dopeyducky

[dopeyducky]

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In Wellington, New Zealand, there are a lot of couples living together, and a lot of roommates trying to save on rent. One of these pairs of roommates were Kit and Kat, who were by chance put together in student accommodation. Obviously they became best friends, with names like that how could you not?

After a few years of flatting together, and both finishing degrees, they had steady jobs and student debt that wasn't going to be paid off with Wellington's ridiculous rent.

Kit looked up from a mess of paper and pens and said "Hey Kat, what do you think we move out of the city?" He never liked it there. It was cold and full of people and concrete.

"Uhhhh. What?" Kat didn't mind it, things were conveniently close.

"Yeah let's move to the Far North. Nice and warm all year, and no people. Could get a cheap block of land up past Kaitaia and put a pre-fab house on it." Kit grew up in the Far North and always missed it in the city.

Kat looked up from her laptop with a weird look on her face. "We can't buy land. We have student debts."

"Get some up past Kaitaia like I said, and it shouldn't be more than two-fifty. Plus a pre-fab house for like fifty grand, that's a cheap home. We have decent jobs, and not much changes in utilities. Get a bunch of solar panels and bam. Free power." Kit was... excited... about this.

"Dude, I'd be further away from my family than ever," The laptop was put aside now. "If we work out the financials of this first I'm in." She didn't like her family very much. "You've put too much thought into this haven't you."

"Yeah they don't like that you're bi do they. And I'd be close enough to mine to see them sometimes, yet far enough away they don't turn up randomly." Kit hadn't yet lost his faith in his family. Especially his brother.

Kat worked in meteorology, so the process of moving so far would be an issue. That and the department she worked for was based in Wellington, although she had a work from home position. Covid changed a lot of things, and a lot of people realised they didn't need to go to an office to work at a computer and send emails.

Kit, on the other hand, did design work for a Swedish company based out of Ängelholm. 1am zoom meetings were always a highlight, and almost always could've been an email. The excuse of the North's shitty internet would be welcome.

"Ok, so do we start looking for some land to buy and get a mortgage to go with the student loans?" Kit asked.

"No harm in looking," Kat was going back to work. "I'm going to finish up this, then we figure out the money. And also if this is good for my job security."

"Sounds like a plan!" Kit was definitely excited now.

"Looking. Not buying, looking." She said firmly.

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So I guess that's the set-up and first part of whatever it is I'm doing. They'll be short chapters, probably all like this one, just a couple minutes to read. Probably all just a single scene, and vaguely stand-alone. Obviously this cranks open the door for a next part, probably a good thing

[dopeyducky]

This is where I write things sometimes. I'm not very good at it, and I don't plan on trying to be better. Might get better on accident, but I'm not an English major. I'm just writing a story so I can live vicariously through my characters. I'll try and do a chapter a week, but I won't spend hours and hours on it. I have uni to do

You're welcome to stay and see how I go. But at the end of the day I'm writing for me and don't care. Also it'll usually be at like 1am so there's that

I'm on mobile too, so if there's formatting issues that's why. Yes I'm doing it on a phone, I don't like my computer. I have a cheap keyboard that's very loud at 1am

No star wars, no politics, no religion. Have a good one :)