[Jade is indeed awake. She's sitting on the couch, curled up with Bec and Second, when she hears someone knocking on her door. Upon hearing who it is, she puts down her Pokégear (the screen is blinking with an error message; she'd just tried to get in touch with Dave one last time), gets up, and walks over to open the door.]
Yeah, I am...
[There's no cheerfulness in her voice when she speaks and when she opens the door, she has a sad, almost lost expression on her face. It's only to be expected. After all, he was one of their best friends... And he was one of the few friends she had back home. She had been so happy to finally be able to see him in person...
In her conversation with Karkat she had tried to be optimistic, not only for her sake but also for his... but later on she had made the mistake of sitting down and thinking about the situation. The memories they'd made there, the time they spent together... If Dave ever came back, would he really have forgotten it all? And then she made the mistake of thinking of Soul. All of them had to go back home sooner or later... right?
Needless to say, it looked like she'd been crying.]
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Yeah, I am...
[There's no cheerfulness in her voice when she speaks and when she opens the door, she has a sad, almost lost expression on her face. It's only to be expected. After all, he was one of their best friends... And he was one of the few friends she had back home. She had been so happy to finally be able to see him in person...
In her conversation with Karkat she had tried to be optimistic, not only for her sake but also for his... but later on she had made the mistake of sitting down and thinking about the situation. The memories they'd made there, the time they spent together... If Dave ever came back, would he really have forgotten it all? And then she made the mistake of thinking of Soul. All of them had to go back home sooner or later... right?
Needless to say, it looked like she'd been crying.]