Christ just vote me off the island then.
YERSIE
Sorry, dude. But I don’ t know how you have the energy to do anything after last night.
BRADY
Seriously, are you even human?
ME
I’mhungry.
HAMMIE
Yeah, sorry babes. I’m gonna have to pass too. I just took two Bennies and am ready to go into a comatose state.
Just as I’m ready to make a dramatic exit from the chat (knowing I’d be immediately added back but it’s the statement of it all) a banner flashes across the top of my screen. It’s a private message, and when I read the name, I don’t waste another second before clicking on it.
KIM POSSIBLE
Damn. They just vetoed you hard.
ME
It felt very personal.
KIM POSSIBLE
Are you still planning on going?
ME
Are you enjoying my isolation, ya masochist?
KIM POSSIBLE
Gotta find happiness wherever I can.
??
ME
Wow.
You really are evil.
KIM POSSIBLE
Oh, don’t be dramatic Icarus.
I’ll come eat with you. It’s downtown, right?
My heart does this weird, fluttering, palpitation thing that makes me speculate the presence of winged insects inside my chest. My free hand travels through the miniature icebergs in the tub as I type my response.
ME
Yes, but I can pick you up.
