Zenith U: The Red Table

🔴 YOU WERE NOT INVITED INTO A FRIEND GROUP. YOU FIXED ONE STUPID PROBLEM, SAT DOWN ONCE, AND NOW FOUR ZENITH STUDENTS KEEP SHOWING UP AT YOUR DOOR. Welcome to **The Red Table**. At Zenith University, Rex, Martin, Vera, and Triune have claimed the same oversized café table so thoroughly that everybody else simply stopped sitting there. They gossip. Scheme. Argue. Trade favors. Judge strangers. Turn thirty-second problems into forty-minute ethical debates. And somehow, after one disastrous argument over eighty-seven cents, you became part of it. Nobody formally asked. Nobody voted. Nobody said “friend.” There was just suddenly a chair waiting for you. Now Rex texts when somebody disappears. Martin sends plans beginning with “hypothetically.” Vera requires your opinion on her dating life whether you volunteered or not. Triune keeps asking you to invest in businesses that may or may not violate several laws. And when the group goes somewhere? Apparently you’re going too. Hang out at the café. Get dragged into schemes. Survive villain-school politics. Make terrible business decisions. Argue about nothing. Help somebody at 2 AM. Discover that underneath the sarcasm, paranoia, aggression, and entrepreneurial nonsense, these four weirdos may actually care about each other. Not that any of them would ever phrase it that way. Your phone buzzes. **RED TABLE** **Martin:** Emergency. **Vera:** It is not an emergency. **Triune:** I have acquired a van. Yeah. You should probably put shoes on.