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fizzyswirl · 13 days

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{two new chapters (hope this can bring some positively to this hashtag) I have to remember how these next parts go as it has been so long that I forget what exactly happeneds after the funeral arc but this is in Haru's pov and some things may be different, but again hope u all enjoy and of course if u are new to my oc story, please look at the previous posts}

Chapter 5: Loss

How does people become a parent? Currently Haru is trying to figure out wether or not to tell Cosmo about Flippa, like he deserves to know, especially as she was his best friend. But they know Cosmo will be upset about it, they need advice from Owen.

Haru searches cor their buddy, he should know what they should do in this issue. As Haru goes outside, it spots Owen currently farming some of the fruit and crops.

"Owen!" Haru called out as Owen closes the chest, he looks up at Haru curious on what they need, all Haru does is give the invitation to Owen and that was all she needed to understand what their sibling needs.

Owen put the invitation back in the envalope and tells Haru they need to tell Cosmo, Owen understands how it feels to not tell his daughter (she adoted an alcremie named Angel Cake) who was a bit scared what will happened when Owen and his ex breaks up.

He didn't know how to tell her but they all sat down and it eventually all worked out. Owen knew that this needs to be done as Cosmo would want to know and Haru understands that.

Haru went inside and called for Cosmo to go to the living room, as Haru's trying to calm themselves down, Owen comes in with Cosmo who seems a bit nervous as he senses his pama's stress.

As Cosmo sits down. Haru takes a deep breath while holding on Owens shadow Claw, and talks to Cosmo about the news....

It's the day of the funeral and Cosmo isn't waking up, he has been feeling sad and even angry. Haru felt bad about telling him but at the same time it feels that Cosmo is glad to know what happened.

Haru and Owen check on Cosmo, seeing as he's still sleeping, they wrote a note and place it near a glass of chocolate milk and a quesadilla on the nightstand. And headed over.

Haru hates funerals for a reason, its sad it's depressing, it just isn't a place anyone wants to go (maybe someone who is fascinated with graves and anything that a funeral is, but even then that's just not Haru's vibe) most of the parents of the deceased eggs are here.

Mariana looks like he has been dealing with lossing Flippa really hard, he hasn't shaved, his clothes are not clean, like he was wearing them for the past couple days, and his eyes look red and tearmarks can be seen behind the shadows under the eyes. Poor guy, from what they heard he accidently miscliked again.

Quackity looks more down and upset even, like he seems to be upset with someone, but who? Maximus is more calmer out of the other parents but also is sad, Dan was his partner right?

They only saw him on the first day and he seemed to have dissapeared ever since. None of these parents deserves to lose their egg, even if they weren't the best parents, they tried as much as they could.

They turned and saw Bad, Dapper, Leo, Foolish, and Fit showing up. Bad looks a bit down, he seems to feel sorry. From what they've noticed, Bad is very caring to the eggs, not just his own.

Bad took care of Cosmo a few times before and Cosmo loves his tio as much as his tio Owen.

After everyone, including Spreen who they never talked to showed up, the funeral began and it was a mess.

But as observing Haru tends to be, noticed a camera in a corner during one of the speeches, and Haru has a strange feeling about this one camera.

Everyone went to the graveyard and honestly it feels more pleasant than the church. But still sad and a sorrow vibe.

Cucurucho suddenly showed up and took the heartbroken parents to this elevator (they need one of those for their base) wonder what Cucorucho is doing? And then Slime (who they haven't seen for a strongly long amount of time) shows up out of nowhere and runs to try to find where Mariana is.

Eventually things got way stranger as Spreen and Bad decideds to have a battle in the graveyard (the most inappropriate spot to fight in btw) and Rubius (who they've forgot to mention has met, he's not an enemy but not a friend, tho Haru wants to be friends with the sometimes angel and sometimes devil) Rubius seems to even be encouraging fights.

But ay, the mood got better.

Chapter 6: The beginning to the end

Cosmo's feeling better, despite still not fully happy, he's no longer angry, they all decided to have nights where they head to a special spot Haru found and looks at the sunset from the ocean that's nearby. It's nice to see the stars arrives and Haru ends up thinking about things.

Like how they went from being trapped on this island to being a parent to an egg, Cosmo is Haru's shining star. They'll protect this egg at all cost.

One day, Haru and Cosmo went to visit Missa and Phil at the wall for a playdate. And as Haru walks over, they noticed another egg, they have black curly hair with a purple beanie, they seem to be playing Desbasito on the flute.

Missa noticed Haru's curiosity and Introduced his egg, Tallulah, isn't Missa already a parent to chyanne? Missa then explained how he and Fit found the egg in the attic. She must've been forgotten and Missa asked Fit what they should do with her as she needed a parent. Fit politely turned down adopting another egg as he has Ramon and Spreen went for milk. And so Missa decided to take Tallulah and loom around for a place for her.

But by the end of the day, Missa got attached and adopted Tallulah as his own.

As the story ends, Haru feels a gentle pull on their shorts, and see Tallulah holding a poppy towards them, they thanked the little egg as Tallulah shyly smiles before heading to the other eggs.

Oh my stars, Haru graduated to get out of school, why is school now involved? Of course Quackity is a teacher. The first day for the eggs was more calm but also Quackity seems to pick favorites and Chayanne defiently had a lot of beef with Quackity. What even happened between them? Haru's drawing was really good, he isn't much for art like Bobby, but he is still talented at it.

And there's a strange BIG egg, named Biden???? Now Haru sees patterns again...

But the day ended like the other days pretty good.

Quackity told everyone awake to go to the adoption center, but why? Is there an event?

Owen and Cosmo went to bed and so Haru headed over alone. Fit and Philza are there as well, Chyanne came along despite the time. They all met Quackity at the center and was talking about god and forgiveness, and about birth???(this guy is just blabbering at this point)

But they headed inside, Quackity noticed a sign that has a weirdly written egg.

As they all look through the door, a green, goopy egg with big glasses sat there. Haru was astonished just as everyone, tho Quackity seems to not be as surprised.

Foolish and Leo showed up, and we all were lined up for this egg to pick a parent, they went towards Leo and she seemed excited (Foolish looks not ready to be a grandparent yet. Which is very understandable) but they all agreed that they shouldn't pick an egg. The green egg walks back and forth and went right up to Quackity.

He was happy to be chosen and decided they all should name them, the name suggestions were bad (Haru thought they were bad at names but dinasour????)

They decided to let the egg choose, and his name is now Gegg.

Bad news, very bad news. Soon the eggs will be going away, but the message they gotten was cruel, like they wonder how many people would stop eating regular eggs after getting a message like this.

That day, Haru will make the best with the limited time Cosmo will be with them and Owen.

Maximus seems to have been investigating lately, they arrived at Vagetta's home which look so cool, him and Foolish defiently are paired perfectly together.

They saw Max, Roier, Vegetta, Fit, and some of the eggs, Cosmo headed over to play with the others as Maximus talks about the plan to get answers from Quackity, who apparently might've invited Haru to the island (they have noticed Quackity seems to know a lot that they don't)

And the plan he told was not what Haru expected. A strip club???

Vegetta and Roier are already prepared and wow. They look really good in their outfits, especially Roier, his persona seems to be Melissa, pretty name.

But they all headed over to the club and it's really cool, a bit too bright and noisey for them but still really cool.

They weren't expecting to be a bartender again, sure in their past life they used to do part time bartending and they even work at a cafe back home. But it's been a bit but it shouldn't be that hard (as they placed noise canceling headphones)

Haru spots Quackity coming in and Vegetta and Roier are coming out, Haru and Fit made drinks and made a toast before drinking (Haru has a soda, they don't drink)

And Max took the now tipsy duck hybrid in a room he created and Haru decided to go with everyone else.

They don't exactly know what was said as it was in Spanish, but from what Max said, they seem to have gotten some information.

Today Haru, Owen, Philza, and their eggs went over to a spot Missa decided to make for Tallulah, the house looks cute and simple. He must've wanted Tallulah to have more control over the place and they all are currently working on planting flowers with Tallulah. She loves flowers, just as much as music.

Missa talked to Haru and Philza about him having to leave for a while, he mentioned about needing to head off the island for his music career. Now Missa is talented just as everyone is, but he makes music and was asked by someone outside of the island to travel around the world.

Tallulah seems to be worried about her papi, but Missa reassures her he will be back, it will just be a while. After a while as the sun starts to set, Haru and Cosmo heads home.

They take Cosmo to the special spot and talks.

Haru will miss their shining star, Cosmo has been the greatest thing that happened to them and even tho they'll moss him and the rest of the eggs, they know this won't last forever and so as the waves are moving, they drift off to sleep.

#qsmp #qsmp oc #qsmp fanfiction

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trasho-pando2011 · 4 months

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Remember that post abt my old OCs and how i mentioned Vanessa?

Well... I found some art of her...

god, she's so edgy

some art of Jessie/Jessica

Batty-

remember this guy? (Dapper Dan. Also, yes, my mom picked that name) most of u probably don't-

#old art #old ocs

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awwflycat · 2 years

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Dapper Dan enjoying a sunbeam (OC)

#Cute #Sweet #Aww #awesome

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fishy-exe · 3 years

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Yeehaw

#fallout #fallout 76 #fallout 76 photomode #cowboy #screenshot #fo76 #fallout ocs #oc: dapper dan #season 3 board almost done on ps4 #and man Dan you are living up to your name looking all fancy #yeehaw indeed

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nuclearmu5hroom · 3 years

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Been a minute since I posted our Fallout 76 antics

w @charomiami @leporidaefluff and @fishy-exe

#fallout 76 #my screenshots #friends ocs #drake fenring #tino ricci #dapper dan #raider hvid #this game is good and the community is wonderful and ill die on this hill

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smallgayblanket · 6 years

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Lou downed her fourth shot before sighing and running her fingers through her hair, opting to wear it down for once. The liquor was warming up her body, especially her face as she had a light intolerance to alcohol. Lou was sure if she stood that she'd be stumbling around, which is why she chose to stay seated at the bar. "Dan, can I have another?" she asked.

The bar had fallen quiet, besides the faint jazz filling the silence of the lack of patrons in the wee hours of the morning. Dan was drying glasses as he gave the woman a nod. She’d been a pleasant distraction from the other drunks and such. ‘You sure you wouldn’t want something else?’ He queries. ‘I could make you something fun.’ He smirks, grabbing her glass to do a refill anyways.

#oc-rp-louella #Dapper Dan #//The bar is magic hehe #//like you hear his voice yet not a word was said #//loud n clear in ya head #//poor dude tho.. leaves the bar and has to go back to sign #//Does lou know sign?

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racheldrawsthis · 7 years

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Meet DD! He’s my new precious son and such a dapper little ghost :D

#oc #dapper dan #dd #artists on tumblr #original art #racheldrawsthis

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fishplagueart · 3 years

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Yeehawgust Day 4/5: Chaps/Rope Burn

You rode on in with nowhere else to go You know the tune so the words don't matter

Inspiration is of course the music video for Queen of the Rodeo

#yeehawgust #fallout #orville peck #cowboy #artists on tumblr #fishplagueart #fallout 76 #fallout ocs #oc: dapper dan #i was pretty mesmerized by this person in the music video

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charomiami · 2 years

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DapperDan for THEE astounding @fishplagueartueart ! Thank you so much for letting me draw my favorite bartender again! I had this pose in mind for so long but it fit Dan so well I had to use it!

#Fallout #yeehawhust #cowboy #dapper dan #dirty dan #friends oc

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iamvegorott · 2 years

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Hey it’s the PowerPoint person here! Sorry bout the wait, sent that message and promptly passed out! So I’ll go in the order and give a general vide of what I said for each and what number out of 150 they were (1 being the highest, 150 being lowest)

76. Henrick. I basically said Henrick looked like he’d be doing a physical and shove his hand up my ass without warning but he’s got a spiffy lab coat-turtle neck combo and he’s a doctor so he makes bank and therefore I’d bonk him

63. Anti. I put him much lower than I would have because I felt it unfair to have all mark and jacks egos at the very top, not to mention I think my friends would judge me. I mostly talked about how a lot of my art has been influenced by anti’s aesthetics and how even the name that all my friends call me was once my cringe 7th grade evil OC of myself loosely based of of anti. I also said he deserved to be a bigger tumblr sexy man. I’d bink him

42. Edward. I said that in contrast to Henrick he would ask before shoving a hand up my ass. I said he makes bank cuz he a doctor. He looks like he’d give me a lollipop. I honestly really like Edward, he’s not super outstanding but he’s just funky. I’d boing him

12. Jameson. My three comments on here were literally: DAPPER MAN! Moustache = +10 points to sexy. Monocle. And honestly I stand by that. Jameson’s just a cute lil’ man and I love him. I’d get down and jiggy with this man

5. Dark. Tumblr sexy man. Said I liked men who could snap my neck. Emo king my dudes. In the PowerPoint I put his name as “Darkiplier” so my friends didn’t think I was like “casual” with him 😂 idk why but I’m super embarrassed about being into like youtuber stuff, I never talk about my Youtubers I watch and the one time I asked for merch it was the one Dan and Phil book like forever ago and I was so embarrassed even though it’s not bad or anything??? I’d boinkers this dude

3. Wilford. Wilford is personally my fav ego and he was very close to being first place (second place was a joke) but I gave it to Illinois because I could make a comment about his whip. Wilford follows the law of “man covered in blood = sexy” and he could kill me but also I could curse the man. I’d definitely bangers this guy

1. Illinois. Basically said I have a thing for men who dress like Indiana Jones and they look like they’d take me on an uncharted style adventure to escape my boring life. Also he has a whip. I’d explore his tunnels ahaha.

Once again these aren’t the actual ratings I’d give them they’d all be much higher if I wasn’t worried about being judged by my friends lol. The PowerPoint was mostly comedic seeing as multiple characters from bloodbourne were in the top 20, Gandalf was on the list as well as mega mind and they weren’t very low. Pablo from the backyardagains and Thomas the tank engine were also on this list. AND a toothbrush that was in Yandere simulator as like a background piece but the model was borrowed form somewhere else which was meant for realism and it had so many polygons it crashed the game. Henrick was lower than the toothbrush.

Why were half of these a mood 😂

"man covered in blood = sexy"

No I will not explain, you just gotta know XD

#anon #nsft

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jakarvasarts · 4 years

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Since y'all seem to like my other Al drawing, have a Dapper Dan!Alastor singing Dixie Biscuit by Tape Five.

Might add color later

I have a class where we can't write notes, but my prof. Let's me draw, and my most comfortable character to doodle aside from OCs is Al, so be prepared for tons of him here.

Also, I didn't scree when Kat followed me

I totally did.

#my art #traditional art #art #hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hazbin demon #fan art #artists on tumblr

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brattywriters-anonymous · 5 years

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A Rose In Harlem

OC x Erik Story

Based on Teyana Taylor’s VII & KTSE

Warnings: Language

@chaneajoyyy

Chapter IX: Rize

February 6, 2014

22 HOURS BEFORE SHOWTIME.REHEARSAL, NINE PM.

"Ladies, Gents! Find Seats! Sit in them!" All twenty-four models followed Yani's request. We just wrapped our rehearsal, everyone did phenomenal. I can only pray that we get it like this at 583 Park Ave. Yani and I have been thee dynamic duo for the past seventy-two hours. I've been steaming outfits, she's been bagging accessories. I've been designing roll-away walls, she's been contacting every contractor in her contacts to design the black and gold glitter floors.

Honestly, in the past month, Yani and I have been on our hustle. I finished my last shoot and have been on go since. Erik and I have basically been like two ships passing in the night. I usually would leave before him, and come home after he arrived. We never talked about my father's birthday, our kiss..well..kisses. None of it. I've been too busy. Yasin and I have been texting here and there, but I haven't seen him either. He's been understanding about it though. The only person I've been spending my time with is Yani.

We've collectively gotten maybe eight hours of sleep in three days. So now, we're just exhausted and over it. We're trying to get this rehearsal over and done with. The theater's silence is my queue to step on the stage, I do so, scanning my models faces. They're looking like kids on Christmas Eve. So excited for what the next day has to bring. Their faces make me grateful, my smile spreads and everyone breaks out in applause. I decipher a few, "Yeah Syd!" "You did it girl!" and "Woos" in the crowd, I yield my hands up and down, they lower their yells. "Hey everybody, We're down to the wire here. We're less than a day away. We've been working our asses off for a month and a half. I couldn't have ever gotten this done without any of you. I'm excited for everyone to see our hard work. I'm even more excited for you to see your hard work pay off."

I point to Iyo in the control center, He dims the lights and lower the projector screen. "I now present to you.. UPTXWN." Applause rings out as the projector displays a drone clip of High Bridge among the sunrise and Syd's voiceover, "Uptown, Home of the greats. From The Bronx, to Harlem. The place I know, the place I love." The six models she started with appear on the screen, daringly sitting on the railing, laughing with one another in their high end garments. "Our hustles.. It always had this special..thing about it. We always went a little harder. Thought a little smarter. Emerged to the top a bit faster." Photos of me and all of Uptown's finest begins scrolling through from right to left. From a photo of me and Dapper Dan when I was fresh out of college. Diddy and I when I was an intern at Chanel. With Kerry Washington a bit after Save the Last Dance came out when I was twelve. Sistah Souljah, Kid Capri, Bianca (aka Young B), Cam'ron, Juelz, and Jim Jones back when Rock-a-fella were still together, Kalis, and finally, A$AP Mob & me when they were fresh in the game back in 2011.

"And when we're on top, we set trends. We define eras. Their stamps will forever be evident in our culture. Here's mine. Here's UPTXWN." All of the photos scroll backwards and the screen goes black for a few seconds. Images of the Big L tribute wall outside of the Harlem Up Deli Market, in black and white appear, then the same original six models; Sam, Levi, Von, Jade, Deanna, and Cass kneeling at different levels, crowded around the wall. Making sure not to block his face or name. Then Pretty Flako instrumental bangs through the theater's speakers. The TV flake transition changes to the Bailey house shoot. The drone shot pans around the corner of the property, all twenty four models posing looking like royalty draped in over $80,000 worth of clothes collectively. The visual pans over to a slowed down visual of Nina flashing her bottom grill, her thick frame vibing out to the up tempo beat. Then to Xierra kneeling beside her, giving face in her side profile. The screen shortly displays a wide pan of the property and models again, then switches to Levi. Iyo's suggested scene of displaying the details of his tattoos on his shirtless body-- while simultaneously showing the VVS necklace, the embroidery on the custom one of a kind jean jacket; came out perfectly.

The photos of each model in each of their looks scroll through at the right speed so each detail is fully displayed. Every model stands up, showing off as their photos went across the screen. As Gina's photoset emerges, I turn to the screen so I can roll my eyes. I instantly become reminded of how flirty she was with Erik before Yani had to snatch her up to take these. Yani stands beside me, peeping the entire scene, "Girl, suck it up. She in it now. Let's get it over with." I shake it off, turning back to the models.

The park Marcus Garvey Amphitheater scene pops up, it was a gloomy overcast. Which was perfect for the theme. As the looping instrumental repeats, each model was either sitting at the top of the folding seats, or crouched on the seat of the folding seats. The collective total of every look? $110,878. I'm lucky I got such great relationships with these clients and these models didn't fuck up any of they shit. The first visual was Von, on the center stage. His long hair hanging over his entire face. He rocked this black long open hooded jacket, shirtless. Displaying his massive musical themed chest piece. It gave me a grim reaper vibe that I was definitely looking for. The jacket was a piece I asked Chris Brown's people to create for their Black Pyramid line. They fucked with the vision and agreed to do it. Von flipped the bottom of the jacket back with force, the rest of the models appeared on stage, smoke filled the stage floor as the all black visual came to life. Gina and Cass rocked matching contrast dresses, Cass was the only model not in black that day. I put her in a white intricate lace Erdem Dress. Gina wore the matching Black dress.

Jade and Deanna were back to back. Jade was wearing a black deep v neck, with a leather ribbed comme des garcons jacket. With a cascading gold necklace reaching her stomach. Accompanied with black and gold aviator Louis Vuitton shades, Black ripped Levis I thrifted on the East side, and Jefferey Campbell's Legion booties. Deanna was wearing my favorite outfit of that day. A black long sleeved Oscar De La Renta ruffled shirt with cut out shoulders, a Burberry black ruffled skirt, and black Averil Doc Martin boots. Her bamboos and three finger ring spelling out her name put a street edge on her look that was near and dear to my Harlem bred heart. GG beat every woman's face and gave them the same cohesive smokey eye with the black, In The Spirit MAC lipstick. The only difference makeup wise was Cass' white undereye liner.

Once again the photos of every model starts cascading slideshow style. Johan was my second favorite look for that shoot, He rocked a black high low long sleeved Alexander Wang shirt, black distressed Givenchy jeans, and his personal black on black Ralph Lauren Hi Boots. I was going to put him in some other shoes, but I saw the ones he had on and they looked way better with the fit. We accompanied that look with a black Cuban link necklace, the matching bracelet, and Dolce & Gabana retro flip up round glasses.

Everyone's rave reactions trigger my tears of joy, it's all of our first times seeing the visual's final product and I couldn't be any more proud. This has really been my baby. I've nurtured it, I've put in the work for it. This moment was like its graduation. Everyone looks at me, "Awwwwww!" Yani gives me a big hug, "I'm proud of you, kid." I squeeze her, "I'm proud of us, kid." I push out a laugh.

The final shoot displayed the brownstones on Mount Morris Park, the street right outside of Marcus Garvey Park. Where my parents' old brownstone was. I only needed my original six for this one, since all twenty-four wouldn't fit on the stoop. That day, it was sunny. Not one cloud in sight. Perfect lighting for the intimate shoot. The theme was spring, specifically, pastel colors.

I dressed Jade in a pastel yellow Ted Baker maxi dress, I accessorized her outfit with vintage canary yellow teardrop earrings with a matching tennis bracelet. She wore some nude Christian Louboutin spiked peep toed heels. She stands up when she finds her face and yells while twerking, "Long Hair! Red Bottoms! Long Hair! Red Bottoms!" Everyone, including me burst out in laughter. She kept saying it so much during the shoot, I let her keep them. Paid the $1,500 tab too. Deanna was draped in a Monroe and Main white two piece suit with black accents on the collar and cuffs. We accompanied that with my personal pearls I got from my mom before she passed, some white Manolo Blahnic pumps, and some VVS diamond earrings while her hair popped in the sunlight. She wore her low cut with a rose gold tint. I put Cass in a pair of nude Emilio Pucci wide legged trousers, a White Alexander McQueen peplum top, and a matching nude blazer was draping over her shoulders. Her accessories was a silver double C Chanel choker, charm rings from Tiffany Co., and a vintage Chanel crossbody, gifted from Karl Lagerfeld himself. He said I needed something old for my collection.

The guys were matching my girls' fly. Von parallels Deanna with a Tom Ford cotton two piece suit, I laced him with some white Versace loafers with the gold Medusa emblem on the center, with the Cuban link chain Johan wore at the Marcus Garvey shoot, and golden Panthere De Cartier rounded sunglasses. Levi's parallel was for Jade's look. He wore a pastel yellow Calvin Klein. Accompanied with a large size canary ring on his index finger, and the Burberry vintage loafers. Sam paralleled Cass, in a nude ASOS suit with the matching vest. I kept it simple and just accessorized it with my dad's gold pocket watch and black Stacy Adams dress shoes.

I thought the presentation was over, but then the screen transitioned to me working behind the scenes. Me pointing and directing at the Bailey house, with the wind blowing like crazy, me filming on Highbridge at the crack of dawn, Iyo even snuck some footage of the meeting we had in Morningside Park. It looks like Yani snuck some footage of me putting the image board for the fashion show stage together as well. I'm just admiring the scene of watching the hard nights and amazing days I shared with an incredible team. The last shot was me sitting on my old stoop. I was just reminiscing, thinking of how my mom, dad, and I would eat ice cream in the spring in the same spot. I looked up, as I normally do when thinking of them, put my hands together and mumbled, 'allah , shkraan lak.' The camera was too far to catch my phrase. Afterward I bowed between my legs so I could have my emotional moment to myself.

Everyone hops on the stage to crowd around me and initiated a group hug. Once everyone slightly disbursed, I see Gina still sitting in the audience with Erik, I guess he just got here. I hear the doors open again and see Yasin, smiling at me.

By half past 10, everyone had gone home except for Yani, Nina, Gina, Erik, and Yasin. Nina is waiting on Rashad to pick her up, and I guess Gina is looking to Erik to take her home. She's literally been all up under him since his arrival.

"Tomorrow's gonna go great, babe. You got a great team behind you, you've been super focused. It can't go any other way." Yasin lands a kiss on my temple as I blush at his encouragement. I blink in Erik's direction, he's giving the same look he gave us at Rashad's party. He then grips Gina, pulling her closer to him, "Yeah. You got it Syd. We gon head out. See ya later." with that, Erik and Gina strut to the exit. Nina's phone dings, "Oh, bae is here! See ya tomorrow Syd! We gon kill it, boo!" She hugs me and Yani then jogs out the double doors, "Nice seeing you again Yasin!" he nods, "You too!"

"So tell me something about you, Sin! I've only talked about me when I see you. What was lil Yasin like?" We are strolling down Saint Nick Avenue after getting grilled jerk chicken from King Barka. We decide to sit on a park bench right outside Saint Nick Park to chat since I wasn't quite ready to go home. "Well, I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Flatbush. My moms is from Brooklyn as well. My dad's side of the family is from Harlem, the eastside, but they love uptown just as much." I grin as he continues, "I was a bad ass kid growing up. Always fighting, getting into trouble at school, I even got expelled in middle school." "Well damn! How did you go from that to--" I wave my hands around his silhouette, "This?" He takes a bite out of his chicken and flashes a sexy smile, "My mom sent me to live with my Uncle. The one that retired and gave me the maintenance business."

"Ahhhh, I see. He whipped you into shape?" He snorts, "Oh, he whipped me alright. A lot. He taught me what it is to be a man." "Where was your father?" He continues eating, pausing his story for a spell, "Uh.. He was in prison. He pushed weight for about ten years, he got caught up. He didn't snitch, so he got twenty. He got out after eight years for good behavior." "How's your relationship with him now?" He shugs, "We're cool. We had a little spat when he first got out. I had to be the man of the house for a while for my moms and sisters. I resented him for it." I take a hold of his free hand, "We patched things up recently." "So him and your mom still married?" He nods, "Yeah. Moms held him down. That lady.. She deserves the world." He finishes his dish as he glows at the mention of his mother.

"She had to get two jobs before I turned sixteen and worked with my Uncle. She held down our household for three years, alone, before I was able to step in and help her. After that, she went back to school. She finished the year before my pops got out, now she's a nurse. Doing what she loves to do." "That's great. That's what life is about, doing what you love." "Definitely." He throws away our empty plates and we keep walking down the avenue, "So what do you love to do Yasin?" "I love music." I stop in my tracks.

"Let me guess, you rap?" he sucks his teeth, "Nah, girl. I play instruments. Three; Acoustic guitar, piano, and snare drum." "Ah, okay! When did you discover your talent?" "I was... ten, I think?" "You make songs?" He pulls a slick move behind me, grabbing me by my waist. I roll my eyes as we continue to walk, "I haven't made a song in five years." "Why not?" I feel him shrug behind me, "I've been busy." I turn around to grab his hands, "You're never too busy to do what you love." He smiles at me, I sense the same glow about him that he had when he spoke of his mom. "Especially when it makes you this happy...just talking about it." Yasin closes the gap between us, "Maybe, you're right. Look at you. Doing what you love. You're inspiring Syeda. Beautiful, too." He strokes my left cheek with his palm. I freeze, much like I did a couple weeks back in my apartment with Erik.

Speaking of Erik, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do about what happened since my dad's birthday. I guess Erik knows what he wants, and that's Gina. So why am I freezing? What's stopping me? All of a sudden my inner thoughts are silenced when Yasin seals our distance, gently kissing me. My knees buckle and he hoists me up by my butt, cuffing the bottom of my cheeks. That makes me even weaker, he breaks off from me, "Damn girl. You good?" My eyes flutter as I respond, "Yeah. Yeah. I'm good." I pull him by his shirt to kiss him again.

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