TeenageWolfMimi asked for another drabble. I had a free evening. Here we are.

Will possibly do a longer rewrite of this one later

Unrelated protip: If you work a job that tips, work Easter Morning. Everyone feels bad for you. Made as much as I do working three dinner shifts in one morning.

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"Joe… there's not like a… Glasses Community is there?"

Joe looked up from his book, the gleam from his lenses keeping his eyes hidden. "Who told you?"

Matt's eyes grew wide. "Wait, what?!"

Joe burst out laughing, and Matt glowered. "Very funny."

Both turned their attention back to their books. They sat across from each other in a fairly busy library. Matt tapped his pencil lightly… then not so lightly… then furiously… then it flew out of his hand and bopped Joe in the nose.

"MATT!"

"SO I NEED GLASSES," he burst out and was quickly hushed by more than a few library attendants. "Tai's stuck on one of his conspiracy theories again, and he thinks people with glasses are bonded together by like hating carrots or something."

Joe laid his book down. "And you need glasses to infiltrate the community?"

"Are you sure you don't just need them to be a hipster?" Davis called from a table away. His tutor hushed him and he snickered.

"No and you're not even in this one."

"This one what?" he asked.

"This—I'm telling a story!" Matt turned his attention back to Joe. "I need them because I was driving and hit another fire hydrant so now I'm 'near-sighted' and 'basically blind' and 'oh my god how have you not just walked off the face of a cliff because you couldn't see it coming'.

"Anyway I just need some reassurance that this is yet another conspiracy theory that could not make any less sense."

Joe looked pensive. "… Well, I do hate carrots."

"…Joe."

"Do you think the community has meetings I'm not invited to?"

"Joe."

"Like how suburban moms have little book clubs to complain about other suburban moms. What if I'm the other?!"

"Joe, this isn't reassuring."

Much to Matt's unnerving, Joe sprang up to go find a book on the history of eye wear.

Thanks for reading!