#ashwick.starter

coffee. lord and savior of those in need of an energy boost and their day brightened. june wrapped her hands around her cup, inhaling the amazing smell of her mocha latte. leaning back in her chair, she glanced around the store, curious eyes watching people mingling as if this was the most normal, boring place in the world. there sure were a lot of new people moving to town. poor souls didn't know what they were getting themselves into. “did you know there used to be a satanical cult in town a few years back?" she turned to the person next to her with a bored tone. "rumor has it they cursed a few businesses around here."

"I give it two weeks." she noted to the person next to her. with the noise going on about recent events, she had a feeling people would stop about it within that time frame. "two weeks until everyone moves on." it wouldn't surprise her if it was sooner than that though. seeing as how some people had the attention span of a kid. "anyway, i'm pretty sure we're going to get some storms today." a feeling she had. add in the recent clouds that were appearing too. "better enjoy the time we have outside in the mean time."

"no, no. it’s all stupid shit, there’s no need to know where sagittarius or pluto were when you were born. people just like to act like they have no responsibility over their words or actions ‘cause they’re a fucking gemini or something," jemma rants over her glass.

To say that Natalia hated grocery shopping was an understatement. There were always too many choices and in general it was too boring for her liking. Which was why she liked to play little games with herself when she could. The most fun to her was shopping cart bowling, and at the end of her trip she tried to get a perfect score by pushing her cart into the return when it gave an unexpected veer to the right hitting a car. “Oh shit!” Natalia said before looking around and finding someone who watched the whole thing. “Listen I’ll give you $20 if you don’t snitch.” She offered before a sudden thought came to mind. “Or I’ll buy you lunch if that was your car.”

time: midday

"i swear i did not just push my car all the way over here because it's a piece of shit." wylie syas failing his hands up. "it seems like everything is going to fucking shit ever since the news broke out of what happened by the woods, and my car broke down by the woods, i wasn't fucking staying there. i ruined my silk shirt pushing this car all the way here. you---" wylie says failing his hand at a random passerby, "you were the one helping me with this mumbo jumbo can't you explain to the mechanic the terrible struggle we had to go through just to get here?" wylie asks, batting his blue orbs over at the other.

Location: Somewhere outside.

"Yes Noro is the last name." Sammy said his voice full of hope. Maybe today he will finally get a lead after not seeing his sister in over a decade. But the smile faltered the minute he heard. "He's sixty one." He said. "Thank you for your time." He muttered. He hung up the phone and lit a cigarette. "Shit" He cursed under his breath. He made a heart shape with the smoke. He barely looked up as he held up the box. "Take one if you like." He offered.

"no, I don't know what happened. and no, I wouldn't tell you even if I did." the department was investigating the matter but wherever he went, people would ask questions, they wanted to know. and he understood that, he really did. but he just couldn't tell anyone what he truly did not know. nothing about the case made sense. the person who approached him hadn't had the chance to even ask a question though, but he was already unloading. "there is an active investigation, that's all I can say. anything else I can do for you?"

"did you hear about all the blood they found? so gross." lucia rolled her eyes, acting as if it was no big deal. deep down though, she knew something terrible had happened. all that blood belonged to someone--or something. to be wasted spilled like that...someone was trying to send a message. the whos and the whats were the real mystery. "what do we thing? animal attack? serial killer? someone totally tried to get rid of a body..."