Sound of Madness

[Heir of Void]

Seeing that Zach had the situation in hand with Jason, Connor heads back into the house. This time he uses the front door because he supposes the crowd has probably dispersed and it is a faster route to the room that is his haven.
Connor saw the new girl imediately upon entering the front room. She looked vaguely confused, but that was to be expected. Anyone he has seen enter this madhouse wears that kind of face for awhile before figuring out how everything and everyone work together here. He still wasn't sure about dryer privileges, and it's been about a year almost since he showed up.
Before heading upstairs, he scanned the room and saw Alice heading towards the kitchen down the hallway. He is relieved that Alice was the first to talk to the new girl. "Alice will help the newbie thettle in, she'th nithe like that.", he stated to himself quietly. God he hated his lisp.

[Zenteer]

Ace of Hearts. Zeke swiftly memorized it as he tossed it at the bottom of his deck. Zeke shuffled the pack of cards repeatedly, his hands shift the cards in rapid motion. His hands were a slight blur as he shuffled the cards. Zeke could effortless shuffle...the trick was keeping track of the hidden card. He had heard a commotion outside his room a while ago, but ignored it. This time more conversation erupted. Zeke ceased his shuffling. He choose a card and held it out in front of him. Ace of Hearts stared back at him. Zeke grinned as he perfected the magic trick. Though, master is too strong of a word maybe he was mediocre at the trick.

More conversation interrupted him. Usually its about as quiet as a library out there. Random conversation here and there, but never too loud. Deciding it was time to discover what everyone is so interest about, Zeke stood up. Still shuffling the cards, he strolled out of his room. His bare feet made contact with the cold hallway floor as he wondered what was going on. Maybe the feds came by? Or maybe zombies have decided to attack them...

As he reached the stairs, he spotted a beautiful blond hair girl standing in the foyer type room. If he had known there was a newbie goddess looking female standing in the house, he would have "walked" a lot faster. There was also another Mohawk type of dude also near the door. Mohawk-Man...a nice nickname.

Alice seemed to be walking away from the Goddess-Girl, while Connor and Zach were poking, prodding, questioning, threatening and for all I know planning his murder. Zeke walked up to the newbie.

"Hello beautiful, mind if I help you unpack?" Zeke didn't bother hearing her answer as he bent down and lifted the duffel bag. As he did this, he quickly slipped a paper crane into her pocket.

[Momo13]

Delilah looked around a few times and tried to take a step back as someone else came up to her. So. Many. People. She looked at the guy who grabbed her dance bag. she reached down to take it from him, but stopped herself. She didnt want to make a bad impression on him.

"Um....Thank you...." She bit her lip and pulled her giant grey jacket tighter around her. It was kyle's before he disapeared. She knew that she probably should havegotten rid of it when he left, but it still had his sent. Faintly now.....but still there. It was what she clinged to by running away....

"Um....which room do I go to exactly?" She felt so lost in this large house. It wasnt realy a manson....no, it wasnt nice enough to be one of those..... but it was very large. She wondered how they could afford this type of place. But she would never ask that. She learned the hard way over the years that the less questions she asked, the better she would be in the long run.

The Ben kid walked past them and shot a look at the guy helping delilah. "Remember the rules." he told the guy before continuing.

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"Would you like me to show you to your room?" Zach offered kindly, pointing down one of the hall ways. Guys (minus him) were forced to sleep on the first floor. One reason was to try to minimize romance, hense why zach was forced to room on the second floor. Another was for security. If someone tried to break in, the guys would be able to get to the intruder and maybe atempt to protect the house and the female population housed. Zach felt that this was sexist, but he didnt really argue with Ben. he saw the reasoning.

[Heir of Void]

Connor suddenly remembered that he lived in the basement, not upstairs like he previously thought. His memory problem was starting up again too, arrggghhh. Well, at least no one can complain about his music or tendency to stay up until the morning hours. He also has access to the house's breaker box from his room. So he turns around to head down the stairs for the second time today, not surprised in the least with Zeke sitting by the new girl, helping her unpack, like the amorous master he was. He saw Ben, so he flashed a peace sign in his general direction.

Connor turned the corner and opened the basement door. He continued down the steps until he reached his door. Connor had considered himself clever for creating an elctronic padlock out of old phone parts from the recycled phone bin at the junkyard and some other stuff. He input his safety code and stepped inside. He was quickly greeted by little multicolored strobe lights he hooked up to make the basement feel more homely to him. No one came down here, so no one asked about it. He thought only Ben knew, because he was the only one other one with the passcode (for emergencies and to access the breaker for his perimeter cameras). Dinner should be ready soon, so he would work on something small to pass the time.

[DragonGirl]

Sophia sat on the stairs, motionless. Zeke and the newcomer were headed up the stairs. Sophia held her breath nervous they might comment on her. She had never quite got over the repeated bullying at her school. They passed without even realizing she was there. She let out her breath, relieved. Sophia almost felt bad for the red head. Zeke was always trying to make a move, even if it didn't seem like it, Sophia had to stay away from his all to welcoming eyes. Sophia thought the last thing that girl needed, and the house needed right now, was a fling. This sort of thing usually brought drama, and hurt. With Zeke, he wasn't usually the one getting hurt. Sophia was quiet, and minded herself, except when it came to him. He was just so... ugh. She didn't even know what to say about him, he made her mind foggy.


Without thinking, Sophia got up, before she knew where her legs were taking her she was staring at the red headed girl with her bag, she made sure not to look at Zeke's eyes. Sophia took a nervous breath "Hi. I'm Sophia." Sophia shakily moved her legs forward, trying to make herself seem confident. "I'd love to show you around." Sophia got the courage and glared at Zeke, and she said in a hushed tone "We wouldn't want anything happening on her first day would we?"

[Zenteer]

Zeke shrugged innocently at Sophia, not really offended that she's slightly angry. Zeke held the duffel bag at knee height.

"Well then, if you want to go with Sophia I don't really mind. I'll toss your bag in your room for ya, but how about I show you a little magic trick first?" Zeke casually proposed.

Hopefully she'll say yes, before she finds the paper crane. One thing Zeke has always noticed was that people love magic tricks. Good Magic tricks usually leave good lasting impressions for people and hopefully the tried and true strategy would work for....what was her name? Great, don't even know her name yet.

[Momo13]

Oh jeez....What had she walked into? Delilah looked between the two people and sighed. "I really dont care one way or another who shows me around....I just feel a bit overwhelmed by this house...." She tagged a causual, yet nervous laugh onto the end.

Her eyes met the guy's for a few seconds at his offer. "Sure....a magic trick might be nice..." a very tiny smile filled her face. It had been years sense she had seen a magic trick. She actually couldnt really remember the last time she had....Well, the last time that it wasnt badly done by Kyle.

"And thank you both....for offering to help..... It makes this change a lot easier...." Delilah was nervous to move like this. Everyone always thought she was an innocent little child that needed to be watched by an adult, even now. And sometimes she felt like they were right. Would this be a good thing if she moved in with a bunch of teenagers?

[Volcove]

Jason smiled, "Please, thanks a lot," as he looked down the hall, feeling a sense of relaxation. This house seemed to have those chill vibes.

Following Zach, glancing around as he wonders how the hell do these people just get along so easily. Maybe this really will finally be a new start for him. But first, he thought he needs to make a good first impression, then the people can trust him and accept him more. Just... how?

Grinning slightly as he noticed the hostility from this girl Sophia to Zeke, who offered to carry her bag, and show a magic trick. "Hey, at least he's confident enough to talk to the girls," Jason thought, "But, then again, 'no romance' right? Well, I don't really feel anything for any of the girls here, maybe, not yet..."

[DragonGirl]

Sophia didn't know what irked her the most about Zeke. Maybe it was his perfect abs, the tshirts he wore so casually, his way with words, or his smiling eyes. She tried to block it out of her head, and instead ended up impatiently tapping her foot, waiting for his little magic trick to be over. "Move it along Zeke, we have all day, but I'd rather it not take this long." Sophia glanced over at Delilah and tried to give her a friendly smile, letting her know she wasn't always this rude.

Sophia glanced around to see if anybody had seen her hostility. She caught the new guy looking at the three of them. He made eye contact, and Sophia quickly looked away, becoming slightly embarrassed.

[Momo13]

Zach smiled back to him and started down the stairs. "The main places in this house that you'll need to know are the basement, where the guys rooms are, the attic where Ben's room is.... the kitchen where the magical food is, living room where tv and whatever game systems we might have are. And last room on the second floor on the right, my room." He smiled back to him just to make it known that he was joking on the last one for the most part.

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Delilah bit her lip slightly and looked at the girl and at the other guy. "Um....I'd like to see the trick, please?" She shuffled her feet slightly. "He could always just show me around after it if you have something you want to do...I dont mind."

delilah was actually hopeful that the girl would go with it. She didnt like the tension created, and the guy was there first. ANd he was teh one who offered help first.