Distractions (Dev)

[Sunar Chugani]

Sunar sprawled across the floor of the common room of the dorm, staring at his math textbook. Ugh, math. Why was math so hard? Damien's tutoring had been to no avail; the fact that he kept getting distracted by doodling probably didn't help, but if math weren't so hard he wouldn't have to distract himself, now, would he? 

One math problem, doodle legs on a number, check his phone. Another math problem, more doodling, more phone. 

Why did you have to learn math again, anyway? This was boring. 

He rolled over onto his back, which sent his pencil rolling across the floor and under the sofa. He thought about getting up to get it, but that would only bring him that much closer to getting back to his math homework. Maybe he would just refresh tumblr a whole bunch, or look at DeviantArt, or....

Oh! A message! From Ravi! 

He opened Skype, and clicked the link his cousin had sent him. It was a video. The only sound was music, but he found himself cracking up as the short video played. 

"HEY. Hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY. Dev, Dev, Dev, you HAVE TO COME SEE THIS."

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Typically, Sunar and Devyn were hanging out together whenever they were both in the dorm, the only real exceptions to this being study time. Devyn didn't particularly like getting interrupted or a stop and go method when it came to studying and Sunar was getting better at convincing Devyn to stop studying.

Which was presently being negated by a shut door and headphones.

He only barely heard Sunar's shout from over the sound of his headphones, at first, he thought maybe he'd imagined the noise but after the third 'hey', he took an earbud out and sighed.
"You're supposed to be doing math Sunar," he scolded with no real sternness to his voice and only a mildly frustrated look on his face. He sat down beside his friend, glancing at his discarded work as he did.

"This looks more like an art project than math homework at this point," it wasn't entirely unexpected to him honestly, "What video is it that you want to show me?"

[Sunar Chugani]

"Look! Look at this!"

Sunar waved his phone in Dev's direction, "Look! Have you seen this before? This is hilarious! We have to do one of these."

The video was a year old Buzzfeed tutorial on playing iPhone pranks on people. They were relatively harmless, as far as pranks went, which was part of the appeal as far as Sunar was concerned; he didn't want to cause any real harm or fear to anyone.

But watching someone squirm in confusion until they decided to fess up, now that would be entertaining.

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Devyn crossed his legs in front of him, reaching for the phone as Sunar began to wave it about. "Woah, watch out," he chuckled before reaching over to press play on the phone screen. He had never seen the video before, but that was to be expected because he didn't do much internet surfing.

He laughed mostly at the facial expressions the prankster in the video made, "How does someone even come up with this kind of stuff?" he asked in genuine amazement and curiosity. Maybe he wasn't the most creative guy, but what kind of evil mastermind looked at the innocent functions of a phone and had these kinds of ideas.

"Who would you do it to?" he wrapped his arms around his knees as he thought, obviously, their roommates were open targets, but he wasn't even sure what kind of phones they had or how easy it would be to get to them...

[Sunar Chugani]

Sunar shrugged at Dev's question. "I don't know! Someone! We have to keep an eye out for unprotected phones!"

He hadn't thought it through to that extent; he had simply seen the video and thought it was entertaining. Which was, perhaps, a fitting analogy for how he ran his life.

"We can wander around campus until we see someone put one down, and then one of us'll distract and the other will mess with their phone."

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

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Devyn rolled his eyes in amusement, it was very typical of Sunar's personality to not have much more of a plan than this. But it worked for him and Devyn had fun following along with him.

"Okay. /Okay/. We'll keep an eye out for someone's phone." He didn't know anyone who didn't keep a password on their phone though.

He even had one and he left his phone in his room most of the time.

"Alright," he stood up and dusted off the back of his pants, "do you want to go look around right now," he'd finish his homework later and indulge his roommate now, otherwise he'd probably forget about wanting to do this.

[Sunar Chugani]

"Wait!" Sunar waved his hands frantically to signal that there had been a change of plans, "I have a better idea. We'll ask someone to borrow their phone. That'll be easier than trying to steal one."

And might land them in a lesser punishment; the fact that they weren't planning on keeping any phone they picked up probably wouldn't gain them any leniency from the staff. But if they just messed with a phone someone had willingly handed to them, well, that would be a different matter.

Maybe.

"What reason would we have for needing to borrow a phone though?"

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Devyn jumped slightly in surprise at his roommate's sudden franticness but chuckled once he settled down from the slight scare. "We'd have to do one of the not so obvious ones." Otherwise, it would be immediately noticeable that they had done something to it.

He hadn't even begun to think of what might happen from the staff if they were caught. Otherwise he would probably have backed out of the plan immediately. Devyn didn't really like the idea of getting into trouble.

"We lost ours and need to call it?" He suggested with a shrug, he rarely used his own though so he typically didn't misplace it.

[Sunar Chugani]

"That's it!" Sunar grabbed Devyn's shoulders, peering with awe into his roommate's face. "You're a genius!" 

He had said this on more than one occasion exactly like this, when his friend managed to come up with the obvious answer that had utterly escaped him. 

"Right. Right, right, we'll ask the first person we see! Who isn't one of our roommates," He added, entirely because he wanted to keep the peace; he was still fairly sure that Xun hated them still because of Halloween, which meant avoiding him as much as possible and not antagonizing him. And Fancy was just too nice to do something like this to. 

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Devyn sometimes wondered how Sunar might react if he ever saw him do something truly impressive, after all, he was always so impressed with even the simplest show of talents.... Not that he considered what he'd just done any kind of talent. Though, considering how his friend reacted he could probably be convinced otherwise.

"Yeah..." he was of the same mind when it came to their roommates, he was sure they barely tolerated them as is, and he certainly didn't want to upset that delicate balance. He was a little concerned about who would do the asking, as neither of the boys were crafty or cunning kinds of people.

Sunar was far too honest and forthright and Devyn... Devyn was almost as bad. Even if it was innocent and pretty funny he wasn't typically up for tricking people. "Do you just wanna go down the common area and ask there?"

[Sunar Chugani]

"Yeah, that's probably the best bet," Sunar agreed, pushing himself to his feet. He tossed his phone onto the couch; he knew if he had it on his person he would end up fidgeting with it while they were asking people, and that would be too much of a giveaway. 

The question was, would anyone even believe them? They weren't necessarily the sneakiest pair of friends at Hammel, and if they ended up asking someone who had lie detection, or the ability to read people's body language especially well, or empathy, or telepathy...


He wiped the palms of his hands against his pants and marched to the door, suppressing these thoughts. If they didn't go do it now he was going to end up talking himself out of this.