"Plans?" Marino repeatedly incredulously. Admittedly, he had washed his hair that morning for the first time in like, four days - but was this woman actually into him? He offered her a half smile, aiming for interested but probably landing on apologetic. Damn, drop the act, dude! "I'm sorry,"...
If the sudden heat spreading to his ears was any indication that Marino probably should have kept his mouth shut, he tried not to acknowledge it. "I-I'm not, uh, good..." He swiftly took the candy that was dropped on the counter from the children. He barely even bothered to count the assortment...
Watching Wiz launch herself out of the window, Flora was already tired. Tired and panicked. How could this chick be so calm in a situation like this? Flora had no clue what was going on - there could be a shooter in the school, it could be a literal zombie apocalypse! "Um..." she blinked. She...
Marino blinked. "Wait! I -" he blurted out of nowhere to the woman who...who was minding her own business? Marino had no idea why he had called out to her, but somehow he had been unable to keep his eyes off her as soon as she entered the store. Okay, weird. Come on, please have an internal...
So, yes. Marino did live in a small(ish) town and yes, he did work at his parents mini mart. Marino pushed his fingers through his now shoulder length hair and set them back on the task of steadily drumming a beat on the cash register counter top. Beneath his fingers were lotto tickets under the...
"G-go check?!" she stumbled over her words, half skeptical and offended that this girl was ordering her around. "If what I think is happening is happening, it is obviously not okay to split up! Splitting up is always how people die, are you kidding me?" Flora took several steps away from Wiz and...
Flora might be confused and incredibly suspicious of this girl with literal super hearing, but she was not stupid. As soon as she heard the mention of "knife," she quickly relocated herself behind Wiz and made sure at least 80% of her body was covered by this crazy, maybe mysterious girl. "Okay...
"Who - what..." It was taking Flora a minute to catch up, but she quickly scrambled to her feet and followed Wiz back toward the chemistry lab. "Um! I knew it! I heard the screaming and I thought it was in my head because my stupid little brother forced me to watch a really scary movie with...