what a bad time to show up [OPEN]

[iwagmyhair]

Characters: Tomoko and anyone in the tower!
Setting: From room 2-13 to the dorms.
Summary: Tomoko wakes in a terrifying tower; is, understandably, terrified.
Warnings: May occasionally be a terrified little dog instead.

[Room 2-13]

[The one thing that can be said for Tomoko is, when she can finally move again after waking up? She doesn't immediately start screaming. No, her reaction is a lot less active than that. It's much easier to curl up on the bed and cry. She doesn't even need to look at the notes to know something awful must have happened. This isn't any room she's seen at the school, there's no sign or even smell of Sora or her friends, and her last memory is of a gun being leveled at her...

It could be that she died. She's not sure she feels very dead. Just scared, really scared, but, well, she's always scared. No difference there. She'll move on with this once she's done sobbing into a pillow and finds some semblance of bravery to do something else, honest.]

[Dormitories]

[See? She did move on! Kind of! Notes telling her the world's been destroyed was enough to spur her into digging through her chest and stumbling out to blindly search the tower for her friends. If the world was gone, they must have saved the others! No one would only save her!]

S-sora? [No one was dumb enough to save only her.] Yuki? [It'd be such a bad choice to make. She was the most useless one, the most awful!] Hiyo...? A... anyone?

[As if quietly calling around the dorms would make them magically appear. Tomoko stops and clenches her fists, making a disgusted sound and berating herself.]

...stupid... use your nose!

[This isn't a time to forget what she's capable of! Come on, Tomoko! From there on, there is a timid fourteen year old school girl wandering the halls, sniffing at doors, vaguely trying to not look incredibly weird while doing that. Which is, admittedly, kind of hard.]

Comments

[mustlovedogs]

[...Okay, yeah, that's pretty weird. But then again, his classmates are all pretty weird too, so as Mondo leaves his own room on floor two, he tries not to stare and just leave her be. Best not to get involved with anything weird and let people handle their own problems, right?

But...he can't help wondering what the hell is going on, and why someone is sniffing around. By the time he's within a few feet of her, he stops.]

...You lookin' for something?

[savedbyasong]

[Shion left his room to see a young girl leaving the room next door calling two names. He watched her for a moment, while she started sniffing. He had never seen her before so he guessed she was new.] Hello? Are you alright?

Dormitories

[cutestprogrammer]

[This little 'girl' here is just as timid and very confused when he sees Tomoko sniffing around.]

... c-can I help you?

[iwagmyhair]

[She hears him approaching, which gets her to stop sniffing one of the doors immediately. Replacing that odd behavior was a completely different one, but considering where they were, it might not be the weirdest sort.

She cringes at his question and backs away several steps, looking anywhere but at him.]

No! No. [Tomoko shakes her head.] Nothing... really.

[iwagmyhair]

[Tomoko gives a startled jump and turns to look at Shion. If she'd looked nervous before, that changes to even more nervous at seeing him in the hallway with her. She looks down and clasps her hands behind her back.]

Hello! I'm fine! [Even if she sounds a thousand miles away from 'fine'.] Is... um... is this a boy's dormitory? I'm sorry. I'll leave if it is!

[iwagmyhair]

[Tomoko stops sniffing around at the air when she hears the other voice and turns, nervous-looking at first, but that fades to a much more relieved expression once she sees who it is. Oh thank goodness, there are other girls around.]

Ah, maybe. I just woke up here. Do you know where we are?

[cutestprogrammer]

[Nothing about him betrays the fact that he isn't a girl. He smiles a bit, trying to make her feel less nervous.]

You've just arrived? I'm not sure if this place has a name but we are now trapped in this tower.

[savedbyasong]

[She didn't sound fine, she sounded frightened and Shion automatically wanted to help] No... the rooms are alternate, so this one [Pointing at his own] is a boys room but yours is a girls room. Did you just wake up?

[mustlovedogs]

H-hey, don't be like that, I ain't gonna hurt you!

[This...isn't a particularly odd reaction from girls around him, really.]

[iwagmyhair]

[He isn't? That's... different. At least it gets her to raise her head, but only enough to keep a wary eye on him.]

...sorry... [Maybe he's just trying to get her guard down?] It's just I don't know where I am and there was a note...

[iwagmyhair]

We have to share a floor with boys?!

[Aaaaaaanooooo. Forget the question about waking up, she has new things to worry about now!]

[iwagmyhair]

[It's hard not to be nervous when you're trapped in a weird tower, but at least she isn't freaking out.]

Mmh. I did. [Tomoko looks up and down the hall they're in.] This is a tower? Is it one of the school towers? I've never seen inside one of those before.

[mustlovedogs]

Aah, that note's bullshit, really pisses me off...!

[Ah, no, no he can't raise his voice around girls, he has to remember that...]

Look, I don't really know where exactly it is, but you're in this tower, they've got no doors and the windows don't break.

[iwagmyhair]

[Considering she flinches when he does raise it, that might be a good idea.]

It is? [That's hopeful. At least, it must be, right? If the note isn't true after all?] So everyone's still all right? Back home? Or... or are they stuck here, too?

[cutestprogrammer]

I'm rather new here as well. [shakes his head] No. This isn't a school and there is only this one tower with no exits.

[savedbyasong]

Yes... [She looked scared, though that was normal. Shion had been terrified; was still terrified most of the time...] Is everything alright?

[mustlovedogs]

Depends. I got some kids from school here, everybody else I know's back at home. Could be different for you.

[He's quite set on believing the world isn't destroyed.]

[iwagmyhair]

I've been looking, but...

[Tomoko looks down at the floor again, her hangs clasped together in front of her but she's wringing them nervously.]

I don't know. I haven't found them yet and I'm usually good at that.

[iwagmyhair]

N-no! It's not! They can't do that! That's really cruel!

[Boys on the same floor as girls! She just cannot! This is seriously the least of your worries, Tomoko, what are you doing.]

[iwagmyhair]

It's not a... [Not a school. Which means she isn't at the academy anymore!] But how did anyone get in here if it has no exits?!

[mustlovedogs]

Gu...well... What're their names, or what do they look like or something? It's not like I been here long either, but, if they're here I've probably seen them around at least...

[cutestprogrammer]

I'm not sure either... I just found myself here as well... I'm sorry...

[savedbyasong]

[He blinks... Because he wasn't sure why that was cruel but she was upset about it and obviously had a reason. Also because if she thought that was cruel... Shion looked at her in worry.] I'm sorry... That's the way it is I guess... But the rooms are safe... the monsters can't get in there... most of the time...[Yes, that is supposed to be reassuring, the tower warps your idea of safety.]