Scarlet was running down the stairs to her apartment building, she was going with full force. As she leaped from the front doors she let out a gasp for air. The amount of tar Scarlet had built up in her lungs from the smoking had taken its tole. She tried her best to remember to breathe as she ran but now she was too distracted by familiar sounds.

As Scarlet caught her breath in front of the building, there was a lady yelling at somebody over the phone. Yelling pretty hard actually. Scarlet couldn't help but look over at this woman as she called out every wrong thing the recipient ever did. Because of the nature of the yelling, Scarlet could only assume she was yelling at a cheating boyfriend. Then, as if snapping Scarlet back into a different reality the woman screamed something a little too familiar.

"WHATEVER, DIPSHIT!"

Where had Scarlet heard an insult like that before? Her brain scanned back to any time she's ever been called something horrible. She mentally filed through any bad interaction she's had with another person. There was a time that she was dancing at a club with some guy, only to find out it was somebodies boyfriend. The owner of that boyfriend certainly had a thing or two to say to her, but nothing as immature as "dipshit" (Although in Scarlet's opinion the whole situation was immature and could have been avoided with just a fraction of understanding a mistake.)

There had been an instance at a coworkers cocktail party where she accidentally spilled a drink on a man her age and he got very upset with her. However, since she seemed to significantly remember that was a man her age she knew that must mean. She began to simply just scrub around in her memories of people who just seemed immature. Instantly her brain went to Sage, but Sage has never willfully called somebody a vulgar name.

The lady continued to yell on the phone as Scarlet awkwardly stood in a daze staring at her. The woman was wearing a grey hoodie and what seemed like maternity jeans. It was understandable since upon further inspection Scarlet noticed the woman was pregnant. She seemed a bit on the fatter side all over but her stomach was big and round and Scarlet could only assume that she was 8 months pregnant. Maybe 8 and a half. One would instantly notice the woman was wearing three pares of socks all shoved into a set of Dr.Scholl's brand prescription sneakers.

Finally, the woman put her phone down. She let out a long sigh and covered her eyes with her hands to rub them. She stayed like this, de-stressing the best she could after such a violent phone call. She walked back to the stairs and sat down, taking a pack of cigarettes out of the pocket she just put her phone in and started to light one. After a long while of staring, the strange woman finally noticed Scarlet standing there. She gave Scarlet a surprised look and checked her out from head to toe. The lady very quickly began to smile and reached out to Scarlet for a handshake.

"Hi," the lady said, "You want a cig?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah." Scarlet said, ignoring the handshake and instead took a cigarette. She didn't like tobacco, but she needed some kind of excuse to stay and examine this familiar looking person. Scarlet took note of the length of this woman's brown hair. It seemed to go past her hips. The short side bangs didn't compliment the look at all, but then again Scarlet didn't know much about long hair fashion anyway. Scarlet watched on as this 8-month pregnant woman took a sharp inhale on a cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke the same sizes Vega would.

"What an idiot," Scarlet thought to herself. This trope was something familiar to her as well... She began connecting the dots in her mind. Bully... immature... stupid... Her eyes lit up, knowing exactly what stupid immature bully this was. "Vivica?" Scarlet asked abruptly before thinking. Then like a flash of light Scarlet was enveloped. With tight arms around her, Vivica nuzzled her face into Scarlet's shoulder and giggled viciously. Scarlet quickly pushed Vivica off of her, but not too hard (she's pregnant). Scarlet got ready to lay into her but she noticed Vivica's sinister smile seemed different.

"Ah, starpologize." Vivica said. Scarlet was even more confused, having almost forgotten about "starpologize" and also hearing Vivica actually say sorry for something. "It's good to see you!" Vivica continued. Scarlet was at a complete loss for words. There standing before her was her high school bully, but it wasn't her anymore. Vivica's cold stare seemed more like a warm gaze. Her villainous smile seemed to be turned upright in a motherly and content expression.

This absolute brat was giving her a welcoming similar to that of Libby's, only her situation seemed different. Vivica wasn't overly proud and cocky, in fact, it seems like where Vivica ended up in life was enough to kick her off that high horse. She wasn't pretty anymore, 8 months pregnant with a smoker baby and was clearly in some kind of abusive relationship with the possible father of this kid. Scarlet was absolutely loving this. "Yeah, it's good to see you too." She spoke with a huge grin.

Absolutely disgusting

......

Absolutely satisfying...

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Vivica was catching Scarlet up on her life as they smoked outside Scarlet's apartment. She told Scarlet of how a falling out with her parents lead her to live in WishWorld. For the past 3 years, she's been dating somebody name Danny whom she met online. The way she talked about her apparent significant other reminded Scarlet of how she used to talk about the "Star Dippers. She seemed like she thought she was better than him even though he was the one paying all the rent and doing all the work. Vivica didn't share any stories about what happened between graduation and moving here.

"When Piper sent the message about Lady Stella dying, I was at a sub shop," Vivica explained, "I walked inside and my Star Zap chimed," She lifted up her phone, which upon further inspection was clearly just an overly pimped out Star Zap. "I remember looking at it and it made me think about things. About life, y'know?" Scarlet nodded even though she was only half listening. "I thought about where I was headed and I don't like it. I was thinking about turning to religion.... I replied to Piper's message and now I'm on my way to visit her. Where were you when you got the joint message?"

"Same place I was during 9/11." Scarlet joked though it went right over Vivica's head. Scarlet awkwardly cleared her throat, "I was in a bathroom at my-- OH SHIT MY WORK!!" Scarlet pulled out her Star Zap to check the time and instead saw 4 missed calls and multiple text messages. Scarlet felt her stomach sink. "What's wrong?" Vivica asked.

"It would appear I'm fired."