journal entry 76

april 19, wednesday.

so i went out to find rusty last night. it was gonna be storming again and the guy was nowhere to be found, so i saw it as my duty as his roommate to go find him. keep in mind this is around 3:00 in the morning. though it took me quite a bit more time to search.

he wasn't in any buildings that would be open (which is only our dorms, the buildings annexed to it, and one building of classrooms), so i started looking around campus, though there aren't many places someone could be around here. it's pretty open and i didn't see anyone. until i got near the cafeteria building.

there's a set of stairs that goes down into this basement-level walkway lined with windows that peer into the weight room. it's kind of a blind corner, so when i went down those stairs i didn't know there would be someone waiting for me around the corner. but there was. stitch nabbed me and covered my mouth with his hands, then pulled me back behind the staircase and signaled me to sit down.

he went up a bit and peered over the brick railing. he seemed to be watching something across the street. he showed something to me that i can't talk about, but... that's eye-opening. very revealing. but he said i can't say it here. it's our secret.

he let me know i could look up and directed me to what he was looking at. it was someone walking around in the parking lot across the street, getting soaked in the rain like the rest of us. the rain was blurring my vision too much to be able to see exactly who it was, but i can only guess it was rusty. he was just pacing around slowly with his head to the ground. i wanted to go after him but stitch said no. apparently he had been following rusty since he left the building several hours before and informed me that he was, in fact, wearing his mask. you know, the one we haven't seen him wear in ages. i thought he'd lost it because i certainly haven't seen it in our room. stitch informed me that he has been sane in the mask before--- and helpful as one of the resistance. but lately he hasn't been showing up in the mask to their in-person meetings.

who knows, maybe this explains the memory blanks he's been having. because i know rusty well enough to say he wouldn't willingly go out in a rain storm. i guess his other personality came back or something. not even stitch knew for sure what was going on with him; that's why he was following him.

rusty, i know you probably don't remember doing this and i don't expect you to answer for yourself. just sit tight cause these guys are trying to figure out what's wrong. i wish you the best.

-trevorP