#hellfirehotline

"Hm?" Kekipi looked up from whatever upside down magazine she was "reading." "What? Me?" Kekipi laughed, "Of course not, how silly of you to think such a thing," she said. She had a little bowl of popcorn beside her... and there was a little popcorn kernel at Lalo's foot.

𝚃𝙷𝙴  𝚃𝙾𝙿  𝙾𝙵  𝚃𝙷𝙴  𝚅𝙰𝙽  𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙷𝙴𝚂  𝚂𝙾𝙼𝙴  𝚂𝚆𝙴𝙴𝚃  𝚁𝙰𝚈𝚂  ,        daffodil  lifts  her  sunglasses  when  she  hears  the  side  door  open  .   shifting  a  bit  to  the  left  ,   she  peers  over  the  side  .     argyle  emerges  with  a  frankly  ridiculous  cloud  of  smoke  in  his  wake  .

❝           𝑙𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔  𝑢𝑝  𝑖𝑛  𝑡𝘩𝑒  𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒  𝑜𝑓  𝑡𝘩𝑒  𝑑𝑎𝑦  ?         ❞        she  asks  ,   lifting  her  eyebrows  at  him  .   daffodil  gestures  for  him  to  share  .

            she was used to the regular crowd in the library, usually reserved for those that didn’t fit in much in the hawkins high lunchroom and needed a quiet place, so she had perked up when someone else had come in, fingers drumming on the circulation desk in hopes they would come over and ask her something. when that didn’t happen, she swiveled around the desk with her lanyard clenched in hand.

            ‘ are you looking for something? ‘ naomi piped up, her voice a loud whisper to avoid bothering anyone else.

           ‘ you usually sound like you smoke a pack a day . . . you gotta have a light . ’              no lighter meant no smoke meant no chance to relax .

        ❝ i  can’t  figure  you  out,  valentine, ❞        IS  HE  REPRESSING  FEELINGS ??    is  he  just  a  dick ??    dorian  has  absolutely  no  idea.    it  seems  like  all  valentine  wants  to  do  is  gas  up  a  girl  and  then  break  her  heart.    what’s  his  m-o ??    he  squints  at  the  other,  crossing  his  arms.    now  would  be  a  great  time  to  use  that  mind  control  and  get  valentine  to  spill  everything,  but  it’s  not  something  dorian  can  control  yet.    instead,  he’ll  just  pretend  to  be  intimidating.    it  may  or  may  not  work,  depending  on  how  his  body  language  reads.        ❝ why  are  you  here ??    are  you  trying  to  get  back  with  draculaura  or  are  you  here  to  break  her  heart ?? ❞