Art Club/First Meeting Version Two

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Posted on 00:16, April 6, 2018 (UTC)

"Yeah..." she drifted off, looking in their direction. "Have some classes with them." She put the papers down. "So what type of art do you do? Painting? Carving?"

Luci Simonetti

He inspected the circle and eventually deemed it worthy. "Draw a square," he said. "And I'm talking about underground politicians. I'm heavily involved in politics, so I hear nearly everything. There are some rumors even you haven't heard about. Let me think of one, hm..."

Alex Bellrose

"Painting," she said instantly, "I've tried other stuff, like photography and sculpture, but I never really clicked to it, so I stuck with painting, sketching, the like. More realist than anything else, though. I could never do the more...modern styles, like Picasso, you know?"

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She bit her lip. Maybe she was oblivious. She never really took an interest in politics, she was never going to follow her father's footsteps like her little sister wanted to, so she never really paid any attention to it. "What do you mean underground politicians?" She asked instead as she drew the square.

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Luci Simonetti

"We have surface politics and we have underground politics," he began explaining. "Surface politics is the everyday stuff you hear in the news. Petty stories about celebrity feuds, possibilities for new elections, poll results... etc. Underground politics is where it really gets interesting." He took a pencil and began drawing on the single piece of paper he had taken, to present a visual representation. "Underground politics—" he circled the words. "Are essentially everything that happens off-screen. The real dealmaking, the shady stuff. Underground politics doesn't get on media. It's like the black market, but more threatening to your reputation. If you have a bad presence in underground politics, your career in surface politics will be dead in the water before it even begins. Underground politics is strictly off camera."

Posted on 05:33, April 8, 2018 (UTC)

"Ah, I'm a digital art person. Sometimes I do pastels too, but drawing and digital art are more of my thing," she explained. "Speaking of that, do you have like a scanner around here somewhere that I could use? I have a laptop so."

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"Oh, *that* side of politics," she said, scrunching up her nose, "I know of it," she confessed. Of course she did, her very existence was part of that side, nor was her father too innocent. Though, that was her own theory and suspicion, she had no proof of it and even if she did...what would she do? It was her father and he had the power to toss her onto the street. "Why would a student be that involved in politics, though? As you said, it's behind camera, how would someone like you be...privileged to see it...if you get what I mean and no offence, but...most student's priorities are who they're taking to prom."

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Alex Bellrose

"Oh no, I do, I think I saw one somewhere..." she trailed off as she began to try and remember where she did. *Come on, Alex, think.* Her eyes landed on the shelves in the back and frowned, moving over to it. "I think it's on the top shelf," she conceded, beginning to climb up the shelves to check. She wasn't heavy, much the opposite, so she was secure in thinking the shelves wouldn't collapse under her. She was right–there it was. Of course, Alex was terrible with technology so digital art was out of the question for her so she didn't take much notice to the area so...it was kind of nice seeing someone involved in it, a new area that Alex got to experience. Well not experience it first hand but...second hand. She grabbed it, wincing as she realised it was slightly heavy. "This thing, right?" She asked, lifting it so Courtney could see.

Luci Simonetti

A smirk lit up his lips, he turned the paper around and began to draw out a scenario. "I wouldn't put it far behind you to know I'm a bounty hunter," he said. "You've been searching for one recently. Eventually handed your case over to Sacrise. Right?" He drew a screen filled with binary numbers. "Most of my employers are heavily involved in underground politics. And I'm a well-known name in bounty hunting, so naturally, I'm involved in it. But I'm more curious than most, so I dig. It's easy when you know how tech works. Anything made for man can be turned against man. I know practically anything and everything about anyone and everyone."

Posted on 23:12, April 8, 2018 (UTC)

"Yup," she confirmed, watching Alex climbed up the shelves with raised eyebrows. "Need any help with that?"

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She could feel her defences rising as Luci continued to speak and kept her eyes on the paper, staring at the binary numbers, a sick feeling beginning to dwell in her stomach. "I know usually that most clients put a bounty on someone's head and one of you pick it up. I didn't do that. I made sure not an inch of my case hit your circuits so I'd be curious to know how you even know I have a case in the first place unless Sacrise isn't as confidential as I was lead to believe," she said carefully. This was silly to say, Belle knew. She didn't underestimate Luci. "Why are you telling me any of this?" She asked instead, hoping to change subject.

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Alex Bellrose

"No, I'm fi–" she cut off as she felt her foot slip and would have fell if she didn't drop the device to grab ahold of the shelf again to steady herself and winced as her shin slammed against the shelf. That was going to bruise–which wasn't a surprise, she bruised easily. ~~Brooke proved that.~~ "–ne," she finished, grabbing the device and quickly made her way down.

Luci Simonetti

"Whether or not Sacrise was confidential, I would've found out long before she could've told me anything," he said with a shrug. "Isn't it obvious? It's rude to keep you in the dark about it right. Especially since I'm quite ahead of Sacrise in her own case. Honestly, if you gave me a day or two, I could find your mother. And don't act surprised, at this point you should realize I would've figured out your connection anyway. Courtney will too. Eventually. Bounty hunters aren't stupid. The industry requires intelligence and wit."

Posted on 00:04, April 9, 2018 (UTC)

She took the scanner from Alex and inspected it for damage before clicking her tongue in satisfaction. She was about to step away and then remembered Alex almost fell. "Uh... you okay?"

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She was silent, not at all surprised. She knew that was coming when Luci started hinting that he knew almost everything. Biting the inside of her cheek, she twirled the pencil around her fingers as she thought, silent for a few minutes. "Maybe she will, maybe she won't," she said eventually and couldn't help but glance over to Courtney as she said this, "but it won't be you who'd tell her." That could be interpreted multiple ways, a threat perhaps but for Belle...it was more of an observation. "But hopefully she'll figure it out by the time she finishes the case," she said with a small smile. She knew she'd be more scared, more paranoid, that someone knew. She knew it was a risk by dipping her toes more into the whole situation but...it had happened. Someone knew. She wasn't going to cry over it. Unless he made a nuisance of himself, then she was going to her crying corner. "Are you trying to get me to give you the case?" She asked suddenly, the thought hitting her, and frowned at him.

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Alex Bellrose

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," she muttered, forcing herself not to bend down and rub her leg which was beginning to lightly throb, relieved that she actually succeeded in finding the device. If she was honest, she wasn't even sure if it was there but turned out she didn't forget and didn't waste her time. "Say...what do you draw? Like, not the style, but the...subjects. If you get what I mean."

Posted on 03:38, April 9, 2018 (UTC)

"People... places... scenarios..." she drifted off. "I like drawing perspectives. Like I'll make a picture of a scene from one person's point of view, and then the same scene from another point of view."

Luci Simonetti

"Oh she definitely will find out. And honestly for all you know, it might just come from me." He chuckled, shaking his head. "Stealing Sacrise's case in not in my interests. You're just... the only interesting thing I've seen in a while. I decided to track it—for fun. It's painful having to watch Sacrise trail behind though."

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"So you'll give her a few tips here and there?" She asked, narrowing her eyes, her tone dry and she dropped the pencil to slid her hands under the desk as she could feel them beginning to shake. *He's not doing it for the case, he's doing it for fun, he won't go for-* "I can pay you to stay away. That's why you guys are in this career line, right? Money. Honestly, my mother disappearing has nothing to do with politics, not involved with my father...it can't be that interesting."

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Alex Bellrose

"Huh...I've never tried that before," she confessed before making a face. She usually just drew Brooklyn and she'd rather not switch that point of view and draw herself. "I usually do live models, recruit a lot..." she trailed off as she looked at Courtney as the thought came to her and tilted her head. *Street smart. Maybe paint her under a streetlight, dark colours. Maybe a leather jacket. Mysterious.*

Luci Simonetti

He snorted, "Hardly. Watching Sacrise *is* painful. But it doesn't mean I'll help her unless it benefits me. Bounty hunters don't work that way." He crossed his legs, looking no longer interested in the conversation. "Maybe that's what everyone else is in it for," he said with a shrug. "I couldn't care less. People know not to steal my cases at this point so competition's nonexistent. It's just easy money." He tilted his head, tracking Belle's movements. "Oh, I get it. You're scared of me, aren't you? I mean, it's reasonable fear but I have no reason to do anything to you. Your father... well, that's another thing. And that's the thing, I'm interested in your mother's disappearance because it isn't related to politics. Honestly, after being stuck in the same place for so long, it gets boring."

Posted on 11:21, April 9, 2018 (UTC)

"Ah..." she hummed. "Do you have a specific style? I like to frame my pictures in circles, so it looks like you're looking through a telescope or something similar."

Alex Bellrose

"I just do the usual rectangular frame," she responded, "as I said, I'm more of a realist...naturalist, humanistic. I'm pretty versatile, though, and I like to change it up a few times. Of course...I haven't really done much in the past year or so other than sketching and I'm thinking of finding a new style, so..." she trailed off with a shrug.

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She stared at Luci, slightly frowning, clenching then unclenching her hand, trying to calm herself. "I wouldn't call it fear," she said after a moment, "there's a couple of people I'm scared of and it's not you. Just..." she trailed off. *My life isn't something that you should have an interest in. I don't know you. It's not your business.* Still, something wasn't right. Maybe it was just a vague interest but...it was an awfully attentive interest. Not many people would put this much effort into something they were curious about. "Have you found her? My mother. Or are you all talk?"

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Posted on 23:49, April 10, 2018 (UTC)

"We could do a collaboration maybe if you're interested in it," she suggested, setting up the scanner.

Luci Simonetti

"You and I both know that's something I don't need to lie about," he pointed out, scribbling down a series of numbers on the corner of the paper. "Why? Wanna see her?"

Alex Bellrose

She looked over at Courtney, evidently surprised as her eyebrows raised and blinked a few times. "A..." she trailed off. That was also something she'd never done before. "S-sure," she stuttered out, "if you want to."

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"If I didn't want to see her, I wouldn't be paying thousands to find her," she muttered before her eyes landed on the numbers and frowned, eyebrows creasing, "what are you writing?" In all honesty, Belle was thinking it was the amount of money Luci wanted. She didn't think she would be surprised if it was.

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Luci Simonetti

He flipped the paper around. "Coordinates," he told her. "Longitude and latitude coordinates. What? Did you think I was just going to hand you an address or something? Though, I advise not being too excited when you get there. If you decide to go."

Posted on 12:34, April 12, 2018 (UTC)

"Alright, then. I dunno if I'll be seeing you around anywhere except the Art Club so we'll work here."

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"No, I wasn't," she said, staring at the numbers, memorising them, before looking back up to Luci. From his words, her thoughts jumped straight to the words 'she's dead' and her stomach sunk. Not like it was a surprise, though, it was expected. "Well...thank you." Though she thought there were was some sort of catch, that didn't mean Belle had to be ungrateful.

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Alex Bellrose

"Oh...why do you say that?" she trailed off. To be honest, she doubted she'll see any of them within school hours anyway, simply because she never went. "We meet twice a week so...should be okay."

Luci Simonetti

"You're welcome," he said, taking the paper and muttering a spell under his breath to burn it quickly. "Anyway, we were supposed to be teaching you about the basics of drawing. We have a circle, square... I don't like your square so redraw that and then draw a trapezoid."

Posted on 00:55, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

"Cause if we had any classes together I would've noticed."

Alex Bellrose

Her eyes slid slowly over to Courtney, biting her lip. Welp. She probably did. Oh well. "Oh, true, to be honest...I don't think I would have. I've been told I'm kind of blind."

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She huffed. She almost asked what the point of drawing shapes was but...she guessed she had to start somewhere. She took the pencil again and redrew it but her mind was on other things so it came out kind of wonky and she frown, a light blush tinting her cheeks, before she redid it, forcing herself to focus and drew a far better one then drew the trapezoid.

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Posted on 03:36, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

"Honestly I feel like it's true," she admitted, taking her laptop out and hooking it up to the scanner.

Luci Simonetti

He studied the shapes until he was satisfied. "Okay, draw a triangle halfway down the circle."

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Doing as she was told, her eyes flicked back onto Luci when she was finished. "So...you're a bounty hunter, a student, an artist, you must have quite an interesting life."

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Alex Bellrose

She stared at Courtney for a moment, her eyebrow twitching, before sighing. Whatever. She took out her sketchpad and pencils. Usually, she would use paint but it wasn't really practical in this moment as it took ages to dry and pencils were just more suitable. Plus, Alex was more use to pencils than paint by now. "Guessing you're the opposite?"

Luci Simonetti

"It's more boring than you think, that's why I actively seek out entertainment," he explained, inspecting the triangle. "What about you? Miss Double Life. Draw a trapezoid about an inch below the triangle and make sure it's a good deal bigger than the square and triangle."

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"It's more tiresome than you think," she responded with a small smirk before drawing the trapezoid. "You don't really get a proper social life."

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Luci Simonetti

"Understandable. But hey at least the majority of the school's too stupid to recognize you. It could be worse," he said with a shrug. "The longer parallel line should be facing upward by the way.

Posted on 00:45, April 14, 2018 (UTC)

"Opposite in what right?" she asked. "I can't really afford to be oblivious if that's what you're asking."

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"You tend to not notice something when you're not looking, I think I'd be found pretty quickly if someone were to say I went here," she confessed, frowning down at it before redoing it with a small huff.

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Alex Bellrose

"That's what I was referring to, yeah," she agreed, "and in...what way? That you can't afford to be oblivious that is."

Luci Simonetti

"Well to be fair, I wasn't looking for it, it's just an automatic reflex to like analyze anything I come in contact with so it was pretty easy to recognize you. The literal difference is like your glasses and maybe a hair style change." He glanced at the picture, deciding it was fine to work with and slid the paper over to him. "So shapes are the basic fundamentals of art. To make anything, you need shapes, and a lot of artists use shapes to make basic outlines for just about anything. Give me something to draw and I'll show you."

Posted on 17:48, April 14, 2018 (UTC)

"I just can't," she said simply, finally sitting down and pulling out her sketchbook. Alex didn't need to know about her job anyway.

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"You'd be amazed how much someones physical appearance happens with a pair of glasses. It's strange, actually, but interesting. Plus, no makeup," she said with a wink before listening. "Courtney," she said without a second thought and hesitated, "or Alex."

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Alex Bellrose

"I know a few people like that," she hummed with a shrug. *Of course, I think it's a sad way to live. Always on alert.* "So...where should we start?"

Luci Simonetti

"And you say you don't have anything for Courtney," he muttered under his breath in disbelief. He began connecting the shapes lightly, outlining the figure of teenage girl, deciding only to draw her head and torso out of pure laziness.

Posted on 18:50, April 15, 2018 (UTC)

"Really depends on circumstances truly. Sometimes it's just a reflex, sometimes it's for a job, etc."

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She narrowed her eyes as she heard him mutter something but didn't hear it so was forced to keep silent and waited for him to finish.

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Alex Bellrose

"Oh yeah? Where do you work?" She asked, not thinking anything wrong by the question.

Luci Simonetti

He finished the light sketch after a few minutes and began drawing the facial features, it quickly becoming evident that the figure resembled Courtney. "See how I use ovals to start the outline for the eyes?"

Posted on 01:36, April 16, 2018 (UTC)

"Not somewhere you'd be particularly interested in," she said. *Or belong in.*

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"Huh...you're pretty good at it," she said, tilting her head as she saw the sketch, "and...yeah, sure I see that."

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Alex Bellrose

"Oh," she said with a slow blink. *Right. Not my business...raises the question though...what does Brooke do again?*

Luci Simonetti

He shrugged, "Most of it comes from photography. Eventually it becomes a reflex to highlight the importance of facial features in your subjects, and I just put that into drawing."

Posted on 05:03, April 16, 2018 (UTC)

"You have a job, or?" she asked, opening up the laptop and signing in.

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"Somewhat of a natural, huh? To be honest, I'm more on the other end, the subject," she joked, "so I'm not really in the know of the...production of it all, I guess."

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Alex Bellrose

She shook her head slowly, "not really," she responded with a shrug, writing the date at the top of a blank page "nothing structured anyway."

Luci Simonetti

"Anyone can learn, levels of effort required just vary," he explained.

Posted on 22:33, April 16, 2018 (UTC)

"Ah." She flipped her sketchbook open to the scene of a girl watching a boat pull into a harbor and tore it out of the sketchbook, revealing another drawing under that depicted a boy looking at the girl on the docks. "I see."

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"As with everything, I suppose," she agreed, "so...any love interests for you? Since your so interested in my nonexistant one."

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Alex Bellrose

She gazed at the sketches before averting her gaze. *Not bad.* Of course, she brought a new pad to the club, not wanting anyone to see the multiple sketches and drawings of Brooklyn. *Especially not Luci.* That'd be embarrassing. "It's not bad," she said with a shrug, "means I have a lot of spare time too."

Luci Simonetti

He snorted, "I wouldn't call her a love interest. She's a... bit of a bitch but she's entertaining to be around and we have been on a couple dates so."

Posted on 04:32, April 17, 2018 (UTC)

"That's true," she conceded. "But I feel like with a lot of free time comes too much time to think."

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"That sounds real romantic," she said with a snicker, "she a bitch to you?"

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Alex Bellrose

"True," she confessed, her voice almost a whisper, "but it gets better if you find other people, friends, to pass the time with."

Posted on 12:34, April 17, 2018 (UTC)

"Meh, social interactions are overrated," she said, placing the sketch in the scanner.

Luci Simonetti

"You could phrase it like that I guess. I feel like it's more, she's more tame around me, y'know? She's still a bitch, just less of one."

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"Do you ever think you could do better?" She asked, beginning to relax now that they've gone through the more...difficult part of the conversation....easy sailing now, right?

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Alex Bellrose

"I use to think that," she confessed, letting the pencil in her hand do what it wants, not really paying attention to what she was drawing.

Luci Simonetti

He laughed. "Of course. All the time but I kind of have this feeling she's the only person... worse than me. Like if I took interest in anyone else, they'd be too good for me. Like I don't deserve them. I don't want that feeling."

Posted on 20:38, April 18, 2018 (UTC)

"A lot of people do, and then they 'grow out of it'. I could never really. I've always been antisocial." She shrugged like it didn't bother her and continued downloading the sketch onto her computer.

Alex Bellrose

"I think it's a defence mechanism," she said after a brief moment of hesitation. "If you don't talk to people, can't get hurt."

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She was silent, her eyebrow slowly raising, before laughing. "Wow, that's...wow," she said, not really sure what to say to it. "That's one point of reasoning."

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Posted on 23:13, April 19, 2018 (UTC)

"Well that's wrong. You can get hurt by not talking to people. I just don't like... people. Like to me there's nothing appealing about having a large group of friends are going on dates all the time. It's really mundane to me."

Luci Simonetti

"Yeah I've been told I have strange ideologies," he commented, finishing the light sketch of Courtney.

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"No kidding," she said, "maybe one day she'll turn around and say she deserves someone better."

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Alex Bellrose

"Oh, for sure, but it certainly minimises the chances," she said with a shrug, "and I don't like those large groups either. I always feel kind of forgotten."

Luci Simonetti

"Yeah but we both know not many are very... keen of her. Plus most of the stuff she says deflects right off of me so I guess in the end we make more sense. Like the sketch?"

Posted on 05:17, April 20, 2018 (UTC)

"I guess yeah. Minimizes the chances. Anyway, do you usually have conversations about morbid topics?"

Alex Bellrose

"They're not morbid," she hummed, "just...deep. Not morbid. If we started talking about how we wanted to die and when, that would be morbid."

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"I don't know her so I can't really tell you if people aren't keen on her," she said with a shrug, "she can't be *too* bad...can she?"

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Luci Simonetti

"Oh no, she's genuinely a horrible person," he said nonchalantly. "But I'd like to know if you like the sketch."

Posted on 17:31, April 21, 2018 (UTC)

"Something tells me you've had that conversation with someone before," she said grimly.

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"Huh? Oh," she said with a blink as her eyes dropped to the sketch before smiling, clapping her hands lightly, "that's really good," she said.

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Alex Bellrose

*Do you count yourself?* "No, not really," she said with a small laugh, shaking her head, deflecting the comment, "an example, really."