Room 313- Thursday afternoon

[solo_sword]

Jaina still couldn't leave her room, and the rage had subsided, a little. It was mostly taken over by boredom now, and boy was she pissed at herself that she'd cleaned everything out and moved stuff to the garage before now. She'd tried to find alternate ways out, but to no avail. The only thing she could figure at this point would be to try and make her own opening, but she doubted that would work, especially with the tools she had available, and damaging a dorm room like that was a little beyond what she could afford to fix herself, and no one her age should have to ask their parents for money because they trashed their room to escape grounding.

So she'd done what exercise she could. She'd tried meditating at least four times only to give up because she couldn't focus (due to the rage). She'd made calls, including one to Zekk that she thought might pan out for her. She'd taken another shower, just to give herself something to do. And when she finally gave in to hunger, she had a pizza delivered to her room. She'd tipped well to keep him from asking why she didn't just come down to the lobby.

Currently, though, she was sitting on her bed, downloading more apps for her phone because something had to keep her entertained. Occasionally she'd glance out into the hall at her shoe that was still there that she still couldn't get and curse out Fandom some more.


[Same verse same as the first: you can come in and out, Jaina can't. Door and post open if you don't mind SP till after work.
I think it will be a short grounding. I've cooled down. I'm cursing Christie Golden's name a lot and worried about more important spoilers. Sigh.]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben lounged in the doorway and asked, "What's got you so upset?"

[solo_sword]

Oh, was that ever an opening for an answer.

"How come you get to walk around?" she demanded. If she and Tahiri were stuck, Ben should be too.

[momslilassassin]

"I learned when I was a year old?" Ben replied, looking confused. "Is this like graduation where you guys couldn't stand up?"

[solo_sword]

"I'm stuck in here," Jaina complained, standing. "Tahiri couldn't even open her door. If it affects us, it should affect you."

Jedi represent, or something.

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe because you're both girls?" Ben offered.

[solo_sword]

"That would not even be fair," she said. "I've been in here almost a full day."

[momslilassassin]

"Do you need food?" he asked immediately, looking worried.

[solo_sword]

She pointed with her phone to the pizza box on the desk. "Oh, apparently things and people can come in. Just not me. You can have some, if you want," she added, "just leave some since I have no idea how long I'll be in here."

[momslilassassin]

"Thanks," Ben said, walking quickly toward the pizza. He was almost sixteen. This was how things were. "Do you check on a schedule?" he asked. "Every two hours or something?"

[solo_sword]

"Whenever I get bored. So about every ten minutes." What.

[momslilassassin]

"Have you tried hopping or going backwards or anything?"

Ben might just be looking for a show now.

[solo_sword]

"You're funny," Jaina frowned. "I have been trying different things, in case there's a trick to it. Like I can only get out on the hour or half hour, or I have to try walking out really slowly. I think I'm just stuck."

Ha, she was not seriously believing that. She'd be up all night trying things.

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe you have to chant about what an astral person your cousin Ben is," Ben suggested.

[solo_sword]

"I let you have pizza," she reminded him.

[momslilassassin]

"I don't think it will help if I hop around," Ben replied.

[solo_sword]

"Try it, maybe that's all we need," she said. No, she didn't think he'd do it.

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe we both need to do it," Ben countered.

[solo_sword]

"No. That's not happening," she said. "I've been through my workout today. It didn't involve hopping."

[momslilassassin]

"And maybe that's why you're stuck here," Ben replied.

[solo_sword]

"I'm not hopping," she insisted, thinking that pretty final.

[momslilassassin]

"If you're still stuck here tomorrow, I bet you'll change your mind," Ben teased.

Ben was going to get hit if he kept this up.

[solo_sword]

Yes he was. "I refuse to be stuck here tomorrow," Jaina said. "I will find a way to go after Fandom itself."

[momslilassassin]

"From your room," Ben said.

[solo_sword]

"It should know better than to test me," she said, folding her arms. She had magic jinxing powers, after all.

[momslilassassin]

"And a sternly worded letter's going to fix that?" he asked.

[solo_sword]

"Ben, it's been a really long couple of days," she said, sounding tired. "I'm so glad this is fun for you, but I'm about to hit something and you're closest."

[momslilassassin]

"Need something else to do?" Ben asked. "Because I'm very anti getting hit. I can go grab something for you out of the garage to beat on."

[solo_sword]

"That'd be great," she nodded. Her neighbors would hate her, but.

[momslilassassin]

"Looking for something in a mouse droid, or a little more intense?" he asked with a smile.

[solo_sword]

"As long as it's something to do, I completely don't care," she admitted.

[momslilassassin]

"Be right back," he said, returning in a few minutes with a plastic bucket full of carefully labeled pieces.

Ben was just a little anal.

"This should hold you over," he said, "or at least give you new things to fling at the door."

[solo_sword]

"Thank you," she said gratefully. "After a while throwing things at the door became a cry for attention. Didn't work."

[momslilassassin]

"It could be target practice," Ben said. "I can corral some annoying people into the hallway from you?"

[solo_sword]

"That's okay, I think I'm focusing my rage on where it belongs, and not at innocent bystanders." For now.

[momslilassassin]

"On the island at large," Ben said.

[solo_sword]

"It's earned it by now, you've got to give me that," she pointed out.

[momslilassassin]

"Well, yeah, but how do you launch an offensive against an island? It's not like it has a World Brain," Ben said.

[solo_sword]

"I have plenty of time to come up with something, stop ruining my fantasy here," she frowned.

[momslilassassin]

"Make sure it includes an interesting dance number," Ben advised.