Sabrina Cox (thelastgirl) wrote in shadows_rpg, @ 2018-07-06 15:15:00 |
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Entry tags: | #october 2017, sabrina |
Who: Sabrina and Jason
When: Monday, October 30, lunch
Where: School
Status: Complete
Jason had a (mostly) relaxing weekend, Jules’ freak out over a bloody nose aside. He had skipped Victoria Chapman’s party in favor of sleeping and having a quiet evening that came with an empty house as both his parents and Jules had gone out. So he was in a fairly good mood on Monday, the morning passing without any particular incident. When the bell rang for lunch, he headed to the cafeteria.
Sometimes Jason would pass these breaks eating and reading a book, if he didn’t feel like being around people or if the handful of people he willingly spent time with were otherwise occupied. Today, he scanned the area and caught sight of Sabrina sitting at a table by herself, so he went to go join her. They shared a few classes over the years and whenever she ended up attending Jules’ parties, her presence always made them somewhat more bearable, which was to say he considered her a friend.
“Hey, Sabrina,” Jason said, smiling a little in greeting. Setting his food down, he slid into the seat opposite her. Sometimes if she were with Mak he was more likely to give them space, not wanting to intrude or third wheel it; if she didn’t want company now, he figured that she would let him know. “How was your weekend?”
Sabrina glanced up from her phone when Jason sat down with her, and she turned off the screen while placing it down on the table. "Hey," she said, pulling another potato chip from the small bag in front of her. She didn't mind the company at the moment and it had been awhile since she and Jason had talked. There was maybe handful of people Sabrina could tolerate at school, and Jason was one of them, despite who he was technically related to. "My weekend was fine. Mak and I went to Chapman's party and surprisingly, had fun. Probably because I didn't have to talk to Victoria." Sabrina grinned. "What about you? I didn't see you there." Which was not surprising. Jason wasn't exactly a social butterfly like his stepsister.
Settling in more comfortably as Sabrina didn’t seem to mind seeing him, Jason unscrewed the cap of the soda he had with him and took a drink. “Not running into Victoria seems like one of the basic requirements to having a good time,” he said, lips quirking. “I stayed in to enjoy having a quiet house to myself. I played some Overwatch, ate pizza, and fell asleep early” Missing out on a party was never something he would be bothered by. Really, he usually only ended up at the ones Jules threw and that was more out of stubbornness than any real desire to attend. “Did you and Mak do any kind of couple’s costume thing?”
Sabrina couldn't say any of that sounded boring, because she had nights like that too, and sometimes she preferred staying in alone to parties. It was probably good for Jason anyway, since his sister was usually the one throwing the parties in Point Pleasant, and Jason was there by default. "Mak was a gangster, and I was her flapper girlfriend," Sabrina said with a grin. "We're going to wear the costumes again tomorrow night for the Halloween fest on Main Street. Might as well get our money's worth, right? You don't get into the whole dressing up thing this time of year?" Sabrina asked before popping another potato chip in her mouth.
Jason grinned. “That’s pretty good, and if you have the costumes why not go for it. I haven’t seen the appeal of dressing up in general and I can never think of what would be a good costume for Halloween in particular.” It would be a lie to say he didn’t consider his physical appearance, since he made sure to present well, but it was somewhat of a chore and he was deficient in both whimsy and creativity when it came to costumes. “How’s everything else been going for you?” He felt like it had been a while since they caught up. Sabrina had seemed kind of preoccupied with something at points of that and while he tended to get absorbed with whatever he was doing, he did care about how she was doing.
That was a loaded question, and not one she could answer honestly without Jason thinking she had gone loco. Sabrine munched on another potato chip and then drank it down with a quick swig of soda before finally answering. "So far, so good," she said. "I mean, school, work, and all that." Ouija boards and demonic possession. Just your average October! Sabrina smiled a little. "What about you? Counting down the days until you escape this place?" She knew there was only a handful of seniors who would actually be able to get out of Point Pleasant and into a pretty decent school. Sabrina was not one of them.
There was a lot that happened in Point Pleasant that got around by rumor, but as with any rumor, Jason didn’t put any stock into it and was the sort to opt for the more logical conclusion first. He started to unwrap the turkey sandwich he had got for lunch. “Pretty much. I haven’t added a countdown on my phone yet, but getting close to it,” Jason said, since really: the sooner the better. Though he couldn’t be sure though until he actually got accepted into college, he felt reasonably certain he’d make it out one way or another. “Everything else is about normal. Jules continues to be occasionally annoying, but I guess that falls under normal. How are your S.A.F.E. meetings going?”
"Only occasionally?" Sabrina asked, smirking a touch before she took a drink of her soda. "You deserve, like, a nobel peace prize for having to live with her, or whatever that thing's called." God, if Jules Cooper was her stepsister? Sabrina would have to have some kind of lobotomy just to deal with it. Or not deal it, as the case may be. "The meetings are good! We have a nice little group and everyone's pretty chill. I think we're going to try and come up with some kind of activity or whatever for next month, since it's winter formal and all that. I'm not sure yet." Sabrina felt like she had been slacking a little with her group, considering everything that had been going on. She needed to try and refocus. "You should come to a meeting," Sabrina suggested with a grin. "Meet some people. Make some friends. Socialize and stuff."
Jason laughed at her comment. “She goes out more than I do and also we’re sometimes good at pretending each other don’t exist, which is probably the only reason we’ve both survived,” he said. Jules could very easily get on his last nerve, but also. He kind of loathed the idea of being the only one who had to suffer through their parents whole deal. Not that he would ever admit that to anyone. “But I’d still take the peace prize.” He smiled to hear the meetings were going well, since he had the impression starting it had been important to Sabrina. “Yeah, why not? I’ll come to the next one, as long as you won’t mind having a straight guy there.” It said in the name it was for everyone, but Jason still didn’t want to intrude. The winter formal wasn’t particularly important to him, but he liked hanging out with Sabrina and there was a part of him that felt like he should try, at least somewhat. “I’ll even try to participate in the activity. Probably. Maybe?” he said, lips quirking.
Sabrina laughed a little and nudged his foot under the table with her own. "Straight people are allowed, Jason. It's the Sexuality Alliance for Everyone. We totally welcome straight people. All people, actually. Except assholes, we have a strict policy against them." She was always recruiting for the group, as long as she liked the person. Sabrina thought Sebastian ought to join up too, but she figured he was probably still trying to combat any 'gay' rumors that had cropped up after Homecoming. "I'm not sure what we're going to decide on doing, but we have a few ideas that we jotted down at the beginning of the year. I promise it'll be fun. And I double promise that I won't push you too far out of your comfort zone."
“Yeah, I know, but straight people are welcomed most places, so I didn’t want to take away from your group dynamic,” Jason said, smiling as he nudged Sabrina’s foot back. “But I’ll take being part of everyone. And I’ll make sure to leave all assholery at the door. For you.” The last was teasing, mostly, since while he could end up being a jerk to some--or many--of Jules’ friends, he couldn’t think of anyone who’d likely be in Sabrina’s group that’d draw that reaction from him. “I’m sure it’ll be fun, and I’ll try to be open to whatever you end up planning. Just let me know when the next one is and I’ll be there,” he said, picking up his sandwich and taking a bite. “Easing out of my comfort zone is probably something I should be doing more of, anyway.” It wasn’t something he liked to admit, but, well, he didn’t really know what college would be like in the practical sense, so. It couldn’t hurt and he generally trusted Sabrina’s sensibility more than he would his other classmates.
Pleased, Sabrina crumpled up her chip bag to throw away in a few minutes. "I have no doubt our group dynamic will only be improved by your presence." She knew Jason could be a bit jerkish to certain people, but he had never been a jerk to her, so it didn't really bother her. Sabrina knew she could be bitchy to people too, from time to time. "I'm there with you though. I've been trying to be more social, like... outside of my closer friends. Mak's best friends with Hunter Barrett, and that's sort of bringing new people into our circle too." She couldn't really say it was Sebastian McCarthy, or even Greg Wheeler, since that might give something away that wasn't hers to give away. "It's been reminding me how shit I am at talking to people I don't know very well. I kind of miss my loner lifestyle sometimes." She grinned, only sort of joking. "I was much cooler that way."
Jason smiled at Sabrina. She was easy to be around, even if he still had a tendency to keep to himself more often than not. He never quite figured out what it was about being around people that felt like it required varying levels of effort, since he wasn’t prone to nervousness and often forgot to put what he said through a tact filter, but it took less effort to be around her than other people, which he counted as good thing. “You’ve still got a pretty cool air going on,” he said, grinning at her. Or at least he thought so, not that he had much of a metric for it. He tended to lack any kind of chill. “Though I’m admittedly a fan of the loner lifestyle, with exceptions. I like the people I know of in your circle, though I haven’t really talked to Hunter much.” He had seen him around and he seemed friendly. Jason only sometimes knew how to approach that energy.
"I do have a cool air going on, don't I?" Sabrina flung her dark hair over her shoulder dramatically. "I'm glad you notice it because I'd say most of the people in this school don't and it's super frustrating." She was kidding, of course. Sabrina would love nothing more than to be totally ignored by the majority of the school population. Sabrina folded her arms on the table and glanced around, wondering if she would spot Hunter. Or anyone, really. "Hunter's cool," Sabrina said. And dating Sebastian McCarthy, but she couldn't say that. "I've only started getting to know him a little better since school started. He and Mak are way closer. Mak's friends with, like, everyone. I'm just sort of along for the ride, you know?" Sabrina knew she wasn't Miss Popular, and her dad was the town drunk and her brother drowned and she could be bitchy and everything. A lot of things were stacked against her, but Sabrina had one thing going for her... she didn't really care that a lot of things were stacked against her.
“I like to think I have better opinions than most people at this school,” Jason said, grinning at Sabrina’s dramatic hair flip. He wasn’t being entirely serious, since he always had the high-minded idea that he didn’t care about hearsay or what people’s reputations happened to be, but he wasn’t entirely immune to it. Still, he meant what he said about Sabrina. None of the things stacked against Sabrina was the sort of thing he would judge anyone for and he knew he could be an asshole. He shoved more of his sandwich into his mouth to eat it before the lunch period would end, nodding acknowledgment to what she said about Mak. It wasn’t like he had much of an idea of how to meet people he didn’t just talk to because of classes. “Yeah, that seems like it’s probably easier to have a way of meeting more people built-in. Which I guess is sort of what I’ll be doing when I crash your next S.A.F.E. meeting.”
"You probably do," Sabrina pointed out. She didn't put a lot of stock into what her classmates thought about anything, but Jason was cool, at least to her, and he was smart, so that was something. She grinned and watched him try to finish off his lunch. "Feel free to friend my friends," she said. "They're all pretty cool. I'll let you know when the next meeting is, though. It'll be after school for sure but we've got to nail down a day." Things had been so crazy outside of school that Sabrina hadn't really been focused on her other obligations. Maybe now things could get back to normal. "Do you want to give me your number and I can text you when I know?"
Jason wasn’t entirely above flattery if it were from someone whose opinion he respected and Sabrina was one of the few of his classmates who fell into that category, so he was a little pleased from her comment. He finished chewing and swallowed. “I’ll keep all of that in mind. But yeah, let me give you my number. I can probably make whenever work,” he said. There were occasions when he had debate practices or other school-based activities he had to do, but beyond that it was unlikely he’d be unable to make it. He waited until Sabrina was ready, then rattled off his number for her. “Text me so I have yours, too?”
Sabrina added Jason as a new contact - she didn't have very many in her phone, which was fine by her - and sent him a quick text with a couple silly face emojis next to it's Sabrina. "I'll keep you updated," she promised. "Or I might just badger you to hang out with us more. So be prepared." She wouldn't bother him too much. It was just easier with his phone number. Sabrina slipped her phone back into her bag now that lunch period was winding down. "Where are you off to next? AP something?"
Jason pulled out his phone out of his pocket and grinned when he saw the text, then quickly added Sabrina as a contact before putting it back away. “I’m good things with both things, as long as you won’t be offended if I don’t take you up on all the offers to hang out if I know I’d be shitty company.” He doubted that she would be, but he was the sort where if he didn’t feel like being around people, he wasn’t great at keeping up polite conversation or engaging. At the same time, he didn’t want it to be the sort of thing she took personally, since in Sabrina’s case it wasn’t. “Yeah, I have AP Physics next. What about you?”
"English," Sabrina said. "Without the AP. So... SP. Stupid people English." She grinned, not really meaning that, but it was fun to tease the brainy kids sometimes. Mostly because Sabrina envied them, knowing someone like Jason would probably get a scholarship to some college and Sabrina would be hoping she could find a job that would just pay her enough to move out of her dad's apartment after graduation. "I'll walk with you, if you want. It's only sort of out of my way."
Jason rolled his eyes and grinned at the teasing. “AP doesn’t mean smart, so much as overcommitted,” he said in return. He was reasonably intelligent and did well at school, mostly by applying himself toward that and not a lot else. “But either way, English is English, so I can’t say I envy you.” He almost told her to not go out of her way, since it was impractical, but it seemed like a friendly gesture, so instead he said, “And, sure. You’re good company.” Getting up, he piled his trash and took Sabrina’s crumpled chip bag as well to dispose it on their way out.
Sabrina laughed. "Over-committed. I like that. I'm so under-committed, it's not even funny." She stood with him and reached for her trash when Jason picked it up first. She wasn't going to wrestle her garbage away from him, so Sabrina gave him a small smile in thanks. Instead, she picked up her bag and slipped it over her shoulder to follow him out. "You're good company too. Thank god. Good company is super hard to come by in this place." She nudged him playfully with her elbow, not really ready to get to class, but happy that lunch wasn’t a total bust.