Love, Rosie

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From: <keepmovingforward@gmail.com>

To: <loveitifwemadeit@gmail.com>

Nov 20, 2021, 11:18AM

so i just woke up and saw this and wow. your 2am rambling thoughts are now my favourite thing.

because i think i'm falling in love with you too, yellow.

i think it's possible. obviously looks are a very trivial thing, and to some people they matter. but not to me.

love, aussie

p.s. bet you're actually a gymnast and you're just trying to trick me. but anyway........ PIZZA EATING CHAMP!!! oh wait that's my title

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For most people, Black Friday is the day where you go to the store at the opening time and fight people for discounted products. For Lisa, it's the day she gets the house to herself because the rest of her family (aside from Love) are out fighting people for discounted products.

She generally just uses it to relax, but it's nice to be able to smoke a joint in her bedroom instead of clambering out of her window and doing it in the back yard. What she doesn't expect is the knock on the front door and Love's barking, but she assumes her mom had been ordering things online again and walks to the front door to answer it. She glances through the peephole, and again, another surprise.

She opens the door, and Chaeyoung looks at her, then to the joint between her fingers, and back again. "Oh."

"That's a funny way to greet someone," Lisa retorts, tapping the ash into one of her mother's plants. "Hello."

Chaeyoung blushes, petting Love and saying hello to him first. "Hi. Is Pranpriya here?"

"Nope. She's out with the rest of my family, fighting people for things in the shops," Lisa explains, taking another drag, "they'll be out until late and then come home with all of their bargains. My dad has taken to selling things on eBay at their full price for profit."

"Oh. Alright then." Chaeyoung looks apologetic, "I'll just... get out of your hair."

"Or you could come in." Lisa offers, not knowing where the words come from. Usually she savours having the place to herself since it happens so rarely. "I don't mind."

After a few moments of thought, Chaeyoung nods. "Alright then."

Admittedly, she hadn't expected that answer, but Lisa steps aside to let her in, offering the joint to her as Love trots back to her basket in the lounge, disinterested. "You smoke?"

Chaeyoung shakes her head, following her to her bedroom. "Uh, no."

"Okay." Lisa says, and then asks, "Do you want to try?"

"Not really," Chaeyoung answers, and Lisa shuts her bedroom door behind them. She'll have to remember to light some scented candles around the house after her little venture to the front door. "Not that it bothers me that you do it."

Lisa just shrugs, sitting down on her bed again and turning down the volume of her music slightly. "No worries. Did Pranpriya make plans with you and forget about them or something? Because that's not like her."

"No, I just... I was bored and wondered if she was busy, so..." Chaeyoung gestures vaguely, "here I am. You didn't have to-"

"Invite you in?" Lisa finishes for her, "I wanted to." Though I don't particularly know what possessed me to do it.

Chaeyoung stands, almost like she doesn't know if she's allowed to sit on Lisa's bed, because it's not like there's anywhere else to sit. Her room is tiny, and her desk chair is piled with clothes that are too clean to go in the laundry but too dirty to hang back up. Lisa merely finishes off her joint, watching in amusement, before eventually telling her, "You know you can sit down, right?" as she leaves the end of the joint in the ashtray she'd left on her desk.