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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ALICE GREYSON
Alice chuckled lowly to herself. From the way things were going now, she was sure they would talk about it very later. She assumed his attention would mostly be on the other boy for the night— maybe even longer. Hell, if she was lucky Matt might forget about it all together.
Alice sat back as the group introduced themselves. They seemed nice enough, but something in Mel’s smile seemed the teeniest bit false in nature. No biggie, some people just weren’t for interaction. It reminded her slightly of a retail worker who was on their last leg of greeting people at the door but was still trying their best. What really caught Alice’s attention however was their story. Yeah, barley anyone moved to New Port, but she had only three years ago so she knew that it wasn’t outlandish. It was the fact that these three friends, who didn’t look related and seemed more friendly than family anyways, all moved together at the same time. They had to have been high school age.
Something just felt a little weird about it all. Maybe she was over thinking it, maybe not.
Snapping out of her head space, she just noticed in time that the girl Mel had offered her hand in greeting. Alice grinned, standing up from the log in order to greet her back, but before she could say anything Jasper cut her off. Here we go again..
Alice was used to this side of Jasper. His jealous streak wasn’t exactly something he tried to be discreet about. Didn’t mean it didn’t irk her. He had nothing to even worry about! Before Alice had met Matt or Jasper, she hadn’t even had friends she was close too. Yeah she socialized and bounced around circles, but she moved all the time and never kept in contact with anyone. If Jasper didn’t know he was sure as hell stuck with her for the rest of his life no matter what, she was afraid he’d never learn.
Alice moved to stand on the log to give her short stature a couple of extra inches, before reaching over to pinch Jasper’s cheek hard like a grandmother with a vengeance. “Awe, I love him, but Jasper still has yet to learn the art of manners,” she stated towards the other group. She wasn’t going to apologize on Jasper’s behalf however, no matter how much she wanted to. That was his job and it meant nothing coming from her.
Alice liked the other three, though. She still thought something was off, but none the less, she liked them. Especially Lolly for her retort. She didn't even hold back her laugh from that one.
Letting go of his cheek, she turned her attention of to Matt and the boy named Teddy to witness Matt’s (hopefully not bad) flirting. What she heard made her mouth gape open in a small ‘O’ shape. Having no control over the thought in her head travelling out of her mouth, she said with zero control and rather blatantly, “they aren’t going to do it on the log right here, are they?”
After only a second of realizing what she had just said, her phone rang an annoying little chime that she still had no idea how to change. Letting out an awkward laugh, she exclaimed, “saved by the bell!”, before hopping of the log and scurrying away beside a nearby tree.
Flipping her phone open, Anna’s voice rang through. “Did you guys get there safe? Are you alright?” Anna asked, curiosity and slight concern lacing her tone. Alice coughed dramatically, saying in-between clearly false fits, “Hit tree,” cough. “See the light,” cough. “Elvis? Is that you?” She could almost imagine the eye roll Anna was giving as she stated “Haha,” with dripping sarcasm. Alice grinned as her eyes wandered around the crowd, landing on Austin once more distractingly. “Yeah, we’re all good here. Just regular teenage antics,” she clarified, before freezing on the spot as Austin’s gaze turned from his friend and onto her. Shit on a stick. Alice quickly ducked away, hoping that if she went back to her group he wouldn’t make his way over there if he saw there were others there he didn’t know. “Alright, well let me speak to Matt or Jasper for a second like the deal”. Alice didn’t want to break up Matt’s little flirting game just to tell her foster mom everything was good, so she shoved the phone Jaspers way, saying “It’s Anna.”
Turning towards Mel and Lolly, not wanting to break up the little eye tango Teddy and Matt had going on, Alice grinned and declared, “Let’s try this again. Hi, I’m Alice, it's nice to meet you guys.” Sticking out her hand, she shook Lolly’s first before moving over to Mel to accept the handshake Jasper had blocked before. However, something unexpected happened as soon as she made contact.
Dropping her grip from the girl’s hand, a feeling of being burned from the inside coursed through her, the pain mainly concentrated in her hand. Alice hissed loudly in pain and jerked back in reaction. Her reflexes were so off that as soon as her heels hit the back of the log, she stumbled backwards over it and landed on the ground. God, she felt like she had been hit by a god damn truck. After about thirty seconds, the pain throughout her body started to fade from blinding heat to more of an intense shimmer of pins and needles.
Still lying on the ground, Alice groaned out, “did God just smite me?”
Alice sat back as the group introduced themselves. They seemed nice enough, but something in Mel’s smile seemed the teeniest bit false in nature. No biggie, some people just weren’t for interaction. It reminded her slightly of a retail worker who was on their last leg of greeting people at the door but was still trying their best. What really caught Alice’s attention however was their story. Yeah, barley anyone moved to New Port, but she had only three years ago so she knew that it wasn’t outlandish. It was the fact that these three friends, who didn’t look related and seemed more friendly than family anyways, all moved together at the same time. They had to have been high school age.
Something just felt a little weird about it all. Maybe she was over thinking it, maybe not.
Snapping out of her head space, she just noticed in time that the girl Mel had offered her hand in greeting. Alice grinned, standing up from the log in order to greet her back, but before she could say anything Jasper cut her off. Here we go again..
Alice was used to this side of Jasper. His jealous streak wasn’t exactly something he tried to be discreet about. Didn’t mean it didn’t irk her. He had nothing to even worry about! Before Alice had met Matt or Jasper, she hadn’t even had friends she was close too. Yeah she socialized and bounced around circles, but she moved all the time and never kept in contact with anyone. If Jasper didn’t know he was sure as hell stuck with her for the rest of his life no matter what, she was afraid he’d never learn.
Alice moved to stand on the log to give her short stature a couple of extra inches, before reaching over to pinch Jasper’s cheek hard like a grandmother with a vengeance. “Awe, I love him, but Jasper still has yet to learn the art of manners,” she stated towards the other group. She wasn’t going to apologize on Jasper’s behalf however, no matter how much she wanted to. That was his job and it meant nothing coming from her.
Alice liked the other three, though. She still thought something was off, but none the less, she liked them. Especially Lolly for her retort. She didn't even hold back her laugh from that one.
Letting go of his cheek, she turned her attention of to Matt and the boy named Teddy to witness Matt’s (hopefully not bad) flirting. What she heard made her mouth gape open in a small ‘O’ shape. Having no control over the thought in her head travelling out of her mouth, she said with zero control and rather blatantly, “they aren’t going to do it on the log right here, are they?”
After only a second of realizing what she had just said, her phone rang an annoying little chime that she still had no idea how to change. Letting out an awkward laugh, she exclaimed, “saved by the bell!”, before hopping of the log and scurrying away beside a nearby tree.
Flipping her phone open, Anna’s voice rang through. “Did you guys get there safe? Are you alright?” Anna asked, curiosity and slight concern lacing her tone. Alice coughed dramatically, saying in-between clearly false fits, “Hit tree,” cough. “See the light,” cough. “Elvis? Is that you?” She could almost imagine the eye roll Anna was giving as she stated “Haha,” with dripping sarcasm. Alice grinned as her eyes wandered around the crowd, landing on Austin once more distractingly. “Yeah, we’re all good here. Just regular teenage antics,” she clarified, before freezing on the spot as Austin’s gaze turned from his friend and onto her. Shit on a stick. Alice quickly ducked away, hoping that if she went back to her group he wouldn’t make his way over there if he saw there were others there he didn’t know. “Alright, well let me speak to Matt or Jasper for a second like the deal”. Alice didn’t want to break up Matt’s little flirting game just to tell her foster mom everything was good, so she shoved the phone Jaspers way, saying “It’s Anna.”
Turning towards Mel and Lolly, not wanting to break up the little eye tango Teddy and Matt had going on, Alice grinned and declared, “Let’s try this again. Hi, I’m Alice, it's nice to meet you guys.” Sticking out her hand, she shook Lolly’s first before moving over to Mel to accept the handshake Jasper had blocked before. However, something unexpected happened as soon as she made contact.
Dropping her grip from the girl’s hand, a feeling of being burned from the inside coursed through her, the pain mainly concentrated in her hand. Alice hissed loudly in pain and jerked back in reaction. Her reflexes were so off that as soon as her heels hit the back of the log, she stumbled backwards over it and landed on the ground. God, she felt like she had been hit by a god damn truck. After about thirty seconds, the pain throughout her body started to fade from blinding heat to more of an intense shimmer of pins and needles.
Still lying on the ground, Alice groaned out, “did God just smite me?”
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