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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:00 pm
 Lauren Blake
"Alright." I looked back at him and smiled almost doubting what I was about to do. "Come up to the bar." I said, walking past the table to the dark wood bar near the door to the living room. "It's smaller than the one in the basement but that one is for parties." I pulled out a bottle of tequila and the glass blender from the cabinet. I emptied a third of the bottle into it and finished off with lemon juice. "You won't tell your parents will you?" I joked.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:51 am
Todd Wells
I stood from my set and approached the bar, letting my hand run over the wood curiously and then glanced over to the man as he prepared the drinks. I had completely forgotten about my parents until he asked the question. blinking questionably but then I just smiled shaking my head. "Why would I? There's a lot of things I don't tell them, This would just be one more thing." I leaned my arms on the bar folding them up together comfortably as I watched him use the lemon juice now. "...didn't know you had parties here." I looked away for a moment resting my cheek on my hand as I couldn't help but smile a little micheiviously. "You most be a real party animal huh?" I teased clearly just joking.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:34 pm
Lauren Blake
"Only when I try not to be." I smirked. "But back to your parents...what have you done that you haven't told them." I began pouring the drink into a glass jug after stirring it and leaned against the counter, looking at him sideways.
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:32 am
Todd Wells
I just smiled humor playing in my eyes at his first statement but my smile faded slightly at his next question. I just shrugged though as I thought about it looking down at the counter. "It's not so much what I have done but how I think, the things I like, I don't tell them anything about me anymore because they never approved of anything....so, I just pretend to agree with them now." I paused as a small bit of red tinted my cheeks. "Well ok...I did drink once." I added looking at the drinks and back to him guiltly.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:37 am
Lauren Blake I looked at him harder as he spoke and his story was strangely familiar. He looked down at the drink in his hands and then back up at him. His comment about the drinking served as a divergent and now he wouldn't have to give an answer to the heartfelt stuff. He smirked and pulled away from the counter and began walking back to the table and the meal they had prepared. [[Bet that's cold now.]] "Let me guess." he said as he poured their drinks. "You snuck out one night and ended up at the bar?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:33 pm
Todd Wells
I watched him briefly for a moment as a smirk crossed his face and he walked off back to our unfinished meal. It felt strangely relieving to have someone to talk to, that wanted to listen. I admit I wasn't used to it and it always seemed better to keep everything to myself but my teacher didn't seem to mind listening. I perked up as he spoke again and approached my side of the table as he poured me a drink, it looked so tempting, so refreshing but I didn't want to come off too strong. I wanted him to know I had self-control even for someone my age...yet here I was answer his second question that would probably show the opposite. "Yeah...Am I that easy to figure out?" I joked quietly. "I didn't just sneak out though...I just wanted to get out of my house and be alone, away from my dad. I finally just broke down after something he said to my mom and well....we got in a fight and it didn't end well...." I fidgeted with my thumbs a bit in a shamful manner pausing for a moment to clear my head of how upsetting that moment. "So, I just wasn't thinking very clearly and did things I probably shouldn't of that night...." I avoided Laurens eyes the whole time I spoke hoping by the end I didn't say too much. "How about you...? You ever got into any trouble?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:01 am
Lauren Blake
Lauren took his seat and a quick sip of his drink. "You might just be a tad bit easy to read." he smiled. He almost regretted not adding a bit more alcohol seeing the direction this talk was going down. Listening to Todd was bringing back unwelcome memories. Though he felt his internal shields going up tightly, he also felt the shell that he regarded the word around melt a little. He hadn't expected this to be the boy's story. "Perhaps you aren't easy to figure out after all." Lauren mused as he dismissed Todd's last question. I do not know your family, but somehow I had a different image of them." The father at least. The letter he sent...it didn't even sound like the same man. Lauren fought to hold back his tongue. He wanted to know more and surprisingly he began to grow upset. "Your father was abusive? To just your mother..?" [[OMG, slay me now. I am so sorry i never replied. emotion_sweatdrop ]]
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:06 pm
 Todd Wells
Todd's shoulders sunk slightly upon hearing that he was easy to read but it couldn't be helped. He knew it was partially true anyway. Todd sat by, waiting and waiting for an answer to his question, an answer that never came. The boy's head tilted suspiciously as he looked down at his own drink in front of him, his eyes transfixed on the liquid until he looked back at Lauren like he was waiting for some kind of permission or approval from the man that it was ok for him to drink it. Lifting his own glass up to his lips Todd took a sip as well, although slightly longer then Lauren's as he let the flavor settle over his tastebuds and the warming effect it offered his throat upon swallowing. "Oh...?" Todd suddenly straightened up towards Lauren when the other man broke the slience again. "Ah hey, I didn't mean to ruin you're expectations..." Todd began uncomfortably, feeling as if he said way too much already. At the question the boy blinked, his eyes widening as memories flashed through his mind and he quickly looked away, unable to hold Laurens gaze any longer. "N-no it wasn't like that...I mean...sometimes." Todd suddenly felt a bit frightened and very nervous that he was speaking such horrible things. He groaned regretfully. "I don't want to talk about it right now.. just forget it." Todd said, his voice shaky and serious. "The tequila is good." The boy nodded with approval, changing the subject instantly. [ooc: It's all good, I've been busy with college lately so replies could be slow and sorry that I can't make up my mind with the picture lol]
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:39 pm
Lauren Blake
Lauren, sipped his drink as he watched Todd fumble visibly. He hadn't meant to make the boy upset, but now hearing this story, he wasn't sure what he should think. The man who had sent the letter sounded desperate to have his son helped and be accepted to this school. A thought crossed his mind. "You do want to go to this college of the arts for music, isn't that right Todd?" he asked.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:12 pm
Todd Wells
Todd was incredibly relieved to hear Lauren changing the conversation, mustly because he really didn't like talking poorly of his parents and his father. Him and his father didn't get a long all the time and he never did feel very close to his father but the man had his occasional issues...some that were simply unforgiving when pretaining to how his mother had been treated. It was condition, a bad cause of stress and anxiety that sent his father over the edge once in a while, something that he took pills for but when he decided not to take them sometimes then that's when things got bad. Todd's father still tried to provide Todd with everything he needed to succeed in life though, always wishing the best for him, so that was something Todd always had to consider. The young man thought about Lauren's question for a moment as he took another sip of his drink and nodded hesitantly as if he was still uncertain about it. "Well I don't know Lauren sir, I suppose I would like to try." Todd let his hand rest comfortably under his chin as he smiled a bit sadly. "I don't know if i'm cut out for it though, I'm ok at the piano and other things but I'm never 'great' at anything..." Todd took another drink and by then it was starting to have a mild effect on him. "Pretty much...Things don't come very naturally for me." Todd sighed. "...But you know, my dad really wanted this for me....he has his own problems...so I figured I could try." Todd really felt like he was starting to ramble now and he wasn't sure if it was his relief in the change in topic or the drink his was sipping. He looked back at Lauren. "Why do you ask...?" Todd said curiously.
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