Re: Freshmen Dorms

[Guest]

Jake met her eyes raising an eyebrow at her and he shook his head, "No, I didn't call you Rachel." He said calmly, "I was going to call you "Red" but given everything that just happened within the last fifteen minutes, I didn't think it would be a good idea."

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn paused, embarrassed. "Oh." She felt strangely relieved. And not just because Rachel was a psychotic manipulator.

Evelyn looked away, over at the glass shards near Jake's feet. "Um, well," she began. confusedly. She shifted a little to avoid a piece of glass near her foot. "Remind me never to rile a schizo again," she said, reaching down to pick up a shard and toss it away from her. Vodka ran down her fingers and she crinkled her nose, disgusted at it.

[Guest]

"Hey if you're going to offend me be proper, I'm bi polar not a schizo! I am not delusional and I don't wear foil on my head thinking the government is taking over my brain. However there was a story like that once involving a lot of Everclear and fourth of the July, but that's a different story for another day." Jake smirked, then examining the mess he made.

He should probably clean it up, plus he would need to get money to replace Seth's million dollar alcohol, no doubt he'd bitch about it when he found out.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Well, you act schizo half the time," Evelyn said as she took the gauze from where he was still holding it. She thought it was a reasonable argument. "I mean, you scale ledges, you run off with people's dogs, you walk around Times Square on your hands, you throw yourself off cliffs," she listed, reaching over and taking his bloodied hand in hers. She began wrapping gauze around it absently as she tried to remember the other (many) incidents that had her convinced he was schizo.

"Oh, right, and then you have random fits where you decide to piss me off and then spontaneously apologize like you had no idea what you were doing. Sounds like schizophrenia to me."

***

"KILL THAT MONKEY BITCH!" Seth yelled at the TV screen.

He was in Evelyn's living room, a packet of chips in his hand he'd found in the kitchen. Powerpuff Girls reruns were on.

[Guest]

"First off all my adrenaline fun stuff I do like cliff diving, scaling ledges, and walking across Times Square on my hands is all just for fun. If I remember correctly stealing Frankie was your idea, and you know me if it sounds like fun I go along with it, and second being bi polar allows me to be moody and self medicate. Like I said the minute I start probing around dumpsters and attempt to fly with a broom or something like that, then you can call me schizo." Jake informed Evelyn, it was bad enough he was already labeled bi polar he didn't wan to add schizo on top of it.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Won't be long then," Evelyn replied, lifting up his hand to inspect the wrapping. She pulled out a pair of scissors from the box and cut off the end of the gauze before using a bit of tape to hold it down because she couldn't tie it up. "Where else did you get cut?"

***

Seth leaned forward, glaring at the screen. Nova was now lying at his feet.

"It's HIM!" the blond informed the mutt. Nova gave an annoyed whine and huffed.

[Guest]

Jake looked at his gauzed knuckles and anywhere else on him to see if maybe he had gotten cut or scraped, for the most part he seemed okay, he figured though with broken glass everywhere though it wouldn't be too long before he had gone and slipped on the vodka and stabbed himself in the left eye.

"Everything seems okay, but I should clean this shit up because I know the longer this is here the higher my chance of risking another injury becomes." He said lifting himself off the ground.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn put the gauze and tape and ointment back in, packing up the medical box. She stood up, checking to make sure she hadn't gotten vodka elsewhere on her. "Right, I'll leave you to that."

Considering their recent "chat", she really had no inclination to stick around. She headed out of the kitchen and put the box away before rinsing her hands of the liquor and heading back to where she'd left her bag on a counter near Jake. She picked it up, slung it over hr shoulder and headed out of the kitchen without a word to him.

***

Seth checked his watch. He had to get going soon. He got up and made his way out, shutting the suite door behind him as he headed down the hallway to his own suite.

[Guest]

Jacob heard Evelyn leave and he grabbed a rag to clean up the alcohol off the floor, he figured he could do that and pick up the larger pieces of glass along the way. He had found a dust pan and as he soaked up the rag in vodka he picked up the large shards of glass placing them in the dust pan, he thoroughly went around the kitchen floor checking for large pieces of glass but he had found majority of them.

After he had thrown the pieces in the trash he went to grab paper towels, and wiped it across the surface of the kitchen floor to get rid of any remaining liquid, he then went and grabbed the small vacuum and started to vacuum the kitchen to make sure he picked up any of the smaller pieces so people weren't losing limbs in the kitchen.

[QueenLemonz]

"When you said that you'd left a few things in the car, I assumed you meant, quite literally, A FEW THINGS. A duffel bag of clothes and two boxes of art supplies, does NOT exactly qualify as 'a few things'." Taylor Keeps let out a heavy sigh and a grunt as entered the dorm suite he and his best friend, as well as a few so-far-nameless roommates, had luckily attained at NYU. There had been some dorm space congestion and as luck would have it a suite opened up and Taylor and his currently purple-haired companion quickly jumped on it.

They'd both been crashing at Taylor's father's loft whilst he was out of the country for a few months on business and it was only a matter of time before Taylor's father returned so they'd been hoping and praying for an opportunity such as dorm life.

Taylor walked towards one of the rooms adjacent to the living space where he found his purple-haired counterpart sitting on the floor with a stack of notebooks and sketchpads in front of him. He flipped the hair from his face and turned to look at Taylor over his shoulder with broad grin, one only none other than Joel Madison could provide.

"Sue me for letting you leave under ill-informed pretenses." He laughed as Taylor dropped the boxes and bag down on the floor. He stood up and walked over to his friend of nearly sixteen years and slung his arm over his shoulder. "We're finally back, bud." He chuckled.

"Yeah, was nice having a little break from the city, right?" Taylor laughed as looked out of the window in Joel's room, smiling at familiar skylines. "But its even nice to be back."

Joel chuckled some and let out a slight 'mhmm', biting at his lip some.

Although the idea to come back to New York was entirely his, it was somewhat painful for him. The plan was to come back and get over the previous fears and memories, to come back and defeat the ghosts of his past and reclaim the city his now deceased father originally drove him from, but it was harder than he'd expected.

He gave Taylor's shoulder a firm pat and pulled away, turning to face his friend.

"Did you have anything to bring up or are we done bringing up our crap?" He asked.

"We're done. We can kick it." Taylor laughed upon seeing Joel's excitable look, eager to relax already after their journey to their home.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth passed Evelyn in the hallway. She didn't say a word to him, which gave him an ominous feeling. She looked kind of...he didn't knwo what, btu she avoided his gaze and diappeared into her suite.

Seth picked up his pace and entered his own suite to find Jake....vacuuming the kitchen?

Seth leaned against the doorway. "Well....this is anticlimatic. Here I was, suspecting blood because Red looks like she's about to break down or some shit and I find you housekeeping. Not that we didn't need to vacuum but still..."

[Guest]

Jake hadn't really heard much of what Seth had said over the roar of the vacuum, he turned it off after he had went over the small kitchen area a couple of times, he was sure he had gotten anything that couldn't be seen he wasn't sure if he should mention anything but then again Seth isn't that dumb he would notice his hand gauzed.

He lifted his left hand slightly, "Ummm well you weren't lying there was some blood." He chuckled nervously and then went to put the vacuum away.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth raised an eyebrow, wondering what the hell had gone down. He followed Jake to the closet where the vacuum was kept. "I, and the rest of our freaking floor, heard a serious commotion. I mean, you've had arguments before but that was something else. It was obviously either going to end up in bloodshed or heated--" He caught himself just in time, smirking. His eyes landed on a new decor to the hall - a fist-sized hole with splintered plaster. That was going to cost a heavy fine.

[Guest]

Jake cringed as he walked past the new decoration he had given their suite, he turned and faced Seth, who was smirking, "Yeah dude um... I kind of had an episode today and I almost...hit her." Jake swallowed hard saying that, god he really felt like shit.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth's smile faded and he forgot he'd been implying something sexual. "Another episode...oh," he said slowly. He knew about those. Jake had a lousy temper back at juvie. Seth gnawed his lip. "No wonder she looked freaked. But she'll come 'round," he said reassuringly.

***

Evelyn was in fact about as close to "coming around" as she was to throwing herself off the Empire State building. She sat with Nova in her lap, her arms around the puppy. Between shaking from the memory of what had almost happened, Jake's words before that kept coming back to her. And as much as she hated to admit it, they hurt like hell. Even if half of them were vicious lies.

But that was so over with. She was done with him. She'd manage Nova on her own - Alexis could help her watch him and she could always get Ash to help out if she were desperate. Heck, even Lucas could - but then she remembered James and she felt even more miserable.

Although in light of what had just happened, she felt silly for being wary of a guy who had kissed her as opposed to a guy who had almost knocked her head off. It was strange to think she'd been using Jake to scare James off - it seemed like it should be the other way around now. At least with James, she'd never had to worry that he'd lay a hand on her.

"We're staying away from Jake," she said to Nova softly, rubbing his head as she watched the Powerpuff Girls soar around their city. Whatever the hell she thought she felt for him was starting to seem like a crazy dream. Even if Jake didn't have a bad temper (and a really mean streak), he was still vicious in the things he'd said.

James had had reason to say shit to her - she had hurt him badly, after all.

What had she done to Jake to make him hate her as much as he seemed to?

[Guest]

"Dude, I doubt she will I was literally an inch away from her face, my fist barley passed her. I would have knocked her out cold." Jake said thinking back.

"Dude I almost hit a girl. Despite how much she annoys me, that's no excuse. " Jake groaned, he needed to stop thinking about this but obviously he wouldn't right away this would nag at him for awhile.

[Tiger-Lily]

"She riles you too easily," Seth said, unsure what to say. He knew Jake would never willingly hit a girl but he wasn't always in control of his emotions.

"Just...well, if you worried about getting too attached, now you won't have to; it's a good thing that Red won't be coming back. You wanted to avoid her anyways," Seth said cheekily. He patted Jake's shoulder. "Cheer up, guy. It's not like you go around hitting girls on a daily basis."

[Guest]

Jacob nodded slowly, looking down at the floor he noticed his memory card.

He bent down to pick it up and figured Evelyn probably droppped it during their arguement. Jake exhaled, pulling out his wallet he stuck the blasted thing in there.

He looked at Seth and said sounding worn out, "I'm gonna I don't know walk or something I'll be back later." With that being said, he opened the door and left.

[Tiger-Lily]

[[FFed to Noon]]

[[James and Luke from LJ's apt.]]

Luke and James' dorm application had gone through. Someoen had dropped out and two rooms had opened up in a suite where one guy had transferred to another floor.

They had been lucky they hadn't unpacked everything, Luke thought amusedly as he and James dragged several hastily repacked boxes out of the elevator onto the seventh floor. Luke dragged out his two suitcases after that and while James dragged the two boxes down the hall to the last suite, Luke grabbed James' suitcases and towed them along to the suite with his own.

It took several trips but they finally had everything and Luke fumbled around in his pockets for the suite key, unlocking the door and kickign it open as he and James dragged their stuff over the threshold.

THey heard vices from within. Evidently the roommates, whoever they were. Luke thought one of the voices sounded kind of familiar but couldn't be sure.

"This one's mine," Luke said, fitting his keycard into a slot in the nearest dorm room and unlocking it sucessfully. (Room 4, I guess?). He nodded to the one next door. "That must be yours, I guess." Ther two rooms had their doors open and there were vooices coming from the one at the end.

Luke went over to his window, leaving his stuff in the living area for a moment. His view was the side of the building, showing a bit of road and a ledge that curved around the corner past James' window. Luke walked back to hsi stuff and began dragging it in, figuring he'd arrange it all later.

He walked back to James' room, sttretching tiredly. "So we got rid of the skunk. We just landed in the hotspot of drama, I hope you realize that."

[Guest]

James was a bit bittersweet about this current situation, although the apartment building they lived in had some um... colorful neighbors not to mention the rouge skunk and the spider over lord, their first couple of weeks there had been pretty eventful, hell he even broke a piece of furniture which kind of made it feel like home.

As much as James wanted to live in an apartment, he was kind of glad to be in the dorms, he knew he wouldn't have the potential to get skunked here plus from all the crazy shit happening here he figured him and Luke would fit in just right.

Although of course being here now presented him with the dilemma that, Evelyn was now no longer a subway ride away but she was merely just two floors down from him. He had remembered Luke saying that whoever this guy was was originally placed on the fifth floor but was transfered up here, and was really glad that his luck had worked out for him that way.

After the whole fake proposal, kissing Evelyn thing he figured he kind of stay clear of her for a little bit before finding her to say anything.

After having lugged boxes and suitcases up and down that damn slow elevator James was in no mood to unpack, he looked over at Luke and grinned, "Hey in case you haven't heard the insanity is on the fifth floor. We my friend are on the seventh, from what it seems like everything is pretty calm, and I for one like some competition so give us oh a few hours and things will be a regular party up here."

[Tiger-Lily]

Luke laughed and then pulled out his phone when it buzzed. "We should go see who else we're dealing with in here first, party boy."

***

Evelyn's favourite class last week had been law. This week, she'd dreaded going to it every single day after Tuesday's fiasco.

Random whispering and giggles and sly glances seemed to follow her all over that room. She spent pretty much all of her time with her earphones in, seated at the back so she could zone out and not listen to a random bunch of girls nearby peering over at her and sniggering.

She'd had to leave Nova alone for a few in the time between her going to class and Alexis coming home.

Obviously, keeping the puppy was going to be a challenge. Evelyn slid her keycard into the lobby door and entered. She hit the button for the lift, changing a song on her iTouch.

***

Seth was engaged in a video game on the PS3 the twins had set up. Ashton was watching while Seth and Antonio engaged in pointless zombie killing in Call of Duty.

"Yo, did Jake come back yet? He took a damn long walk," Seth commented absently, taking a sip of his soda. Ashton shook his head.

"Didn't see him. Might be in his room."

[QueenLemonz]

Taylor had gone off to his own 'cave of solitude' to snooze, still lethargic from the grand journey to New York, whilst Joel stood in the bathroom in front of the mirror, fussing with his hair, trying to 'perfect it' (or some vain attempt at something like that) before he went back to organizing his own personal corner of the suite.

So far the day had been less than excitable, what with the high point being a brief wrestling match with Taylor before they'd done more destruction to his own room than a miniature tornado, but Joel was sure that with his luck would change soon enough in the 'excitement' department.

[Guest]

James snorted and ws looking at his boxes, he counted them and realized he was missing a box in which he had some personal stuff in.

"Ugh crap, hey I think I left something of mine in the lobby I'll be right back." James said to Luke leaving his room and walking out of the suite.

He figured he take the stairs, and ride the elevator back up.

***

Jake had come back a little bit ago, the guys hadn't probably noticed because they were crowded around the TV.

"Seth! SETH! Jump over the tank! Over it! Watch out for the zombie!" Antonio shouted, flailing about.

Jake could hear all of this and decided to quit hibernating, he went out in the living area standing next to Ashton.

"Yo." Jake waved at the boys, watching Antonio, flail like a chicken.

[Tiger-Lily]

Luke nodded as James left.

Luke headed out of James' room and back to his own, spotting someone in the bathroom. He figured he'd go put away their remaining groceries into teh fridge.

He found the bags of fruits and cereal boxes and carted them over the the tiny kitchen in the suite.

He could have sworn he saw a flash of purple. Luke blinked, put down his groceries and stepped out of the kitchen toward the bathroom. "Um, anyone in there?"

***

Seth nodded vaguely in acknowledgment at Jake, keeping his eyes on the TV screen. "That wasn't a tank, dimwit. Watch the left window. That one's open and they'll get in," he instructed Antonio.

Lucifer padded across the carpet, pausing in front of Seth. He hot Antonio a disinterested glance adn edged around them both to leap up onto the couch next to Ashton.

"Hey, kitty," Ashton said abently, reaching out a hand to pet the silvery feline.

There was a screeching meow and Ashton suddenly jerked away with a yelp of pain, kicking his brother in the back on accident and making Antonio's controller fly out of his hand. Ashton reeled back, clutching his bleeding hand as Lucifer licked his paw in a smug sort of way.

"Fuck! Your cat's a monster!" Ashton said angrily to Seth.

Seth didn't look up. "I think he mistook you for Jake. You're about to become zombie bait, Tony."

***

Evelyn was flicking to her Facebook, bored with waiting for the elevator. Luke had just updated his status. "Moving day?" she mouthed, confused. She hadn't heard anything about that.

Just then, the elevator turned up and she headed toward it. There was a carton lying right near it and Evelyn skirted around it.

Someone else was evidently having a moving day too. This was unusual as most people tended to move in early.

The stairwell door burst open at that moment and Evelyn stepped into the elevator, holding it open for a couple of people behind her.

[QueenLemonz]

Joel stopped what he was doing upon hearing what seemed like a vaguely familiar voice. He threw a glance over his shoulder and stepped towards the doorway. He'd heard, of course, someone come in, but he figured it was his other roommates to be so he'd opted to leave them be for the time being so they could do their thing whilst he did his, but now he was curious.

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