I'll think of a mermaid lagoon, underneath a magic moon.

Mike was out and about just enjoying the day in the city. Things had been busy with work. But he hadn’t had much of a personal life, lately. He hadn’t been dating or going out to meet people which wasn’t much like him. He just hadn’t been into it. He was walking along when all of a sudden a dog knocked him to the ground and he let out an audible ‘oof’. He looked up from the ground as he spotted the dog’s owner, Wendy. He hadn’t seen her in a long while. “Wendy.” He said, with a soft smile. “It has been awhile. Nice to see your dog is friendly.”

“I’m so sorry about her.  I don’t think she realizes how big she is.  She still thinks she’s a puppy and can sit on my lap.  Lizzie, come on get up off of him.  He can’t pet you if you sit on him,” Wendy said shaking her head at her dog.  “Yeah it has been awhile.  How have you been doing?”

“Yeah, I know. I’m just telling myself that. You know I like to have a few drinks, sometimes.” He told her, with a shrug. “It’s fine. I’m finding interesting ways to study.” He let out a breath. Yeah, his break up. He didn’t want to tell her it was the once or twice he’d tried drugs and all the times he’d gotten black out drunk which were yes partially because of the break up. But were mostly just bad choices that he’d made on his own. “Yeah, or just terrible decision making. Anyway, let’s get some drinks and forget about it. No big deal. I’ll finish this summer.”

“A few drinks might be a bit of an understatement,” Wendy replied mostly teasing.  “Oh really?  What are these interesting ways to study?  Are you making up games or something?” she asked curious.  “At least it’s just summer and not a whole extra year.  What do you want to drink?  I’ll pay.”

Michael eyed the stack of books she was holding and wondered how she had the time to read those. Or the willpower. Not that he didn’t like reading, but…wow. “It’s alright, I might just be antsy,” he mumbled, glancing at the nearby shelves. Still nothing he liked. “I was making up the bit about swords, is there actually a place with some?”

She chuckled when she saw her little brother eyeing her stack of books.  It always entertained her when she saw people surprised by how many books she’d buy.  “It’s okay I know I take a while.  I could spend a whole day in here easily.  The only reason to leave would be food or sleep,” she replied chuckling.  “I don’t know, swords aren’t really my thing.  Maybe the comic book store would have something like that.”

Peter smiled as he saw Wendy waving at him at the spot where they were meeting up. “Hey.” He said, hearing her question. He thought for a few moments about it. He didn’t want to upset her by saying that he’d already eaten. So he figured that he’d just say straight to drinks. “Drinks is good.” He told her. “I mean I gotta watch how many I have since I have classwork to work on. Had to take summer courses. You can imagine why.” He said, with a shake of his head.

“That’s fine.  It’s not like I’m the blackout partying type of girl,” Wendy replied nodding.  “You still have classwork?  ...Oh of course you ended up in summer school.  It really is a shame that you lost your summer.  I know, I know I can’t really lecture you I didn’t even finish but it’s a bit concerning that you’re break up messed things up that much.”

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Michael sighed to himself, bouncing on his feet a little. He knew it was important to spend time with his family and all, but Wendy hadn’t exactly picked one of his favorite spots. Not that he didn’t like bookstores. He just…didn’t feel like trying to find one to read. “Wendy?” he ventured, trying not to sound too impatient. “Could we maybe…go to a comic store next? Or somewhere with swords?”

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Wendy turned away from the bookshelf she was facing and let go of the book she had been grabbing to add to her stack of books.  She already had four in her hands that probably was enough to keep her busy for a while.  “Oh I’m sorry, Michael.  I didn’t realize I was taking so long.  Let me just go pay for these and then we can go wherever you want: comic store or sword place or something else.”

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Doug pulled the young woman closer, his hands around her waist, lips moving quickly with hers. “Oh, well good,” he breathed out a laugh. “We can distract each other.”

“I’m not sure if distraction is the right word,” Wendy replied chuckling.  “You’re the center of my attention right now.”

“Don’t ask too many questions. Just… really need this.”

Between the stress of her upcoming deadline for a new story and the stress of things with Peter.  Not to mention the fact that she was jealous that he would rather have some casual thing with some other girl than her.  Her jealousy and stress caused her to seek out alcohol and she found herself entering the first place she came across which just happened to be Sin City.  Strippers normally weren’t appealing to her but after a couple of drinks she couldn’t help but start to find some of them attractive which was how she ended up here making out with a man in public at a strip club.  “Wasn’t planning on it, don’t really want to think right now.”

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Peter: Okay, well where are you? I’ll come pick you up and take you somewhere then Peter: I don’t. But you know that I would for you. Peter: Whatever you do, don’t drink any more.

Peter: Stay where you are and I’ll come there. Just text me the address Peter:  I can dress nice. I’ll change and come. Peter:  That’s not what I said..You aren’t thinking clearly.