Drafts, Mini-stories and Excerpts

Do I know you?

A group of seven young adults walks across the street. One was recently free from college, hence the charter and the crowd.

All but one were men. The middle child of the group was a young lady. Her hair lighter than milk chocolate, bright yellow eyes as the sun and just fair peach skin. The other men in the group had some trace of that in them, either ranged brown to royal blue to black, or their eyes would line up as the color of the rainbow. Nevertheless, they were sibling laughing as they walked passed stores. "So are we going to the concert tonight?"

"Heck yeah!"

"How else am I gonna celebrate my baby brother's return~" She chortles as she hooks an arm around her younger brother's next and ferociously ruffles his hair.

"Ack- hey! No ruffles! I'm not a baby anymore-! I'm an adult!" He taps at her hooked arm and holds her ruffling wrist. She sighs and let go; playfully flicking his forehead & wearing a smug smirk.

"Righttttt." Their brothers could only laugh while another leans down to him to tease.

"Such a big boy~" They reach a cafe, order their drinks and sit at the circle table. The oldest, Manny, stood up tall; gaining his siblings attention. He holds his venti-cup up.

"Alright, alright, as the oldest; I hereby announce you, Warden Igloy Pane, you are officially an adult...!" The group erupts in celebratory noise; deafening the other cafe-goings, who could only laugh or shake their heads. Manny continues on in a lower voice, trying to be respectful to the other people in the cafe. "As an adult, you shall now engage our adult things with us! To the concert!"

The siblings laugh and whistle, holding up those drinks.

"To Warden!!"

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Loud music boomed and destroyed any silent ambiance in the air. Crowd dancing, jumping and cheering. Strolling to the crowd was the siblings. Jo groans, clapping her ears shut to block out the booming noises. "How could I forget how concerts can be....?"

She sighs and glances to her brothers; bobbing heads, jumping, dancing, shooting incoherent words & even some grinding, of course you would Nax. "I'll just drag their fun down... "

She starts to walk away, but Igloy
catches sight of his big sister.
"Jo! Where yah going!" He yells, she rolls her eyes with plugged ears.

"Anywhere but here." He still smiles, however latches on to her arm, tugging her close.

"Awwww! Party pooper! Come on! I just got out of college!" Exasperated, she yells back.

"You know how I feel about loud sounds! I'll see you at the house!"

"Boooo!!!" Annoyed, she walks away from the booming crowd, keeping her ears plug. At the edge, she unplugs and sighs; wondering why she agreed in the first place, oh right, Warden.

Thump.

At her feet, a book now rested. Confused, Jo quickly pick up the book & searched the crowd to see someone leaving. She takes after, dodging bodies and side stepping. "Sorry..! Excuse me..! My bad.. Out of the way...! I'm not interested."

She stumbled out of the crowd, briefly disoriented before waving.
"Hey...! Sir! Hey!"

A brunette man in a black jacket, gray cargo pants stops & glances behind him. His eyes were different, the good different, unique. A gradient starting from the center, baby blue to brown. Jo stopped in her tracks, he raises a brow. "Yes?"

She glances down, feeling her cheeks heat up ever so slightly. "Get it together Jo..!" She shakes her head and looks back up, more confidently as her posture straightened. He now had a small grin, her blush was now visible but pretends it wasn't there.