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"Well, I was ordering food for myself and I was coming to see you too so I just thought...why not." He shrugged, though he released Yin's hand readily enough when it looked like the weremantis was ready to let go, even if he didn't exactly want to and did it grudgingly.

He opened up his other hand, looking again at the badge that Yin had given him. He wasn't exactly sure what to do with it at the moment, though he was fairly sure it would be safe in his pocket and then he could find a better place for it once he got back to his room. So, he deposited it there, while listening to Yin ask if he wanted to join him.

Well, that had kind of been the point. He hadn't intended on just bringing Yin a bag of food and then just leaving.

He wandered over to the bed and stood beside Yin, watching with bemusement as the other boil attempted to open the brown paper bag with one hand. "I think I would like to stay and eat, yes. And I don't mind sitting on the floor, but it's up to you" Though that reminded him faintly of that stupid imp demon TG and his demand that Alex eat off of the cafeteria floor like some kind of pet. But he really didn't want to accidentally mess up Yin's bed with food, especially considering how dirty and clumsy Alex could be.

"Do you want some help?" he asked, though a little reluctantly. He didn't want to seem like he was implying Yin couldn't do it himself but...with one hand? The weremantis was struggling.

If he did insist on doing it himself, however, he would find two containers within, as well as some paper napkins (hey, those would have come in handy earlier with Alex's bleeding neck!) and plastic forks and knives. One container held cooked meatballs, probably gone cold but there was a chance they still held a little warmth, and the other, which was more obviously for Alex, brain noodles.

Alex stood back and let Yin finish what he was doing, feeling very unneeded at the moment. His gaze swept the room so that he could see that indeed, there was no where for the zombie to sit other then either the floor or the bed, which he remembered from the last time he had been in Yin's room. When the weremantis was finished digging everything out, and had sat against the wall, Alex shuffled to where Yin was sitting and reached down to grab the first container, and a fork as well since eating brain noodles was quite messy with ones fingers alone.

He then debated where exactly he should seat himself. Yin had told him to make himself comfortable in his room, but it was like Yin had said. The most comfortable place was the bed. What Alex really wanted was to scoot in next to Yin. Alex liked being around others, and he enjoyed physical contact possibly quite a bit more then Yin liked to receive it. Mindful of this, he decided to just sit on the bed facing Yin, and so he climbed up, and sat with his legs crossed, putting his container of food on his lap and watching Princess Eva as she jumped onto the bed and made her way over towards her owner.

Alex was guessing she was going to be getting a lot more cuddles then he was. Always.

Oh well! He was in far too good of a mood to care about things like that, anyways. With a happy smile he started in on his late dinner, digging in with his fork and twirling the 'noodles' round and round till he had a good sized portion he could shove into his mouth. When he had the mouthful chewed and swallowed, he spoke. "It's good, do you want to try some?" He held the container out in a gesture of sharing rarely done by a zombie from large family that ate what they could get. "Are the meatballs ok?"

Alex, upon realising Yin wasn't going to accept his offer, sat back again, putting the container back in his lap with a nod, and scooping up another forkful to twirl into a giant ball and consume. He nodded as he swallowed it down, and waved off Yin's thank you as well as his offer to share the meatballs. It wasn't that he didn't want any, but he didn't feel right taking any from Yin if he didn't take any of Alex's food in return. "No no, that's fine. I've got enough here. And it was no problem, really, like I said I was ordering for myself anyways and just thought you might like something too." It would be nice if he could buy Yin things and just have the weremantis accept them without question, but even with being bonded now Alex wasn't sure that he would.

Had anything really changed at all?

He hadn't really been too bothered by the lack of conversation during meal time. After all, this was a time to fill ones mouth with food, not for chatting. Though Alex's mom tended to like to talk during dinner, so it wasn't as though Alex wasn't at least accustomed to answering a question or two between bites.

"My mom? She's...ok." Alex honestly hadn't even talked to her since asking about making the mini pet treats for Princess Eva. He hadn't told her anything that was going on between he and Yin, for once not seeking out her advice at all. He wasn't even sure he'd tell her anything now, because he was worried about how she would take it. He knew she liked Yin, and even approved of him. But to have to explain bonding.....He knew she would think that Alex rushed into something that he wasn't prepared for. Best to just keep it to himself for now, unless she asked him directly if anything was going on. At least, until Alex got more of a feel for what this all meant.

"She's a little unhappy, I think. They decided to send the twins away to a private school, for uh....well, let's call it troubled ghouls." Troubled as in crazy and violent? Yep, going with that. "So, of course, now more then half of her children are gone and it's just..hard on her, I guess." He didn't really like to think about it, because he knew that he himself was part of the reason she was unhappy. She hinted a lot at how nice it would be if he would just come home, but he always just tried to change the subject.

Alex stirred his fork around in his food slowly, suddenly not feeling as hungry as he had been a few moments before.

"I was thinking about it, and I did tell her that I would be home to visit again sometime in the future." Alex had left it fairly vague, though he was thinking he would probably return home again when classes ended. But that meant a month or more away from Amity....and possibly away from Yin as well, unless he came too.

He was still staring down at his food with brows furrowed in thought when Yin deposited a meatball in his container. Alex looked up, slightly amused at the weremantis and deciding that it would be rude not to at least eat it now that it was there. He stabbed it on his fork then twirled it so that it was wrapped in brain noodles before shoving the whole thing in his mouth.

That was actually....incredibly tasty. He made a mental note to order some meatballs for himself next time he got the craving for brain noodles, because what he just put in his mouth was possibly the most delicious thing he'd ever eaten outside of his mom's cooking.

And yes, Alex saw what Princess Eva was doing. He even caught the look she gave him. He just smiled back at her and reached forward towards her brand new bag of treats that were sitting in the middle of the bed. "I forgot to tell you that my mom baked some home made pet treats for Princess Eva. I'm not sure she likes them though." He teased, knowing full well that she did, after having seen her eat one already.

Alex listened, and drew his hand back as Yin just went ahead and grabbed one of the treats himself to give to Princess Eva. He sat back and thought about what Yin just said, and while he understood what the weremantis was trying to say, it was just because Alex didn't want to commit to a specific time yet that he hadn't answered his mom.

"Ya, you're right. I just need to decide when would be the best time to go home again, is all. I can't give her a date until I know for sure what I want to do. I could go for another weekend, but once classes are finished...well, I'll be expected to go home for weeks until classes resume. Do you..have any plans for what you're going to do when classes end?"

Alex had nearly finished his meal now, and scooped up the last few bits of brains to consume, chewing on them slowly before putting his plastic fork in the container and setting it to the side, waiting for Yin's response.

Alex could only assume the school would still be open, though he honestly never thought about it since he knew once his classes ended for the semester he would just go home and then come back when things started up again. "I think so. I mean, probably. If it is and there are classes I want to take I can always just go home for a little while and then come back..." He was more musing to himself with that last part. He really didn't want to have to be separated from Yin for an extended period of time. 8 days was enough, thank you very much.

"But..uh..I mean, if you don't have plans, I could always see if it would be ok for you to come and stay with us? If you would want to, anyways, of course. I know that last time things didn't always go really well but...." He was struggling with words again, and he knew he was. Oh look, Princess Eva was wandering towards him. He decided to just leave that sentence unfinished and reached out see if she would let him pet her now, or if she would growl at him again as she had done earlier.

He just hoped she didn't get the strange urge to clamber all over him and grab ahold of his tie again. That had been awkward, ending in unpleasant.

So Princess Eva was going to let him pet her now? He couldn't help but feel like if Yin wasn't around, that might not be the case. Though, of course, Alex couldn't really fault her for being weird around him earlier. He had, after all, come into Yin's room when he wasn't around, and she may have been feeling territorial and protective of the dorm room without her owner around.

That's what Alex was going to tell himself for now, anyways.

He stopped petting her, and put his hands back in his lap while he listened to Yin's response. "Of course I'll want you to visit." Or, you know, stay the whole time. "But that's a...a while away from happening yet. We can talk about it more when it gets closer."

He wasn't quite sure how to address the last part of what Yin said. It was true, Alex hadn't been able to spend as much time with his family as he probably should have. But should have and wanted to were two different things. "I spent is much time with them as I wanted to. I invited you because I wanted to spend time with you, and I enjoyed it, very much." Minus the photo incident, but at least that had only spanned one night, and they had been able to work things out the next day.

Alex found himself wondering how late it was. He hadn't exactly gotten himself over here in a speedy manner after taking so long just getting ready, and then he'd had to wait for Yin to arrive. And then they had talked...

He glanced towards the window, seeing that the pumpkin sun had indeed gone down, and that it was dark outside. Yin was probably going to want to go to bed soon, and Alex, while not really wanting to leave, also didn't want to interfere with the other boils sleep schedule either. Especially considering how hard he was always pushing himself with training, and how early he got up in the morning.

Alex waited for Yin to be finished tidying up before easing himself off of the bed as well, hopping on his good leg and holding on to the edge of the bed to remain balanced as he tested out the mobality of his skeletal leg by bending it at the knee a couple of times. It had stiffened up from sitting cross legged, but was loosening up nicely so he stood up straight, smiling to himself at Yin's words. Before he could respond the weremantis was out the door and gone.

It amused Alex that Yin wanted to walk him wherever he was headed, which at this time of night would only be back to his room to study. But he also said that Alex could stay as long as he would like...

Hmmmm....

The second Yin returned to the room, Alex asked, very innocently and without a hint of mocking in his tone. "What if I didn't have anywhere to be until morning? Would I be allowed to spend the night here?" He then laughed a little bit, to show that he wasn't being completely serious, though apparently he wasn't finished talking either.

"I don't have anywhere to be, and nothing important to do. Unless you count sitting in my room doing just about nothing for the rest of the night." Sometimes not needing to sleep had it's advantages, but most of the time, especially since coming to the school, it meant that Alex got to just sit around alone all night.

"So really, it's your choice when you want me to leave. I'm not going to ask to spend the night or anything, and I don't want to keep you from getting any sleep. Just let me know when you want me to go and I can go."