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Sunday
The first thing she does when she wakes up is reach for her phone and sizzle her retinas with the light from her screen.
It hurts enough to wake the rest of her body up, and with a pair of red eyes she flicks to find a familliar profile. He’s sent a dozen messages since she’s slept, most of which are calling her out for being a “lazy bones” and a “granny”.
A warmth blossoms in her chest as she scrolls through the chats, the sense that someone’s waiting for her to wake up is comforting. It reminds her of the times Aether would come to pick up her up from her classroom.
She slapped herself for that, repeatedly.
She’s not even fully awake and she wants to talk to him. It wasn’t like he was going anywhere - in fact, she could’ve waited until after breakfast to texted him and the sun would still be in the sky.
So she did just that. She left her phone in the bedroom, ignored the way Paimon said she “looked like shit” and made breakfast.
She stirred the cheerios into the milk and thought about the first time they ever talked. She should’ve known he’d be a freak, he ate his cereal in the evening.
But this was a one time thing, it’s not like she thought of him all the time.
… was what she also said when she saw some kid with ginger hair pass her apartment, and when she saw a fishing advertisement on her laptop, and when she saw a bottle of cleaning product and when she -
She banged her head on the table.
It finally prompts Paimon to ask what’s wrong, though the question sounds far from sincere as the smaller womans mouth is stuffed with buttered toast.
“I need someone to destroy my phone. You wouldn’t mind would you?” she replies, downing a glass of orange juice and wincing when it mixes with the fresh toothpaste.
“You do know we’re broke, Lumine”
They both glance at a jar that reads “Lumine and Paimon’s savings!” and grimace. She slumps her body across the table in defeat and sighs with all the oxygen in her lungs.
“I keep thinking about someone.”
“Aether?”
She shakes her head. “No not him, it’s someone else.”
Paimon drops her plate and scrambles closer to the table, her eyes darting around the room like a fly in search of honey. “We’re not in trouble are we?”
“We’re not” she asserts, biting back a snicker. “It’s just a guy. You know how it is.”
They both become silent. Lumine half-expects Paimon her to lecture her about her “terrible taste in men” but the other woman’s silent - only communicating her excitement through the familliar gleam in her eyes.
“Can Paimon-“
“No.”
“Can Paimon talk to him” she asks, practically bouncing off her seat to go and search for the phone. She’s out of the kitchen by the time Lumine can say no.
“Archons dam it Paimon!!”
(16:03) If you’re still asleep i’m going to have a word with you about your awful sleep schedule
(16:04) WHO ARE YOU
(16:04) Oh archons
(16:04) Did you hit your head?
(16:05) ANSWER THE QUESTION
(16:06) Ajax, you know
(16:06) the strange guy in your phone
(16:06) I’ll be hurt if you’ve actually forgotten me
(16:06) PAIMON DOSEN’T KNOW AN AJAX
(16:07) . . .
(16:08) Ajax dosen’t know a Paimon either
(16:08) LUMINES BEST FRIEND
(16:08) YOU SHOULD KNOW PAIMON
(16:09) Ah, thats a shame
(16:09) You’re her best friend and she dosen’t even talk about you
(16:09) HOW DARE YOU
(16:09) SHE TALKS ABOUT PAIMON TO PEOPLE THAT ARE BETTER THAN YOU
(16:10) We both know thats not true
(16:10) Paimon, I hate to break it to you but I replaced you as the “best” friend
(16:11) NO YOU DIDN’T
(16:11) Wheres your proof that I didn’t?
(16:12) NO
(16:12) YOU CANT BE
(16:13) Why is that?
(16:13) BECAUSE I AM
(16:14) We’re running in circles, Paimon
(16:14) you’re in denial
(16:15) NO
(16:15) YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW HER FAVOURITE FOOD
(16:16) Roast pidgeon.
(16:17) ITS STICKY HONEY ROAST
(16:17) Oh Paimon
(16:18) WHAT
(16:18) She didn’t even tell you her favourite dish had changed
(16:18) i pity you, i really do
(16:19) LEAVE US ALONE
(16:20) YOURE A LIAR
Ajax is typing . . .
(17:42) You’re both children
(17:43) Welcome back :)
(17:44) Why on Tevat would my favourite food be roast pigeon?
(17:45) I panicked
(17:45) I noticed.
(17:45) You did kill one though, archons knows what you did with it
(17:46) i did not eat him
(17:47) it’s okay if you did
(17:48) I DIDN’T
Monday
(05:02) Happy anniversary
(05:04) What the fuck?
(05:05) It’s been over a month since we met
(05:06) what
(05:06) It’s our ‘One-month-and-one-week-a-versary’ if you will
(05:07) I will not
(05:07) I’m going back to bed.
(05:07) Ouch
(05:07) You really know how to break a mans heart
(05:08) You forgot the one month so I have every right to forget about this whatever-versary
(05:08) What were you even doing?
(05:08) Okay this is not all on me
(05:08) You forgot too
(05:09) I was drunk
(05:09) On our monthaversary?
(05:09) Shame on you
(05:10) No fuck you
(05:11) Shame on you for not being drunk
(05:12) Kak ti smeesh
(05:12) I was being responsible!
(05:13) Responsible my ass !!
(05:13) You text random numbers and ask them to be your friends
(05:14) what if I was a serial killer and you were my next victim?
(05:15) I’d be into that
(05:20) What.
(05:20) What?
(05:22) No you can’t just pretend like you didn’t just send that
(05:22) I didnt lie
(05:23) I know and that’s the worst part
A/N: the Russians “how dare you”
Tuesday
(10:50) Whats your criteria for a “bad girl”
(10:51) Not you
(10:51) Well screw you too
(10:51) i wasn’t asking about me
(10:52) You were thinking it
(10:53) I wasnt, but while we’re on the topic
(10:53) I quality as a bad girl
(10:53) i break laws
(10:54) You jaywalk on empty roads
(10:54) How scandalous of you
(10:55) I don’t brag about jaywalking, even grannies do it
(10:56) So what laws are being broken?
(10:56) I’m glad you asked
(10:57) I stream content without paying
(10:57) They call me a striminal
(11:00) You’re perfect but never try to be cool again
(11:01) I am cool
(11:01) Sure you are
(13:02) So have you broken the law?
(13:10) We don’t talk about that Lumine
(15:03) You don’t eat people, do you?
(15:04) Is that where you draw the line
(15:05) It’s the worst thing I can think of
(15:06) I don’t eat people
(15:06) I have good taste in food, actually
(15:07) Well how do you know human meat tastes bad?
(15:10) Lumine?
(15:11) What
(15:12) Do you eat people ??
(15:13) NO I DON’T
(18:04) So you’d stop talking to me if I ate people
(18:06) Yes
(18:06) What if I needed to eat people
(18:06) Like a ghoul or a vampire
(18:08) I’m not going to continue talking to a cannibal just because he likes LARPing as the supernatural, Ajax
(18:10) Thats a completely different thing
(18:10) What if I was an actual vampire
(18:11) I’d call you stupid for not drinking animal blood
(18:11) Why would you provoke a vampire ??
(18:12) I can put up a good fight
(18:13) against a vampire?
(18:14) I’m no coward
Wednesday
(16:03) Do you still Trick or Treat?
(16:04) I’m a grown woman
(16:04) Your middle age crisis isn’t answering my question
(16:05) I prefer to call it my ongoing crisis
(16:05) And no, I don’t trick or treat anymore
(16:06) Thats a shame
(16:06) i go every year with my siblings
(16:07) Ah
(16:07) I used to go with my brother
(16:08) Is that why you stopped going?
(16:09) partially
(16:09) If you want, you can dress up with us
(16:09) We can call and I’ll keep you in the loop, you can say hi to the kids too
(16:10) What are you going as?
(16:11) The mystery gang
(16:11) We’re missing Daphne
(16:12) Whose Fred?
(16:13) Teucer
(16:13) Whose Shaggy?
(16:13) Anton
(16:15) Wait so
(16:15) You’re the fucking dog?
(16:15) His name is Scooby, fyi
(16:15) And i could be Velma
(16:16) Are you?
(16:16) No … Tonia took her
(16:16) i picked from the leftover characters
(16:17) I’ll join the call if you talk like Scooby for the whole evening
(16:18) Oh they’ll love it
(16:18) Wait, so you’re in?
(16:20) If I only have to call, yea
(16:20) it’s been a while since I did something for Halloween
Thursday
(18:02) So is it normal to have big families in Snezhnaya?
(18:04) Oh we aren’t big at all
(18:04) One of my neighbours has twelve kids, that’s a big family
(18:05) How the fuck?
(18:05) They’re all well behaved too
(18:05) The mother’s a real matriarch
(18:07) I can’t even wrap my head around a family that big
(18:08) Is yours small?
(18:09) Well we lost contact with our parents so it’s only really me and Aether
(18:10) And then that shithead decided he wanted to play the longest game of hide and seek ever
(18:11) Ah
(18:11) See, i can’t imagine a family that small either
(18:12) I get it
(18:12) It’s not bad though, just quiet
(18:13) was your brother as much of a hermit as you?
(18:14) Oh not at all
(18:14) he’s like a big dog
(18:15) was always going round and helping people like an idiot
(18:16) which one of you got the brains?
(18:16) Me, probably
(18:16) My grades were always better
(18:17) Was he dumb?
(18:18) Not Really
(18:19) But he believed people too much
Friday
(06:02) Is it morally wrong to put sardines in your trick or treat bowl?
(06:30) What do you think
(06:31) Teucer really wants to
(06:31) that’s not answering the question
(06:32) I asked you a question, you can’t just throw one back at me
(06:35) Ajax, where are you right now?
(06:36) In a lake
(06:37) You’re getting the sardines, aren’t you?
(06:38) I am
(06:38) I told Teucer it was a good idea
(06:40) It’s a terrible idea
(06:45) i know
(15:02) Ignoring the fact that you’re putting sardines in a candy bowl
(15:02) Dosen’t your family live in Snezhnaya?
(15:06) Oh they do
(15:06) the kids come over for holidays though since my parents have work
(15:06) how long?
(15:06) the whole week
(15:07) It’s always a blast
(15:07) I’m sure it is
(15:07) I bet you’re gonna get even stupider with kids around you
(15:08) Perhaps
(15:09) I’m never reckless, though
(15:09) safety is always first
(15:11) That’s a pleasant surprise