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Rye left her shift at the Papillon late at night, or perhaps early in the morning. She was certain to take turns walking under the light of the streetlamps and beneath the cloak of darkness offered by the night. She could not help but to imagine herself the main character of a horror movie, walking unsuspectingly through the streets. However, the twist would come when she proved that she was not so helpless after all. Perhaps, instead, she was the monster. 

           ❝Ooh a penny.❞

Rye quickly bent down to pull the penny from the ground, shoving it in her pocket.

So there she was, her already messy bun half undone and thick eyebrows knit together in frustration when the front door bell jingled, alerting her to the arrival of a customer. This was an all too common occurrence, one she didn’t mind at all, but she was incredibly tired. “Thanks for coming to Down To Earth! If you know what you want let me know, we’re closing in just a few.”

Wes has all of his things spread out around him. He’s been sitting at the booth in the back of the diner for hours, studying ( mostly ). He has a test in his Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations class at the end of the week which he thinks he’s M O S T L Y prepared for. His textbook and notes from class are spread out around him in a wave of mathematical chaos. His phone is in within a hands reach ( in case anyone needs to contact him ), the white cord of his headphones plugged into it as music creates a blanket of white noise.

Wes doesn’t know how long the person has been standing by his table as brown eyes raise to focus on them. He’s got a feeling by the way they’re looking at him that they’ve been trying to speak to him without much success. Pulling out an earbud, Wes raises his brow questioningly before asking the obvious.

❝Yeah... I’m not sure how that got there.❞