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◤ chapter one, ONE FINE NIGHT ◢
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Davina Royce was a cancer, and that honestly said a lot about her. People who believe that astrological signs were meaningless and didn't say anything about one's personality clearly hadn't met the woman because she exemplified cancers so well that it was almost scary. She was most definitely caring and very emotional, watch her leave the theater of any movie ever. One sad moment comes on, one character that she's only known for five minutes dies and Davina is in tears. Not one of the traits she values.
But she was a big crier and cancer most definitely described her enough to where when her teachers started off the year going around in a circle and calling on kids to tell them one thing about themselves that summarized them little Davina Royce (even Patterson when she still held that surname) would say, "I'm a cancer," and it fit. Perfectly. Scarily.
That was Davina, though; July born with a heart that ached for everyone and a motherly instinct which would be great if, well, she actually wanted kids. Which she didn't and people found that sad, but she never understood that. Don't get her wrong, she absolutely adored kids, they were amazing, but she never wanted any of her own. Blame it on past scars from her own childhood, but Davina had never wanted children. But she did want to be a teacher – a kindergarten teacher, to be exact.
Yet, she was twenty-six and still working on her degree in education because the first time she went to college she was stupid enough to get a degree in history which never helped her at all. It was a useless plaque she still had in her bedroom at her dad's house that meant nothing to her anymore. She could be a working teacher like her roommate and best friend, Brinley, but back then she hadn't even thought of teaching until she there, working at the diner she had held a job at since she was a teenager, and realized, "Hey! I think I wanna be a teacher!" and so she decided to go back to college.
And now she worked at a flower shop, which was weird because most would assume she would continue to work at the diner out of loyalty or something, but no. The flower shop paid more and gave her better hours that didn't leave her bone tired and actually allowed her to finished her school work without pulling all-nighters. But Apple's Eye Diner didn't lose a Royce, or Patterson, since her younger brother started working there not long after her. It was mostly because he needed to prove that he would be too busy to sell drugs or something like that and not because he actually wanted/needed to, like Davina and other people who got jobs.
