𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗. // 6/6 // CLOSED

Ariella crossed her legs under in the couch. She supposed that Devon wasn't that bad, he was in the same boat as she.
She placed her hands in her lap and looked at the boy. What was she supposed to say?

Ronni hadn't thought about vacations for a long time before the Flu, but she didn't feel like explaining that.
Yeah… Favorite movie, song, sport?

Lucas smiled wanly.
"Movie is Coraline," she told her. "My favorite song is 1-800 by Logic."
"Try to guess my favorite sport." He challenged, grinning.

Ariella glanced at Lucky. Why did she agree to this again? Because she didn't want to be alone.
She kept her eyes on her lap as she spoke, "I'm Ariella."
Her voice was barely above a whisper. She didn't want any of the others trying to butt into the conversation. She needed to start slow and build up to it.

Ronni looked him over. He wasn't super muscular, like a football player or wrestler, and he wasn't really tall, like a basketball player, so…
Soccer? she wrote tentatively.

Lucas shook his head, smiling.
"no, but nice try." He said "it's Baseball, I got a scholarship to play and was at college for it."
He paused.
"Your turn to answer." He told her.

Ariella turned her head to Lucky. Why are you making me do this?
Devon didn't even know how to have a conversation or talk to other people, why did she have to? Putting two antisocial people together didn't seem to go well.

(It's totally fine! I know the feeling lol)

Alastor clicked his tongue once and Zeus immediately got up and went over to him, sitting down beside him obediently.
"I'm ready too," he said, smiling back at Cassie and Liana.
"I'm fine with going now if you are," he told Eva. "I'm sure the others would love to meet all of you."

(No problem and yeah, I'm cool with a time skip)

"I don't need to rest," Alastor assured Eva. "I was just worried about Zeus, since his fur is so thick."

(we can time skip if everyone is okay with it, maybe we should vote or something?)

(I mean, some people want to, im fine with whatever, but I think we should wait a bit because I wanna see how ppl to Lucky going off.)

Lucky rolled his eyes so hard, he nearly hurt himself. "Merde, you're both adults, hold a conversation!" It was beginning to drive him a little nuts.
Lucky had never been a social butterfly, but he had basic manners and could carry a conversation. He glanced over at Lucas and Ronni, before holding out a hand in their direction.
"Ronni doesn't even speak and she's able to hold a conversation. Maybe ask each other questions? Get to know the people you're going to travel with, or don't travel with them." The reality of the situation was clear to him, why couldn't anybody else see the importance of this…
"If we get jumped as a group, you need to know enough about your people to know how to work together." He was thinking how nice it would have been to have people with him either time he was jumped. "You need to know who's going to lock up, and who's going to go into fight or flight. Who's going to stay calm and who's going to start shooting and stabbing anything that moves. Who knows how to take care of themselves and who needs protected." He was irritated, his emotions were on edge, and this was enough to tip him. He stood and stepped away from the couch as his gestures got bigger. "How are you gonna know how to help each other? Food allergies, medication needs, triggers, all the things that people need to know about each other. Are any of us diabetic, asthmatic, or suffering withdrawals from things? Does anybody know first aid, or even deeper medical knowledge? Do we have people with military or other kinds of helpful experience? Do people have sleep issues, is there some way we can help, don't you guys care about ANY of that??" He managed to keep from yelling, but by this point, he was fuming. "You know what, never mind. I don't know why I even bothered. Screw me for trying to make sure we can help each other out. Screw me for trying to hold onto any shred of decency or humanity in the middle of this. My bad." He turned and walked back to the door. "Ronni, I found a car that is still in decent condition of you're interesting in hotwiring it." He made eye contact with her, before leaving to go cool down.

"How about I just answer those questions and call it done?" He muttered, waiting for Lucky to finish his fuming. He wasn't affected by the aggression Lucky showed, or at least, he didn't make it known if he was. Devon sighed. "June would start stabbing, I would stay the same. June can take care of herself, I am a pacifist. Everyone has triggers…I'd rather not mention mine." He thought for a minute, purposely avoiding the sleeping question. "Or I could just introduce myself." He shrugged, "Like, 'Hi I am Donevan, I go by Devon or Dev. I am 20 years old, I was studying to be a writer in college before this. I have gynophobia..and monophobia. Hopefully no one knows what that is. I like cats, animals are drawn to me even though I like to pretend that I don't like them just to spite the fact that they like me.' There, is that enough of a get to know me session? Because I figure we are all stuck together so might as well just let you all know." He shook his head.

Lucas smiled to himself and turned back to Ronni.
"Favorite show, before all this?" He asked her. "Also congrats on being able to hold a conversation I guess."

Lucas hopped up and trailed after her, kind of like a lost puppy.
He didn't really want to be with Devon or Ariella, they didn't like people, but he liked Lucky and Ronni, so he decided it was a good choice to be the moral support while they worked on hotwiring the car.

"How about I just answer those questions and call it done?" He muttered, waiting for Lucky to finish his fuming. He wasn't affected by the aggression Lucky showed, or at least, he didn't make it known if he was. Devon sighed. "June would start stabbing, I would stay the same. June can take care of herself, I am a pacifist. Everyone has triggers…I'd rather not mention mine." He thought for a minute, purposely avoiding the sleeping question. "Or I could just introduce myself." He shrugged, "Like, 'Hi I am Donevan, I go by Devon or Dev. I am 20 years old, I was studying to be a writer in college before this. I have gynophobia..and monophobia. Hopefully no one knows what that is. I like cats, animals are drawn to me even though I like to pretend that I don't like them just to spite the fact that they like me.' There, is that enough of a get to know me session? Because I figure we are all stuck together so might as well just let you all know." He shook his head.

Ariella flinched at Lucky's words. She tucked her knees to her chest and turned her head so he wouldn't see the tears forming in her eyes and falling down her cheeks. She was trying. She just wasn't good at this. Not anymore.
She dug her face into her knees once Lucky walked away, trying to hide her silent crying. She only lifted her head once Devon started talking. She wiped at her eyes and cheeks. She tried to smile but it looked sad really.
"Hi Devon," She winced as her voice cracked, "I'm Ariella. I'm 23. I was in nursing school and was going to graduate and be a registered nurse by December. I uh, I do know what those phobias are." She made a point to scoot away from him a bit to give him space. "I rode a horse once and got bucked off so I've been afraid ever since."