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LOST LAKE ([personal profile] founds) wrote in [community profile] lostlake2014-10-30 10:53 am
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CHAPTER 1
NOV 1ST | 58℉☂

▸ In a sad turn of events during last night's activities, local teenager Bela Gage was found dead at Gainsbourg Resort as festivities were wrapping up. Local authorities have opened up an investigation regarding the circumstances around her death.

▸ Several houses were egged in height of last night's events. Locals are offering a small reward to anyone with information that may lead to identification of the culprits.

▸ Now for the weather, expect light showers from late morning to mid afternoon. Blackwell is expecting the storm to keep rolling through overnight, so drive safe!

▸ That's the News In today. Now back to your regularly scheduled tunes. This one goes out to the Gages, may you find peace in these difficult times.

THE RISING IS NOT IN EFFECT


[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[it's saturday and he doesn't have class. he always kind of flounders in his free time because it's a weird concept, to not have anything more important he should be doing. sometimes he just stays at home and does schoolwork anyway, in advance like a fucking nerd. sometimes he kicks around in the hollowed out orphanage. today he is wandering the piggly wiggly. as you do.]

[it's actually a good bet for him because cole would only be caught dead here if he had pretenses to hold up and he doesn't feel like he can look him in the face today. he stops at one of those little dorky halloween themed displays, mostly cleaned out already, one earbud in playing some morose affair with a slow tempo when he spots cypress and her pickles. he immediately ducks back around the corner hoping she was too enthralled with pickle jars to notice. of course in the process of avoiding cole he'd run into the other last person ever he wants to deal with today]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-02 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ she wasn't too enthralled. micah seriously underestimated cypress' observation skills-- she never doesn't notice. she sets one of the jars into her cart and goes on like she hasn't seen him, pushing the cart down the aisle at a slow pace. cypress starts to whistle a tune absently, eyes scanning the rows of the aisle before she turns the corner. she doesn't even look at him when she speaks, setting some of the little debbies on the end shelf into her cart. ]

Micah. Just the person I wanted to see.

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[great now he has to act like he wasn't hiding. except between her and cole he's always been the shittiest actor out of the three of them. half-glances to her like he's surprised to see her but it's too surreptitious and he ends up abandoning the attempt halfway through, pulling the earbud out and accepting his cypress-y fate]

What did I do now?

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-02 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Who said you did anything?

[ cypress finally looks over at him, leaning against the front bar of the cart. ]

I just wanted to invite you and your brother over for dinner, I haven't heard from you in a while and I want to know what you've been up to. [ a beat. ] You didn't make it to my party.

[ it's said in that way that she knows exactly what he and cole did, but in her usual sickly sweet tone. she turns from him at the end of her sentence, having no need to see his expression as she bends over to grab something from the shelf. ]

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[he would normally be somewhere in the range of unease in the face of cypress' insinuations and judgment but alas he actually has no idea what she's implying. well, of course she knows. she's supposed to know. he stares at her blankly as she leans over, wondering what exactly he missed that she would be employing the you done fucked up tactics]

Sorry? [he screws his face up in confusion, fishing for whatever she wants to hear. he's been raised with psychopaths he's pretty used to apologizing first and asking why later]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-02 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she smiles at him the second the sorry hit the air. ] Do not apologize. What is done is done.

[ cypress drops a can of green beans into the cart when she's done speaking, turning away from him again. ]

Are you aware of what Cole's favorite meal is?

[ nonchalantly, like it's not strange that she's asking. ]

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[okay then. unlike cole's, her saccharine public persona doesn't put micah at ease, maybe because he doesn't know her as well and can't discern when she's just acting for the sake of her guise and when she's planning on how to fuck him up]

I don't know, fried chicken? [if there was ever any doubt that they hail from hillbilly central. he even has a little appalachian lilt to the way he says it. he wants to ask what she means by it, what's done is what now. since when does she take issue with his extra curricular activities. but he's not about to get into it in the middle of a piggly wiggly, so he goes along with her nonchalant attempt at conversation that's not disturbing at all] I don't know what he's doing tonight though.

[don't make him responsible for cole's whereabouts, that boy doesn't know what don't shoot the messenger means]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-02 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I have plans tonight. You'll both come by tomorrow. [ it's obviously a command. she pushes her cart to the back wall where the meat is, looking at the chicken. fried chicken it'll be. it'd be easier to just grab a bucket of KFC or go to that BBQ place down the road from her place, but having some hot oil on hand would be nice, wouldn't it? ]

And you, Micah? Fried chicken?

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[watches her wheel her cart away and doesn't immediately follow, edging his phone out of his pocket to text cole. if he could convey the trepidation in the written 160-character word he would. after he hits send he looks up at her again as she's perusing the meats. please don't be thinking about hot oil]

Huh? [these things tend to happen when you're busy texting and not listening] I guess, yeah. [he has no idea what she asked. just nod and smile]
Edited 2014-11-02 22:30 (UTC)

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-02 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. [ perturbed that he isn't paying attention to her, but she knows he's texting cole so there's no point in saying anything about it. cypress sets the chicken in her cart and starts to go for the seasonings. ]

We really need to do things like this more often anyway. We are family, after all. We should always be on the same page.

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-02 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[gives her back a look, eyes widening just a fraction more out of frustration than shock like he wants to just slap a hand over her mouth. who goes and says some shit like that in the middle of the grocery? why is he surrounded by people determined to make sure he's outed.]

Say that louder. I don't think the bag boys heard you. [ok it's not like she yelled it but he's twitchy about his cover being blown. for a lot of reasons besides the most obvious.]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Calm down. [ there's a roll of eyes here. as if she'd ever blow his cover. cypress drops a set of knives into the cart before leaning against the front of it again. ]

You really are not in any position to freak out at me. [ ever. at all. ] Besides, no one shops now. They're getting ready for the football game tonight. You and Cole should go.

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-03 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[just texting continuously through this exchange apparently. he's really adapted to the modern teen lifestyle. he makes a bratty face at the screen in lieu of doing it where she can see it in response to her reprimand. she sounds like cole.]

What? [looks up again. trailing behind her with his face in his phone like a duckling.] Why? I've never gone before.

[it'd look weird if he was suddenly interested. look at him he weighs like 2 pounds soaking wet why would he ever want to get invested in a sport that would break him apart if someone looked at him sideways]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should start showing an interest in your community. [ she rolls the cart back and forth with her forearms. ] Be more than that awkward kid. I hear the cheerleading team is co-ed now, that would be an outlet for your school spirit.

[ cypress lets out a laugh, leaning back to push her cart down another aisle. she sets a loaf of bread in the top seat part of the cart. ]

It could be a topic we discuss at dinner, outlets for you and your brother. Since you seem to need them. You get into trouble otherwise.
Edited 2014-11-03 03:45 (UTC)

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-03 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah that's exactly what he wants to do. wave pompoms. although he'd prefer that over spending more quality time with cole. no thank you]

I've only done what I've been told.

[side eyes her as she continues her shopping while casually discussing the next direction his life should take. it would sound like any concerned family member if it weren't for the fact that she's probably not even capable of concern and barely family. either way, the way she keeps picking at the idea that he done fucked up but won't tell him how or why is starting to irritate him into defensiveness]

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-03 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know.

[ she's well aware that micah would never step out of line. her anger isn't toward him. regardless, he isn't her favorite cousin and she isn't going to treat him as such. ]

But your brother seems to think it is okay to do otherwise.

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-03 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[he's not anyone's favorite anything. he's not even cole's favorite brother probably.]

[at least she's finally getting to her point, although it makes him squint in suspicious confusion. he doesn't know what she's getting at or if she's playing with him, but cole just said he had no idea what she would be referring to, and he'd take his word over hers.]

What are you talking about?

[personal profile] ex_vacuous481 2014-11-03 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
You're a sad, sad little sheep following the wrong shepherd.

[ sets some fruity pebbles down in there. stop thinking about squishing her bread, micah. it's not polite. ]

You can go now if you'd like. [ a beat. ] I'll see you and your brother tomorrow at seven o'clock.

[personal profile] icide 2014-11-03 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[let's be real here, real talk cypress. you are all the wrong shepherd. all yall are wrong as hell.]

[he lingers for a moment, contemplating asking her what exactly she's implying, but the offer to not be around her any more is more tempting than the answers, so he steps around her with an uncertain look and pulls his headphones back up to drown out the piggly wiggly ambience. if she's not going to tell him and cole says nothing is wrong, he guesses he'll just have to find out tomorrow. which is kind of like knowing you're in trouble but not actually being called in to the principles office for hours. horrible mostly. thanks.]