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The taller laughed, shaking his head. "Absolutely not. I was just surfing the dark web and taking notes on it when I found it."

The latter scrutinized the boy. "Sure," he said with of a lilt of sarcasm. "Anyway, I just need a break from it but— but now I feel I have this weird obligation to talk to those people everyday," he said quietly, eyebrows lightly furrowed in thought. "Like it's almost part of my schedule now. I get on around twelve, talk to Snoopy, Nana, and Xuxi mostly and log off at two-thirty."

"But no one is forcing you to do that."

Taeyong sighed heavily, resting his flushed cheek in the palm of his hand. "I know. And that's what's so annoying."

Johnny sank further back into his chair, staring at the smaller blankly. "Do you like it though?"

Taeyong pressed his lips together, looking to his old pair of converse. "Yeah, I suppose. I just need a break I think," he uttered honestly.

Johnny smirked, "Is the hermit actually telling me he wants out of the house?" Taeyong stayed silent, but the small pout on his lips was evident. The taller looked at the younger sadly. "Well, I can't go anywhere today, but maybe we can hangout tomorrow. Anything in mind?"

The latter sat pondering for a moment, staring blankly at the cars whipping past outside the window behind them. He looked back at Johnny, muttering, "I don't know. I kinda want my hair dyed again."

"Again? Your hair is going to fall out Tae," Johnny laughed, gazing at the frustrated male in amusement.

Taeyong crossed his arms tightly to his chest and tipped his head back to stare at the high ceiling. "Stop being mean to me," he ordered, slyly flickering his eyes to the other. "Anyway, I want it blue this time. Like a pastel blue."

"So you want a botched box dye date with me?"

Taeyong rolled his eyes, musing out the words playfully, "You know it."

"Alcohol?"

If looks could kill, Johnny would be 'WASTED'.

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After getting cheap ramen at the convenience store down the street and a monster energy drink to revive his very low 'energy levels' (he really should be sleeping) as you can imagine, Taeyong swam right back into the black ocean that was the dark web.

His tiny sailship didn't get farther than the island of the book club, however.

Taeyong logged into the the website and was a little disheartened once seeing Snoopy wasn't there. The other was the closest to him because Nana and Xuxi were a little too rambunctious and preferred to talk about all the dark stuff that happened here (and how to access it), and Taeyong was the least bit interested in that.

The naive boy also noticed someone else online, and he was shocked to find that person being the owner of the website, Grim. That kinda intimidated him — no, it really intimidated him. He never talked to Grim, let alone seen them even online this past week. Taeyong sighed and muttered to himself, "At least I got Nana."

blackbandaids joined the chat!

blackbandaids : hey guys

nananana : hii black

blackbandaids : where's your "bestfriend"?

nananana : ::what::

jjen : im right here!

blackbandaids : cute

nananana : i think theyre alluding to something else, @jjen