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It was obvious to her that smoking her weed in the house was not a good idea. She'd just have to hide it from Kalvin's parents while she was staying there.

Setting her bag next to the bed, she headed towards the door leading down to Kalvin's bedroom. She stopped in the kitchen on the way to the basement, looking through the cupboards till she found some snacks. Grabbing a couple bags of chips, she went down into the basement, hoping he didn't mind her company. "Hey.. mind if I join you down here?"
 
Kalvin had found a show he liked, and was set on watching it to the end. So, he kept watching instead of moving to his computer. When An walked in, he glanced over, and saw that she had some snacks with her. His meager breakfast left him somewhat hungry, so he didn't mind. "I don't mind," He said. His bed was fairly large, so she had enough room to sit down -- he scooted over anyways, so he wouldn't have to be right up against her. It wasn't really a full bed -- it was just a mattress that stood a foot high off the ground. It was an old mattress, so it was fairly soft as well.

Kalvin liked the idea of sitting and talking to her. It was just that, in practice he was a bit uncomfortable with interpersonal communication. He loved talking to her online -- maybe some of that would carry over into real life, he thought.
 
Moving over to the bed, she laid down next to him and handed him a bag of chips. She wasn't exactly sure what to say to him either, since they had only ever talked online. Opening her bag of chips, she munched on them while watching whatever he'd been watching on the television set.

After a while though, the silence was starting to bother her. Setting the bag of chips down, she turned over onto her side so she was facing him. "What is there to do around here? Maybe you could show me some of the places you like to hang out.. Introduce me to some of your friends?" She was assuming that he had friends, of course.
 
He had opened the bag of chips, and was eating from it when she spoke. He didn't have any friends, and didn't really hang out anywhere except, perhaps, the library. "I don't actually have any friends," He said, "Besides you, of course." An was pretty much all he needed. It was rare that someone would want to be friends with him, and he didn't really care. The fact that he had no friends did not make him sad. "And, I'm not so sure there's much to do around here," He said, "I just eat or go to the library when I'm not at home or at school."

He looked down, thinking he sounded like a dweeb to her. All he did was go to school, surf the Internet, eat, or play video games. He didn't think it was stupid, but he thought she might think poorly of that. "I'm boring, I know," He said, in a sarcastic manner, talking in the kind of way he really only did online.
 
Sitting up, she continued watching him, trying to decide if he was being honest with her about not having any friends. Of course, he had no real reason to lie to her. After a couple minutes, she got up off the bed, moving to shut the tv off. "Come on. You are going to show me around. I can't find a job if I don't know where anything is, after all."
 
"Okay," He said. He stood up, and walked over to the closet, where he took out his trenchcoat and put it on. "There's a place that sells magazines and newspapers and stuff," He said, "You could get a paper, and look in the classified section." He went over to his desk, and got his keys and wallet. "I could take you down there," He said, "And we could go to some of the shops that are around there, after that." He knew that it was obligatory for kids his age to get part-time jobs -- he never had one. It made him feel a bit immature.
 
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