01<@Ardweden> [Day: Friday, September 10. Time: fifth period. That's right, it's lunch time!] 01<@Ardweden> [Yesterday, you met a girl about your age named Helen, who happened to be running Lunatic Fringe at midnight. You asked her some questions and got some answers, Tiffany and Tyler got into a fight, and some other things no doubt happened that I'm forgetting.] 01<@Ardweden> [Regardless, the weather is beautiful, but it doesn't matter as you're stuck eating lunch at school. Let's see how that goes, shall we?] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start!] 06* Javy scoots into line, and tries to figure out what's being served this afternoon! 06* Tyler is sitting far away from the rest hoping his friends find him. 06* Hank arrives directly behind Javy. "'Sup Javy?" 01<@Ardweden> [It's restaurant food today! Pizza, burgers, chicken sandwiches, etc.] 06* Javy looks somewhat tired, and starts a little when he gets addressed. "Oh, hey. Uh, it's, ah... not much. Just, ah, food." He waves towards the front of the line. 06* Hank nods. "Yup. I love pizza, I love burgers... It's two great things that go great together." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve walks in and gets in line behind Javy and Hank, looking VERY excited at the thought of food day. Then again, every day is food day. He sees Tyler in the back and gives a wave.] 06* Javy blinks, and looks back at him. "Does, um, do... ah." He swallows, and says, "... both? Ah, you're getting both?" ( Oop. Thought that said pizzaburger :x ) 06* Hank shrugs. "Sure, why not?" 06* Javy pales a little, and says, "But, that's, well, ah... aren't you. That's so, ah, heavy." 06* Tyler doesn't have food in front of him, but he also doesn't look very hungry at the moment. He's just chilling and waiting. 06* Hank shrugs. "You think?" 06* Javy nods a couple of times, the second one smaller than the first. "But, um, if it's what you think, then..." He trails off. Then what? 06* Javy reddens now, and says, "Um, then, then it's okay. You, you know what you need to eat." 06* Sydney arrives, late as usual, and gets in line. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve's doing a little dance in line. He's kind of a doof.] 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney gets in like about a dozen people behind Steve!] 06* Hank shrugs. "Protein's good for ya, man. Just gotta excercise." But, there's... it's, there's also... those are greasy. Too. 06* Sydney stands on her tiptoes for a second to watch Steve dance. It's amusing. 01<@Ardweden> [He is totally getting his 'I'm gonna get food' groove on! Some of the girls behind him start giggling, and he doesn't seem to notice.] 06* Tyler rolls his eyes watching Steve. Hmmm... y'think? Maybe I oughtta just get a salad. 01<@Ardweden> [Meanwhile, Javy gets to the end of the line.] 06* Javy reddens more. "Just, ah, it's, get. Just what you want." He looks to see what the available pizzas are! 01<@Ardweden> [There are cheese, sausage, pepperoni, sausage and pepperoni, and vegetarian (mushrooms, onions, peppers).] 06* Javy gets a slice of pepperoni and a small salad, then! 01<@Ardweden> [Done! Hank is next!] 06* Javy heads slowly into the room, to see who's around he might want to sit with. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler's sitting by himself! There's the usual table that's mostly empty, where most of the others in the little dream walking group often sit. And there's a few of the swim guys at their usual table.] 06* Javy scans again... no Nate in the room as yet? 01<@Ardweden> [Leah and Natalie are also at their own table, talking to a couple of younger guys. Leah spots Javy looking her way and waves, missing some of the conversation.] 01<@Ardweden> [No Nate yet, but then, he usually gets there later than Javy.] 06* Javy tries to wave back to Leah, but nearly drops his tray, and colors again. 06* Sydney gets a chicken sandwich and fries when it's her turn. 01<@Ardweden> [Leah actually blushes, too, and Natalie nudges her, which gets a lot of *some* sort of talk.] 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney gets food after Steve, who seems to order at least one of everything, and heads over to Tyler's table. "Hey man," he says cheerfully.] 06* Javy looks away hastily and heads off to at least greet the swim team people. Ehh... Hey. What's up? 01<@Ardweden> ["Lunch!" Steve declares, sitting down triumphantly. When he sees Tyler doesn't have lunch, he asks, "You okay?"] 01<@Ardweden> [Javy heads to the swim team table! Current suspects: Cole and Kit, who just waves. Cole at least speaks up with, "'lo, Javy. How's it going?"] 06* Javy rebalances the tray, still blushing. "It's, um, I'm okay. Pizza. Uh, how are you? You guys?" Just not hungry right now 01<@Ardweden> [Cole gestures down at his pepperoni pizza with a grin. "Guess I'm pizza, too. Seriously, doing pretty good." Kit nods and keeps looking at his geometry book, as he's clearly doing some last minute homework or the like.] 06* Javy nods a couple of times, and looks off to see if anyone's at the other table now? 06* Sydney arrives at the usual table! 01<@Ardweden> [It only took her a couple of tries, too!] 06* Javy nods back to Cole. "I, ah, I, well... I gotta, over there. That, ah... I'll see you over at practice. Later. After, ah. The pizza." He blinks, and heads towards Syd. 01<@Ardweden> [Cole waves good naturedly. "Later, dude." Kit mumbles into his textbook.] 01<@Ardweden> ["Aw, come on," Steve says, and he actually takes one of his burgers (gasp!) and slides it to Tyler (double gasp!). "You gotta eat something."] 06* Tyler blinks and looks at Steve, shocked. He recovers a bit shaking his head. "Eh.. if you... what is on this?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks. "What? I got an extra one for you." He huffs. "Everyone's getting sick or somethin', anyway..."] 06* Javy gets over to the table! "Ah, hey. Hi, Syd." Hrm, what's going on? 06* Tyler will take the burger. Unsure looking at it. He's sure it's Steve safe. That does not mean it's Tyler safe. 06* Sydney smiles at Javy and waves. On closer inspection, she looks somewhat tired. There are faint smudges under her eyes and her eyelids are drooping a bit. 06* Javy sets his tray down opposite her, and slides into the seat, bumping his leg slightly against the chair before nailing the landing. "You, ah. We're... we're pretty tired. I'm, it's still, I'm tired, too. Ah. You're okay?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve shrugs and piles a soft taco onto a slice of pizza and folds it, making a brand new taco. Of sorts. "Tony's sick. He wouldn't game with me and Matt yesterday. His mom thinks he has mono or something."] 06* Sydney nods. "Yeah, just tired. No bad dreams or anything, I just had trouble getting to sleep after arriving late last night. I'm just glad everyone in my family's a heavy sleeper. I dropped my keys coming in." 01<@Ardweden> ["Like, we thought he was playing hookey, right?" He shrugs again and eats taco.] 06* Javy crosses himself quickly, then again, and picks up his pizza. "Yeah? I... I snuck in okay. But I still had to get up. At, well. When... the normal time." Eww. That... Did he at least talk? 06* Hank takes a seat at the table with a pizza and a burger. He looks like he's suddenly spaced out for the last 15 minutes and has no idea what's going on. Yeah. I made sure my alarm was set before I left. 06* Sydney waves sleepily to Hank. 06* Javy nods to Hank again, and munches off a pizza bite. "Good. I, ah, I forgot. But there was my mother." He smiles, slightly embarrassed. "She does it." Woke you up this morning? 06* Javy nods, and adds, "Loudly." 06* Sydney chuckles softly. "Most mornings I'd imagine that wouldn't be so bad, but not this morning." 06* Tyler takes a bite of the burger 06* Javy nods, and pokes at his salad. "She doesn't, ah... not usually. I can. Ah, get up myself. So if she has to, then it's..." He nods a little. "... loud." 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah, dude sounded *way* tired." That said, and now that Tyler's eating, Steve goes about inhaling his taco with the usual gusto.] Ah. 01<@Ardweden> [Well, pizza-taco-thing... whatever.] 06* Tyler frowns looking worried. 01<@Ardweden> ["Mrfl," he also says, building a chicken-pizza-burger tower.] I was thinking about maybe doing some dreamwalking tonight, but if we're all this tired just from staying out a bit, it might not be the smartest thing. On the other hand, it's the weekend, so we can all sleep in! I hope he's okay 06* Javy glances around nervously, and then says, "We could. Um. Maybe we should. With. We should try more. Now that we talked with her. That lady, I mean." 06* Sydney looks around. "Have you seen Tiffany today?" 01<@Ardweden> [Nate enters the cafeteria, getting into line!] 01<@Ardweden> [Steve swallows and says, "Me too. Probly nothing much."] 06* Javy looks around, and perks up when he sees Nate, but shakes his head. "Not, uh, not yet." 06* Hank takes a bite of his pizza, then looks at Javy. "So, Javy." 06* Sydney nods, munches a few fries, and swallows. "So, you think dreamwalking tonight isn't a bad idea?" 06* Tiffany walks into the cafeteria at about that time, speak of the devil. She skips the line entirely and makes her way towards the group table. Hope so. 06* Tyler finishes the burger. 06* Javy looks at Hank, then to Syd, and then back to Hank, suddenly confused. "Uh. Yeah? Ah, no, ah, Syd, I meant, yeah, Hank, ah." 06* Hank pauses, then says, "Ehh, I'll talk to ya later about it." 06* Sydney blinks a few times, puzzled, then notices Tiffany and waves to her. 06* Tiffany drops the pack at the floor by the table for a moment, not bothering to sit, least not just yet. "We need to go walking tonight." We were just talking about that. What's going on? 06* Javy nods to Hank, looking a little curious, and then blinks up at Tiffany, setting down his fork. "Um. We do?" 06* Tiffany frowns slightly and pulls off the table. "Well...I am. I get the feeling we're not working on enough info...and that's going to come back to haunt us." That's true. 06* Javy nods again. "So... I mean. Ah. We can. If you, ah, I mean, you two are going, then I'll go." 06* Sydney nods. "I'll definitely do it, then." 06* Tyler takes a notebook out and starts scribbling on it. 06* Tiffany sighs and turns her head aside, happening to glance Tylerward. "I wish I knew what was going on..." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve lives in happy food world, though he does take the occasional glance at the scribbles.] 06* Sydney blinks again. "With what?" 06* Javy backs up Syd's blinking and adds a nod. 06* Tiffany shakes her head slightly and picks up her pack. "Nothing. Alright." She slings it over her shoulder and gives a brief wave before leaving the cafeteria. 06* Javy looks confused, and waves back, watching her go. "Uh... what... what was that?" 06* Sydney gives a quick, frantic wave after her and calls out "Bye!" Then she looks at Javy. "That was confusing." 06* Javy nods a whole lot more definitively than usual, and munches his pizza. 01<@Ardweden> [Right about now, Nate approaches the table with 100% more chicken tenders and fries. He sits down. "Afternoon."] Hey, I'll be back Steve. Okay? 06* Javy smiles at him. "Hey. You made it." 06* Sydney smiles. "Hey, Nate. How's it going?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Mrfl." Steve swallows. "Sure."] 06* Tyler gets up taking the paper and folding it up tight as he walks for the food line. 01<@Ardweden> ["Pretty good," Nate says. "Still haven't found anything new on that Lunatic Fringe place, though. How're you guys?"] Little tired. End of the week and all. Otherwise I'm pretty good, though. 06* Tyler will hurl the folded paper at Tiffany as he walks past that table. 01<@Ardweden> [Sadly, Tiffany's not there!] (Make that Javy) 06* Javy nods a couple of times. "Me too. Just tired. But good." He picks up the pizza, and gestures with it. "Pizza." 01<@Ardweden> [Javy IS there and gets a crumpled piece of paper in his lap.] 06* Sydney notices the arrival of the paper and holds up a finger. "Wait. Was that Tyler?" She looks around. 06* Tyler is in the food line! 06* Javy drops his pizza, and looks at his lap, picking up the paper. "I think, ah... yeah." He uncrumples the note. Huh. What's it say? Or is it private to just you? 06* Javy shakes his head, reading it in a glance. "No, uh, it's... I don't know." He glances quickly at Nate, then to Syd. "Here, ah, you see." He passes it to her. 06* Sydney takes the note and reads it. 06* Tyler 's note says "dreaming. tonight." 06* Sydney hands it back to Javy. "Guess that settles things, then." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate looks confused, understandably. "Settles what?"] 06* Javy glances at Nate, looking confused, too, but manages, "Ah, he, you, ah... he wants to, ah, meet us later." 06* Sydney looks over at Javy. "Yeah, it was something they were talking about earlier. I'm just there for backup, kinda." 01<@Ardweden> ["Tyler?" Nate turns to look at him, then turns back to Javy and Sydney. "Why?"] 06* Sydney shrugs and eats some more french fries. I'm not entirely sure myself. 06* Javy looks even more awkward, and when he sees Syd shrug and answer, he follows, "Ah, ah... it's, well, it's kind of a long story, and. And I can..." he trails off, and comes up, "you later. But, what, what she said." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate still looks confused, but he just says, "Okay?" And then has more chicken tender.] 06* Javy picks up his pizza again. "It's..." He searches for words, and then just takes a big bite. 06* Tyler will come back to his table with one of each desert for Steve. "Here." So how's your webcomic coming? 01<@Ardweden> ["Dude," Steve says, eyes going wide at the desserts. "Awesome!"] 06* Javy looks at her gratefully, and crunches some salad before looking back to Nate. You're welcome man 01<@Ardweden> ["Oh, great!" Nate says. "I've gotten the first three comics done and the first couple of weeks scripted. I want to have at least a month prepped before I really get it rolling."] You, ah, need me to draw anything more? For now? Cool! Can I see it? 01<@Ardweden> [Nate nods at Javy. "Yeah, some background work for the next couple of strips..." At Sydney's question, he beams. "Sure! I'll bring them in later."] Yay, thanks! 06* Javy nods. "Okay. Just show me what. I have ideas." 01<@Ardweden> ["Great! I just can't get the architecture as spot on as you, for some reason."] 06* Javy smiles, less awkward than usual. "I have the practice." 01<@Ardweden> ["And a good thing, too," Nate says with a grin before eating some more.] 06* Javy nods, and munches the rest of his pizza! 06* Tyler just talks about nothing with Steve through lunch. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve's good at talking about nothing! Must be all that food.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]