savvy arcadia ( telepath & witch ) . (beforeyouspeak) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2012-11-22 21:16:00 |
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Who: Savvy and Langston.
Where: A random grocery store.
When: Evening.
It had been a long day. One of the longest Savvy could remember since moving to Scarlet Oak, and given her track record so far that was really saying something. She’d been on her way home from finishing up some of the finer details on the big motif she’d discussed with the restaurant owners when she’d remembered, quite out of the blue, she actually had no food in her apartment. She’d eaten the last -- slightly stale -- slice of bread for breakfast and she’d run out of ramen the night before. Oh how sad, still living a student’s lifestyle at her age, but desperate times called for desperate measures and as much as Savvy hated to use the word to describe her current circumstances there was just no way she could substitute it for anything else.
So there she was in the middle of the cereal aisle, her cart depressingly empty due to her strange onset of seriousness about what she did and did not need to buy. Priorities were something she had to have if she was going to make rent and pay her utilities and afford the occasional caffeinated treat on her way to or from her current job. And sometimes she had to get lunch while she was out, and as much as she might budget -- and oh how she hated those little salads the deli nearby made, the lettuce always tasted funky and she didn’t even want to know about what they were passing off as tuna -- she was having trouble making her money stretch to fit all the days in the month.
Thank god and every other deity known to mankind her employers had paid her early. So they didn’t forget, they’d said, and in a pleasant twist, because they’d been “impressed with her services”. That would sound kind of dirty to anyone who might hear it but not her. Not when she could afford to stock up a little.
Now, the real question was, could she stretch her budget enough to buy a box of Pop Tarts? Could she convince herself they were essential? And then there was the question of which flavour. Blueberry orrrr Apple Strudel? Decisions, decisions.