Tifa is unintentionally popular, despite being a kind soul. She doesn't mind the popularity too much, though, because without it people kept getting her confused with Rinoa and Garnet all the time. Cloud has a crush on Tifa, and she puts up with him but finds him a little awkward. Eventually, she feels similarly about him after he tells her about how he's going to be a hero etc. But all the other kids think Cloud is a dork and Seifer keeps beating up on him for being a "bigger chickenwuss than Zell", which infuriates Zell to no end, causing him to get into scuffles with Seifer and his ever-present friends, Fujin, Kaijin and Fighter. Quistis, rolling her eyes, will try to set order to the place but in the end it's hopeless. Aeris recently joined the school but is seen as a bit of an outsider. Quickly, she becomes very popular amongst girls and guys alike because of her outgoing personality. Tifa isn't sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On the one hand, it means she doesn't have to deal with all these people scrutinising her, but on the other hand she feels a bit lonely because all her friends spend a lot of time with Aeris now... not to mention that Aeris seems to similarly treat Cloud really nicely. But not even close to how nice she treats Zack. Headmaster Cid and his absent minded deputy, Galuf, are having trouble with some of the teaching staff. While Cid is a great teacher and works hard with his assistant Mid, for example, others such as Cid can be awful to work with. The latter is constantly getting his assistant Shera to do all the work while he leans back on his chair and smokes a cigarette. Meanwhile P.E. teacher Barret got mad at his team losing to Kimahri's well drilled group and shot all the basketballs to shreds. This indirectly led to some issues at the local train station after star player Sabin was left without much to do. This kind of thing attracts all the wrong kind of attention and at parent-teacher interviews Cecil and Rosa were really worried for the safety of their kids. Meanwhile, Princess Lenna and Princess Faris have been at loggerheads yet again, the sisters both having a slight crush on some well-off boy named Edgar (at least he wasn't perving on Ms. Ashe again). Apparently he has made plays for both of them and the aftermath is not looking good. Lenna has resorted to talking to animals while Faris is dressing up as a guy every day, strapping down her boobs and all that. They called in the school counsellor, White Mage, to talk to them but neither would listen. Faris even insisted that she would only talk to Minwu because girls just don't understand her, or something like that. Minwu, however, has been too busy treating Gau after school chef Quina fed him something that smelt rather awful...

...this could go on for some time.