"Uh, um, well, I kind-just ran into my ex."

Chad's eyes bulge out of his head and he leans dramatically into the hall. "Who? Where?"

Herm points at the door across the hall, wiping water out of his face.

"Shut the fuck up, Buddhism Bitch?"

"Um, I guess?"

"Bro I fucking hate that guy. He gets up at the ass crack of dawn and does these super loud meditation videos. I can hear him doing breathing exercises through the fucking wall."

Herm giggles. "Yeah, he was like that at school too. Very...spiritual. But...not so um, enlightened."

Chad pulls him into the apartment, the thing Herm came for forgotten and a beer shoved into his hand.

"Spill," Chad says and so Herm spills, telling him all about how David would flirt with him during their biology classes and how they would fool around in the lab after hours but then in public he would totally blank him.

"I was pretty stup–dumb–n-naive, I guess. I-I think-thought he would...change?"

Chad shakes his head. "Douchebags like that don't change."

Chad grabs them more beers and tells Herm about a guy he used to hook up with that would only have sex with him in the shower. "Like, don't play with fire if you don't want to get burned!" Chad jokes.

It goes back and forth like this, swapping stories, complaining about how hard the dating scene is for supers, until they get hungry and Chad orders them pizzas. Finally, Herm has to go, so he grabs what he came for and leaves.

A few days later Chad comes into SDN beaming, holding a handwritten letter.

Herm stares at it.

Stop parking like a dickhead Chad! I will get your piece of shit car TOWED! You have been WARNED! -D

"Wa-what did you do?"

Chad shrugs, grinning. "Listen I'm a busy man, I don't have time to make sure I'm parking perfectly in the lines."

Herm just laughs. "That's rude."

"Getting blowies from a guy in the back of biology and then ignoring them is rude. For a guy who is all about Buddhism and shit, he sure hates karma." Chad laughs at his joke as the note in his hand disintegrates into ash. "Anyway, beers after work? I need to tell you about this loser I hooked up with over the weekend. Spoiler alert, he called his mom after."