Shrug.

What do you MEAN "shrug"—

"You coming?" he calls as the sound of the water comes on.

"—yeah, coming."

This has been the wildest fucking day of his life, which isn't hard because it was also the second fucking day of his life, but he hopes the next fucking days of his life are substantially less wild than today has been. He will once again try to forget his problems by making out with a hot boy who may or may not be straight and whom he may or may not have seduced with the power of being able to string words together, which might as well be fucking mind control or some shit.

If Doyoon feels mind controlled he does not look particularly broken up about it.

Also this was, like, objectively a terrible idea, because their shower stall is minuscule, and not minuscule in a "oh no if I bend over my ass is pressing against your cock" way it's minuscule in a "I literally cannot soap myself effectively while you're here" way, so eventually he does actually ask Doyoon to step out of the shower so that he can actually shower.

That's fine. Doyoon isn't particularly in need of a shower. He just wanted to make out and rub their cocks together.

Yeah yeah they can do that in bed later. After Peter locates his swimsuit.

Why it's in his wardrobe, exactly where he left it. Perfectly dry and laundered.

OK. And that's. Not magic. That is just a thing they can do. He's honestly not sure why he's surprised. He knows that's a thing they can do. He just. Changed out of his swimsuit. Into being naked. And so he wasn't in his swimsuit anymore. And his swimsuit is where his swimsuit should be, i.e. his wardrobe.

He's sure at some point he will appreciate this fact about the world and figure out a way to use it for fun and profit but that point is not now, the now point is the freaking out yet again point.

No. You know what. Fuggit. It's makeout until he's too exhausted to stay awake time.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay~

New day, new Peter, new freakout.

His memories of when he did the timeskip thing were very much the same kinds of memories he had from before yesterday. The content of the conversation he was having with his brothers was very much the same kind of mindless stuff they have with him. Or, not even mindless? There is content. It's just the form is extremely simple, the amount of the content is low, and the connections between the concepts in the content are weak to nonexistent.

Anyway, point is, he's starting to think that maybe. Perhaps. Possibly. Everyone else around him may be stuck in that weird timeskip mode. Possibly everyone ever is stuck in that weird timeskip mode, though that's TBD for when he actually goes out and meets some new people later.

What if Peter gets stuck, too? What if he enters timeskip mode and then never leaves, doomed to spend his remaining twelve weeks of life completely unconscious?

On the other hand, if that's the case, maybe that means that getting other people to act normal is just a matter of figuring out how to "wake them up", too? Which... would be really good, if so.

Except he doesn't know what caused him to "wake up", and furthermore he's not sure he existed at all before yesterday to have woken up, rather than just being born like that. And, hell, he doesn't even know how to make a timeskip not happen to him. He managed to trigger one on purpose, and when he sucked Doyoon off that wasn't a timeskip, but he's not sure why the first time they fucked was a timeskip.

This bears experimentation, except the problem with experimentation is that it might cause him to get stuck, and that's scarier than dying.

Well. What would be a safe kind of experimentation? Maybe going to campus earlier and see if he can... perceive... the walk there? And then see if he can somehow not skip class?

(Damn, he was looking forward to skipping class, though...)

"Morning," says Doyoon, without opening his eyes.

"Good morning, Doyoon. Why'd you turn down the Heckings' advances yesterday?"

"I'm straight."

"If you're straight why did you fuck me?"

"........wait, you're not a girl?????"

...he cracks up. "I'm just fucking with you."

It would be a lot easier to understand these people if this kind of thing didn't happen sometimes. He's got a whole, like, personality of his own there, even if the bandwidth he can express it through is very low.

"Answer my question, Doyoon."

He shrugs. "Iunno. I'm experimenting? You're hot? I like you?"