The day everything changed began like every other Tuesday, I woke up, turned off my alarm, and took a bath, after drying myself I walked down into my kitchen and grabbed some breakfast, that's also when I said good morning to my roommate, Nicholas, or Nick, for short. Nick is handsome and has a nice personality, I simply can't fathom how he messes up every time he has a date with some girl. Maybe it has some correlation to his ginger hair or bulging muscles.
Anyway, for breakfast, I grab a banana from the counter and unceremoniously sit down on the couch with my phone in my spare hand, and begin to go through my daily routine.
Random gacha game nr. 1? Check.
Random gacha game nr. 2? Also, check.
Duolingo? Check. Oh nice, my streak increased to another milestone, gotta save up those diamonds for when the developers of Duolingo finally add something worth spending them on.
With my daily routine done, I turn to Nick to see if he is done reading the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, I guess, he wasn't finished. Being the good roommate that I am I took his plate and a finished cup of coffee and put it in the dishwasher.
Folding his newspaper, Nick begins to stand up from the chair "Ethan, I'm done reading now if you wanna get going".
Closing the dishwasher and feeling a bit irritated, I sigh and answer in the universally accepted way, by nodding my head "You didn't just coincidentally finish reading after I took your dishes, right?". The slight shift in Nicks's eyesight and turn of his head told me what I wanted to know, even if he answered right away "...noooo?".
With a twitch in my eye, we both got ready to leave for work and walked out of our apartment towards our small mutually owned vehicle. Nick, along with being an awesome guy in general, besides being a tad lazy sometimes, is the project manager at my workplace, and we were friends in high school before we went our separate ways. After a couple of years of unsuccessfully finding a job that I would enjoy working at I was contacted by Nick who was looking for a roommate to share an apartment with. Thinking that I might as well give it a shot, I contacted Nick and began to communicate with him again. That was also around the time my dad thought I was becoming a deadweight, and that I needed to learn to stand on my own two feet, so Nick and I got together and rented an apartment in a semi-modern apartment building around 30 minutes away from his work by car, or around an hour or so if one decided to walk at a speedy pace and through a lot of shortcuts.
Back to how I began working with Nick, it turned out that Nick worked as a project manager for a big boringly named company that makes a lot of things and improvements to general life and more specialized lifestyles. Anyhow, the company needed some physicists and other specialists to join them on some small projects leading up to a bigger project, and I was one of the lucky few thousand who got to nail a job.
After a hard day at work discussing, helping others with questions, and catching up with the last of the documents left over from yesterday when I had a lot of meetings. Nick and I finally decided to call it quits for the day. But, turns out, Nick went ahead and got himself a date for dinner, so I guess I have to make dinner for myself only, score!
Walking toward the local grocery store, I glance to the left and upward at the sky above a building under construction. The sunset is oddly beautiful on Tuesdays, this time the sunset has a pinkish hue to it that faded to orange the closer it got to the blue sun.
Wait a minute, blue sun?