sakukodo

"Go out in the hall until you calm down." She walked out, crying. She sat just outside of the classroom door and sobbed, curling into a ball around her painful emotions. "If there is a God out there, why am I so miserable?" She could hear the other students playing piano and guitar in the classroom, and here she was, outside, alone, miserable, because her hands were too small for the school's guitars and she knew nothing of piano. "Dad was so good, Brother's so good, why can't I be good??" Half an hour later, the teacher came out. "You alright now?" "No. I want to play guitar, but my hands are too small. I can't reach all the frets." "Oh,

"Hey. Heyyy. HEY. Nika. NIKA." The young girl got smacked in the back of the head by another scientist and sighed. "I'm working, sir." "You'd better be. We have a special guest coming today and you need to make a good first impression. He's from ShinRa." Nika shuddered. ShinRa. She was from Wutai, and as such, didn't like the thought of meeting one of ShinRa's scientists. All the same, it could help her get materials she never would have access to here in the middle of nowhere. She just wanted to help people, from Wutai or not. She went back to her work. Two years she had worked in this lab, since she was sixteen. She shifted her weight, an