Libby Hendrie Ƹ|Ʒ Navi the Fairy (fairynavigation) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2012-08-19 19:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | libby hendrie, marisol morales |
Who: Libby Hendrie and OPEN
What: A girl and her fairy off on an amazing adventure... aka Libby sneaks out.
When: Sunday night, August 19.
Where: Los Angeles, CA (because why not?)
Warnings: Brattiness?
It wasn't about the Vita.
No, seriously, it wasn't. Sure, she'd been disappointed, but Lucas had agreed to maybe help her pay for it if she got a job and that was cool. Helping to pay for it herself would just make it better. The problem was with the whole job thing. Game Stop was obviously her goal, but it made sense to talk about other options if she couldn't get work there. She hadn't even actually been serious when she suggested that maybe she could file papers at Camelot where Lucas and Sadie worked - it was possibly better than fast food, but it was also just begging for a paper cut and Libby needed to keep her fingers uninjured if she was going to enjoy that Vita once she got it. Besides, she had a few months still before she could even start applying.
Lucas hadn't needed to get his panties in a twist over it. If he'd even just left it at "they won't hire you until you're eighteen" it would have been cool. Libby could respect that. But no, then he'd had to go on this stupid big brother rant about how he wouldn't let her anyway and it was too dangerous for her and she wasn't really a fairy, and maybe Libby had yelled a little. A lot. Until she got sent to her room and he went away rubbing his forehead and mumbling something about a drink, again.
Maybe she was only fifteen, but that didn't make her helpless or stupid. She played games and read books and watched anime, and the protagonists on there were her age. Maybe even younger. Sure, fiction versus reality, but she had a video game character in her head. That kind of blurred the line there - and how was she supposed to know what she and Navi could do if Lucas wouldn't let her do anything at all? She'd stewed in her room a little, barricaded the door with her bookcase and yelled some more when they tried to check on her, and then she'd come up with an amazing plan.
She'd used the MTN a few times before, but never alone. It was pretty simple, though. The hardest part of her escape had been getting out the window without getting caught, and she'd solved that by taking a nap until it got dark enough. After all, when you could freaking fly (not really a fairy her butt), windows weren't a challenge. No one even really looked sideways at a teenager with a skateboard, especially since she'd taken her helmet - getting caught for not wearing one would be lame, if she could pull the rest of the plan off. Choosing the destination had been the important part. After all, she wanted it to still be early enough that she wouldn't run afoul of some kind of curfew, number two on her list of dumb ways to get caught sneaking out, before she'd been there long enough to have some fun. Obviously that meant west coast, and a city big enough that she could blend in. Los Angeles fit the bill, so off she went. Let other girls in her class sneak out to meet boys; Libby was the only one who snuck out with the help of super cool magical technology. Suck on that, cool girls.
The plan didn't seem half so awesome when she emerged on the other end of the MTN terminal. For one thing, she hadn't really planned on how big L.A. was. Sure, Austin wasn't wimpy, but it was familiar. A strange big city was another matter altogether. She was half tempted to turn around and go right back home, but that would just prove Lucas's point. She wasn't a baby, darnit, and she could take care of herself, even in an unfamiliar place... and she'd prove it by having a great time and coming home without a scratch. After all, it wasn't like she was going to go looking for trouble.
"Guess this is it, Navi," she muttered. Determined to have fun even if she didn't really feel like it anymore, she put her skateboard on the ground, braced one foot atop it, and pushed off.