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Lecture and Clothes

'Are these really necessary?' Sephiroth heard Cloud muttered as the boy tried vainly to loosen the white scarf that he had tied around his neck.

'Yes,' Sephiroth answered stiffly as he readjusted the scarf, the thick beige-colored coat and the wig, which all covered his little brother's pretty and very sensitive neck. If people didn't know any better, they would probably be thinking that he was trying to help him to hide a dozen of hickeys. Not that he cared what other thought about it, because the only thing that matter for him was that the weak spot that they shared must be covered.

'Seph!' the blond whined loudly. 'You are strangling me here!'

'If I am strangling you, then you wouldn't even have enough breath to whine right now,' the silver-haired brother replied as he tucked a wild spike back beneath the wig. 'Done.'

Sephiroth had made sure that every cloth he had picked covered every inch of Cloud's skin. He would chain his own brother on a chair to keep him away from his said friend, who had somehow discovered their common weakness, and weakness meant taking advantage, and taking advantage meant ruining Cloud's innocence and life! Which was something that must be prevented at all cost! Cloud had already suffered enough in his life and he did not need to have a wound that wouldn't heal!

Unfortunately, stubbornness was a family trait that Cloud had somehow inherited from their dear father and he had completely tuned out every word he said when he tried to convince him to not go to this rendezvous of his. Of course, his little brother had fought teeth and nails to get him to agree, but still, precaution was needed.

'Seph! It's barely autumn and you give winter clothes already! People are going to think I'm crazy when I step out of that door!' Cloud shouted indignantly when he saw his reflection on the mirror of the closet door.

'First of all, it's 1st October, which means it is autumn already and winter will arrive before you knew it. Second, today is extremely windy,' Sephiroth replied smugly as Cloud pouted with a frown. 'You'll get winkles for that.'

'I'm not girl. I mean... I am a girl... no I pretend... augh... Whatever I'm leaving!' the young blond shouted as he turned and opened the back door in the kitchen.

'Don't forget-'

'Call back home every hour, and if I miss one single call, you'll hunt me down. I know. I know,' Cloud completed his sentence, annoyance written all over his face, and slammed the front door close before he could add another word.

Sephiroth watched from the window as Cloud took out the bicycle in the small garage and rode out towards the main street. After Cloud disappeared around the corner, he went to read some random books in the living room, trying very hard to have faith in his little brother and respect his decision while his mind had dozen of alarms ringing urgently. You promise Sephiroth. Unless he missed a call, you won't go and crash their fun. You promise.

Unfortunately, the book he was currently reading was not easing his agitating mind at all, which was the story of Jack the Ripper. His mind was feeding him images of Cloud in his girl disguise with his chest torn opened, his heart was gone, his face bloody, sad and tearful.

Sephiroth slammed the book down on the wooden tea table hard enough to cause some newspapers and books to fall and a small cracking sound could be heard. That's it! He quickly got up and pick up his black leather trench coat, making sure that the collar kept his neck out of sight before he tied his long silver hair into a ponytail.

Part of him was scowling at him for breaking his promise to leave Cloud be, it didn't persuade him much. He just told me not to spoil his date, but he had never mentioned that I can't follow him.

Angeal watched as his old friend paced around the room, with clothes on the bed, chair and table. Genesis inspected some before he threw most of it back into the closet and drawers. It really made him wonder why he was putting that much effort just to know a girl, while most of the time, he preferred the girl do the effort.

Honestly, Angeal sometimes wondered what Genesis was really thinking, because his thoughts changed as much as his mood swings, it was very hard for him to decipher his friend's thoughts.

After few more pacing and tryouts, Genesis had finally chosen the clothes he was going to wear for his date tonight.

'It's not a date Angeal,' Genesis corrected as he started changing. 'Skye and I were simply having tea.'

'Your "simply having tea" seems to have evolved into a full-fledge date,' Angeal pointed out as he looked through the bookshelves filled with books of poems and plays.

'Ha ha ha, very funny,' the auburn hair teen replied sarcastically as he studied himself in front of the mirror. He decided to wear a black shirt with a red leather jacket, some black jeans and a thin black scarf to top it all. 'I simply find it refreshing that a girl wasn't trying to get me to date her or do anything romantically. Besides, she seemed to be interested in the drama club, but she's probably too shy to ask anyone if she could join the club.'

'And you're offering a place for her in the club?' Angeal asked, not really sure if he should take his friend seriously or not, since Genesis had never done a thing for a girl, because he found it very troublesome.

'In a manner of speaking, yes, I am,' Genesis replied as he pretended to dust off some invisible dust of his sleeve. 'Well I better get going then. It's not very gentleman of me to keep a lady waiting. I'll see you at school at Monday then.'

Angeal nodded absentmindedly as he followed his friend out and they both parted ways at the street. His mind was working really hard to process everything he was thinking, from school's homework to Genesis' abnormal obsession of this mysterious blond hair girl. He was so in deep thoughts that he did not notice that his cell phone was ringing until it rang its fifth chime.

The senior student as he made his way to his old beat-up car quickly took out his phone and flipped it opened. 'Angeal speaking.'

'Angeal,' the voice started on the other line, Angeal recognized it as his mother's. 'I got an e-mail from your cousin. He told me that his camping got cancelled because of the weather and he's on his way back from Kalm, could you pick him at the Midgar Train Station dear?'

'Sure, when will he be there?'

'He sent the e-mail at 1 p.m. and the train must take about three to four hours to get back from Kalm, so I think he should have arrived when you get there. If not, why don't you go to the Spring Mall near the train station and wait for him? I'm sure that there are some new seeds of flower and gardening tools you could buy.'

'Alright, I'll call back when I pick him up, bye mother.' Angeal ended his call and stared at his cell phone for a second as an idea popped in his mind. Spring Mall was where Genesis had invited his date to, maybe...

The burly student got into his car and impatiently started its old rusty engines. It's better safe then sorry. Beside, it's not like I am stalking him or anything. He always needed someone to look after anyway.

Cloud was nervous-extremely nervous-catastrophically nervous! Of course, now that he was in his girl disguise, it should be consider as a normal occurrence, but this was still getting way out of control.

Now that he was standing in front of the north entrance of the Spring Mall, he was slowly loosing all the determination he had when he was arguing with his brother about letting him go to this date. Truthfully, the young man in disguise was nervous because he couldn't understand what his relationship with Genesis was at this instance.

Since they had met, he had first considered the redhead as his first friend, but this friendship had quickly, and quite suddenly might he added, turned into something he wasn't even sure what the hell it was. After all, friends wouldn't nuzzle the other's face or dating the other.

Then again, Genesis didn't know that I was a guy, so it should be normal that he was trying to court me and all. All I need to do, it's just to make sure that I don't lead him on. Cloud thought as he let out a tired sigh. His stress was not doing him any favour these days and with him in his girl's disguise, even worse.

Suddenly an icy cold breeze hit him and he started to shiver. Man! Seph wasn't kidding about the cold.

'Good evening my lady,' a smooth silk-like voice greeted him.

Cloud looked up and his brain had stopped functioning for a minute or two, but it was more like his first thought about Genesis was "Damn! He's-", he quickly paused it, deleted it, threw it in the recycle bin and emptied the said bin, which in total took him exactly sixty-one seconds to complete.

Little did he know, his thought was not shared by two other persons who were hidden in the dark.

The innocent Angel meets the seducing Devil. The one a few feet behind Cloud thought.

And the Wolf opened its mouth to welcome the Sheep. The person on the other side thought.

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