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June understands the importance of charity and giving back to others, especially those less fortunate than herself. Really, she does. She just prefers charities that involve the beach, somehow, or a fancy gathering involving beautiful dinners and equally beautiful people in attendance.

Volunteering for the Girl Scouts at a summer camp out in the boonies of southern Maine is the absolute last item on the bottom of June's list of preferred charity ideas. So when her father surprised her by volunteering her for the job, all she could do was gape, pout, and reluctantly go along when he made clear that her only other option was to spend the weekend with one of his recently widowed good friends. She still blanches at the thought.

So now, one June Grace Thornton, darling daughter of one of the oldest families in town, waits on a bench at the bus station, swatting desperately at the numerous bug bites littering the skin of her neck and arms, on top of the sun burn already forming there. Her hair is matted, thrown loosely up in a bun to disguise the poor work of the terrible camp showers. She's wearing shorts and an old t-shirt of her mothers, and she's about seconds away from stamping her foot and/or kicking something at someone.

As it stands, she currently sits with her arms across her chest, waiting for some dumbass man lead by the pull of his libido more than his actual mind to pass her and buy her a drink so she can at least get buzzed on top of her lack of dignity.

[Poor pampered princess had a rough weekend in the woods, feel free to find on her the bus looking and acting ridiculous. Open to all, though I'll be slow to tag until after work today. I just wanted to get this post up, first.]
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When June first gets the news her brother is returned, she's out riding Lady around the tracks in their massive backyard, guiding her over jumps and obstacle courses like she's still sixteen with dreams of making Nationals. She grins as the wind whips through her hair, as though she were flying. As Lady's hooves pound into the ground, June feels the troubled thoughts haunting her for the past week leave her, almost as though she weren't an upperclass brat from a uptight family built on secrets and lies.

"Miss June?" Violet, one of the servants, calls to her from behind the fence. June tugs on Lady's reigns, brings her to a light trot over to the other woman.

"Does my father want to see me, again?" She asks, keeping the resignation and dread in her voice to a bare minimum. Violet thankfully ignores it.

"Not quite," she says, and that's when June notices the look on her face, one of mixed relief, joy, and tension. June hardly dares hope, but. "Your brother's returned!"

June doesn't say anything else, riding Lady all the way to the stables before jumping off and handing her to the nearest stable hand, something she never does, preferring to care for her horse herself but. Well, this is a special occasion.

She barely registers making it to her room, throwing on a pair of gently worn designer jeans and a peasant's blouse handcrafted for her specifically at one of the fashion shows and some old sneakers. She hurriedly runs a comb through her hair before grabbing her purse and bolting out the door as though she were a horse herself.

Before she knows it, she's driving her Jaguar into town, quickly pulling in to her desired destination, the parking lot of the Quill. She slams the door shut as she bursts through the doors, grateful to find only a few people in line.

When it gets to be her turn to order, June is fast to reply.

"Yes, hi, um. I need two large coffees, black, a medium vanilla chai, and literally, the largest amount of chili fries and chicken tenders you can legally sell me."

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June Grace Thornton

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