forum Coffee Shop Fluff (Closed)

Started August 13, 2021 by @Elder-God-Jacks347

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"I don't know, I don't think I could ever leave this place. I never intended to stay but after I got here, I fell in love. I think I'm just stuck here now." Carson shrugged, fixing his glasses.

Gwen smiled softly in response.

"Thats fair, but I guess since I was born and raised here i'm tired of it, like the same with most people who've lived in the state they were born in so–" she said with a shrug.

She had planned on exploring a career in social work, but that didn't seem so realistic now, now she had to figure out what type of career to pursue, and make sure it would get her somewhere in life.

"Well, as someone born in Oregon, raised in South Carolina, and going to college in Alaska, I don't have much of an opinion." He laughed as he returned her shrug. "Who knows? Maybe I'll get sick of it eventually."

Gwen sighed

"being an adult hasn't been all its cracked up to be." She said with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.
As the song ended her phone automatically started playing the next on her playlist, which was Daddy Issues by The Neighbourhood.

"You got that right. But hey, we're here now. The only thing we can do is move forward." Carson sighed softly, glancing over at Gwen.

Gwen gave a soft nod and said "yeah, i guess you're right." With a sad smile.

Before her mom died she had her entire life planned out, what she would go to school for, where she would go once she was done, but now that all seems very far away and nonrealistic.

You ask me what I'm thinking about. I tell you that I'm thinking about. Whatever you're thinking about. Tell me something that I'll forget. And you might have to tell me again. It's crazy what you'll do for a friend"

The radio sang softly.

"Gwen, darling, you're thinking too hard about this. Right now you're here with me and that's all that matters." Carson smiled softly as he spoke, glancing over at her.

Gwen gripped the wheel tight as she nodded

"yeah I know, honestly I know I am, but sometimes I can't help it, y'know?" she said aloud

"Go ahead and cry, little girl. Nobody does it like you do. I know how much it matters to you. I know that you got daddy issues. And if you were my little girl. I'd do whatever I could do. I'd run away and hide with you. I love that she's got daddy issues, and I do too."

The radio continued, Gwen reached up and snapped the volume dial down, so the song was barely anything but a whisper in the cold wind slapping against the car window.

Carson reached over and covered one of her hands with his own. "I know. But focus on now, okay? Life can wait."

Gwen nodded briskly and inhaled shakily.

"Yeah, okay" She said to herself aloud.

Carson was right, life could wait; she should make the best of the things in her life now, and worry about the future later, when the time came.

"I tried to write your name in the rain. But the rain never came. So I made with the sun. The shade, Always comes at the worst time."

The radio whispered.

"So maybe stop gripping the wheel so tight? You're gonna break it." He chuckled, patting her hand before withdrawaling back to his side of the car.

Gwen loosened her grip and exhaled shakily, where she then sighed

"sorry, it's just life is a lot to think about. So i'm trying not to think about it, but its hard sometimes." She skipped the rest of the song, which was giving her ultimate sadness for some reasons she couldn't understand.

"Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you, and everything you do. Yeah, they were all yellow"

The radio began to sing softly.

"Oh, there's the park." Carson relaxed as he saw the park come into view. "Ready to head out into the freezing cold for the fun of it?"

Gwendolyn pulled into the park parking lot, and unplugged her phone, putting it in her pocket.

"Yeah, I guess so." She said quietly, rubbing her hands together to create friction.

"Come on, let's go have some fun." Carson stepped out of the car and went around to the other side, opening the door for Gwen and holding out his hand for her to take.

she turned her car off, shoving the keys in her pocket, and took his hand, sliding out of the car, and slamming the door.

"Yeah, lets go." She said happily.

Carson started to guide her through the park, watching his breath disappear in clouds of white mist. "Really should've looked at the weather forecast before I decided to offer this as something to do."

Gwendolyn nodded and laughed, sending her breath into the air with a frost cold, turning her breathe into white mist as well.

"Yeah, we could always go back." She suggested.

"Nope. Can't go back now cause if I do, I'll never leave the house again. So we're just gonna tough it out and deal with it without proper winter wear like true idiots."

Gwendolyn nodded and wrapped herself in ahug to keep warm.

"I vote we do go back, I agree we go back" she said, with her teeth slightly chattering.