ShinRA Trash Party

[notmyrealname]

Ain't no party as good as a ShinRa Party!

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[backwatertrooper]

But next time is one time too much!

"Great. I mean, I'd already guessed, but..." Cloud muttered, reflexively sinking a little lower in his seat and unsure how this short exchange had ended with him sitting down. Well, it wasn't really important, he supposed...

"I'm not." Briefly, almost reluctantly, Cloud's gaze darted aside to linger at a group across the room before he turned away, picking absently at the bottle. "Didn't seem like a bad idea before we got here."

Because while one or two of them were okay on their own, a few others reminded him far too much of home, and as a group... well. That free drink had come from a nonchalant hand pushing it at him and a shrug to 'just drink it' when he'd asked.

He'd made himself scarce after that.

"I don't need a babysitter, you know," Cloud said, looking up with a small but there smile, aimed at Cissnei from under his bangs, "you don't have to waste your evening with me."

[notmyrealname]

Welcome to the real world, chocobo.

"It never seems like a bad idea until the bad things actually happen," Cissnei mused, motioning towards the group Cloud had glanced at briefly--not brief enough for her to miss though. "Don't hold it against any of them. Some of their drinks were probably messed with as well." That's just how thinks worked, especially when you worked for ShinRa.

A good call, Cloud. A very good call.

Cissnei bit back a laugh, eyebrow lifting. "I never said I was your babysitter. Just giving some friendly advice is all," she said thoughtfully, noting that smile and finding herself pleased that he wasn't a stick in the mud. "I wouldn't call it a waste. You're better company than some of the Turks."

[backwatertrooper]

The real world sucks, if Nibelheim was any better he'd go back, but forget that.

"I guess that's how it usually is." Cloud could admit - now, afterwards - that some ideas had seemed good (or at least acceptable) when he decided to act, but afterwards hadn't really been.

"Didn't think about that..." casting a brief frown over to the group again, Cloud hoped they'd either be fine or that Cissnei was wrong - he might not be close to any of them, but that didn't mean he'd want them to get in trouble.

Turning back to Cissnei, the little smile from earlier widened even as Cloud sort of sunk down a little again, not quite hiding in the scarf.

"Sure you just didn't like this beer and needed an excuse to get a new one?" Cloud offered up, tapping the bottle against the table and somewhere between hesitant for having said anything at all, and very dry. For a fifteen year old, that was.

[notmyrealname]

Fair enough.

"Usually, yes. Every now and then you get thrown for a loop but those times don't generally sneak up on you." Usually they smacked you right in the face. She watched him cast that frown over towards the group he had come with, eyes narrowing just slightly as the corner of her lips turned up in a slight smile. "They'll be fine, don't worry. I'm not the only Turk here you know."

She had honestly just been curious to see how he'd react. Such an interesting character this one was.

And so shy. Or maybe he was just bashful. Whatever it was, Cissnei found herself muffling a laugh against the lip of her beer bottle.

"You caught me," she said rather dramatically, motioning to her own bottle. "I was too embarrassed to get myself a second. You were a convenient excuse."

[backwatertrooper]

Briefly, Cloud's smile turned into an actual grin, everything so far making Cloud relatively certain he wasn't being made fun of and Cissnei was just honestly responding.

"I guess that worked out for me," he said and then finally took another sip, finding it went down easier the second time. "And you know... usually it's not very reassuring to hear there's more than one Turk around."

Cissnei seemed okay, though, and Cloud knew there were at least one other Turk around that wouldn't just do their job and bounce immediately afterwards. Not that anyone in here seemed to be in a state to care much about the potential number of Turks around from what he could see.