'cos we're young and we're broke and I can't find my coat

[iustitiae]

Who: Connor, Matt, Jade & Friends of the aforementioned (feel free to join if you think you qualify or hit us up on plurk; also all the threadjacking of course)
What: Connor has a house party because why not
Where: At Connor's house, which is also Jade and Matt's house
When: 1/11
Warnings: Nah just partying probably with minimal alcohol, even, to set a good example for jade



[connor's bored, mostly. you can only go on so many lame moped trips crying about the return of the cave roof for so long before you really need a new hobby. that new hobby might even be one of the lame board games he swiped from the stores - for a lot of guilt, so he's kind of hoping they're not missing pieces (lets be honest, they probably are.)

anyways he texts some of his friends and tells them to come over because the more the merrier I guess and they could probably all use some time to chill together or something. besides then his friends can meet his other friends and that's always a fun idea.

it's easier to be surrounded by people than left alone with your thoughts, is really the long and short of it. so here we all are.]

Hey, you made it!

Comments

[fourthsaken]

Holy shit. That's... [She shouldn't say creepy, even if it is kind of creepy.]

I'm pretty normal. I mean, not normal, but ordinary or whatever.

[benumbing]

[jack smiles a little at how she phrases it.]

Why aren't you normal? [he tilts his head and pretends to study her.] You don't look abnormal to me.

[fourthsaken]

I go to a boarding school where everyone's trying to murder me.

[She says it simply, like it's a fact she just accepts at this point.]

[benumbing]

[there's a very subtle arch of a single brow at her words. somehow jack believes that she's being more literal than dramatic.]

Why?

[fourthsaken]

[It's reassuring that he believes her, and she finds herself willing to trust him more and more.]

Why do they wanna kill me specifically or why do they wanna kill any of us?

[benumbing]

Let's start with you specifically.

[though he wouldn't mind hearing the rest either.]

[fourthsaken]

I failed like, a test. They've decided I'm worthless, that I'm best used as a tool to get the other students to do what they want. That's why Gribbs though it'd be find to choke me to death if it got Ike to kill his father.

[Her school is extremely messed up.]

[benumbing]

...Is all public schooling like this?

[he asks in all seriousness before shaking his head.]

You know that they're wrong, don't you? Fuck them.

[fourthsaken]

[Jade can't help but laugh slightly, even though she knows her situation back home is far from funny. It's almost vindicating how shocked adults are when she talks about her school, proof that she's not overreacting.]

It's not a public school. It's like, one of those fancy college prep schools that mostly only rich kids can afford to go to. I'm not sure how I even got in, it's not like my family could pay for it, but I did. It was supposed to be a good change for me.

[She doesn't answer his second question because she knows he won't like the answer she has.]