InsaneJournal

Self Worth Is Overrated
Title: Self Worth Is Overrated
Prompt: Promises
Characters: Tifa
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: She used to know she wasn't a compromise.

Tifa's parents taught it was not wrong to think of oneself.

You have choices. You have free will. You don't owe smiles or looks or kisses to anybody just because they think you do. Your happiness is not up for compromise. Promise you won't forget.

They had hoped Tifa would always know her worth. She tried not to wonder how ashamed they would be of her now.

"At least," she started, but Cloud was already at the door, already deaf, leaving her alone with children who didn't understand why he had stopped caring. She used to know she deserved better.