3rd floor hall: Boy talk [Closed to Naitou and Summer]

The mini lounge on the third floor sporting small tables and a few chairs and a vending machine ~~(OOC: uh. so i sported it next to what we see in P3P. haha)~~ was rather silent today, but it was not quite empty. A girl sat on one of the chairs, reading a magazine while sipping a can of orange soda. Earphones blasting to the sound of an indie band was connected to her ears, making her quite oblivious to any sound going on around her, but she was faced to the entire hall, so if anyone did happen to see and approach her, she'd also see them.

But why read a magazine outside in this hall? Simple. Naitou Hisakata just wanted to take a breather from staying too long in her room. She had been inside the room for hours on end, on her older brother's orders for her not to go to school and dismissing the excuse as sickness. Of course, the real reason was because he was worried she'd be fatigued after what had occurred on the last mission. There was still a gash on her arm present...but it didn't seem like one of those permanent scars so she was quite confident it would disappear soon.

She took a glance at her arm. Since she wasn't wearing anything long sleeves today, but just in case, she decided to wrap her gash with a bandage that was clearly seen by anyone in broad daylight or the dimmest night.

'Are you still thinking about your injury, Nai?' asked a voice from her pocket (despite the noise made in by her earphones) and Naitou took it out then placed it on top of the table.

"Not entirely Iris...it's just that it feels so lonely here in the hall when everyone's out. I'd prefer some company in the least." she sighed and only smirked at Iris's card, seeing her persona raising a brow and opening her mouth, ready for the usual rebuttal. "and i mean people-company." she laughed. "No offense, Iris. I enjoy your company very much; you've been my best friend since a year ago, but sometimes i have to admit i need people around. I learned that a year ago too..." she sighed and put the magazine down on the table. "When do you think they'll come back?"

"In a few minutes I say.' answered Iris. 'Why don't you rest in your room?'

'I'd grown cobwebs in that room by the time they come in. It's much better i move about."

Summer opened the door of her room and peeked out tentatively. She had been exiled to room imprisonment since she had awakened to her persona and she was pretty sure she had developed cabin fever because of it. In short, she was slowly and steadily growing crazy. Brilliant.

She slowly creeped out of the room and snuck into the hall. Cursing every creak in the wooden planks with each step that she took, but, stopped in her steps when she noticed someone sitting at the mini lounge at the end of the hall, only to find that it was none other than Naitiou.

"I wasn't trying to sneak out." Was the first words that she had uttered to her accompanied with a sheepish smile as she tried to hide the pair of brown leather boots that she had been carrying.

Looking up, Naitou raised a brow at seeing Summer supposedly making an attempt to go against orders of a room lock down. The new member of the group had been told to stay in the dorm and rest, but Naitou figured the girl was as restless as she was. She took off her earphones and set her player aside, smiling warmly at Summer. "I'll be the judge of that..." she chuckled as she leaned her arm on the table, supporting her head that was leaning on her palm. "Your boots would go well with you if you wear it instead of carrying it."

Summer smoothed down the pleats on her black skirt and shrugged, still not letting go of her boots as she shrugged off her heavy white coat, revealing a matching white singlet. Seriously, she needed to shake off the nasty habit of wearing layers. This was most certainly not London and it was stifling here.

"Ah, but if I put on my shoes, it would be harder to walk around." she explained with a grin as she glanced down on her feet encased in warm socks "Besides, I'm pretty sure your brother would find out if I was trying to sneak out or something..." She added with a small scowl "He has bat hearing...no offense."

Then she walked over to the chairs and sat down on the seat adjacent to the girl and put her shoes on before looking back up at Naitou "What are you doing out of your room anyway?" She asked, last time she heard, she was sentenced to some sort of room arrest too. She could hear her pacing around her room sometimes...not that it was very hard to. They were the only ones in the third floor.

"None taken. I think you're right with that. He does possess such hearing, i often wonder if he was a bat in his previous life." Naitou chuckled even though she was insulting her brother, but to her, she considers it a compliment. They are, after all, just siblings. "but, in any case, it wouldn't do us good to try and step out of this building. We're going to give ourselves a death sentence if we try. He possesses Ichnaea, whose powerful ability is to detect people like us, and Kaikou's quite perceptive with detecting..." she sighed, sitting back in her chair. "Especially with our personas." she pushed her glasses up and nodded once, then yawned. "But at least, he's not here. He's in the university off for some faculty work again. Do join me, if you'd like. I figured you're bored. I know I was."

She then took her card and placed it back in her pocket swiftly. Perhaps, Summer wouldn't be in the mood to talk about personas right now, since she had gone through some rough and crazy ordeals. She wouldn't know how the girl probably felt, but she figured she was still confused. Naitou's awakening was a different case though, and it seemed much calmer than from any of the members in the group. It was so normal, it could pass off as boring and dull.

"Doing outside my room?" she placed a hand underneath her chin and looked up in the ceiling. "Well, it was getting a bit too stuffy and boring there...plus, my stuffed toys took too much space in my bed...I just thought maybe a change of place to stay in would make things a little more interesting, but i guess i was wrong. There's really nothing to do...gosh..." she covered her mouth as a light laugh escaped her lips. "I'm really sorry. I've been saying too much to you...I'm just not really into room arrest, seeing that i'm so restless and i worry so much about my school duties." Particularly Robert. That guy wouldn't live a day without her by his side during student council work. "I figure...you're restless as well?" she smirked.

Woah, wait what?

What was up with the formal talk? Not that she minded of course, she grew up around that kind of talk, but she wasn't expecting it to come from the girl in front of her. "You don't need to speak so formally in front of me, you know." Summer said with a shrug as she crossed her legs and leaned back against the chair, coat resting on her lap. "I mean, I may be from London, but I speak teenager too." She added jokingly with a small grin

Then as she explained about Kaitou's persona, Ichnea, Summer's smile slowly slid off her face, each of her attempts at escape dissolving in her mind. She was stuck in this nightmare. She was stuck in this sort of alternate reality where mirrors suck people in and things from cards talk to you. A small, stubborn part of her mind kept on insisting that it wasn't real, but the evidence is clear. This was all too real...much to her disappointment

"Why do you think I'm planning an escape?" She asked, rhetorically, as she laughed before glancing out the window, trying to gauze how far it was from the ground before shaking her head at her insanity. "I am so terribly bored!" The blonde exclaimed as she crossed her arms over her chest and set her face on a frown. Bored Summer was never good. "I wanna get out of here." She wanted to shop, or walk around town and find a park to read a good book, or even shoot arrows...but she couldn't possibly do that if she was stuck here. Meh.

"hm..." Naitou stared at her for s few seconds then shrugged/ "All right." she said nonchalantly, turning her attention to the magazine that lay on top of the table. "Sorry about talking too much then. I tend to do that a lot...so do tell me if i'm too formal when talking, thanks." she added as she flipped the magazine open on an article she had recently just finished reading.

But, she thought back, was she insinuating Summer was trying to escape? Maybe she really was, but she never said anything forward that Summer is indeed, escaping. "I never said you were planning an escape. I think i only mentioned something along the lines of 'stepping out for some fresh air' and 'taking a walk'. But i didn't think you'd do such....I was thinking you'd actually want to go to school." she chuckled lightly at her rather silly statement. If Summer was going to school, wouldn't she be in uniform? "ah, but if i remember right, you mentioned something about sneaking out...but i take you were just suggesting it." she put her chin on top of her palm. Things were, as what Summer said, getting pretty boring. It would be good if they stepped out or such.

"Well, if you wanted to, you could go to the roof top. I have the key to the roof top door...but just don't tell my brother. He always keeps it locked when someone's on lock down in this place." she smirked and took out her card and put it on the table. Her eyes watched as Iris playfully looked back at her, whilst brushing her rainbow hair. "Or, I could propose to block Kai's sensing abilities so we both could step out of this place without him knowing."

Of course, Kaikou would never know, she had mastered the ability to block his sensing powers. It had come in so much handy for so many times now, most especially a year ago, when she needed it most.