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He was standing in a foggy, dark, void-like forest.
The trees had leaves that were a comforting shade of light and dark purples.
A light was glowing in the middle of where the trees parted.
It reminded him.
Brought him back to almost a decade ago.
Brought him back to-
“DAD!!”
07 jolted awake, his red child screaming in his face. He groaned in response, he wasn’t exactly one to talk in the morning.
“You were in an unusually deep sleep Papa. Usually you wake up when I open the door.”
“Mmm… dunno I was dreamin’.. Maybe that’s why…”
“Okay. Now, get outta bed!!! It’s your day off!!”
“Mmm.. oh yeah. Forgot.”
C00lkidd tugged 07 out of his bed, dragging him to the single bathroom in their house. 07’s clothes already awaited him there. C00lkidd had brung them into the bathroom while he was sleeping.
“Awh, thank you Kidd0.”
“Hurry up and get dressed!!!”
“Sorry, sorry..!”
C00lkidd left the bathroom, closing the door behind himself. 07 took off his shirt, taking a moment to look at himself in the mirror. It always felt so weird looking at himself, not that he thought he looked girly or anything he ever thought of himself before, but because he looked nice. He also looked old though. Well, old for late twenties - early thirties.
He looked at his chest, seeing the scars from when he used his GUI to do top surgery for himself. Which in hindsight probably not the best idea, but it still worked like normal, so if it ain’t broken don’t fix it.
He eventually finished getting dressed before joining C00lkidd, who had already made himself cereal, in the kitchen. His noob spider was on top of C00lkidd’s head, which was good because he was starting to wonder where it went.
“Alright, I’m ready now, happy?”
“Yes!”
07 sat down next to C00lkidd before grabbing the box of cereal and just eating straight out of it because he was too lazy to get a bowl and he didn’t like eating it with milk anyway. The noob spider, his name is Bob, crawled down from CK’s head and back up onto 07’s burger hat, where it usually sat all day.
“Papa, aren’t spiders so c00l?”
“Yop. Though I used to be terrified of bugs. Still am in all honesty but at least we got someone to eat em’ now.”
07 pointed at Bob, who was well fed from all the flies that somehow made their way into 07’s room specifically.
“Really?”
“Yop, I know they’re harmless but if I see a bug flying at me I freak out a little bit. Not as much as before. I do think bugs are c00l things though.”
“Maybe in cicada season I should chase you around with a shell.”
“Please don’t. Cicadas are like the worst bugs ever.”
“Alright fiinee..”
“Anyway.. What did you wanna do today?”
“Park!”
“Yep, assumed so.”