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Laney Evans (whoages) wrote in genome_project,
@ 2011-07-27 21:49:00

Entry tags:

july 2011, laney evans, noah riley, ota

Who: Laney and Noah
What: beaching it as an adult, shhh!
When: earlier today
Where: Crescent Beach

Laney needed to stretch her legs. It had been a beautiful week, but she'd been cooped up inside for far too long. Video games were fun, but she couldn't help but feel like she was wasting her summer. Maine was going to get very cold very fast, and even though the temperatures were practically blistering, the air conditioner was only so nice. She eventually wanted some fresh air, regardless of the fact that she would most likely be sweating the moment she stepped outside.

With this in mind, however, she decided it might be a good idea to hit the beach. Dropping her XBox controller on the ground-- she rarely picked up after herself, especially in the summer time-- she headed to her bedroom to change into a suit. She pulled open her drawer and paused. Sitting on top was one of the suits she bought as her older self. A wry smile crossed her features as she picked up the delicate material. And that was it. Her mind was made up. She was going as an eighteen year old.

Minutes later, she exited her house, backpack stuffed with a towel and an ipod slung over her shoulder. Anyone watching her might not have recognized her as she left, apart from Alfie, and possibly Nico or J.J. But she didn't care. She rarely did. She walked with confidence and her head held high the entire way, not stopping to talk to anyone. Once at Crescent Beach, her beach of choice on the island, she spread out her towel and laid down. The sun was in the perfect place to get a tan-- not that she was positive she'd keep her tan once she went back to normal.

[OOC: Anyone feel free to tag this. It's not part of Summer OTA, but I thought it'd be funny for someone to encounter Laney using her power so shamelessly. If someone who knows about her power wants to tag, that might actually be funnier. But I'm all up for someone thinking she's the Evans' cousin 'Melanie'. XD ]

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XD to a 14 yr old, it's adult!

whoages
2011-07-28 05:56 am UTC (link)

She peered at him over her sunglasses but showed little to no emotion. He was completely wrong. Laney had been telling the truth. She couldn't stop him, could she? He could easily say he was stopping, and then just do it anyways. She'd been in that position before. She'd actually been the one lying. So no, he was not right. But she wasn't about to point that out.

"I suppose." She shrugged. "But you don't seem like the type that can be stopped." And she would know. Water tended to seek it's own level.

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	trueee sweven 2011-07-28 06:00 am UTC (link)
	Noah smirked at the girl eying him over her sunglasses. He dropped his phone into his lap and picked up his carton of cigarettes from the seat. He slowly took one cigarette out of the box, lit it, and returned the box to its spot. He was mulling over the girl's words as he took a drag. "And how would you know that, I wonder." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

whoages
2011-07-28 06:05 am UTC (link)

She watched him carefully light up a new cigarette. It was a filthy habit, and she was glad she'd decided not to go that route back in junior high. She wondered briefly if Alfie would have agreed to be her boyfriend had she had smoker's breath and figured that the answer was probably 'no'.

"You remind me of myself." It was getting hard for Laney to word things like a grown up. She usually did poorly in English -- and every other class, for that matter, but English especially. Her words were, for probably the first time in a while, carefully executed and thought over as she spoke to this stranger now.

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sweven
2011-07-28 06:12 am UTC (link)

Now Noah's interest was really piqued. He had, as far as he knew, never reminded anyone of themselves. Mostly, he was apparently too unlike other people, that they disliked him for it. So this - this statement? - he was curious about it, and what exactly the girl supposed she meant.

"Is that so?" He exhaled, smoke escaping from the corners of his smile. "So you are unstoppable?"

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whoages
2011-07-28 06:30 am UTC (link)

Laney pinched the sand between her finger tips and let it fall back to the ground slowly. She didn't want to appear too eager to continue the conversation. She wanted to appear like she was mentally checked out, and not at all interested in anything he had to say; rather, she was only in it for mundane beach conversation and something to do. This wasn't true, of course, but she wanted him to think that anyways.

"So I've been told," she said nonchalantly. Truthfully, Laney was one of those people who couldn't be tied down. She was constantly moving, constantly trying to break down barriers, and constantly trying to question and challenge authority. She hated being told what to do. Hated it.

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sweven
2011-07-28 06:38 am UTC (link)

"Aha." Noah kept his eyes on the girl as he nodded, before sweeping them around the beach. There weren't too many people around for a summer's day. He turned his attention back to the girl who was playing with sand.

She did seem young, in a way. She likely was. His mind had settled on the girl being 19. She was, by all counts, younger than he was. But, and this amused him the most, she did like to act beyond her years. Which, granted, Noah had too when he was her age. After sucking on his cigarette briefly, Noah asked: "How else do you think we're similar?"

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whoages
2011-07-28 06:47 am UTC (link)

How else were they similar? She wasn't sure. She could probably make something up. "Well, for starters, we're both stuck on this shitty island." Actually, Laney had no problem with staying on Frye Island. She liked it here. She had no reason to want to venture out into the big, wide world. Everything she needed was within an appropriate distance.

"I also remember when I thought smoking was cool." She eyed his cigarette. "I was about twelve." Two years ago. Har har. She turned her attention back to the sand.

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	sweven 2011-07-28 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Noah smiled patiently at the girl. Shitty island indeed. He wasn't sure who she was, but it seemed to be that she was a visitor. How she was stuck here, he didn't know. And, then, he laughed again, this time at her mention of how passè she found smoking to be. He raised his eyebrows in disbelief. "About five minutes ago, was that?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	whoages 2011-07-30 04:19 am UTC (link)
	She smirked. He was smart. And pretty funny, for an old guy. "Right, five minutes ago. You're good." She wasn't sure how to continue, so she dropped her head back down on her arm and resumed her sun bathing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sweven
2011-07-30 03:33 pm UTC (link)

Noah gave an amused, little shrug and sat back in his beach chair. The girl laid back down, apparently deciding it was time to do what she came to do. He continued smoking, his eyes on her for a moment's time, before he reached to his side and picked up the book he'd left slumped in the sand. It was an extremely ratty hardback copy of Franny and Zooey. He'd read the book a good thousand times, but whatever. He liked it.

Moving his sunglasses to the top of his head, he began to read. A little ignoring tended to go a long way.

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	sweven 2012-05-14 06:06 am UTC (link)
	THEY WILL BE THE BEST MARRIED COUPLE EVAR. and now I'm going to bed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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