<hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;">She's a mean one - - Mrs. Grinch!</span></strong></span></div><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d6/df/5f/d6df5fc8fc9cfb775b82b586fad8d2c8.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;"><strong>Name:</strong> Akasha "Ace" Lynn Cavalli <br/><strong>Sortment:</strong> Admin<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong> JCP Vice Dean<br/><strong>Mood:</strong> On edge<br/><strong>Date &amp; Time:</strong> December AU (No Covid) | 4:44 PM<br/><strong>Tag:</strong> Andy Bellows (Mxyzptlk)<br/><strong>Location:</strong> The Mall, going up the longest escalator of her life<br/><strong>Other:</strong> On the phone with her mother.<br/></span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;">It wasnʻt even Thanksgiving, or Halloween for that matter, but here it all was ...<br/><br/><em>"'"Siiiiiimply haaaa-ahving a wonderful Christmas time!"'"</em><br/><br/>Every ledge and pillar were preening with the spirit of the holidays. Tinsel, holly berries, and delicate fairy lights - everywhere. On the ceiling, snowflake shapes, made of light danced and swirled to the music. While little kids with too much makeup on, flailed around at centerstage. The mall was packed full of last minute shoppers, scrambling around for a holiday that, in Akasha's opinion, was created by capitalists. You wouldn't know by her demeanor, that Akasha Cavalli was only twenty-seven years of age. She walked around holding all of the aggression of a repressed housewife, with five kids, and no help from her husband. She wasn't. <em>"Why the fuh are they playing this sooooong?"</em> She mumbled under her breath, with clenched teeth. She clutched her bag, as her phone began vibrating furiously in there. <strong>Bzz! Bzzz! BZZZ!</strong> It was her day off, so work would have to wait.  <br/><br/>All of the elevators were blocked by parents with flashing camera phones. <strong>"UGH!"</strong> There was a line to get onto the escalator. And on the descending side, a gaggle of kids were doing the splits on the way down. The crowd behind them shouted and attempted pushing past them. <em>'That's how you die before Christmas.'</em> She thought to herself. Akasha hated how people behaved during this holiday; frantic, absent-minded and sometimes greedy. Maybe it was lack of social interaction, or that she rarely had any reason to leave her job, but she deeply regretted being at the mall, today. <br/><br/><strong>Bzz! Bzzz! BZZZ!</strong> went her phone again, just as it was finally her turn to step onto the escalator belt. "Hello." There was no reply on the other line."All right. Bye then." She heard a far off and whiny voice speaking to someone else. "Hang up your phone, Liecia!" She hit the red icon, harder than she needed to, and killed the call. Her phone buzzed, again. She answered and said nothing. "Darling? Hello? Why did you hang up the first time? I've been trying to call you all day." Akasha cracked her neck from side to side. No one could make her quite as tense as her mother. "What do you need?" Akasha asked. As it seemed that her mother only ever called, when her father wasn't giving her any money. "Oh you know, I thought it would be nice to catch up. Maybe see you for the holidays?" Akasha accidentally laughed. "HoliDAYS? Mother, I help run a collegiate academy. There are no such things for me."<br/><br/>Mom: "Well, honey, you know... you aren't getting any younger. We need some grandbabies to fill our empty nest again." <br/>Akasha: "If you find a surrogate, you can literally have them that way."<br/>Mom: "That's unnatural. And you have a legacy to continue. As a woman, and a wife, it is your duty."<br/><br/>Akasha dug her nails into the runner of the escalator handle. <br/><br/>Akasha: "Dana is oversees, working. So if I did my "'"duty,"'" it wouldn't be his. But if you want grandkids, the natural way... well then,<br/>             let me just find the first penis that wants to get in! Anyone want to put a baby inside me?" She asked out loud.<br/><br/>Stranger danger: "Right here!" <br/>Stranger danger's friend:  "What's your number!?"<br/><br/>Mom: "Akasha Lynn Cavalli! You watch that filthy mouth."<br/>Akasha: "Ok, well, I have to go do the sex now. See you in a few month, with everything you asked for. Byeeeee!"<br/><br/>Ace hung up the phone and buried it in the depths of her handbag. Something fell out, as she was stepping off of the escalator, and the person behind her tripped over three people. A people pile scattered the escalator exit. <br/></span>