Kenzie had decided she needed friends here around Ashford. She had moved here not too long ago, and had been homeschooled beforehand so she really didn't know very many people at all. Which was why she had thrown on that black halter, blue jeans and black sandals outfit she rarely wore. Her nails were painted, black like a sharpie and her hair was up as usual, a ponytail pinned to the back of her head, two strands falling into her face. She had chalked over her eyes in eyeliner, and swiped neutral gloss over her lips. Ready for a night out on the town, she grabbed her black purse and headed out to her car, to the Dog and Bone Pub.

When she got there, she slipped through the doors, biting her lips as she stared around. Maybe this wasn't the best place to find a new friend..? The thoughts left her, though, as she heard a voice behind her and she turned to see who it was. Obviously, a bartender or someone of the sort. ''Oh, hey there. I'm actually not in the mood for a drink right now, I'm new around here, I mostly came to look for people to befriend.'' Kenzie told the girl with a smile, her dark eyes big and sparkling. ''I'm Mackenzie, by the way, Mackenzie Lukas. You work here, right? What's your name?'' She was overfriendly at times, especially when meeting new people or when she was nervous. This was.. one of those times.

Mackenzie made herself take a deep breath, and let herself close her eyes for a simple second before snapping them back open, feeling a bit more reassured and a teensy bit less nervous than just a few seconds before. First impressions were important, and well, she didn't want to mess them up. ''Nice to meet you too, Ash.'' Kenzie smiled, tucking one of the strands of hair hanging in her face behind her ear, her dark eyes scanning over the menu quickly. Crisps. Yummy. ''Okay, I do like crisps, can I have a box/bag ( ionno what they are? xD; ) of those, please?'' Mackenzie asked Ashley, closing the menu and looking up at her.

''Oh, and you can call me any shortened form of Mackenzie you want - some people hate saying the whole thing, so they shorten it to Mack or Kenz or something.'' The girl offered, thinking of that on the spot. Of course, Ashley had told her to call her Ash, so that could have triggered her saying so, but who really knew? ''Are you still in school here? Or have you graduated?'' Her desperate attempts at a conversation, but once she stated she had been homeschooled, that usually got something going. Or at least, she figured it would; she hadn't exactly tried that theory out lately.. recently.. okay, ever. But you needed somewhere to try things out, right?

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<sub>Tucker wasn't very surprised as Ashley turned around, just because he'd been expecting to see her around somewhere since they both had never ending jobs. Although, he hadn't been expecting to see her this soon. It was just this morning that he'd helped her clean up a trashed hotel roomed that he'd been knocked out it. There seemed to be about a thousand jobs in this town and yet it seemed like everyone worked at the same places. It didn't bug Tucker though. Then he'd actually get to talk to some people instead of just working all the time.

"Ashley! How's it going?"

Tucker says enthusiastically. He was always like that. Wall, at least he was always like that when he wasn't knocked out of the floor with a black eye. Speaking of black eyes, his had died down a little from earlier, but it was still a light shade of purple. What a great way to make a splash in this new town. Looking like he got beat up and couldn't stick up for himself. He really wasn't that great in fights anyways because he was so skinny, but every once and a while he got lucky and could win. It wasn't that Tucker liked fights, but sometimes he would crack and joke and people just took them too seriously.

Realizing that the girl who Ashley had been talking to earlier was still at the bar, Tucker offered her a wave. She'd seemed like a nice girl while Ashley was talking to her and Tucker was just happy to get to know anyone and everyone in this small town. Tucker was all for fun and he couldn't have fun without friend.

"Hey! The name's Tucker."

Tucker could probably seem over friendly at times, but then again, he was over friendly.</sub>

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<sub>Mackenzie. So she seemed like she was a pretty nice girl. Tucker just got lucky when he was meeting new people. Earlier he'd met Ashley, who was pretty cool and nice, and now he met Mackenzie and she seemed nice. He wondered if there was even a mean soul in this whole city. There had to be somewhere. No town was entirely perfect. People had their flaws.

Tucker's flaw was his lack of self control. He could never really stay serious in a serious time and he could never help from pulling a prank on someone. Now, most people liked that about him, but he'd known people who didn't like the fact. Like all the rich preppies at his boarding school. Talk about a boring bunch of people.

So, how exactly was it going for Tucker? Well, he was still living out of his truck. He was late for his first day of work. He'd gotten knocked out his first night here. Then, he'd helped clean up a disgusting hotel room. All in all, it was a pretty horrible first 24 hours here, but it didn't get Tucker down. He was quite the optimistic person.

"I'm pretty good, I guess. This town seems like a really nice place. How about you?"</sub>

''You guess? That's not good; you should know.'' She said with a smile, watching Ashley out of the corner of her eye. Ash was definitely a good employee, sure, she had stopped to chat with Mackenzie a bit, but she had gone off to do what she had to without saying much but sorry and to exocuse herself. And Kenzie liked that about her. ''Me? Yeah, it's going good for me.'' She said with a smile, crunching up the bag of crisps she had just finished. ''Hey, I'm gonna go throw this away, I'll be right back.'' Kenz told him and turned, looking for a trashcan while biting her lip.

When she found one, she groaned and slid her way through the crowd, ignoring all the drunken comments and all the bastards that got in her way. Some people really didn't know when to quit drinking, did they? She scowled and tossed the bag into the trashcan and turned, pushing the men in front of her away back up to where she had left Tucker, hoping he was still there. But, even if he wasn't she could find him. He, after all, was one of the employees here, right?

[short post sorreh ><']