She woke up with the sun shining on her face in a strange bedroom. She did not remember how she got there either. She stood up out of bed and looked around to remember she was at her friend Suzy’s place. She had been out drinking like she was in college again but she most definitely did not feel like she did in college after an all night bender. She wondered where Suzy ended up but first she had to pee like a racehorse and get the bad taste out of her mouth from the drinks last night. She stumbled around to find the bathroom. She found a towel to wash her face and wipe her hands dry. She stumbled towards the kitchen and found Suzy cooking bacon and eggs and had hot coffee ready in a mug with a seahorse on it. She loved that mug full goodness. That seahorse cup was the most important object in the universe at this very second. She always meant to buy her own seahorse cup but never managed to buy one but it was here for her when she needed it. The coffee was fancy coffee which is the only kind Suzy bought. Suzy really made her space a home like she had some magical force about her that just made her surroundings a warm feeling place. She thought I should move in here with her to feel this warm feeling all the time. Suzy plants even stayed alive. Suzy had magic powers almost even though she lived alone; the warmth was always around. She did not know how Suzy would feel about that. Sometimes you have to just enjoy the moments that are happy. Life is like that all the time. I sipped the best coffee in the world. How could anyone give off so much light into the world. She knew Suzy wasn’t happy all the time but she still shined with a graceful light that fills the world and gives shape around her. That was her super power but Suzy did not understand this because we can not live other people’s lives and we are stuck in our existence. Maybe just trying to be comforting when she sees someone sad is the only way a person can really make a difference in this universe. Well this moment with warm coffee and the smell of bacon made now the best moment or even the perfect moment. We got our plates and went to the sofa that was the same color as Gumby and the coffee table was the color of Poky. Suzy turned on the tv that mounted in a picture frame that looked like a kid made in camp from spare art supplies. Cartoons from our childhood played on the TV as we lounged all day and shared our laughs at how silly the cartoons were when we watched them as adults. She knew all the jokes we had for a million years and we made new ones up that day. It was the most perfect day with free refills on that seahorse cup. If any day could be relieved it would be this one. We switched to 90s tv shows we had forgotten about but it was such a different world now with cell phones and drones that partoled the city to keep us safe now. Lucky for me there was no work this weekend and we could get ice cream from the nearby mini story. I wanted mint chips and Suzy wanted coffee flavored of course. I think she might be powered by coffee from some strange planet sometimes. We get popcorn while we are out to go with the ice cream. It’s a quiet evening in the city for once. We got back to the apartment and I felt the warm glow warm again and wished I could bottle it and spray any room I lived in. We watched some news just to make sure nothing bad had happened and we found some movies we had both wanted to see after finding the world was mostly ok. We fall asleep drooling to some movie with giant robots fighting. My pillow is always covered in drool but they say that is a side effect to using the dream stimulator. I always use the same perfect day from my memory when I have to get used to a new ship. It settles my nerves and reminds me of my time on earth before it fell to the invasion in an intergalactic war that we did not have anything to do with but we sure as hell were going to finish it. I promised myself I would make myself a new home and have the memories of Suzy and I had the seahorse cup. It was the only thing not destroyed when they invaded and killed half the population. They were at war with some other race of aliens who were terrible at fighting but we lead all their war ships now. I have this mug to remind me to fight for earth and not for revenge suzy would never want that. I don’t care what planet I have to live on. I will rebuild that home and I will bring those memories back.
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