Number 79: Starvation

Ling Tong wasn't sure how his week had gone from starting out freaking amazing with a home cooked birthday breakfast, to him ending up on the subway with the two of the most obnoxious people he knew and Zhou Yu. He swatted again at Gan Ning, who was practically lying on the seat, his legs stretched out and back against the railing, trying to keep his jacket clean.

Gan Ning, to his credit, ignored him. Sun Ce was going through his backpack, tossing trash at Zhou Yu who had the patience of Buddha. "Where the hell is the bottom?" Sun Ce almost yelled, tossing another paper at Zhou Yu, who was not doing amazingly well at catching the offending things.

"There isn't one," Zhou Yu said, putting the crumpled mess in the pile. "Your backpack leads to an alternate universe where you are tidy and Gan Ning is polite."

"Holy shit, I don't think I want to go there," Sun Ce said, hissing when he stabbed his finger with a push pin that he just found.

"I do." Gan Ning looked up from his phone. "That Gan Ning sounds like a sweater wearing pussy that I'd love to meet."

"You would be perverse enough to take pleasure out of tormenting yourself," Zhou Yu said with a shake of his head. Gan Ning shrugged and went back to his phone.

"Hot damn! I found coupons!" Sun Ce declared, holding them triumphantly, though the picture was ruined with the index finger he held in his mouth and the way he had to rush to keep his bag from falling and spilling.

"To where?" Gan Ning and Ling Tong asked together, both now intensely interested in the topic.

"Dunno. Looks like a relatively fancy joint."

"Fancy?"

"I don't think they burn the frozen meat in hot greasy oil."

"That doesn't count as fancy. That counts as 'not trashy college food' Ce." Sun Ce shrugged. "One day you shall actually be making money and you'll have to take Da Qiao to an actual place that makes you wear a suit."

"I've done something close to that."

"And how long did you last?"

"I'll have you know we sat in that place for almost two hours."

"Were you facing the television screen by the bar?"

Sun Ce remained silent, glaring at Zhou Yu, who only nodded in victory. Sun Ce sighed and searched the coupons for an expiration date. "They're still good! Who here wants to go to dinner with me and watch people debate our orientation?"

"Why do I surround myself with people who have such sick pleasures?" Zhou Yu said, sounding downright pitiful.

He should have gone into acting, Ling Tong figured. Ling Tong then glanced at the coupons. Lu Xun still wasn't around to cook. And he was getting tired of cooking. As well as cleaning up after Gan Ning. So that meant, he had two choices. Let Gan Ning go, who was also having an internal debate by the constipated look he had on his face, which left him a clean empty apartment, or to go himself and leave Gan Ning alone in said apartment.

The idea of starvation won out and Ling Tong called it first. Gan Ning stomped at him, Ling Tong yelping over the mumbling of curses. "Why aren't you taking Yu? Nobody debates it?"

Sun Ce snickered. "No. He's only going with us downtown because he's going to take Xiao out to eat." He glanced down at the paper in his hand. "On that note want this second one?"

"No. We are not going to the same place you two are."

"It'd be fun."

"Negative."

Sun Ce laughed, tossing the coupons to Ling Tong, Gan Ning reaching to steal one leading to a fight that resembled young siblings stuck in the backseat for a six hour road trip, and began digging through his bag some more treasures.

Backpacks are blackholes that hold secret secret treasures if your willing to risk your hands and fingers to find them.

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