He stood up, straightened his back, then, in deciding he didn't want to be in the room anymore, crept to the door. He stepped over Cronus and glided past the table. The floors creaked, and the walls seemed to have something that moved within them. To abate the noise, he had earlier determined which part of the room was the loudest. Kankri looked behind him, before touching the doorknob. He was deft in turning it so that he wouldn't wake anyone in the group.

This new bad habit had been something he originally didn't intend to develop. It started small. Trying to convince Cronus not to light the damn thing. That then escalated to he himself trying one to see how easy it was to stop.
In the stress of his Dad and the school's idiotic campaign, he had tried another, this one just to spite himself.
It wasn't until the third one that he actually began to crave them. He was trying to stop, he really was. It was just difficult in a time like this.
He didn't want anyone to know though, because that would completely kill his reputation. That, was beyond the opposite, of what he wanted or needed.
Kankri looked behind him one last time, to make sure no one was moving. Somehow, they all appeared to be sleeping like babies. He turned back, opened the door, and nearly choked on himself.

There were many things that happened in that moment. The first, being the door to the girl's room closing after Meenah's braid was poking out. The second thing was the shadow coming up the stairs. The third thing had to be the worst of all. Horuss and Rufioh were together at an awkwardly close encounter. Kankri slid through the door and was about to approach them to ask what they were doing when the head of Cronus popped up. Kankri paused and looked back into the room, where Cronus was supposed to be. There appeared to be a body? And it was three in the morning, why was everyone walking around?

"Vwha-" Cronus' eyes had grown at least twice their side. Kankri stepped outside the room and into the hall gaining the attention of everyone.

"I thought we all determined there was a curfew on when everyone should stay in the rooms?" He said, placing his hand over the boxed outline in jacket pocket. "And what is going on here? Rufioh, if I wasn't mistaken, don't you have a girlfriend? Damara, I believe it is, the new student at Alternia High?"
Kankri raised his chin.

"Woah woah, what are you implying?" Rufioh asked, laughing.
"What?" Kankri said. He blinked, and the moment his eyes opened it was as though a different scene was happening all together.
Horuss was smiling an uneasy smile as his head seemed to precipitate. And Rufioh looked very worried.

"We were just talking about our hardships." Horuss said. "And I was trying to cheer him up."

Kankri closed his eyes.
"Well, I am sure from now on the both of you will try and follow different procedures into maintaining your emotional health. After all, you wouldn't want our friends to pull the wrong idea out from your little friendly encounters. Please, join me in a prayer so that we can bless whatever problems are at play."

He would have to skip tonight, and suffer in the morning, needing to sneak out and take a smoke.