gengar is sitting in his car smoking a cigarette<\/p>\n
a parliament, almost finished<\/p>\n
he exhales deeply and throws the burnt down butt out the open window<\/p>\n
he takes off his shirt, a polo with the logo of the sandwich company gengar works for embroidered large on the front, and throws it into the messy backset before rummaging around, opening various bags<\/p>\n
gengar pulls out a blue tshirt that he had made<\/p>\n
the blue tshirt features a photo of gengar\u2019s dead dog looking confused next to a beer<\/p>\n
gengar had made the shirt with his friend charmander at when charmander had worked in a screenprinting shop<\/p>\n
gengar thought charmander wasn\u2019t going to charge him for it but then he did + didn\u2019t even give gengar his employee discount<\/p>\n
gengar hadn\u2019t seen charmander since then although they had texted a few times vaguely trying to make plans with no real desire to fulfill them<\/p>\n
gengar puts the tshirt on<\/p>\n
he gets out of his car and locks the doors while leaving the window open<\/p>\n
gengar walks across the parking lot and sees dratini finishing her cigarette right outside the door to the building<\/p>\n
dratini flicks her cigarette into the bushes and smiles at gengar<\/p>\n
gengar frowns \u201cu really shouldn\u2019t do that, a fire could start that way\u201d<\/p>\n
dratini\u2019s smile disappears \u201cno it couldn\u2019t + even if it did it wouldn\u2019t matter cause we\u2019re in a city and it wouldn\u2019t grow into an ozone damaging forest fire\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar scoffs as dratini opens the door + goes inside, quickly closing it behind her<\/p>\n
gengar watches dratini through the glass as she locks the deadbolt and gives him a \u201cthumbs down\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar feels as though he has the strength to open the door despite it being deadbolted, just due to his sheer willpower<\/p>\n
he attempts to open the door with all his might<\/p>\n
dratini laughs and unlocks it \u201ci\u2019m sorry i shouldn\u2019t mess with u\u201d<\/p>\n
out of breath, gengar waves her away \u201cgo on i\u2019ll meet u there\u201d he coughs in a way that makes dratini think he\u2019s about to die<\/p>\n
\u201coh shit are u ok?\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar waves her on again \u201ci\u2019m fine i just gotta drink some water\u201d he hobbles over to the water fountain outside of the bathrooms while trying to hold in another coughing fit<\/p>\n
dratini looks at him with skeptical concern but backs away while gengar starts loudly sipping water from the fountain<\/p>\n
gengar walks into the bathroom after drinking water and locks the door<\/p>\n
he coughs loudly until he feels enough phlegm to spit out into the sink<\/p>\n
gengar washes his hands before splashing water onto his face<\/p>\n
he looks at himself in the mirror<\/p>\n
\u201cthis sucks\u201d gengar says outloud<\/p>\n
he dries his hands using an obscenely loud hand drier and walks out of the bathroom<\/p>\n
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in the meeting everyone looks up as gengar enters the room, sandshrew smiles \u201cwelcome gengar! we were just about to get started, as i\u2019m sure u noticed, there are a few new faces, a lot of the same old\u201d<\/p>\n
dratini gives gengar a \u201cthumbs up\u201d which he ignores while finding a seat<\/p>\n
sandshrew continues with their introduction and shares a mild story of their temptation to use during the last month<\/p>\n
someone who gengar has never seen before introduces themself as \u201crapidash\u201d and begins to tell a horrifying story about the last time they had used meth<\/p>\n
rapidash sits down and sandshrew thanks them for sharing while everyone gives a lite polite applause before looking around the room and locking eyes with gengar \u201chow would u feel about sharing, gengar?\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar shifts in his seat \u201cok yeah\u201d he stands<\/p>\n
\u201cso last week at work i was closing the store with my coworker victrebell who\u2019s kind of a degenerate\u201d<\/p>\n
sandshrew interrupts him \u201clet\u2019s not cast any judgement while sharing\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201csorry sorry ur right\u201d gengar resumes \u201canyways while i was cleaning + mopping the bathroom, i don\u2019t know how it happened but i came out and victrebell was cutting out coke lines at the sandwich station with our old manager cloyster, who had gotten fired last month for stealing money from the register + doing drugs on shift. so anyways they start going in and i\u2019m like \u2018what the fuck did u lock the door?\u2019 and victrebell is like \u2018calm down i disabled the cameras it\u2019s fine\u2019 and cloyster is like \u2018yo what\u2019s up u wanna get in on this?\u2019 and i was a little nervous but then remembered that i had already locked the money drawer in the safe so i was like \u2018no i\u2019m fine i don\u2019t care\u2019 and they both shrugged and did the coke while i finished closing the store by myself, it was like mad annoying but i didn\u2019t really want to use the coke, i never really liked it anyways and honestly the last time i did coke with cloyster i think it was straight up all filler i didn\u2019t feel that shit at all\u201d gengar sits down<\/p>\n
he stands back up \u201coh yeah and i\u2019m uhhhh, 3 months sober\u201d<\/p>\n
the room gives gengar a soft applause and sandshrew thanks him<\/p>\n
gengar\u2019s old sponsor, drowzee, stands and begins telling a story about using during the war<\/p>\n
gengar looks at the ceiling \u201cthis sucks\u201d he thinks<\/p>\n
he stands up while drowzee is saying \u201cand that\u2019s the thing, we were only there to make sure the growing and movement of poppies went unhindered so i figured, why not take a little for myself\u201d<\/p>\n
several members of the group look at gengar while he walks out of the room<\/p>\n
drowzee nods at gengar but continues talking \u201cso i convinced a couple of the guys in my unit…\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar walks outside and vomits into a bush next to the door, extinguishing the minor fire dratini\u2019s cigarette butt had started<\/p>\n
gengar wipes his mouth \u201cwhat the fuck\u201d<\/p>\n
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at a red light gengar looks at his phone, there are 2 texts<\/p>\n
one from dratini reads \u201cthat was so rude!! what is wrong with u?\u201d<\/p>\n
the other from drowzee reads \u201cgood seein u brotha B)\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar pulls over at a gas station and goes inside<\/p>\n
the clerk looks at gengar and gengar looks at the clerk<\/p>\n
the clerk\u2019s nametag says \u201ccubone\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar walks up to the counter \u201ccould i get $20 on pump 3 and do y\u2019all sell alcohol?\u201d<\/p>\n
cubone types on the register in front of him \u201cno we don\u2019t, just that?\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar slides a $20 bill across the counter \u201cyeah thank u\u201d<\/p>\n
cubone presses more buttons on the register and the drawer opens up \u201chave a good nite\u201d he puts gengar\u2019s money into the register<\/p>\n
gengar goes back outside and pumps $20 worth of unleaded gas into his car while smoking another cigarette<\/p>\n
cubone watches him from inside the gas station<\/p>\n
gengar waves<\/p>\n
cubone waves back<\/p>\n
gengar finishes pumping his gas and disconnects the gas hose from his car<\/p>\n
he turns the ignition then rummages around his backseat before grabbing a large binder filled with cds<\/p>\n
gengar flips through several pages before taking out my chemical romance \u2018i brought you my bullets you brought me your love\u2019<\/p>\n
he places the cd into the car\u2019s cd player and drives off as the album begins on a medium volume<\/p>\n
\u201cthis is a great album\u201d gengar thinks \u201cmy chemical romance was a really good band when they all did drugs and got fucked up and wanted to have sex with vampires\u201d<\/p>\n
he drives home<\/p>\n
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the lock sticks while gengar tries to unlock his front door<\/p>\n
he wiggles his key until the pins line up and the deadbolt slids open<\/p>\n
\u201ci\u2019m glad i got in\u201d gengar thinks as he walks into his 4th floor single bedroom apartment \u201cthat would have sucked so bad lol\u201d he turns on the entrance light and drops his coat to the floor<\/p>\n
gengar leaves his shoes on as he enters the kitchen and opens the fridge<\/p>\n
he pulls out an unlabeled plastic 2 liter bottle full of homemade rootbeer<\/p>\n
grabbing a ceramic mug, shaped and painted to look like a basketball, from the cupboard, gengar then presses it into the refrigerator door\u2019s indent, which, after whirring, deposits 5 ice cubes into gengar\u2019s basketball mug before he pulls it away<\/p>\n
he pours from the unlabeled bottle until fizz reaches the top, then returns it back into the fridge<\/p>\n
gengar walks with the mug of rootbeer out of the kitchen and into the living room without turning on any more lights<\/p>\n
he slumps down on the couch and stares at the dark quiet tv, darker and more quiet than the darkness and quiet around it<\/p>\n
gengar takes several sips of rootbeer, it tastes wonderful<\/p>\n
he smiles and turns on the tv using a remote, breaking the darkness and quiet<\/p>\n
the president is on the tv<\/p>\n
the president tells gengar that he should be afraid of butterfree and his terrorist organization, that currently they are in hiding but will soon reveal themselves once again to strike the very society which scorns them<\/p>\n
gengar wishes he had the drive and willpower to join or create a terrorist organization as he changes the channel<\/p>\n
there is an old black and white movie on<\/p>\n
in the old black and white movie vulpix is smoking a cigarette and trying to convince eevee to race cars at a stoplight<\/p>\n
in the movie, vulpix flicks his cigarette at eevee\u2019s car and it bounces off the window<\/p>\n
the camera shows eevee\u2019s eyes from the front, they flash red through the black and white film and as the stoplight turns, eevee peels off leaving vulpix\u2019s car struggling to catch up<\/p>\n
\u201cwoah\u201d gengar thinks \u201cthat was so sick, i\u2019ve never seen an old movie do something like that\u201d he presses the \u201cguide\u201d button on his tv remote to find out what movie is playing<\/p>\n
the movie minimizes and a list of channels showing the scheduled broadcasts for each grows out of nowhere and takes over most of the tv screen<\/p>\n
the movie goes to a commercial as gengar reads \u201croad runners (1954)\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cdam, i gotta go back to that\u201d he begins scrolling through the broadcast list<\/p>\n
gengar selects a channel playing family guy<\/p>\n
in the episode of family guy, stewie is standing at a buckcherry concert nodding his head along to the music while drinking a whiskey sour<\/p>\n
stewie walks outside the music venue then walks back inside then holds hand with a girl while watching buckcherry perform on stage<\/p>\n
gengar begins to feel sad<\/p>\n
he opens his phone and texts his ex girlfriend quilava \u201chey : )\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar immediately feels embarrassed and stupid, he turns off his phone and changes the channel to local news before turning off the tv and standing up from the couch<\/p>\n
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in the kitchen gengar turns his phone back on and begins to play an ethiopian jazz mix from youtube<\/p>\n
gengar stares blankly at his refrigerator before opening up the freezer<\/p>\n
he takes a ziploc bag filled with loose frozen blueberries and sliced bananas and places it on the counter<\/p>\n
next gengar opens up the fridge door and scans its contents until he pulls out out: a ginger root, a turmeric root, a lime, a carrot, a jalapeno, a medium sized container of bulgarian yogurt and 2 leafs of lacinto kale; placing them all on the counter next to the sink<\/p>\n
gengar retrieves his blender from the kitchen\u2019s bottom cupboard along with a cutting board and positions them both next to the treasure trove of ingredients<\/p>\n
he measures out approx 2 cups of the frozen fruits into the blender<\/p>\n
after rinsing off everything else, gengar gives a ruff chop to all the veggies with his litely dull chef\u2019s knife before tossing them in to join the fruits, minus the jalapeno stem and carrot butt, but with the lime rind and roots\/carrot skins<\/p>\n
after two heafty scoops of bulgarian yogurt into the concoction, gengar stands back looking at the blender with pride on his face<\/p>\n
as he is reaching to place the lid on, his phone goes off, chiming the unique ringtone he had set for texts from quilava, which sounds like a highly distorted organ going \u201cbum bu bu BUMMM\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar\u2019s heart leaps as he turns off the music and opens his texting app to read<\/p>\n
\u201clol who is this??\u201d<\/p>\n
all of gengar\u2019s organs feel the sensation of being pulled to the center of the earth, as though due to perhaps an organic matter magnet down there being turned on<\/p>\n
gengar\u2019s rapid heartbeat takes over his ears as he stares at the floor<\/p>\n
almost robotically he walks over to the closet and rummages though a few boxes of clothing until he comes across the emergency killswitch bottle of absolutely horrible bottom tier vodka<\/p>\n
gengar holds the plastic 1.75 liter bottle in hands breathing heavily before leaping up and walking back to the kitchen with purpose<\/p>\n
gengar slams the plastic bottle onto the countertop next to the open blender and stares at it as his breath returns to a normal pace<\/p>\n
he cracks open the bottle and holds it over the unblended smoothie with his arm shaking, thinking thinking thinking thinking thinking<\/p>\n
gengar\u2019s cellphone chimes again, a normal text noise, breaking his spell<\/p>\n
he sets down the still open but unpoured vodka handle and looks at his phone to a text from dratini<\/p>\n
\u201cheyyyy \ud83d\ude1b sorry i was so weird tonite -_- i started some new meds and i guess a lot of people have kinda aggro side effects when they first start :\u201d( i hope i didn\u2019t make u feel bad, anyways i\u2019d like to apologize in person tomorrow and treat u to some coffee maybe if ur free 0: ) lmk either way\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar rereads the text then responds \u201cur all good i get it but yeah, that sounds nice i work at 11 so maybe before that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cw00t w00t!\u201d dratini replies \u201cthere\u2019s this great coffee spot by me that has craaaaazie good bfast sandwiches, i\u2019ll shoot u the address\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar opens the maps app on his phone and sees the shop is an approx 15 minute bike ride from him and a 10 minute bike ride from his work<\/p>\n
\u201clooking forward to it\u201d he sends and turns his phone off again<\/p>\n
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gengar looks at the vodka then back at the smoothie<\/p>\n
he closes the bottle and returns it to its hiding place<\/p>\n
after adding filtered water, gengar blends up the smoothie with the orginal ingredients<\/p>\n
he brings the whole blender with him into the living room and turns on his ps2<\/p>\n
as star wars battlefront 2 begins to load, gengar plays chiodos all\u2019s well that ends well off of his phone speakers and begins drinking the smoothie straight from the blender<\/p>\n
the album ends while gengar is playing conquest on kashyyyk<\/p>\n
he puts on circa survive on letting go<\/p>\n
the album ends while gengar is playing conquest on kamino<\/p>\n
he puts on circa survive juturna until the mission ends<\/p>\n
gengar turns off the ps2 and goes to wash all his dishes before getting ready for bed<\/p>\n
\u201ci\u2019m glad things have happened the way they happened\u201d he thinks while brushing his teeth<\/p>\n
\u201ctomorrow should be fun, i\u2019m glad dratini texted me\u201d<\/p>\n
gengar crawls into bed and sets 4 alarms on his phone, before slowly drifting to sleep smiling, listening to the ambient noises of the city out his bedroom window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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