Kate Gregson (
vanillajello) wrote2011-04-18 02:43 pm
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Random Coffee Shop, Mainland, Early Monday Afternoon
As soon as Kate had woken up all normal and seventeen again, she'd taken off.
No, she wasn't particularly proud of that, but it had felt necessary at that particular moment. She'd needed to feel like a borderline adult again, and that meant doing shit on her own because she could. Not that her weetiny seven-year-old self hadn't done quite a bit of that as well, since her parents hadn't been around and Bod wasn't quite enough of an authority figure. But this was different, this was her reasserting control over herself and her life. She loved going out on her own and answering to no one, just like she loved living out here, away from Kansas, away from a daily life full of alters and minor instability. Right? Right.
Except right now, she missed her family like crazy. She didn't know what to do with that feeling.
She'd found a café that looked nice enough and settled at a table by the window with her gigantic cup of coffee and an equally oversized muffin. She'd just... sit here and eat and drink and think, for a while.
[ooc: Yes, post be open for calls, texts, randomly dropping by, whathaveyou. ETA: Aaand of course this was always NFB due to being off-island.]
No, she wasn't particularly proud of that, but it had felt necessary at that particular moment. She'd needed to feel like a borderline adult again, and that meant doing shit on her own because she could. Not that her weetiny seven-year-old self hadn't done quite a bit of that as well, since her parents hadn't been around and Bod wasn't quite enough of an authority figure. But this was different, this was her reasserting control over herself and her life. She loved going out on her own and answering to no one, just like she loved living out here, away from Kansas, away from a daily life full of alters and minor instability. Right? Right.
Except right now, she missed her family like crazy. She didn't know what to do with that feeling.
She'd found a café that looked nice enough and settled at a table by the window with her gigantic cup of coffee and an equally oversized muffin. She'd just... sit here and eat and drink and think, for a while.
[ooc: Yes, post be open for calls, texts, randomly dropping by, whathaveyou. ETA: Aaand of course this was always NFB due to being off-island.]
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So, he dug around for his own clothes and sent a text message. Next time, you should leave me a note so I don't wake up alone and worried.
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sorry, she sent back. i freaked out.
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Why?
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i don't know, i just did. needed to go be a grownup or smthng.
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All right.
He wasn't mad (as worry seemed to be taking over now) and he just didn't know what else to say.
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i didn't go far, she offered. i'm just getting coffee on the mainland. sorry i made you worried.
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Bod would have shrugged and told her not to mention it but she wasn't there so he simply thanked her.
Do you need anything?
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more coffee? i don't know.
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I'm sorry, I don't think I can help with the coffee. If you're on the mainland, you can get more for yourself, can't you?
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See? Reaching out. Like a good little wannabe grownup.
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it's not really about the coffee.
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So no embarrassment for him. He'd even figured it out fast enough.
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And then he turned his phone off so he could head to his room and change before wandering towards the mainland.
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"Hullo there," he said quietly.
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"Hullo," she replied with a tiny smile, motioning him to sit down.
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She had about one third left, but it had been a seriously big muffin.
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