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s1rawb3rry · 3 hours ago
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'loving you is forever' -> i just knowww i will fucking love it
okay but heejin is such a cute baby name
HER NICKNAME IS BAMBI STOP
im still in my baby fever this is bad for me
"but the time difference interfered." us
"it was enough for the two of you but to your daughter it was like she was living in a castle" oh sweet girl
JAY MENTION LETS GOOO
"people often made comments about how jay was the gentleman he is because of all the women he grew up around and you’d agree" ugh i miss him already
shes so real about the brussel sprouts
i love those details about the characters, makes them more alive yk hehe
"jay rarely cried but you remember the pure joy and gratitude in his eyes when he unwrapped the box and saw the familiar leather case he had seen so many times at the guitar shop." oh my honey boy <3333
SECOND NICKNAME JINJIN CUTIEEEE
mmmmmmmmmm meatballs
mmmm balls
WHO SAID THAT
i imagine heejin to have v small and short high pigtails with pink bows
icecream during winter is underrated
espppppp with some warm brownies like comeon now
NINGNING MENTIONN LETS GO
friend huh, friend
"someone you wished you could leave in the past but you’re glad you chose not to as the memory continues to live through your daughter. " and that broke my heart
"kissing your thumb and putting it towards her and your daughter does the same, connecting your thumbs, at the same time the two of you turn your hands 180 degrees with your thumbs pointing downwards so that your hands make the shape of a heart." this is so fucking adorable shut the fuck up
wait do they not know that heeseung is the father???? bc they keep on bring him up yk.... but if they knew and they knew he left wouldnt they NOT bring him up to not hurt her????? are you picking up what im putting down?
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OHHH ONLY JAY KNOWSSSS
okay then WHY was he asking so many questions MY GOD
"he knew you so well but that night, that unfortunate night, it seemed that he was the person that knew you the least in the world. " STOP I WILL SOB
JAKEY'S LITTLE LETS GAUR HEHEHEH OH MY LOVE
mmm a buffet sounds ssaur good rn
"she looks up at you with her big doe eyes and for a second you see the uncanny resemblance of her and her father. “mama, who is my dad?”" when i tell you my heart strings are being PULLED
"she goes on to explain that when she was waiting to get picked up from school that day, she saw all of her classmates getting picked up by their dads and it got her thinking of her own, more specifically, the absence of her own father. " okay thats it
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"and you were glad that it provided her some form of comfort because it seemed like she knew you were going to say that so she closed her eyes and gently placed her small hand over her heart." oh my sweet girl
"it was moments like this that made you question yourself as a mother. denying your daughter from someone who was half of her all because of your own selfish intention and pain that you aren’t able to heal from. " this, lets take a moment to talk about it. because its such a double edged sword, and at the end, everyone will be hurt one way or another. its all about choosing the lesser of two evils (i think thats the expression lol), choose the one thats "the easiest" to heal from and make the most of the situation: which is what yn is doing v well.
this girl lovesssssss her chicken, as she should llololol
"because it was truly none of their business. " WORD
heeseung saurrr nonchalant PLSSS
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"and you were glad that it provided her some form of comfort because it seemed like she knew you were going to say that so she closed her eyes and gently placed her small hand over her heart." oh my sweet girl
"it was moments like this that made you question yourself as a mother. denying your daughter from someone who was half of her all because of your own selfish intention and pain that you aren’t able to heal from. " this, lets take a moment to talk about it. because its such a double edged sword, and at the end, everyone will be hurt one way or another. its all about choosing the lesser of two evils (i think thats the expression lol), choose the one thats "the easiest" to heal from and make the most of the situation: which is what yn is doing v well.
this girl lovesssssss her chicken, as she should llololol
"because it was truly none of their business. " WORD
heeseung saurrr nonchalant PLSSS
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"and you were glad that it provided her some form of comfort because it seemed like she knew you were going to say that so she closed her eyes and gently placed her small hand over her heart." oh my sweet girl
"it was moments like this that made you question yourself as a mother. denying your daughter from someone who was half of her all because of your own selfish intention and pain that you aren’t able to heal from. " this, lets take a moment to talk about it. because its such a double edged sword, and at the end, everyone will be hurt one way or another. its all about choosing the lesser of two evils (i think thats the expression lol), choose the one thats "the easiest" to heal from and make the most of the situation: which is what yn is doing v well.
this girl lovesssssss her chicken, as she should llololol
"because it was truly none of their business. " WORD
heeseung saurrr nonchalant PLSSS
"he didn’t sleep, he cried almost everyday and he would try to write you letters even when he didn’t have an address to send them to. " oh ENOUGUHHH
"you’d tease him by saying, “eyes on the road” and talk about how you’ll crash if he keeps staring at you and he’d just respond by saying he would never hurt you or do anything that would put you in pain. " UGHHH STOP
63 hours on facetime is CRAZYYYYYYY
"you didn’t know how to act around heeseung anymore and felt like shielding yourself away from. " oh shes so cute
"you were a bit upset, especially because jay was the one that knew what happened with everything out of all of the people in your life. you made sure to bring this up to your cousin when you had the chance, keeping in mind that jay would get a piece of your mind about this. " as she should bc i was gonna sayyyy omg
wait does heeseung know shes his daughter??? oh i love this stop
"you couldn’t bring yourself to relive those moments where you felt the most alone, unwanted, and misunderstood person in the world. " my baby :(
stop hes so sweet :(((
omggg FLASHBACK
STOPPPP HES SO SOFT IM GONNA CRASHOUT
OHHHHH THE L WORD HEHEHHE
“heeseung, this is wrong.. what about your girl-” HIS GIRL??????? PAUSE
HIS EX GF?? ARIANA WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
"leading you to believe that it was the only reason he felt so inclined to be with you. like you were just some rebound that heeseung knew would be waiting for him like a lost puppy who had been left at home all day, knowing that if he called out to you– you’d come running to him.  you were a rebound." you hear that???? thats the sound of my heart shattering
“less than ten minutes, my ass” LMAO I LOVE HER
HE TUCKED HER TO BED SHUT UPPPP
stoppppp my heart :(
"heeseung didn’t know what he had done that led you to breakup with him but he held onto this idea that you hated him ever since." STOP ITITITIGKJSGJSKRNGJKSRNG
“heejin’s birthday is in two weeks, you’re invited if you’d like to come.” and heeseung’s attitude changes, a bright smile spreading onto his face as your words ring like church bells in his ears." my cutie <3
wait so does heeseung know that heejin is his daughter?
they warm my heart sm
"seeing heeseung hug her back pulls at your heartstrings as you watch all of it unfold, an image in your head that you thought you’d never see." sobbing again
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“you know.. not to be a conspiracy theorist but doesn’t heejin look like.. heeseung?” OHHHHH THE BOMB IS DROPPING
“thank you dad.” OH ENOUGH MY HEART IS ALREADY SO SMALL
CAN YOU TALK??? CAN YOU TALKkkKk,,,??? YES
“is she mine?” STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPP
"love should be forever and you were forever going to be loved by him. it was like love and forever was synonymous with you because to heeseung, loving you is forever." oh my goodness
kiki my love oh my gOD WHAT
the story building IM JUSTTTTTT TSTSOTSTOTPSTPSOTKPRJ UGH LEMME TAKE A BITE
loving you is forever ⋆˚ʚɞ
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pairing: lee heeseung x reader 𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ ♡
synopsis: after a one night stand leaves you with a lasting memory of the boy you left behind in the name of your daughter, heejin. you finally decide that it was time to move back home to south korea after living abroad for the last 5 years. reuniting with your old friends was everything you could've wished for as they welcomed you and your daughter; but you don't think you could ever prepare yourself to face the father of your child.
warnings: profanity, kissing, suggestive, mentions of hooking up/one night stands, drinking, characters are in their late 20s, absent father!heeseung (but its not his fault) implying that they didn't use a condom (wrap it up!!), overall 18+
genre: single mom!reader x heeseung, old friends to lovers, kind of exes to lovers, one night stand, angst, romance, drama, hurt/comfort, slow burn-ish
wc: 16558 (idk what happened i swear i blanked out writing this)
hoonieyun notes: she's finally here djfkd it took so long to finish this because i didn't want to rush it and feel like i just had to get it done to get it done. i really hope you all enjoyed this piece of work, i loved writing it and i just want to say: happy valentine's day!! you are all so deserving to be loved and surrounded by those who love you <3
the days of being in seoul, south korea felt just like yesterday when you were a college student awake at 3am eating a hot bowl of ramen after a long night of studying. ramen was your favorite thing back then but as you’ve gotten older, the days of being a broke college student turned into meticulous routine based days where all your focus went to raising your daughter, heejin. 
ramen was your favorite, past tense. 
you cut the habit of eating ramen so often because you needed to choose healthier options for yourself, setting an example for your daughter that although convenient and inexpensive, eating instant ramen so often wasn’t the healthiest for you. 
even though you were her mom, your daughter taught you a lot and you were constantly learning as you grew together. she taught you new habits that made living better like learning to take it easy and lounging around the house with your favorite snacks while watching your favorite show was the best way to clear your head and relax. 
you also learned that your previous lifestyle of putting others over yourself was something that would stay with you as you’d do anything for your daughter even if it meant that you sacrifice things that are meant for you if it means that your daughter would have what she wanted. 
the air when stepping outside of the airport is crisp, the snow has melted into a thin layer of water coating the ground and it’s slightly cold but nothing a puffer coat couldn’t fix. you looked over to your daughter who was fiddling with the zipper on her own puffer coat, “bambi, you have to keep your jacket on or you’ll get sick.” you softly tell your daughter as you crouch down to her level, zipping her coat back up and adjusting the hood of her hoodie that she had layered under. she pouts to herself but ultimately knows better than to argue because she knows mom is right and because she hates being sick. 
when heejin was 4 years old, she had gotten a cold for the first time and although she enjoyed being at home cuddled up under a fuzzy blanket with her favorite plush toy; she hated having a runny nose and being forced to take the yucky medicine, her words not yours– although you agree. 
your phone rings and karina’s contact photo lights up on the screen, “hi, yn! i’m here, what pick-up area are you at?” she asks on the other end of the phone, slightly louder than usual so you assume she’s yelling into her car’s built in phone call feature to avoid having to drive with her phone in her hand. you tell her that you’re at arrivals 12 and soon enough you can see karina driving up to you and heejin in her silver suv. karina is your best friend, sister even, you have known each other since you were little, even though she was only a few months older than you she was often that older sister you never had, guiding you through new experiences together and you just wished that when you grew up together, you realized sooner that she was also navigating those new experiences alongside you. 
“yn!! it’s been so long!!!” karina cheers as she steps out of her car, rounding the vehicle to give you a warm hug, rocking the two of you side to side as you wrap your own arms around her. “been too long.” she says, emphasizing the words like you were away for a long time. in a lot of ways you were. 5 years is a lot of time away from someone but to you those 5 years went by so much faster.
“is this heejin?” she asks, crouching down to your daughter so she can greet the child. “hi heejin, im aunt karina but you can call me rina, ok?” she says, softly shaking heejin’s small hand with two fingers. “hi auntie rina!” heejin says happily, throwing her hands into the air with a smile. 
your daughter was probably the most cheerful and joyful child you’ve ever met. she never threw fits, rarely cried after the age of 2, and was very social with strangers. flashing her cute smile that would instantly melt stranger’s hearts garnering you a, “such a cute baby!” every time they’d see her. 
karina stands back up straight and helps you pack your luggage into her trunk, “is this all you brought?” she asks and you explain that you didn’t want to pack too many things because moving with a lot of belongings would make it difficult. you had only flown with 4 suitcases and had 2 boxes shipped over from your old home. opting to only take what truly was important and other material things could simply just be repurchased. 
you and karina share another hug before strapping your daughter into her carseat and taking a seat into the passenger side of the car. you and karina catch up like no time has passed, acting like you two were only separated for a few days when in reality it was 5 years. of course the two of you spoke on the phone every now and then while you were abroad but the time difference interfered. 
“how was seattle? do you miss it already?” she asks and you have to think about the question. do you miss seattle? or were you happy to be back. 
“i'm not sure to be honest. i don’t think ive been away long enough to miss it yet.” you simply say and she nods, “well i know you must’ve seoul. i know we missed you.” she says, glancing over to you 
you smile at her remark and tell her that you’ve missed korea and her a lot. those 5 years in seattle went by fast because of your daughter but being away from all of your friends and even your parents was tough. you stayed with your aunt and uncle who lived in seattle who so kindly opened their home for you and 2 years after giving birth to heejin, you had enough saved up to get the two of you a small but perfect 1 bedroom apartment. it was enough for the two of you but to your daughter it was like she was living in a castle; and that’s all that mattered– knowing your daughter was happy. 
“you ok?” karina asks and you’re brought back to reality. “yeah, just reminiscing i guess.” you respond and karina chuckles. 
“don’t tell me you’re already thinking about going back? you can’t leave just yet, i’m not letting you go.” karina retorts and the two of you burst out into laughter. you reassure her that you weren’t going to leave korea any time soon and that you’d have ample amount of time together to catch up and make so many more memories. 
“plus, i’ve got 5 years to catch up with my favorite niece. right, heejin?” she asks, looking over to your daughter in the rearview mirror. “yes aunty rina!” heejin says cheerfully. you laugh at them both and give karina a funny look, “she’s your only niece dude.” you say and karina shrugs, “and? she’s still my favorite!”. 
the rest of the car ride is filled with more chit chatting and laughing, happy that the two of you are finally reunited and that you weren’t separated by thousands of miles. soon enough karina is pulling up to your home and she’s quite impressed. while living in the states you had saved enough money to purchase a beautiful home here in seoul. 
it’s not the biggest but it has everything you need for you and your daughter. it has 2 rooms and 2 bathrooms, an office space for your work, a big living room with enough space for your daughter to run around in and a backyard for the same reasons. you were happy to have gotten to this point in your life and you were so happy to have a life like this with your daughter. 
karina doesn’t stay long after dropping you off, only staying to help you bring in your things, and do a small tour of your home. “i promise i’ll come back tomorrow! i’ve just got some things i need to finish for work.” she explains and you let her know that it’s fine and thank her endlessly for picking up you and your daughter from the airport. you and heejin wave her goodbye as she drives away. 
you walk back inside still carrying heejin on your hip. “alright, bambi. it’s just you and me, and our new home.” you say softly and heejin smiles at you. 
“just you and me mama!” she says and it makes you smile as you nuzzle your nose with hers. 
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the next few days are filled with unpacking boxes, waiting for deliveries of furniture and food, and exploring the neighborhood and town. your car was delivered on your 2nd day back in seoul so thankfully you didn’t have to wait around at home or feel guilty of asking karina to drive you around places since she had her own fair share of responsibilities. 
your other friends have asked you when they could come visit, especially your cousin; jay– who said, “i can’t believe you let karina see my niece and she’s not even blood!” when he found out karina met your daughter before your cousin. 
karina was like your sister but jay was actually blood. jay is your cousin on your mom’s side and you had stayed with his parents while living in seattle until you were able to get a place of your own. he’s a few years younger than you but he was always the wiser of the two of you; he was like the angel on the shoulder of life while you were the devil– however you weren’t evil… just chaotic. 
you, jay, and karina all grew up together so you all had a bond that's unbreakable. people often made comments about how jay was the gentleman he is because of all the women he grew up around and you’d agree. he was the kindest and most mature boy you know and even when he loosened up a bit and got chaotic like you, he was always the level-headed and mature jongseong at the end of the day. 
when you would sneak out with boys in high school, jay would cover for you. 
when you got in trouble for getting a C- on your chemistry exam, jay vouched for you and said that the chemistry teacher at your high school was sexist and punished all the girls in the class. 
when you found out you were pregnant, jay was the first person you called and was right by your side every step of the way up until you were boarding the plane to seattle. 
jay was your rock and you wished he was your brother but a cousin would suffice just as long as he was always there for you. 
you’re about 90% moving into your new home, the last thing that needs to be completed was just tossing out all of the trash and recycling that has accumulated from all of the items you bought or takeout that you’ve been getting so you didn’t have to worry about cooking for the first week of moving back. 
you’ve invited jay over for dinner after he’s insisted on cooking dinner for you and your daughter, claiming that he wants to make a good impression on his niece so he wasn’t necessarily going to take no as an answer, and honestly– a home cooked meal by jay sounded nice. he was a great cook, excellent even, you? not so much. 
you knew how to cook a variety of things but most of it was out of convenience so that you weren’t always eating takeout. your daughter was simple when it came to her taste buds and favorite foods, 80% of the time she just wants to eat chicken and thankfully she doesn’t complain much about having to eat vegetables. however, never brussel sprouts. she hates brussel sprouts. 
it’s around 5PM when you’ve finished putting all of your trash bags outside, giving you just a half hour to freshen up your daughter and you before jay would be arriving. he felt apologetic for not being able to help you move in but you told him that he had nothing to feel sorry for and that you knew he had a busy schedule ever since he took over his dad’s company at the beginning of the year. jay’s dad owned a construction company in seoul and although jay had different passions like music and fashion, he was the type of child to never refuse his parent’s wishes and eventually accepted that he would become the owner when he grew up so there was no point in arguing with his dad. 
he was an only child so it was hard not to feel bad for him and see that he had so many things he wanted to do for his life but was often shortsighted and left responsible for whatever his parents wanted because he was their only child. 
that was probably why you often felt like you needed to bring jay out of shell and loosen up a bit. being so caught up with the responsibilities he had at home, you wanted to make sure that he still had fun as a teenager because his life as an adult was already planned out for him. 
when jay turned 16 you spent all of your christmas money on a guitar he had been talking about for months. jay rarely cried but you remember the pure joy and gratitude in his eyes when he unwrapped the box and saw the familiar leather case he had seen so many times at the guitar shop. you swore you could see his eyes glow from excitement when he unclasped the guitar case and finally saw the instrument on the inside. the fender eric clapton stratocaster electric guitar shined onto his face and you’d never forget the smile on his face as he set aside the guitar next to him so he could get up and give you a hug. telling you how grateful he was and that no one would know how much that gift meant to him besides you. 
after changing yourself and your daughter into a fresh pair of clothes, jay was ringing your doorbell. he barely greets you when you answer the door, placing the bags of ingredients into your arms when you open them for a hug and instead he runs into your home to scoop up his niece into his arms. 
“jinjin!” jay says as he carries her above his head. a nickname they both came up with whenever they’d facetime. 
“uncle jayjay!” she says, giggling at him as he gently tossed her into the air and hugged each other. “yeah i’m here too y’know!” you say, narrowing your eyes at your cousin as you put the bag of groceries down onto your kitchen counter. 
“yn-ieee!!” jay says, setting your daughter down onto the counter next to the groceries and giving you a hug of your own. “been so long cousin!” he says and you hum in agreement. 
“well it’s not like you couldn’t come visit me in seattle!” you say teasingly and jay rolls his eyes, “oh, please! you wouldn’t even let me no matter how hard i tried– plus you know how busy i got after dad passed over the company.” he says and although he didn’t mean it in that way, you felt a slight tinge of guilt. 
“i know, i know jong, just teasing. i missed you.” you say, hugging him again but this time ruffling his hair like you used to do when you were younger. 
“so what’s on the menu today, chef?” you ask as you help him unpack the groceries. 
“yeah, uncle. jinjin hungry!” your daughter says and you and your cousin laugh at your daughter’s remark. as she’s gotten older and has begun watching toddler shows, she’s picked up on their habits of speaking in 3rd person. 
“well, jinjin. uncle jayjay is going to make you ravioli and meatballs. sound good?” he asks, staring at your daughter with a box of ravioli pasta in his hand. 
“ravioli?” she asks and jay nods.
“right, you’re 5; you don’t know what that is.” he mutters and you just chuckle. 
“come on, heejin. why don’t we set up the table while uncle cooks, hmm?” you ask and she nods eagerly– always excited to be a part of the activity in some way or another just as long as she’s included. 
“i want the pink plate!” heejin says as she raises her arms so you could pick her up off the counter and set her on the ground. while you and heejin were at ikea shopping for home supplies, she saw a pink plate with the face of a pig on the top and the tail on the bottom and just had to have it. and honestly, your daughter looked so cute looking at it that you couldn’t say no. as a matter of fact, the plate wasn’t even very expensive and it was cute so it wasn’t a hard decision to say yes. 
jay doesn’t take long to finish cooking dinner; knowing to choose something quick and easy to make so that he could feed the two of you and so he could have ample time to hang out with his niece. 
needless to say, heejin loved the ravioli and was completely baffled at how they got the cheese inside of the pasta– constantly asking jay how they did it as if it was some sort of magical spell to create a ravioli. 
after dinner is over and your daughter insists on dessert, the three of you enjoy some ice cream even though it’s still winter and with jay’s help in convincing you because “ice cream tastes good in every season”. you offered to wash the dishes since jay cooked you dinner and although he insisted on washing the dishes, you told him that it was okay since he could spend more time with his niece instead– to which he didn’t argue. 
the rest of the night was filled with giggles as jay got to hang out with his niece outside of a phone screen. learning so much about her and how similar he was to you. he even got the opportunity to put her to bed when she got sleepy after watching bambi, her favorite movie. 
“bambi, huh?” he asks after the two of you quietly slip out of her bedroom.
“yes… bambi. it’s her favorite movie so i nicknamed her bambi…” you respond, trying to avoid his stare. 
“no other reason?” he asks and you shoot him a glare. “alright alright. i’ll drop it. it’s a cute nickname anyway.” he confesses and you mutter a small thank you, thankful that he’s not prying any longer. 
“i know, she’s cute like a baby deer, what can i say?” 
you and jay find your way into the kitchen, putting away the dishes from the dishwasher and beginning a new topic of conversation. 
“does everyone know you’re back?” jay asks genuinely, not intending to allude to a certain person from your past. 
“yeah, karina and ningning know. i spoke to jake and hoon yesterday and i told them i’d come up with a day they could all come over for dinner.” you explain. 
you had a close friend group going into college. you, karina, and jay all grew up together and early during college you had met ningning, jake, sunghoon, and another… friend. 
the seven of you were inseparable and were always together despite having completely different college majors. you, ningning, and karina all moved in together for the last half of your college career while the guys did the same. you’re all older now and have all of your own lives but most of them kept in touch with you after you decided to move away all of a sudden. 
opting to not ask questions out of respect but always making sure to check up on you every once in a while. 
“should i reopen the groupchat? haven’t seen the silly seven back together in a while.” and just as fast as the words leave his mouth, jay regrets it just as fast. he notices you tense up a bit as you’re putting some dishes away into the cupboard and he realizes he’s made a mistake bringing up your original seven friend group. a certain member becomes a tainted memory inside of your heart that you wished to not remember but are forced to remember in the most endearing and loving way. 
someone you wished you could leave in the past but you’re glad you chose not to as the memory continues to live through your daughter. 
“um, i’ll let you know. i’ve got some things i need to finish up before i start reuniting fully with everyone– plus i still need to get heejin caught up on all of her medical stuff for school so…” you begin to say and jay catches on. 
“ahh, don’t worry about it! just got a bit excited to see everyone back together again. i’ll look forward to it when it comes.” jay says, softly rubbing your back and offering you a smile that you return. 
“thanks jay…” you mutter quietly as you try to avoid his gaze. 
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after three weeks of being back home in korea, you’ve finally gotten somewhat of a routine down as you’ve settled into your new home and neighborhood. you’ve got pretty accustomed to being back in korea and although it’s only been five years since the last time you were here; a lot has changed within those five years. 
you’d wake up on weekdays around 6am to get your day started, making breakfast and your daughter's school lunch before you woke her up at 7am to get her ready for school. she hadn’t started school yet back in the states so you wanted to ensure that you enrolled her into school once you had settled into your home. 
she was surprisingly excited to start school and make new friends. her favorite part of kindergarten so far was break time when she and her classmates would spend 30 minutes a day at the playground. she’d come home with unruly hair opposite of the sleek bun or pigtails she had previously had when you dropped her off. 
when your daughter was at school you’d spend the day cleaning around the home, finishing up the last parts of your move that had to do with papers and legal stuff, and would spend the rest of the time before your daughter got off school to run errands like going to the market or getting used to driving around your neighborhood. 
it's about an hour before your daughter is off of school so you decide to quickly freshen up before heading over to pick her up. 
today, you had plans to have an early dinner with karina as you hadn’t seen her since you had gotten there so it was due time to catch up now that you’ve settled in for the most part. 
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“where are we going, mama?” heejin asks as you help her into her car seat. “getting dinner with auntie rina, remember?” you remind your daughter and she cheers, excited that she gets to see her auntie rina again. 
“why are we eating early? i want chicken!” she says and you just chuckle at her. “ok, i’ll get you chicken, ok?” you say, kissing your thumb and putting it towards her and your daughter does the same, connecting your thumbs, at the same time the two of you turn your hands 180 degrees with your thumbs pointing downwards so that your hands make the shape of a heart.
it was a small gesture the two of you did, a small way to be connected with your daughter through a special handshake between mother and daughter. 
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dinner was filled with laughter as you watched your daughter and karina bond over chicken, your daughter having the time of her life with all of the different flavors of chicken; her favorite being the cheese flavored one. 
“so, when are we getting the gang back together?” karina asks as she places another piece of chicken on heejin’s plate, the both of you watching your daughter pick up the piece of chicken and munch on it like her life depended on it. you tried to tiptoe around her question, afraid that it would only lead to the inevitable that you were constantly postponing. 
karina waves her hand in front of your face as she realizes you’ve somewhat spaced out and reiterates her question, “um.. i’m not sure. i really want to see everyone but you know..” your voice getting quiet at the end of your sentence as you realize only jay, your cousin, knew who heejin’s father was. 
your friends knew of your longtime crush on heeseung when you were all in college and all somewhat knew that you’ve avoided him because of some reason that you haven’t told them. there were theories amongst the friends of why you no longer spoke to heeseung but only jay knew the reason. your friends didn’t want to pry but curiosity always filled their minds whenever they would think about you or see the photos you posted online of you and your daughter. with all of the theories they came up with, no one seemed to put together the most obvious reason and you’d rather keep that way. 
it wasn’t that you didn’t want any of them to know, you just weren’t ready for them to know and aren’t entirely sure when you’d be ready. karina noticed your shift in behavior with her question and chose to ask any more questions. the rest of the dinner was karina giving you suggestions on things you and your daughter could do like activities, sports and extracurriculars, and whatnot. 
“i’ll see you soon, ok?” karina says while giving your daughter a warm hug. the two of you bid each other goodbye and go your separate ways. karina’s question weighs on your mind heavily as you drive home, thinking about how long you could keep this a secret from your friends and also hide the fact that you were back in town from heeseung who just seemed to constantly be on your mind since you’ve arrived back in korea. 
a part of you wanted to see him, you missed him so much, the way he made you laugh, the way he knew you so well that he used to always bring you breakfast during your 8am lectures because you loved to sleep in until the last minute so you never ate breakfast, the way he knew when you were sad, the way he knew you were uncomfortable, everything. 
he knew you so well but that night, that unfortunate night, it seemed that he was the person that knew you the least in the world. 
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a few days after your dinner with karina and some encouragement from jay, you finally decided to send out invites to all of your friends to come over for dinner. your place was getting to a point where it was feeling like home and you wanted your daughter to meet some of the most important people in your life. you obviously weren’t going to invite heeseung but you thought about it and you quickly found yourself shutting down that idea. 
“hi guys! please let me know if you’re free this saturday around 6pm! i’d love for all of you to come over for dinner and meet heejin! if it’s okay could you all bring a small dish? heejin isn’t picky but she is allergic to fish so keep that in mind. she’s very excited to meet her uncles and aunties!”
karina: i’m always free for you! minjeong: i’ll bring the chicken hehe jake: lets goo!! can’t wait to meet little yn! sunghoon: i already know i’m gonna be her favorite uncle jay: yeah right i’m her favorite already, nice try bro
all of their responses made you smile and for once you weren’t stricken with the anxiety of the past and how all of this could crumble down onto you– but you were dedicated to not letting that happen. you missed your friends dearly and being surrounded by your loved ones you haven’t seen in years was long overdue. 
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friday rolls around a lot sooner than you expected, which you didn’t mind because it was all you were looking forward to after spending the weekdays trying your best not to spiral. you were constantly thinking about what would happen if they brought up heeseung or if he miraculously showed up unannounced and uninvited. you made several dishes as the main course and set up your kitchen so that everyone could eat buffet style. 
there were rolls of kimbap that your daughter helped you prepare, tofu stew simmering low on the stove to keep it warm, and other food that you knew your friends and your daughter loved. 
as the day went by and the time that your friends would all slowly start arriving would come, you noticed that heejin seemed to be antsy. like something was bothering her, she was constantly squirming around unable to find a comfortable seat at the dinner table, the couch, or even her favorite bean bag chair designed to look like a peach. she was fidgeting with the hem of her dress so much to the point that she had pulled a loose thread, causing the dress to tear. you were more worried than upset, it was just a piece of fabric it didn’t matter if it broke, although you did keep a mental note not to buy from that store again; so you sat her down to talk about it. 
“bambi.. what’s wrong?” you asked her as you helped her change into new clothes, something she had chosen and although it was more casual than the previous attire she had on; she was way more comfortable in it. she shook her head with a pout, indicating she either didn’t want to talk about it or that there wasn’t anything wrong– and considering her actions moments ago, it was the latter. 
“you don’t have to tell me what’s wrong but just know mommy is here for you ok? i don’t want my little bambi to be sad or upset and feel like she can’t talk to mom about her problems..” you told her softly, fixing her hair as it had gotten slightly messed up while you dressed your daughter. heejin was everything to you, she was your life and blood, she was your light and you’d be damned if you ever made your daughter feel like she couldn’t fully be herself or come to her own mother to help her fix her problems. 
even though heejin was still young, you made sure to make an emphasis on communication with your daughter, teaching her to articulate her feelings and emotions in a way that was healthy to her and those around her– and for the most part, she did that. she often told you if she was uncomfortable or if she was feeling upset about something as small as her socks making her feel itchy– but right now; she wasn’t communicating to you why she was acting the way she was and it left you stumped. 
you weren’t necessarily sure how to go about it. you didn’t want to pressure your daughter to tell you what was wrong but the mother inside of you couldn’t continue without knowing what was bothering your daughter and how you could alleviate her troubles. “are you ok, heejin?” you ask and she once again shakes her head. 
“can you tell mom what’s bothering you?” you asked, lightly patting your daughter's head as you finished doing her hair. 
she looks up at you with her big doe eyes and for a second you see the uncanny resemblance of her and her father. “mama, who is my dad?” the question comes as a shock to you because although she had asked before, she’s never let the absence of her father trouble her the way it has now. your mouth slightly opens at her question but you quickly recollect yourself so she doesn’t notice your demeanor falter, afraid that your expression could cause her more worry if she was to realize how you reacted to her question. 
you so desperately wanted to comfort your daughter, tell her everything you knew about her father and how he lived only miles away; but you couldn’t bring yourself to do that. it may seem selfish, and it was, but you simply weren’t ready to have that conversation with your daughter. even if it broke your heart to see her pleading eyes begging you for a single crumb of information on her dad, you couldn’t do it. it caused you an immense amount of pain to deny your daughter something she seemed to want so badly. 
“bambi, why the sudden interest?” you ask and she goes on to explain that when she was waiting to get picked up from school that day, she saw all of her classmates getting picked up by their dads and it got her thinking of her own, more specifically, the absence of her own father. 
your heart broke even more at her words but you chose to give her the answer that you’ve given her several other times she asked in the past. 
“bambi, your papa may not be here but he’s always in your heart, ok?” and you were glad that it provided her some form of comfort because it seemed like she knew you were going to say that so she closed her eyes and gently placed her small hand over her heart. it was moments like this that made you question yourself as a mother. denying your daughter from someone who was half of her all because of your own selfish intention and pain that you aren’t able to heal from. 
the two of you share another tender moment as you engulf your daughter into your arms for a warm embrace and try your best to get her to smile, which was fairly easy as your daughter was very ticklish. 
just in time, your doorbell rings indicating that some of your friends have arrived so you decide to carry your daughter to your front door to greet everyone. you gently rub her back to further soothe her worries, hoping that the emotional and vulnerable moment the two of you just shared didn’t cause her anymore worries despite the fact that she still had that longing look in her eyes. waiting for the day she could get the answer she was looking for and the day she’d get to meet her dad. 
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you’re carrying your daughter in your arms as you open the door to welcome your friends and all of their eyes light up at the sight of you and your daughter. one by one they file inside of your home with a dish in their hands, greeting you and heejin with bright warm smiles. you return with a smile of your own as heejin waves at the strangers entering your home who she will grow to learn are the aunts and uncles that would love her and support her as she grows older. 
once everyone has gotten inside, you point to where they could all settle the dishes they brought and soon enough you’re setting heejin down to introduce her to everyone. 
“heejin, you know auntie karina and uncle jay, right?” you ask her while you crouch down to her, she nods her head in agreement, slightly shy as she still doesn’t know the several other people in the room. 
“this is uncle jake, he has a really big puppy, you like puppies right?” and once again she’s nodding but this time with a smile as she gets excited at the mention of  a dog. when heejin started to learn how to speak, one of the first words she spoke was “dog” and would later on constantly ask you to get her dog when she learned how to form full sentences. 
“heejin, i’ll introduce you to my dog, ok?” jake says with a smile and she cheers, happy that she finally gets to play with a dog since you wouldn’t let her get one of her own. 
“this one is auntie minjeong, can you say hi to her?” you ask and heejin shyly waves her hand and when minjeong waves back and asks if she can have a high five, heejin gives her one excitedly as you’ve taught her that high fives were a gesture of encouragement and sharing a high five with a friend was a good thing so she instantly felt happy when minjeong asked for one, already identifying her auntie minjeong as a friend. 
lastly, you point to sunghoon, “that’s uncle sunghoon, you like the snow right? uncle sunghoon is really good at ice skating.” you explain and her eyes and mouth widen at the thought of ice skating. “ice skating? do you make snow angels?” she asks and it causes the lot of you to laugh; to which sunghoon nods and tells her that he’ll teach her how to make some of her own. 
introductions go very well and heejin is calling everyone auntie and uncle in no time, opening up and breaking out of her shyness once she chats with your best friends some more as she tries all of the food they’ve brought. 
“yn, all this food is amazing by the way but you should’ve let us help more or at least bring more food so you didn’t have to cook so much!” minjeong says as she’s putting away her dish into your sink. 
“yeah, yn. this is delicious but next time let us take care of all of it okay? we’ll be sure to bring all the food that heejin likes. heejin, what’s your favorite food?” jake asks her and she cutely raises the chicken wing in her hand and shouts chicken and once again the room is filled with laughter because of your daughter’s cuteness. you were so happy to see your daughter being accepted by everyone, not necessarily because you thought they wouldn’t but because for the time that you’ve been gone; you were afraid that this drastic change in your life would affect the dynamic between you and your friends. 
but it didn’t. 
at least not completely. 
jake is slurping on his noodles when he suddenly says, “yo, heeseung brought me these noodles one time; it was so good we should all go some time.” and at the mention of heeseung’s name you’re almost frozen in your spot at the table. 
the room is instantly silent when they notice your attitude shift after hearing heeseung’s name. no one besides jay really knows what happened between the two of you and even then you’ve left out certain details from the story because you couldn’t bear to relive the pain from that night just so that someone could fully understand why you did what you did. 
sunghoon shoves jake lightly at his careless action and he soon realizes why the room had fallen silent, he glances over at you with an apologetic look followed by a string of apologies, “i’m so sorry, yn. i shouldn’t have brought him up- i wasn’t thinking.” jake says and you shake your head explaining that it was okay and that he had nothing to apologize for. 
“it’s fine, jake. he and i just don’t talk anymore.” you leave it at that and everyone chooses not to pry because it was truly none of their business. 
before the night ends you all take a group photo with heejin in the middle, you decided to have her sit on your shoulders as your friends crowd around her with warm smiles that could be felt through the photo. you were so happy to see the happiness radiate through the image that you didn’t necessarily care that all of your friends were quick to post that photo, the possibility of heeseung seeing it nowhere in your mind because you were more focused on the love that your friends were giving you and your daughter. 
you bid goodbye to your friends but not before you pack them their own little containers with leftovers because it was way more than what you and your daughter could finish alone. heejin happily waved goodbye to her aunties and uncles and had long forgotten about the sad moment the two of you shared before this dinner. 
she was so happy to meet them and to her they were all just her friends. your friends are equally as happy to meet your daughter and be a part of her life and yours again. 
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on the other side of the city, heeseung is scrolling through his social media alone in his bed when he scrolls past the group photo you all took on several accounts. a pang of jealousy budding in his chest as he sees you in the center, happily carrying your daughter on your shoulders. 
heeseung couldn’t help but feel left out but all he could think about was why you hadn’t let him know you were back in town after disappearing for the last five years? 
so, he does what he thinks is right and opens the groupchat he has with the boys. 
“yo, you guys free tomorrow? wanna grab lunch?” heeseung taps into his phone and presses send and in a few minutes, sunghoon, jay, and jake are all responding to heeseung’s text. 
they all coordinate a plan to have lunch the next day. heeseung plans to let it come naturally, bring you up as smoothly as he can without coming off like he wanted to hang out with the guys just to find out information about you. 
but he knew deep down that he was going to get the information he needed one way or the other. 
even if it made him feel crazy because love makes you do crazy things. 
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when the next day rolls around and heeseung is making his way to lunch, he realizes that his dreams that night were filled with one thing: you. 
he dreamt about all the ways he wanted to make up for lost time, he dreamt of past memories, he dreamt of you and he slept soundly knowing that you were so happy in his dreams. only hoping that he could make you as happy in real life like how you were in his dreams. 
you were truly the girl of his dreams and now that you were back; he wasn’t going to let you go so easily like last time. 
“whats up guys!” heeseung says as he walks over to the guys who had gotten a table for the four of them. they were all browsing the menu when heeseung arrived and they all did their usual greetings, asking how one another was and all of the normal things. 
they soon order food and jay could tell that heeseung was a bit antsy, sending glances over to jake and sunghoon with a gesture to look at heeseung and they do; realizing his leg hasn’t stopped bouncing since he sat down and he was chewing on his nails– something that he’s never done in the past. 
heeseung could no longer wait, he just had to ask about you even if it made the air between all of them awkward. “so..” he begins and jay cuts him off before he could finish. 
“heeseung, i know you’re going to ask about yn.” jay says and heeseung stops in the middle of his sentence, his mouth slightly ajar as those words leave jay’s mouth. he’s shocked that they knew, was he being less subtle than he thought? or was he just that predictable. 
heeseung and you were inseparable when you were younger, you couldn’t take one without the other coming along, the true meaning of  a package deal. but when you left, heeseung was left with so many questions, none of which could be answered by you as you cut off communication with him completely. 
the rest of lunch consists of the guys informing heeseung about you, small details that they thought you’d be comfortable with sharing with heeseung, and although heeseung wanted to learn more; he was happy to learn anything new about you since you’ve been gone for the last five years. 
they could tell that heeseung’s love for you never died or diminished in any way possible. when you first left, heeseung was a wreck and if they didn’t think he loved you then; his reaction to you leaving solidified that. he didn’t sleep, he cried almost everyday and he would try to write you letters even when he didn’t have an address to send them to. 
it wasn’t until about a year after you had left that heeseung started to somewhat go back to normal. he stopped moping around and he returned to the heeseung all of your friends once knew. but deep down, he and all your friends knew that he would never be the same without you in his life. he threw himself into his work and other priorities to distract himself so he didn’t have to think about you but in the end, it always came back to you. 
he’d be walking on the street and would pass by your favorite restaurant and he’d think about you. 
a song would play and he’d be reminded about all of the times you two would dance and sing along to it. 
he’d see a cloud shaped like an animal in the sky and would remember all of the times you two would spend hours laying on the grass and spotting clouds shaped like whatever your mind could identify it as. 
everything he saw reminded him of you and although it hurt him to think about you, thinking about you was the only thing keeping you close to him when you were unknowingly so far away. 
when the four of them part ways from lunch, jay pulls heeseung aside for a quick chat before he leaves, “hey, i shouldn’t tell you this but…” jay says, whispering something to heeseung and sending him a text. heeseung’s eyes widen at the text and he’s instantly bringing jay into a hug, thanking him for whatever it was jay had told him. 
“yeah, yeah.. don’t make me regret this, she is my cousin; i’ll beat your ass if you fuck this up.” he warns and although he was slightly joking; jay was speaking with some truth because he knew how much all of this affected two people that were so important in his life. 
heeseung slept with a smile on his face later that night, not only because he was excited to be able to see you in his dreams again, but also because of what he had planned for tomorrow morning. 
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“heejin! let’s go, bambi!” you call for your daughter as you slide your shoes on. heejin appears with her backpack dragging behind her, taking a seat next to you so she can put her shoes on to which you help her. you’re about to bring her to school, glancing at the clock near your front door when you realize you’ve only got 20 minutes to get her there. 
when you open the door, however, you’re met with a face that you hadn’t prepared yourself to see, at least not for a long time from now. 
“heeseung?” you ask as you look at him, standing at your front door with a smile on his face, flowers in his hand, and eyes as bright as they were when the two of you first met. 
“hi, yn.. long time no see.” heeseung responds, a sheepish grin on his face as he’s finally able to see you for the first time in five years. “sorry, i need to take heejin to school.” you explain, slightly moving him out of the way to lock the door and make your way to your car. 
“let me take you?” he offers and although a part of you wants to deny, you know that heeseung has always been stubborn and that if you were to try to decline; the two of you would just be going back and forth and before you know it, heejin would be late to school. 
so, you reluctantly accept his offer; quickly grabbing her carseat from your car and setting her up in the back of heeseung’s car. “mama, who is he?” heejin asks and you explain that he’s just a friend. “how come he didn’t come to dinner?” heejin continues with another question and you answer with something dismissive and tell her he was just busy. 
“ready to go? don’t want her to be late.” heeseung says and you look over at him and he’s still got that smile on his face like he knew exactly what he was doing and was happy that you were going along with it. you give him a tight lipped smile as you place a kiss onto heejin’s forehead before taking your seat at the front passenger seat next to heeseung. 
in the past whenever you two were in a car it would always be you in the front next to him because he trusted you the most with directions and music but mostly because he loved being able to see you next to him.  it was such a simple and innocent thing to be so close to you even if you were just sitting next to him but it never failed to make his heart race whenever you would look over at him, catching him staring at you when he needed to be focusing on the road. 
you’d tease him by saying, “eyes on the road” and talk about how you’ll crash if he keeps staring at you and he’d just respond by saying he would never hurt you or do anything that would put you in pain. 
heeseung tried to keep that promise and broke it without even knowing that he did. 
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“bye heejin, have a good day ok?” you send your daughter off to school, watching her small figure skip away as she waves and greets the friends she sees as she walks into school. “she’s adorable.” heeseung says as you turn towards him. a part of you slightly forgetting that he was there because all of your focus was set on your daughter. 
“thanks.” you mutter, barely above a whisper. 
“wanna grab breakfast? my treat.” heeseung asks, a cheesy grin on his face as if he’s using his smile as a way to convince you to say yes; it worked… just a little bit. 
“fine.” you say while rolling your eyes, a part of you only saying yes because you had nothing better to do and he was the one that drove. the car ride was silent, filled with awkward tension as you couldn’t get comfortable in your seat knowing that you haven’t seen heeseung in five years and had no idea where this was going to go. would everything be the way it was before you left? or would it be filled with boiling tension that would eventually blow up. 
heeseung was fiddling with the steering wheel, tapping on the leather of the wheel, messing around with the car compartments, and constantly clearing his throat to drown out the silence that was so loud. 
“so… how’ve you been?” heeseung asks, slightly looking over at you as if he was suddenly nervous to make eye contact, fearing for how you’d react. 
“okay.. yeah i’ve been ok.” keeping your answer short so that you didn’t end up saying more than you wanted. you weren’t sure how comfortable you’d become with heeseung, someone who you once would’ve associated with the word “comfort” now was more closely aligned with “unknown”. 
“thats- thats good..” heeseung stutters. 
he doesn’t ask any further questions after he’s taken notice that you weren’t inclined for small talk or maybe just talking to him in general. which he couldn’t blame you for, you haven’t seen each other in five years and he understood that things were a lot different than before. 
you and heeseung used to be able to talk about anything and everything, whenever one of you or both would be stressed; you’d just talk for hours about anything to distract yourselves from whatever was troubling your minds. one time the two of you had even spent 63 hours on facetime, uninterrupted because you were both away from each other for the first time and couldn’t stand being that far away. 
the two of you were only separated for a weekend but it was too long for either of you. 
“order anything you want, ok?” heeseung says as he looks at the menu, browsing for what he wants to eat. you mirror his actions but you lift the menu a bit higher to cover your face because you were a bit shy. you didn’t know how to act around heeseung anymore and felt like shielding yourself away from. 
“are you two ready to order?” the waitress asks and quickly jots down your order, coming back momentarily to drop off your drinks and returning about 20 minutes later with the food you had ordered. heeseung had ordered ramen for breakfast, it came on a small personal burner so that it remained hot as he ate. you slightly smile to yourself, trying your best to hide it because this habit of heeseung hasn't changed in that aspect. 
heeseung always loved ramen, it's his favorite. 
you had just gotten rice with some grilled meat and a fried egg, something simple but delicious. heeseung is busy slurping on his noodles when you decide to break the silence, “how did you find me, heeseung?” you ask, causing heeseung to choke a bit on his food at the random question. 
he quickly apologizes, grabbing a tissue to wipe his mouth before responding, “oh, yeah about that. don’t be mad but jay told me. it’s not his fault though, i practically begged him.” heeseung says, eye widening as if to prevent you from getting upset that jay had given heeseung your address without permission. 
you were a bit upset, especially because jay was the one that knew what happened with everything out of all of the people in your life. you made sure to bring this up to your cousin when you had the chance, keeping in mind that jay would get a piece of your mind about this. 
the rest of the breakfast was filled with the same awkward tension as you two ate your food in silence, every once in a while asking each other questions for some small talk but nothing that the two of you talked about did anything to cut through the awkwardness. when you and heeseung finished eating, he kept his word about taking care of the bill, and although you wouldn’t have cared if he didn’t, it was nice because it felt just like old times. 
back in college, when you and heeseung were little broke college kids; he always paid no matter what it was. a late night snack? heeseung paid. you were craving boba? heeseung paid. it was your birthday? heeseung paid. even when it wasn’t food, heeseung paid because he loved taking care of you even in small matters like paying for your things. 
a sign you should’ve seen sooner that heeseung saw you as more than just a friend. 
“thanks for breakfast and dropping off heejin at school. have a good day, heeseung.” you say while exiting his car. you’re startled by heeseung’s sudden action when he shouts when and runs out of the car and around to your side, you give him a confused look from inside of the car as you watch him. heeseung closes your door and reopens it for you, “madam.” he says, while gesturing with his hand and a slight bow. 
you couldn’t help but laugh but when heeseung raises his head to look at you, your expression instantly changes because you didn’t want to give heeseung the satisfaction that you found it amusing. you were still upset at heeseung for something of the past and although it’s been harbored inside of you for years on end, you couldn’t help but feel it slowly rising back to the top ever since you had returned to korea. 
heeseung walks slowly behind you as you make your way to the front door like a lost puppy and when you get to unlocking your door,�� he clears his throat, gaining your attention. 
“look… i know we haven’t spoken or seen each other in years, but i’m not going to act like it wasn’t the hardest five years of my life. you kind of just disappeared without explanation and when i tried to reach out… i didn’t hear back. 
i had even asked our friends and they didn’t have anything to tell me, i mean- i knew jay would’ve known because he’s your cousin but he didn’t tell me anything. 
can we please just talk?” heeseung was rambling and you felt bad because you could tell he was a bit anxious and probably rehearsed this in his head. 
“yn.. i missed you so much and i tried to practice what i wanted to say to you when i saw you again but i’ve just thrown that all out the window. 
say something..? please?” and you could feel yourself slowly falling back into that old familiar place. the one where you could look into heeseung’s eyes and you could tell how he was really feeling even if he tried to mask it with his rambling. 
“heeseung, why don’t you come inside and then we can talk… not out here..” you said with a chuckle and heeseung eagerly nods, a smile on his lips at the invitation into your home, a stepping stone back into your life. 
you don’t know where this conversation was going earlier and now that it’s almost been two hours since you saw heeseung again, you still didn’t know what to expect. 
“can i get you something to drink?” you ask and he lets you know that water is fine so after a few minutes, you return to find heeseung standing in your living room, admiring the photos you framed of yourself and your daughter. 
“you guys look so happy.” heeseung comments as he joins you on the couch, setting the two cups of water in front of the two of you. “heeseung.. i don’t know what to say to be honest. there’s a lot i’ve wanted to say to you and over the last five years, i’ve only wanted to say more. 
i didn’t mean to disappear i just-”
“then why? why did you leave?” heeseung says, interrupting you and his eyes have transitioned into one that expressed that he was pleading, begging, and waiting for an answer from you. an answer that he had been waiting for since the day you left. 
on the other hand, you were too. you had so many questions for heeseung but you knew that you couldn’t get answers without having to answer any of heeseung’s questions. you weren’t sure how to answer heeseung. you wanted to be honest and tell him the full truth but you didn’t even know if you were ready to face that. 
it was five years ago but now, sitting in front of heeseung as he looked at you with tears threatening to fall from his eyes, you couldn’t bring yourself to relive those moments where you felt the most alone, unwanted, and misunderstood person in the world. 
you stuttered to answer and the longer you thought about the more complicated it became in your head. your breathing started to become heavy and your eyes were constantly blinking. you couldn’t look at heeseung any longer because it made you feel uneasy and nauseous, the anxiety of this moment having built up inside of you for so long that now that it was all happening, it was corroding the stability you had worked so hard to build in your head. 
“are you ok, yn?” heeseung asked and his voice sounded muffled to you and as he scooted closer, the image of heeseung in your vision blurred and doubled like he was a mirage. you were starting to get light headed and that was when you knew that you were going to faint, the anxiety had taken over your brain and before you knew it your eyes were fluttering closed and heeseung was catching you in his arms before your body could fall over onto the coffee table. 
heeseung catches you instantly when you notice your body start to go limp, rocking back and forth. he wasn’t sure what happened but something must’ve been bothering you so much that you had fainted in his arms. heeseung tries his best to gently position you onto your couch in a comfortable position, moving your legs into place and softly setting your head on the armrest with a pillow propped up under. 
he admired your sleeping figure and if it wasn’t for the fact that you had fainted, he probably would’ve found this moment cute. it reminded him of the first time heeseung had realized he liked you more than he thought he did. the two of you had gotten very drunk one night after failing your economics exam and you had a habit of getting sleepy when drinking. 
you were in the middle of talking when your head started to get wobbly and your eyelids had become heavy and before you knew it; you were falling asleep next to heeseung; your head softly landing on his shoulder like a makeshift pillow. he found it cute and he still does. 
⋆˚ʚɞ five years ago
you had been texting with heeseung all night, he had been going through something and although you wanted to know what it was; you settled on just making him feel better. like a good friend would do. your crush on heeseung has something your friends had known about for a while and although you’ve wanted to confess your feelings to him for a while now, you were too afraid of ruining your friendship and it potentially affecting your whole friend group. 
heeseung was currently on his way to your dorm and it was like you were waiting for a blind date. you fidget with the tassel on your throw pillow as you wait for him on your bed, running through the different scenarios in your head of what’s been bothering him. 
he was fine the last few days but today something had shifted; heeseung felt like he was carrying something heavy on his mind and it was showing. he had sent you a string of messages that represented someone on the verge of a crash out and all you could do was worry for him, eventually inviting him over so you could talk and find a way to make him feel better. 
to which heeseung accepted instantly as if that was what he was waiting for. 
after a few minutes, a knock on your door softly echoes throughout your dorm as you’re just about to text heeseung if he was alright. “hee-” you say, getting cut off when heeseung storms into your room, breathing unsteady as if he had run over to you. 
“what’s wrong, are you ok?” you ask, worry settled onto your face as you shut the door behind you. 
heeseung is standing facing away as he tries to catch his breath, unsure of how to talk to you about what has been weighing on his mind heavily. a reality that he’s finally chosen to come to terms with despite thinking it was all his delusions until recently. 
“hee?” you ask again and he whips around to face you, your expression softening when you see that it looks like he hasn’t slept and looks absolutely exhausted. his eyes were red, cheeks a bit sunken, and the shadows around his eyes were more prominent. he looked like he’s so emotionally and physically drained you couldn’t help but rush over to him, cupping his face in worry– rubbing his cheek with your thumb and you could feel heeseung melt into your hand. 
his eyes flutter closed as he breathes a sigh of relief; like your touch alone was enough to soothe his mind even though the reason for his distress partially had something to do with you. you guide heeseung to your bed and you can’t help but frown at his appearance, you didn’t know how long this has been going on but it seems that it was enough to reflect on his face. 
“hee? are you ok?” you ask and he finally takes a deep breath before responding, “yn.. i just want you to know that i don’t want any of this to change us.. and i hope we’ll be okay after this but-” heeseung begins. 
“heeseung you’re scaring me..” you whisper, anxiety building inside of you as heeseung tries to avoid eye contact with you. 
“just- please listen.. i don’t want you to think of me any differently after i say this but…
i think i love you.” 
and when those five words leave heeseung’s lips, everything goes silent. 
you’ve been wanting to hear heeseung say those words for so long, wishing that he would reciprocate your feelings, confess his love to you the way you’ve been too afraid to confess to him, and now that he has; you didn’t know what to do or say. 
heeseung was finally able to look into your eyes, looking for an answer because the silence after his confession had him thinking that he shouldn���t have said anything in the first place. 
“please, say something..” he whispers, voice trembling like he’d be in tears at any moment. 
“hee… i just-” when you try to respond even though you weren’t sure what to say, heeseung brings his hands to your face and brings it closer to his; “please tell me you feel the same way or else i might go insane.” he whispers, his lips just a few inches away from yours. 
heeseung’s gaze trails from your eyes down your face and lands to your lips, heeseung absentmindedly licks his own as if it were a physical reaction to seeing yours. “i do heeseung-” you begin but before you could finish your sentence; his lips are on yours. 
the dryness of his lips instantly disappears as your two lips dance with his. a kiss that both of you had been longing for since you two have first met, like there was tension between the two of you that could only be relieved with one another. everyone in the room could feel it but neither of you ever wanted to confront that no matter how badly you wanted to. 
heeseung pulls away for a moment, allowing the two of you to catch your breath; “i’m sorry, i should’ve asked but i just couldn’t wait any longer..” heeseung murmurs, his bedroom eyes glued onto yours as you try to gather your thoughts. you had been waiting to share this moment with heeseung for so long but for some reason it wasn’t like how you’d dreamt.
“heeseung, this is wrong.. what about your girl-” you’re about to bring up heeseung’s girlfriend but he just shakes his head. “you’re the one i want.. it’s always been you” he says, connecting your lips once again, the kiss being just as passionate and filled with hunger like you’re both deprived of the other. 
your dorm was soon filled with you and heeseung’s pleasure, a craving that was finally satisfied after so many years; finally having you in his arms. you never thought this day would come and although you thought that it would never come; you were going to cherish this moment with heeseung. 
the next few days felt like a dream. you and heeseung were inseparable and it’s everything you had hoped for when you used to think about how your life would be after confessing to heeseung about how you truly felt. 
only for him to confess first, leaving you shocked that he felt the same way. 
the conversation after that night in your dorm room was a bit awkward but the two of you quickly learned to laugh it off and move forward with your relationship. you had agreed that you’d keep this between yourselves for now because you were unsure of how it would affect the dynamic of your friend group. you even held off from telling jay, your cousin, who you told everything to. 
it was hard for the first few weeks to hide your relationship with heeseung because whenever all of you were together, you wanted nothing more than to hold his hand or sit on his lap, the tension from before being converted to secret longing glances and smiles that you two would try to hide from your friends. 
the good lasted for only a few months, until the fateful day that would change your life forever. you had woken up feeling like a ton of bricks had fallen on top of you while you were sleeping. you were fatigued, nauseous, and spent the morning hunched over your toilet as you threw up your dinner from the night before. 
you weren’t sure why your body was suddenly feeling unwell so you made a trip to the pharmacy to grab some medicine, browsing the aisles to see what would help with your symptoms, and that was when your eyes landed on the sleek white box towards the end of the shelf. 
“pregnancy test: accurate results in just under 10 minutes” it read on the box in bright blue font. there was no way that could be the cause of your distress, you didn’t have sex with anyone else besides.. heeseung… that night.. three months ago. 
your mind starts to spiral as you think about the possibility that you could be pregnant with heeseung’s child as that night replays in your head– now just remembering that the idea of a condom was absent from both of your minds as you were both in the heat of the moment, exploring one another’s bodies. 
frantically grabbing a few boxes, you make your way to the cash register but are stopped in your tracks when a voice calls out to you; “yn?” and when you turn around it’s heeseung’s ex-girlfriend. 
the conversation with her was short but awkward. she just wanted to clear the air, letting you know that she had no animosity towards you or heeseung and that she wished you two the best. which confused you because you certainly didn’t tell her and know that heeseung wouldn’t have told her without discussing with you first. when you asked her to clarify, her explanation only heightens the mental distress you were currently in. 
“heeseung and i broke up a few months ago and i just figured you two would be together by now..” was all she said before walking away. 
the night that heeseung confessed his love to you and where you had shared one of the most intimate moments two people could experience together; also happened to be the same night that heeseung broke up with his girlfriend. 
leading you to believe that it was the only reason he felt so inclined to be with you. like you were just some rebound that heeseung knew would be waiting for him like a lost puppy who had been left at home all day, knowing that if he called out to you– you’d come running to him. 
you were a rebound. 
did he even mean anything he had said to you or was it all just a way to get you to play along with his desires? did he even know you felt that way about him? and he used it as a way to get what he wanted? 
you felt disgusted knowing that the moment you shared with heeseung that you had been waiting for was merely just a way for him to get over his ex-girlfriend. a second option that he knew he could fall back on but not in the same way that he would’ve been supported by his friends who he could fall back on during a hard time, but more so like you were just a stepping stone and a temporary fix for the despair he was in that night. 
using you to forget his ex if it meant that he would feel better at your expense. 
it feels like the ten minutes that you were waiting for the pregnancy test to be ready was the longest ten minutes of your life. “less than ten minutes, my ass” you scoffed as the clock showed it’s been ten minutes and the results weren’t being shown through the small indicator window yet. 
your head falls back in annoyance and to your surprise, the next time you look at the test, a giant plus sign is clearer than day. you swallowed the dryness in your throat, throwing the test into the garbage and ripping open into the two other boxes you bought to test again. 
refusing to believe that the first one was accurate, like it was a fluke, a false positive, anything to convince yourself that this was not happening. 
but it was. 
⋆˚ʚɞ 
when you wake up, about an hour later, you almost don’t recognize where you are until you realize you’re wrapped up in a blanket on your bed. you remember being on the couch but don’t recall how you ended up on your bed. you sluggishly roll out of your bed, eyes half open as you scratch your head and make your way to the living room; only to find heeseung sleeping soundly on your couch. 
shock shoots through you as the memories of what happened before you fainted return to your mind, remembering that you and heeseung had reunited after not seeing one another for the last five years when he showed up unannounced at your front door. 
you slowly walk over to him, momentarily admiring his peaceful face as he snoozed on your couch, clutching onto the small pillow with his arms. “i know you’re staring at me.” heeseung murmurs, opening one eye to look at you; a grin on his face when he sees the annoyed look on yours. 
“what are you still doing here?” you ask, crossing your arms and tilting your head to one side as you questioned him. “wow, already kicking me out? if we were in college you would’ve begged me to stay while you tried to convince your roommate to leave.” he says, sitting up straight with the same playful smile on his lips. 
“okay, if you’re gonna stay then i guess we need to have this talk don’t we?” you ask, swallowing the lump in your throat as you try to muster up the courage to have this conversation after it led you to faint just an hour prior. you take a seat next to heeseung, much like how the two of you were positioned earlier and the night when  he showed up at your dorm, both of you sitting on your bed; looking into each other’s eyes as if you were the only two people that existed. 
holding one another so closely like at any given moment one of you would be torn away from the other. only if heeseung knew that you would be torn away from him months after, maybe he wouldn’t have made the decision he did that night. 
but that night was nothing that he’d ever regret. 
“so.. where do i begin.. you say trying to think of how you wanted to start– 
that night, when we hooked up in my dorm room; i know why you showed up. when you told me that you loved me it was everything that i could’ve hoped for. i feel like i started to fall for you the day we first met and every day since then i fell for you even more but i just thought that i wasn’t someone that you could ever love. 
so, even though it hurt me, i settled with being okay with just being friends; because it was better than not having you in my life at all. 
but when you told me you loved me that night, i was the happiest girl in the world. until i wasn’t. i felt like the few months that we were dating was the happiest moments of my life, obviously not compared to now because i have my daughter, but i’ll cherish those moments forever because it truly made me so happy to be with you–” 
“then why did you leave?” heeseung pleads, begging for an answer as you somewhat tiptoe around it. “a few months later, i ran into your ex while i was in the store and i found out that the two of you had broken up the same night we hooked up…” heeseung was now shaking his head in denial at what he was hearing. 
“heeseung, you used me as a rebound for your breakup– no, yn. that’s not true. i promise i would never do that to you.” heeseung whines, shaking his head in frustration that you’ve harbored this misunderstanding about him for the last five years which drove you away from him. 
⋆˚ʚɞ five years ago, two days before moving away
“why have you been so distant?” heeseung asks, his doe eyes looking at you as he pleads for your attention, lights reflecting in his eyes that made it look like he was tearing up, and he was trying his best not to cry in front of the girl he’s loved for so long. 
you couldn’t bring yourself to tell him, this battle inside of you that you’ve been going through on whether or not you wanted to tell heeseung the life changing news, your oversized hoodie covering up the secret you have. 
“heeseung, i just don’t think we can do this anymore.” was the only thing you could say before having to do the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do. 
walk away from the boy you’ve loved for so long. 
heeseung didn’t know what he had done that led you to breakup with him but he held onto this idea that you hated him ever since. he respected you enough to let you walk away from him even though it took every ounce of strength inside of him to not run after you and engulf you in his arms. he would’ve begged you to stay if he could, but he didn’t. 
not running after you and fighting for your love was his biggest regret. 
two days later, he’d find out from jay that you left the country and although he begged and begged jay to let him know where you moved to, how to reach you, and to help him get in contact with you; jay respected you too much after learning what led you to leave to just set you back by allowing heeseung to waltz right back into your life. 
jay tried his best to not let his judgement of heeseung be clouded by what you told him, but he couldn’t help but feel empathy towards you. his cousin who’s life was going to change drastically because of his best friend and all he could do was support you from afar even if it meant helping you move into his childhood home where jay’s parents would be there for you to help you throughout the whole thing. 
⋆˚ʚɞ 
“heeseung, this is all too much for me right now. i want to have this conversation, i’ve thought about it every day for the last five years, but i don’t think i’d ever be ready for it. 
i think you should leave.” 
and as much as heeseung wanted to stay, beg for you to let him stay and talk it out, but he respected you too much to fight with you. 
so just like that night, he walked away even if he didn’t want to. 
you sighed as you closed the door behind heeseung, peeking into the small window beside your front door to watch him leave, shoulders low and head hunched over as he walked to his car. you close your eyes and exhale before swinging the door back open and calling for heeseung, “heeseung!” you shout and he’s instantly whipping around at the sound of your voice. 
“heejin’s birthday is in two weeks, you’re invited if you’d like to come.” and heeseung’s attitude changes, a bright smile spreading onto his face as your words ring like church bells in his ears. 
“i’ll be there.” he says before waving goodbye and driving off. 
a small smile tugging on your lips as you tried your best not to feel like that young girl you once were whenever you’d get shy around heeseung. 
⋆˚ʚɞ 
the next two weeks is filled with heeseung’s endless attempts to make his way into your everyday routine whether it was showing up again unannounced to take heejin to school, to which she’d never deny because heeseung always brought her the juice box she really likes, or if it was him asking you if you needed help with anything for heejin’s birthday. 
heeseung was going to find his way back into your life even if he annoyed you– but all you had in your mind was her birthday despite heeseung’s attempts to occupy your every waking thought. 
the build up for heejin’s birthday was filled with excitement and anxiety as you tried to make her 6th birthday something special because it would be her first birthday in korea. in the past, her birthdays in seattle was mostly just you and her, sometimes your parents would fly in town to visit but not often. 
and now that you’re back in korea and surrounded by so many people that loved you; you were going to make sure this birthday was something that she remembers. her birthday was in just 24 hours and everything was set in place. 
it was somewhat difficult to keep everything hidden from her because she was one curious girl and was constantly rambling about what she wanted for her birthday, unicorns, rainbows, the color pink, a cake that was chocolate but also vanilla and had strawberries, the color pink, a pinata that was shaped like bunny or maybe a unicorn, and oh, did i mention.. pink? 
pink was her favorite color and it showed with every since thing she always picked out for herself was pink. 
at midnight when the clock indicated that it was finally her birthday, you snuck into her room as she slept soundly with a small cupcake and a number six candle in the center. you gently walked over to her and softly sang happy birthday, waking her up and her eyes instantly widened at the sight of you. 
She was smiling from ear to ear and clapping her hands together in joy. “happy birthday my sweet bambi.” you said after singing happy birthday, softly patting her head as she makes a wish and blows out the candle. 
“thank you mama.” her small voice coming out just above a whisper. “sleep now, okay? you have a big day tomorrow.” booping her nose as she enthusiastically goes back to bed, eager to fall back asleep and wake up the next morning to her big day. 
birthday preparations started earlier for you as you made sure to do some last minute cleaning and organizing for the party. setting out all of the stuff in your backyard with the help of jay and your parents. your mom busied your daughter so that she wasn’t running around and to stop her from looking through every single thing at her party. 
she was so happy, a type of happiness you wished would stay with her forever. 
soon after, the preparations were complete and heejin was dressed in a sparkly pink dress, one that she had picked up several weeks in advance when the two of you were shopping together on a mommy and daughter date. 
your friends, sunghoon, jay, jake, karina, and winter had shown up with gifts that made your daughter smile so bright. her classmates had shown up, excited to celebrate heejin on her big day– you watched from the side as you took in all of it. some of the people you loved most in one place to celebrate the person you loved most. 
seeing your daughter happy made you happy and that was all you could wish for. 
you took a gander at all of the people enjoying the party when a knock at your front door catches your attention. you jog over to the door and are met with heeseung, a cheesy grin on his face as he carries several boxes in his arms, peering from behind it to reveal himself. 
“i hope i’m not too late?” he says and you just chuckle, telling him that the party was just beginning. you invite him inside, instructing him to set her gifts onto the table in the far side of the kitchen as the two of you join everyone in the backyard. 
you can hear gasps coming from your friends as they see you and heeseung standing together, a sight that none of them thought they’d see so soon. “yo! heeseung, you made it man.” jake says, standing up to shake his friend’s hug as everyone follows to do the same. 
karina and winter send you a teasing glance, the two of them pointing to you and heeseung like you were all kids teasing their friend when their crush walks by, earning them an eye roll as you laugh it off. 
“where’s the birthday girl?” heeseung asks, still holding onto a small gift as he walks back to you. you pointed at heejin who was playing tag with her friends; unafraid to get rowdy with the little boys in her class. “heejin, bambi! come here, you’ve got a gift.” you shout and she comes running as she hears the word gift. 
heeseung crouches down to her size and hands her the gift, “happy birthday heejin.” he says with a soft smile, one that heejin returns. hugging him to thank him, “can i open it mama?” she asks and you gesture her to ask heeseung since it was his gift– earning an eager nod from heeseung who encouraged her to open it. 
heejin tears into the small box, a gasp escaping from her tiny mouth as she sees the box, the gift wrap revealing a soft brown deer plushie with a pink bow and blushing cheeks. she jumps up and down in excitement, her arms wrapping around heeseung’s neck to show her appreciation for the gift. seeing heeseung hug her back pulls at your heartstrings as you watch all of it unfold, an image in your head that you thought you’d never see. 
your daughter and her father sharing a tender moment with an embrace. 
⋆˚ʚɞ 
the party dies down once the sun has set and most of the guests have gone. the only people left were your parents, winter and sunghoon, and heeseung. your friends had offered to stay back to help you clean and because your mother was your mother, she wasn’t going to let you clean up alone even if you had your friends to help. 
heejin was in the living room with bright eyes as she looked at all of the gifts she had received, several gifts of stuffed animals, toys, clothes, and other presents that a small child would appreciate. “okay, bambi let’s get ready for bed. you can play with all of your toys tomorrow, ok?” and heejin nods, grabbing the deer plushie that heeseung got her and taking it with her as you help her get ready for bed. 
heeseung notices you and heejin walking away and excuses himself from your mother to which she just nods and tells him it’s okay and she’ll take care of the rest of the chores in the kitchen. heeseung parted with a small bow as he makes his way to what he assumes is heejin’s room. 
winter and sunghoon on the other are glancing at each other, having confirmation with just their eyes as they watch heeseung run after you. 
“you know.. not to be a conspiracy theorist but doesn’t heejin look like.. heeseung?” winter asks, whispering to sunghoon as she walks a bit closer to him. “no, i see it too. also, the nickname? we used to say heeseung looks like a baby deer all the time when we were in college and yn nicknamed her daughter bambi?” sunghoon adds and winter looks at him like he’s just spilled the deepest secret one can hold. 
sunghoon and winter send each other knowing glances as they both arrive at a revelation. 
“hey, you guys alright?” heeseung asks while popping his head into heejins room with a soft knock. you tell him that you’re just her ready for bed when you wave him inside. “thank you for the gift, she loves it a lot. i’ve been looking for that thing for months and i can’t believe you were able to find it.” you tell him and heeseung chuckles.
“it’s no big deal” he responds and you ask him about how he knew to get that for her. “she talks about it whenever i drive her to school, she also mentioned that her mommy calls her bambi and i figured it would make the perfect gift.” he explains, making it a point to reference the bambi part as he knew that was also a nickname he had within your friend group, one that you started. 
you hoped that you weren’t too obvious with that but chose not to dwell much longer on the nickname as it could just be coincidence– although it wasn’t. 
“thank you for the bambi!” heejin says as she walks back into the room in her pajamas. heeseung pats her small head as she climbs into her bed, tucking her into her blanket as you ask her about her day– heejin rambling on about her favorite parts of the day which just turned out to be every single aspect of her party. 
you smiled at her as she went on and on, “but my favorite is the bambi.” she says while stretching her arms out with the plushie in her hands and then bringing it into her arms for a hug. “thank you dad.” heejin says and it catches you and heeseung off guard– heejin herself doesn’t even realize what she’s said as she gets cozy in bed. 
there was a sense of awkwardness between the two of you at the comment by your daughter and it causes heeseung to start questioning things and putting puzzle pieces together. the possibility that he could’ve been heejin’s dad hadn’t crossed his mind once and now that it’s been brought up; it’s all he was thinking about. 
“goodnight, baby.” you say before placing a kiss onto heejin’s forehead and as you’re about to leave; she calls out to you. “mama, can you sing me a lullaby?” she asks and even though you were exhausted, you weren’t going to say no to your daughter. 
“can i?” heeseung asks and you couldn’t bring yourself to say no when heejin looked so excited, so you nod and heeseung takes a seat on the bed next to heejin who was still hugging the deer plushie. 
heeseung then begins to sing a song to your daughter. you haven’t heard his voice in so long, the melodic trill of his vocals, a symphonic honey like sound that lulled your daughter to sleep in no time, her soft snores mixing with heeseung’s beautiful singing. 
when the two of you were certain that she was sound asleep, you carefully walked out of her room and shut the door as softly as you could. as you try to walk back to finish some cleaning, heeseung holds onto your hand and whips you back around to look at him, his gaze filled with love and the same type of longing that has lingered inside of him for years on end. 
“can we talk?” heeseung says and you nod, letting him know to continue. 
“i know that i hurt you when i made it feel like you were just a rebound, but that couldn’t have been more wrong. it was always you, i’ve always loved you and i would always choose you. my ex and i were constantly fighting throughout that week and the day i came running to you was when we broke up but i never told you why… 
we broke up because she realized how much i loved you in comparison to her and it wasn’t fair that whenever i was with her, all i could think about was you. 
i’ve loved you since the day i met you and i just never had the courage to say that, but i would write your name in the sand again and again after the waves have swept it away if it means that my love for you is shared across the seas.” 
tears streaming down your eyes as heeseung’s hands gently cup your face, his thumb wiping your face of your tears. heeseung brings you into his arms for an embrace and when he feels your arms wrap around him, he breathes a sigh of relief knowing that he was finally able to get that off of his chest.
something that he’s had weighing on him for so long and was so happy to finally profess his love for you. the girl he loves and will always love. 
when you pull away from him with a sniffle, heeseung wipes your tears again as you lock eyes, “is she mine?” he asks in reference and you nod, finally telling heeseung the secret that you’ve held for the last five years. 
tears sting heeseung’s eyes at the information and he holds you even tighter in his arms when he hears the news. he couldn’t believe that the beautiful girl he just sang to sleep was his daughter. joy was an understatement to describe the emotion that he was feeling. the type of love only a family could share where they’d do everything to keep the family together and happy. 
you and heeseung spend the night sharing stories of what you’ve missed in each other’s lives in the time that you were gone. tears, laughter, and tender touches shared between the two of you as you do your best to rebuild your relationship from scratch. 
“thank you for giving me another chance.” heeseung whispers as you lay in his arms, the moonlight shining onto your faces, leaving a small white cast into the room. 
“thank you for not giving up on me.” you respond, heeseung placing a small kiss onto your temple before you both drift off to sleep. a type of joy and delight radiating from your bodies that neither of you have felt in so long. something you would have only gotten from one another. 
⋆˚ʚɞ 
you’re awoken to the smell of grilled meat wafting throughout your home, your nose dragging you to the living room to find heejin and heeseung in the kitchen cooking together. “what do we have here?” you ask and they turn to look at you, “mama! he’s teaching me how to make pancakes and bacon.” she says, running over to you and hugging your legs. you pick her up and walk back to heeseung who was setting the last pancake onto the plate. 
“let’s eat.” he says and you all sit at the table together and enjoy breakfast like a family for the first time. a moment that you’ve always wanted to share as a whole family and now that you’ve finally been able to share the truth with heeseung, it’s everything you’ve ever wanted. 
“heejin, i have something to tell you, ok?” you tell her and she’s looking up at you with her big doe eyes, identical to heeseung’s who was shyly sitting to the side. “remember when you asked me where your papa is?” and heejin nods, a small pout on her lips. 
“bambi, heeseung is your papa.” and you’ve never seen heejin move so fast before as she’s jumping out of her chair and into heeseung’s arms to which he welcomes her, hugging his daughter with so much love that you could feel it coming off of them. heeseung extends one of his arms to invite you over and as tears fall from your eyes once again, you join in on your first ever family hug. 
you didn’t know when this day would come and you were elated that it came sooner after you had been running from it for the last five years. the happiest moment of your life with the family you’ve created could’ve never happened if you didn’t face heeseung and allowed for him to bare his soul and heart to you. something you should’ve never been afraid of. 
heeseung waited for you every single day, thinking about the day that you’d come back to him and when you’d finally be his. to his surprise, you gave him a beautiful daughter that, although he has a lot of time to make up for, was so happy that he wasn’t too late to watch her grow and be a part of her life. 
no matter how hard you tried to run from having to face this hardship, heeseung was thousands of miles away back in korea waiting for you with only love in his mind. wanting nothing more than to have you back in his life and to never let you go like he had done the first time. 
the image of your broken face replayed in his mind every night when he slept, thinking about the pain he must’ve put you through without knowing the full capacity of what you had to experience alone. he wished he was there by your side through every single step, holding your hand in the delivery room, taking photos of you as your stomach grew, witnessing his daughter’s first steps and first word, everything. 
but now that he was back, he was going to make sure that he didn’t miss anything else. 
you and your daughter instantly became the most important people in his life, knowing that he’d love the both of you endlessly, unconditionally, and forever. 
forever. 
something that he’d always associate with you because you are his forever and now, so is your daughter. 
love should be forever and you were forever going to be loved by him. it was like love and forever was synonymous with you because to heeseung, loving you is forever. 
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something, somehow, someday
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series summary: you know you will love satoru for the rest of your life, but when you wake with his cursed energy in your navel there is no option but to flee. what future is there for a child of a god? at 18 satoru is without you, and you make off with a piece of him you hoped he'd never meet.
pairing: secret baby daddy!gojo x reader
tags: secret child trope, angst (lots), eventual fluff, eventual smut, hurt/comfort, a lot of yearning :P, chapter specific: SMUT, unprotected piv, creampie (sorry), fingering,
a/n: thank you guys for your responses on the poll! this one is more than double the average length of the other chapters (~8k) and i plan to keep that convention from here on out. i hope you enjoy this one >:)
18+! minors dni <3
~~~~~~~
it is a funny feeling, YOU find, making your life new with a thing so familiar. to open your door so often and find satoru standing there, letting him bring food and splaying himself on your couch, walking with him in the heavy mist at dusk, it fills your lungs like smoke, the nostalgia thick and cloying. you remember all of it, it comes back to you embalmed.  
but the differences between now and your time together in high school demand your attention in equal measure. your son, for one: though it’s impossible to find the sight of him with his father unnatural given how obvious their relation is. with their backs turned they move the same, too, something between them irrevocably tied. you had forgotten the way satoru wrought blades of grass between his fingers when he laid in it until you had to clean both their palms of chlorophyll.
nonetheless your affection for satoru is much more hulking a thing than it ever was, supplanted by the tangible aftermath of the ways you used to love him. when takara lets him pick him up, grips to his collar as satoru balances him on his hip, you are defenseless. the softest parts of you win out. 
still, neither you nor satoru make any attempt to name the arrangement you’ve come upon. he is resolutely your child’s father and has stepped into that role with grace, and there are artifacts of your intimacy—his hand on your lower back, brushing your hair from your shoulder blades, an almost kiss, once—but mostly you let the joy of your child consume your time. 
and it shouldn’t bother you. you remember feeling so certain in high school that letting him fuck you was enough, that to love him quietly was a privilege. you suppose you still mostly believe that. but there are moments when takara is asleep and satoru lingers in your kitchen, and the want flares bright then. you are at a loss watching him leave with that look on his face, like he’s afraid you’ll ask him to stay and terrified you’ll let him leave. you sometimes wait a moment before locking the door behind him.
jujutsu tech stands like a graveyard around you, so full of memory the buildings almost sag. you haven’t been back here since the night takara came to you.
“oi!” satoru bellows from across the courtyard, hand high and wagging. 
takara holds a grip on your pant leg, one blue eye peeking out. you feel him loosen a little when he sees his dad, and then refasten when megumi and tsumiki emerge behind him. 
when satoru first suggested you both come to meet them you had hesitated. you were honest; there was something final about this last introduction. there would be nothing else left for each of you to keep separate from the other, your lives entirely reconnected. satoru had laughed at you in that way that makes your heart turn, and that sound was all it took for you—weak to him—to agree.
satoru comes rushing to takara, scooping him from behind you and holding him to his side. takara screeches, half afraid and half delighted. tsumiki walks to you without hesitation, little hand held out for you to shake. 
“it’s nice to meet you,” she says. her smile is soft, a little secret, but you can tell she is pleased with herself for her manners. you smile back.
“it’s nice to meet you, too.” 
she looks up at takara in satoru’s arms and waves. takara is frozen, too shy to move, so satoru takes his chubby wrist and waves it a little. tsumiki giggles. “they’re like twins.”
you lean in a little conspiratorially. “i know. i carried him for nine months and have nothing to show for it.”
she giggles behind her hand before turning to her brother. “don’t be rude,” she admonishes.
megumi cannot hear her, it seems. he’s watching takara paw at satoru’s shirt, turning in his hold as gojo points to the various buildings to explain what they are. to himself, or maybe to you, megumi whispers: “it’s so freaky.”
tsumiki scoffs lightly and goes to elbow him but you can only laugh again, louder this time. he may not be related to satoru but he was certainly raised by him. “you are exactly as satoru described,” you admit.
megumi furrows his brows and crosses his arms. yes, so furious, satoru had said once. “how exactly did he describe me?”
“as a little shit,” satoru offers, one palm now cupped over takara’s ear. megumi’s mouth falls open a moment before making a fist with each hand and bringing them in front of him. satoru only rolls his eyes and uses his knee to knock his arms out of place. megumi practically growls something about i’m really gonna do it someday and tsumiki taunts back at him: you’re such a liar!
oh, but that look on satoru’s face, he is so pleased. his eyes squint with it, you can almost see the satisfied breathing of his cursed energy, satoru is happy. it makes you beam at him and his breath catches when he sees it. 
takara wriggles out of his grip and stations himself at your legs again, but doesn’t hide this time. tsumiki is completely enamored, cooing again, “hi, takara!”
takara sucks in a little breath. “hello.”
tsumiki claps her hands together and looks up at you and gojo. “can we show him around? please?”
“what is there to show?” satoru asks.
“the training room, our old bedrooms, the koi fish—”
your eyes widen. satoru’s gaze flits to you, frantic, and you smirk, the tiniest thing. the koi fish? you mouth. satoru’s cheeks flush pink as he shakes his head slightly, but the damage is done, he knows. tsumiki is still listing menial places across campus.
you squeeze takara’s shoulder. “what do you think, bubba?” he looks at you, owlish, and then at tsumiki, before nodding. she takes his hand with a pleased squeal and the three putter off together.
satoru stands boyish before you as you straighten again. he tends to keep his blindfold off around takara—whether to keep from frightening him or for a more profound reason you don’t know—but he is bared to you without it. he knows exactly what you’ll say, lifting a hand as he turns and starts towards his office: “don’t.”
you skip to catch up with him. “oh, no, i think i have to.”
“i’m just a friend to nature.”
you howl. “you’re just as dishonest as you always were.”
he doesn’t dignify that with a response, pushing into his office and letting you inside. the walls are a dark wood, mostly bare save for the few bookshelves bloated with old novels and records and manila folders. a handful of pens scatter across the desk, like he’d needed to finish a sentence urgently before standing. there’s a record player on the windowsill, fuzzy with dust but clean in places around the arm. it looks like he’d used it recently for the first time in years. most of all it smells like him, mint and cedar and sugar, and you almost double over sick with it. 
satoru settles into his chair as you trace a finger along the spines of his books, his eyes igniting your back but you refuse to turn, you want him to watch. “you’ve done a great job with them,” you admit.
“you think so?”
you just barely twist your head over your shoulder to show him the sincerity on your face. “of course i do.”
he runs a hand through his hair. “they seem to like takara.”
you turn fully now to lean your back on the shelf. “everyone likes takara.”
he chuckles, fond. “yeah, i guess so.”
the sounds of this place are so startlingly the same, you think. the serenity is strange and charged, but nonetheless campus was always quiet enough to hear the wind through the leaves. you hear it now as you flip through mission files and reports: special grade, special grade, grade one, special grade, suguru geto. you put them down.
“is it weird to be back?”
you nod, gesturing around the room. “i’ll admit i was hoping for more of a welcome. is nobody else here?”
“yeah, i asked them to give us the afternoon so takara wouldn’t be overwhelmed for his first time.”
you pout, mainly to bare your lip to him but there is truth in it, too. “nobody wanted to see me?”
satoru shakes his head. “i wanted you all to myself,” he admits. and it’s teasing, easy, he says it like it doesn’t cost him anything, but you know he is like you: he almost never says something he doesn’t mean.
“how did they react when you told them?”
“that i have a son? kept a secret by his villainous mother?”
your eyes narrow but you’re grinning as you respond: “yeah.”
he cocks his head and kisses his teeth. “yaga said he was disappointed in you.”
“for leaving?”
“no, for letting me…” he smiles, wolfish for a second before it fades into something friendlier, “for giving me the opportunity.” you laugh, a bark of a sound, halfway humiliated. you nod him on. “and shoko was the one who found you, so, there wasn’t anyone else to tell.”
your hand finds your arm and you squeeze your bicep once, twice, swallowing around the tragedy in his confession: that all the people you used to know here are gone somehow. you hadn’t visited haibara’s grave since you left; nanami helped you lug a stone out by the stream and you grew flowers around the base, yellow pansies and red carnations. you remember kento pointing to them in a flower language book so you could conjure them properly, remember the promise you made not to tell a soul what they meant. 
the memory must show on your face, because satoru says then, “i still water those flowers you made by haibara’s grave.”
you smile at him, watery and real. you add on, “and feed my fish,” and he laughs like a surrender. 
you move to the record player just behind him and he swivels his chair to follow you. something seizes in your belly at the feeling of him scrutinizing you, the weight of his looking a leaden thing against your skin. you thumb through the few vinyls resting in the window before stopping on one. the words stick to your teeth like honey but you spit them as best you can: “this is mine.”
you hear satoru stand and look over your shoulder. frank sinatra’s close to you: the sleeve is long stained and yellowed, waterlogged in one corner, but the record inside is pristine. 
you remember the first time your grandmother taught you how to play her gramophone. her hands guided your smaller ones across the pavilion, down to the plateau; it was old and rusted, even then, something she’d bought second hand as a girl. but she had collected hundreds of records, they made piles throughout her home, and every afternoon you selected one to play. close to you was her gift to you when you entered jujutsu tech.
of course, you never had a record player. all three years it sat unused on your desk, a remembrance, still smelling like the tatami from her living room. she had told you once that sinatra taught her how to speak english, which you mostly believed; her english vowels opened with the syrup of the american east-coast, and she held each word a moment too long, like it took a great deal of effort not to sing them. 
you run your knuckles along the sleeve, feeling the still-familiar places where the gloss has faded and the paper catches. you hardly notice how close to your back satoru has drifted until he reaches around you to remove the record and situate it on the player. you freeze, his looming figure warm around you, his arms brushing your shoulders as he fiddles with the tone arm. you hope he can’t feel your heartbeat through your spine, but it rushes so deafening in your ears you cannot discern either way.
it could happen to you crackles to life from the speaker and you feel like you’ve been swallowed by space, on the cusp of a wrinkle. you wonder whether time has really suspended around you or if it’s only this, this song and this man at your back. your breathing is uneven and satoru does not step back, head craned a little to bring his chin closer to your shoulder. 
slowly, almost self-consciously, he braces each hand on the sides of the windowsill, keeping you surrounded. 
“it’s been so long since i’ve heard this song,” you whisper. the melody chimes and swings around the violin and you cannot help but tilt your head back a little into satoru’s chest, overcome with the ghost of the music as it hangs above you. satoru lets your weight lean slightly into him, unmoving.
“i hope it’s okay that i took it.” his voice rumbles through your bones before you hear it. you nod and it scrapes against his sternum. the friction stirs something in him, you think, because then he’s bringing a hand to your stomach, fingers long and splayed across your entire torso, and he rests his cheek fully on the back of your head. it would almost look like you were dancing if you began to move, but neither of you seem willing to risk it.
“do you ever wonder what it would have been like?”
you don’t need him to clarify. “all the time,” you confess. the sun moves behind the clouds outside, and you catch a moment of the both of you in the reflection. 
his hand tightens around your middle, holding you against him. the song threatens to end but he keeps his arm banded around you. “are we friends now?”
you laugh softly. “i honestly don’t know.”
he nods before bringing his other hand to your chin. he spreads the pads of his fingers, feeling the shape of your jaw, looking for something, for you. “would you let me kiss you, if i asked?”
“yes,” you say, but it comes out more breathless than you intend. your thighs press together and you’re sure he notices with how his hips cage you in, but he only hums, removing the hand around your chin. 
“it’s a bad idea,” he breathes, but still his nose brushes at the juncture of your neck and your shoulder. you shudder and nod. it is. 
and despite how badly you want him, you do not turn and demand it. it’s so precarious now, and with satoru in takara’s orbit you cannot run again, a chain fastened from your rib to his. you know fucking him would be a reckless idea now, but god, he presses one, slow kiss to the bared skin of your shoulder and your body remembers him. his hips press just slightly further into your ass as he sighs onto the same spot, his breath cooling the heat of his lips where they branded you, his cock alive and right there. but the both of you know it: you are cowards. he untangles himself, and you let him sit back in his chair before moving.
~~~~~~~
SATORU is certain now; you are going to kill him. his grave will be beautiful, he thinks, flowery and green and alive with your energy, but his autopsy will have your name all over it, your lipstick.
he supposes, for his part, that much of your proximity is his fault. a stronger man wouldn’t have stayed in your apartment past takara’s waking hours, used his hands to guide you on the sidewalk, held your hips to his cock in his office windowsill earlier today. and satoru has lived a life of self restraint, has been a shackled man to his own whipping post, but he has found himself helpless to the feeling of your body on his skin.
he had been so irreparably hurt when he saw you in the park that day, or at least it had felt that way at the time. something grew in him then, a tumor with teeth, and he was certain it could never feel the same with you as it once had, that he would withhold something precious from you forever in some lasting spiteful act of defiance. and nevermind the fact that even hours later he moved to hold you, could barely restrain the instinct to kiss you again, was never even angry: for about 24 hours, satoru was sure that he would never be in love with you again.
but even the sharp canines of that wound have dulled with weeks of your presence. the smell of you on your couch when he lays on it, the afternoon scenery of you playing with takara in the park curtained by your vines, your laugh in his office, by your door, in his head. you are an apparition haunting him, one he can touch, and it’s killing him. 
and he knows he should not pursue anything with you. he knows you know this, too. your nebulous reconnection is unsteady at best—a strange amalgam of your old intimacy and the people you’ve become—and access to takara is too important to him to risk. and neither of you would say this, but the fact of your leaving in high school remains a reminder that at any moment you are capable of disappearing again. it’s something satoru always loved about you, actually. you make your own life wherever you step. what a beautiful thing you are. 
he feels ridiculous for thinking of you as often as he does. but how could he not? he visits at least daily to spend time with his son and you are always there, a vision. he sees you in takara, too, his little love. when he tries to explain how to use limitless, takara bears down into himself, thinking to the point of exhaustion. he has gotten that from you, satoru knows.
but it wasn’t a conscious thought that satoru has begun falling back into love with you—or, really, that he has plummeted into the well of it—until today, seeing you laugh with megumi . tsumiki had pointed at you from behind your back: she’s so pretty! and he had nodded without thought, proud as if you were his to boast for. and then, your teasing voice nipping at his heels as he brought you to his office, he realized that he was yours. he should have known some time in the thousand minutes he’s spent feeding your koi.
the smell of your cooking wafts into your living room as he reads to takara on his lap. you’re humming that song from earlier, it could happen to you, and the domesticity makes him beam like an idiot. yes, he thinks, that’s about the most succinct way to put it; he is an idiot for you. takara points to the page and reads a sentence himself.
“yes!” satoru encourages.
“don’t yell,” takara says, patting satoru’s leg as though he’d worked himself up.
“yessir.”
“come in to eat!” you call from the kitchen. takara scrambles to the sound of your voice and satoru is no better. the three of you settle to the table, takara’s legs dangling in his chair, and satoru knows he shouldn’t but he presses his foot to yours under the table. you give him a look, fleeting and knowing, but you don’t move. takara eats exactly the way you do, and satoru wonders whether you’ve noticed.
“what time do you go into work tomorrow?”
“i’m opening, actually, so i’ll head to the cafe early,” you grumble. “i’ll take my lunch break at 8 to take takara to preschool.” 
satoru shakes his head. “i don’t have any missions until the afternoon. why don’t i take him?”
“i don’t have an extra key for you.”
“he could sleep over,” takara offers, barely looking up from his food. you look startled by the suggestion, at first, and satoru is sure he looks much the same, but when the shock subsides he cannot help the little grin that tugs his lips up. you cock your head minutely, but he’s known you long enough to know you mean: don’t push it. 
“bubba, there isn’t enough space,” you explain. 
you had told satoru early on that you started in a one bedroom, fixed a nursery in most of it and fit yourself on a twin bed in the corner. when the owner of the cafe retired, though, she had let you have the place. you made enough now to scrape by with two bedrooms; satoru remembers how dignified you were to recount the whole thing, how hard it was not to kiss you when you smiled in your own self-satisfaction. 
“why can’t he sleep in your room?” takara asks. satoru smiles bigger, nudges your foot under the table. 
“because he…can’t.” you’re becoming flustered now and it only thrills him more.
“i really would like to take him,” he offers, though the sincerity is cut with the sound of his smirk.
you run your hands over your face, mumble out a little groan that softens into a hum at the end, but still your foot doesn’t move away from the press of satoru’s under the shadow of the kitchen table. 
“don’t you need to get home to megumi and tsumiki?”
satoru is beaming like he’s already won. he has. “they have a sitter.”
your head tips back as you say, mostly to the ceiling, “fine. but you’re sleeping on the couch.”
and truthfully he doesn’t mind much at all. he is voracious for more time with takara, for more time in your space, for benign moments you might take for granted. he wants to brush his son’s teeth at night and fix his hair in the morning. he taps your foot one more time: thank you. and you nod, almost imperceptibly: you’re welcome. 
~~~~~~~
as much as YOU might have resisted it, there really was about an hour or so when letting satoru sleep on your couch seemed like a good idea. it felt, if you can admit it, easy, the both of you moving around one another as the evening twilight overtook the windows. and it was so plain to see on takara’s face that he was pleased, too, to have you both here. sitting on the edge of his bed together as you tucked him in, watching his first few moments of sleep, made space for a new sort of intimacy. when satoru reached for your hand in the dark you did not pull away.
of course, you regret it now. maybe you’ll regret it forever. by the time you’re brushing your teeth you know you have made an error of cosmic proportions. some time between settling blankets on the couch and joining you in the bathroom satoru had unbuttoned most of his shirt and removed his belt, sidling next to you at the sink with the spare toothbrush you gave him like you weren’t a moment from dropping dead on the counter. you’re too afraid to look at yourself in the mirror; you already know your cheeks are red, that he can feel the rush of your blood in your jugular from inches away. 
“you seem uptight,” he says, though it comes out foamy around the toothpaste in his mouth.
“i’m not used to having people over.” you can’t look anywhere but the porcelain of the sink, too petrified of what you’d say if you looked at him in full. you remember this afternoon in his office and shift on your weight a little.
“you don’t have a lot of sleepovers?” he asks through a grin.
you’re so focused on not making eye contact with him in the mirror that you answer him honestly. “i don’t have any.”
you hear his toothbrush stop. he spits in the sink before leaning on it to face you. “what do you mean you don’t have any?”
you take a deep breath before turning. god he’s so pretty, even more stunning like this, a little unspooled. “what do you want me to say? i’ve never had anyone else to take care of takara. it’s not like i can…” you don’t even know how to end that sentence.
the teasing look leaks from satoru’s face slowly. he asks you with more earnestness than you think you can stand: “have you not had sex since high school?”
it’s not even fully out of his mouth before you’re pushing past him and out of the bathroom but he is relentless behind you—he always was—and you feel him an inch from your back as you walk towards your bedroom door.
“wait a second—”
“satoru, i’m not talking about this with you.”
“no, but i’m being serious.”
“so am i!” you turn at your door and try not to shudder at how close he is. his eyes glow in the low light, a man made of comets.
“i just,” he huffs a little, “i feel bad, i guess.”
“what?”
“well you—you’ve been taking care of takara alone all this time and you haven’t gotten…you haven’t gotten to do—”
“satoru, i don’t need your pity about my sex life, okay?”
“but that’s my point! it’s not just about your sex life, it’s—it’s everything.” he ruffles the back of his head, almost embarrassed, you think. “i feel bad that you’ve been alone all this time.”
you kick your heel against the door behind you to ground yourself. “it’s my fault, isn’t it?” and it comes out a little small, more pathetic than you’ve ever heard yourself. satoru buckles with it.
“baby,” he starts, and you think his hand flexes to reach for you, but you put your palm on his chest to keep him in place. he hasn’t meant to call you that, you know, the endearment from years ago clawing back, finding purchase on his tongue. his heart murmurs like a bird behind his shirt.
“listen, i—i don’t need you to pity me for a decision i made. especially because i don’t regret any of it.”
he breathes out quick, almost angry, but you know not at you. before either of you can stop him, he holds your wrist to keep your hand on him, thumbs your pulse on one side. he does this a lot, you think. you wonder if he knows that you can feel his heartbeat, too, through the pads of his fingers. and there’s a moment, among the sounds of your breathing and the creak of the floorboards under his feet, when you think it is all over, that you’ll let him kiss you against your door. earlier today you felt like a coward for denying him, but that self-flagellation has waned. no, it takes a great deal of courage now to press your hand more firmly into him, to not rise onto your toes and suck at the skin under his jaw.
“goodnight, satoru,” you whisper, and shut yourself into your bedroom before you lose your resolve.
the night is cruel to you. it feels very much like sleeping with a black hole in your living room; you cannot ignore the thought of him draped over your sofa, body too long to fit comfortably. even with your eyes closed you can feel him from a room away. 
you toss under the covers, try to at least become entangled enough in your sheets that you cannot rise from your bed to check on him. you hope he’s fallen asleep by now, that you’re the only one left in this apartment awake.
being alone in the dark gives you more time to think, more time to resolve a decision you cannot yet name. you have been so insistent that to become ensnared again by satoru’s pull would be a mistake, let him leave you at the windowsill, stiff armed him at your door. you wonder whether any of it matters in light of the fact that you are utterly in love with him. of how much consequence could the physical distinction be now? in truth, you can’t tell whether you are freeing yourself from an obsolete stipulation or looking for any reason to abandon it.
in the blue midnight streaking through your curtains you can admit to yourself that a part of you, the fleshy part that wants for things, is simply too afraid that you need satoru more than he needs you, and to reconcile that is a task too treacherous to ask of yourself. what of the moment when, slick with sweat and the smell of sex, you move to kiss him again and he turns away? it’s all hypothetical, of course, but still it plagues you like a memory. and you suppose you have no reason to fear it at all; he has made clear enough that he wants you. 
it almost feels ridiculous to pine so excruciatingly over the father of your child. you’ve already done all of this before, no less as a teenager, and somehow now, a self-actualized adult, you hesitate and turn your knees in. you flip onto your other side with a huff. you’re only in a tanktop and shorts but you feel like you’re suffocating, or worse: something from inside of you is threatening to come loose.
you wonder whether he’s waiting for you in your living room. what a horrific thing to wonder. 
you creak open your door slowly and pad out.
it looks like satoru has given up on sleeping already. he’s sat upright, head tipped over the back of the couch and legs spread, an arm hanging over his eyes. you know he can hear you—you think he might have heard the moment you decided to come out—but he waits for you to address him.
“satoru,” you whisper. at last, he lifts his head, eyes sleepy but undeniably pleased to see you. he pats the spot next to him on the couch as he assesses your mild state of undress and you settle there, facing him. “i can’t sleep.”
he shakes his head. “i can’t either.” though he doesn’t look all that displeased, certainly not as he bends over to collect your legs and drape them over his lap. you let him. you let him drag one enormous hand up your bare leg, too, and he stops just below the knee but still you watch as goosebumps follow his fingers. your body is traitorous but you can’t find it in you to mind.
“when did we get so weird, huh?” he asks you.
“how do you mean?” “sometimes it feels like it used to feel,” he thinks about how you may take that a moment longer, “when we used to be friends.” you nod slowly. “sometimes it feels like i don’t know you at all.” 
honesty looks so pretty on his face. his eyes are slightly narrowed but they’re no less auroral, his lips slightly swollen on the bottom as he bites them between breaths. he points at your nose. “and sometimes, you make that face at me, and i—fuck i mean what am i supposed to do with that?”
you scrunch your nose. “what face am i making?”
“i mean you look—jesus, i don’t know.” he runs a hand through his hair, mussing it further, before continuing, “i just wish you wouldn’t keep thinking in your head.”
you can’t help but laugh softly, bumping your foot into his stomach. “where else am i supposed to think?”
he flails at the sound of your giggle but his lips turn up. “i don’t know! i just spend so much more time now wondering what’s going on in your head. i want to know.” and then, to devastate you further, you imagine, he adds: “you used to tell me.”
you slide a little further into the couch, lay more of your legs’ weight on his lap. he lets his hands drift up to your kneecaps now. “okay, satoru,” you relent. “what do you want to know?”
“you’ll tell me anything?”
“i suppose that’s what i’m offering, yeah.”
he grins. “okay…” he taps his finger on his chin and you snort. “are you still afraid of me being in takara’s life?”
“a little. i’m afraid for both of you. but he…he loves you now, i think. ultimately i’m glad he can know you.”
“what about in your life?”
“what about it?”
“are you glad i’m in your life again?”
you smile, wry. “i think so. even though you torment me and make me spill my secrets.”
he puffs his chest and tugs your legs further into him. you’re almost in his lap, a few inches from it, but whether you notice is a question he decides not to ask. “do you still trust me the way you used to?”
“yes.” you do.
“do you still like me as much?”
“in what way?”
“all of them.”
“you’re greedy,” you whisper.
something punches from satoru’s lungs but you cannot discern what comes out. he says only: “yes, i am. answer me.” 
with a defeated breath you shrug. “yes.” 
his hands have both stalled on your knees, each thumb an omen breaching the threshold of your thigh. your skin twitches, you think, but you can’t look away from his face. he looks like he’s released one foot over the edge of some decision, you can see one teetering moment in the air, and then the resolve sets in.
“do you know how much i still want you?”
your heart kicks. “no,” you confess.
his hands remember themselves again, gripping up your legs higher, higher, now with purpose as they swing around his hips and move you to his lap. straddling him you can feel how hard he is already and you’re certain he can feel your wetness through your shorts, the slick is humiliating and so much. you whine a little and it comes out through your nose. his cock twitches.
“not today in my office?” his right hand cups the back of your neck. “not an hour ago?” your chest rises and falls, stumbling over itself. “you don’t know?”
and you have no faith in your voice now so you only shake your head as much as his hold will allow. he presses his hips into you just once, a fleeting indulgence you’re unsure if he even intended, but you whine again and it looks like it hurts him. 
“let me show you, baby,” he coos, but it’s desperate, too, a prayer into your lips as he brushes his nose against yours. “just one more time.”
you haven’t even finished nodding before you’re kissing him, both of you groaning into the other at the sheer relief of the feeling, his hands grabbing for anything he can reach: around your back, your tit, the globes of your ass to grind you down against him. the fabric of your shorts catches on your clit as it swells and you moan something awful in the back of your throat.
he kisses you like all six years apart demand it, like he can feel how long it’s been in the truest sense, like all at once the wanting has frayed his nerves and your lips cauterize the veins. he bites your lip to make you gasp, taking the opportunity to lick into your mouth as it opens.
you grind your clit onto him again, rubbing little circles on his tip through your clothes and he pants with the pressure. 
“satoru,” you whine, and he ruts up, harder.
“oh, say my name like that again,” he pleads, lips trailing down from your lips to your neck. his tongue streaks hot against your skin, sucking and biting and grinding you onto him like his cock is inside you already.
“satoru,” you repeat, and it comes out clearer without his tongue on yours but just barely. 
“fuck.” he rips your tank top off before attaching to you again, leaving hickies in the hollow of your throat, down over each breast, before taking a nipple into his mouth and laving his tongue there.
your moans almost come out like hums, all strung together, and he preens at the sound of them. you can feel the damp spot on his pants growing as you spread your slick, each wet kiss on your chest demanding a new wave from you. 
“i don’t even need to prep you, do i? you’re already so f–fucking wet,” and he punctuates it with a gyration of his hips that would have made you scream had he not clamped a palm over your mouth. 
you’re almost deaf with the rushing sound of blood in your ears but still you crane to hear him, each filthy utterance a precious thing you covet as he ruts up into you. if you were in your right mind you might find it funny that the experience of dry humping him feels so profound but as it is you can think only of the feeling of his veins through two layers of fabric.
despite how he may have goaded at you he brings one hand down your navel and under your shorts, feeling through your folds and spreading the honey of you further. your mouth is fully dropped open but his hand is large enough to cover it.
“oh, baby—yeah, that’s it, grind on it—you’re dripping for me.” he says it in that pleased way that makes him sound like an animal. you roll your hips onto the pads of his fingers and pleasure shoots up your spine at the rub of them on your clit, around your entrance. he circles his middle finger once before sinking it in and you keen. he holds you still with his other arm, nose pressed to your ear now as he whispers in it.
“f—fuck this pussy is so fucking tight.”
your hole flutters and sucks his digit in and he revels in the grip as he fucks you on it slowly. you try to bounce yourself faster but he squeezes your middle again, bites your pulse as it bumps in your neck. he murmurs there: “let it last,” using his hold to swivel your hips on his hand. your nails grip to his shoulders, surely making marks through his shirt but he lets you, frenetic and buzzing like he gains as much from touching you as you do.
the heel of his palm presses up onto your nub and you bow into him further, and he takes the movement to press another finger alongside the first. something searing and hungry licks up your spine, you’re close already, but there’s no indignity in it. you tug on his hair to bring his face to yours again, pulling back from the hand clamped over your mouth to lick behind his teeth, moaning into his mouth. “cum for me baby, come on,” he encourages.
your eyes squeeze shut as you come undone, heat spasming around his fingers as you soak him to the wrist. “fuck, f–fuck, that’s it,” he curses, mainly to himself, you think. you’re only half-lucid as you come down but you feel him pull his fingers from you and lick them clean, groaning softly around them.
“fuck me, satoru, please.”
his hair doesn’t move as he nods, stuck now to his forehead damp with sweat. neither of you have the patience to remove anything else, simply tugging your shorts to the side and his cock from his pants before you’re dripping right over it. his tip catches on your entrance and you both go half-boneless with the feeling.
when you sink onto him you feel a little like you did in his office earlier in the day. like time has stopped, or maybe like it has all arrived at your fingertips, like you’re everywhere. you remember this feeling, a little bit, but it’s also undeniably new. the stretch burns but you hardly feel it, taking no time before sitting on him to the hilt. your head drops to his shoulder, little pants into his neck, and he lets out a shaky breath.
“fuck you’re so fucking tight, baby, this pussy was made for me,” he chokes into your ear. you each have a handful of the other between your fingers, the lines of your palms tattooing him even through his uniform he still has mostly on. you hope his brand you the same.
all it takes is one, slow pull of your hips before he’s rutting up into you again, not so much ruthless as intense, deep and pregnant with meaning and so precise you wonder whether he’s using his six eyes to assess the inside of you. with one hand he holds your face to his ear to consume your moaning that way. you whine and when he shudders, bucking harder, you whine again.
“o–oh, these sounds are mine, this pussy is mine,” he stutters. the squelch of your cunt sucking him in seems to only encourage him, and you make yourself wetter just hearing it.
“it’s so good, satoru,” you whine.
he laughs softly, manic, “yeah?”
and you only wail quietly again. with each snap of his hips you thrust yourself down, clit throbbing and catching on the little white scratch of his pubic hair, and his other hand, still handled on the plush of your ass, rubs you harder as you move. you vaguely hear your little ah! ah! ah! but mostly you can feel the pleasure building again, can feel the vein down the underside of his cock as you wring him harder.
“hah–i won’t–fuck–i won’t last if you keep squeezing me, baby.”
you only feel encouraged, sliding deeper, revelling more in the slip of your slick as it floods out of you.
“ah–-i’m close, i’m close,” you breathe.
“fuck yeah, i wanna feel you cum on my cock, let go for me.”
and you do. have you ever really denied him? your mouth drops open in a silent scream as your hips buck wildly, the pleasure seizing you from the inside out. satoru moans feeling you ride your high, panting into your ear, “tell me to pull out.”
you shake your head, little smile creeping over your face as he fucks you through your high. “isn’t the damage already done?” you ask breathlessly.
and he can only laugh for a second before his hips stutter and still, pulling you into him like he wants to crawl inside of you and live in your stomach
“fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.”
his cum is so hot as it fills you, and so much, your own orgasm jolting you again, exulting in the feeling. 
he drops his forehead to your shoulder now, sweat of your collarbone meeting the beads on his hairline. the sounds of your breathing mix, too; your cum and your hands and your warmth, all of it intertwined with his, maybe forever. he kisses you one more time, sated now, along a hickey he’d left on your neck before. you return one to the corner of his mouth.
he doesn’t say anything when he sits up straight again, supporting the wings of your shoulders with his hands. there is only that look on his face, a cousin to the one you saw the first day he found you and takara, but so recognizably relieved this time: everything is different now.
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lambiconic · 2 days ago
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simon's finally got that date with the barista
if you havent, can i interest you in reading the first six: simon , gaz , johnny , price , the aftermath , the confrontation
(18+ you being angry at simon gets him the tiniest bit excited)
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After cleaning up the coffee beans you’d spilled on the floor in anger, you finally felt calm enough to try to talk things out with the four men.
Unfortunately, while you’d been crashing out in the back room they had leaving behind just a test message:
“This is Simon. Talk later.”
Despite your previous anger you couldn’t help but smile, its really cute that he somehow texts exactly how he speaks. 
The men spent the better part of a week debating (honestly arguing) over how to even bring up the idea of… sharing you.
Though.. the longer they talked about it, the worse it sounded. Not because they didn’t want you. God, they did. So badly. 
But, well, asking the same woman they’d all but cornered in her place of work and interrogated like you’d been married for 20 years with 3 children if she’d be open to dating all of them?
“Feels a bit... predatory, yeah?” Price had said at one point, frowning as he paced with uncharacteristic nervousness. 
“We already ganged up on her once,” Gaz muttered. “Now we’re coming back to say ‘erm actually we’d like to take turns, thanks’? Bit dodgy.”
“We could ease her into it!” Johnny proposed, “One date each. Give her time to realize we’re all *cough* mostly me *cough* amazing.”
 “So your plan is emotional whiplash in four acts??”
Simon, of course, offered nothing besides something about how if you laughed them out of that café, not a single word would leave his lips for weeks on end. Still, none of them backed down.
They just had to figure out how to say “Would you consider going out with all of us?” without sounding like a cult.
Easy. Right?
They came to the conclusion that Johnny was right, they needed to take you out. Try to woo you! Hopefully, that would make up for their ambush as well.
But who would go first? 
Johnny concluded that because he was the only one who had actually asked you out on a date, he should be first!
But, no no, Price should go first! He was the most mature! You need a sexy, mature, older man to lead you into this.
Gaz didn’t care, he was convinced you’d fall for him the fastest no matter where he stood in line.
And Simon— wait where the hell is Simon?
Simon wasted no time slipping out of the room. He had somewhere to be. 
And, like clockwork, Simon showed up at noon on Tuesday. He didn’t say much, just leaned against the counter like always, watching you work in silence. But this time, you were silent too.
Not the calm, flirty kind that matched his silent he was used to. No. You were giving him the silent treatment.
And he definitely deserved it. And he kind of liked it.
Your narrowed eyes. The dramatic scoff when he handed you a full $50 bill for a tip instead of his usual $10. The way you didn’t even try to mask your irritation with your usual sweet smile.
It wasn’t your customer service charm… it was all you, properly pissed off.
And strangely? That made him feel closer to you. At least this meant he still mattered enough to you to be met with something real. 
And there was something about that slight look of disgust in your eyes that had heat pooling low in his stomach and him forced to drop a hand to his crotch in hopes no one could see his growing… problem.
“Can I…” he started quietly, just as you slid the cup across the counter. 
Unfortunately for him, you turned right back around. He cleared his throat, his eyes locked on your back. “Y/N..?”
You didn’t stop what you were doing., offering a dry little ‘hm?”
He swallowed hard. “Can I… can I take you out?”
There was a pause. Then, slowly, you glared at him over your shoulder. “Pardon?”
He blinked. Panic hit (and there was that warm feeling in his groin again). Then, like it was rehearsed, he reached behind his back and held something out.
A wildflower. Well, a weed. Obviously tugged from the sidewalk out front, roots still dirty. But somehow, in his trembling hands, it looked about as pretty as the large bouquets Johnny kept offering you.
“I’m sorry,” he said softly.
His voice was tight, and you noticed now how his fingers were shaking. Like he was expecting you to laugh in his face. “I… we can do whatever you’d like. If you’ll give me a chance.”
The weed was already wilting in his hand but he kept it cradled in his palm like it was worth his weight in gold. 
His head stayed bowed, jaw clenched, and the other hand curled into a fist behind his back, nails digging into his palm to keep from shaking.
After what felt like an eternity he saw your hand reaching out and carefully taking the small flower from his palm. “When are you free?”
His head shot up, eyes wide as they locked with yours. “I–I’ll have to check! I can text you. Just… I will text you.”
He continued to ramble, promising again and again that you'd hear from him as he stumbled backwards toward the door, his now-cold coffee clutched in hand.
He’d done it. He asked you out. He’s going on a date. With you.
Outside, he let out a breathless laugh and gave himself a small, victorious pat on the back, his thumb brushing over his name on the cup. His small personal treasure. A symbol of this joyous moment.
But then he paused.
Squinted.
“She spelled my name wrong..”
You may have an attitude problem.
Simon was a pretty blunt texter, you’d learned. He also started every single text message by stating it was him.
‘This is Simon. Would you like to go for dinner?’
‘This is Simon. I’ll send a list of restaurants. Pick what interests you.’
‘This is Simon. Don’t look at any prices. Leave your wallet at home.’
‘This is Simon. Eight sound good?’
‘This is Simon. Leaving out now. Excited to see you. Leave your wallet at home.’
‘This is Simon. At the entrance.’
You watched him for a couple seconds from your car, partially to feel out the situation and partially because you drove over in flip flops and needed to switch to heels.
Simon looked.. Nervous. A side of him you’d seen a lot of in the past few weeks but now it was at an all time high. It was like he didn’t know where to put his hands.
He tugged at his collar, checked his watch, ran his fingers through his slicked back blonde locks over and over. 
He seemed to perk up like a dog as he saw you approach, his jaw slack and his hands now suddenly folded in front of him. “Y/N.. you look—you look…you are—”
“Hi..” You interrupt as you come to a stop in front of him, “Were you out here long?”
“No! He said, quickly offering you a hand. “Been here for two minutes at the most..” 
He opened the door for you, his hand on the small of your back. “You’ll like it here..”
Once seated, Simon stared at the menu blankly, sneaking glances at you every few seconds.
“You good?” you asked, raising your eyes from your own menu. 
“Yeah.” He nodded, setting the menu down. “Just… tryin’ to figure out how to talk to you. I really like you. We all do.”
“We..?” You repeat, non committedly as you run your finger over the menu.
“Yknow.. Johnny, Gaz–suppose you call him Kyle, and uhh Price–John..” He stutters out. “We all really like you.”
You didn’t look up right away. Instead, you let the silence stretch just long enough for Simon to start shifting in his seat. His fingers tapped nervously against the edge of the table, like he was bracing for you to stand and walk out. He always seems prepared for the worst around you.
Finally, you looked up from menu. “You all talk about this together?”
He nodded slowly. “Not at first, per our.. ambush. But… yeah. Eventually. It wasn’t exactly avoidable.”
You let out a quiet breath, straightening in your chair. “So what is this, then? A group interview?”
He snorted, caught off guard, and the tension in his shoulders eased. “More like… an application process.”
“And you’re the first brave soul to show up?”
“Might not be the brave one. Might just be the most desperate.”
You raised an eyebrow. “That supposed to impress me?”
“No,” he said quickly, shaking his head. “But I was hoping this would.”
He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out something small, setting it gently in front of you on the table.
A little wildflower. This one wasn’t wilted. Still clumsy, still a little dirt clinging to the roots, but fresher. Something he clearly went out and searched for.
You stared at it for a moment before your lips stretched out into a grin so wide your cheeks started to hurt. “Oh.. you are ridiculous.”
He smiled. “Yeah. But you haven’t told me no.”
You reached out, taking the flower. “…What night are the others taking me out?”
Simon grinned. “I’ll let ‘em know you asked.”
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delilahsturniolo · 3 days ago
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— 𝜗ৎ wildflower . . . c.s
in which . . . you see your ex boyfriend chris and his new girlfriend, your ex best friend at a party and confront them.
warnings . . . mentions of alcohol and being drunk, unresolved angst, slight panic attack, chris is kinda mean at first.
written by @delilahsturniolo. do not copy, steal, or modify my works. if you are taking any inspiration from this, please ask me first before posting and credit me in your description. happy reading! :)
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT WRITING MARATHON . . . fic #5
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the music is too loud. the lights are too bright. and he’s standing too close. you weren’t even supposed to come tonight. but your friends begged, said it would be fun, said you needed to get out. said he probably won’t even be there.
liars. he’s across the room when you first notice him, red solo cup in one hand, other lazily resting on her waist. her. your old friend. the one who swore up and down she’d never touch him, who cried with you the night everything fell apart, who told you he didn’t deserve you. she’s wearing a necklace similar to the one he bought you last summer.
you swallow down the ache, grab whatever drink is closest, and pretend to laugh at a joke you don’t hear. your heart is already racing. not from love. from rage. he sees you before you see him walking over. his jaw clenched like it always is when he’s about to start something. the same walk. the same eyes. but not the same boy. “what’re you glaring at me for? like what you see?” he says flatly, voice slurred just a little. you blink. “fuck you.”
“yeah?” he scoffs, tilting his head. “you came here just to start something?”
“no,” you snap. “i came here to forget you exist.” he laughs then, bitter and small. “looks like that’s going great for you.” you hate him. god, you hate how familiar he still feels. how fast he can reach inside you and pull every buried thing to the surface. you bite the inside of your cheek, fists clenched. “does she know?” he frowns. “know what?”
“that you cried when i left?” you whisper, stepping closer. “that you begged me to stay? that you said you didn’t even love her?”
“shut up,” he says, quieter now.
“you told me it was always me,” you breathe. “and now you’re playing house with her like none of it meant anything.” his lips part like he wants to deny it. like he wants to tell the truth. but she’s there. behind him. watching. you turn to her. “you told me i deserved better. now you’re fucking him. so which one of us is the liar?” her mouth opens, but no words come out. she just shakes her head, glances at him, then walks away. she doesn’t even look back. she knew she crossed the line.
you feel it all at once. the betrayal. the heartbreak. the way your throat tightens until breathing feels like a chore. your vision blurs and you’re not sure if it’s the alcohol or the tears or the weight of every word you wish you hadn’t said. you try to walk away too, but your legs aren’t listening. “hey—” chris’s voice cuts through the static. “wait. wait, what’s going on?”
you stumble, lean against the wall, pressing your palms into your eyes. “i can’t—fuck—i can’t do this.” he reaches for you, hands hovering. “stop it, stop. calm down.” you don’t answer. can’t. you’re shaking and everything is too much and he’s too close and not close enough.
he doesn’t ask again. he just moves. arms around you. steady and warm and infuriatingly safe. he holds you like he used to, like you’re something breakable. like he’s afraid you already are. “c’mon,” he murmurs, voice low near your ear. “i’m taking you home.”
you try to protest, but it’s useless. he’s already guiding you through the crowd, shielding you from the stares, leaving his girlfriend behind. the cold air outside hits like a slap, but it’s easier to breathe out here. you sit in the passenger seat of his car, knees to your chest, while he drives in silence.
“you okay?” he asks after a while.
you turn your head, eyes red, voice hollow. “do i look okay?”
he nods like he deserves that. “i’m sorry.” you stare out the window. “for what?” he hesitates. “everything.” you laugh, but it’s not happy. it’s empty. “too late for that.” the car pulls up in front of your place. you unbuckle, about to get out, but he grabs your wrist gently.
“i miss you,” he whispers. “even now.” you hate him for saying that. you hate him for meaning it. because you still feel it too. even after everything. even after he ruined you. but you don’t say anything. you just get out and shut the door behind you, letting the silence swallow the things you’re too tired to scream. and he stays there, in the car. watching.
waiting.
too late.
too much.
too far gone.
like a wildflower trying to bloom in the wrong season.
© delilahsturniolo
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stillalivebydemand893 · 2 days ago
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Mosh Pits & Real Bruises
18+(can't keep it pg13 even if i tried)
A chaotic weekend at Riot Fest becomes a battle of unresolved tension when you’re forced to share a tent with Erik
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The moment you stepped out of Julia’s Jeep and into the chaos of Riot Fest, you knew this weekend was going to end in either sex, arson, or both.
Mud. Music. Mayhem.
And him.
Erik. Fucking. Campbell.
Shirtless. Covered in tattoos. Sunglasses on despite the fact it was cloudy as shit. Holding a six-pack of root beer like it was the Holy Grail and he was the sin-soaked Indiana Jones of your nightmares.
You froze. Eyeliner? Shaking.
“JULIA,” you hissed.
“What?” she replied, with the stone-cold cool of someone who definitely knew what she did. She popped her gum like a villain. “I thought you’d be happy. I put you in the same tent. Save on space. And, y’know…”
She raised an eyebrow.
“The friction.”
You blinked. “I’m going to end you.”
“Don’t dry hump too hard,” she added cheerfully, grabbing her duffel. “The zippers can’t handle that kind of tension. Trust me. I speak from deeply unfortunate experience.”
You spun on her, ready to either scream or cry or crawl into a garbage can.
“You what?! Jules, are you serious?Im going to faint, I need three packs of Marlboros and a gallon of tequila right fucking now.”
“It’ll be fine,” she shrugged. “What’s the worst that could happen?”
Cue Erik walking up like he heard from God Himself.
“Peach,” he said, dragging the nickname out like a goddamn love song dipped in sarcasm. “Nice to see your eyeliner survived the car ride. Did you use paint thinner this time?”
“You’re one joke away from getting buried alive in a port-a-potty, Campbell.”
Still, you hugged him.. The worst part? He felt good. Warm. Familiar. Like the disaster you never quite outgrew.
This was the guy who made you fall in love with KISS when he showed you Detroit Rock City on DVD ages ago. He used to made fun of you every time you sobbed at the end like a widow.
“THEY MADE UP, ERIK. AT THE CONCERT. IT’S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL,” you’d wailed once, sobbing into his shirt.
He just laughed. “Get a grip, Jesus. You’re leaking.”
Now, standing here, shirtless and smug, he was the same annoying bastard. But hotter. More dangerous.
“By the way,” he added, casually, “don’t spray that crime-against-noses perfume inside the tent again. I swear I sneezed for five hours straight last year.”
You flipped him off. “I’ll just fart instead.”
He nearly tripped over the tent trying to chase you down.
And just like that, war was declared.
By 4 PM your Docs were murdering your feet, you were on your third vodka Red Bull, and Erik had already managed to:
• Flirt with both bartenders.
• Arm wrestle a guy in a fishnet bodysuit.
• Steal a joint from a group of hippies and pretend he “found it on the ground.”
And somehow still have enough energy to piss you off every 15 minutes.
You were mid-rant about your boots when Julia dropped a bomb from her festival chair like she was narrating a true crime documentary.
“So... tiny thing. Your ex is here.”
You stopped chewing your fry.
“WHAT?Don’t joke with things like that Jules!I almost choked.”
“Brad. Cargo shorts. Tank top. Emotional damage.”
You blinked. Hard. Calculating whether stabbing him with a corn dog stick was legally considered assault or performance art.
Erik plopped down beside you. “Why do you look like you’re planning a crime?”
“Her ex is here,” Julia replied, sipping a neon drink .
“Fucking Brad? Is he still pretending to care about climate change to get laid?”
“Worse,” Julia said. “He’s with that TikTok blonde. Looks like she filters her soul.”
You stood, rage bubbling. “Nope. I’m leaving. Give me the keys. I’ll walk to the next state.”
Julia grabbed your wrist. “No. Screw him. Let’s get drunk. Start a pit. Snap a few bones for fun!”
Then Erik stood too, voice low, smirk deadly.
“Or…”
You raised an eyebrow. “Or?”
He leaned in. “We pretend we’re together. You sit on my lap. We kiss. He combusts. I win. You win. Everyone else loses.”
“Why would you enjoy it?”
“I’ve been dying to shut you up with my mouth since sophomore year.”
Your brain said no. Your body? Already glitching.
Your knees? Compromised.
You glared. “That’s evil.”
He grinned, stepping closer. “And hot.”
You took a breath. “Fine. But if you do anything weird, I will kill you with a glow stick.”
He leaned into your ear, voice pure sin.
“Peach, I invented weird.”
Ten Minutes Later
You were in Erik’s lap.
His arms wrapped around your waist.
His hand? Under your skirt, just resting on your thigh. Just enough to drive you crazy without doing anything explicitly illegal.
“This is… disturbingly comfy,” you admitted.
“You’re welcome. I make a great emo couch.”
“You’re also warm. I might keep you.”
He tensed. Just barely. Then squeezed your hip.
“Careful, sweetheart. I might not let you go.”
Your heart betrayed you.
Then- here came Brad. Like a walking red flag and discount cologne.
He looked over.
You smiled.
Erik leaned in, lips brushing your neck.
“Smile for the cheaters,” he whispered.
You ground down just enough to make him hiss.
“You’re playing with fire, Peach.”
You looked back, eyes glowing with mischief.
“Then burn with me.”
Suddenly: “FOO FIGHTERS, BABY! LET’S FUCKING GOOOOO!” Julia screamed, sprinting toward the stage like her taxes depended on it.
Erik helped you down, and you laced your fingers through his.
Then, without thinking, you grabbed his hand and wrapped it around your waist as you walked.
“What’s this?” he murmured, smirking against your temple.
“Just wanted you to hold me,” you mumbled. Vodka was 80% of your blood. Truths were leaking.
Erik rubbed his jaw like it physically pained him. “Jesus, Peach. You’re drunk. And you’re killing me.”
You giggled. “I am drunk. But don’t die. I want to kiss you before you turn into a ghost.”
His grip on you tightened.
“Peach…”
You turned to him. “Yeah?”
He looked at you like he wanted to kiss you and start a fire at the same time.
“You better mean it. Because if I kiss you… it’s not fake anymore.”
You smiled.
Twenty minutes later, you were tipsy off vodka slushies and Erik’s smug hand on your waist.
The music was thunder. The crowd? Unhinged. You could feel the bass in your spine. Somewhere, someone was vomiting behind a speaker.
Romance was in the air.
You were pressed up against Erik, half-dancing, half-grinding, fully pretending you weren’t imagining what it would be like to climb him like a jungle gym and scream into his mouth.
“Peach,” he warned, voice in your ear, “if you keep looking at me like that, we are not making it to the end of this set.”
“Good,” you purred, letting your hand trail up under his shirt, just slightly. “Then let’s end it early.”
He visibly malfunctioned. You could practically hear the Windows XP shut-down sound in his brain.
“I hate you.”
“You wish.”
Then-
“BRING ME THE HORIZON’S STARTING, LET’S GO DIE IN A PIT!” Julia screamed, launching herself into the crowd like a goddamn Viking.
You whooped, grabbed Erik’s hand, and pulled him in after her.
Big mistake. Huge.
The Mosh Pit
It was a war zone. Sweat. Boots. Elbows. You got hit in the ribs twice, and you loved it. Someone screamed, someone lost a shoe, someone proposed to their girlfriend mid-breakdown. You lived for it.
Until someone shoved you. Hard.
Your boot caught in the mud. Your body lurched. And before you could hit the ground-
Arms. Around you. Tight. Warm. Familiar.
Erik.
He caught you mid-fall, pulling you flush against his chest like you weighed nothing. The look on his face?
Absolute panic + raging murder boner.
“ARE YOU OKAY? WHO THE FUCK SHOVED YOU?”
“I’m fine,” you gasped, but your knees said liar, and your ribs weren’t vibing either.
Erik scanned the pit like he was about to start swinging. “I will punch someone into the sun.”
“Chill, Campbell.”
“No,” he snapped, grabbing your face in both hands, eyes dark. “You do not get to die in my arms because some punk jackass couldn’t handle the circle pit. You’re mine, got it? If anyone’s going to bruise you, it’s gonna be me. Consensually.”
You blinked. Slowly.
“…That was the hottest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
“Fuck it,” he muttered, lifting you bridal-style like it was nothing. “You’re done. We’re going back.”
“Erik, I can walk-”
“You limped. I saw it. Don’t argue. I’m turned on and concerned and that’s a terrible combo.”
By the time you got back to the tent, you were buzzed, bruised, and completely feral.
Erik laid you down gently like you were made of glass, then immediately turned into a one-man emergency team. He yanked his hoodie off, shoved it under your head, grabbed a half-used first aid kit from his bag, and muttered to himself like he was about to perform surgery.
“Where does it hurt?” he asked.
“My soul. Also my ribs.”
He huffed out a laugh and lifted your shirt,carefully. You watched his face go from playful to holy shit as he caught sight of the forming bruise.
His fingers brushed it softly.
His jaw clenched.
“You scared the shit out of me,” he murmured, not looking up. “I thought-fuck. I thought I was gonna lose you.”
“You’d miss me?” you teased, even though your heart was hammering like a war drum.
He finally met your gaze. And this time, there was no joke in his voice.
“Peach. I don’t think I’d recover.”
You swallowed.
The tension exploded like a firework at point blank.
One second you were staring at him.
The next?
Mouths. Colliding.
Tongues. Teeth. Desperation. Heat.
He kissed you like he was mad at you. Like he wanted to ruin you and hold you forever all at once.
You moaned into his mouth, pulling him closer, legs wrapping around his waist instinctively.
He groaned against your lips. “You sure?”
You nodded, whispering: “Just don’t stop.”
That was all he needed.
He tugged your shirt off, eyes devouring every inch like you were a feast and he was starving.
“God, look at you,” he breathed. “All mine. Finally.”
“Less talking,” you panted. “More ruining me.”
He smirked.
“Brat.”
And then he did exactly that.
You were pinned to the floor of the tent, chest rising, breath ragged.
He hovered above you, hair falling into his eyes, skin flushed and glowing from the adrenaline of the pit and from you. His hands were everywhere. Up your thighs, along your waist, gripping, claiming.
“Say it,” he growled against your neck, voice low and wrecked. “Say you want this.”
You gasped, back arching into him as his mouth sucked just below your collarbone, hard enough to bruise.
“I want this.” You swallowed, voice shaking. “I want you.”
That did it.
He crushed his mouth to yours with the kind of heat that short-circuited your brain. Tongues tangled, teeth clashed. His hands slid under your shirt,greedy, like he couldn’t decide what to touch first. The feel of him pressed between your legs had you melting.
You rolled your hips up into him, and he growled.
“God, Peach…” His lips traced fire down your throat. “You’re gonna ruin me.”
“You first,” you breathed, dragging his shirt up and over his head. He helped, then dove right back in, hands skimming your sides like he was memorizing you by feel alone.
You were bare from the waist up in seconds, cool air hitting hot skin, and Erik froze. His eyes roamed every inch of you, jaw clenched like he was holding back a scream.
“You’re not real,” he muttered.
“Then keep touching me until I am.”
He did.
His mouth closed around your nipple and you cried out, fingers fisting in his hair, dragging him closer. His free hand slid between your thighs, over your underwear, pressing just enough to make your legs shake.
He kissed his way up your chest, lips swollen, voice wrecked. “You’re so fucking wet.”
You moaned, hips lifting.
He smirked. “All for me?”
“Only for you.”
And then,he moved his hand.
Slow. Firm. Torturous.
You bit your lip, trying to stay quiet, but he just chuckled darkly.
“Don’t hold back now, baby.” His fingers slipped beneath the waistband of your underwear. “I wanna hear how badly you need me.”
You whimpered, nails dragging down his back as he leaned in, voice dark and delicious in your ear.
“I’ve waited years for this, Peach. I’m not stopping until you forget your name.”
He kissed you again, slower this time. Deeper. The kind of kiss that made your body melt, made your legs fall open, made you want to cry.
Your bodies ground together in a rhythm that felt filthy and perfect, a desperate.
Clothes disappeared. Hands roamed. Skin on skin, breathless and begging.
“Please,” you whispered, voice breaking. “Erik, please-”
He pulled back, eyes black with want.
“Anything you want,” he said, voice hoarse. “I’m yours.”
“I’m never letting you into a mosh pit again,” he growled, dragging his fingers down your thigh where a scrape still stung.
“I’m never wearing a bra again.”
He blinked.“God bless.”
You smirked and pressed into his hand like the brat you were,already warm, already soaked from adrenaline and the way his voice rasped when he was pissed and turned on at the same time.
“Look at you,” he muttered, his voice full of danger. “All needy and whiny. My little brat.”
And then,zip.
Your eyes dropped.
Holy shit.
Pierced. Leaking. Ready to ruin you.
Your lips parted involuntarily.
“Someone’s excited to meet me,” you purred, with innocence while inching closer .
“Count your blessings, sweetheart.” He grinned darkly.
Before you could say anything back, he slid into you in one brutal, perfect thrust,no warning, no mercy. You bit down on a gasp, but he was already there, covering your mouth with his, swallowing every moan like it was his favorite song.
And it was. You could feel it. The way he moved. The way his hands gripped your waist like a lifeline. The way his tongue tangled with yours like it was personal.
“Fuck, Peach,” he groaned against your lips. “You feel like you were made for me.”
One hand found your breasts ,thumb brushing your nipple until your back arched like a string had snapped inside you.
“This tent is too damn small-” he grunted.
You barely got the words out: “Then let me ride you.”
That flipped a switch.
In one slick, filthy motion, he rolled and pulled you onto him, guiding your hips like he was building a symphony from chaos.
You settled over him, breath caught in your throat as his piercing brushed that sweet, unbearable spot deep inside you.
“Please guide me,” you whispered, already shaking.
His eyes were black with hunger as he took your hips in both hands and slammed you down, making you cry out.
“Always, baby. I got you.”
And he did. Every bounce. Every drag. Every time your thighs quivered and your moans turned breathless, he was right there, helping you fall apart and loving every second.
“You’re a fuckin’ angel, Peach,” he said through gritted teeth, voice rumbling against your ribs like thunder. “So pretty, so loud for me-keep goin’, I wanna feel you fall apart.”
You couldn’t think. Couldn’t speak.
You just moved.
Riding that high with his fingers digging in, his mouth back on your throat, his breath hot against your shoulder, whispering filth you didn’t have the brain cells left to process.
Until it hit.
That snap. That white-hot, stars-exploding, everything-blurring release.
You collapsed against him, shaking, babbling something like his name and a curse and maybe a love confession.
And Erik-sweaty, gorgeous, wrecked,wrapped his arms around you like you were made of glass and buried his face in your neck as he followed, cursing against your skin.
Silence.
Then:
“I think I saw God,” you mumbled.
Erik laughed,that deep, post-orgasmic wheeze of a man who knows he did that.
“If God’s in this tent, we’re both going to hell.”
You didn’t care.
You were in his lap. Still full of him. And the world could wait.
Because for once, you didn’t feel broken.
You just felt his.
You woke up to the smell of sweat, sex, and the faint scent of Julia’s anxiety coffee wafting in from outside the tent.
Your legs were jelly. Your throat was wrecked. Your body?
Fully used. Thoroughly destroyed. Proudly ruined.
You shifted slightly and winced.
“Fuck,” you muttered, flopping back onto the sleeping bag like your bones were made of mashed potatoes. “He actually broke me.”
A voice, dangerously smug, purred beside you:
“That’s what happens when you tell me to go crazy, sweetheart.”
You whipped your head toward Erik, who was lying on his side like a smug little slut .Bedhead. Hickey-covered chest. That damn piercing catching the light. Still naked.
And grinning like the devil just gave him a participation trophy .
“I should slap you.”
He reached over and trailed his fingers down your bare stomach. “You did. Repeatedly. Pretty sure you left claw marks on my back too.”
You flushed.
“…You deserved them.”
“You moaned my name like a prayer and then cried after the third—”
“ERIK.”
He smirked. “You started it, Peach.”
You groaned and shoved your face into the hoodie he’d thrown over you sometime during the night. It still smelled like him. Sin. Laundry soap. Regret. Lust. Possibly weed.
Then, the sound that could strike fear into your horny little heart:
“I KNOW YOU’RE AWAKE, SLUTS!”
Julia.
“IF THAT TENT SMELLS LIKE REGRET AND CUM, I’M BURNING IT.”
You choked on your own oxygen.
Erik grinned. “She’s so supportive.”
You shoved his face into a pillow.
Outside, Julia continued:
“I BOUGHT DONUTS AND THREE TYPES OF GATORADE. BUT NO ONE GETS ANY UNTIL I GET DETAILS. AND YES, I’M YELLING. BECAUSE YOU BUTT DIALED ME AGAIN AND I HEARD EVERYTHING.”
You buried yourself deeper in the hoodie. “I’m never showing my face again.”
Erik sat up and stretched,like a cat who just knocked everything off your emotional shelf.
“You sure you’re gonna be able to walk?”
You glared at him. “If I limp, I’m telling everyone you punched me.”
“You screamed my name loud enough, babe. No one’s gonna believe that.”
You threw a boot at his head.
You eventually emerged wearing his hoodie (because yours had mysteriously vanished), his hickeys, and the haunting realization that your knees were still shaking.
Julia handed you a donut and a coffee with a grin.
“You got railed so hard the rats left the campsite out of respect.”
Erik, unbothered and half-dressed, just sipped his Gatorade like a post-sex Olympic gold medalist.
Brad and TikTok Barbie walked past at the worst possible moment.
You locked eyes with your ex.
Erik stood, walked over, and wrapped his arms around your waist from behind like he had every right to. And he did.
“Morning, Brad,” he said cheerfully. “Peach couldn’t walk this morning. I take full responsibility.”
You blinked.
Barbie gasped.
Brad’s jaw clenched so hard it could’ve snapped.
Julia whispered, “Ten outta ten. Emmy-worthy.”
You turned, grabbed Erik by the shirt, and pulled him down for a kiss that was all tongue, bite, and I dare you to look away.
When you pulled back, Erik looked dazed.
“I’m keeping you,” he muttered.
“You better,” you whispered, voice low.
Brad stormed off.
Julia did a backflip emotionally.
And you? You leaned into Erik, bruised and aching and alive in a way you hadn’t felt in years.
“Same tent tonight?” he asked, voice in your ear, already smug again.
You grinned.
“Only if you promise to break me again.”
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checkeredflagggs · 3 days ago
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+1s
Pairing: logan sargeant x reader
summary: When a member of Logan’s team gets married in Vegas, he invites the new wife and her bff to travel with him as his Williams guests. He didn’t know being a +1 would also see him in love
a/n:this took so much longer than I thought it would…oops 🤷🏻‍♀️
a/n2: made up some names for Williams workers — sorry if you’re actually real
a/n3: this is set in 2023 and I switched Austin and Vegas in the racing calendar
a/n4: sorry this was later than I said — the heat was brutal
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user1: Vegas just literally became my favorite track
↳user2: where else are we gonna get content like this??
↳user1: right???
user3: bets on who it is?
↳user4: level mode extreme because most of them were partying together…
↳user5: ok time to put on my crazy hat and deep dive — I need to know which driver was crazy enough to get Vegas married
↳user4: ok but no one said it was a driver? Like they specifically said f1 employee which makes me think it wasn’t a driver
↳user5: ohhhh good point good point
↳user3: ok but i need it to be a driver???
user6: I think it’s gonna be a redbull employee
↳user7: reasoning?
↳user6: they have nothing to worry about
↳user7: I can see it
↳user8: i think it’s gonna be a Ferrari employee
↳user9: plot twist it’s both
↳user10: that would be fucking hilarious
user11: other gossip pages are apparently reporting that Logan was spotted leaving the party early
↳user12: DID LOGAN GET MARRIED?!?
↳user13: I can’t believe wtf is a kilometer is married…
↳user14: tbh not the driver I would have bet on but I can see it
↳user13: same
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user15: 😂😂😂😂
user16: the tweet format to live in infamy
oscarpiastri: really?
↳logansargeant: shouldn’t have been so funny if you didn’t want us to copy you
↳oscarpiastri: 😒😑
user17: oh my god we really thought that Logan got married
↳logansargeant: really appreciate the faith
↳user17: of course!
↳logansargeant: 😑😑
alex_albon: I had faith in you!
↳logansargeant: thank you Alex
↳lilymhe: he didn’t — he was texting me his theories and you were near the top of the list
↳logansargeant: 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
↳user18: oh my god this is the best ever
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wendy_travel: honeymoon in Mexico 
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user19: married?!? Girl what
↳user20: oh my god your the girl!
↳user21: what girl?? 
↳user20: the f1gossip page girl! There was a rumor someone in f1 got married in Vegas last week and this is the wife! 
↳user21: oh my god that’s so cute!
jon_pr: paradise with you
↳wendy_travel: always when I’m with you
↳travel_with_yn: cheesy
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travel_with_yn: traveling in style with my trusted companions! The best to travel with, the best to look good, and the best to find my way!
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user22: oh my god you always look so good!
↳travel_with_yn: thanks in large part to my summer fridays berry lip gloss!
logansargeant: glad you could come
↳travel_with_yn: thanks for asking!
↳logansargeant: now that you’ve met some of the grid — do we still have the same vibes?
↳travel_with_yn: You? No. The rest? Mostly
oscarpiastri: it was nice to meet you two
↳travel_with_yn: you too!
↳oscarpiastri: now if you could give me my hat back?
↳travel_with_yn: sorry I need it more
↳logansargeant: trash it — I’ll give you a better one liked by travel_with_yn, oscarpiastri
alex_albon: always nice to meet new fans!
↳travel_with_yn: I don’t know if I’d go that far yet…
↳alex_albon: but you were in my garage all weekend?
↳travel_with_yn: cause I was flirting with Lily?
↳lilymhe: loml 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
user23: best Williams guest!
↳user24: it was so fun seeing you on the big screen!
↳travel_with_yn: they definitely got my good side!
↳user25: impossible for you to have a bad one!
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user26: they look so happy most of the time though…
user27: if you go on YouTube, there’s actual footage of that argument…it’s bad
↳user28: oh my god really?
↳user27: it really is. It goes on for like 20/30 minutes
↳user28: yikes…
user29: girl dump his ass
user30: this is why Vegas weddings never work out
↳user31: really?
↳user32: well spontaneous weddings
user33: i wanna know what rumors are swirling around to get to the gossip page
↳user34: right??? Cause like what’s happening that we can’t see?
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williamsracing: Brazil here we come! And thanks for all the traveling tips y/n!
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user35: and looking good doing it!
user36: I love Brazil
travel_with_yn: you guys certainly know how to treat a girl right, of course I’ll offer some tips
↳williamsracing: anything for one of our favorite guests
↳user37: ok what do I need to do to get this treatment?
↳user38: idk but I’m laughing that it isn’t the wife of one of their pr people that’s getting the red carpet treatment
↳user37: omg I didn’t even notice. I wonder what Wendy is thinking about it…
↳user39: shes probably too busy fighting with her husband to notice
alex_albon: you guys never post me like this
↳travel_with_yn: skill issue
↳alex_albon: I didn’t sign up to be bullied!
↳logansargeant: it’s a service she offers for free
user50: you guys thought we wouldn’t notice! But we did!  
↳user51: ummmm notice what?
↳user50: that Jon and Wendy (the Vegas couple) spent a lot of the weekend arguing with each other
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f1gossip: Logan on a date? The American driver was seen at a local Austin Japanese restaurant — with an empty but occupied seat next to him
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user52: that was supposed to be me!
↳user53: or me…
user54: ok are we thinking date date or friend date?
↳user55: I desperately want it to be a date date because I need relationship Logan…
↳user56: on the other hand I need it to be a friend date so I still have a chance!
user57: ok but conspiracy theory time — I think its gonna be y/n!
↳user58: the travel influencer that’s been at the Williams garage lately?
↳user57: ok hear me out first — we know they’ve been spending a lot of time together recently because of Jon and Wendy (Vegas couple who’s their besties)
↳user57: and I’d imagine they’re getting the front row seat to the implosion of their marriage — and having been there, done that — you get close to people also going through it
↳user57: and if you go back through the pictures and videos of Austin and Brazil — they spend a lot of time together in the background
↳user58: …ok you got me
↳user57: just you wait and see
user59: wtf is a kilometer looks so good here!
↳user60: that’s what I was thinking!!
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williamsracing: Logan points here in Austin!! We repeat — Logan points!
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user61: this is everything I’ve ever wanted
↳user62: OUR AMERICAN DID IT!
oscarpiastri: congratulations man
↳logansargeant: thanks!
user63: LOGAN POINTS LOGAN POINTS!!
alex_albon: show ‘em how it’s done!
↳logansargeant: you know it!
user64: caw caw mofos!!! 🦅🦅
travel_with_yn: it was a genuine pleasure to watch you race today
↳logansargeant: you must be my lucky charm!
↳user57: interesting interesting 📝
user65: WOOHOO!!
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logansargeant: as the season comes to a close, I just want to thank everyone at williamsracing for the amazing chance to drive for you. It was a rocky start but we’ll definitely come back stronger next year! With hopefully less excitement at Vegas 😂
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alex_albon: it was a great time having you as a teammate this year!
↳logansargeant: it was definitely great being teammates!
user66: I’ve only had this American for a season but if something happened to him etc etc
oscarpiastri: first year done, more to come!
↳logansargeant: can’t wait for them!
user67: ok are we all skipping over the last picture or???
↳user68: no no we are not! Logan Sargeant come explain yourself!
↳user57: if I may??
↳user69: you may not!
↳user57: it’s definitely y/n!
travel_with_yn: it was certainly a pleasure traveling with you these last few weeks!
↳logansargeant: excellent
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travel_with_yn: no traveling necessary when I’m with you
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user70: a soft launch?!?
↳user71: not on my bingo card for the year..
↳user70: but I love it!
user57: I’m telling you guys!
↳user72: alright there grandma…
logansargeant: 🩵
↳user73: oh my god!!
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[back with benny][ Vegas here we come][forever with you yn_sargeant]
user74 replied BENNY!!
user75 replied Benny Benny Benny!!
user76 replied what are you and Benny doing together?!?
travel_with_yn replied oh you look so handsome…
↳logansargeant oh I’m blushing ☺️
oscarpiastri replied are you really going to do it?
↳logansargeant yes
↳oscarpiastri crazy man but good luck
alex_albon replied you’re getting married and you didn’t even invite me???
↳logansargeant 😂sorry but it is a bit of a spur of the moment decision — we’ll have an actual ceremony soon
↳alex_albon good! I’d like to see you and yn again
↳logansargeant …she says she’s excited to see Lily again
↳alex_albon 🙄🙄
user77 replied MARRIAGE?!?
jon_pr replied are you sure?
↳logansargeant I’ve never been more sure in my life
↳jon_pr well at least it’s not a drunk one
↳logansargeant 😂
user78 replied Alexa play that should be me
yn_sargeant replied oh my lovely husband — here’s to forever
↳logansargeant thankfully 😊😊
georgerussell63 replied congratulations 🎉
↳logansargeant thanks man! Be on the look out for an invitation — we’ll be having a real ceremony soonish
wendy_travel replied treat her well
↳logansargeant I will
user57 replied I KNEW IT!!
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dairyfaerie · 2 days ago
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Home Invasion
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[‼️Warnings‼️]: Impersonation, Non-consensual touching / Dubcon themes, Pregnancy tension ,Obsessive behavior Stalking / Emotional manipulation, Identity confusion / Multiverse horror, Alternate! Mark Grayson, Psychological + light body horror, Delusional possessiveness, Implied violence & dread
-If any of these themes upset you, skip this one, babes. Don’t say I didn’t warn you-
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The sauce was starting to burn.
You didn’t notice.
Mark had told you to stay inside. Said there was something brewing—big, dangerous, world-ending big. His tone had been different this time. Scared, almost. You hadn't seen him scared since the Viltrumites showed up the first time.
He left with a kiss on your forehead and a trembling, “Wait for me.”
That was three days ago.
So when the knock came—firm, purposeful—you rushed to the door without a second thought.
And there he was.
Or… something like him.
“Mark?”
He nodded once, slow. His suit wasn’t the one he’d worn last. It was yellow and black, sleeker, almost tactical in design. Harsh lines where there used to be curves. It looked like something someone wore to hunt gods.
And the goggles.
Opaque black. No eyes. No reflection. Just your stunned face looking back at you in tiny warped pieces.
“…Where’ve you been?” you asked with a soft smile. “You look like you came out of a war movie.”
He stepped inside without a word, and you took a breath as he passed. His scent was different—same cologne, but… colder. Like he'd been flying through ash and fog for hours.
“I was just cooking,” you said, closing the door behind you. “I made spaghetti. With too much garlic, because apparently I’m trying to kill you slowly.”
Still nothing.
You glanced at him. He was standing in the living room, looking around like it was foreign. Like your home was a museum exhibit he used to live in.
You forced a laugh. “Okay, I know the silence thing is new. Did you lose your voice? What’s with the mysterious vibe?”
“I’m just tired,” he said finally. The voice was close, but a shade deeper. Rougher. Like gravel under honey.
“Yeah. I figured.” You walked over to him and gently reached for his hand. “You want to talk about it?”
He didn’t pull away. His fingers closed around yours slowly, testing the shape of you.
“We’re safe now,” you said softly. “You can rest.”
He nodded again. “Safe.”
Your other hand rested on your belly. “She kicked today.”
At that, his head tilted slightly. Like the word "she" was a code he couldn’t crack.
You smiled. “Hard, too. Like she was mad you were late.”
A pause.
“…She?”
You nodded. “I haven’t gotten it confirmed yet, but it feels like a girl. Deborah. After your mom. What do you think?”
He didn’t answer. His head dipped slightly, the way Mark did when he was overwhelmed. He stepped closer, slow and reverent, until his hands were resting gently on the swell of your belly. You could feel the tension in his arms.
“She’s strong,” he whispered.
“Like her dad.”
A strangled sound left him. Maybe a laugh. Maybe a sob.
You smiled and leaned up, pressing a kiss to his cheek. “You hungry? I think I scorched the sauce but I can salvage it.”
You turned, heading back toward the kitchen, but his hand caught yours and pulled you gently, firmly, back toward him.
His hands slid around your waist. His lips brushed your neck, jaw, cheek. It felt… familiar. Comforting.
Until it wasn’t.
“I missed this,” he murmured. “You. All of you. No one else ever mattered. Just you.”
You smiled softly, cheeks turning a pretty red. “You’re so sweet baby...”
Flustered, you turned away from him and spoke again. “Hungry? I may have burnt the sauce, but I can fix it.”
You turned toward the kitchen, but his hand caught yours. Firm. Insistent.
Mark's arms circled you, pulling you close. You felt his lips, his mouth as it traced your neck, warm and familiar.
You closed your eyes, breathing in the scent, the closeness. Relaxing into the hard, firmness of his muscles underneath his suit.
His hands slid beneath your shirt slowly, fingers pressing softly on your skin as if afraid to hurt you…Then they grew bolder, sliding up to your swollen breasts, kneading them underneath your bra. Your pulse raced as you let out a small whimper of enjoyment.
He bit into your neck then, sucking your flesh and bruising it as he pressed his hips into you, the outline of his cock rubbing between your butt. You moaned softly and he growled into your ear, turning you around and kissing
You responded eagerly, your hands weaving into his hair, savoring the moment. It had been a minute since the two of you had REALLY engaged in anything too intimate.
The world narrowed to heat and touch, your shared movements becoming more urgent, more insistent and intense. Whispered how much you'd missed him those three days he was gone..how much you loved him… Then, slowly, the kisses slowed—became calculated.
His grip tightened—not on your waist, but around your throat. When had he gotten there?
Your eyes snapped open and you let out a chirp of uncomfort and slight confusion as you looked at him. Because Mark would usually ask before trying something new while they were being intimate.
And as the dizzy high faded she began to realize that… something in his kiss felt…off. Like he wasn’t savoring, but studying. Memorizing. "O-Oh Mark..?"
He didn’t lift his head. The black lenses hid his eyes, his lips parted as he panted softly in front you.
His fingers dug in your neck just enough to claim, not kill.
A voice, low and harsh, whispered in your ear, a quiet giggle slipping from swollen lips, “Oh Baby…How gullible you are…You've always been like this..so cute and naive..I guess some things never change”
Your breath caught and you looked up at Mark.
"W-What..?"
“But here? Here you’re weak. Pregnant. Devoted.”
His hold crushed, steady.
“And you’re mine.”
His voice turned cruel, unhinged.
His lips pressed harder against your neck and you mewled, frightened.
"Mark, what's the matter with you? You're s-scaring me! A-And holding me too tight-"
You struggled against him, heart hammering as Mark's crazed smile slowly vanished upon hearing the fear in your voice.
The goggles reflected only your terror.
Then he said it.
“You’ll never leave me again. Not this time.”
You froze.
Your heart stuttered.
“…What?”
His hand tightened on your hip. “You’ll see. It’s better this way. I’ll keep you safe this time. I swear it.”
The voice was wrong now. Not just deeper. Unstable. Cracking under its own weight.
You slowly pulled back, his hands loosening on you.
“Mark,” you whispered. “Take off the goggles.”
He didn’t move.
“Take them off, Mark,” you pleaded, louder this time. "Please.."
Still, he stayed still as stone
You stepped away, slowly, heart pounding so loud it drowned out the bubbling pot behind you. You felt your heart hammer in your chest as something in your mind screamed that this man in front of you was NOT Mark.
“W-Who are you…?.”
“I am yours,” Not-Mark hissed suddenly, the calm, cruel facade fracturing. “ As you are mine. In this universe and the next.”
Your blood ran cold. 'This universe?' What the fuck??
“What—”
“In my dimension,” he cut in, stalking toward you slowly, “you left. Or TRIED to leave. After I did what had to be done. After I made us safe. You said I scared you. Me. After everything I sacrificed for YOU. After I HELPED you when Dad tried to kill you.”
You backed up until your spine hit the counter, your eyes wide with fear.
“I loved you,” he said, the words shaking, voice filled with raw and bitter emotion. “I killed Mom for you. Killed Nolan. Killed everybody. EVERYBODY for US. And after all we'd been through… You said I wasn’t Mark anymore. You said I was sick. Crazy…EVIL.”
You grabbed the knife from the cutting board where you'd been cutting garlic.
“And maybe I was,” he breathed. “ Maybe… B-But I got better. I got better, Baby. Had only killed about 0ne hundred people before Angstrom came and captured me and the other variants. And when Angstrom told me you were alive out here, that your Mark had managed to keep you alive and even MARRIED you? I knew That I could have you…WELL, I almost believed there was some higher being up there… And who would've thought I'd not only find you…But here you are… Pregnant. Alone. Waiting…Just for ME~”
His voice broke into a twisted, malicious grin and giggled gleefully.
The pot beside you began bubbling over, the smell of burnt marinara sauce filling the air. You trembled with anxiety and fear as you brandished and held the knife in front of you. "P-Please…I'm not…I don't know what happened to you…or who I..I was to you in your…ah.. dimension…But I…I'm not yours…M-My Mark is going to come home and if you…if you hurt me…I guarantee-"
You were interrupted by the sound of him giggling again before exploding into full blown maniacal laughter. Like you'd just said the funniest thing in the world. When he finished he sighed and watched as you trembled, one hand holding the kitchen knife and the other holding your belly protectively. So cute…And so dumb.
“ I wouldn't dream of hurting you…Not again…Not when I've been granted a second chance to claim you…No…No…I think I'll be taking you now… Because at the end of it all..You're mine. And you'll ALWAYS be mine. In every universe. No matter what… And Your Mark? He's probably dead by now..The other variants aren't as calm as I am...In fact..If he isn't dead yet..he'll wish he was soon."
You didn't have time to respond, the smell of burnt food filling your nostrils and making you weak. Weak and distracted enough for him to act.
Didn't have time to react as he lunged, a maniacal smirk painted on his face.
You screamed.
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Idk guys...Between college and panic attacks.. I gotta hyperfixate on smth-
Should I do a part 2?
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redwinelewis · 1 day ago
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LIKE A MERCEDES | LH44
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pairing lewis hamilton x chinese!reader
face claim lexie liu
song like a mercedes by lexie liu
summary in which lewis' singer girlfriend is part of the f1 the movie soundtrack
warnings none i think idk
author's note super short one bcs i've been wanting to write a smau with this song and lewis ❤️
english is not my first language. all pictures taken from instagram, pinterest and twitter. credit to owners.
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INSTAGRAM!
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f1 Here's the lineup for F1: The Movie soundtrack with a special track from two more mysterious acts 🏎️ Available June 27.
#F1 #F1TheAlbum
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user TATE????
user user ln4 x t8 agenda continues to spread we love to see it
user DOJA?? ROSÉ???? TATE???????
user who are these people
user the way i only recognize like 2 of these singers
user MADISON BEER OMFG
user wait mysterious acts?
user LEWIS LIKED
user user everyday i manifest for an xnda comeback
user i wonder if lewis produces the soundtrack as well
user user dear god pls
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📍 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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yourinstagram do me, you don’t have to do me properly
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user RARE LEWIS SIGHTING ON Y/N'S POST
user okay freaky
user HIS BACK 🫦
yourinstagram user behave
user y/n feed your children we're starving for a new album
user i love how she brags about her bf
user user i mean it's sir lewis hamilton. i would do the same.
user user real
user third pic is so bf lewis coded
user THE DRESS OMFG
user sir lewis can u fight
flavy.barla that dress 😍😍
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lewishamilton 與你一路飛馳緊握著方向盤
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user ok what is up with the caption
user user a vacation in brazil and he wrote the caption in mandarin he's so random 😭😭
user user i mean his gf is chinese right
user can someone tell me what the caption means the translate button isn't working
user user "Feeling like going on a joyride with you through the night" something like that
user user .... is this a lyric?
yourinstagram not fair!!!! that's my favourite part!!!!
yourinstagram yourinstagram and i told you not to post the fourth pic lew!!!!
lewishamilton yourinstagram You used my favourite part as well. And I love that photo
user yourinstagram lewishamilton HELLO WHAT'S GOING ON??????
user yourinstagram lewishamilton are yall teasing us a new single with those captions? 🤨
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user yourinstagram AHSKSHSHSJSKSH WHAT
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yourinstagram but you already know what i'm about to say 👀 LIKE A MERCEDES, my new single from F1: The Movie soundtrack featuring the one and only xnda is out now 🏎️
i have always admired lewis, on and off track. he is as passionate about music as he is about racing and making this song with him has been such an amazing experience. i hope you all love this song as much as we had fun making it ❤️
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user OH I FUCKING KNEW IT
user FEATURING LEWIS??????
user XNDA IS BACKKKKKK
user is this a dream can somebody pinch me rn
user a new xnda song in the year of our lord 2025
user user "thank you y/n" we all say in unison
user this is everything to me btw
user this song is gonna be the only good thing from that fuck ass film
georgerussell63 Hell yeah! Let's go! 🙌🏻🔥
yourinstagram georgerussell63 thank you george! ❤️
alexandrasaintmleux song of the year ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
yourinstagram alexandrasaintmleux i love you ❤️❤️
tatemcrae a bop
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user KMS POSTPONED
user whoremilton is back
user user we cheer
user i'm still processing the lyrics
user user this feels like "pipe" all over again
user his gf is so lucky 💔
user user thank you
yourinstagram user 🤨🤨
user user my bad queen 🙏🏽
yourinstagram you're so fucking amazing
lewishamilton yourinstagram Right back at ya darling
user lewishamilton DARLING 💗🩷🌷🌸♥️❣️❤️💘💖💝💞💟
user lewishamilton oh to be called darling by lewis hamilton
user this is already the best song from that movie
redwinelewis producing the film about the sport he conquered AND creates a song for its soundtrack.... sir lewis hamilton everybody ✨
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happyk44 · 2 days ago
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[ID: Text reading: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel they brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
2. Text reading: What is evil anyway, a sad soul infected with devils who take his will, or a man thinking of all his mother’s children he loves himself the best?
3. Illustration. Two figures watch a flaming car from a safe distance. One of the figures is completely yellow, like a bright light. The other figure is dark and shadowed beside them.
4. Text reading: The first thing God made is love then comes blood and the thirst for blood
5. Text reading: Two brothers are fighting by the side of the road. Two motorbikes have fallen over on the shoulder, leaking oil into the dirt, while the interlocking brothers grapple and swing. You see them through the backseat window as you and your parents drive past. You are twelve years old. You do not have a brother. You have never experienced anything ferocious or intentional with another person.
6. Text reading: Brother, my brother Oh, now the darkness comes alive It comes for me and I come for you
7. Text reading: This is my brother and I need a shovel to love him.
8. Text reading: [Roman:] You fucking bastard.
Kendall: I love you, man.
Roman: I fucking hate you.
9. Text reading: They are the same and they are not the same. They are the same and they hate each other for it.
10. Painting. Abel lies on the ground, trying to shield himself with one hand while Cain stands over him, one foot on his brother to keep him down, arms raised and ready to swing his club. The colours of the piece are mostly dark and muted, but Abel is coloured much more lightly, as though a beam were shining down against his chest and face. Cain is heavily shadowed, save for part of his face displaying focused intent, the length of his arm as he prepares to kill his brother, and the leg he’s used to keep Abel pinned.
11. Painting. Abel lies splayed out on the ground. Gripping a stick in one hand, Cain leans against a nearby rock and stares at his brother.
12. Text reading: and I killed my brother I had to and only wish I hadn’t washed my hands in the river the water remembers so long
13. Text reading: I really love you, but I can’t fucking stomach you.
14. Text reading: “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
15. Text reading: there is something wrong with you
There is something wrong with you that is also wrong with me
16. Tumblr post from @/vampowers dated July 22nd 2023: sibling relationships are so strange… like I love you. You will never understand me in a way that matters. We are the same person in drastically different ways. We are sewn together. We don’t talk. We are attached at the hip. You wish I was never born. Can I call you. Let’s eat together. I forgive you. Etc
17. Text reading: You ask would I have done it for a husband or a child my answer is no I would not. A husband or a child can be replaced but who can grow me a new brother.
18. Text reading: Your sister haunts you. Your sister was wounded, long before she was killed. Your sister has always been wounded.
19. Text reading: Roman: Why do you love trying to hurt me do you think?
Shiv: It’s something to pass the time I guess?
20. Painting. The version of the painting has been cropped. In the full version, three women, anthromorphised depicts of Courage, Despair and Anxiety, hide behind a large rock observing a battle. What is visible in this cropped version is Anxiety gripping her shawl while Courage holds her wrist. Courage leans away from the other two. Despair sits further behind them in the shadows.
21. Text reading: You who I called brother How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted?
22. Text reading: And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”
23. Text reading: Who kills their own brother? Well, someone who loves him very much.
24. Tiktok comment from corinne reading, “I was so selfish. I was just a kid. I was so mad. I’m so sorry”
25. Text reading: And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I’m glad you stood in my way
26. Text reading: hello, brother, hello? hello in there, brother, can you hear me? it’s a long tunnel to the grave
27. Still from the TV show, Succession. The three Roy siblings - Roman, Kendall, and Siobhan - stand in a room. While they're standing beside on another, there's decent space between the three of them.
28. Text reading: Oh, I could call you names now. List a hundred reasons for why you were awful. But what would that do? Where would it leave me? [highlight] I still loved you. I still have to live with that. [end highlight]
29. Text reading: In the Field, the ground warms as blood seeps into the dirt.
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MY BROTHER / MY KILLER
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The Space He Chose - Jude Bellingham (Part 1)
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It had been almost four weeks since Jude ended it.
Y/N still remembered the exact moment — the way the light had faded behind him as the sun set through the Madrid skyline, the way he’d stood awkwardly in their apartment, hands in his pockets, voice low, like he was reading a pre-rehearsed script.
“I need to focus. On the game. On my career. I can’t give you the time you deserve. I don’t want to keep failing you, Y/N… I think this is the right thing.”
She hadn’t argued. Because what could she say to someone who had already made up his mind?
She’d nodded. Swallowed the lump in her throat. Packed quietly. Left the place that had once felt like home with just a suitcase and the aching echo of goodbye.
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Now, back in Birmingham, Y/N walked through the city streets wrapped in her navy trench coat, scarf snug around her neck, trying to push the chill away — the one in the air and the one inside her chest.
She wasn’t meant to be out long. Just picking up a book from her favorite indie bookstore. A little corner of comfort she used to visit with Jude whenever he was home — before Madrid, before everything changed.
She was halfway to the till when she heard it.
“Y/N?”
She turned, heart immediately skipping.
Denise.
Her soft brown eyes sparkled the same way they always had. Next to her stood Mark, tall and composed as always, and Jobe, taller now but still carrying that mischief in his grin.
Y/N froze, breath caught between surprise and heartache.
Denise’s face lit up. “Oh my God! Look who it is!”
And before Y/N could even think, Denise had wrapped her in a warm, tight hug. The kind of hug that used to feel like home.
Mark smiled warmly. “What a lovely surprise. How’ve you been, love?”
Jobe grinned. “Didn’t expect to see you here. You’re back for a bit?”
Y/N offered a tight, polite smile, her fingers gripping her tote bag just a little harder.
“Just visiting some old places,” she said gently.
“Tell Jude we said hi,” Denise said cheerfully. “And please tell him to finally reply in the family group chat. We’ve been trying to get him to commit to a date for the next family dinner, and all he did was react to our message with a thumbs up emoji!”
Jobe laughed. “Seriously, when you’re with him, just grab his phone and type out a reply for him.”
Y/N’s smile faded slightly. The lump in her throat returned.
She took a breath. Now or never.
“I’m… I’m not with Jude anymore.”
Silence.
Denise’s expression faltered. Her brows lifted, a stunned softness taking over her face. Mark blinked, his hands slipping into his coat pockets. Jobe stopped fiddling with the book he was holding.
“What… what do you mean?” Denise asked softly, almost cautiously.
Y/N swallowed hard, feeling her heart hammer in her chest. “We broke up. About a month ago.”
Jobe looked between them all, utterly confused. “Wait, what? Are you serious?”
Y/N nodded slowly, her voice barely above a whisper. “Yeah. It… wasn’t my choice.”
Denise’s lips parted, eyes glistening. “Oh, sweetheart… what happened?”
Y/N held their gaze for a moment, then looked down at her hands. She didn’t want to cry in this bookstore. Not again. Not in front of them.
“You’ll have to ask Jude,” she said quietly. “He… he said he needed to focus on football. That he didn’t have space for anything else. For me.”
Mark looked away for a moment, jaw tight. Denise’s hand instinctively reached for Y/N’s, squeezing it.
“I didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye to you all,” Y/N said, voice thick with emotion. “You’ve been such a huge part of my life these past few years. And I love you all so much. Truly.”
Her voice cracked.
“I just didn’t expect my last time seeing you to be… like this.”
Denise blinked quickly, as if pushing tears back. “You don’t have to say goodbye, you know. You’re still family to us.”
“I know,” Y/N whispered, offering a sad smile. “But I think… I need to let go. Completely. And I think this is part of that.”
There was a long silence.
“I’m really glad I ran into you today,” she continued. “I wouldn’t have forgiven myself if I hadn’t had the chance to see you. To tell you in person. And to thank you. For everything. For letting me be part of your world. For treating me like one of your own.”
Her eyes welled.
“Please take care of each other. And Jude. Even if he pushes you away a bit — just remind him he’s not alone.”
She leaned in and hugged Denise tightly. Then Mark. Then Jobe.
And then she stepped back.
“Goodbye,” she said, her voice barely a whisper.
And with that, Y/N turned and walked out into the cold grey afternoon, blinking back tears, her heart breaking quietly all over again.
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willy just posted new pics from cannes on his insta and it gave me an idea! can you do willy x reader at some fancy event and the alllll the ladies keep coming up to will, so reader starts to feel really insecure/not enough. but sweet sweet willy is so loyal and so in love with reader and wants to show her that. thanks chica <3333
Those pictures made me go all 😵‍💫
There´s only you – William Nylander
You stood in front of the hotel mirror, adjusting the strap of your dress for the third time in probably as many minutes.
It wasn’t that it didn’t fit, it did, perfectly actually. You had gone shopping a week ago just to find something perfect for tonight.
A sleek, dark navy gown with a slit up the side, elegant but not too showy. Subtle jewelry, hair done up just the way you liked. You looked nice, good, even.
Unfortunately, good didn’t seem like enough for tonight.
Tonight, you were going to a red-carpet charity gala in Toronto on the arm of Leafs winger William Nylander.
You had been dating for a while at this point, but it would be the first time you would accompany him to such an event.
William was adjusting his cufflinks nearby, looking completely at ease in the tailored black tux.
You caught his reflection in the mirror. His blonde hair was slicked back, his jawline sharp and eyes bright. He looked like a movie star.
He was famous after all, but it was more than that. He glowed in places like this.
You felt lucky but at the same time incredibly nervous.
“You ready, älskling?” he asked, smiling at you in the mirror.
“Yeah,” you replied, forcing a smile. “Let´s do this.”
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The venue was stunning. All marble floors, hanging chandeliers and tall windows overlooking the Toronto skyline.
Cameras flashed as you and William stepped out of the car. He held your hand the whole time, even as the mass of reporters shouted his name.
“William! Over here!”
“William, who are you wearing?”
“Is this your girlfriend?”
You clung to his side, eyes darting everywhere.
He leaned down, whispering softly against your ear as he sensed your unease, “You´re doing great.”
The moment you got inside, though, the swam began.
First, it was a group of women, models, maybe, with perfect hair and bright red lips. They recognized him immediately.
“Willy! Oh my God, I didn’t know you would be here tonight!” one of them almost shouted, tossing her hair over her shoulder.
She didn’t even spare you a glance.
Another one giggled, resting a hand on his arm. “I swear you get more handsome every year.”
You laughed politely, stepping a little closer to him. he didn’t move away, but he didn’t say much either, just gave them that soft, easy smile he used in public.
That professional smile you saw him spot many times before.
More women joined throughout the night. Models. Other attendees wives. Influencers. All gorgeous, all confident, all dressed to kill.
And every time they looked straight at William and barely at you. Some didn’t even hide they scanned him from head to toe.
It was starting to bother you, but you didn’t want to be that girlfriend. The clingy, insecure one. So, you smiled, sipped champagne and stayed close but not too close.
But your chest was getting tighter by the minute.
You started comparing.
You dress wasn’t as bold. You shoes weren’t as high. You didn’t have that high-society polish that they all seemed to carry effortlessly.
The way they walked, talked and flirted, it was like they belonged here, and you were just someone tagging along.
At one point, while William was chatting with a group of other Toronto athletes, you stepped away to the restroom.
You needed a break.
Your cheeks were hot, and not from the champagne or the warmth inside the building.
Why did you feel so small? You were the one here with him after all.
You knew William loved you. He told you all the time, but here, tonight, he fit so well in this world of flashing lights and glamorous women.
You couldn’t stop wondering, what if someday he realized he wanted someone more like them?
You swallowed the lump in your throat and pressed your lips together, trying to shake it off. He hadn’t done anything to even give you remotely the impression that he would.
You just needed a second to breathe.
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When you came back out, you saw him standing near the bar. A tall blonde was leaning in close to him, hand resting lightly on his chest as she laughed at something he said.
It punched you in the stomach immediately.
You turned back towards the hallway and ducked outside to the balcony. It was quieter out there, the city lights glittering below.
You leaned against the stone railing and took a deep breath, wrapping your arms around yourself even though it wasn’t that cold tonight.
You didn’t cry, but the tears picked at the corner of your eyes.
You heard the door slide open behind you a few minutes after initially stepping out.
“Hey,” William said softly.
You didn’t turn around right away, the sound of his voice making the tears threaten to fall any second.
“Sorry,” you muttered. “I just needed some air.”
“I noticed,” he said, coming up beside you now. “Are you okay?”
You hesitated for a second. Debating to tell him the truth.
“I´m fine,” you lied instead. “Just a little overwhelmed with it all.”
William watched you for a second after that. “Something is wrong,” he pointed out.
You looked up at him finally and that was when your voice cracked. “I don’t fit in here, Will. I feel like I´m just standing in the background while all these girls throw themselves at you.”
His expression fell instantly. “What?”
“They´re all so confident and glamorous and they look like they belong with someone like you. Meanwhile I´m just me.”
He was quiet for a beat, his brow furrowing. Then he reached out and gently tucked a strand of hair behind your ear.
“Älskling” he mumbled, the Swedish term of endearment sending shivers down your spine. “You´re the only person I see in a room like this.”
You scoffed a little, not because you didn’t want to believe him, but because it felt too good to be true.
“I´m serious,” he said, stepping closer. “You think I care about them or that any of them matter to me?”
You looked down. “I know you don’t mean to make me feel this way, but when they look at you like that, it just…it gets in my head. I start wondering if I´m good enough.”
Williams hand cupped your cheek, tilting your face up. “You are good enough. You´re more than enough and you´re everything to me.”
Your eyes burned.
“They don’t know me,” he said gently. “But you do. You know the dumb stuff I watch when I´m sick, the way I get grumpy when I haven’t eaten. You´ve seen me at my worst and still love me. That means more than some girl laughing at my jokes for five minutes.”
You swallowed hard. “But they´re all so…”
“Älskling,” he interrupted you softly. “I don’t want them. I want you. Always.”
He leaned in and kissed you softly, slow and sure. His hand stayed on your waist, grounding you.
When he pulled back, his forehead rested against yours. “I know I don’t say this nearly enough,” he murmured. “But I love you. Not because you came here with me tonight or because you look amazing in that dress…which you do by the way. But because you´re you and nothing any of them say or do is ever gonna change that.”
You blinked quickly, trying to keep your tears from falling. “Do you really mean that?” you asked quietly.
“I swear on every hair product in the bathroom,” he laughed, and you joined in a second later.
He smiled at the sound. “Are you coming back inside?”
“Yeah,” you nodded slowly.
He took your hand again, and this time, you didn’t feel like you were trailing behind him. You felt like you were right where you belonged.
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Inside, the event was still in full swing, but William didn’t drift back into the crowd.
Instead, he led you to one of the cocktail tables off to the side, ordered you a drink and sat beside you with his arm around your shoulder.
When people came up to him, he smiled, but he didn’t entertain them for long.
When another woman approached with that flirty tone, he didn’t give her the polite brush-off. He simply turned to you and kissed your cheek.
It was a small thing, but in that moment it felt big.
You saw the woman blink, then glance between the two of you before she smiled politely and excused herself.
William leaned into you. “Better?”
You leaned into him, heart full. “Much.”
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Back in your hotel room later that night, everything felt quieter and softer, like the tension of the evening had finally melted away, leaving just you and William, as you were meant to be.
You kicked off your heels the second the door closed, groaning in relief. “My feet are killing me.”
William chuckled and dropped the room key on the table. “You looked incredible, though.”
You gave him a look. “My toes are genuinely numb. I think beauty might actually be pain.”
He laughed in acknowledgement while he was already slipping off his tuxedo jacket and loosening his tie. “Do you need help with the dress?”
You turned around without answering and he unzipped it slowly, carefully, almost sensually.
His fingers brushed the bare skin of your back, lingering just a little longer than necessary.
You didn’t stop him.
Once free, you let the dress fall to the floor and stepped out of it, his glaze roaming over your body until you tugged on the hotel robe.
William toed off his shoes and changed into sweats and a shirt while you whipped off our makeup and tossed your jewelry on the nightstand.
Finally, the two of you ended up on the bed. Him stretched out, you curled into his side with your legs draped over his.
You felt warm, safe and exhausted.
William pulled the blanket over you both, one hand resting on your thigh, the other scrolling through photos on his phone.
“Look at this one,” he said, holding up a picture of you two from the red carpet. “We look hot together.”
“Speak for yourself,” you laughed.
“Babe,” he groaned in disbelief, setting the phone down. “Don’t make me fight you on this again.”
You buried your face in his chest. “I know. I´m sorry. I just… it was a lot tonight. Seeing how people look at you and how those women flock to you. I just felt like I didn’t measure up…”
He shook his head immediately. “You don’t have to measure up to anyone. You´re not in competition.”
You looked up at him. “It´s hard not to feel like I am in those situations.”
Willima stat up straighter, shifting so you were facing each other fully. “Okay. Listen to me,” he started gently. “I love you. Not you on a red carpet or you in a dress. You. The one who is always honest with me and weird and overthinks everything while trying to be chill even when you´re clearly not. I love every part of that.”
Your eyes prickled again, but you smiled.
He tucked a piece of hair behind your ear. “I know I´m used to this stuff. The events and the attention and the cameras, but I don’t care about that stuff. The second you walked away tonight; I couldn’t focus on anything else. I was standing there thinking where you went because I didn’t want to do any of it without you.”
You swallowed and then mumbled. “I didn’t want to make it about me.”
“You are it for me,” he said without hesitation. “You´re the best part of my life. These nights don’t mean anything without you in them.”
You stared at him, overwhelmed in the best way.
He reached for your hand, playing with your fingers as he spoke. “I´m never going to let anyone make you feel like you don’t belong. Especially not in a room I´m in.”
After a short pause he continued before you could interject. “You´re mine and I´m yours. That´s it. That’s the whole story.”
“William,” you breathed, voice tight with emotion.
He leaned in and kissed you. Soft, slow and grounding. The kind of kiss that said “I see you and I choose you. Again, and again.”
When he pulled back, his forehead rested against yours like it had on the balcony earlier in the night.
“You´re the only one I want to come home to. After a shitty practice or a bad game, after a long road trip or just dinner with the guys, for as long as you will have me.”
You blinked fast, but the tears slipped out anyway.
You let out a quiet laugh. “God, I´m a mess tonight.”
He smiled and kissed you again. “You´re my mess.”
You curled tighter into him, heart full in a way that had nothing to do with the champagne or fancy clothes or flashing lights.
It was just him, just the warmth of his body and the quiet of this moment along with the way he looked at you like you were the only thing that mattered in his life.
This time you believed it. Not because he said it, but because you knew he really meant it.
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ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ɪɴᴄʟᴜᴅᴇꜱ: ᴛᴏxɪᴄ ꜰᴀɴ ʙᴇʜᴀᴠɪᴏʀ (ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ), ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ɢᴇᴛꜱ ʙᴜʟʟɪᴇᴅ… ʙᴜᴛ ʜᴇ ᴋɪɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴇꜱᴇʀᴠᴇꜱ ɪᴛ, ᴏʀᴀʟ (ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ʀᴇᴄᴇɪᴠɪɴɢ), ʙʀᴇᴀꜱᴛ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ (ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ʀᴇᴄᴇɪᴠɪɴɢ), ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ɪꜱ ᴏʙꜱᴇꜱꜱᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʙᴀʙʏ ꜱᴀᴊᴀ'ꜱ ᴍᴏᴜᴛʜ, ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ'ꜱ ɴᴇᴡꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏʀᴀʟ ꜰɪxᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ꜱᴡᴇᴀʀɪɴɢ, ᴘᴏꜱꜱɪʙʟᴇ ᴏᴏᴄ
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Huntrix was your favorite girl group of all time. Rumi, Mira, and Zoey were the undefeated champions of your heart. No other group could ever hope to match their skill, their stage presence, or their sheer power.
Their music brought hope even in the darkest of times. Any song you played gave you the strength you needed to achieve your goals.
Without Huntrix, you wouldn't be who you are now.
So when all your friends, friends who you once believed were as unwaveringly loyal to Huntrix as you were, suddenly began fawning over some new boy group they saw perform in the streets, you were shocked, to say the least.
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“How could you do this to me?” You couldn’t bear to even look them in the eyes.
Joo-Won sighed, “[Name], it’s not that big of a deal… It’s just a K-pop group.”
“It’s not just a K-pop group to me!” You got up and slammed your hands on the table, not caring about the people that turned their heads to stare at you. You welcomed it. Everybody should see how… how fickle your friends were! Yeah, that’s right. Fickle is what they are. If they could betray Huntrix—betray you—so easily, then public humiliation is the bare minimum of what they deserved.
Eun-Jin pinched the bridge of her nose, lifting her glasses with the motion. Joo-Won slapped your hand. “Calm down, [Name]! We’re in a KFC for god’s sake.”
You whipped your head back and forth, “No! Not until you apologize, and… a-and you have to give me your Mira photo cards too!”
“What are you? A little kid?” Joo-Won’s face contorted in a way that made him look like he was between laughing or yelling at the same volume you were. If you weren’t angry at him, you’d make fun of him for it.
“This is why we don’t tell you we like other groups more,” Eun-Jin sighed, her sharp eyes narrowing into a frigid glare.
Joo-Won slapped her hand this time, “Eun-Jin! We promised we wouldn’t tell [Name] that.”
“Don’t tell me you’re not tired of it either, Joo-Won,” Eun-Jin shot back. Joo-Won grumbled under his breath but didn’t deny it.
Your anger simmered down to confusion. “What are you two talking about?”
“[Name], you’re pretty fucking annoying.”
You flinched.
Joo-Won slapped her shoulder, harder this time, “Eun-Jin!” He hissed.
Despite the strength of Joo-Won’s slap, which you knew was considerable based off of personal experience, Eun-Jin barely reacted beyond directing her glare to Joo-Won for a brief moment before placing her attention back on you.
“Maybe I should have worded it better…” She inhaled. “[Name], your love of Huntrix is what is pretty fucking annoying.”
“That’s not any better!” Joo-Won protested.
Eun-Jin ignored him. “It would be fine if all you did was show your support for them, like a normal fan would, but if we so much as mention how we like another group’s song, you start ranting about how shit they are compared to Huntrix and call them all sorts of names.”
Your chest begins to ache. “Well, that’s—”
“And even though Joo-Won and I were open to listening to Huntrix when you introduced them to us, you refuse to even give the groups we recommend to you a chance. All you do is glaze Huntrix without considering that other groups can make good music you like too,” Eun-Jin exhaled. “You’re usually fun to be with, but just being near you is unbearable when you start acting like that.”
“Eun-Jin…” Joo-Won gnawed on his lip, his gaze flicking back and forth between the two of you.
She blinked. “Oh. Did I go too far?”
Joo-Won dragged his hand over his face. “I should’ve never gotten into K-pop.”
Your eyes begin to sting, a sign of what’s to come. You rub them with the sleeve of your Huntrix hoodie before Joo-Won and Eun-Jin can notice, but it’s obvious what you’re trying to do.
The rest of the people in the KFC have stopped looking at your table, and the usual noise fills your surroundings once more. Embarrassment warms your face, and you duck your head before they can see the tears.
Eun-Jin tries to hand you a tissue. “[Name], I—”
You recoiled the moment her manicured hand came to view.
“It’s—I’m fine.” The sound of your voice, wet and miserable, indicates you aren’t even remotely fine, but you hope the smile you’re wearing will be enough. “I just remembered that I—I actually have somewhere to be right now. So I’m, I’m going to go now.”
You make quick work of gathering your things. Before Joo-Won and Eun-Jin can say anything else, you’re already walking away.
As you’re about to leave, you hear Joo-Won tell Eun-Jin that she shouldn’t have said anything at all.
“I was only saying what we were both thinking, Joo-Won; it’s not my fault you’re a chicken,” Eun-Jin replied.
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“I can’t believe how well-priced the tickets were!”
“I can’t wait to see Abby’s body up close…”
“You have your light stick, right?”
“I hope I can see Jinu’s neck sweat this time.”
You were actually here. At a… ugh… Saja Boys concert…
You made sure to dress inconspicuously enough that while nobody would be able to remember what you looked like, security wouldn’t think you were there to cause trouble either.
You wouldn't count this as a betrayal to Huntrix.
No way. Not in a million years would you listen to Saja Boys because you liked them.
Jinu could never be as good at leading as Rumi. No matter how he behaved, it was clear to anybody with two eyes that he thought of them more as tools than actual humans.
Abby and Romance could never pull off pink hair like Mira can. They were better off with their hair and eyebrows shaved.
You don’t even think Mystery has a brain. It’s probably why he has such long bangs: to hide how there’s not a single thought behind his eyes.
And Baby? The fact that he’s called Baby said enough. How anybody could take him seriously as a rapper was beyond you.
His entire persona was an exec’s barely disguised fetish. You would pity him if he wasn’t a Saja Boy.
Anyways, you weren’t here for their performance. No, you were here to find proof.
Proof that they were phonies.
That they should be cast to the side like all the other Huntrix wannabes.
Humans were so fickle after all. All you had to do was find something so incriminating that their fans would have no choice but to do a complete 180 and tear them to tiny, irreparable shreds.
You take a good look at the people around you. Pity is the second thing you feel after anger. They’re wasting their hard-earned money on a sinking ship. You click your tongue. They should’ve stanned Huntrix instead.
Oh well. That’s what you’re here for, isn’t it? Your main priority may be Huntrix, but these fans are just as important. The sooner they realize how pathetic the Saja Boys are in comparison, the better.
It won’t be long before the world will go back to the natural order. Huntrix will return to the top, and the Saja Boys will plummet down to irrelevance.
The thought puts a smile on your face.
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It was kind of scary how easy it was to get backstage.
Of course, you were lucky enough to find a member of staff who was on break. But it was worrying how the guy accepted your bribe (a couple hundred bucks) without any hesitation.
Not like you can complain, however. Your black hoodie, cap, and jeans helped you blend in with the rest of the staff, but the lanyard was the most important piece of your disguise.
With it, nobody looked at you twice beyond an insignificant wave.
It’s not long after entering backstage that a woman approaches you, the MANAGER button pinned to her shirt flashing under the dim lights, and shoves a box into your hands and instructs you to put it away in the storage room.
You nod on instinct, her tone similar to how Eun-Jin would order you around during two-player games. You may as well do this while you’re here; it’s not like you were on a strict time limit anyways.
After acquiring some directions from another member of staff, under the excuse that you were a new hire, you were quick to go on your way.
You’re passing through a hallway when, in the corner of your eye, you see two men with pink hair pass by you, walking at a leisurely pace.
The moment you realize who they are, you tear your gaze away, not wishing to draw their suspicion.
The Saja Boys were lions alright.
Lazy, good-for-nothing lions that grew fat on indulgence and expected that their visuals and shallow, generic pop songs would carry them forever.
It’s not long before you find the storage room, and beside it, a door that has a piece of paper taped to it. ‘SAJA BOYS’ is written on it in blocky letters.
It clicks immediately that this was the door to the dressing room. Your lips twist into a smile. Even Lady Luck was a fan of Huntrix.
Opening the door, your guess is confirmed. You’d seen pictures of this room from when Zoey had posted a mirror selfie on Instagram. You recognized the vanity’s mirror as the one she posed in.
Slowly, it sinks in.
Oh.
My.
God.
You were standing in the same room where Huntrix was getting ready for their concert. You… you were breathing the same air they had breathed in! You had to take pictures.
Those chairs are where Huntrix sat for their make-up!
That clothing rack is where Huntrix hung up their costumes!!
That dispenser provided Huntrix with the water they needed to stay hydrated!!!
Huntrix could have slept on that couch for naps!!!!
Huntrix could have used that blanket while napping!!!!! Just like whoever was using it now-
Wait.
Slowly, you approach the lump that’s being covered by the blanket. Your hands are shaking as you reach for the edge of the cloth. Is this a person, or is this just person-shaped?
What if it’s a Saja Boy?
A weight presses down on your chest. You can barely breathe.
You didn’t think one of them would be in here. Will he call security? What if you end up on the news?
HUNTRIX FAN GONE CRAZY: SAJA BOYS VICTIMS OF SASAENGS
You’d be a stain on Huntrix’s reputation. Another reason to stan Saja Boys. Their fans haven’t done this kind of shit. They didn’t need to! You’d be proving their superiority with your desperation. Why couldn't you have just stuck to flaming them online?
You have to leave.
“Shit.” You hope he’s asleep. You pray that he’s asleep.
One step.
Joo-Won and Eun-Jin were right. You're fucking crazy. What were you thinking? You’re no great detective bringing truth to light about an atrocious crime.
Two steps.
You’re just a Huntrix fan! A Huntrix fan that’s crossed the line.
Three steps.
What if you’re the straw that breaks the camel’s back? Your heart squeezes at the thought of them going into an ‘indefinite hiatus’ because of this.
Four steps.
Your hand is on the doorknob. You’re so close. Just open the door, and get the hell out of here. Burn the ID you borrowed. Burn the clothes you were wearing. Maybe even throw yourself into the pile. God knows it’s the least you deserve.
A monotone voice scoffs, “What? You’re giving up already?”
You jump, “Fuck!”
Turning around, your chest tightens.
Jesus H. Christ.
Baby Saja… was that what he was called? He was… He looked better than you expected him to. Especially for somebody that just woke up.
With his sharp eyes, small, slightly upturned nose, and the smug smirk he was currently wearing, he reminded you of a cat. He cocked his head to the side, and that thought strengthened in your mind. Really, he was like a cat with mint blue hair.
He yawned, his right arm reaching for the ceiling as his left pulled it back by the bicep. His right hand’s fingers curled in on themselves, like a cat pawing at the air.
You wanted to pinch his cheeks and his nose till his pale skin turned red.
Was this what they meant by cuteness aggression?
“So,” he drawled, “are you just going to gape at me, or...?”
You cover your mouth. Just how long were you staring?
“I’m sorry—” Wait, this is a Saja Boy. “I mean. No! I’m not sorry. I’ve got a bone to pick with you. Just who do you think you are, stealing Huntrix’s win? You're pretty ballsy for a nugu-”
“Mmh,” Baby Saja waves you off, “and you’re pretty ballsy for somebody that’s not even supposed to be here.”
You falter, “We—well, I—”
“Huntrix is great and all,” Baby Saja pouts, “but don’t you think we deserve a chance to shine too?”
Who the hell decided that this guy could look this adorable? You’d like to speak to the manager, because you don’t think you can do this if he looked this… baby.
“I just think that—uh, that you should, you know... pay respects to your—”
“Shh…” You blink, and suddenly he’s right in front of you, finger pressed to your lips, close enough for you to smell him. “It’s okay. I know what you really want.”
He smells like smoke. Why does he smell like that? Not cigarette smoke… Like… Like a fire.
“I’ll give it to you,” Baby Saja drags his finger down your chin and to your neck before hooking it around your collar, “but you have to give me what I want too, mkay?”
You try to back away, only to end up pressed against the door. “Uh huh… and, uh, what is that, exactly?”
Baby Saja grins; he tugs your collar down, and to your surprise, instead of being pulled along with it, your hoodie is ripped apart. The fabric tearing as Baby Saja continues to move his finger down the middle. Was his nail always that sharp? And… did he always have those patterns on his hand? Was his skin always this… unnaturally pale?
With your hoodie ruined, all that’s left to cover your chest is your shirt—but that too is rendered ineffective when Baby Saja slices it open with a single swipe of a finger.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Baby Saja plants his palm on your bare chest, nails digging into the muscle, right over where your heart is rapidly beating. “Well, not to you, maybe. But there’s only one thing you can give me that I’ll want—”
He pushes you, and instead of only feeling the cold surface of the door, you instead fall back into the leather couch Baby Saja was lying on earlier. Before you can get up, Baby Saja spreads your legs and slots himself in between them.
“So don’t struggle, okay?” Baby Saja giggles, “I’ll make sure you feel good too~”
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Baby Saja devoured your mouth. He dragged his tongue over your gums and teeth, teasing you with how cold it is, before he forced it between your pearly whites and wrapped it around your own tongue. You beat against his chest, trying to push him off of you, but it’s like your mind’s been stuffed in cotton and your limbs are turning to jelly.
You gather the fabric of his sweater in your hands. His eyes, now a molten gold, widen when you pull him closer, but before he can do anything else to you, you bite his tongue. Instead of recoiling, he chuckles into your mouth. The sound reverberating in your head. You taste his blood and moan. Did blood normally taste this good?
As if sensing the thought, Baby Saja pulls away, his tongue still outstretched as if to show off the mark you left on him. All you can focus on is how wet his lips are and how you wish you could feel them on yours once more.
“Soo feisty,” he pecks you on the lips. “I like that. I should give you a reward for that, shouldn’t I?”
You whine when he begins to palm your bulge, “Sto- hnnn, stop that!” You try to bat him away, but he just grabs your hand and drags his tongue from your wrist up to your palm. You realize, as he licks the gaps between your fingers with it, that it is long and serpentine.
You shiver. What would it feel like wrapped around your cock?
Baby Saja’s eyes narrow, a wide smile spreading on his face. “Not now. But maybe later. I wanna play with other parts of you first.”
“Wha— do you mean by—” You yelp when he latches his mouth on your chest. That’s why he tore off your hoodie! This bastard. You’d do something about it if it didn’t feel so… so damn good!
His cold tongue draws circles around your nipple. You attempt to cover your mouth, but it is with unexpected strength that Baby Saja stops you before you can even move your hand towards your face. With his hand wrapped around your wrist, he plants your hand on top of his fluffy locks, eyes issuing a silent command.
A wicked idea enters your mind, and you smirk. You tighten your grip on his hair and jerk him away from your sensitive nipples. Instead of reacting violently, he whines. Voice high-pitched and honey-sweet in tone. It surprises you enough for your grip to soften, and he bites back down on your chest. You hiss and pull his hair, but he only bites down harder. This time, you groan.
“Fuck, you little shit—” You want to hit him so fucking bad. You’ll definitely hit him… just… after you come.
It’s hard to take off your pants while there’s a grown man in between your legs, but you try anyway. Baby Saja slaps your hand away from your belt buckle when you fumble for it, and the silent reprimand in his gaze is enough to stop you.
…He did promise to make you feel good if you made him feel good. Maybe you’ll take him for his word?
You soften your hold on his hair, running your hands through it and appreciating its texture. Baby Saja hums appreciatively, continuing to gnaw on your bud. Slowly, you move your free hand to reach for his zipper. He pauses in his activity, gaze instantly snapping towards it. With your eyes still on him, you unzip his pants and reach in his underwear to pull it out.
His cock, semi-hard, and just the right size for your hand to fit around it without engulfing it. You squeeze it gently, watching as Baby Saja practically melts into you the more you do it. Taking that as a go signal, you start to move your hand up and down. Pumping it at a steady rhythm.
You wish he’d touch your dick. Fuck, you want him to touch it so bad. Make him put that tongue to good use around your cock instead of your chest. He’d love it. More for him to swallow, right? Not like he was going to get any milk from your chest.
“Nngh,” Baby Saja’s brows knit together, his eyes glaze over, and his hips begin to buck into your hand. His lips leave your nipples with a soft, wet pop. “Fa-faster…”
His cheeks are flushed pink, the edges of his hair are sticking to his head with sweat, and his lips are slick with spit. Perfection. Absolute perfection. That’s what he looked like. A fucked-out little angel, and you didn’t even get to put your dick in him yet.
You gulp, “No.”
“Hu-huh?” Baby Saja frowns, gaze turning frigid. “What do you..?”
You dig your thumb into the plump flesh of his lower lip, your cock pulsing when he whimpers, “Suck my cock, Baby.”
Baby Saja gnaws on his lip, his sharp, cat-like eyes somehow rounder, far more fitting for his stage name of ‘Baby Saja.’ God, you just wanted to shove it in there already.
“You want to come?” You sneer, “Then I’ll make you gag so hard on my dick that you’ll have no other choice but to.”
It’s not long before he’s on his knees, caged between your legs, wide eyes staring at your cock. If somebody showed you before and after photos of Baby Saja, you wouldn’t just laugh, you’d fucking guffaw.
Still, you can’t help but feel some fondness for him. It’s hard to mock him or hate him for being a Saja Boy when he looked this cute and fuckable.
You card your hand through his hair, pushing it away from his face. Maybe you should be more concerned about the purple marks on his face, the same marks you saw on his hand earlier, but honestly… who would give a fuck if they were in your shoes?
You chuckle, “Never sucked a cock before? Need me to teach you?”
Baby Saja flinches; he levels you with a glare that would’ve scared you earlier had he not been gorging himself on your chest earlier. “I do not. I can figure it out perfectly well on my own.”
As if to prove himself, he grabs ahold of your dick, sharp nails pressing into the meat with enough force to remind you of what he’s capable of, and drags his tongue from the root to the very tip. His eyes stay on you the entire time.
He takes his time with these little kitten licks, moving at a pace that’s too leisurely for your liking. You grumble under your breath and seize his hair and force him down on your cock till he begins to choke.
“My dick’s not a fucking ice-cream cone Baby,” You click your tongue. “I said suck.”
Baby Saja glares at you from under his eyelashes but doesn’t so much as flip you off. Instead, his eyes seem to flash with a sudden mischief.
He lifts his head till his lips are just around the head of your cock, and when it happens, you hiss appreciatively.
Baby Saja’s tongue circles around your cockhead before plunging into the slit. Instinctively, you grab his head with both your hands and force it back down. He groans again, but you can’t bring yourself to care when it feels so good. His throat is warm and tight, while his tongue is as cold as a damn ice cube, and it makes you so fucking sensitive.
You start bucking into his mouth. Baby Saja’s gagging and choking sounded better than any Baby Saja song you had the misfortune of hearing. His puffed-out cheeks and teary eyes only served to make you harder than you already were.
This was heaven, wasn’t it? You never wanted this to end—
“Fuck!” You howl, snapped out of your reverie by a sudden piercing sensation.
You look to the source of the pain and find that Baby Saja has pierced your legs with the nails on his left hand. You’re about to yell at him, but then you see that his right hand is between his own legs and moving at a pace faster than your eyes can even track.
What you can make out is the pre smeared all over his hand, which flows in thick streams from the head of his cock, which has turned a furious shade of red.
It was clear to anybody with two working eyes that he wanted to come even more than you did.
“You’re so… fucking… cute!” you exclaim as you thrust all the way into Baby Saja’s mouth, fucking his throat like you were going to die if you didn’t come soon. You needed to make him feel good, yeah. Yeah!
Fuck the Saja Boys, and Huntrix too. You didn’t need either of them.
All you needed was Baby Saja’s mouth, his whole damn body, for the rest of your life, and you would make sure that all he’d ever want was your cock. Then neither of you would ever want for anything else.
“Fuck, I’m—” You groan and unload into Baby Saja’s mouth. From the feeling of something wet landing on your pants, you could tell he came too.
You pour your jizz down his throat, and he drinks it in with a fervor he didn’t display even when he was sucking your chest. His throat bobs as he gulps it all down, tears in the corners of his eyes, the twin suns gleaming with what could only be described as utterly euphoric.
Even when you finish coming, he continues to suck away at your cock like it’s a lollipop. You’re content to let him continue, occupying yourself by playing with his hair. Unfortunately, your little private paradise is interrupted by a knock at the door, a voice calling for Baby Saja to go backstage where the others were waiting for him.
“Huh, I forgot that was happening tonight…” You hum, “What are you going to do about your weird marks—oh.”
The moment you turned back to look at him, he was back to normal. His eyes were their usual dark brown, and his skin was rid of all the strange marks that had adorned it earlier. Even his nails were back to a normal length.
Baby Saja takes your cock out of his mouth but stares at it forlornly like it was a lover boarding a ship that would take it far, far away from him.
You stand up and grab him a bottle of water from the vanity. “Here,” you hold it out for him, “for your voice.”
He raises his brow. “Now, why would I need that? ” His voice isn’t even raspy; in fact, it sounds perfect. Like he didn’t just get wrecked in the throat.
You stare at him. “What even are you?” Because he clearly wasn’t a human.
Did the other Saja Boys know about this too? Were they the same, or was it just Baby Saja? Now that the pleasure of climax was fading from your mind, it was starting to fill up with questions that you sorely needed answers to.
Baby Saja tilts his head. “Why does it matter? After all, I’m just a… what did you call me again? A nugu?”
“You’re certainly not a nugu when it comes to using that tongue,” you mutter under your breath.
“What was that?” He leans in closer, batting his eyelashes at you.
“Nothing,” you bristle. “Just go already. Rap for your adoring fans, or whatever.” You’ll find out more later. If you can do this once, you can do this again. Right? Right…
He laughs but acquiesces. Just as he’s about to open the door, he glances back at you. A smirk spreads on his face, eyes flashing gold for a brief moment. The sight sends a shiver down your spine.
“If you ever want to do this again… just call me,” Baby Saja licks his lips. “I’ll come if it’s you, [Name].”
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☏ - ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇᴍᴀɪʟ: ᴍʀ. ꜱᴀɢᴇ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴍɪɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʀᴇQᴜᴇꜱᴛꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴏᴘᴇɴ, ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ'ᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴇᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ.
☏ - ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇᴍᴀɪʟ: ᴍʀ. ꜱᴀɢᴇ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀʟꜱᴏ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴘᴏʟᴏɢɪᴢᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ʜᴏᴡ… ɪɴᴅᴜʟɢᴇɴᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪꜱ.
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Moving in Place
Natalie Scatorccio x Fem!Reader
Summary: Wiskayok wasn’t the place for people who were different. Especially not poor, queer freaks like yourself, or girls haunted by ghosts like Natalie. But at least you had each other, and you’d make it out someday. Just a little blurb of Nat and a girlfriend from a similar background.
Warnings: pre-crash, a lot of fluff, inspired by Moving in Place by SDC, reader has an older brother who they live with, reader is coded to be the same sort of burnout-alt kind of person as Nat & her friends from episode one, original male character but he’s really just mentioned in the background, canon typical drug use, underage drinking, underage smoking, Nat’s probably out of character, kinda black cat x golden retriever, crossposted on ao3
A/N: Just a short blurb inspired by one of my favourite songs. Honestly I might continue making fics with these characters, and maybe I’ll even go on to make an extension involving the crash, who knows? Let me know if you’d be interested in that. This was all written in like an hour a week ago and I don’t proofread so this might be written horribly but I think it was done enough that I wanted to post it, so here it is.
Word Count: 1731
Tangled in the warmth of your bedsheets, body pressed against your girlfriend, you felt a calm unlike any other. Nat slept better with you, you knew that well, and so despite being an early riser yourself, you let her sleep, content to watch her in her few moments of true relaxation. Gently, you smoothed her hair back from her face as you watched the soft rise and fall of her chest, each breath precious to you. 
You wished she would just stay here forever, never return to the trailer haunted with ghosts of the past and tensions born of mistakes she had no hand in, but logically you knew she’d always go back. It was like she was drawn by some invisible string, tangling her in a web of awful memories and worse treatment, even when escape was less than a two minute walk from that damn cage.
Slowly, you felt her shift as she woke up, blinking sleep from her eyes as she looked up at you.
“G’morning,” You murmured.
“Morning,” Her voice was rough and thick with sleep, and so very beautiful.
“Now that you’re up, I’m gonna go make us some coffee, okay? I’ve been awake for, like, two hours now, and staying this still for any longer might kill me,” You grinned before shoving her off of you, standing with a quick peck to the top of her head. Nat flipped you off, grumbling as she sat up, before pushing her mussed up hair from her eyes. 
“Mhm, love you too,” you hummed before leaving your bedroom.
Your trailer wasn’t big nor well put together in any of the sense of the idea, however, the strange little tin can was nothing if not a truly comfortable home. Wall to wall was decked out in photos and trinkets collected over the years, and while the space was small and cluttered, it didn’t feel hostile. One wrong move wouldn’t set off a chain reaction of rage like you knew so many had grown to expect in their own homes. 
You wove through the cluttered kitchen, grumbling as you pushed your brother’s dirty dishes out of the way of the coffee maker. You loved him, he kept the whole damn place running, but god, James was a fucking disaster when it came to any form of organisation or basic cleanliness. The old coffee machine rattled and groaned each time you used it, begging for a well deserved death that you denied each time you slapped it back to life when it began to give out. It filled the little trailer with the smell of stale coffee - almost enough to cover the constant faint stench of weed, beer, and cigarettes lingering in the trailer - which was sure to draw Nat from her abode in your room, and despite his late shifts, your fiendish brother would demand coffee be made for him too, even if he didn’t wake up until three hours later once it was cold in the fridge. As the coffee maker whirred on in the background, you grabbed mugs from your cabinet, an old stained white one your brother used for everything, one that you think used to be red but had since faded to a strange brownish-orangey-pink that was questionable to look at, and your favourite mug, a chipped up old thing with blue flowers that you got for at a garage sale when you were 12 and had used religiously since.
Once the machine stopped its screaming, alerting you the coffee was done, you poured it out for each person, making it exactly as they liked. You loved days like these, peaceful domesticity where you didn’t have school or work or practice and only had to worry about making food or coffee, or what music to play. It made you feel halfway normal, not like the freak or burnout known at school, or the town queer, but instead as just a girl in love, and in these four walls you didn’t have to hide it, just like any other girl your age, with a family and a life and a future outside of this hellhole. You knew you were far from normal, at least by the standards of a place like fucking Wiskayok, but at least on days like this you felt like you were.
You were drawn from your thoughts as Nat emerged from your room, hair mussed and eyeliner from days of reapplying without ever removing any smudging her eyes. 
“I really oughtta get you some makeup remover of some kind. Or even just a fuckin’ cloth. You’re looking more like a raccoon everyday,” You muttered affectionately, smiling as you handed her the once-red mug.
She grumbled slightly, rolling her eyes as she sipped at the coffee, but she slowly shifted towards you, gravitating towards your body. A goddamn cat, James had called her when he first saw her act like this. You had to agree. There was an old black cat that used to live under your porch when you were a kid, long before ever moving here or meeting Nat, who would slink around and hiss at anyone who got too close, but once you’d offered it food and care, it would stay as close to your side as possible. She reminded you of that cat almost daily, but you’d never tell her that.
The two of you fell into an easy rhythm as you drank your coffees, with you preparing breakfast with the remainder of last week's groceries as Nat helped wash last night’s dishes, music blaring from your little old radio propped up on the counter. After you’d eaten and cleaned, you made it back to your room to get ready. You dressed in an old tank top and a ratty pair of jeans you stole from James, Nat in the same black jeans and striped shirt she wore constantly at your place, rings adorning her fingers and silver chains layered around her neck. She always looked more put together than you, even with choppy hair and day old makeup, and today was no different.
The day passed by slowly, baking in the heat of late spring since the damn A/C broke two months ago and you never got around to fixing it. Not like you had the money to spare, but it was still hell on earth. The trailer didn’t have a TV, never did. Ever since you moved to Wiskayok when you were 11, you had never had anything of the sort in your home. James said it was to keep you creative, force you to do something other than rot your brain, but you’d known even then that TV was expensive in a way you’d never be able to afford, especially with a 16 year old high school dropout as the only source of income. He was right though, it did keep you creative, and thank god for that fact.
You’d practiced on your guitar - one you found on garbage day walking around in a rich area, thrown out just for a couple scuffs and broken strings - until your fingers ached and you’d messed up enough chords that you and Nat were both laughing. James woke up well after lunch, somehow having slept through your playing. He still looked exhausted even after sleeping most of the day away, but a night shift would do that to you. You knew well, having spent most nights over the summer working until ungodly hours at the gas station or the corner store, depending on the day of the week. He left you a pack of cigarettes on the counter before he left for work, grumbling something about how they’d kill you, even though he smoked twice as much as you ever did. He’d do things like that every so often, a pack of cigarettes, some beer or vodka, or weed, thanks for what you did around the house while he was at work. You’d pay him back though, with random trinkets he collected or a book once your paycheck came through.
You let Nat have full control over what music played, knowing her mother was always screaming at her for being too loud if she ever played her music above a whisper pitch. As you cleaned or cooked, the low hum of whatever grunge or punk she’d put on provided some lovely background noise. In the spirit of domesticity, you found yourself prattling on about any nonsense you could think of, and eventually so was Nat, detailing stories from the soccer practices you’d had to miss or parties you’d never gone to. 
Once the hottest part of the day had passed, she dragged you outside to practice some passes or… something. You were never the greatest at sports but you loved her so you went along with it. She was dedicated in a way that her team never seemed to give her credit for, not that they ever thought she was anything but a dedicated player, but Nat had a reputation as a burnout that had a tendency to precede her, worming its way through the crevices in the brain of anyone who met her, leaving them to assume she didn’t care as much as the others. 
By the time the sun was going down, you were sitting out on the steps to the trailer door, passing a cigarette between the two of you. There was a beer balanced between your legs, one sat beside Nat as well, hot air causing the chilled bottles to weep condensation like tears.
“Do you think this is it?” She asked, voice hoarse.
“Hm?”
“This. Wiskayok. Doesn’t it ever feel like we’re just going to be here forever? Like it doesn’t get any better?”
“Fuckin’ existential, huh?” You huffed, taking a sip of your beer, “Nah, it’ll get better. The world just isn’t ready for us yet, so we’re stuck until then, y’know? Then, I don’t know, you’ll go pro, and I’ll get a job that isn’t at a damn gas station, or I’ll start selling crap to those rich fucks who pay premium to live the life of us burnouts they hate so much, and we’ll get outta here.”
“Yeah?” She laughed slightly, a short, hoarse, breathy sound, taking a drag off the cigarette, “Y’think?”
“Mhm,” You leaned your head on her shoulder, sighing softly, “And until then, we’ve always got each other.”
A/N: Thank you for reading! Any and all interactions are appreciated, please let me know if y'all want more of these characters or more similar fics!
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cowaoba · 2 days ago
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hi college sports kingdon au thoughts
- ballerina mel and hockey player langdon
- they kinda run in the same crowd so they know of each other’s name, but all langdon really knows about her is that she’s good friends with his arch-nemesis santos, the co-captain of the women’s hockey team
- they don’t meet until shen introduces them at one of his house parties, and langdon’s shocked that this shy, petite girl with big glasses and soft hair is one of santos’ best friends
- she calls him frank (she thinks calling someone by their last name is disrespectful to their individuality) and shen expects him to correct her like he usually does (he thinks being called by your last name is a right of passage for male twenty-somethings) but instead he just kinda looks at her doe-eyed and talks in this weird gentle voice he’s never heard before
- after that, he just can’t get her out of his head. trips over his feet to say hi to her when they cross paths on campus, tries (and fails) to subtly ask santos how she is, pushes shen to throw another party, etc.
- she starts going to some of his games under the guise of supporting shen, and is enraptured by the way he glides on the ice
- he somehow always manages to catch her eye and wave excitedly until she shyly waves back
- the first time a brawl happens at one of his games he’s hesitant to jump in because he wants to come off as calm, cool, and collected, but the other team doesn’t really give him a chance to not get involved
- (and listen, mel finds violence in sports mostly unnecessary and just a way for men to stupidly show off, but she would be lying if sometimes she didn’t blush and kick her feet in bed when she remembers the way he’d come out of that fight, hair tussled and wet, a bruise forming around his jaw, and a bloody smirk that only grew as he continued to talk shit)
- langdon’s not great with words, there’s a reason he avoids english classes, but the way he describes how mel dances is akin to the most beautiful love poems. he doesn’t ballet, but god does he love watching her dance
- they’re adorably obnoxious when they finally get together, always cuddling close or holding hands tightly. she shows up to his games in full hockey fan gear (for their april fools game she shows up in shen’s jersey and laughs her ass off when langdon nearly faints from disgust), and he sits in the back of the ballet studio watching her practice with stars in his eyes
- langdon’s got a lifetime of nicknames and pet names for mel (his favorites being: mellie, my girl, and babe). mel finds herself cringing everytime she attempts to use a pet name so she just sticks with frank, which still feels special considering no one else calls him that
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nopaintjustpain · 2 days ago
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YESYESYES THANK GOD SOMEONE SAID IT BECAUSE I WAS THINKING IT LITERALLY 5 MINS AFTER I POSTED!!!!
Georgie had a fucking BINDER full of occupational therapists, mental health counselors, physical therapists, caregiving services, the works!! She budgeted for it! She set aside SAVINGS just in case!! She was READY to take someone to all the doctor’s appointments! She had her apartment SET for someone who’s using a mobility aid to navigate! She rearranged her furniture and everything! She had a grab bars installed in her bathroom! She bought a shower chair! Her guest room was all made up and ready for someone to move their whole life there if need be!
When Jon ended up not needing all of that and she came home to a still-empty flat, part of her was glad she didn’t have to rearrange her whole life after all. Just because she was *prepared* to step into a caregiving role doesn’t mean she actively *wanted* to. She just cared about her friend enough that she was ready and willing to do it anyway.
But at the same time… she’s glad, but also weirdly disappointed? All that work for nothing, y’know? If makes her feel a bit foolish for wasting her time and money like that when literally no one asked her to. She just did it without consulting anyone. And worse… she was so sure in her expectation that she’d be bringing someone home, her flat feels weirdly empty now that she knows no one’s coming . Which is ridiculous, right?? It was just her and the Admiral before, and that was enough. Except now it’s not. Nothing’s changed. Just herself and her expectations.
And her disappointment in Jon, of course. She was doing what was best for herself by cutting him off, but that doesn’t make it hurt less. She hated that it came to that.
So she’s alone in a too-empty flat, mourning the loss of a friend who she just couldn’t keep supporting through this terrible thing he kept throwing himself into. She couldn’t watch him self-destruct anymore. She had to put herself first.
And then… along comes Melanie! Once Jon and Basira un-Slaughter her, Melanie actually starts putting in the effort that Jon couldn’t, or wouldn’t! Georgie is so SO happy to take her to her therapy appointments as long as Melanie keeps putting in the work to heal from her trauma. Georgie is so happy and relieved that SOMEONE is making the effort to disconnect from this awful, toxic environment. She’s not going to lose everyone to the Fears the way she lost Jon! She can actually HELP someone this time!
Can you imagine her relief when Melanie finally makes the call to quit, no matter the cost? When she comes to Georgie with a solution, and commits to it? To being better? To following through?
Because I can imagine it.
Hey.
Do you ever think part of the reason Georgie stayed by Jon’s bedside through all 6 months of his coma but then abruptly walked out of his life when he woke up is because she was fully expecting to be a caregiver for him during a long, grueling post-coma recovery process?
Do you think part of the reason she was so spooked by him waking up (relatively) unscathed is because she had mentally, physically, and emotionally prepared herself to take him in? That her best case scenario — what she had planned and hoped for — was that he’d wake up with severe cognitive and/or physical deficits, as one would expect from someone who survived an explosion and six months in a coma? That he’d have to re-learn how to walk or talk or eat or hold a spoon on his own? That he would *need* someone, and even if it wasn’t what she wanted for herself or him, she had decided she would step up and be that person for him?
It can be so jarring when you build up a vision of your near future around one assumption, only for that assumption to be completely shattered by reality. Do you think she constructed a future for him in her head, and when he woke up “fine”, she was so startled by the breaking of her expectations that it felt almost like a betrayal? And the sheer uncanny impossibility of him waking up “fine” made her think that her friend was dead after all?
Do you think that after Martin stopped coming around and Georgie found herself alone at Jon’s bedside, she realized she was all he had left in the world? The only one who held onto hope that he would survive in some form? The only one who thought he could wake up, severely disabled by his experiences but free at last? The only one who thought he deserved the chance at a mundane life after all of this, even if that life would look radically different? Do you think she grappled with the reality that if she didn’t step up for him, no one would? Do you think she spent long hours coping with the fact that she was going to have to take on new responsibilities and make new sacrifices for him, but she was willing to do it for an old friend who deserved better than the hand he was dealt? Do you think she mourned her old vision of her future, before she reconstructed that vision around caring for him?
Do you think she started talking to Jon’s doctors about what she could expect if she brought him home after he woke up? What kinds of disabilities he would live with, and what the prognosis was? About his quality of life afterwards? His road to recovery? Do you think she made up her spare bedroom with a severely disabled person in mind, and then started looking into hiring a part time caregiver to come help her make sure Jon got the help (she assumed) he’d need? Do you think she did all kinds of research into brain injuries and their aftermath? Physical therapy for people with severe atrophy? NG tubes for re-feeding severely starved people? Occupational therapists?
Do you think part of the reason she was so upset when he woke up (relatively) unscathed, lucid and talking and breathing on his own, maybe a little physically weak but still much like his old self, is because she had realistic expectations of what his life would look like after his injuries? And seeing him suddenly defy all odds by waking up into a full cognitive and physical recovery — a completely unrealistic hope that she never even considered as part of the realm of possibility — only reinforced the idea that the old Jon was dead, and this new Jon wasn’t safe for her to be around?
Do you think it hurt when she realized she couldn’t bring him home?
I think about that.
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maraudereestauderelb · 3 days ago
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Lipstick & Bad Decisions (Nikki Sixx x Reader)
You're tired of bad dates and boring men in suits who only see your face and not your fire. But the last person you'd ever let yourself want is your reckless best friend, Nikki. That is… until one fight too many...
“The only reason I haven’t fucked you yet is because I have no interest in having daddy’s little girl next to me, crying in the morning when I tell her to leave.”
Warnings:
Friends to lovers, angst & unresolved tension, verbal fights, alcohol use, soft smut vibes / heated kiss, strong language
Also: Pre-Fame Nikki
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You sighed as you looked at the mirror in front of you. Your night had been awful! The date you had, had been nothing but horrible. You really started to get sick of it. Rich men - usually older than you and better educated and yet unable to keep up an interesting conversation! You knew you weren’t stupid, but most of the time you felt like the men you dated would enjoy it much more if you were. Pretty to look at but without a brain.  
You sighed again.  
You just couldn’t help it! You weren’t into men in fancy suits, acting like real gentlemen, successful. Why were they all the same? So goddamn boring…  
When your latest date had tried to kiss you over an hour ago, obviously hoping for an invitation inside, you had backed off, thanked him for the nice evening and had rushed through the door to your apartment. Next time was going to be better. The next guy was going to be the right one. As if that wasn’t what you always told yourself!  
At least your best friend seemed like he had a great night. Nikki’s idea of a great night. Only a moment ago Nikki had given you a quick call asking for help and by now you already knew what that meant. Of course, you knew after years of being friends. It meant you would walk over to his place and make a scene. 
After you had switched your fancy dress for a more comfortable blue jeans and a black shirt, you walked over to his apartment. Thankfully, he lived just down the road.  
You took out the keys for his apartment and took a deep breath before you opened the door. You were ready for an Oscar-worthy performance.  
You headed directly for his bedroom and opened the door to it happily exclaiming: “Hey baby, surprise!”  
The girl next to Nikki in bed looked like she was about to have an heart-attack but by now you were used to any kind of reaction, so you kept going with an equally shocked face-expression: “Nikki! I- What the hell are you doing?! What is this!”  
For a second a soft grin found its way to Nikki’s lips before he was back in character: “Oh shit, Y/N…I swear, baby, let me explain this!”  
He jumped out of the bed, only dressed in his briefs, and tried to get close to you but you pushed him away: “Don’t touch me, you unfaithful little bastard!”  
“You have a girlfriend?!”, the girl in his bed found her voice again. Your signal.  
“Looks like he had a girlfriend!”, with these words you ran out of the bedroom again and out of the apartment, down the stairs. It had turned into a routine. You were doing this about twice a month, although it had started to become more often over the past weeks, and like every time you hid behind a big tree outside the building until Nikki’s one-night-stand had left before you made your way back to his apartment.  
You had thought about going home this time, but you didn’t, although you were horribly tired and exhausted.  
“Oh there she is, my sweet little girlfriend!”, Nikki laughed when you entered his messy living room.  
He was sitting on his sofa and, thankfully, had put on a shirt and a pair of sweatpants. 
 “I’m really not in the mood, Nikki”, you rolled your eyes and crossed your arms in front of your chest.  
“You alright, princess?”, he eyed you puzzled with a big grin on his lips before he opened himself another bottle of beer, which had been standing next to a few others on the coffee table. God, this man was slowly killing you …  
“I’m great, thanks for asking. But if there is nothing else, I can do for you, I’ll go home now”, you had already turned around when his voice caught you between steps: “Hey, stop, Y/N! What’s wrong?”  
You sighed but turned around.  
“Nothing. I’m just wondering when you’re finally growing up and at least learn how to deal with your one-night-stands on your own.”  
Ignoring your words he teased you: “Shitty night, huh?”  
“Yes, Nikki. I had an awful night!”  
“Another boring rich dude?”, he asked sounding a lot more bitter than he had intended. 
Sometimes you caught yourself wondering what would have happened if Nikki had ever asked you out on a date. You wondered if you’d have accepted his invitation… But except some drunk flirting, you had never been anything but friends. 
After all you both had pretty different expectations of life, so you had told yourself. Nikki was funny. Nikki was smarter than anyone gave him credit for. Nikki was handsome. But besides that, Nikki was an asshole. He was impulsive, reckless and adventurous. He had absolutely no plan for his life! And that shit could be exhausting! 
“Yes, Nikki, another boring rich dude, not like it’s your business.”  
“I’m your friend. It’s my business”, he answered before he took another pull on his bottle.  
“And you’re drunk.”  
“Whatever. Sit down princess! Grab a beer and tell good ol’ Nikki all about your horrible date with that boring little piece of shit”, with these words he petted the place next to himself.  
“I don’t drink beer, Nikki, and you know that”, you pursed your lips.  
“I know, I know”, he grinned and got up from the sofa moving towards you. He came so close he left you unable to move. You hadn’t expected him to get this close.  
“Look at that cute pout of yours, princess.” His thump swiftly brushed over your lower lip making your breath hitch in your throat before he turned around like nothing had happened: “Just let me check if I have something for you to drink. Because I like you so much better when you’re drunk.”  
After biting your lip involuntarily his words got through to you while he was looking through a cupboard filled with different bottles.  
“Beg you pardon.”  
“What?”  
“What do you mean, you like me so much better when I’m drunk?”  
“You’re not that uptight and stuffy when you’re drunk”, he explained looking through the bottles without realizing how much he had offended you.  
“Are you kidding me, Nikki?”  
“No, why?”, he asked confused and finally found a bottle of cheap wine: “Here we go, princess!”  
“Nikki, I’m serious.”  
“What? You are uptight and stuffy.”  
“I’m not!”  
“Yes, you are! Otherwise you wouldn’t date all these boring, rich fuckers!”, he shouted at you.  
Fuckin’ hell, this topic made him sick every damn time. Nikki despised your choices in men, not because they were boring and shallow, but because he could never be like them.  
“You know damn well why I do that!”  
“Yeah, this entire “A girl has to look out for herself”-bullshit!”, he laughed and sat down: “The way I see it, you have two choices. Either you go home, or you sit down and get drunk with me, so you and I forget how underfucked you are.”  
“What?!”  
“It’s true! That’s why your always so tense and bitchy! None of these other dudes manages to give it to you the way you would need it to loosen the hell up!”  
He had no idea why he was saying this and he wanted to stop it, but he couldn’t. He wanted to stop shouting at you, but no one ever managed to rile him up the way you did!  
“My sex life is none, I repeat: NONE, of your business, you insensitive asshole!”, you shouted back at him. Why was he saying this? How could he?  
“I know it’s not!”, he got up again: “Besides the fact that it’s technically nonexistent.”  
“Because I’m not like the girls you fuck every now and then?!  I don’t sleep with the guys I date because I choose not to, but I could! I swear one word and even you’d take me to your bedroom to take me yourself!”  
His eyes grew wide.  
“What? Don’t tell me that’s not the truth, Nikki!” Tears started to run down your heated cheeks, making his knees weak. What had he done?  
“Y/N…”  
He had lost all confidence and slowly started to realize what he had just thrown at you. He shouldn’t have said that. It only took him the blink of an eye until he had run over to you.  
“Fuck, Y/N…I…I didn’t mean to say that! I’m such an ass…please- please stop crying, babe”, he tried to grab your hands, but you escaped his touch.  
“Answer me, Nikki”, you sobbed: “Is this what this is all about? You haven’t had enough yet? You want me to get this other bitch back here?”  
Fuck, this man had you wrapped around his finger and didn’t even know it. Of course, your entire body was screaming for him, begging for his touch! But you couldn’t give in… you couldn’t lose him as a friend… you just couldn’t.  
“No, no, no”, he quickly answered and wanted to press your body against his but you raised your hands in defense: “Don’t touch me!”  
“Y/N…please, I’m sorry!”  
“You’re my best friend, Nikki! How can you…why would you say that?!”  
“Because you made me lose my shit!”, he let his shaking hands roam through his dark hair and over his face: “And I’m sorry!”  
“I made you lose your shit?!”, you felt anger growing inside of you again: “Why? Because you can’t stand the truth?!”  
“I can’t stand the truth?!”, he exhaled sharply: “Am I the one crying again because I don’t get what I want?! Fuck, the only reason why I haven’t fucked you yet is because I have no interest in having daddy’s little girl next to me, crying in the morning when I tell her to leave!”  
Unable to say a word you stared at him for a while. Obviously he was as shocked by his words as you were and yet he couldn’t take it back, although it was one of the biggest lies, he had ever told anyone.  
“Fuck you, Nikki”, you said before you turned around and wanted to leave his shit hole of an apartment. You had to go. You couldn’t look at him any longer.  
You heard his steps behind you and tried to walk faster, not giving a shit what else he had to say. He wanted to hurt you? He had reached his goal!  
“Y/N, wait!”, he grabbed your wrist and turned you around as fast as he could and before you were able to do anything against it or were able to understand what was happening, he had pressed his lips against yours. Your eyes widened in shock before they suddenly fell shut.  
You didn’t want to return the kiss, but you couldn’t resist. You had waited so long for this, his presence took over all your senses. One of his hands was still wrapped around your left wrist and the other against your back, pulling you closer, while his lips tenderly moved against yours. God, you had always wondered what he would taste like. You wanted him. Fuck, how badly you wanted him. But not in the way he wanted you…  
And the moment, you remembered this fact, you finally escaped his lips and before you were able to control yourself your palm had hit his cheek with a loud smacking noise.  
“Why did you do that?”, you shouted at him angrily and still out of breath.  
He had kissed you. Nikki really had kissed you. Fuck, and it was hard for you to stand properly. You needed more of this. More of his kisses. More of him.  
“Why did I do that? You just slapped me!”, he looked at you shocked.  
“Because you kissed me!”  
“Yeah? That’s a reason to slap me?”  
“Why did you do that?!”, you shouted again, ignoring his words.  
Exactly. Why had he done that? He wished he had the answer to that.  
“I…Y/N- I knew if you had left this time, I never would have seen you again…I had to stop you from leaving and I didn’t know what else to do…”, he answered honestly and for the first time you were able to see the pain behind his eyes.  
“I can’t let you leave me, okay?”, he answered: “I shouldn’t have kissed you, baby…”  
Breathless you were staring at him. You didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t let you leave. What was that supposed to mean? Wordless you reached out for his lower lip, to wipe away the stains of your lipstick, but he reached for your hand to stop you in your way.  
“I swear, princess, if you do this now, I can’t guarantee anything”, he growled with a deep voice, you weren’t used to but send a shiver down your spine.  
“Nikki…”, you whispered still not sure what to say, only inches away from screwing all your principles. And you hated him for it, but yourself even more.  
“Yes?”, he leaned his forehead against yours.  
“W-what is this supposed to be?”, you were looking down to your hands nervously: “Because I really want you… listen, you won and I-”, but he interrupted you, gently lifting your chin up, so you would look into his eyes: “Y/N, don’t…”  
Was he really about to do this? After all those nights he had spent awake thinking about you, about this exact situation, he was telling you to stop, when you finally wanted what he had wanted this entire time? Fucking hell, he loved you! He felt like he had been thrown into ice-cold water when the realization hit him like a train. He loved you. And he couldn’t risk you leaving.  
“Y/N”, he sighed, not knowing where to start. He knew there was no way you’d feel the same. He wasn’t good enough for you. He had known it right from the start. But he couldn’t hide it any longer. He was sick of lying to himself every damn day!  
“The truth is”, he inhaled deeply: “The only reason I haven’t had you in my bed already is because I'd have no fucking idea how to treat you right in the morning, Y/N.” 
 “W-what?”, you asked puzzled.  
“I don’t know anything about this, okay? I want to treat you right. I want to give you what you deserve. But I can’t! I just can’t, Y/N…I want to but I can’t…”  
“Nikki, are you- what?”  
“You know it’s true… I don’t have a fucking job! I don’t have a perspective! I’m just hopping from one band to another, drinking and fucking around! I am not what you want!”  
“But you are, Nikki!”, you demanded the second you understood what he was trying to say and softly placed your palm against his cheek: “You are what I want!”  
“No, you don’t mean that! You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into!”  
“You’re right…”, you admitted almost crying again: “I don’t know that. But I don’t care, Nikki.”  
“I’m just going to disappoint you…sooner or later.”  
“You won’t! I trust you, okay?”  
Without hesitation he sealed your lips once more and this time you weren’t backing off. You quietly moaned into the deep kiss, filled with so much desperation you forgot to breathe. He immediately took his chance to caress your tongue with his. Your fingernails were buried in his shirt and excitement flooded your entire body. Fuck, how much you loved this man.   
You kissed until you were gasping for air, your faces still so close you could feel your hot breaths against each other’s sensitive skin.  
“You’ll have to be patient with me, Y/N…”  
You chuckled: “I promise.”  
“Fuck, you are so beautiful”, he exhaled as his thumb caressed over your soft cheek.  
“You are doing great so far.” You smiled up at him.  
“Tell me, princess, what am I supposed to do now?”  
You hesitated a moment while you were caught up in a fight with yourself, before you answered: “After I already screwed over one of my rules tonight, I’ll better go now. And tomorrow morning you are going to call me so you can ask me out on a proper date.”  
“You want to go now?”  
“We want to do this slowly, right?”, you grinned.  
“Do we?”  
“Yes, we do!”, you placed another sweet kiss on his lips: “So please be a gentleman and see me to the door.” 
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