Platinum-Gilded Misadventures [Discontinued/To be rebooted]

Sudden Ditch Syndrome

-Outskirts of P.W.F-

-8:06 A.M.-

As Carson and Vrel walked out of the bus they were met by a peculiar sight.

"Noooooo you can not be serious. No one told me a thing, I mean I didn't expect anyone to tell me anything but this is just cheap. WAY too fucking cheap. Can you believe this shit. Vrel ?"

"I will decide if I believe it when I learn what it is you are referring to first. Carson"

With a swift facepalm to his own forehead he set about finding a way to describe what they both unknowingly walked into.

"Alright alright hmmm, take a good look around you. Do you see anyone ?"

"No. Not that I'm supposed to anyway, this is what you humans call a parking lot. Not a diner or a restaurant"

"You goin' to keep acting smart ?, If this is a parking lot then instead of looking for other people maybe you should be looking for something else. Something that uses wheels"

"Why of course you ridiculous primate, anyone could see that there are no....Oh, how did I not notice that ?"

He snickered at her late revelation.

"Braincase acting up or what ?"

"I am merely documenting the surroundings with my clearly superior problem-solving vortian brain !'

"Al-right woman !, struck a nerve didn't I ?"

She exhaled before huffing and switching to a calmer tone.

"You can question the genetic viability of my bloodline, maybe even my own fertility but don't even think of getting away with questioning a vortian's intelligence or academic merit...primate"

Crossing her arms was another thing Carson saw her do, she was from a different race so why the hell did her body language resemble the average human's so much ?. It wasn't time to ponder about that though. No matter what happened he had something special planned for her and the last minute ditching made it a whole lot easier.

"Ever heard of Stellar Barista ?"

As if through the force of dark magic what trace of annoyance was left vanished and in came curiosity.

"Stellar what ?"

"Stellar Barista, a coffeehouse chain often frequented by a disproportionate amount of hippies-and university students for some odd reason"

"What are hippies and what on Vort are coffeehouses ?"

"One at a time Vrel, one at a time. Don't get me started on hippies, as for coffeehouses. We're going to one, I promised I would show you how we do things here in Earth. That means getting you acquainted with the...other side of our culture and everyday life"

She frowned and cleared her throat, yet another familiar gesture.

"So me almost getting robbed in the so called bad part of the city was not enough ?, never before has my life been threatened so quickly after setting foot on a spacestation, a ship or even a planet and you would assume one of those three is supposed to be better policed than the other two"

"Believe me I wish we hadn't met that way but when you think about it we probably wouldn't have met at all if you had not run into any trouble. Besides that, don't blame me for that. Not my fault you chose to land there, you ask everyone around these parts and they will tell you that if you stay for more than the fraction of a second you are asking for your wallet and your pants to be stolen"