The Perk [Sunday Morning]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela and her large mug of coffee were at a window table in the Perk.

Her excess enthusiasm from homecoming had been mildly dampened thanks to spending a large portion of yesterday feeling decidedly queasy. Stupid potent spiked punch.

Still, she was feeling much better today and was making the most of that by actually leaving her room. After listening to radio, she just had to come out an assess the truth behind the insanity. So far, it was a bit of a let down. Shame.

[[ooc: Angela is still just Angela, however if anyone wants to be drama-y at her you just know I'll love it.]]

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[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella was starting to shake a little as she entered the Perk. Almost all o Dick's money had gone to paying down her debt to her dealer, and the rest of it had gone right up her nose. She had just enough powder inside her elaborate crucifix necklace to make it through the day, if she was careful, and she was so seldom careful.

She ordered a coffee, hoping the caffeine would steady her, and gave Angela a calculated glance. Would she have money? Only one way to find out.

"Hi."

[OOC: Prone to random SP throughout the day.]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela paused, swallowing her drink. "Ella, hi."

She took another moment, to actually look at the other girl. Wow, she was sure Ella didn't normally look this rough around the edges. "Are you alright?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I've been better," Ella said, claiming a seat near Angela. "I ... I owe people money, Angela."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Aw, Sweetie, why?" Angela asked, concern etched all over her face. For all the she'd heard radio, she was still working on the assumption that it was the person behind the microphone who was insane at the moment.

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella almost felt guilty at how worried Angela looked. "They took advantage of me after my mother died," she answered, bloodshot eyes drifting away. "I was too young, I couldn't cope, and my father was always off on his trading missions. The only friend I had was my higher power." She touched her cross at that. "But, I guess ... the path to salvation always has a cost."

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo had been feeling sick the whole morning. He knew what it was, but he didn't want to admit it to himself. He heard it calling, calling and wanting to break free, but he refused to give in.

Caffeine. Caffeine would help him. It was the only thought in his mind right now and he clung to it as he entered the Perk, oblivious to anything but his need for caffeine. His need to hold on.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Ichigo!" Angela called, gesturing him over. Today had been... unnerving, so far, and it would be nice to actually talk to someone who maybe hadn't had a personality transplant.

Pity she'll be dissappointed on that count.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo froze as he accepted the cup from the barrista. He knew that voice and his heart sank. He wished his hands to stay as steady as his soul. Now was not the time to lose it. Now was not the time.

He turning towards her, the cup held carefully in his hands. "Angela." It sounded more cool than usual as he clung to keep himself together even as the hollow inside him called out.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Since he didn't appear to be about to come over to her, Angela got up and took herself to him.

"Today has been so strange," she said. "You're okay, right?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

The beach hadn't provided much in the ways of letting him think. That big dude kept calling him some other name and wouldn't leave him alone and he had so much thinking to do.

Maybe he should just leave. Maybe he should just get out of town and live off the land. Become a nomad and find his way on the open roads of the world.

First, though, caffeine.

[I haaaaaaaaaad to!]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Oh, there you are," Angela said, spotting Hannibal at the counter. "I thought you'd got lost or something when you weren't around this morning."

"You know how I worry," she added with a mild smirk.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I was...thinking," he said, frowning. "It was a long night. I'm all out of sorts and I don't know what to do and my father's back. After abandoning me as a kid and now he's back and he wants to make things right and how are you?"

Slow down, Hannibal.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"I... think I just got asked for drug money," she offered, giving herself a moment to take the rest of that little speil in.

"Your dad's back?" she asked. "Back from where?"

[fates_jaye]

Jaye walked into the Perk for her morning coffee. It was like an addiction, and the Swiss had just fed it. Which was why she was ordering four large lattes with extra shots of espresso in each. All for herself. No one could ever know.

It would save her the trouble of having to deal with the fact that she was going to have to turn to stripping to support her habit.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"They must be good," Angela remarked, smiling politely despite not knowing the woman. Come on, she was buying four of the things, so it was a pretty good assumption, she thought.

She might be a bit of a masochist, actualy talking to people today.

[fates_jaye]

"DON'T JUDGE ME!" Jaye cried dramatically, before pulling herself under control. "I'm sorry," she said, sniffling. "I don't know what's come over me."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela stared at her. "I wasn't," she promised. "I was curious, that's all."

And doesn't she regret that now.

"Are you okay?" Yeah, she just can't stop herself, seeing people in distress, she wants to help.

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes, dressed in an awfully slutty outfit, was enjoying her new-found awakeness. She'd spent the last thirteen years in a coma, and now it was time to get out and about on the town.

She took a sip of her iced caramel mochaccino latte -- with a straw, because they didn't have any plastic sippy cups -- and waved at Angela. "Hello."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Morning," Angela replied, looking rather more subdued than normal. Today was starting to take its toll on her.

Once, or several time, burned and... Well, you get the idea.

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"This is really an amazing place, isn't it?" Agnes asked her. "I just asked the nice counterperson for an iced caramel mochaccino latte, and I got one! Isn't that incredible?"

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela glanced at the barrista, then back at Agnes.

"It was very nice of him," she agreed. "They also do good hot chocolate," she added. Okay, this was the level of conversation she could handle at the moment.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Refreshed from a night of sex with Ronan, Parker was suddenly and conveniently at the coffee shop, getting herself another mochachino.

She paused to brood meaningfully over her defeats of the evening before, snarl forming on her lips as she clutched her coffee to herself and lit up a cigarette.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Despite not getting much sleep, Isabel was in a cheerful mood as she head out to go shopping with the platinum card. But first, she needed coffee. After all, spending the night with Wyatt meant she hadn't gotten much sleep.

"Parker!" she said happily. Parker was her best friend, when they weren't trying to land the same guy.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Isabel!" Parker said happily, because after all, Isabel looked great in bridesmaids' dresses, and you need that when you get married as often as Parker does. "I'm so glad to see you again after only two days! Broken any more hearts in the last 36 hours?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Not yet, but if my husband ever finds out that I'm sleeping with his brother, then well, I might need some of your special skills," Isabel replied meaningfully.