Light of May ::: an original roleplay

For Cheyenne and Leland and birthday celebrations!!

Who: Corwin and Nicci
When: Nighttime
Where: Ozzy's

Nicci had gone to lunch with her parents earlier in the day, which perhaps explained why she actually looked sweet when she had stepped into Ozzy's that night. After lunch she'd headed to a friend's house and bought a bottle of percs, and holy hell did that make a person lose track of time fast. At least when paired with all the other shit floating around in Nicci's system. If you had asked her what she'd been doing since two that afternoon she wouldn't have been able to tell you. Staring into space? Watching Spanish soap operas? Knocking over a 711 and stealing a slurpee machine? No fucking clue. Whatever she'd done, she'd been entertained. The world was just starting to drift back into focus as the sun went down, and she'd been in the back of her car with a group of her friends, driving over to Ozzy's. Good enough!

Nicci was feeling good. Really good. Not the pretend-y kind she usually settled for. All of her problems felt very far away, and she was experiencing the world through a fog that might as well have been made with cotton candy and baby unicorns. Which was why when she even started to feel like she might be coming down (you know, sometime in the next week or so), she dropped everything (which had been dancing) and headed straight for the bar. Coming down was not an option. She was going to milk this for all it was worth. A particular scent was nagging at the back of her mind, but that seemed far away too. When she reached the bar, the nearest bartender had his back to her, so she leaned against the bar and whistled. "Excuuuuuse me! Bartender! I have a complaint! I am not drunk yet! Please fix this!"

Who: Bubbles and Nick
When: During the elementary school field trip
Where: UofM hospital

( 'I had to use a lotta red here.' )

Who: Daniel and Dagmar
Where: Niemi household
When: Afternoon

( Shine in your direction. )

Who: Charlene and Ulysses
When: Late afternoon
Where: By the river

( 'There is nothing interesting in this town.' )

Who: Linnea and Nikita
Where: Nikita's place
When: After school

( Whose gonna say that you can't be walking on the water? )

Who: Satu and Silvia
When: After school
Where: Nikita's home

( There was parenting, there was being cautious, there was being neglectful and then there was Nikita. )

Who: Lila and Madeleine
When: Early afternoon
Where: Home

( Change has to come. )

Who: Lily and Charlotte (and Anna, Charlie’s familiar)
When: Late morning
Where: Charlie’s house

Charlotte had not gone to school this week. On Monday morning her alarm had gone off, and she’d gotten out of bed... only to break down all over again and climb right back in. A few weeks ago missing school and shattering her perfect attendance rating would have seemed like a big deal. Now it felt like nothing. So what. Her mother tried to cheer her up, and tell her that time healed all wounds... but Charlotte just couldn’t face the world yet. She dreaded going back to school. She dreaded explaining things to her friends. So she stayed in bed. When her mom spoke, Charlotte had no reply. She stayed in bed and waited for the world to hurt less.

Yesterday her mother had been worried enough to stay home from work. Early in the afternoon she'd come in to tell Charlotte about what had happened at school, and Charlotte had gotten out of bed to head downstairs and watch the news. Isadora had been encouraged by that, but when it was over, Charlotte simply got up and went back to bed. In the morning, her mom told her that the homecoming parade had been canceled. That should have bothered her. S.O.A.R. in Unity was going to have their own float, and she'd been working really hard on it. Now she took the news with a shrug of her shoulder. Big deal. She sighed, and curled up closer to Anna. Before Anna had been her familiar, she'd been her beloved pet. When Charlotte's father had died, Anna had refused to leave her side. When Charlotte had come home from school crying because the other kids made fun of her, Anna was the one she poured her heart out too. Their surroundings may have changed, but the routine did not. Since Charlotte had come home from the hospital last week, Anna had not left her side. The spaniel stayed quiet, and was simply there. She didn't try and force Charlotte to talk, and Charlotte appreciated it more than words could say.

DATE: Thursday, September 10, 2009.

BIRTHDAYS: Cheyenne

WEATHER: No changes.

EVENTS: State-wide news is being pretty much dominated by yesterday’s stabbing incident at Scarlet Oak High School. Yesterday a senior stabbed a younger student with what authorities are describing as a deadly weapon – right in the middle of the cafeteria. The attacker, Karen McAllister, was arrested and expelled, and word is that McAllister acted because she suspected the victim, Penny Chess, was a witch. Yes, it’s a possible hate-crime. Coming in fresh on the heels of the recent terrorist bombings, everyone’s having a field day with this.

Classes at SOHS have been canceled for the day so that the staff may evaluate how to increase security at the school. Class will resume tomorrow. Unfortunately, officials have announced that the homecoming parade will be canceled. In light of recent events, perhaps that’s a good idea.

The bake sale at the middle school is still ongoing, and today is the field trip to the U of M hospital for the elementary school students.

If you have something you feel warrants a mention in the next time update, please let the mods know!