Crazy Ex-Girlfriend {open}

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie shrugged he had a point it was one way to get a girl to smile. “you have a point but I will laugh if one day you flirt up the wrong girl and wind up with a stalker” she said with a grin on her face she could imagine it. Then again maybe he would like having a stalker what would she know, they had reached the coffee shop by then and he ushered her in first.

If nothing else he really did seem to practice some old school chivalry which was a plus it seemed to be a dead trait these days. Though Cassie didn’t always blame the guy for that she had witnessed plenty a chick go all hater on them for attempting it, spurting that as an independent women they can open their own doors or some other self righteous mumbo jumbo.

“Thank you” she said with a smile and walked through, it was a quaint little coffee shop, with art pieces on the wall which she could appreciate and she noticed as she walked in Beau had already been at the window with his posters. The furniture was all miss matched which she actually loved, so many people worried too much about uniformity that it got tiresome. She led the way to a table by the windows she liked to be able to look out at the street when she was indoors.

Sitting down on one of the chairs he picked up one of the menu’s and started browsing through it. This seemed to be your classic cafe, cappuccino’s, flat white, latte ect. All your normal coffee’s, teas and cakes. It wasn’t often Cassie had the luxury of coming to a coffee shop, hell she didn’t often get the luxury of coffee.

“So how long have you been touring the world with your music?” she asked easily taking a swig from the water she had got at the drug store, she knew full well she was most likely exaggerating about the whole world part but hey aim big right.

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau chuckled, "Funny story 'bout that, actually..." he drawled, his eyes flicking off in another direction for a moment. They did seem to have lost his stalker, though Beau could have sworn he saw a flicker of motion off at the corner of his eye. Hopefully it was just someone else, or maybe a pet or something. Beau put it out of his mind, opening the door and letting Cassie walk in ahead of him. She'd pick the table out too, with Beau following right behind.

He'd been here before, had actually brought a girl here before, come to think of it. Still, the coffee shop wasn't one of Beau's regular spots, and he had to look over the menu himself. Most of what they had to offer went right over poor Beau's head, but he was pretty sure he could still order something without sounding too much like a hick. He did have at least some practice at managing it, which should help.

Just as Beau was figuring out his order, Cassie asked her question. It was then that Beau realized that he'd been a little rude. "Jus' a few years," he said, lowering the menu. "'less you count when I went 'round followin' my dad an' his band; then it's a few more years than that," he chuckled, leaning forward slightly. "What 'bout yourself? You done any wanderin' for you had to put roots down here in pleasant little Kallispell?"

Beau gestured with a hand, indicating the area round him. He wore his usual grin too, the smile looking at home on his face.

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie laughed at the fact there was a funny story about him flirting up the wrong girl and getting a stalker, from the sounds of him, it had already happened, “And you still didn’t learn” she said with a grin and a shake of her head and a light laugh.

Cassie listened easily as he spoke very briefly of his time touring on his own and when he followed his father around. She laughed when he asked if she had done any wandering herself, absently playing with the bottle of water in her hands as she did. “You could say I’ve done a little bit of wandering” she answered with a grin.

If you called traveling around for 4 years selling sketches and horse lessons to get enough money to keep fed and moving wandering then yeah she had done a little bit. One of the wait staff come over then to take their orders before she had the chance to elaborate on her statement which suited her she wasn’t sure whether he would care about her elaboration he didn’t seem to go into much detail about himself.

“Ready to order?” the girl spoke and Cassie wondered if that was a hint of jealousy in her voice, was she another one he had lead on or did she just have a crush on the country singer she didn’t know and didn’t really care she wasn’t interested in him in any way like that.

“Could I just have a flat white please” Cassie asked sweetly before looking to Beau to order, she wasn’t very fancy when it came to coffee just liked a nice simple sort of coffee as long as it was made well.

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau chuckled and shook his head. "They say I'm a bit o' a slow learner," he drawled. Some things just didn't stick, but again, he couldn't really see himself communicating with girls in any different way then how he did now. He rapped his fingers on the table again, beating out a little beat. There was probably a song in that, something about how you couldn't talk without flirting. Probably been done, but Beau figured he could put his own spin on it.

Speaking of spins, Cassie was doing wonderfully at answering and not answering the questions. Beau figured that this was one who didn't like people prying into her life; you got quite a few of those around here. Too many people had issues with their manifestation, the struggles of being a mutant just too much for them to handle. It didn't help if you had a potentially traumatizing ability like Cassie's. Beau knew he'd gotten lucky,and he thanked God at least once a week for that luck holding out.

The order came; Cassie gave hers, and Beau pointed at a menu option, one that was basically "nice black coffee," he gave the server a smile as he handed over the menu, letting her know that she didn't have to rush things. "Yeah," said Beau, turning back to Cassie, "afore you showed up, I was dodgin' an ole ex of mine," Beau chuckled and shook his head, "you know how it is, sometimes things don't work out, but one person don't see it. I think she jus' likes messin' with people's lives," Beau shrugged. It wasn't as though he were some kind of master psychiatrist or anything along those lines. He paused for a bit, then cautiously asked Cassie: "If you don't mind my askin', what exactly is a flat white? Sounds like some kinda whale or somethin'..."

[Castilla Salinas]

As the girl left with their orders Beau turned back to Cassie and gave a brief rundown of his stalker ex girlfriend. She didn’t really know how it is thought she was a gypsy she was never in one place long enough to be in a relationship and know how it is but she nodded anyway. She couldn’t help a giggle when he asked her what a flat white was, stating how it sounds like some kind of whale or something, she couldn’t say she had ever heard that one before.

“From what I have figured out it is just a plain coffee with milk, but don’t quote me I don’t come to coffee shops often, living a gypsy style life doesn’t offer up much spare money to waste on such luxuries” she said easily with a smile. She had figured the flat white thing out herself a while ago but she wasn’t game to try the fancy ones listed she had no idea what they were like and didn’t want to risk it best to stick with a normal coffee with some good old cow juice in it.

“Anyway in actual response to your earlier question, I have spend the last 4 years wandering around” she said with a grin. “I left home at 15 and embarked on a gypsy lifestyle selling my drawings and offering horse riding lessons to pay my way, it was pretty awesome really I have seen some pretty cool places. Though that was all rudely interrupted a week or so back when I got dragged off here but life’s like that right?”

She spoke easily leaning back into the chair stretching her legs out against the wall of the cafe and still fiddling with her water bottle, her shopping tucked safely away beside her though her hand went down absently to check it hadn’t moved.

[Beau LaRoux]

Plain coffee with milk, that sounded pretty close to what Beau had ordered himself. He nodded, logging the information away for later. Would do him some good to have a little coffee shop knowledge tucked away for later. Soon enough, he'd have a lot more to log away for later, as Cass unloaded her past. Beau paid attention, leaning forward ever so slightly. It sounded like she'd left home at roughly the same time he had, except she'd chosen to sort of wander around whereas he'd been shipped straight here. then again, his powers had kicked in back then, so it wasn't like he had a whole lotta choice in the option.

"Sounds like this life is gonna kill ya," said Beau. He let out a breath and ran his hand through his hair. "Took me ages to get used to things 'round these parts. Spent so much time wanderin' around, mostly down South, that bein' trapped here sounded like two kinds-a hell," Beau leaned back, smiling, "got better though. There's some good folks 'round here."

Beau had met more than his share in his time here. He leaned back a little further, enjoying the seat. As he did, the server appeared with their orders. wasn't like it was all that hard to prepare two simple coffees. She set them down, nodding to Cassie before giving Beau a smile. "If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask," she said before taking off. Beau nodded, saying he'd do just that before taking a sip.

"Least the Joe 'round here's pretty darn good," he said, lowering the cup. "So there's somethin' else to look forward to. Nice people an' good coffee," he saluted her with the cup, chuckling at he took another sip.

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie grinned and nodded as he pointed out the point of this killing her, she had to admit she was worried about that herself she was too much of a free spirit but if it helped her get back to the person she was rather then the person this power made her she was willing to push aside her traveling spirit for a little while. “Maybe, but sometimes we have to do what we don’t want to in order to get the life we want” She spoke easily with a shrug.

Besides she knew there were good people here she had already met a few of them and she thought maybe it would be nice to stay somewhere long enough to make some actual real friends. She couldn’t help laughing softly her herself when the coffee’s arrived and the waitress put all the attention to Beau.

Cassie pulled her mug closer to her and picked up two sugar sachets from the table giving them a little shake before ripping the top off and emptying them into the cup. She was already stirring it into the liquid by the time the waitress left and took a sip he was right it was pretty good coffee no denying it.

“So good people and good coffee, is that all that has kept you here?” She asked curious to see what else might keep the traveling musician based in one small town.

^{OOC - sorry it's so short and lame couldn't think of much else don't hate me}

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau nodded, "That sounds about right; kinda wish I'd thunk of it myself," he was a little surprised he hadn't. Sure, there had been conversations with people in the past that had helped Beau realize that this was where he was meant to be, at least for the time being. They couldn't very well go roaming with their powers being as out of control as they were. Plus, there were other reasons to stay, several of which came to Beau's mind without being brought forth.

He took a sip of his coffee, enjoying the taste. As he did, he let his eyes drift out toward the window for a moment. He thought he saw motion, maybe someone ducking back, but he could have just been seeing things. He turned his attention back to Cassie moments before she spoke, and her question, which hit so near to where his thoughts had just been, made Beau chuckle.

"Ain't that enough? There's pretty girls too," he drawled, giving Cassie a meaningful look, "an' I got one in particular that's makin' stayin' look pretty darn good," he took a deep sip of his coffee, then lowered it, still smiling. "'sides, if I left, there wouldn't be anyone to play country music nearby, an' the folks would just wither an' die without that to provide them warmth an' comfort."

He nodded and rapped his fingers on the table for a moment. "So, you pick up any ties on your journies? Anybody you're sad to leave behind? Girl like you, I reckon you got at least a boy or two sittin' somewhere pinin' away, waitin' for Cassie to come back an' knowin' she never will," and boy, was there a song in that.

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie smiled a little at his reasons for staying she especially liked his point about this town needing his country music, hey if you didn’t believe in your own ability and talent no one else was going to so good on him. "So, you pick up any ties on your journies? Anybody you're sad to leave behind? Girl like you, I reckon you got at least a boy or two sittin' somewhere pinin' away, waitin' for Cassie to come back an' knowin' she never will,"

Cassie laughed at that “I don’t think so I was never in one spot long enough to leave behind any broken hearts.” She spoke with humour still on her lips. “I made a few friends along the way but nothing more than that” and in her eyes it was true, she hadn’t been anywhere long enough to make a lasting impression on anyone or at least she didn’t think she had.

She look another drink of her coffee it was good coffee that was for sure and there were some interesting buildings around this area. Maybe she should make it a point to come here more often to sit with a coffee and do some sketching. She mostly drew animals and people but she liked to challenge herself too and try something different too, usually if she was going to do a landscape it was out in nature, though she didn’t dislike drawing buildings so long as they had a personality too them and weren’t just your basic stock standard building.

Cassie felt the urge to grab out her sketch book and begin drawing hit her but she resisted that was something she preferred to do alone so she would wait until they finished their coffee and parted ways to find a quiet place to draw. “So what is the one place in this world you could actually see yourself settling down in and giving up the traveling lifestyle for?” she asked she knew most people had one, that one place where they dreamed of stopping one day after seeing all the rest.

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau chuckled as Cassie laughed. "I'm still bettin' there's at least one guy sittin' there thinkin' 'bout you afore he goes to bed," Beau didn't want to take that line too far, as it was already uncomfortably close to being overtly sexual as it was. Beau covered it as best he could though, taking another sip of his coffee. Least as long as he sipped the drink, it was gonna last a while, and Beau had the feeling he was gonna want the break every now and then.

While Beau sipped, he kept his eyes on Cassie. There seemed to be something flicking over her face for a bit, but Beau couldn't exactly place it. It must have been something though, because the next comment was a good deal heavier than what they'd been talking about, heavy enough that Beau had to pause and think about it for a while, a long while. he finally shrugged.

"Don't know if there's a place that I'd really wanna settle. Like my home state easy enough," Beau considered for a moment, tapping his fingers along the table, "so I 'spose I could land there. I reckon it would take someone to make me wanna settle in one spot though, 'stead of some place. That's the way it was with my dad," Beau smiled at that memory, then looked over to Cassie. "'spose you got a place of your own you're thinkin' of?"

Talk about an answer that'd give away a lot.

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie laughed again as Beau remained adamant that there was at least one guy out there pining after her. “If there is whoever he is will obviously find a new obsession quickly enough, I wasn’t anywhere long enough to make a lasting impression, if anything it would just be a fleeting thought” she waved it off easily. Cassie often told herself she had never been in a relationship because she moved around a lot though some small part of herself often wondered if there was something wrong with her.

She listened to his answer nodding, made sense she had heard the adage many times before that it wasn’t the place that kept you there but the people you loved. She thought about it herself when he figured she had a place herself. “Not really, there are places I want to see but no where I have my heart on settling in, I guess I will settle down one day if I stumble upon the right place or the right person who knows what the future will hold you know” she spoke with a shrug with a thoughtful look before taking a sip of her coffee.

“Of course if I ever stumbled across neverland I might think about staying you know forever young and all that” She said with a grin after all that was everyone’s dream right never grow old and frail. Yeah living in a magical land could be fun though she knew in her heart she would never be happy trapped in one place forever it was still a novel concept.

[Beau LaRoux]

"Alright, alright, message received," said Beau, again holding up his hands in surrender. She seemed quite determined, and he wasn't that keen on fighting her on the whole matter of her possible paramours. Beau did know how romance worked though, and he still remained positive that a girl as pretty as Cassie had left at least one heart slightly cracked in her time traveling.

Sounds like she was still set in the whole wandering thing anyway. Beau nodded along with her, perfectly understanding the desire to get the road under your feet and get moving along. Thankfully, they did let him venture to nearby towns, so long as he kept his power under wraps, which was usually easy enough. Heck, Beau practically worked as a power detector anyway. Beau also couldn't help but notice that Cassie had sort of mentioned the possibility of someone convincing her to settle, which he took to mean that there was at least a chance there. He'd been wondering, since sh seemed so determined to remain independent. then again, who wasn't, really?

"I dunno," he said, tapping his fingers, "I don't know if I'd want to stay young forever. Seems like there's some bonuses to gettin' older. An' I can't shake that whole image of sittin' on my front porch with some lady that I've grown old with, you know? Still, if ya find Neverland, drop me a line, an' I'll come play a show or somethin'. Wouldn't hurt to slow things a little," Beau winked and then took another sip of his drink, sliding back. as he did, he caught movement at the corner of the shop window. This time, there could be no mistaking it: that was definitely his ex, looking like she wasn't looking at him.

Beau groaned, running his hand over his face, "I think we got followed," he said, giving a slight nod to the window, "sorry 'bout that," he sighed and finished rubbing his face, giving the window a tired glance. Should he just go out and tell her to leave him alone? He at least had some experience dealing with her power, so he wasn't that worried...

[Castilla Salinas]

Cassie smiled happy that he was going to let the issue of her possibly leaving broken hearts scattered over the content go. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to find love and have someone to share a life with, she had just wanted to explore and see what the world had to offer more. Though she couldn’t help feeling, now that she had this power, that she would give up anything she needed too in order to control this power and be able to have that sort of human contact without the risk of ending up in their heads and passing out. Unfortunately love seemed even further an option thanks to her new uncontrolled pain in the head of a power.

Cassie grinned at his response to her finding and staying in never land, she couldn’t help but feel slightly envious of him at that moment as he spoke of sitting on a porch with a lady he could grow old with. Yes she hoped that what the tutors told her was true that she could learn to control her power but another part of her was scared what if he power remained as wild and untamed as her spirit for travel. What if her only option was to grow old alone unable to connect with anyone due to the side effects of her power? She shook her head slightly realizing she had probably been doing the whole internal dialog thing for a little too long to be comfortable.

“For sure though I don’t know how all the young never land folks will like your country music” She said with a laugh imagining the characters from the story and trying to picture what they would think of a country music player showing up. She couldn’t remember their names but she imagined the plumper one from the cartoon version grabbing his club up and bonking Beau square on his head.

Cassie followed his gaze as he nodded out the window stating that they were followed and apologizing. She turned back to him with a knowing grin after seeing the girl trying and failing to stay out of sight as she glared at them through the window of the coffee shop. “I tried to warn you about those crazy stalkers” she said shaking her head in playful disapproval. “If it wouldn’t land up both on our arses again I would suggest we give her something to be jealous about but since I don’t feel like taking anymore trips to ground zero you will have to think of something else player” Cassie spoke with a laugh, she knew she shouldn’t poke fun at his misfortune but she couldn’t help herself.

[Beau LaRoux]

"I'm bettin' they'd love some good music," insisted Beau, referring to the various inhabitants of Neverland. true, his knowledge of the people there didn't extend far past the old Disney cartoon, but he did remember them being fairly melodic overall. He was pretty sure that he could charm them well enough with his guitar and voice; he at least knew that he'd side with Peter Pan over hook, so there wouldn't likely be much head thumping.

Not that he could really lose himself in Neverland, either mentally or actually, not with his stalker hanging around outside. Cassie seemed amused by the whole thing; not that Beau could really blame her. He could certainly give her a semi-playful glare, one that quickly dissipated into chuckles, "You're awfully determined not to end up in any compromisin' situations; sure you ain't got some sweetie stashed away somewhere?" Beau winked, then looked back to the mirror. He wasn't sure that he had many options at this point, though he was certainly trying to think of something, anything to get out of this. You'd think that being in a coffee shop with a girl was enough.

Then again, Beau was often in coffee shops with girls, and, well, they weren't always "dates." "I'm guessin' that callin' the cops on her ain't gonna go over too well," he said. He blew out a breath slowly, puffing his cheeks for a few moments. His eyes drifted to his mostly gone coffee. He wouldn't even be able to use that as an excuse for much longer. "I suppose I could always head for the rear exit," he said, twisting to look in that direction. "Don't know if I should leave you, an' it seems rather rude to be askin' you to dash out the back with me, us havin' jus' met an' all," he smiled at Cassie, his eyes twinkling. There was plenty to suggest that he certainly would, if he thought her amenable to that suggestion.

[Castilla Salinas]

“Exactly good music, which is why I’m pretty sure they would bop you over the head” Cassie said laughing, she was used to stirring people she did it without properly thinking sometimes, she didn’t want to actually offend him and hoped he knew that she was joking.

Cassie laughed again at his comment about her and compromising situations, “if there is I am completely oblivious to the situation” she spoke keeping a straight face. She couldn’t help her mind drifting off to the funny and cute guy she had met back at school in the week, he had certainly made an impression on her though she highly doubted she had made any lasting impression on him, at least not for anything more than friends. Besides even if she had, how could she ever be in a proper relationship now that she couldn’t even touch anyone without the risk of passing out or whatever it was that happened.

Cassie listened to his attempt at coming up with a plan as another one formed in her own mind, ducking out the back wasn’t such a bad idea but a true stalker wouldn’t be fooled by that for long. “What if you sneak out the back I will hang here for a moment, if she really is stalking you she is bound to either come in the shop looking for you when you don’t come back right away. So when she does I will distract her while you make the get-a-away.” she began to explain her plan “We can either meet up at a safe point or part ways until the next time we bump into each other and end up in a mind swap tornado” she finished with a grin.

She didn’t mind either way really if this was the end of this conversation she was sure they would still run into each other around the place somewhere at least she knew another friendly face around the place even if that friendly face came with a stalker. On the other hand if they ended up meeting up somewhere once the stalker was ditched he wasn’t bad company for a player.