Noodle and 2D had been home for four hours. However this was no technical home truly, but a placement until they could move. Regardless they laid in there rooms in far corners in the bed late and unable to sleep as Noodle craved to dance with 2D just one more time so she could warm up.
Noodle didn't feel the sheets shift. She heard the sound of him lighting a fag and breathing it all in. Noodle always slept far from 2D. Just cause they shared a bed didn't mean that either person was entitled to any funny business. But the sound of the lighter flicking and the red and orange light turning up made Noodle crave a taste. So she sat up and rubbed her friend on the arm. He was cold too. Much like herself. 2D paused and reached for his pack and lent Noodle a cig and lent her his hand. 2D grinned to himself as he saw the light reflecting off her skin, highlighting some eye liner faintly there from before after washing her makeup off. He saw her hanging eyes and her slumped shoulders. She was as drowsy and cold as him and still they mocked the idea of sleep just so they could enjoy a few puffs in silence to heat them up and enjoy each other in cozy bliss. Only allowing some silence to be broken when 2D spoke. "I admit, it's certainly pleasant we don' ear fightin and smashed glass righ' abou' now." She pursed her lips and listened to their surroundings. For a moment she listened to the white nothing. It made her mouth curl on either side into a smile. "You're not joking, I really don't hear a thing..." she whispered. With eyes shut she didn't immediately notice she was leaning on 2D's arm. Katsu walked up to her from where he napped previously with Mike in his hammock. Katsu earning the focus of the two for the time being. The only other being the cigarettes lightening up the dark. Noodle watched her cat as he purred gleefully in her hands. Not immediately listening when 2D spoke up.
"I'm going back to school," Noodle wouldn't believe him if this moment were a year ago. But today, it sounded solid. "To law school?" she asked looking up to meet his eyes. 2D nodded.
"Now tat we're outta the fire and the fryin pan we need to buy anovher stone righ'?" 2D said as smoke came out his nose and hung in the air. "Or just hop on an old burner," he flicked it on a bedside ash tray. Noodle was too tired for hyperbole. She got the jist of what he meant anyway. She yawned and put out her cigarrete in the tray, adding to the others. Noodle laid down and scratched 2D's back in circles. "Make me proud, D." she whispered. He smiled and put out his cigarette and laid by her side closer then usual. Then Katsu laid down in his curled legs. He smiled softly. "Please, if yew wan' ye can jus call me Stu..."he offered. "Stu...its laid back, its nice..." she said closing her eyes sleepily. She hummed before yawning. "I've never called you by name before." Noodle cooed. "S'been twenty years, yew earned the right." Stuart inhaled a yawn. "S'only fair is all..." and with that he faded into darkness with her. Vanishing in sheets and heat.