"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." ...
{Highest Ranking: #2 in Short Story} One collision. Two strangers. One unorthodox way to pay off her debt. Three weeks of late night conversations. One Date.
"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."
✿SS|13 [230217] Winner of Brigade Awards 2017 for best short story! ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ In which a boy is too broke to pay for Pizza Hut and ends up calling his Soul mate. ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ❝It was supposed to be nothing, really. But at some point it became everything.❞ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄