[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/200714/cd9c50cc6e6d06543510ad8c4dfdabf4.png[/img][/center] [center][@Rabidporcupine][@canaryrose][@Jumbus][/center] [hr] [color=96eace]"Ah... Yeah, cool. I mean, I'd already figured you weren't, but I guess it's good to know for sure."[/color] Apparently Magus must have been a bad class, or at least one that Alex didn't seem to like. Hopefully he had the wrong idea about Yousef though - the guy seemed nice. Really, the only thing he did that was a little annoying was stopping their game, and Chad had gotten used to way worse stuff, like people saying his Hero name wrong. [color=fff200]"Yes of course I know where to go Chad. Well its, uh, pretty simple... Its just a matter of picking whats first. Lets think uh..."[/color] [color=goldenrod]“If we don't wanna play anymore we could… go to the bar! Ooh, piña coladas are so good. We can get the drinks with the little umbrellas and everything!”[/color] While Chad was up for most stuff, and going to the bar might be interesting... Chad would need to be a little older. As it stood, going to a bar was illegal for him! Illegal things are bad! And even if it wasn't, Chad wasn't exactly a fan of alcohol - it made people act funny, and not in a comedian way... [color=fff200]"Yes, what she said. Lets go to... the bar?"[/color] Then again, all the cool people at Chad's old highschool drank alcohol - even Chad's ex-girlfriend drank Bourbon that she stole from her brother all the time, and she was one of the coolest people he knew. [color=96eace]"Now we're talking! I've been sober since just after we got on the plane, which was a big mistake. Turns out they're still scary even when you aren't drunk."[/color] Oh, Alex drank pretty often - maybe Chad could ask him what didn't taste icky when they got to the bar... [color=a36209]"A-alright, if that's where we want to go... I think it's this way."[/color] Chad started walking towards the beach bar, a sizable pavilion near the edge of the beach. The roof was decorated to look like it was made of straw and dried leaves, and the entire thing clearly was going for a tropical look. Or at least an appealing tropical look. A place as swanky as this resort obviously had more impressive places, but Chad could always go to an indoor bar back at Castleburg - the point of a vacation was experiences, and this was one that he couldn't have back home. That, and it's much closer to walk to. As it turns out, bars have bartenders, and the woman behind the counter wore the fake smile everyone in the service industry adopts as she saw Chad walked up. This was Chad's chance out of here! "Hey there man! What would you like?" Dammit! Chad was really hoping that she'd card him and he could avoid this situation. Chad briefly wondered - why the heck didn't she card him? Unbeknownst to him, the combination of his dyed hair, face tattoo, and numerous scars made Chad appear several years older than he really was. [color=a36209]"D-don't you need to card me?"[/color] "Oh, uh... Alright." Chad smirked slightly as he sat on one of the stools - he was only 18, so there was no way he was allowed to drink. Hopefully it didn't ruin it for the others, Chad could always wait for them to- "Alright dude, what are you having?" Chad took his card back from the Bartender's outstretched hand and quickly pulled up his new phone. As if he was checking a text, Chad made a quick google search, and grimaced - the drinking age in the Virgin Islands was 18. Thank god he wasn't breaking the law - the sentence for underage drinking was 25-to-life. Chad's mother told him- He shook his head. Now wasn't the time to be thinking about that. ...Still, even if it wasn't illegal, Chad really didn't want to drink anything if he could avoid it. It just didn't feel right - ever since he got to this place, something felt a little off. Chad thought keeping his wits about him might help later... ...Nah. That was just an excuse to avoid drinking. Suddenly, Chad was hit with genius inspiration! [color=a36209]"...You guys order first, I'm still thinking."[/color] The perfect maneuver - now Chad could just copy someone else! For some reason, the idea to simply say 'I don't want to drink' didn't occur to Chad. Maybe he's just not very smart. Chad tried to think of possible things to talk about - Yousef came to mind since he was so recent, but Alex really didn't seem to like the guy, so that was probably a no-go talking point. Chad's main go-to talking point, Starbright, also seemed to be something Alex wasn't fond of, so he was struggling to find something to fill the void. Chad's blog? Down right now. Superpowers? He already knew everyone's except Alex's, and he said that he didn't want to share. Forums? Way too much creepy stuff. Maybe TV? No - One of Chad's favorite shows, [i]Keeping up with the Wings[/i], was cancelled ever since the Eagles incident a few months prior. Mentioning he was bummed about that might have been bad since, y'know, the main actor tried to kill them all. [color=a36209]"Are vacations like this a usual thing? Mr. Powers never really struck me as a 'vacation' type of boss, but I've only worked at HERO for a little bit."[/color] Chad decided to just say the first question that came to mind and it ended up working out. Hopefully these vacations were pretty common - Chad still felt a little guilty that he was on a vacation when someone like Firebird, a much more experienced hero, wasn't.