The Illusion of Free Choice
Wine was NOT a good idea, holy shit. If anything the lines are just blurred even more for me now. At this point I can barely tell the difference between my memory of what I was hoping for and my memory of what happened. I'm just gonna let myself crash, tomorrow is school and work both...shit...
For the first time in a long time, I woke up to something other than one of my dozens of alarms. This much buzzing from my phone means it must be a call. Most calls these days are just spam though...if it's important they'll leave a message. I let it sit and ring as I wash my face and clean up last night's failed attempt at clarity. Oh, they did leave a mess-
KUSOTORI?? Kiara called me!? Kiara called me! At seven in the morning?! What did she say????
"Hey Calli! Good morning! Are you awake? If you're not you better get up, sleepy reaper!"
Is she actually a saint? I might be even more confused, but now, my day seems a bit more bearable. As I dress for work, I move my alarms a bit earlier in the day. I would hate to miss such a golden chance again. No way could I possibly return such a call today, but I do send a picture of myself brushing my teeth. I hope it inspires her to continue these calls...
Work drags on, school flies by me before I even realize it's started. Maybe if I worked at school and learned at work I could enjoy both a little more...ah, well, such is so. Checking my messages on the ride home, I see Yagoo has given all of us each other's numbers. I add the last 3 girls into my contacts and share a quick greeting with them. I hope we can all be friends. Kiara responded to my picture with a stock image of a thumbs up. Stock images are powerful...
Thinking of friends, I haven't had a chance to speak with Kokoro lately. I should invite them over to listen to what I've done with the latest beats. Honestly I also want to tell somebody about Kiara, it is literally paining me to not say anything through all this!
"Heyyy, Kokoro, how you doooiiiin"
"Heyyy, Calli, I'm goood! How you doooiiin"
"I don't even knowww...you got tiiime this weeekeeend?"
"Yeeeaaahhh! Sorry, can't keep it up. Wanna go somewhere or just hang at home?"
"Home. Believe it or not, I made some progress on that last batch you sent! I also have some kinda big stuff to talk about, like a lot of stuff lol"
"I'll be there. Congrats on the new idol job by the way wtf! When's your debut?"
"hhhhhhh I have one week until official reveal and like one month until debut hhhhh"
"Oh shit good luck girl! I'll see you this weekend, we can talk all about it I promise. Love til then!"
"Love til then, can't wait!"
Only two days, I better start cleaning now. Maybe I can leave a little more than half for tomorrow, it's just school and no work. I give my work another listen as I clean to make sure I didn't gloss over something too obvious, and finally slump into bed. The next morning I'm successfully woken by my alarms, at the ready if I get another Kusotori call. It's not really that likely, especially since i missed yesterday's, and I mean-. Just at that moment my phone starts to buzz and sure enough it's Kiara!
"Good morning, Kusotori. Is it true?"
"Calli, you're awake! Good morning! Is what true?"
"That chickens wake up with the sunrise."
"Ahaha! You're funny, Calli! And noooo! We wake up with our hive mind syncing. See? I can joke too!"
"Haha, very funny...nooot! Weeaak."
"Meanie. Hey, are you free this weekend?"