i stay out after dark Who: Cole and Elodie Where: Between the skate park and Cole's house When: 9:00 p.m. or so Warning: Violence
Cole was in a mood today. Of course, he thought he had every right to be in a mood considering what he had gone through at the high school. Next year he might think about skipping homecoming entirely just in case it happened again. Though really? The zombies were not the part that had freaked him out the most. It had been the whole being shut up in an abandoned house full of things that gave off nothing to his clairsentience - or any of the other's psychic-ness - with Angeline Moriarty and Locke. Knowing someone had a girlfriend was a hell of a lot different from seeing them with said girlfriend being moderately affectionate and more concerned about said person than anyone else. Some might think that an experience like that would bring people closer together, but all it had done for him was make him wish harder that Angeline would go back to whatever hole she had crawled out of. And, currently at least, he almost wished that she would take Locke with her.
But anyhow, the mood inspired by all of that, that was why he was at the skatepark from dinner until well after the street lights had clicked on. Vaguely he remembered a promise he had tossed out to his mom on the way out the door that he would be back before dark. But it was only a vague thing and skating was way more interesting than going home so... he turned his attention back to the trick he was trying to perfect. And he likely would have stayed there until he froze to the board if his phone had not gotten his attention. Yeah; there were a few missed calls and texts there. He had a feeling that if he did not get himself home soon then he was going to find himself literally frozen to the floor when he did. Probably for a few days after what had happened. He was not saying that Lilith Landers was one to overreact, but most mothers were probably pretty protective right then... "Fine, fine," the blue-haired boy muttered as he turned his skateboard towards the sidewalk and pushed off.
He was maybe halfway there when he heard something that made him stop. It sounded like a struggle. Now, common sense and living in Scarlet Oak told him that he should really keep going, but Cole picked his skateboard up and moved a little closer, peering around a tree to try and get a better look at whatever was going on. Hopefully he would not need the phone that had found its way into his hand.