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Shenzi shrugged slightly. "Last week or so. A week and a half before my birthday." Now she let a twisted, ironic smile cover her face. "Some birthday present." She made a face, wrinkling her nose. "And they took my cigarettes, too." A plaintive look accompanied this announcement, before she laughed shortly. "Though I was sent here for rehab, so it makes sense, but still."

She raised an eyebrow as a box of the current conversation topic fell from his jumper. "Really. And besides, I'm legal for it in three days, and that's why I'm in rehab for anyways. Smoking and boozin." Shenzi said with an easy shrug. "Turn 18 on the seventh, so what's the difference?"

Shenzi shrugged slightly. "Eh, didn't seem like alot to me. It was more the drinking and dabbling that I was sent in for. My mom drinks like a fish; she's Czech, and they love booze, so that passed down to me. The smoking was something more to do with the fact I grew up in new york city." She smiled as she remembered the streets; full if irritated people, punks, goths, neon lights, up till all hours of the night. "My dad got worried after awhile, though; my mom has high tolerance for alchohol, and so do I, but he didn't want me to get completely addicted, not that I am. So they shipped me here." She shrugged again, nonchalantly.

Again, the twisted smile. "So I've learned." She sighed again, laying back on the sand, her hands behind her head. "Havn't met too many people, but the guy I came with is here cus he's in deep debt, so he's doing medical testing s**t. Dunno why Nita or Chubbs is here, and I think Aislinn's here cus've her leg, not sure."

"You worked here before they fired you, though, right? Wouldn't make much sense to fire someone in the States and then fly them out to some tropical středisko. 'We dumped you, so we're sending you to the bahamas as an apology!'" She said, laughing softly under her breath.

Shenzi smiled encouragingly; he was certainly shy, or maybe just nervous, which might account for the stutter. "I'm not full american. Half american, half czech. Středisko means resort. Sorry if I confused you, I slip czech things in sometimes. Apologies." She said, grinning sheepishly.

Shenzi smiled broadly, accepting one of the cigarettes. "Yes, as a matter of fact I would, good sir Newton." She said, laughing softly while pulling her lighter out; she had had three when she came, but two of them got thrown away before she got on the coptor. The third one made it only because she hid it in her bra. The lighter was decorated with the czech republic flag, with the name Shenzi written on it in sharpie.

Lighting the cigarette, she let it rest on her lips, holding the lighter out to Newt as she took a long pull off it, grinning cheerfully.