[ he's just excited to see a familiar face, and a little buzzed still from the party, and from the weird situation that they've found themselves in that he's trying not to think about, and it's making it hard to stay focused on any one piece of information for too long. pierce's roommate is a ghost? great. ghosts are cool, and he has to assume there's not some sort of weird haunting situation going on, or pierce would probably have warned him off of spending too much time in a space with a malevolent force.
he's not all out going through drawers while pierce is drawing the bath, just rattling handles like he's thinking about it, and he's still only really absorbing about half of what's being said to him, but pierce says 22 and suddenly nick is very much listening. ]
Yeah right, that's not- [ he's ready to roll his eyes and snort at a very poor attempt at a joke, but nick looks at pierce--really looks--and he just knows that it's not a joke. ]
...okay. That— well, that doesn't make sense. I thought you said you've been here for two months? I'm, like--I haven't even got you a birthday present yet, you're telling me I've missed three?
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[ he's just excited to see a familiar face, and a little buzzed still from the party, and from the weird situation that they've found themselves in that he's trying not to think about, and it's making it hard to stay focused on any one piece of information for too long. pierce's roommate is a ghost? great. ghosts are cool, and he has to assume there's not some sort of weird haunting situation going on, or pierce would probably have warned him off of spending too much time in a space with a malevolent force.
he's not all out going through drawers while pierce is drawing the bath, just rattling handles like he's thinking about it, and he's still only really absorbing about half of what's being said to him, but pierce says 22 and suddenly nick is very much listening. ]
Yeah right, that's not- [ he's ready to roll his eyes and snort at a very poor attempt at a joke, but nick looks at pierce--really looks--and he just knows that it's not a joke. ]
...okay. That— well, that doesn't make sense. I thought you said you've been here for two months? I'm, like--I haven't even got you a birthday present yet, you're telling me I've missed three?