naivete

It was impossible to ignore the noise of the leather seats groaning every time the stranger next to her shifted awkwardly and if someone had told Adelaide that she would’ve ended up with a nervous wreck stuck in traffic she would’ve ordered food and gotten a ride with the delivery but alas. She finished the article she was reading on her phone while listening to the rambles that filled the car and she knew that she only had one option, she had to play or the stranger would explode into a bigger mess. Her eyes landed on a boy with a stuffed toy walking on the sidewalk outside the window. “I spy with my little eye something soft and cuddly.”

Relief washed over Norah. While the woman didn’t exactly seem thrilled to be pulled into a game best played with children, Norah was glad to be rid of the silence -- she would have developed a rash from squirming so much. Her eyes drifted out the windows of the car, trying to see what the other woman saw. “Umm...,” Norah mumbled searchingly. “That extremely fat pigeon over there?” She indicated it duly, sitting as it did on the windowpane of a storefront. 

Elena was two seconds away from using her laptop to hit the face of the guy that was speaking to her. The world clearly thought she still had a shred of patience left after a busy week at work, a less than stellar situation with a client and a noisy neighbor; now she was dealing with a sexist parade of lame pick-up lines in the making —- as if she hadn’t heard him make a bet and call her a ‘sure thing’ just seconds before, to his buddies, standing not so far away. After ignoring the boy for far too long, Elena finally looked up at him in both frustration and anger. “You have exactly three seconds to get up and leave me the fuck alone before your dick meets my very hot coffee.” Her stare could melt steel and now all she had to do was impatiently wait for the boy to either smarten up or stay put.

( AISHA DEE, TRANS WOMAN, SHE/HER ) —— [ NORAH JOHNSON ] is a [ TWENTY-THREE ] year old inhabitant of Ambridge. They are part of the [ JOHNSON ] family and have taken the role of an [ INTERN AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ]. I heard they are [ AGAINST ] the family feud but they won’t tell anyone. Lets see what the city has in store for them.