~~ Eyy, it's ya boy, bad ideas. I'm rehashing a concept that I wrote about a long time ago, in which the MapleStory universe invades the real world. In order to support my goal of writing without self-judgment, I'm holding myself accountable to one rule: I may not touch a sentence once I have completed the next one. No edits, just right, Shitty Fanfiction. Here's to charging ahead. ~~
This sounds like that insane anti-whatever rhetoric that idiots on Tumblr spout all the time, Jess thought as she nodded at the appropriate beats in her date's rambling.
"But like, the thing is that nobody can disprove it. But there's so many people who know all this stuff is real- that these other worlds do exist and they're springing forward to us in our fiction, waiting to be discovered and met by us!" Zephyr, decked out in her boho best, gesticulated with her drink on the barstool next to Jess.
Jesus Christmas, I wish I had the spine to just leave. Why do they never bring out their insanity before they meet you in person? Jess checked her phone for notifications. Not even a spam email was there to save her. She threw back the last of her Charlie Chaplin.
"Anyway, my team's going to visit Fermilab to test out our theories."
Jess choked and sputtered. "Wh- Fermilab?"
"Yeah, they've got, like, particle accelerators and stuff. It's super legit."
"I know- you can't just walk into Fermilab, right?" Jess wiped the corner of her mouth with her wrist.
"Of course not! We got the TSW approved, and our experiment is scheduled for three weeks from now."
Fuck this timeline. Jess gestured to the bartender for another drink. "So you're… you're actually going to Fermilab? To do science?"
"Yup! Wanna come?"
Jess stared through Zephyr's very soul. "... What?"
"To be honest, I mostly took you on this date because you said you were a lab assistant and one of our guys dropped out because he got Marburg on his safari last week. So I mean, if you wanna-"
"I don't care what I have to sign; get me to Fermilab."
"Sweet!"