Briar - female - 18 - Single
Briar had been sitting in her apartment all morning now and it was starting to bum her out . The pale brown walls were giving the opposite of a warm homely feeling and the silence in all the rooms gave a creepy kind of feel . Silence . . . Again . She knew she ' d be moving out in less than a year , right after senior year , but her parents hadn ' t been around very often since sophomore year . She still had no idea what they were up to , and her sister was in boarding school , so she had been pretty much alone at home for the past two and a half years . Grabbing her sunglasses and her dark blue juicy jacket , she strode outside and felt the breeze of the fall wind around her . Downtown - that ' s where she would go .
Downtown was full of beautiful Christmas lights . Though it wasn ' t holiday season yet , the lights held up all year . On summer nights they looked quite beautiful . She found a nice bench outside a shoe store down the road from the coffee shop and the club , curled up and pulled out a pocketbook , beginning to read .
Red - Male - 17 - Single
Red was feeling rather tired . He woke up to a text bomb message from a friend of his . It said they were at the coffee shop. Red wasn ' t a big coffee fan himself , but he could go for a muffin , and he was almost certain they had candy there . He wondered if they sold skittles - they were a bit of an obsession for him . He debated a shower in his head , and decided he was clean enough considering he ' d showered the previous morning . "Hey Mom , " he called . " Going down to the coffee shop . Want anything ? " He got no response , and he assumed this meant no . Shrugging , he pulled some jeans over his boxers and grabbed the keys to the Toyota and , feeling lazy this morning , he drove to the coffee shop .
He headed inside with his usual strut . " Hey everybody , " he called as a greeting . " Yo Cal ! Bagel and cream cheese , " he said , knowing the employee from previous runs for his mom and friends , even past girlfriends . " Hey got any skittles ? " he asked
curiously .