The dorm lawn- Wednesday night at 2 am

[iruinenglish]

At 2 am exactly, a loud buzzing sound rang through the dorms. An not just any buzzing. A loud, obnoxious "BZZZT!" followed by a two-second pause, followed by another "BZZZT!", followed by another two-second pause, followed by a... You get the idea. And the really bad part was the way it tended to feel like it was inside your head when it "BZZZT"ed

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[flashesforinfo]

Okay, yes, this sucked. She'd been in a surprisingly good mood earlier.

But, there was nothing to dampen spirits like being woken at 2am with a loud, shrilling and irritatingly persistent alarm, only to be made to stand there outside in the cold in just pajamas and a cardigan for god knows how long.

Angela would be over here, smothering yawns and shivering until they were let back in.

[gobrooke_urself]

"Think the hotel would let me book a room if I left my money in the burning school?" Brooke pouted pouted, needing to complain at someone.

[flashesforinfo]

"God, I wish," Angela sighed, pulling that cardigan around herself a little tighter. It was cold, damn it. "I could so go for that right now."

[gobrooke_urself]

"If someone pulled the alarm, I'm killing them. I'm going to pull the alarm off the wall and beat them to death with it," she decided, pulling her hands inside her sweatshirt sleeves.

Brooke was a little more violent than usual today, apparently.

[flashesforinfo]

"I'll try and talk you out of jail later," Angela offered after a moment. Even if she wasn't entirely sure she could pull that one off as justifiable homicide.

[gobrooke_urself]

"I'm sorry," Brooke said, realizing how she must sound. "I'm whiny. And awake. And it's cold." At least she had a cute whine.

[flashesforinfo]

"I knooow." Yeah, Angela was a little whiny herself, and gestured Brooke closer, because huddling up beside someone was bound to at least take the edge off, right?

"I think there's a rule that these things have to be done when you're just dozing off, or in the middle of a really nice dream," she decided, and damn it had been a nice dream.

[gobrooke_urself]

Brooke had no problem with closer. For several reasons. So closer she was.

"Can we hurt whoever made that rule?" she wondered. "Because they need to be hurt a lot. And I wasn't even sleeping!"

[flashesforinfo]

"I can work with that," Angela decided. It really didn't take her long to come to that decision.

"What were you doing awake at 2am?" It had to be asked, come on.

[gobrooke_urself]

Unfortunately for Brooke, nothing dirty. She'd given up on getting anywhere with that by 2 am. "Not sleeping. Tossing and turning. Giving myself bedhead without any of the benefit." She didn't have bedhead.

[flashesforinfo]

"I swear, that really seems to be going around," Angela remarked, wrinkling her nose in sympathy. She just hadn't really worked out why yet. That was probably for the best.

[gobrooke_urself]

"I'm gonna get bags under my eyes and sometimes you really do need beauty sleep and why is it this laaaaaaaate?" Amazing, she could party all night in the right instance, but get her in a bad mood and she'd whine about anything.

[flashesforinfo]

And misery does love company. Huddled pajama-clad company. They can bounce off each other.

"Because the world hates us," she decided, folding her arms with a pout. "And I'm pretty sure we can't even have done anything to piss it off lately."

[gobrooke_urself]

Brooke thought about it. "I haven't done anything even supremely bitchy since I've been here," she realized. "Can I blame a past life?"

[flashesforinfo]

Angela nodded, because she was pretty sure she hadn't done anything bitchy either. "Who knew residual bad karma had this kick," she grumbled, bouncing on her toes a moment. "Because whoever does, really should've warned us."

[gobrooke_urself]

"Could hurt them too," Brooke grumbled back. She seemed stuck on the hurting.