[b]September 4th, 2015: 5:40 PM[/b]

Max didn't seem terribly satisfied with her translation of the word '[color=6ecff6]house[/color]', and so proceeded to enlist the knowledge of the internet to fill in the gaps. Nicki didn't see the point at all. I mean, come on, he was trying to figure out some hidden meaning behind the word '[color=6ecff6]house[/color]' for Pete's sake! It was silly. A [color=6ecff6]house[/color] is a [color=6ecff6]house[/color] is a [color=6ecff6]house[/color], and that was it and there was no more information to be gleamed from it. Nicki saw this all as some very sad attempt to keep the ruse going, but Nicki wasn't stupid and refused to go along with it. So, it was about at this point that Nicki checked out of the conversation and had only the barest interest in the rest that was going on. 

Yes, she lost interest in the conversation, but her interest was caught by something else. The petite blonde felt a heavy, warm grip on a shoulder. It was pleasant, like a heavy heat pack being placed on a area of tenseness and stress. It even increased in pressure and massaged lightly, like a tease. Oh, she knew who it was. This was undoubtably Adrian, the hunk of the flat. He was handsome and she didn't mind throwing a flirt now and then, but he always struck her as the quiet type and that just didn't jell with Nicki's loud attitude. Thus, she tended to see him as a big teddy bear because he was not only a big guy, but she was sure he had a big heart as well. When he went and sat down she offered him a smile, a gesture of thanks for the momentary shoulder grip, and a playful wink just to tease him right back. Nicki kept her extravagantly painted eyes on him for a little while before becoming distracted by the mousy stutterer who had inched his way into the room.

Linus seemed to be concerning himself with the obvious prank, even muttering some kinda nonsense about insanity. Meh. The little medical man was always rather gullible and looked to much into things, but hey, he was fun to mess with. In fact, if there hadn't been other people conversing she would have taken no time in asking him, 'Where's your blanket, Linus?' She had never quite gotten over the thought that Linus reminded her every time about the character from Charlie Brown.

Lastly, Taisto made himself uncomfortably known by giving a monologue about some dark dream he had. Nicki only picked up on a few things like fire filling the sky and the dark queen he was always going on about. Yeah, this was another conversation she didn't really care about at all. The whole interaction seemed kinda pointless and she only wished they would all go away and leave her to her sketch, which had been turning into a masterpiece before she had been so rudely interrupted. Still, once the man was done telling his dull tale she offered only a single comment to sum up her compelling opinion of the unconscious phenomenon, "Yeah, umm... that's kinda fucked up." Nicole added a forced giggle to turn the whole thing into a joke.

[b]September 5th, 2015: 2:45 AM[/b]

Nicole was awakened in the night by a scream from down the hall. At first her heart pounded in her chest from fright and her eyes began to scrape and grope at the dark room for answers as to what had caused the fright. After a long moment of looking into the blackness she felt around her bedside table for her lamp and then by extension, her lamp switch. Once she found it, she turned it on, expelling the dark. Now with the comfort of light she managed a few deep breaths as she processed what it could have been. 

It took her a little bit before she pieced together that it was probably one of her flatmates having a nightmare. It seemed like many of them were all having night terrors lately. Even if they didn't say so she could tell. Nicki was particularly attentive to the look of dark circles and bags under peoples eyes, especially her own. Yes, many of her roommates had these deep and weary features. 

For a moment she considered investigating and comforting whomever it was who experienced the fright, but after a second of thought she decided she just didn't feel like it. Nicki wasn't really a nurturing type and thus decided to choose beauty sleep over helping whoever was afraid. So, with that she switched off the light switch and closed her eyes tightly and forced herself back to sleep.