01<@Ardweden> [Day: Thursday, September 16. Time: THE END OF SCHOOL.] 01<@Ardweden> [Not that Tyler is at school. Instead, he's at the mall with Tony and Steve, the latter of which is busy drinking a raspberry/blueberry slushie (smoothies are too intense for his stomach, according to his doctor's orders). They're on their way to Gamestop!] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start!] 06* Tyler keeps glancing worriedly over at Steve, but shakes his head when he sees the store. "Anything good come out in the last few weeks?" 01<@Ardweden> [Tony shrugs, hands in his pockets. "I dunno, haven't been keeping up that much."] 06* Tyler shrugs. "Me either. Been keeping busy... should we get Josh the Turtle Beach stuff? He breaks it just as fast, but at least he'll be impressed for a bit..." 01<@Ardweden> [Tony ehs. "Your money, dude. I'll chip in if you do, though." Steve slurps obnoxiously, then says, "Zat the plan? Are we going to Josh's place later today?"] 06* Tyler shrugs looking at Steve. "Sure. We'll head over there. I'll call him after we're done to make sure he's there or to figure out where to meet up." 01<@Ardweden> ["Sweet," Steve says around his straw, "we should ask Matt to come, too."] 01<@Ardweden> [Tony looks at Tyler. "You sure you want to do this?"] 06* Tyler nods at Steve. "Yeah, sounds good. Been a while." He pauses and looks back at Tony. "Maybe not the expensive ones? I don't know. Need to buy some time, you got a better way?" 01<@Ardweden> ["I'm just saying, man... it's a lot of money. I didn't know it was worth, uh, that much to you."] I can't really explain but... fuck it. I can. 06* Tyler looks back at Tony and then Steve. "Hey, Steve, why don't you go get us something from Orange Julius?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks, then realizes his slushie's empty. "Sure!" And he goes to do just that, leaving Tony and Tyler in front of the Gamestop.] Okay, dude, I'm not insane. I figure you know some of this. If I wasn't doing what I'm doing you'd still be sick in a coma dreaming about a pizza place... 06* Tyler looks like he's expecting Tony to hurt him after he says that. 01<@Ardweden> [Tony looks confused, then shocked, then... "What- how the fuck!"] Look, it was do...that... or lose you to a coma. It's... complicated. If the idiot swimmer can tell nerdboy everything I can at least tell you a little bit. 01<@Ardweden> ["I don't- how'd you even know?" Tony looks kind of like a fish, grasping for words and only finding some of them. "What- what did you even do? How'd you know?"] I'm the little devil thing. 01<@Ardweden> ["That-" Tony blinks, then his expression clears. "That was *you*?"] I was trying to do everything I could to help you... 01<@Ardweden> ["What the fuck, man!" Tony laughs nervously, or maybe a little crazily. "I don't- how did you-"] 01<@Ardweden> ["You know, whatever. YOU'VE gone batshit insane, and you're trying to take me with you."] 06* Tyler sighs. "We already were there before this." 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah. Sure." Tony folds his arms. "Okay, Mr. Psychic. How did it end?"] 06* Tyler lowers his voice. "Dad's head cut off and then there was you and a subway....." He closes his eyes shuddering, unable to finish. 01<@Ardweden> [Tony stares at Tyler, then he takes a deep breath. "Yeah." He pauses, his voice suddenly quiet. "Okay. I don't... okay."] 01<@Ardweden> [And he turns, walking into the Gamestop.] 06* Tyler looks at Tony, hurt, but takes a deep breath and follows him in. 01<@Ardweden> [It's a Gamestop! With all of the things that come with a Gamestop. Tony's looking over the new XBox 360 games.] 06* Tyler heads over. "See anything interesting?" 01<@Ardweden> [Tony shrugs. He doesn't seem interested in talking, but at least he's not a) running or b) punching Tyler in the face.] 06* Tyler is pretty sure that B would be better. He just looks over them too. 01<@Ardweden> [There's all manner of overly violent games!] 06* Tyler just picks some up and looks at them here and there. He's letting Tony cool off, though he isn't really giving Tony that much space. 01<@Ardweden> [Tony is looking at the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. After staring for a minute, he says, "I don't get it."] There's alot to not get. I just knew it was you or it. 01<@Ardweden> ["No, I mean, I don't..." Tony shakes his head. "How? I didn't *tell* anybody. Not even-" He stops.] 06* Tyler shrugs. "Gotta play nice with Tiff Tiff." 01<@Ardweden> ["What?"] You can look at this two ways. I'm right, in which case we gotta play nice with Tiff because she's part of it or I'm insane in which case we gotta play nice with Tiff because she's part of it and will blab to the school. 01<@Ardweden> [Tony looks at Tyler blankly for a moment, then shoves GTA into his hands and walks off, out of Gamestop. On the way, he reflexively shoves Steve aside, who is entering with his hands full of Orange Juliuses. "Whoa, dude!"] 06* Tyler looks down at it and curses under his breath. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve trots over to Tyler. "Hey, what gives?"] I opened my mouth when I shouldn't of. 01<@Ardweden> [Blink. "That sucks."] 06* Tyler sighs and grabs a few more games and a cheap headset. "Let's get these and see if Josh and Matt are free..." 01<@Ardweden> ["Okay... what about Tony?"] He needs some time to cool off. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve nods after a moment. "Okay."] 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]