Lament of the Past Part I

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure AU
Summary:  Jolyne needs to talk to her dad.
Word Count: 435
Rating: Gen

            Jotaro is in town.  He doesn’t tend to send songs to her when he’s in town, so that’s not the worrying thing this time.  No, it’s the fact that he called her mom to let her know that he’d be in town (her relatives call it cruel, while her mom says it’s just considerate) but hasn’t been in contact since.  Usually he’ll at least call to say “I’ve arrived” or something.  It’s not usually a long phone conversation (calls with him usually aren’t) but it happens.
            Still, what matters is that he’s in town, and she really needs to talk to him.  She’s been seeing things lately, things that don’t make sense.  It’s not a conversation she wants to have over the phone, but even if she is going crazy, her father’s unemotional manner would be a relief for that, even if what he has to tell her, in the end, is that she’s insane.  It’s easier to deal with than Mom crying about how her girl is touched in the head (she thinks) so she heads to the hotel after school.  It takes an overly emotional retelling of the divorce to get the desk clerk to let her go up, and she’ll giggle about that later and probably tell Jotaro to amuse him, but she gets there.
            And then she realizes that she didn’t think this through.  At all.
            She calls a friend to tell her mother that she’s staying over to study and it might go late.  Sandy probably thinks that it’s a cover for her going on a date with Romeo, but she’ll make up some romantic story about that later.  Her father comes home really late sometimes, so she’s not sure what she thought would be different here.
            She’s bored, so goes through his things with only a twinge of guilt.  She doesn’t figure out the password on his computer, so stops eventually.  There’s notes on sharks scrawled in a messy hand and somewhat neater notes in Japanese that she can’t decipher.  He doesn’t really have that much with him, so it’s a little boring, but then, he always did pack light.  She’s amused to see that he has several of the same hat sitting in the closet (so that really isn’t attached to his hair; she’s wondered), but there are other things, like the first aid kit that he apparently takes with him everywhere, that are a little more concerning.
            Eventually she settles down to struggle through the marine books he has.  They’re very technical, but she manages to drudge up enough from memory that she can struggle through them.