Realistic or Modern Friends to Strangers IC

[Xanto]

It’s not a car ride without music. Ryan thought to himself as he pressed the radio on. He briefly glanced at the car’s rearview mirror noting that the familiar BMW was following them. Fast rides and great cars were part of Ryan’s ultimate interests. The speed limit was usually optional for him. However with a bunch of people in his car and Nathan’s Beamer trailing them, he had to stick to the legal standards . . . or at most five miles per hour above it.

Above the music Finn’s voice could be heard complimenting the Range Rover they were in. “Thanks got it last year,” Ryan replied keeping both of his eyes on the road. It truly seemed to be something a bit out of a middle class twenty-one year old’s financial league. As an intern over the previous school year, Ryan managed to score a contract with the Jaguar auto company. His clever mind was able to patch a vital hole that some computer engineers and Information Technology employees left hanging. How “vital” was it? It caused a private credit breach in their systems. As a form of payment, Ryan chose a new car over the guarantee of having a future with Jaguar. Why you may ask? Chase, Ryan’s older brother, tried to persuade him to join the military. The option at the time seemed very tempting to the lad. Even in the car Ryan debated about whether he should join the military or not. He wasn’t interested in the Army which his brother was in; however, the Air Force was pretty appealing to him.

What seemed to be a foreign line coming from the song turned out to be Fred pulling out an Italian phrase about Ryan’s car. “Grazie, my bro,” Ryan responded knowing only the mere basics of the language. Fred had a follow up question though that Ryan wasn’t even sure of. “I don’t know. We kinda just drifted apart,” He shrugged making a left turn onto a new street. It was true, after high school everyone went on to do his or her own thing. The occurrence didn’t surprise Ryan since it only seemed natural due to the group’s long distance relations.

Ryan’s mind began to linger in the seemingly last few moments of their high school group memories. The thoughts ended once he heard Mallory’s teasing tone and swiftly looked at the Power Ranger she held next to his face, “Yes.” He was still kind of in a daze after his mind traveled back in time. Fortunately, Ryan did a double take and rapidly eyed the figure once again. Benji… He thought to himself before redeeming his true answer. “I mean no! It’s my younger brother’s . . . must’ve left it,” Ryan corrected before hearing one of his current favorite songs come on.

Ryan slightly increased the volume and glanced in his rear mirror checking if Nathan was following them still. Almost shyly he began to lip sync to the song Waving Through A Window by Ben Platt. The shyness of course faded away once it got to the chorus. “Waving through a window,” Ryan mouthed glancing at the serious Addiebear next to him. Broadway plays have been all the hype since Hamilton; however, Ryan was a theatre geek even before that production. Was lip syncing embarrassing? Maybe, but what did he care? It was fun.

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ADELINE VERNET
Adeline watched as the other got into the car, she wasn't surprised at those who wanted to go with them. Of course Finn and Mal would come, they are really good friends with Ryan, and there was no doubt in her mind that Fred decided to come along because of her. The question Fred asked made her roll her eyes, he knew exactly what happened and she wasn't going to humor him by answering. Adeline ignored his presence and focused on the songs coming out of the car stereo. There was some kind of conversation going on behind her about a power ranger.. She wasn't interested, instead she was on her phone taking snapchats of her in the car. Suddenly her attention was pulled away from the phone as a familiar song ran through the car. It was form Dear Evan Hansen. Adeline wasn't really into musicals, but she had to admit that they had some really good music.
"Dear Evan Hansen huh?"
Adeline said to Ryan, it seemed as though he knew most, if not all, of the words to the song. Even though Adeline hadn't seen the show, she was familiar with all of the songs in the show, but it was a bit surpassing that Ryan even knew what musical theater was. ​

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[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

"Yeah... We did... Still here we are back together and for most of us itsmloke nothing has happened...It is nice to see ijnmy absence I did feel your guys absence." He said in a serious tone as he looked at Addie, that was small comfort he knew. He chuckled at the sighed at the sight of the power ranger. He gave a look at Ryan through the rare view mirror of catching someone's in something amusingly embarrassing. He turned to the radio when he heard the song on the radio, it brought back some memories of him and addie. "Huh, hey Addie remrmber when this played when we..." He than looked confused a realisation hit him. "No that song was not it...The play came out after...Whst was it..." He tried to remember the actual song but his mind went blank and a sheering pain both his forehead. He groaned softly as he reached for some pills in his pocket and took them trying to calm himself. He had gone a little pale and sweaty.

 

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Finn

Finn chuckled about the power ranger, and then Ryans reaction. Then a musical song came on the radio, he didn't know this musical at all, but it was a nice song.
Fred began to speak about it, until he Bagan to stutter a bit. He noticed he began to go pale. Fred held his head and pulled it pills.

Finn tried to read the label, catching the name Tramadol .

He slipped out his phone, and looked up the medication. It was a pain killer, and one of the powerful ones at that.

"Fred, are you alright? What's wrong bud?"

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Fred took a few deep breaths as he messaged his forehead for a moment. "Yeah... Yeah, i will be fine.... Just a headache, it will be fine after a little bit." He said softly, forcing a small smile though it came out mirthless. He was annoyed at himself as this was not the way he wanted to start to hint at his issue "Dont worry about it, i get them from time to time now a days. " He said after a few more second silent.

 

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Finn

Finn continued to look at Fred with some worry, and he said he got them every now and then. From what Finn just read, you don't take a drug the equivalent to Oxycodone to treat a headache, but he didn't want to cause a scene in the car.

He sat back, and withheld a sigh from escaping his lips. He felt something else was wrong but he didn't have any idea what. Hopefully Fred would tell us all later. It was then Finn wondered if it had anything to do with why he up and left so suddenly...

He realised he should stop. He was with friends and should enjoy it, not worry. Fred would tell them if he was ready, and in all honesty it would probably be something simple. Maybe he even misread the bottle and it said ' Midol ', that migraine drug.

He hoped they were close to the sushi place.

 

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ADELINE VERNET

As fred directed a question to Adeline, she shook her head slowly and turned around.
"No, it was 'fly me to the moon'"
She said, watching his face, waiting for him to recognize the name of the song. She rolled her eyes before saying
"Frank Sinatra"
Adeline added on, clarifying the song. As if leaving her with no word wasn't enough, he couldn't even remember their song. Her distain was cut short when Fred's face had turned pale. She almost reached back to comfort him, but pulled her arm back once he pulled out painkillers. She listened to the words Fred and Finn exchanged, before she turned around again, facing the road they were driving on. Obviously the headache must have hurt a considerable amount, he would have hidden the pain if it wasn't unbearable. The car became silent, excluding the music.​

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Harlow Sienna Roy

Harlow watched as Cameron made her way over. A little nervous, Harlow sat up straighter in her seat and listened to the girls question, to which Harlow gave a small smile "Sure, pick a seat." she said and looked at Jasper who had also made his way over "of course you can." she said in her friendly tone to Jasper. To calm her nerves slightly, the girl gripped the steering wheel and turned her music down a little in case if either of them wanted to make conversation.
"So what have you two been up to since our departure." she asked, but didn't bother bringing up the sort of break up. They had broke off their relationship due to differences. They wanted their own things and to achieve different things. One wanted to go one place, the other wanted to go a different way. It wouldn't have worked. Thinking about it sort of made Harlow sad. Yes, she had dated through the years but those never worked for her. The girls were too clingy and wanted Harlow for her fame, and the guys always treated her like crap. She was hard to get along with. The longest relationship she had probably had was for a year, but he had been cheating on her.
Getting her head out of those thoughts, Harlow glanced back at Jasper "I had actually went to one of your concerts, my manager thought it would be cool to see if we could meet up. But something came up so I couldn't head backstage after. Could have been cool." she shrugged and looked at Cameron with her smile "so you're going to school? What are you taking?" Glancing around the park she saw everyone else had already picked their vehicles "I guess the Ranger Rovers were popular. What's wrong with a little Beetle?" she giggled and pulled out of the parking lot to head to the sushi place.

Location: On their way to Sushi place.
Interacting: Cameron - Tsiwentiio Jasper - MoxxyMoxx

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Fred heard Adeline and inwardly cursed himself, thats exactly what he needed to look like a jerk when he was trying to make up for his absence. Damn migrain why did it have to come now, he thought. Something in his mind clicked and some of the memory returned though his headach flared a little. "Sang it together as it played... You the English me in italian. Me terrible you enchanting... We kissed..." He said.
Portami con te,
Sarт la luce che vedrai,
Portami con te,
Tra le parole che dirai,
E se anche tu,
Mi vorrai,
Il tempo avrа,
Un amor"

He sang softly and badly though almost to himself.

 

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Adeline Vernet

It seemed like Fred had gotten over the headache, somewhat quickly. Obviously because of the pain killers. Adeline wondered what the cause of the seemingly awful headache was. She didn't turn her head as Fred started talking to her again. He sounded remorseful as he went through the story, but that didn't matter to Adeline anymore. She had moved on, and honestly would rather not think about their past anymore. She had spent so long thinking about that song when she was younger, that she had gotten tired of the memory.
"I remember"
She said in a slightly peeved manner. She leaned against the car door, before turning up the stereo to prevent anymore talking directed at her.​

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[MoxxyMoxx]

Jaspar got into the back seat of the car. It was a cute little thing. Jaspar was lucky he wasn't over 6 feet tall or he'd be struggling to stay inside the vehicle. He smiled when Harlow said she'd seen him perform. He was surprised slightly but knowing a friend had seen him perform almost settled his nerves about ever playing in front of them. Strangers were fine; they didn't know him personally and couldn't leave an emotional scar by commenting on the music. Friends could ad that often put him off showing the two ladies and his other friends his music.

"Thanks for coming to the show anyway, even if you couldn't come back stage. I would've known but being on tour all the time means little to no internet so I couldn't speak with you about meeting up before hand or at another time." He subtly changed his subject of conversation to the people he plays with; "The guys are great. Caleb and Max are awesome and two great friends whilst Daniel is," he paused. He didn't want to admit his crush on his bandmate in front of Cameron and Harlow. It was a bad idea; plus most personal details to do with relationships tended to be weird in celebrity culture. Who knew what could change? He continued after a second, "Daniel's an amazing front man you could ask for. He's just the best." This was the best move. He didn't want to over complicate anything.

 

[neverbackdown]

After the power ranger tease Mallory leaned back into the seat and drifted off into her own thoughts, she pulled her phone out and scrolled through instagram, half listening to the conversations happening around her and half listening to the radio. As Addie and Fred conversed Mallory could cut the tension with a knife, she knew it was going to be a while before they sorted everything out, thats if things did get sorted out between them. She raised an eyebrow when she heard Finn ask Fred if he was alright, she looked up from her phone and noticed how ghastly pale he was, As she watched him take a tablet she decided against saying anything and instead looked back down at her phone. She noted Adeline's tone and watched as she turned up the radio, a clear sign that the conversation between her and Fred was no over. Mallory sat scrolling on her phone for another minute or two before getting bored of it and placed it back in her pocket. "Soo... how weird is it being home?" She asked them all, trying to start some conversation between them all.

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In his head, Finn was thinking...

"Mallory, holy hell, thank you for breaking the silence"

Finn hates silence. Especially ones like the tense one just experienced. Thank God she had done something.

"It's crazy. I'll tell you, a lot less farms than Ireland"

He laughed quietly at his own joke, because it was true. This place had a lot less farms then Ireland. A lot less beer to, but thats a different story.

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Fred felt the coldness in Addie and sighed, he expected it wouldn't be that easy to break through to her but still it was worse than the migraine. He sat up a little, feeling the headache fade slowly and colour returning in his face. He looked out the window. "Barely recognisable huh... I wished to visit that arcade we used to go to after school. It is now a... What was it..." Memory failed him once more and he had just seen the place before he was dropped of at the park." A kiosk."

 

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Finn looked over at Fred, it was a kiosk? When did that happen!? They used to frequent that building almost everyday after school, and now it's just a kiosk?

"You mean they tore down that building to put a kiosk in? That doesn't make sense..."

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

"Tore down? When did you hear tore down, huh? Listen Finn, please." Fred snapped at Finn, becoming irritated not at Finn but his lack of memory. "I said they changed it. Maybe not a kiosk, a supermarket... Something... Who cares? It changed and it is sad is all."

 

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Now Finn was confused.

"Fred, a kiosk is a tiny little store, how would that work as a kiosk...whatever it is that sucks."

Halfway through he realised that Fred's headache might be messing with his head, and he didn't want to make it worse. So he leaned back and waited for them to arrive.

 

[Xanto]

Ryan paused his lip syncing and glanced at Adeline slightly smiling at her music recognition skills. “Yeah, how’d you know?” He asked tilting his head a bit toward her to hear her reply. Addiebear seemed a lot more serious than she used to be ever since the earlier phone incident. As a result, Ryan had recently made it his personal mission to bring her old happy self back. However, not completely as that was impossible. It was an amusing challenge that he was more than willing to accept.

Ryan continued driving his friends and went into his own thoughts. Sushi was great. His favorites were mainly unagi as well as spicy salmon. Thoughts about food polluted Ryan’s mind until he heard something about a headache. The guy glanced at Fred through the rearview mirror and noticed the pale color his face had taken on. Mission number two, find out what’s up with this kid. He thought to himself as the rest of them verbally checked to see if Fred was okay. Ryan slightly turned his wheel bringing the Range Rover into the restaurant’s filled parking area.

There was a brief silence that Ryan seemed to not even realize before Mallory asked the group a question. Ryan was about to respond to the question as he circled around the parking area to check for spaces; however, before he knew it Finn and Fred were having a little argument. Although Ryan used to have fun at the arcade, he didn’t think it’d make any difference if he got himself into a slight misunderstanding about its current state.

Without any further thoughts, Ryan immediately pulled up to the restaurant and unlocked all the doors. “I’m gonna look for parking across the street. Y’all can get off here and reserve the seats,” He stated before looking at his side mirror to see Nathan and Harlow’s cars trailing behind his. While he waited for the people to leave his car, Ryan pulled out his phone to text Lee and Garrick since their car was not within sight. “Hey are you guys pulling through? We just arrived” He texted placing his phone in the cup holder next to him.

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Finn

At this point, Finn was a bit concerned, maybe not just a bit, concerned about Fred. Something was definitely off. He'd find out later, he kept telling himself, and as Ryan pulled into the lot, he looked at the place. It was nice. Ryan mentioned us going to reserve the seats, and that sounded good, so Finn opened his door, the closest one to the door, and bowed, sticking his arm out.

"After you, my friends."
In the best British accent he could muster with an Irish accent.

"A'ight Ryan, see you after you grab a spot."

Finn realised he'd have to remember how many people there were...
Mallory, Ryan, Addie, Fred, Nathan, Cameron, Harlow, Jaspar, Garrick...
He was pretty sure that was..
Oh! Bumblebee as well.
So that was 11 people? Hope they had a table large enough.

 

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Adeline Vernet

Adeline ignored the small amount of talking happening, until Ryan directed a question at her. How did she know about Dear Evan Hansen? It was simple, her roommate in collage was majoring in Theater, so naturally she would come home every night to musical songs. One day when she came home there was an extremely pleasant song on. She then listened to the whole shows soundtrack, and fell in love with the music. Determining that the story was too long and boring, she settled with a simpler answer.
"I have my ways"
It was a vague answer, but Adeline knew they were getting close enough to the Sushi place that there wasn't really time for her to go through the whole story. As Ryan pulled the car to a stop outside of the restaurant, Adeline reached down to grab her little black bag and pushed the car door open. She stepped out of the car and walked around to the sidewalk. At this point, her feet were starting to hurt form the high heels.
"Should we go get a table?"
She asked the whole group, not really directing the question to one specific person.​

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[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Fred stepped out of the car with the others, feeling a little wobbly but seemed to manage. He felt his phone vibrate notifying him of one of his silent alarms going of, he turned away from the others and took out a few pills from his pocket and swallowed them quickly. He turned back and and walked besides Addie, mostly out of habit that an attempt to get close to her. "I suppose we should, it might take a while to find us a table." He went to the door and opened it for them to enter, looking around the group and the street. He smirked. "How many times have we come around here after school?" He asked rhetorical with a nostalgic air.

 

[neverbackdown]

Mallory sat back in the seat as Finn and Fred began to have a little argument. She toned it out and went back to looking at her phone, only looking up when she realised the car was parked. Mallory followed them out of the car and reached into her bag to pull out a cigarette, she lit it as they walked towards the entrance "if yous want to go on in and find a seat, Ill be in, in a few minutes" she said with a smile before taking another drag of her cigarette .

(Ooc: so sorry bad few days)
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Finn glanced at the restaurant. Seemed nice. Not a dump like that one Mexican place...dear lord the Mexican place....but as of now they needed to find a table.

He stepped inside, a blast of air conditioning hitting his face. Taking a glance around, he saw a dimly lit restaurant. Oh, if they had a hibachi open he'd go for that. Those were always entertaining, and they could fit their whole group.

He walked towards the host, and asked if they had an open hibachi. He replied they would in about fifteen minutes. He sat down in the waiting area, and told all his friends coming in that they'd have to wait a bit of time for a table. It'd be fine, as they still had to await the others.

 

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Cri.