fates_jaye | Room 417, Tuesday night

After coming back from the common room, Jaye closes her door and gets on the phone.

"Oh my god, you're actually calling," says Mahandra upon picking up the phone. "Need bail money?"

"Shut up, you sound like my brother. Why am I flirting with a guy when I have a boyfriend?" Jaye asks, because it's a good question.

There's a pause. "I dunno. Why are you?"

"If I knew that I wouldn't be asking you."

"There's some circular logic going on here..."

Jaye flops onto her bed, wishing she had a harder surface to bang her head against.

"You're not going emo on me, are you?" Mahandra asks warily. "I can't deal with you and emo."

"No. No emo," insists Jaye. "Anti-emo. Just wtf'ing at myself."

"Well, you're you. You're not the tie-me-down kinda girl and do not say dirty or I will drive down there and kick your ass."

Jaye grins.

"You're sixteen, you're away from home, and... seriously. Do you remember the foreign exchange student? Aaron says he's still calling your house."

Bye, bye, grin. "Oh," she says, and shrugs.

"Cute new guy?"

"Yeah. Looks hot in leather pants. And out of them."

"Whore."

"Not whore! Not yet!" Jaye adds, because... seriously. "I don't know. I think he just broke up with his girlfriend, so it wouldn't be a thing, or anything. Just like... a thing."

"A thing," Mahandra repeats in a tone that says she totally gets it. "Are you just not ready for a boyfriend?"

"Maybe? I dunno. I suck."

"No emo."

"No emo," Jaye agrees. "Just suckiness."

"I'm hanging up on you."

"No you're- Hello?"

Jaye calls back a minute later. "Bitch," she greets her.

"And how are you?" Mahandra says brightly.

"Not emo."

"Good girl." There's the sound of a door closing on the other end of the line, and Mahandra goes on, "So you want to wander a little. So?"

Jaye isn't sure that's it, but says, "Well, the Mountie is really hot. And I scientifically dated Blair. And the guy at the brothel was kinda cute."

Long pause. Like, long. "Brothel?"

"Yeah, I hung in a brothel for a day. There were hookers. I almost got deadinated by a scary mute with a sword."

Another long pause. "Your life is so much more interesting than mine."