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TEXT | @mantle

[sidehustles]

Betty are you still here

[perfectible]

Reggie? Where have you been?

[sidehustles]

Ok first of all chill out. I'm sorry about missing work but it was only a couple of days

I think

Anyway the point is something happened

[perfectible]

[ she blinks at the "chill out" because she's only freaked out because she was worried about him...]

I don't care about you missing work, Reggie. [ why would he think so little of her? ] I was worried about you. I couldn't get ahold of you.

What happened? Are you okay?

[sidehustles]

[ He's just trying to preemptively downplay the enormous WTF of the situation, mostly, which frankly not even he's finished reeling from yet.

And on that note, he's not entirely sure how to explain it either, so he simply turns on the video. ]

Pretty sure a few years might've happened?

[perfectible]

[ he looks somewhat the same but also completely different.]

You went home.

[sidehustles]

I went home.

[ He echoes it with a slow nod, biting the corner of his lip. ]

I take it you didn't?

wow i never got this notif

[perfectible]

No. I didn't... [ it's said slowly.] For how long, Reggie?

[sidehustles]

According to Alina, it's only been a couple'a days-- same as for you. For me, though, it was more like... [ A pause. ] A few years?