An Evening in Town [OPEN]

It wasn't rare for her to be travelling the streets at any time of the evening. It wasn't like she had any clubs to go to or evening classes or even any sort of job. Still, she lived off of her meager inheritance and whatever money she could sponge off of whoever wanted to give it to her. This was actually a lot easier to do than most people would think. She made her way into the town of Shadowhaven and enjoyed weaving in and out of the people. She would normally be with her friends, learning all of their unsavory ways, but they had found themselves in detention on this particular evening and she would make sure that they remembered that they were losers for a good while.

Still, she went shopping, buying herself some cute new boots, fingerless sleeves of the purple and black variety, and some sort of chain choker with a little cat charm on it, which she immediately put on. Of course it wasn't until after she had spent all of the money that she was carrying that she realized that she was insatiably hungry. A small groan came from her before she headed towards the street vendors, peddling everything from tacos to ice cream. And what she wouldn't give for any of it. Of course, there was always the thought of stealing it, but pissing off anyone that might also be of the War variety didn't quite stand very well with her either. So instead, she just wandered around rather aimlessly for a bit until she stumbled across a lonely looking kid with way too much food on his hands. Oh yeah. It was all coming together now.

Devin approached the kid, more like popped in out of nowhere with a bright smile and a gravely "Hey! How you doing?" After all, her voice was still much deeper than her appearance allowed. "Do you go to the school here too?" Was it even possible that there would be kids on the island that didn't? Then again, there were adults here and adults got into all sorts of unsavory business. "Do you like it?" The school? The food? The island? Who even knew what she was referring to. "I'm Devin." She held out her semi-gloved hand, being obnoxious and up-front was definitely some of her worse traits when it came to interacting with people. But hey, gotta break the ice somehow, right?

This kid was obviously not the social type, and Devin giggled a bit. "Oh sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." No, she just intended to get friendly enough to share some food. Though, she could probably just take it and leave the kid to sit and wallow with how nervous he seemed to be. Just sort of roadside theft. But no. She wasn't that kind of person. "Maybe we should start this over hmm?" She smiled and tilted her head to the side in a semi-friendly manner.

"I'm Devin, it's nice to meet you Skyler." She extended her hand in greeting, though she figured he probably wouldn't take it, and that would be just fine with her. It was all just courtesy after all. "Hmm... I think I've seen you around actually. Have a few classes together." She nodded a bit, putting her finger to her chin as she expressed that she was thinking. Thinking was not one of Devin's strong suits by any means. "Yeah. Gotta be a couple of classes. You just seem familiar is all." She shrugged a bit and sat down, enough away to be out of his personal space, but still enough to be a pest.

"So, do you like it here then?" She thought maybe she had already asked that question, but honestly it could have been any number of questions that she asked, as she was a fairly nosey individual. "At the school I mean. Or here on the island too I guess. Food's pretty good huh?"

The kid was definiely nervous. Perhaps he was just weird around girls. Or perhaps he was weird around everybody. It wasn't like she knew enough about him to really jump to a conclusion. But still, he eventually spoke and wanted to know what she wanted of him. Well the answer was food, but she wasn't going to say it. He seemed too much the nervous type for her to make such demands. Probably better if she just left him alone.... Nah.

"Dunno. Just found it odd to run into another student around here is all. Came out to do a little bit of shopping, and ran into you." She shrugged a bit, making herself more comfortable in her spot on the ground. "I mean. I can leave if you want me to. Just thought it might be nice to get to know someone that doesn't seem like a total loser." Unlike her current friends anyways. Losers. The whole lot of them. "You just seemed a little lonely I guess. Thought I might try and cheer you up. But. I guess not, huh?"

Devin took notice of the shift in body language. It wasn't like it was hard to tell. Seeing people be guarded, experiencing it herself some of the time. She was glad that he was finally starting to relax a bit. "No worries. I can be a bit over-bearing sometimes I guess." At least that was what Felix often told her. Not that he wasn't just as bad, if not worse.

Her eyes flicked over to the pile of food. Yes! Finally! "Oh, are you sure?" She gave him a soft smile. "I wouldn't want to impose anymore than I have." Of course that was only a small bit of a lie. In fact, she had her sights set on one of them steamed pork buns from the second she sat down. Her stomach rumbled a bit and she chuckled a bit. "Well. I guess that's an answer, hmm?" She reached over and grabbed one. "Thanks." With her free hand, she dug into one of her shopping bags and pulled out a thicker leather bracelet with some skulls on it. "Here, not sure if it's your style, but you can have this as payment." She gently held it out, waiting to see whether or not he would actually take it.

"So, is this your first year here too?" She asked before she started to munch on the steamed bun. "Oh wow this is pretty good. You have good taste."

Devin gave the boy a soft smile as he asked about her experiences so far at the school and on the island. "Oh, you know." She shrugged a bit and looked around for another piece of food that looked yummy enough to pop in her mouth. "I've made some friends. I've made some enemies. Same old, same old I guess." there really wasn't too much in her life that was interesting anymore. "I spend a lot of time shopping and wandering around, so I'm always around here. Been trying to find a job somewhere so I can afford my expensive habits." She chuckled a bit. "Though, I probably should spend way more time studying if I actually want to thrive here." She made a face that suggested she was contemplating something, but then she just shrugged and shook her head. "Is there anywhere you want to go? I mean like, when you're done eating and all. Or would you just want to go back to the dorms? I know some pretty cool places out here. Or we could always hitchhike down to Oceanview and go to the beach or something."

Useful? Was that what she was? The girl shrugged a bit and just nodded. "Whatever floats your boat, kid." Honestly she was very easily bought when it came to anything food related. She supposed that was the teenage boy in her just demanding to eat anything and everything in sight. She nodded as he spoke again about finding some cool places around this town to venture off to. "Well all the cool stuff is down the cliffs in Oceanview. The boardwalk is amazing at night, but it'd take awhile to get there, even if we hopped on a bus right now we might not make it before they close the gates."

Devin raised a finger to her chin in some dramatic way of showing that she was thinking. That was often how it was with her too. Everything just so dramatic. "Well, here in Shadowhaven, there's the mall." Which she had obviously just come from, but it wasn't like she couldn't ever return. "And... The park is nearby too. We could go harass little kids and steal the swings." There was almost delight in her voice at stealing away fun from children of the younger variety.

Devin listened as he spoke and thought about it with a bit of a shrug. "Well, I suppose that nothing would really stop us from doing anything except for security guards and cameras. But I mean if you are okay with breaking and entering then I'm cool with trying new stuff, but we should probably get an expert if we really are going to do that." She stretched and pulled out her phone, sending a quick text message to her delinquent friend.

"So let's go hop on a bus down and he'll probably just meet us there." She smiled and stood up, patting her skirt down and dusting herself off. "We gotta take all this food though cuz he's probably stoned af." She just sort of started wrapping up what was left and sticking it in her bags that she got from the mall. "Unless you'd rather hang out somewhere else." Again she shrugged, totally cool to do whatever the guy wanted to do.