All moved in... and nothing changes. (Very open)

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:48 pm

All in all it hadn't been a bad day. He'd gotten to school, seen people, gotten out to do things, basically it'd been a better day than he'd had in months.

And yet, Alex still couldn't sleep.

Which was, basically, why he found himself in the common room, with his X-Box hooked up to the bigscreen. After watching his guy get splattered across the screen again, he swore, throwing his headset at a couch and walking over to take the game out and find another. "Fucking Germans..."

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:43 pm

"They kicked your butt I take it?" Jason asked as he walked up.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:49 pm

"Yes," Alex griped. "I think they're robots. Do Germans make robots that play Call of Duty? Because no one can be that good."

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:14 pm

"Nah, they're imported from Latveria."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:18 pm

"Stupid Latverians," he muttered, smirking. "Want to play? I can't sleep to save my life right now."

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:22 pm

"Sure!" he grinned, "What game?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:31 pm

"Dude, I really don't care. Just something where lots of stuff is going to blow up," he said, tossing a stack of games at Jason to look through. "So what was summer like here, man? Must've been good if it was better than heading back to Hawaii," he said, smirking.

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:47 pm

"It was great!... for about a month," he said as he searched the stack.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:50 pm

"What happened after a month? Got bored?"

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:57 pm

"Exactly."

He held up a game . "Bam."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:59 pm

"Perfect. Good to play with someone speaking the same language as me," he said, grabbing a controller.

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:11 pm

"Hope you still don't plan on winning," he smirked as he put the disc in and powered up the console.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:15 pm

"Please. If it's not worth winning, it's not worth doing," Alex scoffed. "So what was so boring?" he asked, after getting set up and, infuriatingly, once things started going.

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:39 pm

"New York isn't that great."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:43 pm

"Yeah, but is anywhere? Least there's people here, y'know?"

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:51 pm

"Yeah. Waaaay more people."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:58 pm

"Oh bite me, I've been in solitary for two months," Alex said as he tossed off a rocket at Jason's guy. Apparently, conversing and playing at the same time didn't give Alex any problems at all.

by **Jason Black** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:39 pm

Jason's guy ducked behind a wall to avoid being fragged.

"Ooh! So close!" he grinned, strafing out to fire his assault rifle.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:12 pm

"I mean, seriously, the people I got to talk to most were those fucking Germans," he added, continuing seemlessly as he strafed around the wall to lay down suppressing fire.

by **Christine Bowen** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:31 am

"Hey guys, what is up?" Christie said as she walked in.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:33 am

Alex very briefly glanced back. "Oh, hey, Christie. Just listening to this guy complain about being bored and pretend that he can kick my ass here. How about you?"

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:00 am

"Bored enough to watch other people play video games."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:32 am

"Yeah, welcome to the insomniac's club," Alex said, smirking. "I'll tell you this, being bored sucks a lot less with company."

by **Jason Black** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:54 pm

Then came the grenade, bouncing in on an uncanny trajectory. A pineapple grenade, naturally.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:16 pm

And it was deftly avoided by the boy who'd had nothing to do but play video games for most of the summer. "So what've you been up to?" he asked her, not missing a beat as chaingun fire began closing in on Jason.

by **Christine Bowen** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:52 pm

"Crying over my brother. Worrying about my brother. Deciding if I can forgive my dad for my brother existing."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:55 pm

Alex winced. "Yeah, I heard about that. I'm sorry," he said quietly. "T-Bow getting settled in well enough?" he asked, glancing back at her.

by **Jason Black** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:46 pm

After an unfortunate bullet-riddled demise, a re-spawned Jason-dude came after Alex-dude with a flamethrower.

by **Christine Bowen** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:56 pm

"He's doing ok." Christie said "Not handling it as well as my dad is, but whatev."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:07 am

He nodded. "Yeah, makes sense," he sighed. "Well, if you need someone to talk to... ah, what am I saying. You're not new here, you don't need one of the new guys to vent to."

by **Christine Bowen** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:10 pm

"Honestly, what I want is to not talk about it, y'know?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:11 pm

"Aaaand I'm good at not talking about things, too. I'm a guy. Ask anyone, we suck at talking," he said, glancing back at her with a smirk.

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:48 am

"Doing is fine, too." Christie replied.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:53 am

"Doing is always good," he said. "I'm a big fan of doing."

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:44 pm

"Wanna go to Salem tomorrow?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:46 pm

"I'd love to," he said. "Got stuff you need to do? Or should I be bringing money to treat?" he asked, glancing back again with a grin. And still not missing a beat at the game, unfuriatingly enough for Jason.

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:00 am

"I've got stuff to do, but you should bring money to buy me lunch." Christie said with a grin.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:09 am

"Sounds perfect," Alex said, grinning back. "Already itching to get away from campus, I just needed some company worth heading out with."

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:29 pm

"Cool beans." Christie said "I'll meet you at the gate around 11 tomorrow. That work?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:41 pm

"That sounds perfect," Alex said.

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