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[gnasher]

WHO: Rin Matsuoka & Henry Lovett
WHERE: Birch Hills Apartments!
WHEN: BACKDATED early this week?? sure
WHAT: Roommates meeting for the first time!
WARNINGS: Maybe a cussword, upbeat creppiness, gross tsundere.



[Rin probably should have gotten someone to help him move.]

[he bleakly thinks this while standing behind the mattress he's hauled from home, now jammed in the top corner of the stairs, unable to be wedged forward or backward, in his brand new apartment building. truly, this seems appropriate for his first day of adult freedom: stuck between a mattress and a hard place. yeah, seems pretty typical]

[the only upside to not having requested help is that no one, wonderfully, is around to hear him growl out curses at an inanimate object]

Come on... just.. move, damnit -- !

[the springs protest his shoving, wongawongawonga; it's not going anywhere.]

Comments

[curseoclock]

[There's a lot of things you don't really expect to see when you go up the stairs. This is... This is definitely in that category? Yeah.

Of course, being the altruistic person that Henry is, his immediate response is to... stand a slight distance away and watch.

...What? Come on, it's kinda funny.

He only does that for a little bit, though. Because yeah he should probably actually like. help? Or something. At the very least he can't stand there forever. But what to open with? Hm.]

Boy, that's a funny sleeping position! Y'know, usually people try that horizontally? And in their room?

[Yes nailed it.]

[gnasher]

[LAUGHTRACK.WAV]

[just kidding, Rin doesn't laugh, because he's a grumpy shithead having a fight with a bunch of mattress springs. he just whips around, vaguely red in the face (and the hair, and the eyes, but that's normal)]

Uh, sorry. I'm a new tenant. -- Obviously. Ah. Am I blocking you?

[because.............. he's not sure how to rectify that situation. he's blocking himself. this is also an apt metaphor for his life]

[curseoclock]

[The lack of a reaction is something he's used to and usually from people in better positions, so he doesn't mind. He gets a little closer, really looking at everything going on here.

A new tenant, huh?]

Psh, I'm not in a rush or anything, so no worries. Anyways, you look like you've been bedder.

[...............]

...That's me offering to help out. Just to be clear!

[gnasher]

[you can almost hear the rusty clank of Rin's neck as it turns to Acknowledge that pun. really guy........... really.............................................]

[he can't help but grumble first:]

Maybe I should wait for a bedder offer, oi.

[except fuck that please don't leave him how do you adult]

-- That's me accepting. I think it'd be easier to have one person on each side, but now it's kind of, uh... stuck, this way.

[clogging up the hallway]

[curseoclock]

[shut up that was excellent]

Ha ha, yeah, I noticed! But no worries, we'll figure this out. Just gotta... [Looking around the mattress. Boy, this sure is an impressive level of stuck.] Hmmm, so it's not budging at all?

[Let him just try to pull on it a little. It's gotta give a little, right???]

[gnasher]

[wongawonga. their teamwork fails in the face of this impudent mattress]

If you give me a boost, I could try to climb over it to the other side.

[you're buff rite]

[curseoclock]

Uhhhh... [he is like. anti-buff, but alright.] Sure, okay. Worth a shot, right?

[yeah why not, let's try this method.

what could possibly go wrong]