Y'know, Whatever

“Of course!” Edwin said as he jumped up and down with joy. Realizing what he was doing, he immediately stopped, cleared his throat and crossed his arms. “U-Uh…I mean, sure dude. I’ll follow.” He said, trying his best to keep his cool. 

“Okay neat” Ray looked around, then looked back at Edwin. “What do you like eating? Just so, I know where we should go and all..” He turned away, then looked up. Staring at the sky, it’s visually not that late in the day. They have a lot of time on their hands, Ray honestly didn’t have much to do today so he’s basically free to do... whatever. He tapped his foot and sighed, the sun made him a little tired. The moon always appealed to him way more, it’s not as, atrocious in brightness. His mind was trailing off, he turned his eyes attention back to Edwin.

By The Book [Ray]

When Ray was standing at the doorway, he stood in surprise with a tinge of anger from the break and enter and after seeing the culprit, he looked down towards all the sprawled books on the floor. “Wh- m-my books!….” Not only were the books all on the floor but the books which had bookmarks in them, lost their marked pages. “BRANDI-..” *Takes a deep breath and sighs trying to keep calm, he begins to put his hands on his temples* “Brandi, these books were all alphabetized and perfect before you got here and why are you here? Why did you wreck my collection of novels? WH-who in the right mind, breaks into someones house, and wrecks their bookshelves.. Look at this mess, guess who has to clean all of this?…” He was glaring at Brandi, who stood beside the large pile of disorganized and tossed books. She appears to have no look of regret or guilt, not even at the slightest. He begins to pick up the books which were closest to him and glanced up at Brandi, while leaned over grabbing books. “Mind you. This garbage, is expensive and actually quite enjoyable. Maybe if you actually gave time to maybe I don’t know, read them. Then and only then, you’d see how important all of it is to me…”

Ray huffed as he grabbed more books. “You know, sometimes you should think more reasonably and be patient.” He was struggling to hold the books in his left arm. The books varied in thicknesses which made it weird to hold. Heading back to the shelf he began to put some books back. With a stern expression he mumbled with disdain. “At least grow up a little Brandi...” He turned to the books on the floor to pick up more. Before leaning down to grab some more he sighed. “There’s a reason nobody could easily trust you...” Turning his head back slightly to look at her, he added on. “A delinquent like you wouldn’t understand the importance of the knowledge contained in books...”

“It’s doing pretty good with sales! We have a lot of subscribers at the moment…Although, not everyone believes our stories and think that we’re lying, but at least it makes people curious about the paranormal world and what lies within it.” she shrugged. 

Ray flicked his hair a bit. “Well, not everyone believes in the paranormal, since it’s not quite, normal for everyone, y’know?...” Personally, I’d believe in things like that, just know that not everyone will though. Maybe also since it might freak some people out too..” He shrugged.

“Uh.. Hey-” He looked at his surroundings and spotted the same butterfly Travis previously saw. He pointed at it. “Look a butterfly.” He turned his eyes over to Travis. Travis actually noticed the confetti, but who wouldn’t notice? It was blown right into his face, so how could anyone possibly ignore that? He had to come up with something to pull Travis’ attention away from the question, hopefully dropping it in time. “So, doing anything later? Like, after this? We’re done so you will probably leave after all. Well again, I hope I didn’t get in the way of any important plans you could have possibly had. Since you’re like, Mr. Popular or whatever…” Ray began to feel his heart beat a little harder, he didn’t want to be suspected of having party supplies. He was trying after all. He proceeded to try and trail Travis’ mind away with more questions, whether he was able to answer them or not. “Read any good stuff lately? (Well, I’m guessing you read articles online as opposed to books…) Any jump in followers on social media? You’re the kind of guy to get a lot of attention so why wouldn’t you? Wan-wanna grab a coffee or something? On me of course, since you’ve helped me…” He began to feel slightly anxious, he was asking too many questions he felt he needed to stop. In his little handful of questions being thrown at Travis, the remainder of the confetti slipped out of his sleeve. He began to sweat, hoping Travis didn’t see the leftover confetti falling onto the ground.

Travis actually took the distraction and glanced at the very same butterfly he saw just half a minute ago. “Yeah… it’s a butterfly.” He observed. The phone enthusiast, who wasn’t as keen on nature as some other people, turned his attention back to his Spooky friend. “Well, I…” He managed to start. But Ray began tossing questions left and right and so he let his thoughts trail off. “A coffee sounds great. But don’t you think you’re a little too jittery for caffeine right now?” Travis teased at the other’s rambling. “Like I said, I got nothing to do now. Do you… wanna hang out or something?” The blond asked. Of course the falling motion of streamer pieces caught his eye, and the very small pile of colours by Ray’s feet was hard to miss as well. Guess he wasn’t going to find out about the confetti. Travis’ brows furrowed slightly. He spoke in a more concerned tone. “Are you feelin’ alright? Because this doesn’t seem like you. Want me to take you home or something?”

Ray stood still as he began to try and think of more ways to get the attention away from the confetti, he slowly raised his foot to some confetti, and simply tried to push it behind him. “Hanging out is fine!--” He coughed. “Like.. if you want to, or got time. You got time?” Ray shook his sleeve behind himself, he wanted and extra to fall out, when out of Travis’ sight. “I didn’t have caffeine in a while, what are you talking about? If anything, I’m lacking it..” Ray grabbed the tail of his coat and tried to incognito-shake it behind him too. “I do not need to go home by the way, if I did.. I wouldn’t be here, right?”

Ray’s eye twitched. “Wh-wait what?” His eyes grew. “I just- was curious... I don’t have a crush on McFreely... (at least I know I don’t..)” He looked up and then bak over at Liberty. “Wait- so you do?” Ray dropped his arms from their raised position and tried to think of what to respond. At this point he’s lost in what to say. “I kinda assumed first, since your around your friends so often. Had to be someone other than just Travis... right? Unless you like Summer too, no judging there.. But I see, McFreely as a guy who’d be popular around... BUt, it’s not impossible? You should maybe ask and see what happens, won’t bite... Unless- he does?” He crossed his arms and ran into thought.

Annie: “Bigot eh? Well, that’s definitely not the most common B word I’m called but okay.” Frannie huffed and crossed her arms, but her sensitivity showed and she started tearing up. “S-Sis…I just wanted us to make a new friend…why are you so mean??”  Annie shrugged and went back to her book, dismissing her now crying sibling and the customer.  Frannie wiped her eyes and looked at Ray. “S-Sorry, *sniff* why don’t you pick something out for free? For your special someone?” 

Ray dropped the angry act as he seen Frannie, he couldn’t help but feel guilty, now causing a ruckus between the two siblings. “Woah woah woah- calm down.” He was ushering Frannie to stop crying, he was waving his hands slightly up and down at her. He slowed down his hands and looked at Annie, gave a small disgruntled face, then turned back to Frannie in worry. He didn’t want to really cause distress around, he acted upon his own motives and now feels bad. “I’ll pay for whatever I do grab, but please calm down. No need for.. tears today...” If it’ll be any better  I can even lave a tip, for you though...”

[phoneytravoney]

“Weeeeell, besides getting new video games and going to Greenwood Forest, nothing much…” he sighed. “…I wonder if there’s any food contests coming up…”

“Food contests?” Ray squinted out at some tree. “I don’t know, any places you wanna check for that?” He looked at a pocket watch in which he pulled out. “I think I got time, wanna?”