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 Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:59 pm
"I didn't ditch you..." Marceline sunk into her chair further, biting her bottom lip. "I mean, look at me. I'm in a dirty uniform, my hair's more of a mess than usual, I stink of coffee, and I'm thoroughly hexhausted... y'hones'ly think I was out on the town without you lookin' like this?!" She paused, realizing she was getting a bit heated. "I'm sorry, Dash. I know you hexted me a few times, but I was so busy at work I couldn't even stop to reply to you..." She pulled out her iCoffin -- 10 hext messages and 4 missed calls, all from Dashner, save for one.  She sighed, realizing there was no getting through to Dashner at this point, and opened her Dead Languages tome. "Alright, we'll start with Chapter 1..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:04 pm
Dashner rolled his eyes and he opened one of his many text books. He couldn't help but see Marceline keep looking at her iCoffin hopefully. He sank in his seat again, a sharping pain in his chest.
"Well, you certainly seem into that iCoffin, eh? You looking for anybody special?"
He continued to read through chapter one, and chapter two... And then noticed Marceline hadn't said a word. He looked up... Marceline's text book on the floor, all she was doing was typing on her iCoffin...
"What the--- Have you even been listening??!! Or is Rory the most important thing to you right now?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:16 pm
"That's it." Marceline dropped her iCoffin into her lap and glared at Dashner across the table. "First've all, what makes you think I'm hexting Rory? I'll have y'know that was Char-lene askin' about the screamery order... somethin' I'm r'sponsible for as manager, even off the clock. You wouldn't know about that though, would you Dashner?"
She rose from her seat and collected her books and the untouched box of pastries; clearly whatever hurt she'd caused by being late wasn't going to be assuaged with sweets, so she resolved to share these with her doommates. "Now I don'know what's got your feathers ruffled 'bout me an' Rorrim talkin'... bein' we're just friends. But I think this study session has gone about as long as it needed to..." And with that, Marceline made for the staircase, trying to force back tears welling up in her eyes.
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:23 pm
"Marcie! Wait! I-" She was gone. He sighed. He felt like he caused everything to go wrong... Had she not realized what went wrong at the Coffin Bean? He gathered his books slowly, and walked up the stairs. He walked in, and Ronan wasn't there.. Sweet. Time to himself his just what he needed.
He turned on the light and opened his journal. If Falconnie was right, a journal was the beast place to let things off his chest. He clicked his pen and began writing... And may or may not have started to tear up while writing.
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:49 pm
Marceline shut the door of her doomitory, pressing her weight against it as if to keep the world out. She drew out a heavy sigh and, realizing she was alone, relaxed into the darkness. She sat down in front of her vanity and lit the candles there, and for a moment stared at her dimly-lit reflection in the mirror, almost in a trance. Homesickness set in hard in that moment; Marceline fumbled through her drawers and found a small handkerchief with her mother's veve drawn on it, a parting gift to remind her of her Maman's love. She held it to her chest and thought of home.
"Maman..." She whispered. "I wanna come home now..."
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:08 pm
Ronan and Ascreama left comic club together, after all, they appeared to be the only ones who'd bothered to show up and given they were both heading back to the dorms, they ended up walking together in awkward silence for a time.
Finally Ronan turned to the blob girl and asked what he hadn't been able to ask all night. "Why were you crying earlier? Meme?" He couldn't quite comprehend how Meme's life of clowning, which seemed to be what she did anyway, was something to be upset by, he had to be missing something.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:58 pm
Ascreama nodded sadly. "I can know it seems normal, a clown running away to the circus.. But it's just so unlike her! I don't understand at all. It's like.." She paused, trying to think of a way to put it in terms Ronan would understand "It's like, you running away to some far off country simply because there's a lake there. Like, sure 'a selkie going to water' is normal, but the country is totally land-locked with no ocean for hundreds of miles and no one actually gets it because 'you're near water so it's okay'.."
She shrugged, feeling deflated. Maybe a snack would cheer her up? But for once, she didn't feel like eating.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:02 pm
He tried several times to replay what she'd just said so it made sense, but try as he might, he was still baffled by her analogy. All her got from it was she was worried about her friend, to which he nodded. "you know her better than anyone else, if you say she wouldn't run away to the circus, I believe you." He shook his head. "What IS going on here?"
They reached the dorm, making awkward small talk the whole way. Ronan wasn't good at such things and it was painfully obvious, but he was at least trying to cheer his friend up.
As they entered the lobby, he turned to Ascreama a and smiled softly. "Goodnight Ascreama, Sleep well. Perhaps tomorrow after school we should head over to the big top and see what the fuss is about?" He had to admit, he was curious now. So many people had abandoned school for the circus, it had to be a pretty amazing circus. Or something odd was going on, which actually seemed far more likely.
He reached out a hand, then thought better of it and let it drop to his side. "Goodnight." he repeated, before heading up to his own room.
Ronan wasn't used to living with other people, so it didn't even cross his mind to be quiet as he trudged into the dorm room he shared with Dashner. Light streamed into the dark room from the hall and heavy boots thudded loudly against the hard floors.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:19 pm
"Whaaa---??!!"
Dashner was fast asleep before his roommate decided to bardge into the room. He even turned the light on! Dashner sheilded is eyes.
"Why, bro, why?!" He hissed falling out of his bed. He crawled to the end of his bed and pulled himself up. Eyes now adjusted to the sudden light, Dashner gave Ronan a stern look.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:22 pm
"Ack!" He jumped, he hadn't really anticipated Dashner 1: being in and 2: being asleep. it wasn't that late after all!
"I... sorry... I didn't know you were here.. I.. " nope, couldn't come up with a decent excuse. He raised both hands defensively at Dash's stern look. "Sorry?" Slowly he lowered his hands, frowning a little at his dorm mate. "you look terrible." He informed the boo flatly.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:11 pm
Marceline tried to fight back against her fangxiety and go to bed early, but it was in vain. She'd turn out the lights, lay down in bed, realize she wasn't tired; she'd turn on the lights, pace around the empty doomitory, suddenly feel very tired, and the cycle would repeat itself. In order to overcome this, she decided she needed to get out. Grabbing her iCoffin and not expecting too much, she hexted Tori Underbridge.
Hey, ghoul! Want to come to the die-ner with me for a bit?
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:26 pm
Vinnie paced the floor of her doomitory, eagerly awaiting any response from Hellene regarding what she captured on film. Rumors had gotten around that another monster, Ascreama's friend Meme, had run off to join this circus; which, to Vinnie, seemed normal enough. But something about it still seemed fishy...
She hadn't spoken much to her doommate since the first day, when she was practically dragged to lunch with the gelatinous ghoul. At that moment, Ascreama had returned from her Comic Book Club meeting -- something Vinnie wanted to do if she wasn't so distracted by this case -- gooey tears oozing down her face.
"Ascreama!" Vinnie gasped. "Just the monster I've been dying to talk to all day! I have a few questions about your friend Meme, and that hokey circus tent..."
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:43 pm
Knock! Knock! KnockKnockknockknockknock!!!! "Boos! Boos! Boosboosboosboos!!!" Vanissha knocked repeatedly on the door while calling out to the dorm mates. She mostly just wanted to talk to Ronan but is was good that Faconnie was there too. She didn't bother waiting for them to open the door as it had been left unlocked, they were taking too long and simply let herself in, bombarding them with words and demanding questions! "Ronan! Falconnie! Have you heard that Meme has left to join the Circus?! She promised to help train my puppy! Now how will she be able to do both?! She quit monster high and that's freed up some dead time I'm sure. But my Quicksilver needs help with his night time potty breaks and she's not around to do it!" This may not have been Meme and Vanissha's agreement as often Vanissha rehearses speeches she's going to say to people in practice conversations for her famous future acting career and forgets to actually talk to people. But worse Vanissha was feeling abandoned again and was lashing out. She looked a little mad being forgotten like that by Meme, even worse that she didn't eve get a proper good bye! How awful to be forgotten! It was the worst feeling ever! "Ronan as Meme's best friend's boyfriend of Ascreama, you should know that Meme's mass texting people ticket's to come see the show. I'll have you know that that if you see Ascreama tell her to tell Meme that that I told you that I'm throwing a Massive Birthday Bash for my self and that if she doesn't make due on her promise that I'm dis-inviting her! And her Circus-thing Better NOT be the same day as my birthday!!"She puts her hands on her hips, taping her foot impatiently. "Can you do that Ronan?"She looks at who appears to be Falconnine with shorter hair... wings and blond and brown hair... Looks just like her.. "Falconnie did you cut your hair? Love it!" She gave her a thumbs up, messy hair was so in, but it really needed some hair spray! "But more importantly! Have you left me too? I'm all alone in my dorm! Why does everyone leave me?!?" It was quite possibly the most dramatic cry ever! And this time Vanissha wasn't acting.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:46 pm
Ascreama oozed into pyjamas as soon as she had entered her room. It had been a long and tiring day and she just wanted to settle down and read, distract herself from thinking too much. "Oh!" She cried in surprise as Vinnie jumped her. The green monster seemed eager to talk to her for once instead of gagging or being mean, which made Ascreama suspicious. She wanted to be friends with Vinnie, or at least mutual grounds, so she dropped her bags and sat on her pile of bean bags and pillows.
"I, uhm, well, I guess the news got around quickly.. What do you want to know?" She asked cautiously. Talking the events leading up to Meme's run-away had given her a different perspective, but she still knew something was wrong.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:12 pm
Vinnie fluffed up one of the bean bags in Ascreama's part of the doom sat down, cautiously avoiding any residual goo.
"I need to know," she began, "what you know about Meme's departure to this circus. Did she say anything about it before? I've been investigating and it seems the monsters that have gone off to join this circus... well, they never mentioned it until just before leaving. It seems... suspicious!!"
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