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Social Construct 2

@TheNil: picture credits to @TobyOnTheTele, caught me off guard

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@User1: looks like you're waking up from a fun night
@User2: ^^^^^^^^
@TobyOnTheTele: it's easy to take pictures of gorgeous people <3
@User3: tbh sounds like they just slept together or something
@GoodGuyFitz: we're eating breakfast if you guys could put your phones down and stop sending eachother memes and be part of the family
@TheNil: Tobes were tearing the family apart
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Toby and Nil giggles and put their phones down. Mason and Jay were sitting across from eachother, Jay trying way to hard to pretend nothing happened while Mason was just tired and coming down at the same time. Cam sat across from Nil and Toby next to Nil. Ryan and Sam had left to go grocery shopping since they finished their breakfast early.

"So what's your plan now?" Toby asks Nil.

"Well I was planning a girls day with one of my friends so that's coming up. I can quit being a consultant. I didn't really enjoy that, I only did it because I got good pay but now I make decent pay doing the translating thing," Nil shrugs.

"You're a consultant? For what?" Jay questions, not being able to keep his eyes from her.

"Online security. There were a couple big agencies that I found my way into. Kind of a funny situation I put them in," she shrugs.

"Oh do tell," Cam pleads.

"Well, I wasn't always a consultant in cyber security, more or less I used to hack in my free time. I thought it was a good way to exercise my brain and it didn't really matter so why not. I managed to hack the entire system over at EY which is a company that prides themselves on their cyber security, and I told them I'd keep doing it unless they hired me. They weren't sure what to hire me as and then figured I could be a consultant. Now whenever they make new shit I hack it and get paid to do it as long as I tell them how to fix it," Nil explains, making everyone quiet as they listen in.

"How much do you get paid for that?" Mason asks.

"I usually charge around 85 if they're just asking basic questions but if they want me to actually hack into their stuff I charge 120 an hour." Nil takes another bread roll from the center of the table.

"And you want to quit that for a job where you only make 45 an hour?!" Mason exclaims.

"Well yeah. I can still hack if I ever need money but I've built up my savings quite a lot doing both of the jobs so I can afford to do the one I enjoy a bit more," Nil shrugs and tears a piece of her bread off, eating it.

"More power to you kween," Toby smiles and grabs himself another piece of bread.

Mason started telling bits and pieces of the Poland story to Nil since she hadn't heard it before. From time to time Cam would take over and tell a bit.

Jay was the first to leave, he had a doctors appointment scheduled. Toby was second because he had told Twitter he would stream so he wanted to get home and clean himself up before doing it. Which left Cam, Mason, and Nil. Cam ended up driving Mason home first before he decided to get fucked up again and then take Nil home.

When they arrived to drop Mason off he made a joke, calling them mom and dad. Nil laughed but Cam told him to fuck off so Mason flipped him off before getting out and going into his house, probably to sleep.

"I'm sorry about him, he's still fucked." Cam sighs as he starts driving towards Nil's house since she had given him the directions.

"I don't mind him. He's fun to be around," she shrugs with a small smile.

"What about Toby?"

"Oh I love being around Toby. He knows how to have fun."

"And Jay?" Cam voice comes out quieter.

"What about Jay?" Nil looks out the window.

"What happened with him?" He asks, almost scared of the answer.

"He confessed," she shrugs.

"And what did you say?"

"That Love is a social construct."

"Ouch... how do you figure?"

"Men and women in ancient times were drawn together for mating purposes. Being that they had to be together for enough time to make a baby, humans tried to find a deeper meaning so they created love. So love is only there because humans think it needs to be. Just like countries and money and race. All stuff that humans created to try and make sense of the world," Nil tries to explain.

"Woah okay I think I get where you're coming from with love but how are countries and money and race social constructs?"

"I guess the easiest one to explain would be a country. It exists because of human interaction, because humans have to agree on what a country is. Without that agreement it wouldn't be a country. It exists not in objective reality but as a result of human interaction."

"Then how is money a social construct? We can touch it so it has objective reality,"

"But it wouldn't exist without human interaction, you may be able to touch the paper and coins but unless the humans agree that the paper money and coins can represent and what it can be used for, it's just paper and metal discs." Nil explains, enjoying the conversation.

"I think I get it now. You're really well spoken on these topics." Cam smiles as he pulls up to her house.

"Thank you, I do try. I enjoyed this short discussion with you, we should do it again sometime?" She says in a questioning tone as she gets out of his car, looking back at him.

"Definitely," Cam smiles.