[center][color=1a7b30][h2]~ Ava ~[/h2][/color]
[color=1a7b30][u]Location:[/u][/color] Ava's House → Mainstreet → Simone's
[color=1a7b30][u]Interacting with:[/u][/color] Simone's NPC[/center]

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The soft, melodious alarm echoed through Ava's room, bringing her to a slow, gentle awakening. Her half-conscious self groaned and rolled over, struggling to turn off the alarm. She rolled back over and stared at the ceiling, unwilling to accept the fact that morning had arrived on schedule and her day needed to start.

The Latina girl rolled out of bed, stumbling out of her room and down the hallway to the bathroom. After a short two minute period of splashing her face and brushing her teeth, she turned on the shower and grabbed a towel from the cabinet, quickly undressing and stepping into the warm, glorious water.

She finally managed to wash her hair and shave her legs with only a couple nicks. Frankly, she was impressed her legs didn't look like a grizzly bear had mauled them; shaving had never been her cup of tea, especially at 6:30 in the morning. By the time she had dried off and gotten dressed into a pair of black skinny jeans, loose hanging white shirt, and a purple flannel, the clock read 6:53.

[color=1a7b30][i]Crap, Ava, you're going to be late for work.[/i][/color]

She grabbed her phone, keys, and wallet in a rush, ignoring the multiple texts and phone calls she had received during her time in the shower. Sprinting out the front door, Ava ignored the cold of the morning as it froze her still-wet hair to her scalp and made her way down the street to a banged up 2003 Chevy, jumping inside and throwing her purse into the passenger seat while she turned on the car.

Ava took a moment to warm her hands, cupping them around her mouth and blowing on them with warm air. The instant she exhaled, she regretted it. A powerful gust of warm air knocked her hands away from her body and slammed them into the steering wheel, causing a yelp of pain and a couple expletives to escape from her mouth as she cradled her cold, aching fingers.

Things like that had been happening a lot over the past few days. Random gusts of wind, being able to detect people just by their breathing patterns, sensing how hard a storm was blowing while indoors, et cetera. While it intrigued Ava, it also made her nervous. Randomly developing the ability to blow doors open from across the room was cool, most certainly, however it left her with the sinking feeling that her body was changing, and she wasn't certain it was for the better.

She had avoided mentioning the new developments to anyone in the town but her parents. When she showed them what she could do, at first they were skeptical, however over the course of the past few days they had almost chalked it up to having strong lungs.

[color=1a7b30][i]If only you were as gullible as them, Ava. You life would be so much simpler. Focus on finals, get to work on time, go out with friends, but [/i]nooo[i], you have to be intelligent.[/i][/color]

Ava jerked her focus back to reality, changing the gears of her car and pulling out of the driveway, making her way over to Main Street. As she parked next to Simone's at 7:05, she stopped for a moment as she saw a couple of flashing lights driving down the road. Ava grabbed her purse and stepped out of the car, gasping as the site unfolded before her.

Every window on Main Street had been shattered, blasted outwards onto the street. Bits of glass shrapnel dust clung to wooden benches and parked cars, coating every single inch of the sidewalks. A few people were already working on cleanup duty, however aside from them, the only people on the street were the Sheriff and a couple of other law enforcers.

Ava quickly walked inside, wrapping her apron around her waist and tying it behind her back. [color=1a7b30]"Carlos, what's going on with Main Street?"[/color]

Her coworker looked up from the clipboard he was writing on and smiled at her. "Good morning to you too, Ava."

Rolling her eyes, she gave him a playful slap on the shoulder and clocked in, moving over to a stack of cups as she began to make herself a drink. [color=1a7b30]"Good morning, love. Now, seriously, what's going on? Every window out there is shattered."[/color]

Carlos dropped his playful smile and shook his head. "No one knows. Sheriff says it happened late last night or early this morning, sometime before six. All the windows just exploded outwards, like there had been explosions in all of the shops. But oddly enough, its just the glass. Heard a couple of people saying the storm did it." He moved over to the door that led to the back of the shop, pushing it open with his back as he shrugged. "Who knows? And don't think I didn't notice you were late, [i]love[/i]." He said laughed as the door swung shut behind him, leaving Ava to wonder about the possible answers to everyone's questions.

The morning shift was usually pretty slow, however today what seemed like every single person in the whole town was showing up at Simone's for coffee. The hours ticked by quickly, filled with a flurry of coffee creamers and whipped cream, however the question of the windows was the hot topic on everyone's tongue. Ava discussed it and gossiped with her regulars over the course of the morning, all of them bringing her the latest news, however no one could give a concrete answer as to why.

[color=1a7b30][i]People are saying the storm did it... What if the storm has something to do with the air as of late?[/i][/color]