Like Winning The Lottery (Julien)

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He was grateful that it was a bright sunny day, despite the weather itself being so cold and the ground still covered with snow from a recent snowfall. A lot of snowfall. Had it been overcast, Gene would have to put effort he didn't want to put in into keeping the irritated color of his aura down, which would have gathered unwanted stares from....people. Attention from people. He didn't like attention.

It had happened again. Gene walked out of the convenience store, after having gotten himself an assortment of snacks, with a hand full of small bills because the cashier didn't keep anything larger than a twenty in his drawer. How did they expect to make change if they didn't keep enough money for it in the till? In his hand was a wad of crumpled fives and tens and ones that he stared at with a loss of what to do. They'd never fit in his wallet...

So of course, as usual, Gene's only idea as a solution for that was to give it to the first person on the street who looked like they needed it more than him. Some poor looking fellow. Gene's eyes scanned the sidewalk and he spotted the most pathetic looking being on it(there weren't many people in the first place). Without hesitation, he approached this fellow and shoved the wad of bills at the man. "Here, it's yours," he said tersely. If the man didn't take it within the next few seconds, then Gene was going to simply let go of the cash and let it fall to the ground.

[Julien Duval]

Julien wasn't up to much. Just meandering around the downtown area, video camera in hand. It was difficult, walking around waiting for something to happen that was worth catching on film. Things always happened when you least expected them after all.

He was walking down the sidewalk when someone approached him, shoving a wad of cash at Julien before he even had a chance to react to a stranger handing him money. He merely blinked, lowering his camera slightly because of the gesture. "Uhm," he stammered uselessly, camera still recording, the red light blinking on the other guy's face. "I'm not homeless, so uh..." Did he look homeless? Sure, his hair was rather unruly and his clothes slightly rumpled, but they weren't torn and he wasn't dirty... His french accent was prominent in his stammering. Were people in America so odd that they handed out money to people on the street that did not appear homeless? He wasn't sure what to say. And so he stood there dumbfounded.

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Gene narrowed his eyes. What was this guy’s problem? Couldn’t he just take a gift(charity) gracefully instead of complaining about it? “Are you stupid?” he growled with a raise in his eyebrow. “I never said you were.” Though the man looked like he was definitely on the lower end of the economic spectrum, and that was good enough for Gene.

He slid his eyes to focus on the camera that was now in his face…then noticed the blinking red light. His resting bitch face shifted into a scowlier face, his eyebrows knitting to make a large crease between them. “I didn’t say you could film me…” he said darkly, turning his glaring gaze back to the man.