Author: Prodigious Techie
Disclaimer: I'm only gonna write this once, so REMEMBER it. I don't own it! Whoever created Final Fantasy (not listing any of the names) created Final Fantasy. Not me!
Anyway my best friend, DownWLoveChica has been excited and while talking to her on AIM (even though I live 3 blocks from her) or sometimes on the phone, we'd chat up about what we're gonna do next for our stories. She's still Rachel in this story though!
Umm...Ashley owns Ashley, Rachel owns Rachel, I own me, Final Fantasy people belong to Final Fantasy Creators. Nuff said, let's go!
Oh yeah, to let you guys know, this doesn't revolve around the regular story of Final Fantasy so characters are not what they usually are (ex: Sephy not a villain, people don't hate him) in other words, they're OOC. Hmph.
STORY XD
3rd Life: Meeting my friends
I woke up to a wide start as Ashley (the one who shares the house with me along with Tidus...) shook my figure in the bed at 9:00 in the morning. I thought she was out late and probably asleep but noooo she just HAD to check on me when she got home. "Claire, CLAIRE! Wake up, you bitch!" Ashley was never this cruel to her friend, who was only two years older than her, but the fact was Ashley was probably drunk and had a hangover during the double date (mentioned in the first chapter) "AAHHH ASHLEY GET THE FRICK OFF ME!" I screamed as my friend shook my entire body which in turn caused my sprained ankle to move. I almost slapped her but Sephiroth sprang up from somewhere and grabbed my arm before I could slap Ashley. "Calm down, Clarene..." he said. I tried to sit up in bed, but with a sprained ankle you'd barely want to move anyway. Ashley folded her arms and started being annoying. "So who's THIS dude that you slept with?" she said to me, referring to Sephiroth, who still had my arm. He realized this and let me go. He cleared his throat and said, "Excuse me for being rude, but I'm Sephiroth. I met Claire last night after finishing up some business I had to attend to and I noticed she had a sprained ankle. So I took her home...and well, I just did."
"She's probably faked it, you know." Ashley said to Sephiroth, who disliked the guy that I met and apparently who brought me home. Instead Ashley was secretly using Cure on me to heal my sprained ankle and was attempting to get Sephiroth out of the house as possible. Wait--wasn't it Ashley that said that I needed to get a boyfriend? Well actually she said (A/N - let's refer to the previous chapter, shall we?) "Hey Clarene it's Ashley. Tidus and I won't be home tonight cuz we're with Rachel and Squall. I guess you're not home yet since you're not answering, but take care of yourself all right? We don't really like leaving you home while we're out having fun. I just don't see why you wouldn't come with us to the restaurant. I'm sure Tidus and Squall wouldn't have minded." Okay so she never said I could go meet a guy. But Rachel did, didn't she? Let's see...what I can remember from the answering machine...Oh forget it, neither of them said I could have a boyfriend or meet a guy for that matter. What are they doing--treating me like a little kid? I'm two years older than Ashley for Lifestream's sakes! Rachel's two months older than me but she knows not to control me. Geez, I should just tell Ashley...
"I didn't sleep with him, Ashley, for your information! I don't know where you get those crazy notions but you seem to be forgetting that I'm two years older than you, meaning you can't control me! So what if I met a guy last night. It's not like I'm crazy like you, screwing around on the first night--whatever, you're with Tidus, Rachel's with Squall, why can't I just meet someone of my own?" I shouted at her, and ended up breathing hard. I pretty much jumped out of bed when I shouted all this, but Sephiroth caught me instead, knowing I would fall over anyway. "Clarene...your ankle. It's--it doesn't hurt?" he asked. I noticed that it didn't, and blinked. "No." I said. But wasn't it just sprained last night? It takes a couple of weeks for a sprained ankle to heal, why was mine all right all of a sudden? There weren't any apparent swellings, those had gone down as well. My ankle was normal, and I hadn't expected it to be.
"Well, Mr. Sephiroth, it's nice to see you but it's probably best you be on your way now." Ashley was being rude as she wasn't used to other guys being inside our house...except her boyfriend Tidus...who I don't think is attractive for that matter (Ashley don't kill me.) "N--no, that's not necessary, Ashley! Really, he helped me off the streets and you wouldn't have cared one bit...or even noticed for that matter! Err...umm...OKAY, Sephiroth, let's just go." I said, not knowing what the HELL I exactly said but I took his hand and ran down the stairs into the living room, where Tidus was, apparently watching hentai and not knowing that Sephiroth was there. "Oh hey Claire, I was wondering what happened to you last night. I heard you didn't pick up the phone? Oh well. Oh hey there, who are you?" Tidus said. He spoke to me first then Sephiroth, that's when he asked the "Who are you?" question. Sephiroth nodded upwards to greet Tidus. "I'm Sephiroth, a friend of Clarene's. Whatcha watching, and what's your name?" "I'm Tidus, the man of the house and I'm watching all these dvds I bought. Awesome stuff--all this hentai--ya gotta watch!" (A/N - It's an idea from Ashley XD, figured I was gonna have to use it sooner or later, turns out to be sooner) Ashley was infuriated, and still in my room. I heard her stomp out and get to the balcony at the edge of the stairs, yelling to Tidus. "Baby, she SLEPT with a guy in her room last night and didn't even tell us, when we were worried!" she declared out. Sephiroth made a face and I blushed beet red. Horribly. "So THAT's what you were up to, Clarene, I didn't know ya had it in ya!" Tidus smiled and lauged with approval. He slapped Sephiroth on the back, who was sitting next to him. "She's a really nice girl, that Clarene, I think ya should get to know her, ya know?" Okay, so Tidus approved, but Ashley didn't. This is gonna take some time...but I think it'd be better if I brought Sephiroth to Rachel first.
And so I did. Within minutes of trying to pull Sephiroth away from Tidus (they were conversing really well) and trying to avoid the scheming "Oh-I-KNOW-I-can-get-you-a-guy-better-than-THAT" Ashley upstairs. Sephiroth and I left the house quickly and headed over to Rachel's on the next street over. I rang her doorbell, not really knowing if she was still out with Squall or not, or if she was sleeping. I guess a couple minutes later, after impending nonpatience, my best friend finally opened her door...in day clothes nonetheless, and lookin tired. "Oh, hey Clarene, what's up?" she told me. "Nothing much, chica." I replied. She's not Mexican, I'm not Mexican, I just call her chica cuz that's what I call my best friend. Rachel yawned and leaned against her doorway. She noticed Sephiroth. "Oh hey, who's this guy?" she asked me. Sephiroth introduced himself to Rachel, the whole shaking hands thing and being polite. "Well, come in you guys, it's way hot out here and I don't want the A/C air to get out any more than it already is," Rachel invited to Sephiroth and me. She let us in and I led Sephiroth into the living room. Rachel followed, "Make yourselves comfortable, I'll bring some coffee out, all right?" (Rachel don't kill me I can't make you ghetto in my story!)
A couple of hours later, over coffee
Rachel laughed. "So you two met after Sephiroth had a battle with some dude named Cloud and you won? That's highly believable. I mean some dude with a name that's Cloud. Like what the hell?" she asked, and laughed again. I couldn't help but smile. "And then Clarene, you had a sprained ankle when you slipped on the ground? How the heck?" Okay so maybe she couldn't believe us, or maybe she did, it was just a funny thing how Sephiroth and I met. "Yeah, so after the battle, I noticed she was hurt, so I couldn't just leave her out on the streets at night. Who knows what could've happened?" Sephiroth added. I bit my lip and blushed, remembering that he carried me home. And those aquamarine-irresistable eyes. Out of none of my thinking, I turned my head to look at Sephiroth. His eyes, they'd seem to mesmerize me. As if on instinct...well he probably noticed, Sephiroth turned his head to look at me and smiled. 'Damn' I thought, 'Now I know that wasn't a dream.' I quickly turned away and commented Rachel on her skill to make an espresso. "It's easy, just get a stupid expensive coffee machine and use it!" my best friend blurted out. "So how's Squall anyway. I haven't heard about your part of the night, Rach!" I tried to change the subject. "Oh, he's at work :) at Balamb Laboratories, ya know that building over in South Central? Not too far from here. In fact, I'm having lunch with im later in SC District!" Rachel was always hyped up over her boyfriend. "So, are you two a couple?" Rachel asked, doing a hand motion between Sephiroth and I. "Erm, well...no...actually...we just met...so...yeah." Sephiroth and I both said. I blushed bright pink this time. Of course I thought Sephiroth was sexy, it was in my mind, and as for Rachel, well, she could practically read my mind by looking at my facial expression? That's what she says. "We're not a couple, heh, does it really seem like it, Rachel?" Sephiroth asked. Wait...Sephiroth was interested in me? Wow, I guess that racks up points, doesn't it? "So then Ashley was being all weird about it, huh? That's like her. She just needs time to get used to it. Don't worry, Seph, she'll warm up to you." Rachel joked, calling Sephiroth "Seph." "Since when did I get a nickname?" Sephiroth chuckled, as the people who usually knew him just called him Sephiroth. "Would you prefer I call you 'Sephy,' hmm?" I asked. "Well, if Ashley didn't want you guys to hang out, you know you've always got me!" Rachel offered her house to us. Truthfully it was large as the one I lived in. "No, it's all right, I've got my own place to stay, so if you don't mind." Sephiroth started, handing his empty coffee cup to the standing figure of me, who was headed off to the kitchen. Rachel took the cup from me and whispered, "Then go to his place, you KNOW it's a good opportunity!" Rachel urged. I blushed, but then again what choice did I have? I decided to tell Sephiroth that I'd go with him to his house. Sephiroth agreed. "All right then, Rachel, we'll be seeing you later. Good bye and thanks for the coffee!" he said, once he and I were outside the door. "Aiight bye Claire. Bye Sephiroth." Rachel thought in her head 'It's about time she found someone to be her boyfriend!'
Minutes later or so, Sephiroth and I arrived back at the place where we had first met the night before. There was a silver car parked at the street which I hadn't noticed last night. "Well I never drove it to your place last night, I suppose it would've been more convenient, but I just forgot about it, I guess. Anyway this is my car, a silver Corvette." He was right, it WAS his car. The silver paint practically matched his shiny, long, smooth hair. Sephiroth opened the door to the passenger side and ushered me in like the gentleman he was last night. He then walked around the car and hopped into the drivers' seat. "So are you sure you wanna go visit my place? It may not seem like much, but I call it home." he checked with me before I made any rash decision. "I'm sure. I'd really like to see where you live, you know, out of curiosity?" Okay so I did make a stupid decision, anyway it was my turn, wasn't it? Hah. Well anyway, Sephiroth started the car and we cruised on over to his place, 15 minutes outside of town. I knew we had arrived later because Sephiroth stopped the car those 15 minutes later and there was a tall...no, HUGE mansion near the ocean. It was beautiful, just beautiful...(A/N - Apparently I can't remember where Nibelheim is located so screw Shinra Mansion this is different!) "Well, this is my place" Sephiroth told me. I got out of the car and so did he. The house was painted an creamy, mediterranean yellow, and it seriously was a huge villa. He took me inside his house. Indeed, I was amazed at the decorating and everything was so richly adorned, gold and silver metallic decorations, tabletops were all glass. Sephiroth wasn't living much, he was living LARGER THAN LIFE! I was nervous, in a house like this, it was a lot similar to mine, but then again, a lot different. "Make yourself comfortable." Sephiroth said. "I live here alone." he added. WHAT! I thought...he owned all of this, and by himself! Well actually I could get the house I live in alone, but yeah, Ashley and I were friends and wanted to move in together. Originally we'd wanted Rachel to as well but she liked having her own house. Err, that's a different story.
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