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The alarm goes off, waking up a curtain Inkling. Said Inkling moves her hand and turns off the alarm. “...I don’t want to get up, uhh.” Too bad for the Inkling, her brain actually cares about her getting up at a reasonable time, so won’t let her drift off to sleep. Eventually, the Inkling gives up on going back to sleep.
Veronika gets up from her bed and stretches, she glances at Little Buddy’s crib and sees that he hasn’t gotten up. If i don’t get to enjoy extra sleep, then he doesn’t either.
Veronika goes to Little Buddy and shakes him lightly. “Wake up Little Buddy, it’s time to start the day.”
The smallfry doesn’t want to, but a bit more shaking forces him to get up. “Come on now, let's say hi to the others.”
Little Buddy hops onto Veronika’s hands, they leave her room and into the rest of the apartment. The apartment Veronika lives in is big, a kitchen with a diner table, a living room with a large couch, two bathrooms, three bedrooms (one of them being her own) The apartment would feel empty and lonely if it was just her and Little Buddy.
Good thing that her partners also live with her! "Good morning Vee.”
Veronika looks at an Octoling standing in front of his room and smiling at her. “Morning Hiro. Could you take care of Little Buddy? I have to brush my beak.”
“I bet he would like to be near the person making breakfast.” Upon hearing the word breakfast, Little Buddy hops out of Veronika’s hands and follows Hiro into the kitchen. Veronika enters one of the bathrooms and brushes her beak, after spitting out the dirty water, she takes some ‘hair cream’ and applies it to her fuzzy tentacles.
Her fuzzy tentacles may be just like regular tentacles in how they show the colour of the person's ink, but unlike regular tentacles, Veronika has to take much more care for her tentacles to be clean and not smell bad. Having to special order hair cream every month is annoying, but it’s worth it.
When Veronika steps out of the bathroom, she notices that Hiro is almost done with breakfast, yet her other partner is nowhere to be seen. Looks like someone is extra sleepy.
Veronika steps inside the bedroom of the sleepy Inkling, she walks up to the Inkling and starts running a finger the back of the Inkling neck. “Anemone. You have to wake up.”
“...Will never.”
“What was that?” Asks Veronika, to which Anemone grunts. “Will never.”
You shouldn’t have challenged me foul. Veronika lies down next to Anemone, she wraps her arm around Anemone and hugs her, before lifting her. Veronika has her back on the bed, while Anemone is now above her being hugged. This makes the two Inklings giggle
Hiro shouts at them from the kitchen. “Girls, girls! I know you two are having fun, but the food will get cold!”
After a minute of stumbling, all three squidkids are at the kitchen table eating breakfast, little Buddy of course getting his own.
When they finish breakfast, they go to the living room to relax. The Inklings go to scroll through their phones.
The Octoling however brings out his boombox, a forty year old relic that would have been fresh in their parents' time. He plays music on it, glam metal songs that are just as old.
Anemone and Veronika look at Hiro smugly and are about to comment how ‘fresh’ his taste in music is, but he beats them to it. “Being fresh is not what’s fashionable, it’s what’s stylish! And the music i play has the most style!”
Anemone gives him a condescending smirk and holds her arms out. Hiro huffs and sits next to her, they join lips and kiss each other. Veronika doesn’t want to be left out, she waits for a minute then taps Anemone on the shoulder, when they look at each other, they quickly make out. After that Hiro pulls Anemone away from Veronika and takes her spot, he wants to kiss Veronika also.
After that they spend the rest of the day comfy. Hiro switches the boombox to play hard rock, Anemone goes through social media to find memes they think are funny, Veronika pets Little Buddy.
Eventually, they start talking about what they should do in the future. Hiro says that they should perhaps save up for a house. Not a bad idea, the rent won’t stay this low forever. The apartment they are living in is huge compared to the average. Except, because Hiro won this apartment in a turf match, the rent is far lower than it would have been normally. However, at some point, the landlord will be allowed to raise the rent back up, something the three squidkids can very much afford, but don’t want to.
“Plus, we three living in a house sounds cute!” Says Anemone.
Hiro nods in agreement. “We have a good few years to save up plenty."
The second i’m back at Alterna, i’m asking for a salary. Veronika back to slumping on the couch, she’s living the life.