"I need you to hurry up!" she yelled.
"Relax, it's just a small leak!" I yelped back as I walked towards the kitchen to get a pan to collect the drops falling from my roommate's rooftop.
"Just a small leak?" she countered, "This small leak will sink the whole house."
"Not unless we repair it and stop procrastinating about it," I replied as I put a pan under the drop and searched for a repair person online.
"Wait! What if we can't afford it?" she asked, concerned.
"We'll pay in installments," I reassured her, still looking at my phone.
March 12, 2024, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about leaving a leak. What (or who) is leaking? How can you use the leak to create tension? Expand the idea of leaks. Go where the prompt leads!
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