homophonic: jonas

[camena]

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week 1: monday

[camena]

[ hi jonas it's exploring time. ]

Let's go.

[ NOT EVEN EXPLAINING I GUESS? ]

[westedge]

[ he probably has half of a mcmuffin in his mouth, honestly. ]

Okay? [ amused. but he will follow wherever the hell alex wants to go now. ] New territory?

[camena]

There's like a whole new--what's it called? District!

[ why are you just here eating a mcmuffin!!! AAAAAAA ]

[westedge]

[ BECAUSE HE WAS HUNGRY, DAMN. ]

It's not like it's gonna get blocked off again right away! [ wait. wait hold on. ] ...I don't think? Wait, is that even possible?

[ doesn't matter apparently because he's already starting to walk off in what he hopes is the right direction for this district. adventure...exploration... ]

[camena]

[ aaaaaaaaaa ]

Well, it's probably possible but none of the old places are blocked off, so we're probably good. I think.

[westedge]

[ ...shoves the last of his sandwich in his mouth. ]

Alright, well. Lead the way then.

[ because he knows alex is antsy for something new to do and to leave the old week behind. a new adventure, mostly. ]

[camena]

[ she is leading the way to tocpe. towards park? museum? wherever. you can pick if you want. who cares. ]

If this is a pattern, we should get new places to see every Monday.

[westedge]

[ it's both. probably park. it's fine. who cares this is all just background for pc, but park is nice. there are food trucks and squirrels there. ]

Whole new districts, you think? Last week we only got a couple of shops. Pretty sure I passed a laundromat on the way back from getting breakfast this morning though.

[camena]

[ skewerls... ]

Maybe because we'd only been here for a couple days by then. But a laundromat is good. Especially for people who refuse to buy new clothes for some reason.

[westedge]

[ screams. ]

I got paid this morning and I'm going to at least consider it, alright? [ LET HIM LIVE :yell: ]

[camena]

[ she has doubts but it's fine. ]

Did we get the same amount? I got $16.

[westedge]

Yeah, I did, too. Did you get paid on Friday...? I got like $5.

[camena]

Yeah, same.

It's like getting an allowance.

[westedge]

I mean it does say we get a pittance or whatever per week. I'm not sure what the extra money Friday was for but I'm not gonna complain. If we can get close to that amount per week though...it's pretty good to save for stuff.

[ and shit's expensive when you are only getting potentially like ~21 dollars a week!

he thinks about telling alex he bought a bed for the warehouse and decides not to do that. ]

[camena]

[ >:O ]

Just a little extra walking around money for us, I guess? [ you could spend it on food. you could even spend it on clothes. anyway, randomly: ] ... Did you get an allowance when you were a kid?

[ she says as if naturally anyone who did get an allowance would have stopped by 17? ]

[westedge]

If they expect us to live here week to week and actually charge us for stuff, it's only fair.

[ he has to like. think of how to answer this question. it's not a particularly hard one, but he mulls over it for a moment. there's a lot he could say there. he could say that he saved a lot of it, and how else did she think he had money still to buy cigarettes starting within the last couple of years or so? he could say that it was probably more than they should have been giving him when it was obvious things were not the greatest. he could say that he wonders if his dad would've gone back to giving him one just to try and keep him out of trouble for a while and spend money on something better.

but he doesn't say any of it and instead shrugs. ]

Yeah. I think that's, like, a right of childhood or something. My mom always set aside money for me at the start of the week, and if things were good it'd be like a reward on the weekend. After a while, it kind of shifted to doing stuff to help around the house to earn it. I ended up saving a lot of it back then because there wasn't that much I really wanted as a kid.

[camena]

Fair's not a big concern for them.

[ but anyway, she listens to that, interested. kind of nodding along because it's not too different from how she was raised. a small allowance that turned into motivation for chores. for a while.

well, the last part is pretty different. ]

Oh yeah? I always blew my allowance pretty fast.

[westedge]

[ he shrugs like "okay yeah true." ]

That's unsurprising. On what? [ he says, expertly turning this around to stop talking about him for the time being and ask about her. ]

[camena]

Just, like, stupid stuff? In retrospect?

Going to see movies, or buying a bunch of snacks, or comic books I don't even read anymore. Feels kind of like it was a waste when I think back on it.

[westedge]

[ contemplating... ]

I don't think it's stupid or even a waste. It was stuff you liked back then wasn't it?

[camena]

Sure. But it was all—fleeting, I guess?

[westedge]

Right. [ he does not really agree. ] I don't know. What would you have changed if you could now?

[camena]

Mm... More movies, less snacks? I don't know. It just feels like it was never for anything big.

[ well yeah. because it was a child's allowance. ]

[westedge]

You were a kid, Alex. [ calmly. and factually because, like, it was a child's allowance? ] I'm pretty sure that was the whole point is that you could have whatever you wanted while you were still able to.

[camena]

Yeah, I guess so. Anyway, it's whatever. It's—not a big deal.

I was just curious.