They were eating lunch when a little beeping noise went off. Three little chirps and then it was quiet.
"What was that?" Morgan asked looking up from his food for a moment and glancing around to see if someone was checking their phone, since he assumed that's what it was.
Only no one picked up there phone, and almost everyone else was looking around for the cause of the noise as well. Everyone except Reid, whose face was now bright red as he reached into his pocket to fish something out, then began playing with the object in his lap.
"Hey, Pretty Boy, whacha got?" Morgan asks trying to get a look at the item in Reids hand.
"Nothing." Reid says, his face getting brighter red. When he seems to be finished with whatever it was he was doing with the item he shoves it back into his pocket.
Morgan shrugs it off and they keep eating and nearly forget about the item Reid had been messing with. That is until they began to clean up their lunches and the item chirped again. Reid groans softly.
"Alright kid, what is that thing?" Rossi asks this time.
Reid pulls the object out of his pocket again and shows it to the team this time.
Its a little red, vaguely egg shaped object. It has a darker red plastic strip at the top with a tiny hard antenna on the top left side. Its flat with a screen on one side that looks to be about one inch by one inch and has three tiny rubber buttons below the screen. On the screen a tiny pixilated blob is bouncing back and forth across it. It also has a keychain ring attached to it, but there's nothing else on the ring.
"What is that thing?" Hotch asks as the object chirps again and Reid instantly begins to mess with the rubber buttons.
"Tamagotchi." Reid answers. "It's a digital pet, and if it's not taken care of it will die like a real pet. Only this thing requires a ridiculous amount of care, it's stomach is like a black hole and you have to clean up after it every other minute or it will get sick and then you have to give it medicine. And you have to play with it to keep it happy or it might run away."
"Seriously, but that's a kids toy isn't it? That sounds like a lot of work." Prentiss asks.
"Yeah, and there very irritating, but anyone who has one gets addicted to it and emotionally attached to the creatures." Reid tells them. Then his shoulders slump.
"What's wrong?" JJ asks.
"I wasn't quick enough and it just died."
OK, this was something I wrote out of pure boredom at midnight cause I couldn't sleep and it's my first Criminal Minds story. But who remembers and/or still plays with their old tamagotchis? I still have mine (the batteries are all dead, but I still have them and will play with them again when I get new batteries for them). Review and favorite if tamagotchis were a part of your childhood or are somehow a part of your life now.
