Loveless Ideals

[medicalmidas]

Josh rubbed his eyes again to try to get rid of the bleariness. Class was usually boring but not so boring he wanted to go to sleep. He guessed not being able to sleep much was finally catching up to him. After blinking a couple more times, his vision snapped back into its customary sharpness. If sharpness has blurs at the very edges. He looked

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[cant_findme]

While Victor wasn't as out of it as Josh might of been, he wasn't exactly in the best of moods either. Nothing seemed to be going his way as of late in many different respects. No matter how hard he try the reptilian mutant had been unable to focus on any of his work, a case of not caring and not having the motivation; a nice little package rolled into one really

[medicalmidas]

Thaaaaaat... wasn't a finch. Josh jumped a little and stopped in his tracks. He blinked and looked over at Victor.

"Wha? Oh! Hey." He waved distractedly. Why wasn't he sitting in the library again? There was a question asked, too. Maybe he should answer it.

"I'm okay," he replied automatically. "I'm going to-"

He glanced down to see where his books went. Not here was the answer. "-crap."

[cant_findme]

"......Crap what?" Okay, someone was a bit out of it. Vic's head tilted slightly. "Forget something?" That was the obvious thing to assume after all.

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"Books." He paused and nodded. Then he shook his head to try to clear it again. He rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I forgot my books. I don't remember if I'm supposed to study today with Laurie or not. So, I was just going to take my stuff and go to the library anyway."

Nevermind that he had been walking in the opposite direction of the library.

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Victor frowned slightly and glanced down the hallway before looking back at the other teen. "You know the library is the other way right?" One of his hands lifted to absently rub at the back of his neck and he shifted slightly, steadying his weight on his left leg.

"Do you know where you left your books?" Vic had a couple theories about what was wrong with Josh going through his head but most of them were just as improbable as the next. Maybe he'd be able to get the real answer out of Josh eventually.

[medicalmidas]

Josh turned to look behind him. Well, he'll be damned. He missed the library, too. He sighed. "You're right. I completely walked the wrong way."

He looked back at Victor. His brow scrunched a little as he tried to remember where he last had his books. Mm. Door. Scary closet. Somebody watching him. Scary, shadow-leaking closet. Foot of his bed. Ah! He chuckled ruefully. "Left them in my room. I'd set them down momentarily and... got distracted."

[cant_findme]

"Distracted?" He hadn't meant to say it but his curiosity got the better of him. Recovering though, Victor's frown disappeared and he grinned lightly, hefting his bag a little higher onto his shoulder, Vic's other hand disappeared into his hoodie pocket.

"You sure you can make it back to your room without getting lost?" Josh just looked so out of it, the possibility of getting lost seemed like a good one.

[medicalmidas]

"Yeah. I've had a lot on my mind recently." Let's see... there was the package, Laurie, the shadows, homework, and doing homework with Laurie. And the whole not being able to sleep because somebody was watching him. Possibly from his own freaking closet. He scratched his head and then chuckled.

"Yeah, I think so. Though..." He paused and tried to figure how to say it like he wasn't a sissy afraid of the dark. Vague might be best. "You know if anything odd's been going on around here? You know, outside of the pranks."

Like a yawning portal to hell opening in the Danger Room and infecting Josh's room.

[cant_findme]

Vic fell quiet for a moment as he thought over the question. Anything odd? There might have been but Victor probably wasn't the best person to ask what with the distant act he'd be using lately. "Not that I've noticed but it's still possible." Green eyes narrowed in a questioning manner. "Why do you ask?"

A thousand different questions suddenly blossomed in his mind. Had something happened to Josh? Had something happened to someone else? Had the golden mutant noticed something and just hadn't told anyone? But, Victor figured an onslaught of questions asked while Josh was in his current state might not be a good thing.

"You notice something?"

[medicalmidas]

The answer of 'the shadows keep climbing out of my closet' did not seem like the best thing to use. "It just... feels odd at night."

Josh was trying to be careful with what he said. There was nowhere else for him to go. If they tossed him out of here for being crazy, he would have nothing.

"Nothing ... too out of the normal. It's just..." He shrugged. "I just wish I could get some sleep."

[cant_findme]

There was something else that Josh wasn't saying, Vic could tell that much. Now, to question further or not to question further..

"If something is going on you shouldn't keep it to yourself, especially if its keeping you up at night, Josh." He could have said it another way but the reptilian mutant wanted to see just what the other would say in response. "What's been odd exactly? Or is just that, a feeling like you said."

[medicalmidas]

Josh rubbed his eyes. Maybe if he didn't mention being afraid of shadows in the dark, he could get through most of this. Or with the least amount of catching crap from Julian when he got wind of this.

"I just feel watched in my room all the time. Which sounds kind of stupid with all the telepaths around." He rubbed the back of his neck and shrugged. "But it feels like there's somebody in my room when there isn't. Not like somebody in my head."

That was at least the safe part to tell.

[cant_findme]

Frowning again, Victor glanced down the hall before returning his gaze to Josh once more. "It might still help to have someone check it out. I mean, maybe its not something the telepaths can pick up. That would explain why no one had noticed it." He was reaching for ideas on the topic because quite honestly, Vic wasn't sure what to say.

His initial thought had been that maybe Josh was just being a bit overly paranoid but..."How long has it been going on?" Victor clamped his mouth shut, realizing right then and there just how nosy he was being. Way to go genius.

[medicalmidas]

Josh let out a sigh. The last thing he wanted was somebody to go check it out and see how pitiful he was. Jumping at shadows. Why he was refusing to go into his own closet. "I guess. I can see if somebody will."

He was so tired he wasn't paying attention to how nosy Vic was being. Questions were being asked so his mouth answered. "A week, maybe. Maybe more. I wasn't keeping track. It just started on me."

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Worried? Maybe just a little.

"No wonder you look like a zombie." He wasn't trying to be mean in what he said but with the way the golden mutant was acting...yeah, the best way Victor could think to describe it was zombie like. "You can't keep this up Josh. No offense or anything but you are really off."

[medicalmidas]

"Brains?" he asked with a small smirk. Josh then raised his arm a little and turned his head. He sniffed a couple times. "Thought I took a shower this morning..."

Well, he should go take a shower first and then find somebody to figure out the boogeyman in his room. Invisible boogeyman. Oh, hell.