[for Abed and Annie]

[wingerguarantee]

When Jeff hadn't bumped into Britta in a couple of days, he didn't really think much of it at the time. There'd been times before where she made herself scarce, for one reason or another, and he just assumed that was the case this time as well. Even when Abed approached him after the third day of not seeing her around, he more or less shrugged it

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[cool_coolcool]

Britta was gone.

Abed understood, as well as he ever could understand things having to do with feelings of attachment and complex emotions, that it wasn't something the rest of them would be able to easily accept. Jeff, who was the world's champion at blowing off everything that required even minimal commitment and effort, had predictably shrugged him off when Abed had mentioned that no one had seen Britta in days.

Britta was Britta, and Abed would never completely understand what drove her to do the things she did, but it didn't seem like her to just disappear without telling anyone. Even if this was some screw you to the Man, she would've told them all, so that she could get credit for it

[psychoenough]

Because she was only scheduled for one afternoon class, Tuesdays and Fridays were designated homework days for Annie, who needed the downtime to catch up on the busier school days, go over her notes, and practice the latest exercises from Women's Self Defense. Needless to say, she scarcely has time for much else, but it was worth it (or so she told herself), and she loved all of her classes. She was even enjoying Abed's film class, although ideally there would be fewer black and white films, more epic retellings of classic love stories. Not that she had time for those, either.

The knock at the door was as unexpected as it was unwelcome. Without looking up from her work, sprawled over a blanket on the floor of their shared living area, Annie called for Britta to get the door. Ten to one, it was her visitor, anyway. One of her good friends, perhaps. When no response came from the room adjacent, Annie rose to her feet and stomped across the expanse of the hut, only to find that Britta wasn't asleep in her room as expected. Finally, she

[wingerguarantee]

While he'd been hoping for Britta to show her to Abed so they could drop the entire thing, Annie was just as good in this instance. If she hadn't shown up at the hut for days, it had to be something that'd be noticed, right? And Annie didn't seem particularly upset.

"One second, Annie," he said, stepping forward a little just so she didn't close the door in their faces to go...do whatever it was she was doing. Work, probably, because she'd taken a ridiculous amount of classes (in his mind, anyway). In a tone that was obviously showing he was just humoring their friend, he continued, "Look, Abed here thinks Britta might be missing. Have you seen her around lately?"

[cool_coolcool]

"I told him you've been busy with schoolwork and might not have noticed, but he wouldn't listen."

As usual, he could have added, but Abed really wasn't capable of that kind of bitterness.

"It's impossible for me to say for sure that she hasn't been seen by anyone. I had considered that someone said something to her, most likely Jeff, and she's decided to put some distance been herself and the offending party, but that seems unlikely."