White Knight Brigade [closed?]

[numberonerival]

Characters: Green, Katie, May and Brendan are welcome to jump in
Date/Time: Maybe fifteen minutes after this post
Location: Viridian City Shake Shack
Warnings: Katie bawling?
Summary/Notes: Prose-style. Green just wants to know that Katie's okay

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[lovesmythology]

It had taken Katie a few minutes to even leave the house. She wasn't about to admit that Simon had broken her down -- she was still recovering from her psuedo-breakdown the other day.

But she did make it there, albeit ten minutes later than she said she would. She was holding her head high, but with careful look, anyone could see that her eyes and nose were both red from crying. Katie walks in with Hahani angrily following right behind. It doesn't take more than twenty seconds for her to spot Green, and when she does, she offers the smallest of smiles before sitting at the booth.

"Hey... thanks."

[numberonerival]

Green was not a fidgety sort of person, but his leg was bouncing by the time Katie arrived. He gives her a slight smile when she finally slides into the booth with him; he's not nearly as relaxed as he usually is.

"Hey," he says back. "No problem."

Turning away for a minute, he flags down a waitress and places his order-a water and a large order of fries-and then glances back at Katie.

"You want a milkshake or something? I'll pay, so get whatever you want."

Eevee leaps over to Haha, touching noses in concern.

[lovesmythology]

Katie had noticed; She could see that Green was more tense than usual. Right then, though, she was too distracted by her own thoughts to bother with pointing it out. It took all of her strength to stay composed, and she wasn't going to waste any energy on pointing out something so obvious

[numberonerival]

Eevee cocked her head, listening, before she let out a trill of worry. With a last chirp at Haha-almost as if asking for permission-she bounded up to Katie and sat on her lap, looking up at her with the biggest, cutest expression she could muster, before she gave her cheek a tiny lick.

Green frowned when he saw her tug at her cap, and sighed, leaning forward to rest his elbows on the table and his chin on his hands. "That guys's a piece of shit," he said. He didn't quite know where to start, but that seemed as good a place as any.

[verdoyant]

Outside, May leaned against the window, the cool glass pressed against her cheek as she looked out at the passing pedestrians. She had arrived several minutes ago, shortly behind Katie, but upon spotting Green already waiting through the window, had decided to give them a moment to speak with each other alone and ducked under the canopy of the building outside instead. Somehow, she'd figured Katie would need it.

To her relief, it didn't seem like they were wasting that moment, either. Katie certainly didn't look happy, and neither did Green, but May couldn't help but smile when she'd noticed his hand on her shoulder. Really, if only he knew... unless he did, which didn't seem likely but was certainly possible. You could never tell with that boy, honestly.

Their fries had arrived, and both were sort of smiling. May took this as her cue to finally show up, and she stepped out of the shadows of the canopy, moving around to the front entrance

[lovesmythology]

I don't know...." She trailed off again, both in response to Green's disbelief, as well as his suggestion. Something about it just didn't sit right with her. "I don't think I'm going to go

[numberonerival]

"Nothing wrong with not going," Green said, starting to scan the restaurant; honestly, he was starting to feel out of his depth. "I'm not either."

His eyes lit up when he saw May-she arrived just in time. "May," he said, "Hey." He looked relieved.

He pushed the fries over to May in a silent invitation, but only after he'd snagged another one for himself. "Katie says she's not going," he offered in answer to May's question. Quietly, hoping that Katie wouldn't notice, he gave May a sort of baffled look. He wasn't exactly the champion at cheering up teenage girls. At least May was, um, also a girl. And she was nice. She had to be better at this, right?

[verdoyant]

It seemed as if she had chosen the right time to come in. Katie certainly seemed a lot more unhappy in person than she had through the window, and it was clear Green was running out of patience and ideas as the sympathetic ear. She briefly looked back towards the front of the store; Brendan was supposed to be coming along in a short while, and she had no doubt his company would be welcome to Green, and hopefully to Katie as well.

May declined the fries for now, appetite rarely present when the mood was so melancholy.

"To the dance?" she asked curiously, giving Katie a small frown and resting a hand lightly on the her shoulder. "But didn't you really want to go? You shouldn't let one person ruin that for you. I meant it when I said we wouldn't let him come near you, you know."