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American As Pie-short story-

I awake to my radio alarm playing ‘Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly,but I turn of the radio before the song ends. I quickly shower and get dressed, late for my paper route. I hopped on my red hand-me-down bike and rode to the Whiteridge Press Building to get my papers as soon as I got them, the February Upstate New York wind chilled me to my bone. I looked down to read the headlines and one caught my eye “Three Rock’N’Roll Singers Plus Pilot Die in Tragic Plane Accident” I kept reading “Holly,22, Richardson,28, Valens,17, and Peterson,21. All died in the wee morning hours of February 3rd 1959 due to inclement weather conditions, they crashed in a field in Iowa roughly 30 minutes after take off.” I just froze, it was always my dream to play the guitar like Ritchie or sing like Buddy, but I didn’t have time to mourn now because if I didn’t hurry I’d be late for school too. I quickly got back in my bike with every paper I threw, I reread the headline to ensure I read it right

As I kept throwing the papers I was thinking of Buddy’s wife, The Big Bopper’s wife, and Ritchie’s girlfriend, I thought about how Ritchie was only six years older than me.

After my paper route, I went to class, but I didn’t focus at all, I just wanted to get home and play my old Rickenbacker from when my dad was a kid. And I did just that, I went home and played my guitar every night, destined to become the next great like Buddy, Ritchie, Elvis. Over time my sandy hair grew longer, I got thicker-brimmed glasses, I lost the baby fat, and I’ve gotten good at guitar and new idols: The Beatles, The Doors, Bob Dylan, and The Beach Boys. I’ve met this girl Jane. She’s in my English class and is smart as a whip. I start walking her to class.

“Jane,right?” I asked, knowing the answer all ready but just wanting to start a conversation.

“Yes and you’re Russell, right?” She asks with a smile.

“Yep, that’s me. You should go to the Levee with me and some friends tonight.”

“I’ll see,” she said

“Ok,” I say dropping her at her class.

“Bye, Jane,” I say

“Bye, Russ, see you later” She smiles

I have to run to get to my class on time. All class, I was writing lyrics and daydreaming about her. After school, I pick up my paycheck and call Jane from a pay phone.

“Hey, Jane” I speak into the phone

“Hey, Russ” She speaks happily.

“What did your parents say?” I ask

“I can” She replies

“Okay,I’ll be over in 20 minutes” I say

“Okay, I’ll see you soon then” She replies

“Bye” I say before hanging up

“Bye” she replies

I get in my truck and turn it on, then turn on my radio, and Dion and The Belmonts are playing on in my ‘60 Chevy C10. I drive to her house just listening to the radio and singing along.

When I get to her house, I knock on her door.

“Hello, sir, I’m Russell and I would like to take your daughter out tonight to the Levee with some of my friends and their girlfriends, but before we meet them, we will probably go to get a hamburger somewhere, sir,” I say nervously to her dad who answers the door.

“Do you plan for there to be more of these, young man?” the 6’5 intimidating man asks.

“Yes sir,” I say

I see her come down the stairs and say “Dad, stop scaring him.” She looks gorgeous in jeans and a button-up blouse, her caramel-colored hair wrapped up in a bandana.

“Wow,” is the only thing I can mutter. I lead her to my truck and open the door for her. Then I get in the truck and ask her what she wants for food.

“Ummm, how about that local hamburger place downtown?” She asked

“I pay and you get whatever you want, I got paid today,” I say “I must say you look stunning tonight, not that you don't usually but even more so tonight.

I drive to James’ Hamburger Shack. Everyone knows the story behind it since we are in a small town. The story is that James was fourteen years old when the US got involved in World War Two. He was a generally troublesome kid, but not in the eyes of the law just like a bully. One day, his dad just snapped and enlisted him with a false birthday. The Marines knew, but they needed soldiers, so they didn’t report it.

We get to the hamburger place and get our food.

“Okay, so,” I break the comfortable silence “My friends with their girlfriends are going to meet us at the football field, and then they will ride in the bed of the truck to the Levee. Okay?”

“Okay,” she replies contently

We finish eating and go to my truck. As we drive to the football field, I’m joking and laughing. We get to the football field and my friends and their partners get in the bed of the truck.

“Want to roll down the windows?” I ask Jane.

“Sure,” She replies rolling down the windows

“Tell me if you get cold,” I say while rolling down my window “You are as pretty as American Pie.”

When we get to the Levee, it’s dry. Us guys toss and catch a football in the ‘dry in some spots and muddy in others Levee’ while our girlfriends gossip. After a while, I go to Jane and ask if she's ok.

“I’m fine, but you are super muddy and your mom is gonna kill you” she laughs

“Oh, so that's how it is,” I say trying to wipe mud on her.

She starts running and I start chasing her, we both giggle. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Johnnie’s girlfriend, Carol, taking a Polaroid of me and Jane chasing each other. After about four hours of hanging out, I take everyone back to the football field and they get out, so it's only me and Jane in the truck once again.

“Miss American Pie, did you have fun?” I ask smiling while she's cuddled up to me as I drive.

She just nods not having the energy to speak.

“I’m glad,” I say

“You don’t have to say yes tonight, but...” I interrupt myself “Would you like to be my girlfriend?”

She stays silent.

“It’s okay, take your time,” I say softly reassuringly.

When get to her house and as I walk her to her door she said “Yes, Russ, I’ll be your girlfriend”

“Okay,” I say excitedly, “Have a good night and sleep well, bye-bye Miss American Pie.”

“Good night, Russ, I had fun” She replied.

I go home and write some lyrics.

“Did you write the book of love/And do you have faith in God above/If the Bible tells you so?/Now do you believe in rock and roll?/Can music save your mortal soul?/And can you teach me how to dance real slow?”

Around six months later, I was going to surprise her with a locket after she had to tutor this jock in the gym one day. I sit outside the gym and watch them dance with their shoes kicked off not to scuff the wooden floor. When she comes out and sees me, she tries to act like nothing is happening.

“I saw you dancing with him,” I say trying not to act hurt.

“What? We were just studying, we weren’t dancing,” She said avoiding eye contact.

“He’s the reason you haven’t been hanging out with me recently, hm?” I say starting to lose my cool, “Just tell the truth.”

“I一 N一 Yes” She tries to lie but the words won’t come out.

“Okay,” I say before handing her the locket, “I was going to ask you to the Valentine’s sockhop, but never mind.”

I get in my truck blast whatever rock station was on and just drive until I reach the iced-over levee. I toss rocks into the ice, breaking it like my heart, shattering it into one million and one tiny fragments. I threw the pink carnations, I was going to give her into the cold icy water. Then I went home and got out the guitar Jane gave me for Christmas and questioned whether I should keep it or give it back to her, It’s a cherry red Gibson Les Paul Solid Guitar Standard 1962 model and tone like heaven. I sit down on my cold hard floor and start writing

“I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck/With a pink carnation and a pickup truck/But I knew I was out of luck/The day the music died”

Eight years later, I was drafted into the Vietnam War on Christmas of 1969, my mom cried, and my current girlfriend, Betty, cried.

I hug Betty and whisper “It’ll all be okay, I promise. I don’t have to leave until the thirtieth of this month, so until then let’s just relax and play the guitar you got me. Okay?”

She just nods and we go to my room and set up my guitar. Betty watches me play my guitar for a while before I get out my old Rickenbacker that was now beaten up from all the use and abuse it endured from me, so I can teach Betty to play.

I look at her with so much love in my eyes, “When I get back I will marry you, I promise, we will grow old together.” I whisper.

She just looked at me and said “Okay,”

“When do you want to go to your parents for Christmas with them?” I ask

“Whenever you want,” she replies while fiddling with the guitar.

“Okay,” I say “I’m going to start getting on better clothes than what I wore around my family.” I go to put on a button shirt and some nice jeans with a newer Converse.

“Okay, I’m ready if you are,” I say helping her up from the ground.

“Okay,” she says as she pulls up on my arm. I help her in my truck, and then I go to start it. The truck whines for a moment before it starts.

“Come on, baby,” I mutter to the truck as it struggles to start.

“I need to start saving for a new truck, what do you think of a Bronco?” I ask Betty.

“If that’s what you want, I’ll be happy with it” She replies holding my hand when I’m not having to shift gears.

When we get to her house, I slam the car in park.

“Ready, Pretty girl?” I ask. She just nods and goes to get out of the truck.

The week flies by and the next thing everyone knows, I’m at the training getting ready to be shipped off to U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand.

A few months later, I write a letter to her.

“My Dear Betty,

I miss you and I wish I was here to see your college graduating. I hate it here, all of the death and violence. Nothing is like it was, they made me cut my hair. Why, some of these kids here can’t even drink, but they can nearly die for a country that butted their nose in a war that wasn’t their business. The only way I’m staying sane is you and thinking about you. I love and miss you. I wish I had time to write more, but they are keeping me busy. Remember, I love you.

Sincerely, Your Love,

Russ”

My service was up at the end of June of 1970. I walked into the airport after landing to protest the war. I get into my now ten-year-old, which barely starts, it's starting to rust and spit and sputter even more than ever, but I guess what happens when you leave a truck that was ridden hard and put up wet to sit for one year. When the truck finally starts, I take the truck to the Ford dealership to buy a new Bronco two-tone red and white with a trade-in and my Army money. After I buy the Bronco, I go to Betty’s to see her. I knock on her door with pink carnations in my hand.

She opens the door jumps in my arms and screams “Russ, you’re home, I missed you!”

I buckle a little from the onset of weight which hits quickly, I whisper “I missed you too. I’m home. I’m safe, I promise. You are even more gorgeous than I remember.” I rub her back.

“I bought a new truck, you know the Bronco I was talking about, I bought,” I say

After a few moments, we get in the new truck and go ride around the small town just singing along to the radio and talking.

“Do you want to go see if the Levee has water?” I ask briefly taking my eyes off the road to look at her.

“We can,” she replies.

“Want to roll the windows down?” I ask

“Okay, we can,” She said rolling down her window, her perfect coils of auburn hair blowing with the gusts winds with her aquamarine eyes and perfect, wide, white smile glimming with joy.

I roll my window down and just keep singing and periodically looking over at her. We get to the Levee and I go check and I yell back “It’s dry, what do you want to do instead?”

“Do you just want to go to my house and we can just hang out?” She replies

“We can,” I say getting back in the truck.

I drive us back to her place and when we get there, I just start writing while talking to her and strumming my acoustic guitar and writing lyrics in different orders some one hundred different times.

“And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone/But that's not how it used to be”

I turn the radio and barely ever hear Elvis, I hear Bob Dylan more, I ask Betty, “Did Dylan overtake Elvis while I was in ‘Nam?”

She nods “ Yes, he did.” That inspires me to write the next lyric.

“When the jester sang for the king and queen/In a coat he borrowed from James Dean/And a voice that came from you and me”

I turn on the news, It’s filled with Pro-Vietnam or Anti-Vietnam propaganda depending on which of the channels you are on.

“It’s like a jury with no verdict deciding whether this is fair or not” I quietly say to Betty

“I know, I don’t think it is,” she said quietly.

I write down these lines.

“The courtroom was adjourned/No verdict was returned”

“Do you want to take a day trip down to New York City tomorrow?” I ask

“I would love to, Love.” She replies

Around eighty-thirty post meridiem, I say goodnight to her and go to my parents' house.

“Okay, Love, I’m going back to my parents now, I’ll pick you up at eight ante meridiem. Goodnight darling. I love you.” I say kissing her on the cheek and getting up off the couch.

The next morning, I put a New York City tee-shirt tucked into some jeans with a belt with the jeans cuffed and brand new black Chuck Taylor’s before grabbing my wallet, keys, and a drink for the ride. When I get to her house, I knock on the door and she instantly answers.

We drive the two-and-a-half hours to New York City, laughing and smiling with Betty periodically taking pictures of me and the scenery. When we get there she immediately takes multiple pictures of the skyline with the World Trade Center Towers being built and The Empire State Building emerging from the fog whimsically.

¨Look how beautiful, it’s almost as beautiful as you” I whisper into her hair.

She blushes and hugs me, “Stop, you are making me blush, Russell.”

“Mmm, usually I would say yes ma’am but I like making you blush.” I say quietly, “What do you say to a walk through Central Park, M’lady?”

We walk through New York to Central Park, when I see the opportunity to recreate the cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”

“Betty, will you please recreate this album cover with me?” I ask almost begging.

She does, and then we contine walking towards the park; When we get to the park, I see a quartet practicing, couples walking happily, and people sitting on benches reading books of different varieties. Then I see him, My idol since I was 16, John Lennon reading a book on Marxism. I look over at Betty to see if she notices him too.

She does and she says “Why don’t you go talk to him?”

“No, He looks peaceful and I bet he is tired of people coming up to him, I mean The Beatles just ended like last year, you know, so I’m not going to bother him,” I say calmly.

“Okay, love.” She says as we keep walking through the peaceful meadow, which is like a slice of heaven in the hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps. We hold hands not possessively but in a peaceful manner that shows we are comfortable and we want to be close to each other while we walk. We get pictures in Central Park, by the Empire State Building, The Dakota Building, and the Statue of Liberty before we start the driving back exhausted, but content.

“Did you have a good day?” I ask her who’s lying across the bench seat with her head in my lap. She just nods and closes her eyes at peace in my lap while I drive. While she sleeps in my lap, I drive quietly humming along to the music, and sporadically look down to check on her.

When we get around five minutes from Whiteridge, I wake up Betty.

“Hey love, we are around five minutes from home,” I say to her.

“Mmmm, okay, what time is it?” She asks as she tries to regain her bearings after sleeping for two hours.

“Uhhhh,” I say looking at the clock, “About 10:30.”

“Okay,” she said sitting up in her seat.

When we get to her house, I walk her to her door and say “Goodnight my love, I love you so much. Sleep well.”

When I get to my house, I go to write lyrics

“And while Lennin read a book on Marx/The quartet practiced in the park/And we sang dirges in the dark”

I think of a time I haven’t in around eleven years, the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P Richardson died in the infamous plane crash that fateful February morning, and how now I’m older than Ritchie will ever be and that I’m one month short of the age Buddy was when he died. I write the lyric “The Day the Music Died.”

Over time I just start writing more progressive lyrics, I start writing lyrics about the Cold War and what’s going on in the world. I think back to before I got drafted and I remember the scene the Charles Manson’s murders caused because he blamed The Beatles' song “Helter Skelter” he said the song told him to do it. I write down “Helter skelter in a summer swelter” before turning on the news. As I flip through the news channels, one that catches my eye; I hear American Pinaist and Composer Earl Grant was killed in a car crash yesterday in Lordsburg, New Mexico along in his car was his younger cousin, Roosevelt Woods III. Grant was thirty-nine and Woods was seventeen. I listen to that story flipping to the next channel where they are still talking about the Cold War like they have been for the last twenty-three years at this point. I kind of wish someone would fire already, I don’t remember a time without the news talking about it. I write “The birds flew off with a fallout shelter/Eight miles high and falling fast”. After that lyric, I decide to go to Betty’s house and just hang out with her.

After a good while of just sitting on her couch and watching television, she asks “Do you want to go to the high school football game they are having alumni night tonight?”

“I mean if you do we can, I’m not dressed very nice, but okay.” I say waiting for her response.

“I do.” She replies.

“Wait,” I pull a box out of my pocket “This isn’t as romantic as I hoped or dreamed it would be, but this is as good of a time as ever, I guess.”

She just stares at me dumbfoundedly

I get on one knee in front of her “Nancy Betty Rodgers, Would you do me the honor and make me the happiest man in the world…”

She starts to cry tears of joy

“And marry me?” I contine

“Yes, Yes one million times yes” she holds her hand out for me to slip the ring on her and I do. We both just smile like little kids on Christmas morning opening their gifts from Santa because we are going to be bride and groom.

We go to the game and within the first quarter, Our team the Whiteridge Patriots tries for around six forward passes but our offense couldn’t catch, then I notice why the star player was on the sideline in a cast. I remember hearing about this, the dude, I think his name is Lucas, but his nickname is Shaggy because of his hair, but I digress, he was messing around with some of his friends on a minibike and he flipped in and broke his arm.

Before we knew it, it was halftime and the marching band, The Marching Sargents, took the field, We all got up to dance along to their music, but it was like a time warp we didn’t have the chance to because the team started on the field. The band refused to yield, causing instruments to be broken and people to fall like a car wreck on the field.

On the way home from the game, Betty and I sit in complete comfortable silence, and during the silence, I ponder who I would’ve become if I wasn’t a paper boy and if I hadn’t seen the headline about Buddy’s, Ritchie’s, and JP’s death at the age of eleven at six-thirty in the morning. Would I’ve had my heart broken by Jane, fallen in love with Betty or even been drafted into Vietnam. Would I have learned to play guitar and gotten serious about it or would’ve turned out like every single other guy in this town and worked at the steel mill like my daddy and his before him? I began to realize that if I hadn’t read the paper that day, I would’ve read the paper another day or another and began to realize how cruel the world is. Just that day, that paper, was how I woke up to the real world and started to mature as a person mentally and emotionally. That was my wake-up call and mine was different from Betty’s, Jane’s, Johnie's, My dad’s, my mom’s, or my brother’s.

When I got home, I wrote the lyrics “Do you recall what was revealed/The day the music died?”

A little under a year later, all our friends and family gathered in one place at my and Betty’s wedding. I stand there at the altar as she and her dad walk down the aisle. I begin to cry seeing my bride looking stunning in her white gown, her auburn coils glimmering in the sunlight. The only thing I can even mouth is woah from my mouth hanging open.

As the wedding moves on, the more in love, I fall staring into her wide aquamarine eyes. When the time of the vows comes I say mine first, “Betty, I fell in love with you the first time I laid my eyes on you and have kept falling ever since. Since I was eighteen and you were seventeen to the time we are one hundred and ninety-nine, I will love you until my dying breath, I swear. I will be the best husband and potential father I can possibly be. You could’ve had anyone you wanted in the world with your sweet personality, blinding smile, shining eyes, and heart-stoppingly good looks, but you chose me, a kid with possibly no future, still running the same paper route since he was ten, guitarist, hopeless romantic, with no athleticism, and you stuck by me throughout my grandparents dying, getting drafted for Vietnam and going away for over a year, you stayed, you loved me. And I don’t think I could ever repay, or show you enough attention to even come close to making it up to you, but I’m going to try. I’ll be here through sickness and health, good times and bad, prosperity and poverty. I’ll be here for you. Always and Forever, I love you, I’m here for you, Always and forever. Now and then. Yesterday and tomorrow.”

Her vows aren’t as wordy as mine but you can tell are just as heartfelt.

After the honeymoon, I start writing more lyrics, “A generation lost in space/With no time left to start again/So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick/Jack Flash sat on a candlestick/'Cause fire is the devil's only friend”

I start going to New York City three times a week, trying to get my music heard. I keep growing my hair and swap my thick Buddy Holly-type glasses for thinner metal frames, I kind of look like an off-brand John Lennon.

While in New York, I go to Janis Joplin's memorial garden. When I finally got my music heard, It was almost like I was Robert Johnson, and sold my soul to the devil at the crossroads. My music became popular it felt almost overnight.

And that’s the story of my most famous song American Pie. Betty and I lasted. I’m now sixty-four and she’s sixty-three years old, we have three boys and a girl, Jackson, thirty-six, Joshua, thirty-four, Jeremy, thirty-two, and Julia, thirty. Currently, we have grandkids with 2 on the way, Lennon and Presley, granddaughters from Jackson, Dylan and Marley, A grandson and a granddaughter on the way from Josh, and Jeremy and His girlfriend have a son on his way. I’m still creating music. Julia is a doctor, Jeremy is an engineer for NASA, Joshua is a lawyer, and Jackson is perusing music like I did. I’ve lived through the deaths of my favorite musicians and I love that people especially teenagers still listen to people like The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dylan, Presley, Hendrix, or Cobain. I wish after I pass, I still get listened to and loved.

Ten years later, I passed away after a long-term battle with Cancer which I have been hiding since before that interview and is the reason I agreed to be interviewed in the first place. I passed surrounded by the people I loved the most, My dear wife, My four darling children, and their partners. When I died, I didn’t see the Father, son, or the holy ghost, I saw Buddy, Ritchie, and JP.

People call my death the new day the music died. I live through every time my song is even whistled, I live every time I am: heard, talked about, sung, remembered, or hummed. Just because I am not here physically doesn’t mean I am not here spiritually.

“And they were singing bye, bye, Miss American Pie/Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry/And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey 'n rye/Singin' this'll be the day that I die/This'll be the day that I die/They were singing bye, bye, Miss American Pie/Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry/Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey 'n rye/And singin' this'll be the day that I die”

#short story

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naturesfirstgreenisgold · 7 months

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Childhood lovers with Jake ‘H_ngm_n’ Seresin

All the Pretty Girls- Kenny Chesney

American Kids- Kenny Chesney

Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not- Thompson Square

Austin- Blake Shelton

Beautiful Crazy- Luke Combs

Buy Dirt- Jordan Davis, Luke Bryan

Carrying Your Love With Me- George Strait

Chicken Fried- Zac Brown Band

Cover Me Up- Morgan Wallen

Cowboy Take Me Away- The Chicks

Crash My Party- Luke Bryan

Craving You- Thomas Rhett, Maren Morris

Diamond In My Pocket-Cody Johnson

Die A Happy Man-Thomas Rhett

Dirt On My Boots-Jon Pardi

Dirt Road Anthem-Jason Aldean

Do l- Luke Bryan

Drunk On You-Luke Bryan

Even Though I'm Leaving-Luke Combs

Fast Car- Luke Combs

Feathered Indians- Tyler Childers

Fire Away- Chris Stapleton

Footloose- Kenny Loggins

Forever & Ever Amen- Randy Travis

Galveston- Glen Campbell

God Gave Me You- Blake Shelton

Greatest Love Story- LANCO

Hard To Love- Lee Brice

Heading South- Zach Bryan

Head Carolina, Tails California- Jo Dee Messina

Heartache On The Dance Floor- Jon Parti

Heart Like A Truck- Lainey Wilson

He Could Be The One- Hannah Montana

Hold My Hand- Lady Gaga

Home- Blake Shelton

Hometown Girl-Josh Turner

Honey Bee- Blake Shelton

Hotel California- The Eagles

I Ain’t Worried- OneRepublic

I Don’t Dance- CHAD, Ryan, Disney

I Don’t Dance- Lee Brice

I Don’t Want This Night To End- Luke Bryan

I Drive Your Truck- Lee Brice

If I Didn’t Love You- Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood

If I Was Your Man- Blake Shelton

I Like The Sound Of That- Rascal Flatts

I’ll Name the Dogs- Blake Shelton

I’m Comin’ Over- Chris Young

I’m In A Hurry (And I Don’t Know Why)- Alabama

I Wish Grandpas Never Died- Riley Green

The Kind of Love We Make- Luke Combs

Last Night- Morgan Wallen

Life in the Fast Lane-Eagles

Life’s a Dance- John Micheal Montgomery

Like I Love Country Music- Kane Brown

Love Like Crazy-Lee Brice

Lovin' On You Luke Combs

Meet In the Middle-Diamond Rio

Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right-Billy Currington

My Maria-Brooks & Dunn

New Kid In Town - Eagles

Night Shift- Jon Pardi

Nobody But You- Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani

ONE BEER- HARDY, Lauren Alaina, Devin Dawson

One Of Them Girls- Lee Brice

One of These Nights -Eagles

One Thing At A Time- Morgan Wallen

Playing with the Boys -Kenny Loggins

Play It Again- Luke Bryan

Renegade- Styx

Rhinestone Cowboy-Glen Campbell

Rumor- Lee Brice

Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)-Big & Rich

She Got the Best of Me- Luke Combs

She Had Me At Heads Carolina-Cole Swindell

She's Country- Jason Aldean

Sixteen-Thomas Rhett

Slow Dance In A Parking Lot-Jordan Davis

Small Town Boy- Dustin Lynch

Sold- John Michael Montgomery

Somebody's Problem-Morgan Wallen

Something in the Orange-Zach Bryan

Song of the South-Alabama

Southern Nights- Glen Campbell

Stay-Florida Georgia Line

Strawberry Wine-Deana Carter

Sure Be Cool If- Blake Shelton

Take It Easy -Eagles

Take My Breath Away -Berlin

There Was This Girl-Riley Green

Things a Man Oughta Know-Lainey Wilson

Thought You Should Know-Morgan Wallen

Til You Can't- Cody Johnson

Two Dozen Roses- Shenandoah

Unforgettable- Thomas Rhett

Wagon Wheel- Darius Rucker

The Way I Talk -Morgan Wallen

What Ifs- Kane Brown, Lauren Alaina

Why Don't We Just Dance-Josh Turner

Write This Down-George Strait

You Should Be Here-Cole Swindell

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naturesfirstgreenisgold · 8 months

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Camila and Billy Dunne Type Love

“…Give me all the platinum albums you want, all the drugs and all the Cuervo and all the fun times and successes and the fame and all of it, I would hand them all back to you, just as the cost of my memories with her….”

505- Artic Monkeys

Afterglow- Taylor Swift

All of Me- John Legend

The Archer- Taylor Swift

Aurora- Daisy Jones & The Six

betty-Taylor Swift

Blackbird- Remastered 2009- The Beatles

By Myself- Daisy Jones

Can’t Help Falling In Love- Elvis Presley

The Chain- 2004 Remastered- Fleetwood Mac

The Chain- Demo - Fleetwood Mac

The Chain- Live 1977 - Fleetwood Mac

champagne problems- Taylor Swift

Changes- Cam

Cornelia Street- Taylor Swift

cowboy like me- Taylor Swift

Daylight- Taylor Swift

Death By A Thousand Cuts- Taylor Swift

Do You Wanna Know?- Arctic Monkeys

Don’t- Ed Sheeran

Don’t Be Cruel- Elvis Presley

Don’t Stop- 2004 Remastered- Fleetwood Mac

Don’t Stop- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

Don’t You (Forget About Me)- Simple Minds

Dream- 2004 Remastered- Fleetwood Mac

Dream- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

Dreams- Take 2- Fleetwood Mac

False God- Taylor Swift

Flip The Switch- The Dunne Brothers

Forever- Remastered 2009- The Beach Boys

Gold Dust Woman- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Gold Dust Woman-Early Take; 2013 remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Gold Dust Woman- Live 1977; 2013 remaster- Fleetwood Mac

gold rush-Taylor Swift

Good Luck Charm- Elvis Presley

Go Your Own Way- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Go Your Own Way -Early Take- Fleetwood Mac

Go Your Own Way - Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

Go Your Own Way- Live at Warner Brothers Studio In Burbank, CA 5/23/97- Fleetwood Mac

Graceland Too- Phoebe Bridgers

Have Love Will Travel- The Dunne Brothers

Heartbreak Hotel- Elvis Presley

Heaven- Bryan Adams

Hey! Baby- Bruce Channel

Hey Stephen (Taylor’s Version)-Taylor Swift

I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor- Arctic Monkeys

I Can See You(Taylors Version) (From The Vault)- Taylor Swift

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction- Mono Version- The Rolling Stones

I Don’t Want to Know- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

I Don’t Want to Know- Early Take- Fleetwood Mac

I Forgot That You Existed- Taylor Swift

invisible string- Taylor Swift

Iris- The Goo Goo Dolls

I Think He Knows- Taylor Swift

It’s Been a Long, Long Time (with Harry James & His Orchestra)- Harry James, Kitty Kallen

It’s Nice To Have A Friend- Taylor Swift

I Wanna Be Yours- Arctic Monkeys

I Want To Hold Your Hand- Remastered 2009- The Beatles

Keep Me There- Instrumental; 2013 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Keep Me There- With Vocal; 2013 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Kill You To Try- Daisy Jones & The Six

the lakes-bonus track- Taylor Swift

Leather and Lace (With Don Henley)- Stevie Nicks

Let It Be- Remastered 2009- The Beatles

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear- Elvis Presley

Let Me Down Easy- Demi Lovato, Daisy Jones & The Six

London Boy- Taylor Swift

Long Live- Taylor Swift

Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)- Daisy Jones & The Six

Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)- Maren Morris, Marcus Mumford, Daisy Jones & The Six

Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)-Single Version- Daisy Jones & The Six

Look Me In The Eye (feat. Daisy Jones)- Live from Diamond Head Festival- 1975- Daisy Jones, The Dunne Brothers

Love Me Tender- Elvis Presley

Lover- Taylor Swift

Lover- Recorded at Air Studios, London- Niall Horan, FLETCHER

Love Story- Taylor Swift

Love Story (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

The Man- Taylor Swift

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince- Taylor Swift

Monday Morning- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

More Than A Feeling- Boston

More Than Words- Extreme

Mr. Loverman- Ricky Montgomery

Mustang Sally- Wilson Pickett

Never Going Back Again- remaster 2004- Fleetwood Mac

Never Going Back Again- Acoustic Duet- Fleetwood Mac

Never Going Back Again- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

New Year’s Day- Taylor Swift

Nights in White Satin- The Moody Blues

November Rain- Guns N’ Roses

Oh Daddy- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Oh Daddy-Early Take- Fleetwood Mac

Paper Rings- Taylor Swift

Rhiannon- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

The River (feat. Simone Jackson)- Live from Soldier Field-1977- Daisy Jones & The Six, Simone Jackson

Second Hand News- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Second Hand News- Early Take- Fleetwood Mac

She’s Always a Woman- Billy Joel

Silver Springs- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

Slow Dancing- Aly & AJ

Songbird-Remaster 2004- Fleetwood Mac

Songbird-Demo - Fleetwood Mac

Songbird- Instrumental, Take 10- 4- Fleetwood Mac

Songbird-Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

Star Treatment- Arctic Monkeys

Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond

Sweet Child O’ Mine- Guns N’ Roses

Sweet Emotion- Aerosmith

Sweet Nothing- Taylor Swift

Time After Time- Cyndi Lauper

Timeless (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)- Taylor Swift

Tiny Dancer- Elton John

What A Time (feat. Niall Horan)- Julia Michaels, Niall Horan

When Emma Falls in Love (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)- Taylor Swift

Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? - Arctic Monkeys

Wildflowers- Tom Petty

Wildflowers- Recorded at Spotify Studios NYC- Miley Cyrus

World Turning- Live 1977- Fleetwood Mac

You Make Loving Fun- 2004 Remaster- Fleetwood Mac

You Need To Calm Down- Taylor Swift

You’re My Home- Billy Joel

You’re So Vain- Carly Simon

(You’re The) Devil in Disguise- Elvis Presley

Playlist Master list

#daisy jones and the six #camila dunne #billy dunne #the dunne brothers #daisy jones and the 6 #daisy jones show #taylor jenkins reid #playlist #spotify

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DATING FINN HUDSON

Songs in Alphabetical Order

Our Quarterback- “Wait, this is the moment in those romantic comedies where I kiss the you”- Finn Hudson (Glee)

525,600 Minutes- Christian

All I Want- Kodaline

All I Want- From “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”- Olivia Rodrigo, Disney

All of Me- John Legend

Another Man’s Jeans- Ashe

Bad Omens- Live from The Royal Albert Hall- 5 Seconds of Summer

Be Alright- Dean Lewis

Before You Go- Lewis Capaldi

Best Years- 5 Seconds of Summer

Bigger Than Me- Louis Tomlinson

Black and White- Niall Horan

Can’t Help Falling in Love- Elvis Presley

cardigan- Taylor Swift

Carolina- Harry Styles

Castle on the Hill- Ed Sheeran

Chicago- Louis Tomlinson

Cough Syrup (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Count on Me- Bruno Mars

Dandelions- Ruth B.

Dandelions- slowed + reverb- Ruth B., sped up+ slower, slater

Daydreaming- Harry Styles

Diana- One Direction

Electric Touch (feat. Fall Out Boy) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)- Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy

Everybody Wants Rule The World- Tears for Fears

Everybody Wants Rule The World (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Fifteen (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

Fireproof- One Direction

Flicker- Niall Horan

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)- Frank Sinatra, Count Basie

fOoL fOr YoU- ZAYN

Forever & Always (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

Getaway Car- Taylor Swift

Ghost Of You- 5 Seconds of Summer

Ghost Of You- Live- 5 Seconds of Summer

Girl Almighty- One Direction

Good Years- ZAYN

Greased Lightin’- From “Grease”- John Travolta, Jeff Conaway

Green light- 5 Seconds of Summer

Medicine- Harry Styles

Heart-Shaped Box- Ashton Irwin

Heavenly Kind Of State Of Mind- Lewis Capaldi

Hey Angel- One Direction

Hey There Delilah- Plain White T’s

High In California- Louis Tomlinson

Hold On- Chord Overstreet

Holiday/ Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day

Hopelessly Devoted To You- Olivia Newton-John

Hopelessly Devoted To You (Glee Cast)- Glee Cast

If I Could Fly- One Direction

If You Leave Me- Niall Horan

I Love You- Alex & Sierra

Islands In The Streams- Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

It’s Been a Long, Long Time (with Harry James & His Orchestra)- Kitty Kallen, Harry James

iT’s YoU- ZAYN

I Want- One Direction

I Will Always Love You- Dolly Parton

Jessie’s Girl (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Juke Box Hero (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Just the Way You Are- Bruno Mars

Keep Driving- Harry Styles

Kiss You- One Direction

Kiwi- Harry Styles

Let Me Down Slowly- Alec Benjamin

Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Levitating- Dua Lipa

Line Without a Hook- Ricky Montgomery

Live While We’re Young- One Direction

London Boy- Taylor Swift

Look After You- The Fray

Losing My Religion- Glee Cast

Love Shack (Glee Cast Version)- Glee Cast

Love Story (Taylor’s Version)

Meltdown- Acoustic- Niall Horns

Midnight Memories- One Direction

Mine (Glee Cast Version)-Glee Cast

Mine (Taylor Version) - Taylor Swift

Mr.Loverman- Ricky Montgomery

Must Be Love- Niall Horan

My Life Would Suck Without You- Cover of Kelly Clarkson- Glee Cast

Never Ending Song- Conan Gray

No Control- One Direction

Not Alone- Darren Criss

Not In The Same Way- 5 Seconds of Summer

On My Own- Niall Horan

Ophelia- The Lumineers

Our Song- Taylor Swift

Out Of My Limit- 5 Seconds of Summer

Paper Rings-Taylor Swift

Perfect- Ed Sheeran

Raise Your Glass (feat. Darren Criss)- Glee Cast, Darren Criss

Red Desert-5 Seconds of Summer

Rewrite The Star- Zac Efron, Zendaya

Rock Me- One Direction

Safety Pin-5 Seconds of Summer

San Francisco- 5 Seconds of Summer

Save My Life- Niall Horan

Say You Won’t Let Go- James Arthur

She’s Kinda Hot- Alternative Version- 5 Seconds of Summer

Soldier- Gavin DeGraw

Someone You Loved- Lewis Capaldi

Somewhere Only We Know (feat. Darren Criss)-Glee Cast, Darren Criss

Starving- Hailee Steinfeld, Grey, Zedd

Strawberry & Cigarettes- Troye Sivan

Sucker- Jonas Brothers

Summer Nights- From “Grease”- John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John

Superstition- Single Version- Stevie Wonder

Sweater Weather- The Neighbourhood

Sweet Creature- Harry Styles

Take Me To Church- Hozier

Take My Breath- Love Theme from “Top Gun”- Berlin

Take My Hand- 5 Seconds of Summer

Teenage Dream (feat. Darren Criss)-Glee Cast

Teenage Dream- Live- 5 Seconds of Summer

Thousand Years- Christina Perri

Till Forever Falls Apart- Ashe, FINNEAS

Treat People With Kindness- Harry Styles

Until I Found You- Stephen Sanchez

Up All Night- One Direction

Valentine- 5 Seconds of Summer

The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)- Taylor Swift

Water Fountain- Alec Benjamin

We Are Young- Glee Cast

When You Love Someone- James TW

Wildflower- 5 Seconds of Summer

Woman- Harry Styles

Worlds Smallest Violin- AJR

Yellow- Coldplay

You Being With Me (Taylor Version)- Taylor Swift

you broke me first- Tate McRae

You Don’t Go To Parties-5 Seconds of Summer

Young And Beautiful- Lana Del Rey

You’re The One That I Want- Remastered 2022- Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’- The Righteous Brothers

Playlist Masterlist

#glee #finn hudson #corey monteith #gleek #glee fandom #playlist #spotify #playlist making #glee cast #glee club #kurt hummel #carole hudson #burt hummel #rachel berry #quinn fabray #santana lopez

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

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If you're new to tumblr from reddit, we don't do down vote here.

We have a much more …elegant system in place, which I’m sure one of my mutuals would be willing to demonstrate here.

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The dagger squad headcanons (+ what it’s like being in it)

The daggers got to stay together after the events of TGM. When they aren’t on a top secret (like the public CANNOT know under any circumstance) mission, they all teach a top gun

Rooster, Bob, Phoenix, Payback, Fanboy, Maverick, and Hangman all got promoted. Maverick as the permanent commander of the Daggers.

Barbecues at Mav’s and Penny’s

Borrowing Mav’s P-51

Beating the new classes of Top Gun in training dog fights

Bets

Movie nights

Dogfight football

Gym days

Hard deck

Pranks

Fun

Singalongs

Gaming tournaments

#top gun fandom #bradley rooster bradshaw #headcanon #top gun phoenix #natasha phoenix trace x reader #mickey fanboy garcia #jake hangman seresin #javy coyote machado #robert bob floyd #top gun maverick #top gun headcanons

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PLAYLIST MASTERLIST

Last Updated- October 18, 2023

Top Gun

Carole and Goose

Natasha “Phoenix” Trace

Childhood lovers with Jake ‘H_ngm_n’ Seresin

9-1-1

Evan “Buck” Buckley

Judson “Judd” and Grace Ryder

Glee

Finn Hudson

Daisy Jones & The Six

Camila and Billy Dune Love

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When things get boring around the Bradshaw/Seresin Household (rarely ever) they pull out Jake karaoke machine from when he was a teen and sings the rest of the time until Bob or someone walks over and tells them to stop, but it doesn’t work. Eventually, The whole dagger squad ™️ is over and singing.

#sereshaw #jake seresin

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Judd and Grace Ryder playlist {9-1-1 Lone Star}

In order of artists

Take My Hand- 5 seconds of Summer

505- Arctic Monkeys

Till Forever Falls Apart- Ashe, FINNEAS

Stand by Me- Ben E. King

Take My Breath Away- Love Theme from “Top Gun”- Berlin

Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)- Big & Rich

Honey Bee- Blake Shelton

I’ll Walk- Billy Covington

Cowboy Casanova-Carrie Underwood

Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’- Charlie Pride

Hold On- Chord Overstreet

This Side of Paradise- Coyote Theory

Can I Call You Tonight?- Dayglow

Islands In the Stream- Dolly Parton, Kenny Rodgers

I Will Always Love You- Dolly Parton

Can’t Help Falling in Love- Elvis Presley

Love Me Tender- with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra- Elvis Presley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Let’s Fall in Love for the Night- FINNEAS

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)- Frank Sinatra, Count Basie

Love Me Tender- Frank Sinatra

Calling Baton Rouge- Garth’s Hits

Soldier- Gavin DeGraw

Write This Down- George Strait

Carrying Your Love With Me- George

Strait Check Yes Or No- George Strait

we fell in love in october- girl in red

Hey Good Lookin’- Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys

BOYFRIEND-HARDY

Love Of My Life- Harry Styles

I Want You Back- The Jackson 5

When You Love Someone- James TW

Lover, Lover- Jerrod Niemann

Hey Good Lookin- Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait

It Ain’t Me Babe- Joaquin Pheonix, Reece Witherspoon

Heaven Sent Me You- John Michael Montgomery

Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)- John Michael Montgomery

High School Heart- John Michael Montgomery

Cat’s In The Cradle- Johnny Cash

Ring Of Fire-1988 Version- Johnny Cash

I Walk The Line- Single Version- Johnny Cash, The Tennessee Two

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK- Joji

Somebody Like You- Keith Urban

American Kids- Kenny Chesney

Hold My Hand- Lady Gaga

Atta Girl- Lainey Wilson

A Woman Like You- Lee Brice

I Don’t Dance- Lee Brice

Drunk On You- Luke Bryan

Fast Car- Luke Combs

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough- Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell

As the World Caves In- Matt Maltese

Ophelia- Matt Schuster

Vienna- Matt Schuster

Tennessee Orange- Megan Moroney

Great Balls Of Fire- Live- Miles Teller

Me and My Husband- Mitski

Sweater Weather- The Neighbourhood

Heaven- Niall Horan

Fishin’ In The Dark- Live At The Red Deer Fine Arts Center, Canada/1991-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Dixieland Delight (Alabama Cover)- Old Crow Medicine Show

Story of My Life- One Direction

Mr. Loverman- Ricky Montgomery

Unchained Melody- The Righteous Brothers

See You Tonight- Scotty McCreery

You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

Everybody Wants To Rule the World- Tears For Fears

My Girl- The Temptations

Die A Happy Man- Thomas Rhett

Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not- Thompson Square

Always On My Mind- Willie Nelson

Something in the Orange- Zach Bryan

Oklahoma Smokeshow- Zack Bryan

#judd ryder #grace ryder #spotify #playlist #9 1 1 #9 1 1 ls #9 1 1 fandom #9 1 1 show #9 1 1 lone star

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If you’re reading this: this is your sign that your WIP is worth writing, is worth the effort, and that you are doing great. Keep going, take breaks, reflect. But do not lose sight of how far you’ve come on this project! You can do it!

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The Fate Of Sodapop

NOTES

Takes place 2 years after the outsiders

This based off the story that Rob Lowe asked SE Hinton what happened to Sodapop after the book and she replied He dies in Vietnam.

- [ ] Darry is 22

- [ ] Soda is 18

- [ ] Pony is 16

- [ ] Two bit is 20

- [ ] Steve is 19

Pony, now 16, knows how Dally and Johnny felt when they die, 16 years isn’t long enough. Most of his writing now consists of memories of Johnny and Dally and characters based off them. Darry sure is easier on him in the yelling at him. Pony saids the world is different now, the Socs and Greasers war is nearly over. 2 years ago, the fight got too far, 2 socs left the fight, Bob and Randy, and three greasers, Dally, Johnny, and Pony.

“Steve, ya hear the US joined the war in Vietnam” Soda ran in from outside the DX.

“Yeah, why are you asking are you thinking about joining?” Steve replied

“I mean I guess, I need to talk to Super Dope about it because Pony has been through so much between Momma, and Pops, Johnny, and Dally.” Soda said quietly. Tulsa has definitely been quieter since that night two falls ago. Pony’s nightmares are definitely worse than before.

As Soda gets home, he sees a familiar face on the steps along with a not so familiar baby. “Sandy?” Soda calls out.

Sandy snaps her head in Soda’s direction “Hey Soda…so umm well meet Sammy” she replies nervously.

From what Soda can tell the baby is about two years old and looks like how he did when he was that age, “Is he mine” Soda replied with a blank expression.

“I’m pretty sure” Sandy replied

“You don’t know who’s kid that is” Soda said shocked “can I hold him”

“Sure” she said giving him to him.

“Hey Buddy, I’ll be your dad if it’s on with your mom, my name is Sodapop Curtis” Soda saids to the baby.

Darry walks up holding his back, “Pepsi-Cola, who’s the kid?”

“Hey Darry, we need to talk.”Soda saids signaling Sandy to take Sam and leave.

“What is it, Sode?”

“Ok so, this is gonna be a lot. First off, I want to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Secondly, Sandy thinks that kid I was holding is mine and I did the timeframe in my head and the dates are close.” Soda saids slowly so Darry can catch all of it.

“The ‘nam thing, you need to talk to Pone about that, because he’s the one who’s lost his two best friends and his parents two years ago and the baby thing you can take paternal responsibility for it and never get a paternity test or get a paternity test and if the test says he’s yours you can raise him. ” Darry saids wisely.

“I’ll talk to Pony and I’ll just raise him I don’t care about blood because the gang is our family and they ain’t blood.” Soda saids walking in the house.

Soda knocks on the door to the room that he and Ponyboy shares, he walks in “Hey Pony, can we talk?” Soda asks

“Uh yeah sure. ” Pony saids putting his book down.

“So I don’t know if they talked to you in your history class today about the war in Vietnam.” Soda saids “How would you feel if I joined the war?”

“Soda, you do you just know that’s your life you’re putting on the line and I’ll miss you but if you really want to you should.” Pony replies picking his book back up.

Soda and Sandy meet up at the Dingo for dinner.

“I don’t care what Sam’s blood is, I will raise him, if you will allow me.” Soda starts “And I enlisted to go to ‘Nam I leave out in two days, will you wait on me? I would love to date you again Sandy. If you would date me?”

“I- Soda, you just told me you want to father my son, then you told me you are leaving for war in two day, and then you asked me to date you in that order” Sandy said “I’ll think about it.”

Two days later

Darry and Pony drive Soda to the airport to fly to whatever military base his reporting to.

Three months later

At this point, Soda has been gone for months and still no one has gotten a letter and has stopped hoping for a letter.

Six months later

Still no word from Soda and man is Tulsa really quiet now.

One year (march 30) later

Darry scans through the mail and one catches his eye. It reads “US ARMY ATTEN. DARREL CURTIS”

Darry quickly opens the letter and it reads “We regret to inform you that your brother Sodapop Patrick Curtis has been kill in action on March twenty-fifth, nineteen-seventy. His body is MIA, but we can confirm that he is dead.

Again I am sorry

Stg. Steven Grant”

Darry falls to his knees unable to move or speak. He feels deeply sorry for Soda’s son, Sandy, Steve, Two-bit and Pony.

Folklore saids, death and tragedies come in threes well then I guess, tragedies come in threes so the gang is free. “Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends”- William Shakespeare

#patrick swayze #darrel curtis #darry curtis #the outsiders #rob lowe #sodapop curtis #tommy howell #ponyboy michael curtis

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Dating Evan “Buck” Buckley Playlist

(In Duration Order (shortest to longest))

brutal -SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Happier Than Ever-Edit- Happier Than Ever (Edit)- Billie Eilish

favorite crime-SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

People Watching- Superache- Conan Gray

Chasing Shadows- Chasing Shadows- Alex Warren

How Do I Say Goodbye- How Do I Say Goodbye- Dean Lewis

1 step forward, 3 steps back- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Our Song- Therapy- Anne-Marie, Niall Horan

I miss you, I’m sorry- minor- Gracie Abrams

Wish You Were Sober- Kid Krow- Conan Gray

parents- the underrated youth- YUNGBLUD

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy- A Day At The Races (Deluxe) Queen

Fluorescent Adolescent- Favourite Worst Nightmare (Standard Version)- Arctic Monkeys

What A Time (feat. Niall Horan)- Inner Monologue Part 1- Julia Michaels, Niall Horan

Want You Back- Youngblood (Deluxe) 5 Seconds of Summer

All I Want- Love That Lasts Mix-All I Want (Love That Lasts Mix)- Olivia Rodrigo

Midnight Rain- Midnights- Taylor Swift

happier- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Until I Found You (with Em Beihold)- Em Beihold Version-Until I Found You (with Em Beihold)- Stephen Sanchez, Em Beihold

All I Want-From “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series-All I Want (From “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series)- Olivia Rodrigo, Disney

Until I Found You- Easy On My Eyes- Stephen Sanchez

die first- forever young- Nessa Barrett

Teenage Dream- Teenage Dream- Stephen Dawes

You Are Enough- Atlas:I- Sleeping At Last

Bored- Bored- Billie Eilish

Daddy Issues (Remix) feat. Syd-Daddy Issues (Remix) feat. Syd- The Neighbourhood, Syd

I Wanna Be Yours- AM- Arctic Monkeys

Somewhere Only We Know- Glee: The Music presents The Warblers- Glee Cast, Darren Criss

Heaven- Heaven- Niall Horan

see you later (ten years)- see you later (ten years)- Jenna Raine

New Angel- Heartbreak Weather- Niall Horan

Half a Heart- Midnight Memories(Deluxe)- One Direction

Love Of My Life- Harry’s House- Harry Styles

San Francisco- Heartbreak Weather- Niall Horan

You’re On Your Own, Kid- Midnights- Taylor Swift

this is me trying- folklore- Taylor Swift

Angels Like You- Plastic Heart- Miley Cyrus

Ghost Of You- Youngblood (Deluxe)-5 Seconds of Summer

Dancing With Your Ghost- Dancing With Your Ghost- Sasha Alex Sloan

Small Talk- Heartbreak Weather- Niall Horan

Right Now- Midnight Memories (Deluxe)- One Direction

Heather- Kid Krow- Conan Gray

Moral of the Story (feat. Niall Horan)- Bonus Track- Ashlyn- Ashe, Niall Horan

Falling Apart- Hold the Rhythm- Michael Schulte

Heartbreak Weather- Heartbreak Weather- Niall Horan

Right Now- Midnight Memories(Deluxe)- One Direction

Why Won’t You Love Me- Youngblood (Deluxe)- 5 Seconds of Summer

She Looks So Perfect- 5 Seconds of Summer -5 Seconds of Summer

Brother -Acoustic- Brother-Ep- Kodaline

Little Freak- Harry’s House- Harry Styles

Walking in the Wind- Made In The A.M. (Deluxe)- One Direction

Brother- Politics of Living- Kodaline

enough for you- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Youngblood-Youngblood (Deluxe)- 5 Seconds of Summer

Yours- Superache- Conan Gray

Lover Of Mine- CALM- 5 Seconds of Summer

C’mon C’mon- Live Version from The Motion Picture “One Direction:This Is Is”- One Direction

Train Wreck- Back from the Edge- James Arthur

Golden- Fine Line- Harry Styles

If the World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels)- If the World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels)- JP Saxe, Julia Michaels

hope ur ok- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Forever- Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent- Lewis Capaldi

Babylon- Youngblood (Deluxe)- 5 Seconds of Summer

Movies- Superache- Conan Gray

When You Love Someone- First Impressions- James TW

In The Stars- In The Stars- Benson Boone

deja vu- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Family Line- Superache- Conan Gray

Mr Loverman- Montgomery Ricky- Ricky Montgomery

Water Fountain- Narrated For You- Alec Benjamin

Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)- Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

Lookalike- Sunset Season- Conan Gray

Till Forever Falls Apart- Ashlyn- Ashe, FINNEAS

It’ll Be Ok- It’ll Be Ok- Shawn Mendes

Afterglow-Lover- Taylor Swift

Night Changes- FOUR(Deluxe) One Direction

Remember That Night?-Remember That Night?- Sara Keys

The One That Got Away- Teenage Dream- Katy Perry

Who Do You Love- World War Joy- The Chainsmokers, 5 Seconds of Summer

Fireflies- Ocean Eyes- Owl City

traitor- SOUR- Olivia Rodrigo

Atlantis- Tell Me It’s Real (Expanded Edition) -Seafret

If Only- Descendants (Original TV Movie Soundtrack)- Dove Cameron, Disney

If I Could Fly- Made In The A.M. (Deluxe)- One Direction

Mum- When Facing The Things We Turn Away From- Luke Hemmings

This Town-Flicker (Deluxe)- Niall Horan

Glimpse of Us- Glimpse of Us- Joji

Only Love Can Hurt Like This- A Perfect Contradiction- Paloma Faith

Dandelions- Safe Haven- Ruth B.

Don’t Blame Me- reputation- Taylor Swift

Amnesia- 5 Seconds of Summer- 5 Seconds of Summer

You & I- Midnight Memories (Deluxe) One Direction

Falling- Fine Line- Harry Styles

cardigan- folklore- Taylor Swift

Don’t Forget Where You Belong- Midnight Memories (Deluxe) One Direction

Set Me Free- Crisis/ Secret/ Set Me Free- Joshua Bassett

The Way I Loved You ( Taylor’s Version)- Fearless (Taylor’s Version) Taylor Swift

champagne problems- evermore- Taylor Swift

Astronomy- Superache- Conan Gray

right where you let me- evermore- Taylor Swift

Story Of My Life- Midnight Memories (Deluxe)- One Direction

Matilda- Harry’s House- Harry Styles

18- FOUR (Deluxe)- One Direction

Line Without a Hook- Montgomery Ricky- Ricky Montgomery

Still- Heartbreak Weather- Niall Horan

Rock Me-Live Version from The Motion Picture “One Direction:This Is Is”- One Direction

my tears ricochet-folklore- Taylor Swift

Daddy Issues- Wiped Out!- The Neighbourhood

august-folklore- Taylor Swift

How to Save a Life- How to Save a Life- The Fray

Dandelions- slowed+ reverb- Dandelions- slowed+ reverb- Ruth B., slater

TV- Guitar Songs- Billie Eilish

Fifteen- Taylor Swift- Fearless

Fix You- X&Y- Coldplay

Happier Than Ever- Happier Than Ever- Billie Eilish

If By Chance- Safe Haven- Ruth B.

Fine Line- Fine Line- Harry Styles

All Too Well ( 10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)(From The Vault)- Red (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift

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