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[Ohhh, here goes.

She cannot believe she's doing this, absolutely cannot, but if she wants some answers... Well, she's just going to have to brave the madhouse.]

how do i quit?

i read a lot of what you guys said but this is still crazy and i don't even know if i believe it yet. but my phone broke and then i couldn't get this stupid number out of my head and you all know you sound crazy, right? and you're embarrassing yourselves too this is all so embarrassing.

so how do i quit??? without my phone breaking again.

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It sucks, but there's no way out so far as anyone knows. No contract, no rules, no terms of agreement, no nothing? You're stuck.

that's not fair! i didn't ASK get this number!

I didn't say it was fair. Nobody asked for this.

I'm sorry it's happening to you, too, but for now we've got no choice but to deal with it.

i guess.

it's still stupid though! it's so so so stupid.

Well yes, I understand that.

What happened to your phone, anyway?

as long as you understand i guess

it got soda spilled on it. it was stupid.

[is stupid her favorite word]

Oh geeze... I'm sorry to hear that. It's a goner?

That's what got you your number?

[damn right it is.]

yeah. it's super dead. i asked my parents for a new one though.

i remembered it happening to [--is she really going to say this, is she really] the other me and then i got the number

Oh, that's good! I'm glad you'll be able to get a new one.

Yeah, the network calls these things "Echoes" or "Pulses." You experience something close to what past you or alternate you went through and it gets you memories or items. Yours sounds pretty normal though at least, albeit unfortunate.

yeah yeah i'm sure they'll get it soon.

and annoying! if i had to get an echo or a pulse or whatever couldn't i have gotten something better??? not that i wanted one of them in the first place, of course.

Better? I think you have one of the better ones. As far as I know, some people get really nasty ones like people dying or getting hurt. I got something really mellow in comparison to those, too, and I think we're more lucky than a lot of people.

my phone broke [This is clearly a tragedy.] that's gotta count as an emergency or smth.

[Although... ouch.]

but okay okay those are really bad. i really really don't want ones like that.

what did you get anyway?

Edited 2014-01-28 02:02 (UTC)

Were you expecting an important call or something?

And ah, nothing remotely bad at all. I'm not even complaining -- apparently I wiped the floor with someone at a video game and gloated about it. That's all.

no??? but i was texting someone!

[Gosh, that's so important, don't you know anything?]

but a video game?? seriously??? isn't that kind of lame?

[He's starting to see that this might not be as universally serious a situation as she seems to feel it is. But...]

Were you able to get in contact with your friend?

It is pretty lame but it's better than suddenly gaining weird powers or appearances like some people have here.

oh yeah i saw her at school

[She wasn't actually terribly concerned about that, really. Whoops.]

yeah i guess being lame is better than turning into a freak or smth. that is what's happening to them right???

they're not freaks. their past life or whatever probably just came from somewhere they didn't look like the humans we know?

so they're aliens?

is that really better???

i think they're just alternate lives.

with people who don't look human?

yes, with people who might even be balls of slime

then they're aliens!!!

if you started growing horns and turned green are you an alien too?

[Oh, wow, that's...

...What a terrible mental image, no.]

ew don't say things like that!!! the other me would be an alien and i'd be a freak!!!

then question: how would you feel if someone saw you turn into something like that and called you it?