ᴍᴏɴᴅᴀʏ, ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 6ᴛʜ, 7:00 ᴀᴍ☁️

as you two entered the building, passing security, you asked, "aren't we an hour early?"

"yep! that's because we all hang out in the lunch room before classes start."

"oh.." you held your knuckles together as the thought of that made you feel queasy.

"hey, it'll be alright," yuffie put her hand on your shoulder, "i'll be right there with you, and you'll get to meet my friends!"

she must've noticed your apprehensiveness.

you took in a deep breath and let it out, "alright, let's do this.."

yuffie smiled, "that's the spirit!"

she pushed open the doors for you to see crowds of people surrounded around rectangular tables, and as yuffie led you to her supposed friends, you could've sworn you felt a pair of eyes on you.

you assumed that maybe someone noticed you were new, but it nonetheless freaked you out a little.

yuffie brought you to a table in the far left corner with a group sitting at it.

"hey yuffie."

"mornin', yuf."

"who's this?"

you bite your inner cheek in nervousness.

yuffie smiled, delighted to introduce you to her friends, "this is y/n! she's a transfer and today is her first day at SHINRA!"

a girl with long dark brown hair, with kind dark eyes got up to shake your hand, "my name is tifa, i hope you'll like it here."

you gave her a small smile, appreciating her gentleness compared to yuffie's hyperactivity.

tifa pointed to a blonde with spiky hair, with an unamused look on his face, "this grump is cloud."

"cloud strife," he corrected.

"whatever, spikes," a tall, muscular guy said.

he had dark hair and dark eyes, with scars all across pretty dark skin, and while he had scars across one of his arms and by one of his eyes, he had a prosthetic right arm, and sunglasses on his forehead.

"barret wallace, at your service," he nodded.

a guy with dark, long hair and some facial scarring also piped up from next to cloud, "my name is zack, zack fair!"

another teen with dark hair with a red headband and one long glove spoke up, "and i'm vincent.."

you could hear him turn up the volume on his ipod...'pierce the veil? good choice.'

zack excitedly patted the seat in between him and vincent and across from tifa.

"so, y/n, where ya from?" zack asked.

"countryside.." you mumbled.

"ahh i see! i love going out in the countryside! it's lovely out there, isn't it?"

zack talked a lot, which made you happy considering that meant you had to talk less.

you nodded as a response.

"why'd you come here of all places, anyways?" cloud asked from next to him.

your eyes trailed to the floor, not sure if you wanted to answer that or not.

preferably not.

"hey," tifa smiled, "don't feel pressured to answer, we just want to get to know you, honey."

you nodded.

"don't be afraid to say when we get annoyin' though, alright?" barret chuckled, with a kind demeanor.

you smiled slightly.

they must've all decided to give you space so they talked amongst themselves.

you decided to try to be social and turned to vincent real quick, tapping him on the shoulder.

"hm?" he pulled out an earbud, now with disenchanted by mcr blaring.

"i like your taste in music.."

he gave a very pleased smile at that, and he started talking about every band he liked, meaning you got to listen instead of talk.

and as he was going on about his favorite metal bands, the bell rang.