2024-12-22 - The Phone Plan

KNOCK KNOCK!

It's been a couple weeks since Ty and Jett chatted about phones and things. Now Ty's figured out Jett's apartment number from other mutual friends. He's in a black hoodie and baggy jeans, casual as heck on his day off. There's a bubble mailer in one hand and a plate of cookies in the other.

Lucky for Ty, Jett was home! Though it does take a minute to actually get to the door; Jett is absolutely part of the generation that doesn't like answering the door if they don't know who is expected. However, doors come with peep holes and there might be a little bit of a shadow in it before the door unbolts and opens .

"Well hey, look who it is!" Jett welcomes with a soft smirk. He's kicking around the apartment so he's in soft pants and a beat up t-shirt; parts of the logo has faded or washed off. The door is opened further, wider, "This is a nice surprise. Come on in Ty!" He considers the state of the apartment and it isn't terrible but there's some obvious signs that two young bachelors live here, though they do their best to maintain some order there's always going to be the odd thing left out rather than trashed or put away.

Ty is also a young bachelor, though he lives with an older bachelor who likes to make cookies. Cookies which he holds up and wiggles on high to show them off. "Fresh batch from Sully! Thought you might like them." He doesn't seem to mind the mess one bit. Chances are, he lives very much the same way.

"How's it going?" He heads to the kitchen counter unless Jett shepherds him somewhere else. "And...as promised. One lightly cracked phone courtesy of Mrs. Somerville of Boston, Massachusetts." The bubble mailer gets held aloft as well. Now both his hands are up. He's very much in a good mood, it seems.

"Oh TY! Fresh cookies?!" Jett laughs a little, "You're the best man. Thank you!" He will absolutely try to plunder the plate of cookies to snatch one up as soon as he's close enough to it. Once he gets one, it's in his mouth in a heart beat. He wastes no time sampling the fresh baked cookies.

He also does the eye roll to heave after the first bite and the appreciating sounds that's to die for, "MYGAWDTHISISSOOOOGOOD!" The appreciation is muffled loudly between eating.

Jett doesn't shuffle Ty anywhere else. Theo's door is closed and his own is half way shut but looking dark as if all natural light is kept from it. Out in the common space the open concept lets all the natural light flood in and it looks pretty standard to all the other apartments in this building. "Oh you know, I'm keeping busy..." he says as he slides up onto the stool at the island, indicating the island is a safe place to put things down on. "I took a lot of double shifts through the holiday season, so there's been littel time to do much else," he answers then brightens, "Oooooooh. I am seriously thinking about petitioning the merch team for a little merch cart to sell Jett's Flotsom Jewelry out of. I might be a part time game op in the future and a part time vendor! If it gets approved. I thought you should know since I'm probably using that name."

"Oooo shit! A phone. Damn, now I can get into it..." probably trouble, probably a lot of trouble, "You'll have to thank Mrs. Somerville for me. Maybe I can send her some jewelry too." A beat, "How've you been?" He will reach to take the offered bubble mailer to see what kind of phone it is that he gets!

Ty laughs as Jett goes for the plunder. "I know, I know. Keep the compliments coming. I need them after this week. But these are all for you and I guess if you want to share, Theo, so don't feel like you gotta eat them all right now." He sets the plate on the kitchen counter, smirking as Jett starts to make garbled happy sounds. "If I knew you'd react this way to just chocolate chip, I would have made him make you the s'mores ones he baked last week. Those were beyond."

He hops up on a stool next to Jett and plops the package next to the cookies. His brows shoot up when it turns out Jett's moving forward with being a possible vendor. "Oh no shit?! That's awesome, dude! Like seriously, I think you just made my day with that. Can't wait to see it. And what uniform you're going to make up for it, cause there has to be a bespoke uniform, right?" He grins brightly.

"She would probably love jewelry. And she's a little old school so like maybe write a dumb little thank you card and she'll cry or whatever. She loves a thank you card." Inside the bubble mailer lies an iPhone 12 pro wrapped in like 20 layers of newspaper. Who even still gets newspapers??? Parents, that's who. There's a large crack that runs down the center but it's not the WORST. There's also a charger brick and cable in the bag, as well as a handful of cute teddy bear stickers. "Oh, she likes teddy bears too. But I've been okay. Also took a lot of shifts to keep busy through the holidays. Had to perform in a wedding that went so bad. Like it got called off before they even cut the cake."

Jett snorts about sharing. SNORTS. But there is no commitment one way or the other if he's going to share and he certainly doesn't look like he's going to devour them all right this second. The man has learned self control; more likely he's interested in catching up with Ty than shoving his face full. "That's just mean telling me about it after the fact," Jett says with a soft pout to his tone, thinking, "I keep meaning on dropping by but you know how things get. One day slips into two weeks later... My bad bro, I always meant to meet Sully and that but..." his hands spread, "Instead I got trapped in an elevator and met this really nerdy guy, kinda cute, who invited me to play D&D, whatever that is. Maybe with the phone I can connect to them better."

"Yeah. I met this guy named Knox, he works as a farrier. He's going to let me share space in his shop so I can do more work, and, a tourist friend of mine was the one to sugget the cart thing, like a place to start to see how it went. I mean, without all of y'all, who knows I'd stay a game keep forever." But then Jett looks like he's stumped. Outfit. Uniform. His eyes widen, "Uhm... I'd be open to suggestions... cause I totally didn't think about that."

"Yeah I could do that," Jett says easily enough about the thank you card. Then he's getting the iPhone 12 slid into his hand out of the mailer. Jett all but freezes as he stares at this beautiful piece of tech in his hand (after unwrapping it from a hundred newspaper layers). Jett looks a little choked up all of a sudden as his adam's apple bobbles and he has to put it down before he drops it. "Shit..." he says with some shock, "That's... a really expensive phone." Sure it might be three or four years old but to him it's so out of his league, even damaged. "Ty..." he looks up, a touched smile on his face, "Thank you man. This... wow.. I'm... this is more than I ever dreamed of..." If Ty allows it or is a hugger, he will get hugged.

Then, a nod. Manly nod.

And finally, "A wedding gone bad in Spellbound? Dang... well hopefully you still got a tip or something out of it?"

"It's for your own good. Now you have something to look forward to for next time," Ty offers with a sympathetic laugh. When Jett says my bad, Ty just waves a hand. "Nah, you're good. We're all busybusy right now. I get it." With a tilt of his head, he considers all that Jett's gone through. "What's his name? And D&D is a tabletop game, yeah? Dungeons and Dragons. You can pretend to be a wizard and blow up shit with your mind if you get a good dice roll." Don't mind Ty just giving out the worst explanations to simple things. It's his specialty.

"I love that everyone's helping a bit. Look at that, you have a whole ass community and everything already! But that's what friends are for, huh? That's why it's good to reach out sometimes, you never know who's good at what or whatever." He sneaks a cookie for himself and chews on it slowly. "Mm." Swallow. "Do you want to come up with a persona? Like...a swamp witch who sells his wares? Or an alchemist who's trying magic on test subjects? That might help set the tone for the outfit?"

He pauses now, cookie in hand, looking worried that he might have just offended Jett with the cracked phone. But alas, it's a GOOD thing. Ty puts the cookie down and everything for this is an important moment. Was it expensive? "Maybe? But I mean...I didn't pay for it? So...I..." Yeah he's out of words for once. He just meets Jett's eyes and offers him a soft smile. "You're very welcome." And he is a hugger, so here comes a great big bear hug. He's significantly less manly and just smacks Jett's shoulder for good measure when they part, the universal symbol for a playful stop it before you make me cry. "This is what friends are for. Next time you'll help me with something and then we'll be even."

"Yeah," he says with a sigh. "I got paid for working OT and it was at the special event rate so, I'm not mad. It was just wild."

Jett seems to be content with the fact that Ty is also of the mind that it's been busy and forgives him for not crashing the apartment. "Ari," Jett supplies, "Though I don't know if I think he was cute because I was worried about my life ending and the elevator dropping or if he was cute because he was so shy..." He admits with a grin, "Either way he seemed like a good guy and invited me along to learn this game." He blinks a little at the 'tabletop' thing and then ahhs, "I think that's what it's called yeah. I've never played it though... however I will remember that wizards can blow shit up with their minds."

As for a whole assed community Jett laughs, "You know... they're just people I met along the way. You've helped too." He wonders, "Do you want something to drink? We got some coke, juice, and water?" He's being a good host while Ty takes a cookie for himself. "It'll be in the midway still so steampunk related yeah..." he thinks about it, "I'd probably like a dark outfit," duh, "Uh. The alchemist is kind of cool sounding. Maybe like an aviator merchant, who flies all over or something.. or just a mechanical artisan?" He wonders, "I'd hear some more ideas if you got them, for sure."

There was no offense about the crack! Jett knew that it was coming a little wee bit broken already. It was fine if it still worked! For Jett, it was a big deal. It was a HUGE deal to get CONNECTED with people his age and like do the things they all do, like text and doom scroll. Jett grins at the shoulder smack, picking up the phone again so that he doesn't make Ty cry through that direct eye contact, because the weight of that gift was there behind his dark eyes. He is already hooking up the block and the cord and plugging it into the outlet on the island, "Yeah of course Ty. Whatever you need!" Once he's got it plugged in he sits back down and waits patiently for it to get some charge so it lights up. It'll be a minute.

Jett focuses in on the wedding conversation, brow lifting, "Wild as in everyone turned into donkeys or something?"

Ty listens, then suddenly smiles knowingly. He looks away before he flusters himself out of talking about it. "Oh yeah, Ari's cute fullstop. He caught me after a performance and I was kinda weird with him but he seemed super nice. I hope you have a very fun and productive D&D campaign." That gets a wider grin, then he just shoves the rest of the cookie into his mouth.

"That's life, though. The friends we made along the way. I didn't make that up, I swear, it's a thing people say." He squints a little at the offer, then decides with a nod. "I'll take water, thanks. And okay, so steampunk ish. I like that aviator merchant who's gone all over the world and collected the strangest of trinkets. That almost sounds perfect? You're gonna need some goggles. And a cool fucking aviator jacket with gears and patches and stuff on it. I'm sure Dante could whip something up like that, he runs the costume shop inside the park."

Ty just smiles, happy to have given his old phone a second life and for also have given Jett something it looks like he really wanted. He clears his throat a little. He's fine. No one's getting choked up. Moving onto the wedding conversation, he places an elbow on the counter then leaaaans into it. "WELL." Here comes the story! This guy loves gossip. "It turns out that the bride's sister was sleeping with the groom and she didn't find out until the groom's EX, who used to be friends with the bride, showed up all dramatic in a black veil and told her in front of everyone. We thought they were gonna fight but she ended up believing her and calling off the whole thing! Then a drunk tourist walked out and like grabbed a whole scoop of cake with her bare hand. It was something out of a reality TV show, I swear."

Jett laughs at the smile that Ty wears, "Did you ... and Ari?" he asks curiously because there's a look and he has to ask if he's reading the situation right. Then Jett grins a bit, "I'll be happy to hang with new people."

"It is?" He sounds a little sus that people say that saying but takes a bite of cookie rather than prying more into the saying. As it is he's up from the chair and he fetches a glass from the cupboard, turns to the fridge and pops the glass up against the water dispenser built into the fridge. "Ice?" he asks before he turns back around and offers the glass to Ty. "Aviator merchant it is," he grins at the idea and then the name of the person he needs to meet, "So... how much does Dante's costumes usually run?"

Jett is here for the tea! He leans his chin into the palm of his hand and rests his elbow on the island counter, listening to the STORY. "Oh man," he laughs at the scoop of the groom of course cheating, "I mean, why say yes if you're going to go around and do that right? I mean, commit or don't. I feel bad for the bride. Man. Good for her though, for callin it off. I can only imagine their family Christmas is not going to be very nice now." The drunk tourist has him smirk but he intones, "Have you ever noticed that this place is like one massive reality show?"

He corrects, "Or maybe it's my life that seems a little reality show-like lately."

Then diversion to the phone as he picks it up and shows that the screen is lit up and it's charging, "What should I do first?! I've never had a phone before..." there, he admits it.

"Did I and Ari..." Ty looks at Jett for a long moment. "Did we what?" Yeah nope, Jett's gonna have to spell it out for him.

"Pretty sure, yeah. It's like in a lot of movies too? I'm not usually so eloquent to like...make up stuff like that. I'm just a regular guy. Who sometimes writes music and plays a lot of instruments." As for ice, he shakes his head no and then graciously takes the cup and immediately sips at it. "Mmm, I'm not sure? I feel like if it's for the park he might just help for free? Like he's helping me with my second Bard costume and we didn't talk about money at all. I don't think you can keep it after you leave or anything, but if it's for work then it's fine?"

But finally, a kindred spirit in gossip. "Right! That's what I was thinking but it sounded like she comes from a lot of money and he was looking to get a piece of it. So I think he had, what's it called, malicious intent? Yeah no, I'm sure the bride's sister is about to be exiled or whatever." Up until now he hadn't thought of the park as such and it makes his brows quirk up. "Ohhhhhh you're so right, wow. It kinda is! Like the one where you follow the crews on the yacht?"

Phonewise-- Ty holds zero judgement. He does have a lot of advice though. Pulling out his own, he starts to boop around on it to show him. "So like, you'll probably want to figure out that phone plan business so you can get a number, but at the very least, you can make an icloud account and use wifi for free and send texts and stuff off it. There's an app store where you can download a whole bunch of games and shit if you want like...productivity tools? Serious people stuff. But there's an app where you can write notes, or take voice ones. And you can listen to music and watch youtube on it too. Basically like a tiny computer. When on wifi. Don't go over your data plan or you'll be paying out the ass for just watching one video over your cap."

Jett finds himself suddenly awkward and shakes his head with his one hand gesturing aside, "Nothing!" He laughs sheepishly, "Forget I said anything."

Though Jett looks rather unconvinced by Ty when he calls himself a regular guy, "I wouldn't say regular, but if you like calling yourself that then who am I to correct you?" He smirks because he knows in a way that could be a compliment, maybe? The cost of the costume has Jett smirk, "He probably likes you that's why it's free? Like, you're entertaining and probably his friend? I don't expect anything for free, though I'll take it under advisement for sure. Thanks!"

Jett will always be down to hear the gossip in the park; he's survived without a phone this long probably due to such epic tales as the wedding. "Shit? Does she still need a husband?" He leans in toward Ty with a mocking interest before he laughs a little, "I mean that can't be easy at all. I know what it's like living the opposite and no one wants to look at you in the eyes. So she probably has choices coming out of the woodwork. I wonder if her sister never liked the dude and wanted to prove a point? Or maybe she's got issues with the bride. That hookup sounds spiteful." He then cackles as Ty realizes that the park sort of feels like a reality show, "Yeah! Like that. I mean, I bet you we'd all make it a fairly interesting TV show!"

When it comes to the phone, Jett listens with express interest, leaning over when Ty shows him the example and trying to replicate it a bit on his own phone. "I'll have to stop by the employee services or whatever, yeah to get a phone plan." He figures out the buttons on the thing at the very least, "I jacked Theo's phone a lot and his ipad to listen to music so I can kind of get around in these things." The start up screen shows and he will work with Ty to get through all the prompts and set up the wifi on the phone. He looks quite boyish to play around with the phone and pulls one leg up underneath himself on the stool, taking a lean against the island, "Productivity tools?" He thinks, "Does this have an app that can teach ASL? Or maybe like an app to help for reading? I'm definitely using the music though!"

Now Ty's laughing sheepishly as well. Just a herd of sheep up in this kitchen. "Okay no problem." It's not unlike him for something to completely go over his head that requires reading between the lines.

"Sure, I guess." Oh no, he's blushing again. Just another splotchy smattering of red across his face. It's fine, he'll be fine. Lifting his glass of water, he just chugs half of it down. "How about I talk to Dante for you? Would that help? I don't think you should be paying out of pocket for a work costume either."

He lets out a bright laugh at Jett's interest in taking the groom's place. "I mean, I too was tempted for a second. But I'm not sure any amount of money was worth the high maintenance fee? Yeah it just felt like a lot of resentment and like you said, spite. I wonder why that whole family was okay with imploding in front of everyone? It was SO messy."

The mention of Theo has Ty looking up from his phone tutorial. "How's he doing? Haven't run into him for a second." He boops around more, opening up random apps and showing their various uses. They just look like two young people glued to their screens now. "The good apps, you have to drop some money for but they're not crazy expensive I think? There are a couple free language apps but I think ASL is harder cause it's a lot of video content? Yeah see, this one says premium is $17 a month. Not the worst. Are you learning it right now for funzies?"

"I mean if you get a moment to warn him I'm coming to visit him on your request, I would totally appreciate. Then it's not so much a cold call, yeah?" He smirks and tries to ignore the blushing as much as is humanly possible, which is to say, Jett admires it from his peripheral vision.

"I mean I could probably deal with a bit of the high maintenance if I could like get a car or something out of it," Jett decides that a car was something unattainable in his lifetime, "As it is, at least we know about the drama before getting hooked in." He grins at it being SO messy, "It sounds that way. Dang, do you think anyone recorded it?"

As for how Theo is doing Jett shrugs one shoulder, "We had our own mess for a minute. I think he's doing better? I'm not too sure; it's been like walking on egg shells and I just try to keep my head down and go to work you know?" Jett clears his throat a little and shrugs, going back to to the screen to hide from his own mess. "I think there might be some free stuff on YouTube," he decides because 17 bucks a month is a lot for him! "Uh, no, not really for funzies. I have a friend, Huck, who's deaf. I mean, that's a little messy there too, but, I still think I wanted to learn a bit more and surprise him one day."

"Yes, for sure. I'll do that no problem." Ty is very thankful Jett's ignoring (or pretending to ignore) the very overt thing his face it doing. True friendship right there.

There's a laugh when Jett brings up the car. "And good to know that a car is what it takes. I guess if we're looking at it that way, I'd get a really expensive guitar?" But as for recording it, he shakes his head. "Not that I know of. But I bet if you look it up online, someone might have posted something."

"Oh, okay." Ty can read between the lines there and roomie drama is one of those things he's not too keen on poking into since he knows Theo as well. "I get it. And...I hope it works out? If you ever need like, a space to go where he's not around, you're more than welcome to come by? Sully will probably just ply you with more cookies." Which is almost enough reason to take Ty up on that offer. He nods a little, slips his own phone back into his pocket. "Yeah youtube's your best bet. That's really nice of you to learn for him. Even if it's messy. I'm sure he'll appreciate it." He hops off of his stool and steals another cookie. "I gotta head out, but I'm super happy you have this phone now. Feel free to text whenever!"

Jett nods with his gratitude for Ty doing that, "Even if he doesn't agree to like... no cost, I mean, at least he'll know I'm coming?" Dante is absolutely on his list to visit now!

"I mean... a car is really like, the dream isn't it?" At least for Jett, "A house too but like, I don't think I'll make enough here to ever buy a house. Those are expensive." He grins at the guitar and laughs, "Maybe a signed guitar, one that's from a band you like, and limited edition or something! I could see that for you."

"Yeah, that'd be good when it gets weird," he notes with a flash of a grin, "Especially if it comes with cookies. I mean I won't expect it, but it'll be good right?" He nods to the youtube thing and is probably going to download that app for the phone for sure, "What do you recommend for music?" It's an ask and an important one for Apple devices. Then Ty is leaving and Jett puts the phone down, "Thanks for the phone Ty. And the cookies." He will walk Ty to the door, "It'll be life changing!"