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Caleb Peterson ([personal profile] freefromsin) wrote2015-08-21 08:50 pm

(Open - At the edge of town)

Caleb scrambles out of the car before it even comes to a complete stop. With his backpack clutched in one hand, he slams the door shut with the other. "Fuck you!" The car takes off, tires squealing, and Caleb gives its bumper a kick as it flies past him, shouting after it, "Fucking perv!"

He rubs one gently trembling hand with the other and stares after the car, making sure it's well and truly gone. Heart hammering in his chest, Caleb lets out a breath and glanced around. It's not cold, but he hugs his jacket closer to his body all the same, wishing he was wearing more than just a tank top underneath. There's probably good money to be made in prostitution, but he hadn't gotten quite that desperate yet. He guesses his good hitch-hiking luck had to run out at some point, and of course it had to happen now. But that's okay, because at least he's gotten to his destination, and he hopefully won't need to do any more hitching right away.

It's dusk, the start of a nice, clear night, but too late to look for his old friend. Street lights bathe him in pale yellow, as he heads father into town. Better find a place to spend the night.



[ooc: Hi! I'm new and so is Caleb. Feel free to tag him when he forcefully ejected himself from the car, or when he's somewhere in town. He's mostly just gonna wander until he finds a public bench he can crash on for the night. Also I guess if you could read his Permissions page before tagging that'd be cool. Unfortunately I'm gonna be gone ALL DAY tomorrow, but I'm impatient and wanted to post this now. So any loose threads I'll get back to on Sunday. ...And this OOC section is about to be longer than my post so I'll stop now.]
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[personal profile] just_another 2015-08-28 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
He isn't sure telling someone the bar is run by a siren matriarch is the best introduction to the town, so he settles on saying, "There's an escort service run out of the bar as well and the owner is perfectly capable of kicking someone's ass should they make her angry, but she's also a very good friend to have." There's really no other way to describe Lara. She's loyal and fierce and brilliant. For a long time Joel's mother had clearly hoped they might end up together, but he'd never been able to explain to her why it was better he and Lara were friends instead of anything more.
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[personal profile] just_another 2015-08-30 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, not far," he says, then shifts so he can point toward the boardwalk. "Just down that road a few blocks, closer to the boardwalk. It's called Crossroads." A little over a year ago it would have been easy to miss with the way he'd kept it dark and closed off, but now that Spencer is there with him, they open the shutters and the windows, often leaving the door wide open in the warm summer months. It's become a little harder to miss.