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[dawnie_summers_]

Okay, so this is a little...unexpected to say the least. I go upstairs to see if Alexandra wants to give me some assignments to work on and I find a note that says she's gone back to London? No warning or anything, or even a goodbye. She's just, gone

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[sxysnakehulaboy]

I had been waiting on tables here for about a year now, but never once had I seen the girl who just bumped into me. Her long hair fell into her face, covering red cheeks, and my notebook and pen fell to the ground. Our heads collided giving a sort of ringing dizzy feeling.

"It's okay," I groaned. I wasn't the most organized of waiters and definitely not the most graceful. I grabbed my notebook and pen in one hand and helped the girl up with my other. It was only then, I could see her face.

"Dawn," I deadpanned. Just before Cassie died. I could feel a lump form in my throat. "I had no idea you lived around here."

[dawnie_summers_]

"Mike?" I asked, more than a little shocked, not to mention dizzy from the collision "Guess I could say the same thing about you..." I replied quietly. I wasn't really sure exactly what to say to him right now. It wasn't as if we'd talked much at all since Cassie died. Mostly because neither of us really knew how to deal, but it wasn't important.

"I've been here almost a year, I guess. Moved here with my sister, and a few of her friends, a few months after Sunnydale became a giant crater." I explained, feeling like I should tell him that for some reason.

"So, how have you been?" I asked, "Aside from my giant display of klutziness that mowed you down, that is?" I added, trying to make a joke, make things less awkward.

[sxysnakehulaboy]

"Um... good," I replied. "Good. It's actually nice to bump into you." I paused briefly, laughing embarrassed towards myself, "Well, I meant in a more metaphorical way. Not the literal bumping, because the tends to be more of an ouch."

"Casey, my sister, and I moved here a little before what happened to Sunnydale." I couldn't keep a small smile from my face. It felt good to be talking to someone. Too good. It had been too long and although Dawn and I didn't know each other very well, she felt familiar.

Familiar was something essential. Something I missed and couldn't get from my sister.

[dawnie_summers_]

"What are the odds we'd both end up in Salem?" I wondered aloud, a little amused. "I mean, it's little random given how far from home we are."

So, Sunnydale didn't technically exist anymore... it was still more home than this place was. That'd change eventually, but at the moment? Salem was this cold place on the opposite coast that I currently happened to be living in.

"Anyway, it's good to see you, the crashing into you like a complete klutz aside." I smiled to him, "Wasn't expecting it, but definitely not complaining about seeing someone I know that isn't my sister or her friends, really."

[sxysnakehulaboy]

"Talking is good. Out of the two of us, you'd be the one to do more of it." I pointed out with a sort of smirk.

"I'm going to the school nearby here - just finishing off my last year, you know?" I asked. Everything in Sunnydale had pretty much halted any learning when the school shut down.

I never really understood why such weird things happened around there. I never cared to much. Cassie was always interested in those things, but she seemed to be supernatural herself. She always knew when certain things would happen; her last prediction to me being the B on my Egyptian History paper. Then she was just... gone. Like that.

[dawnie_summers_]

"At least you're almost done." I smiled, "What are your plans for, you know, after?" I asked, "College or anything?"

I wasn't even sure why I was asking him when I hadn't given it a first thought, never mind a second myself, but I had to admit I was a little curious. He got good grades from what I could remember. It didn't seem right for him not to go do something with the brains.

"You know what? You don't have to answer that...we're barely even acquaintances at this point...I kinda don't have any right to ask you something like that." I apologised quickly. I never did know when to keep my mouth shut.

[sxysnakehulaboy]

Enter internal wince. God, I would love to go to college. Anything. I can't even barely afford the junk of an apartment that we own, let alone college.

"I'd like to go to college," I replied to her dispite her insistance for me not to tell her. Hell, I'd like to do a lot of things, Dawn... I paused, "How about you, Dawn?"

[dawnie_summers_]

"Hadn't even really thought about it much...mostly because I'm fairly sure there's like, no money." I told him, "Well, that and zero clue what I want to do...but yeah, most of mine and Buffy's money's tied up in what's now a pile of rubble like everything else in that town."

"Maybe if things had been different...Buffy didn't even get to finish though. Which, you know, partly my fault...she quit to look after me, and then we couldn't really afford for her to go back, and I don't even think she's thought about it in forever."

Way to deflect Dawn...talk about someone else other than yourself.

"Not that you were in any way asking about my sister. Sorry, babble girl strikes again..."

[sxysnakehulaboy]

I laughed softly, chewing and swallowing before handing her back her fork. "It is yummy. You're right. Though my preference on waffles maybe strawberries and whipped cream if I'm going for a sugar high."

I could already feel the massive amount of sugar I just swallowed swimming in my stomach. So, I wasn't used to an all sugar diet.

"How can you make cereal as sugar-y as this though?" I asked with a teasing smile to her. "How would you have energy for the rest of the day?"