The last pod is wrapped up in a dusty pink paper, little black birds patterned on it. I smile, he must’ve remembered all those times when we were on Earth together and I would always point out and get excited about the birds. I carefully pull away the tape and place the paper on my desk, a clothing pod lays in my palm. I press it onto my chest receiver, looking into the mirror I see a long flowy dress. On the side where my heart is a fade of embers from yellow to orange to red and all the way to a black burned color.
I hear yelling outside my room. I run out, “Hey, what the hell is happening?!”
“Yellow wants to go straight to The Crash, but we think we should go celebrate that you’re back,” Clare and Mar say in almost unison. Of course Mar would want to celebrate, he just wants free drinks, it’s odd for Clare to want to do something like that though.
“Why not celebrate, it’ll be fun. Besides, the dorks at The Crash have no idea where we are anyways, it’s gonna be nice to get hammered before everything gets serious.” For once I think that drinking is a good answer to something, but it’s true, we’ll be out fighting and working our butts off for the next few days, maybe even months.
“Arina… you can’t start drinking again though. For all we know The Crash could be right on our tails, looking for the perfect time to attack. It’s not good to just have fun at a time like this, this is serious. Are you just going to put millions of people’s lives in danger, because you want to go out drinking!?”
“Maybe…” Mar jokingly says. I kind of do agree with Yellow, but she just needs to let herself go once in awhile.
“Yellow, you do have a valid point, but if they were on to us, they would’ve attacked already. Just let yourself go, I’ll be fully responsible if anything bad happens. Trust me, nothing bad is going to happen.” I smile at her, I know that she can be a little paranoid sometimes, but she should just relax, even Clare is in on it.
“I will to, Yellow, Arina, Mar, and I will all take responsibility for anything that happens, right Mar?” He nudges Mar in the arm.
“Oh yeah, if Ren is in on it, then you should be too.”
*****
Walking into the liquor shop feels so nostalgic, H56 is one of the best planets to get alcohol, there’s no age limit, and you can sample everything at any store. “Where should we get everything, I know Ren has a certain store she like to go to.” Mar says almost yelling because he’s so excited.
“Arden , that’s the only place Arina will get anything,” Yellow quietly says. We all walk over to Arden, the shop is just like I remembered it. We grab a few things and head back into the ship.
“We should play a game or something.” Mar suggests, he always wants to play spin the bottle for a chance to kiss me, but since Yellow and Clare are dating, they don’t ever want to play it, not like we ever played it before.
“As long as it’s an appropriate game.” I call back from the kitchen.
3 hours of drinking go by in a flash, everybody is already hammered drunk, except me. Yellow and Clare sneaked off into one of their rooms, while I have to deal with Mar throwing himself at me. “Mar come on, you should really be going to bed, you’re really fucking drunk.”
“How the frick frack do you - you know I’m… I’m not drunk, okay.” He pulls himself onto my lap, his mouth is so close to my neck. I can feel his heart beat loudly. I don’t know if it’s the alcohol or what but his heart beat is soothing.
“Jesus fucking Christ, Mar, get off me. You reek of alcohol.”
“Ren… Why don’t you love me? I do so much for you, and yet you hate me so much. Am I really just something that helps you out.” I get a tight feeling in my chest.
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