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#I’m so obsessed with that Mariah cover
sail-not-drift · 8 months
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🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️
Thank yooou. Five more:
“Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” by Mariah Carey (live version)
“Somebody to Love” by Queen
“How Can I Keep From Singing” by Eva Cassidy
“Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield
“Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen
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babiebom · 4 months
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Ranking Nerdy Prudes Must Die songs
A/N: because I need something to post and I’ve been obsessed since the musical came out. Also merry Christmas and happy holidays!! Also PLEASE DONT HATE ME
Tw:some sexual mentions, cursing, lyrics might be wrong bc I’m going off the top of my head, mentions of murder etc
Wc: idk it’s headcanons so like 3 points for each song
Misc Masterlist
15)The Best of You
I just don’t listen to this as much as I listen to the other songs
Like it’s not bad
I just don’t really listen to it
It sounds like a high school musical song and the child in me loves it
14)If I Loved You
Idk y but the first time I watched this song made me uncomfy
Well not the whole song literally just the “don’t need lover boy need lover man” part even though Mariah KILLS it idk what it is about that part
But also their voices are immaculate
like Actually I love their voices so much
And the song itself is VERY good
Again I just don’t listen to it as often as the others
OH BABE ID LET YOU KNOW
PERIOD
I also really love the chaos that would be watching two people do this in a cafe
Like how they’re standing at the door like “you leave” “no you leave” actually funny.
13)Cool as I Think I Am(Reprise)
SADGE
I DONT LIKE SADGE
But also they again kill this Mariah and Joey are top tier
The whole “you’re not as cool as you think you are” “you’re as smart as I know you are”
To the “IF I LOVED YOU I WOULD SHOW IT”
IMMACULATE
Would be higher up if I listened to it more often but alas like the ones before this I just don’t listen to it enough.
12)Just For Once
Tbh this is only this high up because of the iconic parts that I listen to over and over
Like I think the only time I listened to the whole song was while watching the musical in its entirety
I literally only listen to VERY specific parts of this song
I’m gonna skip around some of the lyrics but y’all know the parts
The “I wasn’t upset about the attention I ensnared JUDGE ME”
“It fucking worked, I’m fucking here, he’s fucking her, I’m disappointed”
“Should I let the coals burn out? JUST FOR OOOOOOONCE” LAUREN LOPEZ IS A GODDESS PLS
“The other day the Johnson’s borrowed my tap shoes. I used to dance”
Like actually makes my heart clench
Like I’m 23 and this song makes me feel like it’s too late to do what I want because there’s all these things I used to do when I was younger and now I’m just….living but not really.
11)The Summoning
THE CHAOS
HELLO FWENDY-WENDS
Out OF THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND BACK
I LOVE THIS SONG
Stephanie yum yum
I love the lords in black (especially because they’re so colorful)
Also the beginning of this song is iconic
Literally their chanting and voices are so good.
Honestly if they remade this musical into a movie with all sorts of cgi I feel like this would be a VERY CHAOTIC PART
I love it
Also I think I just love when it’s a bunch of noise that allows me not to think
Which is what this song is when they’re singing the repetitive parts
And I know people hate the repetitive parts but I love them
Like so good
10)High School is Killing Me
Again don’t listen to this as much as I should
But I should mention that I listen to this at least once a day so we see how much I listen to the songs after this one
IM DEAD!!
I’m scared someone comes for ME I’m unprepared
Jon and Lauren sound so good here and I honestly think this was the perfect way to open a musical
Like yeah it’s a little spoiler but it’s so GOOD
It’s hell on earth you know? I’m tweeting all about it!
The way Angela covers her mouth every time they curse is funny
AND the part where they’re like “is god the one giving the test” and Angela (Grace) is in the middle with the light shining down on her is imagery I love
Like idk why people aren’t mentioning that she’s literally a Christian and is highlighted in that part.
Stephanie was up late last night and couldn’t study bc she was arguing about the homophobic dog
Also crypto?
Also I think this song perfectly embodies what it’s like to be in high school?
Like it was killing me and I swore that I wouldn’t miss it after I graduated, and that I would always hate high school and that idk how I survived it
But now as an adult I’m like damn while I hated going to school it was something about those days that I miss so much. And I only graduated 5 years ago.
09)Bully the Bully
BE COOL BEANS
Keep the beans cool
Bean school
Also I think we’re starting to show that I have a very special place in my heart for Angela
I love how she performs and portrays characters
Also the fact that they’re just singing about bullying the bully for all sorts of different reasons is funny to me
Petey gonna jump on out ✋😐🤚
Jäeger gonna Jäger out 🤘🤪🤘
Also actually was a funny plan that probably wouldn’t work irl but would be funny to watch on a school fight page
Also the fact that Max says that it’s the nicest thing anyone has done for him
08)Bury The Bully
Oh no 😥 she’s snapping again 😟
Please let this be a normal field trip
Give off same vibes
Also I love the layers in the song
Mariah does a good job
HACK ALL HIS LIMBS OFF (did you say hack all his limbs off?) YEAH!
Also very funny
Like Grace’s descent into madness is entertaining
RUTH IS GONNA CUT OFF HIS NIPS
Also shows how stupid they are because they literally could’ve said that it was an accident
It’s literally 5 of them
Just be like yeah we brought him here to scare him and his stupid ass decided to stand on top of some old ass wood and it cracked under him and he died.
But no listening to Grace they become criminals.
No one is gonna make Ruth their bitch
“Do you wanna get the fullest ride? Then start CUTTIN RIGHT ABOVE THE THIGH!”
07)Cool as I Think I Am
Song that shows up throughout the musical
Like it’s in almost every single song if you listen closely to the background
And honestly it’s so good
Because it makes me feel something inside
Like it plays as Richie dies
As Pete and Stephanie realize that she’s gonna have to kill him
At the very end in dirty dudes must die
It’s just an iconic song
Also Joey’s voice is AMAZING
“If I could finally break the rules I would know that IM NOT A LOSER”
Of HIS WORLD HE IS THE RULER
He’s as cool as she thinks he is and she’s as smart as he thinks she is
It’s so cute
Like it’s inspiring in a way
And it’s like he’s finding himself.
LOVE IT
OHHHHHHH SHUT UP-Max
06)Go Go NightHawks
ITS LIKE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL YEAH
N
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AHH AHH 🦅🦅
FIGHT 🥊💥
Fuck YOU CLIVESDALE GO GET FUCKED
YOU FUCKING LOSERS
I literally just love this song and that’s why it’s high
Like literally no other reason other than this song gets me crunk
I wanna whoop clivesdales asses
Bitch ass hoes
Like I did not like my own school rallies this much
But I would love to aten one of these football games
05)Hatchet Town
He is Dan Reynolds with Action News
WHOS SWINGING THE HATCHET NOW?
I think her name is Bryce I am not sure
But the pretty woman who sings the slow part
So beautiful and her voice is literally out of this world
“I REMEMBER BEFORE THE LOCKDOWN THE SUN WAS SHINING ON OUT TOWN AND OUT KIDS COULD WALK THE STREETS”
Literally I was blown away when I heard this part
And I honestly just really like this song
Like it perfectly portrays how people act when anything happens
Like shifting the blame and causing hysteria when all you really need to do is be vigilant and listen to what the professionals are saying
But then also the people in charge don’t know what they’re doing so it’s like WTF do we do
“YEAH ITS GOT TO BE DONNA”
It’s a chaos song that depicts people properly
I feel like most of their songs depict people pretty well.
Like yeah it’s exaggerated but it’s accurate as well.
I also like dancing around to this song like I’m being sneaky and gossipy
“Someone’s got their hands on the hatchet handle” 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️
04)Literal Monster
I LOVE THIS SONG
The only reason it’s not higher is because I listen to the other songs more
But OH MY GOD
everyone’s vocals immaculate
The dancing?
Amazing
Like actually literal monster is so good
“HE ROARS AND WE CRY HES THE REASON WE RUN AND HIDE”
Is her name Kim? I think this is Kim
I LOVE HER VOICE
Also everything about this song is just like YES this is how you do a musical
Also I think the guy who plays Max is named Will?
This is my first time ever hearing him sing and actually it’s so good
He’s the goofiest bully to exist like HUH
His little dancie dance is so funny
He’s like a Fortnite character
He doesn’t need anyone to tell him high school will be his peak
Also his obsession with Grace is so funny and comes out of nowhere.
And the fact that he hates nerds like her but somehow wants to smash even though there are more than enough people who are probably willing makes me think he genuinely likes her but would never admit it.
He’s a literal monster (lmao rip bozo)
03)Dirty Dudes Must Die
BROTHER
When I tell you I am obsessed
I mean I am literally listening to this song like a dozen times a day
And I sing it at the top of my lungs
I’m actually in love with this song
The only reason it’s not number one is that I like the vocals of the other songs better
“WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU WHEN YOUR BODYS GONE? THIS IS THE CONSEQUENCE FOR WHAT YOUVE DONE”
Like YES
“ARE YOU HARD BC YOURE STRESSED?” (What?) “OR IS THIS A POWER I NOW POSESS?!”
Like yes girl use your haunted poosay to kill everyone YES
Like actually her arc is so good to me even though it’s like not what you’d expect/think would happen
Like you would be like oh Christian girl has sex and realizes that it’s not that bad and that she doesn’t have to be a radical religious person
But instead she’s like yeah okay I’m gonna use my new evil powers for GOD and now no one is gonna stop me
She goes from crazy to crazier and I love it
Angela is the love of my life
Like actually she makes me wanna act
And also be absolutely insane but that’s a different topic
Good song gets me hype.
02)Dirty Girl
YESSSJSJAKWOWKNSKWLA
I know this song makes people uncomfy
But I am a horny girl and this song literally gave me whiplash when I first watched like
GIRL ME TOO
Their vocals and just the song itself is so good
Like her struggle with staying true to her religion and herself but also now feeling lust and want for someone that she previously never would’ve thought about before
And it does prove that Max is right about Grace being kinky af because as we see her descent into madness the things that she’s into are things that I know Christian people would be horrified at
Like when they bring him to the Waylon house and he’s aggressive and she’s like OH YEAH THIS IS GOOD
This song is just like look at her try to deny what she’s feeling and look at her struggle with something that many other people religious or not struggle with and look at how badly she handles it
Like if her parents would’ve handled this better Max would not have died
She is hungry for more and now her judgement is all cloudy because of ONE BOY
Everything could’ve been avoided if she was raised to believe that lusting is okay, feeling those feelings is okay
You don’t have to act on them but LORD they aren’t something that is wrong to feel.
It just makes it worse when you try to suppress things
But alas she lives in a no moan household.
01)Nerdy Prudes Must Die
IM SO SORRY RICHIE BUT THIS SONG IS ICONIC
Literally the name of the musical
And rightfully the best song
Jon’s acting and voice is AMAZING
Will sounds amazing
Like actually I could not stop repeating the “will you pray for me, when I’m gone?” Part for WEEKS
Like I’m still singing it to myself
It’s so good
IM NOT A LOSER
Like brother how he just sings that part is like OH MY GOD
Like everything about this song is good
And the fact that Max is like Yeah I couldnt care less how you actively dismembered me and defiled my body(his nipples) and buried him in an abandoned old house.
Like everything about this song is also tragic
Because everyone is celebrating his disappearance
And at this point I feel like he has to have seen that they’re celebrating.
And he was so close to changing
We see that he’s an asshole because of his family life which is tragically the reality of a lot of bullies and hurt people in general
So to have him on the brink of maybe changing and then dying and being dismembered and buried in a place no one knows he’s buried in
Is so sad in a way
Like we don’t even get to see if he would have changed because he does
And when he comes back as a literal monster he’s hurt and angry and wants revenge on the people and people like the people that got him killed even if it was an accident.
This musical is genuinely so good UGH
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blushyeleven · 7 months
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Tickletober - Day 9
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Characters: Lee!y/n, ler!jenna, ler!aliyah
warnings: tickles, swearing
a/n: I love this concept Omfg😭 (proud of myself)
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𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸𝓵𝓭 (𝓸𝓷 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓣𝓸𝓴 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮)
Being an ortega sister was never weird for you. I mean, you didn’t know any different ofcourse. But the questions on how life was with having a famous sister were constant. Obviously it put you in the light slightly and you didn’t mind. You admired jenna for her work and her shows but life was really no different. Apart from obviously the followers and the fact that the only reason people knew you was because you were jenna Ortegas little sister.
That brings you to today, where you had the amazing idea of going tiktok live while in your bedroom, featuring your famous sister. Jenna Ortega and your other sister. Aliyah ortega. You waved at the live “hey guys!” And jenna just smiled at your phone as you watched the people flood into your life and the viewer count pile up. Going live was an often thing for you. Usually the live was just filled with Jenna fans hoping for more jenna content to which you thought was hilarious. “As you can see I’m with Jenna and aliyah” you smiled and pointed behind you as both of your sisters were sat on your bed, watching the live. “Uhh.. I don’t really have a plan today.. so just ask questions I guess” you giggled and watched the chat overflow with comments. You tried to read as many as you could but obviously not being able to see them all with the speed that they were flying in.
“Omg jennas here” you read out which earned a giggle from the three of you. “Yes, jenna is here” you chuckled. “This is what my live is normally like, your fans just asking me questions about you” you turned to look at jenna who was just shaking her head and smiling. You looked at the chat, trying to read out some comments. “What’s your favourite colour?… uhhh probably pink” you smiled. Jenna just watched you, seeing how much you’ve grown up and how you flourished. She really was proud of you. Even if she couldn’t see you that much she always tried her best to stay in contact. To which you obviously appreciated and knew she was extremely busy. “Watch, later, all I’ll be seeing all over my fyp will be edits of you on this live” you looked at jenna who chucked again, covering her mouth with her hand. “Yeah! That’s literally all I see!” Aliyah agreed. You then looked back at the live “oh god, she sees the edits” you read our earning a loud, audible laugh from you. “Yes, I do” you nodded and giggled
“What’s your favourite book?” You read “uhm.. I don’t actually read, I don’t know why! I just don’t really like it” you stated. “Your and aliyahs favourite project of jennas?” You giggled, covering your face your hand as you shook your head. “Definitely Wednesday, sorry but she literally ate that” you stated “yeah, definitely Wednesday” aliyah said nodding “her and enids “friendship” you said in air quotations making jenna laugh again. “Is just my favourite thing ever” you finished your sentence, giggling. “Sorry but their so cannon” you announced as the comments went crazy and you looked at jenna who was just shaking her head, smiling at you. “My petition for Wenclair in season 2, honestly I’m their biggest fan” you stated as the comments were screaming. “I mean who knows” jenna said shrugging “that’s definitely going to be in an edit later” aliyah said, chuckling. “No literally!” You agreed snickering.
“What do you do for fun?” You read outloud “definitely scrolling through TikTok, what can I say.. I’m basic” you smiled “oh my god we should play music!” You said excited and jumping up from your seat to turn on your speaker. Jenna just rolled her eyes and you pulled out your phone to play your playlist. Ofcourse the first song that came up was ‘obsessed’ by Mariah Carey. To which you let out an excited “yesss!” And started dancing your way back to the live, over excitedly singing the lyrics “this is so chaotic” aliyah said, smiling. “Are your lives always like this?” Jenna asked. The wide smile never leaving her face. “Yup!” You said Continuing to sing the lyrics “last man on the earth still couldn’t impress! Your delusional! Your delusional! Boy your loosing your mindddd!!” You sung with over exaggerated hang gestures, earning giggles from both the sisters
“Favourite song?.. oh definitely either this song or rude boy by rihanna!” You kept bopping along to the lyrics, singing to yourself. “Why you so OBBSESSED with me?” You practically screamed and Jenna and aliyah were pissing themselves in the Backroung, ruining your x-factor worthy singing with your own giggling in between. “Y/n is so Rihanna coded” you read and screamed “YES, love Rihanna” you said as the song changed. Your eyes wondered the comment section, trying to find any questions to answer. “Biggest fear?… oh my god definitely being buried alive. Fuck that” you cringed at the thought to which jenna said “yesss! Agreed! That shits scary” you nodded in agreement “what about you aliyah?” You asked her, smiling. “Uhhh.. definitely deep water” “oh yeah!! I get that” you agreed
And for around 15 minutes the three of you sat there answering random questions until you read so casually “are you ticklish?” After you realised what you just read out loud your eyes widened and you burst out laughing. To the point where you put your head on your desk, your shoulders shaking from how much you were laughing. The embarasment clear on your face. Jenna and aliyah joined you on your laughing fit, jenna covering her face with her hand. “Oh my fucking god” you said trying to catch your breath, still giggling at the question. Although their was a pericing blush spread across your face. It was debatable whether it was from how hard you were laughing or from the fact you were flustered. You didn’t even know what to say. You came to the conclusion that lying was better then admitting the truth in-front of thousand of strangers online “no.. no I’m not” you said, letting out the few remaining giggles still lingering in your voice.
Aliyah then quirked a brow and looked at jenna with a “🤨” look and Jenna saw, who giggled and looked at you with furrowed eyebrows. You saw their looks and tried to ignore it. “Don’t lie y/n” jenna teased giggling and causing your cheeks to fade into a burning hot red. “Yeah, we literally get her rolling on the floor laughing because she’s so ticklish” aliyah agreed, snickering at how embarrassed you were becoming. “Their lying” you tried your best to gather any dignity you had left and you desperately hoped they would shut up. “But we’re not, she’s very ticklish guys” aliyah smirked, looking at the live and the comments that were screaming. Even the comments were teasing you telling you it was adorable and how embarrassed you were. “Shut up..” was the best you could say as you giggled nervously. “She’s embarrassed because she knows it’s true” jenna added, snickering at you. “Like just have to make a tickling motion at y/n and she’ll practically die on the spot” jenna announced, both of them just added more and more comments to make you more flustered. “uh huh!” Aliyah nodded at jenna. “Lies, none of that is true” your voice wobbled, you kept trying to deny it; blushing even more by the second until your face was practically burning with embarrassment.
Jenna was smirking, her face was full with sheer smugness. You tried to look at the live to distract yourself and hopefully find something to change the subject but as you looked at the live all you could see was comments about the predicament you were in.. and even worse.. in the background of your phone you could see Jenna wiggling her fingers at you. To which you let out a small squeak and put your head on the table. Causing a mischievous giggle from Jenna who just kept doing it and aliyah then caught onto jennas plan and started laughing so hard she almost cracked a rib.
You heard them both snickering behind you, making you more visibly flustered. Your stomach swarming with butterflies. Honestly in this moment, you just wished for the ground to swallow you whole. Anything was better then going through this absolute torment from your two older sisters. You then lifted your head up from your desk, your cheeks a glowing red and you saw that they both stopped their finger actions at you. You let out a small sigh of relief and looked at the comments yet again. To find something to change the subject with. You decided to act as if nothing happened, even though you knew that you would never escape from that moment.
“What’s your favOURITEAHH-“ your sentence was cut of by the sound of your own deafening shriek. Because as you were distracted from trying to find a question to answer jenna had snuck up behind you and used her black painted fingernails to scribble at your side for a few seconds. Causing you to jump in your seat and use your elbows to try and push at her hands. “See! Ticklish!” Jenna teased, looking at the live and smirking. “n-no, she just scared me” the lies just kept falling out of your mouth, using any excuse to try and defend yourself. “Don’t make us tickle you on live” aliyah sniggered, obviously knowing that it was her intention all along. “d-dont!” You nervously giggled. “Are you going to admit your ticklish?” Jenna asked, the corner of her lips tugging on her face. You sat there in silence for a couple of seconds, not evening knowing how to respond our how to escape your painfully obvious fate.
“No? Okay” jenna giggled evilly before wiggling her fingers into your side as you squealed and squirmed helplessly in your seat. Aliyah excitedly jumping up from your bed to join jenna In her tickle attack. “nohohot on lihive!” You let a few giggles escape, even though you bit your lip and tried to stifle any possible noises. Your plan clearly wasn’t working as jenna still targeting your sides as aliyah came up behind you, skittering her fingers over the back of your ribs. “Yes, on live.. it’s what the viewers want” Aliyah teased and she wasn’t even wrong. Your feed was full with comments along the lines of “this is so adorable” “get her!” and “she is ticklish!!”
“wahahait- nohohohoho!” You didnt even have time to object before jennas hands found themselves to a new spot. “What’s wrong y/n? Your not ticklish remember?” Your blush was still prominent on your face as you couldn’t even do anything to escape. Your viewer count was still rocketing and the comments still flooding in. Jenna was just methodically scratching her fingertips across your ribs. I mean, she was an expert at tickling you. She was your older sister. You grew up being the regular victim of her tickle attacks as she learned your worst spots and what spots earned the hardest laughs from you which she always used to her advantage. And even now that you all were older you still found yourself in the position of being wrecked by them.
Your bubbly giggle fit was filled with “nohohoho!” And “stohohoohppp!” But that wasn’t persuading your two older sisters to stop. Infact it fuelled their energy to carry on, watching you wriggle around and blush at every snarky comment and most importantly your thunderous and squealy laughter at the lightest touches. “See y/n your practically screaming!” Aliyah commented observing your feeble and countless attempts to escape their menacing hands. Aliyah moved her hand to claw at your stomach over your black hoodie as you were thrashing all over your chair.
“AHAHAHA FUHUCKKK!!” You continuously cussed and shrieked but nothing was helping. Nothing was reducing the overwhelming ticklish feeling shooting through your body. Nothing was reducing how hard you were laughing. “I can’t believe you were trying to deny that your ticklish” Jenna giggled “THIHIS IHIS SOHOH STUHUPID!” It’s Not like the two girls didn’t know that themselves, this was just harmless fun. Plus you had it coming. “Maybe but it was to good of an opportunity to pass up” jenna nodded in agreement with aliyah. You opened your mouth to complain but was met with another fresh batch of laughter as jenna sneakily slipped her hand under your hoodie to swiftly scribble at your side “BAHAHAHHAHAHA NAHAHAHAHHAHAH PLEHEHEHHEASEEE!!!” You started kicking your legs from under the table and twisted around on the spot. “Oh my god I can’t” jenna was practically tearing up from her own laughter at how ticklish your were. It was actually adorable. In all honesty; you gave up on trying to minimise your laughter, you just let it pour out.
“And we haven’t even gone for your worst spot yet!” Aliyah added as your eyes widened. You didn’t even know how much more of this you could take and they hadn’t even targeted your death spot yet. “YOHOUR GOHONNA KIHILL MEHEHEH!!” You screamed, your laughter echoing through the house and possible could be heard from another continent. You were lucky nobody else was home. “Don’t be so dramatic y/n, it’s only a little tickling” jenna teased, knowing that she was being completely brutal. “AHAHHA LIHIHITTLE?!” You shrieked but to your avail, they were showing no mercy. They honestly had no sympathy for you as they never once stopped their attack. “THIHIS IHIS MEHEHEHANN!” You whined, just longing for them to stop. Normally I would write something like ‘and save you from any further embarrasment’ but that’s no use, they completely ignored how flustered.
“Oh? This isn’t mean.. but this is!” Jenna mused before darting her fingers into your worst spot. Your armpits. You shrieked so loudly that the walls shaked. “AHAHAHHAHAHAHAH NOHOHOH NONO!! FUHUCKK!! BAHAHAHAHHAH” this was honestly hell on earth. “Look how red she is!” Aliyah mused, on the contrast to jenna who has her hand clasped around her mouth, her laughter silent and her eyes watering slightly. Obviously finding it hilarious how deathly ticklish you were. The only thing you managed to do was clench your arms to your side. Although this wasn’t a problem for the two girls as they just squirmed their fingers into your armpits still. It’s not like you weren’t use to this kind of playful attack, you grew up with it. But you dreaded it every-time. You faced a weird mixture of longing for the feeling and also wanting it to stop.
You were still as ticklish as you were from when you were little, the two sister thought you would have grown out of it. But here you were, still screaming like a toddler. It wasn’t untill you screamed out “BAHAHAHHAHA.. OKAAHHAHAY.. FUHUCKK… STOHOHOHOPPP!!” To wich they finally let up. Retracting their hands. Jenna, who was wiping her eyes with her sleeve was still giggling at to at you practically gasping for air. You figured if that went on for any longer you would have passed out from lack of oxygen. Aliyah was just chuckling at how hilarious jenna was finding this situation as you put your head on your desk, clearly trying to recover from the ruthless assault.
You simply just put your middle finger up at your two sisters, earning more giggles from the two. Once you gained back enough air you lifted you head up from the desk. “Literally fuck you to” was all you could say as you looked at the live. Your viewer count was at a whole new high and people were obviously still talking about what just happened. It’s not even like you could find a question to answer as all anybody was interested about was about you being tickled. You sighed, knowing at least one person screen revised it and it would end up on TikTok in about half an hour.
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sirenedoug · 2 years
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OFMD Mixtape
Having gone down the rabbit hole that is OFMD brain rot, and being of GenX, my love note to the show, those who created it, and the wonderful Fandom, is in the form of a mixtape. Er, rather, a playlist.
 Music has always been a salve and takes my mind away from all the trauma of the world.  This list goes from fun and silly to the most angsty, love sick, heart thumping collection representing mainly Stede and Ed’s character development and romance.  
I’m going to break them down episode by episode and you can find all the songs linked here:
Please have mercy on me.  I am new to the beautiful world of Fandom (ignore my shoebox full of Star Wars bubble gum cards and my Tardis cookie jar…it took a Pandemic and, well, the current state of the world to bring me to this wonderful collection of people in love with a show.  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a show, and obsessively thinking about the beauty of it all.) I’m working some shit out, apparently.  My rambling gets longer as I get further in the list.
So, with that, please comment suggested songs you find just as angsty and fitting. I've got room for 50 songs on each side of my cassette.
With Love…
Episode 1
We’re going to start, soft and sweet, with “A Pirate’s Life” by Joel Fry. 
Yup, part of the soundtrack for the show. This sea shanty by the talented actor who plays Fenchie perfectly captures the innocent (and ignorant) Stede-view of life as a pirate before reality begins to sink in for Stede and for us all.
”The Empty Boat” by Caetano Veloso is also part of the soundtrack and was a perfect way to end the show after Stede experiences death and bumbles through the pirate captain life. It’s too perfect not to add to the list.  Soft and sad,  “From the east to the west, Oh, the stream is long, Yes, my dream is wrong, From the birth to the death” captures Stede’s birth as a pirate and death of his former self.  His journey begins.

Episode 2
”Lola” by The Kinks introduced me to gender identity and sexuality and acceptance.  I was fascinated by this song as a kid.  There are so many struggles of identity in this episode and the acceptance that love is love is a big part of the beauty of this show.  Olu understands his love of Jim, and Lucius discover’s Jim’s secret and discloses his own history of hiding who he really is.  Izzy is sent to meet Stede and the stage is set for an epic love story.  
Episode 3
"Fantasy" by Mariah Carey may not seem angsty, but it can be.  At the beginning of this Episode Stede is beginning to lean into, in a very Stede way, being a pirate.  He’s in love with his image of what a pirate captain is, and struts through the Republic of Pirates in his virginal white frock dragging poor Lucius (identified as decidedly non-virginal with a scarlet baptism).  I picture Stede tone deaf to his surroundings and singing along with Carey, “Oh, when you walk by every night, Talkin’ sweet and lookin’ fine, I get kinda hectic inside, Mmm, baby I’m so into you, Darlin’, if you only knew, All the things that flow through my mind” as he sings to his inner Gentleman Pirate.   But I like to imagine Blackbeard’s fascination with the Stede he has not yet met, having those very same thoughts, about the Gentleman Pirate. 
A shout-out to the sample in Carey’s song of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love".  “With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend, There’s no beginning and there is no end, Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping” Nuff said.
Now we get stabby and properly angsty.
Episode 4
Taylor Swift's "Wonderland" (Wow, that cover looks like it came straight from “Pina Coladas” by the gifted faeeebaeee! Read this if you have not. Be warned, however, faeeebaeee invented angst.) Taylor Swift has not, up to this time,  been in rotation at my house. I had heard rumors she wrote a bit angsty, but man, that girl is working some shit out.  She and Robert Smith need to collaborate.  And thank goodness she did, because this song is perfect for both Ed and Stede.  As mid-life-crisis-Ed sits by mid-life-crisis-Stede’s sickbed and nurses him with his eyes, and um, gentle touch, and as Stede awakens to meet a man (a pirate even) who appreciates him for who he is, I can hear Wonderland playing, “Flashing lights and we, Took a wrong turn and we, Fell down a rabbit hole, You held on tight to me, ‘Cause nothing’s as it seems, And spinning out of control…We found Wonderland, You and I got lost in it, And we pretended it could last forever”.  That’s it.  The only song for this episode.  It’s got the lighthouse, it’s got the tension with Izzy, it’s got Ed’s plan to kill Stede and assume Stede’s identity.  It’s got Ed’s look, as he walks away from Izzy.  It’s got Stede’s fantasy coming to full fruition.  Ooooooh, the angst.
Episode 5
"Got Weird" by Dodie
Oh Dodie, Dodie, Dodie, how I do love thee.  And really, most of her lyrics come straight out of Ed’s brain, I’m convinced.  But this song IS the inner dialogue both Ed and Stede have at different points during this episode in order to navigate dinner with the fancy white racist upper crust weirdos. “Table for two, that’s all sorted, I played the man, and you bought it, We’ll talk over glass, like I own it….So take a deep breath, a big stretch, baby, It’ll feel like a movie (maybe)...A pep talk in a bathroom corner, Do I down the gin, stick to water?”  
And really, this song would be great after the actual kiss as well…but as Ed clearly wants to kiss Stede at the end of this episode, you can imagine this being the scenario Ed is worried will take place, “I got weird when we made out, What a goddamn kiss to think about…Clearly, I’ve got shit to figure out, Baby, baby, please don’t hate me, Call me up again, I won’t get weird”.
"Rises the Moon" by Liana Flores
Just perfect.  Sweet.  Sad, cuz we know what we know now that we’ve watched the whole season more times than we are able to admit to ourselves. (btw-I’m not using the royal we here, I’m talking you and me and you and you and you…we know who we are)
 “Days fade into a watercolour blur, Memories swim and haunt you, But look into the lake, shimmering like smoke, Rises the moon”
Episode 6
"I Caught Myself" by Paramore I’ve got two songs by Paramore on my mixtape, and this one is for Ed.  It represents his struggle with the Kraken, it represents his struggle with his feelings towards Stede and it represents his struggle with his loyalty to Izzy.  It opens, “Down to you, You’re pushing and pulling me down to you, But I don’t know what I, Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself, I’m saying something that I should have never thought…I’m saying something that I should have never thought of you, of you…But I don’t know what I want, No I don’t know what I want, You got it, you got it, Some kind of magic, Hypnotic, hypnotic, You’re leaving me breathless, I hate this, I hate this” and I should just write out the whole damn song.  It’s Ed’s struggle with all the relationships in his life.
"Simply the Best" by Billianne  I love this version of the song that I’m sure you’ve heard on TikTok. This song is for the bathtub scene.   (I realize there have been many “bathtub scenes” over time.  Usually they are disturbing, or creepy, or scary, or romantic.  This one is just beautiful.)  This is Stede’s heart telling Ed he loves him when he breaks through the door and tells him, “I’m your friend”.  Course, Stede doesn’t understand it’s love yet.  And it’s Ed being completely and brutally honest with Stede, and the way his cheek leans on Stede’s hand…my heart is breaking a little…again.
“I call you when I need you, my heart’s on fire, You come to me, come to me wild and wild, When you come to me, Give me everything I need…Take my heart and make it strong, baby, You’re simply the best, Better than all the rest, Better than anyone, Anyone I’ve ever met, I’m stuck on your heart, I hang on  every word you say, Tear us apart, Baby, I would rather be dead”. 
Episode 7
"Seven" by Taylor Swift
Yes, I get the hype over Taylor Swift now.  What a beautiful song, and for my angsty purposes here, it kills two sets of love birds with one stone so to speak (apologies to Carl).  
This song references childhood trauma and we certainly explore Jim’s trauma in their life as a child as well as just having learned about Ed’s dad in the previous episode.  Swift sings, “And I’ve been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted, Your dad is always mad and that must be why, And I think you should come live with, Me and we can be pirates, Then you won’t have to cry, Or hide in the closet”.  How perfect is that?
But the love, too, and this episode ends with love, the near kiss with Olu and Jim, the stuck snake snack scene.  “Our love will be passed on”
And there’s one little line in the song that feels like it is foretelling events, “I still got love for you, Pack your dolls and a sweater, We’ll move to India forever…Our love lasts so long.”
"Absolutely Smitten" by Dodie This song captures the joy of the back-and-forth silly banter about Blackbeard’s Bar and Grill and Other Delacacies and Delights and Fishing Equipment scene…it’s got the giddy first love feels all over it.  
“She feels her heart begin to swell, Handsome stranger, you have made her insides turn to jelly,  She wants to dance around the room, Kiss you until her lips turn blue…She’s absolutely smitten, She’ll never let you go”.

Episode 8
"Hate Myself" by Dodie We are now seriously circling the angsty drain of sadness my friends. So buckle up, more songs to cover the last 3 episodes. This song could be playing in both Stede and Ed’s minds while Calico Jack is wrecking havoc.  Ed self-doubting and sabotaging his relationship with Stede.  Stede horribly confused by his own feelings towards Ed, towards Jack, and desperate to have his Ed back.
“Could it be different?  Did I ruin the day?  Oh, do you look angry?  Oh, what did I say?  Filling in the gaps, something wrong with me, I’m getting desperate, losing my mind…When you go quiet, I hate myself”
"Dreaming With A Broken Heart" by John Mayer Again, a song for both Stede and Ed.  Ed has gone off with Jack and I imagine this song has been playing in Stede’s mind all night.  He’s put the song on replay all night long and his red-rimmed eyes say he didn’t sleep a wink (I won’t say 17-year-old-me may have put The Cure’s “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me” album on replay all night after her little heart got broken-she feels you, Stede).  Ed, waking up, face in the sand, could have the same song playing.
“When you’re dreaming with a broken heart, The waking up is the hardest part, You roll out of bed and down on your knees, And for a moment, you can hardly breathe, Wondering, ‘Was she really here?, Is she standing in my room?’, No she’s not, ‘Cause she’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone”
"S.O.S." by ABBA You know what, Stede?  You would feel so much better if you just came to my house and we came up with a roller skating routine to this song from a record my mom just got.  We can practice in the basement and later, we can put on a show!
“Where are those happy days, They seem so hard to find, I try to reach for you, But you have closed your mind, Whatever happened to our love?, I wish I understood, It used to be so nice, It used to be so good, So when you’re near me, Darling, can’t you hear me, S.O.S., The love you gave me, Nothing can save me, S.O.S., When you’re gone, How can I even try to go on?  (oh good lord, every lyric in this song is so perfect…and Rhys Darby learned morse code in the NZ military, so, S.O.S.) When you’re gone, Thought I try, how can I carry on?, You seemed so far away, Though you were standing near, You made me feel alive, But something died, I fear…” Every.  Word.  Is.  Perfect.
"The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac After the first time I watched this episode, I had to replay this scene again and again.  It was like watching a perfect music video on MTV’s 120 Minutes circa 1990.  And really, the more I watched, the more I was convinced this is really Izzy’s song about Ed.  So sad, for Izzy.
“Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise, Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies, And if you don’t love me now, You will never love me again, I can still hear you saying, You would never break the chain”
******foot touch****** My heart.
Episode 9
"Sparks" by Coldplay Boy are Ed and Stede in their own heads at the beginning of this episode. Stede is shaken by the news he is “dead” and the old guilt about Mary and the children begins to seep back in.  Stede tries to re-kindle the adventure dynamic that made him and Ed so happy, but Ed is floating through the up-ending of his life whilst folding stuff, and that’s OK.  Ed has made a huge sacrifice to save Stede and he’s promising, in his own way, to be there for him, no matter what.  This melancholy song could, once again, fit both our favorite pirates.   
“Did I drive you away?, I know what you’ll say, You say, ‘Oh sing one we know’, But I promise you this, I’ll always look out for you…My heart is yours, It’s you that I hold on to…I know I was wrong, But I won’t let you down…”
"Like Real People Do" by Hozier  Oh the kiss.  Oh the kiss.  Oh the kiss. I understand that Hozier wrote the song imagining a romance from one of the well preserved bog bodies pulled from a peat bog in Ireland and a live human, but Ed and Stede both consider themselves monsters of a sort, so, voila!  This is a beautiful song, and the lyrics really do fit the kiss.
“I had a thought, dear, However scary, About that night…I will not ask you where you came from, I will not ask you, neither should you, Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips, We should just kiss like real people do”
"Pink in the Night" by Mitski This is all Ed on the pier, my babies.  “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed is beautiful too, but this feels more fitting (also, fun fact, no heroine).  He’s given up everything to save Stede and now he’s flayed his heart open for the man and there he sits in the lavender sunset.  
“I glow pink in the night in my room, I’ve been blossoming alone over you, And I hear my heart breaking tonight, I hear my heart breaking tonight…I love you, I love you, I love you…and I know I’ve kissed you before, but I didn’t do it right, Can I try again, and again, and again…”
"Two Birds" by Regina Spektor
“Two birds on a wire, One tries to fly away, And the other watches him close from that wire, He says he wants to as well, But he is a liar”  
Poor Ed.  Poor Stede.  Screw you Chauncey.
Episode 10
"Stop This Train" by John Mayer Can’t listen too carefully to this one, but the sentiment is spot on.  Stede, middle aged and caught between his family and his *still can’t quite understand he is in love* Ed, thrown back into his old mindset by the bullying of Chauncey and Chauncey’s subsequent violent death, flees home.  Life is moving too quickly for him and he returns home, thinking there will be a solution.  Well, there is, I suppose.  But the consequences…oh, Ed.
“No, I’m not colorblind, I know the world is black and white, I try to keep an open mind, But I just can’t sleep on this tonight, Stop this train, I want to get off and go home again, I can’t take the speed it’s moving in, I know I can’t, But honestly, won’t someone stop this train?”
Meanwhile, consequences…
To quote Buttons, the next songs are just going to be pure tone…
ED:
"Shallows" by Daughter
“Let the water rise, Let the ground crack, Let me fall inside, Lying on my back, Lying on my back, Dry your smoke-stung eyes, So you can see the light, Staring at the sky, Watching Stars collide, Watching stars, If you leave, When I go, Find me, In the shallows”
"Where Is My Mind" covered by Maxence Cyrin- instrumental only
"Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies
“Where is my mind?  Where is my mind?  Where is my mind?  Way out in the water, See it swimming, I was swimming in the Caribbean…Bump into me, swear he’s, Tryin’ a talk to me, say wait, wait…”
"Avalanche" by Leonard Cohen
“You who wish to conquer pain, You must learn what makes me kind, The crumbs of love that you offer me, They’re the crumbs I’ve left behind, Your pain is no credential here, It’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound, I have begun to long for you, I who have no greed, I have begun to ask for you, I who have no need, You say you’ve gone away from me, But I can feel you when you breathe”
"Monster" by Dodie
“Tell me again, About how it hurts, Being awfully loud, For an introvert, Get out of my room, Smile wiped clean, Isn’t it weird, To be so mean?, I’m guessing that I’ve grown horns, I guess I’m human no more, Oh, how easily passion twists, You think I’m a crazy bitch, I craft my words to fit your head, ‘Cause no one listens to the dead, So maybe I will talk to you, The only way I know how to, I’ve said my speech, Through sharpened teeth, You break the rules and spikes grow from your skin, Please, let the devil in”
STEDE:
"Strange" by Celeste
“Say isn’t it strange? Isn’t it strange?  I am still me, You are still you, In the same place, Isn’t it strange, How people can change, From strangers to friends, Friends into lovers, And strangers again?”
"The Night We Met" by Lord Huron
“I am not the only traveler, Who has not repaid his debt, I’ve been searching for a trail to follow again, Take me back to the night we met, And then I can tell myself, What the hell I’m supposed to do, And then I can tell myself, Not to ride along with you, I had all and then most of you, Some and now none of you, Take me back to the night we met, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, Haunted by the ghost of you, Oh, take me back to the night we met”
"All I Wanted" by Paramore
“Think of me when you’re out, when you’re out there, I’ll beg you nice from my knees…All I wanted was you, All I wanted was you, I think I’ll pace my apartment a few times, And fall asleep on the couch, Wake up early to black and white re-runs, That escaped from my mouth, All I wanted was you…I could follow you to the beginning, And just to relive the start, And maybe then we’ll remember to slow down, At all of our favorite parts, All I wanted was you”
"Ready Now" by Dodie 
“You saw through me, All this time, I’d forgotten, People are kind, I was hurting, And you knew, So you showed me, What to do, You said, ‘I will listen, Tell it all, When you’re finished, We’ll talk more’, But I didn’t know how, So we took it in turns, And to my surprise, We found my words, Feet firm on the ground, We stood hand in hand, The world seemed to tell me, That I have a plan, Together, we sang, ‘I’m ready, now’”
I’m hoping that last song by Dodie ends up on my next mixtape for Ed…
And the last song leaves us all dangling over the side of the Revenge, preferably offering Lucius a hand up and into a secret compartment while Stede finds his footing on the water and Ed watches Frenchie hoist his new flag…
"Miles From Nowhere" by Yusuf/Cat Stevens
“Miles from nowhere, Guess I’ll take my time, Oh yeah, to reach there, Look up at the mountain, I have to climb, Oh yeah, to reach there…I creep through the valleys, And I grope through the woods, ‘Cause I know when I find it, my honey, It’s gonna make me feel good, I love everything, So don’t it make you feel sad, ‘Cause I’ll drink to you, my baby, I’ll think to that, yes, I’ll think to that”
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eternal sunshine review
you already knowwww. another album review.
random thoughts:
so the thing is i didn’t have high hopes for this, bc i hated sweetener and people were saying this was like a part 2. and shitting on positions, my favorite ari album, to compare this one. so i’m like i’m gonna hate this. but i am actually so excited bc i like it. i finally have new music to be obsessed w rather than relistening to the same songs over and over.
also just bc i like the album, don’t mean i’m like a homewrecker stan. she gotta chill.
she should’ve kept the red themed cover like i get the message of the new one but it just doesn’t hit the same.
anyways bc i’m a psycopath, i listened out of order bc that’s the only way i can properly listen idk y.
also i love that there’s no musical features
anyways to the review:
intro(end of the world):
it’s a cute lil intro. my everything vibes. 6/10. probably won’t relisten to this one much. but i love how she’s being so honest on this album bc i’m a nosey ass bitch. love when ppl air out their business. more more!
bye:
modern disco viiibes. upbeat. very dancey. but also lyrically it’s very idk not melancholy but like kind of sadish i like that. 7/10. the song is really not my personal taste but it’s really good still.
don’t wanna break up again:
naur he turned up the tv when he heard her crying throw that man in the trash!!! i like this one. i like the melody and lyrics and the chorus is my favorite part of the song. i wish the production was a little more melodic. it only does it for me during the chorus tbh. but i like this song. 8/10 “but i just can’t refuse” in the chorus sounds like the “im finding ways to stay concentrated on what i gotta do” in die for you by the weeknd.
saturn returns interlude:
idk man some woman talking what do you want me to say. isn’t it weird that this is the only track with capital letters tho?
eternal sunshine:
i really hate trap beats tbh. but ik it’s like ari’s signature now. but ick. it’s a bop tho for sure. but not really my taste. i only really like it bc the lyrics. i just love ppl telling their business y’all i’m not kidding. 7/10
supernatural:
AHHHHHH BITCHCHHHH YESSSS THIS IS WTF i’m TALKIN ABOUT THIS IS POP BITCH YESSS 100000/10 i love the modern 80s pop vibe and the chorus is so perfect w/ the beat. it just rides man i love this song. i’d love this album JUST for this song.
true story:
so 90s love it. very aaliyah beat. i love a good 90s r&b moment so ofc this is an automatic like even if the chorus isn’t that catchy. idk ig i just feel like pop should have catchy melodies and/or an infectious beat. y’know? also she ate w/ the belting at the end. 8/10
the boy is mine:
YASSSSSSS. again we know i love a 90s vibe. the slowdown right before the chorus is insaane. and the choral style harmonies on the “is” of the boy is mine scratches something in my brain as well as the “gotta be a reason why” robotic voice thing. this is so catchy. this is totally a fantasize vibe. so good. 10/10
yes and?:
i dont have it in me to keep defending this song from u vultures. AND i wish she put the mariah carey version on the album too 8/10 and no i will not be explaining myself further y’all are gonna make me cry.
we can’t be friends (wait for your love):
feel i’m getting an 80s vibe again. i like it. i’m loving the upbeat music, sadish vibe lyrics thing going on in this album. i like the vibe of this song a lot. i do wish something in here was more catchy. but i like it. it’s so soft and wistful almost. that’s probably why i’ll relisten. conjure up some interesting maladaptive daydreams w/ this one. 7/10 edit: i watched the video now i like it more. 8/10 lol
i wish i hated you:
it’s very vulnerable. again i’m nosey so i like that. but the song is eh for me. i don’t think this is a song i’d listen to for the music but more for the vibe. 6/10
imperfect for you:
i looooove it. a little weird melodically but i love it. just scratches something in my brain it’s so good. so catchy. 10/10
ordinary things:
it’s good. not one of my favorites but the more i listen, the more i like it. i love the way she pronounces ordinary in here lol. 7/10
okay that’s all really
p.s. i feel like why try from my everything would fit in here idk. this album feels like a perfect combination of all of her others, it’s so weird how that works out. i love it tho. pleasantly surprised!!
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it’s another playlist anon and i’ve gone through almost all of them now! really kept listening for mark and haechan’s voices in those two, and omg “so am i” or “crash landing”? had forgot how mark sounded in them! n haechan “the rainy night” and “round&round” didn’t give him enough cred for his voice in those! as for the vibelists? these were so exciting to get to listen to! i knew you’re a swiftie but starting with “gold rush” and i would never have thought her songs could fit him so well but you’re damn right mark would nail that so good. his soft but rough and dipping into darker pitches? but especially the softness with it? would work so good man. “lost”????? that’s so good literally made for mark. all so well chosen for him! and starting with mariah carey for haechan is the most clever move i’ve seen omg. same as for mark, wouldn’t have thought of that before but that’s so true. his voice could do her songs real justice! stayc too i’m a little obsessed with imagining haechan singing them actually! also to add “bambi” to this list feels like a celebration to haechan be deserved that but also i bet he’d be very proud you put it in there. he’d do it so well! agreed, songs like “instagram” belong with them both etc omg i’m just so grateful for the time u put into making these for me and us! thank you, i might just continue to listen to your playlists if that’s ok! they’re literally perfect! it feels like just what i was wishing for without actually knowing exactly what i was wishing for! thank you for spoiling me and us like this 😭💖💖💖 your mind, your taste, and your generosity!
thank u for such nice feedback! i really love when ppl give me comments about stuff that ive made so thank uu 🥺🫂🫶🏻 and yeah mark sounds soooo fine in so am i omg it’s a shame that im certain he’s forgotten about that song 😞 and to be completely honest, gold rush is not really a song that id like mark to cover, it’s more that it reminds me sooooo much of him >.< lost is something id like him to cover tho heheh and honey is something i want haechan to cover so badddddd his voice would sound so good 😦😦 and yeah instagram is one of the songs i think they should cover together <3 also palette by iu and pour up by dean and suit & tie by justin t <3 anwww im so happy u like them!! 💗 honestly making them was soooo much fun, it was actually a treat for me ahah 😄 so you are very welcome! 🥰💗💗💗 sending u a hug, i hope u have the best week <3
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Cloying: In the Event of Love
I just finished In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae. I have some thoughts...
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Here there be spoilers!
Ah, it’s that time of year. Mariah Carey blaring from the radio. Peppermint drinks. And, of course, cheesy romances.
“City girl returns home after a scandal, runs a charity event...a wholesome small-town occasion. It’s Hallmark-level perfection.” 
This is an actual line from Courtney Kae’s festive feel-good novel In the Event of Love. At least it’s self-aware. 
The novel is narrated by Morgan Ross, the aforementioned city girl, who has in fact returned to her hometown in the wake of a professional scandal. Once there, Morgan is voluntold by her former friend Ben that most of their old crowd is still in town. Including Rachel Reed, Morgan’s ex-girlfriend and owner of a local christmas tree farm. Said farm--and the rest of the town’s businesses--are being preyed on by Christy Vaughn: the evil ex-girlfriend of Morgan’s dad. What follows is pretty rote. Morgan takes up the challenge to help save the tree farm by organizing a fundraiser, the whole town gets in on it rather than see Evil Christy succeed in buying up their town and turn it into a soulless corporate shell, and Morgan both wins the day and gets her girl.
In full honesty, as much as a I love anything holiday themed, this is not a book I would have chosen for myself (my book club did). Here’s the thing: cheesy christmas romances work best as movies. Because you can enjoy them in a ninety minute sugary burst, like drinking a mug of rich hot chocolate with all the fixings. But trying to read the same thing in three hundred pages? That’s more like trying to drink the whole pot of cocoa by yourself. It’s cloying, and you leave feeling sick enough to swear off it forever.
The characters, while sweet, are pretty one-dimensional. And the ones we do know best are least interesting. (Where was the Ben and Adam love story? At this point, I want another book just so I can get the dish on the characters I actually wanted more about.) The plot felt predictable to the point of plodding through it. And, frankly, the novel veers out of tongue-in-cheek into just cringy meta: “I love that she doesn’t hide her book. Romance novels should be flaunted with pride...The author, Becca Rae, is a name I don’t recognize. The cover features snow-capped mountains and a couple who should probably be wearing warmer clothing, and I’d like to live in it, thanks.” It’s like a fourth wall break, but like: not funny.
At the risk of sounding like an absolute grinch, I’m not sure I like Morgan’s arc. I know what I’m supposed to feel. I’m supposed to be so glad that Morgan and Rachel end up together, that Morgan chooses love over success. ‘Villain’ Christy says “Family...always felt like a business transaction. You can understand wanting to prove yourself, can’t you?” And Morgan can “finally see her for who she is. Insecure, trying to figure herself out in a world that expects her to know who she is already, that constantly demands she prove herself.” Morgan has that same hunger to achieve. The woman we meet at the beginning of the novel is determined to earn a promotion to run a whole office herself. Part of her agenda in agreeing to run the fundraiser is to recover enough from her slip-up to secure it. 
But, as she spends more and more time being wrapped up in the comforts of home, Morgan finds herself getting swept away. “Every day spent up here makes Los Angeles and the dreams it holds seem farther and farther away, new dreams easing closer to my heart...I don’t know how I’m ever going to choose, or if moving back here could even be an option.” The message is that it has to be a choice, that she has to sacrifice what’s been painted as a huge part of her character. To be clear: there’s nothing wrong with wanting to live in a smaller town or not hinging your personal value on professional success. I’m actually one of those people. I don’t get career obsession. To me, work is just work. But Morgan’s really passionate about her career, and I respect that. So when I see her wondering “Could I have had a whole community of family-like friends if I stuck around? ...Could I still have that now?” My heart breaks for her. It feels like she’s so desperate for human connection that she’s willing to give up everything she’s earned and become to revert back to some high school version of herself. 
And it didn’t have to be that way. Morgan was honest about being a city girl, was talking about commuting and making things work even long distance with Rachel. And when Morgan gets that New York promotion, she immediately tells Rachel and offers to try and figure out ways to make it work. To which, Rachel immediately shuts down and freaks out that Morgan is once again leaving her (even though it bears observing that part of their story was Rachel shutting down and refusing to talk things out with Morgan the first time they broke up when Morgan first moved away). Rachel tells Morgan “I’ll never ask you or anyone to stay for me again. It has to be your choice, or there will always be a part of me that hates myself for asking.” And when Morgan doesn’t immediately leap to burn up this big opportunity she got to unequivocally choose staying in little Fern Falls with Rachel, Morgan is dumped and vilified.
But what did she do wrong? Rachel seems to have no growth here. She could be less insecure, could examine whether staying in the same little town is really the best way, could see if there’s any compromise here. Nope. Of course it’s Morgan who has to give up everything, change her career to something that will keep her local, and essentially give up everything she built in order to accommodate this romanticization of her past.
I wish instead of following the pattern that we’d been given the gift of surprise. What if they tried long distance? What if Rachel moved away? What if Christy won the battle for Fern Falls, but that’s ok because they all needed to be untethered from the traumas of their pasts? Instead, Morgan is the one who has to cut off an entire part of her character, make herself smaller, in order to fit with Rachel. Frankly, if Rachel were a man and this were a straight couple? We’d be outraged, or at least resigned. 
Considering how many romcoms I’ve read, it may seem odd that I’m taking this one so hard to task. But I think the problem I’m having is that I appreciate queer romcoms that undercut expectations with some kind of subversion. Maybe it’s that the characters have emotional depth and growth. Maybe it’s that the expected script veers off in an unanticipated direction. Maybe it’s that expected gender roles are reversed or abolished. Or something entirely different. But that’s what this book was begging for: subversion of expectations. That would have been the refreshing palate cleanser this book needed. Instead, we’re left with something predictable: saccharine to the point of sickening, another cloying christmas romcom.
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Pairing: Dom!CEO!Loki x Reader
Summary: After dropping out of grad school and moving back home you expected very little of your summer. That is until you realise your neighbour, Mr. Laufeyson, has other plans. Set in the mid 90s!
Warnings: NSFW, 18+!!! This is a Dom!Loki fic - though it's not super bd/sm heavy, it explores themes of voyeurism, dub!con spanking, humiliation and degradation. Sexual acts are described including vaginal fingering, dirty talk, oral sex (f receiving) and sexual intercourse (f/m). Smoking is also described. Please read at your own discretion (hehe see what I did there?).
Words: 5,026
Author's Note: I'm excited to say that this is my first ever submission for a challenge! Specifically it's for @boxofbonesfic's Hot Girl Summer Challenge.
I chose prompt 12 (Home for the Summer) and a slightly edited version of quote 17 ("If I have to tell you again to take that off, you’re not gonna like me sweetheart darling.") then for kinks I chose voyeurism/exhibitionism and degradation though there's a sprinkling of praise kink in there too.
Not sure why when I think of summer I think of mid 90s summers but here we are. This kinda went places I didn't expect, nonetheless I hope you enjoy!
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God you were bored.
Stretching out on the lounge chair you sighed, letting your shoulders droop with the long exhale.
“Oh honey, you can’t keep sitting out here in the sun.” Your eyes rolled behind your dark sunglasses, turning towards your stepmother as she came down the stairs from the deck of the house.
“It’ll give you wrinkles dear,” she was standing beside you now, hands on her hips as she stared down at you. She was wearing that ridiculous hat again- the one with the brim as wide as she was tall.
“Carla, darling, we can’t all hide away from life in hopes to look as good as you do.” You lazily gazed at her, sitting up to find your pack of cigarettes on the side table. Taking one out you brought it to your mouth and lit it with your gold plated zippo. You took a long inhale before exhaling right in her face, “when I tell people you’re 53 they can hardly believe it.” Her eyes widened- you’d found her drivers license months ago and held the knowledge of her true age over her since then. You continued, ”my compliments to your doctors. Oh and Botox, kudos to Botox.”
Her little hands formed fists, fake nails pressing tiny neon-pink crescents into her palm.
You laughed, lounging back in the chair as you leisurely took drags off your cigarette. Smiling to yourself as you counted- three, two, one, before Carla shrieked and turned.
“Arthur! Arthur!” She screeched, running back up the stairs to tell your father.
You were a little less bored now, but making Carla’s face turn red could only give you so much satisfaction. You knew your father could care less, they were both about to leave for the Côte D’Azur tomorrow for the rest of the summer, leaving you here alone to “consider the consequences of your actions.” Or however your father had put you dropping out of school after one year of graduate studies in Classics.
He couldn’t help himself from belittling your degree while you were studying, then once you’d decided it wasn’t for you his lectures changed to be about “never giving up” and “seeing something through.” You both knew he simply didn’t want you around- he just couldn’t bring himself to say it out loud.
“Now those will definitely give you wrinkles,” you heard a smooth, silky voice coming from behind you that made your heart race. Smiling, you swung your legs over the side of your chair, taking off your sunglasses and snuffing out your cigarette.
“Mr. Laufeyson,” you started, eyeing the lithe figure as he emerged from the shadows. He held his hands in his pockets, his crisp black trousers fit perfectly to his frame. The sleeves of his black dress shirt were rolled up to his elbows, exposing the pale skin of his toned forearms. You were well aware of the small scraps of white fabric covering your body, and you enjoyed watching his eyes trace over your skin. You’d lusted after him ever since your father had moved here during your first year of college. You’d met him at one of Carla’s Christmas parties- she invited everyone from the gated community over, including your neighbour, Loki Laufeyson.
“I’m so sorry if my stepmother’s incessant shrieking ruined your afternoon,” you grimaced, taking a sip of the ice cold vodka soda beside you. “Is there anything I can do to remedy the situation?” you asked, your eyes innocently meeting his.
He chuckled. “Oh I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve already thought of something,” he said under his breath loud enough for you to just make out. He strolled towards you and took a seat on the lounge chair beside yours. “I’m actually here to see your Father. He’s asked me to check in on things here while him and Carla are away.”
You rolled your eyes- of course he did. You caught Mr. Laufeyson staring at you as you did that, his expression darkening slightly and his eyebrow raising before he continued. “I am surprised to see you here- last I’d heard you were studying in Europe. Graduate studies in Classics, right?”
“Yeah. It didn’t exactly pan out.” You looked down, cursing yourself for feeling your face grow hot. The last thing you needed was your gorgeous neighbour feeling sorry for you.
“Laufeyson you bastard, you’re late!” Your Father was coming down the stairs, jovial with his greeting.
Loki got up from his seat to meet your father. “Arthur,” he said, shaking his hand. “My apologies, I got held up at the office. It’s been insanity since the new acquisition.”
You tuned out the rest of the business jargon and settled back into your seat, facing the other way. You put your sunglasses back on, wincing once your heard Carla’s shrill voice coming from above.
“Is that Loki Laufeyson? Oh it’s been ages!” she gushed.
“I suppose it has.” You could tell she’d pulled him in for a hug and a kiss on either cheek. You couldn’t help but smile to yourself at the clear discomfort in his voice.
“So I can trust you to keep an eye on the place?” your father chimed in.
“Certainly, although it seems your daughter is perfectly capable of doing so herself.” Mr. Laufeyson rightfully pointed out. You raised an eyebrow, wishing you could see the expression on your dear dad’s face from your position. Mr. Laufeyson was probably the only person in this community that could and would tell your Father that- his annual appearance in Forbes certainly cemented the position.
“You never know with kids, Laufeyson. No matter how old they get you can’t trust them to carry through with something. Just wait until you have one of your own- then you’ll know what I’m talking about." He laughed loudly. You scoffed. Fucking asshole.
“I see. I’ll keep an eye out then.” Mr. Laufeyson said cooly.
“Right well feel free to pop by anytime, we leave tomorrow morning. Here’s the number of my cellular telephone- I always have it on me you know.” Your father was obsessed with his clunky mass of plastic- he brought it everywhere he went, mostly to brag about it to strangers or talk obnoxiously on it to avoid conversations with you or Carla.
“He really does. Even in the bedroom!” Carla giggled, causing you to shudder in disgust.
“Of course, well I should be on my way.” He stepped back over to you. “I suppose I’ll be seeing you around. Here’s my information,” he placed a thick, black and white business card onto the small table beside you. “In case of emergency.”
You pulled your sunglasses down your nose and slid your eyes up his body, biting your lip as you met his stare. “I’ll be sure to remember. See you around, Mr. Laufeyson.”
He considered you for a moment and you thought he was about to say something else before he nodded and turned, heading for the gate.
You settled back in your seat and nestled the headphones of your discman over your ears. You pressed the play button, the beat of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” drowning out whatever Carla and your father were arguing about once their guest had left.
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It was much later that evening that you finally slipped from your room to find some dinner. The house was dark- you knew your father and Carla had an early flight. Grabbing a wrapped plate from the fridge that the housekeeper had left you you headed to the back deck to eat. You kept the lights off as you watched the dim foamy white of the ocean’s waves hitting the rocks below, finding peace in the sound.
Finishing your meal you were about to head inside when you saw a light come on out of the corner of your eye. From where you were sitting you could see into a room on the top floor of Mr. Laufeyson’s house. Interesting- you’d never seen into this room before, the windows that faced your father’s house were usually shuttered. You laid back and lit a cigarette, choking on the inhale when you saw Mr. Laufeyson emerge, shirtless, his eyes dark and hungry. He was pulling a woman behind him, a blonde, her shirt unbuttoned to expose a lacy red bra. Once he stood at the edge of the bed he turned around to kiss her, his hands moving to the clasp of her bra. Undoing it, he pulled away to slide it down her arms before turning her around and unzipping her skirt, leaving her in just a high waisted red lace thong.
Your heart was hammering in your chest. You were transfixed by the scene unfolding in front of you. He flung her on the bed- from your position you could see it all as if it were happening in a room adjacent to yours. Climbing over her he dipped his head to capture her lips once more as he ground against her. Your legs clenched together as you continued to smoke your cigarette, the combined effect of the nicotine and the scene in front of you making your head spin.
His hand trailed down to the red lace covering her heat as he continued to kiss and grind against her. Slipping his fingers in you found you were doing the same to yourself, feeling the hot wet of your arousal. He had pulled away from her now, watching her face intently as her back arched up off of the mattress, her hands clutching his toned arms. He was saying something to her, his eyes going from her face to her heaving breasts as he continued to work his hand inside of her. A flush was blooming on her chest, her mouth open and her eyebrows drawn together. You were moving your hand in time with his, your arousal coating your fingers. His movements became faster as he continued to speak to her, smiling menacingly before her back arched fully off the bed, her hands grasping at him. Withdrawing from the dampened red lace his fingers glistened in the light, wet from her release.
He easily picked her up off the bed, carrying her to the window sill. He roughly pulled her panties down before he undid his trousers then lined himself up at her entrance. He pressed into her, her back flat against the glass and his face visible beside the back of her head, his eyes closed. You imagined how it’d feel, the cool glass against your back, his warm hand firmly gripping your thigh, his strong arms holding your legs open as he fucked you. He began to move inside of her then his eyes opened, staring straight at you in the darkness. Your heart beat faster as you felt yourself blush- surely he couldn’t see you out here, you were shrouded in the dark. You could barely see the outline of your hand as you brought it to your face for another puff. You froze- the cigarette.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” you hissed, quickly removing your hand from its position and shakily putting out the cigarette on your dinner plate. Sliding your chair out quietly you chanced one last look towards the window- he was smirking in your direction as he continued to move against the blonde. Your heart felt like it was going to beat out of your chest as you backed away towards the porch door. You could swear his eyes didn’t leave you once and it sent shudders through you. You made your way back to your room and lay awake for hours, each time you closed your eyes you saw his piercing blue-green stare and filthy smirk.
You must have drifted off at some point since you eventually awoke to silence- an anomaly. You’d usually wake to Carla’s screeching laugh as she spoke on the phone to her friends, or she’d send the housekeeper Marie to wake you. You checked the clock beside you- 9AM. Carla and your father were long gone by now.
You smiled at that, stretching lazily before cranking the radio and dancing around your room as you got ready, the sunlight beaming in through your window. Making your way to the main kitchen you froze, last night coming back to you. The way Mr. Laufeyson had looked out at you as if he were expecting you to be there. Did he leave the blinds open on purpose? You shook your head, no way he’d be that forward. Sure he flirted with you every now and then, but nothing beyond that. You pushed the thought from your mind for the rest of the day.
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A week passed quickly, you spent a lot of time with your friends, going shopping, to the beach, or local restaurants. You didn’t spend much time around the house so you hadn’t seen Mr. Laufeyson since the “incident”. On Friday you met up with some friends midday and got a ride to one of their parents’ beach houses. You spent the day there, drinking and laughing as you enjoyed the sun. Your friends dropped you back off at your place at around 7pm, you were pleasantly buzzed but looking forward to a quiet night in.
It was so hot outside you decided to take a dip in the pool. Cranking the radio in the backyard you decided to skinny dip- no one was home anyways. You sighed as your heated skin met the water, cooling instantly. You did a few laps before lazily swimming a backstroke and humming the music on the radio when you saw something coming towards you out of the corner of your eye. Standing upright you saw Mr. Laufeyson walking towards you from the door to the backyard, a smirk playing at his lips. Your heart started beating quickly as you realised the position you were in, remembering his hungry stare from last week. You swam over to the side of the pool to meet him.
“Hi,” he smiled, looking down at you.
You bit your lip and innocently looked up at him. “Hello, Mr. Laufeyson.”
“I’m sorry to intrude.”
“No worries. Is there anything I can do for you, Mr. Laufeyson?” you asked, noticing his eyes taking in your body under the water. He definitely knew you were naked. Your thighs clenched together at the thought.
“I was coming to see you about something that happened last week that had me… concerned. I thought I saw someone out on the balcony, late at night. Was that you?”
You felt your cheeks grow hot, your heartbeat picking up to a mile a minute. “What day was this?”
“Last week Friday.” His face was serious as he strolled over to a pool chair, pulling it closer to the side and taking a seat.
“I’m not sure. I don’t think anyone was out there then.” The words came out a lot quicker than you’d meant. You were usually pretty good at lying but something in his voice made you want to tell him the truth, to please him.
He tsked. “I’ve seen you lie better than that. Try again darling.” He sounded bored as he reached for your pack of cigarettes on the side table. He raised an eyebrow in question as he drew out a cigarette. You nodded, nervously biting your lip as he lit it and crossed his legs, leisurely smoking while he stared you down.
“No words, little one?” he teased, smirking down at you. “Did you at least enjoy the show?”
You huffed- this was humiliating. How dare he? You found anger quickly overtaking your initial shock and embarrassment as you made your way to the pool stairs and got out. You raised an eyebrow at him and smiled when the smirk slid off his face at the sight of your naked, wet body. Two can play this game. Walking over to him you grabbed a towel off the chair and wrapped it around yourself.
“I don’t know what you’re trying to imply here,” you grabbed the cigarette from between his long, muscular fingers and took a long drag. “But I didn’t see you last Friday night. And I definitely didn’t see you fucking that blonde-” your eyes widened at your own confession.
He stood to his full height and stepped closer to you, looking down at you once more. You backed up a step, feeling the lounge chair behind you.
“Drop the towel,” he growled, the hungry look in his eyes fully directed at you this time.
“Listen-“ you started to explain yourself.
“Drop. The. Towel.” He enunciated each word with his crisp accent and perfect voice.
“I knew it- I knew you wanted to fuck me.” You smirked at him triumphantly as you took another drag.
“If I have to tell you again to take that off, you’re not gonna like me darling,” he threatened, stepping closer.
“Oh really?” You laughed, taunting him. “And what are you going to do, Mr. Laufeyson?” You blinked innocently at him, enjoying the way the muscles in his jaw clenched.
Suddenly he grabbed your jaw, firmly but not painfully as he brought his face inches from yours, your eyes locked.
“You fucking brat.” He roughly pulled the towel down, exposing your body to the warm air. He pinched the cigarette from your fingers, extinguishing it under his shoe on the concrete. “I’m going to have to teach you some manners, aren’t I?”
Before you could answer he spun you both around and sat on the lounge chair then pulled you over his lap, angling you so your top half rested on the chair, your hips over his. One hand firmly held your lower back in place, the other smoothed over the skin of your ass and you squirmed. His hand came down to spank you, hard. “First lesson- don’t fucking move until I tell you to.” You whined, your face burning.
His hand came down again in the same spot, causing you to hiss and grip the plastic of the chair in one hand and his thigh in the other. “Second lesson- always answer me.”
You were humiliated but you found yourself growing even more wet with each spank. First there was the pain, then a wave of pleasure that intensified when he smoothed his hand over the skin he’d hit.
He gave you another slap, “what did I just say?” He growled, his hand roughly gripping the skin this time.
“T-to always answer you.” Your voice was small as you stuttered, overwhelmed by the way he was making you feel.
“Good girl.” You'd felt a tiny swell of pride at that. “I’m going to spank you three more times. Count them for me.”
“Okay,” you nodded, worried if you didn’t answer he’d add more to the list. His hand came down on your other cheek, hard and fast.
“One,” you counted, taking a deep breath. Before you could forcibly relax your tense muscles his hand had struck your cheek once more, causing you to hiss.
Your finger tips were pressing into his thigh as you let out a breath, the sharp pain receding. “Two,” you licked your lips and tensed in anticipation of the third and final slap.
After a few seconds you relaxed then turned to catch his eye- he was darkly observing you with his jaw clenched. Suddenly he hit the skin once more, this time the hardest, causing you to cry out.
You composed yourself with a quick breath. “Three.”
“Well done, darling.” He was gently running over the sore skin with his large hands. You could feel his erection under you.
“I wish you could see how lovely you looked on my lap, taking your spanking so well.” He dipped his hand between your legs. You sucked in a breath when you felt his fingers brush along your wet slit causing you to writhe on his lap.
“My poor, little thing. You’re dripping,” his voice was pure sin as he brought his glistening fingers up to your face.
He shifted, his strong grip helping you off his lap so you stood before him on shaky legs. You bit your lip, face growing hot as suddenly became fascinated with your fingers, twisting them painfully.
He stood then, and brought his finger under your chin to guide your eyes to his. He wore a satisfied expression, a slight grin at his lips as he took in your naked form.
“Do you think you’ve learnt your lesson darling?” He asked, his eyes mocking yours.
You quickly nodded, feeling fully exposed in front of his fully clothed form.
He licked his lips. “Do you want to go upstairs so I can fuck you?”
Your cheeks burnt as you nodded quickly again.
“Answer me darling,” he dropped his hand from your chin.
“Yes, Mr. Laufeyson.”
A slow, filthy grin spread across his face. “Lead the way,” he motioned towards the stairs.
You bent to reach for your towel on the ground. “Ah, ah, no need for that darling.” His words stopped you. You shivered as you stood back up, another wave of heat pulsing through your core.
You tentatively walked up the steep stairs and he followed closely behind. You could feel his gaze on you with each step.
Once up on the patio you looked back at him, his eyes dark with hunger. You gave him a shy smile before leading him inside. You stopped- should you bring him to your bedroom?
Before you could finish your thought he slid up behind you, his hands coming to grip your waist. “Where shall I take you, darling?” He whispered in your ear, his breath making you shiver.
He let go of your waist to circle you, stopping before you. “Do you want me to ruin you on that god awful couch?” He looked over his shoulder to the gaudy floral couch Carla had ordered special from Italy. She wouldn’t let anyone who wasn’t company sit on it in fear of stains.
You smiled at the idea of ruining the couch with Mr. Laufeyson, knowing Carla would lose her mind- even more so if she found out how it got there. “Yes please.”
He pulled you towards it then gently guided you to sit at the edge of it, angling you so you were in one corner. His hands splayed over the skin of your legs, gently pushing them apart. The feeling of the cool air of the house on your slit gave you goosebumps.
He kept his eyes locked with yours as he knelt between your legs before he turned to press a kiss to your thigh close to your knee. He then bit the skin there, earning a sharp inhale from you before he soothed it with his warm tongue.
“Tell me, darling. Did you touch yourself? Did you play with yourself as you watched me?” His velvety voice sent an involuntary shudder through you, his eyes capturing yours.
He nipped at your thigh with his teeth, marring the skin. You yelped then swallowed. “Yes! Yes, I did.”
“Good girl.” He moved to repeat his actions further up the inside of your thigh while he gently ran his fingers up and down your other thigh.
You were trembling while you watched him, each bite a little harder than the last as he got closer to your wet core. His eyes met yours once more then he blew a stream of cold air over your slit, causing you to gasp sharply. He smirked before letting his lips barely graze over your clit, your hips moving slightly before he brought his arm down over them to hold you in place.
He ever so gently pressed a kiss to your clit before gently running his tongue over the sensitive flesh, pulling a moan from you. You could feel your wetness dripping down onto the couch below as he continued to delicately tease you.
“You taste divine, darling. Better than I’d imagined.” You whined at his words- the idea of him alone, picturing what your cunt tasted like brought you to the edge of an orgasm.
He smiled wickedly up at you. “So close already? Poor thing.” Bringing one long finger to your slit he gathered some wetness before pushing it fully within you, forcing a loud moan through your lips.
“It’s okay darling, let go. Give into me. I promise it’ll make you feel so much better,” he hummed against your clit before tenderly sucking on it. He bent his finger within you, hitting something deep that made you cry out. You quickly came, your release squirting around his finger and wetting the couch below.
He kept up his movements as you rode out your high. Once your breath returned to you he pulled away and removed his finger, licking his lips as he wiped your release off his chin.
“Third lesson- good girls always get to cum.” He winked at you with a grin before standing.
He leaned over you, caging you in on the couch before capturing your lips with his. You hummed at the taste of yourself on him, his tongue gliding against yours.
He straightened back up then pulled you up off the couch and guided you to face the other way. He led you so your knees were on the couch, your arms resting against the back of the upholstery. You heard the sound of a zipper before feeling the tip of his hard length slide against your folds. You instinctively arched your back at the feeling, pressing yourself up against him, causing him to groan.
“Such a greedy little brat,” he said, smoothing his hands over the skin of your ass. “You want me to fuck that pretty little cunt, hm?”
“Yes- yes please, Mr. Laufeyson. Please fuck me,” you begged, rubbing yourself on him once more.
With that he thrust into you, holding himself still once he was fully seated within you, giving you a chance to adjust. You’d gasped at the sensation- he was clearly well-endowed and you were thankful he gave you a moment. Willing your muscles to relax you looked back at him before grinding your hips against his.
His eyes were dark with lust, his jaw clenched in a way that made you involuntarily squeeze him as he started to move within you. You were panting as he set a pace, the angle of his thrusts hitting the same spot he’d found quickly before.
You’d turned back around and folded your forearms over the back of the couch, arching yourself against him even more. He growled and picked up his pace, his hand firmly gripping your hip. The angle had you moaning desperately, the feeling of him so deep within you making your fingers and toes numb.
“That’s it darling, take my cock within your needy little cunt. Fuck- I’ve wanted to ruin this tight little pussy for so long. I’ve wanted you for so long,” he rasped out between thrusts and your mind went blank, all you could respond with were desperate moans.
He stopped abruptly and pulled you up before sitting himself on the couch and pulling you over his lap so you were straddling him. He’d unbuttoned his shirt and your mouth went dry at the sight of the musculature under his pale skin. You slid your fingers under the fabric, gripping his firm shoulders as he positioned himself under you.
You moved your hips in a circle over him, enjoying the feel of the very tip of him swirling within you.
“You little tease,” he grinned darkly, running a hand through his hair. “Ride me, darling. Show me what you can do.”
Your cunt clenched at his words and his wicked smirk spread. You took the opportunity to bring yourself down to grind against him, wiping the smug look off his face.
You quickly set a pace as you rode him, his hands on your ass guiding your movements. You were panting as you continued your movements, the angle bringing you close to your finish.
“Are you going to cum, darling?” His voice vibrated through you, and you nodded.
“Yes- fuck, Mr. Laufeyson. You feel so good-“ he continued to guide your movements, moving his head closer to your breast. He brought his mouth around one of your nipples, gently sucking at the nub. You arched into him, moaning at the sensation.
His tongue ran against your skin in his mouth, bringing another moan from you before he sharply bit down on your nipple, pushing you over the edge into another orgasm. You moaned his name over and over as you rode out your high, your nails digging into the skin of his shoulder. As you came back to yourself you felt him twitch within you, filling you as he reached his own finish.
You watched him as he came, mesmerised with his blissful expression, his long eyelashes touching defined cheekbones. His eyes fluttered back open and he gave you a smirk- god help you he was fucking gorgeous.
He gave you a chaste kiss before helping you up, the combined fluids from your finish trickling down your thigh. You were happy to see some hit the couch as you moved off him.
You strolled to the bathroom to clean yourself up and throw on a t-shirt and panties, passing a damp cloth to him once you returned. You pulled a cigarette from the pack you had on the kitchen counter, then headed to the balcony as you lit it up.
You were leaning on the balcony, watching the now dark waves when he joined you. You smiled at him, offering him your cigarette. He took a long drag as you leant on the balcony’s edge.
“So,” you trailed off, not sure what to say.
“That was fun,” he exhaled then smiled at you, his expression mischievous.
“Yeah,” you agreed, relief filling your chest. “I’d love to do it again.”
“Of course darling, we have all summer.” He came behind you, pulling you against his chest as he ducked his head so his lips were beside your ear. ”And you have quite a bit to learn.”
End Notes: Want to read more Loki fics of mine? My masterlist is here.
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Happy Holidays, my lovely elves and reindeers! Hope you got yourself some hot chocolate with some marshmallows and gingerbread cookies with you because we have another challenge for you all! For those who did my October Challenge, you might like this one! Don’t be afraid to gather more friends to join on this one!
As some of you know, it’s December, my birthday month! If you’d like to do a special fic for me, feel free to message me and you can work from there (Will add the day of my birthday if you’d like to gift it on the day of it). As always, I’m grateful to have you all gathered here, I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving with your families! This is my first time celebrating my birthday on Tumblr so it’s going to be a nice thing to do. 
There will be a lot of choices for you so choose whatever you please to make this Holiday a nice treat for those.
Rules and Prompts are provided below the cut!
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Do you have to follow Dino to participate?
No. You do not have to, this is for everyone. But I’d appreciate it.
Deadline?
No deadline, you could even start it in January. Even though it says 25 Days of Chris-Fics. And if you’re late for my birthday, you can post it before or after (if you plan on something special. I don’t expect something for me cause you’re enough)
Rules
Minimum 500 words. No max 
Unlimited choices, you can do whatever you choose, but keep it below 5 choices.
Limit of 2-3 stories per person.
No Smut! Implied is allowed just have very little and warnings.
These can be reader insert or OC stories.
Ethnic, Interracial, LGBTQ+ and polyamorous stories are welcome and encouraged.
It must be an original work and not part of an existing series.
Be sure to tag me and if I ever miss your fic and didn’t reblog it in two days, feel free to throw a message at me and I will surely give you a reblog in 24 hours.
My Birthday is on the 21st of  December, so you’re welcome to post your fic on that day!
Prompts:  Choose your favorite prompt and use it for your Holiday Fic!
Song Prompts: List of your favorite Holiday Songs you can use for your characters can sing, dance, listen to in your story or represent your story. Movie Prompts:  This can be something the family could watch or only two people could be alone with a nice cozy blanket. Or if you’re interested, you can use it as a AU. Ex: Choice of Character hates Christmas and ruins it for the other. (Grinch)
Picture Prompts: This is for your story to come to life, represent what your story holds. Either a nice hot chocolate on a winter night, a nice Christmas dinner, or decorating a tree.
When you have your Holiday Story written, tag me in that fic and use the tag #ODNHolidayBDay2020
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Prompts
1. “Is that a Mistletoe? Are you holding a Mistletoe?” 2. “So help me if you eat another Gingerbread man, me and you are going to fall out.” 3. “Christmas movies, Christmas lights, Christmas songs and you? That’s my ideal Christmas.” 4. S/O dresses up as Santa for the kids. 5. Secret Santa with family. 6. “You’re slowly turning into Buddy the Elf, so calm down.” 7. “Santa’s not real...” “I will cover you in Christmas lights and tinsel, turning you into a Christmas tree if you say that one more time.” 8. Person A and Person B decorate their Christmas tree and they argue who puts the star on top. 9. Dressing their pet up as Santa, Rudolph or an Elf. 10. “Stop being such a Grinch!” 11. “If you eat one more cookie from that plate, we’re going to have problems.” 12. “I want a reindeer.” 13. Person A mounts lights onto the house while Person B holds the ladder as they’re panicking that Person A will fall. 14. Snow fights/Ice Skating 15. Person A and B both are making Christmas treats. 16. S/O makes hot chocolate and sets a cozy date on the couch for their S/O. 17. S/O hates Christmas but after a lot of convincing it works. 18 . The kid(s) wake the parents up at 5am. 19. “____, come back to bed, please.” S/O with camera, “I will prove he exists.” 20. “Did you really set a trap by the fireplace?” 21. Kid(s) wrap S/O in wrapping paper and puts a bow on their head. 22. S/O shows the other how to wrap presents. 23. Making Gingerbread houses. 24. Matching pajamas (including pet) 25. S/O takes the kids sledding. 26. Go riding with the reindeers. 27. “You really outdone the house.” 28. S/O dresses up as an Elf while cooking dinner. 29. “I’m going to tie you with Christmas lights if you don’t stop.” 30. Going to a Christmas Light Show in a park with live animals. 31. “Ooh, cookies-” “Get out of my kitchen!” 32. “You’re drinking wine at 7 in the morning-?” “You keep bothering me, I might soon enough be drunk.” 33. “You better get your ass out of bed.” “You better get your ass out of my room.” 34. “Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.” 35.  Singing Xmas Carols in a plaza to earn money for the homeless.
Song Prompts
36. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
37. Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
38. Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
39. It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year - Andy Williams
40. The Christmas Song (Remastered) - Nat King Cole
41. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
42. Last Christmas - WHAM!
43. Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes
44. Rudolph The Red-Nose Reindeer - Gene Autry
45. Frosty The Snowman - Jimmy Durante
46. Santa Claus Is Coming Town - Jackson 5
47. (There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays - Perry Como
48. I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Michael Bublé
49. Wrapped in Red - Kelly Clarkson
50. Silver Bells - Andy Williams
51. Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
52. Jingle Bells - Frank Sinatra
53. Where Are You Christmas - Faith Hill
54. 4 Carats - Kelly Clarkson
55. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
56. Winter Wonderland - Darlene Love
57. Underneath the Tree - Kelly Clarkson
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Movie Prompts
58. Fred Claus (2007) 
59. Last Christmas (2019) 
60. Four Christmases (2008)
61. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) 
62. Home Alone (1990/1992)
63. The Polar Express (2004)
64. Elf (2003)
65. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
66. A Christmas Story (1983)
67. Frosty The Snowman (1969)
68. Deck The Halls (2006) 
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khoicesbyk · 3 years
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A/N: I'm officially obsessed with Wolf Bride and what does one do when she's obsessed with a certain book? She writes an AU about it! 😁 So, Talley Ho! *in my Sherlock Holmes voice*
Rated: Mature. | Contains sexual content and strong language. (You know? The usual from me. 😁) | Bolded and/or italicized words are conversations and thoughts of the characters. | Main Characters: Roman (LI) and Naia Evans (MC) | All Characters and names: (except MC and certain original characters, created by me) are property of Pixelberry.
Current Word Count: 1,790 words. (May be a little more and may be a little less. I stop counting after editing and re-editing. 🤷🏾‍♀️)
Song And Story Inspiration: Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun)-Janet Jackson | All This Time (Vocal Version)-Lalah Hathaway | Can’t Let Go/Vision Of Love-Mariah Carey | If I Ever Fall In Love/Comforter-Shai
This series is rated Mature. It is NOT reading material that is safe for those under 18. Reader discretion is STRONGLY advised!
This series may contain spoilers. If you wish not to see spoilers, please do not read any further.
If you’d like to be added to my tag list. Just reblog or dm me and I will gladly add you. 😁😘
TW: character death. Death of a parent. Reader discretion is STRONGLY advised!
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Chapter 2.) The Alpha.
Roman is Alpha of his Pack.
He was always taught to be strong, to lead, to guide, to hunt, to fight, to defend and especially to breed. It is his duty to carry on the next generation of Alphas like his father did and grandfather before him.
He is the oldest of his parents' children. His father Xander was his hero and he praised the ground his mother Delia walked on. Growing up in the pack wasn’t always easy for him. Growing up he would have dreams of a young girl. She was beautiful, especially when she smiled. Her eyes would light up when she smiled. Her laugh made his heart skip. He loved seeing her in his dreams.
He couldn’t wait to wake up and tell his mother about her.
“Did you see her again?” She asked him as they walked. His mother loved to walk amongst the trees.
“Yes! She was so pretty mother! I love to see her. Even if it’s in a dream.” He replies.
The joy in his voice made Delia smile.
“I’m happy to hear that my son.”
“I do hope that I get to see her again.”
Delia smiled at him then said, “I’m sure that you will see her again, my son.”
His father raised and trained him to be stronger, faster and better than his siblings or any of the other wolf pups. He was being groomed to be the next Alpha. He loved to hunt. Silently listening for his prey before making his move gave him an adrenaline rush. Conquering his prey gave him pride. He loved providing for the Pack.
He became the Alpha at 19 when his father died. Although it is a burden and some of the elders felt he was too young and not ready for it. Roman was more than ready, willing, capable and able to lead the Pack. Even though he missed his father, Roman is a great Alpha. The Pack respects him and follows his authority. He is stern but fair with those he protects. And when he defends the earth as well as his pack, his ferocity is on full display. And even when he is occasionally challenged by others from within the Pack, he always proves why he is Alpha.
He was the leader his mother knew he would be. She loved watching him flourish in his role as Alpha. Seeing his confidence grow brought her joy. Delia loved each of her children and was proud of all of them, but Roman being her oldest and firstborn child had her heart.
Which is why he took her death so hard. He loved his mother and always made sure that her needs were tended to. Even after her cancer diagnosis, if she wanted it then he made sure that she had it. Even if it meant just sitting with her holding her hand or worse singing to and with her, he was happy to do so.
Her final moments were spent in his arms. He knew she didn’t have much time left. He held her in his arms but he wasn’t ready to let her go.
“Roman, it’s time for you to choose a mate.” She said in a voice just above a whisper.
“No. Not now. My focus is on you mother.” He replied cradling her closer to him.
“You must my son. You are Alpha now. It is up to you now to have and raise pups.”
“Mother please…”
She smiled softly at him then said, “My sweet boy, you must. It is our way of life. You must carry on the next generation.”
“I can’t mother. Not right now. My role as Alpha doesn’t allow me time to search.”
“My son, you don’t have to search. You’ve already found her my son.”
“Who?” He asked.
“The young girl you used to dream about. She will be your mate.” Selia replied.
“Mother she isn’t real.”
“Yes she is my son. I’ve seen it. You two are meant to be together. Find her in your mind and your heart and you will see the bond you both share. Find her Roman. She is your mate.”
“Y-yes mother.” He said as his voice cracked.
“I love you my son.” She whispered.
“I love you too mother.”
Delia closed her eyes and took her final breath. Within seconds she was gone. And although he grieved her, Roman understood what his mother was telling him. He needed to find a mate. He tried finding a mate within the Pack and while many of the women had interest in him, he really had none in them. But he forced himself to choose anyway. He settled on his now ex Isobel. They tried to make their relationship work but for him, his heart just wasn’t in it.
His heart was calling on someone else. So he went to the Pack Elder Noemi for guidance.
“What can I do for you, my child?” She asked. Her voice soothing. She was like a grandmother to him.
“I’m having trouble finding a mate, Speaker.” He replied.
“Then let us find you a mate, my child. Come! Let’s go to the grounds.” She replies as she rises to her feet.
He walked behind her as they walked to a plateau known as the grounds. Old stones covered in moss that were placed in a circle. Noemi sat down on the edge while Roman entered the middle.
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“Tell me what you want me to do Speaker.” He said to her.
“Close your eyes and open your mind and heart.” She instructed him.
Once his eyes were closed, he opened his mind and heart.
“Heart of the earth, hear me. Open yourself to my child. Guide him on his path to his mate.” She chanted.
Deep in his subconscious, Roman searched. Concentrating on what he remembered about her. He unlocked his mind to the earth. And that’s when he saw her. The girl from his childhood dreams. Only she was no longer a girl. She had grown up to be a beautiful woman. Her long black hair framed her face perfectly. Her brown eyes sparkled. And her beautiful brown skin was hypnotic to him.
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He’d found her after all these years. As he looked at her, he noticed that she was singing. He’d heard her voice for the first time in decades. It’s just as beautiful as she is. She was on stage at a karaoke bar with her friends singing “Vision Of Love” by Mariah Carey.
“Treated me kind.
Sweet destiny.
Carried me through desperation.
To the one that was waiting for me.
It took so long.
Still I believed.
Somehow the one that I needed.
Would find me eventually.
I had a vision of love.
And it was all that you've given to me.
Prayed through the nights.
Felt so alone.
Suffered through alienation.
Carried the weight on my own.
Had to be strong.
So I believed.
And now I know I've succeeded.
In finding the place I conceived.
I had a vision of love.
And it was all that you've given to me.
I had a vision of love.
And it was all that you've given me.
I've realized a dream.
And I visualized.
The love that came to be.
Feel so alive.
I'm so thankful that I've received.
The answer that heaven has sent down to me.
You treated me kind (yeah).
Sweet destiny (yes, you did).
And I'll be eternally grateful (oh).
Holding you so close to me (prayed through the night).
Prayed through the nights (so faithfully).
So faithfully (faithfully).
Knowing the one that I needed.
Would find me eventually (he would find me).
I had a vision of love.
And it was all that you've given to me.
I had a vision of love.
And it was all that you turned out to be…”
As she sang, he felt close to her. He could feel her emotions as she sang. She was heartbroken. And it made him furious. He wanted to hold her, to comfort her, to tell her that it will be okay and to tell her that he would protect her. As she sang she could feel a presence around her but couldn’t put her finger on what it was. Like someone had their arms around her and was holding her close. It was their hearts, minds and souls becoming connected and awakening their bond.
When Roman finally opened his eyes, Noemi was smiling at him.
“Have you found her my child?” She asked
“Yes I have. She’s beautiful.” He replies.
“What is her name, my child?” She asked.
“Naia.” He replies.
Noemi smiled warmly at him.
“She will be your mate, my child.”
“Of this I have no doubt, Speaker.”
A week later, Naia looked up Hunt’s Peak and soon found herself enthralled by it. She loved the pictures she’d seen online. She felt connected to it for some inexplicable reason. Soon, she was dreaming of Hunt’s Peak and started hearing a man’s voice. The voice belonged to Roman. And when he was able to dream about her, that’s when he would call out to her. He wanted to have her at his side. His heart longed for her. His body yearned for her. He could feel her even though he had never formally met her before.
Early one morning he was awakened by the pull of his heart. She was close, he could feel it in his bones. She was closer to him than she had ever been before. She was coming. He left the den in search of her. When he went into the woods, he shifted from human to wolf. Being a wolf gave him a better sense of smell and direction. He quickly picked up a scent and followed it.
His being called him to follow his bond with her. The closer he got to her, the stronger the bond became. Soon he arrived at the Days Inn outside of town. He shifted back to his human form and stood at the edge of the woods across from the parking lot. He was drawn to her. Especially when he heard her sing. It was through the bond that they shared that he heard her. He closed his eyes and listened.
“There you are holding her hand.
I am lost.
Dying to understand.
Didn't I cherish you right?
Don't you know you were my life?
Even though I try I can't let go.
Something in your eyes.
Captured my soul.
And every night I see you in my dreams.
You're all I know.
I can't let go.”
Listening to her sing confirmed to him that he’d finally found her. And that very soon, he and Naia would be together.
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rchtzr · 3 years
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@dearscone tagged me (in july................ i’m truly sorry that i am the way that i am) to write down 13 songs i’ve been obsessed with recently
1. disco tits / tove lo 2. girls and boys / blur 3. everywhere / fleetwood mac 4. fantasy / mariah carey 5. bang the doldrums / fall out boy 6. say it ain’t so / calpurnia cover 7. heat waves / glass animals 8. social cues / cage the elephant 9. running up that hill / kate bush 10. sun tan / wallows 11. misery business / paramore 12. stacy’s mom / fountains of wayne 13. the way i are / timbaland  
tagging: @blueeyedrichie @embersjanuary @clownjizz @calico-fiction and anyone else to wants to!!! here is an @ say I tagged u!! <33333
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jlalafics · 4 years
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“Fantasy”-an Everlark One-Shot
Please read over this prompt from @writing-prompt-s before reading this story or it will make no sense at all.
Also, this was the first song that came into my mind when I read this prompt.
Enjoy!
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Katniss parked her car in front of the supermarket, a deep sigh escaping her lips after what felt like the longest dinner party of her life.
It wasn’t that she didn’t love seeing her group of friends; Gale and Madge were wonderful hosts. She had known them since they were children and it was nice to have maintained a friendship after almost thirty years.
It was even better because her younger sister was there along with Rory, her sister’s husband, and Gale’s younger brother. The party was rounded out with Delly and Thom, next door neighbors to Gale and Madge who had just moved into the neighborhood.
What was bothersome was that she was the lone guest to a group of couples.
For the most part, Katniss didn’t mind being single. She had been in relationships in the past, her latest one lasting a year before they both decided that lukewarm feelings wouldn’t suffice. She had hit thirty-five and wanted more of a connection and they obviously didn’t have a deep one. Cato was now happily married to the woman that he had met after her.
Prim often told her that she had soulmate expectations, to which Katniss could do nothing but laugh.
Soulmates were a myth; the last occurrence happening possibly a hundred years ago. The historic records on the subject were not concrete enough for her analytical mind, so she could only conclude that the stories were nothing but the hopeful longing of many a pining historians.
Getting out of the car, she rushed to the entrance. It was a frigid night and she was not about to catch a cold due to her poor decision to wear a wrap dress to the Hawthorne dinner party.
The supermarket was practically empty as it was almost closing time. There was a lone cashier up front, her focus on an issue of US Weekly with the most unflattering photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on its cover. Above her, the overhead speaker played an instrumental of Muskrat Love and she grabbed a shopping basket before heading towards the aisles in search of baking powder.
Katniss always baked for her new students, the tradition starting her first year as a college professor. She had been so anxious the night before that she had ended up stress baking dozens of blueberry muffins.
Since she lived alone, there was no other choice but to offer them to her students. Hungry rascals they were, they eagerly took one or two as they entered her class.
Now muffins had become an age-old tradition in Professor Everdeen’s class.
It had expanded now to not just blueberry; she accommodated to those allergic to gluten, eggs, nuts, and dairy baking different varieties of muffins. A coffee and tea station was also available during that first day before they all sat down to get to know one another.
She found the baking aisle easily. However, someone decided that it would be best to place baking powder on the highest shelf.
“Damn.”
Katniss stared up for a moment before placing her basket down. She swiftly looked to each side of the aisle before removing her heels and stepping onto the first shelf, her feet pushing the arranged cans back to make room.
She reached, her hand almost touching the coveted can of baking powder—
“Are you aware that you can easily call someone to get that for you?”
A shock rushed up her spine at being caught.
However, not one to be deterred, Katniss took a breath before responding, “The store is obviously understaffed as the only employee I saw was currently perusing ‘Stars! They’re Just Like Us!’”
“I’ll talk to Rue about that,” the voice, obviously male, replied with a chuckle. “Now, will you step down? I don’t want you to get hurt.”
With a sigh, Katniss did as she was told and turned to face the man. “I’m sorry—”
His smile was the first thing that greeted her; wide and friendly, full of pearly white teeth between smooth lips. The rest of him was not so bad either; medium height, thick blond hair that was short on the sides and full at the top, and eyes so blue that she questioned if it was even genetically possible.
He held out his hand to her. “Peeta.”
She took it, quelling her urge to flutter her eyelashes at him. “Katniss Eve—”
The lights above them began to fade out and the familiar hum of Mariah Carey suddenly blared over the speakers followed by her trademark high note then—
 “Oh when you walk by every night
Talking sweet and looking fine
I get kind of hectic inside…”
 “Why is Fantasy playing on your speakers?” she yelled.
Peeta opened his mouth to answer when the symphony of lights began to cascade over them.
Pinks…purples…blues…yellows all in tune with the song—it made her dizzy and she turned to the man before her who looked just as confused. The colors highlighted his handsome face in a rainbow of lights.
“What’s Fantasy?” he asked loudly.
“This song!” she answered back. “It was my favorite song—when I was ten!”
Katniss remembered as a child dancing in her bedroom, Walkman in her hands and headphones on her ears as she sang along with Mariah, trying to mimic her high notes. She loved the feeling that the song gave her, the feeling of giddiness that made her heart leap and caused the churn of excitement in her stomach.
She always imagined that was how falling in love felt.
It hit her suddenly, the barely legible account of the soulmate occurrence.
The music…the light show…
It happened whenever soulmates met—or so the legend went.
Katniss looked to the man before her, taking in his apron and his jaunty countenance. “Peeta, how old are you?”
He grinned youthfully before answering, “Nineteen.”
Oh…hell no.
He wasn’t even born when this song came out! Probably just a little blip in his father’s sac at that point.
“I have to go!” she called out in a panic.
Peeta grabbed the can of baking powder, holding it out to her. “What about this?”
She yanked it from his grasp and turned into a full sprint out of the supermarket.
Halfway through her fifth batch, Katniss realized that she had shoplifted.
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“Help yourself to a muffin! Then, take your seats!” Katniss called out as the auditorium began to fill. “The syllabus is on top of your seats. Please read over it as we will have a Q&A before I dismiss the class.”
She had barely closed her eyes before her alarm rang. What sleep she did get was filled with Peeta’s bright blues and that hugely attractive smile.
When she was not sleeping, Katniss was obsessing over the whole occurrence—the music and cacophony of blinding lights that went with it. She even Googled the last soulmate occurrence to make sure that what occurred was an actual soulmate meeting.
It was all there. There was no information on what the music was or even if the people that it happened to had even gotten together.
Her soulmate couldn’t possibly be that boy.
The flutter in her stomach remembering him was likely just a surface attraction to a handsome face and broad chest.
She really needed to get laid.
“Thanks for the muffin.”
Her stomach fluttered—it couldn’t be—she looked up to meet the familiar smile of her newfound ‘soulmate’.
And now, her new student.
Peeta moved in closer, his eyes roving her. “The music and lights stopped as soon as you left.”
Katniss nodded. “I’m glad to hear that.”
“When I got home, I Googled what happened and it mentioned an incident that happened in 1920,” he told her. “It had something to do with soulmates.”
She looked away. “Soulmates aren’t real.”
“Maybe,” Peeta said. “But you and I had a connection—soulmate or not—I’d still like to know you.”
“Well, as my student you will get to know me—as your professor,” she replied easily.
He smirked at her and hand to God, her stomach fluttered as if Mariah was singing right into her chest.
“Looking forward to the class, Professor Everdeen.”
She was so fucked.
 FIN.
*Music:
“Fantasy”—Mariah Carey (1995)
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vsquadgoals · 4 years
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Settling Down (J.W) Part Two
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It was around 2am when Jeff heard Alethea crying causing Milena to sleepily climb out of bed and go into the nursery to feed her. He rubbed his eyes and yawned unable to fall back asleep until she climbed back into bed about 20 minutes later. “Sorry.” She whispered cuddling into him, Jeff shook his head and wrapped his arms around her tightly holding her close. “Don’t be sorry baby.” He whispers into her hair both of them drifting back to sleep quickly. The next time Jeff heard Alethea was at 5am, he slipped out of bed careful not to wake Milena, he made his way into the nursery and scooped Alethea from her crib sitting in the rocking chair with her. Jeff rocked her slowly calming her as soon as he picked her up, once she was totally calm he decided she probably needed a new diaper, Jeff at this point was grateful that he had a niece and knew how to do this. After a few minutes Jeff sat in the rocking chair again with a now clean and fresh baby girl. He rocked her slowly putting her on his chest, he leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes rubbing circles on Alethea’s back. It wasn’t long before Jeff noticed she was finally back asleep, he waited a few more minutes to be sure before putting her back into her crib and returning to Milena’s bedroom. He climbed into bed carefully but unfortunately woke Milena who looked at him confused. “Is she crying?” She asks worried that she didn’t hear her daughter starting to sit up. Jeff shook his head and pulled her back onto the bed. “No, I changed her and then put her back to sleep, she’s okay.” Jeff reassured his exhausted girlfriend. Milena’s eyes got wide and she fought back tears. “You didn’t have to do that Jeff.” She says her voice cracking a little, Jeff smiles and pulls her into him again. “I know, but I wanted to. Now go back to sleep my love.” Milena pecks a few kisses on his lips before they fall back asleep again.  
Since that first time Jeff slept over, he was addicted to sleeping next to her and wanted to do it every night. Jeff slept over as often as he could sometimes bringing Nerf who Alethea and Milena both loved. Jeff couldn’t get enough of his two girls; he was constantly taking pictures of Milena and Alethea usually posting them on his private story which his family and friends found to be the cutest thing. Milena and Alethea had brought out a different side of Jeff, a sweeter more loving side, having the two of them in his life had definitely calmed him down and made him much happier. Jeff’s fans have even started to notice in his videos, they also noticed Jeff looking off camera at someone with so much love in his eyes, both in his videos and his friends, they were dying to know who he was dating. Fans started noticing Milena and Alethea in the background of the group's videos, sometimes Milena and Alethea would also make an appearance in David’s vlogs, Carly and Erin also vlogged with her when the girls all went to starbucks together and did a taste testing video, Heath had also put Milena and Alethea in one of his videos when she had gone over to visit so that him and Mariah could see Alethea and spend time with her since they were so obsessed with her. Milena loved being around the group she had so much fun with them and they all loved having her and Alethea around. It was in Carly and Erin’s vlog where they all went to starbucks where fans started getting suspicious, while Erin was filming Carly giving drinks to their friends at David’s at the bottom of the screen you could see Jeff staring in the direction of where Milena had sat and his eyes didn’t leave her direction for a long time and they were full of love. Of course, these were just speculations from fans because you couldn’t see if he was actually looking at her. This didn’t stop them from screenshotting the video and tagging them in it on twitter shipping the two of them.  
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Milena also made quite a few of appearances on everyone’s social media stories, they were either posting pictures of her and Alethea or just Alethea while they were all out and about or even just lounging around someone’s house. Milena had also posted a few of them on her stories as well, holding Alethea or just hanging out, it was very clear to all of their fans that they were all friend’s and no one could figure out how she got introduced into their group.  
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Milena was hanging out at David’s with everyone and they were all sitting in the living room, Jeff had gone with Todd to pick up food for everyone, Alethea was laying in her doc a tot on the couch asleep next to Milena. “Have you seen the tweets?” Natalie asks Milena pulling her attention away from the sleeping baby. Milena nods and shrugs. “Yeah, not much we can do right?” Natalie nods “What’s keeping you guys from coming out about your relationship? I mean we can all see that this is the long hall for you guys.” Milena smiles at her, it was nice to hear that everyone could see how much her and Jeff loved each other already, even if they hadn’t said it yet. “I think I’m just scared honestly, it’s so much harder since I have Alethea. It makes people ask a lot of questions and some of them I don’t think I wanna answer.” Milena admits honestly, Natalie looks at her and sighs. “It’s unfair, Jeff is so good with her and they are like obsessed with each other, it’s just not fair that people would judge you guys and make a big deal that Alethea isn’t his.” Mariah says adding to you and Natalie’s conversation. Milena nods and sighs frowning a little. “I know. That’s what I’m scared of honestly. Jeff is so amazing with her and I honestly could cry just thinking about it, I mean her own father didn’t want anything to do with her so the fact that Jeff and her connected as soon as they saw each other makes me so happy. He loves her so much and helps me so much with her. I just know that this isn’t how everyone will see it, sometimes people just judge immediately.” Mariah leans over and wraps her arms around Milena hugging her tight. “I know, we just feel so bad that you guys have to hide it. I mean Jeff practically lives with you, he’s there every day and night.” Natalie says from across the room frowning a little at Milena. Milena shrugs “I think we’ll do it soon just because it’s getting way too hard to keep it a secret especially for you guys and everyone else’s videos, everyone has be careful what they film and say and that’s not fair. It’s also getting harder for me to vlog cause like you said Jeff is always with us now so it’s hard to vlog and not get him in the videos.” Before they could say anything else Jeff and Todd are coming into David’s their arms full of bags of food. Jeff puts the bags down in the kitchen before heading over to Milena and kissing her head. “Hi mama.” He mumbles into her hair. “Speak of the devil.” She says smiling up at him. Jeff looks down at a peacefully sleeping Alethea and smiles wide taking out his phone and taking a picture of her. “God she’s so beautiful.” He says before leaning down and kissing her head.  
Jeff walks back into the kitchen on his phone posting the picture of Alethea on his story writing ‘Angel’ with a heart and tagging Milena. 
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He puts his phone back into his pocket before rummaging through the bag looking for his and Milena’s order. Everyone sits with each other and eating everyone talking and goofing around, some people on their phones. Thankfully Alethea doesn’t start fussing until they’re Milena is done eating. “Oh your turn.” She says as she picks up a hungry Alethea, she grabs her coverup and stands. “I’ll be back guys.” She says before going into David’s bedroom, he always let her feed Alethea in there, so she had a little privacy. Milena put the cover up around her neck sitting in the lovesac so she can look out at his view while she fed her. She cradles Alethea and starts feeding her relaxing into the giant bean bag.  
Jeff is bullshitting with Todd when Heath interrupts the two of them, “Jeff, you know everyone’s blowing up over the picture you posted of Alethea on your story right?” Jeff looks at Heath and shrugs, “Whatever. I’m so tired of keeping this a secret. I love them so much and I can’t pretend that I'm just friends with her anymore.” Mariah and Natalie smile at each other before looking at Jeff. “We literally just had this conversation with Milena before you got here. She pretty much said the same thing, she���s really scared how the fans are going to react since Milena’s a mom and Alethea’s not your baby.” Natalie tells him, Jeff sighs. “I get up in the middle of the night with her and help Milena with her, I may not be her dad, but I do help take care of her and I love her as if she was my daughter. I would die for her.” Jeff tells his friends running his fingers through his hair frustrated. His friends all nod. “Milena knows how much you love them; she was telling us how grateful she is for you.” David adds looking up from his laptop where he’s editing the vlog. “Clearly you two know what the negative comments could be, so you’re prepared, but you both are tired of hiding it.” Todd says patting Jeff on his shoulder, Jeff smiles at his friends and thanks them.  
Jeff peaks his head into David’s bedroom. “Can I come in?” He asks Milena who is still feeding the baby while she lays sleepily looking out the windows. Milena looks over her shoulder at Jeff and smiles nodding. Jeff walks in closing the door behind him, he places the diaper bag on the bed. “I figured you would need this after.” She smiles happily at him. “Thank you love.” Jeff sits on the floor leaning against the window so he can look at Milena. Jeff chews nervously on his lips before he speaks. “I think we should go public.” He says finally watching Milena closely trying to see her reaction. She looks over at him and bites her lip. “Are you sure you’re ready for that?” She asks nervously. Jeff nods and smiles at her. “I’ve never been more ready for anything in my life. I need everyone to know how much I love you and Alethea, plus I don’t want to hide it anymore.” Milena smiles wide at him. She holds Alethea close to her before leaning forward and kissing Jeff hard on his lips. Jeff kisses her back and smiles against her lips. “So, I guess that means you feel the same way?” he asks chuckling. Milena giggles and nods before leaning back into the lovesac. “Of course I do, the moment you showed interest in Alethea I was hooked.” She admits looking at Jeff who’s smiling from ear to ear.  
Milena is burping Alethea and Jeff is handing her a clean diaper and wipes when David knocks on the door. “Are you guys okay?” He asks covering his eyes standing in the doorway. Jeff chuckles and shakes his head. “You can come in Dave; she’s just changing her diaper now.” David nods and uncovers his eyes walking into his bedroom, he sits on the bed next to Jeff. “You guys okay?” He asks and Milena looks over at him and nods smiling. “Yeah we’re great. We’re going to go public, its time.” She updates him and David smiles wide. “Thank god! Oh, that’s awesome.” David pats Jeff on the shoulder. “I’m glad you found someone man.” He says to Jeff causing him to smile. “Thanks dude.” Milena smiles and hands Alethea to Jeff who was waiting to take her from his girlfriend. Milena cleans up her stuff putting everything back into Alethea’s diaper bag. David rubs his finger over Alethea’s cheek and smiles. “Also, we love having these two around.” he says to Jeff, Milena smiles and hugs David. “Thank you, guys, for excepting us, we love you guys.”  
The rest of the night is uneventful, the group plans to go to Saddle ranch to hangout and have some drinks. Milena is saying goodbye to everyone and packing up Alethea’s things while her friends passed her around giving her cuddles before they left. Jeff helped her bring everything to the car while they all said their goodbyes to her daughter. “Are you sure don’t mind me going?” Jeff asks starting her car for her. Milena wrapped her arms around his neck and pecked his lips softly. “Go have fun baby. We will be just fine at home. You have a key so if you want to come over when you leave you are always welcome to. Nerf is already at my place so you have fun.” Jeff shakes his head smiling and leans his forehead against hers. “You’re incredible.” He pecks her lips before they head back into David’s house so she can collect her little girl. Milena took Alethea from David’s arms and said her finally goodbyes to her friends. Jeff followed her to the car and kisses Alethea what felt like a million times on her cheeks before Milena put her into her car seat and closing the car door.  
Jeff opened Milena’s door for her before wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her hard on her lips. Milena wraps her arms around his neck and kissed him harder running her fingers through his hair. Jeff groans against her lips as his hands slowly moving to grip her ass. Milena pulls away and bites her lip. “Go have fun.” she whispers before pecking his lips a few times. Jeff nods and kisses her neck a few times before pulling away and letting her climb into the car. He closes her door once she rolls the window down. “Hey, I’ll text you when I’m leaving and let you know when I'm on my way to you okay?” He kisses her cheek and she nods. “I love you.” Jeff says tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. Milena blushes a little and leans into his touch. “I love you Jeff. Now go have fun with your friends.” Jeff nods and waves to her before heading back into David’s house.  
When Milena got home, she was greeted with a very excited Nerf. Alethea thankfully stayed up through the car ride. Milena put Alethea into her swing and went into the bathroom turning on the bath making sure the temperature would be okay for the baby. She leaned down and pet Nerf who was sitting at her feet. “Hi bubba. Did you miss us?” She shut off the water once it was high enough and put Alethea’s baby tub into the warm water. While the baby was calm in her swing, she gathered Alethea’s clean diaper and pajamas putting them on the couch. Milena undressed Alethea on the couch to make it easier and bring her to the bathroom laying her in her tube. Nerf laid right next to Milena’s legs while she bathed her daughter. Milena giggles and take a picture of Nerf and sends it to Jeff but also posts it on her story tagging Jeff.  
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After bathing and dressing Alethea Milena feeds her for a few minutes even though she isn’t super hungry she wants her to have a full belly before she puts her to sleep. Milena puts Alethea in her stroller and covers her with a blanket, she changes into a hoodie and leggings and a pair of sneakers before putting Nerf’s harness on him and attaching his leash. She wanted to make sure he went out and went to the bathroom before she got into bed and Alethea fell asleep. Nerf happily walked next to Milena was she pushes Alethea in the stroller, they made their way down the elevator and out the front door of her apartment walking down the street. It was a nice slow walk as she let Nerf sniff around the sidewalk. It wasn’t long before Alethea was fast asleep in her stroller sucking on her pacifier. They were circling around her block when Jeff called her.
“Hi handsome.” She coos when she answers the phone. Jeff smirks to himself. “Hi mama. I’m headed your way.” He tells her and she can hear the faint sound of him driving. “Already?” She asks as she stops waiting for Nerf to do his business. “Good boy Nerfy.” Milena coos causing Jeff to chuckle. “Yeah, David got the footage he needed, and he was tired of listening to me complain about not being with you three, so he told me to leave.” Milena giggles and starts walking again. “Jeff, I told you to go have fun.” She says causing him to chuckle. “Are you outside?” He asks her confused when he hears cars passing in the distance. “Yeah I wanted to take Nerf out to go to the bathroom before I put Alethea to sleep so we’re taking a nice walk after Alethea’s bath and she’s now fast asleep and Nerf has done his business.” Jeff shakes his head. “I don’t like you being out by yourself.” He tells her causing her to shake her head. “Baby, I’m okay. We’re walking back into the building now.” “I just don’t want anything to happen to you. But I am about two minutes away so I will see you soon.” Milena smiles waiting in the lobby not wanting to lose service in the elevator. “I appreciate that baby. I’ll see you soon.” Jeff hangs up and Milena heads into the elevator and leans down petting Nerf who’s at her feet as always. “Did you enjoy your walk my love.” She coos at him scratching behind his ears.  
Once inside her apartment again she removes Nerfs harness and washes her hands before picking up Alethea carefully and bringing her to her nursery and putting her into her crib putting the blanket on her rocking chair and turning on the sound machine and baby monitor. When Nerf was at the apartment she closed her nursey door just to keep him out of the room, but this didn’t stop him from sleeping right outside her door. Milena changed into a t shirt and a pair of pajama shorts before she started cleaning up the apartment a little, since having Jeff around she had less free time to clean plus she spent a lot of time with their friends. She cleans the living room and is finishing up the kitchen when Jeff walks into the apartment. She’s organizing her pantry and putting away the clean dishes from the dishwasher before reloading it. Jeff scratches behind Nerfs eat greeting the happy boy before following the sounds of dishes in the kitchen. “What are you doing?” Jeff asks walking into the kitchen, Milena looks up at him and smiles. “Just getting some chores done. You’re a bit distracting so I’ve fallen behind on some stuff.” She teases starting the dishwasher and walking over to her boyfriend wrapping her arms around his neck. Jeff rolls his eyes and wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her body against his. “You’re pretty distracting yourself, have you looked in the mirror lately? You’re fucking gorgeous.” Milena’s cheeks blush and she nuzzles her face into his neck trying to hide her blushing cheeks. Jeff chuckles and kisses her head. “Let’s go to sleep.” he says into her hair.  
Jeff wakes up in the middle of the night around 3am and notices that Milena isn’t in bed, it wasn’t the usual time for Alethea to wake up so he stretched his limbs before getting out of bed and heading to check on her. Jeff saw the nursey door open, so he peaked his head in to see Milena in the rocking chair feeding Alethea with her head back and eyes closed, Nerf was cuddled in her lap underneath Alethea’s butt. Jeff entered the room with a wide smile on his face, Milena looks up at him and gives her a tired smile. “Hi.” she whispers, Jeff kisses her forehead and smiles. “Hi baby. Is she okay?” He asks noticing Alethea was wide awake with tear stained cheeks while she ate. Milena sighs and shrugs. “I don’t know. She won’t sleep, she’s been up twice before this.” he could see how exhausted his girlfriend was making him frown. Once Alethea noticed Jeff in the room she stopped eating and was staring up at him. Jeff smiles at the little girl and knees down so that he’s at her level sitting on the floor in front of Milena. “Hi Angel.” He says keeping his voice low, he rubs his finger over her cheek. “What are you doing to your mommy?” He looks up at Milena who’s struggling to keep her eyes open while she watches Jeff talk to Alethea. Jeff moves Nerf off of her lap and takes Alethea from her arms as he stands again. “Go sleep baby.” he tells her pulling her from the rocking chair. Milena tries to fight him feeling back leaving him with Alethea, but Jeff puts his hand up to stop her from trying to say anything. “Go. I’ve got her, we’ll be just fine, she has a nice full belly.” Jeff says before kissing his girlfriend and guiding her out to of the nursey before closing the door behind her.  
Milena climbed into bed Nerf following her snuggling with her in the bed, she fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow. Jeff changed Alethea’s diaper and gave her a pacifier before he sat back in the rocking chair and held her against his chest rocking her slowly. Alethea always cuddled right into Jeff’s chest and nuzzled her face into his beard, it isn’t long before she’s fast asleep and Jeff moves her into her crib. Normally Jeff would go back into Milena’s bed but since Alethea was having such a hard time staying asleep tonight instead Jeff laid on the floor using the lovesac that Milena had in the nursery as a pillow and covered himself with a blanket falling asleep pretty quickly. Jeff got up two more times with Alethea which he would give her a pacifier again, rock her in the rocking chair until she was asleep and put her back into the crib and return to his make shift bed on the floor next to her crib. It was around 9am when Milena woke up, she noticed Jeff still wasn’t in bed which she thought was weird. She climbed out of bed and made her way to her daughter’s nursery; she cracked the door quietly and peaked in seeing Jeff asleep on the floor and Alethea fast asleep in her crib. Milena smiled wide and closed the door again but not before taking a quick picture, it was too cute not to.  
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Milena was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for her and Jeff when Jeff came in holding a very happy Alethea who was tugging on what she could grasp of his facial hair before nuzzling her face into it. “Perfect timing.” Milena says smiling widely at Jeff. She pecks him on the lips, “Thank you for last night. You really didn’t have to do that.” Jeff shakes his head and holds Alethea tighter. “I know but I wanted too.” Milena smiles and puts two plates with eggs, home fries, and bacon on the table. “Well I made you breakfast to try and thank you.” Jeff smiles and kisses his girlfriend. “Thank you, baby. It smells amazing.” Milena took Alethea from him and kissed her cheeks. “Good morning, you’re lucky I love you, you little pain in the butt.” She says giggling and putting Alethea in her baby swing next to the table so that they both could eat their breakfast. While they ate breakfast they talked, they talked about if they wanted to post a video or if they were going to just announce it on social media. They decided that they would make a post on social media and then Milena would do a Q&A for her channel. Milena knows just the picture she wants to post of her and Jeff, she takes out her phone and sends a quick text to Mariah asking her to send her the picture she took. When Milena and Jeff were at Heath’s house visiting him and Mariah, Mariah had taken a picture of Milena and Jeff sitting on the couch both looking at Alethea with loving eyes.  
It was now 11:30 and Alethea was napping, Jeff and Milena were lounging on the couch and they both had already made their announcement on their social medias and they were getting amazing feedback from their fans. They were sitting on the couch watching a movie and Milena’s nails were running up and down the back of Jeff’s neck slowly and Jeff’s hand was on her thigh rubbing the bare skin slowly with his thumb. Milena was chewing the inside of her lip trying to ignore the throbbing between her legs. Jeff smirked what Milena started squirming, “You okay baby?” He asks looking over at her. She nods and blushes a little when she looks at Jeff who has a wide smirk on his face. She turns her attention back to the tv and Jeff leans over and kissing from her shoulder to her neck sucking gently causing a small whimper to leave her lips. Jeff smiles against her skin continuing to kiss and suck her neck while he squeezes her thigh. “Is this okay?” He whispers slowly moving his hand higher up her thigh. Milena nods and looks at Jeff. “Just be gentle please, it’s been a really long time.” She whispers, Jeff cups her cheek and kisses her softly on the lips. “We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to.” Milena smiles again his lips before she moves so that she is straddling Jeff’s lap and wraps her arms around his neck. “I want to, so bad. Like more then you know. I’m just warning you; it’s been a long time so just be gentle please.” Jeff smirks and puts his hand on the back of her head tangling his fingers in her hair and kisses her hard his other arm wraps around her waist pulling her chest against his.  
Jeff stood and carried Milena to her bedroom his hands holding her ass firmly. Jeff gently places her on the bed and climbs on top of her kissing her passionately. Milena wraps her arms around his neck again deepening the kiss running her tongue along his bottom lip causing Jeff to allow her tongue entrance and they tongues wrestled for dominance. Jeff slid his hands up her shirt detaching their lips to pull it off over her head, he slowly kissed down her neck sucking softly leaving small marks and causing Milena to moan softly. Jeff made his way down her body kissing and nibbling every once and a while, he kissed along the waist band of her shorts sending shivers over her body. Milena looked down at Jeff biting her lip as he pulls off her shorts and panties, he kisses the inside of her thighs humming happily when he sees how wet her core is. “mmm... this wet just for me?” He says before slowly licking between her folds causing Milena’s hands to go right to his hair as she tries to hold back a moan. Jeff wraps his arms around her thighs before burying his face between her legs and sucking on her clit. Milena is a moaning mess under Jeff, her fingers tangle in his hair causing Jeff to smirk before slipping a finger into her slowly making her gasp. “Fuck Jeff.” She moans as he pumps his finger in and out before adding another stretching her out a little. Milena looks down at Jeff through hooded eyes biting her lip, Jeff kisses her thighs looking into her eyes while pumping his fingers in and out. She moans and her eyes roll into the back of her head. “Feel good baby?” Jeff asks his voice deep while he nibbles on her thighs. Milena looks down at Jeff and nods trying not to moan too loud. “It feels so good.” She wines rolling her hips against his fingers.  
Milena tugs on the collar of Jeff’s shirt bringing him up to her, she kisses him hard on the lips before pulling his shirt off over his head and throwing it onto the floor. Jeff looks down at Milena and bites his lip. “Fuck you’re so beautiful Milena.” He whispers causing her to blush and look up at her boyfriend, she puts her hand on the back of his neck pulling his lips to hers. Milena reaches down and pushes down Jeff’s shorts and boxers before biting his lip pulling it causing him to groan. Jeff strokes himself a few times before rubbing the tip against her clit making her squirm. “Please Jeff.” She moans rolling her hips up against him trying to get some relief. Jeff smirks and continues to tease her clip with his tip. “What? What do you want babygirl?” He asks loving watching her squirm. Milena’s eyes roll back, and she moans. “I want you to fill me up.” She wines looking back at her boyfriend her lips red and swollen from her biting them and kissing him. Jeff bites his lip, he could cum from looking at her beg him alone. “Anything for you babygirl.” He says pecking her lips before he lines himself up with her entrance, he slips into her very slowly groaning. “Fuck you’re so tight.” he moans but doesn’t move yet, he stays still for a while letting her adjust. Milena nods to Jeff giving him the okay to move. Jeff attaches his lips to hers slowly thrusting in and out of her both of them moaning into each other's mouths. Milena wrapped her arms around Jeff’s torso holding him close while he picked up the pace his hips slamming into hers.  
Milena’s nails were scratching down Jeff’s back throwing her head back and moaning his name, she was so tight, and he was so big it was almost throwing her over the edge. Jeff could tell she was getting close and he was too, she was so tight it was getting hard for him to keep it together. Jeff reaches down and circles her clit with his thumb and thrusts harder. Milena’s hand slaps over her mouth trying to muffle her moans causing Jeff to smirk, he moves her hand replacing it with his lips. “I’m gonna cum, Jeff.” She whispers against his lips this makes Jeff thrust into her faster. “Cum for me.” He moans attacking her lips again with his and just like that she was moaning against his lips and she was cumming and he was right with her feeling her tighten around him even more he couldn’t hold back anymore and he was cumming inside of her. Jeff leans his forehead against hers breathing heavily, Milena smiles and pecks his lips a few times trying to catch her breath as well. “Can you listen for Alethea? I just want to take a shower really fast.” She asks Jeff her voice soft and sleepy. Jeff smiles and kisses her lips. “Of course my love.”  
While Milena is in the shower Jeff cleans up the living room for her and feeds Nerf who he had to force out of Milena’s bathroom. Nerf was obsessed with Milena and Alethea and was always trailing behind his girlfriend or lying next to Alethea. About 10 minutes into Milena’s shower Jeff could hear Alethea fussing which caused Nerf’s ears to perk up and him to rush to her nursey door. Jeff chuckled and shook his head going to get to baby, “Hi Angel, did you have a good nap?” he says once he opens the door and turns off her sound machine. He picks her up and kisses her cheeks clipping her pacifier to her shirt and lays her on her changing table, he talks to her in a soft voice while he changes her diaper, she looks up at him never looking away since he picked her up from her crib. Jeff loved her so much for only being in her life for such a short amount of time, he felt the connection they had as soon as he held her for the first time, and everyone could also see it.  
*3 months later*  
Milena and Jeff have now been dating for about 4 months and sure their relationship was moving fast but they were so happy together and truly in love, Jeff treated Milena like a queen and Alethea like a little princess. They were currently preparing to leave LA to go to NY so that Jeff’s family could finally meet Milena and Alethea, they had talked on facetime and everything, but Jeff’s mom was dying to hug Milena and snuggle little Alethea who was now 5 months old. They’re flight was at 9pm which was perfect because Alethea would sleep hopefully the whole flight and she would probably be waking up around the time that they were landing. Milena was at her apartment packing for the two of them and Jeff was at his place packing for himself and getting Nerf’s stuff together for Oscar to watch him for the 4 days that they were staying in NY. Alethea was currently laying on a blanket on the floor of her nursery doing tummy time while Milena packed things, she had to write a list of things she would need or else she would forget something. Milena had her phone set up in front of Alethea and Jeff was on facetime talking to her, he had spent the last few days at his apartment prefilming some videos so that while they were in NY he could spend time with them and his family and not have to worry about videos. “How the packing coming mama?” Jeff asks causing Milena to groan. “Not too bad, just so much stuff I have to bring. Can you tell Karyn I said thank you again for letting us use her playpen for Alethea to sleep in. That’s a huge help.” Jeff chuckles. “I’ll let her know baby. Have you packed for yourself yet?” He asks as he puts the last of his things into his suitcase and sipping it up. Milena nods even though she knows that he can’t see her. “Thankfully yes. My stuff is all done, I’m just finishing her outfits and then I'll be one cause I already have her diaper bag all set.” Jeff hums happily. “Good job mama. So, I’m gonna go bring Nerf to Oscar and then I figured we would go get dinner before we go to the airport?” Alethea babbles staring at Jeff on the phone screen while the two of them talk which causes Jeff to chuckle, Milena comes into frame and kisses Alethea’s cheek. “Yes, that sounds perfect, I’m already getting hungry, so it’ll be good timing.”  
It was about an hour later when Jeff finally walked into Milena’s apartment, he didn’t see her around, so he assumed she was still in Alethea’s room. Once he rounded the corner and entered the room Alethea saw him before Milena and she squealed happily causing Jeff to chuckle. “Hello to you to Angel.” He said before leaning down to kiss Milena’s forehead before picking up Alethea who was smiling widely. “Well someone is excited to see you.” Milena said giggling as she closed the suitcase she finally finished. “Good cause the feeling is mutual. I missed you guys.” Jeff said as he nuzzled his face into Alethea’s chest causing her to giggle, Milena brought the suitcase out to the living room next to Alethea’s diaper bag. She was only bringing one large suitcase that she planned to check and Alethea’s diaper bag, she just put hers and Alethea’s stuff together since they weren’t staying for too long. Jeff followed her out to the living room and shook his head. “Are you almost ready?” Jeff asks her while Alethea sits on his hip holding onto his shirt and cuddling into him. “Yeah I just have to get the body wrap that I have to carry her through the airport, and I think that’s it.” She said before chewing her lip running through her list in her mind. “If you forget anything, we can get it while we’re in NY or the airport.” Jeff reassures her before kissing her head. “I’ll go pick up her room while you get your last-minute stuff okay?” Milena nods and smiles at him. “Thank you, baby.” She says before going into her room to gets her stuff together. Jeff goes into the nursery and picks up the blanket on the floor folding it and putting it into the basket Milena had in the corner full of blankets. He looked around the room to make sure nothing else needed to be picked up before he laid Alethea on the changing table and changed her diaper so she would be nice and clean while they had dinner.  
Jeff carries Milena’s suitcase down to his car while she follows behind him with Alethea in her car seat, thankfully a company called Doona car seat that opens into a stroller. She was absolutely in love with it and so grateful, it helped with times like this when she was traveling or when she’s alone. Jeff put the suitcase in the trunk along with his before climbing into the driver seat. Jeff had bought his own mirror so that when they were in his car so, he could see Alethea and she could see him, it made her way happier while in the car. They drove to the restaurant in a comfortable silence with the music playing softly, Jeff’s right hand was intertwined with Milena’s while he drove as always. Dinner went smoothly and they were on their way to the airport. Milena was starting to get a little nervous, it was the first time Alethea was going on a plane and she was meeting Jeff’s family for the first time, it was very scary for her. Jeff noticed her sudden change in body language, her was chewing on her lip and her leg was shaking. “Hey-” He said rubbing her thigh. “What’s on your mind?” he sees her snap out of her thoughts and turn to look at him. “Just a little nervous.” She admits, her other leg bouncing now. Jeff takes her hand in his and brings it to his lips kissing it softly. “Don’t be nervous mama, I’m here if you need any help with Alethea on the plane, and my family loves you so much already there is nothing to worry about.” He kisses her hand again before placing it back on her lap. “Our situation is just so hard for people to understand sometimes so I just get nervous.” Jeff nods and glances over at her before looking back at the road as they pulled into the parking garage of the airport. “I understand, but we love each other and that’s all the matters.” Milena leans over and kisses his cheek smiling. “I love you.” She whispers against his cheek before sitting back in her seat while he finds a parking spot. “I love you too.”  
Once they’re parked Milena is jumping out of the car to unload Alethea’s car seat and popping out the wheels turning it into a stroller, she wasn’t planning on keeping her in the car seat because they had to check it anyway. So, instead she was going to carry her with a body wrap that Alethea was in love with. She wrapped the body wrap around her before taking Alethea out of the car seat and putting her into the body wrap with her head against Melina’s chest. Milena took her suitcase from Jeff putting the diaper bag on top of it and Jeff closed the stroller carrying it instead to make the checking process faster. Once they were out of the parking garage and before they went into the airport Jeff stops her, “Baby, smile.” He says holding up his phone, she stops and smiles widely at Jeff while he takes a picture. “Sorry you look so beautiful I had to.” Jeff says smirking at her before they head into the airport.
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It was a long 6-hour flight to NY, but Alethea did amazing, she slept almost the whole time which left her, and Jeff also get some sleep. While they were landing Milena breast fed Alethea which made the landing and takeoff much easier. Jeff was packing all of their stuff that they had spread out over their three seats during the flight. Once they were landed Jeff took out his phone and texted his sister letting her know that they have landed and to head toward the airport, she was nice enough to pick them up and bring them to his parent’s house. Alethea was apparently starving because when Milena tried to take her off the boob, she was not happy, so Milena had to feed her while they got off of the plane. Jeff held the diaper bag and rolled his suitcase next to him. “You okay mama?” He asks looking over at her as they make their way to baggage claim. Milena nods and smiles at him. “Just a little nervous, plus I don’t love feeding her in public, people usually give me shit.” She says chewing her lip nervously, she was glad to have a cover over her to cover herself. Milena of course would feed Alethea wherever she was whenever she was hungry, but she had been given a lot of dirty looks in the past for it. Jeff shook his head. “I’ll kick their ass if anyone wants to say anything.” He says causing Milena to giggle and looking at him lovingly. “I know, that’s another reason I love you.” As soon as they had all their stuff from the baggage claim the switched a now full Alethea from her mom’s arms and into her car seat. Milena made sure to cover herself before she removed the cover up and putting it into the diaper bag, Alethea was now falling asleep in the car seat. Milena looks at Jeff and bites her lip. “Welp, here goes nothing.” She says to Jeff, Jeff kisses her and smiles. “Let’s do this baby.”  he says before the head out of the airport and waiting outside for Karyn to pick them up.  
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Morning | Connor Brashier
A/n: this is a repost from my Shawn account!! This is my piece and is not stolen.
Summary: just a typical morning in the lives of Connor and y/n
Warnings: fluff
Word Count: 695
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It’s rare to have him home these days. After he finished on Shawn’s tour, he’d been in high demand. But it was good for him, having all of these projects lined up. It just sucks not having him here to be all domestic with me, even if only for a second.
However, he is here now, laying haphazardly across our queen sized bed. He’s still naked - well, okay. Not naked. He’s wearing boxers, but you can’t tell with the way the blanket is wrapped around him. I smile to myself, wondering how in the hell I managed to trap this guy. It couldn’t have been my looks, nor my personality because both of those are only a solid 6 on a good day. Though he tells me everyday that’s not true. But he’s laying here beside me, soft snores leaving his lips every few seconds, his hair an absolute fucking mess atop his head. And I can’t think of any other place I’d rather be than here with him.
He feels me staring, because even in his sleep, he shifts, one of his arms going to cover his eyes. I chuckle and kiss the bare skin of his forearm before slowly sliding out of bed and to the restroom. I’m, first, very blinded by our bright bathroom lights, and then all I can see is hair - my hair. It sticks up in every which way, tangled beyond repair; a brush couldn’t even make its way halfway through it at this point. So I shuffle back to our bedroom to steal another one of his shirts and some panties to take a shower. I close the bathroom door behind me and put on a little show while I wash out my hair, singing the forever classic, Obsessed by Mariah Carey.
A good thirty minutes pass before I get out and am finally able to shimmy into his Thunder Road sweatshirt. The sleeves are too long for me, but I couldn’t care less as I reach for my toothbrush. I’m only brushing my teeth for maybe thirty seconds, humming If I Can’t Have You, when Connor shows up in the mirror, his camera in hand, filming me with that goofy smile on his face.
“Con, no. Please,” I say around my toothbrush. “I literally just got out the shower,” I whine, spitting into the sink. “I look tragic.”
He just shakes his head, “You could never.”
I frown, continuing my actions, but now too aware of his wandering eyes, his perfect smirk, his bare torso.
“Hmm… those eyes you’re giving me say you’re wishing that wasn’t your toothbrush,” he jokes and I choke.
“Connor David!” I say when I catch my breath, his hand rubbing soothing circles on my back as his laughter dies down. His camera sits on the counter beside me and he just stares at me for a minute; I can’t read his expression though. “What’s that look?” I ask and hoist myself up onto the counter.
He makes his way between my thighs and presses the softest kiss to both cheeks. “Have I ever told you that you’re my favorite thing to wake up to?”
I hum and reach to the side for his toothpaste and brush. “Maybe once or twice.” I wet the brush and squeeze on the toothpaste, then wet the brush again. “Smile.”
“Why?” He raises an eyebrow.
“I wanna brush your teeth. Now smile.”
“ I can do it, sweetheart.” He holds his hand out, but I refuse.
“No. I wanna do it. Please?” I pout, giving him my best puppy dog eyes, even though I know he doesn’t need them to say:
“Okay. Whatever you want.”
“Open for me,” I request.
“Funny, that’s what I told you last night.”
I flick his forehead.
“Ow!”
“Say something stupid again and I will shove this down your throat.”
He laughs, shaking his head.
“What?” I ask, crossing my arms over my chest.
“Nothing, nothing.” He clears his throat, “but I said something like that too.” He smirks and I gasp, ready to swing at him. But he catches my hands quickly, pressing a chaste kiss to my lips. “I love you.”
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the first song i heard from/how i found each of my favorite musicals
(in order of when i found them, ig?)
WICKED ---- Popular. My mom used to be really into theatre too and she used to play Popular, Defying Gravity, and What is This Feeling? around the house
HAMILTON ---- Alexander Hamilton. I heard about the musical from a YouTuber I really liked and I wanted to keep up with her references, so I listened to it and liked it way more than I thought I would
HEATHERS ---- Beautiful. I found Heathers through the same YouTuber and was SHOCKED by the plot. I was, like, 11 when I found the musical
SCHOOL OF ROCK ---- You’re in the Band. Our choir and band programs went on a field trip to see School of Rock and my choir teacher played one of the songs for us about a week in advance. My dad used to watch this movie with me all the time, so I was excited
DEAR EVAN HANSEN ---- Waving Through a Window. At this point I was the Hamilton Girl (tm) and I was trying to expand, ‘cause in my head I was a HUGE fake fan. A girl in my choir class sang this song for karaoke so I went home and listened to the cast album
BE MORE CHILL ---- Michael in the Bathroom. I heard this one song and found out my friend liked it. And so I asked if I should listen to it. She was like mmmmm yeah but it’s a bit weird...? I had no idea what she meant by that-
NEWSIES ---- Seize the Day. I heard this song in a Broadway mashup a long time before. Then I saw Newsies on Netflix and LOVED IT with everything in me. I saw a community theater production of it back in February and it was everything
THE LIGHTNING THIEF ---- The Campfire Song. I’ve been a Percy Jackson fan for as long as I can remember and I used to look up “Percy Jackson songs” on YouTube, until one day I found an animatic. I watched it and was like,,, waaaait a second. So after I saw that I listened to it and it was everything my little theatre/pjo heart could’ve ever wanted. I saw it last winter while it was on tour and low key? I cried afterwards. The cast is so talented
MEAN GIRLS ---- I’d Rather Be Me. As a Barrett Wilbert Weed stan I found out that she was in another musical, a musical version of Mean Girls. I love Mean Girls so much. So I listened to all of Barrett’s songs, and later on, I listened to the whole album. I now follow all of the cast members on Instagram, Broadway and National Tour, and I’m OBSESSED with them
WAITRESS ---- Opening Up. I saw some girls do a cover of it and I was like awww...this is cute. So I gave it a listen, 
FIREBRINGER ---- We’ve Got Work to Do. I went on a MISSION to find the source of the “I don’t really wanna do the work today” vine. I watched, I fell in love, I also found out they did more
BEETLEJUICE ---- Say My Name. I heard it literally days after it was released and I wanted to listen to all of Lydia’s songs, since she was my favorite in the movie, and I chose this one first? Then it blew up on TikTok and I felt like it was stolen from me and that’s probably why I don’t listen to it as much anymore
THE GUY WHO DIDN’T LIKE MUSICALS ---- the title number. It was in my recommended once and I watched the first like 3 minutes and I was like mmmmm not feeling it. Then I saw Firebringer + most of starkid’s musicals and decided I DEFINITELY WAS FEELING IT. Also not to brag but I followed Mariah before she was in TGWDLM *cool guy emoji*
IN THE HEIGHTS ---- No Me Diga. I kept saying I was going to listen to it, since it was Lin’s show, and then I finally did and I was OBSESSED. Technically, like I said, I heard No Me Diga first because I found it on my recommended at like 3 am on a school night
HADESTOWN ---- Wait For Me (Reprise). Hadestown was BIG when I found it, like at it’s peak. I listened to it after hearing the song, but I wasn’t really feeling it. Listened to it again about four months later after seeing Mariah Rose Faith do a drunk cover of the climax in Wait For Me (Reprise) and nowwww it’s my favorite musical
SPIES ARE FOREVER ---- The Coldest Goodbye. I loved Solve it Squad Returns so MUCH and I obviously loved Joey Richter, Lauren Lopez, Brian Rosenthal, and Corey Lubowich, and I only ever heard good things about it. I heard The Coldest Goodbye during a video where someone was ranking TCB/Starkid songs and I was like DAMN I LOVE HER VOICE so I watched it :)
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