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katherines · 2 months

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Someone asked me how I created the fade transition in this gifset which I’ll try to explain in the most comprehensive way that I can. If you've never done something like this before, I suggest reading through the full tutorial before attempting it so you know what you'll need to plan for.

To follow, you should have:

basic knowledge of how to make gifs in photoshop

some familiarity with the concept of how keyframes work

patience

Difficulty level: Moderate/advanced

Prep + overview

First and foremost, make the two gifs you'll be using. Both will need to have about the same amount of frames.

For ref the gif in my example is 540x540.

I recommend around 60-70 frames max total for a big gif, which can be pushing it if both are in color, then I would aim for 50-60. My gif has a total of 74 frames which I finessed using lossy and this will be explained in Part 4.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: when overlaying two or more gifs and when using key frames, you MUST set your frame delay to 0.03 fps for each gif, which can be changed to 0.05 fps or anything else that you want after converting the combined canvas back into frames. But both gifs have to be set to 0.03 before you convert them to timeline to avoid duplicated frames that don't match up, resulting in an unpleasantly choppy finish.

Part 1: Getting Started

Drag one of your gifs onto the other so they're both on the same canvas.

The gif that your canvas is fading FROM (Gif 1) should be on top of the gif it is fading INTO (Gif 2).

And here's a visual of the order in which your layers should appear by the end of this tutorial, so you know what you're working toward achieving:

Part 2: Creating the grid

Go to: View > Guides > New guide layout

I chose 5 columns and 5 rows to get the result of 25 squares.

The more rows and columns you choose, the more work you'll have to do, and the faster your squares will have to fade out so keep that in mind. I wouldn't recommend any more than 25 squares for this type of transition.

To save time, duplicate the line you've created 3 more times, or as many times as needed (key shortcut: CMD +J) and move each one to align with the guides both horizontally and vertically. You won't need to recreate the lines on the edges of the canvas, only the ones that will show.

After you complete this step, you will no longer need the guides so you can go back in and clear them.

Follow the same duplicating process for the squares with the rectangle tool using the lines you've created.

Align the squares inside the grid lines. The squares should not overlap the lines but fit precisely inside them.

This might take a few tries for each because although to the eye, the squares look all exactly the same size, you'll notice that if you try to use the same duplicated square for every single one without alterations, many of them will be a few pixels off and you'll have to transform the paths to fit.

To do this go to edit > transform path and hold down the command key with the control key as you move one edge to fill the space.

Once you're done, put all the squares in their separate group, which needs to be sandwiched between Gif 1 and Gif 2.

Right click Gif 1 and choose "create clipping mask" from the drop down to mask it to the squares group. This step is super important.

After this point, I also took the opacity of the line groups down to about 40% so the lines wouldn't be so bold. Doing this revealed some squares that needed fixing so even if you aren't going dim the lines, I recommend clicking off the visibility of the lines for a moment to make sure everything is covered properly.

Part 3A: Prep For Key framing

I wanted my squares to fade out in a random-like fashion and if you want the same effect, you will have to decide which squares you want to fade out first, or reversely, which parts of Gif 2 you want to be revealed first.

In order to see what's going on underneath, I made Gif 1 invisible and turned down the opacity of the squares group.

If you want text underneath to be revealed when the squares fade away, I would add that now, and place the text group above Gif 2, but under the squares group.

Make a mental note that where your text is placed and the order in which it will be revealed is also something you will have to plan for.

With the move tool, click on the first square you want to fade out. Every time you click on a square, it will reveal itself in your layers.

I chose A3 to be the first square to fade and I'm gonna move this one to the very top of all the other square layers.

So if I click on D2 next, that layer would need to be moved under the A3 layer and so on. You'll go back and forth between doing this and adding key frames to each one. As you go along, it's crucial that you put them in order from top to bottom and highly suggested that you rename the layers (numerically for example) which will make it easier to see where you've left off as your dragging the layers into place.

Part 3B: Adding the Keyframes

This is where we enter the gates of hell things become tedious.

Open up the squares group in the timeline panel so you can see all the clips.

Here is my example of the general pattern that's followed and its corresponding layers of what you want to achieve when you're finished:

So let’s try it!

Expand the control time magnification all the way to the right so you can see every frame per second.

As shown in Part 3A, select your first chosen square.

Where you place the time-indicator on the panel will indicate the placement of the keyframe. Click on the clock next to opacity to place your first keyframe.

Move the time-indicator over 3 frames and place the next key frame.

Things to consider before moving forward:

Where you place your very first keyframe will be detrimental. If you're using a lot of squares like I did, you may have to start the transition sooner than preferred.

If you're doing 25 squares, the key frames will have to be more condensed which means more overlapping because more frames are required to finish the transition, verses if you're only using a 9-squared grid. See Part 4 for more detailed examples of this.

The opacity will remain at 100% for every initial key frame, and the second one will be at 0%.

Instead of creating two keyframes like this and changing the opacities for every single clip, you can copy the keyframes and paste them onto the other clips by click-dragging your mouse over both of them and they'll both turn yellow. Then right click one of the keyframes and hit copy.

Now drop down to your next clip, move your time-indicator if necessary to the spot where the first keyframe will start and click the clock to create one. Then right click it and hit "paste".

Tip: When you have both keyframes selected, you can also move them side to side by click-dragging one of them while both are highlighted.

Your full repetitive process in steps will go as follows:

click on square of choice on the canvas

drag that square layer to the top under the last renamed

in timeline panel: drop down to next clip, move time-indicator tick to your chosen spot for the next keyframe

create new keyframe

right click new keyframe & paste copied keyframes

repeat until you've done this with every square in the group

Now you can change the opacity of your squares layer group back to 100% and turn on the visibility of Gif 1. Then hit play to see the magic happen.

PART 4: Finished examples

Example 1

the transition starts too soon Cause: initial keyframe was placed at frame 0

the squares fade away too quickly Cause: overlapping keyframes, seen below. (this may be the ideal way to go with more squares, but for only 9, it's too fast)

Example 2

more frame time for first gif

transition wraps up at a good point Cause: in this instance, the first keyframe was placed 9 frames in, and the keyframes are not overlapping. The sequential pair starts where the last pair ended, creating a slower fade of each square.

Part 5: Final Tips and Saving

You can dl my save action here which will convert everything back into frames, change the frame rate to 0.05 and open the export window so you can see the size of the gif immediately.

If it's over 10gb, one way to finesse this is by use of lossy. By definition, lossy “compresses by removing background data” and therefore quality can be lost when pushed too far. But for most gifs, I have not noticed a deterioration in quality at all when saving with lossy until you start getting into 15-20 or higher, then it will start eating away at your gif so keep it minimal.

If you've done this and your gif is losing a noticeable amount of quality and you still haven’t gotten it below 10gb, you will have no choice but to start deleting frames.

When it comes to transitions like this one, sometimes you can't spare a single frame and if this is the case, you will have to return to the timeline state in your history and condense the key frames to fade out quicker so you can shorten the gif. You should always save a history point before converting so you have a bookmark to go back to in case this happens.

That's pretty much it, free to shoot me an ask on here or on @jugheadjones with any questions.

#gif tutorial #photoshop tutorial #transition tutorial #grid tutorial #usergif #ps help #tutorials #tutorials*#requested

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punksocks · 1 year

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Lilith square Ascendant

Lilith square ascendant is an interesting placement. It’s packed with energy that often seems excessive and uncontrollable. Lilith energy is always tied to the mythology of Adam’s first wife, Lilith. She was an unfit wife because she saw herself as equal to Adam and could not be “tamed” to follow him as her husband. Lilith the figure is filled to the brim with complexity, s*xual energy, and intrigue just like the placement is.

Lilith can be felt powerfully in the angular houses (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) as these are the houses tied to how you are perceived and received by others (self, childhood/family, spouse/partners, public). Personally I have Lilith in my 10th house squaring my ascendant which is why I wanted to dive into some of my observations with this placement.

Lilith aspecting the ascendant is often observed as an alluring placement. Lilith is impactful, often others will have a strong reaction to you. When you walk into a room you will have people that immediately love or hate you no matter how neutral you attempt to be.

Individuals with Ascendants that are Trine/Sextile to Lilith tend to enjoy and find empowerment from the often sexual attention they receive. While Asc Conjunct/Square/Opposition Lilith individuals tend to feel disgusted or turned off by these strong reactions.

In all honesty, strong Lilith placements are in the individual’s birth chart to encourage them to come into their own without shame or making themselves smaller for others.

Lilith square ascendant is said to be the most alluring and untamable placement because of the strength of the tension of energy of this aspect.

In addition to that, there’s something startling about the energy of strong Lilith placements/aspects, not because of Lilith herself but because of the reactions of others.

People often assume that the version they perceive of you to be all that you are. They also tend to be quite possessive and controlling of you. Either they shame and avoid you because they feel especially overwhelmed by your energy. Or they try to capture you, as if they could be the one to assert total control and dominance over you and to make you up in whatever image they view as “respectably feminine”.

This is obviously a trap, because Lilith’s energy cannot be muted, so when controlling people cannot change your essence they will sometimes react badly. As if they are following dark impulses, something snaps and they simply cannot process you being so uncontrollable.

Personally with my Lilith in 10th house in Leo squaring my ascendant in Scorpio, I find I usually get a certain set of reactions. From feminine energies, I often get femmes that suddenly get very competitive with me. For attention, skill, or otherwise, especially at work. (Check your 11th house to see where competition tends to come up). I usually have an easier time making friends with femmes with Lilith energies who are more aware of and embrace their “alternative” or “dark feminine” sense of expression and social s*xual power/identities.

For masculine energies I often get contempt or infatuation. Contempt in the form of avoidance and belittling. Or infatuation in the form of pushing boundaries with leery behavior. Something about Lilith makes some men really uncouth in a jarring way. It’s like the socially polite part of their brain just shuts down and they devolve in front of you.

Lilith isn’t a bad placement, just to be clear. I don’t believe any placement is bad, I know that every placement has its disadvantages and advantages and your lesson is to use them accordingly. Lilith is just a litmus test. If someone is an envious, possessive, abrasive sort of person, their behavior will be shown to you almost immediately. Especially with very masculine or very “traditionally” feminine energies.

I’m synastry too, Lilith overlays will show you a lot about your partner and their behavior towards you. Lilith shows if people around you are developed or undeveloped the easiest of most placements I believe.

This is definitely a placement to be careful with because you can’t really tell how far into scary behavior other people will go once they’ve made up their minds about you.

Day by day, I’m learning Lilith’s lesson of not letting people control you by gaining means to be independent and have my autonomy supported throughout my relationships always, but I’ve definitely gotten through some scary situations by having to get away from people that want me to submit to them.

#astro observations #astroblr #astro community #leo #scorpio #lilith square ascendant #lilith #lilith aspects #black moon lilith #astro notes

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rosamndpike · 6 months

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hello! just wondering if you know of a tutorial for the lines going through gifs? and getting them all to match up? like in these sets /post/714978685858496512 and /post/733101286452559872 also are they overlays or how did you make them? thank you in advance!

hey! so, i've attempted to show you with a little tutorial on how i made lines like the ones here and here, i've not seen one around myself and decided to try this out one day and it didn't go too badly so, i hope this makes sense and helps. so, i'll be explaining and showing you how i did the lines on these gifs:

now, firstly i'm going to assume you know the basics and can create/colour etc a gif, you'll need your base gif ready to go. in this example i've flattened them to frames, but you can do this in timeline as well.

step one: add a new layer on top of the gif/smart object, and set up your brush ready. i personally have used 2px brush, 100px hardness, 100px smoothing and 75% flow;

the flow is the main thing i think that is more down to personal preference, it affects how the line draws/moves and will be down to a little bit of trial and error - i've added below how the lines look at difference levels of flow (no other setting from the above has changed just the flow)

step two: decide where you want your lines to link, i've always done from the centre of the gif but you could want your lines to meet up 100px from the left at the top and exit the gif 100px from the right at the bottom. no matter what, the best thing to do here is to add guides to your gifs. as i'm just going straight from the centre to the centre for every gif i add a guideline at 270px

step three: i recommend testing this all out on a separate canvas first to play around and see how you want your line to look etc, but when you're ready you're good to go. start from when the guideline is and draw your line until where you want it to end, the best way to show you this is on video so i've screen recorded the whole process.

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it's honestly pretty straight forward, so i hope this all makes sense, and just have fun with it, i love messing around and drawing 30 versions of the same line until i'm happy with it!!

ALSO, in case you were wondering about the final gif in the wheel of time set, the moving line, that was simply an overlay from this video that i set to screen so the black background disappeared leaving just the line (i stretched/rotated/moved it around get it to start and end where i wanted it to! i just played around with the line thickness when drawing my lines to match as best i could with the line in the overlay!

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sillyrabbit81 · 1 year

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Scars

Prompt: Intense & Angry, Bath or Shower Sex from @livesinfantasyland (x) Thank you!

Pairing: Evan Marshall x Female Reader

Word Count: Approx. 2.1k

Warnings: Smut with Angst, arguing, p in v sex, m dom vibes

Authors Note: As always I need to thank my amazing mates and readers @nashibirne and @amberangel112, your thoughtful and honest comments are always appreciated.

This is my first time ever writing Evan. It was a tough one for me to attempt with Evan because it isn't the prompt I would have picked, but I enjoyed writing a new character and had fun with it. Once again, this is longer than I initially planned and I hope you enjoy it.

Edited by me, there will be errors.

Dividers by me.

Masterlist

Celebration Masterlist

“We need to talk.”

You don’t need to look up from undoing your boots to know who has barged into the women’s locker room and spoken. You’d know Evan’s voice anywhere, you’ve worked with him on and off for a few years now.

“I think you said enough on the ride back here,” you say, trying to stay calm.

“Not nearly enough,” he says, “You still don’t think you did anything wrong.”

You stand up, still not looking at him and start undoing your overshirt. “Would you have given the same instruction to Larry?”

“What’s that got to do with it?”

“Would you have given the same instruction to a man?”

“Oh Jesus Christ, here we go,” Evan says, looking to the ceiling and clenching his fist.

“Or did you only try and stop me from doing my job because you used to fuck me and now you feel guilty?”

“It’s got nothing to do with that!” Evan shouts, punching out at the row of lockers across you.

You take a step back from him, your eyes wide. Evan has always had a slight temper, but for him to physically lash out like that isn’t something you would expect. He notices your reaction and his face softens. You consider letting it go, you’ve made your point and don’t need his apology. It isn’t as if it was ever serious between you two, it had only ever been a casual thing. However, this conversation has been a long time coming and you need to have it out.

“It has everything to do with it,” you tell him, “You changed. Since you disappeared for weeks last Halloween, you’ve changed. I know things wouldn’t be the same after we stopped hooking up, but I didn’t expect you to be so fucking cold.”

“How am—”

Evan cuts himself off with a strangled curse as your hand rests against his chest.

“Don’t touch me there,” he says without seeming to breathe and his face twists with fury.

You withdraw your hand and the two of you stare each other down. Evan opens his mouth to say something but then clenches his jaw closed so hard his teeth clash against each other audibly.

“Fuck it,” he mutters and abruptly turns and walks away.

“Come back! This isn’t done,” you call to him.

“Fuck you,” he says and leaves the room, slamming the door behind him.

You stare after him, trying to smother the rage that boils deep in your guts. You don’t know how long you stand there with your eyes closed and fists clenched, breathing deeply through your nose until your fury simmers.

But it doesn’t.

If anything, the longer you stand there the angrier you feel. Your mind starts to work over every interaction you’ve had with him since he came back. Every rejected advance, every cold comment and every frosty glance plays over and over like a best of compilation in your mind switching from one to another until you can’t take it anymore. Without being aware of what you’re doing until you're pushing the men’s locker room door open, you follow him, and stomp your way to the showers.

The sight that greets you makes you gasp. Evan stands under the shower naked, gloriously so. His chiselled face is so handsome that you sometimes forget he has the body to match; tall, athletically toned with the bare minimum of fat overlaying his sinewy muscles. He’s thinner than the last time you saw him, and that isn’t the only thing that has changed.

Beneath the rivulets of steaming water that run down his chest and amongst the hair that grows across his pecs is a scar. It is new, it hadn’t been there before. You’ve seen enough stabbing and knife attack victims to know the scar isn’t from a fight. It looks purposeful, like it was done by design; the lines too straight and too much like a symbol to have been done by accident.

You raise your eyes to Evan's and the unasked question is written all over your face.

“I can’t tell you,” he says, simply, “don’t ask me to.”

You step over the tile lip and into the shower space. Warm water seeps into your socks, but you barely notice. All you can see is the frigid intensity of his once warm eyes.

“Just tell me you’re okay,” you say, advancing slowly, drawn so powerfully towards him you can’t stop yourself until you’re under the spray with him, completely indifferent the way your undershirt quickly dampens and sticks to your body.

Evan’s brows draw together and he blinks rapidly but doesn’t answer.

“What can I do?” you ask in a whisper.

He flinches like your words are a slap. Then his face hardens and a grim determination settles in his beautiful but bleak blue eyes.

“You don’t want any part of this,” he says. “Or any part of me.”

“Is that why you’re acting like this?” you ask. Gingerly, you lift your hand to his chest and trace the edge of his scar, careful not to touch it. “You think I wouldn’t want you?”

Without warning his hands are on your cheeks and his mouth is over yours, the edges of your lips are grazed by his short whiskers and you feel a tingle work its way across your skin. You recover quickly from the shock, encircling his neck with your arms and running your fingers over the wet and velvety hair on his head. You move in closer, pressing your sodden clothed body against him.

It isn’t enough. You want to feel him, you want to feel his humid skin all over you. He must have thought the same thing because he breaks the kiss with a groan. His hands work on your belt and you pull your undershirt off over your head, letting it drop to the tiles with a splash you barely register.

His lip curls as he drops his head to roughly capture your breast in his hand and close his mouth around your nipple. You shiver as he sucks on you through the cotton of your bra, the heat of his mouth is so much hotter than even the water that sears at your skin.

You let your head fall back and you close your eyes as you relish the feeling of his mouth on you. Your knees start to feel weak as his hand works its way determinedly into your panties, his fingers working to separate the thick sodden work clothes away from your skin. You grab hold of his shoulders to steady yourself and feel pure muscle rippling under his sweltering, smooth skin. You run your hand down his back, following the path of his spine, until your fingers encounter hardened and raised skin.

Another new scar.

Quickly you snatch back your hand and your eyes snap to Evan. He looks up at you with stormy, fierce eyes and grazes your bud with his teeth before he releases you. A tremor of fear runs down your spine.

“I’m sorry,” you whisper, in a quivering voice.

He nods, takes hold of your waist and guides you to turn around until you're facing the tiled wall. He presses his body against you from behind and you can feel his hard cock against the small of your back. His arm wraps around your waist holding you in place while his other hand slides your sticking pants down your thighs.

“I know.” Evan’s lips brush against the shell of your ear as he speaks in a low voice that leaves no room for argument. “Put your hands on the wall.”

A heady rush of heat hits you between your legs and nearly drops you to your knees.

Evan notices and tightens his arm around your waist. “I’ve got you, baby. Hands on the wall. Now.”

“Yes…” you whimper, reaching your shaking hands out to the large square white tiles. Your skin is so electrified and sensitive that even the rough texture of the grout under the pads of your fingers threatens to overwhelm you.

His velvety hot tongue runs a thick strip up your neck as he latches onto you and sucks on the thin skin beneath your ear. Your whole body thrums deep within you, you feel close to orgasm and he hasn’t even really touched you yet.

This was a far cry from the way he had always been with you before. It wasn’t that sex wasn’t good with Evan in the past, it absolutely was, he had always been generous. But he was never what you’d call dominant at all and he was straight up vanilla, almost reserved. You don’t think he’d ever even taken you from behind.

His teeth sink into your earlobe as he tilts your hips and slips a foot between yours to inch your feet apart.

“Stay just like that for me,” he instructs, huskily and you moan, hoping he takes the warbling sound of your voice as agreement.

Soft, hot skin presses against your pussy, forcing your lips to part. You gasp in shock, but it quickly morphs into a gasp of pure pleasure as the thick tip of Evan’s cock rubs against your slick and swollen hidden skin.

“Are you still on the pill?” he asks.

You nod, turning your head towards his.

“Good. I’m going to cum inside you,” he says.

He enters you in one swift and hard thrust. You both cry out and he breathes hard into your ear as he holds himself deep inside you and gives you a moment to get used to his size.

“Evan,” you whine faintly, leaning your head against his shoulder.

He kisses your temple gently. The tenderness makes your eyes widen, but it's a short reprieve.

“Hang on,” he says.

He moves, slowly dragging himself from your core. Then his fingers dig hard into your hips and he pumps hard into you, using your hips for leverage. With each powerful drive, Evan pulls your hips back to meet him and you can’t stop yourself from crying out as he fills you. Your bodies slap hard against each other, the sound mixing with your cries and his grunts of effort. Together the cacophony echoes lewdly through the steam of the shower and bounces off the tiles.

Your head drops and you lean it on your outstretched and locked arms as you brace yourself against his brutal but oh so fucking good onslaught. Then he leans forward until his chest covers your back. One of his hands snakes its way from your hips to between your legs and his fingers slide over your sensitive and throbbing clit.

“Need you to come with me,” he rumbles through his groans.

It’s the kind of thing you’d usually roll your eyes at, but Evan knows your body; he knows just how to touch you to get you over the edge. His mouth latches on your neck, licking, sucking, and grazing his teeth over your vein, while his fingers dance over your clit and he never lets up the primal, fervid pace of his fucking.

“Come with me,” he demands with a guttural growl into your ear.

Your body trembles as your orgasm threatens with such force that your legs give out, and your hands slip from the wall.

“I’ve got you,” Evan assures you as he brings you both to the floor. He pauses just long enough to get you comfortable, slipping your shirt under your knees. “You’re so close, baby. I’ve got you.”

And you are, the brief interruption no match for how aroused and good Evan is making you feel. You reach your peak with a cry and an undulation of your hips that he knows so well. He follows swiftly after, drawing your body so close you can barely breathe and you can feel deep inside you the swelling of his cock with each pulsing release.

As you come down from your high, you concentrate on the sound of the water rather than the ragged breaths of Evan against your ear. Your instincts say you should move, you should run, pretend this never happened, or maybe yell at him some more.

Then his hands are on your cheeks, turning your face to his and wiping away the water that runs into your eyes.

“Are you okay?” he asks, his voice full of sincerity and concern.

His tone makes you really look at him. For the first time in months there is something in his voice of the Evan of old. You turn your body towards him and reach for him, not even aware that your hand is resting on the centre of his chest, right over the scarred symbol.

Evan's eyes drop to his chest. You wonder if you should move it, but as he raises his eyes, his hand covers yours and holds it close to his heart right above his new scar.

#henry cavill #henry cavill fanfic #henry cavill fanfiction #rabbitsmilestone23 #henry cavill characters #evan marshall #evan marshall fanfiction #evan marshall fanfic #evan marshall x reader #blood creek #blood creek (2009)

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makeitmingi · 8 months

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Cause Baby You're My Muse [Chapter 28]

Genre: Romance, Idol!AU, Music, Slight angst

Pairing: Mingi x Reader (y/n)

Characters: Producer!Reader, IdolLyricist!Mingi, IdolProducer!Hongjoong, Idol!Seonghwa, Idol!Yunho, Idol!Wooyoung, Idol!San, Idol!Yeosang, Idol!Jongho, cameo(s) by other celebrities

Summary: You always preferred producing underground, having an unknown face and governed by your own rules. But when you start freelancing for idol groups, you say goodbye to your lone wolf lifestyle as you learn to work with idol producers and lyricists.

Word count: 3.2K

When the solo recordings were done, you called for a break. You wanted to overlay the vocals temporarily for the group vocal parts that were coming up. Also, you needed a breather and the boys looked like they needed it too.

"Rest your eyes for a bit, okay? Stretch your legs and get a drink." Hongjoong patted your head. You hummed, smiling tiredly.

"I'm going out to get a coffee." He informed and left. You stood up and stretched your limbs, yawning as you felt the exhaustion sink into your bones.

"Indigo?" Mingi poked his head. His eyes scanned the room before they settled on you being alone. You smiled softly, feeling better already just from seeing him.

"You've worked hard, baby." Mingi teetered over and wrapped him arms around you in a bear hug. He showered you in kisses.

"You too." The two of you laughed.

"Did I look good when I was rapping?" He asked, a cheeky grin on his face. You scoffed, putting your hands on his chest to push him away with a look.

"Come on, I looked good, right? I could tell from the booth, you had that look on your face like you were falling in love with me again. You can fool the others but you can't fool me." Mingi teased. You cleared your throat, looking away as he exposed you. You didn't think you were so obvious.

"I have work to do." You sat back in your seat, turning back to the computer in front of you.

"You're so fun to tease, baby." Mingi leaned over you and planted a kiss on your cheek. He sat down in Hongjoong's seat next to you.

"Stop~" You whined but still buried your face in his chest in an attempt to hide. Mingi chuckled, stroking the back of your head. You reached up to swat his hand away.

"Don't do that, you're going to make me sleep." You mumbled.

"After this, promise me you'll go home and sleep, okay? Have a big meal and sleep." He said.

"Can you stay with me, please?" You asked. Mingi smiled softly at how affectionate you were being and hummed. You leaned down to lay your head on his lap instead.

"My poor, tired baby." Mingi continued to pat your head.

"YOUR WHAT?!" You and Mingi shot out of your seats. Hongjoong stood there, his eyes wide in shock. You felt your heart pounding on your chest, you couldn't breathe. Time seemed to have just stopped as everyone was frozen. No one dared to speak first.

"Indigo, breathe. You're turning blue." Seonghwa stepped out from behind Hongjoong, heading to you. You hadn't even realised how long you were holding your breath.

"Breathe." He spoke softly as he rubbed your back. Mingi turned to you, concern and worry written all over his face.

"Joong, stop staring like that. You're going to make her have a panic attack." Seonghwa said.

"I'm just shocked." Hongjoong blinked.

"This wasn't how I wanted to tell you. I wanted this to all be over before I told the two of you. I'm sorry." You buried your face in your hands. Hongjoong came to hug you.

"What are you sorry about pabo?" He laughed. Mingi visibly relaxed at how calm Hongjoong and Seonghwa were.

"So yes, Indigo and I are together. We have been for a while now." Mingi wrapped an arm around you, pulling you in against his side.

"That's so sweet. Congrats, you two." Seonghwa smiled. Hongjoong folded his arms, staring Mingi up and down with a small frown. He was like an unhappy father/ older brother now. Of course he knew Mingi well, he just liked playing the role of a protective older brother around you.

"How long were you going to keep this from us?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I was going to tell you after recording. But I wanted you and Hwa to be the first ones to know. Even if you don't want to role of parents, you're still like my older brothers." You said shyly.

"So the others don't know?" Seonghwa asked.

"Yunho knows because he reads Mingi like a book. The others don't know." You shook your head.

"But Wooyoung did think that she was dating you, hyung." Mingi rolled his eyes. Seonghwa's eyes bugged out, pointing to himself in disbelief. You nodded in confirmation.

"So, will you give us your blessing?" You chewed on your bottom lip. Mingi felt you grasp the material of his shirt tightly behind his back. Seonghwa and Hongjoong's approval meant a lot more to you than he realised.

"You don't need our blessing as long as you're happy. If you two make each other happy, that's all we want." Seonghwa smiled.

"I do agree with Seonghwa on this. But as the group leader, I would have to ask if you plan to go to the company with this or even the public." Hongjoong looked conflicted.

"I won't put Indigo in the spotlight by going to the company yet, much less going public. We will tell the rest of the group soon." Mingi spoke first.

"Agreed. I think we should tell them at the end of today." You looked up at Mingi.

"Sure." He smiled softly.

Hongjoong and Seonghwa looked at the two of you. The way you two looked at each other with such adoration and it was obvious that you both cared for each other, how could they say no?

"We'll keep your secret but you two have to be careful too, alright? I don't want any of you getting hurt." Seonghwa cautioned. Hongjoong nodded in agreement. Mingi let you get a hug from the both of them. A large weight lifted off your shoulders, you were worried that they would not have approved of the relationship.

"Actually, hyung, you almost suspected us together." Mingi chuckled. Hongjoong blinked in confusion.

"I did? When?"

"When you guys were drunk, you tried to push me away, asking me what I was doing to your 'baby sister'." Mingi scoffed. You and Hongjoong had wide eyes at Mingi's words.

"I was drunk! And also, what were you doing, huh?! Enough to make drunk me stop you." Hongjoong turned the question back to him.

"Geez, I was just helping her. You're over reacting." Mingi rolled his eyes.

"So when did you two get together?" Seonghwa asked you with a kind voice, drawing you away from Hongjoong and Mingi bickering. You giggled.

"We were together the day I sent Haneul back. He came to check up on me when I came home. But he asked me to be his girlfriend the day the producers met for the song review." You recounted.

"That's so nice of you, Mingi ah." Seonghwa praised, making Mingi smile proudly. Hongjoong still shot Mingi a wary look. If anything, he was just overly protective of you. He suddenly pulled you to stand up. You were confused but stood up obediently.

"Sit here." Hongjoong sat you down beside him instead of your original spot between Seonghwa and Mingi.

"Hyung~ Don't be like that. You know me! I won't do anything." Mingi whined.

"Don't worry, Mingi's nice to me. He takes care of me and treats me well like you and Seonghwa." You snickered as you patted the back of Hongjoong's hand.

"We're back." The others came in. Jongho handed you a strawberry milk and a cookie.

"Thank you!" You grinned, poking the straw into the top of the carton to drink. Jongho smiled and returned to his seat.

"I've layered the solo recordings we've done and it's coming together really nicely. But for the chorus and the ending, I want some group vocals. We'll go in groups of 4." You instructed.

"Okay, rock, paper, scissors."

"Before you do that, I'm going to have to stop you. I'm trying to balance out the different pitches so we don't risk drowning each other out with an extreme low note with 1 person who is good at high notes. Hongjoong, Yeosang, Jongho, San in one team and Mingi, Seonghwa, Wooyoung and Yunho in one team." You said.

"You can send out a representative to play and see who goes first." You told them. Of course Jongho represented his team. Seonghwa, on the other hand, was pushed forward.

"Oldest vs youngest!" San clapped, making Seonghwa turn to glare at him.

"Everyone test." You spoke into the mic.

"Ah~~~~" Yunho drowned out on the microphone. He and Wooyoung burst out laughing, resulting in you laughing as well. The 4 of them stood around the main microphone.

"Do a test of the first lines. Acapella. Just for me to check the volumes." You said. Mingi counted them in and they did the test.

"Mingi and Wooyoung's voice travels better so the two of you take half a step back. Seonghwa and Yunho need to come in closer a bit." You waved.

"Like this?" Seonghwa asked.

"Perfect. Let's try it with the music. We'll be doing the chorus." You reminded. They all referred to their lyrics sheet, Yunho giving you the 'ok' to play the track. You listened to them record then overlaid the recording on the raw vocals to see if it was cohesive.

"Okay, we're sounding good. Let's do it one more time before we move on." You put the microphone away to play the music again for them to record it.

"We'll move onto the ending portion." It sounded good with the mingling voices.

"Great job. Group 2 will go in now." You announced, taking a sip of your neglected strawberry milk and a bite of your cookie.

"Alright, group 2. We will be doing the same test as we did with group 1." They all put their headphones on with Hongjoong adjusting the volume and counting them in.

"Jongho, stay where you are. San will stay too. Me and Yeosang will move back slightly." Hongjoong was helpful with positioning the members when you played back the test audio for him.

"Chorus." You spoke and played the chorus for them. They started their recording.

"That was amazing!" You complimented. The balance of their different tones and pitches were so good especially with Yeosang's low pitch and Jongho's high pitch.

"Ahem, we're right here, you know?" Wooyoung rolled his eyes from his spot on the couch behind you. You shrugged, ignoring him as you continued with the second group's recording. When they were done, the other 4 from group 1 went to join them in the booth for the group background vocals.

"Sorry about the squeeze, guys. We'll finish this up quickly." You apologised, seeing all 8 of them in the booth, having the stagger themselves since it wasn't a big space.

"Don't worry about it." Hongjoong assured. Despite the space constraints, the boys were all professional, focusing on the recording.

"Nope, the timing is off. I can hear like two people starting a split second later. Again." You said.

"Yah, if I find who is starting late..." Hongjoong jokingly threatened.

You played the music again and they all recorded their voices. You took that recording blip and placed it at the specific part of the song, overlaying it with the other vocals.

"Playback." You told them, letting them listen to the raw vocals together. Of course, there was still some editing to be done.

"Sounds good!" The boys all cheered from inside the booth.

"Great job, everyone." You said into the mic, a smile on their face as you watched them celebrate through the glass. They all bowed their heads and put the headphones down to exit the booth. All 8 of them barged into the studio.

"Good job, Indigo! You did it!" You were lifted by Wooyoung as the others cheered loudly.

"It wasn't all me. You all worked hard too. I can't wait for this track to be done." You giggled, looking at each of them. Yes, there were still parts to record but at least the main portion was done.

"Thank you for being patient with me doing this for the first time." You bowed deeply to all of them, feeling warmth in your chest.

"What are you saying now?" San hugged you.

"You did great. We all knew you could do it. I'm proud of you." Hongjoong smiled softly. The validation for the team producer, Hongjoong, made you melt.

"Let's celebrate with supper. I'm hungry." Yunho declared and the others agreed.

"Supper? Wait, what time is it now?" You were confused. Only then, you checked the time on your phone and realised that it was close to 11pm. Had you really spent more than 12 hours recording with the boys? Time had flown by without you even noticing. Furthermore, all of you skipped dinner.

"Oh no, I didn't even realise that it was so late. And you guys skipped dinner... You should have said something!" You slapped Hongjoong's arm. He glared at you, rubbing his arm.

"Why are you always hitting me?!" He yelled.

"Don't worry, Indigo. It's not your fault, we were all so focused on the recording, we didn't realise how late it was too." Yeosang patted your shoulder.

"We're basically living the life of Indigo now. Working late, skipping meals." Mingi crossed his arms.

"Don't make fun of me!" You whined.

"Okay, okay. Let's go already." Seonghwa began to usher everyone out of the studio. The boys waited for you to save your work and pack up your equipment.

"We'll close up here. Go return your stuff to the studio." Jongho waved you off, helping the others coil the wires. You nodded and went to put back the stuff that you took from your own studio to use during the recording.

"Ready to go?" Wooyoung asked as you emerged from the hallway after locking up your studio.

"Let me help you." Mingi helped you carry your bag, moving your bag from your shoulder to his. The others didn't think much of because one of them would have done the same.

"Actually, there's one more thing. Before we go." You blurted out.

"What is it?" San tilted his head. You moved to stand beside Mingi and lacing your fingers with his. You smiled up at him.

"You and Mingi hyung?!" Jongho connected the dots before you could say anything.

"Yes. Indigo and I have been together for a bit. We thought it would be good to let you guys know." Mingi spoke, all the while smiling down at you. You nodded your head in agreement.

"Sorry, we didn't mean to keep it a secret. There was just a lot going on and our relationship is still rather new. Even if we aren't ready to tell the company and the public yet, we did want you guys to know since you're family. You all mean a lot to Mingi and I." You added with an uncertain smile.

"Are we all hearing this for the first time?" Yeosang asked.

"Nope. I knew, even before they officially started dating. Mingi can't hide anything from me." Yunho raised his hand with a proud smile. Mingi rolled his eyes in response to that

"Hongjoong and I found out earlier today." Seonghwa said. San was the first to come up and hug you.

"Congrats, you two!" He hugged you and Mingi.

"Thank you." You giggled, hugging him back. All this while, Wooyoung was quiet. You moved away from San and approached him. He stared you up and down.

"You lied to me." Wooyoung stated, folding his arms.

"Woo... I'm sorry, I was going to tell you but I didn't know how... And there was a lot going on." You reasoned.

"She didn't lie to you. You asked if she was dating Seonghwa hyung and she said no. That's not a lie." Mingi defended. He was still salty that the smaller male thought you were dating the oldest. The others turned to look at Seonghwa.

"What? It's Wooyoung who jumped to conclusions, nothing to do with me." Seonghwa held his hands up defensively. Mingi knew you felt guilty from Wooyoung's words.

"Come on, she was already stressing so much about telling anyone at all. And she wanted to tell the hyungs first before telling the others. Don't make her feel bad." Mingi nudged Wooyoung's shoulder.

"Mings... Don't say that." You scolded.

"No more hiding secrets from me. Or else I won't forgive you so easily." Wooyoung said.

"Deal!" You grinned, throwing your arms around him to hug him tightly. Wooyoung hummed happily, rocking from side to side as he hugged you tightly.

"Okay, that's enough." Mingi separated the hug, tucking you under his arm. Hongjoong frowned, pulling you away from Mingi.

"Congrats, Indigo. I wish you and Mingi hyung the best." Jongho held his hand out to you to shake. But you burst out laughing, reaching out to hug him instead. He was just so awkwardly cute you couldn't help it. He froze from the sudden contact but softened, patting your back with a small smile.

"Sorry to break the moment but can we continue the congratulations over food? I'm starving." Yeosang said. You nodded with a giggle and all of you squeezed into the lift.

"Does any of the managers know yet?" Yunho asked.

"None of them know. The ones who know about us are in this lift, apart from my mother." Mingi replied.

"You've already met Mingi's mother?" Wooyoung's eyes widened. You hummed, briefly recounting to them the dinner you had with Mingi's mother previously.

"Wow. Sounds like she likes you more than Mingi hyung." San teased. Mingi scoffed but didn't deny it, he knew that his mother absolutely adored you and wanted to have you as her own daughter.

"Come." Seonghwa and Wooyoung both took hold of your hands, leading you to their van. You blinked in confusion.

"But..." Mingi watched helplessly as you got dragged away to the other van. He thought telling the others meant he could openly hug and kiss you. But it seemed to be the wrong assumption because the others seemed to work harder at separating the two of you.

"Let's go, princess." Yunho chuckled, patting his best friend's shoulder before climbing into their van. Mingi sighed but followed, sitting in his designated seat.

"I shouldn't have encouraged her to tell the rest." Mingi sulked. Yunho laughed at his misery.

"Her older brothers are going to be even more protective her than ever now. You're the bad guy." Yunho teasingly reminded.

"I'm not a bad guy! I'm not going to do anything bad to her. She's been fine with me for months. If anything, shouldn't Seonghwa hyung and Hongjoong hyung be protective of me?" Mingi groaned.

"Of course not. They may have known you longer but she's their precious." Jongho snickered.

"Oh, shut up." Mingi growled.

"Mingi's sulking." You giggled softly, looking at the sad faces Mingi was texting you. Wooyoung leaned over your shoulder to read the text, laughing loudly.

"I think he regrets telling us now." Seonghwa said. Even if it was all for fun and jokes, you knew that Mingi didn't regret telling them. He wanted to proudly show off your relationship. You didn't regret it too, in fact you were relieved that they knew now. Plus, they were happy for you and wished you both well.

"Geez, he'll see you again at the restaurant." Wooyoung whispered, looking at the grumbling messages. You all spoke quietly, not wanting the manager to catch on to what you were saying.

"Yes but that doesn't mean we'll let them sit together." Hongjoong smirked.

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btsbabe7 · 5 hours

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Coffee Beans (love you a latte)

Pairing: Sebastian Sallow x reader

Word Count: 2k

Synopsis: After a sudden breakup, you find yourself reuniting with your estranged best friend over lattes in a small coffee shop.

Sebastian sits next to you in the corner of a tiny coffee shop in London, his lanky frame barely filling out the spine of the chair. His fingertips tap against the burning porcelain cup nestled between his palms, the steam curling from the top of the cup in a ghastly swirl. He stares down at it in a sleepy daze, perplexed about why he’s here after you’d successful banished him for six months for the sake of your Gryffindor boyfriend, Garreth Weasley.

The silver-charmed bell nailed to the worn door of the tucked away coffee shop had ding-donged upon your arrival, coming to a halt seconds after the warmth of late Spring rolled in with you. Sebastian hadn’t as much as uttered a hello when you’d greeted him at the edge of the sticky counter upon your arrival in your own tone of weariness. He had barely glanced at you to take in your new shoulder length curls and freshly cut bangs, nor the healing of the scar left behind on the right side of your neck after your battle with Ranrok. The battle had been a year ago. The hair cut, only a couple days old. Surely he’d noticed your fading scar in the passings in the corridors or when he’d catch Garreth consoling you after a long day during dinner in The Great Hall. But he hated it, you know he hates it all.

“Seb—“ you whisper, starting slow, softly.

“Does he know you’re here?” He interrupts, eyes low and focused on the frothy milk overlaying his coffee.

You sputter softly, attempting to swallow a scoff, but knowing the question is valid. You’re the one that stopped hanging out with Sebastian. It felt appropriate once you realized Garreth’s request wasn’t entirely unreasonable.

The smell of freshly poured coffee beans and the humming of the expresso machine pulls your attention for a moment. The distant clinking of a spoon hitting the wall of a porcelain cup, the tear of a sugar packet or two, the frothing sound of whipped cream topping a to-go order, a soft piano melody flowing throughout the space. You think of Garreth alone in his dorm right now, using the quiet to think up whatever scenarios that ransack his brain whenever you two part.

“He doesn’t.”

A smug smirk appears on the corner of his lips, then falls back into a pensive pout. He shuffles in his seat, slowly opening up to you, chest coming into view first. His eyes roam over the empty tables beyond you, then you as if they’ve waited years to do so, and your shoulders shrink in relief.

Gazing back at him, you can’t believe you’d actually gone a full minute without engaging with your best friend. You must’ve been cursed to have gone a full six months with no contact, aside from passings in the hallway and The Great Hall. In the realization of it all, you’re thankful he hasn’t changed, not one bit, and you’re eager to pick up where you’d left off. At least in this moment, you believe you are.

“What’s my mortal enemy up to this time, if not courting you over breakfast? You two snog so much over morning pumpkin juice that the thought alone makes me want to hurl.”

Your cheeks burn hot at the thought of Sebastian seeing you kiss Garreth—watching, so much that it bothers him, haunts his thoughts and makes him sick to his stomach when he’s not even around.

“Garreth’s Garreth… You know, concocting strange inventions and attempting to find subjects to test them on. But that’s not why you agreed to come, not to speak about him...”

“I still don’t understand it all,” he starts. “He knows I’ve been in your life long before you saved that damned school. We were the best of friends, closer than Ominis and I. That was a threat to him and he deliberately complained that I was trying to steal you from him. Why?”

You avoid his eyes, once against knowing he’s right. Yet, Sebastian always manages to dismiss the events leading up to the main issue.

“Seb—“

He takes a long sip of his latte and readjusts, leaning back against the spine of the rattan chair before meeting your eyes again.

“Sebastian, he saw you kiss me…”

His cheeks turn as red as the cherry tomatoes in his uncle’s garden back in Feldcroft. As the realization settles in, there’s a long silence between the two of you. Had Sebastian not kissed you knowing you were still dating Garreth at the time, you wouldn’t have had to wedge so much distance. His excuse of drinking too much Butterbeer wasn’t a good enough explanation and Garreth had given you the ultimatum. You’d never seen him so upset. And as much as you wanted to defend Sebastian, your best friend, he was being reckless, jealous and territorial over something that didn’t belong to him. Even you couldn’t hide from that truth.

“I don’t regret it,” he says curtly, words cutting through your thoughts like a freshly sharpened dagger. “I would’ve kissed you a hundred times more had you not carved me out. Garreth doesn’t know you. He wasn’t there. He was working on dumb potions and those damned trick jellybeans while you and I were out there in the real world. Fighting goblins, trying to find a cure for Anne, piecing together Isidora’s triptych... We were risking our lives while he dallied around playing games. He’s never put his life on the line for you, Y/n.”

You scoff loudly, cheeks burning as hot as the untouched cup in front of you. You hate that he’s right every single time, but that means nothing right now. You liked Garreth. You loved his immaturity, his view of seeing some things in life differently. He showed you that everything didn’t always need to be taken seriously and Sebastian didn’t respect it.

“After Ranrok, Garreth was there.”

“Damn right he was,” Sebastian curses. “He was there like the rest, groveling at your feet after you’d saved the entire school. Everyone showered you in false love and compliments. I’ve loved you from the start.”

Your heart wrenches.

Not once has Sebastian admitted to loving you, ever. There were hints, signs. He was around so much that he’d practically become your shadow. He’s become more familiar than the lines on your palms or the spells you’d practiced endlessly into perfection. Your partnership in Crossed Wands and helping him find a cure for his sister had turned into a quickly blossoming friendship. You’d even found yourself thinking of him late at night when you should’ve been focused on planning for the doom that crawled closer— Rookwood, Ranrok, untamable ancient magic, the list could go on and on, but all you could think about was Sebastian Sallow.

A part of you was relieved when he’d asked you to dance at Natty’s party; you needed a moment away from Garreth, a moment to breathe. Though, you never expected Sebastian to take your breath away. You still remember the heavy smell of spiked Butterbeer on his lips, the sweet, thick taste of butterscotch and the scent of burnt timber lingering between you two. He’d been practicing Confringo again in The Undercroft beforehand. And the kiss felt like a dream, pulling everything you’d ever felt about him into a neat package with a shiny green bow. You just hadn’t expected Garreth to see it. And when he did, he knew Sebastian had to go, even if it killed you.

“We broke up,” you finally find the courage to speak.

That’s the reason you’d sent your white-feathered owl, Nora, to Sebastian two nights ago. Two days more without him felt like an eternity and you weren’t sure he’d show after all this time. You’d only hoped.

“I’m not surprised. You wouldn’t be here had it not happened, you’re too loyal. Maybe my tiny presence in your life of seeing you in passings has become too unbearable. He’d have me exiled if it were up to him.”

“I mean… I broke up with him. Six months was too long, Sebastian, and you didn’t even try to weasel your way back in. You just—you just let me go. You made it look so easy.”

“Easy!? Have I not suffered enough? Put myself on the line for you so many times? And need I remind you, you chose Weasley over me? That was your doing, Y/n,” he rants. “Looks can be deceiving, but I knew you’d come back. That’s what happens to the things we lose that are meant to be. And in those six months, I suffered, endlessly. Ominis could hardly stand my sulking much more before Nora showed with your letter. To think, all the times he told me I should admit how I felt, even during those six months, I didn’t listen. I didn’t want to ruin your perfect relationship with Garreth, or rather, I couldn’t. You would’ve hated me. I’m stubborn like you’ve said before, but I know, truly, that I’ve loved you and I still do now. No dumbwitted Gryffindor can change that.”

You can’t take it anymore, the racing of your heart, the heaviness of abandoning him. You couldn’t be with Garreth when your heart and soul craved Sebastian. You broke Garreth’s heart to be here, but that was something you could live with. Abandoning Sebastian wasn’t. It pulled and tugged at you in the worst and best of times. It haunted you when you were alone, when you were kissing Garreth, when he’d stay the night to cuddle in your dorm. Your mind had always gone back to the reckless, brown eyed, freckle faced Slytherin right in front of you.

“I love you too, you know?” You mutter nonchalantly, hoping the words don’t go straight to his skull. “I think it was destined to happen the day we met… when we dueled in Defense Against the Dark Arts.”

He smiles charmingly, attempting to hold back a smirk and a teasing laugh at the distant memory. Because why wouldn’t you have fallen for him? His sarcasm, charms and good looks were always there.

“I really knew when you opened up to me about your sister,” you continue. “When you realized you could do the important things without me, yet you still wanted me there. Even when it went against your best friend or your better judgment. You allowed me to see you, all of you. All the good and bad, Sebastian, and I love every single part of you.”

Sebastian’s eyes meet yours again, heavy, tired, and holding back tears. He’s missed you more than you’ll ever know, probably more than you missed him since you had Garreth to fill the void. Your voice, he missed the most. Your laughter, your deadpan humor and crappy puns. He missed the way you smelled, some muggle perfume you’d spritz yourself with in the mornings that made you smell of fresh flowers. A charm followed that you’d found in a book to make it last all day. He missed the way your skin and hair glistened in the moonlight when you’d both sneak out to fly broomsticks to Hogsmeade for a Butterbeer or two while the others slept. He missed practicing in The Undercroft with you, and Ominis lecturing him on the way back to the dorms about how he could feel the love in the air. He missed the warmth of you lying your head in his lap to vent to him under the old beech tree near Black Lake. He’d fallen in love with the sight of golden speckles reflecting in your irises when the branches began to sway just right with the breeze, exposing your features to the sun’s rays. He missed your smile, your lips, the way you’d tie your robe at your waist instead of wearing it. He missed and loved all of you. And he can’t fight the urge anymore. The heaviness of his own heart won’t let him, not with you this close, and not knowing that you’re no longer accounted for.

“We should get out of here, others might report back that you’ve gotten over your heartbreak rather quickly. Wouldn’t want that getting back to that poor Gryffindor of yours.”

“He’s not mine anymore,” you grumble and pinch Sebastian’s arm with a giggle. “But you’re right, we should go.”

“You still have that Room of Requirement? I think a single bed will suffice.”

You roll your eyes, holding back a giggle at his obviousness.

“We’ll go to my dorm first,” you reply before pecking a quick kiss on the corner of his lips that leaves his cheeks blushing. “Then, we’ll see if we truly require the room.”

He takes your hand in his right and leads you out of the tiny coffee shop. The silver bell ding dongs against the door once more, ushering you both into the warmth of Spring. And with a smile on his face, he’s ready to apparate anywhere in the world, as long as you promise to remain by his side.

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hiii is this format okay? id like to request a synastry reading between my boyfriend and i!

thank you so much in advance

When it comes to synastry I like to focus on the most important planets/houses for each person, and then how those interact.

So in your case (partner A), your most important placements would be Sun conjunct Lilith in the 10th house, Moon conjunct Venus in Aries, and Mars on the ascendant opposite Jupiter. Not to say that your other placements aren’t as important, but these might stand out the most in this synastry reading.

As for your boyfriend (partner B), his sun is conjunct Mercury at the exact degree in the 10th house, as well as loosely conjunct Venus and Saturn in the 9th, and his libra moon is on the ascendant.

At first glance, we notice that both of you have a strong solar influence on the 10th house, so you could find it easy to capture people’s attention when it comes to matters related to the theme of your MC sign. For you, that could entail anything from entrepreneurship to activism, even athleticism. While for your boyfriend with his cancer MC, it could be psychology, working with children, or real estate.

That being said, A could’ve been charmed by B’s caregiving nature and openness to others while still remaining fairly private. On the other side, B could’ve admired A’s assertiveness and confrontational nature. Both of you share strong core values which could lead to you either clashing or complementing each other, depending on whether your values converged or not.

The 10th house tells us a lot about public image, but the ascendant is important to understand how we come across to others as well as how we perceive them and the world.

For A, your Mars is on the ascendant, further enhancing your Aries influence, and this very aspect -MC ruler in the 1st house- is present in B’s chart as well, making their lunar cancer influence stronger too. BTW, recurrent or similar aspects in charts tend to indicate a fated relationship in many spiritual beliefs, as both people could’ve met in previous lifetimes.

A has their Mars opposite Jupiter, this can indicate a very charming personality that’s very energetic & ambitious and can intimidate others because of the raw nature through which A communicates. Nevertheless, A’s Mars falls into B’s 4th house, so that fiery nature could feel familiar and even comforting. They might appreciate your ability to knock down whoever you want with collected ease (Aquarius Mars). And while you have a lot of Aries influence in the 10th house, the fact it's ruled by a Saturnian sign makes you far more levelheaded and calculated, which could’ve pushed B’s inquisitive cancer instinct to dig deeper.

Here’s the best part: Synastry overlays! While we’ve mentioned A’s Mars overlaying B’s 4th house hence the sense of being “at home” with A no matter what they’re doing. Other synastry overlays would be:

MC - AKA the most prominent angle for both- square each other, this means that while you might have similar goals and values, the way you go about getting things done can be different. (A can be more confrontational, and emotionally detached while B can be more passive but “petty”), depending on how well you two communicate and compromise, this could either be good for maintaining a lively relationship or simply a recipe for petty fights.

Your neptunes conjunct each other in A’s 7th house and B’s 4th house, both angular houses. This could make both of you sort of idealize each other or excuse your wrongdoings, which could lead to an acute feeling of disappointment whenever your partner messes up, especially if the mistake is lying or deceiving. Just keep in mind that your partner isn’t perfect and that their mistakes don’t define you or them unless it’s a persistent pattern with no attempts at making things better. That aside, you might have some sort of “telepathic link” where you can instinctively know and understand each other’s needs.

Uranus conjunct each other in A’s 8th house and B’s 5th house could mean that your relationship could’ve started in a pretty unconventional so that it stands out from the rest. For A, it could be one where they learned to be more accepting of their insecurities and eccentricities. Both of you are independent and unique people with your own ambitions in life which balances out the Neptune influence. A could introduce B to new ways to enjoy their time together and could be a breath of fresh air in their life.

A’s Venus and Moon on B’s descendant is such a good placement. It indicates the presence of an instant strong pull towards each other, especially to B. B sees A as their ideal partner both physically and emotionally, they’re the exact type of person they see themselves committing to and could even see themselves getting married. Assuming B is your boyfriend, the descendant embodies what his ideal partner is, and bringing Venus energy to the descendant entails you’re his ideal of femininity. Since it’s in Aries however, that ideal could be one where he prefers a more unique, eccentric, and go-getter sort of person and that would be you. Furthermore, you want to create a harmonious relationship, and while there are definitely compromises and adjustments to be made, don’t sacrifice too much just to maintain peace.

Moons opposite each other is another very interesting placement, while harsh aspects tend to gather a notorious reputation in astro communities, they are actually the source of growth and liveliness in relationships and are necessary to balance out trines and conjunctions. With this aspect, A and B might each see different sides of a situation and thus can have different ways to deal with it. When they communicate well, they manage to see the wider picture and have interesting insights. You are as similar as you are different and feel as if you complete each other, which can push you to always want to learn more about your partner.

Venus square Venus, both of you have Venus in each other’s 9th houses: A has a cancer Venus while B has an Aries Venus. There´s a lot of doom talk about how it's an aspect that entails romantic disagreements or nothing going right and that's absolutely wrong. I personally have this synastry aspect with my closest friends and if anything, they're my most understanding and long-lasting friendships. When both people are communicative, transparent, and mature, this aspect translates into two people who share the same rhythm (due to the same modality) in relationships and thus you don't need to worry about being too rushed or too slow. you could have different priorities in love, A might prefer banter and teasing instead of traditional romantic advances while B is more affectionate and delicate in their expression, so as long as you understand each other's boundaries and needs, this aspect can end up leading you to grow and mature from your relationship! You might also enjoy discussing the big questions of life together and anything that expands your minds, and could also both enjoy traveling and meeting new people who are different for you.

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A collection of fan art done during/just after my head cycle, and also as a way of trying out some new techniques.

The Percy Jackson headshot was done during the cycle and alongside the last episode of the show, although it's a book canon interpretation. It was my first time using digital brushes and following some skin painting tutorials and I was fairly happy for the first attempt.

The Daredevil piece used a lot more flat colors and Gaussian blurs, and I think came out better since more of the head is covered by the helmet. I also played around with overlays for the cloth texture, even if it wasn't really obvious, which was interesting.

Finally, my first ever gif of the man himself; Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London. A semi fanon-typical interpretation of the character's looks, although he came out as a bit more "pretty" than the usual scruffy looks. I was mainly playing around with level corrections and inverting gradients for this one, and found an article on creating the chromatic aberration and glitch effect which I think came out pretty cool. My first dabble with the in-built CSP animation builder, but obviously just touched upon for this piece.

#art #digital art #fanart #the magnus archives #daredevil #percy jackson #piece

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swisswitchmn · 2 years

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Secretly a Matchmaker Pt.2

Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw x f!reader

Gif is not mine!

Warnings: Kissing that almost leads to stuff, My bad fashion ideas 😅

So a few of you asked for a part two, I am so glad so many of you enjoyed the first part as it was my very first attempt at a story like this! This part is my first attempt at a date situation so this will be a learning experience and I hope to only get better. Feedback is much appreciated! 💕

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The moment you and Finn got into the house from the beach you began to panic. The house needed to be cleaned, Finn needed a bath, and you had to get ready. You unhooked Finn’s leash and he immediately went to lay down on his bed tuckered out from his new found friends. It was 2:00pm so you had a few hours to get things ready. Changing into a tank top and shorts you called Finn up to the bathroom to wash the sand out of his fur. He slowly walked in still tired but hopped in the tub for a warm wash. Once all the sand and soap had rinsed out he shook his fur spraying you with water. You laughed and scrunched your face before you dried him with a towel. Walking down to the hall closet grabbing the vacuum you started to clean up any dog fur. Finn sheds a lot and you didn’t want fur to get all over Bradley’s clothes or in the food. After vacuuming up what could be a whole other dog, you began making sure things looked organized. In the middle of your cleaning frenzy your phone buzzed with a message from a contact named “Rooster😍” you smiled at his choice of emoji and looked at what he had to say.

“Do you prefer Chinese🥡 or Mexican🌮?

“Oo hard choice but I could go for some asada street tacos.😋” Your stomach rumbled at the thought.

“You got it princess.” You blushed hard at the name hoping you would hear it more later. You finished tidying up the living room and went to the kitchen deciding you’d make a dessert for tonight. You grabbed all the ingredients for brownies and began your baking.

Pouring the mixture into the pan and slipping it in the oven you plopped on the couch. The clock read 5:00p.m. You had two hours and with each passing moment you grew more nervous.

Meanwhile Rooster was at his place looking between two different outfits like a girl headed out for a night on the town. He couldn’t decide if he should dress a bit nicer to make a good impression or stick to being himself and wear jeans and his signature Hawaiian shirt. He went the latter deciding he wants you to get to know him for him.

The oven beeps signaling the brownies have finished. The house smelled wonderful as you pulled the baked delicacy out of the oven. Setting the brownies near the back of the counter to cool you went up to take a shower before frosting them.

Hopping out of the shower you looked at your phone seeing it was 6:00p.m. Your heart pounded thinking about how Rooster would be here in your home in an hour. You threw on a pair of jeans with a black off the shoulder lace overlay top. You headed down the stairs to frost the brownies seeing Finn sniffing around the kitchen.

“No Finn, no brownies for doggies.” He did a little huff and sat down on the floor. Spreading the frosting on you got a text,

‘Grabbing those tacos now, be there in 15 :)’

You didn’t want to seem too eager so you replied with a simple ‘Looking forward to it :)’

Sitting on the couch trying not to bite your nails out of nerves you hear a knock at the door. Finn runs up to the door as you breathe out slowly trying to calm your nerves. Swinging the door open you see the most handsome sight ever, Bradley’s standing at the door with jeans and a white t-shirt under a Hawaiian button up. A shirt like that never looked so good.

“Hi Rooster! You look very handsome tonight.” You blush at his presence.

“Thanks princess, you look beautiful.” He shoots that smile to you that could make you melt on spot.

“Oh uh come in, sorry about all the dog toys Finn is quite spoiled”, you laugh.

“I don’t mind, but I think his mom needs to be spoiled too ya know?” He winks at you making you blush and shy away. You remember the tacos he has and your stomach grumbles,

“Well I’m starving and those tacos smell amazing.” You go to the kitchen and grab two plates setting them on the counter as Rooster sets the bag on the counter pulling out the tacos.

“I didn’t know how many you wanted so I got four asada and four chicken tacos. I also got chips and guacamole.”

You set your hand on his, “it’s perfect” you reassure him with a smile. You both grab your tacos and chips heading to the couch for a movie.

“What kind of movies do you like? I have a bunch of streaming services.”

“I’m not picky, we could do that new Netflix option where you just hit play something?”

“I like your thinking Bradley!” Clicking the Netflix ‘play something’ option you watch the screen as 10 Things I Hate About You plays on screen. You cheer a bit at the choice Netflix brings up. Rooster smiles at your happiness feeling his heart swell at the sight of your smile. You bite down on a taco humming at the flavors in your mouth.

“I don’t know where you got these, but they’re amazing!”

“There’s a great restaurant not too far that has the best tacos I’ve ever had! It’s a nice little area that has a lot of restaurants and shops. We should go down there for our next date.”

“There’s gonna be a next time?” You smile at him softly.

“Well I was kinda hoping that if this goes well then maybe there would be a lot of next times.” He smirks and leans closer to you “is that a possibility?”

“I think it can be arranged.” You lean in closer looking from his eyes to his lips hoping he gets the message to just kiss you and he does. He gently cups the side of your face and pulls you closer making your lips touch. You mold together perfectly smiling into the kiss you had been hoping for all day. Tacos abandoned on the counter he pulls you on his lap with his hands on your waist. Moaning into the kiss you begin to push his Hawaiian shirt off his shoulders when Finn decides to bark loudly at the two of you. You and Rooster laugh at him,

“Hey bud you’re the one that played matchmaker!” He laughs at Finn who continues look at the two of you very intensely.

“Maybe Finn’s right, I really like you Bradley I don’t want to rush things with you. If you’re wanting to do this I think we should do it right.” You smile at him as he touches his forehead to yours.

“I want to do this (y/n). I’ve never been so infatuated with someone so fast and I think it’s a sign.” He looks at you with a smile and in true 80s fashion asks with a chuckle “so whatcha think, you wanna go steady?”

You chuckle happily, “yes Rooster I will go steady with you.” At that he pulls you in again for a light kiss,

“Now I saw brownies on the counter and was kinda hoping to give those a try” he grins at you and you pat his chest,

“I’ll go grab them.” You stand up off of him and look at the man you’ve known for less than 24 hours thinking you might be crazy for doing this. Although there’s something about a dogs matchmaking intuition in movies that’s never wrong, so maybe in real life it works too.

#top gun imagine #bradley bradshaw x reader #bradley bradshaw x female reader #rooster imagine #rooster x y/n #top gun x reader #top gun maverick #bradley rooster bradshaw #bradley bradshaw x y/n #bradley bradshaw fluff #rooster fluff

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inafieldofdaisies · 1 year

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WIP Whenever | Part 2 for this week, call it compensation for missing last week :D | Tagged by @vampireninjabunnies-blog again <3 | Tagging @socially-awkward-skeleton @direwombat @fourlittleseedlings @poisonedtruth @strangefable and anyone that would like to share a little something <3

A short snippet from Chapter 6. I have a feeling the whole thing would end up being quite lengthy.

"I will be right back, Deputy." He left the room in a blur, shouting out "Mathias" as the door locked behind him. Sabrina glanced at the radio on top of his desk, immediately dismissing the thought of risking calling for help when she had no idea who it was going to reach. Her eyes shifted to the door, zeroing in on the pieces of the broken cup and before she knew it she was cleaning up the mess in attempt to distract herself. She was back to waiting, fearing he'd appear and call off the deal. The thought made her pace his office, and she was glad for the new surroundings, that she wasn't stuck in her stifling cell or that godawful red room. She took the chance to look around a bit, careful not to disturb anything, his desk drawers were all locked and to her surprise at the back of the room he had a wardrobe with multiple change of clothes. Of course you made this hellhole your home. The coat he was wearing at the church hung in there too, the scent of an expensive cologne radiated off it as her eyes took in the bloodstain that overlayed its plane pattern on one of the shoulders. The sight made her quickly shut the door, she had no idea why he'd keep around a bloody piece of clothing amongst the clean ones. "But then again, there's his torture room…silly me.", she walked over back to the bookcase, picking up a book off it, then she sat down on the leather couch with a huff.

"Criminal Law" marked the front, the contents bringing a sense of comfort, of order, making her think back to her days in Portland. The simpler times before her mother ruined their chance at normalcy forever. She read on and on, hours passing by and she found herself drifting off, the book laying forgotten in her lap as she dreamt of her first day in Hope County, of Savannah smiling brightly at the mountain views, making Sabrina stop to take pictures of her on their way to Ms. Darcy's. "Deputy.", John's stern voice pulled her out of the dream. She blinked the drowsiness away, her eyes focusing on his form sitting on the coffee table in front of her, his intense blue gaze was pointed her way yet again. "I see you've found an interesting read.", he nodded towards the book she was holding. "Quite, want me to cite which sections you're breaking so far?"

That won her a smirk as he said softly, "Some other time." John gestured to a pile on the couch next to her, "All is arranged. Mathias brought your a change of clothes-" At his words Sabrina jumped to her feet, "I shouldn't waste any time, we should just go. Hell, I can't believe I even fell asleep to begin with." "Deputy-" "My sister-" John waved her off, amusement was written all over his face, "Considering you refused to sleep the whole time you've been here, it's a miracle you're still standing-" "You don't understand-" "I perfectly understand, Deputy. You need to look into a mirror." He pointed to a darkened room at the corner of his office, "Bathroom.", and walked back to his desk, sitting down, in no rush to go anywhere. "I'm not entering a Miss Universe competition, John-", her words died in her throat as she made it into the bathroom and took a look at herself for the first time. She knew her uniform had seen better days, her jacket was bloody, a bit muddy, her pants in similar condition. What gave her a pause was her face: the gash on her head had left it covered in blood, her gray bangs were reddish-brown. "You see what I meant now?"

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Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Pairings: Lara Jean Song-Covey + Peter Kavinsky

Summary: Her father's wedding. A day she never expected to arrive.

Her father's wedding. A day she never expected to arrive - considering she expected her mother to live for much longer, and he had been widowed for nearly an entire decade. After Trina's bachelorette party, she had gotten drunk for the first time and had broken up with Peter. She had been upset ever since.

This morning wasn't any different, however, she was going to put on a brave face for her dad. He deserved as much. So, she took a deep breath - with a strong attempt to not burst into tears - and got out of bed. She got her dress that was hanging in front of her wardrobe.

A turquoise full-length gown with one shoulder, which had a turquoise overlay of lace on the bodice. Kitty and Margot have the same dresses, but in different colours, because Trina wanted her soon to be step-daughters to be comfortable in the colour they wanted.

Thankfully Lara Jean had gotten a shower last night because she knew that it would be crazy for the bathroom this morning. Which it was...

Kitty made a braid crown for Lara Jean, who then curled the rest of her hair - leaving it down. The hairstyles had been planned for almost a month, and at the time Lara Jean was still with Peter. Seeing her hair down the way he liked, made her heartache, after what she did to him.

The three Song Sisters were sat in the living room waiting for their father, it was more common for the bridesmaids to be getting ready with the bride - but this was their dad's big day, it only made sense for them to get ready with him.

While the girls were waiting for him to come downstairs, which is when he does and sees his three daughters sat on the sofa.

"My girls," he says, and this is when his daughter's roll their eyes in sync.

"Oh, no. Here it comes," Margot says, making Kitty and Lara Jean laugh slightly.

"Like three beautiful little roses," he tells them (something he had said before to them on many occasions, both before and after their mother had died).

It was time to go to the wedding when the car turned up outside of the house. The four of them walked out of the house as Jasmine their mail carrier handed over the mail to Dan (saying good luck with the wedding, and to have a nice time on his honeymoon).

Dan gave Jasmine a slightly terrified look (it was the same terrified look he had before he married Eve), crossing his fingers in front of Jasmine and headed over to the car along with his girls.

Josh gave Doctor Covey a pair of thumbs up and got into his mother's car along with his new girlfriend who would also be attending.

Peter was dressed ready for Dan's wedding. He would have been attending as Lara Jean's boyfriend/plus one. He had been utterly heartbroken ever since, the fact that Lara Jean admitted that she had wanted to sleep with him so that it would have wrapped up their relationship. Peter had spent that day after, laying in bed, in tears. When Gen dumped him, he wasn't that heartbroken over it (he was at the time), but both times that Lara Jean and he had broken up - he didn't know what to do with his life.

"Peter, honey," his mother called, walking into his room - seeing her son sat on his bed, staring into space. She sighed, having never seen Peter this hungover Genieve when they had been dating - but Lara Jean had dug herself deeper into his heart. She didn't know how deeply Peter felt for her, after speaking to Lara Jean - telling her to consider breaking up with him so that he could have a good college experience. "It's time to go,"

He nodded, got off his bed and attached the boutinnière into the lapel of his jacket. It was a lilac coloured orchid. He had gotten Lara Jean a small bouquet of lilac coloured orchid before a date (when he took her to a drive-in movie, when he took her to see The Incredibles 2, he had brought food in the back of his car and a few blankets. Lara Jean had sat in his lap, and they had spent the whole movie snuggled under blankets and feeding each other some of the food he'd brought).

She rested her hand on Peter's shoulder and hugged him. Hoping that she could comfort him in some way.

Peter had turned up at the venue for Dan Covey's wedding to Trina Rothschild, as Lara Jean and Kitty were talking to one of the groomsmen or maybe it was the ring bearer. When he and his family walked past the three of them, he overheard their conversation.

"Are you serious, you forgot the rings?" Lara Jean exclaimed quietly. "You're going to have to go get them!"

"Why can't you?" The ring bearer said, making Lara Jean raise her eyebrows and look at the boy/man in front of her.

"Wouldn't it look weird if the groom's daughter's had gone missing on their father's wedding day?!" She asks, grabbing Chris's sleeve as she walks past. "Chris, I need you to do me a favour,"

Chris looks between Lara Jean, Kitty and the ring bearer. "What is it?" She asked.

"This putz," Lara Jean started, pointing to the ring bearer. "Forgot the rings. Can you take him to the jewellers and get them?" Lara Jean asked. Chris knew that this was a big deal to the Song Sisters. That it would look strange without the girls there when Trina arrived for the wedding.

"Sure,"

Lara Jean was sat down, eating a packet of crispy M&Ms, fairly quickly - not saving time between each crunch of an M&M before she shoved another in. This is when Owen Kavinsky walked over, seeing his brother's now ex-girlfriend shoving her face full of candy, a fairly panicked look in her eyes.

"Lara Jean, what's the matter?" Owen asked, raising a curious eyebrow at her. Which caused Lara Jean to look up in surprise at Owen.

She put the blue packet on her chair after she stood up. "Hey, Owen," she smiled, smoothing out the skirt of her dress (like she does whenever she wears a dress or a skirt). "What's up?"

"Why were you eating crispy M&M's like they were going out of fashion?" He asks. Lara Jean and Kitty had a staring contest (putting in without words whether or not they should tell Owen).

"If I tell you, then you have to promise not to tell anyone. Not even Peter," she makes Owen promise, who does (making the move of 'cross your heart and hope to die'). "The ring bearer forgot the rings, so Chris has gone with him to get them,"

Lara Jean went to the bathroom, wanting to cool down before the bride arrived. Leaning against the sink, when the door opened.

"Oh," the surprise in Gen's voice showed that she didn't expect someone to be stood in the bathroom. "Hi, Lara Jean,"

"Hi, Gen," Lara Jean parroted back. The fact that there was a time when they were attached at the hip and you could never see one without the other.

Gen fiddled with her hair. "I never thought your dad would get remarried. I thought your parents would always be together," she said, as they went quiet for a second.

"So did I," Lara Jean said, trailing off. "Thank you for coming, Gen. I didn't think you would after everything that's happened,"

"We may not be the best of friends, but it's your dad's wedding day. It's not something I was going to miss," Gen said, before reaching over and hugging Lara Jean.

This was the first hug they had shared since their friendship ended.

Gen walked to her seat, as Lara Jean joined Margot and Kitty at the back of the venue, watching Trina head upstairs so that Dan wouldn't see her in her dress.

As soon as Trina was upstairs, Chris and the ring bearer came rushing over, a ring box in his hand. When he opened the box, there sat Trina and Dan's wedding rings.

"Oh, thank god!" Lara Jean exclaimed. "We told Owen, but this doesn't leave the five of us, do you understand?" Lara Jean states, as the ring bearer and Chris promise.

With the wedding under their belt, the guests headed home for a while, before they had to go to the evening do. Margot, Lara Jean, and Kitty were the first from the wedding part to arrive. With other guests arriving (the ones that didn't attend the wedding, bringing the wedding gift for Trina and Dan), Kitty and Margot were welcoming them, as Lara Jean made sure the finishing touches were in place, as the DJ arrived - who she went to speak with.

Peter walked in with his mother and brother, seeing Lara jean talking to what he assumes is the DJ, wearing the same gorgeous light blue-green (he knows there was an actual name for the colour) dress he saw her wear when she walked down the aisle on the arm of another man. Half of her hair was down in soft curls and a braid crown which made his heart jump and stutter at the sight.

She looked so gorgeous. Completely out of his league. He still doesn't know how Lara Jean fell in love with him - considering how easily she could date any man she wanted (which was nearly proven the last time they broke up when John Ambrose was in the picture).

He watched as she checked the small watch on her wrist, the one he'd gotten her for her birthday. It made him happy that Lara Jean was still wearing the watch, Her eyebrows crinkled in the middle before she walked over to Kitty and whispered something in her ear. Pulling the youngest Song-Covey daughter away from the greeting of guests to speak to her.

"Dad and Trina should have been here 5 minutes ago," Lara Jean tells Kitty, wanting to run her fingers through her hair, but knew that with the braid crown, it couldn't be done. "We need a plan, and now. Because if Margot finds out, there is going to be hell to pay,"

It was well known within the family that Margot liked to follow a strict schedule as their maternal grandmother does. Kitty and Lara Jean were bouncing ideas between each other when Lara Jean's phone rang.

As it turns out, their father and new step-mother were stuck in traffic and they would be there as soon as they could.

"I'm going to get the DJ to play some music, keep the younger ones entertained," Lara Jean suggested, as she walked over to the DJ booth.

After the newlyweds finally arrived, speeches were spoken, dinner was eaten, along with the cake. As Dan took Trina's to go have their first dance, the guests crowded around the dancefloor. The Song Sister's stood in age order, arms linked together.

"We did a good job," Kitty said, which Lara Jean nodded - who looked a little further over and seeing Peter stood with his mother both watching her father's first dance with his new bride and then looked over at her, their eyes connecting over the dancefloor.

After the dance, the floor was available to anyone - the children got first dibs and started running around to get the sugar out of their system before bedtime.

Lara Jean walked over to Peter after her part of the father-daughter dance with Dan. Softly I say, “I wish I could take back the things I said the other night. I don’t even remember all of them.”

Looking down, he says, “But you meant them, right? So it’s a good thing you said them then, because somebody had to and you were right.”

“Which part?” I whisper.

“About UNC. About me not transferring there.” He lifts his head, his eyes wounded. “But you should have told me my mom talked to you.”

I take a shaky breath. “You should have told me you were thinking about transferring! You should’ve told me how you were feeling, period. You shut down after graduation; you wouldn’t let me in. You kept saying everything was going to be fine.”

“Because I was fucking scared, okay!” he bursts out. He looks around to see if anyone heard, but the music is loud, and everyone is dancing; no one is looking at us, and it’s like we are alone here in this backyard.

“What were you so scared about?” I whisper.

His hands tighten into fists at his sides. When he finally speaks, his voice comes out raw, like he hasn’t used it in a while. “I was scared that you were going to go to UNC and you were gonna figure out I wasn’t worth it, and you were going to leave.”

I take a step closer to him. I put my hand on his arm; he doesn’t pull away from me. “Besides my family, you’re the most special person to me in the world. And I meant some of those things I said the other night, but not the part when I said I only wanted to lose my virginity to you to close a chapter on us. I wanted it to be you because I love you.”

Peter puts one arm around my waist, pulls me in, and, looking down at me, he says fiercely, “Neither of us wants to break up. So why should we? Because of some shit my mom said? Because your sister did it that way? You’re not the same as your sister, Lara Jean. We’re not the same as Margot and Sanderson or anybody else. We’re you and me. And yeah, it’s gonna be hard. But Lara Jean, I’ll never feel for another girl what I feel for you.” He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have, and I have never loved him more than at this very moment.

#to all the boys series #to all the boys fic #peter kavinsky #lara jean song covey #kitty song covey #margot song covey #trina rothschild #book: always and forever lara jean #dan covey and trina rothschild's wedding #peter and lara jean make up

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