#º ✧ 。― marcela everly / thread .

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STATUS: open to all @palmviewstarters

LOCATION: Tadpole Adventure Playground

She was well aware of how sad it looked for a grown adult like her to hang around the playground at night, barely swinging on the swing set while reflecting on the new year. Not even half through the first month and Marcela already broke her resolutions. It was possible that it wasn't that big of a deal, but it did give a rocky start to her grand plan to get her shit together this year. Maybe it was better to just push it off to the next year...like she did every year. At this rate she seemed doomed to stay in a perpetual state of knowing change was necessary but never following through.

For better or worse, the snapping of a twig pulled her from her deep thoughts, startling her, and nearly causing her to fall off the swing as a scream rang out from her throat. After a moment passed and it was obvious she wasn't in any danger, she let out a chuckle that had hints of embarrassment and nervousness clinging to it. "Come Halloween you should volunteer at a haunted house, you'd do great there." She'd ask the other what they were doing out here, but that would leave the door open for the question to get flipped back on her.

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"There's hope for it catching on yet then." A comment with the same playful energy as his smile easily left her lips. Her brow rose in interest as she heard out his proposition. There should be warning bells going off, flashing red lights, something whenever two people with similar self-sabotaging tendencies interacted. Then again, Marcela would more than likely ignore all those signs. Good decisions and her didn't exactly go hand in hand – something that was made glaringly apparent by the next words out of her mouth, "I think I could rearrange my plans to swing by and help you stay up." Actually, what was so bad about potentially hooking up again? It was better than her going out and potentially leading on someone who was looking for something less casual, right? At least it was pretty obvious Leon and her were on the same page. "You heading there right after this?"

leon smiles playfully at her deprived gibberish -her words- and moves ever so slightly as one person leaves the line. "i liked it," he grins. the menu on the screen above the baristas is glitching and he wonders why he keeps coming here when the service sucks. oh right, best coffee in palmview. even if it's usually shit compared to the valpo coffee. even nyc's is better. "i hope so. i gotta pull an all-nighter at the studio tonight." it's only eight-thirty, but he needs to finish a mix before tomorrow's deadline. it's hard on his sleep schedule to be a producer, all the pressure to be quick and good. but he wouldn't change it for the world. "i think it'll be more fun if you join me," he grins. "do you wanna come?" there's an innuendo somewhere in that sentence. sure, he and marcela had a one-night stand a while ago. why not make it into a two-time thing? and even though he thinks about serin for a moment, the feeling of getting too close to someone feels a bit scary. and he's always been good at self-sabotaging.

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There were some people who could get through their entire day without a single cup of coffee. Judging by her spot in line, it was safe to say Marcela was not one of those people. Those people probably had things like consistent schedules, life all figured out, and so on. Before she could spiral further down the rabbit hole of comparisons, her attention was brought back to the other. "Maybe I've started a new saying then." A beat of silence passed before laughter escaped her life, "That look on your face tells me my caffeine deprived gibberish isn't going to catch on anytime soon, however." The line moved forward ever so slightly. "Speaking of caffeine, think we're actually going to get some this century?"

lf there's a place where he bumps into people regularly, it's definitely whatever coffee shop he's closer to at the moment. "i'm sure that's not the saying," leon chuckles, an amused face and a big grin. having conversations when waiting in line for an americano is the best way to start the day. "or any saying for that matter."

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