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[color=slategray][sub]Collab Featuring:[/sub][/color] [color=eda946][sub][b]Ophie[/b][@Universorum][/sub][/color] [color=slategray][sub]&[/sub][/color] [color=997fdb][sub][b]Marsh[/b][@Silent Observer][/sub][/color] [color=slategray][sub]&[/sub][/color] [color=f1cbff][sub][b]Cassie[/b][@smarty0114][/sub][/color]
[color=slategray][sub]Day: Monday Evening (flashback post)[/sub][/color]
[color=slategray][sub]Location: Ophelia’s Car[/sub][/color]

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[indent]Ophelia had seen Brynn off with Marshall and Cassie, and now they were going to get the stuff that Kit had asked for. Kit’s friend, True, had already disappeared. The three remaining Candies : Marshall, Ophelia, and Cassie, were clambering into Ophelia’s luxury sedan, with Ophelia quipping, [color=eda946][b]“Does anyone know where we actually get weed from? I’ve never [i]bought[/i] it before, I just bum it off of Belle, sometimes. But I can’t do that now, and I don’t have any on me...”[/b][/color] She muttered, starting the car, and looking at Marshall and Cassie expectantly. [color=eda946][b]“One of you has to know, right? Plus we need pizza… what kind of pizza do you think she likes? I hope she doesn’t totally give up… but she seemed uber disheartened after that.”[/b][/color]

[color=997fdb][b]“Uhh…”[/b][/color] Marshall thought on that for a moment. He didn’t really do drugs that often, the most he dabbled with were edibles at parties. Smoking wasn’t really a good look for him. [color=997fdb][b]“I don’t really get it for myself, either. Like, really, it’s just around at parties sometimes, and I bum it too. I think… I think Hana Park deals? Or A Double, he definitely at least knows where to get it. As for Kit, she seems really sweet, but I do think she should try to go for someone else. Is she full lezzy or nah?”[/b][/color]

Cassie chewed her lip. Like the others, she wasn’t big on drugs, not enough to buy her own. She tended to just bat her eyelashes and bum weed from a cute boy or something, but that didn’t seem like it would work here. [color=f1cbff][b]“If anyone knows, it’s A Double. Ophie, don’t you have his number?”[/b][/color] Cassie asked from the passenger seat, buckling her seatbelt. [color=f1cbff][b]“As far as I can tell, poor girl is Selena-sexual. She’ll get over it, just like I got over my thing for Damian. She’s like, twelve, she can’t be [i]that[/i] in love.”[/b][/color]

From the driver’s seat, Ophelia shrugged her shoulders. [color=eda946][b]“I dunno if she’s fully lezzy or not. And, dude, Cassie, you may be ‘over’ Damian, but you still [i]totally[/i] chew on your lip when he takes his shirt off at P.E. Not that I think anyone blames you. Uh, I do got his number, hold on.”[/b][/color] She started the car and handed the phone off to Cassie. [color=eda946][b]“Here, text him. He’s in there under Burntown King, I think… Or something dumb like that. There’s a picture of his dumbass face, you can’t miss it.”[/b][/color] She pulled out, backing up.

Cassie laughed as her fingers tapped away a message to A Double from Ophelia’s phone. [color=f1cbff][b]“Of course I stare, that boy is gorgeous! Too bad he’s going for this Joy chick,”[/b][/color] Cassie said, pouting. With a dainty tap, Cassie sent the message to A Double, handing Ophelia’s phone back to her.

[quote][b]To: [color=17aa99]Burntown King[/color]
[color=eda946]Hey, do you know where we can get weed? Our friend needs some…[/color][/b][/quote]

Before Ophelia could get her phone back, though, it buzzed with a response from A Double:

[quote][b]From: [color=17aa99]Burntown King
i can give u some just mee us at captain cuddles i guess see u there[/color][/b][/quote]

[color=f1cbff][b]“We’ve got weed! We’re meeting him at Captain Cuddles,”[/b][/color] Cassie said, typing out a quick response back to A Double to let them know they would see him there. 

[color=997fdb][b]“Oh, wow, I’ve never participated in like… a drug deal before?”[/b][/color] Marshall replied, realizing the gravity of the situation at hand. Sure… weed was legal in their state, but it was still a drug. How uncharacteristic… yet, it felt right, after a day like today. [color=997fdb][b]“I think I’m gonna do it too.”[/b][/color]

[color=eda946][b]“Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. I think you should do it, too, Marsh. Maybe if you guys are both high, you can talk her down from Selena, or something… we need pizza too, so Captain Cuddles is the perfect place for our meeting!”[/b][/color] Ophelia said as she drove the car down the winding driveway, [color=eda046][b]“Hey, but won’t he be with Quincy, most likely? She’s gonna be pissedddd to see us. We’re like, Hailey’s friends. And doesn’t she hate Hailey or something? Because Hailey kicked her out.”[/b][/color]

Cassie shrugged, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger as Ophelia got out onto the road. [color=f1cbff][b]“Well, I mean, sucks for her. It’s not my fault her boyfriend’s a drug dealer,”[/b][/color] Cassie said nonchalantly, staring out the window. [color=f1cbff][b]“Marshall, make sure Shauna doesn’t get all sharky with Kit after Sel breaks her heart. She’s nice, and Shauna’s icky,”[/b][/color] Cassie said, turning so she could face the boy.

[color=997fdb][b]“Don’t worry, I’m all over that.”[/b][/color] Marsh responded and attempted to stretch out his long legs in the back. Luxury sedan… tiny back seat. He had taken one look at the itty bitty Candy prospect and knew that she would be an easy Shauna target, especially if she already admittedly liked girls. [color=997fdb][b]“I’m gonna adopt the little blondie. Be her gay dad. She needs guidance, and I need the distraction.”[/b][/color]

[color=eda946][b]“Well, good luck, Gumdrop. You know what’s tough, though? She doesn’t have a whole lot of options, as far as free, willing, lesbian or bisexual girls around the school… I dunno where we’d find more, though. But at that age, the easiest way to get over someone is to immediately jump onto someone else!”[/b][/color] Ophelia explained, turning toward Captain Cuddles. [color=eda946][b]“Someone should put our order in, ahead of time. So that we can just pick it up at the same time!”[/b][/color]

Cassie pulled out her own phone and dialed the number for Captain Cuddles. [color=f1cbff][b]“I’ve got it,”[/b][/color] she said, holding the phone up to her ear. [color=f1cbff][b]“Yes, hello? I’d like to place an order to go! Yeah, so, well, like we’re gonna have two large pizzas, one pepperoni, one cheese. Oh, Cassie. C-A-S-S-I-E. Okay, thank you.”[/b][/color] Cassie put the phone down and grinned. [color=f1cbff][b]“Okay, that’s taken care of. Anyways, girls who like girls are hard to find. What about that Shiloh girl? Y’know, with the pink hair? She likes girls.”[/b][/color]

[color=eda946][b]“She likes [i]older[/i] girls. Kit’s a baby,”[/b][/color] Ophelia explained, as she shrugged her shoulders. She didn’t really know what they could to do handle Kit, it seemed like a lost cause, at this point, almost. [color=eda946][b]“Maybe we can find a bicurious girl? It’d be easy to get someone to shift with the right moves, y’know. I mean there’s [i]technically[/i] like me, and Brynn, and Cassie, but I don’t wanna get with Kit.”[/b][/color] Ophelia shook her head helplessly.

[color=997fdb][b]“Hmmm…”[/b][/color] The drama king mused, deep in thought. He had abandoned trying to find leg space, and was simply lying across the back seat of Ophie’s car at this point, with his head leaning against the armrest. [color=997fdb][b]“I mean, maybe she’s into guys too? I don’t have her totally figured out yet. Though… from the way she described herself, she sounds like a natural born butch trying to masquerade as a girly girl. I’ll work on it, make it my special Candy project. She’s my new daughter, after all.”[/b][/color]

[color=f1cbff][b]“Sorry, but I’m not trying to cradle snatch,”[/b][/color] Cassie said. Ophelia soon pulled her car into the Captain Cuddles parking lot, and parked towards the front. [color=f1cbff][b]“So is this a we go to him, or he comes to us situation?”[/b][/color] Cassie asked.

The answer to the question that Cassie asked came in the form of a tap on Cassie’s window. A Double was standing outside, waving dumbly. On his arm, was Quincy, who was holding no less than three bags of Captain Cuddles’ famous ‘cheese explosion’ appetizer collections, consisting of cheesy bread, mozzarella sticks, and fries with cheese sauce, and the ‘potato collection’ of fries, baked potatoes, and potato skins. Ophelia rolled down the window, and A Double spoke. [color=17aa99][b]“Hey, what’s up? This is Q.”[/b][/color]

Quincy was not pleased by this arrangement. Nevertheless, she came, mainly because A Double promised food, and she was stoned. As A Double introduced her, she rolled her eyes and turned away, not in the mood to deal with Hailey’s minions. She heard Cassie shout from the passenger seat, [color=f1cbff][b]“What do we owe you?”[/b][/color] Like this was her first drug deal. Well, come to think of it, it might be.

[color=17aa99][b]“...huh? I, uh. It’s free? I dunno. I don’t usually charge friends, and you guys are cool. Anyway, I think my girlfriend doesn’t like this, so here, take this.”[/b][/color] A Double said, stuffing a small paper bag onto Cassie’s lap. He gave it a little pat, and then led Q away.

[color=eda946][b]“...that was really… easy.”[/b][/color] Ophelia muttered, looking at Marshall and Cassie quizzically.

Marshall sat up and peaked over the seat. He peered at the mysterious small paper bag. It looked sketchy as hell, this totally was a drug deal! Even if they didn’t really have to pay for it... [color=997fdb][b]“What’s all in it? Is it just, like… loose leaf?”[/b][/color] He asked curiously, as if they were discussing tea or something.

Cassie shrugged and opened up the paper bag to discover a ziploc bag filled with nugs of weed. [color=f1cbff][b]”I don’t know why, but I expected something different. Huh,”[/b][/color] she said, staring into the bag, mesmerized by the drug resting on her lap. So this was what weed looked like, outside of a joint. Interesting.

[color=eda946][b]“What do you mean? You just… roll it up and puff it? I’ve helped Belle with it before! But I have a feeling that Kit’s gonna want to do it herself… Who wants to go inside and get our food? Marshall should, because I think he’d be funniest, since he’ll be nervous after participating in a drug deal!”[/b][/color] She said, smiling into the rear view mirror and reaching back to tap Marshall on the leg.

[color=997fdb][b]“Puh-leeease.”[/b][/color] Marshall exaggerated both syllables and jokingly rolled his eyes at her in the mirror. He scooted towards the door in preparation to go get the eats. [color=997fdb][b]“I’m an actor, darling. I can hide my nerves very well. Besides… I’m not the one whose hands are dirty.”[/b][/color] He said with a smirk, looking at the paper bag on Cassie’s lap, and then hopped out of the car. He would return in a few minutes with some hot and ready pizzas, hopefully.

Once Marshall went to get the pizzas, Cassie turned to Ophelia. [color=f1cbff][b]“So, Ophie, what do we do about Marshall’s situation? With Jamie, I mean,”[/b][/color] Cassie asked, taking Marshall’s absence as a chance to meddle in his love life. Sanctioned meddling, of course. Not that Cassie cared much about sanctions, so long as the end result was positive.

[color=eda946][b]“I think the first step is to talk to Jamie… Since, it seems that Marshall is like 98% sure that Jamie hates him, so I think we need to figure that out first. But we have to be careful, because he seems like the type that would freak if we were too, like… pushy?”[/b][/color] Ophelia explained, reaching over and looking into the bag. Cool, looked like they probably had plenty. Unless Kit was like, some kind of pot fiend. Which was [i]totally[/i] unlikely, right? She was a kid!

[color=f1cbff][b]“Yeahhhh, he does have that kind of vibe doesn’t he? I don’t know, I feel like Marsh could do better, like he could land AJ if he wanted!”[/b][/color] Cassie mused, twirling a strand of hair around her finger as she watched the parking lot. Truth be told, Cassie wasn’t the biggest fan of Jamie. He had a habit of sticking his nose in dark places and bringing light with him. When your life is a lie, that’s not exactly the kind of person you want to be around.

[color=eda946][b]“AJ’s a shitty person, the exact kind of guy we [i]don’t[/i] want with Marshall. Really, it sucks, but Jamie is like the best option we have. Gays aren’t exactly in high number here at Beverly Hills… Maybe we just need to widen our horizons… Nah, it’s gotta be Jamie! Marshall adores Jamie, man, it’s the only [i]right[/i] option.”[/b][/color] Ophelia turned and smiled at Cassie, [color=eda946][b]“If they’re not together by Valentine’s day, then we [i]know[/i] we’re bad at our jobs…”[/b][/color]

Cassie frowned. [color=f1cbff][b]“Yeah, you’re right. Well then, we talk to him tomorrow and make him pull his head out of his ass. In nicer words, of course,”[/b][/color] Cassie said. Maybe being around Jamie from now on  would be inevitable. Hopefully Marshall could at least keep the boy from going full Veronica Mars on her ass. She’d built herself a strong reputation here. She didn’t need Jamie Callaghan coming in and ruining it for her.

[color=eda946][b]“Yeah, totally. Way nicer words.”[/b][/color] She reached into the paper bag and pulled out the plastic baggie, withdrawing one of the the nugs from it. She lifted it up to her nose and sniffed it deeply, pulling backwards from the smell. [color=eda946][b]“Whoa… smells like Skittles, dude.”[/b][/color] She sniffed it again, before holding it back to Cassie. Written in blue sharpie on the baggie was the word ‘Skittlez.’

Cassie cautiously held the weed up to her face, as if it might bite, then inhaled through her nose. Oh wow. [color=f1cbff][b]“Oh wow, that smells great! Where the hell is Marsh, he needs to smell this!”[/b][/color] Cassie shouted.

As if on cue, Marshall arrived back at the car. With two boxes of pizza balanced in one hand, he opened the door with the other. [color=997fdb][b]“Holy fuck, this smells so good. I want to put all of it, in my face. Just, full on eat my feelings.”[/b][/color] Marsh announced as he re-entered the back seat, pizza boxes first, body second. He then looked up at his friends who were… sniffing weed? [color=997fdb][b]“What the hell are you [i]doing[/i]? I’m not really an expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s done.”[/b][/color] Without really responding, Cassie instead shoved a second nug under his nose.

Momentarily shocked by the gesture, Marshall pulled his head back. And then… he leaned back in to get a second whiff. [color=997fdb][b]“Did he… did he give us [i]candy[/i] weed?”[/b][/color] How apt.

[color=eda946][b]“Yeah, I guess he did!”[/b][/color] 

Cassie grinned. [color=f1cbff][b]“Alright guys! Let’s go get high with a freshman!”[/b][/color][/indent]