joshua and lullaby

who: lullaby and joshua
where: text!
when: early afternoon

Lullaby didn't know when Joshua was up and about, really, not anymore, though she thought that was something she should know. So...she gave it a while and didn't text him at the ass-crack of dawn or anything, and waited until a little after noon to text him.

Hey, how're you? You don't have a mirror in your bedroom or anything, do you?<3lulu

After she sent it, she sort of wondered to herself if she shouldn't work on being more subtle, or going with natural segues instead of hopping right into the weird paranoia...

Who: Joshua and Lullaby
When: late, 11:40ish
Where: over the phone

Everything had a certain point where it became unbearable. Even good things, pleasurable things, people were built to only take so much of. This was not one of those things, which made Joshua's threshhold of tolerance even lower. He hadn't heard from her yet. Not at all, and it was driving him crazy. Yeah, she'd dumped him, said she needed time and all that, and that was why he'd deleted every text message that he'd gotten halfway through writing to her. And there had been a lot. But laying on his back listening to Radiohead had put him in a certain mood, and one of them finally made it through. She probably wouldn't answer, but he couldn't make himself not risk it anymore.

If he was going to be a man, he had to man up to rejection too. So he hit send and dropped the phone to his stomach again.

Hi. you doing ok? -J

who: joshua and lullaby
where: the lakeshore
when: early/mid morning

Who: Lulu and Joshua
When: late afternoon
Where: Osbourne house

It was on the cusp between afternoon and evening that Joshua really woke up. He'd stayed up a while in the morning, trying not to be in the way and helping where he could. He'd apologized to Sophie for the window. Well, both of them. But eventually sleep had dragged him down for a while. He was tired as hell, having been up the whole night before, and the one before that ... naps in the daytime really weren't a substitute for much. Luckily exhaustion left him mostly dreamless. Eventually though, he sat up on the bed in the room he'd been loaned, rubbing a hand over his stubble and yawning some. He took some time just to sit for a little while and try to wake up

Lullaby had peeked in on Joshua a few times that day, wanting to talk to him but not wanting to wake him either. She knew he needed the rest, and there was that wanting to take care of him part of the equation that kicked in there too. So, she'd waited, and was on her way up to check again, when she peeked into the room and saw him sitting up. She smiled at him, a light expression. Tired herself being she hadn't gotten sleep. "Hey." she said. "Sleep well?" she asked.

Who: Joshua and Lullaby
When: late night
Where: Osbourne house

Lullaby felt shakey. All over. She didn't know if she was shaking, but she felt like she was. It had hurt again, in a vague sort of way, when she'd come back to life. Just drawing that first breath made her chest hurt, though everything else was perfect. Sean had picked her up and she'd had a few brief moments to be amazed at the fact that she was being carried. By someone who was flying, and then it had been over. There weren't the gunshots from when she'd cut out, just...one second the world had been full of awful badness, and then it was all silent and hushed. To say she wasn't sure what to do would have been understating it. Her mind was a mess, not sure what to latch onto or even if she should. She didn't even know where she'd been brought in at, but there was Joshua there. That filtered through better.

Who: Joshua and Lullaby
When: midday
Where: Oz/Sophie/Dean's house

Lullaby was trying to get used to the pain. Really, she totally was. The pain meds helped, but seriously...at the end of the morning, she still had an untended broken wrist. It still in fact, felt like someone had replaced her bones in there with broken glass. Only now with the meds, it felt like someone had then wrapped it up in velvet or something. Either way? It still didn't feel good, and she was trying very very hard to not at all move it. Her back with the lacerations there wasn't happy either...but then again, really nothing was. She'd spent a lot of her morning getting woken up intermittenly by painfully freezing touches to her shoulder, which she'd been told was Maddie keeping her awake because it was dangerous for her to sleep just yet.

She'd also been assured she could sleep later. She just didn't know when that 'later' was going to be. Joshua when he'd come downstairs hadn't really left her side, and people were sort of wandering in and out. Sometimes so fast she only caught the tail end of them leaving. Of course, there was a ton of stuff to be done--not that she actually even knew what was being done. She did know she kept hearing intermitten thunks. Like someone was hammering a whole lot. It was faint to her, but she could hear it. All in all, her mood, while drugged up and full of pain--was actually fairly okay. She'd done something. And she'd done something useful. Something good. It gave her a little bit of new home that maybe she wasn't a monster. Or even if she was? Maybe she could make up for that.

Who: Joshua and Lullaby
When: afternoon
Where: Journey's house

Joshua tried to take a minute outside on the front porch before he went in. He was looking down at the books in his hands, and wondering -- stupidly, most likely -- just who's idea it had been for Dean to go get them, and how all that had gone down. And how things had gone last night, with them alone out at the orphanage, apparently playing with her abilities. Not that he thought anything happened, it just ... didn't do anything for his sense that he hadn't actually done anything for her. But that place was probably a death trap for him anyway. If there was a floor to collapse and drop you to your death, he'd probably find it, despite having been there before. But he could've brought her books, goddammit, that he could at least handle. He took a few breaths, told himself that he wouldn't let her know because she didn't need that on top of everything else, and walked into the house, looking around for her. "Lu?" he called overly loudly.

Lullaby happened to be in the living room, playing her millionth game of solitaire. The only good part about it was she knew several different types of it, so she could change it up now and then. The downside was it was her sitting around playing stupid cards all day when she was antsy to leave. Go outside, do anything that wasn't sitting inside playing soitaire. However, that wasn't doable, so she sat. And played, and waited. When she heard Joshua call for her, she looked up, then hopped up from where she was in the corner, smiling at him. "Hi!" she said, coming over to give him a kiss, and she looked at the stuff he was carrying. "Hey you'll be here in time for when Dean comes by too--though he said he can't stay. But he was supposed to bring books..." she paused, noting that one of the titles seemed pretty familiar in the sense that she was pretty sure that it was something Dean would have been bringing.

who: lullaby and joshua
where: journey's house
when: midday

Who: Joshua and Lullaby
When: a little after noon
Where: over the phone

i need to be sure you werent a dream. love, J

who: joshua and lullaby
where: outside his place/journey's
when: late

who: joshua and lullaby
where: streets
when: night

Joshua was in good spirits. Carnivals did that. Carnivals with Lullaby in them, at least, for sure. Because he hadn't really been to many in the first place. But he'd had an awesome time, eating too many corn dogs and cotton candy, riding rides, and cheating just a little at games of chance. So maybe he cheated a little for Lullaby too, seeing as how she had her arms full of stuff for people. It didn't really hurt anybody, and it was actually good practice for his TK focus. He was grinning broadly as he slipped an arm around her shoulder, the abso-fucking-lutely huge teddybear he'd won for her tucked by the neck in his other arm. Joshua leaned over and kissed her temple. It had been a great night, even with Dean there in spots. He was determined to walk her home as slowly as possible.

Lullaby was fine with the slow walk home, also having had a good time. She wasn't even as nervous as usual, walking home in the dark. The sounds from the carnival were starting to get quieter behind them, and she was pleasantly buzzy and tired at the same time. But she'd won people stuff, and that was awesome. And she had a few things won for her too, so all was right with the world. When he kissed her, she beamed up at him. "Best carnival ever." she said. "Usually it's kinda lameish, but this one was the best." Her grin turned into more of a smirk. "I think it had to do with the company." Or, it definitely did.

who: joshua and lullaby
where: school to lullaby's house
when: after school

Lullaby had gone back to school after she'd walked Sammy home. Which was probably weird, but she did it anyhow. She'd gotten back for last hour, not that she had paid the slightest bit of attention to it. Her mind was elsewhere, as she gazed out the window. Not even she could say where it had been, just that it was nowhere near Geometry. When class ended, she headed outside. She hadn't bothered to put her backpack back into her locker after the walk, so it was shrugged over one shoulder as she exited the building, walking slightly slower than everyone else. She was half looking for friends. Charlotte, Dean...maybe Isaac, even if she knew he wasn't going to be there. She had to look anyhow. Not seeing anyone she was looking for, she headed down the steps then off onto the side lawn away from the crowd, never really liking being in one in the first place.

Joshua had gone to the school to wait for her, about a half hour before it let out. He wasn't sure exactly where she'd be coming out of, but he wanted to be there for her. She was having a really hard time with everything, and it wasn't like he wasn't, but she was more important than he was. So, he'd sat on the side lawn where he'd met her for lunch until he heard the final bell ring, then gotten up to mill around and look for her. Which was kind of difficult, she was short, and there were a bunch of people around, but his roaming gaze caught her finally, breaking away from everyone. Joshua weaved through people and hurried toward her. He reached out and tugged on the loop-strap of her backpack to get her attention.