I was woken up by knocking on my door.
"Jaaaaake wake uuuuuup!"
I rubbed my eyes and got out of my bed. I must've fallen asleep accidently, I did have a long day yesterday.
"Who is it?" I grumbled as I slouched over to the door.
"It's Macy! Remember? Your neighbor?"
Her bright brown eyes glistened in the morning sun. "You wanna come over to my place so I can introduce you?"
She was talking pretty quickly so I barely heard her "uh-maybe later I'm tired." I yawned and turned back to my apartment
"Wait-" I shut the door on her and slammed back into bed.
Why did I have to get such a peppy neighbor?! It's the last thing I need right now, I just wish this would stop moving so fast!
"Okay!" I heard her voice from behind the door "how about 1:00?"
I checked my phone [12:00]
"Sure, whatever just let me sleep."
I could hear her smile from behind the door "o-kay see ya!"
I laid back in my bed and tried to get more sleep, an extra hour probably wouldn't do anything though, I checked my phone for any news
[surge update: how many supers are there now?]
[introducing the mystifying magnus! The first ever surged performer!]
[Zap city's plan to fight the crime! Everything to know about the S.U.Z!]
Wait, is this what I think it is?
I clicked on the last link, and it sent me to an article from the WZNS, the local new network. The same picture that Shaun used for the cover of the presentation. The article itself talked about the S.U.Z and all of its members. I wasn't on here yet, so they never made a part about me. The comments seemed to have rivaled opinions
[catpetter445: good on zap city for keeping us safe!]
[purgethesurge03: really guys? Surged cops? why don't you just replace all the jobs with surged at that point the discrimination is insane #purgethesurge]
[yologang32: wow @purgethesurge03 can't you just accept that you never got surged?]
[purgethesurge03: @yologang32 174.221.021 this you?]
Once again the internet has been split into two. Poor yologang, I hope the moderators remove that message.
I went back to check the international surge counter.
[international surge counter]
[total surged: 48,000,000]
[estimated uncounted: 200,000]
Does this mean its technically at 50 million?, the website had an option to look up different registered surged. Curious, I looked up [Macy] and hundreds of options showed up.
What's her last name?
My doomscrolling was halted by a loud knock on my door
"Hour is up Jake! C'mon!"
I hesitantly got up from my bed and opened the door. Macy's eyes contacted mine, and she grinned "I didn't even need to whip out the bird!"
"the what?"
"don't worry about it lets go"
Today she was wearing a dark gray shirt that had lions on it and some pajama pants. We walked about 2 doors to the right and she opened her door.
"Welcome to my humble abode! Mind the trash." she said as we walked in.
To say it was a mess would be an understatement.
There were boxes of animal food everywhere and about 5 bird cages hanging to the ceiling
"I thought animals weren't allowed?" I pointed to the cages
"Oh, they aren't, the landlord made me an exception. You could call me an animal lover."
"So a furry?"
She looked at me and frowned "Not that kind of love!"
We walked through the junkyard of a house and reached the dining room table. Macy motioned for me to sit down and walked over to the kitchen to grab something
"Are you a coffee or tea kind of guy?"
"Uh I'll have-"
"Oh, I know what you like!" Macy interrupted as she pulled out a cold can from the fridge
"Ice cold beer?" she had a devious smile
"How do you even have that?" I yelled "the apartment didn't allow alcohol either!"
She put a finger to her mouth "Quiet down!"
I rolled my eyes "do you have water?"
Macy frowned and pulled a bottle out of her fridge she grumbled "how boring" and gave it to me.
The girl sat down next to me and studied my face.
"So why did you want to talk to me?" I asked her
"Well to get to know you!" she then whispered, "us surged need to stick together you know."
I took a sip from the water bottle, and she continued "so why did you choose this run down building to live in?"
"I thought it would be quiet." I looked around at the bird cages and the trash on the ground "my turn to ask you a question, why is your apartment such a mess?"
She gave me an offended look "excuse me! It might look messy, but I have a system!" she pointed to a corner with a bunch of books and magazines in it "that's my book corner" she then looked over at a stack of toilet paper "that's my toilet paper pile you see?"
I was about to tell her that her pile system was still really messy, but I got a notification from my phone
So, did Macy
I opened my phone and at the top was the title of a news article
[BREAKING: international surge counter STOPS no more surged are being found!]