Lost among the CROWD (open)

[dawn]

It was a little chilly outside but it wasn't anything this brunette couldn't handle as she walked down the sidewalk in a slight daze. In fact the slight breeze was refreshing being that she had spent the last 6 hours couped up in an over heated trailer with a bunch of models. Her black jacket over her fitted white sweater was enough to keep her comfortably warm... In reality she had experienced worse winters in Kansas, so this was practically nothing to Dawn. Normally she would have driven being that she wanted to go home, but then she thought it would be fun to spend the day roaming around Hollywood. Why waste gas when she was already their on the set?

Waking up at four in the morning was something she doubted she would ever get use to, but yet at the same time she did almost every day for one reason or another. Usually she was fine when she started her day with a cup of coffee but this early morning they had called her to ask her to be there early. Working for six hours straight with no caffeine was torture but she survived and was now approaching a Starbucks.

Ten in the morning and she was finally was going to get her venti vanilla latte. Pulling the door open she caught a whiff of the amazing aroma of brewing coffee and fresh pastries. Immediately she was began to feel more awake and alive as she got in line and waited patiently.

A few minutes later she walked back out of the building only to sit at one of the round metal tables. Putting her piping hot latte down she reached into her messenger bag and pulled out a newspaper. Slowly she began to thumb through the articles as she sipped her drink with a smile. It was funny how something as simple as a drink would make someone so happy. After fifteen minutes of reading the paper Dawn tossed it to the side before kicking up her black high heel clad feet and leaning back in her chair to relax. Closing her eyes she took a deep breath of fresh (as fresh as you can get in California) air before whispering to herself playfully, "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy..."

Hell yeah... It was nice to take a break.

After resting her eyes for a few minutes she slowly opened them feeling more refreshed than she had before. Shifting slightly in the chair she pulled out a romance novel she had been reading over the past two weeks. So with a book in one hand and a latte in the other she began to read the last few chapters of the novel which would undoubtedly leave her in tears.

(I'm sorry this sucks! I haven't rp'ed in awhile, so I'm getting back in the swing of things.)

[jess01]

Today Eric had nothing really going on. Belle was off on a play date. The mothers insisted that Eric went out and had some alone time. They had told him that his face was starting to show the late night evenings with Belle’s night mares. Eric wished he could make those nightmares go away not only for Belle’s sake but for his own as well. After he dropped Belle off at the park with the other moms, Eric went back home and caught some more sleep. It was nice to sleep in his bed alone again. Eric has been allowing Belle to sleep with him after a nightmare. Now, he got his big bed all to himself.

After sleeping for a few hours, he woke up and noticed how quiet the apartment was. Rubbing his eyes, he slowly sat up and felt another body in the bed with him. He thought that was odd because he could have sworn that he took Belle on her play date. Opening his eyes and looking over, he found Fletch his german shorthaired pointer sleeping in the bed with him. Eric was good about what was okay and what wasn’t and figured that he and Fletch didn’t have a lot of time together like they had before so he would let it slide. Sitting there in his boxer briefs, he petted the dog before getting up to take a shower.

Once he was showered, clothed and all ready to go, he grabbed his cell phone and keys and wallet. Putting his wallet and cell phone in his jean pockets, he walked out of the apartment and then locked the door. He walked through the building which included five flights of stairs and the main floor. He ran into a few of the other tenants and said his typical hellos and small talk topics that everyone insisted on doing. Finally after what he thought was forever going through all of the bs talk, he reached the garage. He walked over to his Honda Civic Hybrid. Yeah he drove a hybrid and not some sports car which was fine with him. He didn’t need a sports car to feel like a man.

Finally, he was walking through the door of his destination. Yes, Starbucks, the one place he can come and be and have coffee without being admired. He was not known to many but there were those first few fans you know the type that see you and they go all ‘oh my god’ on you. Yeah he had a handful of those. He was glad he wasn’t getting mobbed by the girls like some guys were. He ordered a coffee black and then walked over to a chair. He pulled out his phone which was a blackberry and pulled open a document that he was working on. He was going to work on it when he saw someone read a book that he just finished not too long ago. A smirk formed on his face as he closed the program and got up to go and talk to the person. When he got closer he was amazed to find that it was Dawn. He had talked to her in the Chat room a few times but that was it.

“Great book. Not too sure if you will like the ending or not though. Its Dawn right?” He said as he stood there with a cup of coffee in one hand and his other hand was sliding his black berry into his jean pocket. He looked around to make sure that she was alone and then his brown eyes moved back to her. He smiled some to her that showed his dimples and his white teeth. He pointed to a chair near her with a finger from the hand that held his cup.

“Care for some company or were you looking for some alone time?”

[dawn]

Her brown eyes slowly drifted over the words that described a timeless tail of long lost lovers as she leisurely sipped at the latte. It was easy for her to get lost so easily with in a book simply because it was one of the few things in Dawn’s life that she didn’t have to rush through. Everyone had their own way of taking a break from reality whether they realized it or not… One of Dawn’s just so happened to be by reading smut filled romance novels out in public drinking Starbucks.

Grasping the thick paper between her fingers she turned the page only to briefly glance down at her hands which were stained with make-up from the photo shoot earlier that morning. Foundations, blushes, and eye shadows made it looked as if she had dipped her hands into a rainbow. Realizing she didn’t have the little make-up removal wipes that she usually carried in her bag she gave a small from before giving a defeated shrug. It wasn’t like she had plans to go anywhere special for the rest of the day.

After taking one last gulp of the now lukewarm latte she dropped the hallow cup onto the table next to her feet before returning her focus onto the book. Biting her bottom lip lightly she continued to read on only to have disappointment written across her face a mere second later.

“Damn it…” Dawn muttered under her breath with a sigh. At least she wasn’t crying by this turn of events, but yet at the same token she knew how it would end which irritated her to no end. Having only one chapter left she was sure there was going to be a joyous reunion between the two lovers but now she realized they would forever be a part. “Well, that’s just screwed up!” she claimed loudly causing her to receive the unwanted attention of a few passer-bys.

She was a huge fan of cliché happy endings. Dawn wanted to hear, see, and read about people’s happiness. Realistically of course she knew this was a rare thing to achieve sometimes because of her own past experiences, but it wasn’t impossible.

“Great book. Not too sure if you will like the ending or not though. Its Dawn right?”

So lost with in her thoughts she barely caught on to the fact that someone was talking to her. Lifting her head she ran a hand slowly through her hair before smiling at the person standing before her. With a quirk of an eyebrow she glanced at Eric before glance back at book in her handing. He had read it? It was rare she thought for a guy to read a book of this type, but for all she knew he could have. Either that or he was joking with her…

“Yep, you got it,” she replied with a small chuckle as she removed her legs from their lounging place on the round table and sat up straight in her chair so she could view him properly. Eric. She hadn’t actually met him in person before but she had chatted with him in a chat room, so she knew who it was. Besides, it was Hollywood. It was hard not to know who was who.

“Care for some company or were you looking for some alone time?”

She quickly glanced at the chair he was pointing to before shaking her head with a smirk.

“I’m always up for some company, Eric. As long as you promise not to talk about your ‘huge’ thighs like the models I worked with did this morning…” she teased using air quotations after dropping the book into her lap. “And as for the book I don’t particularly like the ending, but it was still a good read. Do you have any recommendations for what I should read next?” Dawn asked with a raised eyebrow happy to have bumped into someone she somewhat knew. None of the less it was nice to get to know new people.