Here We Go Loup-Garou (Open to the Lunarly Challenged+Entourage)
Crystal sighed and scratched at an arm as she waited for the bus, head tilted back against the orange bench covered in ink pen graffiti. If there was one thing she hated, it was waiting for the bus. And it seemed that she would continue to wait for the bus so long as she didn't have a car. But the money that would go into a car would drop her level of living further than it already was. She really needed to find an apartment instead of living out of a hotel room. While it was nice to not have to clean up after herself all the time, it was annoying to hear the carts being pushed down the hall outside of her door at five in the morning. Plus, whenever Connie wanted to come in a clean she'd always pitch her voice in such an annoying tone when she proclaimed "House keeping!" in that too-cheerful falsetto.
Yeah, it was time to find a place to live that just had upstairs neighbors that liked doing jumping jacks at two in the morning. And then maybe a car.. oh the glee. Hearing the bus turn the corner, she stood and grabbed up her "camping" stuff. Of course, the only thing in the bag was a sleeping bag and a change of clothes. Anything else would be of little purpose when you planned on lurking in a state park for a couple of days, hunting down deer and rabbits for your breakfast, lunch and dinner. Pulling out her ticket, she made sure her sunglasses were still on top of her head and then she stepped up to the bus and handed it over to the driver. Her nose wrinkled at the mixture of smells that assaulted her nose as she made her way down the aisle of the bus. Body odor, various food smells and unwashed clothes mixed in a very unpleasant way.
She took a seat at the back of the bus and tossed her bag under the seat, knowing that it wouldn't roll around too much, being stuffed to the point that it was. She propped her knees up and prepared to take a two hour nap, since it was going to take forever to get to the state park.
---Two Hours Later---
She hopped from the last step of the bus and slung her bag over a shoulder before heading in the direction of the park. Since the bus didn't have an actual stop for the place, she'd have to hike it the last leg of the journey. Yeah, getting a car was really high on her list of wants for the moment. Taking a deep breath, she held it for a minute before exhaling. There was nothing quite like the clean air that was in the middle of no where. It didn't matter if you were in the woods of Georgia or in California, the air still had that same clean quality. She glanced up at the sky, tracking down the white shadow of the moon. Come sunset, she was gonna get real acquainted with that moon.
Sometimes, usually right before her monthly shift into her leopard form, she would remember what life was like before she really paid attention to the lunar cycle. How she would always forget that the full moon came with such regularity. Now, she'd be lucky if she didn't have her skin split in half while she was surrounded by people on that day. Since the second time, she'd made sure to be away from people that week. She'd either get sick or would go out of town, it ididn't matter what plans she had to break. Not that she usually had plans.. well, not since Jack. But even he had gotten sick of her constant ditching of him once a month. He attributed it to her "monthly grossness" and she didn't disagree.
The gate and little guard house let her know that she had made her way faster than expected. Well, whenever you wanted to get somewhere, your body usually took over. Taking a deep breath, she made her way to the park ranger to get her camping permit.
"You planning on staying for a few days?" He asked as he got the required paper work out for her to sign. "Just so you know, we've marked off several trails to be off-limits. There've been a few mudslides and the like, so watch out." Making sure each paper was in order, he nodded to her and passed her a map of the site. "Have a good time, miss." Waving back at him, she consulted the map to see where most of the campers would be staying. "Yeah... gotta avoid that area," she said.
Now, to find a nice isolated cave or something to put her stuff...
Yeah, it was time to find a place to live that just had upstairs neighbors that liked doing jumping jacks at two in the morning. And then maybe a car.. oh the glee. Hearing the bus turn the corner, she stood and grabbed up her "camping" stuff. Of course, the only thing in the bag was a sleeping bag and a change of clothes. Anything else would be of little purpose when you planned on lurking in a state park for a couple of days, hunting down deer and rabbits for your breakfast, lunch and dinner. Pulling out her ticket, she made sure her sunglasses were still on top of her head and then she stepped up to the bus and handed it over to the driver. Her nose wrinkled at the mixture of smells that assaulted her nose as she made her way down the aisle of the bus. Body odor, various food smells and unwashed clothes mixed in a very unpleasant way.
She took a seat at the back of the bus and tossed her bag under the seat, knowing that it wouldn't roll around too much, being stuffed to the point that it was. She propped her knees up and prepared to take a two hour nap, since it was going to take forever to get to the state park.
---Two Hours Later---
She hopped from the last step of the bus and slung her bag over a shoulder before heading in the direction of the park. Since the bus didn't have an actual stop for the place, she'd have to hike it the last leg of the journey. Yeah, getting a car was really high on her list of wants for the moment. Taking a deep breath, she held it for a minute before exhaling. There was nothing quite like the clean air that was in the middle of no where. It didn't matter if you were in the woods of Georgia or in California, the air still had that same clean quality. She glanced up at the sky, tracking down the white shadow of the moon. Come sunset, she was gonna get real acquainted with that moon.
Sometimes, usually right before her monthly shift into her leopard form, she would remember what life was like before she really paid attention to the lunar cycle. How she would always forget that the full moon came with such regularity. Now, she'd be lucky if she didn't have her skin split in half while she was surrounded by people on that day. Since the second time, she'd made sure to be away from people that week. She'd either get sick or would go out of town, it ididn't matter what plans she had to break. Not that she usually had plans.. well, not since Jack. But even he had gotten sick of her constant ditching of him once a month. He attributed it to her "monthly grossness" and she didn't disagree.
The gate and little guard house let her know that she had made her way faster than expected. Well, whenever you wanted to get somewhere, your body usually took over. Taking a deep breath, she made her way to the park ranger to get her camping permit.
"You planning on staying for a few days?" He asked as he got the required paper work out for her to sign. "Just so you know, we've marked off several trails to be off-limits. There've been a few mudslides and the like, so watch out." Making sure each paper was in order, he nodded to her and passed her a map of the site. "Have a good time, miss." Waving back at him, she consulted the map to see where most of the campers would be staying. "Yeah... gotta avoid that area," she said.
Now, to find a nice isolated cave or something to put her stuff...