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ihaveafandom-problem554 · 3 years

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i love your works oh my god, the wait was so worth it. thank you for doing my requests!! they all turn out great :D despite my username, I’m glad I made an account just so that I could request more of your spider bro content.

okay so uh I’m sorry if I’m requesting this a bit early since you only posted your latest spider bro today but after reading it, a sudden wave of problems and curiosity hit me so I thought:

‘yo aren’t the village gonna question why spider bro and rui only come around during sunset to night time sooner or later? are they gonna make up some excuse about them having some condition where if they stay in the sun for just a little bit they get really bad sunburn?? like “yeah so our parents died because they went out in the sun for too long so newbie demon slayers noticed this and thought they were demons in disguise and killed them, haha runs in the family amiright” idk ?? (sorry that’s a weird death) I like to imagine they pretend to be albino so that they can have an excuse in case someone ever asks them or say that they have jobs in the day time to support each other so they just visit around night time.

but honestly, I think the village would be a little sus of them but then they’ll be like “ehh they can’t be demons, they would’ve ate us already! plus they’re just so kind!!” so yeah.. (unless the village doesn’t really know about demons, then you can just ignore this)

okay so imma just start putting my ideas and prompt in here yeahh ..

so what I imagine is that the village knows about demons, but most just chalk it up as some sort of folklore to keep kids from wondering at night by themselves. however some (mostly the elders) claim to actually experience demon attacks so despite practically everyone living these two, they have their eyes on them just a bit..

the elders there would usually gather some kids and tell stories about demons roaming the night hunting for humans, and there would be people who would be as strong or stronger than the demons and slay them by cutting their heads off with a special blade- they say that there’s a whole organization dedicated for these specific people! and that those people who would sometimes come to the village with an odd uniform on are part of them.

one day while spider bro and rui visit the village, ashai drags them to where his grandfather would tell stories about demons and how the grandfather’s father were part of that organization and was called a “hashira” who mastered the sun breathing.

after that ashai would be like “that’s just gramps being all weird again with his whole demon slayer stuff, but it’s pretty interesting! it’s only a folklore though so you have nothing to be scared of. honestly, there’ll be times where I think you’re both demons or something because you guys act like you don’t know how to function as a human being sometimes, haha” and the spider bros would just be like “aha.. yeah..”

some of the elders start noticing that they only came around night, and unfortunately, not everyone is friendly. they kind of start interrogating them to the point where the other villagers would politely step in and tell them that they’re just kids with a condition that runs in their family (and rui becoming fed up then almost slashing them into ribbons). of course, a small portion of them don’t stop and are.. quite positive of it and would be a bit passive aggressive towards the two.

alright so I’ve come up with some ways it could go but I have no idea, you can decide which is better or somehow merge them together or mismatch and combine things,,, :D

1: obviously, the spider siblings can’t survive on human food. they’ll need human blood, the human food is just for when they get bored of eating humans for a bit. but.. how are they gonna get some? they can’t eat the village, and as much as they found the elders annoying they couldn’t since 1, they were pretty much right about them, and 2, if they were to eat the elders/anyone who found them suspicious even more people would start growing sus of them.

maybe.. the demon slayers that came to the village every now and then?

(name) would usually just use his spiders and take at least a cup (or two if rui’s feeling hungry) of their blood and bandage them up to go.

it lasted for a few weeks, so he thought he could control it.

him and rui did their best to try and suppress the urge, they really did.

they vowed themselves to not eat innocent people after meeting the friendly village.

but whenever a demon slayer would come to the village and whenever they took one or two cups of their blood, the more they craved just devouring them right there and then.

it was true that the two had a dislike for demon slayers, but they can’t say that most of them aren’t innocent. (I mean.. they kind of aren’t too)

they can’t do that.

but…

a few more cups won’t hurt, right?

a few days pass, and the butterfly mansion has been getting more and more demon slayers, most of them were from dangerously high blood loss, just enough for them to live and walk.. kind of.

and they all came from near the mountain.

but.. (I’m assuming this is after the fight between tanjiro and rui, but instead rui got away before tomioka could show up) didn’t tomioka, shinobu, and a few other demon slayers slay all of the demons there? unless there are a few hiding.. however they claim to not have entered the mountain, and instead went straight to a nearby village. they also claim to not have remembered anything about getting their blood taken, just waking up on a floor near the village with their arm bandaged up (it always happened at night time, too).

two or more days pass before they send some demon slayers to come investigate.

these demon slayers of course being tanjiro, inosuke, and zenitsu (plus nezuko).

when they arrived, it had been around 5 to 6, just before the spider siblings came to visit.

as they entered, tanjiro could smell a very faint scent of a demon almost everywhere (mainly around the shops and the people)- so faint that he could’ve missed it if he wasn’t searching for demons right now.

but before he could try to track it down, many young children from the village ran up to them and started excitedly asking about their uniform and their swords.

“are you guys demon slayers?”

“are grandpa’s weird demon stories are true?”

“can I touch the sword???”

it was no secret that they stood out from the crowd, and the villagers usually didn’t really question it because each demon slayer looked pretty normal and bland.

tanjiro smiled remembering his younger siblings all getting ready to eat and play during spring time.

zenitsu noticed tanjiro being confused and told them that demon slayers weren’t very well known, but it seems like it’s a folklore from around here.

and inosuke, of course was about taken aback by all of these mini humans running around them and was about to fight them until tanjiro reassured him.

ashai ran towards them thinking that rui and (name) was here a bit earlier than usual but was a bit disappointed when he got closer to clearly see their faces (and a boar head).

I TOLD MYSELF I SHOULD'VE ADDED A SCENE WHERE OLDER SPIDER BROTHER EXPLAINS TO ASHAI THAT HE GETS REALLY BAD SUNBURN BUT MY LAZY ASS SAID NO. ACTUALLY FUCK ME WHY AM I SO LAZY!?

Anyway let's do this..

Ok so the Village are familiar with demons and demon slayers but they take it as a Folklore since the grandparents keep mentioning it to the kids.

And before [Name] brung Rui, Ashai did ask him why he only came when the sunsets. And [Name] told him he was really sensitive to the sunlight, like, to the point it would actually burn him really bad.

And Ashai looked at him saying, "You could've just said you get really bad sunburn.."

And yes, his mom did smack him for saying that.

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"Hi Ashai! You seem happy today."

"[Name]! Rui!" Ashai called out, running towards the two boys. Rui immediately pouted when he noticed the voice calling up to them wasn't one of the kind ladies trying to offer him food. Meanwhile, [Name] smiled at the boy's presence and walked faster towards Ashai.

"Yeah! I want to bring you to my grandfather-”

“Why?- Wait was is that..” Rui interrupted causing Ashai to stop walking and face Rui. “You did not just ask what a grandfather is.”

“I did. Now I want an answer.” Rui demanded his facial expression not changing a bit. Ashai sighed before explaining what a grandfather was, later explaining what a grandmother was, then explaining what a great grandfather and grandmother was.

Before Rui could ask anymore questions about people’s parents, Ashai changed the subject to the reason why he wanted to take them to his grandfather.

‘Demon slayers’ was the first thing that came out of Ashai’s mouth and it made the two spider sibling’s heart drop. Rui’s heart dropped even deeper once he heard the word ‘Hashira’. It was almost impossible to hide the fact that it bothered him greatly.

Ashai turned around to race the two, and met their petrified expressions. Thinking they were terrified about the demon folklore, he immediately stopped talking and cupped [Name]'s face to try and reassure him.

"Oh no don't worry! It's just some dumb folklore, there's nothing to worry about! The demons aren’t real, it’s just some dumb story to keep the little ones from going outside at night. Its just gramps being all weird again with his whole demon slayer stuff, but it’s pretty interesting! Again, it’s only a folklore though so you have nothing to be scared of.” Ashai says letting go of [Name]’s face and opens the door for the two siblings to walk through. “Honestly, there’ll be times where I think you’re both demons or something because you guys act like you don’t know how to function as a human being sometimes, haha” Ashai joked, hoping to lighten the mood a bit

[Name] nervously laughed back while Rui just glared.

As the 3 boys walked inside the minka, [Name] noticed no one else was there except for the old man and Madam Yui. Not only that, but there was some strange aura in the air, as if he wasn’t welcome here. Turning over to Rui, [Name] can see his uneasy expression as well. But before he got the chance to say anything, Yui spoke aloud.

“Oh! sorry boys grandpa needs to rest, I’m sure if you come back later he’ll tell you one of his stories.”

A quiet sigh of relief was emitted from Rui. “Aww, that sucks I really wanted to you guys to here some of his stories.” Ashai pouted slightly.

“Don’t worry, he’ll be awake soon.. Ashai, go over to the bakery and get the box wrapped in blue, its for your grandfather, don’t take to long ok?”

“Ok.. [Name]! Come with me-”

“No, I need him for something, just go over to the bakery real quick, get the box and come back.”

“But-”

“Nothing sweetie.. Hi Rui” Yui smiled, hugging the demon child who had just ran up to her. “How are you baby? Did you eat the food I sent you home with?”

“Go young man.”

Knowing he couldn’t argue any further, Ashai reluctantly went over to the bakery without [Name]. “That boy is obsessed with you, isn’t he?” Madam Yui joked. Unfortunately for [Name], he was too busy staring at the door Ashai just went through to hear what Yui said, causing him to answer a couple seconds late. “H-huh”

“The tempura and Sushi? Yeah we finished it.”

“Oh, you must still be hungry.. [Name] can you close all the blinds and sweep the floor?”

“Of course!”

“Thank you dear, I’ll be in the kitchen with your brother if you need me” Yui said, walking into the kitchen with Rui.

[Name] got straight to work, closing the blinds and sweeping isn’t anything hard...But the strange aura he felt before when he first entered, intensified. It almost felt like the air gotten thicker as well.

As [Name] swept closer to the sleeping grandfather, he noticed something right next to him. Taking a closer look, [Name]'s eyes at the sight of the samurai sword. Why does it look bigger than the usual than the swords I’ve seen.

After staring at the sword for a bit, [Name] finally looked away from the sword to finish sweeping.

“I kill your kind with this exact sword”

...

“Is that what you tell the demons before you kill them?” [Name] questions, trying his best not to show the slightest amount of fear in his voice. “Every. single. one.” [Name] nodded, but refused to face the owner of the voice and the larger than normal sword. “Your kind disgusts me. Killing innocent souls just for your selfish needs.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘Your kind’ sir-”

“Demons.” He spat. “I mean Demons.” [Name] only nodded, no words, justs movements. Speaking of movements, the old man began to get up and slowly move closer to [Name]. Shit, what do I do now?

After hearing Ashai say that his grandfather was a Hashira, [Name] knew that his age didn’t affect the way he moved. The retired hashira can block his way to the door in the matter of seconds. He didn’t want to question how fast he was compared to a sun-breathing hashira. So he put the broom down and finally face the old man who was ten feet away from him. “Who many demons did you ki-”

“You may have fooled everyone in this village with your little story. But I’m not naive.” The sun breathing hashira was now walking towards [Name]. [Name] wasted no time walking towards the kitchen, he could probably notify madam Yui..

If it wasn’t for the sun breather grabbing [Name] by the neck. "Like I said before... your kind disgust me. And don't get me started on your excuse of a leader 'Muzan kibutsuji' (I hate his last name. I've spent about five minutes trying to figure out if the first half was 'kitbust' or 'kibust'). You don't happen to have any information on him do you?" With every word, the hashira tighten his grip on [Name]'s neck. Making it harder and harder for [Name] to breathe. "And don't worry about him finding you after you tell me, I'll kill you the second I get the information I need."

"A-and...wh..if...don't..?" [Name] was barely audible and on the verge of blacking out with the insane grip on his neck. He could taste own blood at this point, but he wasn't concerned about the blood trickling out of his mouth, he was more concerned about how no one was here to save him. Madam Yui told Ashai not to take long, and the bakery isn't far away from here. So what the hell?

Without waiting another second, [Name] unleashed a tiny spider to go and kill the hashira. Sure he was Ashai's grandpa but, it was either this old man or him.

"Have nothing to say? Well that's disappointing.." [Name] could feel his eyes threatening to shut as he Choked on his own blood. "P-plea....sto..p" he tried to plead. "If it wasn't for you disgusting demons.. my wife would've still been alive. I swear, I will defeat your leader, and kill every single one of you good for nothing demons-"

"GRANDPA NO HE ISN'T A DEMON! LET HIM GO" Ashai yelled, alerting Madam Yui who came rushing out of the Kitchen, Rui not to far behind. "Put him down Grandpa! He isn't a demon!" Ashai pleaded, gripping onto his grandfather's hamari, tears threathing to spill from his eyes. "PLEASE STOP YOUR HURTING HIM!"

"Oh Ashai, this isn't what you call a friend. This is a human eating demon, that killed your- OW DAMMIT" The hashira yelled in pain, thus letting go of [Name].

Once [Name] hit the floor, he immediately sucked in as much air as he could before choking again.

"[NAME] are you ok?!" Ashai called, rushing over to help [Name]. Rui would've done the same if it wasn't for Yui protectively holding on to him.

"When was the last time you took your medicine? You almost killed him! He's only a child" Yui quickly scolded the elder. " Oh sweetheart.. that kick was so powerful it almost broke my arm. You should-"

"I'm not and won't become a demon slayer. Go back to your room and take your medicine. You almost killed him!"

"He isn't a kid. That thing is a demon.. And so is the smaller one your holding."

"They aren't demons-"

"They how come they only come out when the sun goes down?" To that Madam Yui didn't have an answer. She never really thought about why they did come when the sun isn't out. Thankfully Ashai spoke up just before the elder could prove his point. "Their both sensitive to sun the sunlight. Both their parents died because of that."

Madam Yui held Rui even tighter as she looked back at the elder. "Ashai go take [Name] to Ms. Reiki." She demanded. Without thinking Ashai immediately picked up [Name] and proceeded to carry him to whoever Ms. Reiki was.

"I know you wanna check on [Name], Rui, don't worry we'll go there in a minute." Yui reassures, while cupping Rui's left cheek. "Yui, your not this naive."

"You should be ashamed of yourself, hurting a defenseless child-"

"He isn't a child.. You know that demons basically have a unlimited lifespan? That 'kid' is most likely 40 years old"

"Your just delusional, you haven't taken your medicine all day have you?"

"I do not need that Goddamn Medi...cine.. What the hell are you staring at?!" The elder quickly spat at the small spider boy who stared at the two adults.

"Nothing.. I didn't know older people quarreled.. I thought only children quarreled." Rui said with pure innocence. "I thought when hu- people got older they learned how to settle their arguments maturely, rather than idiotic children that need someone superior than them to settle it for them"

The two adults stared at Rui, both with different intentions of what to do next. "Oh, Rui, It's-"

"Don't explain anything to that thing." The elder spat. Rui watched as the two adults argued with each other. For some strange reason Rui was invested slightly uncomfortable but couldn't help but listen to what they had to say.

Throughout this argument, Rui learned some new words..

...

"I'm so sorry about my Grandfather, [Name], my mom said he's been having some illusions lately.. I didn't expect it to get this worse." Ashai apologized for the 26th time. "Like... I said for 26th...time Ashai, its ok! I'm fine really.."

"I know but he choked you and called you a demon! Why are you so calm about it?! You could've died!"

".....But I didn't..So..Yay?..." [Name] jazzed-hand. Ashai just sighed in response.

"That's odd.." Ms. Reiki said to herself, but the boys were interested anyway. "What's is it Reiki-san?" Ashai asked, his voice full of concern. "You said your grandfather choked him right?..Oh nevermind it's probably nothing.." She dismisses. "How's your throat? Is it feeling sore?"

"Well-"

"Don't speak. Just nod or shake your head." Reiki quickly spoke. [Name] nodded slightly before smiling at Reiki. "Your welcome sweetie.. Oh! Yui, is everything.."

"Everything's ok.." The two boys turned their heads to face Yui, who had just walked in with a sleeping Rui. "[Name] I am terribly sorry for what occurred and your injuries."

"It's-"

"What did I say about speaking?"

Not wanting to know the punishment for disobeying a nurse, [Name] nodded again with a smile, hoping Madam Yui will see that he forgives her. Thankfully she understood and returned a smile. " [Name] you can go, just remember to take it easy on your throat and take the medication I gave you." [Name] obeyed and made note to throw out the medication, since it had no use to him.

Both Reiki and Madam Yui watched the [Name] walk out with his admirer, Ashai.

As they left, the two women looked at each other with worry some expressions. "How did it even happened?" Reiki asked immediately. "I'm not sure.." Yui answered in disappointment. "I was in the kitchen with Rui because he wanted a snack. Then all of a sudden I hear Ashai yelling something about a demon so I ran out to see him choking [Name]"

"Did he take his medicine? Or did he continue to rant about how he doesn't need it?"

"That exactly" Yui sighed. She looked down at the sleeping Rui she had in her hands. The only thing she could think about was how the situation would have happened if she didn't come out sooner.. Rui would've lost the only member of his family.. he would've been traumatized for the rest of his life.. "The nerve of him to call him a demon.." Yui spoke through her teeth in anger.

Taking a second to rid off any dark thoughts she turned back to Reiki. "I'm leaving now. I want the kids to eat something before they leave, have a nice night."

"Same to you as well"

...

"You need to eat a human"

"I'm aware of that.. But who am I going to eat?" [Name] questioned. It has passed a few weeks ever since the two spider siblings ate a human body. Sure, the human's food is tasty and gives them energy for a couple hours, but it doesn't give them the nutrients they need. Day by day they can feel their bodies growing weaker do to the lack of human blood in their system. [Name] could care less about his own health, he was more concerned about Rui and what he was gonna eat. Every couple minutes or so, he could here Rui's stomach growl from hunger.

It pained him to see Rui in this state. Yet he's been in this state for weeks now and [Name] still doesn't know what to do or who to eat.

"We can eat that old sun-breather" Rui suggested. [Name]'s eyes widen in response. "Or" Rui continued, "We can eat everyone else who called us a demon! We'll make them regret-"

"We can't do that.."[Name] sighed. [Name] knows that Rui's way smarter than this, but after weeks of being around humans and not being able to take a even a bite out of them, is bond to do something to the way he thinks.

"They've been accusing us for being demons, if they suddenly go missing, we would have a lot of suspicion towards us."

"If we can't eat any of the old people or anyone else at the village who can we eat?" Rui asked, completely annoyed. "It's already a problem that we can't go out during the day when the sun's out, so how can we- uhh... [Name] what- what are you doing?" Rui questioned as he watched [Name] create a small spider and send it out to go in the opposite direction towards the deeper part of the woods.

"[Name], What are you?- huh?" Rui stopped talking as he sees a demon slayer slowly walk towards him like a mindless zombie.

"You did so well sweetie~" [Name] cooed to his spider, gently petting the spiders head. "uhh.."

"mh? Oh! I heard footsteps coming while you were talking.. I don't think we can devour the body this time though.. they'll probably send in more demon slayers complaining about a demon."

Rui stared at the demon slayer who had no control over their body. It's right there in front of him, he has every right to devour the vulnerable human, but then at the same time he doesn't. Just because people don't know he's a bloodthirsty demon who needs human blood to survive.

"Cut the skin open, you can suck the blood off of that. Take as much as you want but don't take too much so they can't walk, ok?" [Name] said. "Wait what about you? You need to-"

"It's fine, you need it more than me, I'll just fine another-"

"No. Take some as well, we don't know the next time you'll get choked like that.. or be threaten with wisteria.. we might not be able to regenerate as fast as we used too. I won't take a lot.. A cup or two should be enough to last a week or so." Rui demanded. [Name] only nodded in response.

Rui examined the slayer standing in front of him, figuring out where to suck the blood out of. "Cut open wherever chubbiest and take some blood. I'll send out a couple of my spiders to grab some bandages so we can patch them up. Then we'll leave them here and continue with our day." [Name] said, already making bigger than normal sized spiders to send out to the village to steal some bandages.

"How often are we gonna do this?" Rui asked while using his threads make a 'X' formation around the slayers hips. "I guess every couple weeks? or when your feeling hungry..."

It was surprising how well they managed to control themselves for so long. After taking a little more than one cup of blood, they soon decided to reward themselves with another two cups. After being satisfied, they cleaned and bandaged the body. Later leaving it mindless on the ground waiting for sunrise to come and free it from it's curse.

The spider siblings decided to do this every week or two. Find a slayer, drain most of its blood, patch it up, and pretend like nothing happened. It was hard trying not to devour the human, but the managed. Sure they had to hold each other back every now an then but the really are trying..

Meanwhile the butterfly mansion was trying to solve the mystery of the barely walking slayers with bandaged arms, legs, neck, and or stomach with a dangerously high amount of blood loss.

"Shinobu! We got another one!" Aoi called from the door frame leading to the medical room. "And Yes! Its the same bandaging pattern!" Shinobu sighed, yet kept the smile that was always on her face. This is the 5th one this month, the last person was barely alive.. if this keeps going...

"Oh! Another one?" Kanae (Yes she's alive here, I really miss her) said walking into the same room as Shinobu. "Your back so soon?" Shinobu questioned. "Only for a bit... I do have to get going soon. But since it is still day, I thought I would be able to get some more information on why some of our people are coming back with a terrible amount of blood loss. You care to join me?" Kanae offered, signaling Shinobu to follow her. Without a doubt, Shinobu followed her sister to medical room Aoi was in.

...

"Wait, The mountain that's a couple miles from here?" Shinobu asked, interrupting the story the only stable slayer was telling. "Y-Yeah actually.." The slayer answered.

"That's odd.." Kanae remarked, putting her index finger to her on her chin. "Shinobu, didn't you and tomioka slayed all the demons near the mountain?"

"Yes. Indeed we did.. We even raided the shed near the mountain."

"Act-actually.." The slayer spoke up "I never went to the mountain.. I went straight to the village near the woods."

"Why go straight to the village?"

"I was going to ask the people there if they had experince any suspicious activity. But before I got to the village, I felt something bite me. That's when I passed out. I wasn't sure how long I was out for, but when I woke up.. I was all bandaged up."

"Sorry to interrupt" Aoi interrupted "But, did you ever did get the chance to go to the village?"

"uuh no." The slayer concluded.

" Why'd you asked that Aoi?" Kanae asked. "Oh I wanted to know where the bandages came from. Anyway I should get back to work." Aoi claimed as she quickly walked off.

Aww she want to contribute but got nervous.. Kanae smiled to herself before getting up with a small stretch.

"Well!" Kanae clapped. "We'll send a couple demon slayers to investigate the area... Aoi said the patients claimed that it happened at night correct?"

"Uhh Yeah.."

"Then it's settled we'll send slayers right away to the area.. please get as much rest as you can and stay healthy, we will get to work immediately. Thank you!" And with that Kanae signaled her sister to follow her once more before leaving.

"Are you going to ask any of the Hashira to help?" Shinobu asked. "Well no that's not who I had in mind.."

"Then who?"

...

"We could've got here earlier if SOMEONE DIDN'T MAKE US STOP FOR TEMPURA!" Yelled a very pissed Zenitsu. Inosuke paid no attention to Zenitsu and instead enjoyed the last bite of Tempura he had in his mouth underneath his mask.

"Well it's only 5:48 so we have plenty of time to investigate the area" Tanjiro said trying his best to cause not another fight between Zenitsu and Inosuke for the fifth time today.

Zenitsu sighed. "Well? Do you smell anything?"

"Oh um.." Tanjiro took a second to sniff the air.

The village smelled friendly. Happy kids, happy adults, happy pets, demons, baked goods, fresh food, healthy environment..

"Huh?" Tanjiro said quietly to himself. He took another sniff around, taking him about a minute to finally, fully grab the demon scent.

"It's very faint." He unintentionally reported to Zenitsu. "It's on almost everything..and everyone.."

"Wait.. on the people too?! Dose that mean it's hiding as a human!?" Zenitsu began to panic. "It seems like it... how else would the scent get on the people."

"Start tracking it down gompochiro!!" Inosuke demanded.

"Right I should-"

"Is that a real sword?" A little girl asked. "Oh uh- where did you-"

"Are you a demon slayer?"

"Are grandpa's weird stories true?"

"Why do you have a boar hat?"

"Can I touch the sword?"

"Can I wear the boar hat?"

"Is that a bird on your head?"

A whole bunch of little kids ran up to the three strange looking people and asked them all the questions that came to mind. Not giving them the chance to answer.

Tanjiro smiled at all the kids who surrounded them, they reminded him of his siblings when it was time to eat or going out to play.

"Are Grandpa's weird stories true?"

Tanjiro's eyebrows furrowed. "I thought demon slayers weren't that well known.." Tanjiro questioned Zenitsu.

"INOSUKE STOP TRYING TO FIGHT THE KIDS- huh? Oh uhh I guess it's a folklore around here.. maybe to keep the kids from walking out at night or- INOSUKE NO"

"LITTLE ONES FIGHT MEEEEEEEE!!!"

"No! No Inosuke these are kids, you know? The ones we don't fight!" Tanjiro quickly reassured. "Huh? Why not?? Their just like us but smaller! They can fight!!"

"Oh you got to be kidding me-"

"[Name]! I didn't know you were coming this early- oh hi! Sorry.. I thought you were someone else.." Ashai apologized, he thought [Name] and Ashai came earlier due to the ruckus outside in front. Instead he ran up to a couple of strangers in weird clothes and a shirtless boy in a boar hat.

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So why did this take me a month to post? It's not even that long..

I'll edit this in the morning and answer the other asks in the morning as well.

Remember that requests are still open and have a nice night/day/afternoon/universe

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rottenbrains · 4 years

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Not this time.

Iwaizumi Hajime X Reader

Wordcount : 1799 words

Warning : failed attempt of slight angst, spoiler from manga, and trashy writing from yours truly

It's the last day of high school and most of the graduates are rushing for their last chance to confess before the chances of meeting decrease to almost none. And it's not that different for the ace of Seijoh's volleyball team, Iwaizumi Hajime.

Except that instead of confessing, he was on his way to meet his girlfriend which is you.

After being chased by Oikawa's fangirls (because Oikawa followed his best friend whenever he went) for half an hour, Iwaizumi managed to escape from the hyenas and jogged towards the back of the gym, the usual place you guys would meet in secret since no one knew about your relationship.

"It's not like you have a boyfriend... there's no reason to reject me, y'know", the male whispered to your right ear breathily before moving slowly towards your face while his arms caged you, rendered you from moving away from him as your back kissed the wall. Pressured and flustered, you tried to pry him away by pushing him as he tried to close the gap between you two.

"Um, Tsukahara-kun... you're too close. Please move away..." you begged him as you turned your face away from him before he forced you to face him again, painful pressure felt in your cheek. Without a warning, his lips smashed with yours. His chapped lips scared you, your hands shaped like fists as you tried to push him back. Knowing that your real boyfriend would arrive any moment now, you exerted all your energy to push him away. But, being the captain of the soccer club, his strong body just won't be easy to move.

"I didn't expect to be here just to see how you sucked someone else's face"

Hearing his voice somehow gave you another set of power to push the soccer player off you. Or maybe the male was shocked that he took a step away from you, like a deer caught in the headlight.

"Haji-"

"It's okay. Have fun there."

The guy let you go while still in a trance as you stumbled your way to clear the misunderstanding with Iwaizumi. When you finally caught his wrist, he stopped and forcefully pulled away from your hand from his using his free hand.

"We won't be meeting again, so don't worry. Now, goodbye."

After finishing his farewell, he quickens his pace to meet his friends and go back home. Leaving you, trembling from the shock and heartbreak, not even being able to explain a damn thing.

Mattsun came back to the table with drinks for his two available best friends. With Oikawa currently in Brazil and was busy playing beach volleyball the popular 'Ninja Shoyou', they're slowly starting to decrease in number. Now that Iwaizumi decided to go to California, only the 'meme-pair' would be left in Japan while the latter two migrate to the other side of the world.

"Seriously... you guys made it looks like we're not from the same university, planning a meetup before my flight", Iwaizumi scoffed while he took the cold drink that Mattsun bought for him, as a token on 'not forgetting their friendship'. Makki chuckled at the statement, realizing the relevance of it since they did attend the same university so it's quite a joke to see them meeting up like they haven't met for years. Mattsun, on the other hand just lets his butt fall to the soft seat as he glared at the male.

"Attending the same university doesn't mean we're always together. Being in the same faculty AND course with the creampuff-lover means BOTH of us stuck together while you're busy with your physical training and classes", Mattsun jeered while pointing to the pink-haired coursemate that happened to be his best friend since high school. Enjoying his vanilla latte, Makki just continued to sip on his drink while the two kept on exchanging disses for each other. Soon after the disses comes to an end, the trio started to share some more dumb moments as the reminisced the memories.

"The two decided to get marry after graduation, so both of them are busy now... money and stuff, of course"

"Well, getting married is basically an investment. That is to be expected..."

As the meme-pair are busy sharing the lives of their other friends from before, Iwaizumi found himself lost in thought as his friends kept on yapping about others.

"After we're done with school and college, I'll be waiting for your proposal... okay?"

A distant promise decided to visit him as his friends talked about marriage.

A forgotten promise between him and Y/n.

Like a lightning, all his memories with Y/n came rushing in. All their secret dates, late-night calls, occasional bento that he found on his table, chocolates that he slipped inside her bag when he realized that Y/n was tired the whole day in class. Despite keeping it a secret can be a pain in the ass, but the relationship was fun nonetheless. now that all the memories came flooding in, a stinging pain spread all through his heart as a certain sentence repeats itself like a broken record in his mind.

"I didn't expect to be here just to see how you sucked someone else's face"

His head hurts, remembering his choice of words at that moment.

"It's okay. Have fun there."

He wanted to retract his words, remembering the pain that's visible from Y/n's face as he stepped away from the place.

"We won't be meeting again, so don't worry. Now, goodbye."

He felt like punching himself in the face when he remembered forcing Y/n's hand off his that afternoon. On that day, he was planning to tell her... that he wanted to stop hiding the relationship. The only reason he wanted to hide it was to save himself and Y/n from Oikawa's teases as his teases can be brutal sometimes. That day, he'd bet that she was going to be so excited when he told her about it since she's been patiently waiting for him to be ready to tell the world about his girlfriend. If only he'd stopped on his tracks and listened to her explanation, he might be the one that's busy preparing for his marriage with her.

Instead, he pushed her away without giving him any chance to explain herself.

"Oi, are you listening to me??" Makki slapped Iwaizumi's forearm, snapping him from his personal reminiscing session. Blinking his eyes, he focused back on his friends.

"Yeah, yeahh, you do-"

A big lump emerged inside his neck, stopping his words from coming out when he saw a young lady walked towards the cafe's counter.

Those glossy H/C locks tied neatly into a ponytail.

The soft smile that decorated her face.

Those bubbly steps that she possessed.

The warm presence she exuded.

All those features threaten him to walk towards her, leaving his friends behind as the hope of being able to apologize and get her back weakens his self-control to not embarrass himself.

But, the small figure that holds her hand just blew all the hope away. The small boy looks so identical to her, it's clear as day that the boy is her son. As the small hope dispersed into thin air, he felt himself weaken from the sight as he slowly collects his undamaged mind to focus back with the conversations he somehow shared with his friends. Faking a smile, he started to force some response in the story when a small ball made its way to Makki's leg.

"I'm sorry..." the owner of the ball bowed his head as an apology for letting the ball bumped with the older male's leg. Not minding the interruption, Makki smiled at the kid as he ruffled the boy's hair, earning a fit of giggles from him. Iwaizumi looked at the boy, it was the same kid that held into Y/n's hand at the counter. He looked at the kid, shocked at the fact that the kid was so near to him. From beside him, Mattsun suddenly spoke.

"He really looked like Y/n-san from high school...". Hearing that, Makki agreed by laughing along with the kid as the mentioned person from high school approached their table.

"Um, I'm sorry if he's bo-"

The air seems to freeze, as it becomes harder for Iwaizumi and Y/n to breathe when their eyes met. As the child returns back to the female's presence, Makki and Mattsun sweatdropped at the sudden change of air between all of them. Mattsun soon realized that there is some hidden history between the two, being the perceptive person he is. Makki just stayed dumbfounded by the awkward tension.

Few seconds passed and Iwaizumi realized that his friends had become quite bothered by the situation while the boy eyed all of them with pure curiosity. From the awkwardness of this sudden meet up with 'the one that got away', he decided to break the ice somehow. He knows that both of them could die from the tension itself. But, he's too afraid that he would make a mistake to further push her away, that he spat out the words he dreaded the most.

"So, he's your son?"

"He's my nephew, Iwaizumi-san."

The next day.

"Seriously! He had a fucking ex, and we knew about this a day before he's going to California. Can you see the friendship bond there? 'Cause I can't!!" Mattsun blabbered to Makki as both of them made their way towards him.

"I still can't believe you called me Iwaizumi-san yesterday..."

"Well, I can't believe you thought that the kid was my son."

"But, he looks just like you..."

"Hajime, I have siblings... Oh, maybe you've already forgotten about it."

"Babe, we're not starting this again..."

Playful banters are exchanged between you and Hajime. With his hands enveloping yours, it feels just like during high school. The only difference was that both of you were not hiding it anymore.

"Still... I really don't expect you would follow him to the other side after years of not seeing each other, Y/n-chan", Makki said with pure amazement lacing his words. Hearing that, Hajime tightens his hold on your hands while tugging me to his embrace.

"Well, I'm totally not leaving her this time. And I will never will."

Bonus.

"Iwa-chan and Y/n-chan are together?!" Oikawa's voice boomed from the smartphone's speaker while Makki and Mattsun snickered in front of the camera.

"Yeah... and too bad you're the last one to know!"

Hearing that, Oikawa shed tears while wailing about how his childhood friend kept a secret from him all this time. While you joined the pair laughing in front of Oikawa through the video-call, Hajime shouts in front of the phone in order to shut Oikawa's mouth.

"Shut up, Shittykawa!!!"

Seriously, attempts on angst writing really sucks!!!! Well, sorry to the ones that read this thing and decided to vomit TT.TT

I’m sorry for only writing now, since i’ve been busy recording presentations and writing reports for assignments in university. I’m on my way back to you guys, so stay tuned!!!

and feel free to drop some request or rants (because now it’s time for me to procrastinate on my assignments)

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cometorub · 4 years

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(SUBMISSION 07) answering: -> this survey ❤️

Next post - 22/12/19 at 10pm GMT

1. Do you want to remain anonymous?

Yes

2. How old are you?

3. What’s your sexual orientation?

Straight

4. Your pubic hair?

Bald

5. Are you virgin?

6. How old were you when you first masturbated?

7. How did you discover masturbation?

Girlfriends

8. How old were you when you had your first orgasm?

9. Can you tell us more about your first orgasm? How did it happen?

My uncle raped me

10. How often do you masturbate?

Often, some days 3 or 4 times

11. When was the last time you masturbated?

Earlier today

12. Do you masturbate to any stimulus?

Yeah

13. What do you think about?

Sexual experiences

14. What’s the last thing you thought of or masturbated to?

Thinking about some guy

15. Have you ever walked in on or caught someone masturbating? (If yes, please tell us a little more about it)

Yes exboyfriend , joined him , came together

16. Have someone ever walked in on or caught you masturbating? (If yes, please tell us a little more about it)

No , other then mom

17. Have you ever had cyber sex?

Nope

18. Have you ever had phone sex?

Yes

19. Have you ever had a wet dream?

Yes , then woken up to boyfriend eating me out

20. What’s your favorite method of masturbation? (i.e. Hands/Toys/Lotion/etc.)

Toys , I have quite a few

21. Are you loud or quiet when you masturbate?

Loud , always cum loud

22. Do you ever masturbate in pjs? If so what type and how?

Yes

23. Do you ever touch any other part of your body whilst you masturbate?

Yeah, nipples

24. Has anyone ever watched you masturbate live online?

25. Has anyone ever watched you masturbate in person?

Yes

26. Have you ever watched someone masturbate live online?

Nope

27. Have you ever watched someone masturbate in person?

Yepp

28. Have you ever masturbated with someone? (Mutual masturbation)

Yeahh

29. Do you enjoy watching others masturbate?

Yes, boys and girls

30. Do you enjoy being watched while masturbating?

Yeah

31. Who do you like to think about when you masturbate?

Exboyfriend

32. Have you ever told them you think about them while you masturbate?

No , don't talk to him anymore

33. Does anyone know you masturbate? How did they find out?

Yes , I have told them

34. Have you masturbated because your partner wasn’t around to help? Where were they?

Yes, who knows

35. What’s your most embarrassing masturbation story?

Big toy and remembered I still had a tampon in it got stuck boyfriend had to help remove it

36. What’s your funniest masturbation story?

He was watching and I squirted in his face

38. Have you ever masturbated in unique or strange places?

Yes in the office

39. Have you ever used something unique or strange to masturbate?

Not sure about this

40. Is it easy for you to orgasm or do you have to work for it?

I have to work at it a bit

41. What’s the easiest way for you to get off?

Foreplay

42. Is there only one way you can get off? (i.e. Vaginal/Clitoral/Toy Use)

43. Are you able to achieve orgasm through only non-conventional or indirect methods? (Breast Play/Hands-Free/Anal)

Yeah

44. Do you ever double penetrate while you masturbate?

Yes

45. Do you ever suck on a dildo while you masturbate?

Yes

46. Do you edge when you masturbate? (Get to the point of orgasm and stop repeatedly to enhance the experience)

No , I want to cum as often as possible

47. What position do you typically masturbate in?

On my back

48. How do you react when you orgasm, arch your back, pull faces? Etc

Arch back curl toes pull his face in really hard

49. Describe how an orgasm feels to you when you cum? If possible

Complete releaseeee

50. Describe a typical masturbation session.

N/A

51. How long do you usually last?

Have been known to go for hours

52. What’s the quickest you’ve ever been brought to orgasm?

On the train in about 3 minutes

53. What’s the longest masturbation session you’ve had?

Have gotten lost for hours

54. What’s the most amount of times you’ve cum in a day?

55. How wet do you get? Do you leak fluids when you orgasm? (If yes, please describe)

Yeah

56. If you are older than 35, how has masturbation changed for you over the years?

Gotten better

57. Do you want to tell us something more about your masturbation experiences?

Nope

58. Are you sexually aroused taking this survey?

Kinda

59. Are you going to masturbate tonight after taking this survey?

Maybe!

Thank you so much for your answers! ❤

You’re a female, go take part? -> click here

If you want me to add some more questions feel free to message me and make sure to reblog this. Thank you.

We want to know more about the way our female followers masturbate.

You can answer as many questions as you want. I’d love to hear from you!

Here’s the survey if you wish to share your answers on how you do it —> click here ❤️

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fae-fucker · 4 years

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Zenith: Chapter 49-51

Chapter 49

So the queen of Adhira, Lira’s aunt, is, like, super disappointed with Lira and her shenanigans. Lira finally explains that while she loves her aunt, she doesn’t want to be her, aka refuses the role of planetary queen once more. I honestly have no idea what reasons Alara has for making Lira her heir, because Lira has evidently never shown any interest in politics. Why she won’t just make Lon her heir? He seems loyal and eager. Idk I guess feminism or something. Oh and we need a character conflict for Lira. Doy.

Anyhoo, Alara says that she’s been in contact with General Cortas and knows about his deal with the crew. She says she can instead offer Lira a position as a pilot for Adhira’s new starfleet. Which they apparently didn’t have before? She says they need a stronger presence “in the sky” if there’s another war, and like 1) that’s not the sky and 2) you mean to tell me that this entire planet of randos that do in fact train pilots judging by Lira’s existence ... doesn’t have a starfleet already?

Oh, but the ship Alara offers Lira is “the fastest model in the Mirabel galaxy”. The fastest model of ... what? Is it a frigate? A cruiser? A fighter? We don’t even get any made-up specs or even a general specialization, all we get is that it’s the fastest and coolest ship ever that everybody wants right now but it’s not even out on the market yet! Because that makes sense for the government that just admitted they had a minuscule starfleet to have. I would’ve accepted it if Alara tied the existence and offer of the ship back to her correspondence with General Cortas and the ship was a diplomatic gift from Arcardius, but it’s specifically mentioned to be Adhiran.

So ... these guys don’t have a meaningful “presence in the sky”, but they DO have the tech, the budget, and the marketing strategy to make the most wanted and advanced starship in the galaxy?

Oh, and this starship? Lira would pilot it as a commercial ship. So the queen wants to invest in a bigger starfleet ... except this one extra fancy ship she’s willing to throw away for regular trade? I mean I guess it makes sense if she doesn’t want to put Lira in danger but does want to sweeten the deal with a sick starship, but then I have to wonder why the previous info about the general and the lacking starfleet is even in here at all?

This whole situation is just doubt dot jpeg.

We find out that the offer only stands this once, and only if Lira immediately removes herself from her current mission and also leaves her crew to stay on Adhira. Apparently the super sexy cool new ship hasn’t even been built yet, it’s literally just a sketch, but Alara has set aside funds to start construction. But it’s also famous enough of a ship already that everyone wants it?

I’m no politician but the logistics of it all make my brain hurt. It’s just really ass-backwards, is what I’m saying. It really feels like Shinsay just wrote one word in front of the other without any consideration of the words that came before.

Oh and Lon is here also. I’m only saying this because he bites his lip and his blood is blue and I need you to remember this for future reference.

Lon and Alara tell Lira to pick them and ditch her friends because her friends are bad for her and tbh are they wrong? Are they though? Lira leaves to go mope about how uninteresting her character conflict is and finds Alfie and Dex.

Alfie sat beside him on the couch. The AI was oiling his gears while Dex oiled his insides with a bottle of Griss.

I had to read about Dex oiling his insides and now so do you.

Wait ... is Dex butt-chugging this Griss? Dex, you know that’s bad for you, bud?

Lira asks Dex if there was truly no way to save both Andi and his dad, to which Dex replies something appropriately dramatic that nobody would actually say out loud (something something tearing galaxies something), and Lira mopes out of that room as well in grim understanding of their symbolically similar situations before the chapter ends.

Chapter 50

We’re back with Andi. The girls are all “training” aka playfighting out in the open and inconveniencing the people around them while Andi angsts about how broken and sad and black her soul is and how everything is her fault including Valen’s and Lira’s pain and how much she just LOVES these WONDERFUL WOMEN she calls her crew and how HARD it was to open up to them after Kalee and Dex but now that she has she would never give them up for ANYTHING.

It goes on for literally pages and I’m not going to include it because 1) it’s pretty much a rehash of shit we already know and have seen her angst about and 2) the fact that Andi’s thoughts and character “development” is happening in her mind alone and the other girls are doing something else makes this feel really jarring and ironically disconnected. There’s nothing wrong with having emotional chapters where not much “plot” happens, but maybe have people actually, like, talk and interact with each other? Instead of just having one character think about how deep and damaged they are? Idk, just a thought.

Anyway, after several pages of pointless nonsense, Andi finally starts crying and tells the other girls that the new info from Dex and Valen’s whole deal has been taking a toll on her. She also apologizes to Lira, which, bonus points, and to the others for getting her into this. Unfortunately Lira undoes the apology and Andi’s attempt at taking responsibility and admitting to wrongdoing by saying she doesn’t need an apology and only needs to hear Andi complain so she can be the emotional sponge and fortune cookie advice dispenser of the group just like Shinsay always intended.

Now, to be fair, this section is honestly quite touching and I wish Shinsay had focused more on the friendship instead of ... well, literally everything else. Observe:

“I tried to kill [Dex]. What if I’d succeeded?”

“You didn’t,” Breck said. Her dark eyes met Andi’s pale ones as she spoke. “And now you know his side of the story, and he knows yours. You both did terrible things, broke promises, ruined a mutual trust. You can hold on to your anger, if you think that makes you strong.” She smiled a little then. “But brute strength isn’t everything, Andi. Trust me, I would know.”

Man, Breck is really wasted on this book, isn’t she? Or at least the concept of Breck. There isn’t much of her to waste in the first place, lbr.

Andi admits that if Valen tries to kill her when he wakes up, she’s not sure she’ll want to stop him. Um. Shinsay ... It’s time to close the laptop and go outside I think. You are not equipped to handle this.

The crew tells Andi that they can carry some of her burdens for her, which is very sweet, if only Andi showed the same thing in return. Right now all she’s done is mope around, think about how much she loves her crew because they’re just so supportive, and then unload her emotional baggage on them. To her credit, Andi seems hesitant and tells Lira she’s there for her too. Lira’s about to spill the blue beans when Alfie interrupts to tell them that Valen is awake. Lira says that whatever she was about to say isn’t important in what I assume is supposed to be dramatic irony? But watch this actually get forgotten and resolved without her input, making Lira some sort of prophet.

All in all, not the worst chapter, but definitely bloated.

Chapter 51

Andi is pacing back and forth and trying to hype herself up before the meeting with Valen. We find out that apparently, the entire planet of Adhira has no military, because they’re just SO peaceful? Yeahh ... no. The only way I’d accept that is if they had, like, some sort of mind-control abilities and networks of spies and agents in the governments of every other planet nation to prevent any conflict to turn on Adhira, which I doubt since they’re supposed to be the peaceful hippies of the story. It would be mad hardcore if that were the case, but alas, I fucking doubt it my dudes.

Besides, wasn’t Adhira in the war against Xen Ptera? Or did they sit it out but still celebrate the victory as if they helped? What’s going on there?

Also, it’s been four years since Andi last interacted with Valen, which I belive makes her 18-19? Meaning Dex was an older teen when he boned down mid-teens Andi. Ok ok ok ok.

Anyway, today is the day of Revalia, which the United Systems celebrate as it marks the end of the Cataclysm. Andi is not hyped. She’s also not hyped for the Intergalactic Peace Summit that’s happening.

[...] leaders from each of the four systems would be present to symbolize that peace still existed in the galaxy, and would continue to exist between the planets that made up the Unified Systems.

So ... Um. I know Shinsay probably think that “intergalactic” is a really cool sci-fi word and they’ve heard it used before so they had to put it here because it sounds science-y and official, but ... intergalactic means between galaxies. Not between star systems or planets. Given how the summit is defined, interplanetary would be more fitting because they’re all coming from different planets from different solar systems all within the same one galaxy. (Not entirely sure what fancy word would be used for multiple systems, but my point still stands.)

The secondhand embarrassment is strong in this one, y’all. Who edited this?

Gilly finds a Marketable Fuzzy Space Pet and convinces Andi to let her keep it, naming it Havoc. It’s impressive how not charmed I am.

Dex enters with Valen and Andi thinks about how different they are and how fucked-up Valen looks.

What horrors had he lived through?

Being thrown down a flight of stairs, for one. He was rotting at some point also. You know, from all the torture you know he went through for two years? Feels like you should probably know that. Oh, sorry, was that a Deep Rhetorical Question?

I should also mention that Alfie is getting on my nerves big time, which is frankly impressive on Shinsay’s part since I’ll eat up any naïve and emotionless robot character, gears and all, yet somehow they’ve written him to be obnoxious in their attempt at making him charmingly socially inept. I think the fact that I’m supposed to be finding him cute or funny is what’s making me really dislike him. Observe:

“I find the name quite fitting, Breck,” Lira added. “Every beast deserves a strong name.”

“Allow me to assist,” Alfie added, walking over on silent feet. “Havoc is defined, in the Great Universal Dictionary, as ‘great destruction or devastation. Ruinous damage.’”

[...]

Valen inclined his head at Alfie. “My deepest apologies that you’re programmed to work for my father.”

Alfie’s unblinking eyes stared at Valen. “I am detecting strong levels of distaste toward...”

“That’ll be enough, Alfie,” Dex interjected. “Why don’t you go check on the ship repairs? Memory could probably use some company.”

At the sound of Memory’s name, Alfie’s posture straightened. “I find my gears are warming at an alarming rate. Excuse me.”

Is this supposed to be cute? Endearing? What is the point of Alfie in this story? Why is he here? It feels like his entire reason for existing is to be the silly comic relief and the stereotypical weird AI with no concept of normal interactions. I’m also hardcore weirded out by how horny he is for Memory. It’s making me genuinely uncomfortable for reasons I can’t explain.

Why do we need another comic relief guy? Dex, Gilly and Breck, and now the fucking Havoc (the weird shitty pet thing) all serve that purpose already. WHY DOES ALFIE EXIST?!

Anyway, Alfie leaves and Dex suggests that they all have an “adult conversation” (lol) and the chapter ends on Andi finally greeting Valen and it’s very dramatic.

#eff reads: zenith

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mfingenius · 5 years

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Hey! Can you answer 1 and 7 please? Just feel like these ones are really interesting! ❤️❤️

What did you dream about last night?

Omg babes my dreams are always so insane lemme tell u last nights::

okay so I was in an airport for a school trip and I overheard some students talking shit about me (I don’t know them but in the dream they were my classmates) and so I was v sad and went to sit in a pizza place in the airport. I was waiting for my pizza (two slices pepperoni, I don’t even like pepperoni) and a guy (friend to the students outside, also don’t know who this is, but in the dream this was a fact) came to sit by me and asked why I was there alone and I was going to tell him to fuck off but then I remembered people were talking shit about me and like I thought I have to be nicer so I was like ‘nothing’...

and then time skips and we were sitting on his living room (we were dating by then, fact, he had no face) and then his friends started to arrive and he was like ‘you don’t mind do you?’ and I was like ‘no’ and so we were sitting on the table and his friends were like sitting down (it was a long table) and then K arrived (as in trc’s K????) in his white mitsubishi and so he somehow drove into the living room and somehow I had a car and it was also parked into the living room and K told me ‘if u don’t move it i’m gonna crash into it’ so I moved it and parked it outside. so then I came back and I sat at my place and he was sitting beside me doing drugs and he told me like ‘why tf are u here’ (everyone in my shcool ahted me for some reason) so i was like ‘i was invited’ and that was it.

and then time skip again and I was in a really big house that was mine (and it was a fact that I was married to faceless guy by now but he was never home for some reason) and I was really angry (i don’t remember why) and then my faceless husband arrived and he told me like ‘you need to see this’ so he dragged me outside and there was this classmate that I have weird feelings about and he was a drug addict and mr. faceless was like ‘we have to adopt him’ (he was older in this part of the dream, I wasn’t aging) and I was like ‘no wtf’ and he said ‘too bad I already did’ and i was like *facepalm*... and then this classmate was living in my house bc we apparently adopted him but my husband was STILL never home so it was always the two of us and (he’s super fidgety already) he was extra jumpy and shit bc he was getting off drugs

and then someone (i don’t remember who) was trying to convince me to adopt bc my classmate-turned-child was ‘lonely’ and I was like ‘no wtf I didn’t want one in the first place I don’t want another one’ and someone pointed out that we were the same age but somene else was like ‘yeah but she’s his mother now’ and i was so against that ‘

and so naturally we adopted someone else from my classmates (i don’t remember who but it was a girl)

and then two friends who were my neighbors got into my house through a secret passageway and we were talking and it was fine and then they told me like ‘i’m surprised that you married mr.faceless honestly’ and I was like ‘why’ and they told me ‘bc we had a pact to protect each other’ ‘against what?’ ‘against you’ and I was like wtf and I asked ‘what do u mean against me??’ and they just kept saying it over and over again that they had to protect each other against me and I was like wtf and I was getting angry...

and then my classmate-turned-kid sort of kicked them out and then he told me that it was fine and that i was not dangerous and I was like ‘alright’ bc I was very sad-sort-of-I-guess and so we hugged and then the camera-vision from where i was watching the dream zoomed in through us and there was a door behind us and it opened and there was a golden cage and inside there was ross from friends...

so yeahh :D that was my dream last night

What do you enjoy daydreaming about most?

Jesus honestly anything? but i think fic plots mostly, which is a bit sad at times like these when I barely have time to write :(

#ask mfingenius

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hiraethstill · 5 years

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THIS WEEK ON DAIYA NO ACE (8/13)

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT!

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FIRST SECOND AND I ALREADY PAUSED TO FAWN OVER ASADA

he researched... and developed.... this style......

what a good boi im soft

he works so hard

and he's so happy to be praised by koushuu lookit him!!!

WAS THAT MY CHILD TAKU COVERING FIRST

TAKU BEIN CHEEKY

eijun shook

kanetou bein proud!!

look at these two beautiful boyos

TAKU ENCOURAGING ASADA AND THE OTHERS I CANNOT

lmaooo mogami

"their voices are urging me forward" YOUUUUUUUUU PRECIOUS BEAN

tiny outfield firstie bois

haha kuki doesnt look that upset that theyre calling out more than when he was pitching

then again he didnt have koushuu/taku out there with him huh

they stirring things up

aaand kuki read my mind hyaha!

obligatory pretty koushuu shot

bro asada did the anime megane thing lmaoo

i like that masashi noticed someone else's/yui's countenance

someone wanna tell me why eijun's smiles/grins are always so contagious

passionate deep down huh hehe

W OW??? THIS ART LOOKS KINDA STRANGE BUT TAKU LOOKS REALLY HANDSOME/OLDER????

okay its not strange but

it seems different from everyone else's

@ animators did you hire someone specifically to draw taku lmaoo

whatre you lookin at me like that for HUH???

aww you will pitch your best asada sweetie

HASKDJF asada das gAY

HELL F U CK ING YEAH THAT WAS A CURVEBALL

EAT DIRT AUDIENCE

oh man i remember someone talking about how it was more 12-6 hMMST

KOUSHUU APPRECIATING ASADA IS ALL I NEEDED

and omg my sweet child asada is just wondering about how he missed it

pretty koushuus

"maybe it wasnt so bad" MY DUDE

MY GU Y

BALL ANIMATION

BRO MASASHI I KNOW YOU WANNA HIT IT

okay that sounded kinda wrong

WHY IS HE SO PRETTY AND WHY IS HE CHEERING ON HIS BOYFRIEND

aww asada turns to taku like he doesnt know which other fielder to turn to first aaaaaaa

hey zono looks nice here

and of course shirasu my guy

kanemaru's sassy hip

"you have an evil look in your eye, shinji" "you started it!"

HAVE I MENTIONED KANETOU ARE MARRIED

aw asada nodding so fervently my heart just grows for him every second

I FUCKIN LOVE YOUUUUUUU TAKUUUUUUUUUUU

asaDA'S NOISES OF SHOCK HE'S SO CUTE IM ABOUT TO BURST I SWEAR

AND HIS FACE OF SHOCK IM

WOW

I NEED TO SIT DOWN

BABIIIIIIIIEEEEESSSSSSSSSS

ASADA IS SO HAPPY THAT KOUSHUU IS RAISING HIS GLOVE AND TAKU IS SO PROUD THAT KOUSHUU IS RAISING HIS GLOVE

NOT TO MENTION KOUSHUU AND ASADA TAPPING GLOVES IM

SO FUCKING DRAMATIC

FELLA S IS IT G AY

WAIT WHAT

DID I HEAR THAT CORRECTLY

ASADA PLAYED SOFTBALL??????

UMMMM CAN I GET A HELL YEAH??????????

esp since i told this kid at camp that i played baseball and he was like "no you play softball" like fuck gender norms

EIJUN AND MOCHI ARE SO PROUD OF ASADAAA

AND LOOK AT KUKI + OTHERS GREETING ASADA SO WARMLY IM SOFT

ah mochi i love you

ah eijun i love you

both of you even more so after being great big bros to asada

why the fuck is koushuu so pretty

taku looks SO happy that koushuu is stepping up and changing momentum and kicking ass

the other third years look so down that nabe cant play... :c

oh man i remember tokyo senbatsu i cant wait to see more good bois

TAKU ON BASE HELL YEAHH

oho koushuu batting third

wow ochiai recruited taku?

at least they recognize he's a speedy boi

OMG EIJUN SAYING UNDERESTIMATING KARIBA im so proud of both of them

but uhhh i still want taku to reach

and he dID!!

eijun's shocked face and mochi's "nice, a challenge huh" face are a bit gratifying

im sos orry kariba i know you deserve better

damn taku acknowledging he barely made it when everyone else WHOAs

also koushuu calling him taku aaaaaa

kawashima you got this!

HELL FUCKING YEAH TAKU STOLE THIRD I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU

MOCHI

MOCHI ACKNOWLEDGING TAKU'S HARD WORK AND TALENT

what did i tell yall about koutaku sharing one brain cell

one smart brain cell

man... justice for kariba what a good underrated boi

HA kanemaru ships koutaku you cant tell me otherwise

their baseball is brainy... im cryin softly

lmAO savage mochi

sachiko i love you!

what rumors ochiai -eyes emoji-

SCREM SMOL KOUTAKU BABIES

I WOULD D IE FOR THEM

LOOK AT THEIR SMILES

pretty koushuu shot is pretty and this one was too pretty to gloss over

there was another one but ill spare you and also i couldnt get the screenshot where i wanted it

AWW LOOK AT ASADA CHEERING FOR KOUSHUU WITH HIS HANDS IN THE AIR

TAKU SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAA FLASHBACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

HARUCCHI EIJUN TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

ANOTHER pretty koushuu shot wtfff

lmao masashi just leaves

and yui's concerned face omg

YES KAGAMI GOOD HIT

AND PRETTY KUKI

asou are you saying shirasu has a plain appearance???????? bc excuse you shirasu is handsome and therefore kagami is handsome

LMAO masashi tryna steal their spotlight?

you can do that somewhere else buddy

yui's :0 face omg

natsukawa and anna!!!! queens <333

omg harucchi wow lowkey savage as always

imagine kanetouharu......... hMST

hyaha mogami just always makes me laugh

bro yui and masashi while thats sweet of you isnt it kinda rude to allow less spotlight time for players that wanna move up

takatsu has every right to be frustrated

aND KAWASHIMA TOO LOOK AT HIM

wow... that hurt

right there

that shit hurted

KSDSDKH masayui also one brain cell?

BROSKIS.... HEIG H T DIFFERENCE..........

lmaooo eijun

you're probably not gonna get a second yes

himst pretty

yes zono thank you

mogami BLS

YESS THANK YOU MOCHI FOR ACKNOWLEDGING TAKATSU

that makes it both kane and mochi now, WHERE IS MY INTERACTION

FELLAS.... IS IT GAY...........

OMG SAWAMURA

DRAG THAT PITCHER OFF THE MOUND IS TOO MUCH

LOOK ASADA THINKS YALL WANT TO PULVERIZE HIM NOW

what... what a beautiful shot...

they dont even look fazed

aww taku reminding asada that eijun really does care about him

taku is so amused by eijun omg

and so perceptive

toujou kane and harucchi all looking at eijun in varying shades of "this is normal"

WHY ARE KOUTAKU LOOKING AT EACH OTHER LIKE THIS

MY GAY HEART CANT TAKE IT

PLEASE I LOVE THEM

asada looks so determined!!!

preview

no amount of time is enough for what? before graduation?

ooh a beautiful mochi!

RIP koushuu but honestly im glad he went to second string first he'll get more playing time

beautiful kuki too!

NORI AND EIJUN HANGING OUT YESS

SUMMARY:

asada praised by koushuu + cheered on by fielders esp takukuki gay

"you have an evil look in your eye shinji" "you started it!"

ASADA CURVE + SOFTBALL

TAKU SPEED

justice for senpais

masayui Appeal one brain cell

too many pretty koushuus

harusawa teamwork!

#daiya no ace act ii #daiya spoilers #spoilers #daiya no ace #ace of diamond #okumura koushuu #seto takuma #asada hirofumi #kuki youhei #sawamura eijun #kuramochi youichi #kawashima kengo #takatsu hiroomi #kariba wataru

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spider-quackson · 6 years

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Shut-up Harry!

Tom Holland x Reader

Summary: When your best friend, Harry, knows about your crush on his older brother, he found this to be a golden opportunity to tease you, even in front of Tom.

Masterlist

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“Staring at Tom again?”

You jerked, snapping out of your dreamy gaze with a small yelp. With a death glare, you twisted to face Harry who is now standing next to you.

“Don’t be so loud!” You hissed, hitting his arm with a small punch.

“Well, stop being creepy!” Harry laughed.

When you raised your fist to land another punch, he quickly raised both of his hands in surrender and backed away out of the room.

“I’ll leave you to it,” He smirked and dissapeared through the door.

With a small huff you return your gaze back to Tom who’s playing with Tessa out in the lawn of the Holland’s house.

“I’m not being creepy,” You murmured. It’s more trying to convince yourself though. But you can’t help it. Tom’s just too gorgeous, and you’ve been crushing on him since forever.

You remembered the first time Harry introduced you to Tom. You both instantly clicked and it doesn’t take long for you to be smitten.

Recently, Harry found out about your crush. It was an accident. You were afraid that it would ruin the friendship you have with your best friend, but Harry surprisingly took it well. Too well, if you could say so.

He had been teasing you about it relentlessy. And to make it worse, he continues to do it even when Tom’s around.

Like tonight for example, when you are all about to watch Thor Ragnarok. Harry made a dash to the sofa and stretched his leg so that he’s sprawled, leaving the spot beside Tom to be the only space left.

You scowled at his grin and was about to push his leg off when Tom piped up.

“Just sit next to me Y/N. Harry’s an idiot,” He smiled and patted the spot next to him.

“Hear that Y/N? He wants you to sit ne-,” Harry quickly shuts up, when he saw the murderous glare you’re giving him. You could be quite scary when you want to.

“Y-yeah sure.” You shuffled to the other couch, praying to god Harry would stop his teasing. Sadly, it is not answered.

“Hemsworth looks even hotter with short hair,” Tom said and twisted his neck to face you. “Right Y/N?”

Harry scoffed. “There’s only one person that Y/N think is hot.”

“Who?” Tom asked, his brows furrowing.

“Shut up, Harry.” You squirmed in your seat feeling Tom’s gaze on you. Heat creeps up your neck and you keep your eyes glued to the screen to avoid Tom’s eyes.

Harry rose from his seat and wiggled down on the cramped space beside you.

“What are you doing?” You asked him, sighing when you see the mischevious glint on his eye.

“I just wanna join you guys. Can you scoot over?” Harry gives you a sickly sweet smile and gives you a slight nudge.

You moved your butt along the couch and ended up sitting right next to Tom. The feeling of your leg touching his is enough to make your heart flutter.

“You look tense Y/N,” Tom chuckled then slung an arm around your shoulder, pulling you closer to him. Your heart leaped.

“By the way, I know your secret.” Tom said with humor lacing his voice. You completely missed that part due to the panic rising.

“W-what?” You shot a look at Harry who immediately starts shaking his head with an earnest look. You couldn’t bring yourself to look at Tom, opting to stare down at your lap instead.

“I’m so sorry. I- I know you don’t feel the same. It’s okay.” You covered your burning face with your hand. “This is so embarassing, and I’ve ruined our friendship.”

“Hey, hey Y/N,” Tom said, pulling your hands away from your face. “. . . . I like you too.”

You lifted your eyes to see him smiling at you with a pink tinge decorating his cheeks. Then Tom suddenly locked his lip with yours, your heart soaring at the sweet kiss.

“You know I’m still here right?” Harry said, and both of you parted, chuckling while continuing to beam at each other.

“Shut up Harry.” Both of you quipped simultaneously. With a grin, Harry rolled his eyes the trails it back to watching the movie.

“I was actually talking about your other secret. But I guess this one is much better though.” Tom grinned and Harry starts laughing his ass off when he realized your mistake.

“What other secret?” You pinched your brows together for a few second before it shots up when it finally dawned on you.

“Yeahh . . your secret stash of chocolate.”

***

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hurtsy-fiction · 6 years

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Day X - part 5

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Adam was just cleaning some tables but his thoughts were far far away from his work. He was glad that he was assigned with this rather easy task for a start because he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to serve their customers the right coffee they ordered. He just couldn’t stop thinking about Theo. The singer had actually told him that he wanted to be with him and he had also kissed him. Really kissed him. Thinking back now, it all rather seemed like a dream though. How on earth could he be so lucky that the person he was into was into him as well? He had never really believed in love until he had met Theo on that memorable night back in Manchester. He was intrigued right away but that was nothing compared to what happened in London. Since that day he had fallen head over heels for that man. Adam sighed deeply. This was gonna be a long day.

+++

After he was done with cleaning, Adam went to the back room of the café and poured himself some water. He sat down at a small wooden table and took a sip of the cold liquid. The man leaned his head onto his hand and let out another deep sigh.

“Hey, Adam!”, Amanda, one of Adam’s colleagues shouted for him as she joined the man in the little break room, “That guy you’re totally obsessed with is looking for you.”, she added with a broad grin.

Adam knew she was only making fun of him and was already about to give a rude reply. He grumbled and lifted his head, turning over to face his colleague. As he promptly stared into Theo’s grinning face though, his own face changed to a deep red colour in an instant, his eyes and mouth wide open.

“Theo?”, he uttered totally dumbfound, almost knocking over the chair he was sitting on as he hurriedly got up.

“What-?”, he tried to ask but the words got stuck in his throat.

“I’ll leave you two alone then.”, the girl stated with a smug grin and left the room.

“Thank you!”, Theo shouted after her before he turned his whole attention back to Adam.

“So, you’re obsessed with me?”, the singer asked bemusedly and raised his brow.

“Oh shut up.”, Adam muttered embarrassed, his cheeks still red.

“What are you even doing here? And how did you know I was working here?”, the older man asked bewildered.

“Call it a lucky guess.”, Theo replied with a shrug, not mentioning that he had already been to two café’s nearby before he had found the right one.

“Anyway, you forgot this yesterday.”, he then said and got the grey t-shirt out from his suit jacket.

“Oh, thank you.”, the older man replied surprised and took the piece of clothing into his hand.

“So you want to tell me you actually came all the way from London to bring me this?”, Adam asked disbelieving and lifted the t-shirt a bit.

To his surprise, he actually saw the other’s cheeks slightly redden at that.

“Well, no. Uhm... To be honest with you, I missed you.”, the singer suddenly confessed and the older one just stared at him for a moment in shock, mouth slightly agape yet again.

“You... did?”, he asked, not believing what he had just heard.

“Yeah”, the singer confirmed and to his total surprise, the other suddenly seemed quite shy.

“Well, I uh- I missed you too.”, Adam admitted and couldn’t help but blush when he saw the other beaming at him.

“Hello, by the way.”, Theo said sweetly and closed the last distance between them before pressing a loving kiss to the other’s lips before he pulled back again.

Adam couldn’t help but grin widely at that, his cheeks rosy. Without thinking too much about it, he quickly took a step forward, wrapped his arms around the singer’s neck and pulled him close, planting a passionate kiss to his soft lips. Theo immediately put his hands onto the other’s hips and returned the kiss.

As they pulled back a moment later, both were grinning broadly. The singer licked his lips and shortly cleared his throat.

“So, what does one have to do to get a nice cup of coffee here?”, the younger one then asked smiling.

“Follow me outside, I’ll serve you whatever you want.”, Adam replied, not managing to get the stupid smile off his face.

+++

Theo was sitting on a small table all by himself, a cup of steaming hot coffee and a croissant in front of him. By now there were quite a few customers in the café, keeping the staff busy. The singer couldn’t help but watch Adam intensely, a dreamy look on his face.

A couple of minutes later, the older man made his way to the singer’s table, balancing a tray with dirty dishes on his right hand. He didn’t dare to look at him though.

“Would you please stop staring at me like that?”, Adam whispered, wiping some bread crumbs away from Theo’s table with the cloth in his left hand, “I have to work and it’s very irritating, actually.”

Theo slightly chuckled at that. “I’m sorry. You’re just too nice to look at.”, he stated honestly.

At that Adam actually looked at him, despite wanting to seem nonchalant in fear that anyone in here might actually recognise the star.

“But don’t worry”, Theo continued, “I’ll just finish my coffee and then leave.”

Hearing that, the older one felt like hitting his head. He didn’t want the other to leave and now he was on top of that the reason the singer left so soon already.

“Well done, you stupid idiot, really well done. Theo came all the way from London to see you and now you make him leave before even getting the chance to talk to him.”, Adam angrily thought to himself.

“I- I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to- I mean you don’t have to-“, Adam stuttered embarrassed but was interrupted by the other before he could go on.

“Don’t worry, it’s fine. I have some stuff to do anyway.”, Theo said and shrugged, making Adam look like a beat puppy.

“Alright.”, the older man uttered meekly and watched how the other emptied his coffee and got up.

“So, when does your shift here end?”, the younger one suddenly asked, looking right at him and immediately saw Adam’s face light up.

“At six.”, the man replied right away.

“Alright, I’ll come by and pick you up at six then.”, Theo replied and sent him a smile.

“See you in a couple of hours.”, he said sweetly.

“Yeah, see you.”, Adam gave back happily and watched how the other made his way to the counter to pay his bill. As soon as he arrived there though, he was suddenly surrounded by some girls, who had recognised him and excitedly asked for a photo.

Adam smiled slightly at that before he turned around to the table where the singer had been sitting and loaded the empty cup and plate onto his tray.

+++

“Oh my god, was that seriously Theo Hutchcraft?”, Becky, another of Adam’s colleagues, asked as soon as the man walked into the kitchen.

“Yeahh...”, Adam replied, putting the dirty dishes into the dishwasher.

“Oh, wow! But how do you even know him? Or better how does he know you?”, the girl wanted to know.

“Well uhm, I guess he just remembers me from his concerts.”, Adam replied, glad that he didn’t have to look at her as he felt his cheeks reddening. Even if he left out some key details, it was true. Everything had happened because he had attended his concerts.

“Bloody hell, mate! You sure are one lucky sod!”, she replied astonished.

“In case he comes here again you need to introduce me to him! I don’t think he has a girlfriend, does he? Maybe you can set us up? Or is he gay?”, Becky rambled.

“Well I, uh, I think he’s into both, men and women...”, Adam gave back uncomfortably.

“Both huh? Nah, then I’m out. That’s quite a bit too much competition, isn’t it?”, Becky laughed but then luckily left.

Adam sighed at that. He was just glad he had never told anyone at his work about his sexuality.

+++

Finally this day was coming to an end and the closer the clock hand came to six o’clock, the more excited Adam got. Although, to be honest, he was not entirely convinced that the singer would really pick him up. This just seemed too unreal.

However, the last customers eventually left the café and he put the last dirty dishes into the kitchen and cleaned the remaining tables until there was no more work left and the café closed.

Adam quickly changed into his private clothes and hurried outside excitedly. As he was standing outside on the pavement, his face fell though as there was no sight of Theo.

“Hey there”, a soft voice suddenly startled him though and he turned into the direction where the sound had come from only to see the singer leaning against the wall, a smile on his face.

“Theo!”, he exclaimed happily and quickly hurried over to him, hugging him tightly.

The singer chuckled at that but brought his hands up to hug the other back.

“Oh hey, someone happy to see me?”, he grinned widely, tightening his hold around the other.

“You didn’t think I’d ditch you, did you?”, Theo suddenly asked, surprised by the other’s enthusiastic reaction.

Adam quickly let go of him at that, feeling embarrassed that he had actually thought that.

“I uhhh... Well...”, the older man mumbled, looking down.

“Wait, you really did?”, Theo asked bewildered.

“Oh Adam! Stop being so insecure. I’d never do that to you!”, the singer uttered and pulled him into a hug.

“I’m sorry”, the older man sighed, lazily hugging the other back.

“Alright”, Theo said and let go of him again, “I’m curious, where do you live?”

+++

After twenty minutes of walking, the two eventually stood in front of Adam’s apartment. The man was quite nervous how Theo would react to his home. After all it was surely no where close to the singer’s luxurious one.

“So, welcome to my home.”, the older man said as he had finally managed to open the door.

The singer followed him on his heels and curiously looked around. The first room he went into was the living room, as it was the closest to the foyer.

Adam suddenly felt embarrassed because he remembered that he had this huge poster of the singer hanging in his bedroom but maybe the other wouldn’t even look there. He could only hope he wouldn’t.

“It’s nice”, Theo stated, “I like it!”

“Can I look around?”, he asked.

“Uh, yeah. Sure.”, Adam replied uneasily.

And with that Theo made his way through the remaining rooms of the other’s apartment, starting with the bedroom. Fuck.

The singer opened the door and the first thing he saw was the big bed in the middle of it, quickly followed by the huge poster of himself on the right wall.

“Oh, who is that good looking fella?”, the singer smiled and walked over to it.

“It’s a nice photo, actually. “, he stated before making his way further through the room.

As he came to the side of the bed where Adam was apparently sleeping, he saw the photo of the two of them, which had been taken in Manchester, standing there.

“Aw that’s cute.”, Theo stated and took the frame into his hand to take a closer look at it, a bright smile on his face.

He put it back down again and inspected the door on the other side of the room, which led to the bathroom.

When he was done with Adam’s bedroom he walked into the last room left. The kitchen. The singer walked over to the fridge and opened it, looking at the other’s meager food supply.

“I’d ask you if you want some food but I have nothing I’d dare to offer you. Just some old bread, a few slices of cheese and some peanut butter.”, Adam uttered rather embarrassed. After all, the other had always spoiled him with super delicious food when he had been at his place.

“It’s just... I haven’t really had the time to go shopping yet.”, the older man added, not wanting the other to think that he couldn’t afford it.

“It’s alright.”, Theo gave back with a smile and closed the fridge again. “We could just go and eat at some restaurant. I’ve seen a rather nice place this afternoon. What do you say? I’ll take out out.”, the singer suggested happily.

“Oh, uhm really?”, Adam asked a bit startled.

“Sure, why not?”

“Okay but I have to change my clothes first.”, the older one stated, looking down at his crumplet and sweaty ones, already on his way to the bedroom.

“Of course. You change your clothes and I’ll reserve us a table.”, Theo replied and already got his phone out.

“And I’ll pay for my food!”, Adam shouted after the other, not getting a reply though. He just hoped Theo didn’t pick the most expensive place in town.

+++

Adam had just changed into some elegant clothes, consisting of a white shirt and dark jeans when his phone started ringing.

He walked over to said device only to see Sandra’s name on the display. Damn. He had promised her they’d talk after work. He quickly answered the call.

“Hey mate! Sooo, how were things going? And don’t you dare leave out any smutty details!”, the girl’s happy voice was heard.

“Hey uh, I’m so sorry Sandra, but I can’t talk right now. Something got in the way.”, Adam uttered hurriedly.

“What? You want to postpone this conversation again! We’re desperate for some info Adam!”

“I know and I’m really sorry but-“, he wanted to explain when suddenly another voice was heard.

“Adam? You coming?”, Theo shouted for him from the living room.

“One minute!”, he gave back.

“It’s just-“, he tried again but this time was interrupted by Sandra.

“Oh my fucking god. Was that just Theo’s voice?”, the girl asked, totally taken aback.

“Yes, he came to visit me at work today and now we’re about to get some food because I don’t have anything at home.”, he quickly explained.

“Listen, I’ll tell you everything later but now I really have to go.”

“Wait a minute, he’s at your home?! Oh my god, Adam! Alright, I’ll forgive you if you don’t call me today because I guess you two will be quite busy but tomorrow I want a very detailed report about all your meetings! Promise?”

“Promise.”, Adam gave back right away.

“Okay and now go have fun!”, Sandra instructed.

“Thank you, bye!”

Just as Adam had ended the call, Theo suddenly knocked onto his door.

“You need some help with putting on clothes?”, the singer asked cockily, a smile on his lips.

“Yeah, no- I mean I’m done. Sorry. for the wait.”, the other replied.

“Alright let’s go then, I’ve reserved a table for 7 pm!”, Theo stated.

+++

Turned out that the singer did choose one of the better restaurants in town, which surely wasn’t too cheep. Adam’s eyes scanned the menu and he quickly figured that he’d go with a salad as the other dishes were too expensive for his budget.

“Anything to drink, gentlemen?”, the waiter that suddenly appeared at their table, asked politely.

“Oh, yes please”, Theo replied sweetly.

“I was thinking of some nice red wine. What do you think Adam?”, the other asked him.

“Uh- yeah sure.”, the older man gave back, still busy with looking at the salads.

“Alright, any special wish of brand?”, the waiter asked, noting the order down on his writing pad.

“Surprise us!”, the singer smiled.

“Sure thing. Have you already decided for a meal?”, he asked further.

“Not yet, we need another moment.”, Theo replied as he saw Adam desperately looking at the menu in his hand.

The waiter shortly nodded and walked into the direction of the bar.

“Do you already know what you want to eat?”

“I uhm, I think I’ll go with a salad.”, the older man uttered.

“What about you?”, he quickly asked, hoping to avoid questions.

“I’m not entirely sure yet but I think I’ll eat the beef steak.”, Theo replied.

Adam glanced at the price of the beef steak, seeing that it was 70 £. No wonder this was so expensive though, as his chosen salad already cost 20 £.

“And you really want to take a salad?”, the singer asked him.

“Uh, yeah. Why?”

“Listen Adam, if it’s because of the price, don’t worry. I said I invite you. You can eat whatever you want.”, the singer smiled.

“No, I’ll pay for my food. I don’t want you to spoil me all the time.”, Adam muttered.

“But I like spoiling you!”, the younger one replied instantly. “So please, just do me the favour?”, he asked, sending the other his best puppy eyes.

In the end, Adam gave in and let himself be persuaded into taking the steak as well. He had to admit that it was absolutely delicious and the wine which the waiter had chosen fitted perfectly as well.

Overall, it was a perfect evening and almost felt like a date actually.

+++

Adam was already laying in his bed after a quick shower, dozing off.

Theo had to smile looking at him when he got out of the bathroom. He slightly dried his hair with the towel in his hand before he threw it onto a chair nearby and walked over to the bed. He crawled onto it and moved to hover over the other.

“Tired?”, he asked and immediately saw the man’s eyes flash open.

Adam was, quite understandably, rather surprised at how close the other suddenly was.

“Uh, no. I’m... I’m good.”, he uttered, gulping hard, making the other smile.

“Yeah?”, the singer asked.

“Mhm.”, Adam uttered meekly.

The singer brought one of his hands up to caress Adam’s cheek before he leaned down and softly pecked the older man onto the lips.

The other inhaled sharply at that but then quickly brought his hands up behind Theo’s neck and pulled him down. The singer smiled into the kiss at that, settling comfortably on top of the man below.

As they had to break the kiss to fill their lungs with air again, Theo sent him an adorable smile before he lifted himself a bit up from the other and pulled the man’s t-shirt up, revealing his naked torso. He could feel Adam’s breathing quickening.

The singer bit his lip at the sight and leaned forward to press soft kisses all over the newly discovered skin in front of him. He heard Adam sigh at the touch, which made him smile. Theo shortly sucked on the other’s skin, leaving a red mark behind before he continued kissing the man’s body, going lower and lower with every kiss.

“Oh shit”, the older one sighed, biting his lower lip and trembling slightly.

As Theo arrived at the other’s boxers, he couldn’t help but grin widely.

“Want me to help you out?”, he asked in a low voice, carefully tracing over Adams bulge with his fingers.

Surely the other couldn’t repress the moan that made it’s way out of his mouth.

“I- It’s not necessary.”, Adam fibbed, trying to repress some more moans, not really successful though.

“No? So you’re comfortable like this?”, the singer asked, now starting to gently palm the man’s erection through his boxers.

“Oh fuck fuck fuck.”, the older man hummed at that, squirming beneath the other.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of you.”, Theo said and with that he pulled the other’s boxers down and off his legs, freeing his hard on.

By now Adam’s face was deep red out of embarrassment. He could only hope Theo liked what he saw. He didn’t dare to look at the other, even though he really wanted to and thus covered his face with his hands.

A moment later his hands were tugged away again though and he came face to face with a smiling Theo.

“Hey.”, he said softly. “Don’t hide. I’ll make you feel good, I promise.”

The younger man sent him a sweet but seductive smile before he kissed him shortly on the mouth, making Adam’s eyes flutter shut.

The singer then licked his lips before he moved down to Adam’s erection again, sending the other a heated look. Without hesitation, he then wrapped his lips around the other’s cock and promptly got a loud moan from the man. He had to smile at that before he swirled his tongue around the other’s tip, sucking him off with pleasure.

“Oh god... Theo... Mmmmhh”, the older one sighed, clawing his fingernails into the mattress below.

Theo sped up his pace and it didn’t take long until Adam came with a loud moan, his whole body trembling.

The singer licked his lips before he moved up to the other’s head.

“You liked that?”, he hummed, wiping some cum from the corner of his mouth.

Instead of an answer, Adam pulled him down into a passionate kiss. His heart made a funny flip as he felt the other respond instantly. As Theo was lying flush on top of him again, the older man held his breath for a moment as he felt the singer’s hard on pressing against himself. Theo had just sucked him off so the least he could do now was to return the favour, right? He felt himself shiver all over, just thinking about it.

Adam then wrapped his arms around the other’s middle and turned them over, much to Theo’s surprise. The older one sent him a shy smile and planted a longing kiss to his lips before he started kissing his jaw and neck, trailing lower down his chest and stomach, feeling the man’s breathing quickening. He didn’t stop there though but went even lower, kissing the other’s hard on through his boxers, getting a desperate moan from the singer.

“Oh shit, Adammm”, Theo moaned, craving more.

The older man felt a shiver running down his spine, hearing the other moaning his name.

Anyway, Adam then moved up to kiss the singer’s mouth and while the other responded eagerly, the older man grabbed him through his boxers, squeezing and massaging gently, resulting in Theo moaning into his mouth.

“Oh my god- hnnnng...”, the singer uttered, completely losing himself.

“Adam... Mmmmmmmhhh...”, he moaned in pleasure, pressing himself into the other’s hand, needing more.

The older one eventually took his hand away, pleased with the other’s reaction. He then moved lower again and snuck his fingers behind the elastic band, trembling from anticipation. Before he could chicken out, he quickly pulled the other’s boxers down, freeing his length. He had to swallow hard but quickly shook himself out of it.

Adam licked along the other’s shaft before he took him into his mouth, hearing the man sigh in pleasure. He moved his head up and down, hollowing his cheeks, speeding up his pace.

By now Theo was a moaning mess, his hand slightly tugging at Adam’s hair. This only spurred the older man on and he started sucking harder. This was the last straw for the singer and he came with a loud moan of the other’s name.

Adam swallowed him whole and couldn’t help the goofy smile that formed on his lips. He had just made Theo Hutchcraft come.

“Oh my god”, Theo suddenly mumbled, totally exhausted. “I didn’t know you were such a tease.”, he added chuckling.

Adam had to laugh at that, moved up to the singer and pressed a sweet kiss to his mouth.

“You’re welcome.”, he grinned and lay down next to him, pulled the duvet up and covered both of them with it.

Theo turned onto his side, facing Adam and snuggled close to him.

“Good night”, he mumbled sleepily and pressed a chaste kiss to the other’s lips.

“’Night”, the older man replied, a bright smile on his lips.

Part 6

#fanfiction #gaycraft #hurtsy fiction #I really really hope you like it #so sorry for the delay

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alippy711 · 6 years

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Falling Away With You- Ch.6

With Pasta’s kick ass game still fresh on my mind I figured no one would be upset about another chapter so soon. I hope you all enjoy it!

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Chapter Six: Big Mouth

“I can’t believe you’re going on a date with him.” Matt gawked watching me in the mirror leaning against the door frame.

“In a good or bad way?” I asked slowly pulling my straightener through a section of hair before turning my attention to him.

“A good way, the kid has been pining after you for a while” He stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“No he hasn’t” I retorted rolling my eyes at him through the mirror.

“Yes he has, you just haven’t noticed because you haven’t seen him in a while. Evan’s been talking about you for months.”

I placed my straightener on the counter and turned towards Matt shooting him a questioning look urging him to continue

“Every time we hang out he asks about you. He wouldn’t outright admit he had a crush on you but it was obvious. Then yesterday I finally called him out on it and told him to grow a pair and ask you out.” My jaw fell open as my eyes grew wide with Matt’s revelation.

“How come you never told me this”

“I don’t know,” Matt shrugged, “You had David so I didn’t think it really mattered. I just got sick of him trying to be subtle so I called him out and toldhim to grow a pair and ask you out.”

Matt made it seem like it was no big deal, but it felt like one to me and I wasn’t sure how to handle the revelation.

“Then why were you so shocked when I told you?” I asked dropping down another section of wavy hair to be straightened.

“I was more shocked that you said yes.” He answered.

“How come?”

“Because of David and how you feel about him. Figured you thought of nothing but him.” He shrugged.

“You aren’t wrong,” I mumbled, “but I think I had a bit of an epiphany last night. David and I we aren’t together so there’s no harm in going out with Evan. Besides, he has the freedom to do what he wants so why shouldn’t I?” I turned my attention back to Matt while he nodded in agreement.

“True. Look, I like David, a lot, and I think you two complement each other really well but I want you to be happy. Im not blind I know what David does when you aren’t with him but it’s not my place to get involved, at least not until you ask me to. So I think it’s good for you to branch out a little.”

His answer warmed my heart I loved knowing he always had my back and respected my decisions, even if he didn’t wholly agree with them. Matt understood me better than anyone it was definitely a twin thing. He knew when I needed some tough love and when I didn’t.

“Thanks, Matty that means a lot. Im excited to go out with Evan I think it will be good.” He smiled reaching out and squeezing my shoulder and said, “me too”before turning and walking away.

I turned my attention back to my hair and continued slaving away making sure my shoulder length dark brown hair was perfectly straight. The sound of my ringtone in the other room pulled me from my concentration and I ran into my bedroom grabbing the phone from my bed. My heart fluttered when I saw it was David facetiming me. I slid my finger across the button and waited as it connected before David’s handsome face popped up on the screen accompanied with his trademark goofy smile.

“krásná” His thick accent cooed warming me to my core.

“Hi D, congrats on the goal today! Sorry you guys lost.” I flashed him a sympathetic look as I headed back into the bathroom.

“Thanks, tough loss, probably because you weren’t there.” He quipped and I shot him an eye roll as I placed the phone down attempting to prop it up so he could still see me while I did my hair.

“Woah, where did you go? Come back!” I

laughed at his frantic voice and shifted the phone this time propping it on top of the faucet letting it rest against the mirror.

“Can you see me now?” I smiled at the relieved look on his face once I was in view.

“Yes, what the heck are you doing?”

“My hair, its Sunday im getting ready for work tomorrow.” As I spoke he nodded remembering my usual Sunday routine.

“And you didn’t lose because I wasn’t there.” I said rolling my eyes, “But im nearly finished with my paper so it was worth the sacrifice.”

“Thank god, then you can come back to me.” He had a hand on his forehead feigning dramatics and I scoff out a laugh with a shake of my head.

“You still won’t see me for a few days.” His smile faded, quickly replaced with a look of anxiety.

“But you’re coming to the game Wednesday, right? You already missed one this week”

It was hard to ignore the disapproval in his voice and while it was refreshing that he wanted me there I was slightly annoyed by him giving me shit for missing a game every now and then.

“Heaven forbid I miss twoof the forty home games” I drawled out sarcastically. He merely rolled his eyes in response.

“David my paper is due Thursday, so I doubt it.”

“But if its finished…” He trailed off giving me his best begging look.

“The chances of that are slim. Once I finish I have to edit and have someone read it,” I tried to hold my ground but he looked so damn cute making it extremely difficult, “but if its finished I will-” I was cut off as he hopped up from his spot and yelled triumphantly.

“BUT, only if my paper is finished.” I emphasized again knowing he tended to only hear what he wanted.

“Fine, fine, but it will be finished because you are sosmart,” He winked, “We should celebrate when you’re done, how about Thursday?”

“I would love that.”

“Perfect, then it’s a date.”

I nearly dropped the straightener when the said the word date reminding me of my actual date on Friday with Evan, which I hadn’t mentioned, nor had I decided whether I was going to.

“Yup, a date it is.”

“Shit, I almost forgot, Jakub will be here!” He exclaimed getting excited.

“Oh yeah, when does he come to town?”

“He gets here Thursday morning; I pick him up after practice.”

The team was having their annual fathers trip during their road trip at the end of the week. I was thrilled that David’s older brother Jakub would be coming along this year as their dad passed away when David was 17. I also couldn’t wait to see Jakub again who I met over the summer when I went to visit David in Prague.

“That’s awesome, im sohappy he’s able to go, I can’t wait to see him.”

I finished up my hair and headed back into my room falling onto my bed and wrapping myself up in a blanket

“Me too, it will be great to have him on the trip.”

“Who ya yapping to?” Matt asked popping his head into my room.

“David” I mouthed prompting him to walk further into my room.

“Hey Pasta did Ash tell you about her hot date on Friday?!” He poked his head over my shoulder making sure he was in the picture as he spoke.

“Fuck you Matt!”

I called after him while he laughed his way out of my room with a smirk plastered on his face. I never wanted to beat his ass more than I did at this moment. I looked back at my phone screen as David’s face twisted with confusion.

“We don’t have plans Friday, do we? Cause im out of town.”

I could tell he was wracking his brain to figure out if we had made plans that he forgot. I didn’t know what to say and began chewing on my bottom lip, one of my many nervous habits.

“No, we don’t”

“Then what’s he talking about?” He had one eyebrow raised waiting for me to answer.

“You remember my friend Evan? The one Matt coached with” I asked then looked away from the phone.

“Yeahh”

“He came over to hang out yesterdayand he sort of asked me on a date” My words came out timid as I brought my attention back to the screen to see his reaction.

“And what did you say?” He spoke in a clipped tone, which surprised me.

“I said yes” My words were lost in my throat and came out in a whisper.

“You did what?” He nearly yelled pulling my attention back to him immediately.

“I agreed to go out with him.” His face contorted angrily at my response.

“You said you had to leave to work on paper” His eyes narrowed into slits as he waited for my response.

“I was working on the paper. Matt invited him over and once I was done working we hung out” I could feel myself getting defensive as he rolled his eyes at my response.

“So instead of hanging with me yesterday you were with some other guy agreeing to go on a date?”

There was an edge to his voice that surprised me. I had never seen David mad about anything other than hockey, and even that didn’t last long. This was a whole new side and one I did not appreciate.

“Im sorry did we miraculously become a couple without me knowing?” I spat back with the same edge.

“No, but going on a date with someone? That’s fucked up” He scoffed shaking his head.

“Why don’t you tell me what you did yesterday, or whoyou did then we can talk about what’s fucked up.”

By now I was close to yelling and he opened his mouth to speak but closed it quickly shaking his head while he ran a hand through his hair.

“That’s what I thought” I grumbled.

“But Im not going on dates!” Now he was yelling and my defenses were completely up.

“No you’re just fuckingother girls!” I flung my arms up nearly launching the phone across the room as I yelled.

“I didn’t…we didn’t…but how would you feel if I tried to go on a date with someone?” He stumbled over his words clearly just as frustrated with this as me.

“You’ve had other girls in the ready on and off for almost a year so I won’t sit here while you judge me over one fucking date. When you want to talk like an adult call me.”

I ended the facetime before he could answer and tossed the phone across my bed groaning loudly. That was not how I planned that conversation would go. I got up from my spot and headed downstairs where Matt and Sam were laying together on the couch.

“Hey asshole, thanks for telling David about the date we just got into a fight over it” I proclaimed as I walked into the living room and stood in front of them.

“Shit, really?”

“Yeah really” I mocked

“I didn’t tell him, nor had I decided if I would. But that was definitely not the way I would have told him” I rolled my eyes as Sam shook her head looking up at Matt.

“Really Matt? That’s messed up” She pushed herself off him and slid to the other side of the couch. I love having another girl in the house.

“I didn’t think he would get mad”

“Still, you didn’t need to bring it up. I really should have thought this whole thing through before agreeing.” I spoke more to myself than them.

“Ash, fuck how David feels, I think it’s a great thing for you.” Sam added picking up on my frustration.

“I don’t know; It feels like more trouble than it should be.”

I walked out of the room not wanting to talk about the situation anymore. David’s reaction had caught me off guard. Never would I have imagined that me going on a date would make him so upset. I figured since he had his occasional hook-ups my activities outside of him wouldn’t be a point of contention. But I would be lying if it didn’t make me rethink the date with Evan.

#david pastrnak #david pastrnak imagine #david pastrnak fic #nhl imagine #nhl fic #nhl rpf #falling away with you fic #hockey fic #hockey imagine

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rpausandwhatifs · 4 years

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TF Do I Look Like To You?!|| Persephone and Isla

@wishes-in-the--markmark @ledabunnie-rp @nerdynumme-rp

Persi had to beg Reiner to come with her, but once she explained herself, he thought it would be a fun trip. He had honestly never seen Persi drive or her license, and was most sure she didn't have it yet, but they were around the same age, it's high time she stopped acting like a heathen. Reiner really wasn’t trying to judge her, but as someone who cares about her (still was never sure if it was deep enough or not)

"Thanks for coming," Persi said watching road.

"Yeah. I needed to get outta the house. I had time to kill since school's remote," Reiner explained.

"Baby sister getting on your nerves? Miss your girl?" She as she propped her legs up on the dashboard.

"Uhh no..my parents were actually..and..I-I don't have a girlfriend," Reiner quadruple taking at Persi because her seat belt wasn't on but the car was quiet. He pulled the car over and stopped looking at her.

"What's up? Why'd you stop? You wanna switch?" She asked, turning her head.

"Put your seat belt on, please," he says leaning back and turning his head to her.

“That’s what you pulled over for?” she asked with annoyance.

“A ticket for not wearing your seat belt in California is like $250-”

“I don’t care. My parents have the money!” she snapped.

“It’s not about the money! Your parents don’t wanna have to pay for your casket because you got thrown through a windshield,” Reiner reasoned with her, and he breathed, “Just..put it on, Persi..”

“I’ll wear one if I drive,” she said back.

“Okay..I gotta see your license,” he said, a little more excited.

Persi pulled out her wallet and took out the card, passing it over to him, “I just got it after having my permit since my birthday...AND I have a clean driving record.”

Reiner knew that she was smart enough to have a fake license and he looked at her then tilted it in the light, and saw the shimmering watermarks. He was impressed, “Alright, can you at least do the speed limit?” he asked as he unbuckled his seat belt getting out to switch with her.

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“So..is she..your girlfriend?” Reiner asked as they parked outside of the loft building, she pulled out her phone to text the girl.

“No..she..well..Yeah she is. She and I kinda don’t like thinking of ourselves as girlfriends but we’re tight you know? It was my turn to come and get her so we can hang out,” Persi was trying to explain and saw the message from her saying that she was coming down. Reiner nodded, “Can you get her bags?”

“Yea sure,” he said, getting out of the car with her.

Isla was so excited to leave out and get some air with Persi and maybe she can get more personal with Persephone. She was confused she opened her door and seen the big boy standing at the back of the rental with the hatchback open. She stopped and looked at Persi with furrowed eyebrows. “Who the fuck is he?” she called out as the ginger approached her.

“My cousin. He needed a break from his perfect family and we’re working on our friendship,” Persi said, snaking her hands around the girl’s waist, knowing that touch calms her down in most situations. The girl fidgeted and picked up her bags, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s just us...It’s always been just us..you’re not lying to me, are you? That’s not your boyfriend, right?” Isla asked, walking her bags over to the car, tolerating Persi’s hand on her waist. “What’s your name, man?” she asked, dropping her bags in front of her.

“Reiner...it’s nice to meet you, Isl-” he started before she cuts him off.

“Shut up! I don’t want you here,” Isla bites at him, “Persi is the lump driving?”

“Yes. He’s driving,” he said as he closed the hatch and walked to the driver’s seat, closing the door.

Isla stood back from the car and pouted. Persi realizes she's not in the car. "Is she okay?" Reiner asks, causing Persi's attention to shift. Persephone gets out of the car and pulls her off behind the car.

"What's your deal, Buttercup?" she asks, pushing her hair over and fixing the girl's flyaway, which was met with a swift slap from Isla and she was about to push her until Persephone grabs her arms and pulls her wrists together and then pulls it behind her back, "Stop! Talk to me...Isla! What's wrong?"

Isla panics for a little bit as she realized she's in the girl's "calm down" hold. Then tries to remember what's happening since there doesn't seem to be her parents as the cause and her bags are in the car. Then she trails her eyes to the hatch window and the boy in the front seat, looking down at her hoodie. "This is his..You lied to me! You told me you were single.." she whined, twisting in her hold, purposefully not locking eyes with Persephone.

"I told you he's just along for the ride..It's about time we got some muscle and a guy to pass in the hick-towns, you know?" she tried to convince the girl, trying to follow where her head is going.

"Then why do you have his hoodie?! You had this when we met! I'm not getting into any fucking poly!" Isla pushed her arms and pushed Perspephone back, which caused her to snap and grab the now-blonde brunette and slam her against the car, both of them shouting and fighting until Persephone grabs her wrists again and pins them to the car.

"Fucking chill!" she barks at her, even while she struggled.

"Let me go!~"

"You gonna stop?"

"I didn't do anything!"

"Promise me you're gonna stop."

"Pers~"

"Pers nothing, stop freaking out."

"Pers!"

"Shhh! Listen to me..chill out. Alright. Promise you'll stop screaming and being a bitch. When I tell you that Reiner is basically my cousin. He's been cousin-zoned. He's off limits for me. I have his hoodie because he said he didn't want it anymore!"

"Seriously?" she asked, softening up.

"Seriously," Persephone sighed, locking eyes with the girl and loosening her grip, her touch softening.

"The hell is going on back here?!" Reiner asked as he had exited the car and bustled to the hatch.

“Nothing I haven’t already solved. Get in the car..And don’t start your shit about seat belts,” Persephone said walking to the backseat with Isla and opened the door while she went in before her.

Once they drove out of LA, Isla and Persephone were comfortable watching the open road while Reiner quietly drove against the bright streets. “Hey, Reindeer..can you make a left off this next exit? There’s this place I wanted to show Persi.”

“It’s Reiner..And how far off? We’re supposed to be at the suite in like a few hours...” he said with a little concern.

“Come on, dude! A few days won’t hurt!” Persephone said, “You told her you’re not in any rush to get back to your parents being all lovey dovey..So let’s enjoy our trip!”

“His too?” Isla asked leaning into Persephone’s touch.

“Oh yeahh. His parents were like the perfect good girl and jock-like meathead couple back at school,” Persephone said, leaning her head on the other girl, giggling.

“Who are his parents?” Isla asked.

“Rosanna and Mark,” Reiner finally said, slightly indignant.

“Oh yeah...My dad used to fuck her back in the day-” Isla said.

“How was that?” Reiner asked, trying his hardest to hold back stopping the conversation.

“From what he told me they were just young and stuck inside a lot so he’d just go and get her rocks off even if it wasn’t the real thing..Then they hung out before your brother’s baby shower? I dunno he said they were separated and she and him hung out for a while,” Isla said while she fought Persephone lightly since she was covering her in kisses.

Reiner was surprised at how tame their relationship was and wondered why his mother never brought it up. It really put into perspective for him that his parents felt safer leaving their past in the past, definitely something that wasn’t necessary to tell their kids. Growing up, it made sense, but now he couldn’t stand them. They were too perfect and a little too selfish. It was interesting to think that while he was sleeping, waiting for the day his father came back, his mom was staying out and having fun. This imperfection made him think of what exactly his father did while he wasn’t with his mother.

He just kept thinking back to the baby shower and how he heard noises and an ambulance came for whatever was going on inside the house. It was a really fun magic show on the yard but he could see his mother being walked out to the ambulance by the EMTs. His father following right behind her in handcuffs. They never talked about it, and he’d never brought it up again. His father gave him a weird story about how they were talking and she felt labor pains, but someone had fell down some steps and because they live in California, they put him in handcuffs to make sure it wasn’t a domestic situation.

Isla mentions that her mom had came there but just for the party and that she didn’t expect for her old flame to be there. Not long after that she explained to her daughter that she was pregnant with her. Persephone was in the middle of a custody battle with her birth parents so all of this went over her head. Isla chimes in to tell Reiner to turn off the road, but begins to see how much Reiner could use a break like this. She begins to see his and Persi’s dynamic unfold before her, even as she got lost in arms of the girl she missed.

They all talked about school and what it’s been like for them to just be stuck at home, to which they all agreed would be better if their parents didn’t work from home already. The upside, that Persephone and Reiner pointed out, was that their parents were there to watch their younger siblings, who appreciated the extra attention they were getting from what the older kids could see. They just wanted space. Isla would love to get to those other layers in Reiner, and this trip was proving to be her only opportunity.

They drive up to this abandoned overnight campground, long forgotten from the 70s and 80s. Reiner was nervous about the fact that they were trespassing, asking the girl how she found out about this to no answers. Let loose upon this entire campground they found the office, still full of files and documents, laughing at some of the pictures. Isla stumbles upon the proceedure to turn on the water for the cabins and mess hall.

After some very spirited games of darts, foosball and , Persephone and Isla stumble across a loose floorboard with a cookie tin under one of the broken down cabins, they sat and read the notes these two kids left for each other, finding out that they had the girls’ camp one week and the boys’ the following week. They had been planning to meet for years, but obviously since the camp shut down the spring before they could see it through.

Reiner took a lot of pictures of the flowers and a few wildlife, making a note that he was going to get up and go on the morning hikes with his parents instead of pulling all-nighters for homework and extra credit. He didn’t feel himself again today and was starting to really hope that this small thought was the beginning of sunny days in his chest and in his head. He walked over to the giggling girls in the dilapidated cabin, “You girls having fun in here?” he asked, pushing his hand through his hair and drenching it with sweat.

The girls exit and they figure out what they want to eat for dinner for the night, stopping for some In-N-Out not too far from their site. They sit up and tell stories while they pass around a bottle of brandy, Reiner apprehensive to taking sips. He tries a really small shot and doesn’t really like the taste, quickly trying the cola with another shot and not hating it as much. He decided to drink water for the rest of the night to flush out his system since they were driving the rest of the way to the suite in the late morning tomorrow. He was surprised nothing happened, despite being scared about drinking underage but he couldn’t lie about the fact that he sleep so much better even though what he drank merely coated his tongue.

They afixed a tent to the roof of the car and put an air mattress inside for Reiner to sleep there and also be on guard. Isla and Persi slept inside on a bed of duvets and mattress pads Persephone brought from home. The girls obviously stayed up later and fooled around with their drunken antics before Persephone decided to roll up and smoke the ancient weed so that she could sleep and they didn’t dip into their stash, Isla passing on it as sleep finally came down on her.

Being as Isla usually had trouble sleeping all of the way through, so woke up early, snaking out of Persi’s arms with an excuse to go to the bathroom. The girl noticed that Reiner had been missing from the roof rack fortress, so after completing her sunrise ritual and thinking about making sun tea to better motivate her until her next nap in the car, she searched for the creek and saw Reiner with a bright mat, stretching his body up against the babbling waterway. He looked pretty amazing if she could say so herself. She walked upstream to talk, almost startling the other. “Huh?!” he asked, looking down and pulling his headphones out of his ears, “Isla...I didn’t expect to see you this early given how late you were up...”

“OH...uhh sorry if we kept you up..” she apologized shyly.

“Eh,” Reiner shrugged, going into his next pose, “I hadn’t slept in 3 or 4 days at this point, not your fault. Also you two weren’t the loudest things out here, I found out,” he said, straining a little as Isla gave him worried eyes.

“I don’t sleep for long periods of time,” she said, sliding off her shoes, feeling the sand on the bank in her toes and liked the mixture of dirt in it. She tried to mime and mirror Reiner, trying to figure out which routine he was doing and joined along, “I hope you don’t mind me joining.”

“Nah...I’m surprised you caught on actually...”

“I do it myself to balance chakras and a bunch of other witchy things..I’m trying to calm Persi’s energy by getting her into witchcraft..but it’s hard because Persephone is just..It’s hard when you’re two people in one body,” she shrugged.

“Yeah...I guess..My parents always do it, so it makes me feel good after because it’s like stretching. Then I usually go workout with my dad a little so that I’m warmed up for practice after school because I recovered all day eating and going to class..”

“Wow...You’re so organized and your parents are so..involved. I kinda wish I had that, or siblings to make the times when mine aren’t involved...less empty.”

“Yeah, but since I’m older they give more attention to the little ones, and I’m not jealous or anything, but now..it just seems like they have time for each other, and the babies..I dunno what to do now that my -like- next 6-9 months can’t happen. It was like, the only thing keeping me going.”

“Football and going to college for football?”

“Uhhh not really. I guess the fact that I was working towards something? That...it was certain. I guess you could say....Aaaannnd finish strong..!”

“Uh huh...is that the reason why you’re not sleeping..you feel like you’ve lost purpose?~”

Reiner and Isla stop and he shakes out his tension, looking at the girl and playing back what she said in his head, “Purpose? Like the reason to live purpose?”

Isla huffed and scoffed, “No~ more like..it’s what made your life feel whole and gave you peace of mind. And without it...You’re questioning yourself and your angry at something that makes you feel like you failed at something even though you didn’t but essentially it was out of your control?”

“Yeah...wow..it..uhh makes my chest stuffy and tense like..I’m nervous and scared...”

“Does your dad die from smoking?” she asked after he rolls up his mat and walks over to the huge rock and log that hangs over the widening of the creek.

“Nobody in my house smokes,” he said affirmatively.

“Your mom sneaked cigs with my dad, remember? So, how about you figure it out now?” she asked, sitting on top of the rock, throwing her legs over and wets her feet. She enjoyed the cool stream on her feet and the little bubbles rushing up her skin tickling her, and Reiner followed her as he took his shoes off and dips his feet in, shivering a little. The girl reached in her pocket and pulled out the unfinished blunt they had rolled and lit it. She was expecting the boy to freak out and ask politely to put it out, but instead he sat back and breathed her secondhand smoke with such calm and without hesitation. She pulls back and gives him a look.

Reiner understood why she pulled back, since he remembered the little bit of smoking culture of waiting his “turn”. Also, she was still protecting him, but his chest was pained, even after the yoga. He couldn’t take a naproxen or acetometaphin. Hell, he remembers his mother handing him a vallium by accident and nothing happened. Now he couldn’t focus, but he can’t always go on a walk. He felt so weird being the odd one out now when he’s been through many a family gathering and abstained even though Persi and a few of the others didn’t, but Harlan was always there to give him the reassurance he needed. Harlan was home from college, but he had his own things going on. His mother nor Harlan could be there forever to ease his chest or give him the reasons or tell him he’s comfortable where he was. Nobody was going to protect him anymore. He was too scared to move, he wasn’t thinking. He waited until she was done with her turn, sliding it off of her fingers and looked at her, “So..what do I do?”

“I’ll give you brownie points for remembering the golden rule...But inhale slow cus the air carrying the smoke is hot. Puff out your cheeks then swallow the air slow and hold it for a little then let it go,” Isla explained quickly.

“Am I supposed to cough or something?” he asked looking at it strangely.

“Yes, but you’ll just get higher faster, you’re only getting the one hit. I don’t have my license and I wanna get to the diner without dealing with Persi’s roadrage,” she said, taking it back in her fingers.

“Are..you gonna finish it?” he asked.

“No. I’m not. I don’t remember a lot of last night either because of what Persephone and I did or because I did too much or bc this ancient ass grass snuck up on me.”

“What? How does..marijuana sneak up on you?”

“Oh my god you sound like such a square~! It’s one of those things where if you’re trying a new strain it’ll get you higher than expected in an unexpected timeframe...” she says, pushing her hair back and leaning back on the rock, Reiner follows.

“Oh..” Reiner said taking some deep breaths as he felt this calming forcing its way into his chest, “Woah...”

“Woah what?...You alright?” Isla asked, turning her head.

“My chest stopped hurting..like it doesn’t feel tight anymore. I feel..like..wow..I need to do yoga. I need to do my routine again now that I feel like this..” he says, dropping his hand into the water while he took very steady and even breaths, listening more intently to the babbling of the creek. He brought it back up and pushed it through his hair and loved the fact that he was calm.

“See? And how about we try some other types of yoga..Like where we take our clothes off and really embrace the energy?” Isla suggested, putting it out and stuffing it into her shorts.

“I’ve heard of naked yoga, but..do you think that’s..safe? Out here?” he asked hesitantly.

“We started out here as children of the earth, I’m sure she won’t mind..Also we’re going to the suite like right after breakfast so you’ll be able to properly wash off soon,” she was sure to be vague about the goddess of nature and the sun goddess, since they were about to do a ritual.

Reiner was still unsure and thought about what she was saying and honestly, she wasn’t wrong and this girl doesn’t copy Persephone, but is her foil. It just made her better to sit down and talk to, and waste time with her. When she spoke to him, he felt like he could believe what she was saying because she’s lived it, it just comes through. He’d have to ask Persi if she could bring her along all the time. The boy looked over and saw the girl standing stark naked a few feet away, a little shocked. He wondered if he zoned out because he was thinking so hard or if he was stuck because he was buzzed and his thoughts slowing down made him forget the time passing. He sat up and pulled off his shirt.

Back at their little base, Persi had woken up and wondered where those two had gone, hearing their laughter in the distance, she followed their sounds. She found the creek and could barely see them upstream looking like they were doing yoga, so she took off her shoes and started walking on the sand of the beach.

Reiner and Isla were laughing through most of the poses but they both did feel so much better and limber from sitting and driving for so many hours as well as the activities they’ve gotten up to yesterday. Isla looked at Reiner and was so confused because she’s never felt more comfortable naked in front of a man than she did right now. It could be the weed, but also, she just loved his energy he brought. She knew Persi and Persephone didn’t mean to be angsty and chaotic, but being around Reiner was a nice change of pace. She didn’t feel any sexual tension or pressure, so she thought she’d ask him a very fitting question. “Hey can you like..massage my back and help me crack my spine? Yoga for some off reason doesn’t do anything for my back but my extremities feel so good,” she said once she was finished brushing the sand off her knees.

“I gave you the more comfortable sleeping spot, and you definitely need to work on your form..Why don’t you ask Persi to do it?” he said, not able to believe her at first.

“Persi is too rough, and she’s impatient she goes too fast. Also, she usually wants to have sex with me, and I just need someone strong to break my back for me,” Isla bit back.

“Alright, well can you give me a rub down when we get to our suite?” he asks, watching her lay on the rock.

“Why don’t you ask Persi to do it?” she asked him mockingly.

“Her and I don’t have the established boundaries for her just to be rubbing my back. Just because you and I click and we can have that energy like you said, doesn’t mean I get that from her...Also, you just said that she’s heavy-handed and impatient.”

Isla loved how Reiner’s hands felt on her body when he held her up while they did the yoga poses, she didn’t expect for his hands to be better at massages and knowing how to crack her back. She was making so many noises while trying to tell him exactly where to go and communicating what was working that when he stopped and looked up to see Persi, she immediately shoved Reiner into the creek.

“What the fuck?!” Persi asked furrowing her brows, “What the fuck were you two doing? Why’d you just push him into the creek?”

“‘Cus..uhh he tried to kiss me-”

“Where are your clothes?” Persi asked.

“O-over there...”

“And...what were you doing again? Cus I don’t think you lied to me right the first time,” she said, getting more frustrated.

“We were hanging out...And uhhh..phew! That water was cold!” Reiner said, finally climbing out of the creek and throwing his clothes on, walking toward Persi, and handing Isla her clothes. “Persi...believe me..we were doing yoga and she asked me a favor. It doesn’t sound as bad as it looks..”

Persi scoffed and turned around and walked away, tears streaming down her face. She felt so betrayed, unsure of how she could be so stupid, but also that what she saw surprised her and made her jealous. They were stuck on this trip and Persephone just couldn’t calm down now. She really thought Isla didn’t like him that much. She was wondering what changed in the matter of 2 days. From her being completely content with Reiner and her being happily at arm’s length, to him trying to lie about having sex with Isla. Maybe he was right: she was too possessive. The girl was taking all of this out on a dilapidated cabin- breaking all of the windows and using one of the loose pipes to break more things and the petrified wood. It was becoming more clear that yes she was jealous of Isla possibly and allegedly having sex with Reiner, and just a little hurt by Reiner seemingly lying to her about building some sort of a connection. She realized how bad it was that she had gotten angry that they had gone off together.

Isla had spent about an hour listening to Persephone freaking out and reeking havoc on the poor cabin while she made sure that Reiner wasn’t as influenced anymore. Reiner reassures her that he’s fine since she shoved him into the cold creek. She pleads to fix things with her because she was too afraid of her response. They were techincally in the middle of nowhere and she could drive off and abandon them at any time.

Reiner went finally went in and knocked to get Persephone’s attention, “What the fuck do you want?!” she girl growled as she turned around.

“You done yet?” he asked, leaning against the doorjamb, looking around at the broken room, “We’re ready to talk so that we can go.”

“I don’t trust you two...I’m telling you right now...You, I know what you could be capable of, but her...even I’m not sure what she would say or do to protect herself,” Persephone said, tearing up some more curtains.

“So, you’re not even gonna give it a chance?”

“You get one, she’s gonna have to show me I can trust her,” she said, throwing her foot into the walls and busting holes in it.

“And that means you gotta blow up like this? That girl is sitting there half to death out there. If something did happen and it was an accident, you’re not even giving her the benefit of the doubt,” he pointed out, grimacing at the girl’s actions then tries to approach the red head.

“I’m not taking it out on her, so what does it matter?! I can act however I wanna act if I feel so inclined, asshole!” she barked, out of breath.

“Alright, but when it’s appropriate. Didn’t you hear me? Isla has been having a full panic attack because you’re in here and she thinks you’re gonna abandon her or hit her. Either way she doesn’t feel safe,” he explained, reaching for her wrists, the girl fighting a little more before she had to stop and catch her breath since she was hyperventilating so hard until Reiner notices the tears beginning to roll down her cheeks as she collapsed into sobs in her friend’s chest, quickly picking her up. He reassures her and rubs her back while her chest heaved.

“Did you do it? Did you...did you actually kiss her?” she asks.

“Nah. Well I was kinda excited over doing couples yoga and the conversation we were having that I wasn’t even looking her in the face,” he said with a shrug.

“Then what was the noises I heard? And why were you doing something that if someone just so happened to catch you, the dots they connect would be ridiculous...?” she asked, trying to catch her breath.

“I-I I-I I dunno..okay?! I figured that it wouldn’t take that long and she wasn’t giving me that vibe...It was a blurry moment for me!” he admited, “I was trying new things, okay? I was trying sky clad yoga with Isal and I tried some the weed she had and my chest stopped hurting and I could think so much better and I didn’t even try a lot. I really felt better than I have this whole trip, and that’s including the walk and the yoga I’ve been doing for the past 3 months!”

“WH...wait!...You tried weed back there?” she asked, hushing her tone quickly, “We can worry about my jealousy and betrayal later...Did..how come you didn’t tell me?”

“About what?”

“About your..’your chest problem,’ I thought you were just babysitting me to make sure I came back and I didn’t get into any trouble..I-I didn’t kn-know you needed a distraction...” Persi shrinking as she realized how clouded her head had been about Isla, “I’m sorry.”

“That’s the thing, you throw things at me and move independently of others. You never would have known if this didn’t happen,” Reiner explains putting his hands in his pocket, “Can we go now? We can talk about this when we get to the suite.”

“You think I’m gonna let you live in the same space as Isla you have another thing fucking coming...but we should go. So maybe we’ll just get you a hotel room nearby,” Persi bites, walking out of the cabin, seeing Isla waiting by the car looking a little scared.

~~~

They are on a stretch of road in the desert, Persi driving as Isla sat in passenger and Reiner in the back. She thinks of anything to try and keep her calm, take her mind off of the impending fear she has in her head. “What’s for dinner when we get to the suite?” Isla asks, leaning her head against the window.

“I was gonna make my mom’s chicken parm, but I gotta check-in so I might not do it tonight,” Reiner says.

“What do you mean? We’re all checking into the same suite...” Isla says.

“No we’re not. He’s going to stay in a hotel room and visit our suite-”

“Why?”

“Isla, it’s fine don’t-” Reiner said before she cut him off.

“No, it’s not! We didn’t fuck. We were hanging out. You’re not dangerous. Pers, he’s staying with us,” Isla said.

“No. He’s not. I can’t trust him.”

“Why because he trusted me and not you? Does it upset you if we get close?” Isla argued.

“I’m just protecting you,” Persi said.

“No you’re not! You’re hoarding me like my mother did-”

“But you want to get away from her-”

“BeECAUSE she keeps me from interacting with other people like you’re doing right now! You don’t own me. I’m not your fucking property. Your little travel stuffie! I have feelings and my own thoughts and ways of doing shit, and I wanna be able to be comfortable with another guy that isn’t my dad!” she said, making Persi pull over.

“What? Persi, no! Come on we gotta get to the suite...Can’t we...Ugh...This is so dumb!” Reiner complains, getting out of the car once she gets out.

“Where are you going, Reiner?!” Isla asks.

“I’m gonna walk! You two just pick me up down the road when yall done fighting...” Reiner said grabbing his backpack with a few water bottles and a snack, taking quick strides from the vehicle and leaving the hatch open.

“WAi...Urgh! Persephone you selfish bitch!” Isla growls and snaps, shoving Persephone against the car. It sets her off as they fight and fall into the dirt, tussling and wrestling.

“What’s wrong? Your boyfriend leaving make you sad?~” the red-head taunted, causing push her and punch her in the face.

“He’s not my boyfriend! You think everything is about you! You think everything belongs to you and ONLY you! You’re so fucking wrapped up in being 2 people and forgotten about because you were a mistake...I wasn’t supposed to fucking EXIST. Someone wanted you, nobody wanted me. Reiner is tired of being ‘that kid’ where everything is PERFECT! You’re not the only one who needs to...deal or cope with something!” Isla fought as she yelled at her, getting her down and pinning her. She hadn’t realized how strong she would be if she actually had to fight Persephone. “Now stop! You’re losing the fight and we’re losing Reiner!” she threw her wrists above her head.

“NO~...” Persephone screamed, her voice breaking as tears rolled down her face as her head rocked back and forth, erupting into a very juvenile cry. Isla let her up to wipe her tears, giving her a very heartfelt embrace with the girl, “I feel..so alone..and I didn’t even realize...I’m sorry.”

“You’re not alone, babe...”

“I’m like...not allowed to have someone love me...No matter how hard I try..My people, they never really worked it out, it shouldn’t feel like it’s my fault~” she tried to gather herself, trying to wipe her eyes and catch her breath through sobs, “They cursed me to be alone..”

“Hey, hey!..You know I love you. Reiner loves you. That’s all we do is love you. We feel the same way sometimes..And you know where I come from..Open those big beautiful green eyes of yours, the desert needed your tears-”

“Isla, don’t start with all that woo-woo about the universe-”

“The same woo-woo about the universe is the same way people believe in a God, it’s just I believe in multiple gods and goddesses...And you- just like Reiner- have lost your purpose..or just haven’t found it yet. You’re looking for complete and unrequited love like a family and-”

“So I have to believe in a higher power..and it’ll just stop?”

“Of course not! I’m trying to..get you to understand you have to stop thinking it’s gonna be some storm of overwhelming calm or an abundance of good luck or compliments. It’s the little things too, baby. It’s the chance to see the sun rise and set; the wind blowing and your medical health; hey, you got to meet me, and love me, and touch me and my body, you get to hear my voice. You make me happy. Are you always the source of my happiness? No, but are you in a backpack full of things that make me happy? Absolutely!”

Persi was so happy to have Isla and her loving embrace along with her intuitive ways of comfort. Isla was grateful for Persi finally being able to receive some necessary healing. The girl couldn’t be sure if Persephone was along for the ride, but at least they were fighting together. Storms not too far off began to rumble against the mountains and the cloud cover was rolling in. They retreated back to the car and started down the road to pick up Reiner.

~~~

Once at the hotel they decide on a double room just so everyone has room and a bed to decompress from being on the road for about a week. Persephone said that the both of them were going to have to work things out for a couple of days, so she told Isla and Reiner that they can hang out without her. The pair simply slept the first day, sharing fun movies and eating various foods. They both checked in with their parents, where Ro was ecstatic to hear that her boy was okay, and also that he might like a girl. They had already discussed before the call that they didn’t care for their parent’s previous relationship, but it would have some influence and called that the end of the discussion between them. Leda and Mark were laughing uncontrollably at how their children came together and vibed, taking up the rest of the conversation away from their children and back to being a virtual reunion for them.

Isla got up and started to play fight with Reiner on his bed as their parents yammered on, eventually escalading into a pillow fight. They both hadn’t realized their parents had hung up long ago until their room service interrupted them.

“I’ve never had a prom-” Isla slurped up as she ate her food, chewing more gracefully, “If your school has a prom, are you going?”

“No...I didn’t..I missed it. We had it early in the year. Sadie Hawkin’s kinda thing...” Reiner admitted, “And with all of...you know..They’ve just kinda closed for the year. And this trip..I was saving it for that night cus I really enjoy hanging out with Persephone. The grass, everything, meeting you, the yoga...I just, I thought if I wasn’t enjoying it I wasn’t ready, but...it’s the only thing I had left to look forward to that I planned solely on my own and..this has been a lot, man.”

“That’s okay. And that’s very concerning so maybe we should have our own prom and dress up tonight? Like dude we’re doing this,” Isla jumped up excitedly, running to the bathroom. Reiner raised slowly and followed behind lazily to have a better position while she did her makeup. “No~ go get changed...Like dressed up or something! I have hair gel and dry shampoo in my suitcase!”

“I have my own products thank you though and also I can’t watch you put makeup on?” Reiner replied.

“Ugh!” Isla turned around, “I want it to be a surprise! You’re supposed to first see me when you pick me up from my house!”

“I know the routine, but eating in the hotel room is pretty far along if we’re going by that logic,” Reiner showed her his palms in his defense, “Plus, I like watching girls put on makeup...it’s so weird..” he snorts quietly as he puts down the toilet seat cover.

“Well I eat while I put on my makeup, so now you’re in charge of feeding me,” Isla said back with a little giggle.

~~~

Isla had now understood why she saw the dress in Persephone’s luggage, and why she told her that she brought her one that would probably fit her. She wore some cute fishnets she bought at store when they stopped for gas with sleek gown with a slit up to the top of the hip, complete with gloves and a cascading shimmer. Reiner slid on a suit his mother had bought an event his father was going to- some award show or something.

Isla took a long look at herself in the mirror as she put on her pretty dangling moonstone and rainbow quartz chandeliers, it made her think of her mother. What this night is/was for her. If she even remembers that night. She was flashing back to the time the girls in the school she was going to at the time were talking about their dates to a dance, and how their moms did their makeup. Given that Leda was a sort of makeup artist, Isla still would have loved for her to think of a look with her and fight with her about it because she’ll probably hate it. She at least wanted the right to do it. She still might. She sat back and pushed the tears back so that her makeup wouldn’t run. She really didn’t have much since Persi didn’t like it like that. “Hey, uh, I finished the- oh.” Reiner said as she took her last deep breath. Just like he said, there’s nothing exciting after this- they’re already in the hotel room. Persi wasn’t here.

The two spent the night taking prom pictures with bed sheets and table pictures with the service cart that held their room service with one of Isla’s candles. Reiner had some lasting energy from the one glass of champagne and two hits he had. He liked the floaty and lightheaded feeling because he made him feel young. However, Isla was finishing everything because of wanting to enjoy the “party.”

They had gotten to the last songs in their playlist and just decided to be prom king and queen. They laughed and fumbled as they tried to align their arms and bodies for dancing together. “You’ve never danced ballroom?” Isla asked, relaxing into his hand on her back again, her eyes darting to their raised locked hands as they almost robotically box-trotted through the song off-beat.

“I have..You ever let the man lead?” Reiner laughed.

“I’ve never danced like that for real...I’ve only seen it in cartoons and movies. My mom made me miss every opportunity I had to dance with a boy,” Isla explained, rubbing her sweaty hands on the dress, “So, you had packed a suit but not a corsage?”

“I would have bought one if the flower shop was open. We weren’t supposed to get here so late because you two had to have a crying moment in the desert...” Reiner said, wiping his own hands on the handkerchief that was in his chest pocket, then tossing it on the bed, adjusting his cufflinks.

“We were fighting over you, you know?” Isla said, looking down as they lined up again.

“That’s hilarious,” he said as his hand slipped across the middle of her back, pulling her closer and resting her head in his chest as they simply rocked, “I want to sway, but I didn’t want you to be nervous about stepping.”

Isla gasped, melting into his touch briefly before snapping back,“Uhh, no! We actually were! She was jealous-”

“I know she likes me, that’s why this whole prom thing worked out for us,” he scoffed.

“What?” Isla asked, anxious and confused.

“I was gonna ask her to give me my first kiss...cus I know that’s all she wanted. We’re...interesting friends. My mother doesn’t really like her or her situation but...she cares about her dad..the dramatic one-”

“Are you talking about Dan~” Isla asked cracking up, sinking her head into his chest, “But that’s so sweet...The-the kiss thing.”

“Oh yeah~..” Reiner chuckled lightly, rubbing Isla’s back, “It was either that or I found a girl on one of these road trips..do it the old-fashioned way..”

Isla really like him rubbing her back as it went with the music they chose, while they both just stood in between the balcony and the room, swaying lightly to the soft guitar music. She thought about how she wanted to find more wholesome boys than the ones in LA and when her mother was on the road. Through their conversations, she found out about the boring life Persi had and was so glad to have met her so she can talk about her days playing on the cul-de-sac with Reiner. All of the events they went to every year. The occasional fights. It’s interesting to her because all of them aren’t necessarily related by blood, so her suspicions weren’t wrong about them, but it was only opening to her now that she might have changed something that might have been set in place. “Have you ever...you know, liked Pers like that?” she asked hesitantly.

“She’s been growing on me, but she sees things that aren’t me but it means she’s opened up. So I like some of the things about her and what we have as our bond stands but could I see myself in the romantic way she does?..I dunno,” Reiner admitted, “And I don’t mind her having you.”

“Do you think she would mind if I had you?” Isla asked with a small smile.

“I dunno, I think she just likes me, you know? You can..you know..have her. I don’t wanna share her,” Reiner admitted.

“It doesn’t sound as well as you mean it,” she laughed, “You don’t want two girlfriends?”

“What?” Reiner asked, “That... sounds greedy.”

“It’s not ~... especially if you want the both of us,” Isla said, hoping to get through to him.

“I don’t know you and I never admit to really knowing Persephone but I care about her a lot..” he mused, “Also guys on the football team act like having more than one girl is some achievement... everyone does. So far I can accept it as a blessing, but people aren’t prizes. I can argue what you get out of them is.”

Isla was frustrated outwardly and knew it was from being intoxicated. The boy was being so noble and sweet and shameless about his opinions. It was different, he was assertive but not forward. His hair falling just the right way as his hair dressing and gel pulled the rest back. “Fuck, Reiny~ why are you taking your time to kiss me?” She asked.

“Certain song. And you could do it at any time,” he admits, “Why aren’t making an attempt?”

Isla scoffed, slightly offended, “I don’t know what to do with guys my age. My mom always ruined it for me by making us move or giving me terrible experiences about men... Basically she was gatekeeping my heterosexuality.”

“She didn’t mind you being a lesbian?” He asked.

Isla sighed, “I was her little baby until I snapped at 16... she flipped her shit when she saw me sucking dick at a beach rave I found her at. Then that time I was being forced fingered by these chicks and she completely zoned out in the room because she was just... not well and couldn’t do anything. She would force me to do little girl things and my lack of a growth spurt really let her travel a lot with me trying not to get groomed or she used me as a happy place because she forced me to keep my innocence but also destroyed it. Either way she was running from a guy that wasn’t chasing her anymore.”

“Was she on the run from parole or the police?” He asked, “I’m so sorry that happened to you.. really I am. You shouldn’t be punished for your mother’s problems or condition...”

Isla felt his words and sighed deeply as she squeezed him, “Worse. A jilted and psycho ex. She told me that if he found her she’d kill her for escaping.”

“So... how did the horror story end?” He rubbed her back to relax her.

“Some other dude she was fucking killed him for trespassing on school grounds and his family buried him. That or my dad, because he took me to his grave to see him,” she explained, shifting a little.

Reiner looked down at her with a puzzled expression, “Why would he do that?”

“Because my mother made it my life purpose to help protect her from him and that he’s going to get her and kill anyone around and torture my mother to death. My mother miscarried a lot before she had me, like purposefully abort and miscarry babies, I was the one my dad forced her to stop running to have, so my dad loves me but she gets jealous and angry and paranoid... that’s why she sabotages me growing up,” she explained, “My dad was giving me permission and the wherewithal to live my own life while he dealt with my mom's trauma.”

“Persi told me she met you at a beach party when she walked out on her people,” he mentioned, “So my verdict of this is that you’ve not really had a kiss from a guy you genuinely liked and dated because your mom kept you from having and enjoying those experiences..so your dad has been helping you snap out of it.”

“Sounds legit,” Isla smirked, scoffing at herself since hearing it from him.

“Do you genuinely like me?..We haven’t really been dating and I know that this whole trip is a date, but what do you think of me so far?” Reiner asked.

“Are you kidding me?” Isla asked, throwing her hands up out of the hold, then drops her exasperation into confusion, “Wait...well, I mean I like the general vibe of you and the idea of you I’ve built up in the past maybe from what Persi had told me about you. You’re really..really cute! And I-”

“Are pretty high and a little drunk,” Reiner said, chuckling and shaking his head, trying to take her hands again, “Calm down, Isla.”

“I know~ but why would you ask me that?” Isla laughed going back to intertwinning with the boy.

“Because Persi told me she’s coming back for Prom tonight,” Reiner admitted, “And...I’m gonna kiss her tonight...And I dunno what’s gonna happen after that but I know that I’m still gonna really like her..And I’m really only starting to get to know you and I love it so far and-” he sighed deeply, “I didn’t want to take her away from you or anything..A-and I don’t even want...sex..with her..I just want to have her in my life..And just like- watch her be happy and make her happy every way I can.”

“Wait...Reiner are you asexual?” Isla asked pulling herself away from him, “It’s clear you’re romantically attracted to her, but...you don’t want to have sex with her...”

“I don’t want to have sex with anybody, get it right,” he interrupted her, “That’s the whole ‘a-’ part in ‘asexual;’ I want her but I hadn’t been able to tell her, but I was gonna give it a go when we...you know..had our moment...”

“Yeah, I’m getting that but you’re..like..an adonis. You’re not attracted to anyone sexually?” Isla asked with slurs, leaning back into him, “Have you even tried?”

“I know sexuality is fluid and I have felt, you know..fluid - oh god what am I saying?” he said as he broke into laughter and let the girl go before catching her again, realizing she’s more intoxicated than he expected- but mostly because he feels loose enough, he didn’t know this is what happens when someone tries to keep up with him, “Woah, hang on, sit down...You okay?”

Isla plops onto the bed, “You’ve been demi-sexual before?” she asked, leaning back.

“Yeah, I guess so,” Reiner said as he heard the door to the other room open and close before looking at Isla, who began wildly snickering, “Compose yourself..”

~~~

Reiner rushes to the connecting door to their rooms and not the actual door, hearing the knocks again. Persephone had gone out and bought a new dress and actually did her makeup and hair. She went with a more bright and light colour palatte and chose a very pretty cream hokey dress with flower and some frills to make it seem either homemade or expensive. She wore her mother’s earrings and Dan’s engagement ring on her hand as well; she had picked out a beautiful clear crystal adornment. All of this still complimented the other couple’s color scheme and styles.

“That’s...wow..” Reiner said as he opened the door slowly and then Isla jumping up to yank the door all the way open and gaped at the girl,

“Holy shit, Persi.”

“Persephone..I look most like it tonight..” she chuckled calmly, then looked down at her garter stockings that have white skulls in the delicate lace, then takes the flower off the dresser and hands it to him. “You said Babies’ Breath for accent, yes?”

It was making Reiner’s head spin. Her entire composure was different, and the inflections of her tones and her rough Northern English accent had even softened and became more clear. He nodded slowly and breathed out, scoffing awkwardly, making her awkwardly laugh under her breath- his eyes watching her glossed blushed lips turn and relax. “You look...absolutely angelic, Persephone,” he finally said after a dry swallow.

“And you’re very stunning-”

“And I’m FUCKED up!” Isla yelled, pushing the boy into the other room with Persephone and closing the partition door.

“...She alright?” the girl asked, giggling.

“Do you not understand how different you look right now?” he asked.

“I had to put it all together, I know what I look like, love..And how long are we gonna wear this whole..thing, because it is awfully uncomfortable seeing as I usually don’t wear this..That’s what Isla’s for,” she mentioned, trying to hide her willies.

“Well I did a 20 song playlist turning up with Isla, and I’m..not gonna lie I’m tired and sobering up, so how about 5 songs and we call it a night?” Reiner asked sweetly.

“Great because I could only think of 5 songs when you asked me,” she sighed in relief, relaxing her body.

“That was...well before this trip, Persephone,” he said slowly, then holding out his hand gently, and lowering himself slightly, “May I have the pleasure of the dancing with you?”

“Yes, and may I?” she said, covering her giggle before getting met with a nod as she returned to a secret place: Reiner’s chest. It’s something she thought she was going to have to miss if he had gone to college and only see and experience when he came home. They rocked gently back and forth, Reiner changing the patterns in slight ellipses. His hand on her back reminded her of when her Otosan would soothe her back to sleep when she used to have nightmares even though she hated his guts. She felt like Reiner made things make sense by being the simplest answer. It just always seemed like she didn’t belong in their world and he said that it was okay. He let her know that he cared no matter how many strange looks his mother gave them or any of the other families in the cul-de-sac. The fact that their parents were friends and lived near one another in a community she didn’t fit in always upset her. She wanted normal and boring. Or at least not to live with her Dads’ best friends and their kids. The girl looked up at Reiner and then looked down as she sighed heavily, “Reiner...”

“Yeah, Persephone?” he asked quiet and sweet.

“Why..why’d you really ask me to do all of this?..I mean, I’m helping you break out, but...here we are..secretly trying to fit in,” Persephone said, chuckling lightly and shaking her head.

“Because you can always have the same as someone else and it just...be different for you..I dunno how to explain it, but...I wanted...to have control. Something- well- someone who would help me do it,” he said, pulling her out of his chest and looked down at her. She was so vulnerable in his arms and he knew if he did this right and everything was planned, then he’d have this moment forever.

“What-what’s that supposed to mean?” she asked innocently, scoffing and looking away.

“It means that everything in my life was sure until all of this quarantine..stuff..-fuck it..This shit took everything away from me. My plans were ruined, and getting my first kiss at my prom was the only thing I knew if I planned it then I’d...I wouldn’t feel so lost and hopeless,” he admitted, finally feeling himself try to stray away from his vanilla upbringing.

Persephone was shocked and her heart sank to hear him curse, but there was part of her who smiled. She knew he was trying to break out but she didn’t know it was because of her. It was making her head spin on top of the fact she instantly as nervous because the boy she thought never wanted her chose her for his first kiss. “R-Reiner...oh my god!” she tried to say in disbelief as her face remained distant. They had both since let go, but she wished she couldn’t and that she never did. It all made much more sense than it should have. It was the only other thing she never understood about him, it wasn’t brotherly, or familial, hell- it’s not even friendly. He loved her. She rushed back to his chest, embracing him tightly, “I didn’t know you hadn’t even had your first kiss...”

“I’m asexual. And I’m married to my goals, so I’d rather make..being loving a goal so that I’m not a robot...I wasn’t sure when I was gonna be ready, but...part of me always wanted to know, you know,” he took her in just how he expected and like nothing earth-shattering wasn’t just revealed.

His words made the both of them laugh, and pull apart slightly again, Persephone finally raising his hand, “How uhh..how far did you wanna take it?”

“The rest of my life,” he answered quickly and breathed in hard, looking away. Startling her for a moment, but she figured it’s a hard night for him to form thoughts. “Oh the kiss-uhh..there..there’s depth to this?”

“Yeah, there’s a regular kiss on the lips,” Persephone explained, finally pulling him in and giving him a slow peck, unable to hide her smirk at the little butterflies and his grip tightening, “Okay~ and there’s the teaser,” she moved in again, letting him lift her slightly as she teased the kiss and little further.

“I feel like my heart’s about to explode out of my chest~” Reiner piped up and loosened his grip as he panted after the teasing kiss, “Wow...I-I think that’s enough for now...uhh”

“You really like me~” she realized as she was lowered, holding him again, “And what do you mean for now? I’m kinda...in the middle of something with Isla-”

“I’d..fuck..I’d already spoke with her while I was waiting for you,” he explained, still catchin his breath, returning his embrace instead of the hold, “She was fine now that we’ve had a conversation and I was able to ask her how she felt about me and all of that.”

“Well, what’d she say?” she asked, raising her eyebrows.

“How about, Miss Envy...we talk about it over breakfast tomorrow morning?..Pretty sure she’s passed out...” he said, quickly kissing the top of her head andleaving his mouth there briefly.

“And uhh...I’ll upgrade us back to the suite tomorrow too..” she admitted meekly, blushing hard as she buried her face in her chest.

#persephone grace #isla artemis #reiner pansino-fishbach #prom

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