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Sara.

Coffee.

Paradoxes. A bar of chocolate came with them, but she put it back.

Notebook.

Bother.

Someone didn't ignore their chocolate.

He's currently on his third attempt to walk along the bit of wood at the back of a booth.

".........Guppy?"

"Wait a sec I nearly did it this ti..." the distraction is sufficient for him to wobble and fall off, with a crash from behind the seat.

".............why were you doing that?"

He reappears from behind the booth, dusts himself down and slicks his hair back with one hand.

"I dunno. Seemed like a cool idea at the time."

"...........okay, you've either lost your mind or you've been affected by whatever's going around this time."

He comes over and jumps over the arm of the chair to sit in a typical teenage position, i.e. sort of slopped on.

"Nothing wrong with my mind thank you." he says, pulling a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and breaking into it.

"Do you want some? Great stuff this."

"................no."

A shrug as he munches away at it, then stuffs the wrapper into a pocket... full of wrappers.

"All the more for me then. How are you?"

He proceeds to comb his hair in the reflection of a spoon.

"I'm wondering why you're acting like you're fourteen," she says matter-of-factly.

A scowl.

"Am not!"

"Case in point. I....think you've had too much chocolate," she says on a hunch.

Beat.

"You mean you think I'm... fat?"

He fishes the other twelve wrappers out of his pocket.

"They aren't all today's..."

"......well, having that many spread out over a few days still isn't good," she says carefully.

He begins counting when he ate them all.

"One on Friday, four on Saturday, um... oh...hm.... I brushed my teeth."

"You've had too many," she repeats. ".....don't eat any more tonight."

He makes a grudging grunt sort of agreement.

"I need extra chocolate to get through all this stupid homework Nathan's given me. I think I might just burn it all."

"No, you really don't. Just work on it a bit at a time."

"I can't be bothered, it's just stupid waffle. 'Please read and sign that you've understood all my instructions, all two hundred and forty of them including the one that says don't forget not to wear a tie and to drink my tea faster'. He's like totally boring."

"Sounds like it. Just....well, don't worry about it tonight. Work on it tomorrow." Hopefully the effects of the chocolate will wear off by then.

The answer mollifies him slightly and he nods in agreement. Then winces and puts one hand to his head as the effects of the magic and sugar start to wear off.

"Take it easy," she says quietly, getting him a glass of water.

His hand is shaking as he takes the glass, probably a result of eight bars worth of caffeine.

"Thank you." he says quietly, sipping the water and sounding more like his usual self. The effect going almost as quickly as it came.

"Sorry. I... don't know what that was all about."

"Seems to be happening to a lot of people."

"What is happening?"

He looks slightly frightened. "Am I safe to work?"