Essentials Shopping

[Ravenna French]

Raven loved shopping at the Spring Prairie Center. It was on the outskirts of town and was never really that busy, especially on a Thursday morning. And some of the thrift stores had the cutest things. Today wasn't a browsing day, at least not to start. Today was essential shopping day. Toilet paper, tampons, various medicines, snacks, some new makeup, stock up on hair dye, and a few other things here and there. Then she'd browse.

Raven was particularly thankful today wasn't busy. She'd been pushing herself with trying to learn control of her abilities again. "Stupid S.P.R.I.T.E," she mumbled under her breath. She'd worn herself thin and totally needed a 'me' day. A day to pamper and relax herself. She wouldn't work herself this hard if she didn't miss her work. Who knew being a model would make Raven so happy. Who knew cutting back as much as she did would drive her crazy. Plus it was cutting into her spending money. She was still well off, especially with her trust opening up to her on her 21st birthday. She knew her Nanna had set that up. Her parents could care less about her. 

She couldn't help but burst out laughing remembering the day the recruiters came to get her and to prove they were legit and mutants, one of them had levitated. Her mom had actually fainted. FAINTED! Of course deep, deep down, somewhere Raven never visited and something she'd never admit to out loud, it actually hurt that her parents were just pretty much fantasy figures in her life. Something that doesn't actually exist. Being lost in thought, Raven didn't notice someone had stopped on the sidewalk outside one of the outlet shops and bumped right into someone, stumbling back.

{Clickey for pretties}



Annalise Jackson

[Annalise Jackson]

Anna was having a good day, so that was something to celebrate. She'd managed to get through a movie in a public setting without a single slip. Though she heard the voices from everyone around her, she was able to shove it down, steady the sound, and think over it. It had been a test of her will. The more she'd been out and about lately, the more it was needed for her to practice thinking above the constant hum. Though her paranoia hadn't gone away, it was on a good trip that day, meaning she had managed to walk around the Prairie Center without looking over her shoulder repeatedly for the last hour since the movie had ended.

Now, truth be told, she couldn't remember what she'd been watching, and had missed nearly everything, except a few glimpses at the screen, since she'd been so obsessed and doubtful about herself managing to sit through any of it. When the movie had ended, she'd been so internally proud of herself, she'd even opted to stay around, enjoy a day around people when she wasn't constantly worried about which one wanted to murder who. The hum of thoughts had become a constant niggle in the back of her mind, but she had smoothed it down for now, and therefore hadn't expected the person coming up behind her.

She'd stopped to browse a display, her hands stuffed in the pockets of her jeans, her attention fully on the display, when someone literally walked right into her. Blinking, Anna stumbled towards the window, a hand coming up to press to the glass to keep from running face first into it. "Damned." She mumbled, lifting a hand to shove her fingers into the thick white curls at the top of head, tugging them out of her face, and turning around to perk an eyebrow at the woman.

"Looking forward helps the walking process." It wasn't -meant- to be rude, of course, but on a day like today, when she wasn't obsessing over the next thought slip, and there wasn't a trace of a headache, her personality was at the forefront, strong, and somewhat brash.

[Ravenna French]

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WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK CAUSE THAT'S JUST WHO WE ARE!

Raven was a dramatic girl. Her personality was big and loud. So it was no surprise that while she was stumbling back her arms cartwheeled out a few times, the few bags on them spinning weirdly while trying to stay on her arms, and she made lots of noise. It took Raven about a minute or so to get herself completely still and in control. Just in time to hear the woman talk. But what was said went in one ear and right out the other. Instead her eyes got wider and her mouth dropped open.

"Oh my god! You're so pale! And you're hair is so white! Blonde? White-blonde? SILVER?! O-M-G," Yes, she really did say those letters out loud like that, "I love it! Obviously not silver, but still, so pretty." She stepped closer to the girl with a wide smile. "Names, Raven. So totally sorry about that whole bumping into you thing. My thoughts wandered away." Raven had to resist reaching out to touch the womans hair.

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[Annalise Jackson]

Wake Me Up

When it's all over.

Anna was still frowning when the female bounced back...and promptly began to shoot off at the mouth. This caused her to freeze quite suddenly, her whole body still, her frown frozen on her face, an odd look of very sudden uncomfortblness moving in on her features. Her hands curled around themselves into small fists and her nails bit into her palms. Not out of anger, of course, but out of an effort to keep control in her head without to much visible twitching.

For a very lengthy moment she just stared at the woman, her eyebrow quirked high, a quizzical and confused expression on her face, and her body shifting slightly back in a minute manner, as if suddenly needing some distance between herself and the other female. She couldn't even summon up any actual words for a while, she just stood there blinking at her, her eyes darting over her features as if to read something there to explain what had just happened.

"Oh...it's okay." She finally answered, managing to pull some kind of response from her inner frozen lock. It was a god send the female didn't try to touch her, she might have had a melt down right than and there. Way to many people have been touching her lately, and, though she was trying for more public outings lately, she wasn't sure if she could handle another stranger touching her. Coming back to Kalispell was like walking into a whole new world when compared to the rest of the planet, it seemed. "Uh...my hair...right..." she lifted a hand and tugged on a strand of her hair, before managing a tight smile. "I bleach it....a lot, and use a whitening dye."

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