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“Hm. 1:05 AM.” Hu Tao squints her eyes. “Why can’t I sleep, holy shit…” She softly sits up on her bed, careful to not awaken her girlfriend. “At least one of us is sleeping well.” She smiles.
Well, time to heat up some leftover food.
Hu Tao heads to the refrigerator and looks at the food. “I could eat cereal but that’s a daytime-slash-morning-slash-afternoon meal…” She slightly closes the door, “I could eat cup noodles? No…” The brunette stays silent for a while. “Pizza… I guess I could reheat a slice.” Hu Tao grabs herself a plate, “Now, to slightly put a little bit of water so the pizza’s crust isn’t too hard, but not too much water that the pizza is soggy.” She smiles proudly to herself.
“Putting the pizza in the microwave,” Hu Tao sets the time to 20 seconds, “and now we wait.”
“Ten… nine… eight… seven… six…” Hu Tao feels herself doze off. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. The microwave starts beeping loudly, waking up Hu Tao.
“What’s happening?” Yanfei rushed to the kitchen, expecting to see some sort of disaster in front of her, only to be met with a half-awake Hu Tao holding a plate of pizza. “I was hungry?” The brunette quirks a smile. “Did I wake you up?” Yanfei furrows her eyebrows, “No. I’m asleep right now and this is my subconscious self talking to you.” Yanfei massages her forehead. “Why aren’t you asleep?” Hu Tao merely shrugged. “I couldn’t sleep… There are voices..? In my head. Actually, they’re not voices; they’re just mental DJs. There’s music that’s on loop in my head and I can’t sleep because of it.”
“Oh, okay… so… you microwaved some pizza because the mental DJ won’t stop playing music.” Hu Tao nodded. “One hell of a brain you’ve got there.” The brunette takes a bite of a pizza and replies in a muffled voice, “Yeah! You want some pizza?” Yanfei sighs. “Sure, why not.”
“This is nice, you know? Just us, chilling and talking.” Yanfei hums. “It is nice, Taotao. Thank Morax for the microwave being a little shit that brings us both together!” Hu Tao raises her glass of water, “To the microwave.” The couple clink their glasses together. “To the microwave!”
“So… what time are we going to sleep?” Hu Tao shrugs. “Let’s not. Let’s binge some shows until one of us falls asleep?”Yanfei nods. “I like the sound of that.”