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The clock strikes at midnight, and Ajax looks anxiously at the clock—then he looks back at the loading screen on his laptop. He's so fucked.
He still had one more page to write on his final paper about marine conservation, and this paper was due tomorrow, and "tomorrow" was now today.
So, to describe what he was feeling right now as "anxious", is quite an understatement. He was on the verge of panicking.
This man was prepared. Or so he thought he was, until he realized he was missing some crucial evidence for his paper, and stayed up all night to rewrite a whole page and a half.
He grips his laptop tightly, his mind running a hundred questions in a mile. What could he do? Who could he call for help?
He picks up his phone and scrolls through his contacts. "Everyone's probably asleep right about now." He bites the end of his nail as he continues to scroll until he sees one online.
It was an old "friend" of his. They haven't contacted each other in months since their last fallout, so ajax was quite hesitant to dial them.
But as the clock ticks in the silence of his room and time waits for no one, then he's desperate enough to hit up his situationship from the national university of Liyue.
He hesitantly hovers his fingers over the contact list. "is this considered a, hey u up?" He mulls it over for moment before going 'fuck it, we ball.'
And he dials the number. In a fit of embarrassment he throws the poor phone on the bed and squeels.
"This is so stupid, of course he wouldn't answer." and the ringing clicks, and a deep timbre voice comes through. The voice sounded hesitant, like he was walking on thin ice around the other.
"Ajax?" He calls his name in that sweet deep voice. Entrancing ajax for a moment before he snaps out of it and hurries over to the phone on his bed.
"Hey! Xiangsheng! It's been awhile." He starts awkwardly, not knowing how to explain that he badly needs some good wifi to finish an important paper that's due in the morning.
"Yes... Did you need anything?" The others voice was calm and mindful of the other.
"Yeah, listen I know we didn't really seperate on good terms but I'm really desperate right now." He says in a pleading tone.
And boy, does Zhongli try everything in him to not fold over that.
"I have a paper due this morning, my wifis been acting up, I'm on my third cup of coffee and I seriously, seriously need to print this paper asap before 7am."
Ajax breathes in harshly after finishing his final statement.
"I see." Zhongli smiles, an exasperated expression crosses his face before speaking. "You can come over if that's what you need."
Childe breathed out a sigh of relief. Letting go any earlier tention and was now replaced with determination.
He packs the necessary things and heads off to zhonglis studio apartment.
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