Lighthouse - What Goes On At Lunch Break

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Alright, forty five minutes on the clock starting in less then five extra minutes. Thad looked at his internal clock once again as he sat in history class. The teacher marking whatever sheets he had to at his front desk while the student body was left to their own devices and the objective work for this period. All of which Thad had done quickly as the green eyed jock hoped to be capable of leaving class for lunch instead of being held back. Around him were the rest of the tables and their occupants, all held up with their various time passing activities. Emily focused on her work while Sam slept through class as he was prone to, Jackal and Lizzy had claimed the back seats today and Zane had been moved up to the front. Last Thad had saw of his face the white eyed and black with tints of blue haired drone hadn't been to happy about it, Thad wasn't particularly close with him anyway. Trevor and Braiden were talking between themselves and probably swapping study notes in the chairs one row ahead of Thad while to his direct left would be Flower and then Thera, who had taken the seat on the wall. 

Then the bell went, the teacher dismissing the class with a tired wave of his hand as the unfazed student body scrambled out of the class within the next minute and a half at most and either returning to the teacher, taking or leaving their work on the table. Thad having done the latter most option and headed for the door with Lizzy right behind him.  

"Damn Thady, where you off to?". Thad had just left the room before Lizzy snarked that at him, although he could easily sense the lack of disdain in her voice that almost everyone else had to deal with. The rest of the drone's leaving asides for Thera and Emily, both of who stalled in the hall. 

"Your going to hate me for this.". Thad started, Lizzy rolling her eyes at him as she sidled to the side as to let the rest of the students leave the classroom through the back door.

"Uzi's, I'm going to try and get her back into school, or at least check on her.". The green eyes jock said with confidence, both he and his sister watching as Lizzy thought over what she had just heard. The student chatter loudly rolling through the central halls of the school as the many drones here dispersed to either the unused rooms for break or back outside the school during their minutes of freedom.

"Bet, whatever... Go talk to purple freak and waste your lunch. I'd go with you but I used all this week's free roam passes and Uzi isn't worth me yacking off dad's audio receptors for another one.". Lizzy shrugged, the flicking one of her hands at them and walking off. The blonde girl looking slightly out of place without her usual clique of Doll, Flower and a few other girls that were part of her popular group. Not that Lizzy let that show as she disappeared into the ebb and flow of the thinning crowd and shot a small wave and smirk back at Thad. The green eyed drone turning around and being met with his sister opening her mouth to speak with a somewhat awkward expression on. 

"So, good luck with Uzi i guess...". She paused before smirking, Thera's green eyes glinting off of her round glasses. Thad found it funny how he had managed to avoid the minor bad luck that Thera had got when she had been revealed to have an code error which caused text to become illegible without aid. Said aid being a decent sized pair of glasses that were really hard to replace due to how rare they were to find around, let alone find in any sort of wearable condition. 

"You know im not coming with you, Myrah and I were going to talk since she's, you know, related to the doctor.". Thera shoot a look down the hall behind Thad as well as behind her before quickly giving him a small hug, Thad returned it silently if not with a smile of his own, glancing past his sister's jacket covered shoulder to see Emily and Zane together a little down the hall. The pair having sidled a tiny bit away until Thad saw them and both of the drones heeded to someone with more of a popularity then themselves.

"Oh dude, i thought you were also friends with her?". Thad asked half jokingly as Thera let go of him, the ever so slightly smaller drone responding as she tightened her bags straps.

"Yep, but we can multitask... Just go do your thing lil bro, before you use all your lunch time.". Thera poked his shoulder and attempted to sound cool as she urged him onto his self imposed quest, the girl whipping around and frowning at Zane and Emily as the former of the two stifled a snort. Final Girl hurriedly excusing him and herself as Thera also departed. Thad calling out a goodbye to his sister before trailing through the halls himself. Overhearing gossip and passing the occasional student or student filled break room, all of those rooms being empty classrooms that had went unused because of a lack of staffing. The jock briefly let that fact stew in his thoughts as he walked alone. 

Of course there was going to be empty rooms, this place hadn't been close to full from the start and well. From what he heard between hushed whispers from the elderly or older population there wasn't exactly any planned population boom that would miraculously fill or bring life into this place, nor were there that many spare pill baby shells left to grant any drone in the bunker a way to reproduce. This sort of stuff he had heard many times when he eavesdropped on his parents talking with the current leader of the WDF, who also seemed to practically run the bunker in its entirety, and if he was to be honest to himself. It kind of, scared? Him. To think that not even within his or his probably possible children's life within this bunker, things would run scarce. 

Thad continued his trek, still thinking silently as more of the almost same looking halls waved him on his way. Only decorated with the occasional corkboard nailed to the walls here and there, announcing events that had yet to come or already passed. One of the boards had an ages old paper with a missing drone notice on it unfortunately it was far to faded to figure out who, nor was Thad particularly interested in it due to how many times he had already passed it throughout the years. 

"Hey Thad, you failing to sneak out? Or am i expected mark down one of your... passes, for this?". The green eyed drone stopped as his name was called out, returning to reality and looking towards the drone that had spoken. His green eyes meeting with their orange one as the other barely visible grey oval stayed entirely still, unfocused. Thad looked at the somewhat dishevelled drone, noting their torn jumper and misaligned WDF badge before he spoke.

"Second option Wren."

"...Thought so, you know the rules.". Wren stated in a bored tone, flicking some of their yellow hair away from their visor before glancing down at her phone. The girl leaning back onto the wall as Thad left quickly, picking up his pace as he realised lunch didn't exactly last forever. The next ten minutes spent fast tracking to where he remembered Uzi's house to be, as well as failing to shoot the girl a text because he didn't have her number nor any contacts of hers at all. Which was another slightly irritating thing, good thing he could just ask her now Thad thought as he rounded a corridor corner and arrived at the Doorman's residence. A brittle wooden plaque sat bolted to the wall above the standard house door and a long disregarded doormat was the only thing that graced the steel floor of the second residential section. Thad passing by a trio of pots with artificial plants left perfectly green within them, the drone briefly noting this as yet another confirmation he had found the right home as said signs of greenery were reserved for more important members of society. All that was left was to knock on the door, just a few more steps...

Uzi opened the door after being roused from her hastily cleaned kitchen by Thad knocking on her door, or really... Anyone besides Yeva coming to her house was a monumental occasion, someone actually cared enough to see her and wasn't just dragged out here to do what her own sorry mother couldn't. She quickly closed all of the draws and cupboards in the tiled kitchen before walking over to the door, side eying the trash can that was slightly to far into view to be ignorable while she moved. Her purple and pink socks sliding ever so slightly on the floor.    

"... What do you want?". Uzi asked, a hint of confusion present in her jaded voice as she stood at the door. 

"Hah, straight to the point. Ok then. What i want was to uhhh...". Thad trailed off, finally realising this was probably not going to be easy. That point gaining more evidence as Uzi scowled at him and folded her arms weakly. 

"To pull me up for taking two hours to turn off my tap?". Thad grinned at her as she said that, their voices travelling up the empty halls. Everyone that lived in this sector was off at work, which was probably a good thing all considered.

"Well, no but yeah... You don't even tr-". Thad started, getting cut off by Uzi.

"Yeah, I don't try because I'm not interested... You know school ain't going to do shit.". Uzi hissed before pulling him into her house, the door slamming shut instantly and leaving him supposedly locked inside. Thad emitting a small grunt as this happened before being greeted by what could only be described as a pretty normal room. Kitchen bench looked clean, the white lights that shone down on it flickering was the only thing Thad could really pick on. There was a fridge, a large loungeroom area which was mostly bare steel floor asides from near the family sized black couch.

"Not if you don't give it a try.". Thad answered back, looking around at the house and instantly getting a HUD notification about dropping temperatures within the room. Not that his eyes had any evidence against that as he saw the collection of finger sized icicles that seemed to adorn every crevice of the house he had seen. The distant sound of the AC purring away behind a wall or two making Thad realise that this house was a bit bigger then he had thought.

"Oh and ahhmm, thanks for letting me in by the way. That was cool of you.". Thad added in a less confident tone, said emotion being bashed out of him by Uzi's flash of a death glare.

"I've given it plenty of tries, plus Yeva was going to unenroll me soon...". Uzi countered, vaguely rolling her hand at Thad as she slicked over to the couch and sat on its left arm. Observing Thad as he wandered over to one of the five bar stools for the white marble kitchen bench. The drone pulling it slightly towards Uzi and dismantling the small traces of frost that has weakly sealed it in place.

"And uh, no problem. I guess...". Thad turned around on the stool to look at her as she spoke, mostly confused as to what he was doing but he had a knack for successfully winging things. That fact granted him some level of reassurance. He also had questions piling up in his mind, mostly related to what the hell was going on in this house... It almost felt like a cool room in a way, minus the lack of displayed corpses that a regular butcher store apparently had. Thad hadn't really taken interest in that part of his lessons.

"So thats why your not going to be able to get me to go. Plus no one wants me there but that feeling is mutual.". Uzi continued, gazing at Thad in a way that made him slightly uncomfortable. Her eyes drilled into his for a split second before Thad looked away and the girl chuckled under her breath, the jock putting one hand into his pocket as he wondered to himself.

"Uhh huhh. There has to- wait Yeva unenrolled you?!". Thad interrupted himself once that part of what she had said clicked in his mind, what was it, a week ago when he had been dragged into parent teacher meetings without a parent. That wasn't exactly the nicest thing to happen to him by a long shot, thankfully his dad had managed to get to the meetings when he needed to but had to split sooner than expected. Busy day or something of the like was all he had managed to get out of him. He found his mind drawing up the thought that Uzi shouldn't even be in this home, if Thad was her he knew he'd be a permanent resident of Yeva's despite the vague missing vibe that home had going on. Least it was a vague one, here screamed abandoned building with just how haphazardly the few items within it had been scattered around.  

"Yah huh...". Uzi clarified back at the jock who was still surprised he had even been allowed in. Thad was about to speak up before Uzi beat him to it. 

"Now i have wayyyyyy to much free time, and thats where you come in.".


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