A boy walks into a coffee shop that sells things like muffins and coffee. The boy has no name because then the story would get too personal. He doesn't have a face, and this is one of his biggest insecurities. The girl he is meeting with has a deep seated fear of loss and abandonment and death because she witnessed the murder of her father when she was 6, but they only beat around that bush with metaphors about ant homicides. The boy orders coffee because he's, well, at a coffee shop, so, like, why not, and the girl orders a poppyseed bagel. When the waiter brings over her bagel, she screams and throws it in his general direction because the seeds look uncannily like ants. The boy is confused, but tells her good afternoon anyway.
After lunch, they walk together back to his apartment and she laughs maniacally as she destroys anthills in the cracks of the sidewalks along the way. The boy is still incredibly confused, but says nothing save, "Hurry up, I'm going faster than you and I don't even have a face."
At his apartment, the boy leads the girl into his bedroom. They begin to touch each other sexually and when his hands find her chest she pulls back and says, "No, that feels weird." Again, he doesn't understand, and she blames it on his facelessness.
Then a giant mutant ant barges into the apartment, breaking everything in sight, and the girl faints, the boy gets eaten because he can't see it because he lacks a face, and the end.
Yeah....that sounds about right.
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