hello, brooklyn, open,

[Alex Tozer]

lately i've been wishing the television set would show me more than just a picture,


The restrictions, the isolation, the rules. Tozer still hadn’t gotten used to being in Michigan State. He must’ve been here only a few weeks at the very most, and he was determined not to get settled. He’d be out of here in no time, he had thought. His mother surely wasn’t serious in placing him in an institution; she’d give up her games and pull him out soon enough. Or so he hoped. Alex had never meant to get so carried away with his drinking; he’d never meant to hurt his cousin. He was just showing off in front of his friends, doing what he always does, making sure that all the attention was on him and not someone else. Making sure that he was being remembered, creating memories for people to remember him, instead of always reminiscing about his dear beloved brother, Tyson.

Don’t get me wrong; Alex loved his brother like crazy. They were the best of friends. But something in the seventeen year olds brain had ceased to remember that, at this particular moment he despised his late older brother. Maybe it was the fact he had killed himself and left his poor baby brother to fend for himself. That could be a very good reason indeed.

With a frustrated yawn Alex dragged himself around his newly assigned cell. It was very dull. Surely, they could sparse some funding to redecorate the place, you know, make it look less like a teenage prison. He sighed, having no idea what to do with himself. He hadn’t had a chance to meet his new cell mates yet, and he hadn’t particularly decided whether he wanted to or not. Tozer was up for meeting every darn person in this place, he just hadn’t settled yet, and was beginning to think maybe he should keep to himself. Psh. That would never happen.

Deciding that pacing around the room wasn’t a good way to waste time Alex threw on a bright purple hoodie and headed out of his cell with the intention to explore this newly strange place. The tall boy had a relative amount of freedom since he was a newbie and hadn’t exactly done anything to piss off the staff and nurses at Michigan, with that in mind, he set off for the music rooms. He had heard they had a variety of epic musical instruments for inmate use. it had been so long since he’d sat down with a guitar, so long since he’d actually been sober enough to think straight and practice. Get in the zone.

With a smile on his face he let his feet lead the way to the small music department, not helping feeling a little excited. Alex rolled up his sleeves of his zipper to the crease of his elbow and fingered the beaded bracelets in his skinny wrist as he drifted down the empty corridors. The sound of music caused the young boy to stop, someone else had had the same idea as him. Well, maybe now would be the perfect time to start making friends. Without hesitation Alex turned, stepping forwards to the door to which the noise was seeping out from underneath. The door opened effortlessly and Alex invited himself into the music room, not even looking to see who was in there.

“Hope you don’t mind me interrupting?!” He grinned, “Oh, of course you don’t” He giggled to himself, now having started talking not able to stop, “I’m Alex by the way, or Tozer, I’m kind of new, so yeah, you won’t know me, but whatever, I play guitar, I sing too actually, you know, because this is a music room, thought it'd be nice to check it out” He rambled, jumping up to sit on one of the classroom like tables and looking across at the person he’d yet to meet, "So, you like music? Or is that a stupid question, haha. What did you do to get thrown in here then, if it isn't that bad you wouldn't mind sharing, I didn't really do anything but hey ho, there we go".

[Kara Devlin]

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You were unaware the diamonds came with debt
Ironic, sure but that's the way it is. Got my vows off the internet
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Kara hadn't figured out yet why she wasn't allowed to go home; not that she was bothered all the much, she doesn't mind it here because she always reminds herself that things could be worse, she can be optimistic like that and with all she has been through in the past few months people are proud of her for being optimistic, although sometimes when Kara doesn't feel herself she can portray that fake optimism that she has been known to show. She tries to not let people see that she's hurting inside because she always seems so happy so she tries to keep it that way but even Kara can't help it when she might break down sometimes, there's only so much emotion she can keep bottled up before it shows.

Constantly tired, she doesn't really like to show it either unless she'll fall asleep on you. The one thing that scares her just now are her night terrors so she refuses to sleep for days at a time, she claims the longest she's gone is six days without sleep but some people are reluctant to believe that. Kara likes to play games and will often challenge herself to stay awake for as long as she can to see how long she can last but it never lasts as long as she wants. She gets given medication to try and stop her night terrors but sometimes it doesn't work and leaves her traumatised and she can wake up screaming and it's not pretty. She doesn't like all this so she refuses to sleep. Maybe that's why she's staying here longer than she thought, because of her sleep issues and her eyes are sometimes slightly red or pink because they're so tired and yet Kara refuses to let them sleep.

Resided in the music room she shuffled about while she kept herself awake by listening to her yellow ipod that she brought with her. Her music on louder than normal she was determined to stay awake, her eyes forever closing and her shooting them back open, she's been awake for around four days now and she wants to see how long she can go and she's not a quitter, she won't give in easily. Although, the nurses often try to give her sleeping pills but she won't take them.... she will hide them in a small box under her bed, she can be sneaky too. Sitting down at the table near the window she lazily played about with the xylophone that was in front of her, pathetically hitting the sticks off of the metal bars. She wasn't really interested. Sighing, she stood back up and just tried to walk around the room. She didn't even know why she was in here anyway, she would much rather be curled up on a comfy sofa somewhere. Walking around she didn't hear anybody come in or anybody saying anything because of the music in her ears. Picking her ipod out she started to flick through it to find another song to listen to but that wasn't until she bumped straight into somebody. Being clumsy isn't usually like her. "Sorry" she muttered sheepishly as she pulled one of her earphones out and looked up at the cute guy that she had bumped into. She didn't think she had seen him around before which was unusual but new people are interesting to her. "I'm a clumsy boots today, silly me"

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NOTES idk, i ramble too much
WORDS 581
TAGGED alex
OUTFIT too lazy
CREDIT BY HEY BAYBAY !? AT CAUTION !

[Alex Tozer]

lately i've been wishing the television set would show me more than just a picture,


Alex must’ve looked like a complete idiot rambling to himself, kicking his legs childishly from where they dangled over the edge of the table. He wasn’t even aware that the bright haired girl in front of him had her headphones in. Totally not paying attention, as per usual. The sound of her constant loud music hadn’t even struck his attention, yet, he still insisted on talking to her as he gazed around the music room. He spotted a few instruments in the corner; the new looking guitar immediately struck his attention.

He hopped down from the table he was currently sitting on, fiddling with the bracelets on his wrist again as he wandered over to where the shorter girl was standing, banging a tuneless tune on the small xylophone on the table in front of her. Tozer was beginning to feel ignored, she hadn’t replied to his ramblings. Even if people weren’t interested they’d usually just tell him to ‘Fuck off’ or something along those lines. He didn’t understand. Maybe she couldn’t hear him, which would be understandable. Oh no, what if she was deaf. Crap, Alex suddenly felt really bad and silently cursed himself for getting annoyed at the young faced girl, whom he had no idea what her name was.

Lost in his thoughts he wasn’t looking where he was going either, and was totally surprised when she bumped into him in the midst of a quick turn. He laughed, loudly, which often annoyed people, “Hahaa, It’s okay!” He grinned, running a hand through his messy hair and pushing his sleeves to the crease of his elbow again, “I wasn’t aware…” He said, still obviously too loud and opening his mouth pretty wide, as if that would make anyone understand what he was saying. Oh, she had headphones in. Alex felt even more stupid now, and he fell about laughing.

“I didn’t realise you had headphones in there, you see, I thought you were ignoring me, or something, I talk to much usually, so I must’ve looked really funny rambling about nothing to just me and the room” He said, taking a breathe as he finished talking at the speed of light. “No worries, I’m a tad clumsy myself” Alex continued, beaming at her and grabbing her hand to shake, for a reason that wasn’t even clear to him. “I’m Alex, or Tozer” He said, having the feeling of repeating himself. “I’m new here” he wasn’t sure that was the right thing to say, it sounded like he was the new boy in a school class, he shrugged to himself, “I don’t know many people, but you look friendly, and you have a rad hair colour!” He noted, “I’ll be sure not to miss you from now on”.

[Kara Devlin]

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You were unaware the diamonds came with debt
Ironic, sure but that's the way it is. Got my vows off the internet
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Kara felt a little silly for not even noticing Alex but she was in her own little world as she roamed about the practically empty room and her music was a distraction too as the bass filled her head. Kara loves her music and she's never really seen without her yellow ipod with the white cables either in her ears or hanging from the top of her shirt. It's the one possession she managed to grab in the house fire that lead her too come here, although she didn't manage to grab it without falling over and breaking her leg but that's another story and it's all healed now. Pulling the other earphone out and letting the cables hang, she picked out her ipod from her pocket again and switched it off, it seemed rude to her to listen to her music and talk to him at the same time, it would make her look like she wasn't really interested when that wasn't true, Kara loves to meet new people and get to know them.

Smiling up at him, she thought he was a little over energetic but it doesn't really bother her, just as long as he doesn't run around and act like a toddler. She noticed that he was really tall too, much taller than her but it's not very hard to be taller than little Kara. "Really okay?" she asked quietly, swinging one of her ipod cables around her finger. She always worries about the silliest of things but if people knew why she was here then they wouldn't blame her for worrying about things. She can be a little ocd with her worrying sometimes, she would check things constantly even though she knows they won't change from when she last saw them. "I swear i'm not supposed to clumsy" she grinned sheepishly, maybe she was just having an off day because she had been awake for so long, maybe her co-ordination reactions were slowing down or something. "I'll be walking into walls next and that can't be good.... or even the doors, splatted face.... oh dear" she laughed

Listening to him talk she felt like she was going to yawn because of her deprivation but she knew if she did then he would think that he was boring her or something, she was sending out all the wrong messages today and unable to think about things properly and wandering around aimlessly, some people would probably think there was something wrong with her other than her "illness". She couldn't help it though as she yawned and brought her hand up to cover her mouth as she listened to him talk and if she had any complaints it was that he was a little loud for her taste but she couldn't change who people were so she would deal with it. "Sorry.....you're not boring me, just tired" she muttered again. "Yeah, earphones. I love my ipod, don't go anywhere without it" She thought it was a bit strange that he had two names, she wouldn't know what to call him then, maybe she could mix them together, that would be fun. "Alex and Tozer?" she questioned at his two names. "How about bfg?" she giggled slightly "...but I like Tozer, it's pretty.... my brother was called Alex so I'll call you Tozer or whatever" she tried to smile through mentioning about her brother but ended up looking down at her feet. Since the fire that caused her to lose her mum, brother and sister she only had Ashley, her older sister and her dad left to call her family; she found it difficult to talk about them.

Perking herself up, she shook her head like she was trying to get rid of stuff that was thinking about and smiled when Alex mentioned that he was new. Kara knew she hadn't seem him around before so she was happy that her assumption was correct. "New? what'd you do? been a bad boy?" Kara was just rhyming off anything she could think of, she can be completely random at times but that's what a lot of people love about her, little miss random. She quite liked Alex, he seemed nice... a bit loud maybe but he was friendly which couldn't be said for a lot of the other inmates. She grinned up at him when he mentioned her hair, everybody did, it's the first thing people notice about her and usually call her a lightbulb or something. "Thanks?" She didn't really know why people loved her hair so much, she just liked to be different. "I'm Kara" she shrugged as she told him her name, she had a few nicknames but some she didn't like. "but my Dad calls me Tigger sometimes"

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NOTES had no idea it would be that long lol
WORDS 820
TAGGED alex
OUTFIT too lazy
CREDIT BY HEY BAYBAY !? AT CAUTION !