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[Darius Camellia]

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Starbucks was a fun place for Dari to be. Free Wifi, chocolate chip muffins... She knew several things one could order that weren't on the menu. Chocolate cream, cotton candy, Oreo, candy cane... Her favorite was probably the cookie side of the spectrum, though. She'd always had a slight sweet tooth, even if she only enjoyed chocolate in small amounts. She remembered sitting on the couch as a child, eating cookie dough in the light of a Christmas tree. And by kid, she was probably thirteen. Three short years ago, she'd been a 'kid.' When did she stop being a kid? Was she still a kid? Would Starbucks ever add the Oreo frappe to the menu? Those were the tough questions. She wasn't sure she wanted the answers.

It really hadn't been so long ago. She'd been alone on that couch, like she usually was now.  It wasn't that her mother didn't love her, she was just never home. Work, work, work. And whenever they were together, they argued. Their personalities just clashed. Maybe this Christmas she wouldn't be alone on the couch with her cookie dough, though. Just maybe someone would join her. Maybe the blue-haired guy, but probably not. He wouldn't stick around. All Darius could do was not chase him off.

"Damn, where did you live before here?" Her voice was the sweet kind that swearing didn't seem quite right in. Of course, Dari didn't hear her voice as it really was.

Just then, however, another vibrate sounded from her hoodie. A confused expression crossed her face as she pulled it out to check.

From: (presumably Rorie)
Hey ;D

From: Mommy
wheRE ARE YOU

"Fucking shit." In that cotton candy voice. "... My mom is looking for me."

[Rorie Byrne]

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What was there to say about the small town of Rugged, Georgia? The small town coffee shop in downtown Rugged was pretty cool. It wasn’t a Starbucks, but the coffee was good and the big red couch was comfy. Plus there was free Wi-Fi. It was an interesting little place. Sometimes you met people you hardly got to see, sometimes you met best friends, and sometimes you met no one at all. But for the most part, it was a secluded place that everyone knew, yet it was never really crowded. A great place to go to for ‘school projects’ like comparing which coffee was better today or was the couch more comfortable to sit on or lay on.
But he didn’t get the chance. As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he heard the sound of a phone vibrating. When Darius went to check hers, he checked it, though he didn’t have any unread messages. That was when he heard her disappointed swearing which, though cute, didn’t make him smile like it might have in some other setting. Mostly because it was followed by the news that the redhead would have to go, so he was disappointed.

“Well…” Rorie glanced at the phones. “You have my number, and I’ve got a car.” He smiled a bit at her. “Maybe whenever we go to Starbucks I can tell you about my hometown?”