#day fever

SCRETTCHZ PAPPOW

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BAMWGH

:The sounds of cooking on high heat.

Ze was able to leave the sizzling contents on the stove for a moment, and leave the kitchen to call upstairs.

“Come on, it’s time to go,” ze calls up the stairs, hurrying back to the sizzling contents. The late afternoon light is strong and impressive. It warms the eyes.

*Feet in the upstairs hall and then down the stairs*

duhd duhd duhd… dudhd dudhd dudhd dudhd Dudhd Dudhd Dudhd Dudhd DUDHD DUDHD DHUDH dudhd-dudhd,

moving horizontally through the hall, acrobatically carrying a knotted pile of laundry, the boy couldn’t hold down his words,

“I DONT HAVEANYCLEAN C-LOTHE-Sss” *skrEET, DUP-TYP-CHP*, the sizzling continues

“Why didn’t you say anything earlier??”

“That smells gross”

“Well its not for you, here, gimme ur clothes, We’ll see if we can’t find you something.” The two of them knelt down on the kitchen floor, which was black and white checker-board tiles and a layer of grease. “Put this on”  *BIiNGg*  Ze recieved a notification, but decided not to look at it, since there were already too many pressing matters.

“i wore that one yesterday”

“I wore these pants yesterday, you can wear things if they don’t smell”

“oh kay??”

“You don’t believe me”

“no, i just forgot whut day it was… (sizzlessszz*pop*ziizilssss)… do u have to, have to work tonight??” Ze stands up worried about the sizzling contents.

“Nope! I get tonight all to myself! not a care to care about not caring about.”

“i don’t know what u mean”

“You will. Get dressed, you’re not a nudist” The boy flails around a bit, but manages to get a foot through the wrong leg before ze had to help him.

“ok… arent you going to be lonely when, when-you, dont have anyone to talk to?”

“No, I like being alone. hurry up.” ze turns off the stove and flings its contents to bowl and the counter. “You’re going to take those clothes back to your room right?”

“yes”

“and when you get there your going to call me right?”

“yess”

“how about a hug?”

“FAST, i gotto go, remeber?”

…

ze loved the long picturesque nights, laying horizontal and alone under the glowing pixels and the remedial tragedies presented by them. ze longed for the solitary bathtub with a cracked window from which, The Noise of cars being driven by people going to places, where ze did not have any reason to attend, moseyed in, to whisper in zirs ears and tell stories while taking a breather on the closed toilet, before resuming their journey onward as sound waves.

“Ya kno Hun,” Exhaling smoke from the drag they just took, “you really need to have someone around here more often”

“Why’s that?”

“You might forget how to talk”

“Has it ever happened to you?”

“Oh yah plenty of times. I was home-schooled up until high-school, and I know what your thinking, but let me tell you, the schools in my…”

“I don’t have any judgments about your upbringing”

“Well ok, I’ll take you’re word fo’ it… Any who, by the time I started high school at East Combustion-Chamber Accademy, I couldn’t say anything for an entire year. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me, I just could not get a peep outta my lungs, but ya know what?”

“What”

“One day I just looked at my reflection in the petroleum and said ta my self, I said, ‘U gotta say something or else you’ll disapeare,’ and afta that, I jus’ opened my mouth up, and neva looked back, and ya gotta do that, ya just gotta start lookin at yerself, and let me tell ya, I woulda neva done that if it weren’t for my sis tellin me I gotta start lookin out fer ma-self.”

ze took a sip a drink, and The Noise put out their cigarette in the sink before dropping it in the trash.

“Ya know, when I was yer age, I had all kindsa lovas, I was mad about all of em. All my friends were lovas. Ya gotta lova right? pretty thing like you?””

“Err thanks, you’re not coming on to me?”  

“EHHHHAACAHH, COFF, COFF coff coff… ahha, I’m flattered, No way, no way, I don’t date anyone that won’t understand my references, ehehe”

“Oh, well, that is a… a good rule to have I guess”

“Ya know it hun, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past, ehe, I’ve got all kindsa rules. Like not putting on a shirt while walking down stairs. Ya trip while doin that shit, ya ain’t got no hands to catch ya self with.”

“Noted, thanks for the tip.”

“Well then, its been nice talking to ya, but my bad knees is actin up, so I been sittin here too long. I should shut up, and get on ma-way.”

“Thats alright, I am about to get gecko fingers if I sit in this water any longer, its been nice talking to ya.”