A/N: So, this is actually a songfic to the old song "Leader of the Pack". Mostly I am, for Kingdom Hearts at least, a CloudxAerith and LeonxYuffie shipper, but I was listening this song and I was like...whoa, that is Aerith and Leon. Anyway, it is all in Aerith's POV. Each chapter will consist of a stanza of the song and then my own writing. Let's see, so there are about six stanzas, so I suppose there will be six chapters as well.
Warning: For any of you who have ever heard the song, you know how it ends and...let's just say it is a definite tearjerker. I will apologize later...
Full Summary: I never expected that I, one of the most innocent girls in our senior class at Radiant High, would end up with the most rebellious boy in town, who most people referred to as the Leader of the Pack. However, we both saw through our separative cliques and fell in love. My life was changed the day that we met. Please, listen to my story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, if I did I would had made Sora kiss Kairi in the end, and Axel would still be alive. Disney and Square Enix, oh how I envy you. And the song, I don't own that either. That is "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangrilas.
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Is she really going out with him?
Well there she is, lets ask her.
Aerith, is that Leon's ring your wearing? Mhmm.
Gee, it must be great riding with him,
Is he picking you up after school today? Uh-uh.
I leaned against my grey metal locker as my two best friends, Yuffie and Tifa, interrogated me. It was hard to hold myself together as I did. You see, it was the first day of school back from summer, and what an eventful summer it was. Apparantly the news had not yet reached the ears of students at my highschool of what happened only a week earlier. News never did get around fast in the quiet town of Radiant Garden.
I would not have been in school that day if my father had not literally forced me to do so. I was an emotional wreck, and having to explain myself to Tifa and Yuffie would be hard. Then again my father never had cared much about how much in love I was with Leon. He tried to keep us apart all summer long. Well, I guess anyone's father would have been worried and disapproving if you had been dating the Leader of the Pack.
I knew at that moment that I would have to tell the story. Not only my story, but Leon's. The story of my summer. It was hard to think of it as only one summer. It felt like years, decades of my life that I had spent by his side. But I guess that is how time seems to feel when you are so madly in love with a person. Love, yes, I would never doubt that love was the perfect way to describe my relationship with him.
The school ring that Tifa mentioned hung on a thin silver chain around my neck, way too large for my thin fingers. It was a tradition for a girl to wear her boyfriend's class ring. I almost laughed at the thought; Leon was hardly ever in school. The gemstone was a dark sapphire, the same color as his eyes. The eyes that I had been unable to refuse the day that we met. The eyes that I stared into all summer. The eyes that I would never see again.
Tears came to my own emerald eyes at the very thought. I quickly turned my face away and dabbed my eyes with my index finger as to avoid Tifa and Yuffie's worry, adjusting my oversized pink hair ribbon as a cover up. However, they were too observant for my own good.
"Aerith, what's wrong?" Tifa asked softly.
"It's about Leon, isn't it?" Yuffie guessed.
I simply nodded, taking a deep breath, and readied myself to tell the long story.
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A/N: So, this chapter was really short, but it worked as an introduction. I'm not very good at the whole sad thing, I just realized. Oh well. Also, I don't know how fast chapters will come for this. My main focus is still Release My Darkness, Love, this is just a fun little side project. I needed a change.
Review, please. I am honestly interested in what people think of this, especially the LeonxAerith pair, which I had never put much thought into myself.
