Room 324, Monday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

After the arrest and everything, yesterday had continued to be just as moodswingy a day as many of the others before it. On one hand, her video had gained more than 250,000 hits in a single day, and Lynda had invited her to the Crossroads art shindig this Friday. On the other, she and her brother had had to listen to their parents fighting for like two hours in the evening. That always made her feel like an orphan. It sucked.

As did having to leave Marshall alone with the mess she could escape, especially when it was going to be his sixteenth birthday tomorrow. But Kate was still insanely glad when she finally managed to convince her parents to unground her so she could come back to Fandom.

She flew back, her parents paid for the tickets. She was too late for her classes, and probably would've skipped them anyway, so once she made it into her room, she just dropped her bags on the floor and fell over onto her bed, burying her face in her pillows.

Home sweet home, or something.

[ooc: Door is cracked, post is open, girl is... a lot of things.]

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[vanillajello]

"You don't wanna?" Well, she couldn't blame him. Not after everything. "Okay."

She pushed herself up to sitting again, then stayed that way for the moment, running her fingers through her hair.

[therewaslife]

Bod hadn't expected her to do that so he looked momentarily surprised before adjusting his position since she wasn't laying on his thigh anymore.

He watched her, wondering what she was going to do now.

[vanillajello]

Funny, Kate was wondering the exact same thing herself. She didn't really know. She didn't feel like talking anymore, like coming up with inane things to say just to feel normal. She just felt like all her exhaustion was coming back to her.

She rubbed at her eyes again.

[therewaslife]

She probably needed to take a nap like she'd been trying to do when he'd arrived. He'd interrupted that and hadn't made anything better happen so maybe she did need just to sleep a little.

[vanillajello]

That was the conclusion she was coming to, yes. As became somewhat apparent after she'd just stared straight ahead at nothing for a while, and then closed her eyes and unceremoniously slumped back against the bed with a muted 'oof' sound.

Didn't know what else to do. Except maybe to cry.

[therewaslife]

Bod watched her for a few moments before he stood up. He tried to motion that she should sleep and that he'd leave her alone to do so since she seemed to really need it.

[vanillajello]

Kate didn't really react to that much. She just rolled onto her side and curled up into a kind of a ball again. Maybe she'd have preferred it if he'd stayed while she slept. Maybe she wouldn't have.

She was suddenly feeling too drained to put any thought into that.

[therewaslife]

And Bod didn't know either. He was fairly sure he'd upset her somehow so he was going to choose to make a quiet exit. He did lean back on the bed for a brief moment to kiss the back of her shoulder and nuzzle it briefly.

With that done, he stood back up and padded quietly to her door so he could slip out and let her sleep.

[vanillajello]

That little bit of affection just made Kate curl up a little tighter. Not because she didn't like it, just because she was feeling more than a little unstable.

She mumbled something before he left but there was no way of telling what it was. Could've been 'see ya', could've been 'love you'.

Maybe she'd sleep and cry.