Content note: mild references to alcohol and drugs.
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03. We Need To Do This More Often.
"We should be doing stupid, normal teenage things," Marco grumbled. "We should be - I don't know. Breaking curfew."
"We are breaking curfew," Rachel pointed out.
"Yeah, so we can go get ourselves killed! Everyone else our age is sitting in a field somewhere getting drunk. We should be getting drunk."
"Everyone, Marco? Must be a pretty big field."
"It is. There's a big field, somewhere out there, and everyone is there except us. Getting drunk and doing drugs and, I don't know, spraying graffiti all over the place."
"Oh, so the field has walls now?" Jake teased. "It's an enclosed field?"
"But no, we can't go," Marco continued, ignoring him. "We have to save the world."
Rachel sighed dramatically. "Our parents would be so proud."
"Screw proud. I don't want to die."
"You want to be alive so you can take drugs?" Jake asked.
"And spraypaint," Rachel said. "I don't know if you know this, Marco, but you shouldn't be eating paint."
"Thanks for pointing that out."
"Paint's vegan, you know," Cassie said.
Everyone stared at her.
"How do you even know that?" Marco cried. "Why would you ever need to know that? You just got a craving one day and decided to investigate? Oh, God, I'm going to die and my last thought is going to be 'Well, at least no animals were harmed'. Except for me."