Being still wound up from the encounter in Penney's, Ray had to try hard to stop himself from glaring at the guy who slapped him on his shoulder. He managed, somehow. The guy was Tito? Teo? One of the football players for Bayview's team. Ray had seen him on the field sometimes when he was leaving hi...

((continued from All That Glitters...)) Ray made it to the food court without further incident, though he found himself trying hard not to go back into JC Penney and say "fuck it" to being calm and reasonable, but he forced himself to keep going. If he got booted out of the mall, he wouldn...

(ugh, horrible writer's block lately :angry: ) "Eh, I can just buy them from ya outside of school or whatever. Meet me at the main entrance after classes are done. We can just walk down a block or go past the football field to the sidewalk path there and I'll buy them off you as we go. As long...

"Tell me about it. I was benched for a few months. Sucked much ass." Ray nodded slightly when Andrea started talking prices, his tongue pushing out the corner of his mouth as he thought about it. He couldn't for the life of him remember just how many pills that little bottle had in it, or ...

Ray smirked at the mob comment. "Nah. Did that last week." He said. The humor was doing well to put him at ease; not that this little payoff he wanted to do was anything particularly taxing. He was fairly sure no one at his house would know what he was doing; no one checked the medicine ca...

Ray almost had to bite his own tongue to keep himself form laughing a little, as how fast the girl's head snapped up was amusing, to say the least. What she said afterwards about making it through life, however, wasn't the panic he expected someone who might've been found out to have. The chick had ...

((Raymond Dawson continued from Cooling Down)) Ray had just been walking back to his car from the food court when he caught the tail-end of what was probably a drug deal, between some kid whose voice probably hadn't cracked yet and a pierced-up girl he might've seen once or twice around his school. ...

Maybe it was the unfamiliar accent, or the odd sort of ideas this guy had about what should've been something simple, but Ray felt himself getting more and more unsettled. Where before he'd been prepared to stand his ground and defend against an attack, Ray found himself just wanting to be out of th...

Ray tried to ignore the guy, but the lewdness of the guy's remark about his girlfriend, however untrue, was one hell of a way to get his attention. The remark, combined with that accent that reminded Ray of the way some of those British mobsters in the crime movies talked, grated most of his nerves ...

Ray was taken by surprise, as much by thickness of the accent by the appearance of someone who Ray was damn sure hadn't been there like ten seconds ago. He turned around and looked at the guy. He was sure he'd seen him around school before; those clothes and that hair were distinctive. The words tha...

Ray never felt at home, never at his element, when he was shopping, especially when it was for something you wore. When he got clothes, they were always dull, solidly colored, and with as little unbuttoning, unzipping, untying, un-anything as possible. He wore a lot of t-shirts. This was why he was ...

((sorry for dipping out, but I'm just returning myself)) Lily smiled, a little uncomfortably, at the joke, stroking the Olympus as she did so. The girl's tone made it hard to place whether or not she was trying to be funny. "Er, no. Looking for nice feature shots for the school paper. Something...

Lily had been staring blankly at the viewing window of the Olympus when someone called her name. She looked up, seeing a face that looked vaguely familiar, but then again, writing on the school paper meant she'd come into at least passing contact with most of the people in the school. Pleased to be ...

Lily Maclaughlin hated slow days, especially when there was an impending deadline to uphold and a shortage of stories to put into it. She'd been in wandering the halls of the school for a little while, hoping to get some photos of a feature-y nature, some evergreens that'd at least take up some spac...

Lily finished writing down Everett's name, and again the notepad went away into her hip pocket. She smiled. "That should about do it. Thank you, I really appreciate you taking a minute to sit down and talk to me. If I need to clarify anything I'll give you a call, okay?" Lily turned and st...