Authoress's Note:Yayz! Finally I remembered to post this!!! Though this first chapter doesn't feature anything special, it does form the basis for this story.
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Disclaimer:I own nothing in this story, except for the original characters and the storyline (of course).
Oh, and I don't own Cloud or Kadaj (though I wish I owned the latter...T.T)

I looked up from the book I was reading. Annoying stupid people. Would they ever shut up? Honestly. And the teacher, Mr. Marks, wasn't making it any better. You'd think a man who was 42 years old (who'd gone to college for who knows how long) would be better able to control a classroom full of 17 year old kids. But no. He couldn't even find a damn date...He was probably still a virgin. Hehe. 40 year-old virgin. And he probably never would deflower himself as long as he panted after Ms. Letterman down the hall who would never notice him. And there was two reasons why she wouldn't. One--Ms. Letterman was a lesbian; and two--Mr. Marks had an awful blond toupee that tended to slip off his head whenever he made sudden movements.

Anyway, back to the classroom full of kids. Annoying as they were, you had to sympathize with some of them. There were the jocks. A collection of overly buff guys and cheerleaders in short skirts that probably didn't have enough brains combined to beat a t-Rex in a game of chess. Then there were the wanna be gangsters and prostitutes whose families had probably pushed them down that path of drugs and violence. That didn't excuse the fact that they were probably all gone be in jail by Christmas. Then there were the mathletes. And honestly if you didn't feel sorry for the mathletes then you had no empathy in you. (i.e. jocks). And then there was me, Christina. The girl that didn't really fit in any where. The girl whose best friends and dream guy were all located inside video games.

"HELLLLOOOOO!!!!!!" screamed a familiar voice. Well, scratch that. I had a real life best friend. Lindsey, a girl as crazy as me about video games and the characters who reside in them!

Mr. Marks's head jerked up so fast that his toupee flew across the room and into a cheerleader's lap. The poor girl screamed and did kind of a backflip off her chair, her skirt flying up in the process. All of the rest of the jocks started to laugh and the girl ran out of the room crying. Flustered, Mr. Marks walked over to where his poor disheveled toupee was resting on the floor and picked up before settling it unevenly back onto his head. "Ms. McElhatten? What on earth are you doing here?"

Lindsey, who had been desperately trying to hold back her laughter, finally composed herself enough to say. "To get Christina. We have official business with Ms. Letterman that can't wait." She waited knowing she had played her cards just right. I rolled her eyes; if there were two things Mr. Marks couldn't resist, it was Ms. Letterman and official business.

"Oh well.. I suppose....if it is official business," said Mr. Marks.

Lindsey smiled a wide toothy grin with dimples displayed at full force; it was a smile that never failed to charm adults. I called it her shark smile.

After grabbing my stuff, I walked out of the door with Lindsey.

"So what's this important business with Ms. Letterman?"

Lindsey shrugged. "There never was any. I felt like skippin' and I figured you needed saving."

I stopped and put my hands on my hips. "Dammit Lindsey! I told you not to skip anymore!"

"Oh, but this time you're with me my friend! Come on. Let's go to the mall; there's this new game I wanna check out at Gamestop," said Lindsey, putting her puppydog eyes on full force.

Unfortunately for her, I was immune. "No. I'm going back to class."

"PLEASE!!!!! I'll owe you big time I promise. Please please please!"

"No."

"There supposed to be posters out for the remake of FF VII," she said cunningly.

I groaned. Lindsey had hit my weak spot and was wearing me down.

Lindsey, seeing me waver, took full advantage and pressed on. "And they said that there was going to be a special guest star there. Who knows, it might just be a certain guy who voices a certain video game character that you just happen to adore."

I groaned again and relented. "Fine let's go."

"I don't know," said Lindsey studying her nails nonchalantly. "I mean you said you'd rather just go back to class so I guess that's what we'll do." She turned to go in the opposite direction back to her class.

I grabbed her by the scruff of her collar. "Get your damn car keys we're going."

Lindsey gave a wide smile and jumped fist in the air. "Yes!Now that's the Christina I know!"

Again, I rolled my eyes. "Whatever. Let's go."

I smiled as I watched Lindsey skip off in the direction of the parking lot.

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