12:07 A.M Towne Centere, Snack Falcon
Mae took a really quick breather as she stopped by the Taco Buck and began to scribble down into her journal again. She drew herself as an old fashioned explorer retracing her steps and little DVD's and VHS's doodles, she also drew her and Angus hugging, Angus having surprise and wrote down 'Another moment awkwardness but feeling good inside' and 'school is different?'
She closed up her journal and was about to go but stopped as she smelled the delicious and wonderful small of tacos inside of the restaurant, the yummy smell of beef, lettuce, tomato, onion, sour cream, Chili Verde, salsa, chicken, rice, refried, pinto and black beans, guacamole, various kinds of sauces, cheese and the pure corn and flour tortilla hit her nose from the inside of the place, causing her mouth to water. "Man if I had some money right now, I could go for a taco right now…"but stopped and shook her head "Ahh who am I kidding…" she chuckled and ran down the street again.
Mae smiled happily as she ran by the Snack Falcon and walked into the place, hearing the classic jingle of the door opening when someone comes in. Gregg sat by the counter as he felt himself completely bored out of his mind and spacing out a bit, still wearing his usual black leather jacket with a grey undershirt and jeans and navy blue boots. He then looked over and saw Mae nearby and lost his train of thought. "Hey Mae!" he said in surprise and smile happily and flailed his arms in the air like crazy to see his best friend.
"Hey Gregg." she said and Gregg immediately spoke back "Thank you for coming to save me from this boredom!" he said before he then walked around from the counter and to Mae and grinning happily "Seriously! I am really in the need to do something with my best bro! A Crime!" he smiled again as he walked over behind the counter to grab something. Mae sighed happily and shook her head, it was only 3 weeks ago when he finally got himself back into being himself.
After what happened to Casey, she and the rest of the guys went into a mourning state, all four of them held a small funeral for him by his favorite place to be. Everyone was so sadden by this event but Gregg stood in it longer than they did. He had known Casey all of his life and felt more of the hurt inside of him than he could expect from losing one of his best friends.
Gregg wasn't himself just a week after the incident with the Cult when they told him and his friends that they killed Casey. He felt so much pain inside of him and a part of himself was also gone too. He didn't really speak to anyone for a while, even Angus. However, his depression didn't stay long enough that it enveloped him and made him too sad.
To cure that, Mae, Bea, Angus and Germ took him out by his favorite place that he, Casey and Mae went too after doing crimes one night. They talked about all of the great memories of Casey when he was once around, they also had a pizza, box of pierogi's and beer too to chill down.
After Mae finished one story where they committed their first crime, Gregg cried in his arms and sobbed heavily but all of the guys managed to help him out by hugging the sadden fox, letting him cry it all out and tell him that there all going to be there for him.
This made Gregg feel a little better after that night, he told his friends that he hopes that they all stick together and continue to be the best group of friends ever, even when there off doing their own lives.
After that night, he was back to himself in less than 2 days, the same hyperactive fox they all knew. This didn't mean he would forget Casey. He will always miss Casey and will never forget the wonderful memories he and Mae went through while they were young and wild.
Mae broke her thoughts and memory of that night and saw Gregg fumbling under the shelf a little bit before he grabbed a small red cooler and placed it up on the counter. He soon put on a pair of black colored gloves and a small grey beanie, he still wore on his black leather sweater like normal.
"Got ourselves a little something in case we get hungry from our little crime!" He said before he opened up the container, it was full of two small bags of chips, perfect size for the both of them.
"Awesome dude! And what is this crime we are doing?" she said before the duo then walked over to the door and opened it as he ran out to the back where his bike was locked up.
"It's a surprise!" he took the chain lock off his bike and placed the cooler in the front of the bike and sat up on the set and placed his feet on the ground and tilted his head to her, telling her to get on.
"Come on! Let's go!" he said before he saw her look of worry due to the snow "Don't worry about the snow, I put on my snow tires for my bike a few days ago!" Mae then placed herself up on the pegs of the bike and held onto Gregg as he put on his goggles and gave a pair to Mae who did the same thing. After that, he rode off from the Snack Falcon and on the bike path where he took Mae before and across the field of snow where a crime is waiting for them.
12:32 P.M, outside of Possum Springs
The duo was riding down what was once dirt and grass path is now a completely white and soft pillow like snowy road for the both of them. Gregg grunted a bit as he pushed his feet down the petals even harder, he didn't know that it would be this hard to ride in the snow.
"Hey, you doing alright dude?" Mae responded while she held down tight onto his seat while hearing Gregg continue to struggle a bit. "I'm fine Mae, just never expected that this would be tough!" he exclaimed as he pushed on. Unfortunately, silly mistake to him, he never tried it the tires out after installing them.
"Hey, why don't you use your motor? Why are you riding it manually?" Mae said and continued to hold on to his seat and heard the bike stop.
Gregg froze for a moment before he chuckled slightly before he spoke up "Umm… Heh-heh, I umm… damaged it when I was working on the engine, I accidentally cut one of the wires leading to the battery so… yeah…" he chuckled softly with his teeth showing. Mae didn't say anything for a moment "Uhh… Okay…" she said slowly and continued to hold on and Gregg pushed on.
As much as Mae wanted to make a joke on his stupidity, she didn't care, she just continued to smile softly to feel so much of the cold and wonderful wind hit her face like a turbine. Mae felt herself so free whenever it came to these cool bike rides with Gregg, it made her feel so relaxed and clam to just enjoy the fast winds and cool breezes and smells of nature conquer herself. She smirked happily an slowly took off her goggles from her eyes, sliding them up to her head and watched over the entire road of snow, the path completely white like paper. She then inhaled the winter air into her lungs and exhaled heavily before hearing Gregg's struggles louder.
"Nggh! Ah! Effing hell! The snow is so deep!" He said before he then stopped for a second and shook his legs back and forth to get the numbness out of him before pressing on.
20 unbearable minutes later…
Gregg panted heavily and finally stopped where they were supposed to be at then loosened himself in the bike seat and let out a long groan as Mae got up from the pegs and walked by Gregg. "Holy shit that was tough as hell!" He panted out heavily, seeing his breaths in the air softly and disappearing in the mist.
Mae chuckled softly and grabbed the cooler on the front of the bike, making a small noise as she felt how cold it was. "Come on dude, where's this place that you were talking about?" She mentioned while seeing the field of grass is now a complete winter wonderland.
"Hold your horse's man, got to… park this!" He said as he pushed down on the kickstand of the bike onto the ground and moved it over the side of a rock by a tree.
Mae groaned, she felt a little annoyed by this little secret 'place' that Gregg was trying to take her, but she still felt the littlest bit of curiosity inside of her and wanted to play along as usual whenever they wanted to do crimes.
"Annnnd… In!" Gregg said once he locked up his bike near a tree and covered up with a small blanket to keep it from collecting snow and being hard to remove off if he didn't have it. Mae then stood nearby his bike as she felt her curiosity increasing every inch of the moment she was standing in the snow and waiting for Gregg to answer her after this little journey.
"So what are we doing Gregg? I really want to know!" she said as Gregg replied quickly "Dudder, take it easy, sounds like you're going to have a heart attack!" he said before he finally started to lead Mae up near a steep hill. The duo soon spotted the abandoned glass factory in the distance, despite the snow being like a blanket and fog in the distance.
"Sorry, but the tension is killing me man!" Mae said and she and Gregg climbed a steep hill even more Gregg then finally spoke up for her about the crime "You know when we made that contraption before you left for college and never finished it? The day before Longest Night?" he said as he opened the container and opened his bag of chips and began eating them before he continued to walk up higher. "What contra-"she stopped and then froze in place before she then gasped a little bit "NO! YOU DIDN'T! She said in excitement, knowing what he meant now.
"Oh yes I did! Gregg stated proudly as he finally reached to the top with Mae and smirked as he had a big looking object covered over with a dirty tarp that had stitches in it. "YOU FINISHED IT?!" she said in surprise as she saw the huge object right near her and Gregg.
"Feast your eyes on this Mae!" he said before he then grabbed the tarp and pulled it over the object, revealing it to Mae.
Mae eyes lit up like silver dollar pancakes "OH MY GOD!" she screamed out in surprise and excitement that traveled through her body like a lightning bolt coursing from the bottoms of her feet to the tips of her ear to looking at what she'd been waiting for.
It was a modified Tennis Ball launcher but it had the capacity to hold in snowballs instead of tennis balls, it didn't look professional looking but it did look really cool to Mae. There was multiple colors of blue, black and green, all painted on the launcher and it was painted on like stripes across the body of it. In red paint, written on the front of the nozzle where the balls come out, it said 'The Winter Devastator' in capital letters.
"EFF YEAH! IT LOOKS SO COOL!" she stated and walked up to it, completely memorized by it as if it was the most beautiful thing in the entire world to her. "Yeah, it took me almost 3 months to fix it up, I used dry ice and grinded it up into powder to make makeshift snowballs. They fire really well Mae." He finished as he walked over to it and turned it on, giving off an ugly motor sound like from a broken lawnmower with a leaky gas compartment.
Mae continued to stare for a little bit before she smirked a little and walked over and grabbed a pile of snow and rolled it up into a ball and patted it down nice and even. "Can I test it dude?" Gregg smirked even more with his eyes all brighten up like the sun.
"As you wish your stupidness!" he said in a goofy yet humorous manner. Mae scoffed, she knew he was joking "Thank you your dumbness!" she said with a comeback. She shoved a snow ball into a modified tube which leaded air into the tube by little holes inside instead of being all compacted together like the normal launcher it would be. This was so it didn't get all melted all together into a mess or leak and get in the gears and rust them up or get into the electrical components inside and fry them.
Mae then went on looking for where the button was located on the modified launcher, she looked all over before she felt something beside her that was jiggling a little. She went onto pressing it and heard a loud 'whoosh!' come from the modification and saw the snowball she made fly really high up into the air and landing down with a splat on a rock.
"Holy shit man that is some high-power dude, it didn't even fall apart, it stayed all together in place in air!" she exclaimed before she smirked and walked over and began to roll up even more and more snowballs but was stopped by Gregg.
"Hold up man! I got just the place where we can fire off these things at!" he said as he grabbed the machine from the side and began to walk it off down the hill slowly and covered it back up with the dirty tarp.
Mae pouted, dropping all of the snowballs from her hands and then followed up beside him, so eager to try the launcher so bad. "Come on dude! I'm really wanting to try this thing out!" she stated as she started to walk down the snowy road once more and walked over to where their crime they were about to commit was really waiting.
10 minutes later…
Mae and Gregg pushed the contraption into the snow as they felt the snow becoming thicker beneath their feet and getting harder to push through the white ice.
Mae grunted as she helped him push this entire piece of crap but wonderful contraption down the road feeling herself sweat like bullets once they hit hard snow. Gregg felt the same way as well, never less, the yellow fox continued to push on and heard Mae speak up.
"Ugggh! Effing eff man! Shit!" she exclaimed while pushing more and more harder, feeling herself become so sore that she might not even be able to use the launcher for her own excitement, even the salt bags that she had carried for Bea weren't this heavy or hard to do.
"Yeah, snow's getting tougher to be able to push this thing, but don't worry, were almost there!" he panted his words out as he felt himself so sore too. 'Damn, and I thought building a robot was much harder, this is effing harder!' he said in his thoughts while trudging on and making his way with Mae to where this will be used for their crime.
Finally, after continuing to trudge on the cold road, Mae heard Gregg yell "STOP!" and with that, she stopped and she waited for what Gregg was going to say, she didn't see anything they could use the launcher for until Gregg spoke up.
"Here it is Mae! Voila!" he stated as he shakes his arms up and down and pointed down below them. He was pointing at an abandoned house below them, it was made of cement, plaster and wood. It was torn down and there was holes and destroyed chunks of house of the outside and the chimney was barley standing, however the glass on the windows was still intact, a little murky on the glass but it was seeable to look though and see the destruction inside of the house.
Mae looked over and saw the house Gregg pointed over to and became even more and more excited as she knew what they were about to do. "Are you ready dude, to break some shit?" he said with a grin as he picked up some snow and began to pat it all down good and even.
Mae smirked back to him with a lewd grin and said "Hell yeah dude!" she said while picking up some snow too and beginning to make some snowballs as well.
Gregg then stood up near a rock as he grunted a little to clear up his chest to speak up "So, what's going to happen is that we are going to shot off snowballs down into the windows of the house, I call this Mortar Snowballs! We take turns seeing who can knock down the most windows! There is 10 windows! Whoever gets the most broken wins!" he finished as he then opened up the top part of the tube to insert the snowballs into the launcher.
"Oh! You're on!" Mae said as she got some snow ammo already made and ready to be used and smirked happily as she stood by the launcher holding all of the snow. Gregg smirked back to Mae as well as he felt himself ready too.
"Go for it dudder! Make your first shot! First always is the worst!" Gregg joked to Mae while waiting for the game to begin.
Mae smiled and scoffed as she inserted her first snowball into the tube and then turned on the contraption once again, hearing that terrible noise start up and looked for the button to shoot it. Once she did, she pushed it and then saw the snowball fly up high into the air and splat down in the top of the house, missing her target of the window that she was currently going for.
"Aww Damnit!" she said before hearing Gregg laugh and grinned as he felt himself so confident now and said "Heh-heh, what did I say!" he yelled out and began to load up his snowball in.
He tilted the front of the nozzle to where his target of the window was at and immediately shot his snowball out and hitting the window directly, shattering it almost completely and leaving shards all over the snow in front of the window.
"What? How could that-?" Mae heard Gregg laughing once more as he said after doing his mini victory dance "It's all about accuracy man, you got to aim this as if it was a real mortar, don't just go with your gut and believe where it will be aimed at" he said before he then gave Mae her snowball from her pile as she stood in disbelief still and then shook herself back into reality.
Mae then grabbed her snowball that Gregg gave her and inserted it into the tube again and growled a bit as she looked at him with her eyes squinted slightly "Smartass…" she said before she then took his advice and began to tilt it slightly to where she was trying to aim.
"Nah man, your too high and far out, you gonna go all over the place" he stated and then walked over to her to help her out. "Look dude, you do I like this" And grabbed the nozzle and moved it into the direction she was going for. He then began to tilt it slightly to finish off any last adjustments.
"Alright, shoot it!" he said, Mae pressed the button once again, shooting the snowball up in the air once again and landing down into the glass and shattering it completely, making Mae even more disbelief once again.
"What?!" she yelled out as she felt herself so sucky at this now and made Gregg laugh again. "Like I said Mae, it's all about accuracy, no matter how you look at it or see it. You got to be precise with how you are aiming to where you want to shoot, otherwise you'll be all over! Now that shot I gave you was a freebie, next time, you got to do it on your own!" he said and then launched up his next snowball in again and tilted it slowly to get his precise aim and measure.
Gregg then shot the snowball out and shattered the window he was aiming for again, this time he didn't shatter it all the way, there was still some left. Gregg stomped his foot down a little "Aw Crap, didn't get enough power, you also need to use that too, power and accuracy man" he said as he stood back for Mae ready to do her turn.
Mae took in a deep breath and exhaled as she then walked up to the contraption and loaded up her snowball into the tube, she saw another window near the one Gregg was trying to shoot but barley shattered it. Mae then went onto tilting the nozzle once again, moving it up and around to see where she was trying to aim for. She then took in another deep breath and exhaled softly 'Okay, Okay, Okay! Power and Accuracy! That's all this is!' she thought while then aligning it slightly and then stopped.
Mae sighed softly and bit her lip hard as she slowly moved her hand over to the launch button, she began to press it slowly and thought of something good while closing her eyes. Mae soon pressed it all the way in, hearing the 'whoosh!' come from the tube, she opened her eyes widely, watching the little ball of snow launching over the snowy field. Mae closed her eyes again as she knew that this wasn't going to make it in but then heard a loud shatter and looked over after opening her eyes.
She made the shot.
Gregg sat in disbelief a bit too but not as much as Mae was when she saw him make his first shot count, there was glass all over and it was everywhere, there was some chunks of glass that slowly fell and made the sound of shattering again.
"Hell to the yes!" Mae screamed out in joy as she did her mini victory dance too, pointing fingers at Gregg. "See? I told ya Gregg! Told ya I make it!" This only made Gregg chuckle and shakes his head back and forth.
"You only made it because I helped you and I was being soft on you. Now let's see if you are really up for the challenger!" he smirked while loading up his snowball in as well and aiming it to his other window he didn't finish and fired, hitting that window and destroying it completely now. "Alright! Were both tied by two windows! Come on dude! Prepare to get stomped!" he exclaimed.
Mae smirked and load up her snowball "You. Are. ON!" she yelled in a competitive tone and began to start her turn once again by loading up her snowball into the machine again.
12 misses and 15 hits later… About 20-25 minutes later?
Mae growled as she missed once again to her final and last target that she and Gregg were battling for, it was the smallest window of the house.
The bathroom window.
It was about 1x1 feet long, it was also tougher glass too and Gregg tried to hit it and barely grazed it across the glass, showing the glass a little damaged but still intact together.
Gregg smirked as he did a little victory dance to himself, knowing that victory is imminent for him to achieve and earn. "Alright man! This is my moment to have glory!" Gregg exclaimed loudly before he grabbed his last snowball and inserted into the tube and ready to fire off. He grinned and then angled the nozzle around to aim for the window and looked for the button and pressed it in a flash. He heard the loud 'whoosh' once again, he watched fly up in the sky and fly back down with incredible speed and was about to land down onto the window.
"Awwwwooooo!" he said while flapping his arms like crazy and grinned happily while closing his eyes and chuckling once again like a goof he is. Mae sighed sadly again while closing her eyes and then sat near a rock as she knew that it was all over for her now from the game Gregg had made but it didn't matter to her too much as she swept it off herself, it wasn't that big of a deal.
But then, all of the sudden, there was a loud 'plop' sound from the house that made Mae jump up in surprise as she looked over and saw the snowball fall down and hit the side of the window instead of actually hitting it all the way.
Mae tapped Gregg's shoulder softly and stopped his little dance as he opened his eyes and looked over as he then gasped in disbelief as he watched over the side and saw the window not destroyed the way he wanted it to be. "What the hell?!" he yelled out before he felt wind beginning to pick up "Ahh man! Stupid wind!" he said with a little anger but felt it ease off as let Mae go for her turn, having a feeling she might miss again.
"Aw man, well, you might not make it either. You missed last time." he said with a convincing grin as he sat back, waiting for his turn afterwards. "Thanks for the support." she joked as she walked over to her pile.
Mae watched over and saw Gregg from being in such dismay to confidence again and sat back. She then walked over as she felt herself in confidence once again and picked up her snowball, it was the last one she had from the pile and it was bigger than the others. Mae knew she felt herself confident for this last shot but she still felt really nervous for this but she remembered what Gregg had told her, it's all about power and accuracy.
Mae inserted her snowball in the tube and began to look for the button, she then felt a quick breeze pick up again, making things very hard to control and aim. "This wind is going to make things so much harder than it seems!" she said and worked on moving the nozzle around to see where it should shoot.
She began to think about where the wind was pushing, it was pushing to the right, the snowball would probably aim into that different direction than it usually would when there wasn't any wind. 'Hmm… It would hit the other side of the house if I aim it the same direction that Gregg had it in. No little changes here I'm going to make here" she said and she aimed it to the left direction instead of the middle.
"What are you doing man, you trying to make yourself lose?" Gregg said while noticing Mae move the nozzle into the left instead of tilting it up and down to level it. Mae didn't say anything as she continued to move it and then tilt it back into the normal position where it will hit the window. After working on focusing it and finishing up any last adjustments she had left on it, Mae then finally adjusted it correctly before she grinned happily and looked for the button and placed her hand on it.
Gregg stood confused as he wondered what she was trying to do. Mae then waited for the wind to return and felt the gust of winter breeze hit her face and yelled out "Fire in the hole!" as she then pressed the button with all her might and saw her snowball shoot out and stayed in the air for a few seconds. Soon, Mae felt the wind come and blow the snowball that was currently still catching some air into the other direction that she was hoping for. She looked over and saw the snowball then falling down to the house windows, she made a worried face as she was hoping that it would fall down on the window and shatter it completely on impact.
Gregg laughed once again before saying "Man, that isn't going to fall down on the windows, it's going to become part of the snow on the top of the house you mi-' he froze while hearing a loud 'clash' and looked down to see what that was, he gasped to see that he was most definitely wrong about Mae missing this time.
She shot the tiny bathroom window down exactly in the middle
Mae then looked over as she opened her eyes and saw the window completely destroyed and removed from the frame itself and gasped happily as she then felt herself squeal in excitement "YES! YES! YES! Oh yeah! Who's the mortar master? Me!" she exclaimed and felt herself doing a very bad dance for her victory dance.
Gregg wallowed in defeat, he sighed sadly and he then spoke up "Well, you did it, congratulations man…" he said with a somber tone before he sat down on the rock with a sad expression on his face.
Mae then stopped and looked over to him as she saw him in a sad state and walked over to the other side of the rock he was sitting on. "Hey come on dude, don't be like that, I was just kidding!" Mae said as she gave him a gentle punch on the shoulder while smiling to him. Gregg looked back to her and looked down on the snow and at his boots and shuffled them around a little while stilling wallowing in pity, he almost looked like if he did something really bad than a crime.
Mae soon didn't like this, something was wrong; Gregg would always be optimistic, even after winning or losing a crime that involved a game to it. She sat up a little and then spoke up but this time not joking at all.
"Hey, dude, are you okay, what's eating ya?" she said while she turned off the contraption beside her 'finally that ugly noise stopped' she thought before she heard Gregg say a 'meh' to her. Mae looked back to him with a look of confusion. "Gregg, what's going on?" she said, feeling little more worried about how the situation was going.
"Nothing, I'm fine!" he said in an annoyed like tone as he sighed again and rubbed his hands into his face, groaning a little bit. Mae was taken back by this, Gregg didn't act this way before 'Maybe I should have let him win?' she thought before talking back to him.
"Whoa dude! Take it easy man, I'm trying to help you! It's just a game!" she said while seeing him so stressed and saddened by this little game they played. What was so important about this game anyway?
Mae sat beside him before he then spoke up as she saw him in such despair "I'm sorry dude, I'm glad you won but it's just, you thought of something really smart, and what did I think of? Just some stupid little hints on how to function a mortar?" he said before placing his hands into his face again. Mae looked to him with even more and more of confusion to him, why was he acting like a brat?
Mae then scooted a little closer to him and to get to the point of what this all meant. She saw him looking a little almost like when he was with Mae while they were at the forest doing knife fights when she came back last month. His expression looked similar to that one he had when they were in the forest after the knife fight where Gregg had mentioned his and Angus's future. He said that he and Angus were having problems and arguments too due to his behavior, Gregg also said so many hateful and negative words about himself that he was parking lot trash and a complete piece of shit but Mae managed to help him out by telling him that he was good and Angus was good too. The situation soon turned from the personal sadness of Gregg to Gregg mentioning that Angus got that ass and that he so many good things to him, he felt a little better after that but he still lingered a bit on the sad side for a bit.
Mae soon got the guts to continue talking "Umm… What exactly do you mean by that?" she said, responding to Gregg's last statement he said. Gregg soon spoke up "I mean, if I can't think of anything smart or creative, how am I going to get through being in Bright Harbor if I can't think of weird but workable things like you can?" he said while he sighed again.
Mae tried to think of something to say but Gregg interrupted her "I mean, look at here, me and Angus only got until Spring before we move on from here, we already got the place we picked out already, it's ready to be bought. I may feel ready but-"he stopped for a second and then continued "I still don't know if I'm fully ready for this." He gulped a little "Angus is ready, he wants to leave here soon enough, and he knows what to do and everything. But what am I going to be doing while I'm there? Having him hold my hand and process me through what I should do and not do like a child?" he said while taking in a breath and continuing again "I know that Angus loves me and I love him so much, but how am I going to show that I am ready for him while in Bright Harbor if I'm just going to be sitting around and for what? Just waiting for another argument to happen that I don't do anything to help him? To help our future…" he stopped and finished off with a tinge of sadness coming from his voice as he felt himself almost on the verge of crying from him talking such hideous words about himself again.
Mae looked at Gregg with sadness in her eyes too, she knew that Gregg had been talking about leaving and ready to go to Bright Harbor but she never heard of him saying he wasn't ready yet. It made her feel even more guilt that she made him sadder about his situation by winning the game they both played. Mae then wondered a little why he wasn't ready, was it the crimes the committed? Was it his job? Or worse, was it her?
Mae then thought back to herself again on those accusations she thought of, 'No, it wasn't' she thought to herself. She knew she did struggle Gregg and Angus's relationship a little but she would never hurt them or make them feel sadden about their plan, except when Angus thought it might have to be on hold due to Gregg getting into some serious trouble or even jail. But they all soon resolved their problems though, Mae gave Gregg to Angus as a gift and she made sure of that. And the couple became happy again, Mae was happy for them too, she was glad that they were together.
Mae sighed again before she then wrapped her arm around Gregg's shoulder, she rubbed his back gently as he looked up to Mae with a look of sadness in his eyes. "Look Gregg, I know I may not know much about what your guys plan is but I do know what it's like to leave." she said while she removed her arm away and cupped her hands together.
"When I left for college, this happened few months before the whole shapes thing I was going through at college. When I first came to the school, I was totally nervous for this. I didn't know what I was going to be dealing with or what was going to happen while I was there while I was at the district. Everything was so new to me, students, teachers, buildings, rooms even sidewalks too." she said softly to Gregg, she felt the wind pick up again.
Mae felt herself gulping a little before she continued "Look, I'm not much of an advice giver but I will tell you this. As I was there, I felt unprepared, undesignated, and unreliable and so many other words I can think of." she stated as she sighed once again before continuing on her story "Change was so difficult for me but I thought to myself 'it's just school Mae, I can do it' but I couldn't. People treated me differently and I tasted food that was nothing like back at home and couldn't do my work like normal, I was so distracted by everyone and everything around me." she then saw Gregg look up in surprise, he heard about her shapes issue but not this at all.
Mae continued "But do you know how I cured that?" she said as she scratched her back of her head a little before continuing "I talked, I asked for help, I walked up to teachers for advice to get around and it worked! I managed to get myself over being nervous and unprepared to being ready and confident. I know it sounds dumb to you but that's what helped me, it really did and I know it will help you too." she finished off with a smile and hugged him softly, making him gasp a little in surprise, Mae never hugs people but he thought it was for the best.
Gregg then hugged her back smiled softly as he spoke up "Do you mean that Mae?" he said softly before he then pulled away from the hug and looked back to her with a more positive expression. "I really do Gregg." she said before continuing "Don't worry too much about this, you've still got time to figure out what to do. Just talk to me if you need help, you're always the one to talk whenever me, Bea, Angus and Germ are around, you should be the same with Bright Harbor people." she said while Gregg smiled back to her.
He replied to her as he knew she was right, he always was one to talk to, even in bad situations "Thanks Mae for helping me out. I guess you're right, I should just talk like normal, take my time trying to know who new people are." he said and smiled softly to her "And you will dude, I promise." she said to him. The crime duo sat in short silence for a bit watching over the house they just literally made even more destroyed.
Mae then spoke up after the silence for a short moment "Hey umm… I was wondering, how did you managed to pull this thing out here?" she said while she stood up and stretched her arms after the talk they had.
Gregg then stopped smiling and watched over and saw the machine he's got to pull back in the snow once again and chuckled a little "Umm… Yeah… I fixed this baby back up before the snow started to fall and it wasn't hard to bring this up when it didn't… And now we need to bring it back…" he trailed it off and chuckled funny to Mae, which Mae then rolled her eyes and snorted a little.
"Want me to help you out?" she said as she saw Gregg stand up from the talk as well and Gregg softly smiled and with a cheeky grin said "Yeah…?" Mae scoffed a little but then grabbed the contraption by the side and tilted her head over "Come on, just take your time." Gregg then walked over and grabbed the other side of the modification "Yep, take my time." he finished as the duo moved the Winter Devastator out of sight from the area and back to the store.
1 hour and half later… 4:42 P.M, back at the Snack Falcon
Mae and Gregg were both back in the store and the duo were sitting behind the counter and drinking soda as they both were chilling down from pushing and moving the launcher back into a storage room located behind the store. Despite the whole moving away thing that Gregg was dealing with, it was a good time for the both of them. Mae and Gregg were out of their winter clothing and chilling by the heater beside the counter.
Gregg was the first to speak up as he sipped his soda "Mmm… Nothing better than a crisp Fiascola with my best bro and by a heater." he said and looked up for a minute to see of anyone was coming in but sat back down. Mae smiled back as she sipped back into her drink "Yep, me too bro." and sighed softly and laid back a little before looking over to the clock, seeing that it's the same time that she usually wakes up around.
Mae stood up after being in front of the heater and yawned a bit as she pulled out her coat, scarf and beanie from underneath the shelf she placed after they put the launcher in the storage room and slipped it back on. "Where are you going dude? You're leaving?" he said while he stood up himself and placed his drink into a small fridge below the shelf. "Yeah, I should probably head home, I've done a lot today, I am so tired from all of the stuff I did with Bea and Angus before I saw you. I moved salt bags and shovels at Bea's work and delivered movies to an elementary school while getting trampled on by the Harley's for Angus" she said as she buttoned up her coat.
"Shit man, you really took it hard today then." As he placed his arms over the counter. Mae walked over the other side and stood in front of the counter as Gregg stood behind it like when she first walked in.
"Yeah, well, I'll see you later dude, you are awesome as always!" Mae said and walked over to the door before hearing Gregg speak up "Hey Mae." He paused for a second. "Thanks for today, sorry if I kind of ruined it. Just dealing with some stuff but thank you for helping me out too." he said. Mae then sighed and smiled softly to him again "Nah, it's cool dude, it's all right, I had fun today and I bet you did too" and with that, Mae opened up the door and waved to him.
"See you later Gregg!" she said as she walked out of the store. "You too Mae!" as Gregg stood in his normal position again like normal, now becoming bored again like usual but still happy feeling happy on the inside, he knows he can do this, not only for himself but for Angus too.