@Samuel
[Itali's Pizza and Pasta, Five Points, Friday July 14th, 6:40PM]You've always loved Itali's. Clean, local, hand made, and priced for the lower class sprawl dweller. Sure, there's no more actual meat in any of the sauce, but the seasoning is so good, you can fool yourself if you're drunk enough. Too bad they don't serve alcohol. You and Rock have been here for about an hour and half, after having arrived in five points around a quarter to 5 and keeping him company while he fixed the AC next door. It was so ridiculously hot and muggy in there, you thought you'd pass out a few times, but Rock obviously needed a friend, so you stuck it out.
When you first got to the tiny little retro clothing shop for rich city girls, you found him up on a ladder, singing along with an old song on the intercom.
"...be no one unless that someone is youuuuuuuuuu. I intend to be independently-" He notices you listening and stops abruptly.
"Oh, Hoi chummer." he stammers out, looking a bit embarrassed. He seems relieved when you don't mention anything about it. You know he's kind of a sensitive guy, despite his outer shell and he seems especially fragile today.
You spent most of the time there nodding, handing him tools, and saying "oh damn" at the correct times in his story. Things aren't going well with him and Annabelle. They got in a big fight a few days ago and she went to stay with her mother. He knows he was wrong and he feels horrible, but she still needs some time to think about stuff. All throughout the job and dinner, you play the good friend and good listener.
After paying the bill whether you like it or not, he looks up at you and says,
"So, what do you got goin' on tonight, Omae?"@Slappendash
She grinned, hand on her hip as she spoke. Don't trust you entirely, but you're good enough. Don't trust your friends at all. But if they mean the difference between me getting out alive and not getting out at all, I'll gladly put them in the Ares.
Sam chuckles out loud, the sound bouncing off the bare walls and concrete floor of the little place, causing the five men already there and the two young dwarves who just walked in to turn and look. When he's certain he has the attention of the group, he pulls the respirator off his mouth and addresses the room.
"How many of yall hardcore-ass mugs came strapped for this battle, YO?!"Most of the men look around confused at eachother with a distinct "what the fuck?" sort of look on their faces. One of the humans, a short skinny white boy with a backwards visor, puts on his best gangster pose and pulls up his shirt, to reveal a battered Ares Lightfire 70 tucked into the waistband of his sagging pants. He cocks his head back and says
"Whaddup Six Seven? If we bangin, you KNOW im deyown!" a statement which brings everyone else in the house except Sam into a hysterical fit of laughter before they slowly turn and get back to whatever they were doing. Sam slowly turns his head back to you with that goofy grin you knew would be there.
"These mugs aint no fuckin G's. The fuck you think i called YOU for, word? I mean, i know you cute and all, but girl you COLD. So naw girl, these heads aint the difference tween life and death or no kinda shit like that. They just comin along to the show, like, show some love, wiz? BUT-" He raises his volume to be heard over the clatter of paint cans and the Boom-Bap of hip hop beats.
"I don't trust a lot of these mugs not to be stealing shit NEITHER, so maybe just you and me take the falcon and this buncha' breeders can sardine they asses into the Clark Griswald out there?