#what a dreamboat fr

[dopeyjoe]

thinking about gene wilder's ridiculously pretty face bro really had the sparkliest prettiest eyes like damn

[violenteconomics]

For thr vacation fund au and rsa exchange program thingy majigy au, please hear me out hear me out-

Imagine tge first years come back to nrc (or not idk) and then for their vacation fund they make a host club or rent-a-date (rent-a-friend for ortho or smth)

Like ramshackle is their hq and ljke what you said they originally became famous bc of the poster with bad marker quality, several malleus stickers and deuce's thirst trap photo, but the customers do find other favorites besides deuce (but hes still the most popular- like tamaki but he has no idea what hes doing lol)

And then the rsa LI hearing abt this (either from gossip or soxial media you do yiu) and then they become regulars at the nrc first years host club

(Then the seniors catxhing wind of this dear Lord may they have mercy on the rsa students)

anything 4 u, baby.

PFFFFFT-- O M G YASSSS COMBINING THE RSA TRIP WITH THE VACATION FUND IS GENIUS, THIS IS THE SPIN OFF WHERE THE FIRST-YEARS START NRC'S FIRST HOST CLUB TO PAY FOR THEIR VACATION!!! the idea that the shitty poster still makes people endlessly thirsty is so funny to me lol.

deuce is the kind, understanding date, who has a big heart but can also protect you if need be. he's literally a dreamboat come to life. the only downside is that the client has to plan their dates -- otherwise, deuce might actually take them to an egg farm, lol.

ace is the quote unquote "fun" one, who is down to literally anything as long as it's entertaining enough. polar opposite of deuce, in that he's GREAT at date-planning, and he's the second-highest in terms of ratings.

epel and yuu are a "double date" sort of deal, where yuu's simple charm and understanding personality contrasts very greatly with epel's more "rough-and-tumble" approach to life. epel is THIS close to cursing out the waitress for giving you lobster in your meal even though you specifically asked them not to because your allergic, meanwhile yuu keeps epel from making a scene (but is simultaneously calling in a favor from azul to sue this place to the ground, lol).

i honestly can't imagine sebek or jack ever agreeing to do this, but if they were somehow blackmailed into it (or drawn to the compel of more money to put into their vacation fund), it would be the most tsundere thing in existence--

AND ORTHO HAS HIS OWN LITTLE "RENT-A-FRIEND" BOOTH IN THE CORNER AHHHHHHH (he's basically taken over yuu's position as the therapist friend, fr fr)

AND THE RSA LIS HEARING ABOUT THIS MMMMMMMM. i mean, most of them are royalty, so they have enough money to basically monopolize all of the first-years' time. and the freshmen kind of actually like going out with the LIs more than anybody else, just because they know them better than random nrc strangers.)

(of course, the seniors are still stalking them from the bushes, fire spells and knives prepared in case they need them.)

(ace wipes some ice cream off song's face, and riddle has to be held down by both vil and malleus to keep him from decapitating the both of them right then and there for their indecency)

[cherrycolaride]

I'm sorry but...

what even is 'kissin' cousins'?!!

i gotta tell you i've been through a lot of elvis movies already... and despite them having often enough poorly written scripts, displaying strange dynamics, sexualizing our boy etc... i still loved them all somehow (sorry e 🥹🕊️) and found them quite entertaining... besides e just looks extremely gorgeous in each of 'em what shall i say ✨

BUT this one... this one really drained me. i mean i thought it must be extra cheesy as e is playing his blonde cousin wearin that cheap wig and i saw some pics and videos from the movie... but DAMN i didn't expect it to be that bad! 😭

what's up with those screaming girls runnin around like crazy and jumpin on any male bein' that has legs?? fr the screamin' was so annyoing i had to turn down the volume on my TV 😂😂

plus every character including elvis' ones seems to have like 0 braincells... like zero zero

only good thing are the make out scenes with e and the girls and him lookin' like a dreamboat as always buttt...

yeah that's the first elvis movie i saw that really didn't do it for me... and i even loved HARUM SCARUM so this must mean something!!😂

sorry to anyone who loves it, maybe it's just me🥹

[detectiveneve]

speaking strictly from a plot & writing perspective here, not a commentary on characters or who or who is not my favorite blorbo (they all are). it's gale time and I wanted to get down everything I thought about this go around with his romance & the writing before it escapes me.

so I once again had a ton of fun of course, the game is still a blast, and several arcs were way more satisfying this time around simply because I ... did not skip the creche, unlike my very first run (I was an idiot) (I didnt think it would be that important) (it really really was). love it 10/10. I cannot WAIT to do my gith run & really focus in on that because the lore there is just, so cool, and that subplot was really rich & rewarding this time around since I had someone who was not orpheus become a mindflayer instead.

as for Gale, Thank Fuck I started before they bugged him up again too much. but let's deep dive into The Material.

shoutout to Tim first of all, he's a legend, dreamboat, superstar. there are so many lines delivered so effortlessly when they would sound ridiculous in anyone else's mouth. he gives gale so much soulful intensity and subtle, nuanced gravitas befitting someone like gale; with enough of Gale's own moments of silliness, cheekiness, wry wit & understated sarcasm, to outright flabbergasted at times, I was Giggling every conversation fr. I'm not usually prone to the "I LOVE YOU" Romances that come earlier rather than later, but ohhhhhhh tim gives each line with all the weight & agony that you can feel inside Gale when it comes (the looming death; not knowing what the end may bring; not wanting to leave any regrets behind) so like. MWAH to him. MWAH MWAH. all the kisses in the world.

okay mandatory compliments to the actor aside. I came out of the whole thing with breadth of new appreciation for Gale as a character in terms of the... concepts, threads, that make him up, and act 2 is where he REALLY shines overall.

I didn't necessarily come away from it with the same... weepy...... done-no-wrong? interpretation of Gale that I've seen floating about. he's lovely. he's intense. he's got soul-crushing devotion on his mind, no doubt. but for every fracture of tenderness, raw sincerity, & off the cuff soliloquy, he's got a lot of interesting flaws/characteristics I'd love to unpick with a fine-toothed comb on some replays or rewatches. Still trying to turn over in my brain exactly what that is, but it's there, and I love it. will say I'm really glad I played it mostly in a vacuum rather than getting too into others' thoughts on him, because What I Had Seen on the Webbed Site had near put me off entire (seeing someone say he's not prideful or pompous at all... when he self-describes as pompous?) -- maybe it's my tendency to focus in on what makes a character tick, when are they sharper, or harder, or meaner, and I enjoy watching that play out a lot, but? yeah. I didn't come away thinking him a super soft mushy mwahmwah -- ROMANTIC, yes, but overall as a character not nearly so lovesick and in desperate need of some protector. in fact when you tell him you don't want to be his crutch, he says as much too -- you've helped him, but you're not the sole focus of his person or the only thing keeping him alive.

there's enough of the humanity in his cheekier moments (stop licking the damn thing!!) and plenty of tear-jerking aside all of that. gale my canon-depressive-episode, mildly suicidal, chronic pained up, still-kind-of-full-of-yourself king. I adore you I love you I cradle you softly in my arms. he charmed me entire! I think that the themes hey were trying to tackle are really interesting and nuanced and I do have some thoughts on the success of the game in actually tackling those, what is there is really wonderful. some gorgeous writing in act 2, especially, and it was sold so well by the voice acting & sincerity in the writing I was just like. PERFECT. 10/10. NEED TO WRITE 98 FLUFF PIECES RN. which does not happen often, to me, as a person.

with. some exceptions, going back to critiquing act 3 as a whole.

act 1 & 2 are both strong, really nice. however this romance definitely needed at least one or two more scenes in act 2 to pad out the space between awkward flirting at the party to "I like it when you're sweaty and bloody-- sorry who said that" to "I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU." -- these scenes should've elaborated on Gale's personal feelings; of mystra, of what's been asked of him, of Tav. they should've set in threads of Gale's anger earlier, rather than the jarring shift from late act 2 "yeah I'll kill myself" to "actually... mystra fucking sucks! lol!" in act 3 at sorcerer sundries. yeah babygirl, mystra DOES fucking suck, wish I could've listened to you as you arrived to these conclusions rather than connecting empty character lines between act 2 and 3. and act 3 desperately needed more space to talk gale in or out of the crown. because by the time we get to the end, if he's really into the crown, he's into it beyond the focus of all else. but in the scenes where you talk him off that particular ledge, it doesn't even take very long to do so, and leaves kind of a weird... gap of intention.

I feel like they wrote themselves into a bit of a corner, honestly. because Gale's personal quest literally cannot be resolved until 5 minutes before the end, any climax wouldn't have much space afterward to pad the aftermath. so the solution to that would've been more character focus scenes, more flavor text depending on how you've influenced gale, something that actually makes the choices feel rewarding -- some hurdles to cross too, checks of some kind. but there really isn't any of that, and so the conflict is almost nonexistent. you squirt gale with a water bottle and he gives up the crown with no real additional dialogue. or you tell him "ma...maybe???" and he's suddenly a power obsessed little freak (complimentary) with no recourse, and in either case, we never got much dialogue to get some insight into his personal thoughts on it. this doesn't make Gale a bad character, but it does leave the narrative to be lacking in some regard.

like, for example. Astarion gets dialogue changes depending on the quest outside of character-specific moments (such as a spawn Astarion changing his dialogue after you help Aylin with Lorroakan), post-quest conversations, PRE-quest conversations with his siblings, moments where he reveals more of what he thinks (such as "You're... you. no one is like that.") etc., Gale gets None of that. the only other characters who really do are Lae'zel and Shadowheart; everyone else is either shafted or resolved in the last few minutes too. I came out of this most satisfied as a player overall with LAE'ZEL'S conclusion (also at the end of the game!!) because we had gotten a few more moments where her focus is obvious and her motivations are clear.

anyways, those are just general writing issues. Act 3 overall is the weakest, most agree, and that's still true here. Sadly it kind of takes some of Gale down with it in this case, because his personal quest is both so removed from the overall plot (despite him being a literal fixture as the only character who knows anything about the crown & was decreed by a literal god to take out the absolute).

however none of this is related to Gale as a guy. as a guy I'm Fucking Obsessed With Him. taking him with me everywhere was so rewarding especially in act 1 / 2. his commentary & insights, when they were there, ranged from funny as fuck to genuinely insightful & interesting for the overall plot. the ideas behind him, the glimpses we get of the life he led before, and the life he wants to lead after with Tav -- or what he alludes to wanting to lead with Tav, thinking that he'll still probably die at the end of this -- are lovely, interesting, TOUCHED MY SPIRIT. he's such a neat version of how to do a character that is as endearing as he can be foot-in-mouth, and as intelligent as he can be a little belligerent. I looooved every moment I could talk with him about magic in act 1, see his passions (beyond mystra), argue with him about how to do something (I'M the magical wonder here actually and I get to make the shadowlantern), all of that really MADE the romance for me in the lulls where his Silence or the gaps in his writing were more clear. 10/10 would kiss that fucking wizard again and cry a little bit thinking about exploding with him aboard a giant alien brain while one of those "ITS YOUUU I LIE WITH" songs plays in the bg

[kiss2012]

final 911 thoughts…

k tommy’s entrance in 7x03 kinda slayed ngl. the fake static LMAO

“i’d follow your hunches any day” “it’s cap and athena let them fire us” CATCH ME CRYING IN THE CLUB

eddie’s incredulous happy little laugh when they saw the flare <3

this show is at its best when 1) it’s about the inherent goodness of humanity and how everyone deserves to be saved, 2) when the members of the 118 are in Situations, 3) when they r all a happy family, and 4) when they are flagrantly disobeying orders to save the people they love

TJE BACHELOR HAHAHDHHSHSHHSHAHAHAH

u don’t understand how funny this is to me (person who watched the most recent bachelorette live)

making buck bi in the bachelor episode literally the greatest thing they have ever done.

I LOVE MADDIE CHIMNEY AND JOSH TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO THE BACHELOR IS DHDJKDD

scream at joey’s face when the contestants proposition buck and eddie

once again buck continues his trend of either flirting on purpose or flirting without realizing he’s flirting.

HOW DID ANYONE GET THROUGH THIS EPISODE WHAT THE FUCK ARE BUCK EDDIE AND TOMMY ALL DOING

buck saying he’s “keeping his options fluid” LOL.

look im glad to see harry even if the actor’s different i missed him but WHERE IS MAY

ravi i love you so deeply

oh my god ravi looks so beautiful

“you and tommy have a lot in common: both in the army both like watching half-naked men pummel each other” WHAT???? WHAT THE FUCK AM I WATCHING

so i understand exactly what’s going on with buck right now he is certifiably insane but he’s obviously jealous over eddie and jealous over tommy and worried about being replaced especially with chris and insecure and confused about what he’s feeling etc. but eddie 😭😭😭 what’s going on babe

I LOVE MADDIE

ok seriously did we need a rehash of the WORST athena plotline to date???

BUCK IS SO EMBARRASSING.

oh my god i physically can’t watch this

ummmmm yikes

i’ve seen a lot of people both blindly defending buck for this and a lot of people hating on it and i don’t really think it’s that simple. like i think it was wrong wish we could see him apologize but it is some delicious drama. like suck ur teeth in hand over mouth kinda drama.

chimney pretty much summed it up and maddie was so right…love u madney

maddie’s hilarious for being like yeah buck i understand where ur coming from i also made desperate bids for my friend’s attention. when i was a 14 year old girl.

“so stop acting like one” YEAH LMAO

END OF 7x04. WOWWW THAT WAS A LOT

you’d think seeing half of this in gifsets would’ve desensitized me to it. but it hasn’t.

this would have been the perfect opportunity to have tommy talk about how he regrets his behaviour during the begins episodes and talk more about his friendships with hen and chimney??

tommy. BUCK!!!!!!!

scream.

um im sorry i cant blame tommy for leaving buck at the curb after that hot chicks comment. and then the “bro”??? im in agony.

i thought u guys were joking this is marisol’s like fourth appearance on screen and we’ve barely heard her speak let alone seen her interact with eddie but he “really likes her” and they’re moving in together? um excuse me??? WHY ARE THEY LYING TO ME I DONT KNOW THIS WOMAN NO ONE KNOWS THIS WOMAN NOT EVEN EDDIE KNOWS THIS WOMAN

ohhhh my god that post about how unlike tommy eddie’s always treated buck like an equal partner no matter what from the very beginning. yeah…

denny is so sweet.

MADDIE AND BUCK COMING OUT SCENE MY BELOVED

disaster bi buck fr (affectionate)

the “christopher is out of town for a couple days” is still killing me. where is he.

eddie is such a dreamboat truly who wouldn’t be in love with him

so many shannon mentions this season thank you…i miss you shannon

if you need me i’ll be thinking about eddie’s thumb on That Spot.

this end scene is the best buck has looked all episode the choice to have him literally bathed in sunlight is so real and true

7x06 time oh my god im so scared

maddie and hen look unbelievably stunning. jesus christ.

eddie looks beautiful in his beautiful pre-destroyed pink suit. buck…your suit was a Choice. i will free you from whoever is doing your hair like that pls buck just let me in i can fix it pls

eddie wasn’t overtly bitchy about tommy being there until he saw tommy hug buck. he’s so funny.

HENREN AND RAVIIIIII 🥰🥰🥰🥰 and all three of their outfits r a slay

can’t explain to you how much i love clipboard buck if clipboard buck has no lovers i am not on this earth etc. and a karaoke bachelor party really is such a thoughtful idea even if it’s not what chimney wanted

but once again buck is so embarrassing i can’t do this

thanks we had a…time. HFJFJDKD

MONTAGE <33333 buck and eddie’s bestieism is off the charts im gonna cry…

“i am 911” maddie buckley the woman that you are…

i unapologetically looked at a million spoilers for this episode but i still don’t know What happened to chimney and im scared

kevin and the lees 😭😭😭😭

CHIMNEY GOING BACK TO THE KARAOKE BAR HE AND KEVIN WORKED AT. OH IM SICK

“telling buck no is like telling a dog not to jump your leg” is definitely. a line. that. they chose. for this episode.

I LOVE YOU CHIMNEYYY

home and he went to the lees. god….

IM GONNA BE SAD ABOUT KEVIN FOREVER

moment 1363673 of buck giving me the worst and somehow most affectionate secondhand embarrassment i’ve ever felt in my life

perfect episode no notes. actually one note WHERE WAS ALBERT. but other than that im in shambles time to listen to islands in the stream on repeat

[aconflagrationofmyown]

MARINA!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, a million times thank you I don’t know know what else to say. I remember sliding into your inbox to tell you how much I enjoy your writing then I said if you ever wanted to kill me you could write something based on *that* picture and from our horny, love sick thoughts Gigi was created. I remember the late night messages lmao, the spamming to get your inspiration up, and trynna figure out a name for her. It’s been a journey but I’m so so happy with what your brilliant mind has created and so honored fr that you actually care about ideas I have for this universe that means the world to me. I knew you were gonna blow past my expectations, but this is better than I thought, I’m so happy our little universe is out in the world now and just thank you honestly ❤️❤️😭🙏🏻 our love and hunger for big daddy lives within Gigi and with the entire big daddy community on our side I know it’s only gonna get better as we all pour our love in to it!

I should be thanking you! You who were so patient yet so supportive, an absolute dreamboat to scheme with. I love you and I’m so delighted we got to introduce our baby to the world and get more fans for this fluffy little reimagining.

You’re precious, Bri 🌷

but then…Gigi

[drunk-poets-society]

Why is the line "I lost myself when I lost you" hitting so hard tonight I didn't even exist back then

[ballsakic]

Since I've received a few asks about players, their comments/actions, etc., I just thought I'd share my perspective.

I love a good discussion and to hear people out, so please don't be shy! But also, don't be an asshole about it. Anons welcome, obvs.

The sport of hockey is a cesspool of toxic masculinity, sexism, and racism. But you knew that already.

I've been following the sport for years (seriously, like before some of you were even born because I'm old balls fr fr), and nothing has really changed (as a whole).

I've had friends with hockey blogs who were run offline years ago because they wanted to see things change. They wanted to help change the shit that's wrong, or at least call it out. They couldn't do much, and for the sake of their mental health and sanity, they went offline (some on their own terms but most were bullied into it) and others stopped working with the teams full stop. Some were even excused by the organizations themselves because their aspirations to create change were ruffling too many feathers (particularly, families of players and some GMs).

The sport was toxic then, and it's toxic now. It's toxic at the midget level. It's toxic at the major junior level. It's toxic, period. Many of the fans are toxic. It runs much deeper than just an organization. These people are being RAISED like this.

To come online and say "Well so-and-so is different!!1!!1"... They probably aren't. If they're an affluent white man in this sport, chances are they aren't the socially woke dreamboat you imagined. And if they somehow are, I'd bet you damn good money they weren't at one point, and were forced to learn some hard lessons along the way. If we knew all these players personally, we'd probably be insanely disappointed in what we would see, hear, etc.

In my opinion, the only thing I've seen happen in recent memory that could create a lasting change is Luke Prokop's coming out. His coming out was HUGE. It was monumental. He has risked everything in doing so, and I hope to God he doesn't lose anything because of it. I hope his bravery results in a sport that is more accepting of those who don't fit the straight-white-man narrative they've been upholding this entire time, but only time will tell.

The sport, the organizations, the business, cannot change until the people do. And some of these people do NOT want to change. This also includes fans. Us.

People are free to forgive and "cancel" whoever they want. Everyone has their reasons, and some of those reasons may not make sense to you. That is TOTALLY OK, I promise. Your experience is not their experience, and vice versa. I am guilty of forgetting this, but I'm trying to be better.

If you think you are in a place to have a discussion to try and help someone else see things from another perspective, have that discussion! Have that constructive dialogue! If you aren't able to (and that is OK too!), then block, unfollow, etc. However, spewing diatribes on anon because you think someone is wrong for not sharing your exact beliefs or viewpoints isn't going to create the changes you want to see in a sport we all love.

[vinylhazza]

omg yes show me -🗝

okay but you can’t judge okay? these mean a lot to

me. also yes i’m aware that romeos nasty ass tattooed one of these photos but the saying fits so well with the tattoo i wanna get that i still have that same reference picture. i’m gonna get a different font too cause damn that shit is thin af.

okay so 43 probably behind my ear or something i’m still not sure where i wanna put it. and then my dreamboat tattoo 👉🏻👈🏻 that one is gonna go like really small higher up on my side which is probably gonna hurt like ass.

okayyyy and then we have my sunset/sunrise tat. so its the first reference picture, but since i think maybe the dots would be really hard and they would probably bleed together or something, i would get those lines instead or something that looks similar thennnn it would be the sun must set to rise so it would be ‘the sun must’ on top and ‘set to rise’ on the bottom.

if you guys make fun of me for these i’m deleting my account fr fr these mean like so much to me and to share the things you’re gonna get on your body forever is kind of really vulnerable and so...yeah. love u. if you want an explanation for them like what they mean i can do a little thing about that too.

[the-one-blog-to-rule-them-all]

aaaaaand i’m finally caught up on all the Jurassic movies!! Here are my short reviews and listing from fave to least fave

1.) Jurassic Park - duh This movie is a goddamn masterpiece. Realistic dialogue and i feel like everyone acted pretty realistically for the most part of like what they would do in case of a dino attack fr. The characters are literally ALL likeable, even the kids who i thought i was going to fcking hate. Ellie and Alan should be together till the day my soul leaves this fucking earth bc they’re so perfect for each other. Ian was a fuckin treasure in all definitions of the word. Just such a well executed movie and legit not what i was expecting when i watched it. 10/10. maybe 11/10

2.) Jurassic World I dig the reboot. I think Crisp Rat is a really good actor and I love him and I literally adore Bryce Dallas Howard she is so fucking cute. At first I was annoyed bc product placement but then i realized it’s a theme park and that’s totally accurate. I laughed out loud a couple of times which is always a plus. Not a spectacular movie by any means, but I would absolutely watch it again. 7/10

3.) Jurassic Park 3 This shit ass movie isn’t the worst thing i’ve ever seen but I didn’t like it. First of all how are you going to really fuggin start this movie showing that Alan and Ellie aren’t togehter??? that doesn’t even make sense and I literally refuse to accept it as canon. My suspension of disbelief is fucking GONE. I could think of nothing else for the entire movie except that those two dreamboats aren’t rawwing it in their happy marital life because this mfing director or writer or wtfever decided to be the worst person in the world. 0/10

4.) The Lost World Fuck this movie and fuck what they did to Ian Malcolm’s cool guy character. Like at least in JP3 they have alan grant be in character, but Ian is like a totally different guy. I could give a fuck and a half less about his girlfriend and his daughter. who is this character I don’t even know him please give me my chaos theory rockstar back thanks. -2/10

All in all I’ve had an enjoyable experience thru this. I rly wanna draw some cute JP fan art with some dinos but i can’t draw dino’s and also i’m a trash human who can’t think of anything to draw soooo here we are. too hype for the next movie tho

[ramblingthoughtsofayoungadult]

Not in A Million Years-Dallas Winston Imagine

Requested: No

Warnings: fluff

  It was half past noon when Dallas Winston strolled into Dairy Queen. A cigarette was poised between his smirking lips as he strolled towards the cashier desk. With each step he took, my body filled with more dread. However, I should have grown accustomed to this routine since Dallas made a habit of stopping by Dairy Queen every day at twelve thirty for the past couple of weeks. His regular visits had quickly become the worst part of my summer job. He always had a lit cigarette in his mouth and stupid cocky grin on his face, both were things that I wanted to smack off of his face. Unfortunately, Y/B/F/N had grown to love these visits and was especially engaging with him every time.

   “Oh come on, Y/N, he is such a dreamboat!” she exclaimed once after Dallas had left.

   “Yeah, and he’s also spent a little too much time in the cooler for me,” I muttered.

    How was a good looking face supposed to make me forget about the fact that he was a criminal? It amazed me how people like the Curtis brothers could be such good friends with them. I used to talk to Soda a lot but after we both got jobs, we stopped hanging around as much. I never got the chance to ask him about why he was friends with Dallas or why Dallas enjoyed bothering me every chance he got.

    Therefore, my mood immediately fell when Dallas walked into Dairy Queen and sauntered up to me with that stupid grin on his face. A couple of greaser girls and Soc girls who were hanging out on opposite sides of the restaurant looked like they could have fainted when they saw him.

     “Welcome to Dairy Queen, how may I help you today?” I said through gritted teeth.

    “Aw, Y/N, turn that frown upside down. I know you’re happy to see me.”

     I gritted my teeth down even harder. 

     “Hey, Dallas, what’s buzzin, cousin?” Y/B/F/N asked as she stepped forward from the kitchen.

    “Not much, Y/B/F/N. Just gettin’ my usual.”

    “Sure, we’ll have it right up!” Y/B/F/N clapped my shoulder as if to say “Talk to him!”

    I ignored the signal as I rang him up for a cheeseburger, fries, and a strawberry milkshake. “Two fifty.” 

    Dallas handed me the exact change and leaned on the counter as I put the money into the register. “Come on, Dolly, we’ve been doin’ this dance all summer, why don’t you let me take you out?”

    “Because you’re not my type, Dallas.”

    “Really? Cause I’ve caught you starin’ at me several times.”

    “I was glaring, Dallas.”

    The truth was that as much as I didn’t like Dallas, I did come to appreciate his good looks from time to time. However, I didn’t want him to know that----it was too much fun to dislike him.

    “Sure you were.”   

    I rolled my eyes. “Y/B/F/N will have your order up soon.”

    “Fine.” Dallas took a long drag from his cigarette. “But I know why you won’t go out with me.”

   “I know you do because I’ve told you why several times.”

   Dallas shook his head. “No, besides all that, you’re afraid that if you go out with me, you’ll see that I’m not a bad guy after all and maybe see a new side to yourself too.”

    “Get bent, Dallas.”

    “Oooh, still got a mouth on ya.”

    His grin made my stomach flip and I could’ve scowled at myself. How was it that someone I loathed with every fiber of my being had an affect on me? But, I wasn’t easy like any of the girls Dallas went out with. I took school seriously and planned on going to college after high school. Even though I did live near the Curtis’, my parents were well-to-do people and would have a cow if they knew I had even spoken to Dallas Winston. 

    Once his food was ready, I handed him the bag and told him to have a good day, like I do with every customer.

    “It gets even better every time I see you.”

    He sealed his statement with a grin and sauntered out of the restaurant confidently, a couple of girls staggering after him. I rolled my eyes at how ridiculous they were.

   “Bunch of airheads,” I muttered.

   “You know you like the attention,” Y/B/F/N teased.

   “I really don’t, I wish he’d stop coming around.”

   “If you keep this act up he just might and you’d ruin everything for the both of us. You know that I get a kick out of that guy.”

   “How can you? He’s so hard and scary.”

   “That’s only one side of him, have you seen him with Johnny? Practically an angel,” Y/B/F/N said. 

   “Still, there is someone for everyone and I am not the one for Dallas and he isn’t the one for me.” I glanced at the front and saw Kelsey, a buxom platinum blonde greaser girl, talking to Dallas as she tried to subtly shove her chest in his face. “Obviously.”

   Of course, my body had to betray me as I felt the familiar twinge of jealousy burn in my chest. I shouldn’t care about the girls Dallas Winston hangs out with, but I did to a small degree. I wasn’t anything like them so why did he insist on irritating me so much? 

   The question plagued my mind for the rest of the day until it was time to close. I had just finished up sweeping the main dining area when Y/B/F/N came from the bathroom with her bucket and mop in tow.

   “I officially can’t stand men! Isaac shouldn’t make us clean up like this every night.”

   “Yeah, but the pay’s decent,” I said.

   “It’s the only thing that gets me through these long summer days, missing all the new flicks in Marlon Brando,” Y/B/F/N said with a dreamy sigh that made me laugh.

    “By the end of summer, you’ll be able to fly out to meet him if you want.”

     “Even better, he’ll fall in love with me and we’ll get married and have beautiful, talented children.” 

    I shook my head at my friend and we put up the cleaning supplies. After I put the day’s earnings in the safe in Isaac’s office, I locked the door and took off the apron we had to wear during open hours and hung it up in the kitchen.

   “Are you all right if I leave now?” Y/B/F/N asked. 

   “Yeah, sure, you almost locked yourself in here once and wouldn’t want to risk that again.”

   “Don’t remind me about it. See ya tomorrow.”

   “See ya!”

   Y/B/F/N sauntered out and I took my time grabbing my things and making sure everything was in order before I turned off the lights and locked the door. I put the keys to the Dairy Queen in my pocket and started heading in the direction of my house. 

   “Hey, baby!” My body froze as soon as I recognized the voice: Kevin Richards, a Soc friend of Tim’s. 

   I usually only had to worry about him during the day if I had the day off and walked around town with Y/B/F/N. He was rarely at Dairy Queen if I was working for some strange reason. I glanced in his direction and saw that he was smoking with two other tall, large Socs. They all wore pastel light jackets and pristine blue jeans. They looked like all-American boys were certainly far from it.

   Kevin grinned at me and started walking towards me. “How’ve ya been?”

  “Fine, thanks,” I said, backing away.

  “C’mon, don’t be scared, baby. I just wanted to know if you wanted to see a flick with me or hang out with me and my friends.”

  “No thanks, I’m busy.”

  “Right now?” Kevin was getting closer to me and I felt myself getting more nervous.

  “Yeah, my mom’s expecting me home soon. She gets worried when I miss curfew.”

   “C’mon, you’ll be in safe hands. Relax, baby.”

  But I couldn’t relax, not with that sinister look in his green eyes nor with the way his friends were eyeing me. Why couldn’t guys just take a hint?    Just when I was about to break out into a run, Dallas pulled up to us in his car, blasting “Hound Dog”. Kevin’s attention immediately went to Dallas and I only relaxed slightly. 

   “What are you doin here, Greaser?” Kevin sneered.

   “Could ask you the same thing, Soc,” Dallas said. 

   He cut off the engine, got out of the car, and walked over to me and stood at my side.

   “I’m askin Y/N to go out with me,” Kevin said.

   “And it looks like the lady doesn’t want to, isn’t that right, Y/N?” 

   “Yes, I told him I wasn’t interested.” 

   Dallas turned to Kevin. “You hear that, the lady isn’t interested, so why don’t you go back to the south side and try to sweet talk one of your ladies into a date.”

   Kevin stepped forward and Dallas whipped out his knife.

   “I wouldn’t try anything if I were you.” 

   Kevin’s eyes widened and he glared at Dallas than at me. 

   “You made a big mistake, both of you.”

   He slunked back over to his friends and Dallas put his knife away.

   “Thank you, Dallas, I really owe you one.”

   “How bout a date?”

   I groaned. “Can neither you nor Kevin take a hint?”

  “Can I at least drive you home? It’s a far walk from here.”

  I glanced at Dallas’ car before looking back up at him. “Fine, no funny business.”

  “Never.”    Dallas opened the car door for me and then got in on the driver’s side before pulling off into the night. 

   “So, Kevin’s been after you for a while, huh?”

   “Yeah, don’t really know why.”

    Dallas scoffed. “Are you serious?”

  “As a heart attack.”

   “Y/N, you’re the most gorgeous girl in this town, of course all the boys are going to be after you.”

   “So that’s why you’ve been after me to go out with you? Because you like the way that I look?” 

   “No, but I’d be lyin’ if I said that wasn’t part of it.”

    I frowned and turned towards him. “Then what is it? What about me makes you so adamant about asking me out every chance you get?”

    Dallas sighed. “You’re smart, almost scary smart, and you don’t take crap from anyone, namely me. You’re tough in a way that I’m not and you can cut me down unlike anybody else.” Dallas glanced at me. “And while we’re on the subject, why won’t you go out with me?”

   “Because I heard about what you did in New York and I know about your time in the cooler. I appreciate what you did tonight but that doesn’t really change things.”

   Dallas’ grip on the wheel got harder and it was obvious that he didn’t like my response, but it was the truth. “I know I did bad things in New York, but I’m different now.”

   “Dallas---”

   “Forget about it.”

   The rest of the drive was silent, save for the music softly playing from the radio. It felt torturous until we finally got to my house. He pulled up and parked.

   “I’m awful sorry if I hurt you, I didn’t mean to, it’s just----being with you would be kind of frightening----interesting, I’m sure, but frightening. And I do really appreciate what you did for me at Dairy Queen. How lucky am I that you pulled up just in time?”

   “It wasn’t luck. “

   “Huh?”

   Dallas turned to me. “Don’t have a cow, alright, but I’ve been hanging around the Dairy Queen making sure no one messes with you.”

   I frowned. “But, how have I not noticed you?”

   “I’m real good at hiding, Y/N.”

   His cockiness returned but it didn’t mask how sweet his actions had been. Ever since he learned that I worked at Dairy Queen, he made sure I got home safely? Maybe Dallas Winston wasn’t so bad after all.

   Before I could really think about it, I leaned forward and pecked Dallas’ cheek. “Y/B/F/N closes tomorrow. Pick me up at eight.”

   Dallas face broke into a giddy grin that I never saw before. “See you then, sweet cheeks.”

   I rolled my eyes, hoping he noticed that over the blush burning on my cheeks. My parents were going to be livid once they found out about us, but what was life without a few risks? 

[lupisrising]

responding to those dragon shares

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