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Pepper was having a bad day.

Not just a bad day, but a hella bad day. She hadn't really gotten much done, and it really irritated her when she didn't accomplish the things she'd set her mind to. School was the same as it ever was: stressful, of course, but as of late it had also been devouring all of her free time; this left zero opportunity for her to focus on her flower presses and paper-making, but Pepper didn't mind school so much as she minded the stress.

If she could manage to cram down the dry cafeteria sandwich she'd picked up, her day would certainly start to improve.

Probably.

Until a raggedy-a** cat showed up, which caused Pepper not only to frown but to contemplate her own sanity - because she was pretty damn certain the cat had talked, which was impossible because cats didn't talk - so either she was hungrier than she thought or she was going crazy.

Or both. Probably both.

She stuffed half of the stale sandwich in her mouth and threw the cat a piece of ham because she wasn't certain she could stomach a whole dry sandwich.

"You know," she said to the cat but also to nobody in particular because normal people didn't talk to cats, "I think I'm really losing my mind."