#mack 001.

location: the reef

"Thanks for agreeing to this," Mavis said as she returned to the table, sliding a beer over before she took her seat.

She rubbed her hands over her thighs before wrapping them around her own beer, fingers immediately starting to scratch at the label. She wasn't nervous, per se, but she thought it'd be wrong to treat this like just a casual chat.

"I'm not here to...give you the shovel talk or anything like that. God knows I—" have no right to do that went unsaid. "I just know you're important to my sister, so I wanna...get to know you better, I guess."

location: nora's car

"Mack, if your knee doesn't stop bouncing, I swear to god..."

Nora looked over for a second to shoot a quick glare at her passenger princess for the night, even though the anxiety buzzing in the air wasn't all his. How else was she supposed to feel when Aiden had sent out a drunken SOS and his Find My Friends location put him squarely in the middle of nowhere?

where: ocean crest rooftop, nov 15th

"Last one," Lucky promises through a cloud of exhaled smoke as his girlfriend approaches him, determined to be in a mindspace where he could actually fully kick the habit in December so that it could be a New Years resolution he would actually keep.

( He's failed to for three years running, but he's naively optimistic about attempt four. )

where: rooftop of ocean crest, pool day vibez!