Regulators by C. Miller

Author:C. Miller [Miller, C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. Miller
Published: 2024-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

My arm buzzed me when I still had two bites of the one sandwich left.

PAST CALORIC INTAKE

One sandwich. I hadn’t even eaten more than a few bites of breakfast. I finished the sandwich and returned to the kitchen, looking around for things. I opened the refrigerator first, tempted to take out some vegetables and eat them as they were, but then I opened up a few cabinets. I found something in one of them that I was not expecting.

Popcorn.

I removed it and read the nutrition label on the back of the box. After deciding it was certainly not as healthy as vegetables, which I’d learned yesterday, I opened the box. I was not expecting what I found there. It was hard, small, and not airy at all. Were there different sorts of popcorn?

I supposed so.

I examined the box extensively, then the bag. The instructions seemed simple enough, though I didn’t know what a microwave was or why there had to be instructions for it when the other popcorn had just required opening a bag. I was glad there were pictures on the bag or I wouldn’t have found it in the kitchen.

I removed the popcorn from the plastic, as instructed. I opened the microwave and put it inside, ensuring it was the correct direction. I moved it around a few times, trying to make sure it was directly in the middle and faced how it had on the instructions. I closed the door and examined the buttons on the side.

A large hand went in front of my face, pressed a few buttons, and it began.

“I can do it myself,” I told Seb shortly. It might’ve taken me a while, but I could’ve gotten it eventually. I was almost entirely positive.

He held his hands up defensively. “Sorry. Just figured I would help you tell them to shove it up their asses.”

“I told you not to talk to me.” I believed I’d been pretty clear.

“That is not what you said,” he told me. It certainly had been. “How about . . . You don’t bother talking to me until you figure out.” He raised an eyebrow at me and smiled before walking away.

He hadn’t even made it to the doorway by the time I had figured it out and I was just so . . .

Something.

I grabbed the box of popcorn and threw it at his back, though I had no idea why.

He caught it. He turned, and he caught it.

He set it down on a counter, scrunched his face up at me, and said, “Good luck with that, beautiful girl.”

One something was replaced instantaneously with another something. Soaring. The inside of my chest felt like it was soaring. I took in a deep breath, holding it in my lungs for some unknown reason.

He thought . . .

He thought I was beautiful?

Like . . . a sunset.

He smiled at me, shook his head, and walked away.

I immediately put my face in my hands, resting my elbows on the counter. This was exhausting. It was overwhelming, and .

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