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Junie woke up,stretching her hands up to the roof. The sun barely peaked through the window,June beating it to its arrival as usual. She pushed her feet through a room she hadnt had motivation to clean in months. The floor scattered with harsh reminders of her complete lack of control. The rest of her house really wasn’t much better…trash scattered around the place. Ants had made their way into being best friends with the floor.
She made her way to the kitchen,preparing a cup of coffee for her day. She turned on her phone, flinching at the bright screen straight into her eyes, glancing at a complete lack of texts. Only thing welcoming her on her phone is the 4:00 am sitting at the top of the screen.
She couldn’t understand why,but she kind of wished Spectra had shot her some sort of text. She wasn't too sure what she was expecting…she just sort of wanted something.
She was on her way back to her room, when she remembered something. She had the day off.
Any normal person would be excited,and normally she would too. Something just felt so wrong.
She glanced over to the vase sitting on the center of the living room table. A soft green flower sat in the middle. She was an idiot for keeping the thing. No doubt what Spectra could have done to it. Not that any answer for what she could have done didn't sound outrageous.
She made her way to her room,shoving open the closet door to her wardrobe full of various shades of green. She pulled out a nice outfit,making it simply a soft sweater and corduroy pants.
She had at least something to look forward to. She would be seeing Caroline, who went by the silly nickname of Cosmic owl and her most hated enemy, Spectra
She had several hours considering the hang out wouldn’t occur till around 12:00 pm,which in lazy dumbass time would be in reality around 1-2:00pm.
She just silently sighed,slipping on her slightly platformed shoes and making her way out the door. She would probably just grab herself breakfast,maybe pick up groceries,anything to really pass the time and get out of the house.
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After what felt like hours of waiting,she was finally making her way to this dumb meet up. Caroline had easily been at the company longer than Spectra,it was almost surprising she didn't attract more attention considering she seemed to attract people who like attention.
She made her way to Cosmics apartment,seeing Spectras car parked outside the building. She took her way carefully up the elevator,being suspicious of every weird movement it made. When the doors finally opened she felt relieved she wouldn’t sit there for long.
She knocked on the door,peeking down at her phone just to double check the time.
A very excited Spectra swung open the door,seemingly living off the high of winning against Cosmic in a board game.
“Hey June bug!!” She said,giving her a big wide smile.
For a moment June could feel the urge to smile,attempting to suppress it as much as humanly possible.
“Hello Spectra. Assuming you two have already completed a match without me?” She replied,slipping her way inside, and taking her shoes off at the door.
Spectra nodded,cheering her way all down to the living room again.
In the living room sat a few games,in a box,on the floor. Cosmic in a t-shirt and jeans,and of course,Spectra.
It seemed like they had started up a round of Uno and Spectra had quickly beat her. Judging by the cards on the table,Cos was left with a handful of cards.
Spectra excitedly patted a chair at the dining table,sitting down in the chair next to it.
June followed,sitting down and glancing at what was planned for the day.
It looked like she had found the perfect opportunity to catch the girls off guard,and truly get to understand their intentions.
“Hey june” Cos spoke up,giving her a bit of a forced smile that clearly hid some frustration from her loss.
She just quietly nodded back,seemingly uninterested in making conversation. They wouldn’t want to repeat their previous mistake.
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They played much longer than any of them had intended,not that any of them had plans outside of this. Spectra couldn’t help but notice how sleepy Juniper seemed to get. After her billions of wins it was about time she had worn herself out.
Spectra glanced at Cos,who had made her way into the kitchen to throw some noodles into the microwave. She did have something that was bugging her a bit,and June was finally ready to leave. Maybe she could actually catch Cos to ask her a few questions before Spectra would need to head home.
“Well,that was fun,but I should get going,” June said,pushing herself up from her seat,silently yawning.
“Cya June bug!!” Spectra said,waving her hand as she watched June slip back out like she had never been there in the first place.
Once June was finally gone,Spectra headed towards the kitchen to talk to Cos.
“Hey,you've been at the company longer…do you know much about June?” Spectra asked,leaning herself against the kitchen counter.
“Uh…honestly no. She's kinda just kept to herself.” Cos shrugged. It kinda seemed like that wasn't it, and normally Spectra wasn't one to push but she needed to know.
“She talked to you like you knew her.” Spectra mentioned,sounding a little ruder than she had originally meant to.
Cos went noticeably quiet, and Spectra forced herself to take that as a sign to leave.
“I'll cya later Caroline” Spectra said,leaving at that and leaving with her stuff. Once again she was led to not knowing what she was supposed to do…it seemed like every mistake led to some sort of silent treatment. She couldn’t take it.
She was going to figure this out.