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Mike was glad he managed to get a job with people he knew. He might be spreading himself a bit thin with this job, being a tutor, working on people's computers for money plus going to college. And now on top of that, he kept having visions of things that might happen.

He set his homework beside the computer before he started to type away. He gave Alex's computer an upgrade before he started to work on looking at the people who wanted to be matched up. "Blood thief seeking willing vampire. Willing human blood doll. Vampire seeking blood doll. It takes all kinds."

"Wonder if there will be anyone seeking an oracle." he mused, matching a few people up. He wondered where Nim was, did he get distracted by candy? He pulled his homework over, worked on a couple of problems between matching people.

He took out his phone, he had a playlist that was all songs about candy for some reason, for Nimmy. He just added Watermelon Sugar, Sour Candy and C**o to the list. C**o talked about lollipops but he was pretty sure that's not what it really meant. Nim wouldn't know though, he was far too innocent.

Nimrod did in fact got distract but it was because the robot Mike made him was acting glitchy. He had it under his arm, “Come Peter, we need to get to work.” he said, the dead wolf quickly followed after him. They took the train and hurried over the mall.

He entered the shop, looking around. Didn’t look like they were any customers right now. He hurried over towards Mike. “Mikey, Venus is broken.” he said, he was glad Mike was working at the same place as him now. Someone he knew and liked, then again Nim didn’t have problems with anyone.

He put the robot that looked like a venus fly trap on the desk, it’s movements were jerky, it walked around in a circle and it’s speech was garbled. “I think maybe Peter played with Venus and dropped it.” he said, the wolf just tilted his head. “Or it might have gotten wet..” he said sheepishly.

Mike looked up as Nim came in, then stared at the robot he made him. It didn’t look good. “Might have gotten wet? Did you forget you don’t need to water this plant?” he asked. He eyed the wolf, he had one of his own but his time away must have screwed things up. Tala was gone and he couldn’t even use those powers anymore. Given the chance to do things over, he went a different route.

Nim lowered his head, “Well, I was just watering all my plants and like I started to water it then quickly stopped. I dried it off and stuck it in a container of rice...took a lot of rice. It didn’t like it though, kept saying to let it out.”

“Hmm, might have been Peter playing with it then. Maybe jiggled something loose.” he said, digging around in his backpack for his toolkit. He shut the robot down and started to take it apart.

“Thanks Mikey.” Nim said, he heard the door open and went to go help the customer. He would then start cleaning up the place. After some time, the door opened again and a doctor still with a white coat came in. Nim screamed and ran away to the back.

Mike was focused on fixing the robot and let Nim do his chores. He jumped when he heard Nim scream, he thought someone had dropped off body parts like he heard someone did before but he noticed the doctor. “****.” he said, putting his tools down. He quickly got up and went over to the man. “Sorry about that. My friend had a traumatic experience with medical people. How can I help you?” he said.

Once he was done with that, he went into the back to try and find Nim. “Hey Nim, it’s alright. He’s gone.”

Nim poked his head out from under a crafting table. He came out, shaking. He would most likely never get over what happened to him. He took a moment to calm down before going back out to finish cleaning.

Mike sighed, poor dude. He went back to the desk and sat down to fix the robot. It took an hour, some things got knocked loose. He put them back in place and put it together again before turning it back on. It beeped and started to walk around the desk. Mike picked it up and set it on the ground.

“Bad doggy.” the robot said, running away from the wolf.

“Well, seems it was Peter.” Mike said with a laugh.

Nim grinned seeing the robot fixed. “Yay! Thanks Mikey.” he said. “I’ll have to get Peter some new toys or something..”

“Yes, might be wise.” Mike replied, he picked up his phone. “Hey, come do a TikTok video with me.” he said, setting the phone up.

Nim looked at him confused, “A what? What’s a TikTok?” he asked.

“It’s an app. Mostly it has people doing dances, or making videos to music. Some people do some original stuff. Some comedy.” he said, “Let’s do the dance for this song, C**o. I saw Jason Derulo do it, well, he does the song..” he said. “It’s pretty simple.” he said, showing him the video of the dance.

Nim watched the video, it talked about a loli, taking a bite out of the loli. At least it was about candy. “Okay sure.” he said. They practiced it a couple of times before doing the video.

Mike posted the video up. “And we’re live. See if we get any comments.” he said. Going back to work for awhile before checking the video. “Hey we got some likes and comments.” he looked through the comments. “You’re cute, nice job.” he said, “Well, feeding my ego a bit.” he said, but if they looked at his other videos they would see just how nerdy he was.

“Is that your dad?”

“No, not my dad. A friend.” he replied to the comment. He sometimes forgot that Nim was way older than him when he acts way younger.

“So people like our video?” Nim asked, putting the broom and duster up. “We don’t look alike, why would they think I’m your dad?”

“They just see an older guy and assume.” Mike said with a shrug. He turns the music back on softly while they went back to work.