#smile even though you're sad: maelona

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“My mom raised a depressed homosexual, not a bitch.”

[nxttheendxfthestxryarch2]

“It’s kinda weird. When I woke up I felt like…”

She bites her lip and shrugs. “Well, I always feel like someone, something, is watching over me. But this time it felt like there was… something else, someone else. Besides the usual, I mean. Is that weird? I probably sound crazy.”

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Open Double Starter: We’ll Never Fall if We Walk Hand in Hand

Wynn frowns, double checking that his phone had linked to the speaker. Nodding to himself, he hits play on his song, getting an eight count before he starts tapping along, sticking to the beat for the verse.

And of course he’s singing along, it’s Carrie fucking Underwood.

“I should’ve known by the way you passed me by, There was somethin’ in your eyes, and it wasn’t right-- I should’ve walked, but I never had a chance, Everything got out of hand and I let it slide... Now I only have myself to blame, For fallin’ for your stupid games I wish my life could be the way it was before I saw your face!”

And then he lets himself go a little more off with the chorus, playing with his own sound based on the song, having fun riffing off to accent the chorus--

“You stole my happy, you made me cry-- Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it! You had my heart, now, I want it back-- I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it-- I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

He continues riffing without singing through the “na, na, na na na-na” bit with a smile on his face, glancing up when the door to the band room opens though he never misses a beat.

Maelona looks at him, cocking her head. He cocks his head back as he continues to play, then jerks his head over, inviting her closer. She approaches slowly and he continues singing along.

“Now your photos don’t have a picture frame, And I never say your name--”

And Maelona joins him, “--and I never will!”

Wynn manages a weak smile at her as they’re both singing now.

“And all your things, well, I threw ‘em in the trash And I’m not even sad! Now you only have yourself to blame, For playin’ all those stupid games, You’re always gonna be the same-- Oh, no, you’ll never change!”

And as he picks back up on his riffing from before, Maelona spins and tosses her hair with the chorus.

“You stole my happy, you made me cry-- Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it! You had my heart, now, I want it back-- I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it--”

Maelona leans over the drums in his face, wrinkling her nose at him, and he does it back.

“I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

And while Maelona continues singing, Wynn shuts up to focus more on his riff, smiling and watching his sister sort of sway with the beat.

“You want my future, you can’t have it--” they both sing, shaking their heads in perfect sync. “I’m still trying to erase you from my past-- I need you gone so fast! You stole my happy, you made me cry-- Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!” Wynn’s riff picks back up. “You had my heart, now I want it back-- I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it-- I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!--”

And while Maelona continues again on the “na na” part, Wynn picks up the outro.

“You stole my happy, you made me cry-- Took the lonely and took me for a ride-- Boy, you blew it, you put me through it--”

And Maelona joins him on the last line.

“I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

As the song ends, Wynn slowly reaches up and pauses his music, smiling a bit, clearing his throat. Maelona slowly turns back to him, the smile, the laugh still on her face... but it starts to slip, not out of sadness, but out of concern, as she looks at him. “I, uh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean--”

“No, no,” he holds up a hand, biting his lip hesitantly and clearing his throat. “Hi, Maelona.”

“...hi, Wynn,” she answers, biting her lip as well.

The twins both look over when the door opens again and Wynn clears his throat, looking down blankly at his phone, and Maelona turns to properly face the new arrival. “Hi!”

(Song: “Undo It”, Carrie Underwood)

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"You should take a moment to appreciate how far you've come."

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"Always remember that some things have to end in order for better things to begin."

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Open Starter: A Shoulder to Cry On (Maelona)

Maelona leans in close to the bathroom mirror, touching up her makeup, seeing someone blur past behind her but thinking nothing of it until she hears the other start crying.

“Everything okay?”

The other grows silent abruptly. Maelona pauses, capping her lipstick. “You don’t have to hide your tears from me, believe me.”

[nxttheendxfthestxry]

“Well, first, take a moment to appreciate how far you’ve come.”

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"eavesdrop" (from Pity to Taylor @storystartsanew )

"He makes me feel-- he makes me feel a lot of things, okay?! I don't even know. I'm angry. Always angry, first and foremost--"

"And you have every right to be," Maelona says gently, but Taylor cuts her off.

"Exactly! I have every right to be. He left without a word and just dropped off the face of existence. I have every right to be as angry as I fucking feel. Thinking about him-- thinking about him, I just want to punch his stupid face in!"

"I'm sensing a but," Maelona cocks her head slightly, lowering it to try and meet Taylor's eyes when the other looks away. "Am I right?"

Taylor sighs heavily, pulling on the ends of her hair. "But..."

Maelona nods, reaching up and setting a hand on her arm. "It's okay."

"It's not! Because every time I see him-- fuck, I miss him. And it just hurts. It genuinely kills me to see him, and it-- I don't know, but I'm not angry to see him, Maelona. I'm not. I'm hurt, there's that hurt I thought I was over, but I'm not mad. I want to understand, I-- sometimes I think I still love him. And he's there with that stupid kicked puppy face and I want to go to him, I want to talk to him but I remember I'm supposed to be angry even though I'm not and I just run off instead. I just-- I miss him, Mae. And it hurts and I don't know what to do about it. I don't know if I can do anything about it."

@storystartsanew

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“Honestly, I think I had a better social life when I was like 8 years old than I do now.”

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"Hey, hey, uh... I don't... know how any of this works? But, uh... from what I've seen from... TV and stuff..." Prue cleared her throat, holding the box out, lowering herself to the floor... and falling right through it, the box not following the spirit and simply laying on the floor.

"Oh! Prue, I--" Maelona pauses, blinking and bringing a hand to her mouth as her girlfriend drops through the floor, clearing her throat. "--I'm not gonna laugh, I'm not gonna laugh, you're doing so well, darling."

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Closed Starter: Can’t Wait to Meet Everyone (Maelona/Wynn/Eira/Milo/Prue/Ziva)

“Excuse me, pardon me, I don’t mean to interrupt,” a cast member remarks, and Wynn closes his eyes to himself as the three turn around.

...why were Maelona and Eira there?

...no, god, please--

“Sorry, it’s just that these ladies pointed you out as the son of Anna and Kristoff from Auradon, correct?”

Wynn glances to Ziva and Milo and sighs to himself, smiling and nodding. “That’s me.”

“I have a few friends who were hoping to meet you and your family, I was wondering if you’d be willing to join us?”

...

Fuck... Wynn closes his eyes and takes a breath before looking back to the cast member and nodding with a smile. “Sounds fantastic, lead the way.” It sounds pained just trying to say it, and when the cast member turns away, he scowls and flips off his sister and cousin before they follow.

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Open Starter: Step Into the Sun

Maelona takes a deep breath and sets her shoulders, holding her head up before heading out of the office and going to settle into the dorm. She has a lot to do and a lot to catch up on.

First off, though... she stops another student shyly. “Excuse me. You wouldn’t happen to know where a boy named Wynn might be, would you?”

They’d parted on bad terms before he’d come here. She wanted to talk to him.

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Closed Starter: A Tale of Two Princesses

“Hey, don’t talk about my brother that way,” Maelona turns on her heel to face a student snickering about Wynn when she walks by. “When your own twin sister practically turns your life upside down on accident, then maybe you should go back to him and talk then. In the meantime, you don’t know him, and you have no right to talk about him like you do.”

She’s not entirely sure she knows him either. The student had gone quiet under her glare and she shakes her head and carries on towards her room... stopping at a hand on her arm and turning, smiling. “Hey, Mara.”

@untxld-stxries​ (Another wild guess)

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Open Starter: Beading

Maelona hums softly to herself as she adds the hook to the second earring in the pair, holding them both up in the light and seeing how they look. They’re kind of simple, just a teardrop shape with some sparkly, tiny beads at the bottom, but she likes them all the same.

She looks up from them when she sees someone approaching. “Oh, sorry, here, let me--” She quickly moves to put her stuff together a bit and make more space at the table.

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Open Starter: Not Again

Maelona smiles as she rushes to meet her parents, hugging them both tightly. “I’m so glad you could make it. I hope it was a smooth trip.”

Kristoff envelopes her in a hug while her mother smiles. “It was absolutely fine. Where’s your brother?”

“What?” Maelona turns back and sighs. “Oh, uh oh. He was with me.”

They all three share a knowing look and Anna sighs. “Let’s go find him.”

As they start back in the direction Maelona came from, Kristoff begins stopping people. “Excuse me, have you seen a boy with red hair, about her height--” he points to Maelona, “--probably in a black hoodie, go running off?”

[thcncxtrightthing]

“Uh, excuse me? I’m gonna be worried, and I’m gonna care, who do you think I am?”