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he had been drumming his knuckles along the bar not really paying attention to what was happening until he saw someone turning towards him. he had looked over at her for a moment watching as she opened up her purse and he wondered what on earth he had gotten himself into. granted, he was a little slow at the moment he had tried to put two and two together before looking down at his wad of cash that he had pulled out of the bank. "is this a slowburn robbery?" he says before shaking his head. of course not. "oh, shit." he looked at the extraordinary amount of coins before realizing. "chilis gift card and handmade edibles? don't threaten me with a good time." he slapped the ten dollars on the counter and ordered a long island.

open to everyone (@nightreststarters)

location: nightrest music festival

"What do you mean you don't take quarters? They're like... the shinest form of currency," Mei countered with the bartender. She'd been meaning to go deposit all of her quarters in time for the festival, but she'd forgotten what bank she used. Mei turned towards the person beside her, offering them a sheepish grin. "Do you think you could spot me like... 10 bucks? I'll pay you back, for sure! I have, um..." she fished through her purse for something of value. "A gift card to Chili's and some homemade edibles?"

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he sometimes wonders what he would have been like had things not happened the way that he did. if he would have been more carefree. the truth was, he'd probably be living in cambridge and wouldn't be here. but he was. he runs a hand through his hair trying to indulge his friend but feeling completely out of place. he didn't care much for the festival, his mind often drifted to the fact that he could have gone into work for the day, while the other part of him wondered if this was even safe. he scratched his arm out of nervous habit, looking at her before sighing quietly to himself and getting his face close so she could take the picture. he smiled, but his heart wasn't in it, but he tried so it could come out nice for her. "it's alright," he eventually says, "i'm not going to pull you away from the festivities," he says with a quick roll of the eyes, knocking his shoulder against hers. "better drink would be nice. this shit taste like..." ass, "piss," not any better but, she got the picture.

“Oh, don’t be such a pouty face!” Apple said between laughter. She knew it was hot, but it was certainly not as crazy as he was making it out to be. Then again, she was wearing a rather small dress so it could just be that. “C’mon! At least one selfie with me so that we can keep it for memories! Pretend to love this moment as much as I am.” She grinned at him, tugging on his arm slightly. “And then I promise we can go sit by the cars and away from all the people for a while. I’ll even get you a better drink.” Glancing down at his now warm beer.

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it's been a while since he's seen savika. his mother visited the florist shop in the ever growing attempts to have a life outside of the children that she didn't raise. he supposed he had to be impressed at his mother tenacity to keep trying at something that she wasn't very good at. he smiles briefly and nodding. "i guess for you i'll budge over," he says with a dramatic sigh. "i was getting a little overstimulated with the crowd," he shrugs, "but it's been alright, i suppose. what about you?"

savika walked among the crowd, greeting friends she hasn’t seen in a while since she’s been focusing on work to keep her mind from constantly landing in the darkness that was brought upon nightrest once again. she still wasn’t sure if a festival was the brightest idea, but she also wanted to have a little bit of fun without thinking about what was happening. she thanked the bartender for her drink and leaned on the bar to look around when she spotted laurie. “mind if i keep you company?” she questioned with a smile, moving to sit next to him, “are you having fun?”

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the music is blaring but he's just grateful that he was able to find a place that was just for the moment devoid of many people. he knew that he couldn't escape it, but he was able to find a couple of moments of peace from the crowd of people. he had never been good at most social interaction, or... people. he runs a hand through his hair leaning back against the wall, his legs are pulled up to his chest savouring the bit of shade that he could find as his free hand circles around the bottle of alcohol sitting next to him. he takes one of the joints tucked behind his ear and sticks it between his lips and lights it with his lighter before closing his eyes, head hitting the back of the wall. "i'm coveting this shaded spot but if you angle your body just right i'm sure you could feel the hint of the breeze,"

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its hot. it's fucking hot and it's unbearable and he hated that he didn't have much of a choice in whether he got dragged here or not. he's trying to bump his head along to the music but there's a stickiness that hasn't left since the moment he stepped foot here. he rubs his eyes with the heel of his hand as he grips onto the bottle of beer that he's been nursing that he knows will taste like ass. "apple, beloved apple, i would rather stick an entire firework up my ass then have to pose for a picture in this godforsaken heat." at least the firework would obliterate him.

Location: Music Festival Opened Starter: @nightreststarters

"They're really good!" She turned to say to the person besides her commenting on the performers and their music. Apple loved festivals more than anything else, and used to travel far and wide to attend. Having one this close to home- and a good one at that- felt like a dream come true. She hadn't expected the crowd to be this lit, and wanted to capture it all on. "Come here, let's take some pictures."

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[ christopher briney, cismale, he/him ] - was that LAWRENCE ‘LAURIE’ CAMPBELL i saw by the lighthouse today? i heard that the TWENTY-FIVE year old who has been in nightrest for THEIR WHOLE LIFE and works as a/an CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT has a reputation of being LOYAL, but also SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. they reside in ASHMORE & people in town usually associate them with late night games that stretch to 3 a.m. best friends, cigarette smoke out an open window, ripped jeans and baggy t-shirts of musicians you love, anger and grief often masked as cold and uncaring, a feeling of love that you don’t know what to do with or how to say, a love for your sisters that you don’t know where to put, and trying to find the better version of yourself that people need you to be. let’s hope the killer doesn’t go after them next.

full name — lawrence 'laurie' campbell nickname(s) — laurie name meaning — god has helped age — twenty-five date of birth — august 31st place of birth — salem, massachusetts star sign — virgo sun, aqaurius moon, virgo rising  current location — salem, massachusetts  gender — cis-male pronouns — he/him sexual orientation — bisexual ( repressed ) religion — atheist  occupation — certified nurse assistant  education level — cna school   family — ted campbell ( father ), karen campbell ( father ), tracy campbell ( sister ), holly campbell ( sister, deceased ) finances — upperclass / personal finances: help spoken languages — english, spanish 

character inspos: lip gallagher ( shameless ), zuko (avatar: the last airbender), eve polastri (killing eve), cristina yang (greys anatomy), kaz brekker (shadow & bone), kat stratford (10 things i hate about you), will hunting (good will hunting), mike wheeler ( stranger things ), elliot alderson (mr. robot), scott summers (x-men), chandler bing (friends), rosa diaz (b99), jess mariano ( gilmore girls )

tw: absent parents, deceased sister, grief & mourning

if life were a movie then laurie would be the background character that says one funny line before absolutely ruining the scene. in fact, he’d say that his lines were probably cut because they just weren’t good enough. born from an upper class family laurie is unoriginal and there’s nothing that really screams, brilliance. if he were to give that title it would have been to his eldest sister, tracy, but the star that shined in their lives would have been holly. 

he’s young when holly was born, young and had no idea the kind of weight that she would place on the family–and holly died too young to understand that she had been the thing to keep the entire family together. she was the glue. all of the words that he could say but it would never be enough. 

it hadn’t been an easy run up of affairs. laurie was the perfect example of the middle child, too volatile to handle on best days, had his head devouring books on any piece of science that he could get his hands on. when he was asked as a kid what he wanted to be he said things like a doctor, and then an astronaut. he liked physics, quantum science, engineering. he liked knowing that there were things that could be definite, how a problem could always be fixed if he just had the right amount of calculations and even better hypotheses. 

he was the captain of the science club all throughout high school, went to science camp once before he asked his mom to come and pick him up, he had a group of best friends that he loved, who came over on weekends to play games in his basement, he liked making science experiments in his backyard, he tried to be on the track team once before finding that he was better in a classroom than out in the field. his father took him hunting but gave him when he noticed his song reading a book. laurie was good at a lot of things academically, but never much so when it came to talking to other people outside of his bubble. 

he liked a boy growing up but never said anything and by the time the moment came where he should he didn’t. for most of laurie’s life he always felt different from his family and what he was supposed to be. he could have been anyone, surely he was never the smartest in the room but he knew things, he could have dated people if he had just said something, he could have had more opportunities if it wasn’t his own self-preservation getting in the way. being different was dangerous—people say things, and it hurts, and it’s worse because they always mean them. it’s easy being different and hiding in the shadows than being brave and getting your heart broken. 

by senior year his sister went missing, and then she died. laurie stopped caring after that. when he was a freshmen he had already planned on going to m.i.t, it was the dream school to get the dream job. he could be all the things he said he would be. but by then it didn’t matter. laurie started getting in fights, and headed down a path where he never thought he’d go. he thinks the worst part is that his parents hadn’t noticed. they only cared by the time that laurie got suspended, and acted as if laurie had become a different person overnight. when he got that m.i.t letter holly was long gone and he said that he never got accepted in the first place. 

the past couple of years have been hard, and laurie has gotten all kinds of odd jobs until his mom got tired of laurie just laying around and doing nothing with his life. he thinks that it’s the first time that his mother has tried to be a mother to him. he knows that its the bare minimum, but for the moment it was nice, as if she was doing a kindness to him instead of acting out of embarrassment. 

over the course of seven years he always thinks that he sees his sister somewhere. he didn’t feel the snap of her being gone, as if she were a tether to him in some way on his heart. that first year he kept telling people that she was still around, he would have felt it, to anyone that believed him. it seems unfair that his sister was here one day and then just disappeared. he remembers the way that people looked at him, when he tried to do his own investigation of her disappearance, and how sometimes he looks throughout his town still for remnants of her. 

his family might have been fractured, but it just didn’t seem fair that their glue, and the one of the only people that listened to laurie and his hopes and dreams just didn’t exist anymore. he would have felt it. and the worst part, he thinks, she would be disappointed in the choices that he made after she was gone. 

life goes on. laurie’s life is repetition. he doesn’t really dream anymore. 

more fun stuff:

listen ,, he might be smart but he is also very Bad when it comes to people he is my cringefail son -- if you were ever friends with him he has never said i love you. not once.

honestly i'd label him as a burn out but like he's a cna but he's also like. a burn out. he could be doing more he just doesn't. and he doesn't see the point.

looking for a weed dealer :// ( it makes him anxious but that doesnt stop him sdkfnsd idiot )

honestly looking for his old bffs that he let go Due to being a Bad Friend ( not intentionally he just... doesnt deal with Things Well sighs )

still v sad abt m.i.t ngl asdkflnds he thinks abt his life as Before and After and thinks where he could have been , always assumed he'd move out of this state and Be Someone. with all the recent deaths he's Going Through It

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SKINS | 2007-2013 2x04 – “Michelle”

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"Even if it is full of love, all a ghost can do is haunt."

or, the limitation of the medium | In stillness, terror. musings