Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all parts of the contemplation go to Square Soft or rather Square Enix. I own Evelia and the things based around her.
2/13: Realized I never finished fixing this problem. This top part needs to go.
"You know what I don't understand is how you men find this whole school girl thing… so… interesting? cute?" Zack smiled gently.
"Try sexy," I glared at him.
"You dressed me in this for your crazy sexual desires?"
Zack laughed heartily at this, "No, I dressed you up like that so that I could walk around Midgar with a good looking girl around my arm."
"Go do that with Aerith," I mumbled lightly as I looked around wondering where he was leading me.
"Aerith is different, I doubt she'd let me do this, but I haven't known her as long as I have you. Besides as of now you've got the perks, literally," I rolled my eyes.
"Allows with the junk… Leave my boobs alone okay! It's not their fault their big!" I hissed at him as I hugged myself to hide them.
Zack sighed lightly with an odd look, "You're flushing, how cute."
"I don't flush!" Zack and I paused at the way that sounded and out of pure immaturity; we began roaring with laughter leaning on each other for support.
"Even cuter, you're in denial," He mumbled smirking a bit.
"Go screw yourself," I mumbled my face heated with embarrassment.
"Tsk Tsk, Little Evie, now how could I do that without your help?" He asked pushing me along by the small of my back. I was silent for a moment and when I glanced up at his taller figure, I saw the residing smirk and realization caught on and I smack him in the chest.
"Pervert!"
"Hey, you said it," he argued back a grin still evident on his face. I rolled my eyes, but I had nothing to say in my defense, he was right. He lead me into a small restaurant. I smiled warmly, and noticed as Zack snuck an arm around my waist.
"What are you—" I looked around, there were men looking at me, even some with dates already.
"Come on, let's get a spot in the back," he murmured holding me tightly. If I wasn't so used to being in pain I would have complained. We sat silently at the back of the restaurant. He refused to let me sit anywhere but right beside him in a small booth.
"You know if I had been Aerith that would have bruised my hip," I muttered softly into his ear.
"Good thing you're not Aerith," I smile faintly at the sound of those words. If he wasn't so busy staring down those other guys he would have said something about the smile.
We waited silently until a young guy came to our table asking for our drinks. Zack glared him down until he left with our order.
"Don't scare the waiter!" I hissed at him.
"Did you see the way he was looking at you?" he countered lightly, his Mako eyes glistening.
"No," I began feebly, "but since when were you so protective of me?" He paused and his anger simmered down until he laughed. I furrowed my black eyebrows at him questioning his reasons for laughing.
"You're a bit more oblivious than Angeal mentioned," my look didn't change as I waited for an explanation. "Always, Evie," I shook my head.
"Doesn't feel like it," I mumbled to myself as I looked around the eatery. Most of the guys had a disgusting dazed look on. I groaned before changing my gaze to examining the walls innocently.
The place looked small on the outside but was big on the inside, and I soon found out why. A surge of people began to come in, and slowly I was grateful Zack brought us so early. I smiled at him brightly; he kept his protective arm around me.
The place was styled different than most of Midgar. Most of Midgar was metal and bright lights. The walls were lined with a beige wood that halfway up the wall was stopped by a border to show a painting of a farm. It was different for each booth though. Our booth just happened to be a farm.
Some people had savannas as paintings, others had plains and some had mountains. It was nice. I couldn't see many of the booths now that people's heads blocked it.
I sat silently and our drinks came around. I smiled again at Zack. He grinned back before lifting his glass, "To SOLDIER," I nodded repeating his words and clunked glass taking a large sip. "I don't know if I've told you, but you look really good in that." I grinned and shook my head.
"Might have mentioned it," I giggled a bit.
"Aw do that cute smile I taught you!" He whined a bit. I gave him a skeptic look.
"Why?"
"I want a picture." He was holding his phone in his hand waiting.
"Sure, but you have to earn it."
"Aw how hard could it be?" It was silent as I sipped on my soda.
The waiter came back and asked for our order, Zack ordered for me, "So tell me why you're being such a gentleman today?" I questioned as soon as the waiter left. He was good looking with a sort of beige hair color and unique green eyes.
"I can't be nice?"
"I never said that it's that usually you aren't like this."
"Well usually you aren't dressed this cute," he mumbled with a small tint of pink across his cheeks. I laughed again giving what he wanted. He was quick to take a picture and smile a bit at me. My heart raced a bit again and I ignored it.
I tried not to get mushy with him, but the blush across his tan cheeks induced the gushing. I scooted closer, "You look cute when you blush," I muttered laying my head against his shoulder. He blushed a bit more but put a hand around my hip.
"We're getting all mushy and cute, Evie," he said gently.
"You're ruining it Zack, stop talking," he listened and stayed silently until our meals came by.
This is probably the most normal afternoon I have ever had. No one asking me for an autograph, no killing people, no paperwork, nothing. Just a small date with my best friend... My thoughts turned to the teen and I glanced at him chewing contentedly at his food. I couldn't hold back a smile.
"What?"
"Nothing Zack," he gave a skeptic look but returned to eating. We were silent as we ate. Both of us drank three cups of soda and our entire meals. I held back a belch and in return got the hiccups. Zack paid, left a tip and we weaved our way out and into the streets of a dark Midgar. It was prettiest during the day I thought. But sometimes the lights of different shops made the night look nice. "Now what brilliant SOLDIER man?"
"Not sure, hadn't thought we'd go the entire meal without arguing," I laughed at this Zack joined in after a while. "Maybe we should go see what Midgar as to offer."
"What do you mean by that? Watch a movie? There's only LOVELESS to watch. I'm not sure if I want to or not."
"There's probably more choices than LOVELESS, Evie. Wanna go try?" I shrugged smiling and taking his stuck out hand. Today is my day with Zack. All mine.
To our terrible fate there's was nothing good to watch, "I swear if we watch any of that mushy stuff I'll go SOLDIER on theses people," I growled disgusted.
"Aw calm down Evie, I won't make you. So what now?"
"You keep asking me like I know. Let's go sit somewhere and look cute while we figure it out," I declared as I began to drag the SOLDIER away. My face held a strong grin. As I led him onto a public bench. "Now we decide, we can do anything you want until it gets late. I can't be tired if Sephiroth decides to wake me up early and drag me to training or worse on a mission with him. He'll make me leave early and will just DUMP paperwork on me and ugh!" I complained sadly.
"Alright, I'll be sure to take you home early. It's not even that late yet. It's barely seven yet. You want to walk around or something?"
"What will walking around do? Let's go window shopping!" I exclaimed jokingly until I saw Zack's face. I roared with laughter until he calmed down.
His lips curved softly, "Oh you were just joking… Unless you want to. Might give me a good idea for your birthday." My head snapped at him.
"You know my birthday?" He nodded carelessly. "We've never celebrated it before, how would you know?"
"Tseng told me, that man knows everything there is to know about you, even down to your bra size," he continued in his lighthearted tone. I could feel the heat rise to my lightly tanned face.
"He told you?" Zack stayed silent, but a smug grin crossed his face and the heat in my face increased, "He is a dead Turk."
"Whoa, you don't have to kill him over it. I mean maybe it's his job to watch you, says he's been doing it for most of the years he's been a Turk anyways," My shoulders sagged.
"That's because he said because he was the one to recommend me for SOLDIER, in the long run if I ruin the company it's his fault… or something like that. Of course he's gonna be watching me a lot." My thoughts wondered back to that night some months ago.
"I never said he did, I said maybe," I shrugged. Tseng was one of the two people who knew my birthday. The other being Sephiroth, I trusted him to know that I wouldn't want a birthday party. We were at silent agreement on our birthdays. Mine being in August and his in January.
"Tseng sucks…" Zack laughed merrily.
"Say that to him," he retorted in that same cheerful voice.
"I will, should I say it to his face or on the phone?" Zack paused, and waited.
When he saw I was serious he spoke, "Whoa, I was just kidding," I smile broad my teeth gleaming. Shinra made sure that theirs employees were in good care. Especially the famous ones.
"I wasn't," I smiled tight my phone in hand. "no response, I'll call him then," I picked up the phone and speed dialed the Turk.
"What Evie?" The odd voice answered.
"See, look at you, still not giving me a proper hello," I started before he rudely interrupted me.
"If you called to argue, I'm busy."
"No, I called to say you're a complete ass." A could just hear the smirk on his face.
"What do you mean?"
"What did you tell Zack exactly? He's all like, "I know your birthday" and there are two people on Gaia who know both my birthday and Zack. One is you and the other is Sephiroth. Now tell me why I doubt that Sephiroth told him?" I was silent as Tseng laughed.
"Because you're just too keen to know otherwise. I told him many things, some more personal than others," he mumbled from the other line. I felt my eye twitch in annoyance a bit.
"Care to elaborate?" I asked in a bit of annoyance. I glanced over at Zack who looked very confused; I didn't say much from my side of the line.
"Things only I would know," he began, I could feel my face turn a deep red, "President." I heard him say in a distant voice, his usual business-like one that he didn't use often with me. "Good bye Evie." I hadn't even formed a word on my lips when he hung up. I groaned.
"He is such an ass… I swear sometimes," I whined a bit. One of the few luxuries I had in this outfit.
"He's different when it's just you and him, huh?" I nodded a bit, "Why?" I understood he was curious but that didn't mean I'd tell him just yet.
"Long story, I'll explain it to you some other time, Promise." He opened his mouth in protest but closed his mouth.
"You said you promised, I trust you and will be waiting for an answer." I nodded with a small smile. It was quiet as people walked by us and we sat next to each other silently, just to enjoy the other's company.
"So what's it like having Sephiroth be your mentor?"
"Our mentor-student relationship is… well confusing," my thoughts ran to last night and I began to feel blood go to my cheeks. "He may be world-famous and have awesome silver hair, and crazy green eyes and a sexy deep voice, but he is twice as brutal as any mentor you could have. The crazed man is absolutely relentless. If I want to be able to say I was his student, I'd have to live up to his standards first. I'm not doing it so far, so I've been working my ass off to prove him wrong."
"What's wrong with the way you fight?" Zack asked his arm graced casually around my shoulders as I leaned on to him lightly.
"It's not just the way I fight, it's the way I think, the way I move, the way I do paperwork, the way I behave. It's not just one thing it's everything. I have to be as good as he wants me to be or I'm not worthy to be his student. He likes that I try so hard, so he continuously teaches me and blah."
"So within the army what rank are you?"
"Well it's confusing… without Angeal, and Genesis, I was bumped up a rank. I'm still way out of league of Sephiroth, but I am your superior officer. Not that it matters," I shrugged it off lightly knowing he's probably go showing off with his cocky attitude. But I knew it was that cocky attitude that I especially liked.
"I want to know, I wouldn't ask if I didn't," He pushed gently.
"Well then we're automatically above rank to the Shinra Army because we're in SOLDIER. But I believe you're a Commander and I'm a Colonel, anything else happens and I'll be bumped up again. Shinra knows that Angeal is still alive, but they don't want to public to know that. So, until him and Genesis are gone properly will I be bumped up. I don't have enough experience for the next rank though. Sephiroth is young himself but much more experienced than I am…" I drifted off thinking. I looked to see Zack grinning to himself in a superior grin.
"Commander Zack Fair of the Shinra Army, Wait'll I tell mom. She'll love this." I smiled faintly.
"You write your mom?" He nodded, "That's nice, ever mention me?"
"Yeah all the time actually, especially recently. She wants to meet you, probably to ask you to join the family," he said his grin fading as he groaned. I laughed loudly with a smile across my face.
"I'll keep that in mind. She seems nice. Can't be all that bad if she had a thing like you," He gave me a look asking me what I meant. "I mean that in a nice way, calm down." I stood and waited for him to follow. "I'm sure I wouldn't mind meeting her. Sounds nice actually." I wrapped my arms around his right one tightly. He stuck his other hand in his pocket and grabbed my dangling hand in his right hand. I walked with a smile gracing my face.
"You taking me home?" He grinned as a SOLDIER he knew walked by stopped a bit to stare at me.
"Yeah, after one last walk around the city, I wanna show you off a bit," he looked down at me and I smiled as sweet as I could. "They're so gonna be jealous."
"You are such a cocky basturd."
"You love it."
"A little," I mumbled lightly. He smiled down at me with a broad grin.
I spent the rest of the night standing around trying to hide my face and being gawked at by the men I knew as my underlings. It was odd and every time Zack said something nice I'd flush and snuggle deep into his chest to hide it.
It stopped when he spoke one last time, "All right fellas I have to take her back soon big exam tomorrow. I want to spend a little time with her before I have to take her home," we received many whistles and my eyes bulged and I slapped my face trying to walk away desperately. Zack followed silently but I could sense the stupid grin on his stupid face.
"They are so gross," I huffed out lightly.
"We're men, what do you expect? They couldn't resist, and besides it's not their fault you look good. It's not often I meet girls as good looking as me, that can kick butt as good as me, and go out on a date with me in a school girl outfit." I rolled my eyes as he boasted proudly.
"I know you're brash, but calm down lover boy," I retorted pulling away from him a bit. He chuckled.
"I was joking," He tugged gently at my hand, "Come here," I allowed myself to be pulled into his chest. "Breathe, I just like making you all flustered." My face heated instantly.
"What is with you men and making me flustered?" I growled with wide eyes pulling away. Zack followed laughing heartily as I marched inside the Shinra building him following with a laugh. He caught up in the elevator.
"What do you mean by "you men"?" I pouted in the opposite corner of him.
"Sephiroth does it all the time, the jerk," He let another chortle escape as he sauntered over.
I expected him to say something but he just held my hand out waiting for me to take it but I refused as the doors opened to the SOLDIER 1st Class floor and I strutted to my door. He followed a smile still on his face.
"Aw, Evie wait, at least let me say good bye," I stuck my tongue out stubbornly as I fumbled for my keys. When I opened the door he stood in the doorway as I turned to push him out. "Don't be so mean," I pouted again as he looked down at me with a grin again. "Well if anything I had a good time, I'm surprised that you didn't say one sarcastic remark, but I still had a good time."
"It's the outfit, different clothes, different person," I explained in a low voice. He nodded still with the smile on his handsome face.
"Well, Night, Evie. I'll see ya," I nodded once a tight grip on the door as he bent down and pushed my hair from my face to place a soft kiss on my cheek. I smiled at the feeling and he continued to beam as he left with one last wave. As soon as I closed the door I let out one squeal and then returned to my calm composure.
"I don't recall the last time I ever had a good time with Zack like that. Wow, is that what normal feels like? Aerith, you are so lucky." I mumbled once to myself walking into my bedroom without a second thought and plopping down on my bed to rest and calm down properly. I felt the drowsiness soak in after a time and I stood to change and go to bed.
I couldn't wait for the next morning.
I took forever with this one due to the sole fact I didn't really like it. I think Zack fell out of character a bit. This is just a to show what Evie considers normal, because her life isn't. Going on a date with a guy she likes being normal for her.