Behind the bar where Scarlet worked there were dumpsters, a huge hose, a fire escape and over a thousand cigarette butts. Among the coworkers Scarlet had, only 2 of them didn't smoke at least tobacco. When she brought Vega to the back, she felt a little embarrassed about the state it was in, since inside the bar was so clean in comparison. Only Vega didn't seem to mind, in fact, she didn't even notice. She was too busy reaching her shaking hands into her sweatpants pockets and took out a box of cigarettes. Scarlet thought she should join in and quickly looked around and reached into her own pocket and pulled out a sandwich baggie full of half gram joints.

She watched as Vega lifted the cigarette to her mouth, wondering how she didn't drop it from how shaky her hands were. Vega then proceeded to light it, take a slow inhale and blow out an impressive amount of smoke. "Here," Vega offered as she handed Scarlet the lighter. Scarlet gladly took the offer and lit up.

"So," Scarlet blew out a hit after holding it in for a few seconds, "what're you doin' here? I haven't heard from you in like ten years."

"Ditto," Vega replied, remembering the thousands of unanswered texts she had sent Scarlet before giving up on her. Scarlet couldn't help but feel embarrassed again. Vega continued, "I'm actually on my way to see Libby and I have a connecting flight. Can I stay with you?"

"It seems like this could've been a StarZap call, I could say no and you'd be out on the streets," Scarlet replied, taking another drag. Vega glared a little at Scarlet and responded with, "I would have but I knew I'd only get an answer in person. I know you won't say no, by the way."

"Here we go..." Scarlet sighed while rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. "What?" Vega asked angrily. "You're still a complete know it all, even after all this time. You might know everything about books, but you don't know anything about me." Vega didn't answer for she was too busy bubbling with irritation, which was making her suck even harder on her cigarette. She blew out another cloud of smoke, her cigarette was now almost done. It was actually kind of impressive to Scarlet. Vega's phone went off and she took it out.

"I got a normal phone, Piper says you still use your StarZap," Vega said changing the subject. Her facial expression changed from bitterness to exhaustion when she looked at the screen, " By the way have you been getting these texts from Libby?" Vega held her phone up for Scarlet to see. Glowing on the screen was a picture of Libby's two baby girls dressed like a prince and a princess with the caption "The Royal Cuties <3". Scarlet sighed, "Oh my god, she is relentless" Vega widened her eyes, "Oh my god, I know right? Has she had a single private moment with those girls?"

"Y'know I get a text about those girls maybe twice a week," Scarlet said, "I have literally no clue about anything else that's happening in Libby's life right now."

"She got a new sugar baby maybe 5 days ago, she's already planning for a lifetime with him," replied Vega, "I don't even know what his name is."

"Do they even know what each other's names are? I never understood how she could be cool with just knowingly being used for money." Scarlet then let out a little laugh, "I'm surprised she adopted babies instead of just becoming a baby factory herself."

"No, I always knew Libby would adopt a baby someday if she came to WishWorld. Did you know she gets all that money from her parents? Starland currency converts really weird through PayPal though." Vega muttered while lighting her new cigarette, "so I just get my money through welfare."

"I thought you got child support checks or something? I remember Libby spreading the news around that you were pregnant a couple years ago."

Vega quickly went silent, taking a particularly long drag from her smoke. Scarlet thought the mood shift was too much, so to lighten things up she inhaled her doubting joint. She hit it hard, inhaling so the smoke filled her whole lungs. She held her breath for a good ten seconds and blew out. The world started to turn a little faster and she lost her balance a little.

"Speaking of pregnancies, you'll never guess who has a bun in the oven," Vega said giving Scarlet a moment to think. Unbeknownst to Vega, Scarlet had already asked "who?" only it was in her head and was two knocked off her ass from the last hit to realize she didn't say it out loud.

"Vivica!" Vega yelled out as if it was the punchline to a joke. Joke or not, Scarlet instantly busted a gut at the thought of Vivica with a poor bastard child in her uterus. As laughter is contagious, Vega started doing an awkward mix of laughing and coughing. Despite neither of them have any good memories about Vivica, there was still an undertone of "oh good for her" in Scarlet and Vega's joined laughter.

"I've actually kinda been talking to her again," Vega continued, "she's chilled out a lot. We went to school together a couple of years ago and she actually apologized like... a lot to me for the first month. She kinda dropped out when she got pregnant, even though there are 5 girls in my Advanced IT classes who are between 7 and 9 months pregnant."

"Don't tell me you're still going to school, Vega," Scarlet asked, remembering Vega wasn't much younger than her, so they were both the appropriate age to be long finished colleges.

"Once I get a few more majors I'll be done," Vega said as she lifted a hand as if swearing on the bible. Scarlet rolled her eyes, knowing that was far from the truth. "I'm actually on my way to Libby's cause of a transfer during my spring break. She's letting me crash with her until I get my own place in Malibu. I'm going to be going to Pepperdine University."

"Huh, good for you..." Scarlet replied, not really caring.

"Actually, it's kind of a big deal," Vega said, "It's like the Harvard of California. Someone as brilliant as me will probably give that school an even bigger reputation, but that part isn't that big of a deal but y'know."

"Yep, that's great Vega. Who are you going to stay with while you're here?" Scarlet asked, realizing her 15 minutes were up and started doubting her joint so she could put the remaining roach in her baggie.

"You, actually. Remember what I said literally 12 minutes ago?" Vega answered.

"I didn't say you could stay with me," Scarlet replied, crossing her arms again.

"No, actually you didn't say yes or no, I'm just hypothesizing you're going to say yes. I'm just saving us time," Vega replied sounding a little too high and mighty for Scarlet's liking.

"What makes you so positive?" Scarlet asked, stomping her foot and putting her hands in her pockets, a habit she hasn't grown out of since she was a Starling.

"Well," Vega said as she tapped out her smoke and almost instantly reached back into her pocket for another, "I know you will cause you're an average every day Wishling now, right?"

"Vega you might be smart with all your books and colleges, but we both know I know more about Wishlings than you. They're called humans by the way. Y'know... "people"?" Scarlet replied, trying not to sound so damn self-centered.

"Really? You know more about humans than me?" Vega asked, eyebrows crooked with an overly "done" expression on her face.

"Yeah, always have," Scarlet replied.

"Where's your appendix?"

"...Okay, you can stay with me."