Please forgive me if my story doesn't quite follow the game, I didn't really want it to….but please enjoy it ^_~

Aeris was gathering her flowers in a basket and getting ready to sell them…….she never made very much money, only 1 gil for each flower….but sometimes a group of perverted guys would come up and hit on her and hopefully buy a flower……..she knew it wasn't the best life, but nevertheless, but was a sweet, beautiful, and content girl.

She went out to the streets. She saw a guy with blonde spiky hair walking toward her. She asked if he would buy a flower, and noticed how his eyes looked the "blue" way…..she decided not to ask anything.

"Do you want to buy a flower? Only 1 gil" She said joyfully.

"I don't see many around here….sure" Said the blonde haired man.

"Thank you very much……" She said taking the gil.

She thought about how cute he was, and he wasn't rude or perverted like most of the males who came to her. She also thought about how much he looked like her old boyfriend…….Zack……which made her slightly uncomfortable…….but she tried not the think about it.

Later, but was at the church were her flowers grew. Suddenly, something came crashing down on her. It was the guy in the street she met earlier……

Aeris looked at the man. He woke up.

Are you alright?" She said worried.

"Yeah……how a I ok?" He said.

Aeris smiled. "You landed on my flowers which caught your fall. You also landed on me…..but, I am alright.

"So what is your name?'' She said happily.

"Cloud Stife…..I do pretty much everthing" He said.

"A jack of all trades huh? My name is Aeris, pleasure to meet you."

"Pleasure to meet you too" Cloud said, admiring how beautiful she was.

"The flowers for some reason have no trouble growing here……"

Wait before I continue, this is where I make up the story instead of using the games plot. Please don't kill me if how the characters act is a little off…..exp. Cloud might be a little more nice and soft……hehe, he cant be cold like he is in the game ^_^

"Cloud, would you like to go somewhere with me?" said Aeris, a little shyly.

"Sure," replied Cloud

Cloud was thinking about how nice she was being to him, and how pretty he thought she was………………but he knew he wasn't acting like himself.

"So…..um……so you have a girlfriend?" Aeris asked, wanting him to say no.

"Well, I don't know…..there is this girl named Tifa that is reallt attached to, but I don't really consider her a girlfriend…more like a sister to me."

"Ohhhhhh," Aeris said a little relieved.

She had never taken this much interest in a person she had just met, but there was something about him that comforted her………maybe she should meet this Tifa and find out a little mor about him…….or just find out herself.

Cloud was thinking of how quiet is was and wanted to talk more to this mysterious girl. Something about her made him feel like he could say anything.

"So…………where do you live?" he asked.

"In a little house with me step-mother" She said cheerfully.

She is always so cheerful and nice, I should really try hard to be nice back to her………

"Um, what's on your mind?" She asked.

"Well…………um……yo" He stopped before he could say the word "you". So he said something incredibly stupid.

Uh…….Tifa" He said, not really knwong what he had just said.

"Oh…….i see" Aeris said rather disappointed.

"No, I meant…….uh…..Aeris, I have to tell you something……"

"What is it?"

"Even though I just met you…..there is something about you…….that makes me feel like saying anything without worries……."

"Oh, Cloud, I am really glad to hear you say that…………..I feel that same way…….but I don't know why………you are kind of like my old boyfriend……..Zack….."

"Zack? Old boyfriend?"

"Yes…..i don't know where he is almore, sadly……you are almost exactly like him……" She said shyly

"I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing…"

"It's a very good thing" She said with a smile on her face.

Later, Aeris was at home and Cloud was at Tifa's bar.

Cloud could not stop thinking about Aeris. How her smile seemed to brighten up his whole day, how her eyes glowed so lovingly, how beautiful she was……how kind she was…..

Aeris could not stop thinking about Cloud either. She knew it probably wasn't right to feel this way about someone you just meet, but she loved him.

"Hey Tifa, I met this girl today," Cloud said to Tifa.

"Really? Who? What did she look like?" She said a little upset.

"Her name was Aeris, and she was like the most wonderful person I have ever met…" He just figured out what he had just said, and said a little back up after looking at Tifa's disappointed face.

"Kind of like you…." Cloud said knowing that it wasn't really true, because sometimes she pushed him around, but he did love her, but he loved her like a friend.

"Thanks Cloud" She said happily even though she knew Cloud didn't mean it.

Tifa knew sometimes she was to mean and pushy around Cloud, and she tried to stop…….Tifa used to love Cloud, and for some reason after what he had just said, she felt maybe it was best for them to stay close friends………because she knew that Cloud didn't love her that way. But they both knew they loved each other like friends. Just Friends. Nothing more.

A couple of weeks went by, and Aeris and Cloud and visited each other regularly. They had gotton very close.

"Hello?" Aeris said opening the door.

"Hi……." Cloud said a little sheepishly.

"Come in!!!" She said, happy to see him.

"I want to tell you something Aeris…….."