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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:50 pm
It wasn't much of a party for Joy. She didn't know anyone there and the food was weird. Not bad just weird. If she had a better idea of what was going on, or how they all got there, she might have actually tried to have fun. But all those messages of other people waking up alone and not knowing what's going on gave her something to focus on.
The others there looked like they were enjoying themselves so Joy just left. No need to drag them along. Although she did get another couple of those weird snack-things because she was stressed and therefore she would eat.
She sent the Roland a message stating that she was in the hallway and a brief description of what she looked like.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:09 pm
The boy finally did arrive after wandering down the halls till he found a stairwell. He made his way up before poking his head into another hall spotting the girl he was looking for.
Even as he walked over he was rubbing his forhead letting out slightly distraught sounds before stopping them to talk to her, "You're Joy right? From the phone apps?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:22 pm
Joy was still scrolling and responding to whatever she thought appropriate on twitter when Roland arrived. "Oh! Ya!" she answered, giving him a reassuring smile. "You doing okay?" she asked, recalling his last messages seemed to be about his head-voice screaming.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:27 pm
Once he was closer it was clear he had been crying, his eyes where red and puffy. When she did ask him how he was doing he sniffed a bit shaking his head, "She's upset. Like. Really upset. She was screaming for so long about where her body was, where was she, who was I, and nothing I said made her calm down.... she's crying now.... but it sounds far away? Like she's not right beside me anymore but it's still in my head."
An earlier conversation came to mind, "Did you find any food anywhere?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:35 pm
Wait whoa a guy she didn't know was actually crying in front of her? What. What was happening? Joy had grown up with the whole boys don't cry mentality, which made this situation even that more serious for him. She wasn't sure if he'd be receptive to gestures of comfort but she tried to anyway. The teen placed a hand on Roland's shoulder, "Um, maybe just keep giving her time? Girls take a long time to stop crying."
She gave him a wry smile at the question about food and held out one of the bag of snacks she got from the party. "Have some. I already ate one. It was weird."
Something about Roland's voice screaming about her body was making Joy's own voice uncomfortable. But only briefly. Before it shifted to anger.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:45 pm
Roland was raised much the same way, his father had detested softness in him. Crying was the sure sign of that. Tears where meant for real pain that Roland didn't understand according to his dad growing up. But this? This was awful, a constant stream of howling like someone screaming as they died but the screams never stopped.
"It... it went on for almost an hour..." he whimpered a bit. He rubbed his eyes with the back of a long white jacket, the sleeves rolled way up to fit his arms, the split tails of the coat dragging on the floor almost, his shoes? None. The ones he found where too big.
The good news was he did seem to light up at the snacks quickly ripping open the bag gulping them down really quickly. "It's better then nothing.... the only thing I found in the room I woke up was like... rum I think.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:10 pm
Joy fidgeted at the mention of rooms. "My room was dark. Like a jail cell 'cept instead've one wall being bars it was just a door. And it had no windows. There were a lot of nice shoes though. Just one or two sizes bigger'n my feet." She raised a leg to show him her solidarity of bare feet-ness. She wasn't going to mention the clothes though.
If he'd been a girl she might have gone on to say that none of her bras fit now but that would pretty much be over-sharing even for Joy. Maybe if she'd been several years older she wouldn't have thought twice about over-sharing if only so she could get the fun of seeing their reaction.
"My voice's real quiet. He doesn't talk much but I can sort of... get what he feels?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:27 pm
"Mine was 152, it had a window and it was kinda nice? There was a nice wood desk in it, and yeah lots of clothes that are uhhh kinda big." He spun a bit his jacket flaring out behind him. "There was a really cool pair of boots and it had a large dagger in it too with weird marks on it." He grinned at her bare feet, apparently everyone had miss sized clothes?
The conversation turned to the voices, his face drooping again as he quietly ate his small pack of snacks noting it was about to run out soon. "I can feel.... confusion? She doesn't know whats going on anymore then me sadly." He looked up a bit of fear in his eyes, "Her screaming.... it was like something out of a horror story..."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:34 pm
"Huh, maybe if I should have stuck around longer in the room. There might have been other stuff beside the phone." Of course he would have to mention clothes and Joy ended up crossing her arms across her (now flat) chest. "Hey, as long as you're not running around naked, bare feet're okay by me. Just don't wipe 'em on me if you get muddy or something."
Being with someone was definitely a good thing for her. She had something or someone to focus on that wasn't herself or the voice in her head that was usually quiet but always seemingly judging her.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:42 pm
"You can hang out at mine though if you want. Or we can go back to your and look for stuff?" He pulled out a watch from his pocket as well. "I found this too it seems really high tech but I have no clue how to work it... its like some kinda smart phone in a watch?" He noticed her covering her chest, but it didn't register to him why.
A small smile cracked across his face, "I wouldn't do that, that's mean. And you brought me snacks so it's double mean to do something like that." The voice still wept sometimes in the background but she was growing more and more distant as he focused elsewhere, but the sense something was watching him never left. Like the voice was aware of everything he still did.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:17 pm
Joy stared at the watch in distrust. This place's technology was just too unreal for her, it was like watching one of those Japanese cartoons like Voltes V. "What's a smart phone?" she ended up asking, "Is it like a game and watch?" It was 1992 when she was last fourteen and third world countries weren't exactly up to speed. Plus there had been a volcanic eruption the year before that.
"Wellll, the snacks were from the party," she said, using her lips to gesture towards the room she'd gotten them from. "If you're feeling better or I dunno, wanna go look at the weapons inside, I don't mind going back in. Hell, we can even grab more food. There was a lot of junk food but no real food." There was a note of disapproval in her voice.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:30 pm
The watch was high tech even for him, to him it was the mid 2000's smart phones existed, watches where being talked about but not a thing. It was all he could compare it too. When she asked the question he turned around his thick early gen iphone, it looked like a 4 or a 5, not nearly thin or as big as what currently existed but it still had a touch interactive screen.
"You just... touch it you know?" He swiped his finger across it unlocking the phone. Icons appearing and one clearing stating the island twitter which he opened showing the messages they had shared earlier.
"I guess we can? There isn't much else to do. Or we could find more of the people on this chat app?" He tucked the phone away again for a moment. "More snacks are better then nothing at all though." He frowned, "But what did that Noaginger guy mean by I have a scythe?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:48 pm
Brown eyes just stared in awe as Roland demonstrated how to use the phone. The only reason she managed to even get on twitter was because it was literally the thing that was on the screen when she first fiddled with her device.
"Pakshet," she breathed. "It's like magic!" The awestruck look quickly disappeared at the mention of Noaginger and the distaste was unmistakable on her face. "I don't know. Someone said he's a ***** so maybe he was trying to get you to like him. But he sounds real kupal so I wouldn't listen to him."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:55 pm
"Yeah when they first came out it kinda was like that. I only ever got to play with the ones at the stores, but I woke up with this one which is really crazy." The look of disgust was very clear, "I don't like him much either, but he doesn't SEEM pervy like that Mark guy who was talking about being aroused on there. He's creepy. Like really creepy." He sighed, "I still kinda wana know what he means? Like it might explain stuff here..."
He paused for a moment, "Whats Kupal mean? It's not like Spanish is it?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:30 pm
"I don't understand half the stuff that Mark guy says," Joy admitted but she didn't look the least bit broken up about that. "Alls I know is, I don't trust Noaginger. You can't be too careful around people like him." She might have been referring to something else other than his attitude but Joy assumed it was a given.
What's wrong with boils liking other boils? the voice sounded incredulous, which felt like a first for Joy.
"And kupal is Tagalog for someone who's an a*****e but like, grosser."Miliardo Kason Really derogatory word for someone who's an a*****e, but also refers to smegma 8D
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