week 2, monday

[ninjay]

[ when it's 10 pm and jake still hasn't returned to their room, jay starts to get... concerned. it's not really like him to be out this late, or at least jay is pretty sure he would have told him? jake's pretty polite when it comes to things like that.

so, jay sets off to do a very quick search around the premises for his missing roommate. he can't be as thorough as he would like, with the threat of curfew looming, but he hits all of the locations that are accessible and comes up empty handed.

when he finally heads back to his room, a little past 11, he spots dirk outside his door. that is... concerning? or maybe dirk was with jake, and he just dropped jake off at the room or?? something?? WHATEVER THE CASE jay hurries over. ]

Were you with Jake?

Comments

[splinten]

[That is too close to a kid having a panic attack who doesn't even fully know where he is, Jay! It's pure reflex that has Dirk sweeping out an arm to knock Jay away from him, and that's transparent in the way he doesn't really look at Jay when he strikes. At least he's ramrod straight now.]

Hey. Could you please just leave me alone.

[ninjay]

[ well, it's definitely a good thing that jay's own reflects are especially good because he manages to back out of the way from that.

he glares at dirk for a few seconds from his new position, before sighing and walking back towards him. ]

Fine. Can you get out of the way of the door? I'm going to look for Jake and I don't have that much time left to do so.

[splinten]

Yeah. [He does move out of the way and just... heads towards the city. He'll look for Jake there.]

[ninjay]

[ before dirk gets too far from him, though, jay is going to call out, ]

He told me to make sure you don't do anything stupid, so get back here before midnight.

[splinten]

[There's a pause and he glances back.] Yeah. Cool.

[But he has to go look at the city to at least try to find Jake.]

[ninjay]

[ he nods his head, and goes to inspect the motel again. ]