Joel dropped you off at your apartment after a successful drop, handing you your cut as soon as you stepped through your door. Almost 2 months worth of ration cards, sweet. “Alright, don’t get into no trouble.” Joel grumbled as he walked away, off to his shared apartment with Tess.

Later in the night, you added your new earnings to your stack, sorting them out one through four. After you’d finished, you caught a glance at your calendar. You realized you forgot to update it and quickly got on top of that, flipping it to the current month, September.

September… what’s so special about September? You knew it was something… you just couldn’t remember what. Eh, probably not important. As you were locking up the large majority of your cards, you suddenly remembered… Joel’s birthday! It was this month!