[were they kidding her? first she finally figured out that this wasn't just some weird, prolonged eclipse, and now she was here in the middle of the next neighborhood over with a green laser pistol in her hand? god. Anna knew heading out today was a mistake, and she sure as hell wasn't going to entertain whoever decided that this was the way today was going to go.]
[after the whole dome thing, though, she didn't really feel like taking any risks on what might happen if she got hit. the thing was that, thanks to the always-crappy holidays, her cigarette intake might have been a little higher than usual, and she hadn't really been able to do a lot of gym stuff lately. so she managed to dodge her way into an alleyway until her lungs decided to protest and practically double her over into a coughing fit, which definitely wouldn't give her position away or anything. super great. this sucked.]
iv. movie night??
[this sucked a little less. like, yeah, sure, she was standing outside idly munching a small bag of popcorn with her head tilted up like a moron. but Anna didn't have any streaming services of her own, and everyone at work had been getting on her ass lately for never having seen a bunch of classic movies. this was probably the best time for them, because everybody was going to be talking about it tomorrow anyway, maybe.]
[she hadn't caught the title of this one, but... okay, look, it's just a really big screen and she really had been caught off guard, and that's why this girl who had been leaned up against a wall and very peacefully watching this movie just jolted hard enough to send popcorn flying out of her bag and directly into her face. hopefully she didn't yelp. like this whole thing wasn't embarrassing enough. immediately afterward, she started looking around, hoping to god nobody had seen her. she should be so lucky; that reaction was way too genuine for this to be anything but her first time seeing a "classic" movie.]
bonus. tevin campbell intensifies
What the—?
[that's one way to start a conversation. say hello to a woman who looks like she hasn't had a good night's sleep in a few weeks now. all she wanted to do was check the weather so she could decide if this was a day where she could get away with that one coat she liked with the fake fur collar—the one that she's wearing when the video clicks on.]
A2 (Anna Lehmann) || NieR: Automata
iii. laser tag city
[were they kidding her? first she finally figured out that this wasn't just some weird, prolonged eclipse, and now she was here in the middle of the next neighborhood over with a green laser pistol in her hand? god. Anna knew heading out today was a mistake, and she sure as hell wasn't going to entertain whoever decided that this was the way today was going to go.]
[after the whole dome thing, though, she didn't really feel like taking any risks on what might happen if she got hit. the thing was that, thanks to the always-crappy holidays, her cigarette intake might have been a little higher than usual, and she hadn't really been able to do a lot of gym stuff lately. so she managed to dodge her way into an alleyway until her lungs decided to protest and practically double her over into a coughing fit, which definitely wouldn't give her position away or anything. super great. this sucked.]
iv. movie night??
[this sucked a little less. like, yeah, sure, she was standing outside idly munching a small bag of popcorn with her head tilted up like a moron. but Anna didn't have any streaming services of her own, and everyone at work had been getting on her ass lately for never having seen a bunch of classic movies. this was probably the best time for them, because everybody was going to be talking about it tomorrow anyway, maybe.]
[she hadn't caught the title of this one, but... okay, look, it's just a really big screen and she really had been caught off guard, and that's why this girl who had been leaned up against a wall and very peacefully watching this movie just jolted hard enough to send popcorn flying out of her bag and directly into her face. hopefully she didn't yelp. like this whole thing wasn't embarrassing enough. immediately afterward, she started looking around, hoping to god nobody had seen her. she should be so lucky; that reaction was way too genuine for this to be anything but her first time seeing a "classic" movie.]
bonus. tevin campbell intensifies
What the—?
[that's one way to start a conversation. say hello to a woman who looks like she hasn't had a good night's sleep in a few weeks now. all she wanted to do was check the weather so she could decide if this was a day where she could get away with that one coat she liked with the fake fur collar—the one that she's wearing when the video clicks on.]
Get the hell out of my phone.