I was starting my year at a new school, my parents had recently divorced so I moved with my dad. It was only 30 minutes from my old school, but I heard this one had a really good food tech facility. I didn't like starting at a new school though, I wasn't good at making new friends. The only person I knew at this school was Aerith, but I didn't think I would see her around since she's in a higher grade. My mum was friends with her mum so we kinda grew up together, she's like the sister I've always wanted, and I don't want anything to change.

It was already recess, I was spending the warm sunny day by myself, near a bunch of trees. Resting on the tree while looking at the clear blue sky, I loved days like this. I loved feeling the rays of sunlight gently touching my face, and the calm breeze that makes the leaves on the trees sing quietly. I closed my eyes and listened to the sound…

"ah!" I open my eyes to the feeling of a small rock thrown at my head, I looked around and no one was there. I closed my eyes again, only to be hit with another rock, this one a little bit bigger.

"What the hell…?" I mumbled to myself.

"Aww the poor boy looks so confused!" I turned to face where the voice came from, seeing 3 silver haired guys, and the middle one throwing a rock up in his hand and catching it.

"I'm trying to relax here, so if you don't mind-"

"Ooh, bossy! Who says you claim this area, huh?" The more toned and tougher on said.

They were starting to get on my nerves.

"I didn't say it was my area, I just mean-"

"Shut up! You're annoying!" The middle one said again, the one on the left didn't seem to say much, he snickered quite a bit though.

"Oh yeah…I'm the annoying one..." I said in an obviously sarcastic tone.

"You better watch it…" The long haired one finally said as the middle one stomped up to me, I was still lying on the ground, these guys weren't worth a fight.

The middle one threw the rocks on the ground and grabbed my collar. "Listen here, you spikey haired fr-"

"Freaks…" I said, finishing his sentence.

"Exactly."

"No, I meant you guys." I said, challenging him, looking him straight in the eyes.

He twitched, he lifted me up and slammed me against the tree.

"Shut up, you're annoying me." He said, while the other two came closer towards me as well.

After that it kinda went blurry, but some cocky guy decided to get involved, acting like he was a hero. After I fell to the ground while trying to find my breath, he ran up to me, reaching out to comfort me, but I didn't need guys like him helping me. I could handle everything by myself, that's how it used to be, and that's how it will continue to be.

Right now I was just walking around, I didn't really know where I was going in the school, somewhere in the garden I guess. Still looking at the ground, walking with my hand cupped to my neck, my breathing rate was back at its normal speed now. I looked up and saw some sort of storage building, a small one, and a red haired guy leaning on the side of it while smoking. He wasn't in a school uniform, but in a blue jumpsuit, I think he was a janitor. He had some weird red tattoo's on his face, he heard me walking towards the building and turned towards me.

"Ey, what're you doin' all the way out 'ere?" He said while walking towards me.

"er..I,uh…" I moved my hand from my throat down to hold the cut on my arm, the blood trickled from my arm. The red head stood there, taking a puff of his smoke while staring at me, it made me feel a bit uneasy.

"You feelin' alright?" The smoke escaped from his mouth, I could smell it. After a few seconds he finally realised the blood dripping from my arm. He came up to me, placing a hand on my back, slightly pushing me towards the small building.

"Hey, we gotta take care of that before it gets worse!"

"uhh...no I'm alri-"

"C'mon, it'll only take a few seconds, just lemme bandage it for you, the names Reno by the way. You must be new here, I've never seen you….then again I don't really see a lot of the students…"

After sitting down I watched him dab a wet cloth over my arm, soaking it red.

"…so?" Since I was looking down Reno bent over and looked up at my face, snapping me out of the concentration of looking at my arm.

"huh?" I questioned him, Reno let out a chuckle while putting the cloth down and picking up an antiseptic spray.

"You got a name?"

"yeah…Cloud..."

"So Cloud...shouldn't you be in class right now?" Reno looked up at me, smirking. He seemed really laid back, I don't think he really cared if I was in class or not.

"W-what? When did the bell go? I need to go!" I tried lifting myself up from the seat but Reno pushed me back down.

"ah!" He sprayed my arm, I flinched because it stung like hell.

"Relax~ it's not like you're gonna miss out on anything important on the first day. I wanted to ask you a few questions, are you new here?"

"Yeah…"

"You know anyone?" He began wrapping the bandage around my arm.

"Just one..."

"Who?"

"A girl named Aerith"

"Aerith? You know her? I hear a lot about her!"

My protective brotherly instincts got to my mouth before my brain registered anything. I stood up quickly, not sure why…I guess my legs were working on their own.

"Who said something about her! What did they say!"

"Woah...calm down! Nothing bad, it's just this year 12 friend of mine, talks about her all the time, saying she's really cute…they're really close"

I started getting a bit…angry? I didn't want just any guy getting close to my Aerith, I hope he was one of those reasonable guys and not some cocky jerk who does whatever he wants.

"What's…his name?"

"Zack."