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Reya shivered as she took a seat at an empty table near the stage platform, feeling the temperature shift as the sun began to set behind the mountains. Looking around, she searched the sea of faces and wondered where her best friend was. She had not heard from Stella all day, which was odd. Reya had even visited the Serrano's petting zoo at one point but Hector had not seen his sister or heard from her when she had asked, which was also odd. At the time Reya had chalked it up to the fact that Stella was probably just enjoying the festival, but at this point she was getting worried. Stella knew this was Reya’s dads death anniversary, so it was extra weird for her to have not heard a single thing. Getting out her phone, Reya brought up Stella’s contact and hit the call button. After a few rings the call went to voicemail, which made her even more nervous. Opening up their text thread, Reya typed up text to her friend. 

[color=8c546f][i]'Hey girl, where you at???'[/i][/color]

She sent the text and set her phone on top of the table, hoping to hear back from Stella soon. Otherwise she intended to send out a search party. It wasn’t like her best friend to go missing like this.

Sighing, Reya leaned on the table and propped her head up with her hand, brown eyes looking up at the stage. As the Navarro girl took center stage and called up the date participants, Reya looked over the woman closely. The outfit she had chosen was nice and her hair looked perfectly manicured, as always. Jewel was always so well put together every time Reya had seen her and it made her wonder how Jewel was always able to pull it off. Although they had never directly spoken, Reya had heard much about her and her family from people who visited the tavern. Some good, some bad, but mostly apprehensiveness from the locals. As she sat there scrutinizing Jewell under the stage lights, Reya wondered what she was really like under that perfect outer shell. She imagined Jewell with her hair down and wildly blowing in the wind, makeup a bit smudged, laughing in the passenger seat of Reya’s [url=https://i.imgur.com/Sw9alhg.jpeg] red jeep wrangler[/url], enjoying life instead of acting flawless all the time.  

As the date participants began to step up onto the stage, Reya removed herself from her little daydream and  got ready for the show. Although this would have been more fun to watch with Stella around, she figured it would still be entertaining on her own too. It was actually one of the only reasons Reya was still at the festival. She wasn’t necessarily having fun today, if she was honest, but she was curious who would put themselves up for auction and who would bid. It would surely be the talk of the town the next morning. As one of the resident bar tenders, it was her duty to be up to date with the gossip around town, of course.