RP: Shady Spot
Date: September 18, 2011
Characters: Luke Rafferty, anyone else
Location: Forest Park
Status: Public
Summary: Luke is relaxing in the park, and possibly dozing a little.
Completion: Incomplete
Sauce had burned off all his excess energy, and Luke was grateful. Sometimes having a puppy and a suspiciously puppy-like best friend was a bit much for his quieter nature to handle. Most times, though, they were the best things in his life.
It was hot enough outside that Luke steered Sauce over to a shady tree, pulling up a patch of grass that seemed as free of bugs as he was likely to find. Generally he would walk the puppy around the neighborhood near his and Isaac's duplex, but today he'd packed Sauce up and driven him to the park, as much to get himself away from the house as anything. The place was clean, the shopping done, and there wasn't much excuse to stay inside on a day like this. He might be a bit of a recluse, but he liked sunshine as much as anyone.
There were more places to get out and enjoy nature in Texas than there were in New York, at least where they'd lived in the city. He'd been sure that New York was the only place for him: the antithesis of where he'd grown up, metropolitan, with a bookstore on every other corner and the relative surety that no one knew his name or his people or his no-account background. Or have anything to say about it if they did. The perfect place to lose himself a bit, become someone else. Someone worthwhile. He'd never imagined he'd end up moving back down south again.
Fort Worth was still a long way from Greenville, though, just far enough that he was rarely if ever tempted to look back. Whenever the thought occured to him, he got a greasy feeling in his gut, felt hollow and hungry and small the way he had as a kid. It was more than enough to want to keep his hometown at a safe distance.
And he was building a sort of life here, beginning to feel rooted. Even knowing that Isaac meant home no matter where they lived, he loved their duplex far more than the dorms and communes they'd stayed in up north. He loved his job, the routine and the quiet of it. He liked working with kids, even doing the silly voices as he read the stories aloud because it made them laugh. He was looking forward to doing some tutoring as well, now that the school year had kicked up in earnest.
He had everything he needed. Up to and including his puppy and the book he'd brought to read now that they'd sat down to rest.
After losing himself in his book for a while, even reading some of it aloud to Sauce, Luke stretched out in the shade, letting his eyes drift shut for just a moment, with his book facedown on his stomach and the puppy dozing on his chest.
Characters: Luke Rafferty, anyone else
Location: Forest Park
Status: Public
Summary: Luke is relaxing in the park, and possibly dozing a little.
Completion: Incomplete
Sauce had burned off all his excess energy, and Luke was grateful. Sometimes having a puppy and a suspiciously puppy-like best friend was a bit much for his quieter nature to handle. Most times, though, they were the best things in his life.
It was hot enough outside that Luke steered Sauce over to a shady tree, pulling up a patch of grass that seemed as free of bugs as he was likely to find. Generally he would walk the puppy around the neighborhood near his and Isaac's duplex, but today he'd packed Sauce up and driven him to the park, as much to get himself away from the house as anything. The place was clean, the shopping done, and there wasn't much excuse to stay inside on a day like this. He might be a bit of a recluse, but he liked sunshine as much as anyone.
There were more places to get out and enjoy nature in Texas than there were in New York, at least where they'd lived in the city. He'd been sure that New York was the only place for him: the antithesis of where he'd grown up, metropolitan, with a bookstore on every other corner and the relative surety that no one knew his name or his people or his no-account background. Or have anything to say about it if they did. The perfect place to lose himself a bit, become someone else. Someone worthwhile. He'd never imagined he'd end up moving back down south again.
Fort Worth was still a long way from Greenville, though, just far enough that he was rarely if ever tempted to look back. Whenever the thought occured to him, he got a greasy feeling in his gut, felt hollow and hungry and small the way he had as a kid. It was more than enough to want to keep his hometown at a safe distance.
And he was building a sort of life here, beginning to feel rooted. Even knowing that Isaac meant home no matter where they lived, he loved their duplex far more than the dorms and communes they'd stayed in up north. He loved his job, the routine and the quiet of it. He liked working with kids, even doing the silly voices as he read the stories aloud because it made them laugh. He was looking forward to doing some tutoring as well, now that the school year had kicked up in earnest.
He had everything he needed. Up to and including his puppy and the book he'd brought to read now that they'd sat down to rest.
After losing himself in his book for a while, even reading some of it aloud to Sauce, Luke stretched out in the shade, letting his eyes drift shut for just a moment, with his book facedown on his stomach and the puppy dozing on his chest.