WHO: Jeremiah & Janis WHEN: Nowish. WHERE: Lakeside Mansions. SUMMARY: The writer in hiding from the mob gives curious people tours of his house. WARNINGS: N/A will update if that changes.
The distraction of the doorbell was precisely what Jeremiah needed. Time alone meant time that he could stare into space, wallow over past mistakes and he'd never really liked time alone even though it was something he'd spent a lot of since coming to Repose. And no one here would probably guess it, but he'd once been someone who went out every night, who interacted with people regularly, both as a part of his job, and in his free time, and now both his job and his life leaned towards solitary and he was gathering the opinion that it was time to change this.
Sure, it was more difficult in a huge house on the lake to just drop in and out among people. It had been easier to do that when he'd been in a studio apartment and the only way to get a change of scenery was to go down six flights of stairs to a coffee shop or a bar, but here he had a luxury he had not had in that apartment which was simply put space. The space to seriously entertain, and he was ready to put in and do precisely that. Yes, his father might live in a large house and never invite anyone in, but Jeremiah was not his father, no matter how indebted to him he might be.
But this particular meeting had been set up, and he was glad to have encouraged it, honestly looking forward to having another human in the house. Two cats and one dog were company, but were not socialization, and Jeremiah keenly felt the difference between. He headed towards the front door, dressed in dark jeans, a floral shirt and vest, and carrying a half-smoked cigarette in one hand, he straightened his shoulders before he opened the door.
For a moment he took in the person on the other side of it and then he pulled it open further to reveal the entry way with its wood floors and the light at the end end of it from the large living room it opened out into. "Before you can enter, you have to tell me whether or not I meet or subvert your expectations," he quipped. "Just so that I can adjust accordingly."