Thread Roulette: Bare (Talen, JJ, Tamsin)

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Where are your shoes? It’s March!

[Talen Trahan]

Great. Just wonderful. It would be the end of him, he swore. He was outside, locked out of the common room to his shared dorm…without shoes. He had accidently left his key in his room, and for some reason, when he went on his run that morning, some punk kid had stolen his running shoes when he stripped them off and had cooled off in the lake, as usual. Well, it wasn’t usual someone had stolen his shoes. Now he stood in the courtyard, teeth gritted as he braved the cold flagstones to try and find one of his roommates. He couldn’t remember where Avery was, and he really didn’t know the new kid that had moved in, so Tal was out of luck.

Running through the labyrinth of his mind, he could try the room again, hoping to find at least Avery there. He did so, walking to the dorm room and hammering on the wall with his fist. “C’mon, please be there,” he pleaded to God. With no answer, he sighed and went back outside, dark eyes searching to find Avery or Shane.

[jinkyung]

At dawn, JJ arose quietly so as to not wake up his fellow roommates, changed into a comfortable pair of slacks and grabbed a jacket, before he left his room and headed for the outdoors. The weather's might brute had subsided in the past week, which was quite delightful, as the students now had some free time they could integrate into the nature that surrounded Hammel. Interestingly enough, that's exactly what Jin would be doing right now. He headed out towards the edge of the forest, climbing up a small hill behind campus, and took a seat on the tall grasses that prickled under his legs as he sat Indian-style. JJ closed his eyes, quieted his mind, and breathed in deeply, holding it for a moment, and then exhaling. He would meditate upon this wonderful morning. The birds chirping slowly around him, the slight breeze rustling the tree branches, the wild grasses flowing softly around him in unison. All was at well.

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After quite some time, Jin opened his eyes to see the sun glowing on its rise up towards the top of the sky. The birds took this as a sign of peace and welcoming to chirp among each other in higher concentrations, a melody of sweet cheeps all around him. The breeze seemed to have subsided, the grasses now dancing lazily in random fashion. If only deer and frogs and other beasts of the forest would come out in the open so he may fully enjoy the beauty of these creatures...

Alas, Jin got up off of the hill, and trotted downwards towards the dormitories. His mind was now at ease, his spirit flew through space and time, and now gently rested in JJ's body. Strolling up the five steps towards the entrance doors of Hammel, Jin pulled open the cast iron handle and wedged himself in through the door's opening towards the hall. Up the stairs and back towards his dormitory, all was again quite quiet, hardly a soul alive and moving. He supposed he liked it better that way, after all, all that noise and gossip could get pretty annoying after a while: sensory overload.

Now just three doors and a left turn away from his dorm, Jin would just enter it much like he had left it earlier, and make himself a cup of tea and watch the sunrise from the window. Zac would definitely not be up, and JJ doubted the other boy that he'd failed to learn his name would either. It was only about 6:30 in the morning anyways. Now one swift turn and he's be there. He almost entered his room when he saw down the hall a few paces was another gentleman, knocking rather anxiously on a door, who JJ presumed was the boy's own, but whether or not he could confirm that, he was unsure. JJ watched the boy plead towards the door, but with frustration, he gave up, and marched back towards the outside.

That sure would be an odd place to find anyone, considering no one was there when Jin was out. He tried to stop the boy, and attempted to call out to him, but his voice was hoarse, and came out in cracks instead of a smooth, normal tone. He cleared his throat and considered his options. Jin was usually not the person to go to if you needed help. He was even less likely to help someone without them asking. But today seemed like he should do something nice. No one was looking, and it wouldn't hurt anyone really...

He put his key back in his pocket and backtracked along his shortcut that should help him catch up with the boy that had run down the other set of stairs. JJ arrived at the entrance hall of Hammel, just to see the large door close with a click. Instinctively, Jin pushed it open and snuck outside, trying to scan the area to find where the boy had run off to. Within a few seconds, he spotted him, pacing back and forth, looking from side to side, as if he'd find who he was looking for out there. Jin went towards him, slowly, hoping that his presence would not creep the guy out. He cleared his throat this time before he said anything, and now about fifteen feet away, he waved at the boy curtly, and said, "Oi. I saw you needed help when I was coming back to my dorm, but then you stormed away before I could help you there...I guess what I'm saying is do you need any more help? There's really no one else awake just quite yet, so I thought I might be able to be of assistance to you, but only if you needed it."

[Tamsin Craig]

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Tamsin was one of those weird kids that had a biological clock that woke them up at the crack of dawn. She was also one of those rare children that, once they woke up, they got out of bed rather than laid in it for an hour or two. She had been conditioned since birth to get up with the sun. There was work to be done and lying in bed did not change that. So, the aboriginal girl sat up without so much as a groan and got out of bed, stopping to make it before going off to start her morning.

Breakfast for Tamsin meant milk and a piece of toasted bread, which she made in the oven rather than in the toaster because no one had bothered to tell her what the toaster was for yet. She crouched in front of the stove to watch the bread, pulling the piece out when it was done. She slathered a good portion of strawberry jelly on it and ate it with deliberate slowness, savoring the taste. Once it was gone, she gulped down her milk and went to change. She pulled on the first outfit she could find in her plethora of new clothes that had been given to slash bought for slash handed down to her once she came to Hammel. She wore a skirt, which in itself was surprising. Tamsin wasn’t a fan of skirts, but ever since the Valentine’s Dance, she had been wearing them some more. (Even though she decided she would not go to anymore dances. Her date never even showed up.)

She left the dorm after she had washed her cup and put it away, trotting down the two flights of stairs with no shoes on, not even socks- the weather had warmed up to the point where she could remain barefoot and not freeze her feet off. The blasted white menace had melted away without the help of her room-mate’s hair dryers and the sun was shining again. It was still cold, but she could brave a little cold for the sake of her barefoot freedom. Tamsin smiled at the thought as she turned the corner. Her necklace bounced against her chest and she held it in place as she finished her descent, hopping down the last two steps with grace. She had bought the jewelry at a cheap price, a along with two more, and had sent the others to her sisters so they could have something nice from America. Eventually she’d save money for them to come over and visit. She already had a jar of change started up.

As she exited the dorm, she paused to inhale the cool air and started off through the courtyard, drifting to a stop when she saw the two boys on the other side of the yard. She contemplated walking on by, but instead she paused, watching the exchange in silence. It was much like watching two different animals crossing paths- it was too interesting to walk away from. As she watched, she tried to get a grasp of what was going on and noted another boy was not wearing shoes. This made her smile but only a little bit. She was more focused on the comforting feel of dirt between her toes than the predicament, but she was willing to listen for a moment before moving on to go to the library and bug the librarian for math lessons.

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