The Adorable British Lesbian Pikachu! [DA]

[Fate]

The stage looked a little worse for wear, but the various people working it had a little more confidence in their step. They'd managed to get through a few of these already, and they were pretty sure that they could handle the rest from here. Plus, the current crowd of semi-creepy guys had thinned out by now, leaving a crowd consisting mostly of females with a few guys that were either confused or figuring that maybe Zoe was. That probably had something to do with the tagline for this particular auction, which kind of left little doubt as to the preferences of the girl being auctioned off. That the girl was even there threw a few people off, since, well, they hadn't expected it. Still, they were there to make things as comfortable as possible.

the auctioneer looked a little concerned for the girl. You couldn't help it, since she looked all huggable and soft and all. Still, his job was to auction her off; that what they paid... wait, was he being paid? He got so wrapped up in the question that he almost missed that it was time to start the auction. The weedy looking guy sprinted toward the podium, practically falling on it in his rush to start. Out of breath and looking disheveled, he hardly looked ready to do this. when he spoke though, he had the hot, sexy, smooth voice of a professional.

"Hey there ladies and... more ladies," he paused for a moment, wondering if he should be mimicking a female voice. He continued in the voice he'd been using: "It's my pleasure to introduce the next lovely girl up for auction. She's an English rose that got transplanted to the States some time ago and managed to land among our lovely grounds. Known for being a sweet girl and lover of photography, this lovely little thing is just waiting for the right girl or, well, guy I guess if you really want to try, to come sweep her off her feet. It's my pleasure to introduce: Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe!"

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

This had most certainly not been Zoe's idea. She'd just heard that someone had volunteered her for it, and that she should just go ahead and do it. Not soon after that, she found out who did it, and she couldn't help but be slightly surprised. Devyn had been... distant of late, but this? Signing Zoe up to be bid on like some kind of animal? In front of people? It sounded humiliating. Zoe was absolutely positive that no one was going to bid on her. For one thing, she was fairly certain that there weren't that many girls that would be interested. Which probably meant she was going to end up on another dreadful date with a boy where she had to deal with awkward questions.

Still, she'd shown, tempting as it had been to skip. She wore a sundress too, one of the lighter garments she actually owned. It flowed about her, soft and pretty and done in a light turquoise that she thought worked well with her. She'd found a flowered headband to put in her hair too, and of course she wore long gloves. Thin ones this time, looking almost old-fashioned as they crawled up nearly to her shoulder. She supposed she looked nice.

Didn't stop her from locking up when they'd called her name though. Zoe had froze, finding that nothing was working properly. Finally one of the crew had gently nudged her forward; apparently they'd been prepared for this sort of thing. The shy girl stepped forward, feeling her heart thudding, looking at the crowd like she wanted nothing so much as to get out of there as quickly as humanly possible.

"Right, so let's start the bidding!" said the Auctioneer, turning to the crowd. "Who wants to bid to spend some quality time with this lovely lady? Anyone?"

Zoe wasn't sure which would be worse: the inevitable silence she just knew was going to follow that... or someone actually stepping forward and bidding on her.

[Devyn Solway]

You are defeating the purpose of signing her up for this by going over there, you know that right? Yes I know, but like I can't help it. Because you do care about her more than just a friend. Arg, I don't want to be thinking to myself like I have lost it.Devyn thought to herself as she walked over to the area where she knew Zoe was being bid at, having signed Zoe up for it after all in an attempt to try and get Zoe to date someone else and experience the whole open relationship that they were in still. She had not broken up with Zoe still, even if she kept telling herself that she should but then saying that she could not. Why was this so hard? She never had this much trouble trying to end it with someone before. Why couldn’t Zoe do the work for Devyn and end it for them? Things would be easier for Zoe the and then maybe they could work on being the good friends they were before.

Devyn had arrived on time as the bidding was about to start for Zoe and she was already thinking how much money she had for this. The asked for starting price was at least twenty five dollars, but Devyn was going to offer up more than that. She had exactly six hundred dollars on her at the moment. Five hundred was meant to go to her getting herself a PlayStation 4 and the other hundred was to be for fairground fun. She had wanted to invite Zoe to it, but again that whole trying to keep her distance to figure things out had made her miss her chance in a way. Maybe later after this she could ask to hang out a little bit. Devyn watched as Zoe clearly had help being pushed out onto the stage and smiled at how beautiful Zoe looked. She and that sun dress while Devyn had opted to dress up a little herself. Nicer set of jeans with a button up short sleeve shirt that had the first few top buttons unbuttoned. Other than some nice sneakers and the usual shades for being outside in the day time that was all Devyn wore, not wanting to overheat or anything.

The bidding was underway and the guy asking if anyone wanted to start the bid, with Devyn never actually doing this sort of thing before. She was supposed to go with her dad to bid for a car when she turned eighteen, but that was not going to happen now. She just knew you were not supposed to bid with everything you had to start because someone could beat you then. Well, someone was supposed to beat her really if Devyn’s plan was to work out, but she still could not help herself. "One hundred dollars." Devyn said as she raised her hand a little and then quickly went silent. Maybe she should have worn some sort of disguise so Zoe didn't know that it was her? Yeah right, as if Zoe would not be able to tell it was Devyn even if she had dressed up like someone else. Maybe if she wore a dress Zoe would not know, but this was Devyn, she was not going to wear a dress.