Rude hadn’t expected to run into you here. There was no reason you’d be in Sector 1 when your house was all the way in Sector 5. He knows your parents live in a city outside Midgar, so it’s not that either. While eying you from afar, his mind runs through the many possible scenarios that existed.

Maybe you have a new partner. Maybe you’ve forgotten all about him. His chest aches. He remembers how natural things were when the two of you were still together. Everything felt right. And now, nothing does.

Against his better judgment, his legs carry him straight over to you. Rude stares down at you impassively from behind his shades. “You shouldn’t be here,” he says, although he really means ‘you don’t normally come to this sector.’ He always says the wrong thing to you; maybe that’s why your relationship didn’t last.