Room 504, Saturday Evening

Zack... was not normally the sort to sit down at a desk and pick up a pencil and write letters of his own volition, no. In fact, if he had his way, he'd do all of his communicating in person, or at least on the telephone. But the people that he wanted to get in touch with at just that moment weren't exactly living in a corner of the world where technology was abundant, and so if he was going to get in touch with them, it was with a letter, or else not at all.

Dear Dad and Mom,

How are you guys?
Sorry for leaving town so suddenly.
I just really wanted to become a SOLDIER.
I bet you're worried now that I've told you...
But now I'm fulfilling my lifelong dream, and I'll do my best in SOLDIER.

P.S. I have a girlfriend.
Zack

Zack wrinkled his nose as he looked the letter over. It was... pretty lame, so far as letters went. But what else did you say to people that you hadn't spoken to in nearly five years? His mother would have wanted to know if he'd finally found a nice girl, and so he'd covered that much as an afterthought. And his parents would both worry once he told them that he'd gone and joined ShinRa's army. He couldn't tell them that everything was okay, because as far as he was aware, everything wasn't. But there wasn't a single lie anywhere in that letter. He was embracing his dreams, and he'd do his best, and that's all that they really needed to know after all of this time, wasn't it?

Now he just had to get up the nerve to mail it.

[Open door, open post. That unfortunate excuse for a letter home is snatched from Final Fantasy VII: International. Zack really sucks at writing letters, apparently.]