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#201: Jan 9th 2012 at 8:45:16 PM

Hiraku levered himself upright using the wall. He staggered a couple of steps before regaining his balance and overcoming his pins and needles. He bowed to Inoue, since she seemed a lot more formal, and said, "Thank you for the party, sempai. And for the offer but I should go home."

With a probably unnoticed wave, he walked to the door. He turned for one last glance and left.

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#202: Jan 9th 2012 at 8:57:07 PM

"That's quite nice senpai, but I'll be going home as soon as this dumb feeling GOES AWAY!"

Takashi slowly breathed in and out while walking to the door.

"CRAZY party this was... see you TOMORROW... I guess? heh" and he made his exit.

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Nicktendonick kaleidoscope walker from A place, not B place Since: Jan, 2010
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#203: Jan 9th 2012 at 10:21:35 PM

Alex felt like terrible you know what.

His head continued to throb, a nasty mix of "Inoue's tonic" and whatever the heck happened to him.

He was still against Inoue's counter, his back against it.

Whatever was, this party was over now. Hopefully, he could bring Saki home before he collapsed


Saki woke slowly and unhappily, finding herself, her head in particular, in Inoue's sink. Her mouth tasted like... whatever it was that the wake-up gunk tastes like, and her head felt like it was crammed with cotton.

Still, her parents would probably start worrying if she was gone too long.

Dragging herself fully back on to her feet, she began stumbling around for Alex, making sure that her friend was accounted for. Somehow, she felt responsible to at least make sure he got out safely.

"I'm here Saki-san". Alex said, finding her.

Finally his headach releasing it's bind on himself, Alex, with Saki's hand helping, managed to stand on his two legs again.

"Can we go?" Alex said quietly to her.

It was time to leave.

With that, the two helped eachother off, and slowly left Inoue's apartment, around 1 am at night.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:57:22 PM by Nicktendonick

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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#204: Jan 9th 2012 at 11:17:39 PM

Azaka pretended to wake up by the time most everyone was gone from the party. For her part she accepted Inoue's offer and stayed the night on the apartment.

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#205: Jan 10th 2012 at 1:18:33 AM

Aoi woke up in his own bed back home. He had vague memories of having returned late last night after the power had gone. He checked the clock on his phone to confirm if he had slept for too long, and found out that he actually had plenty of time. However, he was already wide awake, so instead of going back to sleep, he got out of bed and headed for the kitchen. After getting his breakfast and bento from his mother, he decided to head towards the school after all. It wouldn't that much of a wait, and he could do with a walk in the morning air. The strange sharpness that he had experienced since that dream was still there. It was like there were edges everywhere around him...

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#206: Jan 10th 2012 at 4:00:58 AM

7:45. That was the time on his watch when Ian woke up in his family's home. Checking his phone while remaining under the covers, he found out that school had a late start at 10 am due to...blackouts? '

Hm. Blackouts. Happens all the time. But this close to the 21st? Unlikly to be coincidence. he thought. He got up and sat criss-crossing his legs on his bed. Now, what happened last night...? His mind began racing with memories of the last segment of his time in Inoue's apartment.

edited 10th Jan '12 3:45:24 PM by Insano

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#207: Jan 10th 2012 at 1:07:54 PM

All schools have been delayed until 10AM. All scheduled classes will continue as normal-

Boring. The reason for the delay wasn't given, and that was what Takeo was burning to know. He cancelled out of the text and checked the internet on his phone. Bingo. Mass blackouts, all lasting about 47 minutes, were sweeping across the world. So it wasn't an isolated incident. Ringing, mass blackouts, odd dreams, this stupid buzzing in his head that wouldn't go away... Something was definitely going down, something huge, something life changing.

Something that he could ponder about later. He was not passing up an extra hour of sleep. I deserve it after being able to get back in the house last night without hassle. He dropped the phone and rested his head against his pillow. Please let her decide to sleep in too...

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#208: Jan 10th 2012 at 2:31:45 PM

Inoue awoke before she could panic from the time, the text oponed up on her phone alerting her that school had been delayed. She looked over to her visitors snug in their cots and sleeping bags, and smiled.

Inoue slipped out past the white sheets and picked some fresh tomatoes from her balcony green house garden, she slipped back inside grabbed some eggs from the fridge and began cooking.

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#209: Jan 10th 2012 at 3:12:20 PM

Izyma woke up feeling weird before receiving the text.

"Awesome" he thought to himself looking foreword to 2 more hours of gaming, but first he'd have to style his hair or else mother would yell at him.

Remembering that Izyma walked to bathroom and looked in the mirror only to see his hair was already stylised as if he had willed it to somehow.

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#210: Jan 10th 2012 at 3:43:15 PM

Kaoru's trip back home was far more uneventful than the events in the room; though he didn't really think so. He could have sworn that car was following him... Getting in the house, though, was easier than it should have been. His parents were off at some party of some sort; an early business Christmas party or something. He hadn't cared to question, mostly because he didn't think that was what they were really up to. Not that those theories were relevant just yet. It took him a bit of time, though, since he still felt like something was pressing down on him.

All schools delayed until 10AM. All scheduled classes continue as normal.

"Likely story," Kaoru said. He was up already; he wasn't usually, but he had forgotten to turn his cell phone off. (A phone he usually kept at home, since he was half-"sure" that there was a tracking device in it.) He wasn't sure whether to call it an alien cover-up or secret government testing that hadn't yet been cleaned. He decided to use the extra time for games, but found that his computer was off. It was never off.

"Someone's been here..." Kaoru hissed, booting up the computer to see what the damage was. Nothing he could readily see. "Not that it would be..." He checked google news as usual; mostly to see if the next alien sighting had happened. It was all filled with information on some blackout. "Interesting..." So he read all he could before school, seeing as he couldn't get back to sleep.

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#211: Jan 10th 2012 at 3:53:05 PM

Hiraku was glad that school had been delayed. Okay, his father was, since that meant he could help with the influx of people who thought the blackout had broken their computers and needed help/replacements. Truthfully most were fine if they'd just let the things reboot and scan themselves, but telling busy people this still took time.

So whatever time his classmates would be using for homework or loafing around, Hiraku was working.

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Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#212: Jan 10th 2012 at 3:53:11 PM

William woke up on a couch, and wondered for a moment if the whole thing had been a nightmare. He also realized he had slept in the apartment of a busty, drinking girl and wondered if-

-No, focus, FOCUS! he chastised himself. He checked the TV, and it did indeed seem that the strange event had been real, and there had been power blackouts around the world. At least the world still existed! Worried about his family, he decided to try calling them again on his cell phone. He then noticed the announcement that classes would start at 10 AM.

edited 10th Jan '12 3:54:19 PM by Sijo

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#213: Jan 10th 2012 at 4:16:35 PM

Ian's mind went back to midnight, December 20th...

As an unseen force bore down on him and slowly forcing him asleep, Ian managed to see his fellow club members falling unconscious. His last thought before falling asleep was, Inoue, what have you done to us? His suspicion was that Inoue knew what was going to happen to the club members, including herself, and Ian didn't realize it until it was minutes to midnight. He fell to his knees, filled dread of what would happen as soon as he fell asleep. Finally, he fell forward and into his dream.

Ian's dream was ominous, to say the least. He didn't even realize he was dreaming until he realized everyone and everything was moving slower than they usually did, while he remained moving at, what seemed to be through his eyes, a regular speed. Ian was passing by cars and people so fast that he thought that he must've looked like a brief flash breezing between them.

Then by his subconscious's will, Ian found his mental image doing what he thought was impossible: running up the side of a building and looking at the world before. Ian was surprised at how far he could see from this height. It made him feel like he was something...more. In the dream, he inhaled...

And then he exhaled as he woke up in the real world, lying on the floor of Inoue's apartment. He reached out for his unsharpened pencil lying a few inches away from his right hand and twirled it around, its spinning seeming to let him know he was back in reality. As he got up onto his feet and rubbed his slightly aching forehead, he saw the others coming back to reality as well. Ian decided he had spent enough time in Inoue's apartment, giving her an unnoticed glare of distrust and suspicion as he walked back home.

The rest of Ian's memory fell into place quickly. He had walked home unscathed, gotten inside with the copy of the house key his parents had given him, changed into sleeping clothes, and fell asleep for the next seven hours.

Ian exhaled and opened his eyes as he finished reviewing the previous night. Getting up and changing into his school uniform, he turned on the TV while making a quick breakfast of scrambled eggs, rice, and bacon. As he ate, he watched the world news with great attention, and he noted the wave of blackouts moving through east through the time zones.

It started here in Japan at midnight, when we were forced asleep, and lasted for nearly fifty minutes before moving to the next populated timezone. Did Inoue know about this? I guess I'll have to ask her to be sure. Ian thought. Whatever happened last night, he was pretty sure Inoue knew what happened to them while they were asleep.

edited 10th Jan '12 4:16:46 PM by Insano

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#214: Jan 10th 2012 at 4:55:08 PM

With a big yawn, Azaka woke up on Inoue's floor as her slender form stretching within her sleeping bag. Slowly blinking her sleepiness away, Azaka felt around the little table by her side to find her glasses.

With those on, the world came into greater focus and she was able to make out Inoue hard at work on the kitchen "Morning Inoue... So, I see you're a morning person"

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#215: Jan 10th 2012 at 5:17:27 PM

"Yep, You have to be when your on the SC. So many early meeting before school and the like, I rarely get time to cook like this these days especially with the winter festival in a few weeks." Inoue said with a smile as she poured some pancakes onto a skillet. "Especially, rare that I'm not cooking only for me, it's refreshing."

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#216: Jan 10th 2012 at 5:34:25 PM

William finally relaxed when he found out that the blackout phenomenon, as strange as it was, didn't seem to be causing any major damage, and after talking to his family, who were OK, if as confused as he was.

Then he noticed Inoue cooking, and remembered he was still in her apartment. He hadn't intended to sleep over, and suddenly he felt embarrassed at being at her place. He wanted to leave, but also wanted to ask her what she thought about the whole deal.

-"Um, Good morning, folks. Err, well, the World didn't end, but something is going on, what do you think it could be?"

edited 10th Jan '12 5:35:28 PM by Sijo

daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#217: Jan 10th 2012 at 5:37:41 PM

"Hmm definitely something weird happened last night... But everything feels mostly normal today" Azaka said just as she happened to glance over to the clock "D-Damn is it late! Hey, Inoue you better forget that breakfast or we'll be getting to school by the end of first period!"

Of course, Azaka had not yet read the memo saying that classes would start late today.

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#218: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:05:25 PM

Saki woke slowly and unhappily, finding herself, her head in particular, in Inoue's sink. Her mouth tasted like... whatever it was that the wake-up gunk tastes like, and her head felt like it was crammed with cotton.

Still, her parents would probably start worrying if she was gone too long.

Dragging herself fully back on to her feet, she began stumbling around for Alex, making sure that her friend was accounted for. Somehow, she felt responsible to at least make sure he got out safely.

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#219: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:27:41 PM

"Who knows, I still say spiritual awakening I feel closer to nature all ready, Lateness and school,none of that matters ....Also It was delayed to 10." Inoue says playfully with her tongue out somewhat.

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#220: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:43:51 PM

"Oh..."

Azaka blushed a little after hearing Inoue's words and then stopped her hurry somewhat. She got out of her bag and then stretched a little as she avoided the other girl's eyes "I see... well I don't feel very awake at the moment. Spiritually or otherwise. Can I borrow your shower?"

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#221: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:47:22 PM

"Oh, sure. It's the door right next to the oven." Inoue pointed to the door beside her. "Use whatever you like, I have to have like fifty half-opened shampoos in there."

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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#222: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:51:39 PM

"Great. Though that's an awful lot of bottles to have... Can't wait to try a new one, Inoue?" asked Azaka as she walked over to the door she indicated, hopping there would be a clean towel inside.

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#223: Jan 10th 2012 at 6:59:50 PM

Realizing that he was surrounded by pretty girls in the process of getting up and bathing, Will felt even MORE embarrassed and, as politely as he could, made his way way out.

"Err, ahh, well, I'd better go. Thanks for the party Inoue it was- uh- something else. The snacks were good. Umm, see you all in class!" and then he left.

edited 10th Jan '12 7:00:48 PM by Sijo

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#224: Jan 10th 2012 at 7:03:48 PM

"I'm always on the look for a new product." Inoue smiled.

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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#225: Jan 10th 2012 at 7:12:22 PM

"I can certainly see that... quite a collection you have here. Now if you'll excuse me... I'll let you finish up that delightfully tasty smelling breakfast. Thanks for everything Inoue"

With that Azaka locked herself up in the bath and proceeded to have a refreshing morning shower. Sure, it was a shame that she had to use the same clothes she slept in... but such things happened when you went into a impromptu sleepover.


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