#icedruins

[midncghtxrain]

open to: theodore ( @icedruins ) location: frat house

"you know, if you really were rick o'connell, i'd be asking you if you found anymore mummies lately." a joke of course. she loved the mummy movies. who didn't? anyone would be crazy to not like them.

[midncghtxrain]

open to: scout ( @icedruins ) location: frat house

"for some reason, i think at least a few people are here for the free food and drinks." which wouldn't surprise her. that was usually the one thing people went to parties for.

[midncghtxrain]

open to: up to you ( @icedruins ) location: local dance studio

she felt free when she was in the dance studio. when she was dancing, she didn't have to think about anything else aside from the beat and the next move she would make. coming to a stop, she took a deep breath as she walked over to wear her bag was. grabbing the small towel she had brought with her, she dabbed the sweat that was forming off of her forehead. with it just her there, she didn't have to worry about packing up soon to leave. or so she thought. hearing the front door open, she turned around. "uh, dances classes don't start until noon." she spoke. "either you're here about that, or for something else."

[chcrrypickcr]

✦     ・     closed  starter  for  @icedruins

✦     ・     "  i'm  sick  and  tired  of  studying.  "  olivia  sighed  as  she  closed  the  textbook  she'd  been  just  staring  at  for  the  last  few  minutes.  "  what  do  you  say  we  get  out  of  here  and  go  do  something  way  more  fun.  maybe  even  a  little  pick  me  up  of  a  spa  day.  "

[chcrrypickcr]

✦     ・     closed  starter  for  @icedruins  (  layla  )

✦     ・     the  hockey  house  was  almost  never  a  quiet  place,  especially  in  the  common  areas  like  the  living  room.  between  the  six  of  them  that  actually  lived  in  the  house  and  the  people  that  were  constantly  coming  by.  brooks  hadn't  been  home  for  long  before  someone  walked  through  the  front  door.  looking  at  the  figure  in  the  dimly  lit  room  he  recognized  her  immediately.  "  layla.  "  he  greeted  the  female.  "  looking  for  elijah?  "

[chcrrypickcr]

✦  ・  closed starter for @icedruins ( layla )

✦   ・   "  we've  barely  even  started  this  year  and  i'm  already  swamped.  "  kitty  sighed  as  she  leaned  towards  her  roommate.  "  please  tell  me  that  i  am  not  the  only  one.  "  not  that  she  actually  wanted  anyone  else  to  be  feeling  stressed  at  the  beginning  of  the  semester,  but  she  certainly  did  not  want  to  be  the  only  one.

[snowyreveries]

Closed starter for: @icedruins

Crowds at The Elephant Lounge on Thursdays were typically pretty sparse, but on this particular Thursday, thanks to some sort of business convention happening downtown, the place had been specially booked by a private party, and packed full of men wearing suits, and reeking of a quiet desperation to seem cultured and sophisticated to all of their peers who reeked of the very same desperation. All of this meant that Jamie had been called in to take his shift at the piano much earlier in the afternoon than was normal, and it wasn't long before these would-be gentlemen, trying to impress and one up each other with their how carelessly they could spend their money, were buying him drink after drink. Normally, Jamie made it a policy to take it slow while he was working, but something about how the alcohol mixed with the loneliness he'd been feeling as of late saw him breaking that policy hard and fast. By the time the shift was over, he had a pocket full of bills, blurry vision, and only the vaguest idea which direction he needed to go to get back to campus from here.

And that is how he had ended up laying down in this bush, only noticing the size seven heel poking into his lower back after a few minutes of laying there on top of it. Once he removed it, recognized it from a text he'd read earlier in the day, and alerted the owner of his having found it, the owner of the shoe had decided to take it upon herself to come retrieve both the shoe, and Jamie himself, and so now all he could do is wait and hope that she would be able to find him. As he waited, he gently hummed a traditional Scottish folk song, and silently questioned every life choice he had ever made that had led him to ending up here in this bush.

[wrenwhitmore]

closed starter for wren and mav | @icedruins

clinicals had quickly taught wren that exhaustion looked good on absolutely no one. navy scrubs hidden beneath an oversized jacket, iced coffee clutched between bare fingers normally ring covered, she weaved through the familiar flow of students crossing campus. october had settled in comfortably, carrying crisp air and the promise of changing leaves that somehow made the endless cycle of lectures, clinicals, and study sessions feel a little less suffocating. her attention lingered on the notification lighting up her phone screen, lips curving faintly at whatever one of her friends had sent in their group chat as they went back and forth about plans for the weekend. distracted, wren adjusted the strap of her bag higher onto her shoulder and promptly collided with someone. “shit, i'm so sor—" the apology caught in her throat. blue eyes lifted and for a moment everything else seemed to blur into the background.