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argylemnwrites · 3 years

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Fight or Flight - Chapter 16: Rock

Pairing: Drake Walker x MC (Riley Liu)

Book: The Royal Heir (canon divergent from the end of book 2)

Word Count: ~3600

Rating: R (language only)

Summary: Almost four weeks since The Walker Absconding

Author’s Note: This series follows the Walkers, their friends, and Cordonia as a whole after they flee the country with their daughter during Barthelemy Beaumont’s attempted coup. To catch up on this series, check out it’s masterlist. (link can be found via my bio - sorry, Tumblr is once again not putting my posts with links in tag searches)

The sun had basically set. Bridget was now sound asleep in her car seat. She hadn’t made a noise since Riley had climbed into the back to feed her about two hours ago. He knew Riley herself had to be starving. They had been on the road for about four hours. Yet, Drake was reluctant to stop.

He knew that they had probably gotten away. Barely. It didn’t seem like anyone was following them. Their little jaunt through Tripoli should have lost anyone who might have been able to follow them out of Athens onto A8 and then onto A7. And after they doubled back and began heading northwest on EO111, they started passing through some very rural areas where no one would be able to follow them without being spotted. All signs pointed to them being safe for the moment.

Drake knew all of this, but the thought of stopping the car, of not just keeping going, still seemed so foolish. He knew this was dumb. It was getting dark. They were in the middle of nowhere. The car didn’t have an unlimited supply of gasoline. But he couldn’t bring himself to stop. He didn’t want to turn his family into sitting ducks.

So he just kept driving, moving forward. It was all there was left to do, really. Plus, it gave him something to focus on that wasn’t how bad things had gotten. How much he had failed everyone.

He didn’t have all the details, but the news stations had given him enough to know that Riley and Leo’s little meet up was how they’d been located. He had known that relying on Leo was a mistake. He’d fucking known it in his gut. But he’d agreed to the plan. Let Riley go out and take that risk with a man who had a weakness for gambling and beautiful women, and now it had all backfired. He should have told Olivia ‘no’ when she suggested it. Leo could never handle any real responsibilities. He’d run from them his whole life, and Drake had agreed to trust him with his family’s fragile safety and security. All of it now blown to fucking pieces.

And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Liam was going to be implicated in the whole mess. Based on the text Riley got from Hana, they were all getting rid of their burners, but the fact that Leo was known to have been in contact with them meant that people would assume that he was serving as a proxy for his brother. Liam would be under investigation for sure. It would give motherfucking Barthelemy more ammunition. It was a huge blow for Liam. And Drake didn’t even have a way to apologize anymore. It felt like pouring salt onto the wounds that were at least partially his fault. They had been so desperate for money and clothing, so they’d gambled. And now everyone he loved was going to pay for it.

“Drake.” Riley’s voice carried over from the backseat. She hadn’t bothered to climb back into the front when she was done feeding Bridget and nestling her back into her car seat, instead just staying beside her, not saying anything. Until now, at least. “We should probably think about finding a hotel, shouldn’t we?”

Drake shook his head. “We’re a bit of a story here now. It’s too risky to show our faces when the news has been talking about us. Probably displaying our pictures, too.”

“Okay, well should we find a place to camp then?”

He let out a sigh at that. Free camping wasn’t exactly legal in Greece. If they got caught, they would have to hope that the police just sent them on their way without asking for any identification to fine them or anything. But Riley had a point. He knew they couldn’t just keep driving indefinitely, and if hotels were out for the time being, chancing a night in the tent somewhere was their only other choice. At least they weren’t on the beach. If Drake had to guess, more tourists would flock to the ocean for a summer holiday, so those areas were probably watched more carefully.

“Sure, Walker. Can you try to find us a park or some place that might have some tree cover?”

And so, not twenty minutes later, Drake took a huge breath as he brought the car to a stop in a secluded area near the base of Kompovouni mountain, tucked off a side road he hoped no one would be using in the middle of the night.

“She still out?” he asked as he turned off the engine, glancing into the backseat via the rear-view mirror.

Riley looked into the car seat and nodded. “The real trick will be getting her out without waking her up.”

“You can grab her, Walker. I’ll get the tent.” Drake saw her nod again before he opened the door and climbed out of the car, heading around to the back and opening the hatch. He dug past the duffel bags and crib, tugging out the tent, the sleeping bags and pads, and the flashlight he’d stashed away all those weeks ago. He could hardly have imagined feeling worse than he did that day, but here he was, now looking back in wonder at how easy things were then compared to now. They weren’t yet wanted criminals. They had a roof over their heads. There had been hope they would be able to go home in days to weeks.

He hauled the gear further off the road, into a grove of trees that would hopefully shield them from sight if anyone decided to drive this way. It was getting darker by the second, so he shifted the equipment under his right arm so he could use the flashlight with his left. It wouldn’t do them any good for him to trip or step on a snake and injure himself. A first aid kit was not something he had thought to purchase back when he first stocked up.

He heard Riley’s footsteps not far behind him, her voice murmuring something to Bridget that was too quiet for him to pick up. When he finally felt they were far enough from the road, he set down their gear, spinning around and watching Riley join him after a few moments.

Bridget was awake, unfortunately. She wasn’t screaming yet, but she was frowning as she looked around, and her lips were all scrunched up, a sure sign she was about ready to wail.

“We gotta try and keep her quiet, Riley.”

“I know,” she hissed out, bouncing Bridget on her hip. “It’s okay, Peanut. Shhh, Mama’s here.”

Bridget started making her little crabby whiny noise, but wasn’t outright screaming, which Drake supposed was the best they could hope for given the circumstances. “Did you pack the stuffed corgi?”

Riley nodded, not taking her eyes off Bridget and keeping her voice quiet and soothing. “I’m pretty sure it’s in one of the duffels. If not, her lovie is in the diaper bag.”

“Alright, I’ll go grab more of our shit, then. Just try and keep her from crying.”

Drake let out a sigh when he was out of earshot of his family, then swallowed roughly and took a few deep breaths as he walked back to the car. He felt like the weight and reality of today was setting in more and more by the second. Now that he wasn’t distracted by driving and navigating and translating radio reports, he felt a massive lump forming in his throat, his eyes burning as a couple of stray tears leaked out. He knew he couldn’t go down this road, though. He couldn’t afford to lose it. Not now. Riley and Bridget needed him to keep his shit together. Today had been enough of a disaster as it was.

But he had failed everyone at this point and it was hard to stay calm. It honestly felt like he could barely breathe, and he was surprised he hadn’t thrown up yet. Maybe he was just too overwhelmed. It felt like his legs were going to collapse underneath him.

By the time he reached the car, he had to brace his arms on its roof, trying to calm himself down. He couldn’t cry. This was bad enough; he couldn’t make it worse. But it all just felt like too much. So, he just focused on taking a couple of breaths, blinking his eyes repeatedly as he worked to clear the tears that kept collecting there.

He knew he needed to get their bags and get back. He was taking way too long. Riley was going to worry and come looking for him if he stayed by the car much longer, and she shouldn’t see him like this. She was counting on him, and he’d let her down enough recently. No need to fall apart in front of her. But the more he tried to get his shit together, the closer he felt to collapsing to the ground. He was a fucking mess, useless and unstable.

By his best guess, he’d been leaning against the car, trying to regain any sense of composure, for about five minutes when he heard the crunch of her feet on the ground, getting closer and closer. He took a few more shaky breaths, trying to pull it together, but way too quickly, her hand was on his back, gently brushing between his shoulder blades.

“Drake?” she said, his name sounding far more like a question than a statement, but he didn’t know what to say. When she repeated his name, he just shook his head.

He felt her move around him, wedging herself between him and the car somehow. He tipped his head back, knowing he wouldn’t be able to take it if he saw the pity in her eyes.

“Drake,” she repeated, this time more confidently and firmly, her hand sliding up around the back of his neck.

He shook his head as he swallowed, trying to find his voice. “I… I just… I just need a minute, Riley.”

She didn't say anything, but she didn't move either, her hand stroking along his neck and playing with the ends of his hair. He needed her to let him get his shit together. He really did. But of course she could clearly sense how close he was to spiraling, so she was refusing to let him be. That was her MO. She could read him better than anyone, after all. What she didn't understand is that her support was going to make him lose it even more. It was bad enough that he failed Liam and his country, but now he had failed his wife and kid on top of that. He was useless. Pathetic. Hopeless.

Eventually, he took one last shuddering breath before glancing down, taking in Riley, holding Bridget tight against her side. She must have fallen back asleep, as she was not reacting to being essentially trapped between them, something that usually triggered squirming and fussing. Instead, her head was tucked against Riley’s shoulder. Riley herself just kept running her fingers along his neck. Even in the relative darkness, he could make out her deep brown eyes, staring at him with far more compassion and tenderness than he deserved.

“I’m so sorry, Riley. This…” Drake trailed off, taking another breath before he continued, “I shouldn’t have put us in this position.”

"Drake, this isn't your fault."

"I should have known that Leo would get caught, run his goddamn mouth like-"

"We don’t know for sure that is what happened. But even if it was, we knew that was a risk when we agreed to have him be the go-between. We both knew we didn't have another choice."

He just shook his head. "I should have never put you in that position. And now we have nothing and-"

"We have each other," she interrupted, "And we have our daughter. That's more than we could say if we'd stayed." Drake swallowed, but Riley kept going. "Us being together isn't nothing. Keeping our family together isn't nothing, Drake."

"I know, Riley."

She opened her mouth, as if she was going to say more, but instead she just let out a sigh as she wound her free arm around him more tightly.

It all was suddenly too much to hold back. He tried to choke back a sob, but he felt the tears he'd been holding back for weeks start to spill over. He knew he should be keeping it together, if not in front of Riley, at least in front of Bridget. But he just couldn't, not after everything.

Riley just held him, not saying or doing anything besides keeping an arm wrapped around his shoulders. He didn't know how long they stood there, but he cried like he never remembered doing in his life. He cried for Liam and all he was facing alone in Cordonia. He cried for all that Bridget had been subjected to already in her life. He cried for Riley and the position their family was in, one that he didn't know how to fix. He cried for agreeing to name Bridget heir, for not letting Riley talk him out of it back during their honeymoon. He cried for all the horrible things that had been said about them as parents, and not just over the past few weeks. But most of all, he cried for everyone he loved and cared about that he had let down so spectacularly.

Eventually, the tears slowed, a wave embarrassment rapidly taking the place of despair. He took a half step back, tugging out of Riley's tight hold, dropping his eyes to the ground beneath his feet.

"Sorry," he muttered as he kicked at some pebbles on the ground.

"For what? You’re allowed to be upset about this, Drake."

He let out a sigh and shook his head, "Yeah, I know. But I shouldn't burden you with it. Or her."

"You aren't burdening me with anything."

"Don't give me that, Riley. You're dealing with enough-"

"What, and you aren't? Drake, we are both overwhelmed and barely hanging on, and that was before the shitshow of today."

Drake didn’t know how to respond to that. All he felt like he could do was shake his head again, but Riley wasn’t done, apparently.

“When I was a fucking mess, ready to take off without a goddamn thought or plan or strategy, you fucking held things together for all of us. And I will never stop being grateful for that. I never would have made it a week without you.”

“That’s not tru-” Drake interrupted, but Riley just kept on going, stepping closer to him again, sliding her hand against his cheek.

“But I don’t need you to hold things together round the clock for the next few months, Drake. First of all, that is a fucking impossible goal given the shit we’re gonna face. But more importantly, we’re partners in this. I don’t need you to shield me from that fact that you’re feeling a whole bunch of shit.”

He took a breath before he could speak. Somehow, he felt the threat of tears again, even after all he had already unleashed. “I promised you I would be your protector, though.”

“Drake…”

“No, Riley. I promised you that at our wedding, and now-”

“-you have always protected me. You do everything in your power to keep me safe. To keep us safe,” she amended, tilting her head towards Bridget. “But don’t you remember that I said that I would be your protector in my vows?”

Of course he remembered. That day, that memory was burned into his brain. But her assessment that he had done everything he could to keep them safe felt false. At so many points along the way he had let her down. Let both of them down. Agreeing to name Bridget heir. Not taking Liam up on the exit strategy from that whole mess. The whole Aurvernal ordeal. With all of that, he’d been an awful protector of his wife and kid.

But even as he felt those thoughts swirling in his head, he just didn’t have the energy to challenge her on this. Not now, not tonight. Not only was he exhausted from the hours of driving after a mad dash through Athens to get back to his family when Olivia had called with the worst news, but he just felt emotionally spent as well. It’s like he could feel anymore at this point, and he certainly wasn’t ready to question someone as stubborn as Riley. All he wanted to do was sleep, but that would be a ways off. The tent still had to be set up, after all.

So he just let out a sigh and placed his hand over hers, still on his cheek, gently pulling it away as he threaded their fingers together. “Come on, Walker. Let’s just grab the rest of our stuff and set up for the night.”

They unloaded the rest of their bags, walking back to the selected campsite slowly. When they got there, Drake got to work, Riley helping as best she could without waking Bridget. He didn’t bother with the crib, knowing that Riley wasn’t going to risk waking Bridget again and chancing a crying fit by letting her out of her arms. He also suspected that Riley wasn’t going to want to be separated from Bridget after everything that went down today.

It was a slower process than he would have liked, but eventually they were done. Things were pitch dark by the time he had the tent up, the only light around coming as Riley held the flashlight for him. He supposed it was reassuring that no one had driven past.

As he moved their gear inside the tent, he wasn’t surprised when Riley started to unroll the sleeping bags as soon as he laid down the sleeping pads. What did surprise him was when she fully unzipped them and started to zip them together as one giant sleeping bag.

“Walker, there will be a gap at the bottom,” he said, crouching over one of the duffel bags and digging around to try and find some of their toiletries.

“Good thing it’s not too cold at night in the middle of August in Greece then.”

Drake twisted to look at her, so she gave him a little shrug as she sat there in the middle of the tent, Bridget still tucked against her as she futzed with the zippers. “I just… we should stick together.”

All he felt he could do was nod. He got what she was trying to tell him, the comfort she probably wanted for both of them. So, he didn’t fight her on it, just let her do her thing while he tracked down their toothbrushes and toothpaste, as well as her contact solution and glasses.

He stepped outside and dealt with his needs first, gently taking Bridget from her when she went to do the same. A few minutes later, she was crawling back into the tent and shimmying into the giant sleeping bag she created. She rolled over, reaching her arms out towards him, so he passed her Bridget, watching as she tucked their daughter in against her side, dropping a kiss on the top of her head. She glanced up at him after a few moments, her eyebrows raised above the frames of her glasses.

“Aren’t you coming to bed?”

“I think maybe I should keep watch-” Drake started, but Riley shook her head against the pillow.

“We’re both exhausted, Drake. We both need sleep so fucking badly. And let’s face it, if they find us here, it’s all over anyway.”

He couldn’t argue with a damn thing she said, so when she reached over and flipped open her crafted sleeping bag, he just slid in next to her, letting out a sigh of relief as she scooted over, settling in against him, with Bridget tucked between them.

Drake reached around to zip them in as Riley grabbed for the flashlight and flipped it off, dousing the tent in nearly complete darkness. He could just make out her eyes, staring at him as she threw an arm across his back. Things were quiet and still, the only sounds he could hear was their breathing. Bridget's little sleeping noises that almost sounded like snoring. Riley’s gentle and steady breaths. His own ragged sighs.

“We’re gonna get through this, Drake.” Riley’s statement was barely a whisper, but it felt so jarring. So loud.

“I hope so, Riley. But right-”

“No, I know we are going to get through this.”

He didn’t know how she could be so sure, have such conviction after everything had gone straight to hell. But she sounded confident, more like herself than she had in weeks. And maybe that was enough of a return to normal, or maybe his frazzled mind just wanted to cling to the thread of hope she was offering. Hell, maybe he was just too tired to care that she couldn’t actually know that as a fact. All he knew is that her words provided instant comfort, his eyes heavy as he reached over and slid a hand over her hip to her lower back, tugging her a bit closer in the process. If she said anything else after that, he had no idea, as for the first time since they’d left Cordonia, sleep came quickly and painlessly.

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myheadisinvaded · 5 years

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On With The Show... chapter 3/fuck feelings

Word count- 2,062

Warnings- curse words,drugs,drinking, I don’t know what else to list as always

A/N- feedback is appreciated, thanks for giving me a chance (if you read it) there will be a playlist for this so far the fist song is Heaven by Julia Michaels, On With The Show by Motley Crue, and Fuck Feelings by Olivia O’Brien. I’ll do links later.

Blair’s POV

We have been in the studio for about an hour now, mostly it’s just everyone fucking around doing their own thing. Mick and I have been working on my guitar skills this whole time. I feel like a stupid little kid picking up the guitar for the first time. I’m learning so much and realizing that even though I was good, I can be so much better. “Now you do it, all of it” Mick says, I’ve been learning one of my favorites by them, On With The Show. My hands get a little clammy but I’ve played it before, this is the cleaned up, Mick Mars taught version. Mick gets his bass situated, to play along so it doesn’t sound too weird.

I start the song, Nikki immediately looks over from across the room. Mick watches me as he plays too, “Frankie died just the other night…” my voice starts singing. “Some say it was suicide but we know, how the story goooes...” This catches Tommy’s attention and he smiles. “The boy was a man...” Tommy comes in as I sing and it boosts my confidence. “But you see, Frankie was fast. He was too fast to know. He wouldn’t go slow…” I keep going. “Well, on with the show. Going on with the show. Come on baby, No, no, no, Oh, my, my myyy.” The small solo comes up and close my eyes and go, get through this first one and I’ll be good. I look up at Mick after it and continue singing “He was bad. He was never good But one thing that he understood. And she knew, All those lies would come true…” Mick smiles and nods. The song continues, the second time the chorus comes along now, solo, here we go again, I close my eyes and focus, it feels so natural and awesome to be able to play this smoothly. I get all of it. Nikki claps. Vince is watching, face in awe as I keep singing. “Go on with the show, Going on with the show, Come on baby, No, no, nooo, Oh my my my my my myyyy. Oh baabyyyy” It ends. I take a deep breath and they’re all smiling. “Good?” I ask nervously. I knew there was no way it sounded as great as it does when they play but hopefully I did it justice. “You did great, Blair” Mick compliments, hell yes, I graduated from kid to my name! I look at the others. Tommy jumps up and comes over to hug me “Dude I didn’t know a girl could sound awesome singing our songs, you gave it like this new thing. I like it” he’s smiling as he nods, sitting down beside me.

Nikki’s POV

In the middle of the song Vinnie leaned over and whispered in my ear “She’s gonna make it far” Watching her sing and play a song about me, written by me. I’m not going to lie, it gave me chills. Her voice wasn’t what I had imagined would go along with the song but it weirdly fit. The solos, oh wow. I almost got a hard on, she’d get in to it and it looked amazing. I couldn’t help but clap. By the time the song was over, I was smiling bigger than I ever had in what felt like years. It gave me this little boy kind of happiness, even if the song was about the complete opposite. She makes sure everyone liked it and I chuckle to myself. After Tommy finishes his compliment I start talking. “It was amazing, Blair, I loved it. Tommy is right, you gave it this new feeling” I nod and hold her gaze. She smiles at me “Thanks, I really appreciate it” she’s talking to everyone, I can tell but we hold each other’s stare. Vinnie clears his throat and we stop, she looks at Mick and they start talking quietly, probably about guitars again. “So, that was great” Vince smiles and does a line from our tray we were sharing. “Yeah yeah” I nod as I do a couple myself. I stare at the notebook paper in front of me, random one liners here and there. They’ll become full songs, eventually. I take some blow on my finger and lick it. I sigh, I love this stuff.

I stand up and go over to Blair and Mick, they’re both just doing their own thing now. She seems to be practicing “Do you want that bass play time now?” I ask, offering my hand to help her off the couch. She takes it, setting the guitar down where she had been sitting.”Are you going to show me how to look as cool as you when playing it?” She asks giggling and smiling. “Of course, what kind of person would I be if I didn’t?” I take her to the room next to the studio we’re in. My bass and other things are in here. There’s a couch, two stools, and my favorite snack on my little tray. “Bump?” I ask as I do one more, she shrugs “Sure” and does one. “One more!” I encourage her and she laughs. I set it up for her and she does it. “Alright Nikki, now, bass?” I nod “Of course of course” I sit on the stool and she pulls the other one in front of me. “Use the one behind you’ I say as I pick another one up. “Now it’s not super hard to learn the basics, especially since you can already play guitar” she nods, keeping her eyes on me. “They are different though, keep that in mind.”

Half an hour later, she’s got the basics down. We end up on the couch, sipping on some Jack Daniel's. “My mom was not the happiest when I told her I’d rather be a musician than a lawyer.” she’s telling me about how she recently finished her first two years of college but decided to not go back and take a break. “Don’t get me wrong, I want to finish school eventually but I also want to chase my dream” the twinkle in her eyes and the dimpled smile as she says that. It’s cute. “Then do it! If you want it, make it happen.” I say happily. “I will, I'll make it happen. When the time is right” she gives me a little shrug.

After the whole bottle we were drinking is gone, mostly because of me,I feel a little more open. And she’s being more open too. Now she knows I never really got to know my father, I finish telling her that story, when I almost got my mother arrested. She’s buzzed but paying attention for sure. She’s quiet most of the time, listening to what I’m saying, commenting at the right time and the right words. She doesn’t say “I’m sorry”, like most people do and I appreciate that. It’s nothing to be sorry about, it’s life and sometimes it’s shitty that way. Fuck Deana anyways. “Your turn.”

Blair’s POV

My turn. “Well, I never got to know my father either, he left before I was even born. I don’t know his name, any of it. My mom gave me a whole new name and changed her last name to it as well. I think she did pretty good’ I say with a laugh “Yeah” Nikki agrees with a smile. “Well she went to school right after I was born became a dentist and was able to take care of us. She did great, got me an apartment down here, I worked while in college and saved up all that money so now that’s what I’m using as well as just a little bit of cash I get for performing in bars and such. She said she didn’t want me to waste my time but she also said that she wants me to do something I like, so if it works out, it works out.” My mom has always been super supportive, even when she didn’t like what I was doing. Which is mostly just the ‘music thing’ as she called it. I don’t know why but at first she couldn’t stand me being into all this music and want to play instruments, she would get so upset and start saying she didn’t want to lose me to it either. I get lost in my thoughts… “Are you ok?” asks a worried Nikki, I snap out of it. “Oh, yeah I’m ok, I was just thinking” I sigh and he looks at me “About?” I just give him a shrug.

“Don’t worry, it will happen, you have the talent, the face. It will happen.” he reassures me and it’s so amazing to me, I can’t help but smile like an idiot and he returns a smile just as big. “Do you want to party tonight? We’re here for two more days, I think and we get going on tour again.” I got this weird feeling, of course I want to party. It was fun as hell. “Hell yeah, I’m gonna miss partying with you guys” I laugh. Nikki stares at me, you can almost see a lightbulb go off above his head. “I have an idea, I’ll tell you after I run it by the guys and make sure they’re ok with it, I don’t want to pull a Tommy.” I look at him weird and he just shakes his head “Don’t worry about it babe”

I do as he says and just don’t worry about it, whatever he has planned, I’m sure it some crazy idea that may work out. I start feeling the warm fuzzy feeling again. The one I don’t really want to feel. I’ve learned about the way he is, it’s all over the tabloids, MTV, etc and I saw it first hand. While I was still sober enough to remember things from last night’s party I saw him take to girls to a room and I don’t think it was just to play bass with and talk about their fathers. As much as it’s my dream, I know I should let myself fall too hard. Bad boys are the ones that will bring heaven to you, make you feel warm and fuzzy and like you’re living the best life ever. In the end it always ends up being too good to be true, fuck feelings. He’s a rockstar. I don’t want to fall for you, Nikki.

I hate being this way, I watch his face and lips as he focuses on his bass. I hate always pushing feels away and trying to ignore. I want this to work out, at least as friends. I with the small conversations I’ve had here and there with Mick, Nikki, and even some with Tommy, I fit right in with these guys. I fit more in with them than I did in with people at school.

Nikki looks up at me, he smirks “Take a picture babe” I roll my eyes and flip him off. I reach over and take the notebook sitting on the small table, the pen is on it and turn to a clean page, I begin writing and now I feel him staring. “Take a picture sweetie” I send him a wink and he chuckles, shaking his head.

Third POV

Everyone was in the studio for another hour, Blair got a song written, Nikki and Tommy just messed around and Mick just worked on his playing, Vince had left early. He had to go meet his girl. Nikki brought up his idea to Mick and Tommy when Blair had left to go to the bathroom. Both liked the idea and ok’d it, Tommy made fun of Nikki. He denied everything. “It would just be fun to have an assistant that’s actually cool, and it’ll help her get her name out there.” he shrugs “Nothing else.” Mick watches him and sighs, maybe it will be good, for Nikki and maybe even the other guys too. She seems like a good kid. Tommy just laughs “Yeah sure, you’re just doing it to help someone out, gotcha dude” Tommy gives him a thumbs up and sarcastic nod, Nikki rolls his eyes and just goes back to doing drinking. It was almost time to start getting ready for another show.

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thefallenarbiter · 6 years

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Midnight Trick and Treat

“This is the perfect chance to take all those snacks,” Olive said with such glee that I had to glance over to make sure they didn't hear her. Evia hushed her before she could let out another booming cry of desire. Olives ears quickly perked down, a pout was on her face from being hushed. I watched as Evia rolled her eyes but gave a quick lick to her ears. The fur on Olive's cheeks somehow turned a rosy red from blushing. But her ears perked back up, a wolfy grin was on her face again.

I held in a groan. This was was not a good plan. We were hidden between the grass, its long blades kept both me and Olive hidden but Evias horns poked through when she shifted her weight. Looking back at the ground I watched as they chatted between one another. I noticed a pattern as one would move their mouths and the others would laugh not long after. Olive followed my gaze but her eyes were stuck on the unguarded bags of treats.

A devilish grin formed on Olives face, ”We gotta get those treats. Ill split all the bags with you two.” she said.

“I dunno Olive, It doesn't sound like a very good-” I stopped when I looked back over at Olive. A grin was placed on her mouth while her eyes tarted between me and the treats. I nearly shivered when I looked at Evia. Half her face was hidden behind Olives but I could see her eyes narrowed dangerously at me with a scowl. When our eyes met she started to mouth something to me. I stared at her mouth, what is she trying to say to me-..Oh. Her claws began to tap the ground impatiently.

I laughed softly, ”Oh god Olive, I knew leaving all the ideas to you was just a fantastic idea! Nothing will go wrong!” I said with the biggest, fakest smile I could muster. You couldn't blame me for lying. You really couldn't when you were stuck between pleasing a giant warrior and a tiny dog who could make you regret anything if you upset her.

“S-so what's our plan?” I asked, the tapping stopped. I held back a sigh of relief at least one of them is pleased with my answer.

“Oh it's pretty simple, we're gonna sneak up right up to them and they won't even notice a thing! It's gonna be great!”

Oh my god, we're going to die. Were so dead. Dead,dead,dead. She's going to get us killed! I laughed nervously. Maybe I can eat a few candies before they catch us. Yeah, that sounds less bad than dying on an empty stomach I thought. The panic I was feeling felt less bad when I thought of this.

“Well, we better get this over and done with! I'm just DYING to get all that candy.”

Olive must have agreed with me because her face lit up but quickly disappeared in the mass of grass as she crawled away.

Evia smirked at me, ”If all hell breaks loose and I have to choose one of you, I'm choosing Olive.” her smirk widened when my eyes grew in size with my mouth agape. She quickly slithered after Olive. I stayed where I was for a moment before following suit. The grassed softly brushed my sides as I crawled through slowly. When I lost sight of Evia I peeked my head out to see a large white wolf sitting on a bench. I tilted my head as a bag of candy was right under them. They were distracted by the messages on their phone. I peered at the candy and nearly sighed in relief. The wire was under their leg to keep it from falling which meant one less person after us during the run.

I quickly hid back into the safety of the grass and proceeded to follow the scent of both Evia and Olive. My ears tilted towards the left at the sound of rushing water. I suddenly felt thirsty but pushed on. I spent a few seconds crawling before stopping. Evia was facing me and when she saw me she pushed me past her. When I was right next to Olive she stopped, I glanced around than stared at Olive puzzled.

Her eyes moved to the area ahead of us, I followed her gaze than wished I had made them both upset. The group was right in front of us, each one chatting away as their bags laid helplessly on the bench closest to them. I looked back at Olive who looked at me expectantly. I quickly looked away so she wouldn't see my panicked expression.

I slowly began to crawl forward and paused when one of them shifted more than 60 degrees. When I made it to the bench safely, I observed the bags, each had different animals which held the candies inside. I slowly moved my head forward, grabbing of the largest bag which Evia helped me put down. Once it was released she had a firm hold on the end. I then grabbed ahold of two sets of strings, I pulled softly until the bags were softly nestled on the ground. Olive reached forward, bit onto the wires and held them in her mouth like Evia.

I glanced at the last bag, it's pumpkin eyes staring intently at me. I gulped nervously. I

slowly took a step forward with my head outward to bite the string. With a snap, the twig underneath my claws broke in half. Any conversation that the group had halted, they all turned towards me all at once to see the source of the noise.

I smiled nervously, ”Hello! My name is Sona. It's nice to meet all of you-” I paused when Olive and Evia made a run for it. The group let out shocked cries looking between me and the runaways. I bit into the wire and made a dash for it. The sounds of feet stomping and yelling were right behind me. This is all Olives fault.

Birthday gift for @Spoopy-snek

Don't kill me pls

So For your bday, I decided to draw a group picture that involves your friends. Side note I'm sorry if I forgot anyone. I tried finding everyone and drawing them but again I'm sorry if I forgot anyone.;n; But If I did miss any close friend go ahead and comment saying that you were forgotten so when I do something big like this again I can add all her friends.

Happy Birthday old lady!!!! I hope you have a fantastic bday and get to celebrate it, friends and family. DONT DO DRUGS. Drugs are restricted on your bday and I will steal all dem drugs for myself >: ) BUt ANyway… Happy birthday to my closest buddy! <33333 You mean so much to me and always got to use your bday as a way to spoil you with love and art cuz you deserve it!!! Even tho you're a major butthead but two can play with fire!!! I really hope you have a fantastic day!! you so much. I'm so thankful to have met you and I can't believe we've been friends for 6 years???!!! Wow, time really flies I can't believe we're so old now. You meet me when I was basically a smol gorl. Like much wow were both getting so freaking old. (as my lollipop decides that falling is a better idea than living,,,) But again I'm so freaking thankful we're friends, you've been there for me for so long and I can't thank you enough for sticking with my ugly butt. You helped me through much whether it be mentally or with anything. You've been there for me and when I get money I'm gonna try to repay you for everything that you've helped me through with gifts. You're my closest friend Olivia and without you, I would be in a different place. I doubt I would be the same if it weren't for you. You always had my back no matter once. Every time I lost someone close to me whether it be family or relationship wise you've helped me stay strong and keep going. Honestly ilu so much you big softy and I'm so sorry we don't hang out enough. I really want to return the favor and help you in any way I can because you're my best friend Olivia. Were both total nerds and goofballs who love videos games way to much and basically kill our characters lmao. I can't wait to spend the rest of our life as besties. We need to seriously meet in person tho. We have been friends for so long but I only ever see you through your photos. We have to meet eventually because your my best friend and we've been through thick and thin together. If we don't meet I'm sending the squirrel after you!!!! I'm so glad we have each other even if we lost all our other friends through time even tho I miss them, I can't wait to spend our time together through hell and heaven. We're gonna kick life's butt and get through everything together. Hopefully, we both can hang out more often because we're both busy bees and never get the chance ;n; I still can't believe we both happened to join DA around the same time and managed to start talking right after. If it weren't for you I would have been dead on that website a year after I joined. Anyway, ilu and I wish you the biggest Happy Birthday you spoopy butt. I would attempt to give you the biggest hug I can muster but my arms are too short :,,,D

Explanation of each drawing

Golden Skull Zayn with Olive ----- When I did the three doodles in the speedpaint I was planning a creepy vibe with each one. So for this one I wanted to show off the fact that parts of Zayn are indeed made of gold. It was meant to go with his design just to fit the color combo but I decided that any character that has future sight have gold parts to them. It would be very rare for a kaian to have all gold bones but I figured it would fit the prophet when they start to loose their mind to the visions. There's always a price to pay when you can see into the future. Poor Olive just happened to be around when he ripped the skin off during one of his major visions. But don't worry she lives and he gets his face back.

Sona and Loch ------- I wanted to have Sona soothing one of Lochs sessions of pain. Not much to say here other than I wanted to have her kind of grumpy looking and comfort him since in our story for them she kinda uses him for bad to get what she wants so she gets a body.

Olive's Secret Protector ---------- Again not much to say other than Evia is using her dark powers to blend into the shadows to keep an eye on olive.

Run Run from the Scary Mob ------ The main drawing that I spent the most time on that comes with a speedpaint. For this one I wanted to show off our main characters plus a side character that she loves. When I made this I realized I wanted to make it big just for Olivia so I decided to include all her friends that I could think of or find. Each character is dressed in something to show off the fact that each one is trick and treating for Halloween. I'm pretty proud of how everyone turned out and how most the background turned out.

Experiment Brewing ------ A little sketch where I had an idea that maybe Olive wasn't a real Kaian and was actually a experiment made by the banished shadow go. I like the idea that maybe he made her so he could put himself into a form onto the home planet of the Kaians than seek the other gods out for revenge. This was before he used Evia as a host even if she's in control. He hoped that when Olive was ready he could take her body over. Sadly the scientist who made her on the home planet did not complete the project and Olive had gone missing when the lab was destroyed. Funny thing is that not long after Olive was found by Evia when in a field of flowers. The god believes Olive is dead but I like to think that he takes over Olive during the final battle to use her to summon him when the other banished god is summoned by Calla. If he did succeed in taking her body over than she would look like her portals. I like the idea of the gods portals and powers looking like this but his are purple. The crystals on her help power the portals and powers she uses which are basically just like the gods expect weaker since she couldn't handle all his power in her body.

Selfie ----- A head doodle to show off Olives looks frontview. First concept sketch of how she would look. Also based on one of Olivia's doodles of Olive with crystals imbedded in her body. I decided to expand on that.

Design ---- A design for Olivia to repay the design she made for me >:0

Thirsty as heckles ---- Olive ready for some Evia but decided on the way to bed that she also likes Zayn a lot. Evia stops what they planned to go find Zayn.

Official Design for Olive as a experiment ---------. I wanted to show off the fact that she would be constantly dripping from the gods powers that she barely holds in her body.

This is War ------- Zayn has a vision in a different timeline where Olive chooses Evia over him and betrays him by killing him. He mistakes it for it being in this timeline and plans to repay the debt by killing them first. Looks like everyone has to fight with the person they love eventually.

Left to right are the corresponding characters belonging to their creators

Big brown and green wolf, Evia dressed as Dracula belongs to me

Tiny yellow doge, Olive wearing snake onesie belongs tp @spoopy-snek

smol purple and blackbird, Sona dressed as a messed up Egyptian belongs to me

spooky dog on a broom, Ney dressed as a witch belongs to @neyzilla

Purple dragon in sleeping wear, Hobbes dressed in a dragon onesie belongs to @hobbledragon

Tall skelelly boi being attacked by hungry doggy, Calabaza dressed as a skelly belongs to @anxietywithaspook

The white dog that shakes, Milk belongs to @milkfake

Mummy that is so done with you, Wilhelm dressed a mummy belongs to @wilhelm-the-undead-man

A woman who wants her candy back, Shaman dressed as a literal Shaman belongs to @missmcgregor

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causinginvisibledamage · 6 years

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Book: The Royal Romance Pairing: Maxwell x MC (Riley) Word Count: 1900+ Summary: Riley is having a rough time, Maxwell is having feelings and doesn’t realize it. Cuddles ensue. Pure self-indulgent fluff at the beginning of Book 2. (AO3)

The days were winding down before Riley's return to court, and Maxwell was more optimistic than ever that she was going to blow them all away. Not that she hadn't done fantastically before! But, well, Bertrand admittedly had a point about the benefit a little preparation could grant. Now she would be returning with all the courtly weapons the brothers could think to arm her with; she knew all the formal dances, could avoid or defuse most international incidents over dinner or tea, and could consistently run 5K without stopping (though complaining as long as she had breath).

(He mostly ignored the complaints, as long as she kept responding to his post-run “same time tomorrow?” with a nod along with her eyeroll. Plus, now that he had a partner, his own time was down, so yay!)

By now they'd covered all the important bases and were starting to move on to more obscure ones. Today, Bertrand, in his infinite wisdom, had insisted on training Riley in the ancient art of fan language--just in case. Maxwell really couldn't see that one coming back into fashion, but once she'd gotten the hang of the basics, the two of them did have fun using it sneakily to mock Bertrand. The elder Beaumont had eventually caught on, but rather than being annoyed was strangely more pleased that the lesson had stuck.

Yep, she was doing great and soon would be heading back into the fray… And Maxwell was not at all disappointed at the thought that he'd soon have to be sharing her time with more than Bertrand. Because that would make him a big selfish jerk, which he wasn't.

Except maybe he was, because Maxwell was enjoying his days more consistently than he had in years. If the universe had played out fairly, she should be off in the palace with Liam, freshly engaged and ready to start the new life she had fully earned. But instead she was stuck here, with him. If he was being honest, it was just fun having Riley around. He genuinely liked spending time with her; someone who not only listened to his latest big ideas but tossed back ways to improve them, who threw two-person dance parties with him when they got bored, and deflected Bertrand’s ire when another of his inevitable screw ups came to light.

Tonight, Maxwell had been about to rewatch Return of Death Ghost’s Revenge for the hundredth time when he thought to ask if she might want to join him. Bertrand insisted his collection was frivolous and nothing but bad taste, but sometimes a guy just liked to shut his brain off and unwind. He hoped she would get that; months ago he wouldn’t have even tried, but she had a habit of surprising him.

But as he approached her door, he got a different kind of surprise. It uh. Kind of sounded like she was screaming from really far away?

His knock was erratic with mild panic. “Riley? Riley, are you okay???”

Pause.

“Come in.”

He started breathing again as he pushed open the door and stepped inside. The lights were off, and it took a minute for him to make out where she was. She’d been lying facedown on the bed, but had her head raised up to look at him. “Hey Maxwell.” Her head dropped back to the comforter, where frustrated groaning resumed.

“So uhhh…” He approached hesitantly. “Is this about the napkins again? Because honestly, I'm with you. Whatever gets the job done should be fine.”

“Okay, seriously, if an alliance is fragile enough to be broken by one fold, then you've got bigger problems.” she huffed, then shook her head. “Wait, no, this isn't on Bertrand. I upset myself by being an idiot.”

He frowns. “You're not an idiot.”

“Sweet, but incorrect. what's the one thing I told myself I wasn't gonna do on my own? ” She turns to scowl at something; he follows her gaze to see that she'd flung her phone on the ground. “I looked at the news.”

He winces. “Oh. Oh no.”

“Yeah, I knew it was gonna upset me, and I did it anyway. I just wanted to know what's going on, you know?”

He does, and he knows what she must have seen. Trend had just published a profile on Madeline, showcasing all the things that made her a fantastic choice for queen, coupled with flowery prose over how happy she was “finding new love” with Liam.

Her huff of air was swallowed up by the fluffs of blanket.

He sat down on the edge of the bed. “Anything I can do?”

“Casually push Madeline off a cliff?”

“Okay, we’ll put that on the list, but anything short of murder?”

“Dang man, I thought we were friends.” He could hear the grin in her voice. But when she turned to look at him, it was gone, replaced by a thoughtful look. “Actually… you wanna cuddle?”

He blinked. “That… I… What?”

“Cuddle.” She looks uncertain. “Do… do you guys not do that here?”

“No we do! Probably.” His face didn't seem to know what expression to make. “Just uh. No one's ever asked me before.”

“What, really?” That got her sitting halfway up, leaning on her elbows to squint at him with a playfully dubious smile. “ Nobody's wanted to cuddle with Maxwell Beaumont? No way.”

He huffed, suddenly self-conscious. “Well, I mean. It’s not like--” he cut himself off. “I mean… Well, there was one girl once…” He thought back, considering. “It was nice!” Actually, now that he thought about it, he’d liked it more than the sex.

“Oh.” She looked like she actually might feel sorry for him, which just made him feel worse about the whole thing. You really didn't think cuddle experience was a thing that would come up in casual conversation.

How he felt must have shown on his face, because her expression quickly changed to something more encouraging. “Well, don't feel bad, I had to teach Hana too, so maybe it really is a commoner thing!” She looked towards the window, her smile fading. “I hope she's okay.” She picked at a thread on the comforter. “I miss her.”

“I do too,” he admitted with a frown. Hana leaving just wasn’t fair.

She gave him a grateful smile. Then she continued, “Look, forget it, you don't have to--”

He interrupted her by flopping onto the bed. “Let's do this!”

“Oh!” She blinked in surprise, and he was pleaded to see her familiar grin spread back across her face. “That's the spirit! Actually, maybe a little too much spirit for cuddling.”

“Right. Toning it down.”

“Alright, you get comfortable and I’ll work around you. I’m apparently the expert around these parts, after all,” she waggled her eyebrows at him teasingly.

He started out lying on his side looking at her.“Is this--?” He flipped to his back. “How do I--?”

“Here, put your arm out? No, uh. Heh. The one on my side.” Crap, he was not passing this class so far. He flushed slightly as he switched arms. That finally seemed to be right, as she crawled closer, lying her head on his offered arm, before gently placing her own across his chest.

She settled. In that moment, the only movement was their breathing.

“ ...Oh,” he said eloquently.

“Is this okay?” Her voice was soft. “I'm not crushing your arm?”

“No, yeah! This is…warm?”

She laughed. “Alright, good?”

“I mean, it's nice!” Tentatively, he placed a hand over her arm. “I feel like a teddy bear.”

Another chuckle. Maybe that wasn’t the right thing to say? But, perhaps sensing his unease, she squeezed him reassuringly and he relaxed.

Then, he heard her say, in a slightly embarrassed voice, “When I was younger, I had a teddy bear named Sir Fluff.”

Now he laughed, delighted with this new piece of information. “He sounds very brave.”

“He was!” He could tell from her voice that she was smiling again, which was good. “I actually had him for a good long while. He helped me through some rough nights. Very good listener. But…” her sigh tickled his neck. “I lost him moving apartments.”

“Oh no!” His heart gave a pang at the thought of the poor little guy, once so loyal, all lost and alone. “I hope he found a safe place.”

She chuckled. “Me too.”

He could feel her smile against his arm, the movement of her breathing. A sleepy contentment washed over him. His own breathing slowed. Man, is this what he’d been missing out on? The thought clicked that this was it, this was the feeling he’d been chasing, all those nights bar hopping, finding someone willing to be charmed long enough for a quick session back at their place. Just… warmth and comfort shared between two people who trusted each other.

Without thinking about it, he idly started stroking her back with the arm she was laying on. Riley responded with a sigh, leaning into his touch.

This……changed the mood of things. Maxwell tensed. ...Oh. …Oh no.

He shifted slightly, trying to get ahold of himself.

Alright Maxwell, this is our buddy Riley we're talking about. A friend! For friending! Just because she's funny and pretty and soft and actually laughs at your jokes is no reason to be weird about it. That's what friends do!

She shifted against him.

“Bertrand wanted me to tell you about tomorrow's lessons!” He burst out suddenly.

She jumped, a startled laugh escaping her. She moved a little back from him, which was. Good.

Ah yes, talking about Bertrand was the least sexy thing he could think of! He tried picturing Bertrand’s reaction if he caught Maxwell perving on their sponsored suitor. That was an instant bucket of cold water if there ever was one.

Tomorrow was due to be some sort of summary of international trade laws, but they soon made their way over to speculating just how many duels had been fought over proper spoon placement. They passed the sleepy evening that way, winding from topic to topic until he interrupted himself with a huge yawn in the middle of a story about the childhood snowball fight where he’d taken out Olivia and she’d retaliated by plunging him into a snowbank.

“Whoa, was that your jaw cracking? I felt that.”

He wiggled it experimentally, knocking against her head and making her giggle. “It's not the company boring me, I promise.”

“Well obviously. I am incredibly interesting.”

“Most interesting queen-to-be I've ever met.”

He felt her lips shift into a smile, but it was brief. “Thanks Maxwell. You… always have so much faith in me.”

“Well… of course. You can do anything.”

Silence fell between them.

Abruptly, Riley sat up. “Alright, it's getting pretty late. Off to bed with you, Lord Beaumont!”

He shivered involuntarily at the sudden retreat of her warmth. “Huh? Oh.” He yawned again, sitting up. “Hmm. This was nice.” He was quite sleepy.

“Yeah, it was!” Eyes still closed, he felt her ruffle his hair and smiled contentedly. “Thanks, man.”

“Anytime.” Her hand was gone and he was a little sad about that.

“Man, you really are a morning person, huh?” She sounded amused. “I'm the opposite, I'm wide awake now.”

“Bertrand’s like, both somehow.” He blinked at her slowly. “I kinda think he's a vampire.”

“How is he with garlic? Wait, no , you're not distracting me. You're about to fall asleep and I'm sure you'd much rather do it in your bed than on top of mine.”

In his sleepy honesty, he thought she might be wrong about that. But even though he let her shoo him back to his room then, she left him with a warm glow which stayed with him all the way into slumber.

#v writes things #the royal romance #maxwell beaumont #riley brooks

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maylovexhs · 6 years

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Hi darlings! It’s May! So first thing first, THIS IS NOT AN IMAGINE OR UPDATE. ITS JUST ME TELLING MY EXPERIENCE ABOUT MY HARRY SHOW. YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ IT IF YOU WANT TO. I saw a bunch of people doing threads and posting about how wonderful their time is and I was like I want to do it! I, in no way am trying to show off or brag about it. I just want to post it here because I’m friendly with y’all and I’ll just have the story on here for safe keeping. So ignore if you want(I put the keep reading for that) but yeah here’s my concert experience. WARNING: BELOW THE CUT IS A LONG LONG LONG POST. ENJOY THE SHAKY VIDEOS AND MY ANNOYING VOICE. This all happened one month ago ughh procrastination is the devil

I WENT TO SEE HARRY FUCKING STYLES LIVE IN CONCERT NIGHT TWO MSG AND I BLEW A KISS AT HARRY AND HE BLEW A KISS BACK.

. . .

he knows I exist.

Harry Styles knows I goddamn exist.

okay, let’s me backtrack a day or two before my concert. Actually a week, shall we?

So, it’s a week before Harry’s shows in nyc and I’m at home in Brooklyn with no harry tickets for none of the nights because of course 1. Both nights are sold out 2. I couldn’t buy tickets online from strangers cause y’all ever heard of scams? So, I’m at home in misery cause all over my twitter all my mutuals are tweeting how excited they are to go and I’m like “fUcKiNg GrEaT!” I’m pretty sure I posted shit of me gloating on here. ANYWAYS FAST FORWARD TO JUNE 21st, 2018(Harry’s first night/show at msg) and I’m on my living rooms couch on twitter. AND I DONT KNOW IF IT WAS THE UNIVERSE SAYING ‘WE GOT YOU HONEY’ or just a coincidence but the first thing i See is on my timeline is a tweet from ticketmaster saying along the lines of “Due to miscounting . . . There are tickets available for Harry Styles at msg night two . . .SALE” and I . . .i can’t even explain how I felt. It was like destiny. Like “SIS YOU WERENT MEANT TO GET TICKETS A LONG TIME AGO YOURE SUPPOSED TO GET THEM NOW. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE” and I was like “fuck it! I’m going to see my mans in concert and I couldn’t care about how shitty the seats are. It’s Harry of all people” so, I download the Ticketmaster app and ask my mom and my chill ass mom is like ‘really? The day before? This is a sign. God must really want you to see harry” and I’m like “YES”. So I use my moms card(I payed her back after) and buy the two tickets. AND LET ME JUST SAY! THE TICKETS! I GOT LUCKY WITH THE TICKETS. My tickets were seat 8 and 9, row 7, section 113

DO YALL KNOW WHERE THAT IS? THATS RIGHT NEXT TO THE STAGE! THATS THE SIDE BACK OF THE STAGE. And remember Harry’s stage is 360 honeys so I was hyped up. Honestly I thought it’s row 7, it’s not like we are in front! It’s not like he’s gonna see us. I’m bringing this up later cause well, you’ll see. But just remember I’m row 7. So I print out my tickets and I text my friends “HOES GUESS WHAT?” And I immediately text my best friend emmy(her nickname) “BISH IDGAF ABOUT YOUR STRICT PARENTS I WILL DRAG AND SNEAK YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR THIS WE AINT MISSING HARRY. WE AINT MISSING SEEING THE MAN IVE BEEN IN LOVE WIG SINCE 2012” and thank god her parents said yes. Emmy and I spent like the next two hours like “Oh let’s make a sign that’s says sing Shania Twain still the one Harry!” and we talked about “what should we do in the city tomorrow before Harry’s show?” Our show day was a very busy day for us. Ready? Let’s go!

So, in the morning I had a college orientation with Emmy and my other friend(I’m calling her Anna for privacy reasons). I arrived there early so from 9:15 am, Anna Emmy and I were learning about our college and making our schedule. We left around 12:30 pm. Emmy and I decided to leave for the city after but we had to pee first so THANK YOU ANNA FOR LIVING CLOSE TO COLLEGE AND ALLOWING US TO USE YOUR BATHROOM. GRACIAS. Oooooh, fun fact: June 22nd was also my graduation date but Emmy and I wasn’t going in the first place so YAY!

Anyways we said goodbye to Anna and we took the train to the city. We stopped at canal street and went to Greenwich village? Why? My friend Emmy is a huge fan of Justin Bieber and 5 Seconds of Summer so we were just like “fuck it! Let’s go hunting for them! Maybe today’s our lucky day” so we are in Greenwich which justin was spotted in but with our luck we couldn’t find him. We were like ‘oh well! Let’s just stroll around’ so we walk and GUESS WHICH APARTMENT BUILDING WE WERE ABOUT TO WALK PAST BY?

HARRY’S. WE WERE ABOUT TO PAST HARRYS APARTMENT. WE WERE ABOUT TO WALK WHERE HARRY WALK. IM TOO HEADASS FOR HIM(btw I don’t stalk him, I didn’t stand outside his building, his apartment address is publicly online and I did not mean to walk past his apartment, IT JUST HAPPENED) I take out my phone and tell emmy where we were and luckily I took a sneak picture low quality of the building. BUT EMMY! EMMY! She was like “I WANT A GOOD QUALITY PICTURE!” Emmy goes, takes a picture of the doors and the security guards give her a mean look from inside the building. And we are like “ABORT MISSION! ABORT!” Moving on, we’re like if we can’t find Justin, we’ll try 5 Seconds of Summer. And guess what? We can’t find them either! At this time it was like, 3 or 4 Pm? And I really need to sit down cause ya girl has no energy whatsoever. So we take the train and go to the area where msg is and we get pizza. Btw msg area is mad busy. Like really busy. Continuing, we finish our pizza. We go check out the outside of msg and I learn that we aren’t allowed in until 6 pm(I heard it from girls outside) And i’m like okay? So Emmy and I buy and get these pride flags and we go to wait and sit outside where the driveway is. So we wait there for like an hour hoping we see anyone but we don’t cause that’s out fucking luck. But we saw like a dressing bag like the ones where suit and dresses are carried in. We highly doubt it was Harry’s suit but hey? Oh and I took a picture right here

Anyways it 6, we go inside, get through scanning and while we are in line, everyone decided to airdrop one direction memes and of course I joined

We were let in at 6:45 pm and we were going to our section. By going, WE RAN. Literally we had to be stopped by a security guard to see our tickets. I’m getting off point but we get to our section and I’m expecting us to be in the middle cause it says row 7. And Emmy tells me we are in the second row and I was just like “??? Our ticket say row 7” and Emmy shows me that the section starts with row 6 and I was just like “BITCH WE’RE CLOSER THAN I THOUGHT. WE’RE ROW 2 ACTUALLY”. So we were seated between where Sarah and Adam was going to be. This was our view

Then we put our shit down, I went to get my harry merch(I got a shirt) and we sat there in our seats waiting for Kacey to start at 8:30 and KACEY IS SO CUTE YALL HAVE NO IDEA SHE IS THE YEEHAW QUEEN. I USUALLY DONT LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC BUT THIS SISTER GOT SOME TUNES. Here’s me singing along(eXcUsE my cringy premature voice I’m 19) I was going crazy during crazy

Then Kacey leaves and we gotta wait another 40 minutes for Harry. I kid you not the whole arena was singing Olivia by 1d even the security guard was shook af

As I was saying, we had to wait 40 minutes more for Harry so it was like 9:30 and FUCKING FINALLY HE COMES OUT AND I SWEAR EVERYONE LOST IT

ONLY ANGEL STARTED TO PLAY AND EVERYONE WAS SCREAMING. HE WAS SHINING IN HIS GODDAMN CALVIN KLEIN BLUE SUIT AND ISTG I KEPT TELLING MYSELF “BLOW KISSES AT HARRY! BLOW KISSES AT HARRY” SO THIS BISH HARRY COMES TO OUR SECTION I BLOW A KISS AT HIM LIKE THIS AND IDK IF HE SAW ME BUT HE BLEW A KISS WITH HIS HAND TO OUR SECTION AND YES IT GOT CAUGHT ON FUCKING CAMERA HOES

I WAS FUCKING SHAKING. CAUSE I WAS CERTAIN DURING THE CHAIN HE BLEW A KISS BACK AND IF HE BLEW A KISS AT ME DURING ONLY ANGEL IT WOULD BE THE FIRST OF TWO my heart is racing just remembering it. I’ll continue. So he finishes only angel and he introduces himself and he’s so cute I can’t even

Then they play woman and someone threw a bra on stage and I was screaming inside

Then they play Carolina, Stockholm syndrome, Anna, esny, jalboyh and finally fucking MEDICINE. I was going crazy during medicine as we all should. Sarah and Adam were fucking ripping the song up and I couldn’t be more proud. Then Harry talked to the crowd more and THIS HOE CALLED THE BACK(aka us) HIS BEST FRIENDS AND IM JUST LIKE THANK YOU. Then they start to play meet me in the hallway and the goddamn back screen goes down, blocking us from seeing Harry perform the song. EMMY AND I KEPT SHOUTING DISRESPECT AND THE GIRLS IN FRONT OF US WERE LAUGHING. then he the screen lifted up again as he finished the song and he goes down the walk to the b stage with mitch. Mitch is so cute fam. And we could see him get a bunch of flowers and I’m like “it’s what he deserves”. So he’s on b stage now and he begins to sing sweet creature and iicf AND DURING IICF WE ALL HAD OUR FLASHLIGHTS ON IT WAS SO NICE AND LIKE HEAVEN. MY BABY HARRY STARTED TO TEAR UP DURING THE SONG AND I JUST WANTED TO HUG HIM. OOH AND WHILE THEY WERE ON B STAGE, SARAH ADAM AND CLARE WENT OFF THE MAIN STAGE. ADAM AND SARAH WERE TALKING OFF STAGE NEAR US I THINK I HAVE A VIDEO BUT ITS TOO DARK. BUT BASICALLY THEY WERE TALKING AND I GUESS IT WAS ABOUT HOW THEY WERE PLAYING CAUSE ADAM KEPT MAKING A GUITAR GESTURE AND ADAM HAD SUCH A GREAT SMILE AND SARAH WAS SO HAPPY So Harry and Mitch come back and they all play two ghosts and then wmyb

They finish wmyb and Harry talks to the crowd. He talks to a fan who was visiting from another country and he’s like “what did you do here?!?” being all excited. Then he talks to the girl who came with “I AM WITH CHILD” sign and then we found out she lied and harry criticizes her and he’s like “WE’RE ALL TRYING!” and I couldn’t stop laughing. Emmy said she lost some brain cells during that part. So harry begins to talk about sign of the times and me and Emmy were like “let’s shout FUCK TRUMP out loud”. WE DIDNT. We didn’t have the chance to but WE TRIED. The girls in front of us were smiling and laughing at us. I blame Harry cause he kept on talking so he couldn’t hear it anyways. Anyways sign of the times plays and everyone has their flashlights on. IT WAS MAGICAL.

So harry and the band leaves to do something and I’m like “wtf u going” so I start to record and they go under the stage. I guess they were doing a photo down there but they come back on a minute later.

They perform from the dining table and I WAS SO SAD I WAS READY TO FIGHT WHOEVER HURT MY BABY. then from the dining table was over and Harry’s like “I’m gonna sing another song” AND I FUCKING TOLD EMMY “WATCH IT BE STILL THE ONE” and BITCH I WAS CORRECT. So he brings Kacey on

They start to sing still the one and I was in my emotions fam and Kacey wore the rainbow dress and I was like YES QUEEN AND THEY BOTH MADE SO MUCH EYECONTACT IT WAS SO CUTE. Then Kacey leaves and they start to play the chain and I was like HELL YEAH AND DURING THE CHAIN HARRY SAID “DAMCE LIKE NO ONE IS NEXT TO YOU. YOURE NOT GOING TO SEE THESE PEOPLE TOMORROW” AND THAT HIT ME AND EVERYONE ELSE AND I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD THE WHOLE ARENA WAS SHAKING LIKE I COULDNT EVEN STAND BECAUSE I WAS AVOUT TO FALL FROM THE AMOUNT OF JUMPING GOING ON AND THIS IS WAS WHEN HE BLEW A KISS AT ME. SO ITS LIKE THE END OF THE SONG AND HE COMES TO THE BACK AND IMMEDIATELY START TO BLOW KISSES AT HIM WITH BOTH HANDS LIKE BEFORE AND I WAS PRETTY SURE HE SAW ME BECAUSE HE BLEW A KISS WITH BOTH HANDS IN MY DIRECTION AND THEN HE DID THAT TO ALL TE OTHER SECTIONS. BITCH I WAS SHAKING.

The chain ends and they start to play kiwi and I get sad af because I know it’s the last song and harrrys like “this is the last song” and inside I’m like “I KNOW HOE DONT RUB IT IN MY FACE” I have to applaud miss Sarah jones whose fucking drumming was amazing. She fuckingkilled it. Kiwi plays and everyone was losing their shit having the times of their lives and then in the middle of kiwi some girl splashed Harry with water and he sings “YOURE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT” HE GOES STRAIGHT SAVAGE AND SOAKS HER AND EVERYONE AROUND. kiwi finishes and Harry does the whale water spit and oh my god it was ICONIC AF. Harry leaves first then the rest of the band and I was just standing there like SHIT. Emmy had to drag me out. I felt wasted after the concert IT WAS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE. LET ME JUST TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO SEE HARRY LIVE GO FOR IT DONT MISS YA CHANCE. A WHOLE DIFFERENT SIDE OF ME EMERGED THAT NIGHT SO THANK YOU HAROLD I HAD PROBABKY THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE THANKS TO YOU. EMMY AND I GOT TO DANCE WITH OUR PRIDE FLAGS AND WERE SO HAPPY. HARRY MAKES HIS SHOWS SO WELCOMING AND HAPPY. MISS CLARE IS SO CUTE. MITCH AND SARAH ARE SUCH PARENTS AND ADAM IS SUXH A GREAT FRIENDLY PERSON I MISS THEM SO MUCH THATS IT I MISS MY CONCERT SO MUCH I CRY

ALL PHOTO AND VIDEOS ARE CREDITED TO ME AND MY FRIENDS. DONT STEAL. I’ll post the full versions of the videos i have on my twitter. TUMBLR IS A DICK FOR ONLY ALLOWING GIFS of them.

Btw should I also write about my 5sos iheartradio experience and seeing Harry at the Dunkirk premiere? Tell me if ya want to know byeeee

#storytime with maylovexhs #my show #the gifs are horrible quality #I miss harry so much

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sweatytyrantwhispers · 3 years

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Part 4 of things my friends do that make me love them even more:

- both rachel and cristine are artistically talented and i cant fucking wait to see them become famous doing the things they love (i know theyll becoem famous i believe in them tht much) (rachel has a great singing voice; cristine has a great singing voice, knows how to play various intstruments, loves acting, and can paint/draw amazingly)

-seth tells me some catchphraes his fav youtubers say whenever we talk

-none of my friends (nor I) knows how to react or what to say most of the time, especially when it comes to gift giving and compliments; we’re all oblivious and awkward people that don’t understand society

-andy messes up on what to say to customer service people when its evening/night time cus we usually go out around tht time but he’s used to sauing have a good day

-andy also hates intersections so he’ll pretend hes walking in the other direction (away frm the intersection), stand on the sidewalk and pretend hes doing something, or take a whole other route if theres a car nearing the intersection bc he says it feels awkward

-rachel’s favorite animals are dogs and raccoons so when i send her a post abt raccoons she gets rly excited and says she wants to hv a raccoon as a pet when she grows up. She also gets excited when i point out a dog to her in public (she cant see it cus no glasses but still excited by its genert presence)

-dina is scared of lightning so I always try to ask her if shes alright when theres a thunderstorm

-when we go to the park, rachel almost always tries to make tiktoks. We always end up interrupting and annoying her while she makes them though, sorta like our little routine.

-last time we went to the park, rachel ended up accidentally hitting meng and I directly on the face with the volleyball (its ok though cause im pretty sure we’ve ended up accidentally hitting each other with the ball at least once)

-when i got hit with the ball dina asked me if i was ok but as she moved towards me she went for the ball (we were playing monkey in the middle and she was one of the monkeys); its just funny and i love that our friendship is at a point where we could laugh about it and everything is fine

-i told my friends that i was depressed before going to the park to hang out w them. when i got there i kinda just sat on the ground looking through reddit with music on high. they all tried their best to talk to me and tell me funny stories (they said they overheard a group of kids talking about how they pantsed another dude) to cheer me up. Dina and Rachel both decided to give me a hug at the same time and i toppled over. Dina gave me a hug again. I love them so much

- Andy called me while i was in class to tel me to look at the sunset. Its something that both of us have done a few times because we both love sunsets and usually see them when we’re out. Its a small thing but it makes me love my friends even more.

-I was on voice call with Rachel on discord and she laughed then sent the group chat a link to a tiktok

-(not my friend but my mom) She knows that i hate it when things are thrown out when they’re still good or can still be repurposed. Someone brought flowers home for some reason (i forgot why) but she was putting the flowers in a vase one day. Some of the flowers broke off the bigger portion of the stem and couldn’t be put into the big vase but she put a bunch of them into a small container for me and gave it to me. I loved it even though we did hv to throw it out like a few weeks later.

-My friends and I were at Central Park and we were waiting for my two friends to finish up taking pictures. Meng and I were taking a short nap (him sitting down w his elbows on his legs and me w my head on his shoulder) while we waited. We also shared my earbuds to listen to my music. I was p sleepy so I was on the verge of sleeping my also sorta aware of what was going on (mainly cus we were guarding our stuff while everyone else was taking pictures elsewhere). I was doing that thing you do when you’re nodding your head while trying to stay awake/go to sleep. I kept on doing that until he eventually sat up a bit more and pushed my head onto his shoulder better

-Samir looked at a shirt with george washington on it and confidently said that was benjamin franklin

-Dina was talking about how she kept on eating shrimo and peanuts even though she has a mild allergy to it. Rachel and I were telling her to stop and tht we’re not bringing it to the picnic on sunday cus we dont want her dying. She responded, very confidently, tht she “hasnt died before”

-Samir calls dina “d-money”

-Rachel gave me a hug as an im sorry for taking so long. (I genuinely didnt care cus even tho they do take a long time i still v much love them)

-Rachel takes tiktoks and videos of us while we’re out

-Rachel and Dina both got v the excited when i wore a skirt out today because I usually dress more masculine

-A few weeks ago (i think) my friends and I were at the park. I was trying to do something to meng and tripped and fell on the park ground (the part where there’s basically a bunch of tiny rocks on/in the floor). Meng was also trying to do that thing where two people hold a person’s arms and legs and swing them back and forth with me but forgot that if you take someones legs off the floor with no one else holding my arms, i would fall head first onto the park ground, which i did. Both times I laughed at myself but everyone rushed to me while laughing. Idk why but it made me feel like I was ok and safe, even if i was in so much pain, srsly i couldve had a concussion.

- Rachel and I both got excited bc we both wanted to got to the same college

-I call andy when im walking home by myself at night (or when the route im taking doesn’t necessarily hv a lot of people of lights) and he just vibes with me (sometimes talks to me abt how i should b home) until i get home safely

-idk if i already put this but Andy and I have a safe word when we think there might be someone behind us following us at night bc one time when walking home we thought tht and used our now safe word to see if there was someone

-Rachel and Dina do this thing where they take their hand and go from the side of someone else’s body (where the arms are) to the bottom of their legs rly fast while theyre walking. They call it “full body stroke”. They shared it w me and now we do it to meng almost every time we go out. Sometimes we do it together (one person per side).

-While at Central Park there was a dude that was singing (he was rly good). He started singing “Lean on me” by Bill Withers and my friends started singing along with him.

-Rachel sent me a tiktok knowing full well that itd make me gay panic bc yk ✨w o m e n✨

-Dina, Alan, and I stayed out after everyone else went home cus yk they were tired. Dina and I decided to talk like white girls/pick me girls the rest of the night with their stereotypical voices. We laughed the entire time and created weird storylines including: Jessica (Dina), Olivia (me), Jayden (Jessica’s boyfriend and brother that created on Jessica with me and Nicole), Nicole (Jessica’s friend), Olivia’s dad (a convicted felon in all 50 states and is dead), Jessica’s dad (a lawyer that’s also running for president, and Alan (he was just roped into our bs and was there to act like the dude that we both wanted to have as our bf).

- When we were in the bathroom and washing our hands, Dina waited until after the other woman in the bathroom to leave before coming up to me and, in a discreet whisper, told me that the soap was what “good pussy sounds like”

- Rachel, Dina, and I saw a few cats on our way to meet up with Alan and we played w the cats for a bit before one of them said “pspspspsp come here alan” to one of the cats. We now do this frequently to each other even though we hate it.

- We have corrupted each other to the point where we cannot hang out without someone saying “that’s what she said”, something about Dina being white, “just like this dick”, and “deez nuts”. We laugh about it a lot

- Rachel and I are both reasonably out of energy both mentally and physically after our jobs so when I walked w her to a mall w the rest of her friends, we both walked silently with a bit of catching up cause we both understood how the other felt

-We had a water balloon fight today at work (Alan, Rachel, and I work together). Obviously, I took the chance to pop as many balloons over rachel’s head and dump water on her. She tried to spray me w water using a water gun though. Afterwards gave the towel i brought to rachel cause she needed it to change. It’s important to note that rachel has purple hair right now and that the towel was white. key word: was. The towel was now stained a light purple (I dont mind but damn)

- i made rachel a purple raccoon by crocheting it (purple and pink actually). I finished it yesterday (sunday) and gave it today to her at work (monday). I opened the door a bit and peeked my head in with the raccoon just below me in my hands. She was confused at first but then saw the raccoon and her eyes lit up. It was rly cute🥰🥺 to see her get excited. We both nicknamed the raccoon “pimp jr.” and i made a lil name tag/from to tag that said it.

- rachel likes to lip-sync to music shes either listening to or hears in store and sometimes does a little dance with it. Its so cute and I love looking at her do it because it reminds me of why I adore her. She also goes hard when it comes to singing at karaoke. Like damn her vocal range is astounding

- dina got so excited when i asked her if she wanted to binge watch all the twilight movies with me. She looked so cute cus its one of her favorite movies. ugh i love my friends.

-a lot of dudes have crushes on rachel and dina and the both of them usually just try their best to avoid the person or avoid confronting them. Idk why but it kinda makes me feel grateful that I’m close friends with them because I used to have a crush on both of them before when we first met. When I told them i used to have crushes on them they didn’t act weird about it or anything and we continued to be friends. I’m so fucking grateful I’m their friend despite my initial crush on them cause they’re two of them most amazing people I’ve met my entire life.

-rachel, meng, alan, and I went to go watch Shang Chi in movies. In the last few scenes (which were v tense btw) rachel nd I both got rly anxious and squeezed each others hands bc we were scared out favorite characters were gonna get hurt. She squeezed the fuck out of my hand to the point where I couldn’t feel it anymore and neither could she. I’m ok with that though cus I’m glad she finds comfort in squeezing the living fuck out of my hands.

-dina, rachel, and I have matching bracelets from hot topic and i see them wear it almost every time we hang out. Alan and I have a matching pair too but I dont think he’s going to wear it very much (issok tho).

-We went to karaoke yesterday and I dont know how I just realized this but while she’s singing, dina likes to move around a lot. It’s not exactly dancing but not particularly just moving around. Its kinda like that tiny thing ppl do when they’re alone and playing their favorite songs on blast. She’s so cute when she does it, esp because she seems so happy when she does it. Even though I absolutely despise Justin Bieber, I would play his songs over and over again on blast if it made her as happy as she has made me.

-dina and I like to go to the swings and blast “Happier Than Ever” with earbuds in (we share a pair for this) and she screams along to it for the second half

-it’s become a “tradition” for us to go to the swings (most of time) after we’ve done the initial things we already planned out because dina and I love the swings.

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rilesandlucas · 7 years

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A work in progress-Rucas| Seven

I OWN NOTHING BUT THE PLOT AND OC

BIPPITY BOPPITY TIME SKIP!!!

Riley boarded the plane and smiled widely. She couldn't believe she was finally going to LA. Lucas picked Riley up and placed her in the reclining chair, she melted into the business class chair and smiled. Riley was in the middle, and Lucas was directly to her right. An Aisle across to her left was Maya and Topanga was to the right of Lucas. Riley felt slightly bad that her father had to stay back in economy but Cory didn't seem to care since he had been on business class before.

'So how you liking business class.' Lucas sighed, he couldn't believe he had managed to pull this off.

'I feel like I was always supposed to be here.' She replied before leaning back into her chair and falling asleep.

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Riley was barely awake as they were ushered through Lax airport. It was one of the times she was thankful for having a wheelchair considering they could speed past everyone in security and baggage claim.

By the time they were in their 'Uber' Riley was out like a light once again. Lucas was very thankful that she had fallen asleep so he didn't have to answer all these questions about where they were going, hopefully he could carry her into the studio so she wouldn't know until right before the show.

It took forever to get the studio considering La traffic was so backed up but Maya entertained Lucas with some trivia. Once they arrived at the studio they were met by a large group of excited and happy workers. Topanga quickly shushed them and pointed to a dozing Riley, Lucas was carefully removing her out of the backseat and lightly placed her in her wheelchair thankful that she hadn't woken.

Someone from the team took a few photos of a sleepy Riley before escorting her into the makeup room. Lucas shook Riley slightly and she slowly opened her eyes. Riley looked around the room and looked at the people setting up. She furrowed her brows and looked over to Lucas.

'What's going on.' She asked confused. Lucas laughed slightly and sat down next to her.

'Well I mean you hadn't really had a nice makeover since the accident and Maya said you love getting your makeup done. Not that you need it.' He concluded and Riley smiled as the person started priming her face.

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'Ok so where are we going now. Also why is this makeup studio so weird.' Riley asked as Lucas pushed her towards a side room.

'Well that's cause it's just a studio, and you're about to be on. Look hear comes your intro.' Lucas replied and opened the curtain so Riley could watch Ellen. Riley gaped at the scene in front of her and couldn't believe it.

'Our next guest is Riley Matthews from New York state. Recently Riley was in an accident that left her in pretty bad shape. In such dark times she met now one of her best friends Lucas who bought her here. Lucas describes Riley as the happiest person he has ever met, who deserves the world, and he wants to give it to her. Let's see her.'

Riley's eyes filled with tears as she heard ellen, introduce her, onto her show. She couldn't believe Lucas would do something like this for her, he was the most amazing person she'd every met, aside from Maya.

Lucas wheeled her out onto the stage and she sat next to the infamous chairs, she was beaming, sunshine practically radiating off of her. Lucas took his hand in hers, she mouthed the words thank you to him and he kissed her knuckles.

'Welcome Riley.' Ellen prattled and the audience started clapping.

'So you were just in a bus crash, and you met Lucas before or after.' She asked and Riley smiled.

'Lucas met my best friend in the hospital and he told her he really wanted to meet me, so we met and we really quickly became friends, that was about only about 2 months ago.' She spoke and Ellen interrupted her in awe.

'So this is really recent.'

'Yeah' Lucas added and everyone started clapping again.

'So you've known her a little while and you're already this close, wow and you did something like this for her, can we have a clap for Lucas.' Ellen yelled.

'He's great.' Riley proclaimed.

'Riley's an amazing optimistic person who, changes your life with her words and advice, she doesn't deserve anything like this and I knew I needed to help her out.' He lectured his hand squeezing mine slightly.

'You two are wonderful.' she uttered and pictures of the two of them in hospital flashed across the screen.

'So Lucas' words bought, essentially everyone to tears here and we think you are amazing Riley. The things you do for everyone is what is right with the world. We wanted to give back to you a little so thanks to our friends at, shutterfly we paid for all your medical expenses and a trip for two to hawaii once you're better. You and Lucas can go together.' she announced and Riley started bawling muttering thankyous.

'No problem, Riley and Lucas will be back in a minute to play a game.'

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'OK so Riley and Lucas are back with Katy perry, we are gonna play a game of basketball with our audience, we have Charli and Olivia here. Charli you're gonna be on the rucas team and Olivia you'll be with Katy. Now all you gotta do is shoot the ball into the basket on our ellen team members, now you got 2 minutes to work out a team strategy.'

'Ok Riles and I will pass you the balls and then you try go for the black square on the backboard.' Lucas instructed and they both nodded.

'Ok go.'

Riley started passing the ball to Lucas who would quickly pass it to Charli, we were thrashing Katy's team 6-0. She couldn't wipe the smile off my face, this was better than the day she met Maya, almost.

'And done. The Rucas team have won 8-0.' Ellen announced Riley bounced slightly in her chair along with Lucas and Charli, Charli collected her prize and they got off stage. As much as Riley loved today she was so so tired, Riley was used to being in bed all day, and she napped about 4 times a day, but today she barely had any naps.

They had just made it to the dressing room and Riley was already basically asleep, Riley saw a flash go off and instantly my eyes shot open to a guilty Lucas.

'You just looked so cute sitting there.' Lucas insisted grabbing all my stuff and putting it in a bag.

'You know I can get my own stuff.' Riley protested seeing Lucas get all my stuff together.

'I know you can Riles but it's only a couple of things. We are meeting the others at the diner in two hours I figured you would want to nap.' He implored.

'What did I do to deserve you.' Riley asked and Lucas helped her get into the taxi van.

'Probably something in a different life.' He answered and Riley gave him a nudge, the ride to the hotel was pretty quick but Riley was pretty much dead.

Riley knew they had stopped but she couldn't open my eyes, Lucas swooped her up in his arms and put Riley in her chair, Riley hated going through lobby's where there was people, I didn't want anyone to see her like this.

'Blanket please.'

'Riley you don't need to cover yourself you are beautiful.' He ordered and Riley sighed, Lucas was stubborn and he knew that.

They made it to our floor and Lucas rolled Riley to her and Maya's room and placed her on the bed.

'Can I lie next to you Riley.' Lucas fretted.

'Mhhmmm of course you can. You help me sleep at the hospital.' she offered and he slid in. Riley moved in closer to her and cuddled into him, she couldn't believe they had become such fast friends , my mum and dad loved him, he fits in well with my friends. We really were meant to be friends.

'Lucas'

'Thank you for today.' She sighed, almost asleep.

'I know how much you hate this situation, even if you don't want to admit it.' He pondered.

'Do you think my family and friends think I'm a burden.' Riley whispered tearing up, Lucas pulled Riley into him and stroked her hair.

'Why would you think that?' Lucas asked, he couldn't believe Riley had been thinking that way.

'Because they all have to take care of me and pay for my things, and I know my parents are so stressed and arguing, Maya is missing high school and Josh has been missing University. I've just caused them so unneeded stress.' Riley sobbed into Lucas' chest he just continued to hold me, to listen.

'Riley they want to do this for you, you didn't mean to get into a bus accident and they know that. Although they are stressed they wouldn't have it any other way.' Lucas comforted and Riley knew that he was right in a lot of ways, she just couldn't shake the feeling.

'Can we nap?' Riley asked and Lucas simply nodded his head

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'Lucas, Lucas, LUCAS.' Maya yelled, Lucas groaned slightly..

'What Maya.' He moaned.

'As cute as this is, We have dinner in 5 minutes and Riley has to take her medication.' Maya pestered shaking the pill bottle in front of Riley's face.

'All good Maya, I'll get her to take them, I'll have her down in ten can we hold off till then.' he asked and Maya nodded telling him the place was just downstairs.

Riley felt Lucas stroking her hair but she didn't want to wake up.

'Princess come on we have to get up and go downstairs.'

Riley sighed opening her eyes and sitting up, although she hated my meds I was in a lot of pain at the moment so she hesitantly took them.

'I'm just going to get changed into my shorts ok.' Lucas nodded and Riley grabbed her shorts, she tried to configure them with her leg but it just made it hurt more, Riley winced in pain and Lucas immediately turned around.

'Here let me help you, you have underwear on Riley and I swear I won't look.' Hesitantly she nodded and got the shorts on in seconds, he was much better than Maya.

'My dad fell and hurt his leg, I used to help him so I'm pretty good at it.' He answered my thoughts and Riley smiled and slid into her wheelchair.

Lucas wheeled Riley downstairs and we were greeted by the faces of her parents and Maya.

'Hello sleeping beauty,' Topanga called.

Maya sprinted over to Riley wrapping her up in her arms and swaying her. Riley couldn't help but laugh, Maya had been pretty clingy since the accident. Riley understands though knowing how hard the whole thing must have been on her, she shook her head angrily to try get rid of her thoughts. Lucas looked around the diner, It was cute and dimly lit, with a major diner vibe. Riley slid into the booth, Lucas and Maya on either side of her, ordering a fries she observed all the small conversations. Cory and Topanga were chatting about Auggie's school and Maya and Lucas were chatting about schoolwork. Riley was surprised how comfortable Cory was with her friendship with Lucas, they were pretty close and Cory has never been the biggest fan of boys.

'I saw you and Lucas snuggling,' Maya whispered to Riley who just smiled.

'Yeah he's a good friend.'

'Ok, yeah friend.' She cackled and Riley furrowed my brows, Maya was always cryptic and Riley hated it.

'So Maya you missing Josh.' Lucas questioned and Maya sighed.

'Yeah but you know college is more important, and space is good sometimes.' She answered shrugging, she always had her strong Armour on.

'Where did I put my phone.' Riley whispered and within a second Lucas was putting it in my hand, she whispered a thank you and he just smiled.

'So Maya what's you plan for the rest of the break.' Topanga asked.

'Well Tylah and I are going to Australia for a week. Should be fun' She uttered and Riley smiled, she was happy she had set up the trip for them considering Riley had been so many times and Maya never had. Zay was going back to Texas, and Farkle and Smackle had an internship at a law firm in New York City and then it was just Riley. She felt a light tug and smiled.

And Lucas of course.

forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

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bigbrotherorre · 6 years

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episode one: “TODAY WE LEARNED UNLESS BRYCE FEELS LIKE THE PRETTIEST GIRL AT THE DANCE EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH” - AUTUMN hoh: BRYCE evicted: ROXY - 13 to 3

Okay WOOOO. So hey, I'm here doing a DR pre-season, because? I am cracked, a mess and SOOO EXCITED. Also, I looked up fun words, to find something to use as my confessional codeword, and "brouhaha" means "a noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something" WHICH IS SO APPROPRIATE. So woo, enjoy the brouhaha that is my excitement for this season. I just wanna say a couple of things: 1) Nicholas and Julia posting those clock gifs is gonna make my head fall off, thats so scary. If it means past season twists like someone said in the VL, I'm NERVY. RoseGold POVs are my biggest fear, and I know there was a season where prejury was all about them so YIKES. Calling it now, I'm gonna get sent home by a rosegold PoV. 2) Emily and Lukas was such an iconic F2, no matter whomst the F2 is in Orre, we will never match them 3) I wanna make some pre-season picks of who I expect to see cast, that way if they win, I can take total credit. I'm feeling like Raffy, Sammy and Aren might be in the cast, based on literally nothing khajsdfla. Raffy as a player terrifies me (I was also the person who brought him into this community so whew), but he gets CRACKED so whew! Aren is a scorpio so we stan. ANYWHO. I'm so excited for this season, its gonna be a HOOOOOT.

Wooh so ready for the season to start!!!

Hola, did you miss me? This is going to be me reflecting back on my Johto experience and trying to point out the mistakes I made, and how this game will be different. (this is before cast reveal) The first mistake I did in Johto was go against the premade. I was wary of Connor and Ari, and I thought painting the target on the returnee wouldnt only be easy but would be successful. And then I found out that I couldn't, and then Connor made friends with everybody on my team and fucked me over in the long run. The second mistake I did in Johto was being messy. A prime example was making pseudo "alliance" chats in order to sway the vote for people to keep me. This proved to be unsuccessful. I also had a mental breakdown like every night, so that just buried me more. The third mistake I did in Johto was throw the veto the week I was nominated. I felt like I couldve won it but I decided to study for my test. I didnt compete in the pov that i shouldve won. SO now its time to do what I need to do for my redemption is quite simple. The last 3 ORGs ive played for BB i have made 2nd, 4th, and 3rd. And I learned quite a lot To negate my first mistake I'm not going to publicly target anbody. I will join the mob mentality to ensure my safety in early weeks. To negate my second mistake I am going to keep all my alliances as 1on1s. No alliances bigger than 3 people, and make sure to keep whatever information I have to myself. I will not snake out any information. To negate my third mistake is to try in all competitions. I will not throw anything I will not submit for anything unless I really cant. If I give it my all and still leave I can't beat myself up that bad. I'm nervous, but I'm ready. These freaks aren't gonna know what hit them.

Okay one hour to premiere! The fact that I've made two DRs pre-season? thats wild. I am gonna give a go at predicting the cast, based on... borderline nothing, beyond paranoia: Veronica Constance Raffy Autumn Olivia Eddie Elmo Hals Sammy Aren Those are guesses I'm confident in, so I'm gonna stick to that! Lets see if I get anyone right ajlkdsfas

Okay this isn't as bad as i thought except i'm a hot ass mess and messaged a picture into the house chat and i'm about to DIE

wut in the FUCK is happening who the hell are these people theyre mental all of them. nice to see sammy and ali though i fucking love them but i am terrified of playing with ali i literally said to my host chat 3 hrs before the game started "please say its all newbies so im not playing with zeezo" AND SHES HERE WTF

omg this FREAKING CAST IS WILD and i'm not gonna lie i'm a little worried that i might fight over half of them before the second week is finished...

not gonna lie seeing ashvika and roxy made me wanna kill myself but also i'm totally dying at the sight of ZEEZO AND BRYCE <3 also THIS COMP FREAKING SUCKS i need to find a group of friends asap so i don't flop. i'm gonna try to bring together bryce, zeezo, sammy, kat, and maybe ricky.... either gonna be lit or bite me in the ass

Hi!!! Y'all casted way too many people but it's ok cause I really like everyone so far whew. Also I really will do my intro video I swear... first thing tomorrow lmao

THIS SHIT IS OVERWHELMING AF! SOOOO MANY FREAKIN PPL IM TALKIN TOO! I LIKE MOST OF THEM but som im like k. then like the call i do not want to join bc shit they cracked af! hopefully its not my undoing but i feel like my social is pretty strong atm. #BBgameEVER

i'm just happy that ashvika is willing to put our unnecessarily tragic rivalry behind us and play this game right this time around. hopefully we'll be able to keep up the "we hate each other" look in the house chat and such so we can actually WORK TOGETHER this time. obvi i love her, and i just want the backstabbing madness to stop. hopefully she really has put out past behind her bc i'm ready to move on. like we're both pretty, we need to stick together. also shook that i talked to blake the longest today in pms???? like???? okay??? bryce and i look like we're in this for the long haul, hopefully we aren't first and second boot!! bc i have a weird feeling imma be pre-jury for some reason dsgdf

Night 1 Thots: Short term goal? to be as pathetic as possible. Probaly shouldn't have told alivia so soon that I was johnchen from bbtc world as after watching her intro vid. the could come back to bite me. Ryan seems like someone who I can ride on his coat tails for a while to get my foot in this game. So short term I need to be as pathetic as possible and hope this julia/bryce/sammy thing from house of shade starts to erupt.

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Really regretting making my code word tractor.. Not a fan. But um me and alivia talked for like 4 hours and we're both legends. We have a cute google sheet bet ur all jealous. Her and ashvika are gonna pretend that they hate each other but they dont actually!! How fun. Hope i dont slip and blow their covers JKDFHKSJD. Everyone seems to know everyone which is scary. When i first saw Jela and Julia were cast I was scared that theyd target me b/c we had a rough introduction, but honestly theyre legends. Idk why i told jela i was missing a left toe.. but i did and now idk what to do about that whole thing. Maybe ill say i got drunk and dont remember saying that but it isnt true.. IDK WHAT TO DO. But um yaa happy to see zeezo here too but scared ppl will think we're a duo but honestly I dont think ppl will. Um I should do a cast first impression thing wooh! Ricky: Played my first tumblr game with him but dont really know him. Seemed nice but not much there Randy: seems like a legend. Poc king. Um talked to him and he wanted to know more about me but wouldnt talk about himself so!! Idk hope we talk more seems fun. Julia: Um called me out. Called me fat. Fun tho!! Seems untrustworthy but no bad blood. Roxy: Talked a bit, um shes fun?? Dont think she likes me Ashvika: how can one girl be so pretty??? Shes smart too. Like i want to hate how perfect she is. The type of girl to throw my game away for tho so I need to make sure I dont!! Alivia: how can one girl be so pretty??? Shes smart too. Like i want to hate how perfect she is. The type of girl to throw my game away for tho so I need to make sure I dont!! Honestly want to go to the end with her tho so I just am gonna have to make sure I outplay her so we can be f2. Bryce: ugly cast pic. Is he even a poc??? Zeezo: THE LOML I LOVE HER SO MUCH. we both seem to be working together so im happy. Hope to work with her and have her carry me in comps. She will beat lachies record. #menareover Kat: wish she was jade ;(. JK!! Love her so much already. She is so nice and fun and like just seems like a great person. Honestly shes gonna mist me too. Jose: Epicmafia king. We never work together and always betray each other so... first chance for everything??? He seems fun tho love him hope he slays (less than me tho) Sammy: I literally love him hes so nice but i never pm him so thats awk KDSJFHDKSj hope that this game changes that!! Lynn: Legend. Loves hufflepuff, hates middle school. Like I think we click but i know her and blake are like super close so idk if shed ever be closer with me but i hope so b/c shes just like.. amazing!! Saxon: Talks a lot. About himself. Maybe itll change when i talk to him more. Likes super hero movies so wooh i guess. Jela: Thought she hated me but maybe now she doesnt. Shes really funny actually so hopefully we can be allies. Blake: know that hes super smart and good at the game but like he got rekt by queen tara so maybe ill do that to him. We talked but it was bland but guess ill push through it Dennis: So his name is annoying to spell so had to change that quick. Kind of hate him??? But hes fun!!! Didnt know carly rae jepsen made music still so like the stan in me wanted to hang up the call on him. BUT then he msged me asking for carly songs to listen to so like.. love him now. Cant believe he knew all the social game hed need with me was just pretending to like my queen Autumn: We talked about her past games and it was basically me fangirlling about her ENDING eddie LOL. think we can work together because we both like intersectional feminism John: Tried talking to him but didnt go anywhere. But im gonna make it work!! Ive decided we'll be close so wooh Olivia: took 2 hours to respond to me. like musicals tho. kept ignoring me tho. Alivia outsold. Ali: PURE KING. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. NO ONE IS BETTER. I COULD NEVER TURN AGAINST HIM. SO IM GONNA NEED OTHERS TO DO IT FOR ME. Love his dog even tho i misgendered her but it wont happen again. Think we'll be close. reptiles stick together!!

WHEWIE. Okay I tried filming a video confessional, but my thoughts are such a mess, so I've decided writing it out will be considerably more coherent. YIKES SO. This season is already so wild, like this cast.... is gonna be a lot. I already can tell this season is going to have lots of fights and I don't know... how ready I am for that eeeek. But otherwise, my illiteracy means I don't understand the lottery twist so I love that. The returnee twist is fun though, like I feel like at the start of games, I go into panic mode, so having returnees I can go to about that, might make them feel like I'm an easy number and that they want to work with me? The people I knew before this season (like I'd actually spoken to): Bryce, Julia, Ashvika, Autumn & Olivia (I loosely knew Ricky, Blake & Sammy too) Within the game itself, the people I've had the best conversations with are Jose, Kat, Olivia, Ashvika & John. Olivia is like one of my favourite people in the community, and also a super good player so I'd love to work with her. I also think the fact that we are friends is something nobody in the cast should know (I think) so thats fun. Jose was such a big threat/player last season, and the vibe I get from him this time is he wants to tone that down? I'm not good at working with super cracked people, so him being slightly in the middle between UTR and cracked, will make him a super good person to work with I think. He is also the only person I've like...talked game with, even though its super limited, just that I wanna work with him. I'm a weirdo and watched all the Alola cast assessment stuff, and it sounds like Kat was playing really well, but got stuck in a funky position and couldn't recover, so I think she is gonna be a major threat this time and I'd love to work with her too woooo. Ashvika is a queen. Just plain and simple. She is so wholesome and nice, and already seems loosely on the same page as me, so thats iconic. John scares me ajkhsdfaslf. i think he is a total newbie, and I also think he is gonna get super cracked, and thats.... scary asdkjflas Dennis I just started talking to properly, he is in my timezone-ish, so that will be good for my sleeping pattern if he ever wins HoH or anything, but I worry he may struggle to make connections, so I'm not sure how much he can help me as an ally? The others I'm gonna try and do more rapid fire, since this confessional is already massive hjkasdflsaf: Alivia: Really really nice! We haven't spoken all that much, but she seems super friendly and she was really loyal in Unova, which makes me feel good about maybe working with her? Also Ali in the name? we love legends Ricky: Ricky is.... an interesting one ljaksdfla. He is a fun personality to have around, so I hope he sticks around. I'm not sure how invested he will be in any of these games, but I hope he gives it a good go woo Randy: Randy is gonna be such a threat already I can tell sahkjfdla Also he lowkey scares me, because whenever I would start pm'ing people on call yesterday, he would run to my pms asking why I wasnt pm'ing him which freaked me out sjkadflas. He seems fun though, and Dom stans him so we stan Julia (The Witch): An icon. A legend. An inspiration. Also terrifying skjahdfla. She mentioned all stars on call yesterday and my heart stopped, because I hated how I was in that game and dont want it talked about. I think she is gonna fight people and I don't especially want to get on her bad side! Roxy: Havent spoken to her much, it might be tricky talking to her, since we are both in weird timezones, we will see Bryce: A SWEETHEART. I love Bryce soo much. We worked together in a mini once, and it was super fun, so I'd love to work with him more. Zeezo: She seems super nice! I don't really know her, beyond that she is POVzo and probably a comp threat, but I think she will be fun. I know her and Bryce are friends so we will see where that goes jahdfka Sammy: Super nice! I loosely know him, but he seems like he will be good fun. I havent spoken to him much, so I hope he is gonna be active rip Lynn: I know of her from Moheli, and I know her and Blake were ride or dies which I am wary off.... Otherwise, she has been super quiet and I could see her.... potentially going early rip a queen Saxon: FUDGE. I havent spoken to him at all which is scary, since I feel like he probably already knows a lot of this cast, so if he wins RIP me I guess. Otherwise, he seems like a fun personality so wooo Jelaminah: Ummm. She is wild. Like really wild. I think I stan her, but I also am like.... concious that she is a lot, and its sometimes too much for me. I'm a bit annoyed by her tbh, but its just because she was like laughing at people's sexualities, as if she didnt believe them, and thats super ugly, but I couldn't exactly say anything to her. I think she is gonna be a super dominant personality, but whew we will see. Blake: I know he was a big player in Moheli, but I think he also rubbed people the wrong way.... We will see how he does, he seems iconic Autumn: A QUEEN. She is the most inactive so far which is worrying. I don't want her to go early. I could really see her going up this week, but maybe us two havent talked much, since she is just comfortable in our relationship? AND WHEW. Thats everything, if anyone read this, I love you for that. Otherwise, wooo I'm super nervous, I love my DR guests Owen and Emily and eek. We will see!

ahhh okay so, I’m super excited about meeting new people....BUT...this cast is so huge and I’m so nervous. I like everyone for the most part and I’ve been trying to like talk to some people I’ve played with in the past to maybe smoothe over some bad relationships? The only person I’m still like nervous about is Julia because she kills the straight men and she hates Gemini’s. AND WHAT AM I? A STRAIGHT MALE GEMINI. I don’t think she’s very good at comps tho and I know she would go for Bryce before me. Anyway I seriously love Kat because she is so genuine and I just want to work with her. Also I want to work with alivia, roxy, zeezo, Olivia, randy, Jela, ricky, and autumn! There’s a few others as well but I’ll prob do like a video DR and talk about how I feel about everyone...who knows.

Jose is officially my showmance and we stan asjdkfaslf. He is so nice and my favourite new person I've met in the cast anyway, and he won lots of comps last season so I'm ready for him to drag me to the end dlakjfasfa.

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bryce better not fucking put me up or i'm gonna SHOOT

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wow so happy bryce is HoH!!!! perfect week one :$

I am actually really happy that bryce won this HOH bc that means my ass hole is safe! PRaise BE. MY showmance that was made by ALIVIA has saved my ass and partly to me sorta already knowing him through tara! BITHCH TARA LOLOVE UR ASSSS. ANd shoot idk what these gays are lookin at but ppl be sayin they think im cute. maybe its like when i look at a potato or like a waffle fry?? who knows ahaha but like some of these boys be good lookin like damn. hit me and my crocs up boys ;P

I am not a bottom. ya dumb bitch

Bryce is nomming me for not playing in the hoh. Gurl gurl im not a newb who would buy up that excuse

Just say we arent alligned and im good with the other players and id belive you why would i buy that you, a player whose played a few games by now, would nom someone for abstainimg

Okay SO. I filmed a video confessional earlier, but its already super out of date so its time for an update! I have spoken to lots of people that I hadn't talked to since premiere night which is good, Alivia & Kat are so nice! Jose is, as always a king, and I think (other than Olivia) he is my closest ally rn, so woo we stan. Otherwise, I spoke to Bryce, and it seems like (praise be), I'm not getting nominated, WOO! He says he is nominating Roxy/Autumn, with Julia getting the future shock thingie. Like I told him, the future shock is kind of like a curse and we know Julia loves a good curse, so its a good matchup aljdfkas. Otherwise, these nominations make sense. I LOVE Autumn, but she has been the quietest person in the cast, so I assume she is gonna go first rip. Roxy I have spoken to a fair bit, but I know she is in a funky timezone, which probably throws off her ability to be active. Bryce seemed like he was being pretty open with me, so I hope I'm not the backup plan if somebody comes off. I feel like my social game is pretty strong so I wouldnt have thought people in the house would push for me as a renom and eI'd be suprised if I get nominated! Last but not least, the unfortunate thing is how MENINIST these nominations are akjsdfla, we are really putting the orre in discriminatorrey.

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First DR of the game. I'm not going to do first impressions because I'm not that dry. The game started when I was put in this bitch, so I'm here to go at full force. I'm going to play a strong balance of a great 1 on 1 social game while still being a great personality people love. As of right now I'm being constantly dragged and roasted, and I wouldn't want it any other way. (But this is before HOH so the claws are bound to come over) So my game has been very social as of right now. Before HoH I focused on making genuine connections. I'm good with all the returnees at this point. None of them have beef with me, and I made it clear that I want to work with all of them (while this is farther from the truth). I'm just being diplomatic because there's some tension between the returnees that will have to be released soon. With the returnees I connected automatically with Zeezo. Me and her didnt even small talk its was just game talk from moment one. Thats a great relationship to have, and I'm definitely maintaining it. Jose and Alivia have been talking to me more. Jose has been more open with working with me than Alivia so : \\. All the returnees from Kanto-Sinnoh are here because theyre entertaining, the bitches from Unova-Alola would be casted for redemption but don't meet the criteria. I made an alliance with Jelaminah and Ricky. This is mostly because I need to be on Jelaminah's good side because I know the bitch knows how to play. So i would rather be scheming with her than against her. Ricky is just a number. On housecalls I saw that Jela was talking to Julia a lot. So I started talking to Julia a lot more. I surprisingly trust her a lot more than I thought I would. So me and her aren't beefing, but her and Bryce are. HOS20 affects this game because Julia and Saxon are aligned in this game and they're against Bryce and Sammy as of right now. I know Julia can drop a vendetta, but Saxon is just horrible about it. And I hate Saxon so much. He just gives me second hand embarassment and i dont know why. Like I'm so happy I've trained myself to hold my tongue because the shit he wears on housecalls actually make me laugh. He posted a picture of him shirtless and it was literally looking at rotten spam meat. Its not cute, and he is just so prude in pms because he obviously doesnt want to talk to me. I can make a separate DR about Saxon because he brings out all the hate and all the angst I had when I was in Johto. But going back to the topic Julia fought Sammy and Bryce ig and Saxon thinks Julia is right because he's a kissass and is a savvy feminist. I love Julia so her having beef isnt good. I talked to her and she said she didnt have good relations with Olivia, Bryce, Sammy, and Autumn. And i was shocked that this game is so against her, but this is great information because its something I can utilize. But those are her problems, and they dont affect me. If she wants to play with me she's gonna have to fix amends or take them out 1 by 1First DR of the game. I'm not going to do first impressions because I'm not that dry. The game started when I was put in this bitch, so I'm here to go at full force. I'm going to play a strong balance of a great 1 on 1 social game while still being a great personality people love. As of right now I'm being constantly dragged and roasted, and I wouldn't want it any other way. (But this is before HOH so the claws are bound to come over) So my game has been very social as of right now. Before HoH I focused on making genuine connections. I'm good with all the returnees at this point. None of them have beef with me, and I made it clear that I want to work with all of them (while this is farther from the truth). I'm just being diplomatic because there's some tension between the returnees that will have to be released soon. With the returnees I connected automatically with Zeezo. Me and her didnt even small talk its was just game talk from moment one. Thats a great relationship to have, and I'm definitely maintaining it. Jose and Alivia have been talking to me more. Jose has been more open with working with me than Alivia so : \\. All the returnees from Kanto-Sinnoh are here because theyre entertaining, the bitches from Unova-Alola would be casted for redemption but don't meet the criteria. I made an alliance with Jelaminah and Ricky. This is mostly because I need to be on Jelaminah's good side because I know the bitch knows how to play. So i would rather be scheming with her than against her. Ricky is just a number. On housecalls I saw that Jela was talking to Julia a lot. So I started talking to Julia a lot more. I surprisingly trust her a lot more than I thought I would. So me and her aren't beefing, but her and Bryce are. HOS20 affects this game because Julia and Saxon are aligned in this game and they're against Bryce and Sammy as of right now. I know Julia can drop a vendetta, but Saxon is just horrible about it. And I hate Saxon so much. He just gives me second hand embarassment and i dont know why. Like I'm so happy I've trained myself to hold my tongue because the shit he wears on housecalls actually make me laugh. He posted a picture of him shirtless and it was literally like looking at rotten spam meat. Its not cute, and he is just so prude in pms because he obviously doesnt want to talk to me. I can make a separate DR about Saxon because he brings out all the hate and all the angst I had when I was in Johto. But going back to the topic Julia fought Sammy and Bryce ig and Saxon thinks Julia is right because he's a kissass and is a savvy feminist. I love Julia so her having beef isnt good. I talked to her and she said she didnt have good relations with Olivia, Bryce, Sammy, and Autumn. And i was shocked that this game is so against her, but this is great information because its something I can utilize. But those are her problems, and they dont affect me. If she wants to play with me she's gonna have to fix amends or take them out 1 by 1. Until then I'm going to spend my time with investments that are bound to pay off. Which are with the newbies. I've been spending a lot of time on Blake because Blake lives 20 minutes away from me. I'm trying to hold this down as secret as possible. He likes me, and I want to work with him so I'm just going to continue our friendship and ensure that we're a duo. He doesn't talk a lot in the housechat which is concerning to me, but he does hold very strong one on one relations with most of the house. Lynn is also a south carolina native, and she is just so infectious. She is very intimidated by the large cast meaning that she hasnt bonded that well with a lot of people. So i put two and two together and made a South Carolina alliance. I know Blake is genuine about it. But the main purpose of this alliance is to keep Lynn under my sphere of influence. I can't have no newbies on my side. No ma'am Another newbie who stands out for me is John. John is just really active, and such a social threat. Meaning that his word has saying. So far my relationship with him has been "hey let literally help you with anything and expect nothing in return". With him im trying to show myself as a puppet, or somebody who is very very useful with him. And I actually showed that this week when Bryce won HOH. Won't lie I didnt want but also wanted HOH at the same time. When Bryce won it I was very wary of what was going to happen. Then John comes up to me saying that Bryce is thinking of nominating him. And since I had a decent bond with Bryce I know that I had to save John. So when Bryce talked to me he was dead set as Roxy as the initial nom and target, and Julia for safety this week. Then he mentioned that he was on the fence because he didnt know if he wanted Autumn or John nominated. So I told him the truth that it would be silly to nominate somebody as active as John. And so John wasn't nominated. I stuck my neck out for John and was one of the reasons he isn't nominated this week. And these game things build genuine trust since I'm not just talking to talk. I'm walking to walk and this game isn't ready for Randyy.

Hello ladies and gentlemen you're looking at the first nominee of the season waysup

Imma get to the bottom of this so ain't even worried. I just feel bad y'all didn't even get one happy confessional from me. We just jumped straight into poppin off. That's ok though! Nice for what am i rite

Bryce is full of shit and I'm embarrassed for him. Like who makes an enemy out of me on Day fucking 3? Really my guy? That's the first thing you thought of when you had 19 people to pick from? Apparently I'm getting nominated because the other 18 people in the cast talked to Bryce yesterday and I didn't. Not only do I not buy that, but we just not gonna acknowledge the fact that I talked to him on 2 of the 3 days the game has been going on so far? K cool. Today we learned unless Bryce feels like the prettiest girl at the dance every minute of every day, you're not doing enough Also can we talk about how the "I'm so happy to play with you I always root for you" energy that Bryce was selling to me on day one didn't even last a round? Hiigghkey I feel like the people who know me in the cast are secretly happy cause they know I'm petty enough to take Bryce out and I'll have no problem taking the fall for it. Ali, Ashvika, Sammy, Julia, Olivia- they know I don't play that shit. Can you imagine being first HOH, using it on me, and then thinking I'm not mad at you because I "understand" that nominating me was "the easiest thing to do"?

SHIT YOUR BOI JUST DID THAT TONIGHT! IF U KNOW YOU KNOW. 😜😂

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woo I'm on call with Autumn, Sammy, Jela & Dennis. THEY ARE SO FUN. I am back on the Jela stan train, she is actually super nice! I think I want Autumn to stay this week (and I think she could too)! Roxy is super sweet, but Autumn is a queen and the queen stays queen! Oh, I'm not using the veto too, its way too early to make a move and I don't know who would go up instead. I'm still SHRIEKING that I won that veto somehow kjlasdfa

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[5/9/18, 2:45:32 PM] Blake Sanders: do you want money?? [5/9/18, 2:45:41 PM] Blake Sanders: BC THE MONEY WANTS YOU! [5/9/18, 2:45:43 PM] alivia: do you wanna be rich??? [5/9/18, 2:45:53 PM] Blake Sanders: ^^^^^^ RICH [5/9/18, 2:45:58 PM] Blake Sanders: not just driving nice car rich [5/9/18, 2:46:07 PM] Blake Sanders: I mean using cheeta fur as toilet paper rich! [5/9/18, 2:46:15 PM] alivia: 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 [5/9/18, 2:48:20 PM] alivia: YOUVE BEEN HAND SELECTED [5/9/18, 2:48:31 PM] alivia: BECAUSE WE THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES [5/9/18, 3:07:19 PM] rixxy 🦄: Hi I just got off work [5/9/18, 3:07:23 PM] rixxy 🦄: what the FUCK is this? [5/9/18, 3:07:33 PM] alivia: DO YOU WANT MONEY??? [5/9/18, 3:07:52 PM] rixxy 🦄: i'm scared but absolutely [5/9/18, 3:07:58 PM] Blake Sanders: FUCK YA! [5/9/18, 3:07:58 PM] alivia: WE WANT YOUR HELP SCAMMING THIS HOUSE! [5/9/18, 3:08:09 PM] alivia: it’s good to be a little scared [5/9/18, 3:08:12 PM] rixxy 🦄: I definitely don't like where this is going. [5/9/18, 3:08:12 PM] Blake Sanders: MONEY WERE GOIN TO RULE THIS AND MAKE MONEY [5/9/18, 3:08:26 PM] Blake Sanders: BUT U WILL RIXXY [5/9/18, 3:08:31 PM] rixxy 🦄: god [5/9/18, 3:08:34 PM] Blake Sanders: <3 [5/9/18, 3:09:00 PM] lynnt: yes [5/9/18, 3:09:53 PM] alivia: you’re gonna be rich so you gotta live rich [5/9/18, 3:11:57 PM] Blake Sanders: There’s like a joining fee [5/9/18, 3:12:01 PM] alivia: yep [5/9/18, 3:12:09 PM] alivia: like scientology [5/9/18, 3:12:21 PM] alivia: but like this is real [5/9/18, 3:12:56 PM] rixxy 🦄: i'm not paying for this [5/9/18, 3:13:01 PM] rixxy 🦄: is this like a legit game thing? [5/9/18, 3:13:03 PM] rixxy 🦄: bc [5/9/18, 3:13:07 PM] lynnt: then imma opt out b/c this rich bitch is cheap and that’s why i’m rich [5/9/18, 3:13:55 PM] Blake Sanders: I mean we legit love u guys [5/9/18, 3:14:07 PM] rixxy 🦄: is this an alliance [5/9/18, 3:14:12 PM] rixxy 🦄: bc i'm uncomfortable and confused [5/9/18, 3:14:35 PM] alivia: woah woah woah [5/9/18, 3:14:41 PM] alivia: everyone calm down [5/9/18, 3:15:09 PM] alivia: don’t worry about the money. you can pay the joining fee AFTER we’re rich [5/9/18, 3:15:15 PM] alivia: don’t worry [5/9/18, 3:15:16 PM] rixxy 🦄: like i'm actually having an anxiety attack can you RATMEME.PNG literally..... WHAT???? blake and i were talking and started joking about being scammers bc sdfkal and then i was like "we should start a scammer alliance" and that's how it all started. we thought it would be SO funny if we just added them to a chat and started trolling them about scamming houseguests out of their money dljgdkfjg and i thought MAYBE lynn and ricky would be confused at first but ricky literally lost his mind like ooops my bad WE THOUGHT WE WERE FUNNY BUT I GAS NOT. [5/9/18, 3:16:08 PM] alivia: it’s a joke but kind of an alliance [5/9/18, 3:16:21 PM] alivia: but mostly a joke [5/9/18, 3:16:44 PM] rixxy 🦄: i literally thought i got dragged into some kind of game twist and i wouldn't play my own game god [5/9/18, 3:17:08 PM] alivia: omg WHAT [5/9/18, 3:17:19 PM] alivia: LITERALLY THE BIGGEST JOKE NOT SERIOUS [5/9/18, 3:17:25 PM] alivia: IMSORFY [5/9/18, 3:17:28 PM] rixxy 🦄: like i thought it was some saboteur/team america bullshit [5/9/18, 3:17:35 PM] alivia: omg noooo [5/9/18, 3:17:42 PM] rixxy 🦄: all i want to do is play the game and i literally thought that was snatched from me [5/9/18, 3:17:50 PM] alivia: HOW??? [5/9/18, 3:18:17 PM] rixxy 🦄: idk i thought y'all were a twist sdksksksksks sdfjsdl wow fuck me i gas??? my social game is really off to a great start!!! gotta get ricky outta here asap now

Right now i am on CAll with SAMMY SAM bc im bad at talking to multiple people at a time! SOOOOOO SAMMY is like wanting to be ym ally but like do i trust his ass??

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okayyyyy so this is definitely something different like bb is hard tbh. there's too many people to talk to and i just really don't care about continuing to keep up a convo with some of them but you have to or bye bye. i have definitely not been as social as most and that is def scary but the people that i have talked to and made connections are super nice. so that's why i was so glad when the people that won HOH and POV are people i talked to. uuhHHuh i have no fucking clue who i want to evict tonight so that's fun! ya know autumn is super nice and chill but she did go dark for a while and roxy is super fun and i still haven't heard ANY singing and i want to and she is campaigning really hard so she really wants to stay BUT since she's campaigning so hard to stay and kinda saying anything to EVERYONE who knows what she'll do to stay in the game later on. idk is it too early to be thinking about later in the game?? idkkk thanks for coming to my rambling ted talk. find out next time on if i've decided.

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OK SOOOO the eviction is coming up tonight and its either going to be Autumn or Roxy! NOw autumn is a super sweet queen but i feel like she will kill me if need be! but i still lvoe her! now roxy she is fighting for her life like she is making me promises i think she will not be able to keep. bc ive heard form other hosue guests she is making the same promises to them. NOW i love talkin to her about food and cooking but i feel awful that im most likely going to evict her! but o well it has to be done im glad its not me

i feel like i should give like a summary of like where i am with everyone and how i feel about them all before the first eviction! ALI: Well i first knew him because he reached out to me about a game he is gonna host. He like doesn't talk to me much which makes me nervous... I like him a lot but looks like we are just acquaintances atm. ALIVIA: OK I FREAKIN LOVE HER! SHE IS HILARIOUS! WE STARTED A ALLIANCE CHAT CALLED SCAMMERS R' US AND RICKY LEGIT FREAKED THE FUCK OUT AND WE WERE ALL LIKE WTF JUST HAPPENED HE IS INSANE! i hope i get to work with her a lot during this game and talk about ice cream! But i do see her stabbing me in the back later on so ill prob strike first. LOVE YA ASHVIKA: now this girl is a goddess she is beauty and she is grace! we talk like avg and stuff we have small chats nothing about gamewise. I see her as not being a threat as in targeting people or winning HOH i see her as a social threat. I think she will go far but not win she will def be jury. I think she is amazing tho and shes a model soo like i want to be her. AUTUMN: Now Autumn is a delight to be around so sweet and seems so pure but she will kill me i just know it. She's the beautiful flower in the garden that turns into a man eating plant <3 she is temptation and i may fall for it BLAKE: ive been told i was a certified good boy BRYCE: Now i knew him b4 this game bc of my friend TARA LOVE YOU BITCH <3 ! i think he will keep me around but idk if our bond is tight enough. i dont think he will choose to evict me yet. but other thsn that i want to work on having a closer bond with him for sure! DENNIS: I like dennis he just iidk theres not alot to say? me adn him talk about video games and stuff but whenever i talk to him i like forget like why im talkin to him lol! but he is super chill! JELAMINAH: THIS WOMAN <3 IS AMAZINGLY FUNNYY! SHE IS ONE PERSONALITY I WANT TO GET ON MY SIDE~! she is hilarious amd an amazing person i want to work with her sooo bad! i talk to her in oms sometimes but she is more of a on call person i believe or she just doesn't wanna talk to me ahah . O AND JELA I TAKE BACK TO WHO I THINK THE CUTEST BOY HERE IS ! JOHN : I love john! me and him talk trash about random things and it is hilarious! i hope he feels as close to me as i am to him! i feel like we can work together in the long run. JOSE: Ive only talked to Jose just a little bit so im worried if he ever wins HOH bc i may be nominated! so i better get my ass into high gear and talk to him more. other than that i remebr him as the guy who someone hit his fence with a car. JULIA: NOW i have heard things about this girl! like that she is ana amzing player and i better watch out for her! IM SO SORRY JULIA BUT U R ON MY HITLIST! AND SADLY U NEVER U LEFT ME ON READ IN MY PMS RUDE~! KAT:I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT KAT BUT WE JUST STARTED TALKING TODAY AND WE HELPED names each others plants! she is a precious person and i love her! she is so funny! i want to work with her for this game! LYNN: YALL THIS IS MY BITCH ! I LOVE YOU LYNN WE PLAYED IN MOHELI TOGETHER AND AFTER THAT IT WAS HISTORY WE BECAME BEST FRIENDS VISITING EACH OTHER AND STUFF! SHE ONLY LIED 2 HOURS FROM ME WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL I SAW HER ALL THE TIME! I AM MOST DEF WORKING WITH HER! SHE IS MY BESTFRIEND! <3 LOVE U OLIVIA: OK WELL IDK MUCH bout her. ummmm i talked to her a little im ttrying to become her ally but its not really workign she wont talk to meee!! RANDY: omg i have not heard good things about him.... i shouldve been told these things sooner omg! i feel like he hates me he might! we live in the same city and live like 15 mins away! omg rip rip rip . he goes to my old highdchool! thats crazy af! im working wiht him rn but i i think im going to nom him in the middle of the game or try to get him out around then. sorry randy! also hes been giving me the cold shoulder and not talkin to me which is rude. adnwe r in an alliance chat bro. come on really... RICKY: TBh u annoy me. everything i like u say its dumb or u don't like it. i say goodmorning/afternoon to u adn u say its morning its not even close to afternoon whatre u doing. AND IM LIKE WTF HAV U NEVER HEARD OF TIMEZONES! LIKE HELLLLLO! damn just we are not compatible people and well if i ever win HOH ill prob nom him. ROXY: DAMN BITCH I CAUGHT U IN A LIE AND U DONT KNOW ABOUT IT! THIS IS THE REAOSN IM VOTIN TO EVICT U IM SORRY OMG IM GOIN TO MISS TALKIN TO U ABOUT FOOD! ur sooo sweet omg and u hav a lovely voice! SAMMY: I have been told not to trust him bc he is a snake. But shit he is one of my closest allies now! like we talked for hours on call and watched survivor it was such a cute little date! GOD i hope he doesnt betray me ill cry so much! i mean he might but like i dont wanna back stab him.... yet <3 SAXON: who r u?? talked like never. ur probably nice?? ZEEZO: Girl u be freakin lynn out with eveyrhting u saying to and about her! soo idk like aht to do wiht u ahahah prob get u nominated?? SORRY IM A LOSER AND DIDNT MAKE A VID I LOOK LIKE A THUMB ATM <3

what bitch Randy, 3:05 PM hola 3:05 PM you never sent me a pm Randy, 3:05 PM ur coll bc you aint never talk about interesting shit 3:05 PM uh huh Randy, 3:05 PM tf am i supposed to reply to "yea" 3:06 PM sorry I'm not your source of entertainment you twink I was busy with my life Randy, 3:06 PM wow this is something we can TALK ABOUT Randy, 3:06 PM what did you do I kinda snapped sorry Randy

Are u gonnaget ur tattoo coloured? :0 or will it be lines? Rn im hungry waiting for ma burger heh 9:21 PM It’s just lines henny 👑, 9:23 PM Sweet! What inspires the one u chose? 👑, 6:35 AM Hey saxon! I wanted to wait to speak to you in person but im tired and sorta not feeling well so i cant stay up. I wouls love it id you vote me to stay!! I really enjoy this game and im a p loyal ally! Im active and have jackbox too xd. Ill try be up at least 2 hours bfr eviction if you wanna chat about the vote! 👑, 3:03 PM Morning 3:03 PM Hiya 👑, 3:03 PM Hows it going? 3:04 PM fine busy 👑, 3:04 PM Ripp with what m? 3:05 PM a 5 page paper 👑, 3:06 PM Ew Wtf 3:06 PM ye 👑, 3:06 PM Just quit school. Death sound sbetter than that Hshsbs 3:10 PM i omg 👑, 3:11 PM Lmfao Man now my eviction worries seem meaningless 3:14 PM Why is that? 👑, 3:15 PM :o cause your 5 page thing is gross :o have you started on it or still got a ways to go? 3:20 PM I still got a ways to go 👑, 3:20 PM yikes 👑, 3:20 PM how are you feeling about this week? like hame wise Roxy I think you're a lovely person but holy fuck can you just please shut up sometimes when you know someone is busy

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I'd say it was an effective campaign xoxo Summer Shrek

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The Play’s The Thing

Hi all! Here's a short story I wrote for my fiction class. I’d love to hear some feedback, especially from the admittedly great writer, though thoroughly incompetent arch-nemesis, @identityconstellations

I sobbed as I held Amon’s limp body, when I heard loud footsteps just a little to my left. I wiped my tears and gazed at Amon.

“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. Oh happy dagger!” I picked up the knife in Amon’s hand, still a little warm. I held it with both hands in front of me.

“This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” I shouted these last words, plunging the knife into my chest. Warm red liquid poured down my chest, turning the purple of the dress black. As I collapsed next to Amon, I couldn’t help a small smile. Sometimes, friends are the greatest things in the world.

Rewind a few months. It was the second week of my senior year, and a giant banner had appeared in the main hallway. It was one of the cheap kind the school always used, made from that really big paper the school buys in huge rolls and letters in paint that would flake off if you breathed on it. Still, it did its job, proclaiming tryouts for the school’s production of Romeo and Juliet.

My friend Maddie nudged me as we walked to our first class. “We should try out, Cindy!”

I stared at the poster. Today was Monday, and the try outs were on Friday.

“I’m not sure we even have enough time. It says we have to recite a monologue.”

Maggie rolled her eyes at me. “Oh please, you’ve had ‘The V Speech’ memorized since we watched V for Vendetta last year. You made me recite Evey’s line so much when I die they will cut open my skull and find ‘Are you, like, a crazy person?’ carved into my brain.”

I chuckled. “Ok, I get your point. Still, that’s from a movie. Think Chrismon will count it?”

“Probably,” Maddie said, shifting to take her jacket off without removing her backpack. “That whole speech is basically a really long tongue twister. Get it right and he’ll know you can handle Shakespearean.”

I mulled over it for a second before nodding. “You’re probably right. Ok, I’ll try out.”

We spent the next few days rehearsing after school at Maddie’s house.

“What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe! Oh time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me to untie!” Maddie finished in her best man-voice, reciting Viola’s monologue from Twelfth Night. Putting down Maddie’s iPad with the monologue on it, I gave her a round of applause.

“Awesome! Pull back the hair, add some fake stubble, and you could totally pass for a man!” That earned me a pillow aimed at my head.

“Gee thanks, Cindy.” Maddie said, sitting down beside me. I shoved her with my shoulder, getting a shove in return.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you,” Maddie began. “Are your sisters trying out for the play?”

My sisters, Theresa and Mildred, and yes they look just like their names sound, were notorious members of the drama club. They’d try out for every single play the school would put on, get small parts, and then throw fits if the whole family didn’t come see every single performance.

I sighed, exhausted at the thought of those two. “Of course they will. They wouldn’t miss a chance to stroke their enormous egos.” I glanced at my watch “Crap, I’ve gotta get home. Mildred has laundry duty this week, and she wants me to get my clothes together tonight.”

I grabbed my backpack and Maggie walked me outside. “We still good to go for lunch after auditions tomorrow?” Maggie asked as I got into my car.

“Yep! I already got my chores for the week done, so I should be free.” Chrismon, the drama teacher, had a small family emergency and had to reschedule the tryouts for Saturday instead of Friday, so we planned to meet at tryouts and then go for lunch afterwards. I closed my car door and pulled out of the driveway, waving to Maggie as I drove off.

The next morning, I woke up to a pile of dirty clothes landing in my face.

“Get up, Cindy. Its your turn to do the laundry.” Theresa announced.

I shot up in bed, knocking bras and skirts to the ground. “What are you talking about? It’s Mildred’s week. I vacuumed the house.”

With a smirk Theresa shook her head. “Check again.” She called, walking out of my room. I untangled my body from the sheets and dirty clothes and raced down the hall to the kitchen downstairs. My stepmother, Susanne, had instituted a chore chart that rotated every week, making sure everyone vacuumed, cooked, did the dishes, etc. When I got home last night under my name was written ‘vacuum & dishes’ in my stepmothers exquisite handwriting. Now under my name was ‘laundry & dishes,’ with ‘laundry’ written in a crude imitation. The same could be said for Mildred’s category, which now had ‘vacuum’ in the same crude handwriting.

“Midlred!” I shouted, loud enough that Susanne’s cat jumped and ran out of the room.

I stormed upstairs to Mildred’s room, throwing open the door. Mildred was sitting on her bed, reading a book I couldn’t see the title of. She turned the page before answering. “Yes, Cindy?”

“What do you think you’re trying to pull, changing the chore chart? It was my week to vacuum, and I already did it two days ago.”

Mildred laid her book down, still open, and dramatically raised her hand to her mouth. “What in the world are you talking about, Cindy? It’s your turn to do the laundry. I was the one who vacuumed on Thursday. Now, you better get started. Theresa couldn’t get to my or her laundry last week so you’ve got quite a lot to do.” She motioned to the huge pile sitting by her door, and handed me her book, nails perfectly manicured from their salon visit last week. “Unless you want to make something of it.”

I took the book, seeing it was the complete works of William Shakespeare book that Susanne kept in the living room to look smart. It was open to Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene II. My stomach sank. Maggie’s monologue. You could say a lot of things about my stepsisters, but three things would always be true: they were egotistical, they were overly dramatic, hence handing me the book like this, and they were cruel. I could feel Theresa grinning from the doorway.

A few hours later I pulled up to the front of the school, Theresa just exiting the building. She ran over to my car.

“Cindy, where have you been? You completely missed auditions!”

I motioned for her to get in the car. Maddie knew me well enough to know when I needed to be quiet. I drove us to Moe’s, our favorite lunch spot. We got our food and grabbed a booth in the corner. I was halfway through my burrito when I decided to talk. I gave her the short version of what happened that morning.

“Wait, they threatened me? With a book?” Maddie questioned.

I nodded. “Kinda. I don’t know how, but they found out what you were planning to do for your monologue. My stepsisters are evil, but they’re smart. They knew that Romeo and Juliet doesn’t have many female characters, just Juliet, the Nurse, and the moms really. They figured by getting rid of one of us they’d have a better shot of getting a lead role.” I took a sip of my drink, the cup crunching a little in my hand. I was pissed. “So, they rearranged the chore schedule so I’d be stuck doing laundry all morning and miss the auditions. And if I tried to do something about it, like tell Susanne or something, they’d find some way to ruin your audition instead.”

“Ok, your sisters are freaking psychos.”

I raised my cup like it was a toast. “Amen to that.”

Next Friday Chrismon had posted the cast list. I know this because the moment he taped it to the door Mildred and Theresa had taken pictures of their names and sent them to all our relatives, telling them to RSVP now for opening night, announcing that they had been cast as Lady Capulet and Lady Montague respectively. I turned off my phone and slammed my locker, marching down the hall to Biology.

“Cindy!” I heard a shout from down the hall. Maddie was running towards me with her phone in the air. Once she got close enough she shoved it in my face. “Chrismon posted the cast list.”

Barely looking at the phone, I tried to give my friend a small smile. “I know, Mildred and Theresa already messaged the whole family.”

Maddie shook her head, black curls flying everywhere. “No! I mean, yeah they were cast, but look!” She shoved her phone closer to my face, so I finally gave it a good look.

“Amon Strong is Romeo … Maddie Henson is Juliet!” I shouted, wrapping my arms around her neck. “You’re going to be Juliet! I can’t believe it!”

Maddie wrapped her arms around me too. “I know! But that’s not the biggest thing.” Maddie pulled back from me.

“I’ve got an idea about how we can get back at your sisters.”

The next few months flew by in a blur. Maddie had to go to rehearsal almost every day after school, and even a lot of Saturdays once October rolled around. I already gave Maddie I ride to and from school most days, so it was easy for me to stay behind and work on homework while they put the play together.

It was really interesting to watch. Chrismon apparently has never done Shakespeare before at our school, so he wanted to take this weird, minimalistic approach to it. Instead of a complicated, moving set, they just had this long, rising platform that curved around the stage. It was only about six inches off the ground on the left side, but on the right side it was so high that people would walk under it to get on stage. The idea was to let the context of the scene shape how people viewed the set. So, when the scene is supposed to be in a town square, the platform surrounding the middle of the stage would look like buildings. When the scenes were supposed to take place in the Capulet’s house, the highest platform would serve as Juliet’s bedroom. And when it was the final scene and Juliet was ‘dead’, the platform would feel like her tomb. It was pretty smart, especially on a high school budget.

To add to the minimalistic thing, he even had them simplify the csotumes. Everyone except Juliet, the moms, the Nurse, and Friar Laurence were wearing black dress pants and shoes, a white dress shirt, and a blue or red vest. And even then, Friar Laurence basically just had an overgrown vest on, and the girls were just wearing basic dresses. The idea was that everyone who was a part of the family feud was wearing a particular color. If you were on the Capulets side, you wore red, and if you were a Montague, you wore blue. To show their being apart, Prince Escalus, the Friar, and the Nurse all wore purple, as did Romeo and Juliet after they got married. Contrasting with the black platform and white background with shifting red, blue, and purple colors, it made a stunning display.

While I was admiring the set one day during a dress rehearsal, one guy wearing a red vest walked over to me.

I didn’t know his name, but I had scene rehearsals enough to know his role.

“Well, if it isn’t the noble County Paris. To what do I owe this pleasure?” I joked.

He made a deep, overdramatic bow. “To see why this fair maiden has dined to watch our humble practices all these weeks, with hope of learning her name.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. Nothing quite like performing Shakespeare to get you accustomed to the language.

“I’m Cindy, Cindy Todd. Maddie is my best friend.” I answered finally.

The boy quirked his head. “Todd? As in-“

“Yes, as in Mildred and Theresa Todd. They’re my stepsisters.”

The boy scrunched up his lips in disgust. “Yikes. The worst I’ve got is an older brother who won’t shut up about how I’m the favorite child. Though between you and me,” He leaned down to stage whisper in my ear. “He really doesn’t make it that hard.”

I chuckled again. “Which brings the subject back to you. You know my name, so what’s yours?”

The boy extended his hand. “Jim Davis. Pleasure to meet you, Cindy.”

I shook his hand, smiling. “Pleasure to meet you, Jim.”

Over the next few weeks Jim and I ended up chatting quite a bit. As Paris he wasn’t in Acts III and IV, so he spent long stretches of rehearsal in the audience seats with me. Eventually I let him in on me and Maddie’s plan.

He frowned a little. “I get why you’d want to do it, but do you think it’s the smartest thing to do? I mean, this play isn’t just Mildred and Theresa, it’s everyone else. This is a lot of people’s senior year. If you mess the play up, you could hurt their chances at scholarships to go to acting colleges.”

“That’s why we’re only doing it for the last two performances. Our family can only come on that last night, so it’s the perfect time to strike.” I assured him.

Jim seemed to mull it over. Eventually he gave in. “Ok, fine, but you need to let me help you prepare. We did the play back in middle school, and I was Romeo then. I know all the lines, so I can make sure you don’t screw this up, no offense.”

I raised my hands in defense. “None taken. Thanks a ton!”

After that Jim would join me and Maddie at her house every night after rehearsal. We’d work together to rush through our homework, then continue working on the revenge scheme.

Opening night went off without a hitch. Susanne was busy that night, so I sat with Maddie’s parents in the front row. Her dad had even gotten a bouquet of flowers that he passed out to us. When Maddie took her bow, we threw the flowers on stage, congratulating her on a great performance.

Still, nothing could compare to what happened that Friday. Chrismon always insisted on running the play at least once before every performance. I was sitting in my usual spot in the audience while she and Amon, our Romeo, practiced the balcony scene. We had brought in Amon, who had dated Mildred last year only to discover her cheating on him, weeks before and he knew what to do. In our version of the balcony scene, Romeo climbs up the platform and spends a few lines up there with Juliet before climbing down part-ways, still holding Juliet’s hand.

Only this time, while reciting “I would I were thy bird,” Amon let his foot slip, keeping an iron grip on Maddie’s hand, who was already mostly leaning off the platform. With a shout, Amon fell to the ground, pulling Maddie with him. The two landed in a heap.

“Maddie!” I shouted, running up down the aisle and practically jumping onto the stage. Chrismon was there almost as fast.

“Ow!” Maddie shouted, peeling herself off Amon as she clutched her left arm. “I think I broke it.”

Chrismon checked on Amon while I inspected Maddie. It was well known that I had some first aid training, so he let us be.

“Nice fall.” I whispered. Maddie shot me a slightly angry glare.

“It wasn’t entirely fake.” Maddie grunted. Feeling her arm, I could defiantly tell it was messed up. Nothing broken, but her wrist and elbow were definitely sprained from Amon’s yanking.

“Crap.” I locked eyes with Maddie. She mouthed for me to stick to the plan.

Maddie turned back to our director. “Mr. Chrismon, is Amon all right?”

Chrimson nodded his head. “A little bruised, but I think he’ll be fine. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was a planned.” He gave us a wary look but didn’t say anything else about it. “What about you?”

“She definitely sprained her elbow,” I reported. “But I don’t think anything’s broken. I guess Amon broke her fall.”

Still a bit dazed, Amon gave a thumbs up.

“She’ll need to be checked out by a doctor, but either way I don’t think she can do any more show’s” I concluded.

“The who’ll play Juliet?” Jim helpfully asked. That boy should’ve gone to Julliard for that performance, you could never tell he rehearsed that line.

I could hear Mildred and Theresa shouting from the back of the crowd that had gathered, but Maddie had already grabbed my arm.

“Cindy, you can do it! You’ve been here for every rehearsal, and you helped me with memorizing all my lines. I know you can do it!” She looked to Chrismon for encouragement.

The drama teacher looked at me. “It’s last minute, but do you think you can handle it, Cindy?” Loud twin screeches could be heard in the background.

I tried my best to look conflicted before nodding.

“I’ll do it.”

We called Maddie’s mom and had her taken to see a doctor while we worked to get me into Maddie’s dresses. One thing we failed to account for was that Maddie was at least three size larger than me. Luckily Chrismon is a wizard with safety pins and soon the dress fit perfectly. An hour later and it was curtains up.

I sobbed as I held Amon’s limp body, when I heard loud footsteps just a little to my left. I wiped my tears and gazed at Amon.

“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. Oh happy dagger!” I picked up the knife in Amon’s hand, still a little warm. I held it with both hands in front of me.

We received a standing ovation. It turned out that was the night the local paper sent over a reporter to do a piece on our play. It was a slow news day, so I took great satisfaction in throwing the paper at Mildred’s head the next morning. Under the big bold headline of “THE PLAY’S THE THING” was a picture of me, taking a bow.

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February 13, 2017

Finally back from Prague! Couldn’t be happier! Missed this city so much. Prague was definitely interesting. Not what I expected. It looks like a mix between Disneyland and Harry Potter World. And we had fun (kind of) but I don’t need to go back there again.

We left bright and early on Thursday morning for the train station. Actually just early, not bright, because it was before sunrise. All 4 of us wheeled our carry on bags past the Duomo and through the cobblestone streets of Florence very noisily. We had assigned seats on the train that were not only not together but mostly in separate cars. When we got on I noticed that my bag would not fit in the overhead space and I had no idea where I was supposed to put it. Luckily, no one ended up being in the seat next to me so I could keep my bag there. The ride was pretty peaceful. I listened to my music and looked out the window at the Italian countryside. Very enjoyable. And much better than the swampland views off the NJ Transit. We got to the airport in 2 hours and had a lot of time to kill so we decided to look for breakfast food. I guess they don’t really have that in Italy or at least not in the airport. So I had pizza before 11 a.m. The flight was easy. Only like an hour and a half. My only complaint would be that the seat in front of my was basically touching my face and not even because it was leaning back. The rows were just that close together. But what do you expect when you fly an airline like Vueling? I would’ve been claustrophobic if I didn’t sleep for most of the flight. When we landed I looked out the window at the snow on the ground and thought, “Okay so this is the Czech Republic.” That is definitely a place I never thought I would be. We got our bags, met up with Chandler, and called Ubers (both good and bad that they had Uber there). For our Airbnb, it was owned by a company, not a person, so we had to meet at their office. Me, Sab, and Olivia Ubered there. When we got there, we rang the bell outside a tiny building. We were buzzed in and my first thought was, “This is a trap.” The place looked abandoned. I thought we were about to be kidnapped. Then a guy came towards us and brought us into an office that looked like it belonged in a different building. It was bright and modern looking and the 2 employees there were both very nice. They gave us our keys and we walked to the apartment.

The apartment was basically in the middle of Old Town Square, which is a main square in Prague and large tourist attraction. And the apartment itself? I can describe it in 3 words: doors and keys. There were 6 doors separating the street from the inside of the apartment. 6. Yes, very safe but, no, not very practical. We were hysterically laughing trying to get in. Each key was color-coded for the different doors. Clear for the main front door, yellow for the first “cage”, black for the second “cage”, green for the next door, then blue, then finally red to actually walk into the apartment. We timed ourselves going in one time and used both sets of keys so one person unlocked and another locked the doors behind us. We did it in 2 minutes and 41 seconds which is ridiculously impressive. We got sushi for dinner and then got ready to go out. Prague is very cheap. The conversion rate is ridiculous; it’s like $1 = 27 crowns (their currency) so everything seems like a lot of money but it’s not. Another thing about Prague. It is absolutely freezing. Comparable to a Michigan winter. And not the joke one they are having now like a real polar vortex winter. This made the night pretty terrible for me. We went to this pregame bar called Bombay where I saw everyone I’ve ever met and a few people I’ve never met but am friends with on Facebook. It was packed in there so we went across the street to this other bar for a little bit and that place was like a real tough Czech bar. I’m pretty sure it was in the basement of a tattoo parlor. We didn’t stay long. We finally got an Uber to the club everyone was going to and when we got there they were holding up a sign saying “Sorry. Club is full.” We stood on the sidewalk outside for at least 30 minutes before we could get in. I was in open toed shoes. Miserable. Oh! Another thing! Czech people are mean. Like soooo mean. The guys working at the club were actually pushing and yelling at people. It was ridiculous. All I wanted to do was go home. I stayed for like 10 minutes then left. The bad thing about Uber is that (like many European cities) Prague has many squares that cars can’t drive through. And our apartment was in one of those squares. So we were dropped off not close and then had to walk in the cold again. Again, miserable.

The next morning (Friday) me, Sab, and Courtney bundled up for our private tour of the Jewish Quarter with Martina. She met us outside our apartment and was so cute and nice. She showed us some beautiful memorials and temples and told us so much about the history of Jews in Prague. All of it was so interesting. The tour was 3 hours and we were really tired afterwards. Our feet hurt so badly so we met our friends at Bakeshop for brunch and ended up just sitting there for hours. We were originally sitting with a bunch of SDT girls but they all left and then it was just the 3 of us at a big table so some boys asked if they could sit down. They started talking to us and eventually asked if we wanted to go get beers with them at this place across the street. We all thought why not and decided to go. 2 of them go to Michigan and 2 go to UF and none are studying in Prague. They were all just visiting. We sat at this place called Beer Story that looked like the basement of Espresso Royale on South U. Also, this is not even an exaggeration, the whole time we were there the only music they played was Taylor Swift. Bizarre. We had a lot of fun making new friends though!

Then we had to go to the club for that night (Lucerna) to get tickets to get into the club. The guy there said they weren’t selling anymore tickets until later and the capacity was 1,000. That did not seem like a lot to us so I asked when we could get tickets and he told me 8:00 p.m. We went back to our apartment to shower and then at 7:15 left to go wait on line for tickets. On our way out, the black key broke in the lock of the door and we thought we were going to be trapped forever. Jaclyn was luckily able to get the piece out using a fork and we never locked that door again. We made it to the club early enough to be the 3rd people on line. By 8:00 there were probably about 30-40 people waiting. That’s when the guy said that they were selling tickets until 9. There was outrage. The next hour was torture. I was starving. Everyone was pushing and yelling. The line got to be probably hundreds of people long and every was just pushing forward. And of course people were trying to cut. I was standing on my toes because I was being pushed forward and couldn’t get my heels on the ground. Again, miserable. We were finally able to get the tickets and get out of there but it was too late. The damage had been done. I was getting a migraine. We got to dinner and I tried eating as quickly as possible and drinking water but nothing helped. I wasn’t able to go out. I’m still so angry about it. I didn’t really care about missing anything but it was just the fact that I waited on line so I could go out and doing that gave me a headache so I couldn’t go out. Ugh.

The next morning (Saturday), Olivia and Chandler joined our tour with Martina. She took us to the castle, the John Lennon wall, and the Charles Bridge. I didn’t realize that the entire tour was going to be outside. For 3 hours. By the end we were all actual blocks of ice. I honestly though I would never feel my toes again. When it ended we said goodbye to Martina (miss her), and went to have lunch and get warm in the closest place to us: the Hard Rock Café. Actually zero complaints about it because it was warm and I got chicken fingers so pretty solid lunch for me. After that we went to see the Dali and Warhol exhibits. The Warhol stuff was so cool. I took a million pictures and I’m wondering how many is too many to Instagram. Also wondering how much it would cost to decorate my house with a bunch. We also met some boys there who asked us what our plans for Passover were. Kk. Then we all needed to go home and crash for a little bit. We wanted a quick dinner so we just went to the closest place we could find and it turned out to be Italian. It was also not so great. We’re already getting snobby about food and wine. We ate quickly and then had to get an important Prague delicacy before we left: a Trdelník (pictured above). Actually so overrated. I honestly didn’t really like it but it looks pretty. We went home to get ready to go out. Sara and her friend came over and then we all made our way to the Roxy for “Czech It Out”. It was like a concert at a club. Sam Feldt (I’m sure most of you don’t know who that is. He’s a DJ) was performing. This was the only night I had fun. Well it was fun after we got in. There was a huge line just to get in and by a line I mean a large mass of people pushing each other. I thought I was going to be trampled like one of those Black Friday situations. We were all being crushed to death for like 15 minutes and after yelling at a lot of people and pushing really hard I eventually made it through the doors. Just why Prague?? I really only know one song by Sam Feldt (Feels Like Home) and was excited for him to play it. He went on at 2, ended at 4 and never played my song! I’m actually still mad about it. I mean he did a great job, played some cool songs that I liked, played a lot of songs that aren’t his, but really? He couldn’t just play the one song I wanted to hear? It was fun though and we danced and at 3:30 decided it was time to go. But on the way out we ran into our bar friends (the guys from the day before)! They wanted us to stay so we danced with them a little until they kind of ditched us and then it was really time to leave.

The next morning (Sunday), we had to check out of our Airbnb by 11. We packed up and went to Bakeshop again and hung out there until we had to go to the airport. The security there was actually stupid. I had to take all of the toiletries out of my bag and then I asked the woman if I had to take off my shoes and she said no. I walked through the thing and it beeped and she said, “It’s your shoes. Walk through faster this time.” So I did. And obviously it beeped again. So instead of taking off my shoes they decided they needed to pat me down. You literally said it was my shoes. Why not just make me walk through without the shoes? So stupid. Courtney also had a minor fiasco with her train tickets but we got it all figured out. We did the flight and then took a train from the airport and had to switch trains but we finally made it home. I can’t even describe the feeling of relief and happiness I felt when we stepped out of the train station and onto the streets of Florence. Like actual bliss. Walking past the Duomo and everything I missed so much was physically calming. We stopped for GELATO on our way home (obviously) and the people at Venchi probably thought we were moving in with all the luggage we had.

This morning (Monday), I woke up to a million texts telling me my family had gotten a dog without me. They basically waited until right when I left, the moment when I would be away the longest, to get a puppy. So maybe I’ll get to meet it when it’s already big enough to eat Zeke and I miss the entire puppy stage. Thanks fam! Honestly wouldn’t even have gotten out of bed today after that if it hadn’t been so nice out today. It was like 60 degrees and sunny. A complete turnaround from Prague. We had lunch and ran some errands but mostly had a chill day to recover from the long weekend. We ate at Antico Noe and learned once again that you cannot eat outside here because you will be attacked by birds. I fell out of my chair in a very public place and it was definitely embarrassing. Not really looking to starting classes again but I guess this is technically school. Class is as good a way as any to celebrate Valentine’s Day. At least I got my Lambertesca gals!

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