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danganronpa-fixation · 2 years

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May I have some Tojoshi snuggles? I'm just.. having an epic brainrot, and can't seem to find much.

Thank you in advance, if you do decide to do it!

(As Kirumi would say "I will grant your wishes." Please keep in mind however that this is my first time writing for ANY V3: Killing Harmony character, and I'm still new to the game, so I hope it turned out alright! Hope you enjoy! 😊

P.S: This would be in an AU years after they attended Ultimate Academy, but you know, without any killing going on during their school years 😅)

Ryoma Hoshi's own unorthodoxed style and demeanor most definitely didn't compliment the Victorian style and presence of Kirumi Tojo before him, and he knew (alike of most good or conventional things), that he was unworthy. He had absolutely no clue why the Ultimate Maid even bothers with the likes of him. She was a smart, strong woman who constantly proved herself to be unafraid of any toil, and the Ultimate Tennis Player had nothing but unbridled respect for her. Overall, in Ryoma's own terms; Kirumi was one cool woman. That's why he was absolutely astonished when Kirumi woke him up early that morning, steering a cart towards him with the pleasant scent of breakfast, pastries, and freshly roasted coffee. Ryoma knew that they must have been fresh because he could feel the warmth envelop him without even having to touch them.

Protection and defence was something Ryoma took very seriously ever since his horrific past, but over the years, he started to trust Kirumi Tojo more and more. Not only did he allow her to do some chores around his apartment when she would insist on it, but predominantly, he enjoyed her company. Which is why, he trusted her with the key to his apartment.

"I do hope that you do not mind the intrusion," Kirumi said, elegantly strolling towards Ryoma's undersize bed. Acting out of habit, she smoothed out the creases in the sheets and blanket she could reach around the owner (sitting at the edge of his bed) with precision. "I wished to surprise you with an appetizing, nutritional breakfast."

That's when Ryoma got a proper look at the cart Kirumi rolled over towards him. The silver tray in the middle contained a bowl of white rice with chopsticks on the side, small bowl of miso soup, and a plate with sausage, bacon, and a two raw eggs. In between this tray on one side were several dorayaki pastries, and on the opposite side was a fancy cup of black coffee, with a large thermal alongside it, steam emanating from the spout. Ryoma was fascinated by just how much she made. There was no way he was going to finish everything, but it all looked mouthwatering all the same.

"When I requested certain information from you the other day, you have stated your favorites for all different meals, treats, and snacks of the day. I do hope this is more than satisfactory and that my memory continues to serve me well. If not, know that I shall double my efforts and you shall not regret it," The Ultimate Maid stated, her whole demeanor radiating confidence.

Finally, Ryoma spoke. "Hmph. So that is why you asked me that out of nowhere question the other day," he said admiringly, idly adjusting the candy cigarette pursed between his lips.

Kirumi's hands delicately rested together on her lap. "If you require anything else, please keep me notified."

Ryoma chuckled softly. "Oh, believe me, this is more than enough. But, why do this out of nowhere?"

Everything about Kirumi's appearance and behavior abruptly became more composed. "I have noticed that you have been in particularly low spirits as of late, so I simply wanted to expand my services for something more than simply cleaning, and taking care of your many pets."

"You don't need to worry about me," Ryoma said earnestly, averting his round dark eyes from Kirumi's gaze.

"I disagree," the sage-haired woman said sternly. "Have you been thinking about them again?"

The closer the two got over the years after meeting at the Ultimate Academy, Kirumi started to read him well --- often knowing how he felt before he would even know himself. He would frequently regret the day he chose to open up to her about his past.

Knowing that there was no point in hiding his feelings from her (because she would refuse to leave if he continued to be stubborn and withdrawn), he sighed. "Yeah, I've been thinking of them, but also...her."

Kirumi furrowed her brows in concern.

Ryoma shrugged. "Not like there's anything I can do about it."

"Please, eat," Kirumi pleaded, her expression still conveyed with concern.

Ryoma did what was instructed and got out his chopsticks to take a small bite of his white rice first, followed by a pleasant sip of his coffee. He already knew she was an excellent cook, brewer, and baker since their meeting at the academy, but he never tried his favorites from her before.

They sat mostly in silence for the next half hour, and Ryoma insisted on her having a couple of dorayaki for her self. She of course refused, but she simply couldn't bring herself to refuse any further when Ryoma practically expressed it as a demand.

They both enjoyed the moment together, having good food, being in each other's company, petting any of the pets Ryoma had when joining him on the bed, with a peak of early sunlight shining through his shoji screens onto his bed. However, when Ryoma finished eating and Kirumi stood up, his face grew grim. Before she could inquire, he spoke.

"You obviously worked really hard on this. Don't you think you deserve to have a break every now and then?"

"I am a maid, I am used to such tasks," Kirumi said, smiling proudly.

Ryoma suddenly felt exceedingly timid, avoiding eye contact yet again, his small body borderline shaking.

Unanticipatedly without any warning, Ryoma lunged forward and securely held the still standing, startled Kirumi in his arms.

Kirumi was at a loss for words, her pale face tinged red — she never experienced such an act of physical affection before, and coming from Ryoma Hoshi of all people. She didn't even know what to do with her own arms and hands, despite usually knowing what to do with them --- finding some use for both during any sort of task.

"This is something I used to do with certain members of my family, as well as her," Ryoma said dispiritedly whilst in the embrace. His tone subtly shifted to more playful when he added, "Also, figured it would help you take it easy a bit."

Ryoma wasn't the person he used to be, he was now hesitant of expressing any form of love or caring to anyone that was another human being, even to those who meant a lot to him, like Kirumi. But he wasn't even thinking before doing this, it just... happened. When the realization ultimately caught up to him, he was on the verge of withdrawal, but he was incapable of doing so when when Kirumi finally held him back, slowly taking a seat on his bed, positioning their unified selves against the headboard. Due to their height differences, Kirumi bowed her upper body as low as she could so her head could rest atop of Ryoma's.

Ryoma felt afraid, not because of the act itself being unwanted, far from it, but because it displeasedly brought back memories of comfort, affection... happiness. It's been so long since he's ever felt like this with another being that was not an animal.

He side-glanced over at the tall, beautiful woman as he held her tighter, feeling like she would fade away forever if he failed to hold her firmly enough. Her eyes were shut, and she had a peaceful smile plastered on her regal face.

After holding each other for who knows how long, Kirumi slowly inched herself away from the embrace so she could stand up again, properly straightening out her hair, dress, and overall posture. "Now then, I shall take these dishes to the kitchen. It is best to not leave food out for very long."

Ryoma smirked and returned back to his usual cool-headed state as he kicked back and supported his hands behind his head. "Hmph, since you woke me up pretty early, I'm gonna get some more shut-eye when you leave."

Kirumi smirked as well, suddenly allowing herself a moment to ponder over something. Ryoma couldn't help noticing that she was concentrating pretty hard, her gloved hand holding her chin. "You know, getting some much needed rest myself might actually do me some good after all."

After Kirumi cautiously rolled the cart away from his bedroom into the kitchen, Ryoma's eyelids already started to droop, until not too long after, they were fully closed.

Ryoma was bordering on sleep until the sound of Kirumi's creaking maid shoes returned. One of his eyes leisurely opened.

"Are you in need of any further assistance?" Kirumi asked.

Ryoma was anxious to ask what he was on the brink of asking, so he took his time in pondering over what he wanted to say, carefully. Fortunately, Kirumi didn't seem to press him on in any way. "You could, you know... get some rest here... if you want."

Color was restored to Kirumi's face, and she brushed her long bangs away from her face. "Is that a request?"

Ryoma tried his absolute best to come across as chilled out as possible, but deep down he knew that he was failing. "Only if you want to."

Kirumi smiled warmly. "If this is what you truly require of me, then yes, I would."

She stepped back over to the bed, kicked off her shoes, and got into a similar position she was in last time, holding him in his arms. One hand around his head, the other secured around his waist.

"Are you even comfortable in that?" Ryoma asked, indicating Kirumi's formal outfit.

"It's not quite as discomforting as it looks," Kirumi assured. "Just so you are aware, I will be making more-than-satisfactory Elevenses once we are awake."

Ryoma tittered with his eyes shut. "How about focusing on getting some rest for now, huh?"

Kirumi continued to smile warmly, closing her own eyes as she made Ryoma and herself even more comfortable in their embrace. "I suppose you are correct."

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Into the Alentejo

Most of my Portugal trip was focused along the coast, but I made a slight detour into the Alentejo of central Portugal while staying in Lisbon. Something about the city of Évora reminded me of Asilah, Morocco. Évora spoke to me, much like Asilah did, and I had to visit.

I had already done yoga, had coffee, and been on a bus for 90min before I met an Évora that was just starting its day. Cafes were filled in every square while streets were mostly empty.

I wandered, getting distracted by the contrast of blooming bougainvillea against the white walls with yellow trim. I had a loose deadline of a return bus, but I knew the morning was free enough to not have to break a hip rushing from place to place (although my non-hip-breaking pace still schools....basically everyone.)

Squares. Aqueducts. Cathedrals. Universities. I looped through and around them all, justified in my purchase of a ticket to the Cathedral of Évora and grateful I got to peak into the courtyard of the University of Évora even though tours weren't being offered because of a conference.

But the highlight came after a failed lunch attempt. I hate pork. Like hate it. Bacon is the most disgusting substance to me. Ham I can tolerate when famished in Europe and it's literally my only option. The Alentejo region of Portugal is famous for a specific kind of pork: porco preto or black pork. For some reason, I was convinced I had to eat this. Me and my delusional state of, if I haven't had it, I must like it, wanted to track this meat down and consume it.

I found a restaurant that had a small amount of black pork available at a decent price. Delusion wanted to try it. Practicality figured I wouldn't enjoy it and to not waste a ton of money on trying new things.

Of course, said restaurant didn't open at 12 when it was supposed to. Or 12:05. Or 12:10 after I bought a cork postcard at the shop across the street (oh, and completely failed at counting to one euro in coins.) I was near starvation (overexaggerated unless you ask my stomach that had only consumed a protein bar back in Lisbon hours ago) and now had to find a new plan. And I am a disaster at getting myself fed without a plan.

I wandered down the street, hunting through my Évora notes looking for an alternative restaurant to aim for while also checking posted menus as I walked for 1) porco preto and 2) acceptable prices. On my second stop, I found both in Restaurante Mr. Pickwick. Since 1988.

I settled on Alentejo pork with clams and a glass of the house white. (Why on earth my Portuguese self felt it should be drinking daily on an empty stomach was beyond me.) The waiter immediately responded, "May I suggest something else..." and pointed me towards three different pork dishes and a lamb dish. All of which were slightly more expensive and none of which highlighted the Alentejo-ness that I felt I was looking for. Hmmm.... Do you not have my dish because clams aren't in season right now? Are you missing something? Why are you steering me away from this dish?

When I didn't immediately jump at his suggestions, "But, of course, you can get what you want," clearly implying that my meal choice was going to be a disappointment while also confirming that it was available to be ordered.

Yes. I want the Alentejo pork and clams. With the white wine that should really be a sparkling water, but if this is my poor life choice of the day, I can't really complain.

This was the most epic dish. The pork was amazing. I didn't know pork could do that/taste like that -- I am a porco preto convert. I've googled the recipe, researched different versions, and have one very important question: can normal pork be this good? Because I almost told the waiter to bring me another round. Not the wine. Just the most perfect plate of food. I'm sure I can fit it in.

And let me tell you, it has been a few weeks since I ate this dish, and I still wish I had ordered another plate. I also still need to know if the pork I can find here in the states has the capability of tasting anything remotely similar to porco preto. I might weep if my recreation attempt is a failure and I still hate regular pork.

You'd think this was the most amazing thing I ate in Portugal, but it was just the start of life-changing Portuguese dishes that I've hunted down recipes for and can't wait to try out. ...I just don't know how I'm going to find fresh sardines in Phoenix and a seaside grill.

#europe #portugal #evora

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Little caesars pretzel crust

This petition is to bring an end to the Extra Most Bestest travesty and give the people what they really want Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza. A change to drench the dehydrated world in gooey pretzel cheese once again. It is my civic duty to bring change to this world. Little Caesars doesnt want its customers to miss out on its limited Hot-N-Ready Pretzel Crust Pizza because 'you dont know what you have till its gone.' Published. Little Caesars Pretzel Crust Pizza is a buttery-flavored soft pretzel crust pizza topped with cheddar cheese sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. Marketing Stack Integrations and Multi-Touch Attribution. If you think 6 for one pizza is good. A post shared by Little Caesars (littlecaesars) For those that need a refresher, the Pretzel Crust Pizza includes a butter-flavored pretzel crust topped with cheddar cheese sauce, mozzarella, and muenster cheeses as well as pepperoni. It sounds like you may be new to Little Caesar’s. Little Caesars Pretzel Crust Pizza returns with more options. 6 bucks for one pizza, that’s such a good deal I can eat that one pizza for three meals. the pizza disappeared and was never to be seen again. Golden brown pretzel crust, lightly coated in chiseled rock salt, basted in glistening butters and oils, slathered in a delicious melty pretzel cheese sauce. The 6 Pretzel Crust Pizza is back at Little Caesars for a limited time through Maat participating location nationwide. Delivery & Pickup Options - 12 reviews of Little Caesars Pizza '5 dollar pizza Hells yeah who cares if the crust tastes like cardboard sometimes. Little Caesars brings back pretzel crust pizza. During that time, I must have eaten enough Soft Pretzel Crust Pizzas that would put two-dozen infants into cardiac arrest. a light at the end of the tunnel.īetween JAugust 30, 2015 the blessed pie made a triumphant return to participating Little Caesars locations. When October 26 reared it's ungodly treacherous head, it left millions devastated. Golden brown pretzel crust, lightly coated in chiseled rock salt, basted in glistening butters and oils, slathered in a delicious melty pretzel cheese sauce base, topped with a fresh blend of all natural cheese and pepperoni it was the perfect pizza pie specimen, and for only $1 more than the original Hot-N-Ready. Debuting from September 1 - October 26, 2014, the Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza was a phenomenon among the LC community. The sight of a fresh vegetable in the Little Caesars kitchen would probably incite a riot.Over the years, Little Caesars Pizza has had a number of promotional pizzas come and go, but no other promotion has touched the marinara pumping hearts of the faithful pizza hogs more than the Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza. Imagine the horrors that might result if they attempted this ramen crust pizza, a bacon weave pizza, or (the horror!) cauliflower crust pizza. And, let’s be honest - if you’re going to Little Caesars for dinner, “edible” is probably the most you’re hoping to get out of your meal. But at the same time, if you cover almost anything in “creamy cheddar sauce” and four types of melted cheese, it’ll probably be at least edible (though with the sodium from the salted pretzel crust and cheeses combined, you might want to keep 911 on speed dial while you’re eating). The Little Caesars® Pizza name, logos and related marks are trademarks licensed to Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. This Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza with Cheese Sauce is as close as I can get to the lost (and cult classic) LittleCaesars pretzelcrust. It’s hard not to be a little leery of the $6 Soft Pretzel Crust Pepperoni Pizza, since the most innovative item to make the Little Caesars menu in the past decade is a deep dish pizza. Known mostly for their cheap pepperoni pizza and breadsticks, Little Caesars’ venture into epic food mashup territory could have pizza lovers crying “Hail Caesar!” - but a failure could also signal the crumbling of an empire. They’re following on the heels of other fast-food chains who’ve been cranking out dishes like the Wendy’s Pretzel Pub Chicken Sandwic h (sounds okay), Arby’s Cheddar Pretzel Nuggets (not for the faint-of-heart), and Sonic Drive-In’s Cheesy Bacon Pretzel Dog (woof).

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Chapter Seven of Starman. This is pretty much pure fluff. A tiny hint of sexy thoughts (well who wouldn't have them when faced with Ezra?!)

Ezra x OFC. Word count: 2972.

Starman

Chapter Seven

Earthling

Ezra.

She leant against the counters of the kitchen, hugging herself for the feeling of being grounded in reality more than for warmth and stared out of the patio doors into the garden, her eyes far away and unseeing what was in front of her.

Ezra.

She fumbled her phone out of her pocket and looked it up on a whim.

Ezra.

Meaning "Helpful" in Hebrew. She wondered what it meant in his own tongue.

Ezra.

The name rolled around her head, her mind trying to find a suitability between those syllables and his features. A sudden thought that heated her face - of him touching her, trailing his fingers softly across her skin, the word dragged from her throat and sighed into his ear as she clung to his waist with her thighs and writhed with pleasure under his weight. She shook her head as if she could dislodge the vision that way, and opened the fridge, grateful for the blast of cooled air that hit her.

"Ezra."

The name bubbled quietly off her tongue as she stared into the clinical white depths, once more not truly seeing what she was looking at. A name to go with the perplexing man that she had found in such perplexing circumstances. It did suit him, she decided - though she was unsure as to exactly why. She heard the water shut off in the bathroom and that more than anything stirred her. She unloaded the necessary ingredients.

Given her suspicions of him, she was really unsure what would be suitable for him to eat (or indeed if he even ate as she did), but she began to make the epic mountain of scrambled eggs and bacon that she had been craving, plus some extra toast and mushrooms. If he didn't eat meat, he could have the eggs and mushrooms, at the very least he could have toast. Hopefully. Her mind wandered back to his half naked form as she cracked eggs into a jug and began to whisk. He was so thin. And it wasn't a natural, lithe skinniness either. That kind of thin came from under nourishment. The man needed several decent meals and she found herself planning them as she cooked.

He was staying, then.

Some part of her had decided that already, seemingly without any input from the rational side. He was staying here. In her house. Her bastion of solitude that she had carefully cultivated for so many years. To have a houseguest or a visitor was one thing. To have someone here in an open-ended stay...that was a different thing altogether. Yet how could she do otherwise? She couldn't deny the feelings his touch inspired in her. No one had ever made her feel quite that weak kneed and electrified just by holding her hand and her gaze. And his physical differences - that tattoo on his arm and his stomach...she kept expecting her mind to rebel, to throw up rational explanations for the whole thing, or to at least scream at her to call the Guard again. But there was a calm acceptance of the strangeness she had experienced in the past few hours.

A man from the stars had crash landed, practically on her doorstep. She was going to take care of him. That was all there was to it. The child-like part of her that had read and watched variations of this story over the years was beyond excited. The adult was wondering where the hell he was going to sleep (and if he slept at all). Both parts were somewhat concerned about overcoming the language barrier.

She felt his presence before she saw him, a tickling feeling on the back of her neck and a slight swooping sensation within her stomach informing her that he was in the doorway.

"I hope you're hungry," she said, smiling as she turned around to face him. "And I hope you can eat all this stuff!"

He looked a little better - refreshed and clean at least, but also much more weary and she could finally see how dark the circles around his eyes were. It was as if the water had washed away the adrenaline propelling him onward as well as the grime. Food and rest. That was what he (probably) needed.

She placed the steaming plates on to the table, along with the toast in the rack and gestured for him to sit. As she was about to take her own place, a wave of inspiration struck her and she took the magnetic paper pad that she used for shopping lists from the fridge and nabbed a pen from the drawer of chaotic clutter that lurks in every kitchen.

When she turned back to him he was stuffing mushrooms into his mouth as if he hadn't eaten for a week. Which...maybe he hadn't.

So - he did eat as she did, knew what a fork was for, and seemed to recognise mushrooms too. A good start, though he was eyeing the rest of his plate with mistrust. She sat down and drew a crude representation of a pig next to an attempt at the shape of bacon, and then an egg with an arrow pointing toward a hen. When she showed it to him, he raised one eyebrow in clear bafflement whilst continuing to hoover up the mushrooms. She decided that perhaps leading by example was best in this case and ate a bite of everything to show him it was safe.

She cut a piece of the bacon and put it on to his plate for him, and he speared in on his fork before tentatively putting out his tongue to lick it. His brow furrowed and then raised in quick succession. Evidently, this was a new flavour to him, but he seemed to enjoy it if the way he began to eye up the other rashers as he was chewing was any indication. She put some of the egg on to a piece of toast and he copied her, his eyes closing in pleasure as he bit into the buttery delight, his cheeks stuffed full as a hamster's. There was orange juice and hot breakfast tea to wash it all down and he seemed to like those as well, although judging from his facial expressions the juice seemed to strike him as bitter at first.

He ate more quickly than her and also in greater quantities, though she couldn't blame him given her suspicions about how little he had gotten to eat recently. When he was done he closed his eyes, hummed an appreciative sigh and stroked his hand over his now slightly distended stomach, a feeling of satiation and relief coming off him in waves. She couldn't help but smile at his blissed out expression. "Good, huh?" she said softly.

He opened his eyes and smiled dreamily as he reached out toward her face. This time she didn't flinch, and allowed him to trace a calloused thumb over her cheekbone.

Time stopped.

There was only the two of them existing together in the universe and nothing and nobody could intrude on this moment. She wanted him with a somewhat frightening intensity. Not necessarily in a sexual way (at least not right now), but just to be near to him, to rest her cheek on his shoulder, burrow into his embrace and inhale his scent from the crook of his neck. To take comfort from him and his proximity. To possess him.

She allowed herself to move closer and nestle her cheek into his hand, and the morning light reflected in his eyes added another dimension to the soft adoration that had already been present. She wondered briefly if a similar kind of expression resided in hers.

He was there, right there in front of her, and somehow that was such a comfort to her soul. When she looked at him, she felt right in a way that she hadn't for...well, maybe ever. It wasn't a cessation of loneliness, because she wasn't lonely. It wasn't even that she had found someone that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. It was simply a feeling that now, finally, everything was how it should always have been. That he was supposed to have been near to her all of her days and that it was the correct order of things that she would never be without him again. The sensation of a niggling pain that was insistent and perpetual and that she had grown to be able to ignore was suddenly no longer present. Relief grew to fill the absence.

But so did trepidation.

The Ezra-inspired mess of emotions swirling within her was see-sawing from excitement to fright via anxiety and panic, and her rational thoughts began to try to exert their influence. He was a perfect stranger. And he was strange indeed, regardless of outward perfection. It was overwhelming and bizarre to have those feelings for someone that she had just met, let alone someone who did not appear to be terrestrial.

Her eyes slammed shut as fear of what these feelings could mean, what they could lead to, whether he himself was exerting some sort of influence on her - they rose up like bile and threatened to overwhelm. She got the impression that if she stopped to think too deeply about what she was doing that she would tip and fall into some sort of madness. A different and less kind form than what she was currently experiencing.

But then he stroked his thumb down gently over her lips and chin and held her jaw in the cradle of his hand and she felt the heat of his observance upon her face, silently requesting her eyes on his. She acquiesced, not wanting there to be any other choice, not really caring if there was. He graced her with a small and slightly sad smile and shook his head, almost as if she had verbalised her fears to him and he was offering reassurance.

She raised her eyes to his just as his gaze lowered to her lips. She saw the desire, the flash of hunger and it stole her breath from her. His tongue came out to wet his lower lip and that same yearning became untethered within her chest, the longing to map every part of his mouth with hers almost overpowering in its intensity. She could see his chest rising and falling softly but rapidly with his breathing, and felt she could sense the discipline it was taking for him to control it even to that degree.

"I-" she breathed, an attempt at speech even though she didn't know what to say or how to even begin to address the enormity of it. "I want-" she tried again, wanting to verbalise her feelings as best she could, hoping that somehow he would understand despite everything.

He looked into her eyes and her mind blanked for a moment. He did know. Whatever she was feeling, he was too. And it wasn't wrong, or eerie, or unnatural. It was a connection, a bond of love and somehow it didn't matter that they barely knew each other because they did. Deeply and truly. They just needed to discover it.

She reached for his face too, her hand trembling slightly as she touched the dark scruff that splayed over his cheeks. She couldn't tear her gaze away from his eyes but she knew he was smiling because they crinkled so small that she couldn't see their whites any more, only boundless darkness. His beard was patchy, the hairs coarse yet soft under her palm, and he nuzzled into her touch much as she had to him.

At her feet, Ben gave a soft whine and she snapped out of her dream-like trance, looking down at him and blinking rapidly in the sunlight that somehow seemed brighter than before. She dropped her hand and looked back at Ezra who was still smiling as he followed suit, his dimple soft and subtle in his cheek. She suddenly felt a little flustered, as though she had been too forward with him somehow and to cover her agitation she glanced down at Ben again.

"You want bacon too huh?" she asked, her voice sounding a little far away to her own ears. "Well, since I made so much..." She held out a slice, and Ben took it politely, trotting off to gulp it down somewhere else.

She turned her attention back to Ezra whose eyes were now following Ben with fascination.

"You've never seen a dog before have you?" she asked, not expecting an answer. She didn't get one, but his attention did come back to her. She pointed after Ben. "Dog," she said.

"Dog," Ezra repeated, though whether he understood what he was saying was another matter. She nodded and smiled at him encouragingly.

"Human," she said, pointing at herself.

He smiled broadly back at her. "Human," he said tenderly, taking her hand and stroking over the back of it, and then "Ezra," once more pointing at himself.

"Oh! No. Shit, ummm…" she said. "Human is not my name, its...its my species." He looked at her blankly again, but then his hand enveloped hers and brought her knuckles to graze softly against his lips and she suddenly felt words to be utterly unimportant.

"We can...we can talk about that later," she whispered weakly. "I think you need rest, Ezra."

He smiled against her hand at the sound of her saying his name and it made her want to melt into a puddle right there. Instead she squeezed his hand and then stood, gently tugging him up with her as she did so.

She led him into the living room and bade him wait while she arranged the sofa to provide optimum comfort for sleeping. Two of the biggest and most plush cushions were stacked at one end and her favourite patchwork quilted blanket was draped and turned down accordingly. She held out her hand to him and he came to her gladly, standing a distance she would have deemed entirely too close if it wasn't for the fact that it was him. He was taller than her and she looked up at him, allowing her eyes to drink their fill, even as he clearly did the same with her.

"You need rest," she whispered, as his thumb stroked softly and reassuringly over the back of her hand. "You need sleep. If...if you do sleep." He gently cocked his head at her, not quite understanding. "I'm going to do something now and I hope you won't get the wrong idea," she murmured.

Gently, she crowded him against the sofa, so his knees hit the back of it. He sat down suddenly, his eyes never leaving her face. That predatory smile teased the corners of his mouth again, and a thrilling rush sparked in her abdomen. She let out a shaky exhalation.

"No," she whispered, a touch more sternly than she had meant to. He released her and put his hand up in a placating gesture and nodded. He understood that at least. She hoped he didn't think she meant "never".

She looked into his eyes again, desperately hoping that she could get her meaning across through emotion as well as words.

"You need rest," she repeated, softly pushing him so that he tipped sideways and his head landed on the cushions. "I don't know what you've been through, but whatever it is seemed crazy. Just...rest. I'll be here when you wake up."

As she had been speaking, she had covered him with the blanket and he had finally seemed to understand her because he turned on his back, moved his feet up on to the sofa and began to relax into the makeshift bed. He suddenly looked drained, even more so than when she had first found him. She knelt beside him and took his hand again.

"I'll be here," she murmured again softly.

Ezra smiled at her once more, beautifully, beatifically, and his eyes closed. His breathing slowed and his face went slack - the rest of the truly exhausted claiming him almost immediately.

She studied him again, noting the lines around his eyes and forehead, the grey in his beard, the beautiful prominence of his nose, the way his moustache curled at the sides around his perfect lips. Not wanting to wake him but also wanting to be closer to him, she allowed herself an indulgence.

As she leant forward to brush her lips against his skin he moved, turning his head slightly so that instead of kissing his forehead, her aim landed against the soft white curls at his hairline. She swore that she could again feel a buzz of electricity between her skin and his and when her lips pressed against him she felt her heart quiver within her. There was an emotion there - far too big to identify, and she was unsure whether she wanted to smile or weep because of it.

Ezra hummed softly and didn't wake up. She took the opportunity to inhale him deeply, the wafting smell of her magnolia scented soap mixed with the deliciously pleasant musky scent that was his own seeming to fill her, making her want to lie with him, run her hands all over his body, know him as profoundly as she could.

She reminded herself of his ordeal and resisted. Instead she grabbed another cushion and her laptop and sat on the floor with her back to him on the sofa. She rested his hand on her shoulder, rubbing her cheek cat-like against it to feel the pleasant buzz that she was already beginning to crave. For now, it was enough. Knowing he was there close and safe was enough.

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Making of a big boy

(A journey to a big life)

First 50

Matt is a student, 22 years old, and a guy who loves to eat. He looks good with his thick brown head of hair, beard, and brown eyes, and his strong body is not overly hairy. Though he does a lot of sports, he has gained a good 30 pounds over the last years. He weighs 210 pounds on a 5’11 frame, and the flab shows on his middle. He would like to lose a few pounds, but with his hearty appetite .. When we go the all you can eat-buffet, Matt can’t resist the delicious food and eats plate after plate, lining up six times before full. Since it is fun, we make buffets and BBQs a frequent habit. He proves to be a heavy eater, yet I encourage him to eat a bit more. Over time, the diet shows results. Matt is proud that he can now eat more than ever before, eight plates of food plus dessert! But his voluptuous butt now fills a size 38 pants, and the shirts tightly span his full-bodied waist. Although embarrassed that he is already over 240 pounds, he is unwilling to stop the fattening diet and begs me to continue.

Always hungry, he eats lots, and I tease him as he gets noticeably fatter and bursts out of his clothes. With his 260, sports are not so easy anymore. And family and friends pat the pounds on his middle and make mocking remarks about his hearty appetite. Although I assure him of how well the weight suits him, he becomes insecure. In the following months he loses a good 40 pounds. What can I do? I offer him to give eating another try. A deep, relieved smile goes over his face. But in turn for paying his food bills, he has to commit to weigh in at 280 on his 25th birthday. He swallows ... but to nobody’s surprise, he cannot resist the idea of constantly stuffing himself and willingly accepts the challenge.

A bit deceived

To give him a break (and to fatten him), I invite Matt on a cruise in the Caribbean. Endless buffets, ice cream, snacks at any time of the day. Instead of working out in the gym, he prefers to train at the buffet and regularly crams himself to the brim. It does wonders to his waistline, and his swim trunks get skin-tight. Though he got nice and fat at 274 six weeks before his birthday, I can’t withstand to dupe him, manipulating the scales to say 264 and insert 3 inches into the tape measure. He looks incredulously down at his fat spare tire .. and asks me to help him to get fat enough for his birthday. I hard-core feed him now - king size meals, followed by extra helpings, additional desserts. When he wants to give up, I get him to eat more. “Open your mouth .. yeah, well done, and another bite .. you’re a good boy, aren’t you?” On top, he has to drink a pint of heavy cream once a day, whining afterwards that he is terribly full. It turns me on how he blows up, but secretly I feel a bit guilty to fatten him so ..

Finally, it’s his birthday. My goodness, he has become fat! He now easily fills out a pair of 44 jeans, and the shirt we had bought for his birthday sits tight at his waist. A bit shy, he takes it off .. His massive belly bulging out, his doughy hip rolls and ample ass make my mouth water. And he weighs in at .. 291!! I hug him, aroused by the wobbling fat he carries in font of him, and pinch him amicably into his fat hips. Slowly, he realizes my ploy and suddenly feels fat and dumb. - At dinner, however, his huge appetite is back. He packs away two complete meals and five desserts. Oops, I notice that his shirt has popped open (we sit in a private room). He blushes .. I console him by approvingly patting the soft flab that bulges out and calling him my hero - such a masterly eater, and he has gained more than promised! His answer is a proud and grateful smile. He says that eating has become such a delight for him. Then he gets serious. He wants to become a big, massive boy and asks me to fatten him further. It’s out of question for him that he will fatten himself up to 300 pounds by Christmas. Then he wants to double his starting weight to 360 by his 27th birthday at the latest, breaking 400 on his 28th and then … his voice trembles a little … reach the 500, and weigh a quarter of a ton! And finally … he swallows … eating himself into immobility. A bit uncertain, he looks at me and asks if I still love him when he gets so heavy and can’t easily move around anymore. I melt away and whisper to him that he can never be too fat for me!

He moves in

After graduation, he has an office job and moves in with me to live comfortably and eat without limit. Though his parents can no longer comment on his weight, he feels a bit uneasy to helplessly blow up (haha, that’s exactly what I want!). In mid-December though, still “underweight”, he undergoes a fattening diet. He eats tons, often taking naps in between the meals. He puts on well. And right, on Christmas, he weighs in at 300! He simply spends the days topless and proudly shows off his wobbling spare tire. I can’t help patting it ... he is thrilled and trustingly promises to pack on as much as he can. Ok! There is enough food for 4 persons, and the days become an epic feasting. He eats really masterfully. Almost the whole turkey, king-size meals, extra helpings, tons of cookies in between. Ok, he has to give up on the Christmas cake. He is so short of breath that I almost get the doctor. But he insists to try again the next day, and he gets better by the day ... Stuffed to bursting, helplessly gasping and unable to sit upright after the meals, he mostly spends the days on the couch. His huge belly bulges tremendously, and he moans relieved when I give him easing belly rubs. By New Year’s Day, he’s gotten so fat that he can hardly get the size 44 jeans over his voluminous butt, and he wears it officially open, as he can no longer button it. He asks shyly if I’m content with him. I can’t help moving my fat Christmas present to the bed and caress his moobs, his wobbling belly, his massive love handles and his immense butt, not to mention what we do with his thick thighs. I enjoy so much how he now gets out of breath when he gets aroused and clashes at me with his fat belly. When he notices, he whispers to me that he wants to get properly fatter for next Christmas. I can hardly say how much I love him.

In June, on the beach. Matt is a handsome 26 year-old with a solid 320. The manly beard on his cute face covers well his now chubby cheeks and his beginning double chin. It is a contrast to the soft, mighty roll of flab on his waist and his enormous ass. But people scoff at this fat guy .. he gets uneasy. Though still full from a mighty lunch, I order him an extra-large family portion of ice cream, and of course he can’t resist. But he is ungracious, accuses me of feeding him so fat, and refuses to eat. I feel bad. After a couple of days though, he comes around. He hugs me and when his fat belly presses against me, he whispers to me that he wants to get fatter than ever, no matter what people say. We seal it with an epic dinner; after all, he has to catch up.

No sports anymore

Next Christmas though, Matt is down to 310, and not happy. I cheer him up .. why not partly work from home, have more time for eating, and comfortably putting on another 40 by his birthday in September? He looks puzzled, but then he kisses me gratefully and promises to do everything to fulfill my wish. I ask Josh, a young feeder, a slim guy, to help me fatten Matt. Josh skillfully stimulates him and feeds him according to all rules of the art. It dawns on the good Matt that he is now being fattened according to plan ... and he willingly admits himself to his fate. I secretly enlarge his clothes, and we blindfold him when weighing him or checking his girth, so he doesn’t see how well he puts on. He helplessly tries to hide the heavy pounds on his middle. When friends tease him with his weight or his enormous appetite, he answers sheepishly that he likes to eat … but secretly he is proud and tries to stuff himself even more.

At the gym, when the trainer heard his thunderous steps, he weighed him and banished him from the treadmill because he had become too heavy. Though, to train him, we take his bike for a tour around town. He is so plump that I have to help him to get on it and go. He is not amused when I comment that next time we’ll need a hoist to get him up there. At the first uphill stretch, he gets out of breath and has to give up. We are turning back. He realizes that he has become just too fat and heavy for sports, and it’s with a feeling of loss. Josh skillfully distracts him by feeding him all the more fattening snacks. Matt never says no and eat to his limits and beyond, and the pounds keep piling on.

Doubled the weight

On Matt’s big day, we invite the pals of the gainer community to a BBQ. Matt’s belly presses against his shirt, and Josh asks him to take it off to show how properly he’s put on. It dawns on him why Josh had stuffed him to excess the last days. At the official weigh-in he is at … 361 pounds! He can hardly believe it, he has doubled his starting weight! And he is now the second heaviest of the pals and has shortened the gap to Pete, the undisputed gainer champion, to 30 pounds. While Matt is still puzzled, Josh calls for an eating contest! Matt is back in his element and, spurred on by Josh, finally manages a full dish more than Pete. Josh is so proud of his porker .. Matt is stuffed to the brim and looks on helplessly as Josh pats his soft fat roll and massive love handles and raves about how nice and fat he has become. “You have proven that you can eat more than Pete. There’s no question that you’ll be the fattest at your next birthday. . You'll only be dressed in boxer shorts, and we'll be amused by your corpulence and your wobbly fat. And then, we will have fun to chase you. You won’t get far with your weight. We will catch and tie our heavy, fattened pig. There’s a butcher to gauge your sumptuous bacon and to check if you are ready for slaughter.” Matt blushes hard. “I see you panic when he joyfully grinds his knife. You beg for your life, but as a ransom, you have to promise to eat as much as a whole family. We will check weekly if you get fat enough.”

The round gets quiet. I see it flash through Matt’s mind. It’s his dream coming true. To be helplessly fattened. To become a soft, massive boy. Being called fat ass. Seeing the numbers on the scale climb. All the more, to eat for a whole family in one meal and ask for an extra dessert. Not to stop eating, though it gets difficult to handle all the weight he’s put on. To eat himself fatter and fatter. Not being able to move and eventually getting immobile. – With breathy voice, he says: “I’m up to be fattened to the heaviest guy here ..”.

To make sure Matt stays healthy with his weight gain, I take him to a check-up. When the doctor weighs him and takes his measurements, he throws a disdainful look at his bulk. After a few squats (Matt only manages three), Matt lies on the patient couch, breathing heavily, and the doctor asks him how such a young guy can feed himself so fat. Matt feels like a fat pig led to the slaughterhouse and stammers that he has a healthy appetite, but the doctor urges him to lose weight .. He feels bad and loses his joy in eating.

It is only in late fall when he grabs his belly. “I’m way too thin”, he says, looking down. “We have a lot of catching up to do! You know I want to be 400 on my next birthday. I want to eat for three in the next time!” He is down to 325, so a lot to do ..

Growing

Josh moves in with us, and he takes Matt firmly in hand and feeds him all the food he loves. Heavy breakfasts, nutritious milkshakes, pre-lunch rolls with Nutella, pizza, tons of pasta, ice cream, cream cake, three-course menus and additional desserts. Matt whines that he feels like an eating machine - but at the next meal, he has again a greedy appetite. No wonder that he grows well. A thick layer of solid fat spreads over his body, and the dough roll on his waist becomes massive. At our BBQ’s, Matt is proud that he now eats more as Josh and I together. But Josh pushes him to eat another serving and stuffs him like a Christmas goose. Although Matt protests weakly, Josh still feeds him with plenty of cream cake. Matt holds his huge, bulging belly and whimpers softly. Josh knows no mercy, and we repeat this frequently. Matt gets a special recliner as he can't sit upright because of his stuffed belly. He now gains 4 pounds of weight per week and often grabs his voluminous waist in disbelief ... At the end of such a fattening evening, Josh grabs Matts immense soft fat roll and says lustfully: "Next time we grill the fat, soft bacon from this fattened guy". Matt becomes visibly nervous, but as full as he is and too heavy to get up, he just gasps helplessly. And the next day Josh crams the fat Matt again to the brim. He protests only weakly, and Josh relentlessly doubles the amount of cream cake. By the middle of the year, Matt has gained a good 40 pounds and is fatter than ever. Josh caresses Matt's massive belly and praises him for how unbelievably much he can eat now. The big, helplessly fattened Matt, full to bursting, gasps and is anxious that he will be stuffed like this again the next day, including cream cake ... He should be right. And Josh makes fun of making Matt drink a liter of melted ice cream, who is whimpering and pleading for mercy.

Matts parents are a bit concerned that their son is getting so enormously fat. They approve of me and our relationship, but of course they have no idea that I fatten Matt on purpose. He assures them that he will cut down .. knowing that this will never happen. - The next time we see them, Matt has again properly packed on and is a bit nervous. Though he eats almost nothing the 2 days before, they scold him for having gotten bigger again. At home, we take a deep breath. Matt is starving and eats a dinner big enough for three. I tease him that with such a diet, he will be even fatter the next time with his parents. Defiantly, he forces two more pieces of cream cake down .. Well, next time with his parents is his 28th birthday. Matt is fatter than ever at 387, and though he tries to suck in, the heavy pounds press against the shirt. When the parents ask what he weighs now, he says “350”. They look doubtful, but they seem to have resigned with his weight. At dinner, he eats two full three-course meals plus a couple of desserts without them commenting further. At home, I open his shirt, which now stretches dangerously at the waist, and massage his bulging belly. I tell him that his parents will always love him, no matter how fat he gets. He sighs .. but I'm right. Although he hardly can eat any more, I fatten him with cream cake, and he does his best before he falls asleep.

A massive boy

Matt’s appetite remains strong, and he is not in the least willing to stop eating. So to nobody’s surprise he comfortably passes 400. At such a weight, my athletic boy from a few years ago has now become big and massive. His enormous overhang starts having its own will. He feels it jiggle out of control with the slightest movement, and it often gets in his way. When he ties his laces, he struggles with the bulky fat roll, so he gasps and gets a red head from the exertion. He is much slower when moving around. Halfway on the stairs, he has to catch breath. Shopping clothes with him is a special pleasure. Seeing my fat boy being measured by the astonished salesmen, the struggle in the fitting room when he has to pull pants over his enormous butt, or the shirts don’t let them button over his huge stomach, then he gets out of breath and starts to sweat .. his clothes size has gone up to 4XL shirts and 56’’ waist jeans.

In bed though, we have incredible fun. We both enjoy his corpulence beyond description, the massive pillow of dough he wears in front of him, his bulky hip rolls, his thick thighs and especially his gigantic butt cheeks. With his weight, he is not so agile anymore. But I do all kinds of stuff with him, I move and shake him and make him pant, sweat and squeak with pleasure (I sweat also, with a guy more than twice my weight). The way his opulent fat jiggles out of control is incredibly arousing. The bed creaks at all joints under his weight .. Its heavenly! In the mornings afterwards, I reward him with a real big boys breakfast in bed .. when he is stuffed, I pat his fat cheeks and tease him that a good boy eats more and help him work down another piece of cake.

Can’t stop eating

Josh constantly seduces Matt with heavy snacks and fattens him properly up. A month before Matt’s birthday, he intensifies the fattening and feeds him beyond the limits. The brave Matt wonders why Josh takes him so hard, but with Josh’s help, he packs away incredible amounts of food and gets noticeably fatter by the week. And yes, Josh is content that Matt added an extra 14 pounds. He is fat enough for his birthday!

At his birthday BBQ, Josh makes the now very corpulent Matt appear in a boxer specially made for his enormous size. Josh shows him up like an award-winning fattening pig, making the gainer pals grab and pat his ample fat rolls and lets them guess what he weighs now. Matt is bashful and doesn’t know what to say. Then Josh puts him on the scales. Wow! At 434, he now weighs 14 pounds more than Pete- and no question that he finishes the eating contest as the absolute winner. Matt can hardly believe that he is now fatter than Pete and also the undisputed master in eating. The dethroned champion pays tribute to Matt for his record weight and his really gigantic appetite, however, he promises that he will have caught up with him again on his next birthday. Josh pinches lovingly in Matt's fat rolls and boasts that he will fatten him to a quarter ton by then. The fat Matt, pigged out and fatter than ever, becomes thoughtful. It dawns on him that there is no turning back. He is a bit anxious that he will be fattened even thicker, and wonders what his life will look like if he gets too fat to move. At the same time, however, it also arouses him, and so he surrenders to his fate.

Eating helps him soon to forget the cloudy thoughts. He breaks the magic 450 in fall and is in seventh heaven. Two and a half time his starting weight. Christmas sees him happy at an even fatter 460. As usual, he just spends it topless in a huge boxershorts, showing off his still perfect shape. Josh and I are thrilled when his enormous ass and the mountain of fat bulging over his pants wobble with every move or how his belly forms into a tremendous fat roll when he sits down, and how he has to breathe and start several times when he wants to get up. We make Christmas an epic feast again. Matt is stimulated and shows us proudly the gigantic masses that he can now eat. Josh and I are excited as his boxer pants get tight over the days and increasingly cut into his bacon. I ask him not to go out - butchers would be keen to catch this well-fattened guy and get to his juicy bacon.

And finally, on his birthday, he weighs in at 500. My goodness, a quarter ton man .. He looks back on the 5 years of our friendship, grateful that eating has become such a fulfilling passion for him. The additional 300 pounds he’s put on make him feel better and happier than ever, and he can’t wait to put on even more. He tries to get up to give me a kiss, but he is too heavy and drops back, the couch creaking dangerously and his bacon wobbling for seconds. He then tries to bend over for a hug, but he is too bulky and has to give up, heavily breathing now from the exertion. I kiss him and pat his abundant dough. I love this man ever more the more helpless he gets ..

At the birthday BBQ, we make a weigh-in (on a heavy-duty scale). Pete has really taken up the challenge and gained significant weight, but Matt outweighs him undisputedly by over 30 pounds now.

Life is however getting more and more difficult for Matt. It’s hard to find decent clothes to cover his bulk. He gets out of breath when he moves around. We have to help him get dressed, and he can’t bend down because of his belly. At work, he is so heavy and big that he needs a special chair, and his colleagues don’t stop teasing him with his weight .. the situation has become uncomfortable for him. OMG, my depressed boy .. I offer him to finally give up work and live a lazy, fat life. He looks at me, uncertain .. then sobs and whispers that this is what he has always dreamed of, and he is more than willing.

Fat life

Matt’s life is now fully devoted to eating. He often stays in bed. In the morning, he already starts with a nutritious breakfast which leaves him heavily breathing. In autumn, he weighs in at 545, and that means .. he has tripled his weight! He is now too fat to sit upright.

His 33rd birthday, at 612. Getting up has become a challenge for him. He gasps already when we help him sit on the edge of the bed. Josh and I help him to stand up .. one, two, three .. oops .. he falls back on the bed, it shakes dangerously .. he needs a minute .. next try ..one, two, three .. he stands .. he needs a moment to catch breath .. then he walks, and his whole body jiggles considerably .. Ok .. for this heroic deed, I reward him with cream cake, and he packs away 4 ½ pieces. Not content, he says he wants to manage 6 pieces in the next weeks ..

Getting immobile

After Christmas, at 660, we try to get him up, but he gasps like hell and his heart beats extremely, so we give up. We prescribe a strict slimming diet and exercise to our big boy (as far as possible at his weight). Well, he drops below 600, and mobility comes back well. But in December, he is unhappy .. he tells us he has lost a year now with fasting. He doesn’t live to starve, but wants to eat, eat and eat! Eat for a family of four in one meal! Well, we start a fattening diet again. Though the gains naturally go slower at his weight, in fall, he is content to weigh over 650 again.

On his 35th birthday, at 710 pounds, Matt starts to regularly stuff himself senseless .. it’s obvious, he wants to be so fat that he gets immobile. On Christmas, he reaches 750, and finally he is too heavy to get up. He is deeply content when we officially declare him immobile. He begs me to stay with him, to encourage him, to feed him fatter and heavier, and to help him with the daily life. I promise, and I do it with deepfelt love.

To be able to lift him up, we install a hoist over his bed, and we take care that he can be weighed this way also. He is proud every time we weigh him and he has gotten heavier, and we celebrate with a feast. He enjoys that he gasps now and sweats with the slightest move. He aims at breaking past 840 on his 37thbirthday, looking forward to weigh four times as much as the sporty guy I fell in love with, and being one of the fattest persons at all .. and to lead a life full of delicious food, making him ever bigger, fatter and heavier ..

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oyaterriblyfunnyreallywitty · 3 years

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Breathe

Warnings: heartache

Word Count: 1577

Summary : Reader x Draco mini story based on the song Breathe by Taylor Swift

I see your face in my mind as i drive away

cause none of us thought it was going to end that way

Hermione hugged you tight as sobbed into her shirt, Harry kept glancing to the back seat, his own heart aching at the sight.

Ron kept turning too despite being your driver as you all coursed through the muggle world sky en route to Rons where the four of you would be spending the summer.

“Y/n, he’s really not worth it. He’s the worst thing ever. Do you have any idea how much better you deserve? You’re like the best-“

“RON!” Both Hermione and Harry shouted making you glance up, tear streaked face breaking into a laugh.

Ron had been facing the backseat while delivering his heartfelt speech and almost driven you all into the side of a skyscraper which despite the car’s invisibility feature would’ve left a pretty visible dent.

They all looked at you again, all smiles at the sound of your laughter. This only made you crumple back into a ball of tears, remembering Draco dumping you not even ten minutes ago.

Hermione opened her arms letting you bury yourself once again, eventually falling into a restless sleep.

“That loathsome man child! I just knew he wouldn’t ever bring any good into our lives.” that was Hermione, her hand gently brushing through your hair unaware that you could hear them.

“It’s Malfoy, did we really expect he could ever care about anything? Much less y/n’s heart. That foul git.” said Harry through clenched teeth.

“Just wait till we get back, I’ll show him. That coward, smart of him to do it at the platform! He knows he wouldn’t have lived to tell the story had I gotten my hands on him!”

“Ron, don’t shout. You’ll wake her.” Hermione hushed, cupping her hand over your ear.

You smiled, despite the gaping hole in your chest you felt overwhelming love as you listened to your best friends sentiments finally falling into a deep sleep as you did.

Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie

It’s the kind of ending you don’t really wanna see

You stood across from your boyfriend at the platform, luggage in hands and goodbyes in mouth. He gave you a smile that didn’t quiet reach his eyes.

This should’ve rang alarms in your tiny love sick brain, but of course it didn’t.

He pulled you into the longest and tightest hug ever.

Again, this should've been another red flag since he’s never been one for PDA if only you hadn’t been so lovestruck with him.

“Wow, Draco. We’ll be back together in three months. Wouldn’t have guessed you’d miss me this much.” you chuckled against his shoulder hugging as tight as you could his broad shoulders.

Maybe if you’d paid more attention you wouldn’t have felt like a train just hit you when he said what he did next.

“Y/n,” he said gently peeling you off him, “there..” he swallowed and avoided your eyes, focusing on the platform 9 and 3/4 sign. “there’s no us when we return.” his eyes finally met yours.

Today they took on a grey tone. How fitting, just how your heart felt.

His mouth kept moving, perhaps an explanation?

You couldn’t hear what he was saying anymore.

Not that it mattered.

You turned on your heels at once, every sad song you’d ever heard playing in your head.

None of which could describe the heartache you felt as your boyfriend of two years dumped you at the train station.

You began seeing blurry when you bumped hard into someone were grateful it was Harry’s voice that came from them.

“Y/N?"

He wrapped his arms around you tightly, leading you out of the station and into Ron's car swiftly.

Ron and Hermione not far behind, each with part of your luggage, very much unaware of what was happening but hurrying to your aid.

People are people and sometimes it doesn’t work out

But it’s killing me to see you go after all this time

The first week was awful, you couldn’t even bring yourself to eat.

Ron attempting to spoon feed you was an epic fail.

Hermione’s health lecture on skipping meals only made you feel worse.

Even Harry’s cooking didn’t get you to eat more than a single strand of bacon.

On the 9th day of your cauldron cakes and licorice wands diet, they called back up.

The three cowards pretended not to hear as Mrs. Weasley called you over downstairs.

Unaware of the intervention you didn’t think twice about heading down without them, assuming they’d be close behind.

Mrs. Weasley sat at the kitchen table with what looked a feast placed in front of her.

Not even your sense of smell was working these days but you managed a, “Smells great Mrs. Weasley, I’ll go get them.”

“No, please y/n come join me.” she said waving her hand for you to come down.

You caught on to what was going on the moment you turned back and saw the three heads peeking from Ron’s door then duck when you saw them.

“Oh,” she scooted over on the bench patting the spot next to her, “heartbreaks can be a terrible thing. We are such complicated creatures really, and sometime we just don’t fit.” she said, voice filled with empathy as you took your seat next to her.

Your bottom lip quivered and you nodded.

She grabbed a plate and began scooping mashed potatoes and peas into it, “It is a long process y/n. It might be a while before you feel like yourself again, and even then, it’ll be a new self.” She added a chicken leg and set the plate down in front of you.

“It is very important dear, that you don’t forget who comes before any boy ever will.” She was now grabbing a bowl and pouring some type of soup into it.

Tears were freely rolling down your cheeks, and as she sat the bowl down next to the plate Mrs. Weasley caught sight of them. She promptly engulfed you into a motherly hug.

“You do darling. You beautiful, sweet, and caring girl. You must remember this always.” she said lovingly, pulling back to wipe the tears.

You only nodded, if words hadn’t failed you, you could’ve explained they were happy tears. Mrs. Weasley had reminded you there was a light at the end of this dark, and endless seeming corridor.

For the first time in days you ate actual food with a renewed appetite.

its 2 am, feeling like i just lost a friend.

hope you know its not easy for me

You woke up to Hermione shaking you awake, her face pale with concern.

Two very groggy Ron and Harry stood behind her, worry plastered all over their sleepy faces.

“You were screaming.” she said softly, pushing your hair out of your face.

You sat up, suddenly very embarrassed.

“I’m so sorry.” you said looking at each of them.

They all shook their heads, an apology wasn’t needed.

“We just wanted to know if you were okay is all.” said Harry, giving you a reassuring smile.

“Must’ve been a nightmare, what was I saying?” you said with a light laugh.

They exchanged looks, Hermione shaking her head at the boys.

“Oh you know, something about demento-oof” Ron shut up as Harry elbowed him.

“Nothing intelligible.” said Hermione with a faint smile, “Lets all head back to sleep its two in the morning, and tomorrow will be a long day.” she stood up off the edge of the bed. As they all began walking back out, you called on the worst one at keeping secrets.

“Ron?”

He turned, his face fell and he looked anywhere in the room but at you.

“Draco.” he said, the name being self explanatory of what your nightmare was about.

You nodded and then exchanged goodnights again wishing you hadn’t asked, Hermione always knew best.

Thankfully you couldn’t remember the dream but just his name kept you up until Harry barged in at seven telling you it was time to go down.

Today he was going to be teaching Ron tricks that would ensure he be on the quidditch team this upcoming semester, and you and Hermione got to watch it play out, lucky you!

Although each day was getting better, last night had been proof that some days the loss felt as raw as it did that day on platform 9 and 3/4.

You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand

The four of you were having a picnic reviewing your upcoming classes and the supplies required as dictated by your Hogwarts letters. You spotted a strange recipe that you’d be required to buy the ingredients for to use in potions class.

“Draco was dreading this potion so much, this is literally his worst subject. I really don’t think he’ll make it out alive if we’re not paired up with them this semester.” you smiled to yourself remembering that specific talk that had taken place after he snuck you past the Slytherin common room and into his dorm room.

Your friends froze and you gasped at the realization.

“He’s pretty bad in all subjects.” joked Hermione, quickly rescuing you from that awkward dead end conversation.

The rest of the afternoon flew by and although your heart felt better than it had in weeks you couldn’t help but wonder what you would do with all these little things you knew about Draco and all this love your heart had for him.

Where would all of the stories and love go?

Would the stories you’d shared slowly become obsolete as you grew into different people?

Would the love just stop being there one of these days?

The answer was no, you realized a few days later as you spotted his platinum hair and your eyes met his from across the platform.

And I can’t breathe without you but I have to..

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lallemanting · 4 years

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hiii! i just got an idea and i cant get over it 👉👈 could you maybe write a fluffy fwog ficlet about eliott's birthday?

hello!! thank you for the prompt! it was so nice to revisit my fwog boys again. hope you enjoy!! 💛

When Eliott had fallen asleep the night before, arms wrapped around Lucas' waist as he held him close, he had imagine waking up on his birthday a little differently. Quieter, slower, much more Lucas close, and skin brushing and tender kisses pressed to the corner of his mouth, everything.

Instead, he’s awakened by something heavy landing straight onto his stomach, knocking the air out of him, and the sound of Lucas shouting out in the hallway.

“Luna!”

And then, before he can even orient himself enough to blink away the sleep and open his eyes, he’s being attacked with wet kisses from his rather overexcited and overgrown puppy.

“Shit,” he hears Lucas curse as he fights through the covers in an attempt to push her off just enough to breathe. It takes a moment, but eventually Eliott is able to sit up enough that he can reach out and scratch Luna’s ear in just the right spot that she calms down and stays, sprawled across Eliott’s legs.

“Fuck, I’m sorry,” Lucas says panting as he sits down on the corner of the bed and kicks off his shoes. “I was trying to take her out before you woke up so she wouldn’t do exactly that.”

Eliott can’t help the smile that spreads over his face, the love he feels swell in his chest as Luna buries her head into his leg and Lucas turns to him, face flushed from what must have been a rather epic battle of wills.

"I guess she really wanted to wish you happy birthday first.”

Eliott can only laugh, reaching out his hand to grab Lucas’ hand and pull gently, urging him closer, their fingers lighting up in swirls of gold as they interlace. Eliott never gets tired of it, how they shine together.

“She won then.”

“She did.”

“I really wouldn’t expect anything else.”

Lucas leans over and presses a kiss to Eliott’s shoulder, his skin bare now that summer has settled over the city. Well that, and the way Lucas turns to drawing patterns on Eliott’s chest when he can’t sleep, the soft glow soothing him, warm against his palm. So Eliott likes to keep the canvas ready when he can, should the need arrive.

“Okay, so I had a whole plan,” Lucas whispers, his chin resting on Eliott’s shoulder, the feeling of his breath against Eliott’s neck still managing to send shivers down his spine even after all these years together. “So can you lie back down and pretend to be asleep and I’ll wrestle our stubborn child out to the kitchen for her breakfast? I’ll be back in a minute.”

“Okay,” Eliott says, laughing a little as he turns and leans in for a good morning kiss. But Lucas only backs away and whispers in a minute, tempting Luna back out of the room with a treat he had hidden in his pocket as Eliott sinks back down into his pillows.

It’s the best start to a birthday he’s ever had.

In the end it takes Lucas a little more than a minute. Eliott can hear him moving around the apartment, things clanging together in the kitchen and Luna barking for her meal. He closes his eyes and lets the golden light of morning wash over him, feels the way it settles in his heart, lighting him up, gentle and warm.

Eventually the door to their bedroom opens and Lucas sneaks in, carrying a tray of food that he sets down on the table next to the bed before sprinting back towards the door to shut it. He must see Eliott’s expression because he rolls his eyes fondly as he walks back over to the bed.

“Just until we finish eating,” he says, “otherwise she’ll get everything.”

“Fine,” Eliott replies, but then he sits up and opens his arms towards Lucas who finally, gratefully, comes to him.

Lucas crawls across the expanse of sheets, tangled and still warm from where Eliott’s been lounging until he reaches Eliott and pulls himself into his lap.

Lucas reaches up and brushes his fingers across Eliott’s cheeks, as Eliott’s hands find Lucas’ waist, and Eliott can see the way Lucas watches the way his cheeks light up at the touch before he finally brings his gaze back to Eliott’s.

“Happy birthday, my love.”

“Thank you,” Eliott says and he smiles, leaning in to finally get his first birthday kiss.

He can feel how Lucas smiles against his lips as he pulls him close, can already tell that this will be a morning that’s spent full of kisses and laughter and kisses that become laughter, bright and clear and beautiful. Eliott’s favorite kind of all.

They pull back for a moment, foreheads pressed together as they just breathe each other in, and Eliott can’t help but turn his head and press a soft kiss to the inside of Lucas’ left wrist, to the shining swath of gold there, to the place that will always be theirs. And then he leans back more, taking Lucas’ hand in his own and kissing the soft skin of his palm and then turning his hand over and placing another kiss on a newer band of gold on Lucas’ left ring finger. The gold Eliott had once again been able to adorn just a few weeks prior.

“That does too much for you,” Lucas teases, but Eliott can see the smile at the corners of his mouth.

“I think it does exactly the right amount,” Eliott laughs, tightening his grip around Lucas’ waist and leaning in for another kiss.

“Wait, wait,” Lucas says, giggling, as he twists out of Eliott’s grasp, “I made breakfast!”

“You made me breakfast?” Eliott asks, feigning surprise like it’s not something Lucas has done for every one of his birthdays for the past five years. He loves that they have little traditions like that, and he loves more that he can tease Lucas about them.

“There’s waffles...” Lucas tempts and Eliott has never been able to turn them down.

“Okay, fine,” Eliott says, releasing Lucas who grabs the tray and brings it back to bed, placing it between them. The waffles are perfect, just as they normally are, and there’s coffee and kissing and everything Eliott could have ever wanted.

“I love you,” Lucas says suddenly, bringing Eliott’s attention back to him through the haze of the morning.

“I love you too.”

Lucas looks at him a little sheepishly. “I promise the rest of your birthday will go more according to plan.”

Eliott just shakes his head. “No it’s perfect,” he says softly. “It’s always perfect with you.”

They save a small piece of bacon for Luna when they finally let her back in.

#elu fic #fwog #my writing #sorry for mistakes i wrote this quickly

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Tour the mansion and also uncover several of its distinct functions, such as its secret passages, huge wine rack and also horse stables. You'll likewise like that 700-foot-long tunnel that links the stables to your house.

9. Toronto Botanical Gardens

Open up given that 2003, this 4-acre oasis attributes 17 lovely, award-winning and great smelling themed yards.

Why You Must Go

Searching for romantic things to do in Toronto for pairs? After that, visit the TBG, and take a romantic and also picturesque walk with your companion in its stunning gardens. With a myriad of attractive flowers and also a laid-back charm, this oasis makes an excellent area to unwind and loosen up.

What To Do

If you want an even more thorough understanding right into the 17 gardens, take a 1-hour led scenic tour below. Conversely, you might take an app-guided sightseeing tour that will take you around the tourist attraction's grounds.

10. Ontario Scientific Research Center

Wowing visitors for 50 years, this museum on Don Mills Roadway is filled with educational and thought-provoking exhibitions.

Why You Must Go

The Ontario Scientific research Center makes learning exceptionally fun with its 500 interactive exhibits. From its planetarium to its aging maker, this scientific research museum will entertain and surprise you in a selection of ways.

What To Do

Have a look at the museum's IMAX cinema and also watch an academic film about scientific research and modern technology. You can also join the gallery's presentations that array from papermaking to power. As well as, do not fail to remember to strike the Living Earth experience as well as rocket chair.

11. Kensington Market

A former Jewish district, this bohemian market sprang to life in the 1902 with households setting up stands to sell goods.

Why You Should Go

Kensington Market is the city's cultural capital. With its diverse vintages shops, lively feeling and also tantalizing restaurants, this market is an outright banquet for the detects. While a little disorderly, this market ensures to maintain you occupied for hrs.

What To Do

Even if you're not into shopping, you'll still appreciate strolling casually via the art-clad and wacky market. Naturally, you'll find plenty of yummy goodies as well as cool finds below, with a few of them coming from Asia and also Europe.

12. Hockey Hall of Popularity

Established initially in 1943, this museum is a stellar display of ice hockey's intriguing history.

Why You Should Go

While hockey isn't exactly the nation's main sporting activity, it's somewhat the unofficial faith of Canada. As well as, there's no better place for more information about the nation's enthusiasm for this sporting activity than the Hockey Hall Of Fame.

With 65,000 square feet of event, this museum will offer you a thorough take a look at this preferred sporting activity. In addition, it bids die-hard hockey followers with loads of epic sport artefacts.

What To Do

See many remarkable hockey-related displays, such as the goalie gear of Terry Sawchuk and also the original Stanley Mug. Also, capture the Puck Wall, which includes a thousand pucks or even more that were gathered from different globe tournaments.

13. Ft York

Constructed in 1793, this historic fort was utilized by the Canadian militia and also British Military to defend the Toronto Harbour's entrance.

Why You Ought to Go

Ft York is one of the must-see historic destinations in Toronto. Through smart guides as well as a series of battle remnants, this historic marvel will provide you a peek of the city's seductive past. Plus, it has some pleasant sights as well as views as well.

What To Do

Enjoy the armed forces drills and also cannon firings as you see this website. Furthermore, you might participate in its flag raisings in addition to trip the police officers' as well as soldiers' quarters.

14. Ripley's Aquarium of Canada

Managed by Ripley Home entertainment, this fish tank has 1.25 million gallons of freshwater and also aquatic habitats from all over the world.

Why You Must Go

Ripley's Aquarium Of Canada is among the can't- miss enjoyable points to do in Toronto, Canada for households. With 135,000 square feet of undersea and interactive displays, it's the largest indoor aquarium in Canada today.

What To Do

The undersea passage, known as the Dangerous Shallows, is, for many people, the highlight of their check out right here. As you venture right into this tunnel, you'll find a lot of gorgeous animals, including environment-friendly sea turtles as well as relentless sand tiger sharks.

15. Bata Shoe Gallery

Inaugurated in 1979, this special museum mainly shows the individual footwear collections of benefactor Sonja Bata.

Why You Must Go

The Bata Footwear Gallery supplies an one-of-a-kind indoor experience in Toronto. Unlike your normal gallery, this tourist attraction concentrates on presenting shoes as well as various other related products. Presently, the museum has around 12,000 shoes and also shoes artifacts that date back 4,500 years.

What To Do

Make certain to take a look at the museum's showstoppers, consisting of the Chelsea boots of John Lennon as well as the silk slippers of Queen Victoria. You'll additionally love the red leather heels of Marilyn Monroe as well as the Dolce as well as Gabbanas of Madonna.

16. Toronto Eaton Facility

With a yearly participation of 50 million visitors, this buying sanctuary is the busiest shopping mall in North America.

Why You Should Go

Toronto Eaton Center sees a lot more yearly site visitors than either of the busiest shopping malls in the United States: Ala Moana facility and Shopping mall of America. Remarkably, it likewise draws more visitors than New York's Central Park.

And also, with over 250 elegant sellers, this complex makes sure to give shopaholics their repair and window shopping.

What To Do

Invest a day searching for bargains as well as fads at leading merchants, like Forever 21, Train and Steven Madden. After your electrifying buying spree, order a fast eat from any one of the many food selections in Urban Restaurant.

17. Scarborough Bluffs

Situated in Toronto's eastern end, these bluffs stretch throughout 15 kilometers along the photogenic Lake Ontario.

Why You Ought to Go

Don't let the pictures trick you! With its sandy beaches, cascading high cliffs as well as blue-green waters, the bluffs might look a little tropical and also unique. However, guess what? This imposing geological marvel is located in Toronto.

What To Do

Enjoy the spectacular sights from the top of the bluffs neglecting the lake. You might likewise increase to the 300-foot towering cliffs or trek it. Additionally, you'll discover outing areas and also a sandy beach at Bluffer's Park.

18. Allan Gardens Sunroom

Open year-round, this no-cost attraction in the Yard District was originally opened up in 1860.

Why You Ought to Go

The Allan Gardens Conservatory has 6 greenhouses including plants and also blossoms from around the world. As well as, while it's a bit little, the sunroom also offers various other destinations, consisting of a canine park and a children's playground.

What To Do

Visit the tropical houses, which are loaded with begonia, bromeliads and orchids. As soon as done, visit the Palm House, and find a multitude of exotic creeping plants, bananas as well as palms.

19. Toronto Food Tours

Led by Cook Scott Savoi, this scrumptious excursion lets you eat your way around the city's neighborhoods, such as Old Chinatown.

Why You Must Go

There's no better method to example Toronto's varied cuisine than to take this chef-led food tour. From Little Italy to Koreatown, this excursion looks into the ethic groups as well as electrical communities in Toronto.

What To Do

Satiate your Eastern food cravings by taking their Chinatown food scenic tour. For 3 hours, this scenic tour lets you relish 12 food tastings at 6 various restaurants and stores. Also much better, you'll appreciate an authentic Dim Sum experience and make a rest stop to a Chinese Grocery store.

20. Nathan Phillips Square

With a total area of 12 acres, this urban plaza is the biggest city square in Canada.

Why You Must Go

Nathan Phillips Square overruns with fun as well as activity. From annual occasions to shows, the plaza always buzzes with task. And, the best component is, you can appreciate the majority of them, for everyone's preferred cost of no dollars.

What To Do

Relax at Peace Garden, walk the elevated walkway and do some ice skating at this plaza in winter months. Additionally, you may appreciate the square's performances, shows, rallies, regular farmers' market as well as yearly events like the wintertime lights festival.

21. Trinity Bellwoods Park

Sandwiched in between Dundas Road West and also West Queen West, this 36-acre park is a neighborhood favorite in Toronto.

Why You Ought to Go

There's no lack of age-friendly entertainment in this rich park. Whether you're visiting it in wintertime or summer, you'll find a number of great as well as worthwhile tasks in this park. To make things also much better, a lot of the park's tasks are easy on the pocketbook.

What To Do

When the weather is warm, visitors will have access to a vast array of centers, including a kiddie wading swimming pool as well as sporting activities areas. You can additionally join the BYO outings and come to be a part of their social scene. In winter season, you can go ice skating on its magnificent rink.

22. Art Gallery of Ontario

Situated comfortably in midtown Toronto, this 45,000-square-meter bonanza is one of North America's largest art galleries.

Why You Should Go

Residence to over 90,000 screens, this gallery is a piece of paradise on earth for art connoisseurs. Besides its Native as well as Canadian art displays, this gallery also has notable work of arts by European legends, like Picasso.

What To Do

Be mesmerized by the gallery's European collection featuring jobs by artists, such as Claude Monet as well as Edgar Degas. You might also admire the contemporary jobs by Canadian greats, consisting of Jeff Wall and also Michael Snow.

23. TIFF Bell Lightbox

TIFF Bell Lightbox, developed in 2010, is a social attraction in Toronto understood for its cinemas and also learning studios.

Why You Need to Go

TIFF Bell Lightbox isn't just the official headquarters of the well-known Toronto International Film Event. With 5 impressive state-of-the-art cinemas, it's likewise one of the much more fascinating points to do in Toronto tonight. And also, it houses a restaurant, a gallery area and a movie library.

What To Do

If you can't make it to the 10-day movie carnival in September, you can still appreciate this center by seeing a flick below. From international indie movies to timeless blockbusters, their movie theater runs film shows throughout the year.

24. Aga Khan Museum

Set down on a beautiful 17-acre park, this opulent gallery was opened in 2014 to highlight Islamic Art.

Why You Should Go

Aga Khan is The United States and Canada's very first museum that's devoted to featuring Islamic art. Funded by Shia Ismaili Muslims, this gallery was opened to share the scientific and also artistic creations of the worldwide Islamic areas.

What To Do

Capture the museum's long-term collection of 1,000 pieces of Islamic art. Furthermore, you might experience the gallery's unique events and events.

25. High Park

Covering 400 hectares, this all-natural as well as entertainment paradise is Toronto's solution to New York's Central Park.

Why You Should Go

No listing of the best points to do in Toronto, Canada is complete without this sprawling urban park. From untouched nature sites to themed yards, High Park will certainly move you right into happiness with its irresistible greenery. Moreover, it provides a load of amazing and interactive activities.

What To Do

There's a lot of things to do in this park. Not only does it have a zoo, however it also has ice skating rinks, tennis courts as well as an exterior pool. There are additionally playgrounds for the sprightly children.

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Angels & Devils Part XI : I’m Yours, You’re Mine

A n g e l s & D e v i l s || Tomorrow x Together Fanfiction

~ p a r t s : main post || prologue || part 1 || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 || part 5 || part 6 || part 7 || part 8 || part 9 || part 10 || part 11 || part 12 || part 13 || part 14 || part 15 || part 16 || part 17 ~ p a i r i n g : love triangle involving choi soobin and choi yeonjun ~ g e n r e : high school au | some social media au | some fluff & angst | childhood friends | love triangle ~ l a n g u a g e : English ~ w a r n i n g : contains swearing, alcohol, kissing (?) and may contain mature themes (angst, etc.) ~ a / n : This will be my first fanfic (go easy on me pls) and i’m just writing this as I go along, so bear with me juseyo The setting (place/country) of the story is up to the reader’s interpretation ~ s u m m a r y : What should she choose? Han Baby: the new girl with a troubled past MO Academy: her new high school Choi Soobin: student council president, member of the Ecosave club, volunteer at the Humane Treatment of Animals, member of the Honor Society, a vocalist in the Jazzed club, the school’s all around golden boy Choi Yeonjun: leader of the Dance club, star of the Jazzed club, the school’s it boy with a bad rep 5 best friends, 1 new girl, 1 childhood friendship, 1 epic love triangle? What will this school year bring?

Over the weekend, B and Kai had spent most of their time lounging around the living room, finishing the entire season of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay on Netflix on Saturday and having a movie marathon on Sunday. They ordered all their meals and had all the food they wanted delivered to the apartment, their food cravings ranging from donuts and milk tea to egg tarts and mint chocolate ice cream. It felt like one of the many sleepovers they used to have when they were kids, only now it was just the 2 of them in a place of their own, without nosy siblings or strict parents to bother them or tell them what they could or couldn’t do.

Other than stuffing their faces with food and drowning their emotions in Netflix, they finally had all the time in the world to do all the catching up that they hadn’t been able to, asking questions and telling stories about what they had missed out on each other’s lives through the years.

“First kiss?” B asks.

“Oh, I think I was in the 7th grade, and it was with Im Yeojin. You?”

“Lucas Wong. A couple of years ago.” B responds.

Kai shakes his head. “That guy was your first kiss ever? Lucas? Your ex?”

B nods. “The one and only. Next question please?”

“Alright, worst ex?” Kai asks intentionally.

“Ningning, you know I’ve only had 1 boyfriend.”

“Yes, and he was the worst! He had the audacity to cheat on you! And all because you wouldn’t ‘put out?’ He's lucky I lived 3 hours away or else I would’ve kicked his ass.” Kai says, huffing.

B laughs, trying to swallow down the lump in her throat that formed whenever she talked about her horrible ex boyfriend. There was so much more to their relationship than him cheating on her cause she wouldn’t put out, but she wasn’t ready to let her best friend know all about it just yet. “Thanks, but judging by the size of his biceps, I don’t think that could’ve ever happened anyway.”

Kai pouts. “Are you saying I should start going to the gym?”

B laughs at him dismissively before changing the subject.

Also, sharing a living space with another person was also a bit of an adjustment for B since she had already gotten used to living alone. Her apartment only had one bathroom which she now shared with Kai, and now she had to keep all her personal toiletries set aside and her feminine hygiene products kept away, not wanting a repeat of the horrifying moment when her best friend walked out of the bathroom with his face all red.

“What happened to you?” she had asked, noticing how flushed he looked after being in the bathroom for 20 minutes.

“You know that when I’m, um, taking a shit I like to read the back of labels of whatever I see in the bathroom, right?” Kai starts slowly.

“Okay, weird, but go on.”

He takes a big gulp before continuing. “Well, let’s just say I now know how to properly put on a tampon. And let me just say, I’m glad I wasn’t born a woman.”

After that incident, B made sure to keep all feminine hygiene products hidden away in the bathroom cabinets. She ensured to leave a stack of random books and magazines on the bathroom counters so Kai would have something to read when doing his business. Other than that, B also had to remind herself that it was no longer socially acceptable to walk around her apartment in nothing but a tshirt and underwear on, since she had gotten used to roaming the space without worrying about other people seeing what she looked like. She usually went to bed in just a shirt and underwear and roll out of bed and straight into the kitchen for breakfast without a care in the world. Now, she had to double check and make sure that she was wearing bottoms and a bra before stepping out of her bedroom.

Even though there were many things she hadn’t considered before inviting a guy to stay in her apartment, she had to admit that it was nice to have company around. She hadn’t realized how lonely it was to live alone until Kai had come along, and now she was already sort of dreading the day when he’d get better and move out. She was starting to consider finding a room mate before then, knowing that she’d feel lonely once her company had to leave.

Come Monday morning, B woke up feeling excited. She rolled out of bed, put on a pair of shorts, and made her way to the kitchen, only to be surprised by the sight of breakfast already prepared on the table. A plate full of bacon and sunny side up eggs, a bowl full of fresh fruit and cereal, and a glass of blue lemonade were all neatly laid out on the table, and Kai was sitting there with an apron still tied around his waist. When he saw B step out from her room, he immediately greeted her “Wakey wakey Baba, time to go back to school!”

B rubs the sleep from her eyes, making sure she wasn’t just dreaming that Kai had prepared breakfast for her. Once the smell of freshly cooked bacon filled wafted in the air, she immediately brightens up and walks on over to give her best friend a hug.

“Ningning, you did all this for me? Thank you so much!” she says in awe.

“Yup, I wanted to make it special since it’ll be your first day back at MOA today.” Kai says. “Now hurry up before it gets cold. You have to be ready in 40 minutes.”

B all but gobbles up all the food that Kai had prepared for her before jumping into the shower, drying her hair, putting on some make up and changing into her school uniform, making sure she had everything she needed before letting Kai walk her to the front door.

“Have fun, Baba!” Kai says.

“Sure thing. Make sure to keep the door locked and call me if you need anything.” she says, waving goodbye before making her way downstairs to meet Taehyun.

As soon as Taehyun sees her, his eyes visibly light up.

“B! Finally, I’ve missed you so much.” he says, waving hello before stretching his arms out towards her. “Come here!”

B excitedly runs up, preparing to hug Taehyun, until at the last minute he folds his hands across his chest and takes a step back, which stops her in her tracks.

“On second thought, don’t touch me. You may be medically cleared already, but since Hyuka’s staying with you, you might still be carrying the pox.” he says. It’s only then when she notices that he was wearing a face mask and had a small spray bottle of alcohol hanging from his school ID lace.

She smiles at him sheepishly. “I missed you too, you know.” she says, opting to wrap her arms around her own torso instead.

He laughs at her silly antics before following suit, wrapping his arms around himself. “Let’s just pretend that we’re hugging right now.”

B nods. “Alrighty. Thanks, Tyun.”

“Don’t mention it. Now come on, put on your face mask and make sure you have hand sanitizer before we go.” he says, adjusting the mask on his face.

She puts on a mask and puts a small bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket before they start making their way to school.

“I’ve missed these walks of ours.” B says happily, breathing in the morning air.

“I’ve missed them too. And I’ve missed you. School was a bit boring without you, and walking to school alone just didn’t feel the same.”

“How have things at MOA been, apart from the health protocols? And how are the guys?” B asks.

“Apart from the implementation of health protocols, school has pretty much been the same. The guys miss you. I think they’re excited to see you.” Taehyun responds.

“I miss them too.” B says, sighing. She and Yeonjun had FaceTimed every night through the weekend, but she missed him, and she felt a bit sad that they had to cancel their supposed last date. She had to admit that she missed the other guys too. “What makes you think they’re excited to see me, though?”

“They told me to ask you if you could meet them by the front gate of MOA before classes start this morning.” Taehyun says.

“Oh? They did? Weird, but okay. I wonder why.” B says, trying to think of why they might want to meet up. “How have you been? Has anything in your life changed in the past week?” she asks.

Taehyun shrugs. “Not really, same old same old. Just the usual studying at school and working at the café.” he says. “What about you? How have you been doing?”

B shrugs too, mimicking his response. “I’ve been good, nothing much going on.” she says casually, which was a lie. She wanted to tell him about Yeonjun and about how he asked her out and all the dates he put together, but a part of her was scared about how he’d react, so she thought it would be better to tell him when the time was right.

As she and Taehyun approach the campus, her eyes catch sight of 3 familiar figures standing right outside of the gates, particularly to the head of blue hair.

B feels her heart jump out of her chest, speeding up her walking, and Taehyun runs to catch up to her as she starts waving her arms in the air the closer they got until the 3 boys look up in her direction and they all wave back.

“Seriously, you 3, why aren’t you wearing face masks?” Taehyun says as they meet the 3 boys outside the gate.

“Well good morning to you too, Tyun.” Beomgyu says playfully. “Relax, we’re not within campus grounds so we don’t have to wear masks yet.”

B laughs at their banter. “I think Tyun’s just worried that you’ll catch Kai’s chicken pox germs if you stand too close to me without a mask on.” she jokes. “So, why are we meeting up here outside the gates instead of at the front steps like we usually do?”

“Hey, B! Good to see you again.” Beomgyu says.

“Well, you see, there are new health protocols set in place on campus right now, and as members of the student council, we can never be caught violating any rules set within the school.” Yeonjun begins, smiling at her brightly, like there was a secret that only the 2 of them shared.

“Alright, and…?” B asks, not sure where they were going with this.

“And before we go in and start off another week of school, there’s just this 1 health protocol we’d like to violate.” Beomgyu continues.

“Okay, which one? Is it the face mask thing? Why are we standing outside the school gates?” B asks, still confused.

“So we can do this.” Soobin says, before taking a step towards B with arms outstretched and pulling her into him, his whole body engulfing her in a hug.

He feels time stop the moment his arms wrap themselves around her body, her face buried in his chest, the top of her head inches away from his chin, the smell of her lavender-scented shampoo tickling his nose, his hands resting on the curves in her waist.

When Soobin woke up feeling excited that day, he told himself it was just because he was excited to start a new week of school, but deep down he knew that wasn’t the case.

When the guys suggested that they wait for B outside the school gates so that they could greet her a proper ‘welcome back,’ he felt a flutter in his chest, and he told himself that it was just because he was happy that their group would be complete again (minus Kai), but deep down, he knew he was only fooling himself.

When he and the guys stood outside the school gates waiting for B and Taehyun to arrive, he could feel his heart start to beat even faster in anticipation, and he told himself it was just because he was looking forward to see their friend again after a whole week, but he knew there was more to it than that.

When he saw her waving her arms in the air and walking towards them, he felt his breath catch in his throat, and he told himself it was just because he was surprised to see her looking so radiant and healthy knowing how badly sick she was, but he knew it was because of how he was just now realizing how beautiful she really was.

When he took a step towards her and engulfed her delicate figure in his arms, feeling the warmth of her body against his, a feeling washed over him unlike anything he’s experienced before, as if by having her in his arms everything in the world was finally falling into place and the pounding in his chest and the flutter of butterfly wings in his stomach finally made sense, and it was at that moment he knew with absolute certainty just what it was.

It was her. It was B.

He didn’t know how it came to be, or why exactly it happened, but all he knew was that it was her.

It was him realizing that he was falling in love with her.

And the feeling hit him so suddenly with such clarity that for a moment, it felt like the whole world stood still, as his breath seemed to catch in his throat and time seemed to stop as he held her in his arms, savoring the moment and all the emotions that were hitting him all at once.

She lets out a surprised squeal as Soobin pulls her in, only to be muffled by her face being buried in his chest as they embrace.

“Soobinie!” she says, laughing in surprise. “I missed you too.”

Soobin smiles to himself, tempted to rest his chin on her head, but he was aware of the presence of their friends, so he slowly lets her go, his eyes meeting Taehyun’s as he does, and Taehyun’s expression quickly changes as he realizes what was happening.

Taehyun raises his brows in question, and Soobin gives him a quick and discreet nod in response, to which Taehyun shakes his head.

Soobin keeps his head down to conceal the blush creeping into his face as B steps away and Beomgyu tackles her into a hug.

“We missed you so much! I wish I could’ve gotten an excuse to skip school for a week too, though.” Beomgyu says slyly.

“Hey, I did not skip school! I called you everyday to listen in on lectures, remember?” B says defensively, hitting Beomgyu’s chest. “If you wanna stay at home so bad, maybe you should come over to my place. I’m sure Hyuka would gladly give you a big hug, along with the chicken pox of course.”

Beomgyu steps away and holds his hands up in the air in front of him. “No way, I don’t want chicken pox. I’d rather endure school than have hideous spots all over my body.”

B looks at him offended. “You think I have hideous spots all over my body?” she says through gritted teeth.

“Oh, now you’ve done it, Gyu.” Taehyun says, watching as Beomgyu runs away from B to hide behind him. “Don’t worry B, I’ll help you kidnap him after school. I think Hyuka would like to have an extra playmate.”

“I never said that!” Beomgyu cries, running from Taehyun to Yeonjun now, hiding behind the blue haired boy. “B, you look beautiful as always. If anything, the spots just accentuate your beauty.” he says desperately.

B scoffs. “Oh shut up. You’re lucky I like you, or else I would’ve slapped you so hard that the spots would transfer from my skin to yours.”

Yeonjun laughs, shielding Beomgyu behind him. “Wow, I never pegged you to be violent.” he says.

B shrugs. “I’m not. I’m just saying, I could slap someone if I wanted to.”

Yeonjun shakes his head, pulling her into his arms. “Welcome back, Baby.” he whispers in her ear, giving her a quick peck on the cheek and slowly stroking the small of her back, making sure that the other boys don’t see, before letting her go.

Once she pulls away, her face is noticeably red, and Yeonjun can’t help but laugh. God, she looked adorable. He gives her a quick wink before saying “And now that that’s settled, shall we head to class?”

The 3 boys put on their facemasks and let B lead the way into the school gates, each of them having their body temperatures checked and their hands disinfected before walking through the gates.

As B walks ahead of the boys, the 4 boys pair off.

Beomgyu slings an arm around Yeonjun’s shoulders, keeping his voice low as he says “So now that’s she’s back, will you guys have the talk now?”

“What talk?” Yeonjun asks.

“The talk? The relationship talk. You know, the talk about your feelings and where you guys stand and what your label is and stuff like that.” Beomgyu says knowingly. “If the 2 of you don’t want to put a label on whatever it is you 2 are, then you should at least let the other guys know that you’re dating.”

Yeonjun shrugs. “Don’t worry, Gyu. I’ve got it all planned out, you’ll see. I’ve been planning this for days now, but considering that we’re at school, I’ll have to make do. At the end of the day, we might even let you guys know about us.” he responds, his eyes glued to the girl in front of them, which automatically puts a smile on his face. “I’m gonna make that girl mine.”

Meanwhile, Taehyun attempts to sling his arm around Soobin’s shoulders, but with the other boy being much taller and walking a bit faster, he settled for interlocking his arm around Soobin’s instead.

“Oh, hey Tyun.” Soobin says, surprised by the sudden lock on his arm. “What’s up?”

“’What’s up?’” Taehyun says, mimicking him. “You tell me. All your questions about falling in love and stuff…were they about B? Is it her? Are you in love with—”

Soobin cuts him off. “Shhh, the other guys might hear you!” he says, hurriedly looking around and seeing that no one was within ear shot. “Yes, it’s about her. Let’s talk about this later, okay? Alone.”

Taehyun sighs. “Fine, but wow, I should’ve known. I had a feeling it was her. You 2 would make a great couple.” he says teasingly.

“Oh shut up, you know-it-all.” Soobin says, flustered. “I’m sure you would’ve figured it out sooner or later anyway, you’re too damn smart, you know?”

Taehyun laughs. “It doesn’t take a genius to see that you’ve got it bad, Binnie.” he says. “Let’s talk about it soon, okay? Just hang in there.”

Soobin sighs, his eyes focus on the girl walking in front of them. “Trust me, I’m trying.”

•°•

B had to admit that Yeonjun’s sudden request had her heart fluttering, but more than anything it got her head buzzing with curiosity. Within 5 minutes she had excused herself from class, 3rd period biology which she didn’t share with any of the guys, and she was on her way to the student council room, which she had only been to once before with Soobin and Yeonjun. Technically, she was cutting class, but a few minutes probably wouldn’t hurt.

B takes a deep breath, not knowing what quite to expect, before turning the knob on the double doors to the student council room, taking a step inside.

The room was dark, the blackout curtains doing their job, and was only illuminated by the light spilling in from the door and a set of candles in the middle of the conference table, which also highlighted the fact that the conference table seemed to be overflowing with blue rose petals.

And there was Yeonjun, leaning against the table, a single blue rose in his hand. It’s only then when B looks down and notices that the carpeted floor all the way from the entrance of the room to the spot where Yeonjun was standing by the conference table was littered with blue rose petals.

“Yeonjun? What is this?” B asks, stepping inside and closing the door behind her, the only source of light in the room now coming from the candles. She removes her face mask, noticing that he wasn’t currently wearing one, and pockets it in her blazer.

“Baby. Come here.” he says, patting the spot on the table beside him. B walks over to the table, stepping on countless blue petals as she did so, and once she reaches him, Yeonjun takes her by surprise and carries her, lifting her up and setting her down on the table.

“Yeonjun!” she squeals in surprise, clinging on to him for dear life. As her bottom hits the table, she lets go and whacks his arm. “You surprised me!” she huffs, surprised by his sudden maneuver. “And you’re breaking the health protocols! What’s all this for anyway?”

He stands in front of her, simply staring at her, admiring how she looked in the candlelight. A few blue petals had fallen over the edge when he set her down on the table, but that didn’t bother him. He had skipped the entirety of 3rd period to prepare for this moment, so he wouldn’t let anything distract him now.

“All this?” he simply says. Upon seeing the confused look on her face, he takes a step towards her, situating himself in between her dangling legs, and he rests his hands on either side of her, his palms laid flat on the table just centimeters away from her thighs. The whole mood in the room shifted from playful to something different with just that simple action. “All this is for you.”

B could feel her heart start to pound in her chest again. She tried to keep a level head but Yeonjun was standing so close that she could smell him, the scent of his cologne now very familiar to her, and she could feel parts of his uniform lightly tickling at her inner thighs where he stood, sending shivers down her spine. “For me? Why?”

“Because, Baby, you deserve it. You deserve all of it.” he begins carefully, slowly, his gaze locking her in place. “I told you I want to give you all the good things you deserve, and during the past week I tried. Those dates meant a lot to me and I can only hope that you enjoyed them half as much as I did. My plans were cut short because of your unexpected temporary roommate,” he says, fondly referring to Kai, “and maybe I should’ve waited a little bit longer to do this, but I don’t think I can keep this to myself any longer.”

B looks down then, her cheeks starting to heat up. She sees how close his hands are to her thighs and her mouth goes dry. He was standing so close. “What are you talking about?” she says, her eyes transfixed on his hands.

Her eyes follow as he raises one hand to cup her face, lifting it up slightly to meet his gaze. “I want you, Baby.” he says, looking right into her eyes. “I want you to be mine.”

B takes a deep breath, finding herself unable to look away, before she says “I want you, too.”

And with those words, Yeonjun couldn’t resist any longer. He leaned forward, closing what little distance was left between them, and pulled her face up to his, their lips crashing together.

~ w a r n i n g : makeout scene ~

Praying that he couldn’t hear her pounding heartbeat, B returns the kiss with equal fervor, wrapping her arms around his neck to pull him even closer. Her fingers entwine themselves in the hair at the nape of his neck, effectively disheveling his blue hair.

Yeonjun’s hands inch away from the table and come in direct contact with her thighs, the sudden warmth of his palms on her bare skin causing B’s mouth to open a little to let out a breath of surprise. She feels him smile against her lips, amused by her reaction, before taking the opportunity to trace her lower lip with his tongue, seeking entrance, which she allows.

His hands start to move slowly up her body then, he slides them up from her thighs to her waist, her skirt hiking up a few inches higher in the process. He breaks the kiss, allowing a moment for them to catch their breaths, before bowing his head down, his lips coming in contact with the sensitive skin on her neck.

“Oh god.” B breathes out, surprised by the contact, and again she feels his lips form a smile against her skin. She tilts her head backwards, his lips trailing kisses along her exposed skin, her heavy breaths starting to make her feel lightheaded.

Just as he’s about to pull away, his lips brush against the dip in her collarbone, causing her to wrap her legs around his waist and her fingers in his hair to dig in deeper, her body reacting to him before her mind could grasp what was happening.

“Fuck.” he breathes against her skin, feeling himself start to lose control.

B’s grip loosens then, her hands dropping from his hair to rest on his shoulders, her breathing heavy as she lets her head fall forward to rest on the top of his head, his face still buried in her neck. “Sorry.” she whispers, trying to control the rise and fall of her chest.

His grip on her waist remains tight, her blouse bunched up in his fists, his head buried in her neck as he tries to calm himself down, his breath coming out through clenched teeth. For a moment, they stay like that, until Yeonjun’s grip gradually starts to loosen, letting go of the fabric of her blouse as his hands go from clenching her waist to gently tracing circles on the now exposed skin on her hips.

~ end of makeout scene ~

“You…” he begins slowly, lifting his head and letting it rest against her forehead, their breaths mingling. “You drive me crazy, you know?”

She lets out a small laugh, shaking her head lightly against his. “Not really, no.”

He laughs too, reaching a hand up to caress her hair, his eyes on hers once again. “Baby.” he simply says.

“Yes?” she responds, unable to stop a smile from creeping on her face. He smiles too, his heart fluttering, and he takes a deep breath before saying the next few words.

“Will you be my girlfriend?”

She nods her head eagerly, their foreheads rubbing together. “Choi Yeonjun, I’m all yours.” she says, laughing upon seeing his bright smile. She kisses his nose, then his forehead and each of his cheeks. He starts laughing as she showers his face with light kisses. “I’m yours, you’re mine, Baby.” he says, the feeling washing over him.

“You think it’s safe to let everyone know now?” Yeonjun asks her, remembering how he promised Beomgyu they’d tell the rest of the boys about it soon.

B nods, biting her lip as she thinks of how people would react to the news. Yeonjun was her boyfriend. “Yes.”

He uses his thumb to free her lower lip from her teeth, gently tracing it before kissing her softly again. “Let’s tell the guys later. At lunch.” he says, referring to their daily lunchbreaks spent at the gazebo.

“Sure.” she says. Then she pulls away and pushes herself off the table, straightening out her uniform as she does so. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a Biology class to get back to.”

Yeonjun smirks, watching her pull her skirt down and tuck the hem of her blouse back in, straightening her blazer and running her fingers through her hair. It gave him some sort of satisfaction, knowing that he had gotten her so disheveled. He leans back against the table, running a hand through his hair and straightening out his necktie as well, keeping his hands in the front pockets of his trousers.

“Aren’t you coming back to class?” B asks, pulling the face mask out of her blazer pocket and putting securing it over her nose and mouth. “There’s only a few more minutes, and then it’ll be our lunch break.”

Yeonjun shakes his head. “I never went to third period.” he admits. “You better get back to class and surrender your hall pass though. I’ll meet you at the gazebo for lunch.” he says.

B’s mouth drops open. “You skipped third period?” she exclaims. “Please promise me you won’t skip classes again, please?” she pouts.

He laughs, taking her hand and pulling her closer. “I promise. Except for when my father requests it, though. But this is the last non-business related time I skip class.” he says, kissing the back of her hand. “You better hurry back, the bell rings in about 10 minutes.”

“Oh my god, I am so dead!” she squeals, her eyes widen as starts to pull away, but Yeonjun’s grip on her wrist keeps her in place.

“Aren’t you forgetting something?” he says pointedly, his brow raised.

“Oh.” she simply says, before standing on her tiptoes and using a finger to pull her mask down, giving him a quick peck on the lips before pulling the mask back up. “That?”

He laughs, shaking his head. “You are adorable. I meant this,” he says, planting the single blue rose in her free hand. “but thanks, Baby.”

She blushes beet red then, straightening out her blazer one last time and quickly saying “See you at lunch, Yeonjun!” before dashing out the door.

He uses the remaining 10 minutes of 3rd period to distract himself from his thoughts by cleaning up all the rose petals he had set up. He wasn’t expecting things to get so heated, he only wanted to ask her to be his girlfriend, but he had to admit that he was pleasantly surprised by the turn of events. Just thinking about how she had reacted to his touches and how adorably flustered she got made him smile to himself, but the memory of her wrapping her legs around his waist and tilting her head back sent his mind wandering into the very place he was trying to distract himself from in the first place.

He sighs, shaking his head as he forced his thoughts to go focus into another mindset instead. He checks his watch, the petals all put away in a garbage bag. As the lunch bell rings, he grabs his things and locks the student council room behind him, putting on a face mask before making his way to the gazebo where he would meet his friends and his girlfriend for lunch.

Now he just had to tell his friends about his girlfriend.

•°•

When B got back to her Biology class, the teacher fortunately didn’t seem to notice that she was gone for well over 5 minutes, but her friends definitely did. When she sat back down beside Ryujin and Yuna, they definitely noticed how long her absence was, and they took note of how flushed she looked, and of the blue rose that he had haphazardly tucked under her blazer.

“Spill it. Now.” the 2 girls eagerly say, eyeing her like a hawk.

“Yeonjun asked me to meet up with him at the student council room.” B whispers to them, making sure that they were the only ones within earshot.

“Ooh, a steamy secret rendezvous in the middle of class?” Ryujin says teasingly.

“No, it wasn’t like that.” B aggressively whispers back, well-aware of how her cheeks were heating up as she tries to push away thoughts of Yeonjun’s lips on her neck.

“So what was it like then?” Yuna asks innocently.

Unable to contain her smile, B says “He asked me to be his girlfriend. And I said yes.”

The 2 girls quietly squeal at the good news. “Wow! Congrats!” Ryujin says.

Yuna nods. “Wow, and just like that for the first time in 2 years, Choi Yeonjun has a girlfriend.”

“2 years? He hasn’t had a girlfriend in 2 years?” B asks, surprised. Since everyone kept mentioning Yeonjun having a record for being one of the biggest flirts on campus, she was expecting him to have a long list of complicated past relationships.

“Well, real serious girlfriends, yeah. He’s been on a few dates with some girls since then, but it never really went beyond that so I wouldn’t call them girlfriends. And if I’m not mistaken, she was his first girlfriend. His first love, actually.” Yuna says thoughtfully. “I don’t really know her since she was never a student here.”

“I did, sort of.” Ryujin pipes up. “Gyu told me all about the guys’ past relationships. He mentioned Yeonjun and Rose’s relationship a lot. He said she was…” she starts, trying to choose her words carefully. “well, a complete bitch.”

“Rose?” B says, the name completely foreign to her. “His first girlfriend? So he’s only had 1 other girlfriend before me? And she was a complete bitch?” she asks, her head spinning with information.

Ryuji nods. “Yeah, despite his track record and dating history, he’s only ever had 1 serious relationship, and that was with Rose.” she says. “Gyu said they were intense. It was one of those relationships that were just so, um, loud I guess?”

“Loud? What do you mean?” B asks, genuinely curious yet a bit afraid to find out the answer.

“Gyu said they were one of those couples who were always so in-your-face about their relationship. Yeonjun wasn’t active on social media back then, but she was, and she was flaunting her relationship all over, showing off all the stuff he’d spoil her with and everything. Not only that, but they were one of those couples that, when going through a fight, the whole world would know about. According to Gyu, their relationship was dramatic and fiery and intense and so damn toxic, but Yeonjun was head over heels for her, which annoyed the guys to no end.”

“That sounds kind of awful.” B says, unable to imagine Yeonjun in such a relationship. “Kind of weird that the guys didn’t seem so supportive, either?”

Ryujin shakes her head. “That’s not even the worst of it. Apparently, she cheated on him with another rich kid she met while she was on vacation or something. Gyu says he hasn’t hated anyone as much as he hated Rose.”

“Now that sounds really awful.” B said, the information overload swirling around in her head. She couldn’t even imagine how awful this girl must’ve been for even Beomgyu and his friends to hate her so much. Why had Yeonjun fallen in love with such an awful person? And how could he have stayed in such a toxic relationship? And how could anyone cheat on him?

“I can’t say for sure since I personally don’t know her, Gyu just showed me a few of her pictures before, but he made her sound like the devil incarnate.” Ryujin says.

“Well, devil incarnate or not, Yeonjun’s definitely taken his standards to a different level with you.” Yuna says a bit comfortingly, squeezing B’s arm, trying to move away from the unpleasant topic. “And the best part is, I’m pretty sure all his friends love you already, so you won’t have to worry about that either. You and Yeonjun are solid.”

“Thanks, Yuna.” B says, smiling in relief. Then, remembering what Kai had told her about wanting to ask Yuna out, B giggles to herself.

“What was that for?” Yuna asks, noticing the sudden giggle.

Just then, the lunch bell rings, and B stands up instantly, slinging her bag over her shoulder. “Nothing. Just excited about my new relationship, I guess.” And about your soon-to-be relationship with my best friend. she thinks to herself, before greeting the girls goodbye and leaving the room.

Due to Kai’s absence, she had to walk to the gazebo alone, growing accustomed to having him pick her up outside her classroom so they could walk to the gazebo together. Now that she was left alone with her thoughts, she was starting to feel overwhelmed about everything that had happened that morning, from being back in school to her meet up with Yeonjun to officially being his girlfriend to learning about his ex. Even though she had learned a lot from Ryujin, she had to admit that her curiosity was still taking over her thoughts, which she knew would probably do no good for her new relationship.

Still, she couldn’t help but wonder about Yeonjun’s past relationship, and worry about how similar it had sounded to her relationship with her one and only ex boyfriend.

As she approaches the gazebo, she sees that Yeonjun and the rest of the guys were already there, sitting at their usual places. Without Kai, she wasn’t sure where she should sit. She usually sat beside Soobin cause that’s where Kai would usually sit before welcoming her into the group, but now she wasn’t sure.

Before she started to worry too much about where to sit, the boys spotted her approaching the gazebo and started waving at her. She smiles and waves back, stepping into the gazebo.

“There you are! Ah, it feels good to see your face around here again.” Beomgyu says, welcoming her in. “And just in time, too. Yeonjun says he has an important announcement that he’d like to make.”

“That we’d like to make, actually.” Yeonjun says, offering B a hand as she steps in, and she takes his hand shyly, letting him guide her into the small space.

“Oh?” Taehyun says, eyeing the 2 with a bad feeling in his gut. “What announcement?”

B takes a deep breath suddenly feeling shy and nervous, her eyes on the ground. She was starting to feel worried about how their friends might react, and guilty about not telling them about the whole thing in the first place. She had grown very fond of the boys and felt very comfortable around them, their closeness making her feel safe, as if she belonged. She was afraid that being Yeonjun’s girlfriend would change the way they see her or the way they treat her.

Sensing her nerves, Yeonjun squeezes her hand, urging her to look at him instead. He offers her a small smile, which she nervously returns. He nods at her before turning his attention to the 3 boys seated. “First thing’s first, I just wanna say that I’m sorry we didn’t tell you guys about this sooner. We just agreed that it would be best to keep it between us until we were sure about how things would go.”

“Whatever it is, we understand.” Soobin says with a smile on his face yet with a sinking feeling in his stomach, his mind buzzing at Yeonjun’s choice of words.

We.

Taehyun looks at his president with worry, a part of him dreading whatever Yeonjun would say next yet already sensing what was coming.

Yeonjun smiles brightly, his heart fluttering as he looks at the girl by his side before slinging an arm over her shoulders and pulling her to his side. “Baby and I are together.”

As the words leave Yeonjun’s mouth, Soobin’s gaze instantly falls on B, wanting to see if it was true or if it was some sort of weird prank that Yeonjun was pulling. When he sees her smile shyly, attempting to bury her face in the blue haired boy’s chest, his heart sinks.

“We’re officially a couple.” she confirms, her face getting redder by the second as she looks up at Yeonjun, who he could tell was grinning behind his face mask.

Soobin didn’t know what felt worse, the fact that his best friend and the girl he just realized he was falling for were now a couple, or the fact that now he was falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. Seeing them together now—her with her flushed cheeks and her tight grip on Yeonjun’s necktie and him with his arm dropping down from her shoulders to her waist, securing her by his side—made Soobin feel a bit sick. But what made him feel even sicker was the fact that seeing them together was making him feel sick in the first place. His best friend had finally found an amazing girl 2 years after his horrendous break up and was now dating said amazing girl. He wanted nothing more than to feel happy, but the fact that he didn’t made him feel terrible.

Before Soobin’s guilt starts to consume him, Beomgyu suddenly claps, sending a jolt through everyone in the gazebo. “Wow, congratulations B and YJ!” he says, approaching the couple and happily slapping the older boy on his back. “You 2 look great together.”

“Thanks, Gyu.” B says shyly, her blush visible even through her face mask, one hand fisting Yeonjun’s necktie as he kept her close to him.

“Don’t mention it, I’m happy that this guy has finally moved on.” Beomgyu says teasingly. “And that he was able to score someone way out of his league.” he says, wiggling his brows at the pair.

“Shut up, BG.” Yeonjun says, playfully shoving Beomgyu away before they share a quick high five “You’re right though, I don’t know how I got so lucky.” he says, using his free hand to caress her hair.

“Shut up, both of you.” she says, flustered. She looks at Taehyun and Soobin anxiously, holding her breath as she waited for their reactions. So far, the two boys had either been staring at her and Yeonjun or at each other.

Finally, Taehyun stands up, approaching the couple. “B.” he simply says, which causes her heart to sink a little.

“Tyunie?” she asks, nervously waiting to know his verdict. She and Taehyun had formed a sort of special bond over their walks together, and his opinion was the one that she worried about the most. She wanted to apologize on the spot for not telling him about it sooner, and explain everything about the past couple of weeks to him to make him understand why she had chosen to keep her relationship with Yeonjun a secret. She didn’t know why, but she wanted Taehyun’s approval.

He smiles at her then, and she feels the weight lifted off her chest. “Congratulations.” he finally says, stepping towards her and hugging her, which she wholeheartedly returned. She lets out a sigh as he rubs her back, her chin tucked into his shoulder, before he pulls away. “I just broke a health protocol for you.” he suddenly says, horrified. He instantly steps away then and starts to vigorously spray his hands, arms and neck with alcohol, which causes B to burst out laughing.

“You did it cause you looove me.” she says teasingly. “And thanks, Tyun.” she says, glad that he approved, though she made a mental note to tell him about all the details later on. She felt like she owed him that much.

It’s quiet for a moment as Yeonjun’s gaze lands on Soobin, the only one in the group who hadn’t shown any reaction towards the news as he had just been staring back and forth between him and B the whole time.

For Yeonjun, it was Soobin’s opinion he valued the most. Soobin was one of the few people in the world that Yeonjun would trust with his life. He was the only one among his friends who supported his relationship with Rose, valuing Yeonjun’s happiness above his own when he was clearly unhappy about the whole incident.

He was the one who was there for Yeonjun when everything came crashing down, the one who helped Yeonjun pick himself back up after being cheated on by his first love, the one who helped save Yeonjun from the nights when he would drown himself in alcohol in the hopes of numbing the heartache, the one who would sneak into Yeonjun’s house in the middle of the night to make sure he was asleep safe and sound in his bed rather than hooking up with random girls and picking fights with random guys at the bar, the one who would talk Yeonjun into giving his father a chance and reason with him that his father only wanted what was best for his son, the one who encouraged Yeonjun to join the dance club and the jazzed club and the student council, the one who begged the faculty and advisers to give Yeonjun a second chance at finishing school at MOA promising that he would keep his friend in check, the one who would do anything to make Yeonjun smile, and the one who would always tell Yeonjun the truth.

He stares at Soobin until Soobin’s eyes finally meet his and he stands up, making his way towards the blue haired boy. Once they stood face to face, there’s a moment of silence before Soobin’s face melts into a warm smile, his dimples peeking out from under his mask, his eyes crinkling at the corners, which instantly puts a smile on Yeonjun’s face as well.

Yeonjun pulls him into a hug, relieved. “Congratulations, Yeonjun.” the taller boy says, patting his back a couple of times before pulling away. “I’m so happy for you.” he says.

“Thanks, Binnie.” Yeonjun says, patting him on the back as well. “This means a lot to me.”

Soobin nods at him before turning to B, and before he can say or do anything, she throws her arms out to him and pulls him in for a hug, her tiny body feeling especially fragile as her arms squeezed around his waist.

He looks down at B then, finding her in his arms for the second time that day, in almost the exact same way. Again, he feels time stop the moment his arms wrap themselves around her body, only this time she had her arms around his waist as well. Her face was buried in his chest, the top of her head inches away from his chin, the smell of her lavender-scented shampoo taking over his senses, his hands resting on the curves of her waist.

Only now it felt completely different.

When he hugged her this morning, it felt like everything in the world was falling into place, the feeling hitting him so suddenly with such clarity, as if time seemed to stop as he was hit with the realization that he was falling in love.

As he hugged her now, it felt like everything in the world was falling apart, the horrible feeling hitting him as he felt his heart sink deeper and deeper, as if time seemed to stop as he was hit with the reality that she was Yeonjun’s, that what he felt for her was wrong, that he could never let his feelings for her go past what they were now, that he probably shouldn’t even be hugging her anymore.

“Thanks, Soobinie.” she says in response to how he had congratulated Yeonjun.

“No problem, B.” he says, lifting a hand up to gently stroke her hair, taking a deep breath and taking in her lavender scent, savoring the warmth of her body against his one last time, telling himself he’d never hug her like this for as long as he could handle it. As he lays his chin gently at the top of her head, his eyes meet Taehyun’s, who was standing behind her, staring at him with a sad look in his eyes.

Soobin squeezes his eyes shut, prolonging the hug for a moment longer, before finally pulling away, looking directly at her eyes. She was glowing, her face flushed yet radiant, her smile so big that it was visible under her mask, she looked so so happy that it made his heart ache, knowing that the next few words he’d speak out loud would kill him yet knowing that he meant every bit of it.

“I’m happy for you.”

•°•

Author’s note:

Hello, thank you for reading! I’m trying to get more familiar with Tumblr, so if you have any suggestions or comments don’t be afraid to drop them! (PS I’m not even sure how to reply to comments, that’s how bad I am at using Tumblr lol but I promise that all replies are highly appreciated!!) PS: Happy 1 year anniversary/birthday, MOA! <3 Also: STREAM DRAMA MV!

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