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Post by VALERIE CARELLE on Mar 8, 2011 1:55:38 GMT -5
The docks were old, rotting, faded and junked up. There was nothing remotely pleasing about this place to the blonde who was currently occupying the space. Nothing except the utter solitude it offered.
The girl also seemed very out of place in her nice clothes and well groomed appearance. It was like a clash between two different worlds, a complete anomalie.
Valerie frowned, wrinkling her nose at the state of dirt and grime that was apparent on virtually every surface her eyes inspected.
Valerie settled to lean against a stack of old crates, at least they were dry and would be less likely to get anything unpleasant on her clothes. She rummaged through her purse, procuring a box of Djarum Blacks, pulling one out of the carton and setting it aside on one of the crates beside her.
She popped it into her mouth while her hand went back into the purse to bring out a lighter. Valerie could not help but feel some anticipation as she lit up, taking a long, heavy draw on the black cigarette. It had been far too long since she had gotten a chance to do this.
Smoking was a horrible and unhealthy habit she had picked up when she was much younger than she was now. At first it had been her own secret way of rebelling against the iron rule of her mother and now it was one of her few methods of relaxation. She closed her eyes, blowing out the smoke and licking her lips, enjoying the taste of sweet that lingered there.
She sighed, content to let her gaze wander towards the horizon and the setting sun. She did't do this enough.
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Post by ERIN SONG on Mar 8, 2011 21:48:44 GMT -5
 It was October, and the weather would start getting colder now. Erin decided to head out on her own, on one of the last mild days of the year. She'd pulled on a pair of loose jeans, a baggy t-shirt, and a black leather jacket. A cap was pulled over her short hair, and she pulled on a pair of comfortable running shoes. One glance into the mirror confirmed that she looked like a seventeen-year-old boy.
And that is how she preferred it. This was her style, and she wouldn't change it for anyone, not even her parents. Thinking of her mother and father made her heart sting, and she sighed, feeling a little down as she left Emerald Hall.
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Sometime later, Erin's legs had carried her down to the old docks, hands shoved into the pockets of her coat. While her feet took her where they pleased, Erin's mind was off somewhere else. She was thinking about her parents, her situation, and a particular girl who...disliked leaving her mind for great lengths of time. Damn. Erin had thought that she'd learned from past experience. Girls like that just weren't into other girls; even if they looked like Erin did.
She sighed, kicked a pebble, then listened to the sound it made as it rolled and bounced over the rotting wood of the rocks. The sound brought her enough out of her thoughts for her to notice she wasn't alone.
Dark brown eyes fell on a blonde sitting not too far from where she was walking. The figure looked familiar, and as Erin came nearer and caught sight of the other girl's profile, sure enough it was Val, the captain of the cheerleading team.
Trying to avoid an awkward quiet moment, Erin said the first thing that came to mind, "Those'll kill you, you know..." She wasn't sure where she stood with the blonde, but she was going to be friendly unless she was given reason to act otherwise.
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WORDS - 423
NOTES - should be interesting
CREDIT made by meee~ [/size][/blockquote] |
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Post by VALERIE CARELLE on Mar 9, 2011 0:19:40 GMT -5
Initially Valerie had frozen up when she heard another person enter the space, but when she saw who it was she relaxed, taking another drag of the cigarette and watching Erin walk closer. She wasn't too keen on others finding out that she smoked, but Erin did not represent a threat, after-all Valerie knew more about the football player than the other knew she did.
The blonde was fairly sure Erin hadn't noticed her presence yet and continued to stare, crossing her arms over her chest.
It was immediate the moment the other person noticed her and Val rose an eyebrow at her comment, blowing out a thick cloud of smoke as though in reply. The smoke was white and curled up into the air, smelling like spice and something exotic. "There's a great many things that will kill you Erin, didn't you know?" Her tone was matter of fact, neither welcoming nor unwelcoming.
She took another drag and turned back to the water, blowing the smoke out slowly, "Is this your spot then?" Oh well if it was, Valerie wasn't going to move. |
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Post by ERIN SONG on Mar 9, 2011 12:12:20 GMT -5
Erin was surprised and relieved when nothing snappy or in any way disrespectful left the blonde's lips. She shrugged her shoulders, which were a little broad for a girl, and came closer. The smell tingled along her senses, and she found that it wasn't the repulsive smell of regular cigarettes. Whatever Valerie was smoking, was not regular tobacco, nor was it pot; it smelled nice.
'There's a great many things that will kill you Erin, didn't you know?'
"That's true I guess..."
She wasn't the type to push her opinion on those who weren't close to her. Valerie could do as she wished with her own life, Erin wasn't going to butt in and tell her to stop smoking.
The boyish girl kicked at more pebbles before stepping onto the wood of the dock Valerie was seated on. It didn't come as a surprise to her that the cheerleading captain knew her name. After all, football players and cheerleaders interacted a lot, and if they didn't, they knew quite a bit about one another. Valerie was captain, therefore Erin wouldn't blink an eye if she could recite the names of everyone on he football team and her cheerleaders.
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NOTES - mine came out small too XD
CREDIT made by meee~ [/size][/blockquote] |
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Post by VALERIE CARELLE on Mar 10, 2011 0:36:14 GMT -5
The cigarette induced haze was quite calming and served as a kind of sedative. Where her mind usually worked at a much faster pace than this, where she was usually thinking into the future she was currently focused on the now.
"I know it's unhealthy." She shrugged as she took another drag, the crackle of the cloves sparking the end of the thin, black, stick. "But...what's the expression? Live fast, die young?" She rolled her eyes, not agreeing with this statement at all. Still everything about her seemed as though she should be anti-smoking, she found the idea slightly ironic.
Erin hadn't actually answered her question, but she let it slide, giving the football player a once over. Valerie knew that the 'boy' was a girl, considering she knew all the innermost workings of this school, and especially the on goings of the football team.
To be honest when she had heard there was a girl on the football team, she had intially invisioned a big, burly, butch girl who was constantly smacking people in the face with the fact she was on a football team and openly lesbian.
But Erin seemed rather quiet, and while she was butch, and Valerie was fairly sure she was a full blown Dyke, it wasn't as annoying as the blonde had thought it would be. Honestly she couldn't imagine the other looking any other way than she did.
"Practice starts up again soon enough doesn't it?" She said flicking the cig and watching the ash fall before rubbing it in with the toe of her expensive shoes. At Lux Lucis the cheerleaders and the football team were on much of the same schedule when it came to conditioning and practice. "Think you'll make the team again Erin? Last year you kind of stuck out on the team." |
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Post by ERIN SONG on Mar 11, 2011 22:44:44 GMT -5
Erin didn't know if the cheerleader knew about her true gender, therefore she didn't quite know how to act around this girl. She would just have to be herself and see what would come of it. Valerie hadn't show disgust or annoyance toward he, but then again..."girls like her" tended to be great at acting.
She felt a sting of emotion as she thought back to when she'd lived in the girls dorms. That had been a bad time for her, experiencing first-hand the cruelty that the fairer sex was capable of. Sure, guys tended to get temperamental and could punch and kick...but the way typical girls did battle was considerably more subtle, and the wounds they left were deep.
Erin was trying not to place every girl she came into contact with in the same category, but it was difficult. "Yeah...it's live fast die young." She rubbed at an itchy spot on her jaw, "I think." Her running shoes didn't make much sound on the rotting wood as she came nearer to Valerie.
Woulds he make the team this year? Erin hoped so. She wouldn't know what to do with herself if she couldn't play on the team. The handful of boys from the team who'd befriended her...Erin was quite dependent on them in all honesty. They'd been nice to her, despite who and what she was, and she respected and loved them for it. That, and she'd grown to like each of them individually, as well as how they all acted as a group.
Thinking of her friends brought a small smile to her lips as she looked over the water, "I hope so. And...I stuck out? How?" She blinked and pulled her eyes from the ocean to look down at the blonde. Was Valerie hinting that perhaps she knew Erin's semi-secret? Fuck. Times like this, Erin wished she was a telepath.
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NOTES - yeh yeh
CREDIT made by meee~ [/size][/blockquote] |
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Post by VALERIE CARELLE on Mar 13, 2011 23:03:41 GMT -5
Erin was ridiculously easy to read, Valerie was almost disappointed. She had assumed it would have been more fun to pick her apart, but it was fairly easy to see where her defenses lay just at the way she had stiffened up.
Valerie shrugged, eyes closed and taking the last, long drag of her cigarette. She stubbed it out on the crate and exhaled smoke. "You're different from the others, a bit smaller. That's only biological though and you play fairly well enough that I wouldn't worry about your spot."
She hadn't directly referenced the fact that Erin was a girl, and this statement could be taken many different ways. It wasn't as though the Asian girl did not know she was smaller than the majority of the boys on the football team, and if she didn't she was simply deluding herself.
Honey brown eyes opened, their gaze sharp in the fading sunlight, like liquid amber. "You did well last season despite all the drama that followed you. Don't tell me you're worried now." She smirked slightly and shook her head, moving off the crates and taking a step forwards as to stand beside the girl, gaze reaching outward towards the water.
"You have yet to tell me what you are doing here."
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