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And I'm a heartless bitch, you know. And what I carry across to others ain't the full extent of what I know Eve Colbert || 24 years old from Lima, Ohio. I'm a Math High School teacher, I know that's a little evil but someone's gotta teach life's tough, right?

[evecolbert]

khalid

He doesn’t like bonfires. That’s why he doesn’t attend many of them, not even when he was in New York – the only reason why he shows up is for alcohol and some, if you are lucky, good company. But being in Lima, he figures that he can as well as show up, considering there’s not much going on in the town. He watches people laughing and walking around with a sparklers; while he is there, a cigarette in the corner of his lips and red cup in one hand. He is handed one sparkler; he lit it up, it’s not like it’s making a big deal out of anything. Khalid watches the sparkler, his eyes focus on it for a moment, before he is nudged by some complete stranger and he starts shaking his head. Normally, he would stop whoever nudged him and say a thing or two, but he’s not the one to watch people freaking out on the party – as enjoyable as it is in reality. The British-Pakistani boy finishes his cigarette, still holding half full cup of alcohol, as he looks at the person in front of him and a smirk forms on his lips. “I’m not saying it’s as interesting as watching paint dry, but it’s not far from the truth either – What I’m saying is that we drink,” and he points at the plastic cup, titling his head and watching his friend, before he speaks again. “We can play some games, and find out what’s the tension between people. Or we can go straight to making out against the tree, it’s ten times much more interesting than watching a bonfire.” He raises his eyebrows, taking another cigarette out of his pack and placing it at the corner of his lips.

Eve was walking through the crowd of people looking down at her phone and trying to figure out where the rest of her friends had headed to while she had gone to pick up a drink for herself. They hadn’t intended to move, apparently, and they kept texting her weird directions she didn’t understand, that led her nowhere near the group of people she was meant to spend the night with. 

She didn’t blame her, she was new in town and the new one of the group, she wasn’t going to feel bad because they didn’t took into consideration how she might feel when she got back from where the drinks were being handed out only to find that she didn’t see any familiar places in the spot they were before she left. 

She was still looking down at her phone when she heard a familiar voice and someone stood right beside her. It was a shock to see who it was when he lifted her gaze, how could it be possible that from all the places she could go back to, she had to be exactly where Khalid had headed to after High School? It had been years since the last time she had seen him, his hair was different and he was taller, but he was still the handsome guy she met in her early years as a teacher. She’d been younger and totally stupid, and almost had ended up in jail because of that. 

“I don’t think it was me you were trying to find.” She said, keeping her eyes on his face to keep track of his reactions, of the way he would act when he noticed she was here as well, in Lima. “I see you’re still trying to hit on everything that moves, aren’t you? Some things just never change.” She told him with a bitter laugh. 

[oliviaxmarshall-blog]

She hadn’t really wanted to go to this bonfire but with some convincing from people who must have cared about her Nina attended. Getting handed a pack of sparklers Nina decided what the hell, and lit them up. Nina laughed as she waved the sparklers in someone’s face. “Okay this bonfire seemed like a really stupid idea, but I think I’m actually having a lot of fun.” She danced around with her sparkler not caring about whether the other person was really paying attention or not.

[evecolbert]

As the sparklers got dangerously close to her face, Eve stepped back. See, there was a reason why she hadn’t wanted to come, it was going to be full of teenagers who probably didn’t know how to handle their alcohol and could end up causing more trouble than fun. 

She didn’t mind teenagers, she had chosen to be a teacher for a reason, but there was nothing fun about having a pair of sparkling-fire-sticks shoved up towards your face. 

“Alright- maybe you should just put that as far away from me as you can so you can keep on having fun without burning my clothes or my hair?” She told the girl she didn’t really know, just trying to walk through the crowd to the place where her friends told her they would be.