I allow myself to romanticize chaos for just a moment and feel blessed in this temporary phone-free bubble. //

The streets are getting dark. Doorbells still don’t work. We shout at Lucy from the street, then some neighbors arrive and we get in with them, knock on Lucy’s door. Our other friend Abe is also there. We all have dinner at candlelight. 4/

I go buy candles, meanwhile I see Bea arriving on her bike. She’d managed to get internet at her coworking space, reads me a message from our other friend Lucy saying that she’d just dropped by my house looking for me. We decide to bike to Lucy’s house 3/

Doorbells don’t work. I wait for someone to open the door and I sneak in, climb upstairs, Bea isn’t home yet. Also I need to buy candles, electricity is not back and night is falling. Bea’s roommate tells me that the store downstairs has some. 2/