Happiness Actually, written by ohmyitsfaith and @ttheweirdguypp
Inspired by Love Actually, Happiness Actually follows the lives of six high school couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic year of high school, in China.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Prologue
Start of something new
Chapter 2: Reaching out to you
Beginnings are always beautiful. Well, most of the time.
Golden pair are in a beautiful relationship, Jingwu learns something he never thought was possible, Song Ci gets a gift from a mysterious person, alpha pair suffer from a decision that could end very badly, perfect pair are in a secret relationship, rival pair learn something about each other and Xinglong notices something he hasn't before.
Chapter 3: I am here for you
Some things are easier than others. And sometimes all we need is someone standing beside us and telling us "it'll be okay".
Golden pair face some issues, Song Ci receives more mysterious gifts, alpha pair cook together, Zhuo Zhi starts to doubt Siyang's words, rival pair are still rival pair and A-Yan gets surprised by a late night visitor.
Chapter 4: No rest for the wicked
Things are sometimes easy, sometimes harder. It really just depends on who you're watching.
Golden pair are happy together, Jingwu has some new thoughts that he doesn't understand, alpha pair go to a club, perfect pair enjoy a nice date together, but things go south for rival pair and Xinglong makes a new discovery.
Chapter 5: Cruel fate
There isn't a rainbow without a storm. And by now, everyone can attest to that.
Golden pair face the facts, Song Ci and Ji Jingwu get into a misunderstanding, alpha pair deal with the results of their situation, Mu Siyang screws things up even more, Zhang Baiyang lies to his boyfriend, and A-Yan figures something out that turns his world upside down.
Chapter 6: Even the darkest stars shine bright
Even when it looks grim for your future, do not lose hope.
Jiale seeks out Zhuo Zhi, who shares his sadness, Dayong gets help from his grandmother, Jingwu overhears the rumors, alpha pair say goodbye, Siyang packs up his suitcase, rival pair wallow in sadness and anger, and Xinglong and A-Yan get compared to a husband and wife.
Chapter 7: Of all the things
Of all the things, this had to happen? Well, when you're in a relationship, things tend to go a way you don't expect them.
Golden pair seem to try to make amends while adorable pair fall deeper into the hole they dug themselves, alpha pair experience the meaning of weights falling off their chest, perfect pair continue their shenanigans, rival pair make up in their own way and Xinglong does something he didn't think he'd do.
Chapter 8: For you
The letter Siyang wrote for Zhuo Zhi
Chapter 9: True to myself
Staying true to your feelings and to yourself can sometimes be challenging. But sometimes all you need is a little push to get there.
Golden pair kiss and make up, adorable pair talk things out, Shiting is recovering with his boyfriend there to support him, Zhuo Zhi races to catch Siyang before he leaves, Qiao Chen makes Baiyang explain what the hell happened and A-Yan finally reacts to Xinglong's confession.
Chapter 10: Everything to me
Everything is looking up for the moment, but something big is coming.
Golden pair are happily together, adorable pair is enjoying their new relationship, Bai Shiting is overwhelmed by his boyfriend's worry, Zhuo Zhi tries to have a call with Mu Siyang, rival pair enjoy their lunch date and narrator pair navigate their new relationship
Chapter 11: News
Newspaper article announcing the meteor shower (that A-Yan read).
Chapter 12: Now you see me
Finally seeing things the way they are. And seeing people the way they are.
Jiale goes on a shopping spree dragging Zhuo Zhi with him, adorable pair go on a date and pick up Zhuo Zhi from the mall, alpha pair spend some quality time together, Siyang is back from Germany, rival pair have a sleepover and our narrators talk things out.
Chapter 13: I love you
Love is one of the best feelings in the world. But maybe happiness is actually more important.
Jiale goes through with his plan, adorable pair's plans get destroyed, Shiting learns something that's life changing, perfect pair finally reunite, rival pair are... rival pair and A-Yan surprises Xinglong.
Chapter 14: See you later
Every story must come to an end. But this isn't goodbye. It's see you later.
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A Kiss a Day in May
Day 7- Butterfly Kisses
Alpha-17 & The Commander Squad
Each day this month I have a 100 word drabble featuring a different clone with a kiss prompt. Not all are romantic and they include all sorts of pairings and relationships. Feel free to offer pairing/ character suggestions for future days.
Seventeen looked over his cadets pleased to see they were in their sleep clothes and standing beside their bunks or the ladders to their bunks at attention. He dismissed them and turned toward the door.
“Uh… ‘Teen? Aren’t you gonna… do the thing?” A hopeful voice stopped him and he turned around to see them all staring at him from their bunks. Sighing deeply he stopped by each bunk to press his forehead to the cadet’s and softly flutter their lashes together earning smiles as he went. No one could ever know his secret for getting his cadets to sleep.
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There are enough similarities with how the life was before and during the war, and how it is now, so that Seventeen doesn't lose his mind instantly.
He still gets up early. That was the easiest similarity to keep. He was told that he needs more sleep, so he gives himself until five thirty instead of his regular five sharp. It's acceptable. He still has enough time to get himself ready and then try to make food.
There the similarities end when it comes to the morning. The clothes aren't right. They are soft and while good for moving around, they are not tactical in the slightest. He feels like he is missing a layer of skin with them on. It grates on him, and it doesn't make the fact that he has no idea how to cook any better.
Not that he is giving it any more voluntary thought than he has to. Any of it. It's just clothes. It's just cooking. He has learnt to repair weapons, ships, armor. He has learnt how to fight, how to kill, and how not to be killed. He has made through all of it and has now ended up in a small kitchen of all places. This is not going to end him either.
He reads all the manuals for every single kitchenware they have. He reads of the nutritional values of every single item of food there is in the cupboards and in the cooler. He studies the diet plan he had been given enough time so he remembers every word. He downloads a cook book. He watches tutorials from the holonet.
Fifteen minutes after 6 in the morning, he has made caf, tea, toast and five other things that goes with the toast. It all tastes how the book and the tutorials describe them to taste like.
Then he cleans. He does the dishes. He looks through the kitchen again. He makes a list of things they need more of. He gathers every single item on all of the counters and puts them back in their place. He goes back to the bedroom. He makes the bed. He goes back into the kitchen. He dries the dishes. It's a repeating task, like cleaning a weapon. Take a plate. Turn it around in the cloth. Put it away. Take a plate. Turn it around in the cloth. Put it away.
He goes through all the plates like that, then the cutlery, then the glasses. He puts them away in the same order in their correct places inside the cabinets and drawers.
Then he goes into the living room and stands in the middle of it and stares at the wall for fifteen minutes.
After the fifteen minutes is over, he thinks about his therapist, who had told him to pick up a relaxing hobby that he can do with his hands but that gives him enough to think about. Something that is a little bit more removed from his life so far. Something softer had been the implication.
Seventeen doesn't want to do anything softer, but he still picks up the needles he had got for himself, despite it having felt like he was giving up, finds another tutorial, watches it, and starts learning how to put the thread through itself.
It's just past eight in the morning when he makes his first row of stitches. He stares at it for a minute, and then throws it at the same wall he had spent fifteen minutes staring at before.
His legs hurt. They do that a lot, these days. Seventeen thinks it's because they hate him just as much as he hates them.
He gets up. Takes the first dose of his allotted painkillers and tries not to feel like the biggest failure in the entire Galaxy, because it's thirteen minutes before he usually takes them, and then gets angry at himself for a moment for being stupid. Because the thing is, Seventeen does not care about anything.
He waits for a moment. The pain goes away. He picks up his needles. The stitches have fallen of off them.
It's nine in the morning. He has made 28 rows of stitches.
Seventeen hates the fact that he had forgotten to hate everything while focusing on doing them.
He doesn't throw the needles this time, though.
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