#ref: felix x catia

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Closed Starter: @ofginjxints Plot: UPTOWN GIIIIIIIRL. Felix & Catia style.

It had been a long time since Catia had been home. A year. A year of traveling to model, and give humanitarian aid wherever she could, and wherever she was needed. Lending her name and status to a project always helped boost aid at least a bit, and in the end that was the goal. By the time she returned back to her home, it almost felt like a foreign land. She had finished up her appointment for the day, a meeting to discuss fittings and sizes for another designer campaign that would be shooting soon, and was on her way back home in the middle of the day with hopes to get things back in order back home now that she had returned. Her car, however, had other plans.

She carefully drove it through a neighborhood she had never been in, not that she was entirely too familiar with this area as she hadn't lived here that long. Not to mention she traveled all the time, but she wasn't concerned with her surroundings as her car began to stutter. Catia knew absolutely nothing about cars, not even a little. It didn't cross her mind that being gone for a year might not be the best thing for a car. When her car finally came to a complete stop with a sound that made her nervous, she breathed out a huff, and climbed out of the car with her crossbody bag and keys in hand.

There was nobody for her to call, not in this area, and she didn't even know where she was to begin with. Deciding she would walk in the direction she had passed, thinking she'd seen a garage not far back, she began to walk in the way she had just come until she came to a stop in front of the building that was, indeed, a car shop. She carefully made her way to the open bay door.

"Excuse me... hello?"

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At the sight of the man, Catia felt her face heat up at his words. With a slight not, her eyes tracking the direction he'd gestured before returning to the stranger, she offered him a smile. "Thanks... I guess I'll just have to wait until they come back."

With a confidence, and a politeness that came instinctive to her, she stepped up to him and held a hand out to shake. "My name's Catia. I'm not originally from here, but moved here a year back. Been gone for a year, though. Well, I mean, my place isn't too far from here, anyway."

With a small shrug she looked around the shop again, "Wish I knew something about cars, though. Might come in handy, someday." She added. @ofginjxints

It was another day, same as all his others. It was just about going day-by-day. He had been to the gym - one of few things that gave him a sense of solace. Nothing exciting ever happened, and he just did what he could to live.

He was at the gas station, picking up a few things after filling up his tank and had gone next door to the auto shop to pick up a 'paycheck'. Felix was sat waiting for Pete to gather up his envelope when he turned to see a pretty woman walk through the door.

He stood instinctively.

"Uh, hey." He didn't really know why he spoke, he didn't even work there. "I think the guys are just busy 'round back." He gestured behind him towards the office. "You're not from here." It was a small town, strangers stuck out, especially beautiful ones.