"Yes, Dore is one, I'm just being facetious."

"'Facetious'," says Marcus, again in an exaggerated imitation of Peter's voice.

"Making fun of people's speech patterns is a jock thing to do, you know."

"You take that back right this instant, how dare you."

"You're spending a lot of time talking and not enough time eating."

Marcus flips Peter the bird but does in fact resume eating.

And after they finish eating he goes to fetch his sister (who's a sophomore).

"You're slow."

"Sue me."

She rolls her eyes but gets up from her table with the theater clique to follow him.

And onwards to find Vivian!

Vivian has, conveniently, already finished her lunch cigarette and applied obfuscatory cologne. "Peter and... okay, that's not a normal slice of your social circle, is something serious?"

"Yes! There's a thing that is sufficiently secret that I actually want to find somewhere secluded to talk about it."

"He hasn't told us what the secret thing is."

"Do you have a secluded spot in mind or do you want one of mine?"

"I think you're the best of us to, uh, at finding good secluded spots."

"...was that meant as an insult?"

"—no, why would it be?"

"If it's an insult it cashes out to you're drowning in pussy and weed so frankly I'm cool either way."

She leads them to: the auditorium, which is locked. Then she unlocks it and leads them in.

"We can sit in the cheap seats, or if you want serious overkill I can get us into the sound booth."

"...yeah let's go for overkill."

"This is, uh, actually kind of starting to concern me?"

Vivian's eyebrows rise. "Same, but sure. Gimme a sec."

She leads them to the booth, then removes two bobby pins from her too-short-to-need-them hair, bends and denudes them, and pops the lock.

The booth is slightly cramped and overly warm, but they fit.

"...okay so now that we're here and I'm about to tell you guys about the thing it's occurring to me that I may have in fact gone crazy so uh... well I guess you guys are in fact the people I'd want to tell if I were going crazy? So, either something completely bonkers has happened or I am completely bonkers. One of those."

"Concern levels rising."

Yeah it is actually kind of something-adjacent-to-concerning even if he's not going crazy.

He grabs the notebook.