scene fifty-four - text - before his appearance

It was almost midnight when Jey’s phone buzzed on their bedside table. They were attempting to sleep, as they did most nights, but a part of them knew that it was a useless exercise. Even with college early the next morning, they were failing to drift into a preferably empty dream, and they hadn’t drawn their curtains across their window. Moonlight trickled in, as the full moon reigned over the night sky outside.

Groaning a little, they rolled over in their single bed and fumbled for their phone. If they weren’t going to sleep, which they felt certain that they wouldn’t by this point, they might as well have checked who was trying to talk to them. It might have been Squish inviting them to a late night anime binge in his room, and those were always fun. His late night food binges were much less fun, as they invariably involved his questionable cooking, but Jey would’ve appreciated his company anyway.