make yourself a photograph and laugh at me

[_dawnie_]

Everything feels unsettled today. I'm not sure if it's Buffy being gone... still... or Avasa having to leave for a little while because of his grandmother's death, or just that I miss my friends and some of it's my own fault. Or maybe it's all of that

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[_janice_]

I lower my voice even more. "Yeah, she called me into her room one day, and asked me if I thought Sophie was acting strange. And we talked a little, and she thinks it's a spell and I'm supposed to be finding out more so maybe she can figure out how to fix it."

Another sigh...god, I gotta get over this mood. "Only, I've talked to a bunch of them, and I can never quite break through enough to figure out how it happened. But Jordy's in bad shape...have you talked to him at all?"

[_dawnie_]

"I haven't seen him for ages," I say, guilt crashing over me again. What's wrong with me? I should've tried harder. "I tried to find him today and I couldn't. And I was all mad because he was ignoring me... I should've thought about something major being wrong."

[_janice_]

I shake my head. "He's totally not himself, I mean at all. He was telling me if I had problems I should go talk to a priest. And it almost seems like he...doesn't really remember he's a werewolf, y'know? And he kept looking like he felt sick or something, it's not good."

[_dawnie_]

I cross my arms, glancing around again to make sure nobody's paying attention to us. "What can we do? I mean, we gotta do something about this."

[_janice_]

"Well..." I glance around too. "Jordy gave me a phone number. Of the guy he calls a "priest". No clue what he wants with him, but I reverse searched the number and it's some skanky motel. I'm gonna check the guy out...as soon as I can get backup. Um, Scott, the lighting guy, I'm hoping, anyway."

[_dawnie_]

"I can help too, if you need me to," I say. "Unless you'd rather just investigate it yourself with the lighting guy." I smirk at her. Just as long as she doesn't go by herself, 'cause that could be dangerous.

[_janice_]

I nod. "I've gotta figure out what to tell Scott to get him to go, without him thinking I'm nuts or a hooker or something. And...well, he is kinda cute, don't you think?"

Calmer now, I go back to painting the last corner of the backdrop. "You know, you could talk to Miss Dante, too, and tell her about how you're not all into your role, maybe that would help her figure things out."

[_dawnie_]

"He is cute," I say. She could definitely do worse than Scott. "And you know, that's not a bad idea. Figuring things out would be good, 'cause it'd be nice to have our friends back to normal. Well... as normal as they get."

I pick my brush back up, too.

[_janice_]

"Yeah, normal would be good," I agree. Although with all the extreme emotions that had been flying between me and Jordy, I wasn't sure anything would be normal with him again. Now Scott was normal, but I was almost afraid to flirt with him because I was starting to feel a little bit cursed in the boyfriend department.

"Scott's cute, and nice, and I really don't want to suck the guy into my weird life, y'know? Maybe I can tell him I'm scoring some pot from the priest guy, I bet he'd buy that. More normal than the truth, anyway."

[_dawnie_]

I put one hand over my mouth to muffle a burst of laughter. "You did not just say that! And, why would a priest guy have pot?" I giggle.

"See, what you do is find a boyfriend who'll understand your weird life. That's what I did."

[_janice_]

I shrug. "I dunno, the way the guy was dressed just screamed pimp or drug dealer to me. And the only guy I know who would understand is Jordy, and he's madly in love with Sophie, so that's out." I realize a second too late that that makes it sounds like it'd be an option otherwise, and that makes me remember the night in his backyard when he was getting all wolfy, and I know I'm blushing a little.

"Not that I'd go out with him if he wasn't," I add hastily.