Re: Electronics Shop Apartments: Shiloh F, Alex W
As it was, that wasn't the impression Alex got at the moment. He seemed to have a sort of lazy sarcasm on the forums, and that in itself wasn't damning to Alex. In person, he just thought Shiloh was nice. Helpful, even. If he proved to be otherwise, it would sting, because first impressions meant a lot to a kid like Alex, who had, so frequently in recent years, never seen anything beyond that first glimpse. A lot of his interactions between leaving home and coming to Repose had been one-and-done.
"I mean, he might actually have a good time," Alex pointed out, shrugging out of his blue- and brown-striped hoodie and revealing the black tee he wore underneath, which was at the same time, both desperately nerdy and - to his sense of humor - delightfully ironic. Thing was, he liked Mal too. Just, fullstop, liked him. So he wanted him to have a good time - an actual one - and not be annoyed. Not feel like he was enduring something. "Maybe...I 'unno. Aren't lighter colors s'posedta make a place feel bigger?" He asked, running fingers through his hair to attempt to calm it after the static from pulling off his hoodie threatened to lift it toward the ceiling. "So maybe like a...quiet green." He'd know it when he saw it, he figured. Something close to the color of his headphones, maybe.
"Oh. I've got some Debbie Gibson..." He tapped the toes of his shoes on the floor a couple times and then gestured Shiloh into his bedroom, with the old table with the computer and monitor stacked on top, with his Walkman and the pile of tapes sitting in a neat double stack, all set up in front of a bed that looked like it would swallow Alex whole between its size and the number of blankets and pillows. He tossed the hoodie to the far end of the bed. "When I was livin' in the trailer, I found a box of all these that someone'd left behind," he explained, dropping down on the edge of the bed. "Plenty to choose from, but...I think I like the girl singers best. Blondie and The Bangles and Pat Benetar. Belinda Carlisle."