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 Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:39 am
Quote: This time of year, snow is common. What’s uncommon is the single, strange snowfall that glistened like tiny diamonds. Everything about the snow seemed normal—it’s cold, wet, and melts just like any other snow, it just also happens to look like tiny little gems are falling from the sky. Depending on who you’re with, it’s either incredibly strange, or incredibly romantic.
And, well, maybe using some of her allowance to find gifts for people. That seemed to be the thing to do around now.
Plus, with everybody shopping, that was the place to be. Hordes of people were picking up gifts, and there were cloud formations of humans literally everywhere. She saw them at that weird spa place in the mall, and at the local Best Buy, and in all of the department stores, and they even swarmed those cute boutiques. Lush looked flooded. She didn't think she could squeeze her way in to buy a single bath bomb at the rate they were doing business, which sucked because she hadn't had one in forever. And when was she going to find time to come back out here again? Outdoor malls were kinda rare, and this one was at least an hour bus ride to get to. Whatever, they were bound to break up their feeding frenzy at some point.
Sighing, Lovi collapsed into one of the rare free tables by an impromptu food court. Lines actually exited the nearby pretzel store and wrapped around the side of the building. No one was looking at her, she realized — maybe she made a mistake in coming out this way. If everyone was too focused on getting the rest of their gifts, then there was no possible way they'd be looking in her direction. Was she supposed to set up a distraction or something? Screw that, too much work.
So she dug her elbows into the rubberized grating and flopped her face into her hands. Sticking her pinkies out, she looked at the shimmering red and green alternating colors on her nails. Well, whatever. She'd buy her bath bombs and leave, then.daekie will start the snowfall on the next post
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:59 pm
Sunny's wardrobe consisted of about five colors - white, grey, black, and varying shades of yellow and green. It was fine, most of the time; enough things were made in the monochrome shades that she could make up for not being able to find anything blindingly lime in her size. The downside to it, of course, was that there were compromises that had to be made in winter lest she want to be blinded by sun reflecting off the snow.
That was how science worked, right? She'd have to check that again. It might have started as a justification for some other reason; it'd been years since she'd thought about it too much.
The other downside was that she was, frequently, deemed 'not festive enough' with the sort of fervor usually reserved for people in all black on St. Patrick's Day. She didn't even like red as a color. It didn't have to be a whole seasonal war or anything, did it? Apparently yes - but that's what she'd gotten herself into by wearing all black to a pop-up mall. She probably should have expected a couple of raised eyebrows. It had been manageable, though, to slip in during a lull in the lines and pick up some scented candles for a friend; she'd repackage them later, but right now what Sunny wanted - before she actually left - was to rest her legs. These things were exhausting.
"'Scuse me - do you mind if I sit?" She hovered awkwardly behind the open chair, smile awkward, straps to a glittery bag around the waist she had balanced against her hip.
[wc: 265]
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:16 am
The voice caught her by surprise. Lovi looked up, figuring on seeing someone her age, maybe someone she even knew at Romano's, but instead got faced with Goth Queen. She knew winter was the month to wear black and all that, but she looked a little too 'I smoke at the mall' for Lovi's tastes. Then again, they were supposed to be all festive and nice and caring about one another.
So, whatever. Miss Murder here could sit if she wanted to. "Sure," Lovi returned, opening with a smile. "I'm not waiting for anybody. The lines are just totally huge right now, you know? I was thinking they'd die down a bit after the work rush." Everybody had to go home for dinner eventually.
Or they maxed out their credit cards. Whichever came first.
But the sky opened up, and glittering down in refracted lights came the first beads of a snowfall. "Now everybody's definitely gonna leave. It's started snowing." Snowing beads — they looked like no snowflakes Lovi had ever seen — and they shined in such a way like they were dancing on a theatre stage. Lovi's eyes were drawn off Goth Girl to them immediately. They danced and swirled and bounced on the light wind, always flickering with a clear, clean light. She was starting to wonder if someone set this up like a romantic backdrop to a proposal or something.
"Wow, actually… Look at that. It's totally beautiful!" Fisting her hands together, Lovi rested her chin on the flat planes of her knuckles. She smiled dreamily at the scene, already alleviated of her earlier stress. "Have you ever seen snow look quite like that?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:26 am
On average, Sunny preferred 'preppy goth' to 'goth queen' - if she'd been going for the latter she would have been wearing more black makeup, as opposed to little-to-no makeup, and it was a whole sliding scale of exactly how intentional she wanted it to look as compared to how shaky her hands were that morning as compared to how much time she had left until she left the apartment. It was a whole complicated, intertwining cause-and-effect scale that ultimately didn't really seem to mean anything to anyone who wasn't her, but she took her appearance very seriously. Oh well - goth queen could be saved for tonight. "Yeah, I totally get that." She grimaced. "I was lucky enough to get some of what I was looking for before the lines got huge, but now it's so bad it's probably going to take half an hour for people to even start giving up."
Sunny had less optimism that people would go home for dinner, compared to Lovina; it wasn't that late, even if the sky starting to get dark made it feel that way, and there was very little that stopped people queueing for something they thought they wanted except random acts of god. And speaking, actually, of random acts of god -
"No," she breathed, equally enthralled with the mysterious snowfall. "Is it, like...crystals? That's super pretty, I didn't know snow could look like that." She craned her neck back to look around - yes, it seemed to be equalized everywhere, like normal snow would be.
[wc this thread: 518]
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:00 pm
So far, Goth Queen wasn't all that obnoxious. Usually they had shitty attitudes and liked to smoke clove cigarettes (which reeked!). But the girl wasn't really snapping at anything, and wasn't insulting Lovi for her comparatively brighter colors or her general existence, she wasn't too bad at all. Not exactly friend material, but not exactly giant-angsty-b***h material either. A good middle ground for the whole stranger conversation.
And she knew how to appreciate a good snowfall. Lovi lived for the days where she wouldn't be called a loser for enjoying the weather.
"I didn't either! I haven't seen snow a ton, but this is… Almost like hail, isn't it? Except not, cuz it's falling like snow. I dunno, I don't really study weather stuff.
"Hey, watch my purse!" Lovi sprang up suddenly and retired her leather purse to the bench. Afterward, she wasted no time dashing out from underneath the roofed food court area. With her hands spread out, she started catching a few of the beads — and they melted in her hands just as she would expect, leaving her hands freezing cold. She felt the winter weather eating its way to her bone and shivered. "It feels like snow!" She called back. "Come check it out!"
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:53 pm
Sunny frowned but said nothing, not content to watch Lovina's purse but resigned to it nonetheless. What were her options, really? She wasn't going to steal it, and she wasn't going to be rude about it either. That wasn't her style. Sulking about it, maybe; but that was done in the quiet of her own mind and certainly not outwardly or to embarrass a teenager.
"On my own time," she demurred, smiling sheepishly (as always, as always). "I'm not sure how well this outfit would hold up to spending any direct time in snow, sorry."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:07 pm
Lovi rolled her eyes as obviously as she could, craning her neck where she had to. "And people think I'm no fun." Frustrated, she trotted back to the bench where her purse sat, and picked up her purse from where it lay. She shot the other girl a distantly polite smile.
"Thanks anyway. It was nice to get out in the snow for like, five seconds. I'd hate to see that outfit get totally drenched in an outdoor mall like this." A quick wave was bade to the other girl, name unknown, and Lovi filtered back out into the crowd.
Wow, what a lamer. I'd be totally annoyed at myself if I was her. Whatever; she's not worth your time anyway. Soon she slipped into the tides of the churning customers, and fell into rhythm of her own mall-grazing adventures.
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