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nadiawerner:

“And failed.” Nadia threw him a wink, moving to grab the rest of the things they needed for the ziti. She loved to joke like this with Connor and the possible idea that he saw that sort of future with her excited her. Hopefully one day, it’ll happen. “Watch your fingers. I don’t want you to cut yourself,” she warned, chuckling a little. So maybe she would allow him in the kitchen a little more.

"Ouch! You're being so harsh." He said before his jaw dropped, shaking his head. Everything was fun when she was around, even something he hated like cooking. "I know I'm not a cooking expert like you, but I think I can grate cheese. Have some faith in me." Connor laughed, looking at her and back at the cheese.

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charlotte-cabrera:

“I wouldn’t doubt it! But if it keeps up, I’ll never be able to keep up with you.” She smiled up at him, the expression softening as they began to talk about her sister. “Yeah, you’d think that it would make sense to her, but apparently not. And I’m trying to respect her decision, but it’s difficult when all I want is what’s best for them both.” She sighed, nodding along with Connor’s suggestion. “Yeah, that sounds great! I trust your taste in food, but don’t make me regret it.” she added with a laugh.

"You could start wearing really high heels." He teased, laughing softly. "I know, it's not the situation you would like but right now what it's important is that your sister recovers." He told her, trying to understand the situation since he had never been in the same situation or even being that close to his sister. "I have great taste in food, so believe me you won't regret it. Do you really think I would take you to a place with horrible food? I'm not that kind of friend."

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olivia-ashworth:

“–Oh, is he yours? Please don’t judge me I found him in the park and I couldn’t pass up taking one of those dreaded selfies with it to send to my cousin.”

"It's fine. Actually, you are the third person to ask me if they can take a picture of him. I might start charging now."

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theathomas:

“Let’s hope.” Thea muttered as she sat down on the curb. She drew her knees up and her face found the comfort of her hands. “Today is not my day.”

"Don't say that. Sometimes things like this happen, brides are not ready for commitment but that doesn't mean it's your fault." He said as he sat down next to her.

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charlotte-cabrera:

[ charlotte-cabrera in reference to connor-barclay x nadiawerner ]

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kitty-summers:

“Oh, you do know how to spoil me, Connor. You and Nads have to buy it off me, maybe I’ll give you a discount because you’re awesome.”

"Your painting will be in a place where everyone can see it when they walk into my house. Thank you, we're just trying to be half as awesome as you are. Anyway, how you've been?"

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charlotte-cabrera:

“Hey, I’m not going anywhere. You can’t get rid of me that easily.” Charlotte giggled, tossing her arm around his waist. “I swear, you grew. I know I couldn’t have gotten shorter.” Pausing, Charlotte sighed inwardly. Things with her sister had reached its peak when Charlotte confronted her drunken sister inside of a liquor store. “It’s… We’re getting there. She’s trying to get sober, but we got in this ridiculous fight last week. She insists that getting a nannny and keeping Lila at her house is better than having Lila stay with me until she’s back on her feet, but I don’t really see it that way.” She replied, shrugging. “Alright, alright, I feel like there’s no budging you on that one, so my only thing is that you have to pick.”

Connor frowned at her comment before looking down at her, shrugging his shoulders. "I think you are getting shorter, my friend. Sorry to tell you." He smiled at her before his features turned serious as she started talking about her sister. "I think just like you, Lila should stay with you but she's the mother and if Cara believes that it's best for her to stay with a nanny you should respect her choice." He explained. "Sounds great. There's this place where I've always have wanted to eat, I heard the food is amazing. We can go there if you want."

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nadiawerner:

“Connor Barclay, you are not getting out out it that easily,” she said, wagging her finger at him with a smile. It was funny, but Nadia never thought she’d ever have this chance with him, but here they were and she couldn’t imagine why she ever thought that in the first place. Looking over at the stove, she saw the water boiling. “It’s the pan. It tends to smell burned when I use it. Don’t worry, I’m not ruining your dinner this time.” She kissed his cheek before pulling away to pour the pasta into the pot. “You know what to do.”

"At least I tried." He let out a laugh as he nodded his head. He was obviously kidding, but he loved to see Nadia's reaction, they only make her look even cuter. "Okay, you are the expert here. I just wanted to be sure because unlike last time this time I am starving." He said,smiling as she reached to kiss his cheek. "This is gonna be the best grated cheese in the history, mark my words." He said, joking as he continued to grate it.

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theathomas:

“Have you seen a girl about, oh, uhm, my height? Maybe a little taller. Big, white, poofy wedding dress? Yeah, she’s supposed to be getting married in, oh, I don’t know… TWENTY MINUTES!” Thea paced back and forth. “How in the hell did I manage to lose the bride!?”

"She grabbed a cap, but I didn't see where it went. I'm sorry." Connor said. "Maybe she needs some time to think and she could come back before the wedding."

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nadiawerner:

Nadia didn’t have this happy period with Charlie. Maybe it was because he was never home, but it didn’t exist. Here with Connor, Nadia felt like she found someone to call her home. She could see everything with him. “You better. I already beat you twice with asking you out and saying I love you,” she joked back, keeping her arms around him. “I love seeing you smile.”

"In that case maybe I should leave you all the important questions to you." He joked. Her comment only made him smile widely. Not even in a million years he thought he would find someone like her, since the moment he had came back to town she had changed his life. "I think you are burning something again." He said softly, looking at the stove.

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charlottebarclay:

New York had been the most terrible and rewarding experience of her life, part of her wished she could have stayed back in Cloverbrook, minding her own business and never gone to Yale, but the other part of her knew that even with the bad experiences, staying home would have been much worse than going away and her mind would have be even more messed up than it was at that moment with all the paranoia she had acquired after the shooting, and after the best boyfriend in the world.

Nicholas was someone her family didn’t know about. Upon arriving in New York, she successfully kept in contact with them for the first two years of her life before only getting back on Holidays or when she wasn’t able to be by their side in any event her mother adamantly called her out for. The social life of the Barclay family was too much sometime and she made sure not to follow it and avoid it as much as she could – thankfully, at first, university was keeping her busy, but then Nicholas happened.

The famous cliche of the young girl who meets the best man in the whole world and falls madly in love before true colors were shown. Nicholas was obsessive, abusive and way too overwhelming and soul sucking to allow her to live a life of her own. It didn’t last long, it just lasted her enough to scare her out of any relationship in the future and enough for him to beat her up senseless. Tabitha found her, made her got to the hospital and come clean to the police. Perhaps she was weak after all, she wasn’t that bright and shining light she though, but bit by bit she was able to regain her power here and there, until the shooting… it just came bringing everything down again.

Now there she was, in front of her brother, the man who made all the other man take the background as the things he made her feel… he wasn’t even aware of them, Charlotte didn’t blame him, although she held grudges, but she didn’t expect him to be aware of how she felt either. 

With a small smile she nodded. “I always expected you to fall back into the family business actually,” she said. “I always loved art, just not enough to make it my major, but it’s going to be fun to be away from the whole teaching position, I don’t plan on stepping foot on a school any time soon and the gallery is in San Francisco, it will be good alone time, away from here.” She sighed and raised her eyebrows at the mention of them being neighbors. “That’s going to be interesting – I know just one of my neighbors, it’s a girl… Nadia, I think its her name, she’s really nice.”

Thinking about it the last years seemed like a blur, like a long dream. He knew some things had happened but often he found himself having trouble remembering the details. After college his life seemed to be perfect, he got a contract in a great team and finally he had left California to start his own life. Playing football had been his only goal during his life, it might not be what his parents had wanted, but for the first time in his life he was making his own decisions without being scared of disappoint his parents.

After the injury Connor wondered if he could've done something to avoid it. Maybe he should have practiced more instead of going to parties, but now it was too late to think of that. He might not remember completely the last years, but he still has a vivid memory of his last match. He wasn't focused, all he wanted was to go home and sleep since the night before he had been outside all night drinking with his teammates and friends. Then it happened, he just felt a strong pain in his knee and next thing he knew he was laying on the ground. He thought it would be the usual process, some rest and if it was really bad maybe surgery and a couple of months out of the field. The truth was more heartbreaking, that match had been his last.

Life after football was a mess. Quickly, he came back to his old habits and now he had an excuse to take those pain killers all the time. If someone asked about them he would simply response that it was to stop the knee pain. The decision to come back home was not an easy one, how could he go back and feel like he had let down everyone. Finally, the high expectations had taken its toll. The first weeks his father didn't stop reminding him that he had dropped a promising career in architecture for a game, while his mother said the same but in much kinder words. Still, that didn't help him stop feeling like he was a huge failure.

His family didn't know about his problems with the pain killers, nor that it had started while he was in high school. He didn't blame them for not knowing, after all, he also didn't know anything about their lives. That's the kind of family they were.

"Really? I never thought I would," he replied. "It's not like there's a lot of jobs in the art department either way, you took the wisest decision. Are kids that bad that you don't want to be around a school anymore? While you are in San Francisco you should visit grandpa, I'm sure he's gonna be thrill to see you." He gave her a somewhat stiff smile before taking a sip from his water. At the mention of Nadia, he almost choked. What were the chances that she would be her neighbor. "Oh yeah, she is very nice. I think we had a class together in high school." He couldn't tell her that now she was dating Nadia, at least not yet.

∞ Family Meeting.

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nadiawerner:

“Sure,” she drawled out, smirking at him. She knew that they were both simply teasing each other at this point. Nadia was pretty sure that she had never been this happy before. Connor made her feel like everything would be okay with him by her side. “You better propose first, Mr. Barclay. Just a warning,” she mumbled against his lips, needing to tease him one more time.

Connor had been in other relationships before, but with Nadia it was different he had been through so many changes in the last year that he was glad to finally settle with someone, especially with someone like Nadia. "Too fast, Werner." He joked. "Don't worry, I take full responsibility in that. It's gonna blow your mind when it happens." Connor withdrew from her lips, looking at her and smiling. Since he had been with her he couldn't help but smile all the time.

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kitty-summers:

“That’s what I’m thinking.” Kitty teased, “Maybe I should open up my own art gallery? Would you buy my paintings?”

"Are you kidding me? I would fill my house with your paintings, I think you have future in this." He said in a serious tone before laughing softly.

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charlotte-cabrera:

Spending the summer away from Connor was definitely difficult. He was her best friend, and going a full nine weeks without seeing him was nearly impossible, but everything with Cara and Lila, as well as giving Amelia a summer to remember, made it fly by. “I’m sorry!” She whined, capturing her lower lip between her teeth. “But things got so hectic in LA with Cara once she and Lila showed up, I hardly had a second to myself. Please, you couldn’t be mad at me if you tried.” The blonde taunted with a smile, glancing up at the taller man. “Uhh, whichever is fine by me! Have you eaten yet?”

Connor tried to keep his serious face but somehow Charlotte always knew how to make him smile. "Fine, I'll forgive you but don't do it again. How are things with your sister? Is she okay?" He asked, genuinely concerned about it. At her question he shook his head before closing the door behind him. "But I don't have any food in my house, so I think we should eat something. This time I'm buying, okay?" He offered her a small smile, before giving her a playful nudge.

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nadiawerner:

That only made Nadia pout even more. “That hurts. That you think I’m mean,” she said softly, seeing him smile a little. The grated cheese was long forgotten as her breath got caught in her mouth. She didn’t realized she had told him that she loved him until his response. She didn’t regret it. Not for a minute. She threw her arms around his neck, kissing him deeply. 

"But you are mean in a terrible cute way," he said, giving her a crooked smile. Connor had been thinking for a while about telling her how he felt about her, but when she did it he couldn't help but immediately say it back. A permanent smile playing on his lips as she threw her arms around his neck to kiss him.

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nadiawerner:

“I am not mean,” she said, stomping her foot, crossing her arms and pouting. She was visibly joking about pouting, but she was trying to see if the pouting thing worked like Astrid said it did. “The cheese it is,” she said with a chuckle, setting the grater on the counter for him. Her green eyes scanned his face for a moment, twinkling up at him. “I don’t like you a lot. I love you. Of course I’d let you cook.”

"I think you are and don't give me that look, it won't change my opinion." He said, trying to put on a serious face before smiling a bit. "This will be the best grated cheese in the world, I'm telling you." He warned her with a smile as he started to grate the cheese. "I love you too." He whispered, instantly a smile gracing his features. "And because I love you I won't let you eat whatever I cook."

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kitty-summers:

Location: Cloverbrook Rehabilitation Center. Visiting hours: 9:00am-8:00pm.

“Hey!” The blonde squealed, holding up her paintbrush, “You’re not allowed to laugh at my painting, this.–” She adds, gesturing towards her stick-man, “Is a very deep work of art. Can’t you see how much emotion it portrays?”

"Who knew you were this talented, Kitty." Connor joked as he looked at her painting. "I'm sure Picasso and van Gogh would be so jealous of your skills."