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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

Living in New York meant that there was rarely a week that passed by in Allela’s life that didn’t have a party, concert or bar involved. Technically, she was still underage for another year, but the ID in her purse said otherwise and had yet to fail her. The hotter months brought along more parties and reasons to celebrate, which Allela was not about to complain over. She wasn’t travelling this year since she had decided to return to university and finish off the education she had dropped out from. That required the money she would usually spend to travel to Thailand or wherever else happened to take her fancy when she was looking online and speaking to the friends she still kept in touch with from her trips around the globe. For the same reason she wasn’t returning to Scotland either, instead promising her family that she would be there for Christmas instead, which was when Glasgow was probably in her glory. All of that meant that Allela was out more, partying more and bugging her friends more while she enjoyed the summer in New York City.

Tonight was no different. Someone she knew was having a birthday party in a bar down by the beach. She had been there maybe twice before and knew it was a fun place and the party promised a good time. Such an event meant that she was on the phone to her friends and practically demanding their presence there. Grayson was easy to sway. All she had to do was mention the words beach and party and he promised to be there once his shift at Hard Rock was over. Next she badgered Eli while he took his lunch. She was pretty certain he agreed just so she would leave and let him get back to work, but Allela didn’t care. All that mattered was that he had said yes and he knew better than to try and back out of that. Finally, she called over to Rhi’s apartment and after annoying Reese at the door for five minutes, she convinced Rhiannon into coming out with the rest of them for an evening of drinks, sand and potentially some fun moments of “what the hell?” for the following morning.

After heading home to walk Jesse, call Ryder to make sure he had the messages for his shift in the booth that evening, and get ready for the party, Allela was back out with her phone in hand. She checked in with Eli and then called Rhi who she planned on picking up along the way once she hailed a cab. Eli promised to meet them there within the hour and Allela politely threatened physical pain if he was a no show.

The girls finally arrived at the bar just as the party was really kicking off and Allela wasted no time in dragging Rhiannon to the bar to order the first round of drinks and shots. With a beer for each of them to begin with, Allela made sure they accompanied the cold bottles with a tequila shot. “An’ dinnae think anyone is bailin’ on me tonight. It’s summer an' there is no excuse to leave a place like this.”

[/color] She knew Rhi wasn’t one for vanishing on her as a night kicked off, but the warning still served and would be repeated to both Grayson and Eli, too. She hadn’t seen either of them yet, but the crowd was pretty heavy in there and it was still a little on the earlier side. Grayson had a shift to finish first and Eli would show soon enough, but for now she could people watch with Rhi, dance and make the young artist compete in one of her usual shot contests. “You haven’t met Gray yet, have you?”[/color] She asked, suddenly realising that she couldn’t remember a time or a party where both Rhiannon and Grayson were present. It was odd, since she had been sure that the pair would get along just great!
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TAGGED! Rhi, Eli (and Gray) ! <3
WORDS! 711!
OUTFIT! Big ol’ mess!
LYRICS! Jack Daniels - - - Eric Church
NOTES! <3

[Rhiannon Kaelyn Webb]

It had been a long time since Rhiannon actually went out for a night of good fun with anyone. There had been so much to be done when her contract with Marvel ended and she was scouted, or more appropriately stolen out from under her original company by DC Comics. All those hours full of legal papers and new contracts had driven the poor artist mad but at the same time she’d been excited about the transfer as well. It brought on a higher pay and she could finally start bringing in all those new characters she’d wanted but couldn’t with her old job. This time around she really did have a say in what she was doing, and that part of the long and boring process was worth it all. Rhiannon had been running around like a mad woman picking up new supplies so she could lock herself in her studio and just create.

She had her hair up in a mess of forgetting the real world and ink all over her hands and arms when Allela tore her from the drawing she was inking and badgered until she agreed to go out for the night. It wasn’t that hard for the Scottish girl to do since the brunette wanted to celebrate her new position. So she walked her best friend out after making plans for the pink haired music lover to swing by to collect her on the way to this party. And as soon as she shut that door, she set an alarm on her phone and made Reese promise to interrupt her as many times as he needed to so she would stop working and start getting ready. It was going to take an hour just to get her arms scrubbed free of the ink coating them! She went back to work on that picture, just to finish it off, all the while the night’s plans were swimming in the back of her mind, slowly getting her more excited for the night out.

It took ninety minutes to finish the page but once it was done, Rhi pushed it to the side to dry and rushed out of the room, calling to her brother that she was heading for the shower and that he should make something that resembled food so she wouldn’t faint from starvation while she was enjoying her evening. Rhi didn’t know how much Allela told her big brother about what was happening, but she also knew her brother was well aware his baby sister was no saint. She drank like a fish while she was out, danced with just about anyone if the music called to her but she never went home with anyone she didn’t go to the party with. Checking her appearance in the mirror one last time, Rhiannon hoped she was dressed okay for this particular party. She figured it was near the beach so something along the same lines would do and that was what she went for while still keeping with her slight addiction. She was slipping her foot into her shoe when her friend knocked on the door, signalling the beginning of what would most likely be a long and amusing night.

Rhi didn’t mind being dragged to the bar. It was there usual first stop of the night anyway. The music was already calling to plenty of people and the brunette artist knew it wouldn’t be too long before she was one of them. “Didn’t plan on it!” She laughed, knocking back the shot of tequila happily. She might have been a fairly good girl, but she was quite the drinker. Allela seemed to have some sort of super power for getting them to parties at the right time. There was always a big crowd and none of that awkward sitting around waiting for more people to show up to make it a real party. That had been the worst for Rhiannon when it was her parent’s throwing the fundraiser, luncheon, ball or whatever. She had to be one of the first ones there to be polite and greet everyone else. It had sucked, but Allela wasn’t from that world and Rhiannon couldn’t have been more thankful for it. “Umm, nope.” Rhi said thinking about it. She had met plenty of Allela’s friends but one named Gray wasn’t on that list. Taking a swig of her beer, Rhiannon turned her attention to the crowd surrounding them. The place was packed, which was always fun. “So, what nefarious drinking games have you concocted for tonight, Alley-cat?”

Tag|| Alley-Cat, Gray and Eli! <3
Words|| 760
Clothes|| Party Girl!
Music|| Ignition (Remix) --R. Kelly
Notes|| <3

[Grayson Clarke Harris]

Grayson had to admit that as much as he loved New York he still loved being close to the water more. He had already made a number of trips over the summer to fulfil his needs of waves, kayaks and hot sun. It was never going to be the same as New Zealand, but he made the most of everything. After all, he liked to think that he was living his life for two now, after his best friend passed away. It had encouraged Gray to enjoy his life and part of that had come from meeting Allela. They had met purely by coincidence in a bar that held open mic nights. Sharing a dislike for similar things and arguing over others it was nearly impossible for them not to become friends. After that the party invites just kept coming and Gray definitely had to admit that the pink haired girl knew how to have a good night out. Plus, she could hold her own when it came to alcohol, which was something Grayson had found to be rare in the women of the city. They seemed to pack themselves into skin tight dresses and drink until they were at high risk of breaking their ankle in ridiculous shoes. While they were definitely nice to look at, Grayson hadn’t been able to hold much of a conversation with one. Not that he was looking for anyone to begin with. He just enjoyed being able to talk music or travelling with someone the following morning.

When the call had come through that day, Gray was just getting ready for his shift at Hard Rock. He wasn’t about to let that stop him though! Getting the details and the address from Allela he promised to meet her there later. He knew better than to try to say no to the Scottish girl and luckily his boss didn’t need him to stay to help cover the staff shortage problems that came with the summer months and everyone jetting off on luxury vacations or home to see their families. He didn’t head straight out to the party, but went home first. He needed to shower and change and probably grab some sort of dinner. There was enough in his refrigerator to whip up a decent enough salad dish and he tossed it all together before eating it as he watched Youtube videos. He didn’t have the time to invest in TV programmes, so Youtube channels of stunts and tricks, charity messages, and comical parodies were his fix of television, so to speak. After showering and grabbing some of his usual style of clothes from his wardrobe, Grayson got changed and then stuffed all the necessities into his pockets. He didn’t want to have to turn back when he was halfway down the street and realising that he had forgotten his wallet. It had happened before and he had owed Allela a small fortuning for covering him that night. Whenever they were together the drinks did indeed flow.

Grayson chose to walk down to the bar where the party was. It was only half an hour or so from his apartment and he preferred being out in the city over taking a cab whenever he needed to go somewhere. He bumped into a few people on the way which slowed him down, but he made it to the bar in good time. There was one good thing about meeting Allela in places; she stood out in a crowd. It only took him his first scan of the room to find her chatting to a brunette girl. As he approached he heard her reeling off a list of drinking games that often slipped into one of their nights out. “Y’ better be plannin’ on tequila shots for each girl in a bikini.”

[/color] He joked when he was close enough to interrupt her. “Be hammered in thirty minutes or less.”[/color] He grinned, as though he was trying to sell the idea to the pair of them. Turning to the girl he had never met before but could have sworn was in a photo in Allela’s apartment, he introduced himself with a nod of his head and a tip of his bandana “Name’s Grayson. I kick about with this one.”[/color] He explained, just so she didn’t think he was some creepy stranger just coming on over. He had seen what Allela did to them and he would rather not be on the receiving end of it.
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TAGGED! Rhi, Eli (and Allela) ! <3
WORDS! 751!
OUTFIT! Beach Bud!
LYRICS! If I Didn’t Know Better - - - The Civil Wars
NOTES! <3

[Eli Morgan Kane]

Eli was well aware he worked too hard. But he always felt like he needed to prove himself because of his dyslexia. He knew that wasn’t the case, his boss knew he was good at what he did, but it was more for him than anything anyway. The breaks his friends provided were needed after some of the weeks he had at work, trying to deal with new clients and getting flustered when he filled out the paperwork wrong. His friends didn’t say anything mean about it though they did joke and tease to get him out of any foul moods he was put into because of the dyslexia and the issues he’d faced his entire life. He hardly kept it a secret but Eli also didn’t go around flaunting it either. And after the week he’d had at work, with those new clients, Allela’s demand that he go to this party was too welcome for words.

With the paperwork finished and the new pieces catalogued, Eli wove to his boss, informing him he was done and going home. He stopped for a coffee on the way to his lower west side converted factory apartment and finished that by the time he put the key in the lock. He knew better than to take any longer than he absolutely needed because Allela would keep calling until he showed up at the bar. He had definitely learned his lesson with that pink haired Scot. His shower could probably make the record books, within an hour, he was walking through the front door of his apartment and walking back out again in a change of clothes and ready to drink and dance the night away. Eli hailed a taxi to take him to the address in the text and sat back to enjoy the twenty minute ride to wherever the hell Allela had him going.

When the yellow car pulled over, Eli tossed a few bills to the driver and slipped out of the back seat, heading straight inside the bar. The music was already pulsing when he got there, the party in full swing which was nice he’d thought he was going to be so early. Eli walked through the bar until he spotted Allela’s pink head and the slightly shorter brunette in the usual superhero attire she seemed to love. They were talking to someone but from his angle, he couldn’t see who it was. Fine for him really, he had either partied with them before or it would happen again in the future. He skirted a group of cackling girls and a group of guy’s obviously rating said girls, trying to sneak up on his friends though he didn’t get the chance. Rhiannon looked his way, almost liked she’d been opening her mouth say something before she’d spotted him and pushed through the crowd towards him calling out his terrible yet understandable nickname. “Ichabod!” the pretty brunette called throwing herself at him, laughing. He spun her around, as per his usual greeting for the comic book artist. “Hey, Supergirl, Alley-cat, Grayson.” He said, finishing his greetings when they got to the pair of them at the bar.

Tag|| Allela, Gray and Supergirl! <3
Words|| 528
Clothes|| Party Night
Music|| Let's Be Bad - -Smash Cast
Notes|| <3

[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

Allela didn’t cope well with stress and pressure. If often sparked off her short fuse and then it wasn’t long before she exploded on someone. There were even friends who couldn’t escape from it if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was one of the many reasons why she made sure to get the use out of her fake ID. She needed the parties, the fun times and the freedom from the serious side of life in New York. It had to be a bar or a party since she couldn’t just jet off to Thailand or Spain and live the travelling life she had loved before she landed in the city. Even when she had the chance she still took off to cross another location from the spinning globe that sat in her apartment and was usually knocked over by her hyperactive dog. Dragging her friends along was her way of making sure they didn’t get bogged down by the torment of city life, too.

Normally there was only one or two friends accompanying her on her nights of madness, but this time Allela had turned to more. The group might have been larger, but people had jobs and not everyone was lucky enough to have the evening off to get drunk, make silly mistakes and curse themselves with long, gruelling hangovers for the following morning. She didn’t bother thinking about the antics the four of them could cause once they were all together, but she could bet that they’d be memorable…so long as they could put the pieces together whenever they emerged the next day. Allela herself had no plans on rising before noon, even if someone prodded and poked at her all morning long.

Rolling her eyes, Allela could only shake her head and bring her drink to her lips. “You’d be too busy tryin’ t’ stalk them that you’d forget the shot.”

[/color] She said matter-of-factly. The pink haired Scot had lost track of how many nights out where she had temporarily lost Grayson because some skimpy dressed Barbie doll had distracted him. “Yeah, this is Rhi. Rhi, this is the Gray I just mentioned.”[/color] Allela said nonchalantly. She wasn’t about to win any awards for introductions and she never had been. People had voices, they could offer up their names themselves if they really wanted to. Eli’s arrival not that long after rounded off their group for this party adventure. “Finally, you’re here.”[/color] She stated, punching Eli lightly in the arm as though the three of them had been waiting on him for hours already. Getting the attention of the nearest member of the bar staff, Allela ordered a round of tequila shots for the group, whether they wanted one or not. “Enough with the pleasantries. It’s time to drink.”[/color] She instructed, tapping the glass against the other three before knocking it back in one swift move, giving off the image that she had been doing this for far much longer than she really ought to have been doing. “Woo! Alright, c’mon now.”[/color] Allela had no intention of letting any of them go home sober and Allela was stubborn enough to often get her way.
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TAGGED! Rhi, Eli (and Gray) ! <3
WORDS! 577!
OUTFIT! Big ol’ mess!
LYRICS! Jack Daniels - - - Eric Church
NOTES! <3

[Rhiannon Kaelyn Webb]

Rhiannon knew better than to tell Allela of all her friends that she couldn’t go out on any night unless she wasn’t even in New York, which didn’t happen as often and the brunette liked. But she made the effort to go out as much as she could when she was in town because her closest friend really wouldn’t have had it any other way. When she had the chance, she usually dragged the comic loving Scot with her but there were those trips when she had to go it alone since her brother was usually the one covering for her so she could get away without them knowing she wasn’t doing what she was doing. Rhi was lucky that she could pretty much do whatever she wanted so long as she got her work in before deadline. And she could do that wherever she went travelling because she brought a bag of supplies for those late nights when she couldn’t get to sleep and the only thing that would get her there was work.

She knew tonight there would be no talk of work at all. It was an off limits topic and Rhiannon was okay with that; especially since her work world was never a topic off limits anyway in the world Rhiannon lived in. Her parent’s world was a different story since she had to lie like the faux bear skin run in their Cabin in Upstate New York with a bright smile on her lips. But with Allela, it always got brought up one way or another. “That’s fine! It just means more for us.” Rhi said, laughing. Rhi like meeting new people anywhere she went, it was how she made her living by meeting strangers and talking to them about her work and how it made them feel. It was a big part of the reason Rhi kept doing what she did. Sure, she loved it but in some little way, she’s helping those people who fork out the money to read her comics. “It’s good to meet- excuse me,” She said brushing past to act like the hyperactive fool she was around the friends she did know. Grayson was still a stranger and by the end of the night she was sure that he would know exactly why she and Allela got along so well but until then, she would easily let him believe her a flake. He would know soon enough that she wasn’t someone to brush people off, she just had a short attention span when it came to things outside her work.

“First proper round’s on the last to arrive!” Rhiannon declared as Allela ordered the shots, grinning widely up at Eli like he wouldn’t be able to say no if she used her overly cheesy grin. Happily, Rhi picked up the little shot glass and clicked it against the others before tossing it back easily. She had been hanging out with Allela long enough that shots of anything didn’t knock her on her ass like they used to. And before that, it wasn’t always possible to get through the upper crust’s elite parties without a couple drinks here and there. “Keep the drinks coming!” The petite brunette called. She was there to have a good time and forget that her deadline was quickly approaching and she still had to do nearly half the pages. It was a damn good thing her comics weren’t the type that needed to be printed and out on the shelves every month. Hers came out when she got them out and that was that, though with this new position, she would probably have to figure it all out from the beginning again. Tomorrow at the earliest, or after she woke up from the hangover she was sure she was going to get being out with Allela; they never did anything half assed.

Tag|| Alley-Cat, Gray and Eli! <3
Words|| 647
Clothes|| Party Girl!
Music|| Ignition (Remix) --R. Kelly
Notes|| <3