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Alex was going about his daily routine, having finished his morning classes and stopping in the cafeteria for his lunch. He never found the food to be horrible, and it was a helluva lot better then expending the energy to catch food for himself to eat. As per usual, he filled up a plate of raw meat with a side of brains, then slowly his tall and lanky frame made it's way to a table, where he slumped down and immediately began gobbling down his food.

It might make a bit of a sight to behold, his tall and lean figure hunched over his food, shoving it into his face like he was starving. Red and bloody juices from the raw meat were dribbling down his chin to stain on his already quite disgusting not-really-white-anymore and tattered shirt. Every once in a while he would lift an arm to wipe his face on his shirt sleeve, belch, and continue on. He ate, of course, with his fingers, which were becoming stained with red and slick with grey matter.

Did he ever stop to think for a moment that what he was doing might be considered rude or disgusting by anybody else in the cafeteria? Nope! So he just continued on.

Alex had food, so therefore, Alex was in his happy place. He was blissfully ignorant of anything and everything around him, including pint sized little demons with an attitude problem.

That was, until the little fella whistled sharply, practically in Alex's ear.

He stopped what he was doing, blinking his grey-white eyes and turning his blood stained face towards the source of that incredibly irritating sound, his teeth clenched. He had red meat still held in one hand, dripping blood on his tray as he squeezed it tight.

"Excuse me?" He said, flatly, his eyes steely. But the small demon..thing..was now giving him commands, as though he were some kind of...pet.

What?

"Are you jacking serious?" He practically snarled, his stained teeth bared now as his upper lip curled back. "You..I think I have pets bigger then you! And you're telling me to eat on the floor? What the hell is wrong with--- oh wait no, I get it." He smiled, coldly, "Low self esteem issues? Have to take out your own insecurities on those who you deem lower on the pecking order?" He scoffed out a laugh. "Do me a favor and just jack right off, buddy."

Alex was normally quite a laid back and happy zomboil, but one thing he couldn't stand was any type of terrible treatment of his kind, just because of what they were. He'd put up with enough of that recently on his trip to the maul, and now he was being pushed beyond his patience.

Alexander blinked at the demon incredulously. Master? Had he just said..master? Was this guy being serious?

He just couldn't believe that anybody could possibly be that ignorant, so he scoffed a laugh. "Master? Sorry to break it to you, little guy, but I don't have a 'master'. I have a mom, and a dad, and I'm a born halloween citizen" The meat clutched in his hand continued to drip, but he ignored it and continued on. "Though I'm guessing that just doesn't make any difference to you. Next it will be that my parents did a terrible job raising me, or that it's in the genes. Just know that how I choose to eat my food or present myself in public is my choice, my business, and I don't need to catch any grief over it from some narrow minded little----" he stopped himself there, and just shook his head. "Nevermind, it isn't worth it."

What was he even doing right now? He didn't normally get upset so easily. It was probably just a reaction from all the stress he'd been dealing with lately...but still, normally he would have ignored comments like the ones the demon had given him until he had finished what he was doing. Even then he would have probably just gotten up and left without a backwards glance. He was a little bit ashamed of himself at the moment for reacting so strongly, but there was just so much one could take before snapping, and lately his breaking point seemed to be getting easier and easier to reach.

Great. The little pain in the a** was still talking to him, just as Alex was half turned to go back to finishing off his food. So now, instead, he turned back towards the small demon boil, and very deliberately shoved his fistful of bloody dripping food into his mouth, chewing on it noisily and wiping his hand off on the front of his shirt. If anything he could hope to disgust the other boil into leaving so that he could finish his meal in peace.

Though he did scoff out a laugh at the other boils words, bits of food flying out of his mouth towards the demon, "At least that we can agree on. I'd make a terrible, terrible janitor." he spoke with a mouth still full of food, really just trying to be as unpleasant as he possibly could.

His mouth was barely empty of food before he said "You'd make somebody a very nice lawn ornament some day, though a gnome would probably be less mouthy, and make for much better company"

Alex just grinned, flashing blood stained teeth with bits of food still stuck between them. He was just not even going to bother trying to be remotely non-disgusting at this point. In fact, he was only trying to make things worse by being as gross as he could. To emphasize this, he even let out a sudden loud and long belch, and then grinning again. The little guy was either a sucker for punishment or was desperate for company, Alex wasn't sure which.

"Higher aspirations, hey? Seems you have a long way to...grow." Yes, he was referring to TG's height, using what was probably an incredibly immature pun, but again, he didn't really care.

Now, Alex didn't really like gnomes very much. They were crude, grabby, and seemed to be constantly plotting unsavory things. Honestly though, at this point, Alex would have rather spent the rest of his day conversing with a group of gnomes instead of continuing conversation (as amusing as it was) with the little demon boil.

But it was almost a game now, seeing how horribly disgusting he could be before the imp would scamper along his way. He couldn't help but noticed that he also seemed to touch on a nerve when comparing the demon to a gnome. He'd remember that for later, if needed. He just grunted noncommittally to the last comment, having just thought that he'd rather enjoy a gnomes company to the demons, it wasn't really worth him coming up with a reply, so instead he said "You got a name or should I just keep thinking of you pain-in-my-a**?" Though really, he'd probably keep thinking of him that way even after getting a name from the other boil.

Well, really, Alex had lasted quite a long time keeping company with the annoying and what he considered somewhat ignorant little imp. It was perhaps surprising that he hadn't just gotten up and left already. Indeed, after his initial reaction, which had been full of anger, it probably would have just been for the best if he'd had.

But for some unknown reason the zombie had decided to stay and take more punishment, while attempting to deal some back out as well. He'd begun to think of it as more of a game, to see who could annoy the other the most.

That was, until the little jacker said something about Alex's mom.

Alex and his mom...they were close. They talked to each other often over the skellyphone, and he pretty much thought the world of her. For this..TG guy..to think he could just come out and insult Alex's relationship with his mom like that...

He didn't even think about it, he just grabbed a hold of his food tray, which was currently still holding quite the puddle of blood and goop, and flung it at the demon boil. It didn't bother him that he managed to probably get half the contents of the tray on himself in the process, he just wanted to hit the other boil with something, if he could.

Alex was filled with disappointment as the tray that he had hurtled towards the small demon boil went sailing straight through a puff of smoke rather then connecting to TG's face. He was still angry though, and had he anything else in front of him to throw at the imp, he would have gladly done it again, risk of detention or not.

At TG's question of whether he was crazy, he responded with a shrug, his upper lip curled back in a snarl. "Maybe I am. Maybe you should just stay as far away from me as possible at all times..."

His gaze fell on the chair next to him, the temptation to pick it up and fling it at the imp incredibly strong. His fingers were practically twitching with the need to reach out and close them around that chair. But no, he seemed to have gotten away with throwing the tray, as nobody had said anything or appeared to notice, but surely he would get into trouble if he threw a chair...and he couldn't be sure he would even stop at just one.

Wait, why was he even still sitting here, putting up with this nonsense? He'd finished eating, and he'd made it clear to the other boil to stay away from him here on out. So, he pushed back from the table with sudden force, lurching to his feet and glaring daggers at the small demon.

He chose to ignore the grouchy comment, but gave TG an icy smile before saying. "I think we're finished here." And turning to shuffle out of the room.

( feel free to end it here or have TG piss Alex off some more. It'll take him a while to get to the door anyways~ XD )