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So I would like to say thank you to anyone who read this! I know it's been a little over a week but college is kicking my butt.

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The characters ages are:

Hope - 14 years old. Grade 9/1st year high school

Lightning - 17 years old. Grade 12/4th year high school

Vanille - 16 years old. Grade 11/3rd year high school

Fang - 17 years old. Grade 12/4th year high school

Serah - 16 years old. Grade 11/3rd year high school

Snow - 18 years old. Grade 12/4th year high school

Maqui - 15 years old. Grade 10/2nd year high school

Yuj - 16 years old. Grade 11/3rd year high school

Gadot - 18 years old. Grade 12/4th year high school

Lebreau - 17 years old. Grade 11/3rd year high school

Sazh - 40 years old.

Nora - 41 years old.

Bartholomew - 44 years old.

Dajh - 6 years old. Grade 1/1st year elementary school

It should also be noted that the school in this fanfic is a combination of American high schools and Japanese high schools.

Sorry the long Authors Note... Anyway please read and review. Follows and favs are welcome to!

Disclaimer: I do not own FFXIII or anything related to it.

Hope you enjoy the read~

Chapter 2: A fun lunch!

Hope was sitting alone in the cafeteria eating his lunch. Just like he predicted Hope still hasn't made any friends since his first day of school. No one wanted to be his friend since they figured he would make them seem dumb. Even as member of the Disciplinary Committee he didn't talk to any of them outside the meetings.

'At least I can see Lightning up close as a member.' Hope thought to himself as he ate his food looking at Lightning's group of friends or more like her sister's group of friends.

The school had somewhat of a hierarchy like any other school out there. There were the popular kids, the geeky kids, the bad kids, and the rejects.

Lightning's group was weird though some of them were popular some were rejects. The popular ones were Serah, Snow, Gadot, Lebreau, and Yuj. While the rejects were Lightning, Vanille, Fang, and Maqui. According to what Hope heard Vanille use to be popular too but something happened.

Hope was about to take another bite of food when he felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned to see the girl Hope now recognized as Vanille.

"Hey, what are you doing all alone?" Vanille asked in a friendly voice.

Before Hope could say anything he was being dragged up by the arm by the girl. "Come on! You can come join us for lunch!" The hyper girl said as she let Hope get his food before dragging him over to the group of friends.

"Hey welcome to the club kid! Glad you could join us today!" Snow said with a grin.

"Thank you, Snow. Sorry to bother you guys." Hope said respectfully as he sat down.

"You're not a bother at all, Hope." Snow responded smiling proudly.

"Let's introduce you to everyone." Vanille said as she motioned to Serah.

"Hello I'm Serah. I'm Lightning's sister and Snow's girlfriend. My best friend is Vanille. It's very nice to meet you." Serah said with a very sweet smile to the young boy.

"I'm Maqui. I hope we can get a long well." A blonde guy who looked around the same age as Hope.

"The name's Yuj and might I say you are looking pretty stylin' today." Yuj said with laugh at the kid who laughed as well.

"Hey, I'm Gadot and Snow is like a brother to me even if he's an idiot." The guy with hair like fire said with a chuckle.

"I'm Lebreau. Please excuse these idiots. It's really good to finally meet you after hearing Snow talk about you." A black haired girl said with a smirk.

"How are you doing, kid? I'm Fang and just so you know you better not be thinking of stealing my girl, Vanille. 'Kay kid?"Fang said with a smirk on her face not really threatening the boy.

"I promise not to steal Vanille from you. Anyway, thanks for letting me sit here today." Hope responded with a kind smile.

"You can sit here with us from now on!" Snow grinned widely at the freshman.

Hope looked at everyone surprised and thought about thanking them when suddenly he remembered Lightning. "Are you sure? Lightning might not want me to sit here..."

Serah looked at the poor boy with a assuring smile. "Don't worry about Claire, she won't mind if you sit here. Right, Claire?" She asked surprising the boy who turned to quickly look at the older girl.

"Serah, I told you to never call me Claire again. It's not my name anymore. Anyway, I don't care what you do kid or where you sit kid." Lightning said as she sat down in her seat which was across from Serah and just so happened to be next to Hope.

"Oh okay then..." Hope responded sitting back in his seat with his cheeks turning a little pink.

After a little awkward silence Snow decided to speak up after Serah elbowed and motioned for him to say something. "Soooo, Hope, I heard you were put in all the advance classes."

"Uh... Yeah, I've actually been given the choice on whether to skip grades or not. I chose not to since I just want to live a normal school life." Hope responded sheepishly to the older group.

Everyone seemed interested in what he claimed, in fact even Lightning's ears perked up at this which only Serah and Fang noticed.

"Wait so if you had chose to skip grades, what grade would you be in exactly?" Yuj asked as he tilted his head to the side.

"Well the max they said I could skip would put me in 12th grade this year so..." The silver-haired boy said with a blush looking down as he scratched the back of his head.

Everyone looked at him wide-eyed for a second before reacting. "EHHHH?!" Everyone but Lightning said collectively however Lightning looked at him amused.

"Wait, you're that smart? Man, maybe I should go to you for help on my homework." Snow laughed out at the younger boy.

"Even if someone as smart as him helped you, chances are you would still be too dumb to get the right answer." Fang said with a smirk to the big blond guy.

"I want to see you answer one of the questions on the 12th grade homework just to see you do this." Vanille said with a smile to the boy.

"Uh sure... If someone can write down a problem from the homework on a spare sheet of paper I wouldn't mind doing it." Hope responded as he looked around the table.

Before anyone else did anything Lightning pushed a piece of paper toward him. "That was the hardest question on the math homework from last night." She said looking at the younger Disciplinary Committee member who looked at her surprised.

"Okay then..." Hope said as he took the paper and got a pencil and began solving the problem.

After 30 seconds he was done with the problem. "Here you go all done!" Hope said with a huge smile handing the paper back.

Lightning looked the problem over and checked it to make sure it was correct. "Nice, kid. You managed to get the answer correct in under a minute." The rose-haired woman responded with a slightly surprised look.

Serah leaned over to look at the question which was answered. "Wasn't that the same question you were stuck on last night, sis?" She asked noticing the question seemed familiar.

Before Lightning could say anything in response the bell had rung to signify that lunch was over and they all had to go back to class.

As Hope gathered his stuff and began heading out the door with his new friends he heard the cool and icy voice of Lightning. "Hope, don't forget that tomorrow you are to get here early to take morning watch." The seventeen year old said to the fourteen year old.

"Okay I'll be here as soon as I can." Hope said with a bright smile on his face.

As they all were walking off no one but Serah notices the soft smile on the older Farron's face.

'Looks like sis is interested in that Hope guy... I guess I'll just ask her later tonight' Serah thought to herself before going to her class with Vanille.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful for everyone. Hope seemed to be welcomed into the mixture group of friends who didn't seem to take his intelligence as a threat and were wanting him to teach them. Well... mainly Snow.

"I'm back!" Hope called into the house loudly with a huge grin on his face.

"Oh welcome home sweetie! My, my you seem to be in a good mood today." Nora responded as she looked out from in the kitchen.

"Well I might have made a few new friends today..." The fourteen year old said sheepishly as he took off his shoes.

"Really! That's great sweetie. So what are they like?" Nora asked as she went back into the kitchen with Hope coming in to sit at the table.

Hope told his mom all that happened to him today at lunch and everything. He explained each personality of the people he sat with that day.

"So sis, Hope seems nice..." Serah said trying to somehow get her older sister to talk to her about the new kid that joined their group.

"Yeah, I guess he is. Better than your oaf of a boyfriend is..." Lightning said as she sat at their kitchen table doing homework while Serah cooked dinner.

"Sis, I'm sure if you give Snow a chance it would be fine. I mean I had him join the Disciplinary Committee so you two could get along." Serah said with a sigh continuing on dinner.

"And I keep telling you I will never get along with him. When will you learn this, Serah?" Lightning asked focused on her homework.

Serah just sighed at her stubborn older sister. 'She'll come around eventually. I'm sure of it.' Serah thought to herself.

Lightning felt proud that she managed to distract her sister from asking her about the new kid that Lightning was interested in. 'I'll deal with her lecturing about that another day... I'm curious to see how morning watch for him is going to go though...'