Morningstar Manor

Ash had spent her holiday alone, ordered in some pizza and worked on some sound tracks. It wasn't hard for her to be on her own; just lonely sometimes. With her work finished now she decided to go off to the Mocha and find out if their delicious peppermint coffee was back in stock yet.

After dealing with clients this morning, reworking the song that she'd felt was perfectly fine this afternoon and re-presenting to the clients early this evening, Ashlynn was feeling drained. She grabbed a few candles from her apartment after she changed into her bathing suit and grabbed her towel, then headed for the pool. Candles and hot water with jets seemed like just the medicine she needed tonight.

She was careful to keep the candles a safe enough distance away from the sides of the hot tub, but close enough to extinguish them if need be. With them lit, the scent of sandalwood filled the air. Ashlynn sunk down into the water of the hot tub with a soft sigh.

Saturdays, in general, were somewhat lazy days. The day of the week most Manorites were bustling about, getting done what was pushed off during the week. In that nature, there were quite a few residents milling around.

Memphis had taken his basket down to the laundry, dumped his clothes in the washer and fled off to the game room where he set up the pool table.

Travis was sitting in the Mocha, attempting to study a video lesson for his ASL class.

Also in the Mocha, turning the pages in a book, sat Chad. He looked like he was reading. Honestly, he was thinking about several things.

Logan and Appa were playing outside, taking advantage of the piles of leaves.

Just down the hall, Erin was in the process of collecting her mail.

Roxy had taken off to the roof, to lounge about in the hot tub and have a bit of a lazy afternoon.

In the garage, Eli was scrambling to get everything out of the trunk. He'd gone out and gotten groceries, to include dog food, which was a pain in the butt to juggle.

Between the elevators and a truck, Tristan was commanding a moving crew, overseeing the process of merging his and Rhiannon's apartments. Some things were going to storage Rhiannon had set up, other things were being moved to a storage room at his club. He made a mental note to follow up with the TA within the next week.

"Oh 'scuse me." Eve said to one of the movers as she slipped past with a messenger bag strapped across her shoulder. Figuring she should probably stay out of the boss's way, she went off to the back corner of the lobby to open her laptop and check her calendar for DeRossi appointments.

Ashlynn was humming softly to herself as she ran on the treadmill. The gym was not a place she'd ventured to often the last time she lived here, but it was pretty nice and quite convenient now.

Ben had felt pretty awful all day Monday and had spent his time in the stores rather than the shop. It was strange how, after an episode like that, he felt so exhausted, but he had been warned to expect really bad days.

Today he felt better, and just as well because Kelsey had a dental appointment. He sat at the desk with a cup of tea and read "The Line of Beauty" with a critical frown.

Since Spencer had done the laundry yesterday, Roxy was sorting out the mail today. She opened up the box to find a smaller box, opened that one and enjoyed one of the chocolates in the box while sorting.

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Erin was out in the garden with Amelia. It was breezy and she had her hands in the pockets of her jacket as the dog wandered about sniffing at the ground.

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Tucked away in the library sat Logan, coffee in hand and Appa under the table as he worked on a paper due for History. He kept mixing up the dates and names of these events and it was starting to irritate him.

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Travis had his laptop in the Mocha, browsing between costumes and potential birthday presents for Memphis. They both landed on the same day and both required attention, which was not one of Travis's assets.

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Ashlynn sat in the laundry room, cup of hot chocolate growing cold on the washer beside her. She had her headphones in her ears and was singing along to something in French.

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Memphis, as usual, was out in the garage spending some quality time with Lucy. He had a bucket of cleaning supplies out and was currently buffing the wheels with a power buffer. A soft whirr noise filled the air as he worked.

Ashlynn felt entirely lost as she opened the familiar mailbox she'd had the last time she lived here. Last night she'd looked over the directory and noticed all of her former friends were either misplaced or they weren't listed. Deacon was listed, with Charlie, and Joe was on a different floor, but no listing for Onyx and Cade or Sergei.

She didn't even know why she was checking the mail, other than to tell her mother she'd done it. There were a million other things she could do but nothing seemed appealing anymore. The door creaked so she looked up to see who was coming in but it didn't open. Turning back to close her box it was stuffed.

"Oh jeez that's odd... I wonder if Jerry's been using this box for his junk mail?" She mused to herself then chuckled at the thought. It had been empty just a few moments ago, had it not?