forum || When the World Slumbers | 4/4 | CLOSED ||

Started May 04, 2020 by @PrettyLittlePyro

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Lillian smiled a little as she shook her head, "Um, thanks, but no thanks. I'm not hungry at the moment."

"Alrighty. I'll just leave it here for you, k? I'll be upstairs if you guys need me." Angel waved as she ascended the stairs.
She laid down by her brother, cuddling him and her cat, and humming random tunes.

(hey guys im back! this aint dying on us no siree lol)

It was after ten at night, local time, when Faith finally reached the town. She drove through the neighborhoods, searching for a house that had its lights on. Once she found it, she parked across the street, grabbed her backpack and the food she had left, and warily approached the door. She peered in the window and knocked.

(No it cannot!)

Luke was awake. He had massive insomnia, and so he rarely went to sleep before 2 in the morning. He was scrolling through some shows on Netflix, looking for anything interesting, but he was listless. He had wandered around for a while, exploring, before finally settling on the couch to wait for the last person.
A knock on the door sounded, and he started. He stood up and opened the door. "Oh, hey," he said to the girl outside. "Faith, right? Come in. Everyone else is here."

Faith smiled gratefully at the sight of another person, and hefted her bags. "Yep, that's me. Thank God, someone else I can actually–see and talk to. I brought food and drinks, not sure if we need any. But I raided a gas station and just took all I could carry. I'm sorry I'm so late…I hope I didn't wake anyone." After a moment of looking around, she walked in and set her backpack down next to the door, then took the food to the kitchen. As she was putting away the provisions, she asked, "Are the others sleeping?"

Lillian yawned as she left her room and out into the main room where she saw Faith. She was still wrapping her head around the entire situation, but at least they were all here now, "Not anymore. Nice to meet you, Faith."

"Well, I'm not, and she's not." Luke jerked his head in Lillian's direction. "That's Lillian, I'm Luke." He held out a hand. "Want me to bring your bags to a room?"

Angel woke from her light sleep half an hour ago. She could hear voices now. She quietly crept from the bed and snuck downstairs to see Luke and Lillian talking with another person.
That must be Faith.
She didn't want to interrupt anything, so she kind of just stood there watching, not knowing what to do.

Luke glanced over and spotted Angel in the doorway. "You're all awake?" He asked, with an amused smile. "This is Faith." He shook his head. "Well, since we're all awake, do you guys want anything to eat? Pizza, or hot chocolate, or something?"

"Oh, hi." Angel whispered under her breath. All the confidence from yesterday seemed to have disappeared.
She quickly ran over to Luke and sat down by him so he could hear her mutter into his ear, "Yeah, pizza and hot chocolate sounds good."

He gave the tiniest of smiles. "Alright. I can make some." He glanced at Faith and Lillian. "You guys want some?"

"Yeah, I can go for pizza," Lillian responded with a smile making her way towards the kitchen.

"Okay." Luke wandered over to the freezer. "It looks like they have pepperoni and chicken bacon ranch. Any preferences?" He pulled some powdered chocolate from the cupboard, put it in a pot with some milk, and put it on the stove.

Angel shook her head, hoping he would see so she didn't have to answer out loud.
She didn't care what it was. If it was pizza, she'd eat it. Unless it had anchovies. Eugh. Just the thought made her shudder.

"Pepperoni," Lillian called out as she ended up sitting on the counter. She didn't see any chairs and she was still waking up.

"Okay." Luke got the pizza ready and leaned against the counter. "So, how did you all get here?"

"Drove a motorcycle," Lillian replied quickly swinging her legs, "I don't like cars."

Shoot, what do I say?
Angel simply didn't know how to explain a teleportation key without freaking someone out.
Well, she sort of walked here…so…
She started murmuring under her breath, trying to figure out what to say to them.

Faith noticed the way the younger girl was acting and gave her a reassuring smile. "It's nice to meet you all. Sorry I woke you gals. Thanks for being so welcoming, though. It's nice." She got up from the back of the sofa and took out a two-liter bottle of Sprite from the fridge. "Anyone want a glass? I got this, ginger ale, and Coke." Letting out a heavy sigh, she said, "I'm pooped from that drive…ten hours alone with nothing but your thoughts has gotta break someone. I hope you guys don't mind if I just crash on the couch after this," and chuckled softly.

"You didn't wake me. I was already up." Angel managed, loud enough to where Faith could hear her. Then she went to twiddling with her thumbs.

"You don't want a room?" Luke asked, taking the hot chocolate from the stove, and the pizza from the stove. "Because there are a lot of bedrooms in here. You can use one of those."

Lillian watched the pizza come out and reached for a slice of the pepperoni pizza, "Yeah. Just take one that doesn't have anything in it and crash."

"There are so many rooms, I'm surprised that there isn't anyone else here, even if they're in a permanent sleep." He grabbed out some paper plates. "Seriously, though, what do you guys think is happening?"

"I have honestly no idea," Lillian responded as she took a bite of the pizza, "And honestly, I'm kind of okay with everyone just being asleep. I mean, there's 4 of us awake so clearly the universe wanted us to be awake."

"Or maybe we just cheated the system," Luke said, shrugging. "I dunno." He slumped down onto a chair in his usual bored slouch, and grabbed a piece of pizza.

Faith was quiet for a moment, thinking. "It's kind of odd…I wonder if there's anyone else elsewhere in the world awake. I suppose we'd find out one way or another." She took a slice of pizza and poured herself a cup of cocoa, then sat down on the edge of a chair next to Luke.

Angel got some pizza and hot chocolate, then went back to the couch and basically buried herself in it. Seriously you could barely see her from between the cushions.
/nom/

Lillian stayed on the counter making sure she could see the others. She swang her legs a little, "Maybe they're in a different timezone. So they'll be waking up later?"

"Or they don't have the technology that we do." Luke shrugged. "Maybe America is the only country with this sort of problem."

How are we going to find out what caused this? What if they never wake up? Angel wanted to voice her concerns, but didn't want to interrupt the others. She finished her food and sat her cup on the coffee table before curling up into a ball. How am I going to fix this? The girl rocked back and forth slightly, attempting to calm herself. I was fine yesterday. Why can't I be that confident now?