[center][img]https://txt.1001fonts.net/img/txt/dHRmLjEwNi4wNjhjOGUuVEdsc1lTQkNiR0ZqYTNkdmIyUSwuMA,,/gritluefdemo.regular.webp[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/MyKmatB.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://txt.1001fonts.net/img/txt/dHRmLjExNi5lNzA4ZjMuUlhabGJIbHViaUJCYm00Z1UyVnlaVzVsYkdsbmFIUSwuMA,,/georganodemo.regular.webp[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/YkGhDeq.png[/img][/center] [right][code]Drink Line[/code] INTERACTIONS: [@Punished GN][/right] [color=F08080]“Oh you got to be kidding me…”[/color] Lynn whispered as she smacked the screen on her phone. [color=DA70D6]“Should I ask?”[/color] Lila smirked. [color=F08080]“Jasper sent a photo of two caramel apples…”[/color] Lynn paused as she placed the back of her hand on her forehead. She paused as she faked a cry. It seemed that her act of dramatic flair made her forget her next words. [color=DA70D6]“Before..”[/color] Lila added as she took another step towards the salvation that drinking promised. [color=F08080]“Before, thank you,”[/color] Lynn paused as she looked over to Lila, [color=F08080]“before he sent me a photo of them in their costumes”[/color] she paused again as she returned to her phone, [color=F08080]“looks tasty though,”[/color] Lynn showed the photo to Lila. Lila, though, had her attention fixated on one person in the crowd. She could not take her eyes off the sad display that was Emily. The egotistical, narcissistic, queen bitch of the 8th Street Coven. Something began to pull at her mind from deep down. Something began to whisper unheard demands. Something wanted Lila to make Emily uncomfortable. And Lila was all too happy to listen. Emily was someone who destroyed the old coven, Emily was someone who made life back then hard to live, and Emily was an easy target for once in her life. [color=DA70D6]“Lynn, I think I know just the thing to distract you from those dicks,”[/color] Lila paused as a smile crept across her face, her eyes still locked on Emily. Lynn followed the eyes and spotted Emily again. What was Lila planning? Lynn lowered her eyes and slipped to the possible future for five seconds before she returned back, and smiled as she looked up to Lila. [color=F08080]“You sure about this?”[/color]. Lynn had a disdain for Emily that she was never able to put into words. [color=DA70D6]“Oh.. my.. God, Emily?”[/color] Lila shouted across the crowd towards her target, her mouth remaining agape in a feigned shock and surprise, [color=DA70D6]“is that you Emily Reed?”[/color] Emily and her two sisters stopped, as Emily crossed her arms and looked over her shoulder. “... Yep, that’s me,” Emily started, “...Weirdo.” [color=F08080]“I love the costume, fits you…”[/color] Lila paused as she took a step out of line, [color=F08080]“okay. ”[/color] Lila spotted Miranda and Jaqueline, and flashed them a genuine smile. It faded slightly, but noticeably , when she returned her gaze back to Emily, [color=DA70D6]“You three want a drink, my treat.”[/color] Miranda put her hands together and did a twirl, “Really? We picked it out for her!” She smiled at Lila as she locked hands with Jacqueline. “We’ll take one,” Jacqueline said with a smile. “I don't take drinks from… Oh… wait,” Emily shook her head, before crossing her arms. “You’re that Sycamore-slut… How is fumbling under that airhead Auri working out for you?” she grinned. [color=DA70D6]“It’s just like the old times but surprisingly less awful,”[/color] Lila paused as she remembered the Dairy Queen fight, the PRA raid, the fight outside the church, the general lack of guidance and direction, and all of the dead that now line the mural, [color=DA70D6]“surprisingly less awful. Come on Emily, just one drink,”[/color] Lila paused as she let the offer in the air, [color=DA70D6]“catch up.”[/color] [color=F08080]“Or two,”[/color] Lynn said as she leaned out and shot the three sisters a smile, [color=F08080]“Emily, you look good!”[/color] “Fine,” Emily said, rolling her eyes. “If you insist…” [color=F08080]“How fun,”[/color] Lynn said with a smirk. She shifted her eyes towards the twins. [color=F08080]“You two look lovely! I love the princess outfits! I’m Lynn, I’m always happy to have new drinking friends.”[/color] [color=DA70D6]“Lila,”[/color] she paused as she waved, [color=DA70D6]“what’s your poison tonight,”[/color] Lila asked Emily directly. “I’m Jacqueline,” “I’m Miranda, thank you!” “And it's great to meet you,” Jacqueline said. “Red Wine, because I have class,” Emily said. “We’ll have white wine,” Jacqueline said with a smile. Of course she was a wine snob. Lila might have pushed back on whatever voice was telling her to engage with Emily if they drank something original, but a wine snob? [color=DA70D6]“It’s fun how I spent the past decade rarely seeing anyone from the old days and then,”[/color] Lila paused as she took another step forward in line, [color=DA70D6]“last week I run into George, Carol, and Greta. Then today, it’s Emily Reed,”[/color] pausing again she looked back to the twins. [color=DA70D6]“I looked up to Emily when we were younger,”[/color] Lila paused as she looked back to Emily. It wasn’t a lie, but it wasn’t the truth. Lila only looked up to Emily because Emily moved through the world as if they were the most important piece in it, and they were loud about it, and to young Lila that was enough to garner his attention. Yet Emily was never not loud, she was never not the most important person, and her want to be the leader she pretended to be eventually split their found family. And Lila was still bitter. [color=DA70D6]“What have you been up to since the split?”[/color] Emily rolled her eyes, “Greta told me everything… So cut the bullshit,” She sighed. “And if you really looked up to me, you would be in 8th, but you made it clear how you feel about that…. So, again, cut the bullshit.” [color=DA70D6]“What did Greta’s say, that she’s still mad that I didn’t give her a hundred dollars?”[/color] Lila paused as she leaned back, [color=DA70D6]“I thought 8th’s offer was a [i]joke[/i] because of that.”[/color] [color=F08080]“Yeah,”[/color] Lynn paused as she looked towards Lila. She looked towards the drink stall and they were closer to the front now. [color=F08080]“They just came up, asked us to join, wanted some money for it, and left. Carol stole my flask. It wasn’t the best first impression.”[/color]. She paused as she shifted her eyes back to Emily. [color=DA70D6]“I had, and still have, no desire to roll with any coven again but,”[/color] Lila paused as she leaned in close, [color=DA70D6]“why didn’t you send out the call to those of us who left? When this shit started happening? Why did it have to be Auri?”[/color] Lila paused as she flared her jacket out. [color=DA70D6]“I don’t know if I would’ve joined after hearing what Luca said, but I might’ve heard you out.”[/color] Lila shifted her eyes over to the crows that littered the area. “And I see you two can’t help but fellate yourselves over it,” Emily said with a roll of her eyes. “Actually forget about what Greta said; I had my fill of annoying retards during my time in the Old Coven.” Lila sat still for just a moment as the word lingered in the air. As it lingered Lila regretted her decision to try and poke the bear, not because the words hurt but because it made her angry. And as it lingered the crows around her became agitated. They began to fly from post to post, branch to branch, cawing as they did. Each one looked down on Emily, as everyone should. They found lower, and lower, and lower spots and they increased their caws as they did. [color=DA70D6]“You’re doing great, Emily, at this leadership thing. I have no idea why you got voted out.”[/color] “Ooooh, did the person you choose to get the attention of, strike a nerve?” “Emi-“ Miranda tried to inject. “But you’re doing real good at this pretending to be a girl thing…” Emily leaned in a grin, “… Micheal.” “EMILY!” Both Jacqueline and Miranda shouted. Lila did not wait for the name to settle on her ears. Lila did not wait for her thoughts to mull her response over. Lila did not wait. Her hand shot out of her jacket, already balled into a fist, and it quickly connected with Emily’s nose. She did not wait once again, she quickly pulled her arm back and readied another strike, this one aimed for Emily’s jaw. As she let loose the second strike, a familiar voice whispered in her left ear “let me in,” and without waiting to think, Lila did. Her eyes quickly turned black once more, and her hands underneath her gloves began to change into claws. All around the crows erupted at once, filling the air with a thousand caws. Miranda let out a high-pitched scream. Emily fell on her ass, thankfully dodging the other hit. Her head was spinning as she grabbed onto the ground, then grit her teeth. She pulled her leg back and shot it directly at Lila’s shin.