I Know Who I Want To Take Me Home(LetsyKamBrineeH)

[Molly Elaine McCormack]

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“I’m so ready for tonight…” Molly mused just before leaping onto her brother’s back. They were supposed to be helping Des close the shop down early, but Molly had been bouncing off the walls that night. Perhaps because she excited to hang out with her friends at a bonfire, but more likely because she’d gotten into the bag of jumbo marshmallows early during a smoke session and the sugar was kicking in.

“Hotdogs, s’mores, beer, some smokes, if this isn’t what life is about...what is?” laughing, she slipped off of Freddie’s back and ran toward Des’ iPod speaker dock and scrolled through until she found “Closing Time” by Semisonic and turned it up almost as loud as it could go. She smirked as she looked over her boys, knowing they would have expected her to put this on and were probably getting sick of what was becoming her tradition, but she knew by the end of the song they would be dancing around just as childishly and belting, “I KNOW WHO I WANT TO TAKE ME HOME!” into whatever was nearest that somewhat resembled a microphone. For Molly, it was a bottle of sunblock, SPF 30.

Molly really tried to be helpful, she got a rag and the windex to wipe down glass displays and the front shop windows, which was nearly the entire shop. Admittedly, she did a bit of a half-ass job that night, which wasn’t like her. Usually, Molly did whatever favors she could for Des to the best of her ability, but tonight her ADHD had the best of her.

“I’m going to get set-up…” Molly announced to the other two, abandoning them to finish up closing the store on their own once her song was over, turning the speakers back down once the intro to the next song started. She shrugged on her hoodie, shoved her bowl in her pocket, and grabbed a bunch of old quilts and blankets that she’d gotten ready earlier in the day and moved outside, still singing to herself under her breath so no one would hear if they happened to be close enough.

Molly started the fire first and then lit up a cigarette as she began to spread the blankets out around the firepit. She pulled the coolers closer to the fire, one was full of alcoholic beverages while the other held sodas and water with a large package of hotdogs and some ketchup and mustard on the very top. She made sure the buns were nearby as well as the s’mores ingredients, the spears to roast the hotdogs and marshmallows, napkins, and some Solo cups in case anyone needed them.

Satisfied with herself, Molly dug into the alcoholic cooler for a beer, cracking it open and plopping herself down on one of the blankets to nurse her cigarette and enjoy the quiet before everyone showed up.

[Desmond Lloyd Rees]

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Des stood at the counter, letting out a small yawn and shaking his head in attempt to get rid of the sudden sleepiness that came over him. He was counting and double counting the money in the cash register to make sure everything was accounted for. When he was sure that it was, he made sure that he set it even, put the profit in an envelope with the date, his signature, and how much money was inside, things he’d taught both Molly and Freddie to do if he ever needed them to close up alone.

He glanced up at Molly and Freddie, smiling to himself, deciding not to be too hard of Molly for goofing off a bit. It was nice to see her excited for something, usually she floated along in a fog of neutrality, but every once in a while something came along that she really got excited for and for whatever reason this bonfire was one of those things. That or she really had eaten too many marshmallows.

Rolling his eyes when “Closing Time” came one, knowing that it was only a matter of time before it came on. He forced himself to concentrate on other paperwork for as long as possible before he gave in and danced along singing. He used a broom to dance and sing with, sweeping out all the sand that customers tracked in with them daily. He enjoyed when all three of them were there to close, they usually had a good time and it was really helpful for getting all the closing tasks done quickly.

Looking to Molly when she turned the music done he pouted, “Typical...abandoning us…” he whined before nodding. “We’ll be out soon,” he assured her, “don’t drink all the beer without us...and try to stay out of the sweets for a bit, yeah?” which earned him a finger...and not a nice one. Then he glanced to Freddie, “Hey, will you restock the shelves?” he asked, batting his eyelashes at his best friend hoping he would not be upset about one extra task since Molly left them, “I’m almost done with this...and then we can go enjoy ourselves.”

[Kyler Ethan Greyson]

Things were seemingly to look up for Ky already, he just really needed to get over Riley and move on with his life, of course he was still hooked on the drugs but that was a little harder to quit at this point in time. But since he had met Lonnie at the beach the other day, he'd been all smiles, even while being high as a kite. He even got back into writing his own songs. Which was really good, because that meant he had muse and was in a better mood. But he was starting to realize that Lonnie was his muse, they had been talking all night on the phone as of late and sending multiple texts messages back and forth the past week, and he finally got the courage to ask her to go to a bonfire with him.

The gang who hung out at the surf shop invited him, he thought it was a little odd because he hadn't hung around a whole lot lately, but it was probably Bec's idea now that he thought about it. It would be good to see her again as well, he hadn't seen her in some time. So he grabbed Blankets from his house for him and Lonnie, and he met up with her, giving her his favorite Zebra blanket, then they started to walk down to the beach, he didn't have car but luckily the beach wasn't very far from his apartment complex. But on their way there he ran into another friend, Nora Smith and he told her to come along, because why not? Nora was a catch and he thought that everyone would love her.

So they continued on to the beach, luckily his other blanket was big enough for Nora to sit on too, but he figured there would be extra's to sit on as well since he figured these kids were always prepared. When they got there the son was already going down and he noticed Molly setting up. "Yo! Molly what up?" He called out as he walked out on to the sand then looked back to make sure the girls followed. "I brought some lovely ladies, I hope that's alright." He added with a smile.

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[Lonnie Astor]

Lonnie had been looking forward to the bonfire since Kyler asked her to go with him. For the past week, she hadn't been able to put her phone down whether it was talking or texting with the boy she had met at the beach. He was sweet and funny and Lonnie was really starting to relax. Her muse was coming back having filled her sketchbook with pages of works that probably wouldn't have happened had she not gone to the beach that day. With a smile on her face, she left her apartment still wondering how she was possibly going to afford living there by herself now. There was always her grandma Sophie, but she really hated to rely on her for everything.

She met up with Kyler before moving towards the beach. Lonnie didn't know what to expect having never really been to a bonfire before. In New York, most of the kids hung out in the park or someone's house because they're parents were gone. There wasn't beaches to have bonfires on. She was beginning to love it in California, where she had experienced tons of firsts and a few with Kyler. There was a small bit of jealousy when they met up with Nora ot really sure who Nora was to Ky. She then got more comfortable around her because it seemed like they were only friends.

When they arrived, Lonnie followed behind not really sure what she was going to do with herself. She was throwing herself into social situations more and more. It was kind of scary but exhilarating. She was positive that Kyler wouldn't let anything happen to her as she waved at the girl. "Hi!" She gave a little wave before coming to stand beside Ky wondering who else was going to be coming. Hopefully, she didn't make a complete ass out of herself by drinking too much.

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[Nora Renae Smith]

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Nora had been pleasantly surprised when she and Kyler had happened to bump into one another on their way to the beach. Since Nora was alone and headed in the same direction, she had agreed to go with Kyler to whatever bonfire party he was talking about. If it was fun, cool, maybe she’d make some new friends. If not, she’d stay for a while and then kindly make her leave and try to find something better to do.

She’d been surprised that Kyler had also invited this Lonnie girl. Nora knew that her male counterpart had been talking to her a lot lately and that she seemed to be cheering him up, but Nora wasn’t sure what to think of it. After all, she knew that Kyler was still reeling from the news he’d gotten from Riley and the consequences of it. Nora only hoped that Kyler wasn’t burning himself out with so much going on. With all this being the case, she decided that she might look over him tonight and hope that hanging out with some friends would make him feel even better.

Even though Nora hadn’t known that she was coming to the bonfire when she’d first left her dorm, she’d come prepared. She’d planned on going down to the beach to watch the sunset with a bottle of wine, so she’d filled up a bucket with ice for the wine to chill on the way to the beach, which she was glad she had, because it looked like the main attraction at the bonfire would be a small choice of beer or beer. She smiled at the strawberry blonde who flicked her cigarette into the fire having recognized her from around. “Hey…” Nora greeted her. Seeing that there were plenty of blankets already spread out, she found a nice purple quilt to stretch out on that was beside the blanket this Molly was sitting on, waving along Kyler and Lonnie to set up their spot on the other side of her.

She reached out for one of the Solo cups that Molly had brought out, glad that they were there so now she could share the bottle if anyone else wanted some wine. Pulling the already popped cork out with her teeth, she poured some deep red liquid into the glass, re-corking and putting the bottle back in the bucket near the coolers for everyone to help themselves.

[Freddie McCormack]

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The shop had been pretty empty all day which gave the gang time to spend playing games and generally goofing off; although this wasn’t an unwelcomed activity Freddie was truly starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, people didn’t ever come to buy surfing gear anymore. A saddening fact but there again it begged the question, if nobody visited the shop then what did Des do all day while Molly and himself were in class? That was one mystery that needed to be cracked wide open but that was nothing that the use of ninja spies couldn’t fix – by ninja spies of course he meant one blonde guy and his sister. Who knew what dirty little secrets they could dig up!

After several hours of Des’ infamous iPod tune selection, which incidentally had been picked out by just about anyone that hung out there enough, any normal person would have grown tired or maybe even stopped for a break. Not these guys. Molly had chosen to eat the majority of a bag of sickly giant marshmallows, using it to fuel her non-stop energy while Des had opted for the less calorific ‘do as little as possible apart from the occasional sing-along or dance’ until closing – amateurs. There again, there weren’t many who could literally bounce their way through an entire day on only a coffee and half a bagel without a little extra help.

Freddie bent down slightly as his sister jumped up onto his back tucking his hands quickly beneath the legs for support. The woman weighed next to nothing, yet ate like a beast. It was like those extraordinary individuals that could live of a diet of chicken nuggets and other junky food and never gain a single pound – Not that he was complaining - having a heffalump of a sister jumping on his back would have hurt far more than being prodded by her bony body. He couldn’t help grinning as he felt the excitement radiating off his sibling. Admittedly it was nice to see her letting her hair down and there was only really so long she could go with that giant stick up her backside before it got terminal.

“Did you even leave enough marshmallows to make smores?”

Once Molly was safely off messing with the window cleaning supplies the blonde boy found himself armed once more with the grubby looking rag that smelt strongly of disinfectant, polishing down the counter and any other visible surfaces. He concentrated hard on a particular spot next to the till, working in small furious circles fighting with a stubborn stain that he could only assume was pizza that had been left there for a little too long and obviously believed it was now part of the counter itself. Then the sound reached his ears, raising his head slowly to look at the boy beside him with a smile curling onto his face. The soft opening verses gave him ample opportunity to finish the job in hand. In a snap second Freddie pounced on the spray bottle raising it to his mouth singing loud the chorus to Closing Time.

It wouldn’t be long until they were left with the main bulk of the clean up especially with Molly in the mood she was. Right on cue. Freddie edged closer to Des, wrapping his arms round him and battling his eyelashes just as Des was like a love-struck girl from a rom-com. “Aww boss, I thought you were going to throw me down and have your wicked wicked way with me.” He replied with a pout on before breaking out into a volley of laughs moving away pointing at him with an accusing finger “You’re lucky I like you, plus you're cute” It never took long to stock the shelves, particularly because not a lot of merchandise actually moved; half the fun was running around with the empty boxes anyway and he knew only too well that he could hide himself inside a box if he curled up tight enough.

The cold sea air hit the boy hard as they wandered down to meet the others, stuffing his hand deep inside the pocket of his hoodie while the other was left to suffer as it clasped the boom-box he’d picked up for the festivities - Call him old fashioned but nothing had the same sound as the old school bad boy, boom-boxes - Some days he wished he was a turtle just so he could tuck his neck and head into a toasty little shell for warmth but alas he’d just have to work with what he was given. He was only too happy to see the fire already in full swing and plenty of blankets already strewn out in the sand.

“Looks like we’re only fashionably late!” Freddie tipped an invisible hat to Lonnie with a smile from his spot standing behind Molly. It was surprising to see how many faces he actually knew or recognised though without their Halloween costumes they did look pretty weird like seeing teachers outside of a school environment. He registered each face in his head giving them one of his trademark boyish grins as he glanced their way but as he was nearing the full circuit there was one face that stood out. A brunette with a face of flawless porcelain skin and a set of stunning glittering eyes – admittedly he didn’t recognise her face which was highly unusual considering he would have remembered a pretty face like that. Ah crap. Imogen would have lynched him if she could have read his mind. Thank goodness there weren’t any X-men around.

Making sure there was enough room he jumped down into crossed legs between his sister and the new girl making sure to keep his feet off the blankets and finally setting down the musical contraption. “Mol, chuck us a blanket please? I can already feel myself getting a case of glass cutters going on.” he grinned giving his chest an unsubtle rub.

[Jonah Jedediah Jenkins]

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“You got this,” Jonah pep talked himself as he looked in the mirror after he’d shrugged on his t-shirt. He ran his fingers through his hair and it fell right back into its perfectly disheveled place. Tonight he was going to be seeing Devyn again. Ever since he’d met her at the shop, she’d been showing up there more and more and part of them hoped that she kept coming back to see him, he knew that he was making more of an effort to hang out there in hopes that he’d see her. The fact that he did see her there so often, that they always had something to talk about, and she always had the same hypnotizing, stomach full of butterflies, can’t take his eyes off of her effect on him, gave him some reassurance that she was just as interested in him. So, tonight he hoped to make a move, he wasn’t exactly sure what he was going to do or how he was going to do it, but by the end of the night Jonah hoped that he would know what it felt like for their lips to have met and to better understand what direction they were moving in.

Moving toward the door he grabbed his hoodie, skateboard, and slipped into his shoes opening his door, locking it behind him, walking straight across the hall, planting three sharp knocks against it, before letting himself in. “Honey, I’m hooome!” he called out to Rhorey, dropping his board to the floor as he went looking for his dearest friend. “Rhorey!” he called out when he finally found him having to jump to catch him in a headlock, folding over so that Rhorey would be about half his normal height and kissing his cheek, “how’s my baby boy?” he asked with a laugh, dragging Rhorey along, keeping him in a headlock until they got to the door, releasing him and picking his skateboard back up. “We gotta go though, I don’t want the girls to beat us there,” he added, sure that Rhorey could guess why; he’d told his best friend all about his newest love interest.

Jonah fell into step beside Rhorey as they walked to where they had agreed to meet the girls, glad to see that they had beat them there. Checking the time, he looked up just as he could hear two familiar voices, the more rambunctious Bec and the more laidback Devyn. He smiled as he saw her, reaching out to embrace her as they approached. “Hey you,” he laughed giving her a squeeze and then releasing her, “how’re you doing?”

After the initial greetings, he set his skateboard on the ground, “We should get going,” he told them about to lead and then raising his eyebrow, looking over his friends curiously. “How about we make this interesting?” he suggested, “A race. Dev and I versus you losers,” he chuckled, squatting down slightly so that he could give her a piggyback ride.

“Alright...ready? Set..” then Jonah took off with a laugh, making sure he had a good head start, knowing that Rhorey’s height would be an advantage. He skated as hard as he could, making sure he had a good hold under Devyn’s legs, letting her hold onto him as tight as she needed to feel secure. When they hit the sand, he jumped off his skateboard, leaving it behind for now and began sprinting toward the campfire, the race neck and neck.

[Rhorey Richard Ryder]

Though he heard that Bec had invited Kyler to this Bonfire, Rhorey wouldn't usually care, he heard Kyler was a cool guy. But a couple months ago Rhorey had kind of slept with Kyler's ex, and word on the street was that Kyler had been in love with her for ages. He really hoped that his one slut moment wouldn't come back and bite him in the ass. But luckily he had his boy Jonah to have his back. And speaking of the devil, Rhorey had heard Jonah's voice when he was just finishing up getting ready. Sometimes he was worse than a girl when it came to getting ready. "Ayyy Boo Boo!" He said in a yogi bear impression voice as he smiled at his best friend.

He laughed when his much shorter friend put him in a head lock. "I'm good, and You Shawty?" He asked as he winked at him and then kissed Jonah's forehead. Yes, they were so close that they would kiss each other hello and goodbye most of the time and they had no shame. Rhorey not only trusted Jonah with his life but with his daughter's as well and would do anything for the kid.

"Oh, yeah. I'm ready." He said as he walked to his couch and grabbed his skate board from behind it. "Oooooh I know why you're in such a hurry...Because Devyn will be there won't she?" He asked in a high pitched voice while nudging his friend in a teasing matter. "Alright Casanova, let's go." He said as he walked out the door and locked up his dorm. Not really caring if his douche bag roommate could get in or not. The boys skated to where they were meeting the girls. And as soon as he saw his girl he dropped his board and ran towards her, full speed. He picked her up and kissed her right on the mouth, making a moan sound like he hadn't seen her in years. Then after a few minuets he pulled away from their passionate lip lock. "Hi baby..." He said with a huge grin as he let her go and put her down. He knew that moment was pretty awkward was pretty awkward for everyone but he had to get her back from when she did a flying jump kiss she gave him at the Halloween party.

He then turned his attention back to Jonah before he attacked Bec's face again. "Pfffffft! Who you callin' losers? Bec and I got this in the bag. Long legs baby." He said with laugh as she crouched down so that his midget could jump on his back.

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[Devyn Leanne Jameson]

Devyn was really excited for tonight, the lovely people who hung out at the shop invited her to one of their bonfires on the beach. Since Molly had finally helped her out of her funk she had been hanging out with this special group of party people a lot more lately. And even though she already loved every one of them she especially came around because of one beautiful goofball skater boy. She was convinced that it was all a plan for her and Jonah to get to know each other better, since every time she saw one of them outside of the shop or the beach his name always seemed to come up, but she didn't mind at all because indeed their plan was working. She actually was quite flattered that they thought she was good enough for their friend.

He was perfect in every way, at least she thought so any way. He was funny, sweet and a little awkward which she thought was absolutely adorable. Her heart fluttered as she got ready in her dorm, seeing her roommate already leaving to go help set up hours ago. She hoped that tonight that her and Jonah could finally take a step further. But she was never good at making the first move, always in fear that they would think she was trying to move to fast. It had been so long since she was really interested in someone like this so she was a little rusty and slightly nervous.

She met up with Bec at the random park they decided to all meet up at after getting ready, hoping she looked okay and dressed appropriately, she had the tendency of wearing less clothing than a usual girl, because she was just comfortable with her body and felt the need to show it off. Most would mistake her for an attention whore, but really she was just proud of who she was. though she did decide to wear jeans this time because it was getting dark earlier and it would probably get colder as the night went on.

She greeted the colorful and much shorter girl with a hug and then took out her pack of cigarettes and lit one up while waiting for the boys. Hoping the cigarette will help calm her nerves. Then she heard the familiar voices and she got butterflies in her stomach again. "Heya, Handsome." She said to him as she hugged him back, even the smell of whatever men's body spray he was wearing made her heart flutter. "I'm good, better now that you're hear." She said with a smile as the hug broke. "And yourself?" She asked as she took another drag of her cigarette before putting it out. She giggled as she listened to Jonah's master plan. "I'm so in! You two are going down!" She said playfully. She then hopped on his back, giggling most of the time as he skated fast towards the spot. This was exciting, she had never done this before and she was having a blast.

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[Kyler Ethan Greyson]

Kyler put down the large flannel blanket down on the sand so that Lonnie could sit and feel more comfortable if she wanted. "You can sit down babe." He said as he kissed her cheek and then handed her his pipe that he took out of his pocket along with a bag weed. "Pack a bowl for me, ya?" He asked her with a wink as he watched another guy approach the group with a large boom box. "Oh hell ya, that's what's up!" He said in reference to the 80's looking boom box. But he realized that the guy really didn't seem to say high to him, but he did notice his girl and Nora. "What's up, man." He said with a nod of his head then he bit his lip. He wasn't so sure about this one.

"Yo, I'm gonna hook up my phone to this beast, we gotta have some music up in here!" He said with a smile as he made his way to the boom box, passing Nora and patting her on the head and smiling. It was his way of telling her he was glad to see her. He was hoping that he wasn't being intrusive by putting on music, but this group of people seemed to be pretty relaxed so he went on anyways. He hooked his iphone up to the boom box and had it go on shuffle. The first song that came on was actually one of his own songs. He bit his lip and was about to change it, "Fuck it." He mumbled to himself. He needed to get over his fear of other's not liking his music. And what other way than to play it at a party? He thought he sounded way different when singing, so maybe they wouldn't even recognize it.

He turned around while lip syncing the first few verses and moving his hands a bit as he walked over towards the drinks, he grabbed a beer for himself and then grabbed a red solo cup and grabbed Nora's wine bottle and poured some in. "I'm stealing this Nora..." He said in a rather loud whisper and making a silly face, even though he knew he could very well have some because that's why she put it there. He laughed and put the bottle bag and walking back to Lonnie and handing her the cup of whine. "For you M'lady." He said with a smile as he sat down and opened his beer.

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[Becca Macabre]

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Becca lounged on top of her sheets, pale skin displayed openly only disturbed by the brightly coloured strap of her bra as lay on her front, her clothes strewn across every surface in the room. The sheet of her bed was best left slung over her lower half for the decency of not being walked in on by her roommate and potential guy friend. The piles on her floor were something else too, in fact, she was pretty sure there was something alive somewhere under there. Her sock was definitely moving - Was that a sock? Could have been, it was way too dirty to tell for sure - Layers of mud, probably from her crusade through the pond and straight into the mud bank. Rhorey had in no way been involved with any of that of course. That aside, that sock was most definitely moving… or shaking, earthquakes weren’t expected were they? Surely her crap would be falling off the ceiling and no doubt many prissy bitches would be making some sort of racket by now if that was the case.

The small rainbow leant over the side, grabbing the sock followed by the thud of her phone. OH! Made sense now - That thing had long since stopped ringing after she dropped it in the bath for the hundredth time. She quickly hit the space where the green symbol had previously been. “Yo! Nope. Do now though. I’ll be there, bring beer. Oh and I’m bringing others. Sweet. Laters.” Well seeing as call ID never worked due to the massive crack in the screen she’d had to rely on the voice. Molly had clearly been on some sort of high when calling. That girl talked at the speed of a chipmunk on crack when she was excited.

After texting Rhorey and Ky to meet her at the beach she decided to get herself ready. Becca opted for wearing a sufficiently bright outfit. Rainbow leggings, a long blue tank top that could just have easily been a dress on her and a slightly faded orange hoodie. The look wouldn’t have been complete without some bright accessories like a spiked bracelet, a watch that never worked, a slouch beanie and her trusty Pastry sneakers – an impressive, almost matching outfit compared to her usual tastes. Shutting herself out of her own dorm with the keys locked safely inside the room she headed out to meet the boys. Lucky for her she didn’t have far to go, it was definitely within running distance - Everything was in running distance if you were athletic enough… or sugar high… either worked just fine.

Bec was first to the meeting spot, unusual considering she was late for everything, joined shortly after by a very dressed up Devyn. “Someone looks dressed to impress!” she grinned giving her a tight hug. The hyperactive teen fidgeted on the spot, unable to remain still for even a second as she waited for Rhorey and his bum boy, Jonah to rock up. Suddenly the thunder of feet caused her to turn just in time to be half tackled into a lift and a hungry kiss. It was a good job it was who she thought it was because within a matter of seconds of their lips colliding Becca found herself returning it the kiss with full force. She looped her arms round Rhorey’s neck lost in their embrace before finally surfacing a little breathlessly with an equally huge beaming smile on her face. “Helllllllloo nurse!” Her tiny body slid down his front as she found her feet, throwing a friendly smile to Jonah who was busying himself in pouring on the charm with Dev. Technically she’d forgotten they were even there…Bad times.

Rhorey left his sweet taste on her lips as he met her with another kiss before accepting the challenge. ”First team to Molly wins.” Bec pounced onto his back wrapping her arms loosely round his neck ready to run. “FOR NARNIA!” Her hand reached down to give her trusty steed a smack on the backside. As they hit the sand she felt the sudden change from smooth to the rhythm of his strides. She could see the fire in sight with blankets spread out everywhere.

“INNNNNNNNNNNNCOMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNG!”

[Lonnie Astor]

They were going to have fun. That's why she had come in the first place. She wanted to spend time with Kyler, and she wanted to have a good time that wasn't being cooped up in her apartment doing lines while drawing in her bedroom. Sitting cross-legged on the blanket he spread out for them, she took the pipe from him with a smile. "Will do, handsome." She watched the guy come up with a huge boombox that Lonnie liked the look of. Music would make things more comfortable. When he dipped an invisible hat in her direction, she just smiled almost wishing that she had been standing so she could do a little curtsey. The thought made her giggle a little bit.

Everything was going well just as she knew it would. She was already making new friends or so she hoped that she was. Lonnie lit the bowl in her hand taking a hit from it. Inhaling the smoke, she held it for a moment before letting it out. The sound of music coming from the boombox made her want to dance, but she was content for the moment just sitting on the blanket.

When Kyler walked back over with wine for her, she laughed. "Well, thank you, good sir, whatever would I do without you." She kissed his cheek before handing him the pipe with a grin. Yes, she was going to have a blast. That was when she heard someone yelling in their direction. More people and they seemed to be in a race to get there. She moved closer to Kyler while taking a sip of her wine. He certainly had interesting friends. It was a shame that she hadn't met anyone before now. She guessed it was better late than never. Smiling, she looked around the people that were coming and had already arrived they were the people that she would be hanging out with from now on...or at least until Kyler realized he didn't want to be with her anymore. She certainly hoped that wasn't the case yet.

Taking the bowl from him, she took another hit hoping that it would calm the depressing thoughts that threatened to take over her mind. It was neither the time or place to start to feel depressed. The song that was playing was a good one as she leaned over. "Who is this playing? I really like it."

[Molly Elaine McCormack]

Molly looked up from the fire when she heard Kyler and smiled, “Hey, I’m glad you came,” she assured him, standing up when he pointed out that he’d brought a couple of people with him. “Of course it’s alright, the more the merrier,” smiling at the strangers, “I’m Molly,” she introduced herself to them, “help yourself to anything in the coolers or the blankets,” she assured them, hoping that they would feel welcome. Molly generally wasn’t a people person, but she did like Kyler and trusted his judgement, if they were laid back and cool, she was sure they would get along. Besides, the fact that Lonnie almost instantly began packing a bowl reassured her that everything would be fine.

She watched as Freddie and Des approached side by side, rolling her eyes a bit as her sibling automatically turned on the charm when he saw the new girls and planted himself beside one of them. Picking up the warmest blanket, which she’d kept near herself so no one else would take it, she threw it over toward her brother having known ahead of time that he would get cold early on and had never learned to dress accordingly. “You can cook my first hotdog for me,” she told him and stuck out her tongue at him.

Bopping her head along with the music that Kyler had just put on, she got herself another cigarette, making a face back at Desmond as he sat beside her; he’d been trying to get her to quit smoking the cancer sticks for some time. Molly, however, was barely able to enjoy it because almost instantly heard a voice she’d know anywhere and glanced over her shoulder to look for Bec. That’s when she saw two boys, each carrying a girl, bounding straight for her, causing her to drop her cigarette in the sand.

“Wait...what? Woah, woah, woah...slo-...” somehow she’d ended up at the bottom of a pile of bodies, trying to breathe as the wind had been knocked out of her. “Ugh…” she groaned, trying to push some of her friends off of her, “why are you guys always trying to kill me?” Bec was a schemer and could usually talk people into doing things...she was also an escalator, in the sense that things, more often than not, got out of hand when she was around, not so much that she was a moving staircase. Jonah was usually guilty of falling for these schemes and his excitement always escalated their antics further. Devyn on the other hand, who had also ended up in this mangled mess, had always been rather laid back and Molly was surprised to see how quickly the aforementioned were affecting her. Molly didn’t know Rhorey as well as the others, but knowing that Jonah and Bec both shared a deep, yet different, love for the boy that he was probably just as big as a troublemaker.

After a whole lot of uncomfortable shoving and laughing coming from everywhere except her, she picked her cigarette back up out of the sand, dusted it off, and took a long drag before shaking her head and throwing it in the fire, “I’m going to need something stronger…”

Finally, when things settled down, she decided to go around the circle and introduce everyone since there were some new faces at the fire and the newest girls had already introduced themselves to her before all the others had shown up, noticing a boy-girl trend that Molly hadn’t intended or even thought about before hand, starting on her right, “Okay, for those who don’t know, this is Des, Bec, Rhorey, Devyn, Jonah, Lonnie, Kyler, Nora, and last and least, Freddie,” she teased her brother and took another swig of her beer as Des finally handed her his bowl.

[Desmond Lloyd Rees]

Des laughed at Freddie, giving his middle a squeeze after Molly had left them, “Nah, I’m going to wait until you’re good and drunk before I have my way with you,” he chuckled, letting go of him and ruffling his hair a bit, before moving to finish up. After grabbing a few different things from the safe, he made sure it was locked up and picked up his keys, looking over his shoulder to see that Freddie was finishing up the re-stocking the shelves and helped putting the boxes back away.

“Alright, let’s get out of here,” he said, turning off all the lights except one so that he could see when he came back from the bonfire, knowing that the will have been drinking and likely intoxicated from some other substance. He kicked off his sandals just before he walked out the door, preferring to be barefoot on the beach and in the sand, and then locked up.

Noticing that Kyler was already there along with a couple new faces, he gave them a small wave and a big smile as he took the other seat beside Molly that Freddie hadn’t taken. “Hey man, where’ve you been? I haven’t seen you around so much lately,” he greeted Kyler, though it wasn’t hard to see that he’d gotten into some harder drugs, something that Des was often on the lookout for with his customers. Maybe sometime if the setting was more appropriate he’d talk to the boy about it.

Soon, the relatively calm atmosphere was bombarded by a quartet hooligans. He hardly was able to tell who they were they ran up so quickly before they were tumbling all over Molly. Des fell back against the blanket laughing, it was true that Molly was often the victim of these sorts of happenings, especially in Bec’s presence. He picked up a foot, he was unsure who it belonged to and found Molly’s face under it, making sure she was okay before reaching into his pocket and pulling out his own bowl and beginning to pack it, knowing that Molly would be asking for it soon enough.

“Hey guys,” he greeted his other friends, looking at Bec who was right beside him, shaking his head a bit at her. Lately it had seemed that Bec had been visiting the shop almost as much as Molly had been and that Devyn and Jonah were always turning up at the same times; it was like clockwork and he always knew when he should be expecting them.

Finally, he took a hit from his pipe, and seeing that Molly was on his left, he passed it on to her, giving her a once over again to make sure nothing was bleeding or broken. Of course, she was fine and very appreciative of being on his left at this particular moment, then watched as his bowl made another move down the line to Freddie. He listened to everyone’s names, the only two he hadn’t were Nora and Lonnie, and he was wondering how they would mesh in this group that already seemed to be rather mismatched.

[Nora Renae Smith]

Nora watched as two more guys joined the ragtag group already attempting to circle the fire. She recognized them vaguely from the Halloween party and instantly remembered why the lone blonde girl who had been there when they first arrived had looked so familiar. She smiled to herself and felt as Freddie’s eyes found and lingered on her, giving him one of her own mysterious smiles as he sat beside her.

She had been distracted momentarily, but when Kyler patted her on the head it pulled her back to reality and she looked up at him with a smile. Glancing over to Lonnie now that there wasn’t a body beside them, “Don’t you recognize his voice?” she asked her new counterpart with a smirk, “This is one of Ky’s tracks.” Nora had become good friends with the boy rather quickly. At first, Kyler had attempted to help her with some reconciliation when she found out that her brother was still alive, however, he became an even bigger crutch at the sudden re-disappearance. As much as Kyler helped her, she also believed that it was comforting to have her around now that he didn’t have his best friend anymore. One of the first time’s they’d spent time together, Nora had asked to hear his music and he’d tentatively agreed since he often worried about what others thought of his music. However, she’d asked him a cd afterwards, thinking he was much better than he gave himself credit for.

Her head turned back to Kyler when she heard him say her name, “Yeah, that’s fine, but you owe me,” she whispered back to him with a wink, assuring him that she wanted to share and particularly okay with the fact that he got it for Lonnie; maybe Kyler’s taste in women was better than she originally thought. It wasn’t as if she knew enough about Lonnie to judge her anyway, it was just that Nora was an avid wine drinker and a woman who prefered wine was a woman with prefered taste. Nora would only ever drink beer if it was the only alcohol around with no hopes of getting something different.

Nora looked confused as the rest of the group came stumbling in, all of them were fairly new faces; she only recognized any of them from seeing them at parties or on campus. However, she watched with an amused face as the untangled themselves from one another and gave them a pleasant smile when she was introduced to the now completed circle.