The Parlor: The New Haunt ((Open Thread))

by **Regan Rourke** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:57 pm

The parlor was exactly what it sounded like, a parlor for Braddock Manor that had been converted into a common room for the students to socialize.

At the moment, Regan was sitting on the couch, staring at the television with a blank expression on her face. Well, technically she wasn't "on" the couch. More like, hovering slightly above it. But it amounted to the same thing.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:50 pm

Haley walked into the room, noticed the ghost, and screamed.

by **Regan Rourke** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:53 pm

Regan winced, looking annoyed as she covered her ears.

"Are you done?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:58 pm

"Oh..,fuck..,I'm sorry," she said, sensing the girls aggravation and getting the sense she wasn't actually a ghost.

"Sorry...I uh...well this place really is like haunted and shit and you. Fuck. I'm an asshole. My names Haley."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:01 am

"It's okay, I guess," Regan says, with a shrug, "Don't worry about it."

"I'm Regan," Regan says, "So, this place is really haunted?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:06 am

"Sorta...this freaky bitch like...kept visiting my dreams. Burned down some old lighthouse on the point I guess. It was freaky as hell."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:07 am

"That's awesome," Regan says.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:24 am

"Not as much as you'd think. My roommate certainly doesn't like how many freaky dreams I get. But she's a bitch anyway. She headbutted me in the cafeteria once. Who does that?!" Haley came over and sat on one of the other couches in the parlor. "So you're a new student then?"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:28 am

"Yeah," Regan says, "My parents sent me here because they're completely useless at anything, but this place seems pretty cool I guess. So, whatever."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:44 am

"It's pretty cool. Classes are weird because they're probably smaller than you're used to...and they also have like a class just for learning how to not fuck up with your powers. The teachers are both really hot, so that's a plus. The guy is literally an angel. Looks like he fell out of the sky."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:53 am

"Angels are totally lame," Regan says, "Like those stupid cherished memories figurines."

"It'd be cooler if he had a skull for a head. Or half of his face was just a black hole. That'd be awesome."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:07 am

"I think you'll change your tune if you see this guy. You could break 2x4s over his abs. So fucking hot."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:08 am

"You think he'd let us do that?" Regan asks, "That'd kick ass."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:14 am

"Maybe...if we asked nicely?" she giggled, "God I just wanna see him actually topless."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:17 am

"Gross," Regan says, "So. What can you do?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:29 am

"You mean other than obsessing over guys way too old for me and get headbutted by my ridiculously perfect--though crazy--roommate? I'm a headcase. Move shit with my mind."

Haley looked over to the coffee table where the remote sat well out of reach of her, squinted, and the remote flew--a bit roughly--into her hand. It connected solidly and sounded like it hurt.

"Son of a bitch. Still working on control a bit," she winced.

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:36 am

"So, you can, like, get stuff without having to get up?" Regan asks, "That's pretty cool."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:41 am

"I also break shit unintentionally with my brain if I get pissed off or scared. It...well. It takes some getting used to. What about you? Anything other than the ghost-y thing? Are you stuck like that?"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:47 am

"Probably?" Regan says, "I mean, I'm dead and everything. See?"

Regan pulls down her hood and turns around, making it immediate apparent why she wears her hood up. The back of her head is a bloody, bashed in mess.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:55 am

"Oh holy shit, you...you...ARE a ghost? Th...wow. I...what...what happened to you?"

Way to be impolite, dumbass, shut up. Haley thought to herself a little too loudly.

"Sorry. You uh... don't need to share if you don't wanna and stuff."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:58 am

"Man, I wish I could tell you," Regan says, pulling her hood back up, "But I don't know. I woke up like this."

"I'll bet it was really cool too. Like, I'll bet I was hit by a school bus. A Catholic school bus. Freaked out one of those snotty nuns, y'know?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:02 am

Haley frowned, "Man. That...that really fuckin' blows. So do you like...eat and stuff?"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:04 am

"Blood," Regan says, "But only the blood of people I don't like."

"So....pretty much everyone's blood..."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:27 am

"Oh...wait what?!" she said her eyes widening mid-response.

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:33 am

Regan just stares at Haley or a moment. An unnerving, unblinking stare.

"...I was joking," Regan finally says, "I'm sorry. I have a bright and cheerful sense of humor. It helps me forget that I'm a constantly bleeding spirit, eternally damned to haunt the world of the living."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:36 am

"Oh..." Haley exhaled, starting to laugh. "God. I'm like five. I think my dad just let me watch too many fucking scary movies with him when I was little and my imagination can kinda get carried away. I thought my house was haunted at home, and it was my powers that were making the walls shake and shit."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:41 am

"Suck," Regan says, "When I was back home, I kept falling through the floors. It was really, really awkward and embarrassing."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:50 am

"So are you able to like. Touch and hold stuff at all?"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:51 am

"No," Regan says, "But it's cool. I really didn't like touching stuff when I was alive."

"So, basically, being dead is better than being alive in every way. I highly recommend it."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:09 am

Haley smirked, "Well, good that you're happy about it at least, then, right?"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:11 am

"Happy is not quite the right word," Regan says, "It's more like being slightly less disgusted with this sort of existence. Or something."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:25 am

"You...you'd get along really well with my friend Cal," she smirked. "You guys have a very similar...worldview, I guess."

Well...he WAS my friend...maybe not after last night. God you're a dumb bitch. Shit. shields. Stop potentially broadcasting your inner monologue to everyone, Haley.

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:34 am

"Why are you a dumb bitch? Did you bang him or something?" Regan asks.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:50 am

"Oh fuck me...sh..." Haley let out an exasperated snarl and the glass on several of the framed pieces of art and photography on the wall shattered.

"God fucking d...ugh." she said, closing her eyes and focusing. "Sorry. I...i'm a telepath to. And I'm a really shitty one, and I can't keep my thoughts to myself apparently. I....he and I have like....well we made it to first base a few times. It was just kinda fun. We weren't like....official or anything. And he was being a stupid boy and normally you just keep things to yourself but....well he heard everything I was thinking at that moment."

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:55 am

Regan jumps a little at the sudden telekinetic destruction.

"God. So, just go make out with him or something," Regan says, "Put your hand down his pants, he'll probably forgive whatever dumb thing you were thinking."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:01 am

"....really? You think so?" she asked hesitantly, simultaneously grossed out and intensely curious.

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:04 am

"People are shortsighted, stupid, and easily distracted," Regan says, "So, yeah. Probably."

"I mean, it's how I used to get my boyfriend to forget about me stealing his nail polish all the time. Same concept."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:16 am

Haley seemed to think about this for a while, chewing on her lip. "But I don't like...how do you...uh...well I don't have much experience down there, you know? And how do I even bring that up? Just go to his room and be all 'hey, I know you hate me right now so, how about we fool around?'"

by **Regan Rourke** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:22 am

"...This is the most depressing conversation I've ever had with someone," Regan says, "But since you're obviously so desperate for any sort of friendship that you're asking a dead stranger about how to please your boyfriend, I'm going to take pity on you and help instead of throwing up in my mouth."

"You get him alone and just be like, 'Shut up. No talking'. Then just do what comes naturally. It's not like it's rocket science or anything."

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:00 pm

Haley focused intently on shielding her thoughts, picturing her grandmother's kitchen to try and keep everything inside. She found it was somewhat difficult to focus on doing that while still paying attention to the words being said to her but she was trying pretty hard.

"Okay...I...guess that probably would work..."

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