Day 1: June 7h
1:13 AM
Tim has trouble carrying Jay into the hotel room. Jay is asleep, having crashed at some point during the car ride back. Tim drops him onto one of the beds and tries to cover him with the sheets.
1:14 AM
Tim gives up on trying to pull the sheets over Jay, who is sprawled awkwardly across the top of the bed. Instead he sits beside him, running his hands through his hair. He doesn't know what to do.
1:15 AM
Tim realizes Jay is still holding the camera. He gently pulls it out of his hands and puts it on the top of the dresser. Then he stands, completely at a loss of what to do next.
1:16 AM
Jay starts snoring. Tim goes outside.
1:19 AM
Tim pulls out a cigarette and lights it. His eyes ache but he doesn't think he could sleep even if he tried. His mind is buzzing. He doesn't really know what happened back at the house and thinking about it just makes his head hurt.
1:25 AM
Tim goes back inside. Jay is still snoring.
1:26 AM
Jay continues snoring. Tim goes back outside.
1:29 AM
Tim considers spending the night outside.
1:31 AM
Tim starts shivering, gives up, and goes back inside. He tries falling asleep on the other bed.
1:43 AM
Tim bravely struggles to ignore Jay's snoring.
1:45 AM
It does not work.
5:36 AM
Tim wakes up. He doesn't remember falling asleep. He starts panicking when he looks over to Jay and can't see him on the bed. Tim stumbles to his feet.
5:37 AM
Tim stops panicking when he finds Jay curled up on the floor beside the bed. It looks like he rolled off sometime during the night.
5:38 AM
Tim considers waking him up to get him back onto the bed. He tries tapping Jay on the shoulder, then shaking him.
5:40 AM
Jay starts snoring.
5:43 AM
Frustrated, Tim stops trying to wake Jay and just straight up picks him up and puts him back on the bed. Jay does not wake up. Tim doesn't know whether to be relieved or worried.
5:45 AM
Jay is still snoring. Tim tries to fall back asleep.
5:46 AM
It does not work.
6:01 AM
It finally works. Tim crashes.
6:31 AM
Tim wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing. He answers blurrily but can only hear incoherent mumbling.
6:32 AM
Tim realizes the call is from Jay, who is awake and speaking something urgently into his own phone.
6:33 AM
Tim rescues Jay from his phone. Jay lets out a slurred moan in protest, but when Tim quietly tells him to go back to sleep he conks out almost immediately. Tim returns to trying to sleep.
8:13 AM
Tim wakes to the sound of the hotel alarm. It's been going off since 8. He shuts it off and reflexively looks for Jay.
8:16 AM
Jay is still out but has begun to talk in his sleep.
8:23 AM
Tim starts going through the footage on Jay's camera. He nearly drops it when Jay stops talking in his sleep and starts screaming instead.
8:26 AM
Jay screams. Tim panics.
8:34 AM
Tim tells Jay it's going to be okay over and over again, even though he's not even remotely sure it ever will be.
8:35 AM
Jay stops screaming. He looks exhausted even if he's been asleep all day.
8:54 AM
Tim doesn't know what else to do, so he returns to going through the footage on the camera.
9:15 AM
Tim transfers the footage to the laptop. He doesn't like what he saw, but he knows Jay would want the footage kept safe.
9:38 AM
Tim charges the camera since the battery is nearly dead at this point. Jay sleeps, albeit fitfully. He frowns and mutters occasionally. Tim just hopes he won't start screaming again.
10:01 AM
Jay stops fidgeting in his sleep and finally calms down. Tim takes advantage of this lull to slip out to get them some food.
10:22 AM
The nearest gas station is out of beef jerky. Tim wishes he could spare the gas money to look for some. The way Jay had been acting back at the house when...whatever had happened had happened, he could probably do with some protein.
10:49 AM
Tim re-enters the room and nearly has a heart attack when he sees Jay sprawled on the floor. He looks like he tried to walk but collapsed partway through. Tim is at his side immediately, food forgotten.
10:50 AM
On closer examination, Jay appears to be awake and letting out a steady stream of slurred expletives.
10:53 AM
Tim gets Jay to sit on the edge of the bed. He asks Jay what he can remember.
10:54 AM
Jay considers the question.
10:55 AM
Jay throws up.
11:17 AM
Jay continues retching safely in the bathroom. Tim attempts to clean up the mess.
11:25 AM
The retching has stopped. Tim has had no success.
11:37 AM
Jay is still in the bathroom. Tim takes a break to check on him only to find that he has somehow managed to fall asleep curled up in the shower.
11:39 AM
Tim gets Jay back to bed. Still no success in cleaning up the aftermath of Jay's fleeting moment of lucidity.
11:40 AM
The room has started to smell. Tim goes outside.
11:46 AM
The room still smells. Tim smokes.
11:53 AM
Tim wearily goes back inside. Sighs. Someone is going to have to clean up this mess, and the only other candidate is in no condition to do so.
12:02 PM
Tim resigns himself to the task.
12:39 PM
The mess is gone but the smell is not. Tim doesn't care.
12:41 PM
Tim worries that Jay might not ever wake up. He tells himself that those kinds of thoughts are stupid and pointless and won't help.
12:42 PM
Tim continues to worry.
12:43 PM
Tim puts his head in his hands.
12:44 PM
Tim tries not to break down.
12:47 PM
He fails.