Intoxication || Effy & Sam
Sam lead Effy along to his car, parked up just a short way away, "Do you know of any good places to get fucked up?" he asked her, glancing at her and raising his eyebrows. "I have no problem with using my place but you might know somewhere better..." Sam pondered it for a moment and then a smile that signalled an epiphany appeared on his face. He looked at the brunette as they reached his car, "Did you happen to go to Roundview?" He unlocked the car with a press of the car keys and the slipped into the driver's seat, he waited for her to join him in the car before continuing, "I went for all of a month before I had to drop out and look after the family." his tone wasn't bitter, he was merely stating what had happened. Sure, his mother's drinking and sleeping around had gotten so severe that he was the only one fit to take care of his siblings at the age of sixteen, but he tried not to dwell on that. "How about a smoke on college green? I never had the chance."
He acted nonchalant, but his eyes probably gave him away, alight for once. He really did want to do this, he only just realised how much. He'd lost out on his teenage years. He looked around at the people he should have gone to college with and he couldn't help but feel kind of cheated. Sometimes he wondered what he would be like now if he'd had that. Perhaps he wouldn't be so cold and cynical. Hm, no, he probably still would be, his mother would still be gone. He might not have seen it though and he might have had friends who were close enough to care but not affected just as his siblings were. Wouldn't that have been something? No matter now. He just fancied seeing what sharing a spliff on the grounds would be like.
"It's alright if you don't want to, we can think of something else." He offered with a shrug before starting up the engine. He glanced at himself in the mirror and scratched the bridge of his nose, missing the bruising on his face, still visible from the fight he'd taken part in the other night. It was all a part of the risk of working in such a dive and, in all honesty, fighting that guy had given him a rush he hadn't experienced since being in the forces. All that with the excuse that he was helping out a friend. If Luna didn't learn to bite her tongue though, more shit was going to go down. He knew there was a reason he liked her. He began to drive, awaiting her instructions, glancing at her as he did.