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Sands was sitting reading the same page of the same holo-book that he had been trying to read for the past two days. Footsteps approached, "GO AWAY!" he yelled. Jalen stopped short, eyes wide and turned on his heel and left. Sands growled and went back to reading his book. Another set of footsteps approached, "I said GO AWAY!"
"You didn't say it to me." Sands looked up to see Neon's familiar frame taking up the doorway. However, Neon's hair was no longer... long. It was crew cut and... blue. Neon's hair was never ordinary colors. It was always green, or orange, or even pink and always Neon. But now...
"Your hair. What happened to it?"
"Wha?"
"Did Net and Laurie drag you to the barber again?"
"No, I opted to have it cut." He ran a hand through it, "Does it look bad?"
"No. It looks good. Did you also opt to have it dyed blue? It's not bolo-ball season, you know."
"Yeah, I know. I wanted it dyed this color."
"Any particular reason?"
"Yeah." Sands realized that meant something Neon didn't want to talk about and he let the issue alone.
"Who'd you have dye it? The barber didn't do that."
"He didn't cut my hair either."
"No?" Sands asked, perplexed. "Who did?"
"The general." Sands jaw dropped; Neon had said it like this was an everyday occurrence.
"I didn't know she could cut hair." Or dye it.
"Well, she can."
"I noticed. Girlfriend out of town?"
"Yeah, out of planet is more like it. What about you?"
"Huh?"
"Where's your girlfriend?"
"My girlfriend? I don't have a girlfriend."
"Yeah, you do. The girl that was here with you a couple of days ago. Brown hair, green eyes; looks like our general. Goes by the name of Katrina Gottier. Any of this ringing a bell?"
"Yeah, but she's not my girlfriend."
"She's a girl right?"
"Yeah."
"And she's your friend."
"I guess."
"Then she's your girlfriend."
Sands rolled his eyes as Neon smiled at his humor. "Wow, that was just sad. You been hangin around Net?"
"I'll never tell."
"Eesh, you sound like Jamando."
"Thanks."
"That wasn't a compliment. What did you come in here for?"
"Oh, I came in to tell you that I located two of your three missing squad mates. One is some big shot officer and the other is a private in the..." Neon looked down at the datapad he held, "789th. They're still alive. Can't find the other one."
"He probably changed his name. Which two did you find?"
"Blank and Paper."
Sands laughed, "Try looking under the nickname 'Pen'."
"Pen?" Neon asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Yeah, they had a theme going on. Blank paper and a Pen."
"Oookay. Will do." They fell into silence and listened to what sounded like a brother coming down the hall. There was a girls voice joining the brothers and they saw Padawan Montrail and Jamando walking down the hall.
"Was it just me or were they holding hands?" Neon asked.
"I saw that too." They both looked at each other and Sands went back to reading his almost-forgotton book.
"That's against regs," Neon said.
"Yep," Sands replied.
"It's a big no-no."
"You got it."
"Aren't you going to report them?"
"No."
"Okay."
"Guys, guys!" Fuz ran in looking breathless. "Did you see Jamando and Padawan Montrail holding hands?"
"Yes."
"That's against the regs!" he exclaimed.
"Yep," they replied.
"It's a big no-no."
"You've got it."
"Are you going to report them?"
"No," they replied.
"WHAT?" he cried. "Why not?"
Sands looked up and shot Fuz an exasperated look. "I'm not getting in the way of true love. If she didn't want to hold his hand she wouldn't have been holding it." Sands went back to his book.
"Oh. So what are you doing?" Fuz asked.
Sands looked up and Fuz wished he hadn't said anything. Sands eyes were shooting blue sparks and he had that 'I'm going to hurt you of you keep bugging me so back off!' look on.
"He's reading a book. I'm standing around here being bored. Wanna find some other guys and play sabacc?"
"Sounds fun." They headed off and Sands sighed a mental sigh of relief. Alone at last, he thought.
"Hey Sands, have you seen Tara?"