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A New Life: Chapter 5
Slowly I start to awake. My eyes gradually open as much as I did not want to. I still feel tired but I know that we have to head out early. I stretch out on the couch and put my feet on the cool ground. Weights hang off my eyelids, having a hard time to keep them open. I look down at the ground. Vincent is not there. He must be awake.
I stand up off the couch. I shuffle my bare feet across the cool floor. I give a huge yawn and stretch my arms out. I walk to grab my socks and shoes. I sit down on the ground and put them on. The raven-haired man emerges from the bathroom, fully clothed and all set. He takes a seat on the couch.
"Slept well?" he asked.
I nod my head. Though it was not much sleep, it is better than nothing. Cloud and Tifa walks into the living room. The blonde haired man wears a plain black sleeveless shirt, black pants, and black combat boots. Tifa wears a black vest with a white sleeveless shirt underneath it, a black knee length skirt, and black high tops. I look at the clock to see the time. It is 5:30 in the morning.
"We need to head out soon," said Cloud. "First we'll eat breakfast, come back here to gather our stuff up, and head out."
"There's a diner only two blocks away. We can go there," said Tifa.
"Let's go then," I said.
The four of us leave the small house. Cloud is the last one to exit and he locks the door. It is a cool, brisk morning. A cool zephyr comes from the ocean. We walk two blocks to arrive at a diner. The name of the diner is Village Inn. We walk inside and there stands a tall, scrawny raven-haired woman.
"Good morning," greets the woman softly. "There are four of you?"
"Yes," answers the spiky blonde haired man.
"Smoking or nonsmoking?"
"Nonsmoking."
"Okay, right this way."
The woman that resembles so much like an alien hybrid grabs four menus and leads us to a table. Tifa sits on one side with Vincent right beside her. Cloud sits across Tifa and I sit to the left of Cloud. A plump golden blonde haired chocolate brown eyed woman walks up to the table. She wears a jolly smile. "Good morning," she greets us cheerfully. "My name is Becky and I'll be your waitress today. May I start out with drinks?" She pulls out a pad and a pen.
"Orange juice, please" answered Tifa.
"I'll take hot tea," I reply.
"Coffee…" Vincent responds.
"Would you like cream with that?" Becky asks the raven-haired man.
"No thanks…"
"I'll have orange juice," said Cloud.
"A'right, I'll be back with your drinks." She walks away.
I start to look at the menu. Several choices are given here. Having little money I decided to order something cheap. Then again usually the food that costs the most is usually the very sweet food. Well, at least for breakfast anyway. The waitress comes out and serves us our beverages.
"Is everyone ready to order?" she asks.
"I think so," said Tifa. We all nod in agreement.
"Okay, what would you like?"
After we order, the blonde heads back to the kitchen. I ordered two eggs, three pieces of bacon, and hash browns. I start looking around the small diner. The place is not busy at all. Only six other people are here. Two are dressed professionally in suits and the remaining four are teenagers. Why would the teenagers are up so early and here I have no idea. Cloud and Tifa chat to each other while Vincent and I remained silent. After ten minutes she returns with our food. I grab the hot sauce and put a little bit on my eggs. I start to eat.
Halfway done with my breakfast, more people start to come in. The hostess leads the three men to a table. A short brunette looks over at the table at us. The woman places them at a table next to ours. She walks away. The sandy brown haired man widens his eyes.
"You guys, it's AVALANCHE!" he exclaims. "We must report to ShinRa!"
Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent stand up and gets set just in case we have to battle. I get out of my chair quickly and picked up an eating utensil. "You shall suffer the wrath of the evil…" I looked at the silver ware I picked up, "…butter knife!" I cried out. "Mwa ha, ha, ha, ha!"
He raises an eyebrow up. "Who are you, kid?"
"Liam, sit down…" said the man with mid-back length midnight black hair.
He turns around. "But, Commander Kiyoshi…"
"We're off duty, Liam, let's relax, man."
"But, sir…"
"Liam…"
Liam sighs. He turns around and glares at us. "You're lucky… for now." He sits over at the table.
Just as we are close to finish our breakfast, the soldiers, or at least two of them are, received their breakfast. Kiyoshi and Liam have the same thing as I do only instead of having hash browns they have pancakes. The third person, who is a scrawny red headed, gray-eyed man, has a muffin before him. It's a muffin with walnuts on top of it to be precise.
"Would you like some bacon?" asked the commander.
"Nah, I don't eat pork," answers the red head.
"Are you Jewish?" Liam asks.
"No, I don't dig on swine, man."
"Yeah, but bacon taste good. Pork chops taste good," stated the raven-haired man.
The plump blonde haired woman comes up to us with the bill. She sits it on the table. I snatch it up to see what the price for my share is. I pull out the proper amount of money, eight gil, and hand it to Cloud. "My share of the meal…" said I.
"No, you don't have to pay," said Cloud.
"No, no, I'm going to pay at least the cost of my meal."
"It's okay, Seiko…" said Tifa.
I sigh. I place the money in his hand and stand up. "I really don't want you to pay for me." I grab one more gil and place it in the middle of the table for the tip. I walk towards the front. Cloud, Vincent, and Tifa follow behind me. The spiky haired man pays the bill and we walk back to the small house.
In a short amount of time we arrive. Cloud takes out the keys and unlocks the door. We walk inside and pick up the items we are bringing. I grab my backpack with the suit, medicines, flashlight, and materias inside. I put my backpack on and grab my katana. I look over at the clock to see it's six o'clock.
"Okay everyone, let's mosey," said Cloud. We walk out of the house and Cloud locks it up. The morning sun is rising. We leave the military city Junon and head for Fort Condor.
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Eh heh… I'm so sorry for the delay. Please don't hurt me! I'm also sorry if this chapter is boring to you. I've given a small hint of one of my favorite movies. Guess if you want to. Thanks to the person who reviewed. Don't be shy, people, and please review. Please! Al halwa hiya kuwwa! Ja ne!
-Yuki