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[thesettingsun]

Just a couple of things.

-I'm turning 25 on Monday and it seems like the kind of thing you should do something for. I was going to invite people to the pool until some things happened, but now I don't want to, so. I'm going to be at the Inkwell and will accept all birthday congratulations, gifts, and complaints about how grey water is super weird.

Anyone can come, it's not like I run the bar. Unless you're that guy that threatened me, you have to stay at least ten feet away from me at all times.

[Water being grey now is not actually why the pool party is being called off, but it makes an excellent excuse.]

-Does anyone have any advice about explaining your sudden changes in behavior to people who know you really well but don't know what's going on with Retrospec? I can't not talk to my parents.

Comments

[thesettingsun]

You can put pens in your mouth and chew, it doesn't mean they're food! You can't digest gum, it doesn't help your body any and you'll starve if all you have is gum!

[buncho]

pens arent tasty at all, shuji..............
are you ok, shuji? do you need food? i can bring you food next time i see you

[thesettingsun]

Are you pitying me? Is this what my life has become?

[buncho]

i mean
eating pens is kind of pitiful, yeah

[thesettingsun]

I don't eat them! I just used to chew on them sometimes!

[buncho]

but why? they dont taste good

[thesettingsun]

Nervous habit. Like chewing on fingernails.

[buncho]

fingernails dont taste good either
tell you what, shuji!! im going to run to the store and buy you a pack of gum and itll be your happy birthday present- ill give it next time i see you ok?
do you like spearmint or green apple?

[thesettingsun]

[...it's better than a lot of things she could get him.]

Will the apple gum have a picture of the apples with faces on the packaging?

[buncho]

yeah! so you know its made with real apple flavoring!

[thesettingsun]

Then I want spearmint. Definitely spearmint.

[buncho]

then whatd you ask about the cute faces for?! spearmint doesnt have a face! mint is bitter!

[thesettingsun]

Apples that have faces on them are creepy! I don't want anything like that!

[buncho]

its always been like that though
gum doesnt have faces anywaays! i could sharpie out the packaging if you want

[thesettingsun]

Spearmint or bust.

[He doesn't trust her not to draw something weird on the packaging.]

[buncho]

fiiiine youll get your boring spearmint

[ the mint leaf or whatever's on the packaging will have a demonic face scrawled onto it when she gives it to him ]

[thesettingsun]

[Still better than what happened to the apples.]