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Absolutely! Dinner'll be on me! What do you want to eat?

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Why don't you surprise me?

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I can totally surprise you. Just leave it to me! I'll blow your socks off with how good this food is.

[Taking this too seriously? Nonsense! It's a date, gotta nail it.]

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Okay. I trust you to blow me away.

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Just wait! I promise, best date ever!

[...Wait that's a lofty goal. They did some pretty cool stuff in Midgar.]

Or, best date in years!

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I'm very excited. I went on a really fun date recently, so you've got a lot to live up to.

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You went on a date?? With who?

[He is NOT jealous, she's allowed to live her life, there will be no pouting-]

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Cloud took me on the Ferris wheel at the Gold Saucer. It wasn't really a romantic date, though.

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I didn't know there was such a thing.

[Wait why wasn't it a romantic date. Cloud! Aerith deserves a romantic date! What kind of man are you.]

Ahh, wait wait! You went to Gold Saucer!? That's so cool!

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We ended up in the prison for the most time, actually, but we did go! And I got to be in a play.

[ She's laughing just thinking about it. ]

I guess it was a little bit romantic, but it was mostly just because we were friends.

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Huh...

[Maybe he'll try to unpack that later. Definitely a later problem. Or not- not problem. Just A Thing.

Anyway.]

Doesn't matter, really! I think. As long as you had fun with it.

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It was nice. The whole group of us got to go together.

[ And then things went... South, but... ]

We got to spend some time in the prison!

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[As if his curiosity wasn't already piqued.]

Okay, now you HAVE to share why you went to prison. What kind of great felon am I going out with?

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Oh, they thought Baret killed some people, but he didn't.

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Shinra being Shinra?

[He... does not actually know who runs Gold Saucer. But Shinra usually makes things worse.]

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Something like that. But Cloud won his race so we were allowed to go.

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There was a race too??

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Yeah! He was really good. It was amazing.

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Was it on bikes? He loved our bike.

[At least, he made less alarming head-wobbles when they rode on it. Always felt like a good sign.]

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Nope! It was a chocobo race.

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Man... you guys really did have all the fun!

[Okay now he's kind of jealous.]

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Oh? Are you jealous?

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[Say no. Say no, Zack.

ZACK SAY NO]

Yes!! I never went on cool adventures like that. My missions were "go to x and kill some monsters" or "go to y and cover up shinra's latest skeevy experiment or whatever" and because I was 16 and stupid I just went along with it. Now I'm old enough to regret, but MY cross-world adventure was playing doom tag with the Turks and fending off hair-eating clones. And

[And he only ever got betrayed by people who were supposed to care about him and subsequently having to kill them instead of going on wacky adventures with a group of buddies. And then he died.

...That's a bummer. No.]

I'm just a LITTLE jealous. I wanna race chocobos and beat up creeper slumlords and go to prison.

OK maybe not that last part. but you know

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[And then, belatedly, because that was a lot-]

sorry

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Hm. So you're not jealous I went on a date with Cloud? Got it.

[ Now is not exactly the time to unpick all THAT. ]