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Chaos erupts: Where was John Mills buried after all?

On this blog, I have accepted that John R. Mills was buried in Chester Cemetery in Chester, Orange County, New York. I was not the one that put this in his bio, but rather put in by information from a previous researcher. When I requested a new photo of John's gravestone (and that of his wife Margaret) the first message I got from Gary Allen was "Walked entire cemetary and could not locate a readable gravestone for this person Aug. 23, 2018." He has still not found a readable marker of Margaret there. A few days later, Gary included two better photos of the stone, which showed a John Mills who was 88 years old, but dying on October 19, 1852. In the caption below the photos, which I have put below, Allen wrote "this was the only John Mills headstone that I found in the Chester Cemetary but death date is 1852 not the date you indicated." Later he told me on Find A Grave that "I did walk the entire Chester Cemetery and this was the only Mills that I found. There are quite a few unreadable gravestones." After I sent a message to him, he told me: "I know the problem, I have been doing my genealogy for 40 years & have been misdirected a number of times. Good Luck." That's a sentiment I can definitely agree with!

This is a problem. It means that John was buried somewhere else (with the John Mills shown above being someone different entirely), as was his wife Margaret, perhaps indicating research which was not as complete as it could have been. As such, I sent the following email to Find A Grave ([email protected]) on August 25th, titled "Requesting deletion of two Find A Grave entries," requesting to delete the following entries for John R. Mills and Margaret Ann Mills, noting that the person who managed them "is no longer living." I further added that "as such, I cannot make any edits or changes (I did submit some, but never heard back)" and that "the photos to the entry of John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby Mills will be re-uploaded to new entries which I will re-create as new entries as soon as you have let me know that the above two entries have been deleted. I don't want to make duplicate entries as I have got in trouble for that in the past on here, but has usually worked itself out."

Later, I sent a follow-up email to three emails, not just one ([email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]), telling these Find a Grave administrators, that "I discovered today that someone has already created an entry for the other John Mills. So, there is no need for me to create a new entry for that fellow. I request, once again, that you delete the entries for John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby Mills, as the two entries have incorrect information (the gravestone photos are not for the correct John Mills) which cannot be corrected by those managing the entry." I further added that "as soon as you have let me know that the entries have been deleted, I will create new entries for John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby, placing them as buried in Pottersville New Cemetery (since their children are buried there), then asking for a photo of of their graves." Two days later, I was granted membership rights over John and Margaret's Find a Grave entries, which I'll talk about more in a future post.

This post was originally published on WordPress in March 2019.

Beyond the email, I was a bit afraid this would be the case. Back in April of last year I wrote that:

In 1876, John Mills died in Minerva, Essex County, New York, apparently while he continued his job as a miller. He was buried in Chester, Orange County, New York. This seems strange because it is 142 miles away from Glens Falls and 173 miles from Minerva, John’s last confirmed residence. I have contacted appropriate historical societies in hopes of gathering information on this topic. However, it is possible that Mills family members were living in that area of New York, or even Bibby family members since his wife Margaret was buried there. Perhaps she was going on a trip to visit her cousins or even her parents. We don’t know exactly but can only make historical suppositions.

So, if John wasn't buried in Orange County, New York, then where was he buried? Well, the best candidate is Pottersville New Cemetery where Joseph B. Mills, Dorothy "Dora" Ann Mills, and Margaret E. “Maggie” Mills were buried. We know that this cemetery is "east side of US Route 9" and sits in Pottersville, which is within the Town of Chester in Warren County, New York. It is also, apparently "quite a bit larger than the old" Pottersville Cemetery. What about the old cemetery? Well, we know that two Millses were buried there (Charles S. Mills, 1857-1859 and Freddie C. Mills, 1881-1883), which is confirmed by this transcription (also noted here), and that it is on the "west side of US Route 9." So, that is my guess for where he is buried, of the many cemeteries in the county. While I wasn't able to find Margaret or John here, I did find a map of where the cemetery apparently is:

We know that transcripts of those who were buried at the Pottersville Old Cemetery were handled by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1922:

Also Warren County has records of the two Pottersville Cemeteries (new and old) in their vaults:

We also know that an individual named Samuel Griswold was buried in a Pottersville Cemetery in 1872:

A cemetery in Pottersville was noted in a tour book for cars in 1918, about a person buried in an unmarked grave in Pottersville, and another buried in a Pottersville cemetery. Who knows, maybe both John and Margaret are buried in unmarked graves? Its not beyond question. After looking back at the photo of the New Pottersville Cemetery, it is clear that one of them has an exact address (7952 U.S. 9 Pottersville NY 12860) and that people began being buried there in 1863, actually making it a possible candidate for where John and Margaret were buried. It is also called the "Griswold Cemetery" as it was called in 1959, in 1961, in 1972, and in 2017:

So, the mystery continues!

#cemeteries #cemetery #pottersville #millis #mills #mills family #genealogy #family history #mysteries #new york state #find a grave #findagrave #1922 #warren county #mystery

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swimmingballoondaze · 2 years

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bizarrequazar · 2 years

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GJ and ZZH Updates — April 24-30

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. A glossary of names and terms often used can be found [here]. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

04-24 → A rumor with no confirmable source was started that there are plans to remake Legend of Yunxi, one of Zhang Zhehan’s past dramas. A hashtag about this stayed in the top 5 of Weibo’s hotsearch for more than 12 hours before disappearing very suddenly; it’s highly suspected that the hotsearch was paid for. The rumor led to backlash from fans of the other actors in the show, especially of the female lead Ju Jingyi, blaming Zhang Zhehan for it being taken down. Fan Observation: Comments have been made that the current tactic against Zhang Zhehan is to destroy his fanbase so that he has no one to support him when he comes back. The wave of candy on 04-23, however, showed that there not only is still a fanbase, but that we’re still quite large, dedicated, and positive. This rumor is a possible retaliation against that.

→ QuelleVous’s team put out another clip from the interview Zhang Zhehan did last August. (See last week for info, the previous clips, and a full text translation.)

→ Sophie (someone working for Xie Yihua, see my 04-22 entry) posted chatlogs that were supposedly from early-August saying she thought the girlfriend rumors spread in the weeks prior were fake, however, the chatlogs included an emoji that wasn’t added until March of this year. The post was taken down after someone pointed this out. [source]

→ MUJOSH announced a limited edition gift box with a drawing done by Gong Jun to be included with some of their products. The announcement video includes a brief clip of him.

→ Zheng Shuang (one of the other actors included on CAPA’s immoral artists lists for tax evasion and a surrogacy scandal) sued CAPA for the harm done to her career in issuing bans without government approval and including her when she is not a member of their association.

→ People’s Daily announced that the CAC set up a Qinglang anti-cyberviolence task force targetting 18 social media platforms including Weibo. [summary translation]

04-25 → KFC released a (very silly) commercial featuring Gong Jun.

→ YA-MAN posted a video compilation of Gong Jun celebrating the anniversary of their endorsement. (1129 kadian)

→ Roving Inspection Team posted: “We can’t forget China Youth Daily’s direct commentary and courage. Even though only this one official media dared to point out the elephant in the room, it is a sign that more media journalists understand the truth, the direction, and has a conscience. The rule of law in our new era cannot fail to correct such a shocking case of cyberviolence.” [quoted translation]

→ Blue posted a response to further questions about the 04-13 Instagram video, specifically about the fingering on the guitar and the video vs audio.

→ MUJOSH posted a photo ad of Gong Jun advertising a limited edition charm that comes with the aforementioned gift box. Caption: “Dawn breaks, the dark clouds dissipate, and finally it is you! At this moment, the wood is reborn, it is boiling, and it is the final chapter, but our story is not finished yet.” (mtl)

04-26 → MUJOSH posted an announcement video for their upcoming pop-up shops spoken by Gong Jun, mentioning that the last recording from the “audio logs” used in the ad campagin will be available there. The same video was also posted to their Xiao Hong Shu and their Douyin. [subbed video]

→ Gong Jun posted a MUJOSH ad to his Douyin.

→ ELLEMEN accounced that Gong Jun would be featured in their special double cover May issue that would go on sale the following day.

→ CAPA issued an industry ban on another celebrity, Du Xue’er, who was charged with smuggling LSD in 2021 and sentenced to a year in jail in early March. Their statement specifies that they “checked with the relevant authorities” about her sentencing—definitely not the same level of consideration given to Zhang Zhehan. 🤡 [source]

→ 精彩OK announced that Gong Jun would be featured in their 10th anniversary issue released on 04-29. They later released a promo video as well.

04-27 → Zhang Zhehan’s lunar birthday.

→ Sophie posted screenshots of a conversation with the stores producing the necklace Xie Yihua has been selling about the production cost, trying to claim that they are being sold for less than it costs to make them. Netizens got in contact with the producers themselves and found out that bulk orders are only 125-130 rmb per item. Xie Yihua has been selling them for 1499 rmb. [source]

→ Mengniu posted a bts video to tease a commercial later released on 04-29 featuring Gong Jun.

→ Two Downy ads featuring Gong Jun were released, a short one announcing a flagship store and a longer vlog-style one, as well as several photo ads.

→ ELLEMEN released the double covers, the photoshoot, and a promo video of Gong Jun. [purchase link] Gong Jun posted several of the photos to his Weibo, his Instagram (14:15, 511 kadian), and his Xiao Hong Shu; the caption on all three was 🌞, no tags or promotional messages. Tiffany also posted some of the photos in which he had worn their products. Fan Observations: - The Tiffany post had the timestamp 15:27, a kadian for Zhang Zhehan’s lunar birthday (03-27 on the lunar calendar). - [this thread] talks a bit about the photoshoot (and a couple other things on this day) in relation to Zhang Zhehan.

→ A donation was made to Donghua Univeristy, Gong Jun’s alma mater, in his fans’ name.

→ Fans paid for a video celebrating Zhang Zhehan’s lunar birthday to play on a public screen in Taiwan.

→ MUJOSH posted a bts video for the photo ad released on 04-25.

→ CAPA released its annual marketing statistics report for 2021, with the Word of Honor concert listed in its top 10 highest demand performances. 🤡 [source]

04-28 → Mengniu posted three teasers for their commercial featuring Gong Jun [here] [here] and [here].

→ Downy put out two more vlog-style commercials featuring Gong Jun [here] and [here].

→ Weibo implemented a new feature that shows the location of a user’s IP address on their posts. Thanks to this, it can now be seen that a number of the antis who commented about being personally insulted by Gong Jun’s 03-17 incident because they were locals do not actually live in Qingdao (shocking, I know.) This feature has also made it much easier to spot water armies.

04-29 → Downy released a full commercial featuring Gong Jun. Another shorter commercial was also released later.

→ Xie Yihua released another photo from the same photoshoot and a very short video of Zhang Zhehan that she alleged to be new. [here] is the video with the Sanjian bullshit at the end cut out. 🙂 (← me, fed up) Fan Observation: This most recent photo brings the photos that surfaced at the beginning of March into question. If you compare them, it can be seen that he’s wearing the same jeans, same shoes, same necklace, and possibly the same Prada tshirt and earrings, indicating that they were likely taken within a couple days of each other. A reminder that the evidence thus far indicates that the Instagram photos were taken around early summer.

→ Gong Jun posted the full Mengniu commercial to his Weibo.

→ Gong Jun’s 精彩OK issue was released (1129 kadian). [photoshoot] [translated interview] Gong Jun reposted several of the photos to his Weibo. An additional bts photo was later shared by one of the staff members.

→ Netizens discovered that the IP location of the “Zhang Sanjian has returned” account is Guangdong—not Shanghai, as has been claimed.

→ Gong Jun did a fifteen minute (pre-recorded) livestream for Downy, a recording can be found [here]. The stream as a whole was almost entirely just endorsing the product (ie. not much of note), [here] is a translation of Gong Jun’s closing message. The host later posted a few photos from the livestream to his Weibo.

→ Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun were reportedly seen and photographed together at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Beijing. The rumor is that they saw the photographer and Zhang Zhehan started to say he would pay them to not share the pictures, but Gong Jun stopped him and said “do whatever you want.” The photos have yet to be made public, so at the time of this post this is unsubstantiated. [source]

04-30 → Once again shortly after midnight, a new photo was posted to the Instragram, this time of a handwritten letter dated 04-21 supposedly written by Zhang Zhehan with the thumb of the person holding it visible. The letter says that a “co-star” (obviously implying Gong Jun) has not contacted Zhang Zhehan since June, and denounces the co-star for using “his [zzh’s] elements” in his advertising. Fan Observations: - Even if we do give this the benefit of the doubt and say that it is him, there is zero reason to post a letter publicly rather than directly contacting Gong Jun, Gong Jun’s studio, or the marketting teams. A public letter does nothing but stir up fan drama, which Zhang Zhehan stated that he disliked on multiple occassions. - [here] is a side-by-side comparison of the thumb vs the one from his police report on 12-24. There has been some questioning of if the one in this new photo was photoshopped. - [here] is a handwriting analysis comparing the signature to the one on the police report, and [here] is a comparison of some of the other characters; a collection of his handwriting can be found [here]. The forging of a signature is explicitly identity theft. Have fun in court, ma’am. - [here] is a full breakdown posted by Flora about issues with the letter. - An amusing comment: “When Zhang Zhehan could be proving he’s not guilty, he’s chosen to prove that he’s not gay.” - Addition 05-02: [here] is a thread talking about how the letter itself and the fact that tabloid reporters have been talking about it is a good sign. tl;dr No one spends this much effort to bring down someone with no chance at coming back. - Addition 05-02: Apparently the letter has actually led to more people watching Word of Honor wanting to both get in on the drama and see something with an actual couple behind it, even a broken up one. 😅

→ Zhang Zhehan’s song Surround—mistitled “Forgive - Single Version”, which many have been suspicious of ever since it was added last fall—was taken off Spotify. It’s been noted that this is the only song he released after Xie Yihua became his music manager last April.

→ LockNLock posted a photo ad and four bts photos of Gong Jun. (10:15, 511 kadian on the latter.)

→ Fans paid for another public screen to play a video for Zhang Zhehan’s birthday, not sure where this one is sorry.

→ Gong Jun’s studio Weibo posted a bts compilation video from his recent advertisements. (flashing lights warning) Addition 05-03 Fan Observation: The music used in the last few seconds of the video is the same song Zhang Zhehan used in one of his videos last July, which has some rather interesting lyrics.

→ Gong Jun posted a commercial for 3CE to his Weibo, caption: “Take a ‘clear’ shot to freeze the flawless moment.” 3CE posted two photo ads of him to their own Weibo shortly after. Fan Observation: Gong Jun’s post was made exactly 12 hours after the Instagram post.

→ Honor, one of Gong Jun’s endorsements, posted a photo ad of a cat with the caption: “Walls built for people never could restrict the freedom of a cat.” This was taken down a few hours later. (As a personal note, I’ve been keeping an eye on Honor’s ads since they posted a jellyfish in January, and there’s been a Number of 👀 things from them.)

→ Addition 05-02: A Malaysian newspaper ran a tabloid article about the Instagram letter (unfortunately under the assumption that it’s real), calling it a “break up letter” and using a photoshopped photo of the two of them in a very coupley pose. [source with photo of physical article] [online article]

Additional Reading: → Flora’s Justice of the People daily timeline → Housekeeping note: I made a post a few days ago asking if I should include kadians and a few people expressed that they wanted me to, hence why I’ve included them this week. (I’ve added a note about kadians to the glossary for any unfamiliar with the term.) Please let me know if you have any opinions on this :D

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#Busy week #Zhang Zhehan #Gong Jun #Word of Honor #woh cast #lld timeline

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2020

Edit: MMA 2020 was released just as I clicked post... 🥲 it seems like I can make changes now. Yay.

I managed to pull through with a 2020 timeline post after decades of procrastinating. Yay.

Usual disclaimers: This is a timeline of Taejin moments post. All captions and essays are mine and only serves as entertainment purposes. Do not take it seriously. Always go back to the links to watch original content.

The first half should be correct, there may be some errors, hopefully none too big. There are also a lot of pre-recorded shows and interviews so I go by their hair colors and there will be a lot of unknown dates. If I’m wrong, I’m sorry, you can inform me but as usual I don’t think I can make any edits. I’ll just post them up on my pinned.

I haven’t been able to include everything, so please go and watch the original sources like their official Twitter and BANGTANTV and check out reliable Taejin twitter accounts.

01 Jan 2020 New Years Rockin Eve

BB: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxu7et015mo)

05 Jan 2020 Golden Disk Awards

This is one of Taejin’s recent legendary moments, which I personally feel is on par with “What if he flings it? - Then he flings it. You can’t even do that for him?”

All of the members love each other, a fact that’s not up for argument, but both getting on the knees and flinging the pancake are incidents that I believe would look very very different and probably would not have happened if it weren’t Taejin. These gestures go above and beyond BTS’s friendly or family bonds.

After all, never forget, Jin is a romantic boy. There are very little things Jin wouldn’t do for him, based on what we’ve witnessed on screen.

Holding hands as they pass by each other: (https://twitter.com/onlyfortj/status/1214037249223839744?s=20)

I could probably make a compilation of the number of times he’s done this, because Jin seems to love holding hands. (But I probably will not :x) Especially Tae’s. Jin intertwining their fingers during BE interview is my downfall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmB1_g1GN0). Also Jin holding Tae’s hand when the interviewer said “you’re lucky to have those you’re closest to during these tough times”. Highly recommended to watch here if you haven’t: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TkjxiK2XRs)

An adorable moment of Jin looking fondly at Tae as Vmin serenade each other during Mikrokosmos: (https://twitter.com/onlyfortj/status/1213771008995250176)

Tae resting on Jin's lap: (https://twitter.com/onlyfortj/status/1213843121374515200)

Unfortunately, he probably felt self-aware of his surroundings and the audience watching them and shifted after this. Nevertheless, it’s still a sweet moment.

Backstage tiktok interview: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7n1NFBLLQU)

He’s so fond ;_;

11 Jan 2020 Tae's post of himself taking the metro

Also the day I clowned myself for being suspicious of the single thin metal ring he wore.

Tae replying to a weverse post for an army who’s a Jin fan: (https://twitter.com/choi_bts2/status/1215949825213992961?s=2018)

He didn’t get Seokjin to reply to the post but was very sweet and offered himself instead.

18 Jan 2020 BTS leaves Korea

Airport: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUKD0s39cw)

22 Jan 2020

Tae replies to an army who posted the clip of Jin biting his finger. Fast forward to 2021 where he has yet to directly reply to Jin .___.

?? Jan 2020 James Corden show filming

Backstage intro clip: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbRN1OROpH4)

I found Jin’s expression so incredibly endearing here, the way he’s looking at Tae.

26/27 Jan 2020 Grammy’s

BB of their practice: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiuQ1cGGwOA)

Hobi’s twitter video: (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1221681091469135872)

Do what? What are those sweet smiles?

With context hehe:

Their smiles 💜

Jokes aside, Jin is constantly paying attention to Tae, supporting and encouraging him to speak, especially since Tae put in effort to learn and memorize his mini speech.

Insanely good looking 7 men.

Billboard interview: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9W84VR3IJk)

This might have gone unnoticed by many people, but spot that little fist while Jin answers the interviewer in english, silently cheering him on. Their ways of showing it is different, but their support for each other is very much mutual. If you haven’t, watch the full clip to get a full understanding of how cute and endearing this really is.

Grammy’s vlive: (https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-18231759)

That tiny moment of silent bickering when Jin asks Tae to show the viewers a cute face, and Tae goes ‘why don’t you?’, but gives in anyway. It was rather interesting to see that little nudge by Hobi when Tae retorts, I assume because he was speaking to Jin without honorifics.

27/28 Jan 2020 iHEART Radio

Fancam: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPG2D6xtkiE)

This is the same day where many armys were excited/disappointed to see Tae “flirting” with a beautiful girl in the audience. If the girl wasn’t deemed as beautiful, armys would have said “he’s so sweet, doing fanservice for a fan <3″

But I digress, flirt or no, it is the same day he gave Jin his belt to play with and caught many new armys into the Taejin trap.

Zach Sang interview on the same day, released on 04 Feb 2020: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2_A-rh7IM)

I applaud his dedication to keep Jin close.

?? Jan/Feb 2020 ON/Black Swan MV filming

BB: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dc6tHgXp88)

He does this quite a bit. Remember the puppies? MAMA 2017?

BB: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSK4Mvap5i0)

Behind the scenes BB: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQH1LqAW5FQ)

Two very interesting BB for Black Swan. They must have filmed it all while they were still in US. They were hyper and was fine being clingy during ON MV, but somehow Jin seems to be holding back and crossing his arms a lot during Black Swan.

14 Feb 2020 Connect BTS

Also Valentine’s day: (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1228144425097760768)

20 Feb 2020 Departure to US

Airport: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fl8RLkkgw)

They look good with their long unstyled hair 💜

21 Feb 2020 MOTS 7 Comeback

Vlive: (https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-18241356)

Many note-worthy moments in this comeback vlive.

Tae being highly defensive over Jin talking about practicing dancing hard. I’ve said it in my cc before, Tae teases him a lot, but also is the first to get worked up whenever Jin talks humbly about himself. “I can tease you but you can’t joke about yourself!”

Hobi and Tae asking Jin what he would do if he could go back in time to when he was 14. I find it funny that they can hold eye contact without problems here or during their heated moments on stage but can’t do it when they (mostly Jin) said I love you to each other on GDA 2021 and the entirety of In The Soop.

Especially In The Soop...

Tae’s smile when Jin talks about practicing dancing in the shower. The first in a series of moments where Tae’s reactions to Jin’s anecdotes about himself is kind of questionable, or different from all the other members.

Unrelated, but I’ll copy paste the cc link to the little list here: (https://curiouscat.qa/purple-ktj/post/1218538229)

Jin saying Tae is the most good looking in the photo concept and Jimin asks why and then he gets flustered.

“I’m not rebelling or anything...” 😂 Oh Jimin. Jin tries to slither his way out by lying that Tae asked him to say it but Namjoon saves him lol.

Boo!

I just noticed while compiling this post but could that be Jin’s leather jacket Tae is wearing? It looks slightly oversized too.

22 Feb 2020 NY Comeback appearance in NY

MOTS7 MTV Interview: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e57S-6RCDIY)

I was honestly surprised the first time I saw this blatant display from Tae in an open studio like this in the middle of an interview. One of the first few moments that led me to think that their dynamics had changed a little when they came back from their 2019 vacation.

24 Feb 2020 MOTS 7 Press Conference

Press conference (if you know what happened here. If you don’t, watch it): (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akn5Uemr4Wc)

Jin’s twitter photos of Jimin, JK, Tae and Hobi wrapped around him after the press conference: (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1231865000509067264)

And the BB: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2HHargZ8Q) cutest ;_;

28 Feb 2020 KBS Music Bank

Interview: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3RVuQ69Zc)

To highlight the section which made me go O.O :-

Host: What word do you use most recently?

Tae: Candy.

Host: What concept fits you best? Sweet or salty?

Jin: Sweet, because my face is sweet.

This would all have been a cute harmless answer, except Tae couldn’t hold back his surprise smile and looked back at Jin who winked at him. And then there’s Jikook who were internally facepalming in disbelief at the advanced level of flirting.

In layman terms, I guess you could say Jin went ‘I’m sweet like candy, you can eat my face’.

Tae’s lovely smile looking at Jin during the encore. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc8b4cWEnLI)

07 Mar 2020 Group vlive

Two days before Yoongi’s birthday: (https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-18231747)

There was a lot going on in here, endless screenshots are pointless, so best watch it full.

10 Mar 2020 Tae replies to a weverse post for Jin

26 Mar 2020

Jimin’s vlive: (https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-18241349)

He prank calls Jin and then gets pranked by Tae. The only reason why I think Taejin may have been together at the time - Jimin’s teasing and the “coincidental” pranking in sequence. I personally have a hard time believing anything Taejin does is coincidental anymore.

On the same day, Tae plays games with army who calls him Voo. His response is adorable. “You sound just like Jin-hyung... I’m not going to let this go.”

His conversation screenshots with armys: (https://twitter.com/thetaeprint/status/1243169161813032962?s=20)

?? Mar 2020 Run filming

Tae was going through a the tough time during this period, so he was pretty subdued in a few Run episodes. But, I love this moment when he chose Jin as the brain of the team.

31 Mar 2020

Tae posted videos of Tannie and talked in Chungcheong satoori (where Jin’s parents are from): (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1244831701227802624?s=19)

?? Apr 2020 BangBangCon and Festa Filming

Festa BB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zPnWQIiuw

Rolling paper message from Tae to Jin

This message really got me crumbling to pieces, the sincerity and intimacy to me supersedes Tae’s heartfelt “I like Jin-hyung the most” back in 2018. I know there’s a couple of “I love you”s exchanged between them especially in 2021, but this one has a special place in my heart. On screen, we didn’t see a lot or obvious moments of Jin taking care of Tae during his period of tough time, but his message seals the deal that what we see is only the tip of the iceberg and they take care of each other very deeply. So, for those who thinks that Taejin aren’t close anymore because they don’t behave the way you expect them to in their shows or interviews, think again.

?? Apr 2020

BangBangCon intermission videos: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzMoqCP7eE)

12 Apr 2020 Jin drew Tae

(https://twitter.com/taejin_cypher/status/1249306219677757440?s=20)

I have no idea what these drawings mean, but Jin drew Tae so of course it should be here. Jin’s writing says “Be an adult” in Japanese. I do not know what he means.

“V” and “swimsuit”. Don’t know about these either. Nice drawings, though.

14 Apr 2020 Tae’s twitter post

He posts a photo of his perm with captions in Chungcheong satoori again: (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1249906567320711169?s=19)

21 Apr 2020 Photos on weverse

Taejinhope!

Captions: The best gold in the world is ‘now’. (Wordplay with the word ‘geum’ = gold. Jigeum = now)

Namjoon replies: Not ‘Jin-geum’? (Jin in chinese characters also mean gold)

Taejinkook too 💜

23 Apr 2020

Tae playing the wedding march out of nowhere again: (https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-18231741)

I’m inserting this here, not because there were any Taejin moments, but I remember me foolishly getting anxious that he was going to scream “SINLANG KIM SEOKJIN” again. Of course he didn’t. But still, the Taejinnie in me has been pavlov-ed lol.

24 Apr 2020

Tae replies to a joke on weverse asking “Which is brighter, Jin or diamond?”: (https://twitter.com/haruharu_w_bts/status/1253660273904238594?s=20)

28 Apr 2020

Tae comments on a weverse post in Chungcheong satoori, again: (https://twitter.com/doolsetbangtan/status/1255199518754291712?s=20)

This post marks the third time Tae actually used Chungcheong satoori, and I’m not going to pass the chance to say that perhaps, he had been spending some quality time with... the in laws? I’m joking of course. But three posts in satoori where Jin’s parents are from over the course of a month even though they’ve all been together for nearly 10 years. Another one of the endless “coincidences”? Third time’s the charm, right? And not forgetting “You have your mother’s way with words”.

A compilation of Jin speaking Chungcheong satoori: (https://twitter.com/MyHappyJin/status/1056322833113014272)

Satoori explanation: (https://twitter.com/doolsetbangtan/status/1244833180592603139?s=20)

?? Apr 2020 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award

I don’t know where this belongs exactly, but it should be around the period of end April. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTg9ra-KG54)

Tannies habit of squishing themselves together when they sit on a huge sofa 💜

?? May 2020 Class of 2020

I believe this was recorded around this period.

I’ve watched this a hundred times, burned this scene into my eyelids. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErTgtL1Tjns)

Spring Day is special to them.

?? May 2020 In The Soop Episode 0

I believe this was recorded around this time period as well. The two notable moments here being Jin’s wink, although Tae knows him too well and turned away first. And the wine.

?? May 2020 MOTS Journey Online Showcase

Playlist of interview snippets: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTI-t2hjTos&list=PLiytv9lBJy79cCz1ZsV59vTCNWlj2zxZT)

The entire thing is adorable, everyone was adorable, also “Jwan” makes an appearance here. Watch the entire thing to see how cute they are.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS1Ec9yLVtk)

?? May 2020 Ioniq MV

The MV was released much later but I believe was filmed around this timing: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yzZdHruUI)

I’m surprised this scene made it in. Double surprised the scene is of Tae looking at Jin’s lips. Also side note, this quality for a car endorsement?! Their standards are way up in the stratosphere. We would’ve charted the song, honestly.

17 May 2020

Taehyung did not reply to his posts on weverse. Instead, we got a pretty photo of fishing Jin.

25 - 27 May 2020 - Estimated dates of In The Soop filming. I could be wrong.

31 May ~ 03 Jun 2020 - Also estimated last few days of ITS. Again, I could be wrong.

09 Jun 2020 Tae YouTube vlog

He read an excerpt from CMBYN at around 32:40. Tae loves CMBYN very much.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0BqjWi0qeU)

14 Jun 2020 Bang Bang Con The Live

(https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1288840611215233024?s=20)

They performed Spring Day without the full choreo.

?? Jul 2020 BE Estimated concept photo shooting date

Should be around the same timing these happened:

?? Jul 2020

Jin singing “I’ll steal your heart”: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoT9_dnHw9w)

?? Jul 2020 BR interview filming

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XZd__gZkwQ)

The entire interview is adorable.

17 Jul 2020 Jin goes on a weverse spree

Jin asks Tae to reply on his post, and Tae sort of does. “Wait, I’m uploading a video of Jimin.” The whole time Jin talks about jumbo RJ.

26 Jul 2020 Honey FM - JiJinJung

BTS announces Dynamite (https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-18241324) and there’s this cute exchange:

?? Aug 2020 Break The Silence Commentary

They filmed this at the start of August.

Of course, not leaving this out: (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1340307033099100161?s=20)

Thigh... grabbing and stroking and whatever they’re doing.

“In my opinion, the most beautiful moment of your life hasn’t come yet, hyung.”

I think that’s a beautiful thing to say.

?? Aug 2020 Dynamite MV filming

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkh9SgyAMs)

Based on Namjoon’s hair, it seemed like the MV was filmed early August. And the surprise but pleasant appearance of touchy Jin/flustered Tae.

17 Aug 2020 VMAs Dynamite recording

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYLGiuQqpA)

It’s nothing big but I didn’t want to leave these out.

Jimin, run! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qvf9PHCVmY)

Cuuute 😆 Jikook had their revenge on Jin later on hahaha.

Assumed to be around the same time.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Qp3WBl9js)

21 Aug 2020 Dynamite vlive

(https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-18241321)

There’s a whole separate post for this here: (https://purple-ktj.tumblr.com/post/627081467870298113/interrupting-my-usual-program-with-an-impulse-post)

27 Aug 2020 Filming of Tiny Desk concert

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFYAXsa7pe8&t=1s)

One of my favorite moments initiated by Jin, and again, surprised Tae.

“Give me your hand, save me, save me I need your love before I fall, fall”

By now it’s no longer news that they love singing particular lyrics to each other. From sweet Spring Day, heartfelt Answer, romantic DNA, hot and wild So What to sexy Pied Piper.

01 Sep 2020 JK’s birthday and Billboard Hot 100 #1 for Dynamite

Vlive: (https://www.vlive.tv/video/210698)

Jin: Why did my mom have me in Dec?

Tae: Hyung-nim!!! What are you talking about?

Jin: Hahaha ok ok

Taejinkook were cuddling in the background of Jimin’s twitter video: (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1300675022004994048?s=20)

12 Sep 2020 Namjoon’s birthday

Tae’s twitter post: https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1304596678717046784?s=19

Jin’s twitter post: https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1304457109753348098?s=19

Jin’s voice cheering for Namjoon could be heard in Tae’s video. Tae, Joon and Jin were together, likely with all members. Hahaha but why the blurry no image videos?

01 Oct 2020

Lol, a 7 second clip just to show this particular crucial bit of Jin showing his pokerface while Tae tries to be romantic, flower petals and all 😂: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz_asVbXhoE)

They... look really, really, really good.

?? Oct 2020

They recorded their NYEL performances during this period. I did a random search for this moment in motion and got this: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh3jIbLIV0)

Uh, thank you editor, for highlighting and enlarging their heads so we can see their expressions and whatever they were doing with each other.

10 & 11 Oct 2020 MOTS ON:E

Tae’s adorable expression (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315199771108229120?s=20) when JK interrupted Jin’s hand kiss (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315193844707729409?s=20).

Taejin during Spring Day: (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315218134471634946?s=20), (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315265668351025153?s=20)

Tae trying to shove his mic into Jin’s shirt (side angle): (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315262074763710465?s=20)

Front angle: (https://twitter.com/taejin_castella/status/1315253319359586306?s=20)

15 Nov 2020

I hesitated to include this piece of information here, but I guess, for some harmless fun, why not? It still amuses me to recall the my twitter timeline when it happened.

On this date, an i-army created a burner account to talk about their sighting of Jin carrying Tannie in a mall. All the tweets were run through a Google translator. According to this person, Jin and Tannie was at an electronics store, and they did not approach him to respect his privacy.

Of course, many did not believe it. And there’s no way to verify this either. I found this funny because this is an extremely random thing to create an account and tweet about. What in the world could have triggered this person to say that they saw Jin and Tannie together instead of say, another member, a man/woman or possibly someone even more scandalous? It all got deleted pretty fast after a mini blow up.

I’ll give the benefit of doubt to this person, that they probably did not have bad intentions and didn’t want to draw much attention. They seem to know stan twitter well enough to create a burner account, run their tweets through Google translate before posting to eliminate chances of being recognized and then deleting after Taejinnies saw it. True or not, it doesn’t matter and doesn’t prove anything. Keep in mind do not take this seriously.

20 Nov 2020 BE release & Press con

HYBE link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T31mfmw8bS8

The press conference was full of adorable and sweet moments, although sadly Yoongi couldn’t be around because he had surgery.

And I have already screamed about the vlive here: (https://purple-ktj.tumblr.com/post/635386253141999616/you-wanna-go-naked)

04 Dec 2020

Jin’s birthday BB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHrHkugT8vM

By chronological order, he first talks about the birthday videos that Tae sent him here. He already received some videos when he woke up.

Jin’s vlive https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20238322

This is the second time he talks about it, and the first time we learned about the birthday videos. Tae says he will be sending more and that “you’re a very loved person, hyung.”

Things to note (that everyone already knows of):

- Tae texted him to ask what is he doing before the vlive started. And “what time are you starting?”

- Jin calls him straight from their chat inbox.

- He continuously lowers the volume of their chat (lol).

- He asks for permission to share the story during his vlive. Tae was probably reluctant because he says “But I really should.”

- He’s about to hang up but his expression changes (see the screenshot).

- He mentions Seojoonie-hyung as one of Tae’s many friends who sent a birthday video.

- One more screenshot because this is a priceless moment

- He talks about Abyss, cuts the cake, then goes on to call the other members. Hobi didn’t answer, they were all really busy and tired.

- When he went through his contacts list he had up to Park Jimin #5 (lol) and JK was with him. He called Yoongi and Namjoon too, saying the last time they spoke on the phone was in August.

- So everyone was on speaker phone except... Voo.

- He talked about the birthday videos for the third time on a BE interview (I can’t remember which) and reveals that Tae got a birthday video message from Yoongi too. This should be the first time they talk about it since those are pre-recorded.

05 Dec 2020 MMA

They showed performances that were likely prerecorded within a few weeks, so I’ll just dump all the relevant parts here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAAR25p-A2g)

Plenty of staring during their speeches too.

Taejin and their acrostic poems lol.

06 Dec 2020 MAMA

This doesn’t require captions except in twitter language, they are ‘M-word’. Lol.

?? Dec 2020 Run episode 125

(https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20841636)

The only reason I’m highlighting this episode of Run is because of this hilarious incident towards the end. So we can see Jimin pointing at his soulmate but looking at Jin. And it was all because chef Paik said, “I just don’t like parsley sprinkled on top”.

Thinking Jimin was the culprit, Jin was ready to tell him off (jokingly of course) but the moment Jimin points at Tae, he immediately goes meek and looks away. 😂

In Jin’s mind, Tae can do nothing wrong. You cannot question the parsley Kim Taehyung has sprinkled.

30 Dec 2020 Tae’s birthday + NYEL

BB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51EI1Jq7vg

Jin bringing in his birthday cake with “I love you” on it looking so eager and delighted to celebrate 🥲

I’m near tears seeing his happy expression.

Taejin’s birthday exchange for each other - the birthday videos and monetary gift is honestly a huge surprise to me, considering they’re been together for so long. Later on, during his own birthday vlive, Hobi confirms that they don’t prepare gifts like they did before (as we can see from their previous birthday BB): (https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-21381961)

All seven of them are practically like an old married couple, gifts and words of appreciation for each other are said on many other occasions instead of waiting for each other’s birthdays.

It makes the December babies celebration even sweeter, with the I love you’s on their cakes and all.

I think the meet and greet part isn’t available on youtube. There was a really sweet part where Tae was at the edge of his seat, saying that he will not allow Jin to doubt his own dancing. “The hyung that I know of dances well, so I will ignore that comment (that Jin said about himself).”

I’m in tears now at how protective he is and is practically ready to fight for his Jin-hyung even if it means fighting Jin himself.

?? Dec/Jan 2020/2021

https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-21133241

I’m not sure if this was filmed in late Dec or early Jan but I can look at this forever so I’m going to end this post with this.

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Sakuya Sakuma | [SR] Twins • White | MANKAI Channel Filming - Part 2

Part 1 / Part 2

Sakuya: I go to the library often, and nearby the park too… We introduced a lot of different places.

Juza: Yeah, we did.

Sakuya: We’re almost done with filming but… Is there any place you want to go to, Juza-kun?

Juza: …? I’ve got it, Sakuya, come this way.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Juza: Here…

Sakuya: This is the Chinese bun shop that we both introduced as our favorite shop in the Veludo Town magazine.

Sakuya: I was hoping we could come back here together, Juza-kun.

Juza: Same here.

Sakuya: Well then, let me go ask the shop owner’s grandmother if we have permission to film here.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Sakuya: This is the Chinese bun shop that was previously introduced in the Veludo Town magazine, “VELUDO”.

Sakuya: Juza-kun and I are big fans of the panda buns at this shop.

Juza: This is the panda bun. It’s sweet and has plenty of rice sugar. I recommend it.

Sakuya: Then, I’ll take half of this panda bun… And, let’s eat!

Juza: Yeah, let’s eat.

Sakuya: It’s delicious as always!

Juza: Mmmh, super delicious.

Sakuya: Back when we did the “VELUDO” special feature, we were supposed to introduce our favorite shops and…

Sakuya: Both Juza-kun and I chose to introduce this shop by coincidence.

Juza: I didn’t think we’d choose the same shop… I was pretty surprised at the time.

Sakuya: I was also really surprised! But I was pretty happy too.

Sakuya: This shop not only has the panda buns, but it also has other Chinese buns too. They’re all delicious and I highly recommend them!

Juza: Those were good.

Sakuya: Yep, they were.

Sakuya: Well then, I think this is about the end of the video. Juza-kun, thank you for coming as a guest!

Juza: Yeah, I had fun.

Sakuya: Mhm, me too!

Sakuya: Everyone, did you enjoy today’s city walk? If you’re in the area, please stop by.

Juza: And look forward to the next video too.

Sakuya: Thank you for watching!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Chikage: Well then, it’s time to edit the video Sakuya filmed.

Sakuya: Let’s do our best! Thank you, Director and everyone for helping review the contents of the video.

Tsuzuru: It’s no problem, I really wanted to see what kind of video you filmed, Sakuya.

Itaru: Same here.

Chikage: I’ll go ahead and play it then.

Sakuya: “Hello, all of MANKAI Channel’s viewers!”

Citron: Hello~!

Masumi: Are you going to the fruit sandwich shop first?

Director: That’s the shop Juza-kun was talking about the other day, right?

Sakuya: Yes!

Citron: Oh!? A GOD-za appearance!?

Itaru: Huh, looks like it.

Sakuya: We ran into them by coincidence.

Citron: The picture is shaking very much! Sakuya, were you being a cabbage!? (1)

Chikage: Savage, you mean.

Masumi: Seems like he applauded and it shook.

Sakuya: I’m sorry, I did applaud while holding the camera…

Citron: Chikage, please don’t cut this part, just put a caption here saying Sakuya is being savage!

Tsuzuru: I mean, don’t we need to get permission from GOD-za first?

Director: You’re right, we might need that.

Masumi: It’s a pain to deal with permissions and stuff, so cut it.

Itaru: Maybe just blur out their faces?

Tsuzuru: It’d be weird to blur it…

Director: I’ll quickly call Kamikizaka-san to check with him.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Director: Kamikizaka-san gave us the okay!

Sakuya: Great! Thank you so much, Director.

Chikage: Roger that. I’ll use this scene as is then.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Chikage: That’s it, reviewing and editing are complete.

Sakuya: Thank you so much, Chikage-san!

Sakuya: And everyone else too, thank you for spending so much time helping me!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Choose!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Option 1: You’re good at filming.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Director: You’re good at filming.

Itaru: Yeah. Even though you clapped while holding the camera, it’s still something to love and respect. You got good shots of the scenery, the shops, and the food too.

Tsuzuru: Agreed. It was also interesting to discover new things even in places I’m familiar with because I was viewing it through Sakuya’s camera.

Masumi: You filmed a lot of things. I wasn’t half bad.

Sakuya: Wah, really? Thank you so much! Next time, I’ll do my best to show off the charm of a bunch of different places again!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Option 2: Reviewing it together was fun.

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Director: It was fun to review the video contents together.

Citron: I think so too! It was very exciting to watch the video together!

Chikage: Thanks to everyone’s comments while watching, I was able to decide what to do with the editing and captions.

Sakuya: I had just as much fun watching the video with everyone as I did filming it!

· • —– ٠ ✤ ٠ —– • ·

Director: Overall, it was good to see Sakuya-kun and Juza-kun enjoying themselves and getting along so well, so the video turned out great.

Director: I really wanted to go to the places you introduced.

Sakuya: Thank you so much. Those words mean everything to me! All those places were nice.

Sakuya: Ah, how about next time we go together? I’ll guide you!

Director: Really? Then I’ll have to accept.

Itaru: Eh, with just the Director?

Masumi: I won’t allow you two to go on a city walking date together. I’ll go too.

Sakuya: Of course, everyone can go!

Citron: Yes! A city walk with everyone!

Tsuzuru: Sounds like it’s gonna be quite the lively walk.

Chikage: You’re right about that.

Sakuya: Going on a city walk with the Director and everyone seems like a lot of fun. Let’s go to a lot of places and shops together!

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T/N:

(1) Originally, Citron says “あぶらってる” which means oily/greasy, Chikage corrects him with “荒ぶってる” which means savage/wild. I had Citron say cabbage to try and kinda make it match in English rather than just leaving the literal translation.

#a3!#a3! translation #〚 backstage story #sakuya sakuma #citron #juza hyodo #itaru chigasaki #chikage utsuki #masumi usui #tsuzuru minagi #// oh god this took way longer than expected i apologize jdhfjds #school decided to nerf me and then i forgot about finishing this #school my detested </3

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kikis-writing-world · 3 years

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Tiktok Dancing

Summary: Marcus wants to prove to Missy that despite whatever flailing and spasming is popular on that tiktok, he can dance.

Pairing: Marcus Moreno x GN!Reader

Word Count: 1.3k

Rating/Warnings: Fluff. Breif mentions of dead characters (Marcus’ wife and father.) No beta/editing.

You and Missy watched the video over and over, rehearsing the steps the girls on the screen performed. Missy had begged and pleaded with you to learn a Tiktok dance with her so she could post it to her account. Marcus didn’t have a great handle on the technology, so you did your best to monitor Missy’s usage of the app. The girl had a small following - mostly her friends from school and other children of The Heroics, plus a handful of people who were hoping for glimpses into the life of the leader of The Heroics.

After weeks of asking you finally gave in, but of course she picked something way out of your range.

“No, you have to kick your foot up like this,” Missy corrected, showing you the right way to do it. You restarted the video and watched, seeing she was right.

“Okay, okay. Like this?” You copied the motion the best you could.

“Yeah!”

“Okay, let’s try it again.” You declared, starting the video over so the two of you could dance along with the remixed song.

The two of you bumped into each other halfway through when you turned the wrong way. Missy fell on her behind, laughing the entire way down. Her laugh made you feel better about accidentally bowling her over.

“I’m sorry!” You apologized with your own laugh, offering her a hand.

“I thought you said you could dance.” She sassed, crossing her arms as she looked up at you.

“I said I would try.” You corrected her with a grin. “We’re almost there!”

“What’s all the commotion going on in here?” Marcus interrupted the two of you as he entered the den. He had a smile on his face, no doubt from hearing all the laughter the two of you were sharing.

You’d been dating the man for two years now and had grown close to his daughter in that time. The two of you had introduced her to your relationship slowly, scared she would reject it after losing her mother. You also didn’t want to push too quickly into a relationship with Missy only for things to not work out between you and Marcus. There had been bumps in the road over the two years of course, between you and Marcus as well as with Missy, but overall it had been a great couple of years.

“We’re trying to learn a dance for Tiktok.” Missy explained, standing easily on her own.

“Tiktok again?” Marcus shook his head with a sigh. It was all Missy seemed to talk about lately, and he didn’t understand it. The technology the kids were into just moved too fast for him to get a grip on it. Just as he understands Webkinz, Club Penguin comes along. Snapchat was out, Tiktok was in. He was thankful you seemed to have a better handle on it, just so he could be sure someone was keeping an eye on Missy’s internet usage.

“See Dad, look.” She told him as she showed him the two girls doing the choreography. You bit back a laugh as his face contorted as he watched. Confusion, an attempt at interest, more confusion.

“That’s dancing?” He asked once the video looped back to the start.

“Daaaaad,” Missy scoffed, sounding every bit the pre-teen she was.

“I’m just saying. That didn’t look like any dancing I’ve ever done. That looked like they were trying to swat a fly. Or air out a bad fart.”

You laughed loudly at that, unable to hold back. Missy groaned, once again annoyed with how out-of-touch and uncool her dad had somehow become.

“I’m just saying.” Marcus held his hands up defensively, although he was grinning at you as you laughed.

“Why don’t you show her a thing or two then, old man?” You egged him on, teasing him with the moniker that came out anytime he called it “the facebook” or “tweeter.”

“Yeah Dad!” Missy challenged, cocking her hip. “You think you’re such a good dancer?”

“I never said that,” Marcus denied, glaring between the two of you. “I’m just saying that that isn’t dancing.”

Missy shot you a disbelieving look, clearly calling out her Dad’s skills. “Dad probably dances like Carlton on that show you were watching the other night.”

You couldn’t help but laugh again, knowing you had definitely seen Marcus dance like that before when he was being silly and trying to make you smile. Missy did her impression of the character, making sure to bob her head back and forth with a goofy grin. She looked so much like her dad as she did.

“Alright, that’s enough out of you.” Marcus warned, pointing at Missy with a playful glare. “You wanna learn how to dance, I’ll show you how to dance. Sit down.”

Missy plopped herself onto the couch, crossing her arms over her chest as she shot him a challenging look. Her eyebrow quirked up, clearly saying “show me what you’ve got.” You moved to sit with her, but Marcus grabbed your hand and pulled you to him.

“Oh no, you’re on my side for this one.” He told you, wrapping an arm around your waist as he held the other near your shoulders.

“Am I?” You questioned with a grin.

“I’m gonna need a dance partner.” He grinned back at you.

“I don’t even know what we’re doing.” You laughed.

“Just follow my lead.”

It took a moment to get the hang of it as Marcus led you through the steps. A slight push against your waist or a pull of your hand and he would spin you one way then the other. Push you out and pull you back in. His hips swiveled as he stepped, but you were much stiffer in comparison as you tried to follow the silent commands.

“Alexa,” Marcus called once you seemed to have your bearings. “Play my 80’s playlist.”

The computerized voice responded before Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody started to play.

“Did you plan this?” You accused him, narrowing your eyes.

“Not at all.” He smiled.

He led you through the steps to the tempo of the upbeat song, occasionally mumbling a word or two to tell you where to go. You didn’t know exactly what kind of dancing this was, but you’d love to learn more steps if it meant the two of you could dance together like this more often.

“Where did you even learn this?” You asked him as he pulled you close, your side tucked against his front.

“My parents.” He answered easily as he turned the both of you in circles. “They always used to dance together. When my dad died, I learned-” he paused, dipping you. “So she could keep dancing.”

“That’s adorable.” You marvelled, staring into his eyes. He grinned bashfully before pulling you back up onto your feet.

When the song ended, switching to another, both of you were breathing heavily. Most of it was due to the steps and the spins that Marcus had guided you through, but you had to admit that a part of it was the attraction you felt to him. You didn’t know he could dance, let alone dance like that. He had kept it appropriate, no Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing moves, but the way he led you effortlessly took your breath away.

“Well, Missy?” He asked, grin on his face as he caught his breath. He turned to the couch and his grin fell. You turned away from him reluctantly to see what he was frowning. The couch was empty.

“When did she leave?” Marcus pouted.

“I have no idea.” You admitted with a giggle. The two of you had been so caught up in dancing that you hadn’t even noticed the young girl leave the room. “You proved your skills to me though.” You praised with a kiss.

A few days later you were checking up on Missy’s Tiktok account when you saw a video of you and Marcus dancing in the living room, taken from the doorway. The two of you were smiling, staring into each other's eyes as you spun. No wonder you hadn’t noticed her leave. The caption Missy had left on the video read “My parents are so cute 🤢🤮🤢”

Tagging @wickedfrsgrl @din-damn-djarin @dinthisisthe-wayson @insideafictionaluniverse @vonschweetz @driedgreentomatoes @computeringturtle

#Marcus Moreno x Reader #Marcus Moreno x GN!Reader #Marcus Moreno x You #Marcus Moreno drabble #Marcus Moreno imagine #Marcus Moreno fic #We Could Be Heroes fanfiction #WookieTales

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vanillann · 3 years

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5 star conversation (reggie peters x reader)

I SAW THIS REQUEST AND SCREAMED I WAS SO EXCITED!!

word count: 4.9k (i can’t believe i wrote that much omg)

5 star conversation masterlist

place one: a 1 star motel

“I can’t believe this!”

Julie and I gave each other warnings look as he leaned against each other. That was Flynn’s “Something is going wrong and it’s the other person's fault” yell, and with how stressful the bus ride was I could tell this was worse.

“What’s wrong?” Reggie leaned over in his chair, his hood covering his face as we hid from camera flashes in the corner of the fancy hotel.

Julie shrugged, looking back to her phone and the Instagram edits of the band she had been tagged in.

“Guys, guys,” Alex did a awkward jog as he came back from the bathroom, the iconic pink hoodie pulled over his head and the front of his baseball hat sticking out.

“What?”

“I don’t think we have rooms,” Alex fell back beside Luke, his anxiety radiating from one person to another.

“Huh?”

We’ve had the tour planned out for months, each state planned and perfectly laid out for the perfect amount of work and play. There wasn’t a chance that we didn’t have the room for tonight, impossible.

“Flynn is too smart for that,” I leaned back, ignoring the way Reggie still leaned forward while his elbows on his knees watching me. It was weird, I knew it was Reggie but the way he sat and the fact I couldn’t see his face made it feel like a different person.

“(Y/N) right, Flynn way to put together for that,” Julie brushed off, hitting my shoulder to show me the edit she had found. It was of Reggie and I from a few shows ago, Flynn had been taking videos to help keep the fan active on us and she caught a video of Reggie and I fake rocking out on the empty stage.

It moved from that to a picture of Reggie and me in the costume store for the Halloween show, little fairy-like hearts floating around us. I smiled at the thought, grabbing Julie’s phone and sending the edit to me.

“Well, we don’t have rooms,” Flynn walked back, not giving any warning as she collapsed on top of Julie and I.

“I told you!”

Alex stood up, pointing his finger between Julie and I, a little smirk forming before he realized the weight of the words.

“What happened?”

“They didn’t tell me that rooms held for over 2 months have to be reinstated two week before or they cancel it,” Flynn didn’t move, laying over Julie and I with a broken spirit.

“I was looking forward to sleeping in a room, those bed’s on the bus suck,” Luke crossed his arms and pouted, looking like a kicked puppy.

“I don’t mind them,” Reggie smiled, bouncing in his seat slightly.

“It’s because you’d never fallen off the top,” Alex bit back, still mad about the sharp turns that have sent him flying the last few nights.

Flynn finally moved off Julie and I, saying nothing as she typed away on her phone. She walked away without another word, looking us back in the corner with hoods up.

I played with the sleeves of my own hoodie that had the new Julie and the Pathoms merch sketch.

“Oh look at this one!”

Julie showed me her phone again, this time a thirst trap edit. Her excitement bought the boys attention to us, all moving to look over my shoulder at the edit.

It started with a few of Julie with her amazing stage gear and a few photos from her instagram, neon letters over her head read “The Singer''. Then jumped to the few videos and pictures of Flynn that Julie and I would post behind her back, this time the neon letters read “The Manager''. Next was my face, bright smiles and a few of me backstage with an old Sunset Curve tee and sweat rolling down my back, the words said “The Designer ''.

I read the caption, smiling at “They carry the band” and laughing as the guys talked about the story behind each photo.

“I took the one of you in my old shirt,” Reggie smiled, staying beside me with his arm around the back of my seat. I did my best to ignore the butterflies, which became easy when Flynn came back with a smile.

“I found a motel across the street that will take us,” she spoke with pride, rightfully so as she saved us from another night on that bus.

“Oh I love you,” Alex jumped up, his arms wrapping around Flynn in a heartbeat. Julie smiled, standing up and putting the phone in the pocket of her hoodie.

“Come on, up,” Reggie jumped up, holding a hand up from me as I had started to slip down in my seat. I smiled, taking his cold hands and standing completely up with a smile.

“Thank you Reginald,” I winked, following the others as we made our way to the front of the hotel. I could already hear the crowd waiting for us, their cameras probably at the ready to take some pictures of the uprising band.

“Hoods up soldiers,” Luke announced, keeping Julie close as they were already openly in a relationship so nothing too bad could be made out of them. Alex stood in front of me, Flynn close behind as Reggie was an inch behind me.

I said nothing when I felt a small hand on my back, too caught up in the loud voices and the calling of our names.

“(Y/N)! Is it true you are jealous of the band!”

“(Y/N), Did you sleep with lead singer Luke even with him dating Julie?”

“Are the rumors of Reggie and you true?”

I was thankful we had made it cross the sidewalk when a large bus cut them all off, giving up enough time to make it to the motel without a problem. I was thankful once we made it inside but not for long as I took the place in.

The plants in the corner were dead, the desk was dusty and the couches looked to be from the 1800′s, not the good kind.

“How many stars does this place have?”

“Uhm, 4?” Flynn voiced jumped up, saying nothing to us as she walked up and dinged the bell on the front desk. I rolled my eyes, pulling out my phone and opening it to Google.

“What are you goggling?”

“Google, and this motel,” I corrected Reggie, doing a quick search of my location and found the name of the rusty place. When I saw the rating I almost screamed.

“This place just barely has one star!”

“What,” Luke ran from the random statue he was messing with to my side, tugging the phone so he could read the reviews.

“Apparently they had a rat in a bed once,” I spoke, reading over the words in horror.

“Nope, I’ll stay on the bus,” Alex let his hands fall to his side, walking back to the door before he noticed that the camera flashes had almost doubled and no way he could make it out without a panic attack.

“Evening.”

When I heard the vile voice I jumped into Reggie's side without thinking, looking up at the older man who was looking Flynn up and down like meat.

“I need six room,” Flynn didn’t waste time, holding the credit card in between her fingers as she did her best not to be a coward.

“He looks like the witch from Hansel and Gretel,” I whispered into Reggie’s ear, ignoring the way his arm seemed to drift to my waist.

“I don’t know how that is but I agree.”

“We only have only three rooms, little lady,” the man spoke, reaching for the credit card before Flynn moved it out of reach.

“You told me on the found you had six,” Flynn bit back, I admired her confidence in this moment as everyone was slowly losing there the longer we stood in this lobby.

“The paparazzi will have fun with this,” Julie reached my side, looking over her shoulder and the few shots they could get through the windows of the dusty place.

“Got that right.”

“Fine, will bunk up,” Flynn gave up with the man, it wasn’t any use and we were all tired of setting up the stage and soundcheck today. I had spent hours hunched over the computer trying to get the mercy drop reaching tomorrow morning, my back sore and my head hurting.

The man passed Flynn the keys, after she watched him closely to make sure he didn’t charge us extra. She walked over to us, obviously annoyed but calming down the closer she got to us, she knew how to manage her anger until it was only Julie and I around.

“Julie and I will take one room, Alex and (Y/N) will take another-'' I smiled as Alex was my go-to room partner.

“-And Luke and Reggie got the last,” Flynn started handing out keys when Luke started to pout.

“Last time I slept in the same room as Reggie he talked the entire night,” Luke pointed at Reggie, causing the boy beside me to frown.

“You sleep talk? I’ve never heard it,” I shrugged and looked at Luke who was confident that “Reggie sleep talks”.

“Why can’t I take Alex and (Y/N) take Reggie?”

This felt so out of character for Luke, he never missed an opportunity to hang out with Reggie, they always bunked together. It was weird how everyone agreed, which felt even more out of character.

“Okay it’s settled,” I wanted to say something, as a night in a room alone with Reggie would be horrible for my crush, but I didn’t want Reggie to think nobody wanted to bunk with him.

Reggie shrugged, taking our key from Flynn and grabbing my go-bag I’d set on the ground of the dirty motel.

“I’ll get our bags, I know you’ll sit with Fylnn and Julie before you come up,” he didn’t sound mad or upset, he was smiling widely as he skipped to the elevator before stopping halfway through and going to the stairs instead.

“What a gentleman,” Luke winked at me, smirking between the group as if he had done something.

That’s when it hit me, he had done something.

“Oh, you liar,” I pointed my finger at Luke’s chest, my pout similar to his earlier as I looked up to someone I called a close friend, basically family.

“I did nothing of the sort, he did talk all night last time we bunked together but it was because we decided we wanted to pull an all-nighter,” Luke shrugged, looking at the other three in the loony, all smiling at me.

“You’re all vile people,” I spoke, looking to Alex who wanted to laugh so bad by the look on his face.

“And you, why would you do this to me?”

“Because I’m so tired of Reggie and you dancing around each other,” Alex gave me a stern look, making me deflate slightly but that didn’t stop me.

“We do not,” the group finally started to move again, since Reggie would already be in the room and we didn’t want him suspicious.

“Oh no, you’re the liar now,” Luke sang over my shoulder, grabbing his and Julie’s bag, Alex getting him and reaching for Flynn bag who insisted she had it.

“His hands were all over you this morning on the bus,” Julie jumped in, grabbing my shoulders and leading me through the stairway.

“He was teaching me how to play bass,” I crossed my arm, knowing this conversation wasn’t going anywhere.

“Reggie never lets anyone touch his bass!”

I rolled my eyes, they were all insane at this point.

“The reason there are so many ship edits of you guys is that you give them so much to work with,” Flynn said from the front of the group, a kick in her step about the entire idea.

“It’s because fans are crazy,” we had finally made it to the third floor, opening the door and all walking into the smelly hallways.

“It smells like a pack of cigarettes,” I almost coughed as I spoke, watching Reggie’s back open the door and slide into our room.

“You coming to sit with us?”

“No, I’m mad at you all,” I frown, but none of my friends worried as I’d forgive in the morning because they were impossible to stay mad at.

“Suit yourself, also he didn’t have any two bedrooms so have fun sharing a bed,” Flynn gave me a sweet kiss on the cheek and skipped to her and Julie’s room.

“I’ll kill you,” I yelled at Flynn as she walked into her room, Julie giving a sweet waver over her shoulder.

“I wonder if they have a mini-fridge,” Luke spoke, opening the door as the two boys gave me an exciting wave as if they weren’t making my life harder.

“(Y/N)? Why are you yelling?”

I looked down a door or two to see Reggie leaning against the doorframe of our room with a white tee and black and red plaid pajama pants.

He was going to be the death of me.

“Uhm, Fylnn told me they didn’t have a breakfast bar,” I did my best to lie, smiling as I made my way to the door Reggie leaned against, his little smile made me feel light and fluffy.

“I’ll get us one of the Ubers to take us to that little diner on the corner,” Reggie smiled, not moving from the doorframe once I reached it.

I didn’t want to slide past him but I did, doing my best not to come in contact with him as that may just make it worse but luckily he moved back so that didn’t happen.

“Thank god, I like the layout of it.”

I saw the single Queen bed in the center of my room and my heart broke as I thought about Fylnn’s words, she wasn’t just trying to get under my skin.

“Yeah, I know you love dinners that look like they are from the 50s.”

My heart shouldn’t have been on fire because of his words but it 100% was. He remembered those little quirks and it started to make me feel light-headed.

“Yeah they’re my favorite,” I smiled over my shoulder, reaching for my bag I had packed for the night in the motel, luckily bought my sleep stuff and asleep attire.

“There was one by my house back in the 90s, it was right out of that movie you had me watched,” Reggie fell back on the left side, leaving the right side open for me.

He knew what freaking side of the bed I slept on, I was going to combust.

“Grease,” I ignored the way his arms bulged as he laid them behind his hand, looking up at me as I looked through my bag for a few more things.

“Yeah that one, I think I should do my hair like David-“

“Danny,” I corrected as I made my way to the bathroom, leaving the door cracked so I could keep the conversation but still closed enough so I wasn’t worried about Reggie seeing me.

“Oh yeah, I should do my hair like him.” I smiled to myself, imagining Reggie dancing around as a Danny from Grease, the excitement he would have.

I tried not to think about how hot he’d look with his hair slick back.

“Do it for Halloween next year,” I spoke up, splashing water on my face to make me feel a little calmer.

“But I thought we would do a matching costume?”

I was going to scream and cry if he didn’t stop acting like the perfect boy. How do you lie because Reggie Freaking Peters and not fall in love with him?

“You could be Sandy!”

I felt myself smile again, looking down at the short and long shirt I had stolen from Alex that sat on top of the toilet.

“You can have red lipstick and those leather pants,” he sounded like a child that was just given candy, he was jumping just at the thought of the costume together.

“The fans would love it,” maybe it wasn’t the best idea to bring them up, but I couldn’t stop myself from saying it.

“They would! They’d probably talk about how cool you look for months,” I finally got the shirt over my head, looking at myself in the mirror, my nerves calming the longer the conversation went on.

Reggie wouldn’t make this awkward on purpose, I knew that.

“Yeah, but they’d like us matching. They wouldn’t let the dating rumor die though”, I stepped out from the bathroom, careful not to hit the creaking floorboard I found earlier.

“Oh, I didn’t think about that,” I watched his face fall and maybe my heart broke a little, but it was probably better. If it didn’t I would have possibly let this crush grow more and more and I didn’t need that.

“Eh, I don’t really care what the fans think.”

Heart please don’t explode, you have a merch drop tomorrow.

“Must be nice,” I fell back on the bed, laying the same way as Reggie as we looked at the ceiling that could probably fall in any second now.

“Why do you care?”

I watched him flip on his stomach out of the corner of my eye, him watching me but my eyes didn’t leave the ceiling.

“They just like making rumors with people that aren’t in the band sometimes more than the ones in the band. You four are more open than Flynn and I so they can only make so many rumors, but Flynn and I,” I trailed off, not knowing if he wanted this conversation to get too emotional.

“Yeah I noticed that, I mean you're cheating with Luke!”

I laughed at this tone, that definitely was a real crazy one that just started.

“I literally hit him in the head with the mic stand yesterday and kept walking and people think we’re dating”, I laugh at the afterthought, Luke's face when the mic stand went by his face. He was fine, but I didn’t have time to help him up and he understood that.

“That was great to watch, I haven’t seen Luke that confused since we landed here,” I spotted his show stopping smile in the corner of my eye.

“He’s a mess that’s why.”

“All three of us are a mess, without you, Julie, and Flynn we would be dead.”

“You’re already dead,” I tried to keep a straight face but as soon as I looked at Reggie my giggles filled the room, a hand on my stomach as I rolled over slightly.

“You’re horrible! You’re laughing at my death!”

I kept laughing, looking over at him a few times but it only caused me to laugh harder.

“I can’t believe I was excited to have a sleepover with you,” he had a goofy smile on his face as he watched me roll around.

“You 're excited,” I was finally calming down, trying to blame my racing heart on laughing.

“Yeah!”

He was so confident in his answer it felt like he meant it, like he wasn’t just being nice or just happy to be close with his friend.

Reggie liked being with people, he was a people person, and I was a person.

“I was excited too.”

Wow (Y/N) don’t you love your loud mouth.

He looked around my face, his eyes tracing my features with a smile painted across his face. I was shocked someone could be so happy like looked at me, but he did and it felt nice.

It was creepy or uncomfortable, nothing with Reggie ever was. He made everything feel easy, and maybe that’s why he has plagued my thoughts for so long.

“We should head to bed,” I could speak above a whisper with the way he was looking at me, the way his eyes traced my nose and my eyes.

“Yeah.”

We didn’t move, just watching each other as if it was supposed to be sleep for us. I wasn’t tired watching him like this, how could I be tired when he made me feel more alive than ever.

The loud knock on the door brought me out of my trace, my fear of what could be at the door had me moving closer to Reggie without thinking.

I felt the side of the move, Reggie slowly walking to the moldy wooden door with the small peep hole, or more like someone put a nail though and took it out.

He looked through it, reading to each for the candlestick before he rolled his eyes and swung open the door. Alex stood with an awkward smile, doing an odd dance before smiling at Reggie and I.

“Alex?”

“Can I use your bathroom?” I finally realized why he was dancing and smiled to himself.

“Sure but why?”

As soon as he heard my yes he pushed past Reggie, running into the thin wall bathroom without an answer until I heard him yell “Yes!”

“Our bathroom had some weird bug in the toilet and Julie and Flynn’s bathroom was connected to some weird old dude who fell asleep on the toilet,” Alex responded through the door, the excitement obviously in his voice.

“Looks like I got the good room,” Reggie smiled but I was hoping Alex would catch on to my comment and by the way he laughed I think he did.

“Shut up (Y/N)!”

Reggie knocked on the door jokingly as he passed, making his way back to the other side of the bed.

“How did Julie and Flynn get a conjoining room?”

“I don’t know and I don’t want to,” Alex yelled back, the sound of running water confirmed he was now washing his hands.

“You don’t have paper towels,” Alex opens the door, holding his hands in front of him as he looks like a kicked puppy.

“Use your shirt,” Reggie nodded at him, both him and I on our side as we watched Alex.

“It’s not mine! It’s Willie’s.”

“We won’t tell if you don’t,” I smiled back, giving Alex a wink.

“I accidentally told him,” Alex muttered as he started walking to the door, waving back at us and he left to go back to his own room.

As soon as the door shut I let myself laugh a little at my close friend, slowly reaching for the lamp and lifting the covers up. I could feel Reggie doing the same as the cold air hitting my skin when it moved and disappearing once it fell.

“Must I say, this motel isn’t that bad.”

I turned to look back at Reggie, the only reason I could see his face was because of the city lights from the window that danced across his face.

“What?”

“Don’t get me wrong, this place breaks every violation ever, but I think places like this bring out the best stories,” Reggie moved to look at me, his nose close to my own and he smiled at me.

I smiled, it was truly the Reggie-ish thing I had ever heard.

“I believe that,” I spoke softly, watching him again but this time the tension was thick, it felt so much calmer.

“Julie and Flynn will never forget the creepy guy, Alex and Luke will laugh about Alex blatter, and I’ll never forget the best sleepover ever,” each word brought a little larger smile on his face, my heart racing again at his words.

“I mean that much to you?” I said the words jokingly, placing a hand over my heart as I spoke but Reggie took it differently.

“Most definitely,” his words are soft, making my eyes grow tired as his breath fan across my face.

He was watching me again, this time he looked like an angel with the way the city light bounced off his cheeks and bought out his pink lips.

“Yeah?”

“Yep,” his face looked like it was moving closer to me but I knew better than to think that, but that didn’t crush that little hope in the back of my head.

“If you were there in the 90s, I’d probably still be alive,” eye contact was made and I thought I would jump him there.

“I wasn’t alive then.”

“I know, but you’re alive now and I feel alive,” Reggie shrugged as if his words didn’t mean everything to me.

Like he didn’t mean everything to me. I felt myself break eye contact, smiling like a fool as I looked to the tv that was barely hanging on the wall.

“You’re cold,” I spoke softly, because what else was I supposed to say?

“You’re warm,” as he spoke he grew closer to me, resting his head near my collarbone as he waited for me to speak but it never came.

“Can I lay my head on your shoulder?”

“Most definitely,” I repeated his rooms from earlier, smiling when I felt his hair brush my cheek and he drew close to me.

“Goodnight (Y/N),” he spoke softly, his words causing shivers to run up and down my spine like a track race.

“Goodnight Reggie.”

A loud bang on the door woke me up, causing me to almost fall from the bed if the hand that grabbed my shirt wasn't a tiger. His arms weren’t around me, simply holding me closer by my shirt, his head still on my shoulder as my head laid on his.

“Flynn has coffee!” Julie’s voice was joyus, making a smile spread across my lips. My friends knew me so well, my hands gently pulling Reggie’s fist from my shirt. I carefully pulled myself from the bed, tip-toeing across the room to the door. I didn’t even need to look through the peephole to know who was on the other side.

“Did you get a cup for your neighbor?”

Flynn smiled, dropped, and the coffee she held out to me was brought closer to her chest.

“And to think I gave you a kiss yesterday,” I rolled my eyes, reaching out for the coffee that was easy to pull from her hands.

“Luke and Alex are stealing breakfast from the hotel we were supposed to be staying at,” Julie brushed past me, stopping in her tracks when she noticed Reggie's sleeping body, obviously splashing on both sides of the bed.

“How are they doing that?”

“I don't wanna know, but I do wanna know what happened here last night,” Julie spun around, pointing at Reggie over her shoulder.

“We talked and went to bed,” I shrugged, doing my best to keep my voice down but it wouldn’t change anything, Reggie was a heavy sleeper.

“I thought you would make a plate on the floor or something,” Flynn spoke as she joined us in the room, slowly walking to Reggie and inspecting him.

“That felt rude,” I sipped on the coffee, smiling when I realized Julie and Flynn got my order right.

“Or,” Julie turned around, poking my side with a goofy smile. I rolled my eyes, my excitement from last night and the presents of my friends was sending me through the roof and I don’t think I could handle it much longer.

“Guys!”

I looked down the hall, smiling when I saw Alex and Luke breathing heavily with large bags of hopeful food in their hands.

“Is that from the hotel?”

“Of course,” Luke smiled as he slipped into the room, handing me one of the bags so I could place it on the small table in the motel.

“We got chased out but we did it!”

I laughed at Alex's face, the anxiety was obvious but the smile told me he was fine and there wasn’t much to worry about.

“Well well well,” Luke walked around the bed, smiling at Reggie’s sleeping form.

“Don’t say a word,” I opened one of the bags and pulled a small piece of pancake off, and threw it in the air, catching it in my mouth easily. Perks of being friends with Luke, he teaches great party tricks.

“Aren’t you two the cutest,” Luke came over to my side, waving Julie over to show me something on her phone. I looked over my shoulder, watching a new edit that was posted maybe an hour ago.

“Reggie and (Y/N) were seen awfully close leaving their hotel last night,” the E! News reporter said, the edit jumping to a meme I had seen of a dude crying. Next thing I knew pictures from last night flash across the screen, Reggie’s hand on my lower back. The edit jumped to other pictures of us joking around followed.

I smiled, turning back to the bag and pulling another piece of pancake out.

“Awh look at that,” Flynn pitched my cheeks, smiling at my as I laughed it off. Butterflies were flying through my stomach but I didn my best to hide it.

“What?”

Everyone turned to Reggie once sleeping form, his eyes scanning the room before he fell back to the bed.

“Did anyone knock?”

“We did,” Julie smiled, flopping on the bed so her head laid on his legs.

“I wasn’t informed,” Reggie sat up, looking at me with a grumpy frown. I shrugged, taking another bite of pancake while smiling at him.

“What? You wanted me to wake you?”

“Most definitely,” Reggie smiled, the conversation from last night still floating around his brain.

I nodded, looking down at my hands and thought back to the late night we had with nothing but calming security.

He was right, crappy motels brought the best memories out in people.

#reggie x y/n #reggie peters x reader #japt reggie #reggie peters #reggie tag #julie and the phantoms x reader #jatp x reader

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tobebugjewce · 3 years

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THE WALTEN FILES: my jumbled notes on my blind run-in with this web series

first off this is gonna be long and unorganized, also this is my second time writing this as i had lost literally half of my progress and im This (imagine two fingers almost touching with a 0.0000000001mm distance between them) close to ripping all of the fucking hair out of my goddamn head. but now this will be extra long and yes, i will lose some accuracy to my first writing but thats okay ill probably edit this a kajillion times over

which brings me to my next tangent; im literally braindumping here. so to have a smidge of organization all afterthoughts, edits and corrections will be boldened, i forgot what im gonna do with italicized text but ill probably bolden it here yeah im pretty sure its for side tangents, separate from Corrections, which are in bold. also theyre for emphasis too.

so in general, this post right here is all of my notes i wrote down on my grid-patterned sticky notes (which i used WAYYYY too much of) about the first 3 uploaded walten files youtube videos transferred onto my handy dandy digital notebook, this b(l)og. yeppers peppers. you know im serious about this shit when i typed probably over like a thousand fucking words including boldened shit, italicized shit and motherfucking links, lost it ALL, and im sitting here re-typing it again.

i feel bad about this but im not gonna trigger warn right here, but this is technically a warning. if you want a list of triggers as to what this post (and the walten files in general) i will link a little list to that here

without further a doo doo, (mama mia) here the fucking fuck we go again.

THE WALTEN FILES - VIDEO #1

clarifying this now, im gonna put some useless shit which i thought was code onto this because even though it was useless it was part of my notes and im physically going to combust if i dont put down every single thing i wrote on my papers. so what i thought was code was in the closed captions, i started writing it down when i got to the second video but came back to my first videos notes to include them. i wrote down the first letter to every word that was capitalized in the closed captions, which i had on as a default because number one i knew going into this id need them because most web horror things like args and cryptic shit like that has some of the most crucial shits in the closed captions. number two i am autistic and have auditory processing issues and have most closed captioning on as a default if theyre available.

firstly jotted, i wrote down the closed captions “code” so im gonna put the rest here too: HYWITB(BSI)Y A(BSI)BJWFKWITW ILHHFSBBSBTLBWI USOISTBNBSFIRBCAWHSHCBWHTAIGRNB*C*BTWLTSFA(20)MCFP ILITIIACPH(1978, 1979)SA(4)YTSCH*C*OGSSU SFTGRPATDBBUTFBNLLCHMIHLBRALLCLAYTUKB*LC*WHATWASTHATTHING

the numbers in parenthesis are there because i wasnt sure they should be included in the “code” or not. i also thought of this with the BSI - bunny smiles incorporated and also the years 1978 and 1979. the shits in asterisks are coughs and light coughs, which were capitalized in the closed captions so i included them too just in case

i then jotted, in parenthesis of course, the names of the animatronics when they were listed in the animation section of the video; bon aka the blue bunny, sha aka the sheep one, boozoo aka the clown<3 honk<33, and banny aka the purpled eyelashed up one who is also a bunny btw. also i got boozoo the clown and boozoo the mustache guy confused because apparently the clowns name is billy???? but they named “boozoo” in bons sleepover and showed the clown? idk maybe im an idiot and theyre the same or just an idiot and theyre different or a super mega (matt and ryan?!?!??) idiot in general which is probably the case

i started drawing little stars to write down things i thought would be super important or to 100% look at again. the first subject of this pointy torture was the part of the video where at 3:00, i marked it down to make sure to reverse the audio as it was most definitely a weird audio that has that signature warp-y effect that makes sure you KNOW its in reverse. i then listened back to it Very carefully (still got it wrong) and got this: “you finally start to remember. that old doll. they will look out for you soon” im also pretty sure i heard “sophie” at the end of that audio but im not entirely sure and dont remember and i dont wanna go back to check lmfao but anyways it didnt matter because i was wrong anyway. after i had finished all 3 walten files i watched the film theory video on the walten files (which didnt cover all 3 but was dece.) out of curiosity and to hear matpats signature silly little voice explain some stuff i already knew, and click some shit in my brain that i couldve thought up of if i was a bit more... i dont know honestly. anyways yeah so the actual audio is “you finally start to remember. that old day. they will look out for you soon.” so yeah. day, not doll.

i then wrote down “sarah evelyn”, the name on the bons sleepover animation (i dont remember if she created it or animated it or whatnot) and scribbled will she matter? under her name. turns out no, as i didnt see her name in the rest of the series, let alone the first video. this is also a great time to mention how matpat theory helped me realize that the walten files are collections of videos, uploaded onto youtube by anthony. (i already knew about anthony as he signed his name in the descriptions of the youtube videos, making me categorize this overall web series more into an arg type genre.) but yes, the tapes, recorded “irl” footage, animated clips, vhs tape recordings and other audio-visual content is all collected and labeled the walten files, as i had mistaken each video to be a tape. stupid me. alrighty, onward!

i starred this one, good for me; MISSING: Jack Walten LAST SEEN: 06/11/1974

i jotted down with an arrow that; sophie was a nightguard? she was wearing the uniform explained in tape 2 i dont know why but i went back into my video 1 notes after i had watched video 2. organization purposes. i guess.??

i then paused the video when the screen flickered a date, the beginning of video footage dated 10/10/1982 (Brian Stells?) god my little genius ass assuming the videographer was brian stells, based on the id card i saw earlier.

i then wrote down what text i saw on the dead, mangled, bloody body in the purple security suit; “i cant feel anything” “he thought i was her” then drew a little arrow pointing to; thought brian was sophie? or ashley? i also starred the name Brian Stells this is totally out of order LMFAOOOOOOOO also i wrote down ashley because, again, my little pea brain went back on my video 1 notes after watching video 2. but yep thats all i wrote for The Walten Files 1 - Company Introductory Tape

THE WALTEN FILES - VIDEO #2

Tape #1 - created 07/02/1978

awesome how thats first and foremost in the captions. god. so sexy of you martin walls. /j /nsx

this pack of notes is chunkier because again, like i have mentioned before i am an absolute goober and thought the capitalized letters of the words would actually mean something. I MEAN MAYBE THEY DO AND IM JUST DOING IT WRONG but i stopped doing it after this video because holy shit it was exhausting and my stupid little fingers couldnt take the writing anymore becasue i am WEAK.

so write off the bat (squeak) i wrote down 197[] the blacked out rectangle over the last digit of that year and everything im also now assuming its probably 1978 or 1974 because lore reasons but whos to say but yeah i also wrote down this;

Tape #2 - created 08/13/1978

then, straight up in the beginning of the video i caught it, the flash of text, as i had by now realized i gotta be SUPER stupid focused on the screen in case i miss anything, i wanted to be crazy precise on my theorizing and mental notes, among other things. but yes i saw it, the first half of a youtube link; “https://youtu”

claps hands together and rubs them evilly. oh yeah baby. thats the hot lunch. this shit right here? the cats pajamas. lets fucking go.

i wrote down this goofy shit i pasued to inspect when i saw bon sorting through a file cabinet and naturally scribbled down the labels and other written things i could see on the files;

relocate X/X/75 felix

storage K-9 07/23/1975 felix k(ranken)

Bons Burgers 06/28/1974 Jack Walten

Shipping Service 1975

New Location -> 1982

i also wrote down more goofy shit, like when banny was created for some reason; in 1974

starred, i noted to go back and reverse the audio at 5:09, when played back, i didnt write it down so i dont remember. lmao.

i also marked to screenshot and brighten the darkened image i saw at 5:20, i was going to do it on my phone then realized i can just do it on my computer so i quickly took a screenshot, brightened it and wrote down what i saw; a missing person poster that read MISSING: SUSAN WOODINGS(?) Last seen: 1974 i was very unsure of the spelling of her last name because the image was so goddamn low quality and grainy but its what i saw. this is where tape #3 gets thrown in, which im gonna type again because i like how the formatting looks;

Tape #3 - created 07/09/1978 (BEFORE tape 2?!//1/1??? its more likely than you think)

i wrote down more dates, any dates i saw, i jotted down. i wrote;

Technical Support 1978

then,

Brian Stells (for some reason i dont remember right now)

alrighty this is where the stupid capitalized letters come in, but before it looks like i vomit a keysmash time infinity on this, ill put down the little inbetween things i wrote in the midst of the caps lockalypse like timestamps and stuff, so here you go;

- Reverse at 8:16 which i did but of course didnt write down what i heard. i think it was too warbled to hear anything clear out of it, or it was just the good ol auditory processing issues fucking me over yet again. WAIT yep yes i did here it is: “rosemary would go to the restaurant every night hoping that [her] beloved husband would reappear after being missing for weeks but no response until one day [s]he heard a voice [saying] ‘i know where he is rosie’ coming from the back stage” the bracketed stuff is the corrections, i misheard the audio and thought the audio said “his”, “he” and “singing” like a nimrod

- Brighten at 10:14 which was another missing person poster, but i dont think it had any information on it because i didnt write it down, just;

- Sophie again (pic at 9:08?) (dismemberd and put in Sha) i was stupid and wrong haha idiot it was rosemary who was put in sha but anywho

i starred and underlined a huge thing i discovered which was;

- Walten had 3 kids which i dont remember how i found out but it doesnt matter, its good important info i uncovered.

- Tape #4 - Unkown Date

- recorded 07/12-07/14 1978

- Hilary B, Ashley P & Kevin W i made sure to get these names down as soon as i saw them on screen but then realized shortly after i wouldnt really need to have it as the closed captions made sure i knew which person was talking by using their first initial (capitalized of course) before each line of text. this is the perfect time to announce the arrival of the clusterfuck of capital letters, which is going to include colons which will indicate that the letter before it is the initial of the person talking. without further aedue, here comes another chinese earthquake;

TCWTSTATO(K-9)TBSSFWFCNEHAWBSUBIUC(BSIIDC)OWHISF INBIJTILNSPL(K-9)LCSCKCCCWTTLTLITTTYROTFAJAMHPYYSTCSPMBBWSBIB H:NTPPCCK:DA:HH:YCPRPMWTCBCRAWK:JH:SYYTCPBACPSTBAWCA:TK(?):FMTTCMK:TCPNOA:DTOFK:ITNPPRA:YBUTIRRFH:HKIBESRAIA:TCK:WA:WPCCFTRRIDPEH:GGK:GPA:LKK:WA:HNCGTKMK:YH:IGKA:ESK:MFH:RK:HILRLBNTRPPUWHITRRTPEIFEPH:YWBEBPK:MAHPBTRPTRPEL(LN)HTACPKLIKHPFITSKLTKLB(LB?)ISIBSUBIPRW AEBATHSPUAICTPURTWBBRPHTRTIIIILTCITCUCCP S(bpe, be)WA”IDCPBPSIB

holy shit its finally over okay now onto some MORE of what i wrote down in between and also after that keysmash attack;

12 doors? (backrooms) 27? 26? i was unsure because ashley was unsure too lmfao

found cassette (6/11/78) <- says “discard”? yeah it did

Tape in clown audio, speaking voice; jack, susan, charles(?), rosemary, sophie, last word sounds like “walrus” it was walten lmfao

Ashley died? yeah she did lmfao OR AT LEAST I THINK SO??

starred this one, Reverse @ 17:06, then got this;

“they left the next day, they thought ashley left early, but she was in the backdoors, screaming as much as she could, but no one heard the screams, the following days the caretakers would complain about an awful smell coming from the backdoors, company decided to shut down facility until new advice, the relocate project was unsuccessful. ashley is still there, but she is not screaming anymore, she saw something she wasnt supposed to see and now shes beautiful” the phrase “shes beautiful” was repeating like a bajillion times in that wall of text. then, god motherfuckng bless:

at 17:23 i found the other half of the youtube link, “.be/k07QqEDOfQ” i pieced that bad boy together as instant as i think any form of ramen could never be, but remained ever patient. because i made sure to jot down this before moving onto my next segment;

@ end of vid 2, “shadow man sees* me when lights go off” im an idiot *it was actually “feeds” not “sees”, which AGAIN, i only found out after watching the stupid little film theory video *begins snarling and foaming at the mouth*

okay im not proud to admit im editing this to post it and realized ive lost my notes. well.

might as well post what ive got! if i find my shit ill add onto this, i suppose.

#the walten files #twf #notes #horror

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wiener-soldiers · 4 years

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how to (not) be internet famous - peter parker

summary: peter parker becomes internet famous overnight and doesn’t exactly know how to deal with it, which causes him to end up in a precarious situation.

words: 4k

warnings: rien, mes amis!

a/n: part of the unsolved mini-series! just wanted to write a lil blurb w some world building before i go into more ghost/ghoul hunting. also goes without saying that this is minimally edited, sorry lol

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Peter Parker did not intend on becoming famous.

It was quite literally an accident—a byproduct of being in the right place in the right time. But, completely out of his control, Peter Parker helped solved an Unsolved mystery.

It was one of Buzzfeed Unsolved’s most viewed episodes; the story of Peter Quill, a little boy who went missing right after his mother died. Of course, one theory was that he was abducted by aliens. That was the joke theory.

Until Peter Parker and Y/N Stark proved that theory to be correct.

Being fans of the show, the duo was vaguely aware of the existence of Peter Quill, the mysterious boy who went missing. It wasn’t until Thor traveled back to Earth with the rest of the Guardians did Peter and Y/N recognize Peter Quill.

Of course, their first instinct was to interview him about how he got abducted and ask about some space stories. Their next instinct was to invite Ryan and Shane of the Unsolved Network to interview him as well.

This subsequently made the internet blow up. And Peter Parker became famous because of it.

The video titled “We Solved A Buzzfeed Unsolved Case” garnered millions of views overnight, with thousands of comments flooding the video. Peter’s Twitter went from less than a hundred followers to more than a hundred thousand overnight, and his Instagram blew up in a similar fashion.

He was used to Spider-Man being famous, but Peter Parker had never gotten that much attention before. It was surreal.

He found himself sitting on the brown leather couch at the Avengers Tower (where the Stark family alose happened to reside) the morning after the video was released, staring at his texts blow up in front of him.

Ned: Dude you’re famous?? You’re on the YT trending page!!

MJ: can i meet ryan and shane? also warning: flash and brad don’t know you’re dating y/n so their texts may be a little hostile…

Flash: Damn Parker, how do you know Y/N Stark???

Brad: Why haven’t you brought Y/N around?

Betty: Peter you HAVE to let me interview you for the school news! When are you free??

“What the hell is going on…” Peter whispers, jaw unhinged as notification after notification caused his phone to ‘ding’ out of control.

“Hey Pete,” he hears a voice flow into the living room. His girlfriend walks past him, not before pressing her lips to his cheek. His cheek warms at the contact and his eyes follow her pajama-clad body into the large kitchen.

“Did you see the video you posted?” Peter calls after her. Y/N shakes her head as she throws a banana along with other frozen fruit into the blender.

“No…why?” she calls back. “Do you want a smoothie?”

“No, but thank you,” Peter replies quickly. He turns his body to face her and raises his voice at the sound of the blender turning on, “It’s trending. Like, everywhere.”

“I figured it would,” Y/N calls back, the hum of the blender drowning her voice out.

“How are you so chill?” Peter asks her, slightly bewildered.

“There was paparazzi in the hospital waiting room when I was bored. You get used to stuff like that,” she answers, before making her way back to Peter, smoothie in hand. She positions herself on the couch, placing her legs overtop Peter’s lap.

He places his arms over her shins instinctively. “I’m definitely not used to stuff like that,” he mumbles, still scrolling through his notifications.

Y/N scoffs, “You’re Spider-Man, honey. That comes with press.”

“Spider-Man is famous, not me,” he counters.

The sound of the elevator opening and deep voices conversing cut the couple off as they turn towards the door. Tony, followed by Steve, Bucky, and Natasha file into the common floor, all deep in conversation. They don’t seem to notice the young couple, so Y/N decides to make them known.

“Morning!” Y/N calls out.

Tony’s head snaps up towards his daughter, before shifting and narrowing his eyes at Peter. “We were just talking about you,” he says, walking towards the two.

“Oh?” the younger Stark challenges.

Natasha lets out a soft laugh before patting Peter on the shoulder. “You need a public relations lesson,” she says to Peter.

“A what?”

Y/N lets out a fit of giggles. “It’s to make sure you don’t say something stupid to a large audience,” she tells him, and Peter scrunches his nose.

“Why would I need a…oh.”

Tony smirks at him before showing him his ever-rising Twitter followers. “Yeah, oh. That video you posted basically broke the internet. Even old man Steve is talking about it.”

Steve rolls his eyes but smiles sympathetically at him before handing him a grey folder. “Protecting Spider-Man’s identity is still your number one priority, right?” Steve asks and Peter nods. “So, we need to make sure you don’t say anything stupid or post something that gives away who your alias is.”

“So, what’s in the folder?” Peter asks the adults in the room.

“Homework,” Natasha answers. “I’ll help make sure that your identity stays a secret, but I need you to make sure you read that document very carefully. They’re full of general best-practices and protocol for if your identity is exposed.”

“Got it,” Peter whispers, mostly to himself.

“Great,” Tony says with a pat to his shoulder. “It was a funny video, by the way. Can’t wait to see what you kids come up with.”

Over the weekend, even though Natasha, Tony, and Y/N prepared him as best they could for the storm that would most likely ensue on Monday at school, Peter still didn’t feel prepared.

He stood in the middle of his room, gnawing at his lip and choosing between the dark blue sweater and the maroon sweater. Granted, the sweater wouldn’t make that much of a difference and hide the fact that Peter was still a big nerd, but he had a feeling he needed to make a good impression today.

“Babe, you are overthinking it,” Y/N mumbles from Peter’s bed. Like most weekends, she spent the night at Peter’s place. Although things do tend to get a little heated, most nights the couple just watch movies, play video games, or take a walk around the block.

“You’re not the one going to a public school,” Peter mumbles back. It was true; Tony had tried sending Y/N to Midtown, but the paparazzi was getting unbearable, so she took online classes instead. Y/N didn’t mind missing out on the high school experience—her life was so surreal that nothing could make her feel normal, except Peter or Morgan.

“That wasn’t what I meant,” Y/N groans and rolls out of bed. She shivers at the cool breeze caused by the AC being blasted on high as she wraps Peter’s flannel around her body even tighter. “I meant that you’ll look really good in whatever you wear, honey.”

Peter rolls his eyes but turns to face his girlfriend, dark blue and maroon sweater still in hand. “I don’t know why I’m so nervous,” he admits.

“Afraid everyone will look at you differently?”

“Afraid everyone will think I don’t deserve someone like you…”

Y/N gives him a soft smile before closing the gap between them. She peppers kisses along his shoulder, his neck, then finally his lips. Peter ducks down to look at her, wrapping his arms underneath the flannel she’s wearing and around her waist.

“I love you, ya know that right?” she whispers into his collarbone.

Peter hums in response.

“And the world doesn’t get to decide who or what you deserve. Because you deserve a hell of a lot more than what I can give you.”

Peter groans, “Don’t say that. You give me everything I need.”

“And that’s what matters,” Y/N replies. “Not what anyone else thinks. Okay?”

Peter pulls away and gives his girlfriend a sincere smile, “Okay.”

“Good,” she muses before pressing a final kiss to Peter’s lips. She then takes the maroon sweater from his hands. “Wear the dark blue sweater, I want to wear the maroon one.”

---

Despite Y/N’s encouraging words, Peter’s still nervous.

He’s nerves kick in as soon as Y/N has to leave his place while he packs his school bag. He’s nervous on the subway on the way to school. He’s nervous as he crosses the street towards campus. He’s nervous when he’s walking toward the school entrance, so much so that he can hear his heartbeat over the podcast he’s listening to. And he’s especially nervous when people openly gawk and stare at him as he makes his way to his locker.

Luckily, MJ and Ned are there to save him.

“They’re all staring,” MJ comments as Peter yanks his locker open and reaches for his calculus textbook.

Peter laughs nervously, “I’m aware.”

“You know that clique of really hot sophomores who won’t shut up at lunch?” Ned adds on as he stares at his phone, “They’re all thirsting over you on Instagram.”

Peter slams his locker shut in surprise, “Wh-what?”

Sure enough, Ned’s phone is filled with screenshots of the video on Allison’s Instagram story with the caption ‘hmu peter ;) or i may have to fake needing a tutor to talk to you.’

Peter gags. MJ snickers.

“Oh my god, this is awful,” Peter shudders as he turns around and makes his way to first-period calculus. Ned and MJ follow suite. “Don’t they know I’m dating someone?”

“Peter, if we barely knew you were dating someone until we met her and started handing out with her,” MJ deadpans.

“Speaking of your girlfriend,” Ned butts in, “are you going to tell her about Allison?”

“No, she’d probably laugh. And it’s not a big deal, right?” Peter answer honestly, smiling slightly at the thought of Y/N laughing her ass off at the thought of sophomores at his own school acting thirsty on main.

Ned stops dead in his tracks, “What if she was actually talking to you?”

“Ned, what—”

“Hi, Peter!” a high-pitched voice attempting to sound sultry cuts him off.

MJ laughs in amusement before walking away as Peter squeaks out, “H-hi, Allison.”

Ned pats his shoulder encouragingly before walking away, giving Peter a ‘you’re on your own’ look.

She bats her eyelashes at him, giving him a shy smile. Peter’s distracted by her bright pink outfit—she looked straight out of an early-2000s movie. It suited her, but it wasn’t really Peter’s preference.

“I watched your video, it was really funny,” Allison says, inching closer to Peter.

“Thanks, um look, I gotta go—”

“You doing anything tonight?” she immediately asks.

No, Peter thinks, but he racks his brain for an excuse. May is working so he can’t use her, Tony is at the Avengers’ Compound, MJ has art class, Ned is working on a group project, maybe Y/N…

It’s too late. “Great!” Allison quips, “I’m having a party tonight and you’re invited, hottie. I’ll AirDrop you the details.”

“Uh, thanks,” he mutters pathetically as she practically skips away.

It wasn’t just Allison’s invitation that stuck out to him; it seemed like everybody more popular than Peter was giving him some sort of attention. If Peter didn’t know better, we would’ve been flattered. Instead, he was suspicious.

By lunch, Peter had been invited to three parties, a football game, a boat ride, and more invitations to hangout than he could count. Even Mr. Harrington made a jab at Peter’s internet fame.

As soon as the bell rang, Peter bolted out of his English class and ran out the front gates to take a breath. Even as Spider-Man, public events often felt overwhelming. Now, with no excuse to leave and no disguise to hide his flustered expression, the few minutes of silence he had at beginning of lunch was the only break he got all day.

“You don’t look too hot, babe,” he hears a voice say. From his spot leaning against the railing of the school entrance, he lifts his gaze and finds Y/N Stark staring up at him from the bottom of the stairs.

He stands up immediately and meets Y/N halfway down the stairs. He smiles widens as he gets close to her, “What are you doing here?”

“MJ texted me—said you were feeling overwhelmed,” she says nonchalantly, but concern laces her features. “You doing okay?”

“Just not used to so many people giving Peter Parker attention. And the feeling that they probably just want to hang out with me because they want to be famous makes me icky.”

Y/N hums and reaches for his torso to give him a hug. Peter is on the step above her, so he wraps his arms around her shoulders and rests his chin on her head. “I know how you feel,” she mumbles.

Peter laughs half-heartedly, “Got invited to a shit ton of parties, though.”

Y/N chuckles into his chest, “Oh really?”

“One of which is tonight. Got any plans?”

“Hmm…maybe,” she tells him. “Dad wants me to be his plus one to a gala thing, but I don’t really want to go.”

“You’d rather go to a shitty high school party?”

“I’d rather do anything, honestly.”

A honk from a car parked on the curb catches their attention. Peter looks up and finds Happy peering his head through the window of a black sedan. “Hate to break you two up, but I really don’t want to be swarmed by high schoolers,” Happy shouts, “so we should get going, Y/N.”

Y/N sighs, “And, that’s my cue.”

“I’ll see you tonight, maybe?” Peter asks hopefully, pressing a kiss on her forehead.

“Maybe. Text me the address, but don’t bail on the party,” Y/N tells him before giving Peter a proper kiss. Another honk from Happy causes them to break away, followed by the school doors opening and more and more people filtering outside. A series of shocked gasps at Y/N Stark and Peter Parker in such a compromising position prompt Y/N to start walking down the stairs.

“See you, Peter,” Y/N shouts as she quickly makes her way down the steps.

Peter waves to Y/N in the passenger seat as her and Happy drive away. His phone the buzzes with a text from Y/N:

Y/N 🥰: hang in there bb, love you!

“Yo, dickwad!” Peter hears Flash shout from behind him, “Why didn’t you introduce me to your Stark friend?”

Peter sighs. This was going to be a long day.

---

“You don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”

“I want to May…it’s just that—”

“It’s just that you want Y/N there?”

Peter sighs and shakes his head. He sits in the passenger seat of May’s car as she’s parked outside Allison’s house where the party is taking place. He’s beyond uncomfortable: the girl who was shamelessly flirting with him was sending him DMs, asking him when he was going to show up to her party. His skinny jeans—the nice ones saved for special occasions—were still a little stiff because he never really wore them, and he’s sure he’s made sweat stains on his white t-shirt.

“I guess, I just want the high school experience, to feel normal. Even if it’s a fake normal,” Peter says honestly, fiddling with his hair in the mirror. “But everything is easier with Y/N around.”

“Did she answer your texts?”

“I sent her the address and she said she would try to find an excuse to leave the gala early, but I don’t know if she’s gonna make it,” Peter says dejectedly.

May nods understandingly, “If you want to leave, just send me an SOS. I’ll come pick you up.”

“Thanks, May,” he says before pressing a kiss to her cheek. He doesn’t feel his body move, but his feet carry him out of the car and towards the front steps of the house. He doesn’t realize he’s reached for the door until he’s already inside, looking around at the darkened house illuminated by colourful lights and blaring with music.

“Peter!” he hears someone call from the top of the stairs. It’s Allison, clad in a sheer top, lacy bralette, and tight leather pants. He tries not to gawk at her, but he gulps in nervousness as she approaches.

“You made it!” she exclaims over the rumbling bass. Without warning she pulls Peter into a hug, pressing her body close to his. His muscles tense in surprise, but he feels Allison shiver.

Fucking great, Peter thinks as Allison eyes him up and down, biting her lip.

“Do you want a drink?” Allison says, latching onto his bicep and guiding him further into the house.

“Um, sure,” Peter says as he tries to remove his arm from her grasp while still remaining subtle. He fails, and Allison proceeds to run her nails up and down his arm.

Someone shoves a solo cup in Peter’s hand, and he takes a few big gulps immediately. His powers can’t get drunk, but he can sure as hell try if he has to handle Allison’s not-so-subtle advances towards him all night.

“I’m glad you came,” Allison suddenly whispers in his ear before biting his ear lobe in an attempt at seduction.

Peter whips his head around to confront her but before he can say anything, she’s left him to chat with her friends who have been watching the whole interaction in jealousy and awe. Great, Peter thinks before wiping his earlobe clean of her spit.

The party isn’t too bad; a few games of beer pong are going on the patio and people are taking turns jumping into the pool in just their underwear. Peter makes small talk with some people he recognizes, but for the most part, he leans against the wall and watches Flash pretend to be good at beer pong. Every few minutes, he checks the time on his phone and hopes for a text.

At 9:15, Peter has been at the party for forty-five minutes and is on his third drink. He still doesn’t feel buzzed.

At 9:24, Allison checks up on him again and tries to get him to strip with her and jump into the pool. He declines.

At 9:32, Flash loses his third game of beer pong in a row and a heard of angry freshmen finally scare him away from the table.

At 9:47, he hears excited commotion inside the house. He doesn’t bother to look inside and instead stares at the amber liquid in his cup.

He feels a hand fall on his shoulder, and he groans, finally fed up with Allison’s antics. “Look Allison, I think you’re sweet and all but—”

“Who’s Allison?”

Peter’s face breaks into a huge smile at the sight of Y/N Stark, still in her formal evening wear. The dark green, straight gown falls to the floor and the simple dress is bedazzled by nothing except the gold necklace Peter got her for her birthday and the million-dollar Stark smile.

“You made it,” he says in relief and excitement.

Y/N smirks back, “I’m overdressed.”

“You look beautiful.”

Y/N examines Peter’s outfit, “You look good too. This shirt makes your arms look huge.”

Peter blushes but takes a hold of her hands, only half-aware that half of the party is probably staring at them right now. “I didn’t think you were going to make it.”

Y/N laughs, “We were stuck in traffic. Dad wanted to get out of there too, it was pretty boring. We had to drop him off at home, first.”

“You left a boring party to come to another boring party, then. The difference is that you don’t get free dinner over here.”

Her laugh draws more attention to the duo and Peter finally finds the balls to look at the decent-sized crowd accumulating around them. He then notices a familiar face push through the people.

“Oh my god, you’re Y/N Stark!” Allison gushes as she approaches her, “Can I get a picture with you?”

Y/N smiles at her, “Um, sure?”

Allison squeals and shoves her phone into someone’s face, demanding them to take her picture. After a few photos are taken, Allison grabs her arms giddily and says, “You should totally follow me on Insta, these pics turned out really cute.”

Y/N looks amusedly at her, “Yeah, for sure…”

Allison then gasps, “You know Peter, too! We go to school together.” Allison then wraps her arms around Peter’s bicep and Y/N and Peter lock eye contact; Peter looks at Y/N in a state of panic and Y/N looks at Peter with nothing but amusement.

“Yeah, I figured,” she tells her, the amused expression growing.

Allison gasps again, “Peter! We should get a picture together too!”

Before he can really process it, Allison is pulling Peter close and shoving her phone in front of their faces. As Allison makes several different selfie faces, Y/N laughs softly as Peter smiles awkwardly at the camera. Suddenly, the feeling of lip-glossed lips touches his cheek and Peter raises his eyebrows in surprise and watches as Allison presses a kiss to his cheek in front of his girlfriend and what seemed like half the party. Her kisses trail down his neck, jaw, and ear before Peter finally gets over his initial shock and laughs awkwardly.

“Okay, um. That was kinda weird, Allison. You see, I’m ac—”

Allison juts her lip out and pouts, “But these were turning out so cute, Petey!”

Y/N Stark finally breaks out into a fit of hysterical laughter and both Peter and Allison turn to her with a bewildered expression.

“What?” Allison asks accusingly, thinking that she’s being mocked.

“Honey, he’s not interested.”

Allison’s jaw unhinges, “And how would you know?”

“Sweetheart, you’d be embarrassed if I told you.”

She scoffs. “Try me.”

“I’m dating Peter.”

Allison’s eyes bulge. The group of people watching the interaction gasp. Peter chokes on his own spit.

Allison’s face suddenly gets very, very red. “Miss Stark, I’m so, so sorry—"

Y/N holds out a hand to stop her rambling. “Don’t worry about it, love. If I wasn’t already dating him, I would be all over him, too,” she quips before grabbing Peter’s hand and leading him out of the party.

“E-erm, bye! Thanks for inviting me,” Peter calls back as Y/N leads him out of the house and towards the black sedan where the driver was waiting for the two to be done partying.

“All things considered, I would call that a pretty tame first fan interaction,” Y/N tells him as they walk towards the car. Her arm is wrapped around his torso as she leans her cheek on Peter’s shoulder.

Peter’s arm slings around her shoulders and looks down at her face. Her eyes twinkle in the moonlight and her features are light with amusement. “You’re not mad?” he asks her.

“Why would I be mad?”

“Because another girl was kissing me in front of you. And that you had to out our relationship.”

“Not a valid reason to be mad, to be honest. She didn’t know, and our relationship was bound to get out anyway.”

Peter laughs lightly, “You’re amazing, you know that?”

Y/N hums, “Yeah, I know. But so are you. And don’t worry, after a few weeks, the whole school will be a little chiller about your internet fame.”

A week later, Y/N and Peter uploaded a video where they went ghost hunting with Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes and it broke the internet yet again. Needless to say, the whole school was not very chill about it.

#peter parker imagine #peter parker x reader #tom holland imagine #tom holland x reader #peter parker #tom holland #unsolved #bf unsolved #wiener soldiers

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I am getting so annoyed at Miranda’s fans on Instagram making videos essentially saying she is bi and tagging her husband and sometimes daughter in the videos. Like I get that she’s an ally and I want to be an ally too but putting a label on someone else’s sexuality without their consent (or even input) totally crosses the line for me.

There are a lot of elements to this. I’ll have to address them in parts.

First, I think you're completely entitled to feel like fans are crossing a line with how they're tagging Miranda's husband and daughter in videos, especially if those videos are labeling Miranda with a sexuality that she has not given herself. In general, speculating about someone's sexuality tends to be in incredibly poor taste, and can even be dangerous in certain situations. Miranda seems not to mind playing sapphic characters, and has said that she could fall in love with a woman, and even, in a hypothetical situation, said that she would date Lilith out of any other character from the show... all of which I take to mean that she's romantically attracted to women as well as men. Nevertheless, she's never said "I am bisexual," and so we ought not to put words or identities on her that she doesn't use herself.

That being said, it seems like you're saying (and correct me if I'm wrong) that your desire to be an ally to the queer community hinges entirely on the people within that community behaving in a manner you deem appropriate, which makes me a little worried. In every community there are going to be people who do and say things that you don't agree with, and I would just urge you not to let your ally-ship depend solely on "good behavior." I may not agree with what these fans are doing, but I wouldn't make a judgment about the queer community as a whole from it.

Which brings me to my next point. In my humble opinion, people need to stop tagging Peter O’Brien in every single edit and post they ever make of Miranda, especially the Madam Spellman ones that have nothing to do with him. I know these fans are desperate for attention, and Peter is pretty consistent with commenting on things that he’s tagged in, but if a post has nothing to do with him, it really bothers me that people see no issue with spamming him with notifications that are sometimes posts that are actively shipping his wife (in real life, not even fiction) with another person.

I saw one post where some bystander genuinely thought that Michelle and Miranda were dating, asking “what happened between them?” and people answered it by saying “nothing—that’s the point” and even, “we suspect something did happen but they don’t confirm it.” I know I will continue to get hate for saying what I’m about to say, but I’ve gotten messages saying I should commit suicide from this people, so I don’t even give a fuck anymore.

Fans on Instagram and Twitter seem to think it’s okay to joke about Miranda and Michelle dating in real life, and point to Michelle and Miranda’s own captions/comments to justify what they’re doing, but what I have to say is this: if you are actively pushing the narrative that something might’ve happened in real life between Michelle and Miranda, you need to fucking stop. You think it’s all harmless fun, but it’s not—especially when people are constantly tagging Peter in these posts. You may have a perception of Peter that includes him being a good sport who's okay with people shipping his wife with someone else in real life, but Peter also has a history of extreme jealousy, and was very controlling of his first wife, Joanna Riding, (allegedly—from her own words, not tabloids or anything), so it really freaks me out that people are constantly tagging Peter in things that are outwardly implying Miranda is cheating on him with Michelle. Just... don't.

My advice, anon, would be to limit your time on instagram, if seeing these things distresses or annoys you. We can't control what other people do. I've taken steps myself to limit my fandom presence on instagram and twitter, for my own sanity, for this very reason.

#mo #po #I tried to put this beneath a cut but it isn't working

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katdvs · 4 years

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When Riley Matthews was in high school her life changed, now as a professional dancer she’s got a new challenge when she’s paired with professional football player Lucas Friar on the latest season. Can they win the season, or will their past get in the way?

Cross Posted to FFN & AO3

Chapter One |

Author Note: Hi, how is everyone? I’m glad to be back. I’m writing this as I go, I know where I want it to go, but let’s hope that’s where we end up. Thanks for all the reviews on the first chapter. XOXO

Chapter Two:

“Eyes on me.” Riley reminded Lucas as she paused the music that they would dance to on live television tomorrow night. This season the network had decided to keep everything secret, except with Pros were returning They figured it would keep people guessing and have them tune in to see who made it.

Lucas nodded, “Okay.” He got into the hold he needed to be in for the dance, following her lead, the cues she had taught him over the last couple of weeks.

Riley felt Lucas lead her around the dance floor, feeling like they were as ready as they could be for the live show. Whatever happened out on the dance floor tomorrow night, live in front of all of America, was what was meant to be.

“We’ve got this Riley.” Lucas told her with a smile as he broke away to grab his water bottle.

“I certainly hope so.” She couldn’t recall the last time she was this nervous before the dress rehearsal. She was just thankful she hadn’t had to do most of the pre-show press that they normally had,

Lucas watched her, amazed he could notice something so subtle, “You’re nervous, aren’t you?”

“Yeah I am.” She confessed, feeling the cameras zooming in on her. Never in all her years on the show had she admitted it, no one had called her out on it.

He took a few steps towards her, “We’re going to be fine.” He saw the shadow of something cross her eyes, and he realized what she was more nervous about, once the world knew that he was on the show, that they’re partners, it would take them from the bubble of this studio.

“I’m glad you have confidence.” She went to grab her water bottle.

Lucas stopped her, “I do have confidence because you have confidence. Don’t let it fade. We’re gonna win this.”

Riley cocked an eyebrow at him, “You realize this is more then one night right, we hopefully have weeks of this.”

“I know, and I know that next week we’ll crush it and we will each week, because you’re my teacher, my partner, and I believe in you.”

Damn they made great TV, Riley knew right now the executives watching the feeds and later the dailies would love this stuff. “Grab your stuff, we’ve got to get to the studio for the final dress rehearsal.”

“Whatever you say, you’re the boss.” He smirked.

***

Riley hated the costumes that had been picked for them this week. The song choice had been bad enough, but she was literally here in a cheerleader shirt and top, with fringe. Lucas was in a sparkly varsity jacket, and to make it even worse it just happened to be their high school colors.

She was on the stage right now, the lights out as they crew set up during what would’ve been a commercial break. She could hear the banter between the hosts and then the start of the package. She glanced at the monitor, their was for the whole world to see, her falling into his arms. Then of course clips of them dancing over the last few weeks, teaching him the moves, and what had to be a last-minute edit, the two of them just a few hours ago.

She shook it off as the music swelled and she made her moves towards Lucas as everything started to fall into place on the stage. He kept his eyes on her during the entire dance, though he lost his footing on the final move, and stumbled a little bit.

“It’s only a rehearsal, you got it out of the way.” Riley told him afterwards, as they pretended to get scores from Judges that weren’t present.

As they moved off stage Lucas leaned in close, “Did you suggest these costumes in these colors?”

“Nope, I don’t know why they decided on these, but I’m just going along with it until the waltz next week.” She stood tall as she stopped at the monitor to watch Zay and his partner dance. “That’s what we need to be worried about.”

Lucas watched as Zay danced with Connie Patrick, a sitcom star that Lucas had run into occasionally at charity events. She also came with a major social media following.

“They’re good.” Lucas admitted.

“Yeah, Zay has won several times, he could win again.”

“Not this season, we’re going to win.” He told her and he moved towards the dressing trailers.

“Riley, Lucas!” Sheryl was rushing towards them, “Tomorrow night you’re going on last.”

Riley froze, “What?”

“Yeah, you’ll be our final dancers of the night.” She smiled, “America is going to fall in love with the two of you tomorrow night.”

“Is that good or bad?” Lucas wondered.

Riley looked at her first love, “Well, you won’t be able to go off the grid until after the show ends.”

***

Riley sat on her bed, replaying everything that happened today. She knew the storyline that the show was going for. They saw the chemistry between Riley and Lucas. They would be fools not to play into it.

She would just have to get through the next night, and then at least the first week would be behind them. They would move on to the next dance, the next song. Another week of grueling rehearsals during the day, at night she was plotting the choreography for the next network musical, she had one more number to do and in a few weeks, rehearsals would start for that. When they did, she would be beyond busy if Lucas didn’t get eliminated.

Picking up her phone she began scrolling through social media. A lot of guesses about who her dance partner would be this season, none of them correct. A few of the names were on the show this season, but no one she saw was mentioning Lucas. Probably a good thing.

As she moved through her feed on Instagram she stopped when she saw a picture of Maya, her former best friend. She was showing off a ring. She realized it was a picture that Farkle had posted, and tagged Lucas in.

She felt her stomach sink as she read the caption, “#SheSaidYes to my good buddy @LucasFriar. She’s so excited for their journey together, she insisted I buy her champagne.”

If Lucas were involved with Maya, when did he propose, he’d been here in LA for the last few weeks in the bedroom next to hers.

“My only comment is that I am not engaged to Maya Hart.” Lucas’ voice carried from his balcony, “I’m not dating her. I didn’t propose. What picture are you talking about?”

Riley opened her door and saw him pacing as he spoke on the phone.

“Jerry, you know I’m in LA. The show is tomorrow night. I don’t know what game Maya is playing this time, maybe her sales are slow again, I don’t know.”

Riley attempted to wave to get his attention when he turned around in his pacing, she waved her cell phone at him and he leaned as close as the edge of the balcony would allow.

“I’m calling Farkle and finding out why this is happening, okay. I have no idea where she got that ring, but I didn’t give it to her. I have never dated Maya Hart. I will never date Maya Hart, she can keep trying to make it happen, but it hasn’t worked since middle school, it’s time for a new game.” Lucas growled before ending the call.

“I take it you’re not actually engaged to Maya.” Riley enlarged the photo, something about the ring was familiar, but how different were gaudy giant diamonds from one another?

“I would rather get trampled by a bull.” He sighed as he scrolled through his phone, “She keeps doing this, anytime she can she uses my name to get hers out there. Farkle keeps going along with her on this, I don’t know why, I’m not sure I want to know why.”

Riley pretended to understand, she wasn’t sure she understood the dynamic of her former friends. “I was confused when I saw the post, it’s the kind of thing you probably would’ve mentioned.”

“Yeah, if it were true.” He sighed looking out to the ocean, the moonlight reflecting on the waves. “You two were best friends at one point, but once you and Zay went on tour, she changed. It was like whatever anchored her was gone. But at the same time, no one could ever expect you to spend your entire life being the good angel on her shoulder.”

Riley hadn’t realized just how much she needed to hear that; years of guilt washed away from her. “I’ve always felt like I abandoned her, but Zay and me, we had to do this.” She smiled, “Do I wish somethings had worked out a little differently, maybe, but I love my life, I love my job, I could never really be Riley if I spent my life keeping Maya out of trouble. I lost part of myself doing that once, I couldn’t imagine still doing that now.”

“I’m glad you found something that makes you happy.” Lucas confessed, catching the moonlight reflecting off her messy bun as he looked over to her.

“Are you happy, playing football? I always thought you would be a baseball star.”

Lucas sighed, “Football paid for college, and then I got drafted. I’ve made good money; I get to do stuff for the community. Is it the path I expected to take, not at all? Did I ever expect to be dancing with my first love on national TV, no.”

“Goes for me as well.” She chuckled, “You know once it’s revealed that we’re partners, how long do you think before our past is revealed?”

“Depends on who tweets during the show. If someone who remembers us as together from high school, maybe ten minutes. If not, maybe a day, if we’re lucky.”

“Well hopefully we’re lucky.” Riley breathed in the ocean air one last time, “You, bed.”

“Oh Riley, I thought you’d never ask.” He teased, watching her roll her eyes, “I get it, I need to sleep. I should call Farkle and get the picture taken down.”

“Let it stay up. Maya is probably selling a story about how you proposed right, the date, the restaurant, all of that, when you and I dance together tomorrow night, she’ll be scrambling, and you can get the truth out.”

“You think?”

“Yeah.” Riley told him as she clutched her cell phone in her hand. “Good night Lucas. We’ve got a big day tomorrow. America is either going to love us or hate us.”

“How could America not love you Riley?”

She shrugged as she went back into her room, “sweet dreams.” She called out before looking at the picture again. She pinched it open to enlarge the ring, exactly as she suspected. She looked back to make sure her door was closed before she dialed the number, she’d saved for years but hadn’t used since high school.

“The number you’re calling using a screening service, please say who you are and why you’re calling.”

“Riley Matthews for Farkle Minkus, I was just wondering why Maya was wearing his mothers ring in the photo announcing her engagement to Lucas.” She felt her stomach knot as she waited to see if the call connected, it didn’t.

She turned her ringer off, putting her phone on the charger before she went to take a shower.

***

Farkle Minkus often wondered why he went along with Maya’s schemes, her little teasers to the press. Lucas rarely spoke to him anymore because of them, and he had a feeling he wouldn’t speak to him anytime soon after the latest one.

How had Maya even figured out his Instagram login? Farkle hadn’t used it for anything more then charity promotions in ages. For a genius, he sure could be a dum-dum at times.

He was sitting on the balcony of his New York penthouse, the city alive below him while an odd sense of serenity surrounded him. No stars visible in the night sky, but he knew exactly where certain constellations were at any moment.

He was waiting for Lucas to call, asking for him to take the picture down. At least then he could explain he hadn’t willingly posted it. This was Maya looking for attention.

Lucas had stopped giving into these whims in college, perhaps being across the country had mad it easier. Maybe Farkle gave in because Maya was the only friend, he really had left. Riley and Zay had long gone so many years ago, Lucas became a big football star, Maya held on to him, while Smackle found her way to a new Biodome project in the south west.

When his phone rang from an unknown number, he tapped the screen call option. As the message came in, he couldn’t believe it. He sat in shock, holding his bourbon close to his lips but not drinking it, frozen and missing a chance to take the call.

His eyes scanned the transcription. Riley called him. She reached out because she knew Maya was lying.

Maybe it was possible these games would end. If Riley could tell from an Instagram picture, then the world had to know that Maya and Lucas weren’t a couple. Perhaps there was a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

He finally took a sip of his drink, starting to feel that perhaps a weight was being lifted off his shoulders he never intended to carry.

***

Lucas was oddly energized as he’d spent the last half an hour pacing in his trailer, waiting to be called to set to be ready to dance live on television. He’d ignored his phone all day after his morning call with his mother, it was the only way he could focus.

He stood backstage now, waiting for the cue, watching Zay dance on the monitor. His friend was amazing, he’d always known that. He had always had an idea that this might just be where Zay ended up, and he’d been right. Lucas had never anticipated Riley would be with him, not until the night he watched them dance at the talent show.

He shook away the memory as he watched Zay and Connie get their scores a six, seven, and another six. Not bad at all for the first night from what Zay had explained to him the other day. Lucas could only hope he and Riley did that well, but he believed they could.

The introduction package played as he and Riley took the stage, the lights down as the video showed their “first meeting” and the pep-talk he’d given her the day before.

“Lucas Friar and Riley!” The announcer declared before the music filled the soundstage, the lights went up and Lucas did every step Riley had taught him as best he could as they moved to the music. Each step she had drilled into him, his eyes on her as they danced to a song about love, while dressed in ridiculous high school themed costumes.

As the dance ended, he didn’t stumble this time, they twirled together before ending with a dip.

The audience applauded, at the very least they had impressed them. That was a good start. His heart was racing as they got feedback from the judges. Riley had told him to expect exactly what they were saying. She knew what his weakness was, and already zeroing in on it.

The scores came in, seven, seven, seven, the highest score of the night. Riley was hugging him as the hosts asked for viewers to cast their votes online.

“You did amazing Lucas, I’m proud of you. Tomorrow, we waltz!” She told him as they made their way off stage.

“Riley Matthews.” Sheryl was right behind them, her tone let Riley knew she had to stop.

“Yes, boss?”

“Why didn’t you tell me the two of you went to high school together?”

“We didn’t think it mattered to the show. We haven’t seen each other since Riley and Zay started touring.” Lucas answered.

“Besides, aren’t surprises more fun?” Riley chewed her lower lip.

Sheryl looked at the two of them, “And you didn’t want me to exploit that you were high school sweethearts, huh?”

“No comment.” Riley told her as they walked towards the dressing trailers, “Hey Sheryl, hope we’ve got good music next week.”

“I make no promises.” Sherly laughed as she watched them walk away, setting her eyes on Zay. If anyone knew the story, it would be him.

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