020 | Action
Jul. 17th, 2011 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
second_first[Rei is working the late late shift at a seedy diner all by herself. And by seedy diner, I mean the dining room. That somehow employs people for the duration of the event but really isn't that much different, except all gritty and film noir-y.
SHUT UP IT WORKS SOMEHOW.
She'll be closing up in an hour or so, and in the meantime, she's wiping things down and getting ready. Her inner monologue is pretty quiet for the moment, focused on the mundane tasks of work.]
[ooc: Rei's monologue will appear in italics following her normal speech. But um you probably shouldn't expect her to be thinking much more than she actually says most of the time. :||||]
SHUT UP IT WORKS SOMEHOW.
She'll be closing up in an hour or so, and in the meantime, she's wiping things down and getting ready. Her inner monologue is pretty quiet for the moment, focused on the mundane tasks of work.]
[ooc: Rei's monologue will appear in italics following her normal speech. But um you probably shouldn't expect her to be thinking much more than she actually says most of the time. :||||]
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Date: 2011-07-17 07:25 pm (UTC)As I take a seat near another table she's wiping down, I don't think about how she ended up working here. It's not my job. No one's paying me to find out either. The girl working here's also the quiet type. You can see my taste in friends. Another one who I wouldn't want to see upset.]
You're still here.
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Date: 2011-07-17 11:45 pm (UTC)For another hour. [She puts aside the rag and comes closer.]
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:09 am (UTC)No one's caused you trouble?
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:17 am (UTC)No one.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:53 am (UTC)Good.
[I'll take her word for it. This diner had a way of making whatever I wanted just show up unannounced. Because suddenly there's tea on the table. My colleagues probably have a slug or two in them by the name of bourbon, whiskey, or some other booze. But that's not my style. Besides, I'm underage anyway.]
Did you want to join me if no one else shows?
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:01 am (UTC)Okay.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:18 am (UTC)So this beats being cooped up in the office. The food's decent, the atmosphere never changes, and the company's great. So I give her a smile too, something I don't do all that often, but she's an exception.]
All right. When your shift's over, I'll walk you home too.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:41 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-18 03:48 am (UTC)I don't pay her that much attention because some people don't appreciate an audience when they're working. So it's just me and this cup of tea. That damn Asian mafia that's been after me uses the same brand to lure in and recruit members. I think I'll have my close friend have a word with them next time I see them. She does way more talking than I do.]
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Date: 2011-07-18 03:55 am (UTC)I hold the cup between both hands and sit in silence with him.]
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Date: 2011-07-18 06:24 pm (UTC)The silence is just what I need right now to get away from the racket. Noise or crime, take your pick. If it ain't one, it's always the other. One of them my headphones can take care of. Never leave home without them. The other, it's up to me. Good for nothing cops never get anything done around here.
But as it goes, there's no such thing as permanent silence unless you're dead. And we both were.]
When's your next shift?
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Date: 2011-07-18 06:48 pm (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-18 10:15 pm (UTC)Opening?
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Date: 2011-07-19 12:42 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-19 01:51 am (UTC)Okay.
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Date: 2011-07-19 01:53 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-19 02:13 am (UTC)It is. Were you going home?
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Date: 2011-07-19 02:19 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-19 02:31 am (UTC)[I was going to stay anyway. Nothing else better to do. Since nothing could be beat being with a friend.]
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Date: 2011-07-19 02:34 am (UTC)[Even though there isn't much point.]
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Date: 2011-07-19 03:21 am (UTC)You're the only one that works here?
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Date: 2011-07-19 03:28 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-19 03:40 am (UTC)I'll stop by in the morning too.
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Date: 2011-07-19 03:42 am (UTC)[I like that idea.]