"Thanks, Ellen. I want to quit but."

"No worries. Just don't OD on my dance floor again."

This is what I get for being nice to the wildlife.

Ok it's nice to get to pet the wildlife on the 75. 

Also, I was totally right to ask her to meet at Niche. 

I would have liked a succulent Chinese meal, but I don't think she could take being just another 109 junkie or walking past the park with the stupid chessboards if I had asked her to meet at Vinh Ky.

"I'm still scared. 

I want to stop.

I almost died."

"Have you tried not being an addict?

It seems lame as, to me, but it has good reviews on Yelp."

"How do you do it?

How do you do so much shit and barely even get a hangover?"

I'm an immortal who has ODed half a dozen times even if you don't count the times I was deliberately visiting my Dad in the afterlife. 

"I'm just built different."

"Epworth, that's us."

"Which way from here?"

"Oh right you aren't from Richmond. Just follow me.

I used to live like a block away from All Nations which is right across from the place if I read the map right."

"Oh, not like part of Epworth hospital?"

"Yeah nah, it's like 10 minutes that way."

"Plenty of time for a smoke.

Take one, I'm not saying you should smoke even a tenth as much as me, but now that you smoke at all this is a bad time to quit."

"Thanks, but also 10 minutes while smoking?

I was just in a hospital for an OD."

"I've seen you dance, you can handle it.

Besides if you need to sit there is wait no that bench is on the way to the Hive but I think it is past this place."

Security knows better than to tell *me* off if I randomly flop on the public housing estate's garden.

But I don't think she'd go for it. 

To be fair that one is actually weird, and could theoretically get a normal person in trouble for trespassing.

"Fine but buy me an Uber back to my place."

"Sure, I'll uber us back to your place."

"My? You're taking me back to my place?"

Not hers?

Wait does she think I'm going to try to get sex out of her?

Because like would but not like that.

"I want to make sure you get back safe.

I can get back from there to my place easy."

"Oh. Right ok. I should be fine with that.

Will you make sure I get over to the couch.

Since you are making me walk this far.

And the bed is further than the couch.

So the couch is um comfy."