Xie does, actually, have his headphones on, and it's not his fault somebody bought him surprisingly effective noise-cancelling ones. It's probably bad that somebody could have broken into the house without him even noticing, but in his defence he's used to having Kevin around to react to anything that's happening so he doesn't have to.
And there is perhaps a tiny, tiny part of him that thinks it would serve them all right for leaving him here on his own if somebody broke in and tried to kidnap or kill him.
(He doesn't think they would manage it, he thinks the cops would just have a body to clean up)
He does catch a faint noise in between songs, though, so he pulls the headphones off to listen, putting his guitar aside for a moment.
From upstairs, he can just hear the sounds of movement, so he slips silently off the bed, automatically avoid the floorboards he knows are creaky, and moves towards the hallway. All pettiness aside, if somebody did have a way to get into the house to come after him, now would be the time to do it, so he doesn't want to alert whoever is in the house until he has established who 'whoever' is.
So he creeps silently down the stairs, listening out for the sound of voices.
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Date: 2023-10-25 09:57 pm (UTC)Xie does, actually, have his headphones on, and it's not his fault somebody bought him surprisingly effective noise-cancelling ones. It's probably bad that somebody could have broken into the house without him even noticing, but in his defence he's used to having Kevin around to react to anything that's happening so he doesn't have to.
And there is perhaps a tiny, tiny part of him that thinks it would serve them all right for leaving him here on his own if somebody broke in and tried to kidnap or kill him.
(He doesn't think they would manage it, he thinks the cops would just have a body to clean up)
He does catch a faint noise in between songs, though, so he pulls the headphones off to listen, putting his guitar aside for a moment.
From upstairs, he can just hear the sounds of movement, so he slips silently off the bed, automatically avoid the floorboards he knows are creaky, and moves towards the hallway. All pettiness aside, if somebody did have a way to get into the house to come after him, now would be the time to do it, so he doesn't want to alert whoever is in the house until he has established who 'whoever' is.
So he creeps silently down the stairs, listening out for the sound of voices.