4th floor common room, all day Saturday

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky had slept badly. Sometime around midnight he'd woken up with the most horrible, uncomfortable, bloaty and crampy feeling in his stomach. He had no idea what he could have eaten that made him so uncomfortable, and swallowing a few antacids didn't seem to help matters. He'd finally fallen into a very uneasy sleep a few hours later, only to rise at his usual early time feeling... not like himself. He was downright depressed, almost wanting to cry, for no real reason. Sky NEVER wanted to cry. His worries about Dru, which had begun to ease yesterday, had returned and smacked him even worse, though he couldn't have said why.

Sky finally went out to the lobby and made a pitcher of hot tea, pouring himself a mug and leaving the rest out on the table with a card reading "Free tea to anyone who wants, from Sky in 407" in neat handwriting attached. He then curled up miserably on the couch, armed with a stack of borrowed comic books, his tea, and a bowl of popcorn. He flicked through the TV channels, settling on a news channel for background noise, and began to read. He wondered vaguely if this was anxiety, or... something else.

[Open, as a common area is. Poor PMSy Sky.]

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[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

The third floor was so lonely. So lonely and it just depressed Lee so much to be alone. So, he went up one floor and wandered into the first place room that he saw life in.

"I'm so cold," he said by way of greeting, pulling his jacket around him tighter. "Doesn't this place have any heat? My feet hurt. God, I'm fat."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Hot tea on the table," Sky grunted back, pointing. "Help yourself."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Lee mumbled, ignoring the tea for the time being (no need to put on more water weight) and finding a place to sit. "Do I look fat to you? I feel bloated."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"No, you don't look fat, buddy. I feel the same way, though, oddly enough," said Sky, giving Lee a rather strange look. "I have awful cramps. And I... I feel like I'm going to burst into tears for no reason."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"What the hell is going on?" Lee grumbled, rubbing his forehead. "I feel like that too. This...god, I feel like crap. I'm Lee, don't think we've met."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Sky Tate," Sky replied. Normally he would've offered a hand to shake, but he wasn't feeling even that cordial at the moment. "I have no idea what's happening. I got up in the middle of the night like this. Thought it was something I ate, but taking antacids didn't help at all. I'm just glad I'm not the only one feeling strange."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I feel like I've put on ten pounds overnight," Lee groused, pouting and feeling depressed. "And I was all alone and it was lonely and no one likes me."

Stupid emotions.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"I feel like that, too," said Sky. "...Could it be the weather, maybe? Except I don't know why snow would make me feel bloated and anti-social and so... ... utterly lonely I want to start crying."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Me too," Lee said, sniffling and trying valiantly to not cry right in the middle of the common room. "It's either cry or hit something though and I'm too tired and achy to hit something. What's wrong with me? What's wrong with us? The world sucks."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"It does suck," Sky growled. "Why us?! Isn't there anybody else at Fandom who's feeling like this? It's so unfair. I have never before wanted to both hug and hit something at the same time. I knew coming to this place was a bad idea. I knew it. I want to leave, but I'm stuck, and now crap like this has to come and happen?!"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I know!" Lee could get with the shouting if it meant not crying. "It's a conspiracy or something. Take us away from our homes and drop us here and now I feel like a truck both hit me and ran over me fifteen times. I can barely fit into my pants, I ate all the food in my room, my feet hurt and I stubbed my toe and cried this morning!"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Still grumpy, Jack made it up to the fourth floor. Maybe they had chocolate, or something on the TV that wasn't depressing.

Tea? Tea! Jack helped himself to a cup of tea, nodding at the other student.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky waved a hand in greeting. His eyes were half-closed as he held his stomach, wishing the cramps would go away. Normally, he would at least have said "hello", but he didn't even want to do THAT much.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

NOrmally, Jack'll talk your head off. He would. Today? Tea. Tea, dammit.

...it was good tea. He nodded his appreciation.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Glad you like it," Sky finally managed to bring himself to grunt. "Enjoy. It's just a tea kind of day."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"It's good. This yours?" He sipped some more. "Good tea. Good tea day."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Yup," said Sky, pushing himself up. "It really is. ... Do you feel like crap for no reason today? Because I do."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I do!" he exclaimed. "I think something must be wrong with my mattress. My back hurts. Must have slept on it wrong."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"I feel bloated," Sky replied. "And I have cramps in my stomach area. But I tried taking antacid and it didn't help at all, so it can't be something I ate. Do YOU have any idea what's going on?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Me? No." He sighed. "It must have been something I ate. No more mystery pizza for me," he lamented.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"It hurts to live," Sky grumped. "...As long as Lee and I aren't the only ones feeling like this." He then paused. "Dare I ask what mystery pizza is?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. Someone else's leftovers," he bemoaned. "It hurrrrts!"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

Demyx slunk into the common room, eyeing Sky warily. "Today sucks," he announced, picking a chair at random and curling up into a tight little ball.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Sure does," Sky replied, giving the thumbs-up. "Let me guess... you feel like crap for no reason? Maybe have cramps, bloating, odd cravings? Mood swings?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

Demyx nodded mournfully. "My stomach hurts and I feel like I've gained about 20 pounds overnight." He would have indicated his rail-skinny waist, but that would involve uncurling.