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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 13:48:13 GMT -6
Rave looked up at the Denny's place when Devon drove in there and parked the car not too far away from the entrance of it. He was dying to get out of the car since they'd been sitting there for a while now.
"I know I know.. most places dunn allow smokin' inside.."
He said and clicked his belt off and grabbed the handle to open the car door just as Devon spoke again and made Rave halt his movements, still with the cigarette in his mouth and still unlit.
"Tha's why I didn't lit up while in it"
He said shortly and nodded just before patting Devon twice on the shoulder and got out on his own side, of course lighting up at once and took a deep drag while closing the car door. He held his breath for a moment then exhaled in a slow sigh as if it was pure bliss to get nicotine into his system even if he knew it was bad for him.
It didn't take too long before he had finished his smoke and killed what was left against the bottom of his shoe and tossed it to the side while walking into Denny's. It didn't take long before he found where Devon sat and walked over to him with a much calmer attitude and look.
"Yoah ohdered?"
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 13:56:31 GMT -6
"No, waited for you. Got a couple of coffee's coming though." He rubbed his hands over his face. "I feel like someone's run over me repeatedly and I've still got glass in my feet, bothering the hell out of me." He sighed wearily and dropped his hands to the table. "I hope this isn't going to be what's normal for us. Because that would be a shitty normal."
The waitress came with the coffee and condiments.
"We'll need a few more minutes." He said to her and she snapped her gum, nodded with a smile, and bustled off again.
He sipped the coffee and looked surprised it wasn't tar. "I was supposed to find a group today and go to meeting. That's probably shot now. You know, now that I've got a moment to think, I don't know why we panicked out of there like that. But, it's all good. Just a chore to mark off the list, in a way."
He rubbed the back of his neck to try to release some of the tension.
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 14:06:51 GMT -6
"cool"
He said with a light grin. He looked quite relaxed even when he sunk down in the booth across the table to Devon and glanced at the menu just as the coffee arrived.
He reached for the sugar and poured a little into it, about half a lump and stirred it while looking over the menu again while listening to Devon. He couldn't help but chuckle a bit.
"No, I wouldn't want a "normal" like this one... it'd be too shitteh to be good"
He commented and took a drink of his coffee and sighed in relief when it actually tasted okay. On the other hand, he could probably have taken the tar that was usually presented and that was what he'd been prepared to so he was happily surprised when it tasted quite good.
"I was supposed to go but whatevah things we didn't 'ave.."
He replied then just ended up laughing, at first it was a small amused chuckle but then he just couldn't hold it in. He rubbed his hair back as if to make sure it was slicked back the way he liked it, scratching his scalp in the back of his head a few times while calming down for a while.
"yoah know... tha' was kinda silleh... wasn't it? Man... I think we both kinda freaked eh? .... guess we are a bit stressed huh?"
He said and took another drink of his coffee before looking up at Devon again.
"Hey... why didn't yoah say yoah 'ad glass in toah feet? could'a 'elped get it out yoah know.. It's ha'd to see properleh on yoah own."
He commented then sighed and rubbed his forehead, glancing blankly at the menu.
"...Devon... I'm sorreh I dragged yoah into this, I truleh didn't mean to."
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 14:24:49 GMT -6
"I was supposed to go but whatevah things we didn't 'ave.."
Devon had no clue what he was talking about, but it seemed to amuse the blonde who started laughing at himself. Devon smiled politely and flipped through the menu.
"Just a little bit, but...it's best to be safe that sorry. Can't hurt anything by doing it." He waved the the waitress over. "I think with the lack of sleep and the fight and everything, we lost it for a bit. But, it won't happen again, I hope. And we'll think things through better if it does."
"Hey... why didn't yoah say yoah 'ad glass in yoah feet? could'a 'elped get it out yoah know.. It's ha'd to see properleh on yoah own."
He shrugged. "Didn't have time to mention it. And I got all the major stuff out, it's just those little bits. They'll work themselves up."
"...Devon... I'm sorreh I dragged yoah into this, I truleh didn't mean to."
"Yeah, well..." Devon made a rueful face and looked down at his cup. "I'll add that to the list of things you didn't mean. Just try to start working on doing stuff less that you don't mean and more that you do." He said bitterly.
He glanced up and waved the waitress over and he ordered a French dip and fries with apple pie ala mode for after.
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 14:42:42 GMT -6
"true true... bu' still.."
He was so tired mentally he wasn't sure where he was going but he hoped he wasn't headed to a mental ward but hopefully, Devon could keep him away from it...
"yeah.. I think we're mentally drained, both of us. I 'ope it won't 'appen again. I dunn want it to. I dunn even like fightin' with yoah..."
Rave ordered a burger, fries and a coke along with the apple pie to eat as desert. He was ravished even after the breakfast but it seemed that thinking and being stressed had a lot to do with burning calories so he needed to refill again.
"Tha' list is gettin' quite long...huh..."
He mumbled and looked down into his coffee with a bit of remorse, he did manage to pull Devon into a lot of crap, didn't he? Even if he didn't mean to, Devon always seemed to end up in the fire anyway.
"I realleh should find me a group too.. Didn't realleh pay attention to tha fuckahs at the institute much. Pretty suah they doped me up quite a bit too.."
He muttered the last part and played with his spoon in the coffee with his left hand, leaning his head by the temple in his right palm, elbow resting at the edge of the table and out towards the room, window to his left.
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 14:50:47 GMT -6
"Let's just deal with one thing at a time right now. That's what they teach us. One thing, one day at a time. We get through today, and handle tomorrow when it comes." Devon nodded and forced himself to relax.
"Sleep," He stopped when the waitress came with their food and waited til she'd set it all out and had moved away before he continued. "Sleep with me again tonight, in case you have another bad one, and we'll get you a bed and group and all that sorted out tomorrow. Keep moving forward instead of back, even if it's just baby steps."
He opened the bread and rearranged the meat to his satisfaction and then dipped it in the juice. "Besides, when your famous, you'll owe me big." He grinned before taking a bite.
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 14:58:57 GMT -6
Rave looked up at Devon but still with somewhat of a lowered head. He sighed and nodded. They did teach them to take one thing at a time alright, too bad Rave never really paid attention on how to deal with things the way he was supposed to.
"Yeah..."
He said and grabbed his burger as soon as it arrived and took a bite out of it and wolfed it down along with a few other bites while Devon spoke. He cleared his mouth with a bit of coke and looked up at Devon and blinked.
"yoah okay with tha'? ... I mean.. nh... Thanks. Yoah've alreadeh done so much fo' me Dev. Not realleh suah 'ow ta 'andle it to be 'onest.. no one's realleh done anythin' fo' me befoah.."
He said, took a moment of reflecting over what he just said. Every word was true but he'd never confess anything like this to anyone and here he is, blabbing his heart out in gratitude? What as wrong with him?! Or, perhaps it was Devon that made him want to be honest.. He wasn't sure.
" 'ey, the day I ge' famous.. I'll write a song about yoah! Tha's a promise of a lifetime."
He said and grinned before wolfing down a few more bites on the burger to his own pleasure.
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 15:13:18 GMT -6
"God, please, don't!" Devon groaned, throwing his head back. "The last thing I need is to have people singing along with the car radio about all my fuck ups. It'd be the guy version of Lady Marmalade.." He broke off and sang a snippet of lyric. "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"
He quirked his brows upward and shook his head. "That I can do without." He chuckled.
"As for the rest of it, forget it. I can't change the core of who I am, so, gotta help someone. Might as well be you." He put some ketchup on his plate for the fries. "But, you've got to make an effort too, you can't just let me pick up the pieces all the time. I can't do this for the next 30 years, I've got other plans. Women to marry, kids to beget and fuck up." He laughed as he said this.
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 15:23:42 GMT -6
Rave started laughing again at Devon's complete protest of getting a song written to him. He started to see the old Devon somewhere in there and that made him calm down a bit even though he didn't want the guy to pretend. On the other hand it seemed like he was in a bit of a better mood at the moment.
"Ha! Yoah wish I wrote a song like tha' fo' yoah, don't yoah!? I'd nevah write shit like tha'! ... an' fo' tha' mattah... who said anythin' about writing down yoah fuck ups?"
He smirked and took another bite of his burger that was now almost eaten. He took the last bite of his burger into his mouth and chewed it down before drinking some more coke then moved on to his fries.
" I know.. I know, an' I will. I'll find a group an' staht goin', tha's the fi'st step fo' me I think.. This watch thing isn't always workin'.."
He said and took the ketchup as soon as Devon was done with it and put some on his own before starting to eat them. He couldn't help but chuckle at Devon's statement. He hard a hard time picturing him as a dad but at the same time, Devon was more of a dad than Rave'd ever be.
"Don't yoah dare fuck up if yoah get kids, Dev. Yoah bettah take 'em to heart an' show 'em 'ow tha world should be"
He smiled but at the same time he was yet again quite surprised of what he said. The old Rave that was sent to an institute against his will would never say anything so mushy and here he was, saying it and meant it and it somewhat showed on his face that he'd caught himself, trying to cover up by taking another fry in his mouth.
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 15:44:23 GMT -6
"Hey, no one's perfect. Everyone fucks up their kids. It gives them something to rebel against when they are growing up. Without something to rebel against, they don't grow up." He shrugged. "That's what Nanny Nowicki said, and she was the best one of the lot. She worried about me, because I wasn't doing anything rebellious..." He laughed quietly.
Seeing Rave's embarrassment he waved a fry at him. "You, my friend, however, might want to consider getting clipped if you don't want a family by hook or by crook. There are girls out there that'll dig a rubber out of trash can to get a nice fat paternity suit."
He pushed the plate away and started on his pie, but after a few bites pushed that away as well. "I'm done, too wound up to eat any more. Shall we get this show on the road?"
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 15:53:51 GMT -6
"Depends on wha' way yoah fuck 'em up I s'pose"
He replied. While Devon had spoken, Rave had finished his fries and was already eating the apple pie and was almost done with it.
"I always 'ated my nannies.. bu' they nevah stuck too long eitha.. guess I was too wild as a kid alreadeh"
He said and shrugged.
"S'pose I did the rebellion fo' yoah then eh? Sometimes I feel like yoah' the good paht and I'm the bad pat of a circle. Can't ge' away an' can't live close... quite a mess eh?"
He asked and took the second last piece of his pie and almost flinched when Devon spoke about girls bein that desperate that they'd actually take a used condom and hope they'd get pregnant by inseminating themselves.
"guh.. well, I can't say tha' it's a pleasant thought tha' shit... Bu' no one's touchin' my balls tha's fo suah!"
He said and smirked. He took the last piece of his pie as well as a chunk of Devon's before they rose from the table. He placed some change at the table due to the good coffee, the food wasn't that bad either to be honest.
"I'll ge' the tab"
He said and walked over to the counter and paid the waitress even before Devon could protest about it. He looked back at his friend before he took the recite and walked out the door towards the car.
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 16:08:21 GMT -6
"mmmmm, no." Devon chuckled again at Rave saying he was his rebellion. "I think I started a bit earlier with that whole...sleeping around bit." He said. "But all my nanny's were good. They all knew what side their bread was buttered on. It didn't matter how good they were in the sack, if us kids were taken good care of they'd be out in the street in a heartbeat."
Rave ate his pie and the rest of Devons.
"If I didn't want to have kids someday, I'd done it already." Devon said as they walked to the car. "But, I want at least one, you know? Doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy, just someone I can say that I helped bring into the world, and helped learn how to figure it out. Of course, I have to figure myself out first, but..." He shrugged. "I'm only a kid, I've got plenty of time for that other shit later."
He got in but didn't start the car. "I guess I blame Rita, back at Hadley? She was so excited about her baby and stuff, and I could see how it completed her. It's something I look forward to." He started the car and looked over to Rave. "Not that you're not a big enough baby, I guess I'm getting practice with you." He grinned and flinched back just in case Rave decided to take a swipe at him.
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 16:21:43 GMT -6
"Well, I stahted the whole violence thing aftah about a month of...abuse. Wished someone'd seen me or just asked me 'ow I was.. yoah know? Nevah did, I just go' moah blame on me instead.. of course resultin' in moah rebellion...tch..."
He shook his head and stayed outside the car when Devon sat down in it. He took a smoke real quick but left his car door open so he could still talk, standing on the side of it where it wouldn't blow into the car.
"yoah know... Fo' some reason.. kids love me.. bu' I can't deal with infants.. nevah know 'ow to hold em an' once I do.. they scream"
He said and killed his smoke against the sole of his boot before tossing it aside on the ground and got into the car with Devon, looking at him while he seemed to daydream about kids before he snapped out of it on his own.
"Some day I might want kids bu' ... like yoah said, I gotta deal with my own shit fi'st..Rita did seem quite 'appy, didn't she?"
He said and closed the door just as Devon say the remark of him being a big baby.
"Hey! whatha!"
The bitch slap didn't come sooner than what he almost managed to say, flicking Devon in the back of his head while laughing at the remark.
"like yoah so grown up all the time eh!?"
He asked and make another swipe at him but this time with his fist aiming towards his shoulder to make him hurt a little just for the hell of it.
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Post by Devon Eckes on Apr 8, 2009 16:32:06 GMT -6
Devon laughed, his dimples appearing as he did so and weaved to avoid the blows he knew were coming. "Well, I'd lay out some examples, but, I need to see to drive and don't want a black eye!"
"OK, train station..." He pulled out of the parking lot and followed the signs that had lead him to this exit in the first place. "Five more miles. Why not make another call? Tell the Motel Six you caught a train to LA and don't need your room after all."
He missed the exit they needed and got them slightly lost trying to get back, but about 40 minutes later they were outside the Amtrak station. "I'm going to take a leak, that coffee went right through me. Clear the memory on your phone and go turn it into lost and found, say you saw a guy getting on the southbound train leave it on the bench or something...Maybe they'll stick it on the train, or maybe they'll keep it here, but it'll be a dead end either way for whoever's looking for it."
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Post by Aiden "Rave" Hamilton on Apr 8, 2009 16:45:33 GMT -6
"Black eye? Ha! Tha's the last thing yoah'd 'ave!"
He smirked and left the rest be unsaid but it was only teasing of course. Rave would never betray what he'd said to Devon always being able to say no, but there were just some things you just had to tease about.
"allrighty... call time then"
He said and fished his cell out of his pants and hit the re-dial to get hold of the motel again. It took a few moments before the same woman picked up again.
"Ah, hi, this is Aiden Hamilton again. I booked a room fo' tonite? yeah. No, I dunn need it aftah all, I'm on a train headin' fo' LA at the moment. Yeah, no prob. Thanks"
He clicked the phone shut and removed the memory card after making sure all the pictures he had was on it and placed it in his pocket before he began to delete everything on it. It didn't take too long to do so either since it had options of deleting entire lists or folders.
"Okay, all set"
He said and kept the phone in his hand.
"Hey... woudln't it be bettah if yoah took the phone and leave it at lost and found? Like yoah said, I'm no' really blendin' in, nor is my accent. They'd be able to tell tha' a blond Brit came there an' left the cell... unless tha's wha' we want?"
He said and got out of the car while Devon rambled on about having to take a leak.
"Now.. why didn't yoah go befoah we went into the car eh?"
He teased as if Devon was a kid that refused to go to the bathroom before the road trip, just because he could.
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