Zack drove a truck.

It seemed to fit his personality quiet well. It was sturdy, speckled with dirt in the winter season, a dark blue color but the inside was clean, well taken care of, personalized to look almost like a mini home. Madri gras beads were hanging from the rear view mirror, a half empty coke can in the cup holder, a CD filer attached to the sun visor.

The radio played softly in the back ground.

"So how was your first day, Cloud?"

The teen moved his gaze from the dreary scenery passing by out the window to look at the raven haired man. It didn't feel like a genuine question. "It was okay."

Zack threw the boy a disappointed glance at that answer. "Oh come on, I'm genuinely interested in how your day was and you give me this 'it was okay' crap?"

Cloud shrugged, "What do you want to know?"

"Did you make any friends?"

The blonde thought for a moment. "Yeah, I did. A girl named Yuffie. She's really nice, but overly talkative. It's tiring just listening to her."

Zack let out a loud chuckle at this, throwing the boy an amused grin. "So Yuffie latched on to you, huh? She is quiet a handful."

"She your girlfriend," Cloud asked teasingly, but there was a hint of underlying seriousness in his tone, his eyes brows slightly knitting together. When there was no immediate response the blonde turned his head to gaze back out the window.

It wasn't until Cloud felt a slight tremor in his seat that he understood why Zack hadn't responded immediately. He was laughing silently to himself.

"Cloud...there is one person on earth I could never date, and that would be Yuffie," he replied, a grin plastered on his face, "I'd be dead within the week."

The blonde punched the older's arm lightly, playfully, "Don't be such a jerk."

Zack shrugged, "merely stating the truth."

"Well it was mean."

The older teen threw the kid a serious stare for a fraction of a second before looking back at the road. "You have a girlfriend?"

Cloud gave him an amused look, "I just moved here today."

The raven haired teen rolled his eyes, "I meant at your old school."

"Oh," the blonde responded, looking back out his window, propping his chin up with his hand. He tried to lose himself in the leafless, snow covered trees as a couple of faces flashed through his mind, none of them he would have called girlfriends, "no, I didn't really take a liking to girls."

"What about guys?"

The blonde gave him a death glare, "You're kidding right?"

Zack's grin grew on his face but didn't look at the kid, "Hey, I won't judge you."

Cloud let out a dramatic sigh, shaking his head slightly at the crazy teen's antics, not even bothering to pay any further attention to him as they drove home. Zack, however, wasn't going to let it go.

"You didn't answer my question."

"Maybe I don't want to," Cloud replied with a bit of an edge to his voice.

Zack chuckled, "Because you're gay?"

"Why would that be a bad thing?"

"I'm not saying it is," the older replied slyly, "I'm merely asserting my assumption that you are self conscious about the issue of sexuality because you might have one that isn't looked upon with a smile in our society. Maybe you crave to be generally accepted. I, for one, don't care if you're gay."

Cloud sat there in shock, slowly turning his head to give the man a wide stare, jaw hanging open. Zack cast him glances every now and then, becoming slightly unnerved by his outrageously startled expression.

"What," he finally demanded, uncomfortable with that gaze.

"I didn't know you had a vocabulary beyond two syllable words," Cloud finally replied, unable to keep the smirk off his face or out of his voice, his eyes glimmering with mischief.

The older teen lightly punched the blonde's arm this time in mild amusement. Cloud tried to swerve to avoid it but found it basically impossible to avoid the fist. "No sense of humor," the blonde finally said when Zack turned back to the road.

"Oh," he asked the kid, "and what do you do for fun besides picking on the people who save your sorry ass?"

Cloud merely shrugged, keeping his expression bored and distant as he said, "I don't know what there is to do around here. Waiting for someone to offer me a tour."

Zack pulled down the street the blonde had mentioned he lived on. The ride was slowly but surely coming to a close. It ended too quickly, Cloud thought, not even having time to really get to know this weird kid a little better. "Well...how 'bout I take you out for a night on the town some day."

Cloud rolled his eyes dramatically over to the raven haired man. He said in a completely, monotonously sarcastic tone, "Your complexity of this plan is making my head spin."

Zack chuckled, pulling into the driveway of the number the blonde mentioned he lived at. "Well, how about once you get used to things here, meet some more people. If someone else doesn't show you the nightlife of Midgar, my offer's still on the table."

"Some random day?"

"You got it."

The blonde pondered this for a moment, amusement sparkling in the older teen's shockingly bright blue eyes. Finally, he gave him a slight smirk. "Okay then, some day I might take you up on that."

"Then it's a date."

"Maybe," Cloud reiterated.

"Then it's maybe a date." Zack gave the blonde a wide grin as the latter slung his back pack over his shoulder and hopped out of the truck. With a genuine smile and a small shake of his head, the kid shut the door behind him and made his way to his front door.

He looked back to watch Zack drive away.

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heh heh, this is your scene with those two. It's short and sweet. Ack I'm so stressed about my grades! i have an impending feeling that im going to be grounded shortly...O.o Review!