Jesse Bryan Holmes (jackedupwere) wrote in halcyon_houses, @ 2008-07-23 06:06:00 |
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Week Fourteen -- Friday -- Evening
Who: Jesse and River
Where: Their room
When: Week 14, Friday, After classes
What: Jesse finds the perfect plan for vengeance against his roommate backfires.
Rating: PG-13
Thank God it was Friday, Jesse thought as he headed back from his evening class. This was the best time in the werewolf's opinion. It was officially the period which was furthest away time wise from when he would have to go back to school again. He heaved a sigh as the weight of classes slipped off his shoulders as he walked towards his dorm. The world was now his oyster. What could he do before tomorrow afternoon in which he had to work? Well, he could play some video games or just surf the net. There was always homework, which Jesse snickered as that thought crossed his mind briefly enough so he could make fun of it. Do homework on Friday. Yeah right! No, he would do it either Sunday evening or Monday morning. It all really depended. It depended on how annoying his roommate was. That was a lousy excuse since Jesse could always work on his homework in the common areas but he liked using River as a scapegoat. That was the only thing he was good for in his opinion.
Even though it was Friday and Jesse didn't have to worry about school until Sunday evening or work until tomorrow afternoon, he still had some things that crossed his mind. Mainly, this was the situation with Kenzie. He liked the boy a lot but he didn't know what the kisses meant or the cuddling. He liked the idea to experiment about it but as he told Charlie, the step of action confused him. Jesse had the opportunity to talk to Kenzie about it like his mentor suggested, he just chose not to. Cat boy and the werewolf had a few meals together even though Jesse had to explain the concept of public displays of affection to the sheltered Kenzie. It was flattering. It was that quality that Jesse probably liked the most which made him feel slightly dirty if he thought about it deeply enough. The sad part was he liked Kenzie at the least a friend. It was nice to not be around people who were older than him who treated him like a little kid. Sydni did that a lot, Jesse found. Kenzie did not. In his relationship with Kenzie, he knew more basically. Kenzie was like the kid.
Then, there was also the problem with his roommate. Wes told him that this arrangement was so River could practice restraint on the chaos that raged inside of him. All Jesse saw was he was the one being screwed over. River made it so Jesse couldn't sleep the morning after the full moon. He ate Jesse's food. He was messy. He was annoying. He also smoked pot halfway in the room. The list just went on. He wrote an e-mail to his sister about the roommate and she just returned a note saying that he couldn't be as bad as her disgusting roommate who never showered. Jesse wrote her back one uping her saying, “At least your roommate isn't a chaos demon.” Okay, part chaos demon but as far as Jesse was concerned, River was a full blooded one. That's what it felt like. He thought he would like chaos after living in a household of order. How wrong he was!
As he opened the door to his room, Jesse heaved a sigh of relief as he noticed the roommate appeared to not be around. He smiled to himself as he slid his backpack along the floor to his desk. Then he smelt it. Something chocolatey and sugary. Brownies. Brownies were Jesse's favorite pastry snack and his mouth already began to salivate like it did on the full moon when he saw some sort of animal in the woods. Looking around for said brownies, he noticed there was a plateful on River's desk. Score. Then a delightfully evil thought crossed his mind. Maybe he should eat all the brownies so River would know how it felt! Oh Vengeance was oh so sweet and brownie flavored too! Jesse actually balled his fists and tossed back his head to let out a playful cartoony evil laugh. His plan was so perfect that he ignored the other smell that accompanied the brownie smell. They were brownies! They were harmless, right? Besides, Jesse just thought they may be a little stale but even little stale brownies were still good.
Grabbing about five of them then deciding to move the whole plate over to his desk, Jesse began to munch on them, one after the other. They did taste differently but he figured it was probably some sort of nut or something. They were still brownies. As he snacked, he surfed the internet looking at various web comics. He actually lost track of time. When he was on his fourth brownie, he suddenly had this weird sensation that he couldn't put his finger on it. Shrugging, he munched on a fifth one as he noticed one of the ads on the website he was looking at. It was one of those “Hit a Mole win a free iPod!” This seemed oddly interesting for some reason so he began to stare at it. As he idly chewed his brownie, he jumped back when he thought the mole winked at him. It was part of the ad, of course, but Jesse thought it winked at him in particular! Seriously! When he jumped back, he fell off his chair but he didn't think he fell, he floated in his mind. That sensation of floating wouldn't go away. Jesse had to grab onto something. He lost so much weight, he was going to float off the earth if he didn't do something. Something had to weigh him down. Quickly and somewhat clumsy, he scrambled to his chair and wrapped his legs around the chair's legs and hugged the back of the chair tightly. No, he would not fly away. Someone must have cursed him! Really!
Then his stomach rumbled. Jesse said outloud in what he thought was clear but anyone listening in would notice the slurrish whisper, “Stomach, if I let go of the chair, I'll float away. I can't feed you now!” Realizing how absurd this was, he let out a slightly restrained laugh. This was pretty funny even though he was in danger of floating off into space. Wouldn't he die before he got there? There was like no oxygen up there!