You all know that. I went to Japan this summer and over the past few months… I spent it in a mini coma. I'm done."

Simple right? Well not for the other three. With them, they had to explain who they were and where they came from.

Kadaj's response was spontaneous, "I'm Kadaj Angelus. I used to live in New York with my three big brothers. I'm Maigen's cousin 6th cousin on her mother's side. Maigen's like a little sister, so don't mess with her. Over the summer, my siblings and I went to Japan with Maigen. Over the past few months I stayed with Maigen in the hospital."

Cloud's response was less detailed, "I'm Cloud Strife. Yes I look like an anime character and no I don't use gel on my hair. I'm one of Maigen's childhood friends. We grew up together with Zack in Harrison. Over the summer, I went to Canada. The past few months were hectic, so I'd rather not say."

Zack's response was optimistic and… unnerving. "Okay! I'm Zack. My last name's Fair. But feel free to call me Zack. I'm Maigen's childhood friend along with Cloud. We've all known each other since were like newborns… Wellllll Maigen was the newborn. Cloud and I were already one year old. Our parents were all pretty close. Just so you know, we're very close."

Ryan spoke out loud, "How close? Like siblings close? Lovers?"

"So close that our parents made us bathe together when we were little." Zack replied without missing a beat. I groaned and proceeded to headdesk after hearing that lie come out of his mouth. Zack turned to me. "You know that you're going to get a concussion if you keep doing that, right?"

I glared at him while hold my fist threateningly. "I'll give you a concussion if you don't stop with the lies!"

I believe Zack wanted to dig the hole he was in even deeper. "But we all saw your baby videos, Maigen. We looked so cute in the bath together!" lies… they were all lies!

I glared at his attempt to make everything look convincing. I rubbed the back of my neck, "Cloud wasn't with us was he?" I hoped not.

Zack did not notice. "Yep! He was in fact playing with a rubber duck the whole time we had the water fight."

I sunk into my seat, while Cloud blushed and Kadaj sneered. "Please stop Zack. It embarrassing."

Kadaj snaked an arm around my shoulders. "Be careful when you sleep tonight, Zack. If you keep this up, I'll use Souba and end you."

Zack grinned, "Fine. This summer, I went with Cloud to Canada."

A hand raised into the air. "Are you two together?"

Zack grinned, "Maigen and I? Maybe. Does it look like it?"

The person who raised their hand was Amber. "No. I meant you and Cloud."

"W-wha? We're not gay!" Cloud exclaimed in disbelief.

"Are you sure?" she pressed.

"Amber, if they're gay, they're gay. You shouldn't be in other people's business." Mr. E scolded. At least he could do something right…

"They're not gay!" I exclaimed.

"Oh yeah? Prove it!" she yelled.

"Fine how?" Zack sighed.

"You have to kiss… Maigen." She responded.

I fell out of my chair and onto the floor. I stayed there, unmoving from the surprise. I wanted to say something against it. It was going to be my first kiss after all… but I don't mind getting kissed by Zack or Cloud… or Kadaj… but since he's my 'cousin' isn't that wrong?

Luckily, I didn't have to say anything because surprise, surprise, Kadaj came to my rescue, again. "No one is going to steal little sister's first kiss!"

The bell rang and I bolted out of there with Zack, Cloud, and Kadaj in tow. We saw the others waiting outside for us. "Follow me! I told them."

As we started up the stairs I turned to the troublesome trio, "We shall never speak of this ever again?"

"Deal." They replied in sync.

Next period was Orchestra and from what I hear, Vincent was teaching it. I braced myself for the lesson. Walking into the Orchestra room I saw a young man in his late twenties wearing black slacks, and a blood red dress shirt with a black tie. I blinked… "Vincent?" His head turned toward me, and it was indeed our lovely, sexy, gunman vampire. "You cut your hair back to the way it was as a Turk?"

His blood red eyes locked with mine as he nodded. "I read that long hair wasn't widely accepted in this world for men. So I decided to have the way it was before." I began to drool… hey you would too if you were in my place. "All of you take a seat. Maigen, go get your violin."

I nodded and left my stuff on my seat. Walking into the chorus room, I opened the locker containing my precious instrument. I noticed random squealing in the other room and yelling. I stalked back into the room and glared at the scene before me.

Three to four hormone overloaded girls were surrounding the gang. I could tell that they were making the guys uncomfortable. Walking up to Vincent I tugged his arm. "What's going on here, Mr. Valentine?"

The girls stared at me, "Do you see what we're seeing, Maigen?"

"Yeah, how can you not just, *moans."

I scrunch my face in disgust, "Don't tell me you're thinking what I think you're thinking."

They shrugged, "Why not? We want to do sooooo many things to them."

I turned green and ran over to the trashcan. Once there, I proceeded to yak out my lunch. My nickname in school wasn't 'Maigen the psychotic prude' for no reason. After hacking my guts out, I went to retrieve my water bottle and proceeded to rinse the nasty taste from my mouth.

Reno glanced at me in distress, "Are you going to be okay, Maigen?"

I shook my head for the negative. "No one speak like that in front of me ever for the next few years. Ever." I growled out.

Vincent saved the day this time. "I'll be your teacher for Orchestra this year. I'm Mr. Valentine to you and I expect that you will all play extraordinarily for the upcoming concert."

By now, all of the Orchestra had arrived. We were all honor students… well, most of us. The worthless students, who weren't there to play, were kicked out in the beginning of the first week of school. Papers were handed out to everyone. I stared at the paper before shrugging and taking out a black pen.

What kind of music can you play?

All kinds… I prefer music from video games like Final Fantasy VII… I also like Japanese Rock… but we live in the US.

Can you play an advanced song? Intermediate? Beginner?

I can play all three. The most difficult song that I've played was Those Who Fight from the video game Final Fantasy VII and One Winged Angel from the same franchise…

Please list the instruments you can play.

Violin; Piano; Trumpet; Flute; Cello; Viola; Percussion; Guitar; Bass Guitar.

What are the songs you wish to play in the spring concert? This year the theme is media.

I want to play… a lot of songs from FFVII… you should know what it stands for by now… I'm practically obsessed with the franchise. I guess most of the songs I want to play are from FFVII Crisis Core. You decide which songs!

After filling it out to the fullest of my ability, I wordlessly handed it back to Vincent. I glanced at Weiss and the others, who looked surprisingly amused with the survey. I tapped Zack on the shoulder, "Do any of you know how to play an instrument?"

Zack nodded, "I played the guitar for a while."

Cloud raised his head, "I played drums."

Reno stuck his head between Zack and I, "I played trumpet and cello."

Vincent walked up to us all, "This class will change to support all music. All instruments are accepted."

I grinned cheekily, "This is my new favorite class."

Vincent ignored my comment, which made me pout and sulk quietly in my seat. "This survey will tell me how capable this class is. If I do not find this class worthy of playing more challenging pieces, then we shall simply play the pieces that Mr. Furia left for us."

We all nodded and most continued to fill out the surveys. Lucky for me, Vincent skipped introductions! I'm so happy! Suddenly, the announcement system came on.

Attention all students. This year Mr. Hewley will be directing the school play. According to the votes from several anonymous people, the play shall be a version of Alice in Wonderland. Please report to the auditorium after school for auditions. All teachers are invited to join in on the audition.

Many whispers filled the room.

"Are you going to try out for the play?"

"Maybe. I'm not that good at acting."

"I'm going to get the leading role for sure!"

"Tsk. Don't be so sure."

Brenda's face popped in front of mine. "Are you going to audition for the play, Maigen?"

I stared at the ceiling. "I don't plan to." Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep! "Well. It's time for the last period."

Diane ran into the room and started dragging me to the next class. "Let's go Maigen." She claimed in her squeaky voice.

I gestured for everyone to follow us. They did… After all, I was the only girl not overflowing with hormones, that'll give them directions without flirting. I don't even think I flirt. Period.

As we received looks from random unimportant people, I verbally directed the upperclassmen of our group to their classes. Diane just dragged me to Biology with Zack, Kadaj, and Cloud on our tails.

Mrs. Konnor did the whole introduce the new kids thing, but no long monologue like almost all the other classes did. We studied how biological chemicals react with each other. This required a lab experiment.

"Remember not to mix these two chemicals." She said pointing to the white board.

Our assignment was to mix the chemicals she gave us and record the reaction. There were two groups and we competed against each other for extra credit. Lucky me, I got Zack, Cloud, and Kadaj on my team. At least now I could keep an eye on both of them. I guess we got lucky. My group could follow directions to the letter… all of the reactions we got were very minor. No explosions or expansions.

The other team, however, was a different story. They went and put water with nitrogen to freeze the water so that they could drop it into gasoline… I don't even want to know what else they did. But whatever they mixed together ended in a violent expansion on their side of the room.

When the screaming started, our group had finished the project. To me, the expansion looked like a giant marshmallow. I really wanted to see what it tasted like… O.o

Of course, I had to go all little brother-like. "It's a… GIANT MARSHMALLOW!" I exclaimed, throwing my arms into the air like the idiot I was. "I wonder if it's friendly."

I was promptly dragged out of the room after that. "Of course it's not friendly! The thing's swallowing up the entire room!" Zack yelled out. He handed me my belongings as the teacher scolded the other team for not following directions. "The room's a mess, but at least the day's almost over."

I nodded in agreement and sat down next to Kadaj. "I'm tired, so I think I'll head straight home after this."

"Oh no you won't." a melodic voice came from my left.

I lazily turned my head to find that Genesis was standing right next to me with his arms crossed. "What do you want, Mr. Rhapsodos?"

Genesis huffed, "You're all going to audition for the play today."

I raised a hand. "Do I even get a say in this?"

"No. I'm your teacher. If you don't do it, I'll fail you for the rest of the year." Genesis claimed.

I made a noise of protest, but the look he gave me told me that he was serious. I sighed and continued to lie on the floor next to Kadaj. "I'm too lazy to go."

Genesis sighed and bent down to pick me up. "If you don't go yourself, then I'll have to carry you there." He lifted my body up without really trying.

I struggled to free myself from his grasp. "N-no! This is embarrassing! We're in a school!"

"Then don't make such a fuss and nobody will know." Genesis retaliated.

I continued to struggle, "Why do I even have to audition for the play? I've never acted before!"

Genesis laughed, "If you are as intelligent as I made you out to be, you'll do just fine."

I growled and began to lightly pull at his hair, "Let me go and I won't pull."

He paused in his steps, gaining the attention of the gang. "You'll pull my hair if I don't let go?" he questioned with an air of arrogance. "If you pull my hair, I'll drop you and leave you to deal with your injuries." He let me drop a little when I let go, causing me to whimper, before he caught me again. He heard my whimper, which made him smirk at me.

Of course I didn't see. My eyes were closed tightly as I clung to his neck. "P-please don't do that again." I begged when I opened my eyes again. Seeing the smirk plastered onto his face, I pouted. "You tricked me!"

He smirked bitterly, "Your world already knows of me. So why are you so surprised of my actions."

I frowned, "You were the enemy in the game, Genesis. We as the gamers, played as the protagonist. Not much was known about you except that you disliked Sephiroth's reputation and that you were arrogant and childish. A little bit of your past was revealed, but I'm not sure if you should know the rest."

Zack strolled alongside us. "So did it say anything about me?"

I laughed at Genesis's annoyance. The attention was no longer to him. "You Zack are the main character of one of the video games. You become a hero."

Zack jumped up and down, "Sweet!"

I smiled at him. He didn't need to know that his heroism was inherited by Cloud because he dies. He also doesn't need to know that Angeal and Sephiroth die too.

We entered the auditorium and Genesis set me down. I shivered. "Man I love this place."

Angeal came up to me, "Are you going to audition?"

I nodded, "Genesis is practically making me."

Angeal handed me a script for Alice. "I know. We all wanted you in on the play. We agreed that you should be Alice."

I quirked an eyebrow, "You seem like you're confident that I'll get it."

Genesis pulled me with him onto the stage. "With my instruction, you'll get it before your script is over. All you have to act out is the beginning."

I watched nervously as more and more people lined themselves for audition. "Well? Which part do I start with?"

Angeal glanced at me, "We're doing a different Alice Story. In it, Alice is alone in the world with no one but her twin. Their family calls them filth and they're shunned by society because they were twins that were born on a Friday the 13th. When her twin disappears and is proclaimed dead, Alice decides to end it all when she stumbles upon a deep hole, while chasing a man with white rabbit ears and a bunny tail. However, Time sends her to Wonderland to find another reason to live. One by one, she meets the inhabitants of Wonderland. She eventually falls in love with the Knight of Hearts, aka Genesis. Finding a reason to live at last, Time gives her a choice to stay in Wonderland or return to the Overworld with her love only. Choosing to live in Wonderland, Alice is finally happy."

Adiana came out of nowhere. "Sounds like a plan to get Maigen and Mr. Rhapsodos together. I'm in!"

"W-what? N-no! I'm doing this so that he doesn't give me a zero!" I stuttered, pointing at Genesis.

"So, you don't want to be with me?" Genesis inquired.

"What?" I asked, confused beyond reason.

Out of nowhere, Angeal whispered, "Read the script."

I stared at the lines, "Oh." Turning to face Genesis, I pretended to think. "I never said that, Ace. We are both from two different worlds. I don't belong in your world. Not many of your neighbors like me."

Genesis took my hand in his, "I don't care if you belong or not. I love you, Alice. Any world you're in, I want to be apart of it."

I stared at him with wide eyes, "Do you mean it? You'll stay with me?"

He nodded and touched his forehead to mine. "Until the day I die."

He leaned forward to kiss me on the cheek. That is, until a great slam filled the entire auditorium.

"I'M READY TO RECEIVE THE ROLL OF ALICE!" an annoyingly loud voice called out. "I'M BETTER THAN ALL OF THESE GIRLS, SO JUST HURRY UP AND HAND ME THE SCRIPT!"

My ears rang as I turned to find an old rival of mine. Jade. You remember her right? We encountered her about 10 chapters ago or something.

Angeal shook his head at the woman's idiocy. "The part has been given to Maigen."

"WAIT. WHY?" she screeched shoving me out of center stage.

I frowned and plugged my ears. One name can be given to someone like her. Carlotta. Those of you who know Phantom of the Opera will know what I'm talking about. I gently elbowed Adiana in the ribs before whispering, "Someone just please make her stop talking. I think my eardrums are going to burst."

Adiana snickered and pointed to the remote that she had in her hand. How I didn't notice before, was beyond me. I stared at the remote and shot her a questioning look… well, as much as I could without flinching from the loudness of Jade's babbling.

Adiana nodded towards the button on the remote. "Push it. You know you want to."

Normally I'm not that simple-minded. If I see a button, I won't have the urge to press it. No. This time, I knew that something would happen to the 'Carlotta-double' if I pressed the right buttons. I stared at her, to the remote, back to her, then to Jade before shrugging. Pulling Genesis to us, I rammed my hand onto all the buttons.

Random panels on the auditorium raised and shot confetti, rubber balls, firecrackers, water, feathers, glitter, you name it onto the 'Carlotta-double'. Her cry of outrage, and surprise pleased us all and as she ran from the room yelling about lawsuits, we all collapsed laughing.

"That was genius, Adiana!" I smirked.

She grinned at me, "These features weren't used for a long time. They were originally installed for special effects. But up until a few days ago, the school had banned their use. We've never been able to use it until now."

I eyed the control, "That's nice to know."

After the entirety of the laughing students had recovered, Angeal resumed audition of the roles… I had suspected that only Genesis and I were going to be the only ones in the play, but I was wrong. I seem to be wrong a lot these past few months… and it was annoying the hell out of me!

Anyways… Sephiroth ended up dragging the rest of our gang to the auditorium for auditions, before getting in line himself. Don't give me that look. Teachers can be in the play too, you know.

I guess you can say that all of us got major rolls… Here's the cast:

Alice's New Life in Wonderland: Directed by Angeal Hewley

Alice Liddell: Maigen Tsurugi (yep! That's me!)

Mad Hatter (Joshua Blood aka Night Liddell): Zack Fair

March Hare (Atticus March): Cloud Strife

Cheshire Cat (Cheshire Villers): Kadaj Angelus and Yazoo Angelus

Dormouse (Pierce Villers): Loz Angelus

White Rabbit (Grim White): Weiss Schiffer

Queen of Hearts (Vivian Gatonus): Adiana Perez

King of Hearts (Helios Sol): Reno Lea Destler

Knight/Knave of Hearts (Ace Spades): Genesis Rhapsodos

Tweedle Dee (Dee Keepers): Terra Tresdecem (a friend that was with me since I was a baby… Zack took Terra's place when we were doing introductions in periods 9 and 10.)

Tweedle Dum (Dum Keepers): Ignis Tresdecem (same thing except Cloud took his place. This means that Terra and Ignis were the two childhood friends in the little History embarrassment act. My mother just had to film Terra, Ignis, and I in the bath didn't she.)

Dutchess (Mary Gowland): Barbara Goltank (Adiana's worst enemy… she has a boyfriend already, so she's not important to the story!)

Time (Nox Chrono): Sephiroth Angelus

Caterpillar (Absolom Chain): Tseng Camui (Yes, I'm still not over that)

Lizard (Kuro Rings): Nero Schiffer

Joker (Jack Nightray): Vincent Valentine

On the car ride home, I stared at Angeal, "Did you by any chance read my Heart-no-kuni-no-Kiss manga?"

Angeal stared right back. "I did. I thought it was called 'Alice in the Land of Hearts'."

I stared at the cast list again. "This play isn't based off the manga is it?"

Angeal shrugged, "I have no imagination, Maigen. You should know that."

I sighed, "Please don't tell me that it's a harem."

Angeal remained silent. My eyes widened. "Oh s*^!"

It came as a shocker and some sort of horror to me, but it spiced up my day because that night was boring. I thank Genesis, Angeal, and Tseng for not giving me homework to do over the day off. That night… I introduced Angeal to some new recipes that my mother taught me before she died. I have got to say. Angeal learns quickly. He got the recipe for my mom's pasta in one try… with me giving him instructions of course. We also tried to make several new dishes from my big brother's cookbooks. I guess dinner was pretty big tonight.

After dinner, I went up to my room to make the funeral invitation list. I guess 200 people was overdoing it, but many loved my family. Even though they weren't related. Mr. Long got back to me on inviting some people from Rooster Teeth. They agreed to come, even though they didn't know us. Nice people, right?

I sent out invites to relatives overseas, too. I guess my uncles and aunts overseas loved us more than the relatives over here. They replied immediately. They were coming over next week. I also sent them an email explaining Genesis and the others… they thought it was pretty strange that grown men were living with me… I got them to chat on Skype with Angeal, Rufus, Tseng, and Sephiroth… they let it go with a warning: DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MAIGEN.

After sending out invitations via email and getting responses that they'll be attending from every invite, I called Mr. Long over the day off the list the people and who was attending. Funeral arrangements are depressing. Now that all that was finished, all there was left to do was to attend the funeral.

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Bane: Writers block sucks!

Readers: I agree! It makes you update slower!

Bane: and it prevents me from giving more effort on the sequel.

Readers: At least you're giving us a sequel!

Genesis: But I hate how this story turns out in the end…

Bane: shhhhh don't give them spoilers

Zack: At least she told us what'll happen…

Bane: I said shhhhh!

Sephiroth: Calm down.

Bane: Fine. Just so the readers know, the end of this story is depressing…

Angeal: I thought you said no spoilers.

Bane: that isn't a spoiler. It's how I felt while writing it!

Reno: bull!

Bane: anyways. Please review.

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Well, I've got tennis soon, so see you!