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Kyle.
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"Wsup?" Kyle, lying back on his bed, began tossing his rubix cube up in the air, flicking one twist each time it came down in as natural a flowing motion as he could manage. He pondered how an opening narration starting a short story about his life beginning at this very moment might begin, and decided that referring to the rubix cube as a possesion rather than simply alluding to its previous establishment as such would probably be a better idea if its dual function was to be achieved. Or at least, he would have pondered this, if it had not been pondered for him by the annoying voice in his head that didn't seem to ever have any positive purpose. Another thought he would have had if it hadn't been Spider's was that his thoughts on the matter would serve as a good supplemental, though contrived, lead in for the scene's introduction as a standalone frwoa fragment. His train of thought was interrupted by an iPong text from Tommy:
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*whatrup2*
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He took a moment to debate whether Tommy's cleverness of omission and condensing toward the point of condensing full frwoas down to a single character was impressive, comical, or annoying. Spider took this moment to brag that he was beginning to bleed into Kyle's real external world, for surely it wasn't a coincidence that Tommy had texted Kyle a greeting that related to how he'd been conversing with Spider.
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"I got Tommy to send the text," Spider bragged. "Soon I'll be able to posess your friends and turn them into axe murderers."
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"It was a coincidence."
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"Don't think so."
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"Alright, then there's a deep elusive plethora of explanations so fantastic that explains it that I really don't give a damn about it."
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"Try."
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"Alright, We think alike because we're friends, and we both happen to be bored at the moment. He was thinking about the same thing I was. Or you were. Or whatever."
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"Or he's a trained Indigo agent monitoring a real time hidden microphone streaming everything you say to the N.S.A."
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"Why text me, then. If he has access to N.S.A. technology they must be able to do something more intimidating than text me. He could just beam over or something. Besides, I don't see any microphones."
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"They're hidden."
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"I checked."
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"...very well."
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"...very carefully."
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"Fiber optics, then."
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"I checked those, too. And they're off."
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"Not since I said 'Indigo'."
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"You didn't say the word you just said just now out loud."
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"What do you mean? Which word?"
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"You know, the word you're still trying to get me to say that if I said it would give you ammo, because it would turn on the microphones." Kyle heard himself say "ammo", and took a mental note that at the very least his frwoa was rated PG-13. "Anyway, Indigo doesn't exist. They're just a figment of your imagination."
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"Well then, I'm imagining your in denial."
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"If I m, idc."
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"Would you stop intermingling the irony of speaking text grammar aloud in R slash L, with that of sending text grammar to begin with over pandimensional telepathic hyperspace?"
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"Don't forget high school grammar lessons. And I would, if I didn't have now- revealed- from- the- point- you- started- speaking- to- me- annoying- voice- in my head who loves being hypocrite via the 'R' slash 'L' phrase 'do as I say, not as I do'."
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"I said 'R slash L' to allude to your own idiocy out of satiric sense, not hypocrisy."
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"Didn't work."
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"At least stop pronouncing the phrases phonetically. I had to concentrate to figure out what the hell 'iddick' meant, then again to reverse the acronym. Just say the actual letters at least and save me half the trouble. It's not clever, anyway. Self-insults your sense of humor."
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"My book fans can't tell."
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Sure they can, your writer probably literally wrote "iddick" just to spite your joke.
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"Not if she has a sense of humor."
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"Kyle--"
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"Or was answering a text at the moment and didn't have time to type out the full phrase."
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"Kyle--"
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Kyle's phone began to ring.
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"burb."
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Ugh.