Homesick.

[Madison Davis]

    Madison had yet to spend the money her grandma gave her for Christmas and decide maybe she could do a bit of shopping for some art supplies, take some pictures, and explore her new city a little. After all she was going to be living here for at least the next few years she might as well get to know what the city had to offer. She wanted to get an early start on her exploring leaving her enough time in case she got lost so she took the 11:30 bus downtown. Madison was shopping for a few hours before her stomach started to growl. I needed to find a place to get something to eat before I keep shopping, Madison had thought to herself.


So here she was with her camera dangling from around her neck and shopping bags full of art supplies, library books, and a few cute hats and accessories she found in New2You on her arm waiting in the line at Velvet-Tone Coffeehouse. She didn't really need the caffeine because Madison was already always full of energy but she thought since she was hungry and craving sweets why not also get something to drink it with. She knew from past experience when her mom let her drink some of her coffee that she probably should of gone with decaf so she wasn't bouncing all over the place but when she saw what the girl a couple people in front of her was getting she couldn't help but change her mind. When she got up to the counter she smiled. “Hi can I have some sugar cookies and Espresso Con Panna with extra whip cream please. It sounds super yummy”. She took out the money and paid the girl making sure to leave a tip and grabbed her stuff trying to make sure not to drop anything. She desperately looked around for an empty seat but only saw people sitting with friends or families all unfamiliar faces to her. Madison was use to not knowing people seeing how she moved around a lot but usually she a least had her parents to keep her company. Right now she was just by herself which made her feel lonely.

    She walked toward the back until she spotted an empty table in the back. Madison sat down putting down on one of the three seats around her. She looked around at the people in the shop smiling and laughing feeling lonely. Taking her camera from around her neck she started looking at the pictures she had taken on it. A lot of them were her parents and her in different places and some others were just places they had gone. She stopped on a picture of her father and her at Mount rushmore looking like they were picking the president's nose. It was one of her favorite pictures of her father and her. She stared at it in her own little world wishing he was here with her.

[Zxaine Fisher]

Zxaine hadn't had any time to really go to the town, and she still had her christmas money from her grandparents. Thus it didn't take long for her to venture from the warmth of the dorms to the town. She was bundled fairly warmly but that barely seemed to take the chill off the air to the girl. Still she'd come all this way she'd be damned if she was going back empty handed. A burst of icy wind cut through her jacket and the redhead pulled her scarf up her neck, huddling down into it and muttering about the cold to herself. Her eyes looked up at the sky and she cursed her luck of arriving here during such a season, at least at home she'd have little reason to leave her house except to go to school, everyone else would just come to her. Glancing around she noticed a coffee shop, another blast of wind made up her mind for her and she slipped through the door.

The inside was pleasant enough, warm enough so that she stopped shivering and was able to pull the scarf to it's more normal spot around her neck. The tables were full, just her luck, maybe one would open up while she ordered.

"Cinnamon Dolce Latte." She mumbled, a cinnamon craving suddenly hitting her, shaking her jacket off her shoulders, "Uhm. Grande please. And a piece of that lemon poundcake." Paying the barista she accepted her food and glanced around, not a single table had opened up. Looking around she noticed a girl and her camera alone at a table in the back. Making her way that way she tilted her head and looked over her sunglasses at the girl. "Mind if I join you?" Her tone was pleasant and she shifted her weight idly as she waited for the other girl to notice. She would have just sat down normally, but for all she knew this girl was waiting on friends to arrive. Best not to seem rude right off the bat.

[Madison Davis]

Madison was suddenly taken out of her thoughts when she heard a female voice. She looked up to see a girl, who Madison thought had really pretty red hair, standing in front of her. It took her a second to realize she was asking to sit down. As always Madison wore a big smile braces and all and bright eyes on her face as she acknowledged her. "Not all all i could use the company" she said a bit too happy moving her stuff back. "I mean like as long as you're not trying to get me to join a cult or convert my religion or like selling me anything I guess you can sit" she joked. "Wait I take that back about selling me something. If you're a older girl scout i'll happily take four boxes of cookies". She laughed at her own lame joke.

[Zxaine Fisher]

Zxaine flashed a bright smile as the girl answered, sliding her stuff to the side to allow the redhead a bit of space. She took a seat across from the girl, setting her cup and plate down before sliding out of her jacket. Once it was hung over the back of the chair she turned her dark eyes back to the girl. "Thanks. Crazy busy for this time of year, I fully expected most people to be at home avoiding this bitter cold." She chuckled and took a small bite of her lemon cake. At the second part she blinked a few times then seemed to catch on as the girl chuckled and she smirked. "Unless you want to join the church of coffee then I have nothing to sell you." She raised one of her brows and took a sip of her latte, setting it down with a smile.

She stretched her shoulders and tossed her hair behind her shoulder before continuing. "So you interested in following the almighty coffee bean?" She lowered her head slightly and looked up at the girl, trying to keep a straight face which promptly broke and she broke out in a wide smile and a laugh. "I joke. Thanks for letting me sit." She extended one hand, freshly painted nails gleaming in the dim lighting. "I'm Zxaine. Nice to meet you."

[Madison Davis]

"Like no thanks me and the Gods of tea like already have a healthy relationship". Madison quickly glanced her over as she drunk her own drink so the girl didn't notice. It wasn't so much that she was judging her it was something Madison found very interesting about her. When the girl stuck out her hand Madison shook it firmly. "Well it's a pleasure to meet Miss Zxanie i'm Madison" she said sounding a bit more country than a few moments ago. Without her knowledge Madison was once again on the borderline of two accents. Moving around a lot and being good on picking up words she would often completely switch accents on accident. Either that or she would have a weird combination of a few accents that had a lot of people question where she was from. "That is a awfully pretty name you got yourself their. Oh and like it was no problem at all but I should probably thank you for asking. It was getting very dull sitting all by myself".

She drummed her fingers lightly on her camera while she looked at her."This might be strange but their two reason why I must take a picture with you and of you. One I always take picture of like the first time I meet someone. Never know when it might be a memorably moment and all. An two their something about the way you look that I would be a terrible photography if I didn't". Madison held up her camera in her hand looking as innocent as she could so the girl didn't think she was some creep. "So is that an issue"?

[Zxaine Fisher]

The shifting accent threw the girl for a moment but she took it in stride, smiling brightly. "A pleasure Madison." She responded in kind, tossing her hair behind her shoulders in a practiced motion. She took in the other girl's appearance with an appraising eye, the girl was artsy and not entirely without some semblance of style. Taking a sip of her drink and she chuckled as she jumped from one thing to the other. "Not a problem, I don't like sitting alone so I have a hard time believing others do too, I'm happy to keep you company." As the girl asked to take her picture and explained her reasons the redhead's eyebrow lifted ever so slightly and she ran her fingers through her hair reflexively, making sure not a strand was out of place with the motion.

"Well, I suppose that would be fine. I'm not dressed for a photoshoot but between friends who needs to be dolled up?" She smirked as she agreed, she found no harm in it. "Don't want people thinking you're a bad photographer after all! What kind of person would I be if I denied your simple request?" She laughed and sat up a bit straighter, "In short, no issue. You can take all the pictures you want and that's a-okay in my books." She finished taking a small bite of her cake and pushing it to the side so as not to tempt her until the other girl had done as many pictures as she wanted.

[Madison Davis]

"Yay lets do this" Madison said excited back to her normal voice. Madison first went around by the girl so she can take a picture with her first. "Strike your best pose" Madison said before she turned the camera around and took the picture of them both. She went to it and showed Zxaine. "Nice this one can be for my new 'Adventures at Hammel ' scrapbook i'm going to work on". Madison, always one to move fast, then went behind her seat and figured that was the best angle to shoot the girl. "I'll just get a couple I promise. Just pose and i'll keep snapping".

Madison snapped away behind the camera each time the girl changed her pose. "Darling the camera loves you" she cooed in her best over the top model photography impression. "Now give me flirty" she joked. "Oh yes that's it" she said between giggles. "Oh that's it sweetheart now give me feisty. You are working it girl". She snapped her fingers in a Z formation and started to laugh. "Im sorry if you haven't notice by now i'm a silly person with a weird sense of humor".

[Zxaine Fisher]

For the picture with the girl Zxaine flashed a coy, cocky smile and held up a sideways peace sign, sliding so her face was close to the other girl's.  A few strands of her bright red hair fell across her face and her dark chocolate eyes were a practiced smolder. She laughed after the picture was taken and leaned back in her seat as the other girl slipped back to the other side of the table. "Sounds like a fun hobby." She grinned and looped her left arm over the back of her chair, smirking at the girl as she took the next picture. At the flirty queue she turned slightly and lifted her shoulder that was to the camera, bringing her chin down and looking up at the girl through her thick lashes and gave just the faintest traces of a smile, a come hither in her eyes. "Flirty enough?" She laughed and raked her fingers through her hair, tipping her chin up ever so slightly and looking down at the girl with the camera, her face was haughty and defiant, one side of her pouty lips twisted slightly down.

As the girl finished taking pictures the redhead laughed, leaning back in her seat and eating a bite of her lemon cake. "So how long you been at Hammel?" She asked lightly, making conversation. She was itching to know how she came to be there, but that's a rude question and she wouldn't want anyone to just blurt out a question like that to her. Her abilities were a touchy subject to the girl who didn't understand them at all as it stood.

[Madison Davis]

"You definitely have to be my new test subject when I want someone to shoot. You are so pretty and photogenic". Madison sat back down across from the girl and bit into one of her sugar cookies. "It's more than a hobby for me it's one of my passions. I like to capture the beauty I see in everything for other to see to". Wow this is delicious, Madison thought stuffing more in her mouth.

How long you been at Hammel? She swallowed the cookie before talking. "Only for about a month now I think. Yeah I came towards the end up December. You go there to right? You been there for awhile"?

[Zxaine Fisher]

"Thanks hon, I work hard at looking good." She winked jokingly and waved one hand in the air. "But sure. I'll be your photographing test subject." She laughed and took a sip of her coffee. She took a bite of her lemon cake as the girl explained her passion for photography and Zxaine nodded her head a few times. "Sounds like me and cooking... or rather, baking." She responded, finishing the last of her cake and dabbing a few crumbs from her lips. She rested her chin in her palm as the girl explained she was pretty new herself.

"Ah you've been here longer then I have chica. I just moved in yesterday. Trying to learn my way around ended me here, well that and I had a bit of money to burn." She laughed at the second part of the statement. "Seems like a nice enough town, about the size of my hometown anyways." she tapped her chin with one finger, trying to figure out a funny/witty/not offensive way to figure out what Madison's power was. She smirked and tilted her head slightly to one side. "So what you in for?" After saying it she mentally facepalmed, that was so lame. LAME LAME LAME. Talking to girls was hard, she much preferred talking to guys. So much easier.

[Madison Davis]

"Really so you know you must bake for me right? I love like really really really love sweet things and bake goods. My parents don't really let me get sweet things though but hey they're not here right"? She stuffed the last of the sugar cookie in her mouth the sugar and the caffeine combined started to make her a bit hyper. She wiped of her hands on her leg that started to shake while talking. "They say get too hyper and I already have enough energy. My mom tries to get on me about it but I’m just like 'oh my god this chocolate bar is so good' why she talking. I’m like a kid when it comes to candy. I agree it’s nicer than most towns I've stayed in. Really you only came yesterday? I feel like I should show you around but I get lost myself. Hey but we could always get lost together. It'll be like a mini adventure".

She smiled the reference reminding her of those movies with people in jail. "Oh you know I’m in for the normal stuff". She raised her eyebrows and leaned in very intense. "I was selling drugs on school ground, fighting, having my own criminal organization. I'm like tot's obvi badasses if you can’t you tell". She flipped her hair and looked serious before she started laughing. "Um no seriously I can do what I guess they call illusion. Make people um see things. Guess you can call me ecstasy" she joked. She thought back to the day it first happened. The day she learned she actually did have a mean streak when she made the boy imagine his self trapped in hell. She felt so weird that day and yet so powerful. It was a scary and interesting thought for her to think that she had the power to make people suffer like that. She still looked at the day like a weird nightmare and yet a blissful dream. The feeling she got when she used her powers was something Madison never felt. She wasn't sure if it was a good thing or bad thing yet just that it felt good, empowering almost. Something she wouldn't mind feeling again if she got the chance.  “So how about you, what are you in for?"she asked to distract herself from her thoughts. "Let me guess gang violence or Drug Empire”?