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ivadeshin · 6 years

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Five Soda Maximum (Highschool AU) pt 3

(pts 1 and 2 here!

As this story goes on, there’s going to be mild issues with anxiety and food, jsyk <3)

The cafeteria exit faces the treeline, so there’s no passing traffic or people walking by. The concrete pathway from the door to the parking lot is only ever really used for fire drills, so when Caleb and Nott round the corner, they’re surprised at how much quieter it is than the south side of the building, with sports and picnic benches.

Beau looks up first, pen pausing over a workbook. Caleb waves, but Beau just looks back down at her book. Caleb feels his stomach turn, and he already regrets the half sandwich he ate at lunch.

“Beau,” Fjord’s saying, using his sneaker to nudge her leg. “I invited them. C’mon.”

“Oh. Fuck.” Beau looks up, waving now. “You’re Caleb Weiss, right?”

“Right,” Caleb confirms, still biting back the dissonance at the last name even after all these weeks. “This is Nott.”

Jester looks up from her phone. “Hiiiii!” She leans back in the grass and smacks the spot next to her several times, moving a heavily adorned backpack behind her to widen up the little circle. “We already know Nott, kind of! Caleb, where are you from?”

“Germany.” He sits down in the new spot, crossing his legs and looking down at his torn up sneakers before making himself lift his head and make some eye contact. When Nott plunks down next to him, he feels a bit better. “And you?”

“Romania, but mostly here.” Her tail curls around her, snaking up to the workbook that Beau’s leaning over again and gently smacking it. Beau makes an annoyed noise but puts it down. “Fjord and Beau are regular Americans. Do you like it here?”

Caleb nods. “Everyone at school is very nice. It is, um. It is strange to see so many non-humans, but it is not, it is not bad, just different. They are all good. I like non-humans. I am friends with Nott.”

A silence begins to settle, and threatens to crush Caleb into a fine paste of shame and regret.

“Caleb’s still learning English,” Nott pipes up. “In school back home he was taking Sylvan and he only knew English from tv and stuff.”

The other three nod, happy to have something new to work with. Fjord gives a thumbs up.

“You’re doin’ great so far,” he compliments. “Fast-talking teachers aside. That’s gotta be hard.”

“He mumbles,” Caleb says, and Fjord and Jester both make pained faces in solemn agreement.

“Enunciate’s a good word,” Beau says thoughtfully. “Kind of long, but. It means to talk clearly.”

“Thank you,” Caleb says, pretending he didn’t already know that word and that people don’t get really thorny when you ask them to do that.

Beau shrugs. “If your homework trips you up, come bring it to us, we’ll help. Well.” She looks over to Nott. “I’m sure you’re already helping him.”

“I can use all the help I can get,” Caleb interjects. “Um. Your history classes are very… focused on America, and I am used to lots of focus on Europe. So a lot of it is quite new. To me.”

Jester is unpacking a small embroidered bag with cosmetics. “Nott, have you tried the new MAC Cool Exotics collection?”

Nott blinks several times. “…no,” she says, clearly not sure what she just responded to.

Jester holds up a small palette of colors from light green to deep purple. The box is sleek and black, and Caleb thinks back to the word expensive. “MAC does the best colors for non-humans. They do warm collections and cool collections, and you are green, so you are ‘cool’, like me.” She leans in and squints. “What is your skin routine?”

Beau makes a pained noise. “Don’t make her do girly stuff with you,” she groans.

Fjord laughs and shakes his head. “You don’t have to,” he tells Nott. “She’s a little makeover obsessed. Blame YouTube.”

“It’s okay,” Nott says quickly, shocking Caleb. “I just, um, is it okay if I don’t know anything?”

“That’s even better because then she gets to teach you.” Beau snorts. “We’re doomed. Caleb, she’s going to have you moisturizing and wearing sunscreen soon.”

He touches his face. “Am I sun scorched?”

“Sunburned,” Nott murmurs under her breath, scooting over to move between Caleb and Jester.

“Sunburned,” Caleb corrects quickly.

“No, she’s just excited to slap BB cream and CC cream and …” Beau shares a look with Fjord. “I don’t know, Korean skincare became a thing and now she’s obsessed.”

“Korean sunscreen is much better for you. They don’t have a lot of the bad chemicals, in it, and also, it doesn’t have that stinky smell.” Jester bites her lip as she pulls out several clips, pinning Nott’s hair away from her face. “Hm. You have an oily complexion.”

“I’m a goblin,” Nott mumbles.

Jester shakes her head. “That’s racist bullshit. Every person has some oil, or dryness, or combination problems. Goblins don’t produce more oils than anybody else. Here.” She pulls out some sort of wet wipe and holds it up to Nott’s face, showing it to her a moment before beginning to wipe her down. Nott makes a face but holds still.

“Can you, um, can you do my eyebrows?”

Caleb can’t hide the look of utter shock at those words, and Nott blushes a little.

“People always think I’m a boy.”

“You should, um. You should,” Caleb gestures to his own face. “You should make your face however you want.”

“I don’t think I would wear makeup every day,” Nott shoots Jester an apologetic glance, but she’s flapping her hand dismissively. “But maybe if. I didn’t feel so greasy. And my eyebrows were a little less messy.”

Beau leans in to Caleb. “You’re trapped here now,” she warns. “You’re a project.”

Caleb looks down at his sneakers. “Oh, no,” he says flatly, and is very, very pleased when his three new friends giggle.

They relocate from the bleachers. Caleb learns that if you are rich, you can have a private tutor even though you already go to school. Jester’s is named Mr. Cestovatel and Fjord says, when Jester is not around, that she definitely has a crush on the guy.

And Jester seems to be loaded, not just by Caleb’s standards, but she doesn’t act the way Caleb would expect. She loans Nott some weird looking skincare bottles to try, and doesn’t laugh at him when he admits he can’t give everyone his number because he doesn’t have a cell phone.

Beau is rude, even by American standards, but she isn’t mean. Fjord is usually punching her arm to remind her to thank someone or pay attention and it seems like she’s mostly sort of trying to get better about it. She seems to pay a lot of attention to the news, and she refers to a Twitter account where she ‘retweets’ things about Antifa, which Nott has to explain to Caleb later.

Fjord is… super nice. It’s clear why so many girls have a crush on him, even though he doesn’t have nice clothes or a lot of money, or play sports. (Caleb is delighted to learn that Fjord is going to be in Robotics class with him once it starts, and is not shocked at all to learn that this, also, is not considered cool.) But Fjord’s voice is low and smooth, and he smiles easily. He doesn’t get in much trouble and he seems to care about people. Beau says he got bullied when he was younger for being chubby and the only half-orc in his elementary school, and ever since he shot up a million feet and started ‘making thicc look good’, as Jester calls it, he’s been the guy that shows up in hallways.

“The foster house popped up a couple years ago,” Beau says quietly one day, when Fjord isn’t there. “A few assholes used to joke that ‘the circus had come to town’, and you’ll never guess who wasn’t standing for that shit.”

“Standing for,” Caleb echoes, frowning.

Beau sits up a little straighter, deepening her voice and trying to do a southern accent. “That’s enough ‘a that shit,” she mimes, pretending to give him a disapproving look. Caleb’s eyebrows fly up and he grins.

Caleb doesn’t have a phone but Nott does, and so Nott will read to him from the group chat sometimes.

“Beau wants to know how to say ‘fuck you’ in German,” Nott reports one day.

“It was only a matter of time,” Caleb sighs.

Nott frowns. “You don’t like it when people do this to you,” she guesses quietly.

“No, it is fine.” And it is, somehow, because it’s been three solid days of hanging out with these people and he... doesn’t feel like a side show at all, now that he thinks about it. He really doesn’t mind. “Fick dich.”

“Ha!” Nott giggles delightedly and hovers her thumbs over the tiny keyboard. “How do you spell that?”

#critical role #critical fic #widomauk #caleb widogast #nott the brave #fjord #jester #beauregard

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makeupbykeria · 7 years

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A few weeks ago I had the honor of traveling to Gaylord, Michigan which is located in Northern Michigan for my bride Brittany. Since being in Southwestern Michigan I planned to make this weekend special while planning around my bride’s big day. I planned to visit Mackinaw Island for the first time with my husband who was traveling with me! I know, I’ve lived in Michigan all my life and had never been to the island! We arrived at Gaylord, Michigan very late Friday night and got checked into my hotel. We had ran a little behind our scheduled plans due to making sure we had everything packed and the fact that I had to make a pit stop in Big Rapids, Michigan since it was along the way.

I went to college at Ferris State University and wanted to visit since I haven’t been there in a few years. I wanted to eat at my favorite old spot Schuburgs but they were crazy busy! I was so disappointed because they have the greatest fried pickles!! Anyway, from there we decided that we would try Cranker’s which was not my top pick but it did bring back memories of the crazy all-nighters of studying I would do. I was reminiscing about that and mentioned the “stinky cheese” which my husband noted he had to try! In all those late night study sessions I had there, I never once tried the stinky cheese. I just remember it being set on fire and the waitress would scream OPA!! Let me tell you….. I had been missing out!!! lol

The next morning I started bight and early as I had to arrive at the venue at 8 am to start makeup applications. I did my makeup with my Kryolan Nebula Airbrush (which is the same I use for my brides), Sugarpill Feline Fancy Palette, and I wore Jeffree Star Cosmetics “Candyass” on my lips. My husband was awesome enough to drive me to the venue and helped me with my makeup bags. Brittany’s venue was the Sonshine Barn, Wedding and Event Center in Gaylord, Michigan. It was such a beautiful venue with a rustic feel to it. The bridal suite was amazing!!! They spent special time working with people in the beauty industry to design the getting ready vanity. The vanity had three stations with salon chairs, large mirrors, with excellent lighting. While I provided on location makeup for Brittany and her bridal party my husband took promotional photos and video with my bride’s permission! Brittany and her bridal party were amazing!! I had a blast providing makeup for these ladies and even discovered that Brittany’s MOH attended Ferris State also!!

Brittany went with a semi-natural look for her wedding day. I used my Kryolan Nebula Airbrush foundation. For her eyes, I used colors from a few different Urban Decay Naked Palettes. Brittany’s bridal party and the bride’s / groom’s mothers looked amazing as well!

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When I completed everyone’s makeup I started to pack up and by this time it was Brittany and her father’s first look! ❤ I snuck out just when her father was coming in to see Brittany for the first time in her dress. Thank you, Brittany, for having me part of your big day and allowing my husband to work on promotional photos as I worked. I hope your day was amazing and you looked absolutely beautiful!

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After I completed this wedding my husband and I head on North! We planned to go stargazing at the Headlands International Dark Sky Park from Saturday Night until Sunday morning. We often love to travel and stay in our “Hotelement”, we’ve talked a lot about “van life” and traveling the country doing photography and makeup in different areas. This isn’t the first time we have stayed in our Honda Element. We’ve traveled to New Orleans and Flordia while camping out in the “Hotelement”. The sunset was beautiful but stargazing on this night wasn’t the best as the moon was almost to the full moon stage. We did get to see the International Space Station travel past. The next weekend the Headlands had a dance party planned to celebrate the harvest moon.

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The next morning we woke up, “showered up”, and headed to Mackinaw City where we had breakfast at Pancake Cheif ❤ Most of our trip photos are on polaroids as my husband enjoys taking them. We drove over the Mackinaw Bridge and got on a ferry to Mackinaw Island. The Island was fun but we only had an hour and a half to explore but we differently plan to return! On our way home we visited the Tunnel of Trees! I have to say that I love Michigan so much! It’s always so beautiful.

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Bridal: Brittany | Sonshine Barn Wedding and Event Center | Gaylord, Michigan A few weeks ago I had the honor of traveling to Gaylord, Michigan which is located in Northern Michigan for my bride Brittany.

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