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In the far off land of Toronto Canada, Kim pine was in the ancient place of 2 cups. Kim pine is sitting giving a distant look, thinking about Stephen, Scott, young Neil, and Knives. But there was 1 other thing on Kim's mind.
“One cappuccino for Kim pine.” says Stacey pilgrim, Kim pine walks up to the counter and picks up her cappuccino “so, looks like something is on your mind, what did Scott do this time.”
Complaining to Stacey about Scott was an often occurrence to Kim, first it was how he took them to the wrong location on their first, second it was how they changed where they practiced from Julie's apartment to young Neil's apartment in the incident that shall not be named, third was how he took them to the wrong location, fourth was the same as the third, fifth was also the same, sixth he did it again… was Scott always this bad directions or names? Never mind. A cappuccino is usually a sign that she wants to talk.
With a Sigh Kim say’s “Scott pilgrim, is dating a high schooler."
“Oooooh, scandalas, who is this mystery girl?.”
“Her name is Knives chau, she’s 17 years old and she’s… fine i guess? Like we only met her 2 ago and all we did was play music in front of her and she seemed to enjoy it but other than that i don't know anything about her.”
“Except for her terrible choice in men.”
“Harsh words coming from that man’s sister.”
“If you say so.”
“That's seriously the best comeback you could come up with?”
“Uhm, no i could come up with something better.”
“Wow you even argue like Scott.”
“No I don't.”
“Never mind that's not important.” Kim gives a distant look before saying “hey Stacy… there’s something i want to tell you.”
“You usually don’t exclaim you're gonna tell me something so this must be good.”
“But you need to promise you won’t tell anyone.”
“My mouth is sealed.”
“Is it really, because I remember other times you’ve said that then the information got leaked.”
“That's only because told me about those things later, so that doesn't count.”
“Alright, fine.” After a deep breath Kim says “I'm thinking about moving back to the states.”
Stacy then yells out a loud “WHAT.” this causes the howl cafe to look at her for a second before getting on with their business.
“Shh, quiet down, I'm trying to keep this on the down low.”
“Alright, alright, but why are you moving? Don’t you enjoy it here?”
“Kind of, but my roommates are terrible, i don’t really care for my job, and rent is terrible.”
“What about Scott, Stephen and the band.”
“The band is fun, but I don't know how much longer I can play, the band has been really draining me lately. Stephen is cool, but there's no deep connection. As for Scott… the main reason i came to Toronto was to connect more with him since it has been a while since i last saw him but.”
“But what?”
“Let me finish, it feels like our paths have permanently separated, is the best way I could put it.”
“Oh.. okay, is there anything that you enjoy about Toronto?”
“I guess our talks are nice but, other than that, not really.”
“Who else have you told?”
“You, and my parents.”
“You haven’t told the band?”
“No, I was planning to tell them next week, after I got some more stuff sorted.”
“Well I guess I'm honored that you told me before the band.”
“yea.”
“Alright, when are you planning to leave?”
“I was thinking of leaving next month then staying at my parent’s house till I find an affordable house.”
“Okay then.” Stacy says somberly. As a last attempt Stacy asks “could i ask a favor of you then.”
“What is it?”
“Could you at least try to find a reason to stay, it’s your life but i enjoy it”
Kim thinks it over a little, she finds it hard to believe that there is anything better here, but she is leaving in a month so it could give a fun time limit. “Fine, I'll try.”
Stacy gives a quiet “thanks.” before being immediately followed by the sound of a text.
“Who’s that?”
“Wallace, and it seems that he has just told me everything you did about knives.”
“Well that's a good sign for me to leave.”
“See ya.”
“See ya.”
We cut to Kim a few hours later, after she’s done with the day and Infront of her apartment. When Kim comes home she hears the noises of her roommates gossiping in the living room, she blocks whatever they were saying and just tries to say “hello everyone.”
The gossiping stops and Sara say's “any reason you greeted us.”
Kim confusedly say’s “why wouldn’t i greet you, you get annoyed when i don’t.”
“Well I was in the middle of a thought.”
“But you weren’t talking when i said hi”
“I mean I was in intense thought and you really threw off my thoughts with your greeting.”
“How was I supposed to know that?”
“Maybe you should have waited for me to great you.”
“But you get annoyed when I don-, never mind I'm going to bed.”
“Goodnight Kim.” they all said in unison
Kim gets to her room and just tries to get some sleep when she hears some TV drama on full blast. She tries for a few minutes to get some sleep but eventually after 3 minutes she goes down stairs and asks “hey by any chance could you lower the volume.”
“We’ll see what we can do, but we seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties with the remote.” say sara.
“What are you talking about, the remote is in your hands.” Sara then moves to the table in front of the table, she takes off the back without removing the batteries, then drops in a cup of water. “What the fuck, why would you do that.”
“To speed up the process there are some spare remotes in the basement you could grab and use as a replacement.”
Kim dumbfounded just lets out an angry sigh and say’s “fine.” she goes down stairs to the basement, turns on the nearly dead light, finds a small box called remotes, looks for one in there that's similar to the remote. Goes back upstairs and passes' it to sara
Sara looks at and say’s “there are no batteries.”
With a sigh Kim asks “where are those.”
“Also in the basement.” Kim walks to the basement again, turns on the light, finds a box labelled batteries, scavenges through them before the light dies, grabs a flashlight from a cabinet near her, finds the batteries, goes back up stairs only to hear sara say “never mind there where already batteries in this one.”
“Alright then, please turn down the volume.”
“We’ll see what we can do.”
Kim goes upstairs back to her bed, only to realize that the noise of the show has gotten louder. “They were never going to turn down the volume where they, sigh.” kim gets of her bed, finds a pair of headphones and music player, finds a calming track from her collections of songs and tries to go to sleep.
We see a mini office building where Kim is sitting in the office of mr.Kon
“Kim pine, sign here and you will finally have bought your dream house in NYC.” says mr.Kon, Kim seems to have a big smile on her face
Suddenly the door to mr. Kons office opens and we see a pink haired woman come out.
“Mundane but nice.’
Suddenly a new door manifests on a door right next to mr.Kons desk, the woman skates over to the door and opens it which reveals to be an alleyway. The cold air coming from the alleyway wakes up Kim from her dream.
“Huh, weird.” Kim Pine gets out of her bed, changes into an outfit for the day, sneaks to the bathroom, finishes her business in there and sneaks to the kitchen. When she makes it there she sees that Sara is shifting through the fridge.
Kim pine takes a second to think “Annoying roommate or ask Scott for breakfast,” she takes another look at sara who seems to be very unorganized with her only having her underwear, bra, and a jacket, doesn't even seem to have any makeup on. “Guessing from her current fashion she’s probably really grumpy, if we talk right now she’s probably be really annoying and loud, probably waking every one else up, then there gonna blame me for waking them up and blah blah blah, i would rather just ask Scott for breakfast”
Kim walks past the kitchen, silently tip toes down the stairs, and grabs her shoes. she questions how to leave the apartment without making any noise before realizing she left the door open. “This may be the only valid reason why they don’t like me.”
She quietly exits the house, puts on her shoes and calls Scott “Hey Scott, remember how i lended you some money 3 weeks ago.”
“What, no, when did you do that?”
“Seriously, the money for young Neil's birthday, that you had forgotten about till that morning, that I have been keeping a secret out of the kindness of my heart, and a small favor.”
“Oh yeah…, what about that?”
“Well I'd like that favor, that being breakfast .”
“Fine, where would you like to eat?”
“How about that waffle place n-'' at that moment the same pink haired woman from Kim's dream appears out of an alleyway, she stops for a second, looking through her ipod for a song while putting in earphones. Kim Pine, confused at what she’s seeing, goes silent. After a solid 12 seconds Kim finally tries to force herself to say something “is this a dream.” but the pink haired woman had put on some loud song that blocked off her hearing and skated away while Kim just stood as still as a statue.
“HEY, Kim, are you still there, what waffle place do you want to go to.” This seems to slightly break Kim out of her trance, enough to say words.
“Actually we could do that some other time, let's go to practice, something weird just happened.”
“Wait band practice do-” Before Scott could finish his sentence Kim hung up the phone, probably not even hearing the first half of what Scott said.
Kim pines decides the pounder what she had just seen, was she imagining? “Maybe I saw that girl earlier and my mind just put her in my dreams.” she thinks that for a little before realizing “but why would she be wearing the exact same stuff she did when I just saw her? Dreams aren't that accurate, I'm pretty sure in my dream Scott had 8 fingers on one hand in the dream where I saw her." Kim decides to ponder some more “Can I look into the future, but that would be a pretty weird situation because again, why would Scott have 8 fingers? Also what would buying a house have to do with my future, unless… will i buy a house that i completely own, no bad roommates? If so that would be awesome” finally Kim pine makes it to young Neil's and Stephens place.
She knocks on the door and waits for anybody to come, after 1 minute of silence she’s about to go in for a second when she realizes that they left the door unlocked, she enters the house and realizes how quiet is. She checks the kitchen and once again no one is there, she decides to grab a cold one and sits on the couch in front of all the band equipment, still pondering over what she saw.
“What the fuck, who's there,” screams Stephen. This brings Kim out of her thoughts and makes spill the beer all over her. “oh it's just you Kim, thought somebody broke in the house.”
“Why would you think someone is trying to rob, why not assume the more reasonable thing that we have band practice today.”
“Well i would say there are 2 reasons, first it's two early for practice.”
“Okay well we still have band practice today.”
“Second, we don't have band practice today.”
“What yes we do because it’s Friday and yesterday we playe-... oh,” Kim pine makes the realization that they only play every other day. “Sorry my mind has just been off this past morning.”
“Why's that Kim, is it your room mates again.” he says sitting down next to her.
“No it’s weird to say but, I saw a woman in my dreams and when I walked out I saw her, that same woman.”
“Really? How do you know they didn’t just look similar?”
“Well in my dreams she had the same pink hair, goggles, headphones, jacket shorts… she basically just had the exact same outfit.”
“Wow, I'm surprised you can remember that much of your dream, i can only usually remember like 20% of mine on a good day.” Stephen also ponders Kim's dream before concluding on. “Maybe this is a sign to seek that woman out, maybe she's in danger or maybe you saw into the future, but just find her, maybe she’ll have an explanation.”
Kim is reminded of what Stacy said about finding a reason to stay, maybe Stephen is right. “Okay, I think I will, thanks Stephen.”
“Cool.” Stephen thinks for a second and then says “hey how did you get in here anyway.”
“The door was unlocked”
“God dammit, Neil must have left it open, no wonder I was cold all night.”
“Huh, bad roommates must run in the band.”
“Yeah I like Neil, he’s just a bad roommate.” Stephen thinks for a second and says “But Wallace isn’t a bad roommate to Scott.”
“Yeah you're right, but Scott is.” They both clench their faces before having a big hefty laugh. “Well since we aren’t doing anything I guess I should leave, I also need to change into a new outfit.”
“Alright.” As Kim and Stephen walk towards the door, Stephen remembers something. “Oh yeah Kim tomorrow Julie is having a party, want to come?”
“I thought you and Julie were over.”
yea but there’s a different reason i want to go, the main singer of crash and the boy’s will be there, and I'm hoping to see if i can get any kind of insight on his drummer.”
“You and your schemes, who else is coming.”
“Well Neil, Comeau, Stacy.”
“Is Scott not coming.”
“Yea, he’s said him and knives got something planned that day.”
“Well, I'm done.”
“Alright see ya then.”
“Bye.” Kim exits the house, then mumbles “oh, I'm gonna need to go back to the house, where all my roommates are.” Kim deliberates whether it's worth going back, before finally deciding. “I’ll just use Scott's favor for a new shirt.”