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[aflikofthewrist]

“So, did you miss me while you were in Berlin?” Flik winked and smiled at the person across the table from him. He took a sip of his hot coffee while he was waiting for their response. 

[animalsrfriends-notfood-blog]

“So, I went to Del Taco and they messed up my meal. I threw a fit for about 20 minutes when I realized it after I got home, but still ended up eating it — with a lot of anger,” Taran laughed, took a drag off his joint, and leaned against the railing of his apartment. 

[nuclear-nuka]

“So are you gonna stand there and stare at me for the rest of the day or do you want something from me?”

[aflikofthewrist]

Flik gently placed a small homemade battery into his most recent invention, holding his breath. Okay, so far, so good. He then pressed the power button to turn it on. As soon as his finger pressed down the button a spark emitted from near the battery. Oh shit! Flik quickly ran out of the abandoned classroom and closed the door behind him, shutting in the large plume of black smoke that had begun pouring out of the battery. He looked back and forth in the hallway, hoping it was empty. Unfortunately, he had no such luck. “Did you see that?”

[aflikofthewrist]

Flik laid back, blowing smoke up towards the clouds, “Do you ever think about how this entire universe could just be one neuron of a much larger being and we’re all just atoms?” He coughed slightly and held out the joint to the person next to him. 

[animalsrfriends-notfood-blog]

Taran checked his phone...again, hoping for a text from Eli, but no such luck. He missed her a lot, more than a friend should miss another friend. He was lost in thought when he ran directly into the edge of a fountain, nearly falling headfirst into it. He looked around and made eye contact with someone across the fountain, “Did you, uh, see that?”

[animalsrfriends-notfood-blog]

Taran was exhausted, he had just worked a double shift at the zoo - his first in a long time. He smelled like animals and just wanted to get home and shower. He got out of his Uber, thanking the driver, before turning to step onto the sidewalk. In his exhaustion he walked right into someone and knocked the coffee right out of their hand. “Oh, jesus, fuck. I’m so sorry!”

[aflikofthewrist]

Flik sighed and looked around the study room he was sitting in, it was plastered with paper hearts and cupids. He was 21 years old and had never had a Valentine, unless you counted the girls in elementary school who gave everyone Valentines (which he didn’t). He had never even had a serious girlfriend, so this “holiday” was just a reminder of how hopeless and awkward and desperate for love he was. Flik looked up from his textbook when someone else entered the room and smiled kindly at them, “So you’re spending your Valentines Day studying too?”