[Kelin,Rora,Jo] Jolene

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan crossed the busy New York street carrying the envelope of pictures in his hand. He hadn’t known who the girl in them was, but he knew the girl who took them. And she had forgotten to sign them anywhere, so how was he supposed to say he had an ‘Aurora original’ when she became famous. He cleared his throat, looking over both of his shoulders out of habit for paparazzi as he continued toward the building. But when he saw Kelin heading toward the same building he gave a confused grin. “ Hey mate,” he said, stopping outside of the front of the building. “ What are you doing here? Aren’t these a bit .. beneath your pay scale?” he asked with a slight laugh as he looked over at Rosie’s .. cousin in law? Was that a thing? It was a thing. Ethan smiled as he tucked the envelope in his back pocket. He was eager to see the girl who had taken the pictures, and now it seemed like he was in for more today than he had anticipated.

[Kelin Dean O'Reilly]

Kelin felt terribly awkward having dug up this girl's address but he was in dire need of that ring or else he was going to need to shell out 5 grand to the wardrobe department.  He knew she had taken it, hadn't even ratted her out.  But know they were on his case about it.  He'd figured out her name was JoHanna and this building was apparently where she resided.  He looked up when he heard someone speaking to himself and saw Ethan, "Oh hello, this is strange bumping into each other."  Ethan asked what he was doing here and Kelin shook his head in dismay, "Actually, I am tracking down one intern with a pair of sticky fingers.  She stole a ring from set and now they want me to pay up for it.  Just seeing if I can get it back without having to report her."  Kelin honestly wasn't trying to cause an issue for her, it seemed like she had plenty of her own issues.  He laughed inwardly thinking about the number of boyfriends he'd seen around bringing her lunch.  "She lives in this building here.  What are you doing in this part of town?"

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan laughed as he talked about the intern with sticky fingers. “Ah always an intern,” he said out of amusement. “ I actually made friends with a girl in a little shop that Rosie likes a few weeks ago,” Ethan said as he started to walk into the building. “ She lives here as well,” he said, to give explanation before he took the photographs out of his back pocket and handed the envelope over to Kelin. “ I bought a camera for her in the shop for helping us out, and she took these pictures but didn’t sign them. So.. I figured I would grab a signature. For arts sake.” he said before pushing the elevator button.Ethan stared at it for a moment. “…. It appears the elevator does not work,” he said, giving a nod before he moved toward the staircase. “ Are you going to report her then if she refuses to give it back?” he asked curiously as he continued to climb up the staircase.

[Kelin Dean O'Reilly]

Kelin nodded, "That's a funny coincidence."  He headed inside after Ethan thinking a moment, "You came all the way back just for a signature, eh?" he laughed, "She must've been pretty cool."  Kelin waited, realizing the elevator was not operational, "That... is highly unfortunate.  Stairs?"  Kelin began to climb the stairs, as it seemed they lived on the top floor, though it wasn't the tallest of buildings.  "Well, hopefully it doesn't come to that, I don't really want to report her.  I mean, all that stuff lying around, what are they really going to do with it afterwards?  But I also don't want them to think I took it..."  As he opened the envelope he stopped talking, "Hey wait, this girl in the pictures, this is the intern, that's who I'm looking for." Kelin handed the envelope back, "Think we're going to the same place?"  he joked, as they reached the top it appeared there was only one apartment on this floor and then the roof.  Probably a loft.  Seemed as if they were, clearly.  This had to be the most ironic situations, as it seemed the two young ladies they were looking for knew one another.  

[Ethan John Fox]

“ Are you serious?” he questioned as Kelin said that he was looking for the girl in the pictures. He narrowed his eyebrows together, thinking that was a rather odd coincidence. But it did seem in fact that they were going to the same apartment. He stood on the outside of the door, hearing music before he looked over at Kelin. Well, they had already come this far. Ethan brought his fist up, banging on the door. There was just a few moments before the door opened, the sound of music spilling out delicately into the hallway. “ Hey.. Are you looking for someone?” the person asked in a ridiculously lazy tone even by Ethans standards. “ Um..Rory and the uh… intern” he said, realizing he didn’t know the girls name before he stepped inside. “ They’re almost finished guys,” he said before making his way inside. “ Finished with what..” Ethan questioned to himself before he took a step inside. His eyes immediately saw the legs strewn over the back of the couch, belonging to the girl who was laying upside down and playing banjo, while the thief was singing. He lift his eyebrows in surprise slightly before looking over to Kelin. “ Don’t..drink..anything..” he whispered, looking around and realizing he had no idea who was chill and who was on drugs, or who was just… an idiot.

[Kelin Dean O'Reilly]

Kelin smiled politely when the door was opened, hearing the lively music that a live performance rather than someone's iTunes or something.  When asked why they were there, and Ethan said someone named Rory and the 'intern', Kelin jumped in, "JoHanna, I'm looking for JoHanna."  As Ethan asked what exactly they were finishing, the pair of them entered the apartment, seeing a group of hipstery looking college students strewn around a small girl playing banjo upside down and JoHanna singing, beautifully actually.  He nodded to Ethan about not drinking anything and observed the scene in front of them while it lasted, before anyone realized they had been interrupted.  

[JoHanna K Roberts]

Jo pushed her hair from her face, singing softly into the old microphone that Rory had found at her shop a while back. It was nice to have everyone come over for a chill evening and listen to good music instead of that ‘Shots’ crap. Though, that kind of crap had a time and place too. She didn’t pay any attention to the door opening, because it so often did during their parties. Though, when the irish accent pierced through the living room and she heard her name, she caught his frame in the corner of her eye. Immediately she found herself singing quieter as she took a pillow and covered her legs with it, sinking low to the ground as she handed someone else the microphone. What the hell was he doing here? She began to crawl away, smacking Rory on her arm who was still playing banjo despite the fact that Jo herself had stopped singing and proceeded to keep crawling away. “ Code Irish. Green alert.” she whispered in a frantic tone.

Outfit

[Aurora Jane Bates]

Rory played along to Jo's singing, chiming in softly on occasionally, her feet over the couch back bouncing with the rhythm.  They weren't really 'ragers' by any standard but they still liked to have friends over.  Rory realized Jo had stopped singing, thinking maybe she was choking on her spit or something, that happened to Rory sometimes but heard the voices in the doorway which both seemed foreign yet both different from the other.  As Jo was hitting her and crawling away, whipspering about a code irish, Rory looked over and saw the figures in the entry way.  Her heart jumped quickly to her stomach as she pulled the banjo out of harms way and righted herself, hopping up.  her face probably looked as surprised as she truly was.  "Oh, Ethan hi." Rory approached them and luckily everyone kind of started their own small talk and someone went to put some other music on.  "This is a surprise, what brings you all the way over here...?" she asked gesturing around at their half assed loft.  She wasn't sure where Jo was hiding.  Probably in the kitchen pretending to get a drink or something.   Ethan, she could maybe think of a reason, even far fetched, for showing up, but captain hook?  "... I'm Rory, by the way." she said to Captain Hook, trying to be polite and buy Jo time to get her shit together. 


Outfit

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan’s expression conveyed complete confusion as the thief seemed to be crawling toward the hallway. ” Um..” he said, slightly distracted by the entire oddness of everything he had just walked in on. “ Ah, this is actually Kelin O’Reilly. He’s a mate of me and Rosie’s. Actually.. related to Rosie now,” he said, looking over at Kelin and gave a quick nod before he looked at Rory. “ What is going on?” he questioned, looking around at everything. But there was the thief again, clearly there wasn’t an escape plan from her bedroom because she was crawling out…literally behind them before she got outside and started heading for a small batch of stairs that must have led to the roof. Ethan looked at Kelin, giving him a blank expression before he turned to look at Rory and smiled. “ Aurora,” he said again, lifting the pictures up from his back pocket. “ You didn’t sign them. And you play banjo?” he questioned with an air of curiosity before he smiled toward her. “ Let’s have a look then,” he said, making himself comfortable as he took a beer off the counter and looked around at the apartment at what he could see from here.

[Kelin Dean O'Reilly]

Kelin was trying not to stare but Jo was attracting quite a lot of attention on herself crawling right past them.  Kelin smiled when Ethan introduced him, and Rory tried to explain what was going on, "Oh.  We're just having a before the semester starts get together... type thing."  No one could ignore Jo crawling out of the apartment, even Rory making light of it, "Yeah she's, um, you know, yeah.  And such."  Kelin spoke up, "Actually, I was here to speak with her, would it be alright if I followed suit?  That's the roof, yes?"  Rory nodded, "Yup, that is the roof."  "Alright, I'll just... uh, go speak with her then."  JoHanna's roommate didn't seem like she was going to say much about it, maybe this was normal behavior and Rory was just used to it?  Kelin returned to the hall and climbed the stairs, before going onto the roof.  Actually it was quite nice, the building actually had some mature trees that just reached the height of the roof.  There was a small bonfire pit with a group of unmatching chairs scattered around it and a huge trellis with a hell of a lot of flowers.  Someone really liked flowers.  "JoHanna?  Honestly now, before you do anything drastic, I just wanted to speak with you if you have a moment.  I see you have guests and all, don't want to interrupt..." he said expectantly, watching her like she was a cat about to skitter away.  

[JoHanna K Roberts]

Jo scrunched her nose once she reached the edge of the roof. “ That is a bigger drop than I thought,” she thought as she scrunched her nose, before leaning over to see if her arms could reach the nearest tree limb. She had never climbed a tree before but today seemed just as good a day as any to try something new. When she heard Kelin come out , she screamed slightly, catching her balance so she didn’t fall and stepped onto the main floor of the roof and off the edge of the building. “ Cut,” she said quietly, lazily gesturing with her arms as though she were giving a bow. Jo cleared her throat, crossing her arms over her chest as she started to walk toward the opposite side of the roof that he was on. “ It’s Jo. People call me Jo.” she said, shrugging her shoulder. JoHanna sounded like someone in a nursing home. “ Sup…” she said awkwardly before lifting her eyebrow in his direction. “ Need to borrow eyeliner?”

[Aurora Jane Bates]

Rory smiled awkwardly as Kelin left to go find Jo and Rory cringeed inside.  That poor man.  Well, she would hear all about it later.  Ethan addressed her by her full name, "Yes," she responded, regretting telling him what it was.  She took the pictures back smiling, "Was I supposed to?" she laughed going to the counter and dug out a sharpie from the drawer.  She shrugged when he mentioned the banjo, "Oh, sometimes."  Ethan helped himself to a beer and Rory climbed onto the counter to sit on it, crossing her feet at the ankle where they hung against the cabinet below.  It was easier to look at him up here.  "Yeah it's not much," she laughed, "but the price is right."  She glanced at him as she signed the photos, "You really came all the way here to make me sign these?" she asked skeptically.  What did he do, follow her return address?

[Ethan John Fox]

“ Well, yeah. If you take artistic photos then there is supposed to be a signature somewhere, right? I think that’s how artsy stuff works. I never really pay attention at the things I have to go to,” he said before smiling slowly in her direction. He was about to mention how it sounded like her banjo skills suggested that she play it a little more than sometimes but instead he took a long drink, looking back around the kitchen, thinking it was odd that none of their coffee cups matched. He smiled again as she questioned if that was why he came here, “ Seemed as good excuse as any,” he offered without going any further. Ethan had never been one to really explain his thoughts entirely. “ Your friends look like their last shower was during the depression,” he said point blankly before he held his hand out to help her get down from the counter. “ Show me around,” he mused, offering her a drink.

[Kelin Dean O'Reilly]

Kelin approached her slowly, nodding, "Alright, Jo, hello," he said. finally.  He felt like he was approaching a jumper and was trying to talk her down off the building.  "Very funny," he smiled good heartedly, "No actually I came here because I think you have something, no- I know you have something- and I really need you to return it.  That ring?  Yeah, please don't deny taking it, I saw you, and that's okay, I won't rat you out."  Kelin stopped placing his hands in his pockets, one eyebrow going up, "They want me to pay for it, and seeing as I don't have it, I don't really like that option.  I was thinking maybe you could just return it to me and we could just pretend this didn't happen and I won't tell anyone about you taking it.  Or about the other things, that you have um... borrowed." he stated plainly, adding, "Please."  To be polite.  He felt awfully rude showing up to he home and asking such a thing of her but it was why he came here.  It was odd showing up to strangers homes and seeing them in their natural habitat so to speak, you could learn such new things about people.  Like apparently Jo had quite a lovely singing voice.  Kelin thought it quite complimented her very lovely face.  

[JoHanna K Roberts]

“ I am funny,” she said quietly in contingence with him saying her comment was funny. She narrowed her eyebrows as she listened to him speak. She knew he saw her. See.. she was going to have to tell Rory. “ A prop that I’m sure costs like ten dollars..” she said, rolling her eyes slightly before dropping her arms and setting her hands on her hips. “ Fine I’ll make you a deal, if you can find it you can take it back,” she said giving him a pointed smile. She made a face as she registered that he had mentioned the other things she had borrowed. “ Are you stalking me, cause that’s really creepy,” she said, casting him a disgusted look before she started to head back toward the entry into the hallway for their loft. Jo walked in, giving Rory a roll of her eyes while giving a gesture that she was shooting herself as she continued to walk to her room, but paused, going into Rory’s room instead. “ This is….my room,” she said, making a face as she looked around. Not as tidy as her own room. Maybe she could clean it a bit while she was in here.