The Roof | Afternoon | Sunday | July 11

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It felt like a day to get out of his room. Really, everyday felt like that but today more than others. He was getting that restless, walls closing in feeling that he tended to get every few months. It'd put him into a bad mood (though he hadn't gotten out of that from a few days ago) and made him snappy and irritable.

That, naturally, brought him to the roof and had him sprawled out on the edge of the roof, cigarette stuck between his lips, earbuds in his ears playing some raucously loud, and hand tucked underneath his head. It was warm and he'd probably get some sun but he wasn't one to burn. Benefit of coming from the Midwest where you either got sun or you moved.

At least he'd foregone walking along the ledge of the roof and probably causing a panic in a few people that didn't know him. He was being safe by contrast. Laying on the roof's ledge meant he'd have to roll over to fall instead of missing a step and falling. Completely safer.

[Roof's open. Summer is too long.]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Suck," Alex said, shrugging a shoulder. "What'll do you now?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"I'm to finish my education here at Fandom, then apply to college, I suppose," Wes said. "If I'm accepted to a school my father deems appropriate, I'll go there. If not, I suppose I'll find something else to do."

Wow. He'd gone into this hoping to make Alex feel better, but now Wes felt kind of miserable.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Why the hell are you listening to your father so much?" Alex asked, shaking his head. "Fuck your parents. They can't keep controlling you."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wes stared down at his lap. "I suppose," he mumbled.

"Are you - do you feel a bit better?" he asked tentatively. "Distracted, at least?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Distracted, yeah, but I don't get to places where I feel better," he said, looking back up at the sky and closing his eyes.

"You don't need to try and make me feel better," he added. "Not gonna work."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"I'm rather terrible at boosting morale," Wes admitted. "I was simply hoping I might contribute in some way."

"I believe I brought some scotch with me to campus," he said after a pause. And he had, because he was moping and scotch was good for that. "Would that be at all beneficial?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You brought scotch?" Alex asked, looking down at Wes now. "I should have known you'd be a liquor drinker. Good scotch?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Quite. One of my father's bottles, in fact." Aha! So he could be helpful.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"He give that to you or did you gank it before you left?" Alex wondered.

Wesley's dad didn't sound like he'd just give up some nice scotch.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"I - I took it," Wes confessed, a little guiltily.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I would have taken it too," Alex said, smirking. "Daddy can get some more scotch, stop sounding so guilty."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wes shrugged, trying to look cool. "Shall I bring it up, then?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Sure, why not?" Alex shrugged. He wasn't one to turn down alcohol. "I haven't had my daily dose of alcohol today."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wes got up and headed to the door, then went back down to his room and dug the bottle out of where he'd placed it in his weapons chest. When he came back, he sat down and handed the bottle of forty-year-old scotch to Alex. "Enjoy."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You're not gonna drink?" Alex asked, sitting up so he couldn't dump scotch all over himself.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"I tend to reserve my drinking for when I'm secluded in my room," Wesley replied. "But by all means, feel free." He was just glad he could do something helpful for once.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Whatever," Alex said, uncapping the scotch and downing a good few swallows. "You a weird drunk or something?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Just irritable," Wes assured him. "Although it would appear that you have the market cornered on that particular trait," he teased.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex snickered and shook his head. "I'm always irritable. It makes me even more charming. Why do you think so many people are attracted to me?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Rugged good looks?" Wes proposed, grinning. "That's how I justify my own sex appeal, at any rate."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Everyone likes a bad boy," Alex said and took a another few swallows. "That's what I've been told, at least. I don't really label myself. People are attracted to me and who am I to argue with that?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley laughed. "Bully for you, then." Jokes about sex appeal aside, he wasn't aware of any person who'd ever been attracted to him. Alex, on the other hand, seemed exactly the sort of person girls would be attracted to. "The girls of Fandom are - all drawn to that sort, then?" he inquired.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"The girls of Fandom are fucking weird," Alex said, shrugging since that was really how he saw it. "No one girl's gonna be the same. You've got your eye on someone?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley blushed. "Yes," he mumbled, turning very red.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yes?" Alex repeated, smirking. "Who?"