Hello! Só, hows going living with.. Bro?? Are you living with him? 🤔
You decide to go back in after about half-past two, not at all surprised to find the place a dingy dark mess, especially outside the thin band of light allowed into the apartment from the opened hallway door.
The silhouette vanishes almost instantly, leaving the smuppet he’d been working on with a needle stuck in it’s plush nose lying across the keyboard of the still playing tunes.
You opened the floodgates now, playing pin the tail on the cryptid and openly acknowledging your badly side-stepped elephants. Bro vanishing the second you enter the room isn’t that uncommon. Far too common, even if you can still feel the prickle of his attention between your wings, right at the back of your neck, meaning he’s paying attention to you. Probably up in the crawlspace.
He’d come down if you called, you know that. But he’d be grumpy as fuck if you didn’t have a good reason for it. The dude was jumpy at night.
In some ways the situation is not all that unfamiliar. It’s just stealth mode pushed up to 8 ¾ of the time. But just because you know he isn’t gonna ambush you as an exercise doesn’t mean your nerves entirely get it.
You think back to the message you answered before you left the roof.
TC: i dont s33 him around much if im honest
TC: as soon as he stopped n33din to hover to make sure i didnt end up fallin on my face he kinda went full cryptid
TC: until like a w33k ago
TC: now its only mostly cryptid
TC: i cant stand the silence so ill talk to myself to fill it and he cant stand being talked at unless hes in the right mood
TC: it works about as well as youd expect
TC: i f33l like i drive him into hiding sometimes
TC: straight up cant find the dude anywhere and he didnt fly the coop beclaws the keys are still there
TC: hes not much of a talker unless it’s quips and one liners or i push too far and you can guess i purrobably have and will push too far
TC: ive already pushed that glass right off the table n watched it shatter a couple times
TC: im online a lot recently beclaws i pestered him to the point where he snapped at me to go find a chatroom or somefang if i was so desperate to talk to someone
TC: there was a new pack of apple juice in the fridge later
TC: i think it was supposed to be an apawlogy
You know better than to chase him. If he was in the mood to be social he wouldn’t have flash stepped out of there like a cat outta hell. Plus it’s like. 2 am. Not that it means anything considering you are all but nocturnal and you aren’t sure he’s got any sleep schedule that isn’t pass out face first in a pile of smuppets when he can’t stay awake any longer.
He’s probably wondering why you’re just standing there in the middle of the kitchen.
Just go back to your room, kid.