Project Venom #Watty's2016

A Night On The Town

Now normally, the first answer I get when I ask someone, what would you do if you knew you were about to die? I get the following answer, at least from my siblings, "I would rob a bank, steal a Ferrari and have the best time of my life." I was told I was could die very soon, so what did I do? I said, "fuck it" and fell asleep on the couch in the barracks. I was seriously just too tired and worn out from the night before to care. The way I saw it was, you know, we all die eventually, but no way in hell am I dying tired as all hell. In truth, if I had the choice in the matter the last thing I would do before death was hit an unlimited buffet of all my favorite foods, pizza, mac and cheese, deep fried spicy chicken, Fettuccine Alfredo and on and on. But Ace, you say, what if you could live to be 100, but you could never eat those foods again? Well, what would be the point? In the words of comedian Gabriel Iglesias, "Gabriel don't you want to live to be 100? Not if I can't eat Tacos." And he's right. Why live to a hundred if it means I can't enjoy myself? Die skinny and miserable at 100 or fat and happy at 55? Hmmm...my money is on 55.

Me sleeping on the couch was a rather rare occurrence, just ask my family. When it happened I almost always woke up around 5PM, still tired as shit and sometimes with a headache. Though when I woke up this time, rather than finding I had a headache, I found instead that Nina had somehow managed to squeeze herself into the space between me and the back of the couch without waking me up. She had both her arms around me in such a way it was as if she were trying to prevent me from escaping...

"Welcome back to the land of the living", Nina said quietly.

"Maybe not much longer if professor green was right", I said stretching out.

Nina sighed, "you think he is?"

"I don't see a reason to think he's not", I sighed, "the man seems to be a legit genius, why would Morningstar have us pick him up if he wasn't?"

Nina sighed again and pulled me tighter, "maybe your right."

I turned around to face her, "hey, look at it this way, I couldn't have asked for a better girlfriend."

She smiled, "I couldn't have asked for anyone better myself."

She pulled me into a kiss that lasted for about 30 seconds, but felt like a lot longer. When she pulled away from me, I rolled off the couch and sat up, "you guys have your gear ready for tomorrow?", I asked.

"No", She said, "I've been trying to keep the others from losing their minds. How the hell did you just come in here and fall asleep?"

I shook my head and yawned, "I was honestly to tired to give a fuck."

'Wow", Nina sighed.

"Hey", I said, "I'm tired of worrying about how I'm going to die. It took me long enough to realize that no matter what I do it's gonna happen, maybe not today, hopefully not tomorrow, but it's going to happen. What's it matter if I die in bed or on the battlefield? Same thing with the Civic, Front wheel Drive, tons of turbo lag, get it wrong in the middle of a corner, dead. I have just arrived at the point where I don't care if I live or die."

Nina sighed, looking like she might start crying, "I do. I care."

I rose from my spot on the floor and joined her on the couch, pulling her close to me.

"I'm not ready to go", she said, "for the first time in my life I have people who care about me and who give me a second thought. Ace, if I lost you....I don't know how I would take it. I love you."

"I love you too", I said kissing her.

"Then why are you so eager to die?", she asked, "I don't understand it."