Location: Outside Open Range Starter for: Andre Carter (@fromdvsk)
Even after all of her years of co-parenting Aurelia, the nights when she wasn't with Maya always had the blonde spiralling. With her daughter there, there was enough to distract her from the whirlpool that was her mind but with Aurelia away, the house eerily quiet and all of the chores she could possibly do, done, Maya was always unsettled. Usually she would pick up a shift at Le Rouge, but with the roster full, she had found herself looking for anything that would just quiet the noise.
She actively avoided Open Range on open mic nights but in her haste to do anything other than sit at home and stew in her poor life choices, she hadn't bothered to check what was going on at the bar and the young singers, full of the same hopes and dreams she had once been filled with had turned her need for distraction into something even more sour.
A bottle of wine and a couple of shots down, the biggest lightweight in Sedona stumbled outside of the bar, stumbling a little down the small step to the street level. Reaching for her phone, Maya could only groan as the screen stayed black and refused to turn on. "Why do bad things always happen to bad people?"