Proud Mary (Rowan)

[Luxanna Viera]

It was another one of those days where Lux had her head in the clouds, not really paying much attention to where she was, what she did or where she was going. Granted, the past couple of weeks had been odd and Lux had done things she hadn't quite expected she would, and all of it was messing with her head, leaving her more confused than ever. 

Which was why she excused herself for wandering around so mindlessly, not paying much attention to the people or the things surrounding her. Though, what the girl had not expected (She should have) was that her clumsy self would crash right into something that felt like a freaking, huge brick wall.

''Ow.'', she let out as she tumbled backwards, pinching the bridge of her nose before peeking up. Her cheeks flushed red and she mentally slapped herself. ''Sorry.'', she mumbled awkwardly as she gazed at the boy she seemingly had crashed into. 

Well, at least this day couldn't get any worse, right?

[Rowan Booker]

Rowan was having a pretty good day he had to admit. He had texted his cousin to see if she was in the lunchroom, and she answered with a 'yes, don't bother me' so he was free to eat with whoever he so chose to sit with. Alex was in class, Lucy was doing whatever Lucy did, probably with Penny and so he just chose the time to hang out alone. Just like the old days before he and Lucy met.

Walking through the hallways into the cafeteria, he was waved at, winked at, and greeted multiple times. Being a senior, it was big for him, though he was 99.9 percent sure he was going to be stuck at this god awful place another year. His teachers weren't his biggest fans, no matter how often he showed up to class, he always found some way of slacking off. Most of the time, it was the classes he had with Lucy that he sure as hell didn't pay attention.

With his mind on the troubles of not graduating, he hadn't been paying a whole lot of attention to what was in front of him and when he felt someone walk into him, he automatically reached out to help whoever it was, "Are you alright, hun?" He looked down at the girl and offered her a smile. She was a cute little thing, he'd admit.

[Luxanna Viera]

Mentally rolling her eyes at the nickname - like seriously, what was the deal with everyone using belittling nicknames for her? Lux returned the smile, a little more awkwardly and shy than what his seemed to be, but it would have to do. The girl cleared her throat and took a step backwards, gathering herself a little.

Luxanna then looked upwards, straight at the boy and nodded. ''Yeah, I'm fine.'' But wait, wasn't she supposed to ask him that since she had been the one walking into him? ''I'm sorry. It seems I left my head back at the dorm.'' She rubbed the back of her neck and looked away, the color in her cheeks growing redder.

Good lord, this awkwardness never seemed to pass, did it? Ugh.

[Rowan Booker]

Rowan folded his arms across his chest and gave her a once over. Something told him she was a shy, little thing, though by the looks of it, she could hold her own. She seemed a little out of it, like she had a million things on her mind and a bitch wasn't one of them. Ha, he was funny. But she did seem distracted, probably for different reasons than himself.

"That's good, didn't even see ya there," He laughed lightly. Rowan waved off her apology, he was in high spirits today, bright and bubbly as he'd ever be. Probably in large part due to the two most important women in his life meeting, having a guy that he actually was learning to care about and not having heard from his ho-bag mother, he called that a victory.

Rowan smiled wider, "Nah, don't even worry about it, babe. We all have days like that, too much to think about, huh?" Not that he was asking her to give him the details, he just knew what it was like to be utterly distracted and oblivious to the world around him.

[Luxanna Viera]

His comment brought a faint smile to her lips, and she nodded slowly in agreement. Well, at least she wasn't the only one being distant, that had to count for something. And luckily for her, she hadn't ran into one of those awful assholes this school seemed to have a little too many of.

She grimaced slightly at the second nickname, but figured it wasn't even worth pointing out, or putting too much weight on. It was whatever. ''Yeah, it seems that way.'', she said a little half-heartedly and smiled, finally looking at him again.

Wrapping her arms around her waist, Luxanna shifted her position slightly and pursed her lips. ''I'm Lux by the way.''

[Rowan Booker]

"Bummer, those days are the worst," He'd been having far too many of them for the past few months, but was glad to say that it seemed to all be coming to an end. "Just gotta stick it out, ya know. Things like that don't last forever," He shrugged. Look at Rowan being Mr. Optimist. It was actually very unlike him to be so positively chipper, but he didn't want to be in a sour mood anymore. No one liked a sourpuss.

He gave her another bright smile when she introduced herself and nodded, "Rowan, it's a pleasure to meet you, Lux." He glanced around the cafeteria in search of a place to sit that wasn't crowded with little people. That was probably were his cousin would be anyway, so he was just gonna give her the space she wanted. Which wasn't exactly easy for him.

Once he spotted one, he looked back at her, "Care to join me for lunch? If we hurry we can snag that table over there away from the munchkinz and the rowdy bunch." Ha, rowdy bunch. Meaning the people that he often hung out with.