10:42 AM, the alarm clock buzzes, and Chris' eyes slowly open.
Chris yawns, and mumbles to himself, "It's morning, huh? What time is it--?", Chris grabs his phone and glances at the time, his vision is still blurry, so he has trouble trying to make out the numbers of the time.
"8:22 AM? Huh?", Chris wipes his eyes with his hands and this helps a slight bit, "10:42 AM--?! I need to encode. Now."
Chris stands up, but his legs feel very weak, Chris heads down to the kitchen carefully, avoiding stumbling down. Chris notices the smell of fresh brewed coffee from the kitchen,
"Jessica? Is that you brewing coffee?"
"Yes, Chris. Sit down I'll grab you a mug. Also, why'd you wake up late? Aren't you supposed to encode some stuff?" Jessica asks.
Chris sits down on the chair next to the dining table, with a delighted expression on his face, he glances to his left and sees pieces of the salad he ate the past night.
"I slept really late again, my bad." Chris chuckles.
Jessica moves closer to the table, looking oddly stunning in her PJ's, she hands Chris the mug of hot, fresh coffee.
Chris takes a sip,
"Thanks, Jessica."
"No probs, Chris." Jessica replies.
After a couple of minutes of cheerful chatting and breakfast, Chris decides to finish up and volunteers to clean up and wash the dishes, Jessica insists that she do it, but Chris just went on with it and washes the dishes.
"Thanks, Chris. I'm gonna head to my room now, I also got shit to do."
"No probs!" replies Chris.
After washing the dishes, Chris swiftly heads back up to his room.
Because of how fast Chris was, he bumped into someone. His eyes become blurry, and sees the figure on the ground as well. He shakes himself off and tries to identify the figure. It turns out, the figure is Fraye Ashtel, Chris' cutest roommate, and the most optimistic. "Oh, I'm so sorry Fraye. I was probably going too fast.", Chris chuckles and helps out Fraye to stand up.
"It's alright, Chris-kun. I know how busy you always are, that's what makes you a nice guy."
Fraye blushes.
Chris blushes, "Aww, geez. You flatter me too much. I'm just your regular guy, you know? Haha."
"I'm gonna have breakfast now, have you had breakfast already? Chris-kun?" Fraye asks with an "I care for you" look on her face.
"Yes, the food is on the table, Fraye."
"Thanks, Chris-kun." replies Fraye
Fraye heads down into the kitchen,
"No time to waste." he mumbles to himself.
Chris heads into his room, being aware and avoiding hitting anything in his path.
He grabs his Macbook from his backpack and sits down next to his desk.
He prepares to encode on his Macbook.
"Well, I gotta get started."
Chris cracks his knuckles as if getting ready for a fist fight.
2:15 PM
"Phew. Finally done."
After hours of encoding and chatting, his desk is very dirty. Crumbs of Kit-Kats lie on his desk, and 2 empty Mountain Dew cans.
"Finally, I'm finished." Chris applauds himself
He places the files into a USB and places the USB into his sling bag.
Someone knocks at Chris' door,
"Come in, please."
"It's Fraye, Chris-kun. I was gonna ask you if you would like to go out to buy some groceries with me."
"Sure, I'd love to." Chris replies with a cheerful smile on his face.
"Okay, then. Chris-kun. I'll wait downstairs."
"Okay." Chris replies
Chris grabs his wallet, phone, and sling bag.
Chris heads downstairs and sees Fraye waiting for him at the front door.
He walks towards Fraye,
"Sorry to keep you waiting."
"It's alright, Chris-kun. I'll wait for as long as I can for you." Fraye replies
"What--? I didn't get what you said."
"It was nothing, Chris-kun."
Fraye chuckles.
Fraye and Chris head out and set their destination to the nearest, and their favorite grocery store.
Chris keeps chatting while walking, since no actual vehicles are allowed to pass by their street, only thing to worry about are random medium to large pebbles, which may lead to you stumbling down.
Chris, as usual when chatting, only talks to Troy.
"How you doin' bro?"
"Good." Troy replies.
"Well, I'm heading to the grocery store right now. I'll just talk to you later."
"Sure, Chris. Take care, bro."
"Thanks, man. You too."
Fraye keeps glancing at Chris every so often and smiles when he catches her glancing at him.
"Why do you keep glancing and smiling at me? Fraye? Is something wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong, Chris. I'm just happy you agreed to come along."
"Oh, okay." Chris replies.
They walk onward to the grocery store.
2:32 PM
"We're here." Fraye says cheerfully as if it were her first time going to a grocery store.
"Chris-kun, please hold me. I'm claustrophobic, and there are alot of people inside such a small grocery store."
"Alright." Chris replies.
They head into the grocery store and they are cheerfully greeted by the staff.
2:56 PM
Chris glances at the clock inside the grocery store.
"It's almost 3:00 PM, we should go now."
"Let me just check some things..and we're good! We have all the groceries we need. Let's go."
Chris and Fraye line up at the checkout lane,
the cashier scans the barcodes of everything we bought,
every scan results in a beep sound.
"Thank you for shopping at the O-Zone Grocery Store, hope we see you again!"
"Thanks, bro."
"Thank you, sir." They both answer the cashier.
3:00 PM
Chris and Fraye head back to their dormitory..
4:16 PM
Surprisingly, it was a faster travel going to the grocery store rather than going back home..
Chris and Fraye made it back safely, which is good.
"Fraye, you should go have your night bath now."
"But, I need to get all of these groceries into the fridge. Chris-kun."
"I'll do it, you go have your bath."
"Aww, thanks. Chris-kun, you're the best!" Fraye hugs Chris tight.
Chris also hugs Fraye in an awkward manner.
"Still haven't changed yet? Huh? Chris-kun?" Fraye sighs
Fraye heads up into her room.
"These groceries won't move by themselves."
Chris carefully places each one onto the right place..
"Finally, done."
Chris checks his phone for the time,
5:12 PM
Chris heads up into his room,
he changes into some fresh clothes.
"I'll have to give this USB to Zen tomorrow."
Chris suddenly feels like he's about to collapse so he lays down on his bed to relax, and eventually he passes out into yet another deep sleep.
6:08 PM
Chris has forgotten to chat with Troy, Troy now wonders what has happened to Chris, not knowing that Chris is already asleep, Troy keeps sending messages to Chris,
but, Chris' phone is turned off, so Troy's efforts will be in vain.
Fraye Ashtel, she's half American and Japanese, she's very optimistic, cute, and sweet. She's the same age as Chris, 13, but Chris is older by a month. She's 1 room away from Chris' room.
Jessica Franbouer, she's British, very flirty, cute, and unique. She's 15, the oldest. She's always the one who makes coffee and tea for them. She's 2 rooms away from Chris' room.
Find out what happens in the next day, in the next chapter!~
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