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closed - @fletcher-bailey

where - carnival grounds

"So," Priya started, looking over at him with an easy smile, "Do we wanna eat first and then go win a bunch of prizes so your kid can have his choice of the winnings to celebrate finishing another school year? Or play first and then celebrate with food--and drinks of course."

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🌹 = How would your muse react to romantic gestures, expected or not?

"I'd react very, very positively I'd say. I mean, who'd react negatively? Who wouldn't want a romantic gesture? ...Unless it's like some creepy stalker situation? But yeah."

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Priya had decided to just sprawl out on the grass beside him once they'd finished the marathon, completely starfished out on the ground as she panted--absolutely covered in sweat and colors but there was a bright grin on her face, clearly having enjoyed it. "Pretty sure half the runners are gonna end up jumping in the ocean to clean off. Or the public pool." She felt bad for the clean up crew that would have to take over afterwards. Absently she ran her fingers over swirls of pinks and blues over the skin of her stomach, knowing she'd need a long soak after this, but that was a later problem. "A drink sounds perfect." She agreed, but she just held her stained hand out, wiggling her fingers towards him with a grin in a silent plea to help her stand once again.

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"The color is definitely made of chalk they crushed up, or something like that. It's all I can taste." Through the sweat from the run, there is a mix of purples and blues smeared across Noah's face and entire front that took the brunt of the color bursts through the 5-k. "Let's get something to drink, I need to wash this feeling away."

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With the day off from work and the weather kind of perfect, Priya decided to just disconnect for the day and recharge- which ended up with her heading to the beach, lounged out in the sand while the sun rays warmed her skin. The sea breeze was great too until it got a bit too much and blew the hat right off her head. Letting out a surprised yelp, she scrambled up from the sand and chased it down, relieved when someone caught it at least.

But then as she saw just who caught it, her breath kind of lodged itself in her throat. It'd been almost ten years, and while aged....there was no way she'd ever forget his face.

"You're.....--hi.." She found herself saying dumbly, practically drinking in the sight of the man she never thought she'd see again, one she practically banished from her thoughts the moment she'd reluctantly agreed to get married to someone else. "That's um...yeah. Yeah, the hat's mine."

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Work consumed a lot of Philippe time. Being the oldest of the Dubois children, his father always found a way to keep him occupied. So the little free time he would get, he would typically spend it with his friends. They agreed on meeting at the beach, but as always everyone was running late for one reason on other. He headed in the direction of one of the bars when a beach hat flew in his direction. A light chuckle left his lip as he caught it before it hit the ground. He didn't have to wonder too long who it belong to as its twirled from side to side to see where it went.

"Excuse me, I think this belongs to...you." he stopped as he came face to face with Priya -the last person he expected to be running into after all these years.

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"Nice to see the asshole gene is alive and well in our family." Priya smiled as she said it though, shaking her head fondly as she settled in across from him, coffee mug in her hands. Caleb was one of the few family members she had left who hadn't abandoned her, one of the few she still trusted, so all bickering aside, she'd happily spend a few extra minutes with him when she could.

She listened as Caleb spoke then, perking up at the mention of the shop he'd been wanting to open, "Oh shit, that's great! I'm glad it's close to getting off the ground. You gotta let me know when opening day is." Not like she knew the first thing about fishing or wanted anything to do with it, but she'd want to be there and support him. "I'm happy for you, Cal. Really. And who knows, maybe you won't be the only family member in this town who's finally deciding to pluck up the courage to follow their dreams.." as she said it, Priya thought of the brochures on her kitchen table at home, paperwork half filled out to enroll back into med school after nearly a decade away. The idea was daunting but...it was one she couldn't get out of her head.

“It’s usually at the expense of someone else,” Caleb admits. “Not in the form of humiliation, but I like to give him a hard time. He gets flustered easily, even if he tries to hide it.”

He follows Priya’s line of sight to said worker who is busy rolling up silverware in the napkins. At least he will be left alone today. “I’m not bossy, it’s just your job to serve.” Caleb settles back into the booth with an expectant look directed her way. It’s less about the service and more about the time he’s asking to be spent catching up. Time gets away from them enough, it’s the perfect moment to catch up, even if he is only there for half an hour.

“Thanks,” he mentions at the coffee and grabs a couple sugar packs to shake twice before tearing open. “As good as they can be, Pri. Same shit, different toilet, but that bait shop I had in mind might be opened in time for the rest of the summer. Everything’s about up to code, it just needs to pass inspection, and it’s open for business.”

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"I feel that. Even if it's been almost two years for me." She replied back with a little laugh, trying her best to forget the text altogether, especially when she saw how awkward the other girl suddenly looked. Priya just hummed, putting her phone face down and even pushing it away from her. "Just...someone from my past resurfacing. Nothing a drink or two won't fix. You're welcome to join me? Misery loves company and all--or, well, unease in this case."

" winding back up in aurora bay, " adaline blurted out accidentally, the words slipping past her lips before she could catch them. she blinked, a little surprised at herself for saying it out loud, she hadn’t really meant to. honestly, she has no idea what came next--how to start all over again. trying to smooth over the awkwardness, she shifted in her seat and glanced across the table. " what about you? i'm guessing it has something to do with your phone. " // @priyaxdesai

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"I see." Priya replied with an amused little smile, "Well I'm glad she did then, get your grumpy self out and about and all? And hopefully this one doesn't end in bloodshed."

As Aiden spoke then Priya looked around the room, spotting her date talking to some other guy, her expression softening for a moment before she hummed, "I don't mind some clinginess, but yeah. I don't need to be under watchful eye the whole night." Especially considering how her marriage had gone? Priya very much was not someone who wanted to be under another's thumb at all times. Priya watched him all the while as he carved into the wall and once he was done Priya just stepped up and snatched the tool out of his hand, nudging him aside as she crouched in to etch in a little star or two beside the smiley nd feeling a strong sense of nostalgia at getting up to something wrong while dressed all fancy. It really was like reliving her teenaged years.

"My go-to was the girl's bathroom by the track. Hardly anyone ever used it since it was so far away. Smoked my first during-school-hours joint in there." She grinned over at him as she said it, fond memories drifting into her mind.

"Wrong on the voluntarily part. Nikki twisted my arm."

Though Aiden knows she would argue it didn't take too much twisting to convince him. Nikki had that convincing charm about her. Aiden also knows she can be very persistent.

"Not you, thinking about if you date wanted to keep you at his side. Some people are clingy, but that wouldn't work for you if he was, would it?" he drawls, bored sounding, and returning his attention to the smiley face he is scratching into the wall. "I been wandering. Checking in on things, seeing what's still here and what isn't."

He blows air to get rid of the residue, and there it is, white etched against brick red, and Aiden steps back. "Mine and Phoebe's hiding spot in the library is, and so are the cigarette burns in the rug. Don't know if anyone else uses it to skip now, but I hid out for a bit. And I don't see my dickhead math teacher's name on the faculty list. So maybe she was transferred or quit."

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Babe 🌸:What have you been thinking about a lot recently?

"Doing more with my life, potentially going back to med school. I had such a vision of what my life could be when I was a teenager, and then a massive wrench got tossed into it. I'm thirty now though, and stabile on my own....I think I owe it to myself to not just stay stagnant and be a waitress for forever. To take back more of myself that had been stolen away."

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👥 + noah

"When I was fourteen or so, my mother reprimanded me for not being ladylike enough and embarrassing the family at some fancy party. I ditched the party altogether and went to Noah's, because his home was always my safe space. And then of course in a fit of teenaged rebellion, I chopped my hair off with his grandmother's kitchen sheers and promptly regretted it because I thought I looked awful. Noah of course comforted me and reassured me and I and eventually cried myself to sleep in his bed." @noah-atwood

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Priya waved off the man's thanks, giving him an easy smile. "Don't mention it. Same thing happened to me when I first moved back here. The guy seemed to think I had ulterior motives, but.." She trailed off, wrinkling her nose as she said it. "Besides, you just got me one step closer to a free drink." She added, all too happy to have an extra drink punched into her frequent buyer card here.

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"Thank for spotting me, mate." Eddie said to the other person after he received his coffee. "The one time I leave my wallet in the office, Apple Pay would act up." he said, chuckling lightly. Being within walking distance from the coffee shop, he had decided to just stop in for a quick afternoon coffee. The barista was ready to leave it as is, knowing he'd come back to pay for it later, but the other had stepped in to cover it.

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"Probably? It was when I was a Freshman I think, which was many moons ago, so..." She trailed off with an easy laugh. "Definitely left a memorable impression though, which I guess is the whole point. Legacies and all." Clearly whatever had been done when she had been a senior didn't top the crickets since she didn't remember it. Or maybe it'd just happened when she was off skipping class. Either way.

"Wouldn't be surprised if that worked. But at the same time, imagine if someone was allergic? With some of the hoity toity parents in this town, a lawsuit coulda been filed." Had her beloved little sister for example been in the school at that time and allergic, Priya had no doubt her parents would've done exactly that.

"Good luck with that. Just don't go listening too closely in some places? Pretty sure every closed door could have the potential to be a hookup spot in here. I feel bad for the janitor."

Alfie can't help but make a face at the thought of a cricketpocalypse in the vents, something he would have found funny at fifteen but at twenty-five he thinks the sound might have sent him off his rocker.

"I think that was before my time but I'm pretty sure you can be allergic to crickets. I'd have faked an allergy and tried to get a few weeks off, not sure how successful that would have been."

He cranes his neck so he could look over Priya towards a vent in the distance behind her, a suspicious expression present on his face.

"I'm going to be on the listen for any suspicious sounding chirps now."

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Priya turned towards her pointed-out coworker before she looked back to her cousin, rolling her eyes at him. "It's like 8am Caleb, what kind of entertainment do you want? Cause I'll tell you right now I'm not a show and dance kinda gal." Her words teetered on annoyed but there was an amused little smirk on her lips as she looked down at him, not at all fazed by any 'gruffness' on the man's face.

"Are you usually this bossy with him too? Cause then yeah, I can see why he wouldn't wanna be entertaining." Just the same though, Priya left and came back just a minute later with two mugs of coffee and she sat across from him, nudging his towards him. "How're things?"

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"In all the mornings I come by for a quick breakfast, I don't think I've ever seen you running around. I usually get that guy, and he's not very entertaining."

To the point with his work, bland with the small talk, but not incessantly chatty. However, he never knew how to handle any of Caleb's purposeful gruff demeanor, which was his own way of making entertainment: by making the staff hurriedly run away to get his stuff.

"It's slow in here, have a cup of coffee with me until you get another table."

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"I'm looking at you voluntarily setting foot in this place again." Priya shot back immediately, a smirk firmly plastered on her lips as she walked towards her friend. Aiden's surly attitude never fazed her a bit--in fact, she took great joy in riling him up whenever she could.

"I do, but I'm also not so controlling that I need to have my date attached to my side the entire evening, so I decided to just take a little walk Maybe reminisce a bit?" She told him easily, looking down the hallway before she looked back to him- and what he was doing. "And it's going alright, yeah. How about you? Other than apparent delinquency."

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“What’re you looking at?”

He arches a brow the few lockers down where he sees Priya, clad in a prom dress outfit and her hair done better than it was when they were teens. Done in her way, and not in any way her dad forced her to look. 

“You got an arm to hang off of, don’t you? Or are you looking to take a break from that gooey stuff.” There is a space in between the sets of lockers where brick breaks up the long stretch of metal that Aiden is scratching a smiley face into. Beside it is one more faded. “How’s your night going?”

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Who is your bestfriend?

"Noah, no question about it. He's been there for me for pretty much my entire life even when I know I did things he didn't approve of. There's no one I'd ever trust as much as him." @noah-atwood

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What is your go to comfort show?

"The Nanny. I dreamed of having her closet as a child. I honestly love all those 80's and 90's sitcoms, but that one will forever hold the top spot."

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closed - @seversilencetobias

where - starting at her place

Considering she'd just turned thirty a few days ago, it was a bit disorienting to be getting ready to go back to her high school, but Priya wasn't going to let her errant thoughts get the best of her. Not tonight. She could spiral about her future tomorrow. Today she was going to get dressed up and go have fun. She was just touching up her mess of curls and spritzing on some perfume when she heard the knock, a smile growing on her face as she finished up and headed to the door.

Toby was another big reason she was excited to go tonight, looking forward to spending more time with someone that was very, very quickly taking up a large portion of her thoughts.

"Hey handsome."