Luke's Diner | Friday

[nimeni]

Bod's second week of work was a little quieter than his first. He'd had a rather difficult week and while he'd gone about greeting every single member of the staff, he hadn't done much else. They'd started cooking and he'd started making sure the diner was ready to be opened and patronized.

Earlier in the day, he'd called Jacob and then, just

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Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

Bod's around if you need anything!

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

Somewhere between her own store managing and having a disconcerting -but all the way entertaining- class, Charlie had gotten hungry.

"Chicken Chili..." Should she go for it, she would perhaps stop staring at the name and actually ask the guy that was apparently in charge about it.

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"Hullo," Bod said, smiling as best he could considering his overall mood. "Were you interested in the chicken chili?"

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

Looking up, Charlie shrugged a little. Now she felt somewhat forced to buy. "Eh, perhaps? Got any insight on the chef's skills? I'm the sort that would eat anything, but good food is always a plus."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"I've had a few meals here and always come away satisfied," shared Bod, smiling at the cooking staff that was busily working in the kitchen. "It's excellent food, I assure you. They cook it with care and make sure it's made to the specifications of the customer."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

"Oh well, then I guess I have no excuse now", added with a sigh and tiny, tiny, momentary smile. She had had her fair share of smiles earlier, and it wasn't as if she wanted to get used or something.

"I'll have one of those, then. And the name's Charlie McGee." Because introducing herself was important, somehow.

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

Bod wrote the order down and handed it to the cook before coming back and giving Charlie a light smile of his own.

"Nobody Owens," he introduced, nodding. "Bod for short though so as to prevent confusion. Pleasure to meet you, Charlie. Have you just arrived recently to town?"

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

"...And here I thought Charlie was odd enough for a girl, although that's short for Charlene..." And here she would facepalm. "Please don't share that with anyone?" It wasn't that she didn't like her name, but she just...didn't like it, alright.

"With the last wave", and excuse her if she started to laugh out of the blue. "Oh man...my life is so screwed up."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"Well, I can assure you that I won't tell anyone and that you're one of the many with a life that is complicated," Bod said, easily. "My own life isn't doing too well these days but I try to find the silver linings when I can."

They were just few and far between lately.

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

That was more or less reassuring. "Anyone older than ten and younger than twenty has a complicated life, at least in their own perception of reality." Watch her speak like an adult. "There are...different shades of complication, though? Not that I'm saying your troubles are less...troublesome than mine."

"Unless of course you want to compare."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"I'd rather not, no." He shook his head lightly. "I'm sure your life is complicated and being competitive over that seems silly. Have things not gotten any better since you've arrived here?"

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

Charlie nodded, and even smiled again. "Yeah, it would probably get a little bit too awkward anyway. And..." She took a moment to think of her first five days on Fandom. "It's perhaps more confusing than before, but I think I was lucky enough to fall her and not...somewhere else?"

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"Where are you from, if I can ask?" Bod queried, wiping the counter idly while he talked to her. "This island seems to pull in people from some rather odd places sometimes."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

"Somewhere that is exactly like this world, of the same year, and only without the island." She frowned. "Okay, that's a lie, but it enters in the 'issues' territory we aren't touching. I'll just add it makes this place a million times better."

Her right hand's fingers were messing with her left hand ones, as if her fingernails itched. The itch was on her head, though, but she ignored it. Hunger, probably, but Charlie felt she was forgetting something.

"And you?"

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[nimeni]

"England, actually. I think I'm from the same time period roughly but I was raised in a graveyard," he shared easily. "The spirits of those that were buried there raised me from the time I was a baby to when I turned fifteen."

Re: Bod [Luke's 01/07]

[pyromanyac]

"Oh."

She would need a second to think about that. "Sounds...calm. Living on a graveyard. There is one here, you knew? Oddly enough, it's a good place to think. And to have a quiet time." She released her left hand from the evil-doings of her right one, and started messing with a loose strand of hair.

"Although it probably sounds weird? Spending time on a graveyard just for the sake of wanting peace." Charlie supposed Bod was some sort of expert on that field.