sad boi summer / perry&caspian

The sky behind the wall of windows is pitch black. The little digital clock in the ensuite kitchen says it's 1:47 AM and Perry's been thinking about Laura for roughly 4 hours.

What a waste. About to go into the biggest experience of her life and all she can think about is her stupid ex and the stupid way they were love. Perry doesn't deserve this - she's too pretty.

Emotions make the skin splotchy.

She leaves the Two apartments in a huff and jabs the button for the elevator, takes it down to the ground floor where she knows there's a pint of vegan ice cream waiting for her and a nice corner of the empty dining hall where she can cry in. She wonders, not for the first time, if there's someone around her she can convince to print off a few pictures of Laura, just so she has something to shred and use for target practice.

She's daydreaming about it, pasting that face on the head of a dummy and smashing the skull in, when she stops dead outside the elevator.

There's a fucking ghost in the hall. A zombie. It's shuffling it's way down the corridor right towards her and she shrieks.

The elevator doors ding as they close and Perry's shoulders smack back into them as she takes a step away from the absolute creature coming her way.

Is this how it ends? Her beautiful brains scooped out and eaten by a corpse? Is this how cruel the world is -

Oh.

Perry squints.

It's just that sad looking nerd kid. The depressing one who looks like he'll start crying just if someone looks at him. The fluorescents give his skin a sort of undead quality. It's not her fault she thought he was already in the grave.

"What the hell?" Perry's got her hands out in front of her, spluttering, "What- what are you doing? You're just shambling around, trying to give people heart attacks?"