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[There's no getting around it. It's an essay. About the dangers of sugar abuse on your health, linked to several medical articles. In it, she links the abuse of sugar to depression, diabetes, dopamine imbalances, fueling cancer cells and making tumors more aggressive, impotence, increased risk of heart attacks and heart disease, increased inflammation leading to joint pain and arthritis, increased risk of strokes, kidney failure, and rotting teeth.

Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.

She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]

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i thought things were going good with you and vance?

[ Okay, wait, slow down a minute. He backs up. Talking about this with Robbie is extremely not his place, but it's just too weird to leave it lie. ]

look it's not that it's my business, but that's what he was saying.

Is this some sort of joke? Because, I promise you, I'm not laughing.

[ So, no, things are not going well there. ]

Seriously, what the hell did I do to get this high school shit thrown at me?

look i don't know, he just thinks you'll be good for each other or something.

what am i missing?

The part where Rich and I had a talk about it, and he agreed with me that I'm not good for anybody. Especially Vance. He said I should tell Vance we should just be friends. You shouldn't know enough to even pull this joke. If you say anything to Vance, you will regret it. This isn't cool.

[ This shit's serious. ]

Look. I know this is going to be hard to believe because it's me, but I am not fucking with you. That is not what he said to me.

[ Robbie sighs, exasperated and hurt. This is pretty close to getting kicked in the teeth, as far as topics go. ]

Well, it's definitely what he said to me, and I think I would know. I was there. And then afterwards, I got hurt someone that I care about because I talked it over with one of my best friends, and he basically agreed it was kinder.

You see why I think you're bullshitting me. I mean, I don't get why you would - it's a lousy joke, and yours are usually at least funny. But Rich wouldn't go around telling people things were - that there even COULD have been things. That's just wrong.

It doesn't make sense.

[ This could be some kind of elaborate, stupid Grif... thing. But if it was, wouldn't he sound more sure than this? ]

I really don't think he'd fuck with you like that. Or me. Is that what's even happening here?

[ He's not sure, and he hates this as an answer. He trusts Rich, and something cold clenches in his chest at this. Grif shakes his head. ]

It has to be something with him.

I don't think he even knows how to really fuck with someone. Okay, he's been hot-headed in the past, but he's an overgrown boy Scout.

[ Yes, he still thinks it's Grif, but the chance is looking more distant as Grif refuses to give up the storyline. ]

It's not Rich. Unless the Time Trapper sent him home and picked out a new Rich who just so happens to be fresh off a similar conversation... It's too farfetched to continue. He'd protect Vance. Protecting people like Vance is a compulsion.

[ .... Why didn't Rich do something to cushion the bad news for Vance? Robbie frowns deeply. ]

Well if it's not him, and it's not me, and it's not you? Then I have no idea what the fuck is going on.

[ An edge comes into Grif's voice. It's fear, but that doesn't mean that's obvious. ]

I just know I'm getting ditched and now I'm apparently getting lied to, too. Something's wrong.

[ It has to be wrong, because the only other alternative is that Grif doesn't actually have the friend he thought he did.

Anything is preferable. ]

[ Robbie can't believe he's starting to consider this, but this is really far to take a bad joke. Maybe it's Robbie himself, going full on crazy?

Nah, hallucinations aren't his thing. Being a dick was occasionally Rich's thing though, even if they never talk about it because he's supposedly matured. ]

I don't know why he'd lie about me and Vance - that doesn't make sense at all - but say I believe you about the ditching. Rich... Ugh, please don't take this personally because he's done it to all his friends at some point, even Nita.

[ Robbie refuses to feel sorry about telling Grif this. One way or another, Rich told Grif about a very private conversation and basically invited prying gossip. ]

But sometimes Rich gets it in his head that he's too cool for school, and he bails. If you watched that stupid show, you saw him do a little version of it. It's always been when his life is a mess, so I don't know if this is that. He's... dead, back home... And Nita got sent home, and now two of his friends aren't really talking...

I could get why he'd do a stressed-out disappearing act, but I can't get past the lie. Rich is honest - too honest. He's blunt, and he's never figured out how to soften the blow before he puts his foot in his mouth. But lying? It's not in him. Blue blazes, he can barely curse.

[ "He wouldn't do that to me," Grif almost says, but he catches himself. Does he know that for a fact? Robbie has known Rich for a lot longer, and Rich has even mentioned not always being the greatest friend...

But he never has ditched Grif before. Not like this.

He's not going to figure out these feelings right now, not here in this conversation with Robbie. Grif pushes them aside. ]

Right. Rich doesn't lie like this.

And I don't know where he goes.

[ A wheel has started to turn here. ]

Are you asking? It’s not like I put a tracker on him, but I could probably make some guesses. They’re going to be the same as yours though. You’ve known him for a year. You know where he hangs out.

If I’m right, and he goes off somewhere to kick stones, he’s probably on the Habitat Deck. There’s a lot of New York there: Central Park, a bit of the warehouse district that includes our old HQ. Now Coney Island's there. Very scenic for moping. It’s almost sitting on the rooftop at night.

[ The humor doesn’t reach his face, and Robbie shakes his head. ]

But, if you’re not lying, he is. And he’s lying just to stir shit up and make you look bad, or hurt Vance, or, I don’t know, gaslight me, and that’s not the Rich I know so my guesses are probably wrong. It’s not anybody I want to know either, so… I don’t know if I’m joining the search posse.

[ Grif exhales heavily. This isn't what he wants, but he doesn't know what that is anyway. For now, though, the discussion seems to be over. ]

I'm gonna find out what's going on. I'll tell you when I do.

[ And if that means cornering Rich and having a fucking awful conversation, so be it. ]

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