With his class over and done with, Jasper didn't feel like going back to his room just yet. He'd had a hard time this weekend, being around so many people that looked so --

No..

People are real. People matter.He took a deep breath of chilly air and pushed his way into the Perk. He ordered himself the biggest cup of coffee possible and took it ( Read more... )

Maria had brought in CDs to listen to.

She had put a CD into the stereo.

The stereo was playing old school country in spite of the rock and roll CD in the player.

Maria glared at the stereo for a few minutes before sighing and getting to work.

Groovy Tunes was open and the stereo thought it was in charge!

It seemed like the bulk of people had cleared off the island. Walking through town, the streets seemed emptier and a little less suffocating than before. It eased Jasper's tension slightly, made it a little easier to go outside without his eyes settling on potential prospects at every turn.

People are real. People matter.That mantra had been ( Read more... )

It was unusually hot today ( Read more... )

After Raven's little revelation on Sunday that she didn't actually know her own birthday, Kathy had immediately started insisting that she should pick one. Because everyone apparently had to have a birthday. Raven could admit it was probably easier than just kind of deciding at some point that she was a year older. So she'd picked Coco Chanel's ( Read more... )

The amount of free time Jasper had still amazed him. In Lobo's Nod, he'd been in school for most of the day followed up by spending time with Connie and then going home to take care of his grandmother. Here, it was a class here and there and then nothing. After so many months, Jasper had a routine down but the quiet and the freedom still got to ( Read more... )

Jasper was glad to be out of the yurts. They'd just been too cramped and he'd been too close to other people for his comfort. Living with a roommate was hard enough but to be virtually sleeping on top of someone else had made him worry for his control ( Read more... )

Derek was reading a magazine at the bar tonight. Because why work when you could be paid to frown at articles in this month's issue of The Knot ( Read more... )

Was it cliche to go for a nighttime swim? If it was, Jasper didn't care. His whole life probably slotted nicely into a few different cliches. There were tropes and cliches created specifically to fit someone like him. And he continued to not care ( Read more... )

This hadn't been a good day. Jasper hadn't known what to think when he'd woken up distinctly female. For a guy who had a few fears tied to the female gender, it'd freaked him out enough that he'd had to get out of his room pretty damn quick. He really didn't want to be questioned on this because he had no answers and that wasn't typical ( Read more... )