In a dim-lit room, the sound of typing and knuckle cracking sounded at a regular interval. The room is not big, with a single bed and a table and just enough space for the tenant to walk. 

Kurt is currently working on his project or, rather to be more precise, his team's project right now, which is due in just two days. 

"BAM"

He suddenly slammed his hand on the table, startling the other guy who is typing something on his laptop. 

"sigh"

"Bro... You alright?"

Asks Kurt's friend and one of his teammates for this project, Kenji. He knew the project was due in a couple of days. But, they are still getting errors while running specific functions of their application. Their other teammate, Phil 'coincidentally' had an important issue at home he had to handle, so he informed them and went home just a day before and had not responded yet.

"I knew that son of b*tch wouldn't do his part." cursed Kurt.

".. well, nothing we can do now. All coz of that cursed professor Mallick for forcing him upon us. We should've refused then and there itself."

Originally it was only the two of them, but then came Mallick, their class tutor, asking them to add another guy who had been on long leave and did not have a pair, to which they reluctantly agreed. But, now they look back at it, they understood their fault. They placed that dildo in the right position and sat on it themselves.

In fact, they asked nothing from Phil, knowing it might turn out like that. But, that guy was compelled to use some honeyed words to let him have some work. Again, they placed that dildo in the right position and sat on it themselves.

"Did it get any better?" asked Kenji.

"..no, i got a few more errors when I found the previous one." Kurt answered in a quiet voice, embarrassed.

It was known to them that Phil had not completed his part prior to just a few days ago, but Kurt did not want to do it himself and wanted Phil to do it even if it meant to force him like a parent watching over their kid doing homework.

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Alas, he didn't expect Phil to pull something like this out of his ass at the end. The work he needed to do was not crucial, but now that they have deployed the whole application, they are facing issues which should've been rectified during testing (which they did not intend to do from the very beginning). 

" ... it's my fault, i shouldn't have challenged you to watch Naruto at that point of time." 

Kenji said ruefully. Kurt was a bleach fanboy and Kenji was a Naruto fanatic. So, usually their fights happen to see which is better among the big 3. Kenji had watched both, but Kurt had only watched a few episodes of Naruto. So, he challenged Kurt to watch the entire Naruto series before judging and that happened right before the week of Phil's asspull. Kurt did not bother and let Kenji take on Phil's work and continued watching Naruto until Kenji realized he couldn't complete the task on his own.

"Even if you accepted to let me help, we still might not have completed this by now."

Kurt can see the error is not a serious problem, but he doesn't want to rely on his luck that the professor during the review wouldn't touch upon this specific functionality. That's why he is putting in this much work.

"So, how was Naruto until you watched it? SURELY better than bleach, wasn't it?"

"I only watched till old man Hogoromo gave them power to defeat Madara. So far it's fine. I wouldn't say better than Bleach. Bleach is goated. Ichigoat is still better."

Kenji scoffed. 

"As if! Base Naruto can whoop Ichigo's ass."

"Talking about power scaling, are we now? Then."

Their trash talking ensued for a quarter an hour until they understood how fucked they are if they couldn't complete the project on time and got back to work.

Around 2:00 AM

"Tch"

Kurt clicked his tongue in annoyance as another exception was thrown at his face. He took a deep breath and stood up, did some stretches and went to his bag, rummaging through it to find if there were any snacks. He found the box of cookies which Phil gave him when he joined the team. 

He took it and settled back on his seat. Kenji had fallen asleep about an hour ago. Kurt scrolled through the code to the section where the error was shown as he munched some cookies vigorously. They hadn't had dinner because of this, so he was literally starving. 

When he finished half a packet, he stopped and gulped a few mouthfuls of water. 

'Let me leave the remaining for Ken if he wakes up in the middle.'

Kurt thought as he closed the cookie box and placed it on the table, beyond his laptop.

Time passed slowly, Kurt still hadn't found a solution to the error. Suddenly, he felt uncomfortable. He didn't mind it at the beginning, but slowly he started to sweat a lot and his chest felt heavy. By the time he understood that he was having a heart attack, he couldn't create noise and as he heaved heavily, he felt like something lifting him and lost consciousness.