Pop rocks and coke [open]

[Breeze-Chan]

Yumi sighed as she set the large box down. She had grown since
she left District 1. She couldn't believe it had been a year since she
ran away.

She had gotten a job in a local food market. It wasn't that big and
the main sales where fish, but they carried other things. Like Coca
Cola, and Pop Rocks.

She opened the box that was labeled "Coca Cola" and laughed. In
the box, instead of the glass bottles, plastic jugs, and aluminum
cans, the sides where lined with the normal Coca Cola bottles, and
inside the little square of Coke, there was tons of Pop Rocks. And
there was a little note inside.


Wherever you go
You know I’ll be there
If you go far,
You know I’ll be there
I’ll go anywhere,
So I’ll see you there
You place the name
You know I’ll be there
You name the time
You know I’ll be there
I’ll go anywhere
So I’ll see you there
~Poprocks and Coke, Greenday

She didn't know if it was some back-worker goofing off or what.

[~Avalon~]

Calantha

I hummed and smiled cheerfully as I went in to the local food place. I was here to but Coca Cola. My brothers wanted some but were to lazy to get it them selves. So, I had been sent out. Not that I liked it but at least I got out of the house.

I walked up to the counter and when no one came over I started looking around. The store owner knew me. In fact he often gave me discounts. I looked through the back door and saw a girl standing by some boxes.

"Hello." I said pleasantly then noticed that the box was filled with exactly what I needed. Coca Cola.

"Oh!!! That's exactly what I need!" I smiled at her then held out my hand, "I'm Calantha, Cala for short. Nice to meet you."

[Breeze-Chan]

Yumi smiled, grabbed a packet of pop rocks and a bottle of Coca Cola.
"You need the Pop Rocks, or the Coke?" She asked. "I'm Yumi, no
nickname. Just Yumi." She pushed a lock of hair out of her face and
rocked back and forth on the ball of her heel.

She wonder if her father was still looking for her. She had seen tons of
fliers for her last year, and few weeks after she ran away, but now
there was none.

She was kinda revealed the old man stopped looking in District 4. She
liked it here. She didn't get what she wanted on a whim and she had
to work to keep her small apartment. It was way better then having
everything handed to you.

[~Avalon~]

Calantha

Laughing I pointed to the coke, "That one, I actually need..." I counted in my head mentally. Five brothers, 6 cokes each. "I need thirty of them." My brothers would drink all of the coke tonight but I wasn't going to go buy more. They would have to this time.

I followed her back up to the counter and then said, "When did you start to work here?" I asked conversationally, while counting out money from my pocket. It was all my own, stuff that I had gotten by working at the docks and selling the fish I caught. I wrinkled my nose, "My brothers are so going to have to pay me back." Smiling at the girl I asked, "So how much is it?"

[Breeze-Chan]

Yumi pulled the Cokes out of the box and cursed. Only fifteen. "Hold
on one second." She disappeared in the back. Some of the workers
looked at her while she riffled though the shelves and found a case
of twenty.

She quickly hauled the case to the front and snatched up ten of the
bottles she had already.

"A year, two in a month. " Yumi replied to the first question. She
turned to the handy-dandy "cash register" (AKA, a calculator
perched on top on a metal box with a padlock on it.) "OK, so it's two
fifty per bottle, thirty bottles, and I know you know the owner, so I
can give you a ten dollar discount, bringing your total to sixty-five
dollars."

She grabbed the receipt book and a pen from under the counter
and began writing. "This is much more fun then a computer."

[~Avalon~]

Calantha

I looked at her and smiled. "I can't do math to save my life. I'm really bad at it." I thought about it for a minute then said, "Well, actually I'm bad at mostly everything. Except swimming. I’m really good at that.” I laughed and handed Yumi the money. My brothers owed me a lot. That was a whole month of teaching. I taught kids how to swim in my free time. It was tedious but I was good at it. The real teachers really appreciated it and asked me to do subbing for the teenage classes as well. I had been dismissed from swimming lessons when I had turned ten. Sadly my subbing was one of the reasons so many kids disliked me. They didn’t think I kid their age, sometimes younger, should be telling them what to do.

I sighed and said, “Well however happy my brothers will be they’ll be upset when they learn how much it costs them.” I laughed and took the bag of cokes from her. There was allot of them but I could carry them all. I was reluctant to leave though. I didn’t meet people who like talking to me often. Smiling at Yumi I asked, “When’s your break? I would really like it if you could come over for lunch or something.” I grimaced and said, “Most people don’t like me. My mom would go ecstatic if you came.” I looked at her hopefully. I had gotten a really bad cold from falling through the ice a couple of weeks ago. Anything I could do tot make my mom happier would be good for me.

[Breeze-Chan]

"Sure, I'd love to come over for lunch. I get my break..." She checked
her watched and cursed. "was over five minutes ago. I worked though
it... Again." That seemed to happen to Yumi often.

As if reading her mind, her manager came from the back. "Go take a
break, you damn workaholic." The man said playfully.

"I'll be back later!" Yumi chimed cheerfully as she took off her work
apron. "Come on, Cala. Let's go before he," she jerked a thumb at her
her manager, "chases me out with a broom."

"Yumi?" She turned around in time to catch two plastic baggies. Both
bag had three packets of pop rocks. "No charge on that."

[~Avalon~]

Calantha

I laughed as the manager started to make fun of her. Not that I could really talk. I was the same way when it came to water. I was known for sitting out on the docks till midnight or swimming so long that I got exhaustion sickness. My mom got really irritated with me and usually made sure that someone would go with me to make sure I didn't do any of that. Sometimes that wouldn't even work. I would ignore, or sometimes not even hear, the person telling me to get out of the water.

I looked at Yumi and said happily, "Lets go!" I started walking when I fell.... on nothing. That's the sad part, when I trip, there is rarely anything to trip on.

When my face hit the ground... hard I propped myself up on my elbows, that were now scabbed. I sighed and said simply, "Ow." I looked behind me at Yumi and smiled sheepishly.