Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters but the plot I do own.

Prologue

18 years ago

“The jury has come to a verdict that each parent will keep one of the fraternal twins. Both parents Ms. Vanessa Fair and Mr. Marcus Lockhart will decide which twin will they take under their custody Zack or Tifa. Ms. Vanessa Fair will choose first. Which of the twins will you take with you?” asked the judge.

“I will take my son Zack with me,” said Ms. Fair.

“Mr. Lockhart you will keep the girl, the court has been adjourned case dismissed.”

“No you can’t take Zack with you how can you separate Tifa from Zack there twins they are not even 5 months old. How can they see each other?!” yelled Marcus outraged.

“You should have thought about that before you did what you did to me because of your actions our children will suffer. I do not want you near Zack!” yelled Vanessa.

“I didn’t do it!”

“For once in your life stop lying to me I bet you even lied the moment you told me you loved me!”

Those words cut deeply into his heart. Marcus couldn’t believe the woman he had sacrificed everything for was accusing him of something he didn’t do and was not letting him explain. Vanessa turned away him and headed to where Zack was.

At this point it seemed as if the twins knew what was happening and they both started to cry when their mother picked up Zack she had to force him to let go of Tifa’s hand. At this action the twins started to cry even louder.

When Vanessa had left the room Marcus went to Tifa he picked her up and began to calm her by singing her favorite lullaby.

When Marcus walked outside he made a promise he’d swore to keep. “No matter what my little angel I will always love even if your mom wants nothing to do with us I will make sure no one hurts you and one day I will make sure you and Zack will meet again, I promise.” He whispered.

By the time he was done with his promise to Tifa she was already asleep with a smile over her cherubic face. He was focusing on Tifa’s cherubic face that he didn’t notice until he reached there home that tears were streaming down his face.

Marcus stood in the library room with his family. Her aunt Raine who was holding her showed her to a one year old Squall and Sephiroth. Marcus watched the scene with unreadable expression on his face. “Thank you guys for joining me tonight.” He said to his brothers and their wives.

Raine smiled. “It’s not a problem.”

Rio had his arm over his wife’s shoulders. “It was about time we reunited once more.”

“But we wished it wouldn’t have been for this type of occasion.” Laguna said.

Eric shrugged. “I say good riddance to bad rubbish.”

Delgado punched his shoulder. “Shut up,” he said before turning to his younger brother Marcus. “Don’t listen to him. He’s an idiot.”

“Don’t hit me in front of my child.” Eric growled. Delgado glanced at Frey who was holding his father’s hand and shook his head.

Lucas looked at the floor. “It’s all my fault.”

Marcus looked at his twin. “It doesn’t matter, what is done is done.” He said looking at the floor. “What hurts the most is that she couldn’t tell the difference between us.”

“Marcus if she couldn’t tell the difference then it was because she didn’t bother to get to know you. She never loved you.” Rio said coldly.

Marcus looked at his oldest brother. “I know, but that doesn’t stop me from loving her.”

Raine stood up from her chair and handed Tifa to Marcus. “I wish you both the best of luck.” She said giving them an encouraging myself before carrying Squall.

Sephiroth saw this and went to Delgado. He lifted his hands up. Delgado smirked knowing that Sephiroth only did that when he wanted to be carried, so he picked his son up and held him. Sephiroth snuggled into his father’s embrace before closing his eyes.

“What are we going to do now?” Eric asked carrying Frey who was falling asleep.

“I don’t know. All we can do is keep moving forward.” Marcus said looking at his daughter cherubic face while she slept.

Vanessa had her arms crossed over chest. “I filed for custody of Zack and won.”

“Why? Wasn’t it enough that you divorced him?”

Vanessa chuckled. “It doesn’t matter if it’s enough or not. For what he did to me I let him off easy.”

Veronica clenched her fists. “I wonder who you are talking about. Lucas or Marcus.”

“What?” Vanessa asked surprised.

“Don’t play that fucking surprise act on me! Did you think that I would never find out that you had fucked Lucas before you dated Marcus and the only reason you dated him was to make Lucas jealous!” Veronica chuckled. “But it didn’t work. You got pissed that he went out with me instead, but we broke up.”

“Shut up! It was your fault that Lucas didn’t come to me! So I had to hurt you when Marcus asked me to marry I agreed to get back at you and Lucas, but he never came to me in the end.” Vanessa smirked. “I took satisfaction in hurting you in the end,” she sighed. “But I got bored I wanted out after I gave birth to his children.”

“His children.” Veronica shook her head. “You don’t care for them at all, do you?”

“Of course not, Why would I?”

“Why didn’t you let him keep both of them?”

Vanessa gently touched Veronica’s cheek. “Haven’t you noticed? I’m doing this for you and Lucas. Marcus was only a pawn in my plan to make you and Lucas suffer. If Marcus is hurt so would you be and Lucas will feel guilty. It worked like charm I caught Lucas sleeping with one of his whores and that was my chance to divorce Marcus,” she smiled. “Now do you see?”

Veronica smacked her sister’s hand away. “Why are you out to get me?”

Vanessa step closer to her younger sister and whispered in her ear. “Because you took my chance with Lucas away. If you hadn’t then I wouldn’t have been with Marcus and he wouldn’t be hurt right now. In the end it is all your fault that Lucas and Marcus are suffering.” She stepped away from her. “It’s all your fault.”

Veronica looked at her sister before taking a step back. “I’m leaving, but not before saying bye to my nephew.” She said heading upstairs.

Veronica entered the nursery where she saw Zack sleeping in the crib. She walked to his crib and stared down at his sleeping form. “I’m sorry.” She whispered caressing his cheek. Zack snuggled to her hand. She felt tears burn her eyes. “I’ll be damned for as long as I live because I know the truth. How am I ever going to face them again?” she whispered. “Maybe one day, I’ll be strong enough to break from her influence and let the truth out in the open. Then that will be the day you will be free Zack,” she said before pulling away. She walked quietly out the room and down the stairs to where her older sister was.

“Where are you going?” Vanessa asked.

“Home.” Veronica said not being able to look her in the eyes.

“You know not to tell the Lockhart’s anything that I told you if you know what’s good for you.”

“I don’t need you to tell me.” Veronica said angrily.

Vanessa glared at her. “You better change your attitude toward me if you want to keep seeing your nephew. After all Zack and me are the only family you have left. You wouldn’t want to lose us.”

Veronica clenched her fists. “Good night Vanessa.” She said storming out the house and into her car. She thrust the key into the ignition and pressed her foot on the gas petal and sped out of there. She slowed down as she reached her apartment complex. She parked the car and got out. Once she was in her apartment slid onto the floor by the door. Her head leaned against the door as tears slid down her face. She heard her telephone ring and let the machine pick it up.

“Veronica, it’s me Lucas. I wanted to talk to you. You must be feeling the same way I am, which means we feel like shit.” At this Veronica chuckled through her tears. “Anyways give me a call I want to talk to you. Marcus is pretty down maybe you should pay him a visit and if you don’t want to go alone I’ll go with you. So yeah…Veronica how are you feeling? ...You can ignore the last question...bye.”

Veronica heard the machine beep one last time. It was until the message ended did she let herself fall apart.

A teenage girl opened her red wine eyes at the warmth of the sunlight radiating through her window. When she was going to turn to the other side of her bed to avoid the sunlight she caught sight of her clock it read 7:45.

“I’m late for school!” she yelled at the top of her lungs.

She had dark brown hair that looked like dark chocolate and you can easy confuse it with black. She also had red wine that change to light or dark red because of her emotions. Her skin was a fair color not too brown or too pale. Her name is Tifa Isabella Lockhart.

She ran into her bathroom along the way she grabbed a towel and took a quick shower.

She changed into a blue sleeveless jersey and black pants that hugged her waist nicely and were loose. She wasn’t a girl that thought she was pretty just average but her friends will tell her she was far better looking than average. To finish her outfit she wore a black sweater that ended right above her waistline and had sliver shoulder pads (an: imagine Sephiroth’s coat it’s like that except smaller).She also put black leather gloves and some white adidas.

She ran down the stairs and saw her nanny/ house maid/mother figure Anne.

“Hey nanny, where’s Alexia and who turned off my alarm clock?” Tifa asked.

“She left to school already and your father did, he saw you studying late last night,” said Anne smiling.

“That’s dad, always worrying about me. I got to go before I’m really late to class.” She said.

“Okay off you go. At least eat this bagel along the way, why don’t hang out with one of your friends after school?”

Tifa ran to where Anne is gives her a peck in the cheek and grabbed the bagel filled with cream cheese but before she ran out the door she turned to Anne and said.

“I’ll call after school and see if any of them want to go somewhere.”

As Tifa ran to school little did she know a teenage boy was also running late to school. He had black hair and dark blue eyes with a tint of violet that change to violet when he’s in a conflict with his emotions. He’s also has fair skin color. His name is Zack Gabriel Fair.

These two people have no clue on what is going to happen once they both meet how there calm life is going to turn into a chaotic disaster.

This is story about

True love

Friendship

And

Family

A/N: I’m done with rewrite. I also added more background to the story than before. I hoped you guys enjoyed it. The pairing are still Cloti, Zeris, Yuffietine. The final two pairings are Squinoa and FriezexQuistis since most people voted that. Now I’m off to rewrite chapter 1. Don’t forget to review.