The next thing I knew was I was hearing voices.

Hello Cloud.

"Who are you?"

In due time child…

"Um… are you awake." Said an angelic voice.

All in due time.

I opened my eyes to see my brown haired beauty staring at me with her stunning green eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"… Yeah."

"You fell pretty far, it's a good thing there was part of a roof there and the flowers were here."

"Uh?"

I sat up and looked around at that point. I was sitting in a lovely patch of yellow flowers and green grass. The odd thing was that I was actually sitting in a church. A very old and broken down church but a church none the less. It was probably beautiful in it's day with all the stained glass and oak pews but now it was a nice spot to look at the flowers that had started growing out of the floor boards or look at the sky through the hole in the roof. I just lay back down and looked to the sky.

"Do you come here often?" I asked casually.

"Yes, I like it here, the flowers are very pretty. Hey, you're that freshmen that was lost this morning, my name's Aries."

"I'm Cloud. It's really nice here, I could just lay back and watch the clouds all day."

"Well, that suits your name then, you're Cloud and you like to watch clouds." She said with a slight chuckle.

"You must be really strong to have survived that fall." Aries continued, "Say, would you like to be my body guard?"

"You're what?" I was shocked.

"My body guard, I've been chased by one of those clubs for a while now, my mother doesn't think I'm safe to go out alone so you should be my body guard and come here with me."

"Um, I don't know…" I said as I started to get up.

"But…"

I started to walk out of the church but before I got to the doors a red haired kid in a blue suit came in. He was carrying a long rod that seemed like it radiated electricity.

"Hey Aries, do we have to do this the easy way or the hard way." The boy said as he walked through the doors.

"I'm not going anywhere." Aries said as she ran up behind me.

"What's going on here TURK?" I asked the red head.

"Why hello there, I don't think I've ever seen you kid, I'm Reno and yes, I'm a TURK. I'm only taking what's ours."

"This girl is not yours to keep."

"You don't understand, Hojo needs to keep up with his experiments and to do that he needs this girl."

While we were talking Aries began to edge away and go towards the roof. "Psssst, Cloud, this way." She whispered.

"Like I'd allow you to escape." Said the TURK as he snapped his fingers and many blue clad boys ran into the church.

"Cloud, run!" Shouted Aries pulling me along.

We ran up the stairs and through the large hole in the roof and skipped from rooftop to rooftop.

"You know, you're just like my upper classman!"

"Hmm?"

"You have the same glow in your eyes."

"And I'll bet he was a great fighter too."

"Yeah, he had a hug sword he could wield with one hand."

"I think I've heard of him but I can't picture him at all. It's weird, like someone erased my memory or something. Heh, that's not possible, I'm just mistaking him."

"Tee hee, so you can talk. I was starting to think that I was going to be the only one really saying things. Oh, there's my house over there, you just have to meet my mother."

I helped Aries off the rooftops and we made our way to her house. Beautiful yellow flowers surrounded Aries' house. She lived in a two-story house with red siding. She ran into the front door but I walked around the garden for a few seconds and found a chest with a potion in it! Once I had collected my free potion I went into her house to meet her mother.

"This is my new body guard, Cloud." Aries introduced me when I got in the door, new bodyguard, when did I agree to that one?

"Nice to meet you Cloud," Aries' mother stretched her arm out to shake my hand, "You must be tired, why don't you stay here tonight?"

Well, I did save her life and I guess I could, it's not like my parents are home right now anyway. I doubt they care about what their son does with his life. I thought.

"Yeah, that would be nice." I answered.

That night Aries' mother made the best dinner, way better than anything I had at home. We all sat around and played board games for a few hours. It was a grand old time and that guest bed was the softest bed I've ever slept on.

The next morning Aries and I walked to school together. I was so nervous, the only girl I've ever walked to school with was Tifa and she doesn't really count. I mean I had a cute girl right there that was obviously into me and we didn't hold hands or anything, we just had casual conversation.

"Hey Cloud, you wanna hang out at the park in sector six after school? It's not that safe for me to be out but I want to play on the swings or something."

"Okay, but then I'm taking you right home, I have studying to get done."

"You have to study for a school like ours? I never study, that's probably why I go to Midgar High."

"…"

"Sorry, it must be hard for you."

"… yeah, I don't think I'm too smart."

"I think you're plenty smart, you just know a lot about fighting."

I smiled and gave her a thankful look as we walked through the school doors.

The entire day I couldn't think of anything other than Aries. I didn't even notice that Tifa wasn't in school. I think Barret said something about how she went out looking for me when I fell and never came back. I didn't even write down my homework assignments so there was no way that I could study. I just couldn't wait for that bell to ring. When the bell did ring I ran out and I think I heard Barret ask if I was looking for Tifa, heh, I wasn't looking for her, I'd be looking for my beautiful brunette.

I think I ran to that park. I didn't care if I had to look stupid standing they're waiting for her, just so long as I was there with her. And was this a date? I mean she asked me to a park, that's where people do this right? All these things were racing through my mind as I saw her there on a swing. She looked so heavenly as the sun shone down on her fair complexion.

"Hey Cloud, I got bored with class and ended up coming her early, sorry."

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"Come here, I want to show you something."

She hopped off the swing she was on and walked over to the slide. It looked a lot like a bears face with a slide inside. She climbed up the slide and sat on the top of the bear's head. I followed her and sat next to her.

"I used to come here with my upper classmen."

"What was his name?"

"Zack. He was my first bodyguard but something happened and he ran away from home and I haven't seen him since. I wonder what's going on with him sometimes. You remind me so much of him it makes me miss him even more."

Um… you really know how to make someone feel special. I thought as she rambled on about someone I did not know and did not want to hear about.

"But you're different. I don't know what it is about you. You're better than him some how."

"Oh yeah? I used to want to be like the Great Sephiroth. But he's not so great anymore is he? I wonder how he died."

"Well, everyone has to fall some time Cloud, we can't live forever."

"I just wonder how the greatest fighter alive could just be killed like that."

"I wonder about a lot of things…" as she said that a car slowly drove down the street in front of us and in that car was Tifa!