You are now Jade. You are bored. So very bored. You are so bored that you have resorted to playing solitaire. SOLITAIRE. Who in their right mind plays solitaire? Ever? Apparently you do.
You sigh, shuffling the deck. You came to the rec room hoping that you would find someone there that could play with you. You could play something fun, like pictionary or scrabble or fetch…
But no, everyone has to be antisocial lazybutts who just want to hang out in their rooms all day!
It is safe to say that you have way too much energy to be cooped up in this house.
You begin to deal out the cards before you realize that you actually don't know how to play solitaire. Why did you think this was a good idea?
You begin to deal out the cards to play memory instead, a game which became considerable harder once your dream self died but then started being easy again when you went dog tier.
You are halfway through your game when the door bursts open. Dave stops when he sees you and tries to back out of the room. You do not let him. You are way to bored and have way too much energy to let this perfectly acceptable source of entertainment to escape. You run up to him and drag him into the room by the front of his cape.
"Dave, play with me!" You say. You accidentally bark from excitement.
"Woah Harley. What's with you these days? It's like I can't walk into a room without getting tackled. You wouldn't happen to have a thing for me would you?"
You shove him playfully, rolling your eyes.
"I haven't talked to anyone in days! It feels like everyone's suddenly too busy to hang out with me." You tell him as he flops down on the couch.
"Well almost everyone's involved in this whole Halloween thing and everyone else is sulking in their rooms for some reason, so yea I guess you could say they are."
You look at him in confusion.
"What Halloween thing?" You ask.
"You haven't heard? The Lalondes and some others are making Halloween happen, like in a couple of days. I thought you would be all over this."
You are slightly frustrated that no one bothered to tell you about this, but you are also exited.
"What are you doing?" You ask.
"What do you mean?" He turns his head, looking into the mirror on the wall. He starts to mess with his hair even though it already falls perfectly. You've noticed that Striders have the tendency to do this.
"You said everyone was involved in Halloween. What are you doing?"
He stops for a second before continuing to fix his hair.
"I said almost everybody. Halloween isn't really my thing."
You look at him a little oddly. You could have sworn he liked Halloween, for ironic purposes at least. You chalk it up to Strider-strangeness as you have taken to calling it.
"Well are you at least going to dress up?" You ask.
"Maybe. We'll see." He says. He finishes fixing his hair and stands up to leave.
"Well I've got… stuff to do… so see you later." He says vaguely.
You frown as he turns to the door.
"Wait!" He stops. "What did you come in here to do?"
"I just wanted to see if someone was in here, but she wasn't so…" He trails off in a very unstrider-like fashion and leaves.
He's been acting very strange lately. You know that there was some drama with Terezi, but you didn't think it would affect him so much. You think that the best thing to do is probably to leave him alone to work it out himself. That's what davesprite would have wanted. In the meantime, you should find out more about this Halloween thing…
Aradia, get a snack
Well I didn't update again yesterday because I forgot so sorry. :P Happy Rose's birthday!
Mini headcannon: Dave and Dirk have the tendency to primp.
Also, poking plot holes in my own story! Jade didn't seem to be bored and full of energy when she was stuck on a ship for three years. That was John. What's going on!? :O ... probably will never be answered. That is author laziness for you.