Murky Association (Astrid/Open)

[Jayr Byrne]

My Comfort box

Something that Jayr had rarely sought to be penetrated but in a new place absent of any affiliation of friends, relatives, or even for that matter enemies, it made sense just to be out of character for once, to go play in another kid's sandbox and mess around. Chances are it'd be different from one's own depressing hovel.

Waking on the weekends was generally a horrible experience, the sore kinks and stitches in your sides leaving you with the simplistic urge to just roll over countless times. Jayr did so on this occasion an incredible twenty-two and a half times before thrusting herself out of bed and into the shower disregarding the mess her bed had been left in.

Clearly Jayr was not a morning person nor one to take short showers finally emerging from her bathroom by around noon. No worries though in the absence of friends or things to do she was in no rush to be anywhere.

With a somber look upon her face she lazily glossed her lips puckering up before heading downstairs to watch her television. Known as the boob tube and only watched by Alexi for his politics it was an odd occurrence to see her down here and in nothing but her pajama bottoms and a sports bra. Clearly there was nothing and I mean nothing to do.

"Mom, can you hand me the rocky road Ice cream!" Jayr would holler to receive a stern glance from her mother a second later. "Fat chance young lady!"

The rattles of paper as she flexed open the newspaper and threw it in Jayr's face. "Go explore like other kids do."

Jayr's eyes rolling around on the inside of her head as she pointed dead center in the paper coming upon a skate park. Wincing slightly she shrugged and got up slipped into converse and put a tee on. So what if she was in PJ bottoms it wasn't like she'd meet anyone cool at a skate park.

With the sudden rev of her engine she was off like a rocket pulsating through blocks until she was at the skate park. A steady glance as she lowered the large gaudy shades shielding her face.

"Cool.."

[Astrid Sudeki]

Astrid had woken up that morning with no real desire to even crawl her lazy ass out of bed. But the fact of the matter was, as she turned over the 14th time, she could not get back to sleep. Two hours was more than enough sleep time for her each night and anything more would just fuck her ass up the next day.

So, here she sat, on the edge of her bed, eating icecream....and watching some crappy ass movie on cable. Fuuuu she needed satellite in this dump.....

It was not until later, as she was headed to the bathroom, tripping over her skateboard, that she noted....well...her skateboard....and the fact that she so needed to make some attempt at cleaning this mess........Like...next week or something....

Anyways!! The skateboard led to thoughts of fun, fun led to thoughts of Guy, Guy led to thoughts of Donnie, Donnie led to thoughts of wierd and wierd led to thoughts of the skate park....

Yep.....THAT is how her frame of mind worked. SOOO she dug through the pile of clothes at the foot of her bed, lifting up a pair of army green pants and a black t-shirt.....Sniffing them both respectively.....YUP CLEAN!!....

She then got dressed, throwing on a pair of black sneakers and a black baseball cap she was ready to go.

Board, clothes, money......house key.........Where the hell did she leave the key? Fuck!

After about an hour of searching....leaving the dorm that much messier, she tucked the key into the black band about her wrist and took off.

It didnt take long to get to the park, the guys she knew from coming here so much stopping her to make a joke about the fact that she had started a womens movement of some shit.....

Apparently some chick was here....In jammie bottoms....Seriously?

Well whatever, she really didnt care....Shaking her head she left the little group, headed into the park and instantly, like it would be hard to miss....spotted the girl, though Astrid really just wrinkled her nose....

Ugh...pretty girl....Fuck..fuck .....fuuuuuuck......

With a light sigh, she moved to take a seat....near enough to the girl given it was the only real place to freaking sit!

A little inclination to help the chick out bubbling within her.....

"So ya know, the guys kinda tend to notice if you are waltzing around in pjs..."

Not the friendliest tone in the world, but not mean or harsh either...Just...stating a fact.....

[Jayr Byrne]

Lost in a haze

For Jayr this place was foreign territory, clearly not the place she should be in. Her cerulean eyes traveled up and down from person to person with her mouth slightly askew as she drew from each one. The fact that some of these people just looked out of place didn't strike her as a crime demeanor but rather something interesting like a Van Gogh. Each adding their inch of color, and the popular color just so happened to be black.

"So ya know, the guys kinda tend to notice if you are waltzing around in pjs..."

Jayr shook her head subtle fixating her selective eyes on the new person entering the fray. Cool not black. The color I mean. On her clothes. I'm not a racist.

Anyway, Jayr looked down at her Pj bottoms which were ornately colored in mixed of purple and pink hearts the occasional ruby hue to them. Good thing she wasn't the type to wear "Juicy" labeled on her ass, that'd truly become distasteful.

"Oh yes well, I think its alot more conservative than whatever else was in my closet." She giggled lightly finally evaluating that this was indeed a girl and not some long haired bro.

"I'm sorry but I'm new here and I figured this was a random enough setting for me to meet people. Bad idea?" She looked at the blonde haired girl speculatively as though she'd toss out a helpful hint or warning sign that'd get her off the hook.

God she loved blonde hair, her mind quickly got distracted looking at Astrid's hair which despite not being perfectly groomed and manicured from elitist stylists was still very pretty. Immediate wave of jealousy quickly averted as she blinked a few times smiling longer just to put her mind at ease.

[Astrid Sudeki]

Astrid sat there, and....she listened......Did she just giggle? That right there got her brow to start raising, and then the words that followed only succeeded in getting it all the way up.

Meet people huh? Well......okay then...

"Yeah, you can definitely meet people here. Maybe not the kind of people you want, but people just the same."

Yeah....she was being as nice as she could to not say anything about the clothing comment, the meeting people thing ooooor the general...giggle...thing....Yeah...Anyways...it was only when the girl seemed to fixate on her hair that Astrid felt a little defensiveness starting to rise up within her, subconsciously making her hand rise to pull the long strands to one side over her shoulder.

It was the one part of her body that she was the most sensitive about. Given her Mother's ever constant preaching about taking care of it, keeping it long, silky and beautiful....No matter how much Astrid wanted to escape the past, to run away from the traditions she had been taught....her hair she could not let go...

It would be a disgrace to her late Mother's memory.

"Just stick clear of Rocky and his little wanna be gang...They are the kind to shoot first ask later."

She motioned toward a group of guys lingering off to the far right hand corner of the park. Yeah, Rocky was a real piece of work. Heh...

"Other than that people here are generally cool."

She bent her knee, pulling her foot up to rest on the edge of the bench so that she could tie her shoe, taking her eyes off the girl and letting her hair fall about her face.....

Yeah, not too much of a care in the world because honestly..she had nothing to worry about other than her reason for even being in this fucking city.

[Jayr Byrne]

Its all Subjective

"Yeah, you can definitely meet people here. Maybe not the kind of people you want, but people just the same."

Jayr managed a smile despite feeling inwardly discriminated once more, just because she looked this way didn't mean thats all she was. Everyone had their battle and hers was over oppression of that sort. Of course she was a girl and loved those things but it wasn't what defined her.

"Well thats subjective," Jayr spoke out boldly not liking the answer she'd been given and immediately had to retaliate for her beliefs. It had a lid on though so she wouldn't go making enemies off the bat merely facing what most people feared. Conflict. "Who's to say they aren't what I'm looking for?" She grinned sheepishly spreading sparkling pink glossed lips.

"I'm sure you can appreciate that too, the feeling of being put somewhere you clearly don't belong." Again the shrug placing a finger to her lip thoughtfully before the girl began to speak once more.

"Just stick clear of Rocky and his little wanna be gang...They are the kind to shoot first ask later."

"Oh... well yes of course."

"Other than that people here are generally cool."

Jayr moved down to her side oblivious to anything other than the act of kindness she'd been given. That and of course this girl was the only other girl here, aside from the girl with studs handing from her earlobes. She could definitely avoid that one. Sitting at the bench beside her Jayr spoke up with a bit of an imposing tone though not one that was to be construed as demanding merely matter-of-fact.

"You know what, we should be girlfriends, I'm Jayr, nice to meet you." She'd project her hand out quickly with a bright smile.

[Astrid Sudeki]

Okay, she again...found that she listened.....despite the urge to back away.....shhhheee listened.....and she kept her face well hidden behind her hair. Yes, okay so the girl was.....yeah....different..sorta....Astrid could not help wondering if the girl was simply some little princess off to try and live dangerously. Gods knew they got enough of them around here to make it a valid point in her mind.....

But yeah, then the girl sat down beside her, and as she finished tying her shoe, her foot dropping back to the ground, out came that hand and an invitation to be .........girlfriends?

Did she seriously just hear that?

Her first reaction was to look to the other side of her...see if some girl was parked there or not, her second reaction was to take a very uncertain look at that hand. It had to be some kind of trick, some kind of joke that the little princesses of her life had always liked to try and pull on her.

Those blue eyes filling with a bit of suspicion she would finally, hesitantly, extend her own hand, the one with the band wrapped about it, to shake? she guessed.....

"Astrid...Um....Why do you want to be friends with me? You hardly know me...."

A very valid question and one she was sure she would either get a snippy answer to or some reasoning she either could not follow or chose not to......Either way, should be interesting to hear.

[Jayr Byrne]

I could ask you the same thing

While throwing herself out there it wasn't hard to think of the possibility that she'd be going about getting rejected. Though it'd rarely happened before Jayr had been rejected before and it made the potential of pain all the more real.

"Astrid...Um....Why do you want to be friends with me? You hardly know me...."

A good question one she presented. Great many thoughts would enter the mind of a normal person, contemplating are we right together even just as acquaintance, let alone friends. Would we meld and look out for one another. The constant concern most friends dealt with inappropriately, "Can I trust you?"

Powerful questions but the only question Jayr could pronounce escaped her lips with it's own heavy weight.

"Why not?"

Clearly that was where the true question lied. Just like dating wasn't friendship about taking risks, going out on a limb and risking yourself to get hurt or thrown against walls of failure to come out successful or failed in the end? At least that was the ideals she intrigued within herself.

[Astrid Sudeki]

Okay so yeah.....she got an answer in the form of a question. One which came with a flood of replies in her mind but none of which she spoke out loud...No, she just stayed quiet for a moment and then shrugged.

"Worth a shot I guess."

She nodded, pulling her hand back, brushing her fingers idly over the band about her wrist and then looking at the guys riding the ramp at the moment. Gods she wanted to but at the same time food was a big factor on her mind.

"I dont do girl shit though. Like...yeah..I just dont.."

Yeah that was something that needed to be made clear right off the bat. She was not into the little...girly girl crap that a lot of the female body liked to try and pull her into.

Lets go shopping......Lets go look at boys....Lets blah blah blah.

That was about all she could manage out of it.....So yeah if this girl thought she was going to be the typical "girlfriend" then she was sorely mistaken......and sooo needed to just turn around and walk away now....Save them both the time and the trouble that would come along with it......

[Jayr Byrne]

And BOOM goes the Dynamite

Victory had been achieved over a slightly hesitant girl and Jayr was clearly giddy with excitement excitedly shinning with her new found joy with first the retraction of the hand and them turning to look at her in an excited fashion placing her hands down swiftly in front of Astrid palms down with a grin as her mouth opened to speak, "Well first we should..."

"I dont do girl shit though. Like...yeah..I just dont.."

"..."

Clearly this friend thing was going to be harder than she thought, still the giddy expression in her features and her form unmoved by being shot down with the words that alienated her master-plan of having a potential "girl's night out, with the inclusion of tequila" lips pursing in clear disappointment. but that clearly didn't mean she could slowly edge the girl into doing things like that. All it would take would be mutual coaxing.

"Okay thats fine.." Jayr blinked a few times to spring her from her disillusioned state. A quick arc to her neck tossing aside her hair over her shoulders. The action in itself toppling a few stargazed boys who were skating by, their frames falling head over heels into the trash bin.

"Teach me to skate I'm a fast learner?" She pronounced all too happily turning to the side to see the boy's displaced in the garbage bin.

"D'you boys mind if I borrow this?" Her hands grabbing the board whose bottom was decorated with a gory unicorn.

"Nat'at'all babe." one of the stoned ones said all too eagerly.

"Thank you." With that she'd blow a kiss and skip onto her left foot jumping around giddy with excitement before Astrid.

[Astrid Sudeki]

Mental Note To Self: New "friend" is insane. Got it.

She really did not know what to think about the girl. What was it with Astrid? Did she attract every nut job in the immediate area? Geeze...Thank god that Guy was normal.....ish....kinda...Okay so he was probably not the best example...But still!

Watching as the new buddy she had acquired grabbed up a stoners board and asked to use it...Then just as surprisingly turned to ask Astrid to teach her how to skate.....

Okay then......

"..."

She shook her head, ditching the images of pretty girl here planted on the ramp floor.....Trying to think more......positive....Gods she was not a positive person..That was sooo hard....

Finally she came out of her little daze and shrugged as she rose to stand......

Her head motioning to the FLAT strip of cement that was somewhat vacant of people at the moment....

"Yeah sure....Umm....why dont you just start with the basics, and then if you can do that then we can move on. Umm. Go forward, fakies, and try to carve..."

Yeahhh she was not exactly thinking that the girl didnt know the lingo...She was just talking, in what she knew...heh

[Jayr Byrne]

Back in my day,

Clearly she was perhaps a bit over excited to do something that could potentially end in her face planting into well of all things the ground but Jayr was an eager type of person. Handling things boldly was her modus-operandi and clearly no one would ever be capable of talking her out of it as she progressed onward with bigger and bolder things.

Today she started with Random place, Random Stranger, and justly would continue with a random event of perilous effect. That being boldly beginning with the skateboard under her feet.

"Yeah sure....Umm....why dont you just start with the basics, and then if you can do that then we can move on. Umm. Go forward, fakies, and try to carve..."

She looked at the portrait placed there, Astrid was obviously suggesting that she start on a flat surface. But that was boring. Jayr then turned about needy hands grabbing at her shirt lightly with a pouting face on hoping it'd work. Okay sure it had an effect on guys but this was different.

"This is boring.... lets go big!" She smiled innocently before giving up and turning to the board managing to remain semi-balanced at the boards edge giddily bouncing between the far edge and the back of it before feeling comforted at it's center.

"Okay Round two Jedi master teach me something." Jayr was clearly eager not to stop with just one thing but was ambitious enough to go further for the sake of fun.

[Astrid Sudeki]

Did she just try the cute pouty face on her? Seriously? Astrid almost backed away, unsure what to do with somebody a) touching her and b) giving her that look.....

Finally she shook her head and shrugged.

"Alright, alright...stop making that face at me."

That was about all she would say before separating herself from the girl and again shaking her head to clear herself of thoughts...

Then she moved to the top of the ramp and dropped in, just a basic run from one side to the other....Enough to give the girl a clue of what to do.

If she busted her ass it was soooo not Astrid's fault.....At least that is what Astrid told herself ......... and it worked..heh....

She would then return to the other side, hopping up to where the girl was and hitting the back of the board with her foot to push it up into her hand...

"So you think you can handle that? Or do you wanna start with something a bit....easier?"

She really didnt care either way...She was in her element and that was always a good thing....at least in her mind.

[Jayr Byrne]

Follow the Leader

Jayr wasn't a stranger to trying new things let alone dangerous things, she remembered on vacation one time her and Alexi had gone bungee jumping in Cancun one summer. They had to keep that week on the down low so her mother wouldn't rip both their heads off.
In a way though thats how her mother fell in love with Alexi, because of his daring feats to go to all lengths to make their family happy. Even when times were bad and rough he'd always be there with some exciting new thing to distract their attention.

This would be something mother would say was stupid while Alexi was her secret supplier who happened to run home from work across town and push her down the ramp for a head start.

Eyes fluttering briefly as Astrid performed the relatively simple move still coming off quite well as an elaborate trick. Jayr's mouth hung open briefly with a trickle of excitement ready to do the same.

"So you think you can handle that? Or do you wanna start with something a bit....easier?"

The wide grin revealing a pair of sparkling whites ready to meet her already pleased with a good start. "I think I can manage."

The excited tone as Jayr popped up and onto the board in her standout pajama bottoms drawing the attention of what may have been the majority of the park. And fwoosh she was off to a great start wobbling as she did so across the other end of the half-pipe and coming back feeling victorious for just a moment as her eyes shut.

*Crash*

Her eyes opened to her board shooting up to meet Astrid and she wasn't on it. Rather Jayr found herself on her butt, hands sprawled out behind her with feet elongated out in front awkwardly giggling to herself on the floor to an angle that could be potentially be misconstrued as crying. If anyone were to come check she'd fall over backwards laying out laughing to herself.

"That was fun, whats next?"

[Astrid Sudeki]

And of course she was met with an "i can do this" attitude...the girl going to do what she had done and then being met with a skateboard and no girly....

Casting a glance over the edge she spotted her spawled out on the ramp flooring......Trying sooooo hard not to laugh and failing miserably.......

She died....like....yeah..she laughed...and though she tried to stop herself she honestly could not.....

Finally however she gained control of herself and sat down on the edge, pushed off and slid down on her butt to the area next to the girl...

"Umm..you sure you wanna play this game Princess?"

Her words were nice.......enough.....But she honestly was not sure little miss pink lip gloss and pj bottoms could handle it. Yeah...just....Maybe not her thing......Which was cool....She guessed......

Trying to fight back the smile and laugh that wanted so badly to escape her.......

[Jayr Byrne]

Who you calling Princess?

The masochistic laughter and thoughts of performing another go on the ramp for another time was clearly on her brain Jayr remained on her butt at the bottom of the half-pipe, her smile confident despite the mishap that'd happened before. Clearly remembering back to her late childhood when Alexi would speak softly, "What happens when we fall down? We get right back up."

Clearly there was her lesson to be learned, though getting back up wasn't the worrisome account with Jayr, it was more of a, "After we fall we go do the same thing again but bigger." In its own right threatening to most people, foolish and bold, but twas her nature.

"Umm..you sure you wanna play this game Princess?"

"Psh who you callin' Princess Doll Face." Jayr shot back a challenge finally popping to her feet and pacing forward to kiss Astrid on the cheek making a boy heading down the adjacent ramp fall on his face. A short winded giggle as she pulled away skipping back to the top.

"NEXT!" At the top she'd call expecting Astrid to go bigger and bolder.