Saturday Morning

You wake up in your bed for the first night in a while. Since Jeremy had stopped being your roommate you had taken an habitude of falling asleep on the couch, aided by the droning of the old busted up TV. It's been weird though, not having that sensation of apathy as the sleep takes over.

You are not feeling well rested, but you have a clear mind about your plans for today. Make actual tests and learn everything you can about the watch, so that you don't have to stumble like you did yesterday.

You can feel a tinge of guilt in yourself after last night, but after mulling it over for almost all night, you feel like you can bring more good into the world with this power than you would without. The texts buzzing from your phone are proof enough about it. Whatever happened yesterday had not only changed the present, but the past was too completely rewritten. You were still in a chat group with Paul and your other friends, never fought to begin with, as this new Paul never was a piece of shit that kept you close because he could manipulate you. Seems like your friendship was now on more mutual level, not only that, but he actually had a full time job and was in a stable relationship... with Heather...

Heather was the reason that you and Paul had burned bridges a month ago.

Paul had been working her for some time, as he was keen to say. Basically he had been stalking her social media to accidentally run into her at clubs or bars to flirt and nag her into bed. One night, while at a party, you actually had a chance to sit and chat with her for a while. She was fun and clever, if a bit naïve. She talked with an energy you don't see in many people.

Yes, you know it was more for jealousy than from the goodness of your heart. But is doing the right thing for the wrong reason still better than doing the wrong thing? That's why you showed her the private chats that Paul had with your group about her and the previous girls he conquered. That made sure that she stayed away from him forever, and from you too.

Honestly you weren't even mad about that.

Then Paul discovered what you did, and you discovered that keeping only one toxic friend group coming out of college had been a terrible idea.

But none of that happened anymore. You don't know what or how Paul and Heather met in this new reality, but from the Instagram stories it seemed like a decent situation. Yes, of course you are ignoring the jealousy.

Anyway, back to the watch. You had all day for yourself up until the dinner shift at DaPaolo. Your plan for the day was:

• Step 1: Breakfast at LePetit, absolutely never skip this step. While there start a journal of gathered traits and their possible combinations.
• Step 2: Touching random people to gather a large sample of traits plus form a case study on how they are extracted.
• Step 3: Find a place where you can discretely study someone for ten minutes to an hour to test how some combinations would function.
• Step 4: Cook some traits.
• Step 5: Go to work.
• Step 6: Use some traits to make your life a lot more entertaining at work.

Yes, perfect plan.

You grab keys, wallet, and a small notebook and you run out of your apartment.

You can hear moving sounds coming from inside Claire's apartment. Seems like not being an ATHLETE anymore has completely removed her morning jogs from history. You still wanted to make up for it in some way, one more reason to study more this watch.

Elevator still broken, you have to take the stairs again.

You pass the Nazarenko apartment on your way down, and smirk, as you remember that your interaction with your Ukranian neighbor last night got you two new traits to play with, and interesting ones at that: HOTTIE and PARTY-ANIMAL