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XIII. coffee or smoothie

"And who's going around with Bluetooth earbuds specifically to spy on us?"

"Some people don't need bloated ear-corns to accidentally overhear other's conversation, Beta. Why take the risk of leaked information when we have a place where we can discuss this quietly, privately, and it doesn't even waste gas?"

I sound like an advertisement.

"Where it's completely and utterly isolated from humanity," the man chimed in. Pierce shifted his attention away from his phone and peered up at me. "Sunny, you're literally going to die alone. Get out of this apartment and breathe a little."

"If I wanted to kill myself I'd have climbed your ego and jumped to your IQ a long time ago," I cocked my eyebrows at him.

"Is your ass jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth?" He smirked.

"Oh how the last thing I want to do is hurt you," I faked a smile before forcing a chuckle, "but it's still on the list."

"Way to hide the overwhelming love you have for me," he rolled his eyes, "almost makes me want to repay you by unplugging your life support to charge my phone."

"I'd love to insult you further but I'm afraid I won't do as well as your genetics."

"That's not what I heard when your mouth was running on how curvy my ass was in your bedroom."

"You know," I shifted my weight on the other leg and crossed my arms in frustration as his comeback got to me, "Instead of slipping on hard concrete in front of my door that one night, why don't you slip into something more comfortable next time? Like a coma."

"Or, better yet," his eyes glistened with triumph. The man was not going down. "Why don't you hush a bit so that your plant can replace the oxygen you wasted and hear my response to your T6 question?"

"'I wish we could become better strangers,'" I quoted Shakespeare with a beam.

"That's not too bad of a death wish."

"Alright," I let our little session halt for the time being as I leaned against the wall and nodded at the man, "Enough. Talk to me as Beta now before I lose more brain cells."

"You just have to slip in a little something more at the end, huh." Pierce shook his head at me. I rolled my eyes as I forced my mouth shut and tried to be obedient just long enough for the two of us to converse normally.

He spoke up after a while of silently staring at me. "One, it's the holiday season, no one will turn a second eye at two customers chatting about a trending group when they have schedules of their own."

"Two," he continued, "Imposters sprinkle the country's population, so in the worst case scenario, who would believe that I was Beta out of everyone else that claimed they were?"

When I didn't respond, the man presented his last reasoning, which I presumed was the strongest argument so I stayed quiet to hear it. Instead I got, "And three, I want coffee downtown."

I blinked, then coughed when I processed his last words. "You're unbelievable," I sighed.

Suddenly, Pierce spoke up again, breaking me out of my thoughts. "Would you like to go out and have coffee with me?"