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#so ofc with her id never be like i told u so. no one ever listens when their friend says someone is bad news its just a fact

midnightwriter21 · 11 months

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Sanemi, Shinobu and Obanai x Giyuu little sister reader. Reader 20 and 1 year younger than Giyuu and is the Polar opposite of Jim like she very playful and curious but also very loving to him and he spoils her. She a civilian who owns a tea shop. May I have headcanons with her and those three and Giyuu reaction to each please?

demon slayer hcs: sanemi & shinobu x giyuu's little sister!reader

characters: sanemi, shinobu, giyuu

warnings: mentions of birth control in shinobu's (idek if that needs a warning lol)

AN: pumped this out at 3am lol, ill be doing obanai in another part!

SANEMI

your relationship was such a slow burn lol

when he finds out ur giyuu's sister its an immediate disliking on Sanemi's part

but are we rly surprised?

dude HATES giyuu

you spend a lot of time with the hashira

and you've become good friends with them so you're always around when the hashira are all together

they all adore u

you're sweet, funny, outgoing, confident

basically everything that giyuu isn't lollll

you brought snacks from ur teashop to one of the lil hashira hangouts

and you couldn't help but notice sanemi absolutely stuffing his face full of the ohagi that you brought

but who can blame him?

he might not like you but he never said you were a bad cook

and ohagi is his favorite

a couple days after the lil hangout

sanemi gets back to his estate after a mission and finds a cute lil basket adorned with a bow sitting on his doorstep

he picks it up and looks inside and its full of ohagi

after he goes inside and devours the whole basket

he finds a note at the bottom saying "enjoy <3" signed with your name

thats it right there.

the way to this mans heart is thru his stomach fr

now

when yall are dating dating

you keep it quiet

none of the other hashira know

and giyuu CERTAINLY doesn't know

until one day you're working at your tea shop and sanemi walks in to pick up the lunch that you made him

now me personally... id turn into a professional cook for this man

5 COURSE MEAL FOR EVERY MEAL

anyways

its not a busy day at the shop so he walks into the kitchen to find you cooking

and this man is HANDSY

so ofc he grabs you by your waist and pulls u into him

and starts feeling you up good lord please i want this so bad

you hear the faint 'ding!' of the bell above the front door

but pay it no mind assuming its a customer

and then the kitchen door opens

and everyone freezes

cause standing in the doorway is your older brother

thats the most expressive face sanemi has ever seen on giyuu

dudes eyes are wide as saucers

mouth wide open

shook af

like "dawg don't you hate me and everyone that associates with me?"

like "you have basically cursed my entire bloodline"

"you told me to off myself because im me"

and sanemi is just "i hate you not you're sister"

and goes back to feeling u up totally ignoring giyuu's presence

giyuu basically just moonwalks back out the door

and pretends he never saw any of that

lol i love them XD

SHINOBU

now shinobu liked you from the second she met you

she went to giyuu's estate to get him for a mission

and walks in to find you teasing and mocking tf outta ur older brother lmao

ofc she joins in

throwing in some teasing remarks of her own

poor giyuu lol

she is a frequent visitor to your tea shop

cause instead of making medicinal teas herself, now she can just get you to do it

plus she gets to see her favorite girlllll

now

the way giyuu finds out is too funny

you are in the infirmary at the butterfly mansion

dw ur not injured or sick or anything!!

now...

you're sitting on the bed waiting for shinobu

when giyuu walks in

and he's like "wtf are u doing here"

you're explain your business to ur brother when shinobu walks in looking down at a needle saying

"alright i have your birth control shot! not like you need it... i can't get u pregnant"

she looks up when she hears a 'smack'

and there you are with ur hand slapped to your forehead and a bright red face

giyuu just looks between you and shinobu with a blank face

before he passes clean out

dude hits the floor hard lmao

when he wakes up you give him an explanation

and then u and shinobu tease him for passing out

lol dude can't catch a break

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shimamitsu · 1 month

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if u ever wanna complain abt blue flag id be all ears. ive had it recommended a ton but never got around to hear abt it

ah, the old blue flag. every few months i remember this manga and i feel pure anger deep in my heart. long post incoming! i know a lot of people like it so i'll preface this by saying that this is my opinion, you can still like it, let's hold hands and read manga together. anyway, blue flag. my main problem is that it feels like something that was written for heterocis people to sympathize with lgbt's people's existence instead of something that actually included lgbt's people's experiences and opinions. all you have to know is that there's this scene where a character makes a list of lgbt songs or smth like that and one of them is shake it off by taylor swift. yeah. i said this yesterday but it's not like i think it's bad for lgbt manga to be educational, that's totally ok. there are works like 'i think our son is gay' that are very good at that. the whole plot of the manga is that a mom finds out her son is gay and it follows how she learns about sexuality, lgbt issues, etc etc (it's also told from her pov). its purpose clearly is to be educational for a non-lgbt audience. with blue flag... it felt like they were trying to explain lgbt 101 to me and failing. it raised a lot of questions about sexuality that in the best of cases the author couldn't give an answer to (and sometimes it's ok not to, but we weren't dealing with queer theory here, the question was like. do gay ppl deserve rights), and in the worst of cases just fumbled the resolution completely. the best example for that is how a character's outing got handled. spoilers here ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ but man. the mc gets outed by his homophobic friend, later it is revealed that this friend is homophobic bc he got assaulted by a man (wow gay predator trope, never seen that before), and the manga could've taken 10000 different directions to deal with that but what did the author decide to do? yeah -> homophobia is just a different opinion! we have to understand where both sides are coming from <3 hell no. die. (it was awful and heartbreaking to read btw). more big spoilers ‼️ another thing that made me violent (and i mean it), was how the manga handled another character's sexuality. one of the main characters, a girl whose name i can't remember, spent the entire manga rightfully struggling with coming to terms with the fact that she liked women. she explicitly said she couldn't like men if i remember correctly. well. here comes a time skip. she's married to a man. how. what. and ofc i'm not saying she can't be bi, but she was clearly written as a lesbian. why on earth is she married to a man then i wanna KILLLLLLLLL. anyway the ending also sucked. in the time skip it's implied the main boys were dating (idek how we got there, ig we skipped the entire sexuality journey of one of them) but it was told from a 1st person pov for some reason so we literally don't see them together (i wonder if it was too gay for shonen jump). when this manga was ongoing, even when it ended, people were promoting it to hell and back, saying how good the "representation" was. i assure you i never saw a manga that centered lgbt characters be talked about THAT much, except maybe shimanami tasogare. it seriously was huge. it was a lot of people's first approach to lgbt manga as well. why people think lgbt manga peaked with ao no flag is beyond me. last year a mutual made a post talking about it and they made a great point which was that blue flag would've never gotten that popular if it wasn't a shonen jump manga and i totally agree. and i'll be bitter about it being licensed where i live while shimanami tasogare isn't until the day i die. but yeah that's a summary of my issues with it. obviously i don't recommend it lol

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sftbvllet · 2 days

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Hi vin the ailly megamind u dont gotta answer actually but if youd like ID LOVE TO HEAR SONGS U ASSOCIATE WITH F1 DUOS :33 <3 cuz i actually didnt ssk u back tehee. This can jusy stay in the drafts or u can answer all up to u teheeee

why are you?? so nice??? apart from the megamind thing. my forehead isnt even that big cmon now HAL. BUT YESYEYS OFC ILL DO THIS YESSSSS

i agree w all ur songs but these r some ones you didn’t mention that i think fit them >:D its 2AM so ignore if this is bad LMAOOOO

BROCEDES (lewis & nico)

— two slow dancers, mitski

“its funny how you always remember / and we’ve both done it all a hundred times before / its funny how i still forgot / it would be a hundred times easier / if we were young again / but as it is, and it is / we’re two slow dancers, last ones out.”

these specific lyrics are so brocedes post-everything. they’ve won it (a race) hundreds of times before, but in that one interview lewis said he doesnt know what winning feels like anymore - and im pretty sure nico, after retiring in 2016, would feel the same. so, if’s funny how i still forgot. but it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again??? childhood friends turned rivals anthem cmon now.

“to think that we could stay the same / to think that we could stay the same / to think that we could stay the same”

i dont really need to explain that one, do i?

— please, please, please let me get what i want, deftones (cover)

“good times for a change / see the life ive had can make a good man bad / so please, please, please / let me get what i want / lord knows it would be the first time”

this reminds me a lot of when their rivalry first started, and then the later lyrics are so nico coded. it’s his first time winning a championship and now look - it made a good man bad. ykwim?

— all or none, pearl jam (my fav song like. ever btw!!!)

“its a hopeless situation / and im starting to believe / that this hopeless situation / is what im trying to achieve”

i see these lyrics with brocedes as kind of like… they didn’t like the rivalry, the hopeless situation, but it was sort of all they had left of each other at that point? so thats what they want OR the ‘hopeless situation’ could be the wdc. idek i just know this is them-coded

“to myself, i surrender / to the one i’ll never please / but i still try to run on / oh, i still try to run on / but its all or none / all or none”

you cannot tell me that’s not them in 2016. you cant.

other songs — silver springs by fleatwood mac (ofc), fade into you by mazzy star, twin sized mattress by the front bottoms, not strong enough by boygenius, the night we met by lord huron and phoebe bridgers.

SIMI (sebastian & kimi)

— stuck on the puzzle, alex turner

“nobody i asked knew how he came to be the one to whom / you surrendered”

like you told me about kimi being the only one to welcome seb into f1:(( i wish i could analyse this song more but its just the overall vibe thats so them.

“i have been searching from the bottom to the top / for such a sight as the one i caught when I saw your / fingers dimming the lights / like you're used to being told that you're trouble / and I spent all night / stuck on the puzzle”

GOD ITS LITERALLY THEM ISNT IT?? just do you see my vision here

other songs — kingston by faye webster, here there and everywhere by the beatles, there is a light and it never goes out by the smiths, i was made for loving you by kiss, golden brown but the cage the elephant cover.

CARLANDO (carlos & lando)

— cupid’s chokehold / breakfast in america, gym class heros

honestly everything about this song is so sweet and happy and romantic so.. carlando. literally carlando. i wish i could analyse more but they’re just happy silly little blorbos <3 so ill do some them coded lyrics from the song below

“we even got a secret hand shake / and she loves the music that my band makes / i know i’m young, but if i had to choose her or the sun / i’d be one nocturnal sun of a gun”

“she’s got the cutest laugh i ever heard / and we can be on the phone for three hours (not saying one word) / and i would still cherish every moment / and when i start to build my future she’s the main component / call it dumb, call it luck, call it love or whatever you call it, but / everywhere i go i keep her picture in my wallet like, yeah”

— cherry wine, hozier (live)

“her eyes and words are so icy, oh, but she burns / like rum on a fire / hot and fast and as angry as she can be”

very carlos-coded when he drives, hes silly sure but he can get fast and angry and <33 i love him for it. lando does too.

“but i want it / its a crime / that she’s not around most the time / the way she shows me i’m her’s and she’s mine”

wanting to analyse it more but it is just them. gayboys…. the ‘shes not around most the time’ is since the move to ferrari <//3

other songs — here comes your man by the pixies, cornerstone by the arctic monkeys, sparks by coldplay. just any soft romance song tbh <3

OKAY THERE!!! i wanted to do more and analyse more than just brocedes lyrics but im just like you fr…. im brainrotting so bad about nico and lewis. but i hope u liked reading this!! maybe ill do webbonso and others later:)

#— isa tag #— asks #sftbvllet ౨ৎ #isa isa isa :)!!#isa pooks #isa the lil silly #iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssss a!!!!!#thank u sm for the ask:)#formula one #formula 1

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yuukei-yikes · 1 year

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give 5 of your favorite takane headcanons plzplz *big eyes*

this has been sitting in my inbox for a few weeks cuz i was trying to come up with something i havent drawn/talked about before but whatever Lets fucking go even if i repeat shit OK FIRST OF ALL. THE FUCKING SLEEVES. takane post str keeping the ene sleeves bc of sensory issues my beloved <3 i think he rly tries to laugh it off at first kinda like in denial but eventually gives in (or like in that comic i made haruka talks her into it and how its ok a lil bit too)

i also drew this in a harutaka i posted but takane randomly giving static shock to people when they touch them ajdhnsakdjskf <- something having the long sleeves also helps with cuz that way he doesnt have to actually touch anyone. victims of this most often are haruka (by accident) and shintaro (on purpose). also its hair randomly standing up bc. static. this makes no sense ofc but i think its a funny and silly way to translate takane's power in her physical body. the more time he spends as ene the more charged with random electricity its physical body is. RIP harutaka kisses they kinda hurt. u can make the our love is electrifying joke only like 3 times before it becomes annoying. eventually takane thinks haruka becomes immune but in reality he just gets used to it

this is kinda canon ig cuz of that saiyuki comic abt enoshima(was it enoshima. i might be misremembering LOL whatever the picture contest one) where its implied shes been playing for a living so streamer vtuber ene REAL. a hit bc its an insane fucking model to have. when asked who made it enes just like ohh sorry the guy who made is my teacher who died lol!!! maybe theres a bunch of conspiracy videos abt it because ene stops going online for 2 years and then theyre back but instead of a silent stream like it always was its THIS. huge hit though. its awesome. streamer takane is so real not only does he use its power for a job but its also basically "kay time to go to work *falls asleep*" takane being the only? mekadan guy who actually loves their power and actively uses it post str will never not be funny they/she/he/it takane btw. if you even care. bisexual nonbinaries eating hot chip and lying. blue hair AND pronouns. ALSO THE BLUE HAIR ive also drawn this a few times but takane chopping all its hair off+dyeing it blue my beloved. post str takane is never rly drawn with the long hair he has when she gets his body back but ummm i think itd be funny if post str they had it and cut it straight to short from there. i do not want to see the no9 novel ever tbh im fine with it being buried and dead but omg....takane design without the stupid fucking pigtails im BEGGING id kill to see a canon takane design without them. but i live in my delusion and in it theres short blue hair and pronouns!!!

not so much of a takane headcanon more of a general one but also sort of related. im so fascinated by what saeru must've told haruka and takane's parents. haruka was gonna die anyway so his dad wouldnt be surprised but theres No Body? i think for him he was probably a little gaslighted abt seeing him dead and by how he is described maybe he wouldve been fine with never looking at his son dead+convinced to have a closed casket by his old pal mr tateyama and just buried an empty casket for haruka.

but for takanes grandma its so complicated bc she had no REASON to have takane disappear like that. basically i think saeru gaslights gatekeeps girlbosses so hard like gaslights both’s parents to hell and back but especially takanes grandma bc harukas dad is more or less covered but with all its money and resources it can cover up haruka and takanes disappearances altogether so takanes just. Gone. and this poor womans rly has no answers, no closure, no nothing. takane just vanishes!!! grandma enomoto protagonist when. i think itd be funny if she went full on old woman conspiracy theory mode or just tries to move on with this huge mystery behind. takane and grandma reunion i want to see it. haruka with his dad too tbh im rly curious what theyd tell them and what theyve been told LOL

i think haruka and takane dont go back to their families immediately bc they have no fucking clue what to even say so they stay in the hideout for the time being (would the dan move to the tateyama house post str? i read this in a fic once i think itd make sense and i always go sniff sniff imagining mekatrio+mary saying goodbye to the 107 apt). but for takane it sort of becomes urgent bc um it starts becoming apparent she needs its meds and the dan does NOT have the funds so while haruka can wait it out takane is like forced to go back home. i think at first takane would try to pull thru bc with its powers he can still hang out and stuff but its rather haruka/shintaro/ayano being like UMMMM... YEA U NEED UR MEDS. yuukei quartet visiting enomoto grandma WHEN!!!!!!they go 4 emotional support/help to explain i thinks. i think they wouldve known her back then too cuz in the sixth novel haruka mentions they go to takane's house for ayano's bday party after the gaming event.

ummm... sorry this got long. sits down. sry theyre all moslty post str headcanons LOL post str my beloved

#ask tag #headcanons #takane enomoto

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boinurmom13 · 1 year

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someone tell me something thats slander to isaacs name so i can hate his guts again

twll me he hate crimed 3 trans ppl or smth man Zpls PLS PSL PSL

anyways more isaac and ophelia

theyre so CUTE!!

i forgor captions

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“Pissed he has to be here,” “Trying to show him around”

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“Never been to the restaurant, too scared to correct,” “A regular, nervous”

Ophelia: U-uhm, he uh asked for no pickles

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“Too nervous to talk”

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guys say ohpelia is pretty rn or she’ll cry. she spends sm time on makeup so tell her shes pretty RIGHT NOW!! (someone’s gotta step up, cuz it sure as hell aint isaac)

anyone else think isaac is like super uncomfortable in unfamiliar places. like. genuinely. me personally, i think he shares the same nervous feeling lance gets when he goes into towns and stuff.

like.

if u told me isaac could order a bigmac without feeling like an idiot id laugh in ur face tbh

i might also be projecting so i like him more

anyways heres someone with crippling social anxiety and someone with the fear of unknown places (they kiss but u dont see that)

their love story could start one of two ways and i think ones cooler thsn the other

1. Ophelia stays some time at bo’s house due to either financial issues/issues with the guild she works for. they meet then, and it kinda goes from there.

read on cuz the second one’s long as hell!!

isaac has to stay for a long, LONG while in roder to figure this out, because got DAYMN they’re good at hiding. unbeknownst to ophelia’s guild, he is looking for the anamoly. so what do they do? assign the anamoly to be his guild “partner” for his stay (essentially, when alone in an unknown guild to help out, i’d image the bigger ones will assign an adventurer to the helping hand in order to help them learn the ropes and wtv. that’s ofc, prolly not true, but it works so stfu.) ophelia doesn’t know isaac’s purpose, isaac doesn’t know ophelia’s secret.

eventually, he does find out, because she’s a nervous wreck and crumbles when under any intense interrogation. their bond’s already strengthened, and he doesn’t really tell camilla (out of fear that maybe they’ll take ophelia away never to be seen again. ofc, if that happened, bo would go batshit crazy. one close cousin after the next? tf’s wrong with these ppl, yk? so either way, telling camilla would not be the best idea if he wants to keep ophelia alive and well.)

isaac returns to castle village, still keeping in touch with ophelia through the bi-weekly letters (basically updates on anything interesting, or just sometimes to have a quick conersation back and forth. i could go on and on abt the lettering systme, but like, instant cuz magic and woo magic!!). he doesn’t tell camilla that ophelia’s the anamoly, and instead rants abt how rumors aren’t always believable and how half of the gossip amongst guilds is the dumbest shit ever (typical behavior for him)

they’re so cute guys say they’re cute rn or ill cry

when sve 2.0 comes out im making a new farm save for the sole purpse of marrying isaac as ophelia

i hope he ends up being an awkward mess. not like standard stereotypical awkward, but like. genuinely doesn’t know how to show affection awkward. prolly says “i think ur alright, i guess” as a compliment. tf do you mean “alright”? tell me im the hottest chick in this valley

idc if im a man

tell me im the hottest chick in this valley RIGHT NOW!!!

yah anyways i think i might be getting attached to him so someone stop that rn please pLEASE PLWEASE PLEASE PLEASE

live laugh love lance (IM FORCING MYSELF TO BELIEVE THIS BUT I STILL LOVE LANCE I PROMISE)

(PLEASE LET ME KEEP LOVING LANCE I CANNOT HAVE AN HONEST TO GOD HATE TO LOVE SITUATION HERE WITH A FICTIONAL CHARACTER)

(PLEASE PLEASPEL PELAPSLEP LAPLSSPLEAPL EPALSPELAP LEPALSE)

isaac is a lil goofy tho. like maybe if he stopped talking in weird omninous messages every time i look thru his diagloue file. like ok idc abt an adventure’s resolve or how ur gonan deicde ur own death or wtv. tell me how many inches it is jesus. idc care abt ur philosophy i just want ur body

(i prommise this is a joke i do respoect men pls i rppmise)

#stardew valley #stardew valley expanded #sdv oc #sdv #sve #sve isaac #sdv farmer #isaac sve #ophelia canonically makes dolls at cheap prices for funeral services and single parents #she says its comforting for the family of the deceased to have a doll of them #anyways she totally takes personal commissions #isaac jokes abt her making one of him once and she like #actually took it seriously #she made a doll of him #and after about two weeks after isaac left back to castel village #he was mailed it in a pretty and neat box #it sits on his untility belt but u didnt hear that from me

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menalez · 2 years

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"god dont make me bring up my first sexual experience with a woman being a belieber again please..." ...👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

i was 18/19…..she’s this tiny stud lesbian and i saw her singing in the women’s bathroom n she started talking to me and i was like 👀 ok i know how to make this happen. so she hung around me all night when we were doing a bar crawl and i got more drunk than i ever have (my friends’ bday n i promised him id drink with him) also it was the day of the elections in the US (hillary vs trump) so i was like drunk freaking out about how my family will all die bc of them or w/e. anyways she kept serenading me and we danced together n she made out with me then was like “umm i live soooo far away can i um sleep over pls 🥺” and i was like ok lol sure. anyways she comes over and then her love for justin bieber is exposed…. this woman is a massive belieber. she takes my laptop and starts playing some old justin bieber song while grinding on my leg and i was thinking okay… this is. an experience i guess. i mean i truly hate justin bieber… always have… he was so popular when i was 12 and i was just a hater not like other girls girl who hated him n all other teen girl ~heart throbs~. anyways shes like “do u know justin bieber” and i said yes and she also kept thinking im canadian even tho i kept telling her im bahraini so she’d be like “oh ofc u know him ur canadian” .. she just wouldn’t stop canadawashing me. then she started singing along to justin bieber while grinding on me. also she was terrible in bed and didn’t want me to do anything to her and only wanted to have penetrative sex which i actually am not into at all. but she was like no oral 4 my one night stands <3 and i was like erm ok. kept asking me if i have a strap-on but im literally a baby lesbian n was like no i don’t im from bahrain sex toys aren’t allowed so i never bought one and she was like “aren’t u from canada??? what’s bahrain?” even tho i told her like 6 times already. we settled for fingers but even then she made my coochie bleed and ig she can’t tell the difference so she was like omg ur sooo wet but actually i was bleeding everywhere. she made me bleed onto my underwear, bedsheets, AND onto the mattress. almost thought i got my period the next day. anyways years later i google her and see she was performing on the voice and shocker. she chose to sing justin bieber!!!

#she’s a professional singer n whatever but also ngl she annoyed me and was terrible in bed so like maybe that’s the last time I give a #belieber a chance

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latetaektalk · 3 years

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love to hate you | jjk [v]

“when obnoxiously rich and spoiled frat boy jeon jungkook comes up to you one day and asks you to fake date him for money, you definitely should have said no. because before you knew it, you were going on insta dates with him and having lunch with his equally obnoxiously rich and spoiled friends.”

— genre: sexual themes, angst, fluff, fratboy! AU, fake dating! AU, college! AU, rich kid! AU, enemies to lovers! AU

— pairing: jungkook x female reader

— word count: 17.540

— warnings: swearing/cursing, banter, alcohol consumption, jealousy, oc slanders yoongi’s music rip

— playlist: to be added

— a/n: okay after five (5!!) months im happy and uh nervous to present the newest lthy chapter! i hope you guys enjoy it and that it was worth the wait!! also! id like to note that its the birthday of my bestie aka lira aka @koocycle !! please all go and wish her a happy birthday! i love you lots lira, even tho you eat boiled eggs!! hope you enjoy your little birthday present! and ofc, this is inspired by To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han!

[Jimin - 01:39 PM] : please ill pay u :((

[Jimin - 01:39 PM] : come to the party pls its gonna be fun

[You - 01:39 PM] : no. stop askign

[Jimin - 01:40 PM] : u dont have to come in a couples costume

[Jimin - 01:40 PM] : but y/n :((( pls im beggin u

“Hey, cabbage?”

You looked up from your phone, your face souring the moment you saw it.

“No.”

“But you haven’t even-”

“I said no, Jeon.”

“But look! It’s cute-”

You shoved your phone back into your pocket and took the costumes from Jungkook, holding them up.

“It’s Joker and Harley Quinn. It’s not cute. It’s basic. 2016 called and asked for its costumes back.”

He pouted at your words.

“I’m not wearing a shirt with ‘Daddy’s Lil Monster’ written on it. Forget it. No matter how much you pay me,” you hissed, shoving the outfits back into his hands.

“Wait, that’s what’s written-” Jungkook paused and examined the costume, squinting to see if you were right. He gasped when he read it.

“You didn’t know?” You raised a brow. “What? Too busy staring at girls’ asses?”

And before he could defend himself, you walked away, swiping through the next rack and leaving him to put back the clothes alone.

Soon, he was by your side again though, following you like he was chained to you. “How about this?”

It took you one single look to decide, and Jungkook seemed to decipher the answer from your face, slowly putting back the mermaid costume.

Shaking your head, you moved on to the next rack, not waiting for him to follow you. He did though. He had followed you around ever since you stepped inside the shop, not leaving your side for once. No matter how much you tried to walk away, he would appear behind you mere seconds later.

“You can go look on your own, you know? You don’t have to follow me,” you told him for the third time now, hoping Jungkook might get the message now.

“Yeah, I know.”

“Seriously. You don’t have to stay with me. I’ll be fine on my own.”

Jungkook smirked. “You’re not getting rid of me, cabbage.”

You frowned at his words. “Getting rid of you? That’s not-”

“Oh, please.” Jungkook clicked his tongue. “I know exactly what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to get rid of me so you can sneak away and ditch my ass.”

You stopped looking through the racks and turned to him, your frown etched deeper into your face. “What? I would never do that.”

Jungkook’s face lit up at your words, a smile growing on his lips.

“Are you saying you enjoy spending time with me?”

It took you a second to understand his words, and when you did, you almost burst out into laughter. You shook your head. “I’m saying I like money and getting paid.”

Jungkook looked at you, face blank, before letting out a laugh in response. But it didn’t sound quite right, something about it off.

“Right,” he laughed, the same weird laugh he just did, and shook his head. “You’re never gonna enjoy spending time with me, are you?”

You scoffed automatically, already turning away from him like you always did. At this point, it was almost routine. “Do I look like I’m enjoying myself right now?”

You missed the way Jungkook’s face crumbled for a split second, the way he pressed his mouth together and his eyes darted off to the side, to the floor.

“Well, good thing I’m paying you,” he whispered, voice strained. You perked up, raising a brow, but you were met with a smile on his lips. The same smile you had seen too many times now already.

“Jeon-”

“I’m gonna look over there, yeah?”

He pointed somewhere behind him, walking away before you could even get another word out. You watched him slip away, brows creasing together.

He had tried to hide it, but you could see it in his eyes, in the quivering corners of his mouth.

Your words had hurt Jungkook.

You sighed and ran a hand through your hair, eyes screwing shut. A part of you wanted to chase after him, stop him and apologise, but you couldn’t move, feet glued to the spot. Maybe it was for the best though. You had no idea what you were going to say.

When you peeled your eyes open, you almost expected to see Jungkook in front of you, smiling at you. He wasn’t there. Your heart sank the tiniest bit in your chest.

You hated yourself.

Not in a self-loathing and self-sabotaging manner. More in an annoyed and pissed off one. Because if you were maybe just a little meaner and stronger, you wouldn’t be in this situation. You wouldn’t be doing this. And by doing this, you meant standing outside Jungkook’s class, waiting for him, a paper bag pressed to your chest.

You were contemplating for the fifth time now whether or not it was too late to dip (whether or not this was a good idea has been long established. It wasn’t.) when the doors opened and students filtered into the hallway.

The first person you recognised was Seokjin. He was swiping through his phone with one hand and pushing through his hair with the other, brows furrowed. If you were honest, you weren’t actually sure if Jungkook was in this class. He had mentioned it once before, you think at least. You could be dead wrong and have wasted your time. And so, just to be sure you hadn’t (and to not continue looking like a complete idiot, standing outside a class), you flagged down Seokjin. Or well, you tried to because, with his eyes set on his phone, he didn’t see you. Until he almost bumped into you.

“Oh, sorry- Y/N?”

“Uh, hi, Jin.” You put on a smile. It looked awkward, especially compared to Seokjin’s who seemingly didn’t know what awkward is, his smile so convincing he might as well just be shooting a commercial right now.

“Hey, it’s been a minute! How are you?” The words rolled off his tongue effortlessly. He put away his phone, giving you all of his attention.

“Good. I’m good. How about you?”

“Doing great too.” An awkward beat hung between you. He broke it in the end, of course. “Now, how can I help you?”

You cleared your throat and tucked a strand behind your ear. “Uh, this is weird, but Jeon is in this class too, right?”

And then Seokjin’s smile grew into a smirk. “Oh, is this a surprise for Kook? I see.” Before your cheeks could heat up in embarrassment, he continued. “That’s so cute! But yes, he is. He should be coming out just now. Do you want me to look for him?”

“No, no, no, it’s fine,” you quickly assured him, the paper bag crinkling when you put up your hands. It caught his attention.

“What do you have there?”

Seokjin was already moving to look into it. Panicked, you pulled it away from him, pressing it close to your chest and hugging it like it was a treasure.

“Oh-”

“Sorry,” you smiled as well as you could, “it’s, uh, a secret. I-I can’t let you look.”

It didn’t click with you just how misleading all of this must have seemed until you saw Seokjin try to bite away his laughter, his smirk causing your face to grow as hot as the sun.

“Stuff that he forgot?”

“No! God, no,” you stupidly stammered, trying to come up with an explanation, but your mind was wiped blank.

“Cabbage?”

You had been so caught up in your conversation with Seokjin, you had completely missed Jungkook walking up to you. You jumped at his appearance, heart dropping into your stomach.

“Hi!” you said a bit too enthusiastically, voice a few pitches too high. “You scared me there!”

Jungkook blinked at you, mouth wide open before twisting up into a smile. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to.” He looked between Seokjin and you. “What are you doing here?”

“Uh,” you started gesturing around, pointlessly. You couldn’t think straight, not with Seokjin smirking at you and Jungkook staring holes through you. “I, uh-”

You never finished your sentence, deflating.

“I’m gonna leave you two alone,” Seokjin announced after a second, patting Jungkook on the shoulder before sharing a look with you, his smirk never leaving his face. “It was nice talking to you, Y/N.”

“Yeah,” you breathed out, raising a hand to wave him goodbye. “It was nice, for sure.”

Jungkook raised a brow when he was gone. You could barely meet his gaze.

“What was that?”

“I-” You tried, but failed. Seeing that people were beginning to look your way, you grabbed Jungkook’s hand. “Uh, let’s go first.”

You didn’t need to say it for him to understand. Jungkook nodded and led the way, but not without peeking over his shoulder and giving you a grin.

“My car?”

“Where else?”

Jungkook smiled at your response, agreeing with you under his breath before holding the doors open for you.

The walk to his car was relatively short. The moment you shut the car door, Jungkook turned to you, an annoyingly big smile on his lips.

“Don’t-”

“Can I just ask how happy that just made me? Seeing you waiting for me?”

The way Jungkook looked at you surprised you. Eyes bright and big, crinkled at the corners, cheeks bunched up, mouth split into a gigantic smile, nose wrinkling just the tiniest bit. It was all too precious; a sight that made your heart fumble in your chest in ways it shouldn’t.

He looked soft, gentle, kissable, loveable-

Wait, what?

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Jungkook asked, tearing you out of your thoughts. He had a smirk on his lips, like he just read your mind and knew exactly what you had been thinking.

“Uh, nothing. I’m not. I just-” You finished your sentence by waving your hand around in the air, a dismissive gesture.

He raised a brow at you, his smug smirk growing with every second.

“You’re just, what?”

You bit on your tongue and shook your head. “Nothing. It’s nothing.”

“You sure-”

“Yes, of course!” The words shot out of you too fast and too loud. It made you cringe.

You stared at the paper bag you were holding, and you wished you had just shoved it into his hands and ran away.

Jungkook looked at you. Discomfort was practically oozing off of you. So even though he wanted to dig the answer out of you, he dropped the topic, moving on smoothly.

“Tell me,” he clapped his hands together, ridding the air of the awkwardness, “why were you waiting for me?”

You looked at him before turning back to the paper bag in your hands. You had been clutching it so tight it had wrinkled. Now that you could finally speak, you realised you hadn’t thought this through at all. You had been so focused on getting his class right and getting there in time, you hadn’t spent any time figuring out what you wanted to say.

Concluding there was no good way to start, you thrust the paper bag into Jungkook’s hands.

“Oh, okay,” he breathed, surprised by your decision. With a chuckle, he looked inside. Your heart thumped a bit too heavy in your chest as you watched him dig through the bag, swallowing when he pulled it out.

For a second, Jungkook seemed confused, just staring at it. The lack of reaction scared you, had panic bubble up in you.

Rubbing your hands, you explained, “I’ve been kinda thinking about what we could, uh, dress up as and I came up with this. It’s a stupid idea. I just figured you might like it-”

“Like it?” Jungkook stared at you, mouth splitting into the biggest smile, genuine excitement gleaming in his eyes. “Are you kidding me? I love it!”

You blinked at him, thrown off guard by his sudden reaction. “Yeah?”

“Of course! I mean, look at it, cabbage!”

He showed you the costume like you didn’t order it, waving it around in the air. You should tease him for his eagerness, roll your eyes at him. But something about how stupidly excited Jungkook got over this—eyes scrunched up in crescent moons, sparkling like the stars—made you smile too.

“Wait, if I’m gonna be,” he pointed at the costume, “are you gonna be-?”

Jungkook didn’t finish his question, almost like he thought if he said it out loud, you would scoff at him and deny it. You were tempted to tell him no to mess with him, but you couldn’t do it. Not when he was looking at you so hopeful, holding his breath in anticipation and nibbling on his bottom lip.

“Yeah.”

And like you had told him the greatest news possible, Jungkook cheered. It was stupid really. You knew he was going to get excited, but you didn’t think he would get this excited. It was cute in a way.

“Oh, I can’t wait for the party now!”

You could only hum in response, not quite sharing the same sentiment. He didn’t notice, too enthralled by the costume.

“How much do I owe you?” Jungkook suddenly asked you and was already pulling out his wallet, but you stopped him, shaking your head.

“No, it’s fine,” you told him. “I mean you’re already paying me... and for everything we do, I can also, you know.”

“That’s not what’s written in the contract,” he said, but happily put away his wallet. You hummed and shrugged. “Well, thank you then.”

And then, Jungkook turned his gaze to the costume in his hands again, staring at it like it was the most precious thing he had ever seen. The tiniest smile pulled on your lips as you watched him.

“You’re welcome.”

It felt awkward for you to say that though. Because really, Jungkook had paid for the costume. With the amount he was depositing into your account weekly, anything you were buying now was paid by him. It felt wrong-

“Hey.”

You snapped your head around, surprised to see that Jungkook was looking at you now.

You quirked a brow and shifted in your seat. “What?”

And then, you watched his face break out into a smile, eyes staring down yours.

“Thank you.”

The smile he was giving you was soft and gentle, delicate. It made your heart skip a beat and your throat grow tight. You didn’t know how to react. An awkward silence filled the air, your lack of a response to be blamed.

“Uh, yeah, sure thing,” you mumbled before turning away, dismissing him with a flick of your wrist.

“No, seriously-”

“It’s fine. I get it,” you chuckled nervously. Jungkook stared at you, the corners of his mouth twisting up in an amused smile. Before he could say anything, you announced, “I actually have to go now,” you grabbed the car door, “so I’ll, uh, see you around, or whatever.”

Jungkook opened his mouth to stop you, but you jumped out of his car and shut the door on him, hurrying away like you were running late to something. Just as you thought you could breathe again, you heard your name.

Turning around, you were met with the sight of Jungkook jogging towards you, the car door wide open, abandoned, like he didn’t care if anyone got in right now and drove off.

You frowned when he stopped in front of you. “What?”

Jungkook smiled at your puzzled state, his hands reaching for yours. You tensed, eyes growing wide, the urge to pull away building up in you. You resisted. People were looking.

“Uh, what are you doing?” you chuckled nervously.

Jungkook didn’t respond right away, taking a moment to look at you instead and take you all in. His smile widened.

“I love you.”

He said the words just loud enough for you to hear. You stared at him with big eyes, heat crawling up your cheeks and reaching the tip of your ears. Your mind was wiped blank at his words. You cursed yourself. Why did you still get this flustered whenever he did this?

You opened your mouth to respond, but Jungkook shook his head and squeezed your hand.

“Don’t,” he told you, his smile growing bigger. “It’s fine. I just wanted you to know.”

And before you could even comprehend, tell him that he had told you this before, that you knew already, reprimand him because you had told him to stop telling you he loved you when he clearly didn’t, Jungkook leaned forward and pressed a kiss to your forehead.

“Sorry,” he whispered, his smile breaking out into a grin. “I had to.”

Jungkook squeezed your hand one more time before pulling away and walking away, leaving you standing there, frozen, mind reeling, trying and miserably failing to understand what had just happened.

What the fuck was that?

You were in the middle of getting out your notebook in preparation for class when Jisoo found you and slipped into the seat next to you.

“What did I hear about your boyfriend and you cuddling it up on campus and being all coupley and gross?”

You whipped your head around, the question leaving you speechless.

“What?”

She rolled her eyes at you. “Just fess up. Don’t play dumb-

“I-I’m not playing dumb,” you defended yourself, cheeks ablaze at the suggestion that Jungkook and you were being overly affectionate in public. “We didn’t do anything. I don’t know what you heard, but it’s not true.”

“So there was no kiss?”

“Kiss? No!” You paused, and she raised a brow. “I mean-”

Jisoo gasped, her jaw falling wide open as if she had just caught you in a major lie. You were quick to stop her from making any suggestions, your glare silencing her.

“Stop, Ji! It’s not like that. You’re being ridiculous. You know I don’t like PDA,” you hissed.

“But you just said-”

“I didn’t say shit,” you said, looking at your hands as they pulled on the hem of your shirt. “I was just going to say that he kissed my forehead. Nothing more. It’s really not a big deal.”

Jisoo raised a brow and eyed you carefully. She stared at you before smirking. “Then why are you being so weird about it?”

“What? How am I being-”

“You’re avoiding looking at me and you’re playing with your shirt. Almost like you’re nervous,” Jisoo hummed, and you rolled your eyes at her.

“Who are you? Sherlock Holmes?” you huffed.

Jisoo snickered, clearly enjoying this a little too much. “Well, I’m glad to see you and your boyfriend doing well.”

“Of course, we’re doing well. What would make you think we aren’t?” You clicked your tongue and shook your head, as if the suggestion that things between Jungkook and you weren’t going so great was ridiculous, as if things were going on between him and you to begin with, as if this wasn’t all a ruse.

“I don’t know. We just realised we’ve never really seen you two kiss and stuff,” Jisoo pointed out and unpacked her stuff for the lesson, your professor slowly finishing setting everything up.

You stared at her in surprise. You hadn’t thought that Jungkook and you not kissing each other would raise suspicion.

“I mean, you know that I’m not overly affectionate,” you said, and Jisoo hummed.

“Yeah, yeah, I know.” She shrugged. “But there was the occasional kiss when you were dating, uh, you know who.”

You blinked at her, hands flattening out against your thighs because Jisoo had a point. When you were dating him, you would share a kiss here or there with him in front of the others. God, shit. Maybe you had to break the contract.

Maybe you had to kiss Jungkook at one point.

You had to give it to Beta Tau Sigma. Their house actually didn’t look half bad. It seemed like they put in some effort into decorating it—cobwebs covering the windows, chains of lights illuminating the house in a warm orange hue, pumpkins lining the front door. It was more than you had expected from them.

Their choice of music, however, was... poor to put it nicely. Not even the shots you had taken before to take the edge off could make up for how awful the music was. It didn’t help how loud it was either, your ears hurting already. People seemed to enjoy themselves though, the house packed. There were about a dozen standing outside, red solo cups in their hands, all in various costumes. You spotted witches, firemen, superheroes, cowboys, nurses, and even two Harry Potters and a Waldo.

Jungkook appeared next to you, eyes focused on the house. A gigantic smile adorned his lips. Even in the dark, you could see the excitement glimmering in his eyes.

“Are you ready?” he asked you, shifting from one foot to the other. You blinked at him before looking down at yourself and swallowing away the sigh. Why did you have to choose this costume?

When you glanced at the house, you could feel the ball of anxiety grow in your gut. People were already intimidating to begin with, even more so when they were drunk, but especially if the guy by your side was none other than Jeon Jungkook. He was like a walking light bulb, drawing attention to him everywhere he went. You knew if you stepped inside the house, everybody would look at you. It was a mortifying thought.

You wanted to bail, go home. You really did. But you reminded yourself, you had agreed to this. So you put on a smile and nodded.

“Yeah, uh, sure. Let’s go.”

You had barely stepped out onto the street when Jungkook pulled you back.

“What?”

“You alright?”

There was no smile on his face anymore, no childish excitement swimming in his pupils. Instead, a frown was sitting on his face.

You blinked at him a handful of times. “What?”

“You alright?” he repeated and pulled you closer to him when a car passed by, placing a protective hand on your back.

“What?” You realised then that you’ve said the same thing three times now. You snapped out of it. “I mean, yeah, of course. What makes you think-”

“You’ve got this look,” Jungkook told you, gesturing at his face and contorting it to mimic you. “This weird look. You look uncomfortable.”

You didn’t think he would pick up on your discomfort (so early on as well), figuring he would be too excited to pay you any close attention. You didn’t know how to respond.

“Are you sure about this? We can go home if you want to.”

You opened and closed your mouth. Your hesitance seemed to be enough of an answer because Jungkook tugged open the car door.

Maybe it was the fact that you weren’t one to chicken out of things, or maybe it was how excited Jungkook had looked when you first arrived here, or maybe it was because you realised now how considerate and thoughtful Jungkook had been to you all this time and it melted your heart into a puddle right then and there, but you closed the door.

“No, it’s fine. I’m sure about this,” you told him, swallowing the anxiety and offering him your best smile. “Let’s go. I wanna go.”

And before Jungkook could voice any kind of protest, you led him across the street.

It began the moment you stepped onto the lawn.

“Hey, Kook! We’ve been waiting!”

“Dude, you made it! Finally!”

“Good to see you! Wanna do some shots?”

“Ah, hey!” Jungkook smiled back, lifting his hand for a wave. You thought he would stop and greet the people, catch up with them, joke around maybe. He didn’t. Jungkook just kept on walking.

You were about to make a comment, ask him if he didn’t want to say hello and tell him you were fine with stopping for a moment, but he tugged you inside the house.

And if you thought it was a little much how people went out of their way to greet Jungkook, it paled to how people inside reacted to his sight, the entire house erupting into cheers. People’s moods visibly lifted when they saw him. It was impressive. You knew no one else that could have such an effect on people.

“Wow, you’ve got a lot of friends,” you muttered under your breath.

“They’re not my friends,” he told you through his smile, in between the greetings he shouted back at people.

You quirked a brow, scrunching your nose when you noticed it—the way his voice wavered, the way the smile on his lips didn’t reach his eyes, the way his entire body was tense, almost like his muscles were pulled on by some invisible force, pressure sitting heavy on him, threatening to crack him into little pieces.

“Oh.”

“Hey, you’re Y/N, right?”

Attention wandered from Jungkook to you.

You stiffened. “Uh, yeah, hi.”

Your voice was not even half as loud as Jungkook’s, wavering so much you were sure everybody could have heard it if the music wasn’t eating up your every word.

“You guys look great! Wanna go do some shots together?” A guy in a vampire costume and snapback shouted, holding up two glasses.

“Thanks, but-”

Jungkook paused when someone placed their hand on his shoulder. A girl dressed as a cheerleader with pigtails, ribbons securing her hair, and knee-high socks, a perfectly charming smile on her shiny lips.

“Hey, Kook! You wanna play beer pong with me? I need a partner.” She ran her newly manicured hand down his arm. “It’d be fun! We could-”

“Sorry, Narae,” he pulled away from her, “but we’re gonna go grab something to drink first. Why don’t you ask your boyfriend? I’m sure Yugyeoym will be happy to be your partner.” His smile widened into a blinding grin. “Excuse us, please?”

And then he ushered you into the kitchen, his body close to yours as you moved. Almost like he wanted to protect you, shield you from prying eyes.

There were around a dozen people crammed in the kitchen, all of them going out of their way to greet Jungkook in between shots and drinks they were pouring. You breathed out when no one tried to strike up a conversation with him or invite him to any drinking games.

“You good?” Jungkook studied your face, brows knitted together like he was certain you were going to crumble right in front of him at any point.

“Yeah, yeah.” You waved him off. “All good.”

“Okay, great,” Jungkook mumbled absentmindedly, eyes searching the room as if to see if someone would maybe approach you.

You looked down at your hands. He hadn’t let go, his thumb rubbing soothing circles into your skin. You hated to admit it but you did relax under his touch, the tension in your shoulders ebbing out of you.

“What do you want to drink? I’ll make you a drink.”

You looked around yourself, heaving out a breath when you imagined the next hours. A bit hesitant, you grabbed the vodka bottle from the counter, holding it up to Jungkook.

He raised a brow. “You sure?”

“Nope,” you admitted breathlessly. “But I don’t think I can do this sober and a beer is just not gonna cut it. I already kinda feel like throwing up-”

“We can go home-”

“Jeon,” you cut in and put down the bottle, “stop. I appreciate it, I do, but please stop offering-”

“I just wanna make sure you’re comfortable.”

“And I know that. I appreciate it, a lot. But I’m also an adult. If it gets too much, I’ll tell you.”

You must have spoken rather animatedly because-

“Trouble in paradise, huh?”

You snapped your head around, eyes landing on none other than Taehyung. A part of you had hoped you wouldn’t run into him. It was wishful thinking.

Taehyung was grinning as he sipped from his red solo cup, his mouth overlined with lipstick in the signature Joker way. His hair shimmered green when the light hit it the right way.

“Didn’t you say you don’t go to parties, love?” Taehyung hummed.

You shrugged as nonchalant as you could. In reality, your heart was beating a bit quicker, heavier. “Changed my mind.”

“I thought you were pretty adamant about not going,” he said.

“Well, you thought wrong,” you shot back, swallowing because your voice was shaking a bit. You really needed some more alcohol in your system.

Taehyung hummed, eyes flickering to Jungkook. “Seems like it.”

The looks didn’t go over your head, but you didn’t know how to stop them, awkwardly standing there as Jungkook and Taehyung had their silent conversation.

“You know,” you looked at Taehyung, “when I heard there was a fire boy and water girl running around here, I should have known it was you.”

He shook his head, as if he was disappointed in himself for not figuring it out earlier.

“You like it? Y/N suggested it,” Jungkook grinned.

You had to admit red suited him. It reflected him—fiery, passionate, intense. The red knee-long robe with matching pants was highlighted by the golden belt around his waist. More golden accents were stitched along the hem, details of flames decorating the edges. To say that Jungkook looked good today would therefore be an understatement. Especially with his tattoos out and about, you couldn’t deny how stunning and beautiful he was.

You were almost jealous you hadn’t gone for the costume yourself. But your costume—a blue floor-length robe with a thick white belt, blue pants, and matching white boots—kept up with his. You contrasted Jungkook, your costume exuding calmness, peacefulness, and control.

Together you complimented each other perfectly, made up the perfect pair, balanced each other out.

“Wait, love, you suggested this?”

You looked at Taehyung. “Why is that so hard to believe?”

“Just-” He leaned closer to you, eyeing Jungkook. “Is he blackmailing you? Paying you to do this? You can tell me.”

You froze at his words. You knew he didn’t mean it like that, knew he was simply teasing you, but your heart skipped a beat nevertheless. Were you not convincing as a couple? Could he see that you-

“Shut up, Tae,” Jungkook scoffed, pulling you closer to him. “You’re just jealous.”

Taehyung rolled his eyes. “Right, I’m so jealous I’m not in a cringey couple’s costume-”

“You say this like there won’t be multiple Harley Quinns running around here.”

Taehyung pressed his lips together, sipping on his drink. A smirk grew on Jungkook’s lips. “You know, 2016 called and asked for its costumes back.”

You perked up, the words ringing oddly familiar.

“Well-”

“First of all, I said that first, Jeon. Don’t steal my words. And second of all don’t pretend like you didn’t suggest dressing up as Joker and Harley Quinn-”

“Cabbage!”

“Yeah, put him in place, love!” Taehyung cheered, clapping for you, but you scowled at him.

“Don’t get it twisted, Kim. I also think that your costume is unoriginal.”

In an instant, his smile disappeared, hands slowing to a stop.

“Love! I thought-”

“Y/N?”

You whipped your head around at the call of your name. Hoseok and Chaeyoung. They stared at you with big eyes.

Jungkook turned to you, brow raised.

“I might have told my friends I wouldn’t be coming,” you mumbled into his ear, and he stared at you before smiling and shaking his head because of course, you hadn’t.

Hoseok was the first to snap out of it, his mouth splitting into a smile. “Holy shit, Y/N, Jimin’s gonna flip.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“You guys look good,” Chaeyoung said with a smile.

“Yeah, it’s creative.” Hoseok then looked at Taehyung, a smile appearing. “Oh, hi, I’m Hoseok.”

“Hi, it’s Taehyung.”

“Chaeyoung.”

You wrinkled your nose when you saw what Hoseok was dressed up as, Harry Potter. It was as creative as Taehyung’s Joker. The glasses were cute though, you had to admit that. So far you liked his version of Harry Potter the best, the other ones you had seen not coming close to looking as good as Hoseok.

When you saw Chaeyoung’s costume, Hoseok’s lack of creativity was forgiven. With the wand in her hand and an unmistakable Gryffindor robe hanging off her shoulders, it was obvious who she dressed up as, Ginny Weasley. They had come in a couple’s costume. It was cute.

You weren’t the only one to notice.

“God, I get it. You guys are all in love,” Taehyung groaned.

“What? Oh, no, Seok and I aren’t, uh, a couple. We’re just friends.”

“But you’re Ginny, right?”

“No, god, no! I’m not-”

“Isn’t that the Gryffindor symbol- oh, are you meant to be Hermione?”

“No, you’re misunderstanding.” Hoseok jumped in. “Chae is just some random Harry Potter character. This isn’t a couple’s costume.”

Taehyung gave Hoseok a look. He wanted to disagree but stopped himself. After all, they just met.

So you did instead.

“It still looks like you guys are in a couple’s costume.”

“But that’s not what we were going for! I-I just didn’t know what to dress up as and-” Chaeyoung deflated. She turned away, towards Hoseok, who was quick to give her a reassuring smile. You exchanged a look with Jungkook, the two of you rolling your eyes.

Taehyung groaned. “I’m going. I can’t deal with this. It was nice meeting you guys though.”

He was gone before any of you could bid him farewell.

“Well, I think we should, uh,” Hoseok glanced at Chaeyoung, “look for Jimin maybe? He’s gonna be so happy to see you guys.”

“Yeah, that sounds like a good thing to, uh, do. I think I saw him last in the living room.”

“You guys go ahead. Jeon and I’ll follow you guys in a minute. Need my drink,” you said, and Chaeyoung and Hoseok didn’t stay much longer, practically running out of the kitchen.

“When do you think they’ll start dating?” Jungkook asked, and you snorted.

“Considering they’ve been like this forever now,” you heaved out a sigh, “hopefully soon.”

You picked up the vodka bottle and held it up. “You gonna make me my drink now?”

Jungkook paused, eyeing the bottle. With a sigh, he took it from you. “I’m not gonna convince you otherwise, huh?”

You hummed and watched as Jungkook grabbed a clean red solo cup and expertly filled it with various liquids. When he presented the finished drink to you, you raised a brow, narrowing your eyes. You grabbed it from him and took a sip.

“And?”

“It’s,” you cursed yourself for what you were about to say, “good.”

Jungkook grinned at you. “Of course, it is. It’s made by me.”

You rolled your eyes. “Let’s just go. Jimin’s probably already tearing the entire house apart looking for us.”

You took another sip from your drink. It really was good. It made you wonder how much Jungkook must drink if he was this good at making drinks.

“Come on.”

You grabbed his hand and walked out of the kitchen. The hallway was packed. You bumped into shoulders and elbows as you tried squeezing yourself through the crowd. It was even worse in the living room. You hoped you would find Jimin soon.

“Do you see him?” you asked, needing to get awfully close to him for him to hear you.

“No, do you?”

You shook your head and scanned the room one more time. You stopped when you spotted Jisoo in the corner, with someone. Jungkook followed your gaze.

“Oh, I didn’t know Ji was dating Jennie,” he mumbled.

“She’s not. At least I didn’t know she was dating anybody.”

Jungkook and you locked eyes when Jennie put her hand on Jisoo’s arm, sensing the chemistry from across the room. You smiled.

You were glad to see Jisoo hitting it off with someone, especially after the heartbreak she had to go through previously.

Jennie was donning a nurse uniform, stethoscope hanging around her neck, and Jisoo was dressed in a stunning icy blue dress, the french braid making her unmistakably Elsa-

The air was knocked right out of you when Jimin leapt into your arms. You almost fell, but Jungkook was there to catch you, his hand on your back steadying you. How you didn’t spill your drink on yourself was a mystery to you.

“Holy fucking shit!” Jimin screeched into your ear, somehow louder than the music. “You fucking came!”

Like a child on Christmas day, he beamed at you. His expression contrasted his dark (and surprisingly detailed) vampire costume—fake blood stained the corners of his mouth and the robe falling from his shoulders reached the back of his knees, red accents making the costume look incredibly elegant.

“I can’t fucking believe it! You said you wouldn’t come!”

“Yeah, surprise!”

“Dude, this is the greatest fucking surprise ever- oh my god, you guys are dressed as Katara and Zuko!” He put his hand over his heart, bottom lip jutting out and eyes glossing over. “You guys look so fucking cute together!”

“Thanks,” you smiled. “But have you seen these two already?”

You turned him around.

“Is that-?”

“Yes.”

“With Kim Jennie?”

“Mhm.”

“God, you’re all just coupled up today, huh?”

You shrugged. “Hey, have you seen Chae and Seok yet? They were looking for you.”

“Oh, no, I haven’t. I’ve been moving around a lot.” He grew quieter. “I can’t stay for too long.”

He gestured for you to come closer. You complied.

“Joon might think I clogged the toilet upstairs and he might be looking for me right now.”

Jungkook smiled and put his hand on Jimin’s shoulder. “Don’t look behind.”

Before Jimin could tell him not to scare him like that, someone wrapped their arm around his shoulder. Someone who was fittingly dressed as a cop, toy handcuffs and baton strapped to his hip. You identified him as Namjoon.

The colour drained from Jimin’s face.

“Hey, buddy,” Namjoon smiled, and you shared a look with Jungkook. Anger was definitely bubbling under that smile. “I’ve been looking all over for you! Were you running from me?”

“What?” Jimin laughed. “No! God, don’t be ridiculous. Why, uh, would I do that?”

“So you weren’t?”

“Of course not-”

“Good, then you wouldn’t mind coming with me for a minute and talking, right?”

You almost couldn’t stop yourself from laughing when you saw Jimin’s panicked face, his eyes darting to Jungkook and you, pleading for help. It was Jungkook who caved.

“Hey, Joon, have you-” He finished his sentence by gesturing towards you, and Namjoon looked at you for the first time. In an instant, his smile turned genuine, dimples making an appearance.

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you guys there,” he said. “I’m Namjoon.”

“I’m-”

“Y/N? Yeah, I know. You’re practically famous in the house here,” he laughed. “Kook always talks about you.”

“Oh.” You looked at Jungkook, quirking a brow and smiling when you saw his cheeks turn red. “You do? What do you say?”

“I, uh-” Jungkook stammered stupidly, gritting his teeth. “Joon is exaggerating-”

“So you don’t talk about me? I’m not worthy of being mentioned?”

“What? No! That’s not-”

“Wow, you’ve got some power over him, huh?” Namjoon laughed, and you shrugged, smirking though as you drank from your cup. Jungkook didn’t even try to deny it, looking off to the side with gritted teeth.

“Anyway, it’s nice to meet you,” Namjoon said, and you reciprocated, telling him the same. “I like your costumes by the way. Katara and Zuko?”

“Oh, you like it?” Jungkook exclaimed, suddenly no longer embarrassed anymore, and struck a pose, grinning proudly. “It’s cool, isn’t it, Joon?”

“Yeah, it’s cute and creative,” Namjoon complimented, and you didn’t think you had seen Jungkook look this excited before. You got it now why the others teased him in the diner.

“Anyway,” Namjoon turned to Jimin, pulling him closer, “let’s talk now?”

“Ah, I don’t think that’s such a great idea,” Jimin chuckled. “That would make Kook and Y/N feel left out, wouldn’t it? We can’t do that, can we?”

“I don’t think-”

“Yeah, let’s just all talk together.”

You turned around at Yoongi’s voice, surprised to see him standing behind you, beer in his hand. He had, by far, the laziest costume you had seen tonight—a cheap pair of cat ears on his head and half-assed whiskers drawn on his cheeks.

“Why can’t I just talk to Jimin for a minute?”

“I’m just saying, why can’t we be involved in the conversation? Aren’t we all friends?”

Jungkook and you looked at each other, confused on why Yoongi was defending Jimin so much. But he seemed to be more than glad to have someone on his side though, adding, “Yeah, that’s a great point. I think since we are all friends, we should-”

You didn’t hear the rest of his sentence when Yoongi leaned closer to you, “Hey, wanna know a secret?”

“Spill,” Jungkook prompted, and the older did, proudly, in between sips of his beer.

“I clogged the toilet and paid Jimin to take the blame.”

Like you had timed it, Jungkook and you rolled your eyes, shaking your heads because god, this was so stupid! You smiled.

“Which is exactly why-”

“Nope, we’re talking,” Namjoon interrupted, not even the slightest convinced by Jimin’s arguments. “Let’s go.”

And even though Jimin tried protesting, Namjoon easily pulled him away from you. The pleading look he gave over his shoulder was met with snickering.

Yoongi heaved out a sigh. “I’m gonna….” He pointed to where they had walked off to. “Just to make sure Joon doesn’t murder Jimin.”

“Go do that,” Jungkook laughed.

“It was nice talking to you guys though.” Yoongi looked you up and down. “Your costumes aren’t that bad either.”

You blinked. “Was that meant to be a-”

“Yeah, that’s the closest thing to a compliment you’re gonna get from him.”

“Huh.”

You took another sip from your drink. You could feel its effects, the buzz building up in your veins. It was nice. You didn’t feel very observed and self-conscious anymore, the music starting to sound better too. You were like a completely different person with alcohol in your system.

“You like the drink?” Jungkook asked you again, grinning, clearly proud to see that you were actually drinking it.

You rolled your eyes. “I already said it was good.”

“Well, I want to hear it-”

“Kook!”

You whipped your heads around. It was the girl from before. Narae, you think. The one who was dressed like a cheerleader. The one with the perfect smile.

“Hi,” Jungkook greeted and tightened his hand around yours.

“Hey, I see you got your girl a drink now.” And even though she was speaking about you, she didn’t look your way. You scowled. “I still need a partner, so why-”

“Y/N.”

Narae raised a brow at you. She was wearing that smile well, you thought.

“Sorry, what?”

“Y/N,” you repeated, sounding bored. You weren’t about to feign friendliness. “My name’s Y/N, not Jeon’s girl.”

“Oh.” Narae blinked. “Well, hi then Y/N. It’s Narae. Nice to meet you.”

You drank from your cup. “Yeah, sure. Nice to meet you.”

An awkward silence hung in the air.

“Well, anyway,” Narae laughed loudly and turned to Jungkook again, “you wanna go play beer pong with me now, Kook? And before you bring up Yugyeom, we broke up.”

“Oh, how unfortunate.” Jungkook didn’t sound sincere at all. You would have laughed, but something about Narae made you purse your lips. “But I don’t-”

“Please, Kook, let’s just play together? You know, like old times. Remember?” Narae added, smiling sickly sweet, and put her perfectly manicured hand on his arm. You gulped down your drink.

Old times.

She said old times.

You pressed your lips together. Old times implied there were times where Jungkook and Narae would play beer pong together, laughing, having fun. Times where Jungkook would make the last shot and she would cheer for him, call him her hero, and then wrap her arms around him, a gesture he would not only welcome but reciprocate. Times where they would maybe get closer and closer. Your grip tightened around your cup. It crinkled.

“I’m gonna get myself something to drink,” you announced and let go of his hand, lifting your empty cup for him to see.

“What?” Jungkook turned to you. “Oh, let me go with-”

“No, no, no,” Narae jumped in, her smile growing bigger, her lip gloss reflecting in the light, “Y/N’s an adult. She can go get herself a drink. But I really need a beer pong partner, Kook.”

You walked away, not wanting to catch Jungkook’s answer. He called after you, but you ignored it, pretending that the music ate up his words.

Pressing your hand to your temple, you tried to soothe the headache coming up, but-

“Y/N!”

Jisoo grabbed you by your wrist.

“What? What do you want?”

“What do you mean what do I want, Y/N?” She slapped you with each word.

“Ow! Stop! What did I even do?”

“Excuse you?” Jisoo pointed at Narae and Jungkook who were standing where you had left them.

“And?”

She glared at you. “Do I need to slap some common sense into you?”

“Yeah, why would you leave your boyfriend with Kang Narae?”

You turned around at the comment, realising now that Jennie was standing here too.

“Oh, I’m Jennie,” she told you. “I’m sorry. I’m not trying to intrude or anything.”

“No, it’s fine.” You waved her off. “Y/N.”

“I know,” Jennie smiled. “I don’t think anybody at this party doesn’t know your name.”

“Narae didn’t,” you snorted.

“Bullshit,” Taehyung hissed, and you whipped your head around. “She knows your name, love.”

“Where did you come from?” You frowned when you saw Seokjin next to Taehyung too. “What the fuck? Do you guys just multiply?”

“Heard Narae was talking to Kook.” Seokjin shrugged. “Had to come.”

The pirate costume he was wearing looked worn out, like he had been putting it on every Halloween and never bothered to give it a wash. The stain on his shirt proved your assumption.

“You’re being real stupid right now, Y/N,” Jisoo told you.

“Hey! Don’t call me-”

“Yeah, this isn’t your smartest moment, love.”

“See, even Taehyung agrees with me!” Jisoo said. “By the way, I’m Jisoo.”

“We’re doing introductions? I’m Seokjin.”

“Jennie.”

“Anyway,” Jisoo turned back to you, “you’re being stupid.”

“Really stupid,” Taehyung added.

“Shockingly stupid-”

“What the fuck is happening right now? Don’t gang up on me!” you hissed.

“Well, seems like we have to,” Taehyung said. “Because for some inexplicable reason you left Kook with Narae.”

Jisoo nodded. “Yeah, you should go and get your man!”

“Get my man?” You frowned. “Am I supposed to pee all around Jeon and mark my territory-”

“Finally! You got it. Now go pee around him.”

You shrugged off Jisoo when she tried pushing you towards them.

“No! God, don’t be ridiculous, Ji. He’s just talking to her. Don’t make a big deal out of this!”

Taehyung eyed you. “You know their history, right?”

You stared at him, your heart freezing in your chest. They had a history?

“Oh, you don’t know,” he whispered, offering you a sympathetic look, like you were a child.

“Well, I don’t think they actually dated, right?” Jennie hummed.

Seokjin snorted. “Kook would never date her, but Narae has been trying to get him-”

Taehyung noisily sipped from his drink, and you all turned to him.

“What? No! You’re joking,” Seokjin exclaimed, mouth falling open.

Taehyung pursed his lips, looking at you like he was trying to figure out whether or not he should tell you this or not.

“You wanna know?” He raised his brows at you, wiping his mouth.

You blinked at him, mind blank. Because did you? Well, actually it shouldn’t be a question. You shouldn’t care at all, shouldn’t want to know. But you did, your heart thumping harder in your chest as you nodded.

Taehyung eyed you, giving you a moment to change your mind. But you stood by your answer, nodding once more.

“Fine, only because you said so.”

He held up his hands as if to rid him of any guilt that might come up.

“They technically never dated, but,” his voice grew quieter, “freshman year they did have a thing going on there for a while. I just remember catching him sneaking out at night a few times.”

Oh.

So you were right.

When Narae said old times, she was actually referring to old times.

Huh.

The information shouldn’t hit you in the way it did. It shouldn’t affect you at all. You weren’t dating! None of this was real—he wasn’t your boyfriend, and you weren’t his girlfriend! But the image formed in your mind; the image of him kissing her, sneaking out for her at night, running around like destined lovers, holding her in his arms, staying with her until the sun rose again. It had your heart breaking, and your throat growing tight, and your lungs collapsing, the air draining from you.

“Look, love, it’s not that big of a deal,” Taehyung quickly assured you. “It was never serious! And freshman year! Kook broke it off too. He’s your boyfriend now. Clearly, he isn’t interested in her anymore.”

“I don’t think you got anything to worry about,” Jennie agreed. “Looks like Jungkook isn’t responding much to anything she says.”

“I’m honestly surprised she didn’t try pulling anything before today,” Seokjin said.

“Well, she did date Yugyeom for a week or two. Pretty sure it was just to make Kook jealous,” Taehyung mumbled. “She just broke up with him.”

Just in time for today, you thought.

You lifted your gaze to Narae and Jungkook right as she stepped closer to him and brought her hand to his cheek. He winced and moved away from her touch, but she was persistent, staying close to him nevertheless.

You could feel it in the pit of your stomach, grow from there into your chest and wrap around your heart, squeezing it in a deathly grip. It flared up in you, bitter and ugly, clouding your mind. In all your life, you had rarely ever felt like this, but you could identify this feeling immediately.

Jealousy.

Your jaw flexed uncomfortably, hands tightening into fists at your side. Taehyung silently offered you his drink. You barely looked at it before exchanging it for your cup and downing whatever he had in there.

“Damn, love. Slow-”

You thrust the cup into his hands, before turning on your heel and making a beeline for the two.

“Jeon!” you called over the music. He snapped his head around, staring at you with big doe eyes. Narae’s smile slipped at your sight, but she was quick to put it back on. That perfect smile of hers.

Jungkook opened his mouth to say something, but you shut him up, grabbing him by his neck and pulling him down to you, your faces closer than they had ever been before.

And even though you told yourself you only did this because you wanted to prove the legitimacy of your relationship, deep down you knew you did this because you wanted to see Narae’s face fucking crumble, the alcohol buzzing through your veins and jealousy clouding your mind and judgement.

Jungkook froze when you kissed him, eyes wide open and hands up in the air. It took him a moment to reciprocate. But when he did, he made sure you knew he wanted this too, eyes fluttering shut. He held onto your waist with one hand, pulling you closer to him, and cupped your cheek with the other one, lifting your chin to deepen the kiss.

It surprised you how easy it was to kiss Jungkook, how moving your lips against his felt natural to you. You didn’t have to think about it at all, your body knowing exactly what to do, like it had been waiting for this to happen all this time.

Your fingers curled around the fabric of his costume, needing to steady yourself somehow. Everything around you faded away. It was just you and him, lips pressed together, noses brushing, heads tilted to the sides, hands holding each other in place.

Jungkook’s touch was hot, you realised. It burned through your blue robe. You were sure if you looked now, you would find a handprint shaped scar on your back, find the mark Jungkook just left on you.

When you broke apart, faces still impossibly close, your breathing was heavy and uneven. Jungkook had his eyes closed, a grin sitting on his lips. A grin you mirrored.

“Hi,” Jungkook mumbled breathlessly, peeling his eyes open, blinking at you.

“Uh, hi,” you whispered, and he cupped your cheek.

“You enjoying yourself?”

You chuckled. “Yeah, sure.”

“Yeah? Great,” he hummed, pressing a kiss to the tip of your nose.

You stood there, holding each other, relishing in the aftermath of your kiss. This moment was yours, all yours. No one could take it from you.

Until cheers broke out.

Just like that, the moment cracked into pieces, crumbled to the ground. Your self-awareness returned, and in an instant, you felt out of place again, like you didn’t belong, embarrassment creeping up your neck and heating up your cheeks.

Your smile disappeared. You let go of Jungkook and stared at him with big eyes. He understood immediately, taking your hand and brushing past a fuming Narae without sparing her a single glance.

You bumped into shoulders and elbows again. It was uncomfortable. But it didn’t compare to how uncomfortable you grew when you saw that Namjoon, Hoseok, Chaeyoung, Yoongi, and Jimin had all found their way to the living room too, standing there, front row.

The next few moments were a blur to you. By the time you snapped back, you were standing in a bedroom. Jungkook’s bedroom you realised; the same family photo you had seen as his wallpaper before sitting framed on the desk.

You looked around. There was nothing special about his bedroom. Cleaner than you thought. Clothes were only strictly littering one corner of his bedroom, not the entire floor. You couldn’t say the same.

“You okay?”

You snapped your head around. His brows were furrowed.

“Uh,” you puckered your forehead, “yeah, I think so.”

And then you just stood there, staring at each other until you realised you were still holding hands. You immediately let go, like his touch was burning you.

“I- no one’s around anymore, so…” you trailed off, awkwardly gesturing around. You didn’t know why you were behaving like this. It was like you were twelve again, the same embarrassment growing in you that you had felt after your first kiss.

“Oh, y-yeah, right,” Jungkook chuckled and cleared his throat.

You fell into silence.

It hit you a moment later.

“What?” Jungkook asked upon seeing your expression change.

“Fuck,” you cursed under your breath and closed your eyes, burying your face in your hands.

“What?”

You sighed, peeling your eyes open, staring at him blankly. “They probably think we’re fucking in here.”

The thought made the tips of your ears burn.

“Oh, yeah,” Jungkook laughed, clearly finding this to be more amusing than embarrassing. You groaned to yourself.

“Well, it could be worse.”

“How? How could it be worse?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know. But I don’t believe people thinking we’re doing it is the worst thing.”

You pinched your nose. “Of course, you don’t.”

You sighed and plopped down on his bed, the mattress dipping under your weight. You needed to lie down.

“You know if you think about it—” You had a feeling Jungkook was about to say something stupid. “—this is kinda like prostitution.”

You shot up.

“I mean I’m paying you to date-”

You had aimed for his face, but the pillow hit him in the chest instead. Well, actually, it didn’t hit him at all since he caught it. You turned to grab the next pillow just to realise with great disappointment he had only one.

“You’re so annoying.”

You let yourself fall back onto the bed when he started chuckling.

The alcohol made you feel tired, so you closed your eyes, focusing on calming down and processing everything that had happened. You listened as Jungkook walked over to you, feeling the bed shift when he lay down next to you.

“Hey, cabbage?” He was speaking quietly, whispering into the air. You hummed, sensing he was serious for once.

For a moment, he said nothing, and if you had looked at him, you would have seen him open and close his mouth several times, struggling to find the beginning of his question. He held his breath.

“Why did you kiss me?”

You peeled your eyes open and stared at the ceiling.

“Can we talk about that later?” you whispered back.

You thought Jungkook might bring up the contract and how you broke it, thought he would try to pull the answer from your lips.

“Later?” Both of you knew what later meant. “Okay.”

You closed your eyes and ignored the amused smile you heard in his voice, ignored the vivid image that formed in your mind—nose wrinkled, cheeks bunched up, the corners of his eyes crinkled.

“I think we can go out now,” you said after a few minutes, craning your neck to look at Jungkook. You sat up.

“Let’s not go out yet.”

“Why not?”

Jungkook gave you a sheepish smile. “It hasn’t even been ten minutes.”

“What?”

He sighed. “Well, I mean,” he fumbled with his belt, “if people are thinking we are, uh, well, doing it in here and it hasn’t even been ten minutes and you walk out- how am I gonna look?”

His reason was so stupid you initially couldn’t respond. This was the exact kind of stuff you expected to hear from him though, remembering he was a frat boy after all. You heaved out a sigh, rolling your eyes.

“Jesus,” you huffed under your breath but lay back down. “I’m giving you five more minutes. That’s it.”

“Thank you,” he smiled, and you were so tempted to kick him.

You had to admit, you enjoyed just lain here with Jungkook in silence. There was something oddly calming about this. Because even though you could still hear the party downstairs, feel the floor vibrating under you, in here, in Jungkook’s bedroom, you were in your own little bubble, in your own little world.

You enjoyed it.

Maybe a little too much.

So when the five minutes ticked away, you shot up. Jungkook hesitated, like he thought you would grant him another five minutes if he waited long enough. You didn’t. His knees cracked when he stood up.

“Where do you wanna go?” he asked you, hand on the knob.

“Let’s look for the others.”

“Okay.”

Jungkook offered you his hand and you took it.

When you climbed down the stairs, people were quick to look your way, whispers filling the pauses between the songs. Jungkook squeezed your hand and stayed close to you as you pushed through the crowd. It took you ages to find your friends.

You never thought you would see this; both of your friend groups sitting together in a circle in the backyard. There weren’t many people outside anymore, the autumn night too chilly for many. Not for your friends though.

Chaeyoung spotted you approaching them first, notifying Hoseok and therefore everybody else. You were fully expecting cheers, applause maybe. You were prepared for at least teasing and cheeky comments. You were met with silence.

“Hey,” Jungkook started and awkwardly raised a hand.

“Hey, Kook!” Namjoon smiled, dimples making an appearance. The issue between him and Jimin seemingly resolved, the two sitting together.

“You guys wanna join us?” Hoseok gestured at two empty chairs, two empty chairs reserved for you.

You looked at each other. “I mean, yeah, sure.”

Hesitantly, you sank into your chair. You folded your hands in your lap, counting the seconds for someone to say something about what had happened (and with someone you meant either Jimin or Taehyung). But everybody stayed quiet, like someone had strictly told them not to make any kind of comments. (Your guess was Chaeyoung.)

“Drink?” Jennie offered you a cup. “It’s water. You could have something else too. We have an entire set-up here.”

She leaned back for you to see all the bottles on the floor. You raised your brows, impressed.

“Uh, yeah, no, water is fine.” She handed you the cup. “Thanks.”

You let your gaze wander. It was odd to see your friends mixed with Jungkook’s, sitting together like you were all one big friend group. It was also... weirdly nice.

“Well,” Namjoon clapped his hands together, “you were saying, Chaeyoung? About that customer?”

“Right, yeah,” she straightened up, returning to the story she had been telling, “the customer kept on insisting I should go look in the back for it and that I definitely must have missed it the first time. I mean, yeah, look at me.” She gestured at herself. “Clearly blind.”

“And stupid,” Jimin added, smug and proud.

“Right, I’m just so stupid. I mean I am friends with you,” she hummed.

Jimin snorted. “You’re all friends with me, so jokes on you, Chae, you just insulted everybody!”

“We are friends?” Seokjin asked, feigning surprise.

“Yeah, I always thought we were just doing charity work?” You looked around innocently, your words making jaws drop wide open.

“Holy shit, cabbage,” Jungkook mumbled before breaking out into laughter, infecting all of you in the process.

Jimin stared at you, flabbergasted and confused about how this turned on him. He tried to feign hurt, but you could see through it, the corners of his lips betraying him. Laughter filled the air, joy etched into your faces. Sitting here, you felt like you all knew each other, felt like you were friends- had been friends for years now; hanging out, joking around.

Jennie recalled a similar story she had with a customer at the bookstore she worked at, making you all burst out into laughter by the end. More and more stories were exchanged throughout the night, stories unrelated to annoying customers, stories about them; personal ones, ones that took place in their childhood. You listened intently.

Jisoo had just finished telling you about the first real party she went to in high school when Taehyung straightened up and looked at you.

“Oh, love!” You stilled, your cup hovering in front of your lips. His eyes were sparkling, a smirk on his face. “How is it? Your first ever Beta Tau Sigma party, I mean. Got any improvements for us? We are very open to criticism.”

You looked at him before rolling your eyes, feigning annoyance but the smile on your lips made it hard to believe. “Well,” you sighed, “I’m not really a fan of the music if-”

You stopped when Jungkook put his hand on yours and squeezed it.

“Don’t,” he whispered. You grew even more confused when you saw grins grow on Seokjin’s and Taehyung’s faces.

You were about to ask when-

“These are my songs.”

You whipped your head around. Yoongi didn’t look hurt. He didn’t look like he was feeling much, to be honest, face blank.

“What?” Your brain wasn’t keeping up. “Wait, you composed-”

“Composed, wrote, mixed, produced. Did everything, yes.”

Shit.

“I’m so sorry, Yoongi,” you stammered, feeling your entire face burning, “I-I wasn’t-”

He smiled. “It’s fine. To be fair, this is my old stuff, like really old. I’ve got better things in store. Plus not everybody can like my music anyway.”

“Okay, so you don’t like Yoongi’s music.” Taehyung puts up one finger. “What else? What else can we improve on?”

You pressed your lips together, scared to propose anything else now.

“You know you said that the first time too,” Jimin recalled with a hum.

You turned to him.

“Oh, right, this isn’t actually your first Beta Tau Sigma party.” He flicked a bug off his knee. “You’ve been to one before. Remember the first party I took you to?”

You frowned. “What? No, the party you took me to was at a club-”

“Yeah, but it was thrown by them.”

“Wait, which one are you talking about?” Namjoon asked.

“The one like a month or two ago?” Jimin recalled, shrugging. “Maybe a bit more. Not too long- oh, it was the birthday party for-”

“I don’t think that counts,” Yoongi said. “That party was weird.”

“Yeah, love, don’t worry. This is your first official Beta Tau Sigma party. Forget the other one. That was shit,” Taehyung snorted.

You smiled. “Good, because I don’t recall having much fun.”

“Probably because you were locked in the bathroom for most of it,” Jisoo recalled.

“Because you all ditched me!”

“They ditched you?” Namjoon raised a brow.

You were about to get into it when-

“Oh!”

You looked at Seokjin. He had his phone pressed to his ear.

“Dude, you’re here?” he said, a grin spreading on his lips. “Wait, I’ll come get you. Stay there!”

“Who was that?” Taehyung asked.

“Cinnamon guy,” Seokjin said, like it was supposed to mean something, shoving his phone into his pocket. “I’ll be back in two.”

And then, he was gone, sprinting back to the house.

“Cinnamon guy?” Jisoo raised a brow.

“Oh, he’s a family friend of Seokjin. Business partners with his dad,” Namjoon explained. “He’s been dying to introduce us to him. Says he’s the funniest guy we’ll ever meet.”

“Funniest?” Hoseok raised a brow. “That’s-”

“Hey,” you turned to Jungkook when he spoke, not hearing the rest of Hoseok’s sentence, “are you tired? We could get out of here if you want to. It’s late.”

He showed you the time on his phone, and you were surprised to see it was way past midnight.

“Uh, are you tired?”

“I mean, not really.”

You looked around. You never thought you would say this, but you were enjoying yourself. Jimin was right. They weren’t as bad as you had made them out to be. He had a point. You were judgmental.

Your voice was quiet and meek when you spoke, “I, uh, wouldn’t mind staying a bit longer.”

Jungkook stared at you before smiling- no, grinning. “Yeah, okay, sounds great.”

He squeezed your hand.

“Guys, guys, guys!”

Seokjin’s voice cut through the air. He stopped in front of you, panting. You exchanged amused glances with Jungkook.

“Let me introduce you to cinnamon guy please,” he heaved, grinning.

Your drink almost hit the floor when you saw who it was, your heart sinking in your chest. It felt like a joke, a really cruel and bad joke.

“Guys, meet Jaehwa.”

Jungkook turned to you, searching your eyes, but your gaze was stuck to him. You thought you wouldn’t see him again, thought bumping into him in the café would be a one time thing. You should have known though. Cinnamon guy. Only one person in this world was obsessed with cinnamon as much as he was, to the point he would be dubbed this nickname.

The devil costume was fitting, you thought. Only a devil could break hearts the way he had.

“Hi, I’m Jaehwa,” he smiled. “Nice to meet-”

It was Jimin who he spotted first. You didn’t have to look to know fury was etched into his features. Chaeyoung and Hoseok were the next people he saw, both staring him down. Jisoo gritted her teeth and cursed under her breath, garnering a worried look from Jennie.

You were the last one he saw. You didn’t draw his eyes to you anymore.

“Oh.”

Your throat constricted in a terrible knot when you locked eyes. He took your breath, in the worst ways possible. It felt like you were dying, choking to death.

And if you weren’t dying then, you definitely would be now when she came along, angel wings clipped to her back, two cups in her hands.

“Here, babe,” she said, not realising what she was walking in on, eyes trained on the cups. She froze when she lifted her head.

Your world came crashing down right then and there, going up in flames in front of you and burning down to ash. You stood there helplessly as the walls you had built collapsed in on you, burying you under all the rubble, lungs caving in. You tried to breathe, survive this- him, but you knew you couldn’t.

You didn’t feel Jungkook tighten his hand around yours, or hear him say your name. Your entire focus was on him, eyes unable to tear away. Jaehwa wasn’t like a car crash. He was the car barreling towards you, leaving you lying on the sidewalk, alone, wounded, hurt, on the brink of death.

“Uh, what’s going on?” Seokjin asked, gaze shifting between Jaehwa and you. His words barely cut through the tension hanging in the air.

His question was enough to snap you out of it though, your eyes shooting to Jungkook. Your gaze was desperate, pleading.

“We gotta go,” he announced, standing up and shoving your cup into Yoongi’s hands. Jungkook acted fast, placing his other hand on your back and getting you out of here, shielding you from the others with his body.

You lowered your head, not wanting to see the expression on their faces as you walked away. They didn’t know you were clawing away from a car crash.

Jungkook hurried his steps, barely hearing Jawhwa call your name. He caught up to you, hand wrapping around your wrist and pulling you back. But Jungkook was quick to intervene.

“Don’t fucking touch her!” he hissed, pushing his hand off you and stepping in front of you.

Jaehwa opened and closed his mouth several times. It was obvious. He had a lot to say, but couldn’t find the words.

“Please,” Jaehwa whispered, looking past Jungkook, trying desperately to catch your eye. But you avoided his gaze, squeezing Jungkook’s hand for dear life, staying ducked behind his broad shoulders.

“I’m sorry. Can we talk? Please? I just- I’m so sorry-”

“Dude,” Jungkook spat, drawing Jaehwa’s eyes back to him. It took him everything not to raise his voice. “Clearly, she doesn’t want to talk to you, or even be fucking near you. So leave her the fuck alone. I don’t care if you’re Jin’s friend, I won’t hesitate to throw your ass out of here if you keep going like that.”

It wasn’t an empty threat. Jungkook was dead serious. There had always been a cheerfulness swinging with his voice. Not now. His voice was low and icy, threatening almost. You swallowed.

“I-I just want to- Five minutes. Give me five minutes. It’s all I’ll need-”

“No,” Jungkook hissed, glaring down Jaehwa, “listen, she doesn’t want to talk to you. Fucking respect it. Don’t push this any further.”

You squeezed his hand.

“I just want to explain-”

“Jaehwa!”

Chaeyoung.

“Leave them alone,” she hissed, gaze hard and unreadable, jaw flexed. You were glad it was her and not Jimin. “Don’t be like this, Jaehwa. Not after the shit you pulled.”

Her words seemed to do it, Jaehwa finally backing away. He deflated, stared at you like a kicked puppy. It made Jungkook scoff. His grip tightened around yours as he led you away.

“I’m sorry, Y/N.”

You squeezed your eyes shut.

Hearing Jaehwa say your name felt like a punch to your gut, like a knife through your already cracked heart, like the final blow to your head.

When you slipped back into the house, you heard nothing; the music, the shouts of your names, none of it reached you. It was like your head had been dunked under water, like your ears were still ringing from the car crash.

Jungkook didn’t offer up any friendly smiles to the people that tried to invite him to drinking games, walking past them like he hadn’t heard. He was mad. It was easy to see—the tension in his shoulders, the rigidness of his jaw, the heavy steps, the deep breaths. You could see it burning in his eyes. You hoped he wasn’t mad at you.

The silence continued in the car. The air was stifling tense, the walls trapping you in it. You didn’t dare to make a sound, didn’t dare to lift your gaze and look in his direction. You didn’t know what to expect.

You were sitting at a red light when Jungkook broke the silence, his eyes stuck to something in the distance.

“Are you okay?”

And it was that question, his voice soft and gentle, a total contrast to his demeanour, that broke you, cracked you in pieces, tore down your last defences. The tears came rushing down your cheeks, with no warning or build up at all. Your composure dissolved into nothing right then and there.

You bit your lip and turned your head away, trying so hard to make no sound. But Jungkook saw- knew. It broke his heart.

You curled your hands into fists, nails digging into your skin, leaving angry red marks as you tried to hold it all in. But the sobs ripped through your throat, forced your teeth apart and your mouth open.

Jungkook placed his hand on your knee, squeezing it.

“I’m here.”

You cried harder.

“I’m sorry.”

He turned to you. You were parked in front of your condo building. You weren’t sure for how long already, but Jungkook had just let you cry it out quietly, waiting patiently by your side.

“Don’t,” he told you quietly, squeezing your knee. “You have nothing to be sorry for.”

You pressed your lips together and looked at his hand, where it rested, holding you tight. You thought of how he hadn’t let go even once. You turned it around, intertwining your fingers. Your grip was weak.

“No, but I do,” you whispered weakly, pressing your lips together and taking Jungkook’s hand into yours. You thought about how he hadn’t let go of you once during the entire ride- the entire night actually, you realised. You had always been the one to let go of his hand, not the other way around.

“What do you mean?” he asked, and you couldn’t meet his gaze, swallowing.

“I lied to you,” you admitted quietly, lowering your head in shame. “He isn’t bathroom guy.”

You closed your eyes. You didn’t want to see Jungkook’s reaction, see how his opinion of you changed. You didn’t think you could bear it.

“I know.”

You snapped your eyes open.

Jungkook smiled at you, smiled a soft smile. “I never actually believed you. It didn’t add up. Why would you storm out of the café if he was just some guy you talked to in the bathroom of some party?”

He knew. He knew and had let your lies slip. You felt like crying again.

“It’s fine,” Jungkook told you, as if he could sense it. “You don’t owe me the truth.”

You shook your head. “But I do-”

“Y/N, seriously. You don’t. You don’t have to tell me anything if you’re not comfortable with sharing-”

“No, Kook,” you said, cutting him off. He stilled. You had called him ‘Kook’.

You made the decision right as you looked at him. Maybe it was the alcohol, or maybe it was because you were tired and the exhaustion made you weak, or maybe it was because you were done keeping up this front—rolling your eyes and groaning at every word he said.

“I want to. I want to share. I want you to know- to understand.”

Jungkook nodded. “Okay.”

“He isn’t bathroom guy,” you repeated, voice shaky. “Jaehwa- he is my ex. He and I dated for all of high school. He was my first boyfriend.”

You swallowed the lump growing in your throat. “He broke up with me the summer before college.”

Jungkook tightened his hand around yours. Your vision blurred, but you blinked it all away.

“His parents didn’t approve of our relationship anymore.”

Your voice was quiet, barely above a whisper. But he heard you loud and clear. You looked out the window, traced the stars in the distant night sky.

“Anymore?”

Jungkook asked this quietly, like he wanted to give you the option to pretend you didn’t hear.

“Yeah.” It came out weak. You wanted to laugh at yourself. “His parents were fine with us dating in high school. They,” you actually laughed then, the things you were about to recall so fucking ironic, “were really nice to me.”

“What happened?”

“Well, they wanted for him to date someone proper in college.”

You could barely bring yourself to continue, the words hurting you to say.

“Someone more like them.”

Jungkook stared at you, his mind slowly beginning to piece together what you were saying.

“You know how Namjoon said that Jaehwa’s a family friend. A business partner?” You tucked a strand behind your ear. “Well, Jaehwa’s family has money. A lot of it.”

Jungkook sat back, his lips parting.

“They wanted someone more like them.” Your voice grew more and more bitter with every word. “Someone that knows why they give you different forks in those stupidly expensive restaurants. Someone that could also tell stories about their trip to Bali last month. Someone whose parents weren’t working multiple jobs to get by.”

He squeezed your hand, his mouth pressing into a hard thin line. Silence engulfed you, your words sinking in with him. He understood now, understood why you were so quick to judge, to roll your eyes and scoff at him.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered. “I’m so sorry, cabbage.”

You nodded, appreciating his words. But the memories hurt all the same, tore your confidence and self-worth to pieces.

“They were really nice to me, you know?” you mumbled, feeling your throat constrict with tears. “They would let me stay over for dinner or stay over when it got too late. They would remember my birthday and get me presents too. They were so fucking nice to me. I-I just don’t understand.”

The tears fell. Jungkook wiped them away for you, realising soon enough though that it was in vain.

“I just don’t understand how they could smile at me and deem me as less than at the same time- deem me not worthy of their son.”

You screwed your eyes shut.

Jungkook lowered his head. He had nothing to say, nothing of use anyway.

You hated that you were crying, that after all this time, speaking about it still left you a wreck. You wished you could just forget about it, move past it. You wished you could say the experience hadn’t burned you.

The tears flooded down your cheeks endlessly, like a dam that had been broken through. Your hands were shaky as you dragged them under your eyes, over and over again, and though your cries were quiet, they pierced through the air clearly.

You couldn’t recall how long you sat there, crying, but by the end, your eyelids were heavy and swollen.

“I’m- I’m sorry,” you hiccuped, wiping away the last bits of tears. You knew you had to look like a wreck now, but Jungkook gave you a gentle smile, his doe eyes softly gazing into yours.

“Don’t. Stop apologising, cabbage.”

He wanted to ask you if you were fine, if you needed a hug maybe, but he knew not to. A few moments passed between you.

“What, uh, are you gonna do now?” Your voice was raspy, shaky, broken. “I mean,” you cleared your throat, trying to gather your composure, “are you, uh, gonna go back to the party?”

“Oh.” Jungkook puckered his forehead. “Yeah, I guess so. Where else would I go?”

You nodded.

“I think I’m gonna go now,” you mumbled after a few more moments, the seat belt snapping back. He nodded. You should rest, he thought.

You stepped out before turning to him. He offered you what was meant to be an encouraging smile, but you could see the exhaustion in his eyes.

“Goodnight, cabbage,” he whispered. “Please sleep-”

The question spilled from your lips before you could think too much about it, “You wanna come up?”

Jungkook froze.

“I mean just to pass some time- you don’t look like you wanna go back to a party,” you quickly added, heat crawling up your cheeks when you realised how it had sounded.

He looked at you. And you watched as his lips split into a smile. “I’d love that.”

In the first week you moved into your one-bedroom apartment, one of the light bulbs burned through. You hadn’t bothered to change it out yet, so when you flicked on the lights, your home was only dimly lit.

“Just, uh, make yourself comfortable, or whatever. Sorry for the mess.”

“No, it’s fine. Don’t worry,” he told you with a smile, kicking off his shoes.

You stared at him. You never had guests over. It felt weird to see Jungkook standing in your home.

You hastily picked up your clothes from the floor and tossed them into your laundry bin. “Uh, you want something to drink?”

“Yeah, water would be great,” he told you, looking around. “Thanks.”

You nodded, tempted to tell him there wasn’t much to see. Your one-bedroom apartment was sparsely decorated, your home equipped with the very most necessary furniture. But Jungkook gazed around like he was in a museum. You swallowed the words, and walked over to your refrigerator, picking up an empty ramen cup you had lying around and throwing it into the bin.

You grabbed two water bottles. You were about to call for Jungkook when you saw him inspecting the pothos you were propagating on your window sill—the only form of decoration you had made—and his name died on your tongue.

You couldn’t shake the feeling. It was weird to see him in your home, standing among the four walls you called yours. It felt like he was seeing more of you, like you were letting him in. Whether or not you liked that, or wanted that, you didn’t know.

“They’re cute,” Jungkook said when you handed him his water.

“Thanks. Just trying my best to keep them alive.”

You plopped down on your shabby little couch the tenant before you had left for you. The leather was worn down to the point it had split, little holes forming. Your couch looked like a slice of cheese. You used blankets and pillows to make up for it.

Jungkook followed you, sitting down as he sipped from his water. You were facing each other, sitting on opposite ends, cross-legged. Your knees were almost touching.

“I think my mother has these too,” he told you, looking over his shoulders at the pothos.

“Yeah? They’re very popular,” you said. You lifted the bottle to your lips, the cool water running down your throat. “You’re close with your family, aren’t you?”

He paused, raising a brow at you. “What makes you think that?”

“Oh, I just, uh,” you felt the heat crawl up your neck, “saw the family photo on your desk, so I assumed-”

He gave you a smile, and you were so tempted to kick him then.

“I’m close with them. I have them as my wallpaper too.”

He showed you, and you didn’t say you knew this already. You hummed, mumbling something about how they looked good. He grinned and put away his phone.

“It’s actually why I joined a frat,” he told you, and you looked at him. “When I moved out for college—don’t laugh now—,” you started smiling, “I was scared to live all on my own-”

Your smile turned into a grin.

He sighed. “Yes, I’ll admit it.” He put his hand above his heart. “I, Jeon Jungkook the Great, am also scared of things, one of them being living on my own and not finding my group of people in college.”

“‘Jeon Jungkook the Great’?” you snorted. “And you wonder why I’m judgemental.”

“That was a joke-”

“I know. I’m not stupid. I’m not Chae.”

You both shared a look, your lips splitting into smiles.

“Okay, but seriously?” you asked. “You were scared of not finding your group?”

He shrugged. “Believe it or not.”

“Well, everybody loves you now.”

“Please,” he waved you off, “not everybody-”

“People cheered when you walked in! They were all screaming your name like you were a rockstar! Don’t try to downplay it now.”

“Fine, people like me,” he sighed.

You looked at him and paused. “Did you?”

“What?”

“Did you find your group of people then?”

Jungkook stayed quiet, eyes drifting to the side as he thought of your answer. He smiled, nodding.

And he didn’t have to elaborate for you to know who he was talking about. Jungkook had found his people, just like you had with your friends.

“Do you ever feel guilty?” you asked, and he raised a brow.

“About what?”

“I mean we are lying to our friends when we say we’re,” you gestured between him and you, “you know?”

“Dating?”

You nodded.

“Well, not really.” He shrugged. “Doesn’t really feel like lying to me.”

You opened your mouth to tell him that should feel like lying to him because you were fake dating but-

“Do you?”

You sighed, puckering your forehead in thought. “I mean, yeah? A bit? Jimin’s gonna be so disappointed when we break up- I don’t know.”

“Do you want to stop then?”

The question had your head snapping up, and you were surprised when you were met with nothing but sincerity in Jungkook’s eyes.

“What?”

He shrugged. “I don’t want to keep this going if you feel guilty.”

“But… your bet with Tae?” you brought up, brows furrowing.

Jungkook waved you off. “So I’ll lose. I’ll survive.”

You frowned.

“No.” You surprised yourself with that answer. “No, don’t be ridiculous. We’ve already gotten so far. We’re committing.”

He smiled at you. “Okay.”

You looked away and busied yourself with your water, unscrewing it and taking a few big gulps. You fell into silence. You let your mind wander, think about the past couple of hours.

“Can I ask you a question?”

He looked at you, smiling. “One. You get exactly one question.”

You rolled your eyes. “Fine, I’ll ask you exactly one question.”

You straightened up. You could feel your voice growing smaller in your throat.

“When we walked into the party,” you began, “you said the people there weren’t your friends.”

You closed your mouth, realising you weren’t sure what you wanted to ask.

“Is that your question?” An amused smile formed on Jungkook’s lips until he saw the knit between your brows and the serious look in your eyes.

“I don’t know. Maybe?” You sighed. “I just realised- you didn’t seem…. all that happy. You looked tense, stiff, and- really uncomfortable. Your smile was also,” you paused to find the right word, “off. It didn’t look all that genuine, and it’s not the first time I’ve realised this. When we were at the diner or when we were picking out costumes in the shop-”

You paused, sighed. Your voice grew quieter. “You force on your smiles, don’t you?”

Jungkook averted his gaze at your words, looking at the water bottle in his hand instead, and you watched as his smile slowly disappeared. You knew the answer. Your heart clenched in your chest.

“You know, cabbage,” he began, quiet like he was telling you a secret now, “for a while, I found it hard to find actual people that I could trust. People that were friends with me because they wanted to, and not because,” he chuckled wryly, “they were hoping I’d buy the shots at the bar for them, or get the most expensive gift for their birthday.”

Your face crumbled.

“You’re probably right when you say I, uh, force on smiles, but-” He paused, sighed. “I’ve come to realise that people don’t really wanna hear about the shit you’re going through. They wanna see you happy and enjoying yourself, so they can be blissfully happy and enjoy themselves too. And what better way to convey this but with a smile?”

Jungkook looked off to the side, shrugging. “In my head, I’m just always asking myself if they wanna talk to me right now because they care about what I have to say, or if they just wanna talk to me because they want to have a rich boyfriend who will fund their lavish spending habits?”

You knew he was referring to Narae, but you didn’t doubt for a second that there were other girls too.

“I mean I realise how stupid,” he rubbed his neck, “and privileged this sounds compared to- the thing with Jaehwa and you because at least I was—” you could see how hard he was thinking right now, desperately trying to find the right words, “—-never looked down upon, but-”

He sighed, lifting his gaze to you.

“It’s just hard for me to find people that like me for me- to find genuine people.”

You had never seen Jungkook this serious. It made you swallow. You wondered what he thought of you, how he saw you. You wondered if he thought you were genuine or not. Probably not. Why would he? He was paying you to fake date him. Right at that moment, you wished, for the very first time, that he and you had met under different circumstances, that the contract, the bet, all didn’t exist.

“Do you think I’m-?”

You trailed off, your voice giving up on you. But Jungkook knew what you were trying to ask.

“That was just your second question,” he reminded you, and you blinked at him.

“Right, I’m only allowed to ask one question, huh?” you huffed. He smiled, but it faded away when he saw the expression on your face.

He leaned back. “Can I tell you what I think of you?”

You looked at him. Your gut told you that you wouldn’t like what he had to say. For your own good, you should say no, spare yourself. If you were kinder to yourself, you would.

“Shoot.”

Jungkook straightened up and folded his arms in front of his stomach.

“I think—” You could barely hold his gaze. “—you’re scared. I think you’re scared to be open and honest. To be vulnerable. I don’t think you want to let people in. You don’t want them to get too close and see the real you behind all of the eye-rolling, scoffs, and snarky comments.”

“You’re actually someone who's kind and nice. Someone who cares deeply. Someone who would drop everything to pick up her drunk best friend in the middle of the night and sit on the curb with them.”

He paused.

“Someone who’s also judgemental at times, but that can be forgiven.”

A weak chuckle was the only response you could muster up, eyes tearing away from Jungkook because his words were ripping through you, digging in between your ribs and pulling out your tiny heart from there, pinning it to the front of your chest, like a brooch, stunningly beautiful but so goddamn fragile and delicate at the same time. He uncovered pieces of you that you would have liked to stay hidden, pieces of you that you thought would stay buried. He uncovered you like a book long forgotten about, the spine cracking when he flipped it open for the very first time in years.

You felt seen, completely taken in.

It terrified you.

“But that’s just what I think,” Jungkook finished, shrugging.

You bit your tongue.

“Well, I’m definitely not gonna miss being psychoanalysed by you when we break up,” you joked, trying to sound nonchalant. You didn’t think you succeeded.

“You gave me permission.”

And to that, you didn’t know what to say, your lips sealing shut. You focused on the water bottle in your hands, on how the cool spread into your fingertips.

“What are you gonna miss then?”

You lifted your gaze to Jungkook, throat growing tight.

“Maybe this?”

You watched as Jungkook pulled something out of his pocket, tossing it into your lap. With big eyes, you stared at the paper bag, the logo of your favourite bakery stamped on it, Seo’s Bakery.

“I asked Jisoo,” he said, giving you a smile.

You looked between him and the paper bag, mouth wide open.

“These are the right ones, right? The ones she had been talking about in the car? She didn’t trick me, did she?”

“Y-yeah,” you stammered, eyes finding his. “They, uh-” Your features softened. You nodded. “Yeah, they are the right ones.”

When you opened the bag, the faint smell of chocolate chip cookies wafted through the air, your mouth immediately began watering. But then you remembered where Jungkook had kept them, and your face soured.

“How long did you keep them in your pockets? Tell me you weren’t carrying them around all this time.”

“I had them in my car.” He rolled his eyes. “I was gonna give them to you by the end of today.”

You narrowed your eyes, pursing your lips.

“If you say so,” you mumbled and pulled out a cookie, hesitantly biting into it.

“Good?”

You nodded. You tasted no difference.

“Do I get one now?” Jungkook grinned, stretching out his hand. You would have laughed if you weren’t eating.

“No.”

He gawked at you before scoffing and shaking his head. “You’re unbelievable-”

The sound of his phone ringing cut through the air. You watched him pull it out with a sigh, mumbling something about how you were just saved by the bell, his screen lit up with Namjoon’s contact.

“Hi, what’s- yeah, no, we’re all good,” he said, and your chewing slowed. Namjoon’s voice was faint, barely audible.

You pulled out your own phone, swallowing when you saw the dozen of missed texts and calls. You were about to reply to them, assure your friends you were okay when out of the corner of your eye, you saw Jungkook try to steal one of your cookies. You slapped his hand away.

“Jeon!”

“Ow, shit- what? No, no, everything’s fine, Joon.” A dramatic pout formed on Jungkook’s lips as he looked at you, blowing on his hand. You rolled your eyes, but there was a smile sitting on your face, one that made him smile too.

“Yeah, I’ll be back soon. Yes, I promise, Joon.” He rolled his eyes, acting like Namjoon was an annoying mother. You laughed quietly.

“Don’t worry. Yes, Joon, I promise, again. I’ll see you-” Jungkook froze, his smile slipping. He lowered his head a bit. “Oh. Well, uh, thanks.”

You raised a brow when Jungkook finished the call.

“What was that?”

He waved you off, dropping his phone into his lap. Your suspicion grew.

“What, Jeon?” you pressed.

You could see how reluctant he was to tell you this, see the discomfort in him. It didn’t make you back away though. You wanted to know.

“Joon just-” Jungkook sighed and looked away. “He just told me they asked him to leave afterwards. They ended the party shortly after.”

His eyes flickered to you when he finished. You blinked at him, your mind having a hard time processing the information. You didn’t think they would ask Jaehwa to leave, or end the party for that matter.

“Oh,” you said, the only response you could come up with at that moment.

Your gaze shot to his phone when it lit up again, a new message. His lockscreen—the picture of him and the boys on his birthday—caught your eye.

“Was that, uh, your birthday?” you asked, clearing your throat. You hoped Jungkook would go along with it. He did.

“Oh, right, yeah! It was.”

“No big Beta Tau Sigma party for you, huh?” you chuckled, trying to lighten the air. It worked.

“Yeah, no big Beta Tau Sigma for me on that day,” Jungkook said. “I had two birthday parties. One on my actual birthday,” he showed you his phone, “and one a couple days later.”

You tongued your cheek. “You’re so privileged.”

He grinned. “You’re just jealous.”

You snorted and shook your head, but the smile on your lips was making it hard for him to take you seriously.

“You’re gonna thank me by the way?” Jungkook asked you, and you stared at him before comprehending what he was saying.

You rolled your eyes, sighing. “Thanks, or whatever.”

He clicked his tongue. “‘Thanks, or whatever’? Is that how you thank people? How you’ve been taught?”

You stared him down before heaving out a sigh, forcing on the fakest smile.

“Oh, Jeon, how may I ever repay you for your kindness? Thank you so very very much for buying me cookies. You’re a saint!”

You stopped smiling.

“Happy?” you hissed.

He clicked his tongue again. “I think you could do better. I just think your tone... could be more genuine, more thankful. I don’t know maybe I’m expecting too much from you too-”

You threw your half-eaten cookie into its paper bag before dropping it to the floor. Jungkook was challenging you, and you took it, gladly.

Thinking back, you still couldn’t figure out what prompted you to do this—whether it was the smug smirk on his lips that you wanted to wipe off, or the slight buzz you were feeling from all of the alcohol, or the fact that your heart had begun thrumming so hard and loud in your chest every time you looked at Jungkook now and you just couldn’t keep on ignoring it, especially not when he looked so beautiful sitting in your home.

The rest of his sentence died on his throat when you grabbed him by his collar and pulled him towards you, mouth crashing against his. As you kissed him, you noticed just how soft his lips were, realising you had never kissed lips this soft.

Jungkook was slow to react again, eyes wide and hands up in the air. But when it hit him what was happening, he pulled you close to him, hands finding around your waist, grip firm, fingers digging into your skin.

You ended up being the one to pull away.

“Thankful enough?” you breathed against his lips, face still impossibly close to his. You could count his eyelashes.

Jungkook stared at you, swallowing. He didn’t know how to respond, mouth opening and closing several times. You would have teased him for it if your heart hadn’t been pounding in your chest the way it was. You wondered if he could hear it, thumping against your ribcage—all because of him.

“You know what?”

“Uh, n-no,” he stammered, sounding breathless.

You smiled. “I think I can do better.”

You didn’t give Jungkook a moment to process your words before kissing him again. Your hands curled around his neck, fingertips in his hair. He pulled you into his lap, wrapping his arms around your waist and locking you in place. Like he was afraid if he didn’t hold on tight enough, you would disappear, turn out to be a figment of his imagination.

You weren’t sure whose hands wandered first, but by the time you parted, your costume was slipping off your shoulders, and Jungkook was sitting in front of you with half of his chest exposed. He cupped your face.

“You sure about this?” he asked you quietly. “I know you had a bit to drink.”

He gazed into your eyes. You knew Jungkook would put a stop to all of this the moment you said the word, the moment you gave him the impression, for even just a second, that you didn’t want this. You knew he wouldn’t mind crashing on your couch, or even driving back home. It made answering so much easier.

“I’ve never been more sure,” you told him. “Are you sure about this?”

And then, he gave you a smile, a smile that had your chest growing tight with anticipation and excitement, and a fire rising in the pit of your stomach, your entire body set alight.

When Jungkook kissed you, your breath hitched in your throat, taken aback by the vigour he was pressing his lips against yours. He swooped you up in his arms, standing up from the couch to wander to your nearby bed. But the sound of something cracking interrupted you two. You pulled away and looked down.

Jungkook had stepped on your cookies. He cursed. The corners of your mouth turned downwards, your bottom lip jutting out.

“I’ll buy you cookies first thing tomorrow,” he said upon seeing your expression change, pressing a peck on your pout. “I’ll buy you an entire bakery.”

You turned to him, grinning. “Really?”

“Anything for you.”

And then you were kissing him again, hands cupping his face like you were holding the most delicate thing out there. Jungkook carefully and slowly placed you on your bed, the air knocked out of you when you hit the mattress. A giggle tumbled from your lips. He laughed too, hovering above you, caging you in with his arms.

“You good?”

You nodded, grabbing his face to plant another kiss on his mouth. Soon enough your smile disappeared, his lips trailing down your jawline and neck. Your breathing shallowed out. It made a smirk grow on his face, a smirk you usually would roll your eyes at, but you didn’t have the nerve to now.

The kisses never stopped. Jungkook kept on pressing them to every inch of your skin you allowed him to see and touch, like he never wanted you to forget how soft his lips were, like if you were going to forget this night and him at one point, you were at least going to vividly remember the kisses he stamped on your body, marked you with.

By the end, the sun was slowly spilling into the night sky.

“Your first sunrise,” he pointed out, and you smiled.

“Yeah, my first sunrise.”

The sky was clear, the sun white as it inched up the horizon, bleeding its light into the night and colouring everything in a breathtakingly beautiful orange, warmth expelling the cold autumn night. And right at that moment—as you lay in Jungkook’s arms in your small bed, in your even smaller one-bedroom apartment, your breaths slowly evening out, naked and exposed in every sense possible—you found a sense of peace. It planted itself in your chest, wiggled through your ribs and settled there. Everything was fine, perfectly fine. You knew, it was too good to be true. But you stopped yourself from thinking about it, quieting that voice in your head that told you this was going to end up in flames in a few weeks time, that told you to run and hide. You allowed yourself to enjoy this, for now.

“The second thing you did on your bucket list today.”

You tore your gaze to him, raising a brow.

“Second?”

Jungkook smirked.

“Yeah, I mean you just did me, right?”

You blinked at him a handful of times before scoffing and turning away, shoving him by his shoulder. You rolled your eyes. You should have known. Jungkook laughed and when his laughter died down, he twisted you around and captured your mouth in a kiss. And as much as you wanted to act like you were annoyed with him, you couldn’t resist the kiss, so your hands winded up in his hair.

“You were never on my bucket list,” you told him when you parted, mumbling it against his lips.

Jungkook laughed, humming before pressing kisses to your face after every word. “I should be.”

You scrunched your nose and tried to twist away from him, but you failed miserably—maybe because your bed was small and there was no space to escape to, or maybe you were tired, or maybe, just maybe, because you weren’t actually trying, didn’t want to pull away from his kisses, maybe you didn’t actually want to pull away from him, maybe you liked having Jungkook in your arms, liked holding him, liked being around him. You were quick to bury those thoughts though, settling on the first reason, lack of space to escape to.

Jungkook pulled the blanket over your bodies when he saw how heavy you were blinking, realising sleep was taking over you.

“Didn’t you tell Joon you’d be back soon? You’re not scared you’re gonna be in trouble?” And even though the vision was blurring, you saw the grin that grew on his lips. Jungkook wrapped his arm around your middle and buried his nose into the crook of your neck.

“You’re worth the trouble.”

And then, he pressed one more kiss to your shoulder. You didn’t try twisting away his time, mustering up a tired smile, your eyelids falling shut. Slowly, you slipped into sleep. But you still heard him say it, the words mumbled against your skin, quiet like a secret.

“I love you, cabbage.”

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kurooisant · 3 years

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Hot Sugar

eren x gn!reader

warnings - suggestive??, cursing

(pls play hot sugar by glass animals slowed + reverb when there is **)

[modern au and college au bc why not🧍]

It was just like every night Sasha was out at parties with Connie, Historia was on a date with Ymir. It was lonely for sure but you didn’t really mind considering how you can just vibe and just watch Netflix. It was so peaceful until Sasha came back home, drunk. Connie was helping her stand up.

“Hey Y/N, she got wasted Jean had to drive her home.” Connie said still trying to help her stand straight.

“Yeah hold on get her on the couch I’m gonna put her in the bathtub.” You slightly smiled. With no warning Eren Yeager came in, he smelled like citrus musk with a slight stench of ouid (🍃 ifykyk).

“Uh- hi Eren.” You said welcoming him inside, he was probably one of the hottest guys in college, you and him knew each other when you were kids. You guys weren’t close, but close enough that you both trusted each other. “Hey, is it okay if I just stay the night here? My roommates are throwing a party back at my dorm and I want nothing to do with it.” Eren said with a straight face.

“Yeah sure.” You replied. You got up and turned on the bathtub, water came splashing into the tub. You told Connie to bring Sasha into the bathroom and you’ll handle from there. Connie struggled to get her into the bathroom but he eventually did it while Eren was on the couch.

“Well I’m going now, Bye! See you in class!” Connie yelled across the dorm. “bYe ConnAyy~” Sasha’s words slurred.

The door closed. You undress Sasha and put her in the bath. She was just talking non-sense. After the bath, you helped her out of the bath and into her room to change and get her to bed. You did it! Finally after what felt like forever.

Eren was still on the couch on his phone, He looked peaceful for once. You walked over to the kitchen to heat up some left over Jollibee (AS A FILLIPINO JOLLIBEE SLAPS). Then a comfortable silence loomed over.

“Bye Ymir!” You heard Historia say as she kissed Ymir’s cheek. “Bye Historia” Ymir said walking away from the dorm. Historia was surprised when she saw Eren on the couch of the dorm. “Hey, sorry I’m spending the night here my roommates are throwing a party and I don’t want any partake in it.” Eren mentioned still looking at his phone.

“U-uh okay?” Historia said while walking to her room. ** Eren came up behind you, burying his face into your neck. But he began kissing your neck, biting it even. A slight whimper came from your mouth you quickly covered your mouth.

“Oi! What are you doing?! They might hear us..” You mumbled.

“Sorry I felt like I needed to do that.” He smirked onto your skin.

A shiver went down your spine.

“I’m gonna go take a shower, I’ll save the chicken for later. I’ll be right ba-”

“I’m coming in with you.” Eren interrupted your sentence.

“Wait- what?” You were shocked, your childhood friend in the shower with you- no that would be weird right? right?!

You just went with it anyways because either way he wouldn’t comply with whatever you came up with.

You went to the bathroom with Eren following.

“Goodnight you guys! Don’t be too loud!” Historia laughed at her own joke.

“H-Historia! No- you got the wrong ide-” Your mouth was covered by Eren’s hand.

“Shhh don’t be too loud, you don’t want to wake up Sasha right?” He whispered into your ear and bit it. You almost moaned out but caught yourself before it happened. (BYE- HISTORIA WOULD BE STANDING THERE LIKE 🧍‍♀️ but she closed her door thankfully😭✋)

You pushed him off you and walked into the bathroom with him, locked the door and stripped, because you’re taking a shower. He did the same and he turned on the water. He took his hair out of this man bun and just went in the shower. You got in too and it was weird seeing him this close up. He grabbed you by the waist and made love marks making you moan. He was very touchy with you.

“Hey I know it’s kind of just sudden, but I like you.. A lot. Ever since we were kids and I just never got the courage to tell you and well here I am now, with you.. I-it’s fine if you don’t like me back I just wanted to-” You cut him off by smashing your lips onto his.

“I like you too Eren, but what would Mikasa think?” You asked.

“She’s like a sister don’t worry.” He started touching you again giving you sloppy kisses.

“Shit- Y/N your skin tastes like hot sugar, it’s just addicting.”

Your moans echoed the bathroom.

“Is it okay if i- you know put it in” He asked before doing anything.

“Ah- fuck- Eren- can we do this another time, I’m sorry but my roommates are sleeping and I don’t want to wake them up and stuff.” You said.

“Awe no, that’s fine. We can do this another time when they’re gone.” He smiled.

You both just showered and talked about life until the question popped out. “Uhm- Y/N with you be my S/O?” Eren asked.

“y-yes!” You said slightly cold because you both got out of the shower. you headed into your room and ofc he followed and you both changed and cuddled until morning.

fin.

LMAO this is my first one shot?? MANE anyways 🤠 enjoy whatever this is BAHAHA- also ignore my spelling mistakes 🏃 i was in class for the first part, soo yeah yeah i probably need like requests on different characters but thats all have an amazing night/day!

#eren x reader #eren yeager #eren headcanons #ereh #eren smut #eren fluff #aot x reader

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leossmoonn · 3 years

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🔮 - well. . .

i go by she / they. i'm a virgo. i don't really like loud places. i love writing in a diary, gives me... fun Elizabethan era vibes idk. also anything supernatural is a must for me. especially the occult. and old literature, i love it. and a fandom uhm... the vampire diaries OR marauders era harry potter . OH and i was formerly the 🍉 ask.

omg ok first of all HI OMG ITS SO NICE TO KNOW WHO THE ANONS R. PLS COME INTO MY INBOX MORE OFTEN ID LOVE TO TALK TO U!!

also ur “meet the admin” post said pansexual so imma do both genders if thats okay :)

female tvd ship - bonnie bennett

hehe okay so i kind of view bonnie as also quiet and a little introverted (compared to elena and care at least) so once i read u dont like loud noises i was like “yes this bonnie is her gf”. bonnie and you, before u dated, loved to talk abt supernatural stuff. like you always supported her talk abt her being a medium, witch, etc. she really found comfort in u bc her friends didn’t believe it at all, but to know that someone as close to her as u were believed her, honestly it made her develop a crush on you. (and lets be honest, youve always had a crush on her ever since yall were kids hehe). so when she finds out that shes a witch, ofc youre the first person she told. and omg i just imagine her being really nervous and scared bc even tho you support the theories and stuff, she still doubts that in the end, youll think shes a freak. so when she confesses she stutters a lot and (this is so cliché but like anyways hehe) you do the only thing you think will relax her + it just felt right: you kissed her. and that’s how yall became girlfriends! hehe. you two are def the hottest couple in mystic falls, like sorry not sorry elena and stefan. you two often explore the tunnels and you read her grams’s grimoire bc its hella cool. omg and bonnie is so overprotective of you and she never wants you to go in missions but you always weasel your way into her heart and she caves in hehe. OMG AND WHEN ITS YOUR BDAY SHE’LL DEF USE HER MAGIC TO HER ADVANTAGE. LIKE SHE’LL MAKE FLOWERS APPEAR, FoOD, ROMANTIC LIGHTING, GIVE U CRYSTALS OR SMTH. AHHH. neieownnw ok moving on lol

male hp ship - remus lupin

you two love sneaking out into the library together in the dead of night and reading together. remus will steal james’s invisibility cloak and whisk you away for a very romantic and mischievous evening. you two hit the kitchens first, of course, and then sneak into the library. you find an old book written in french while remus finds smth written in latin, and you both find a corner and curl up next to each other. sometimes youll have him read the latin texts to you. you love hearing him speak foreign language. its just so romantic ahhhh. you also keep a very private diary and one time remus stumbled upon it while tidying up the common room when u went to the bathroom. it ended up falling out of your bag and remus decided to go against his morals and read it. its then he discovers that you like-like him. he also discovers that you write in very beautiful cursive and you describe your feelings so beautiful, hes sobbing at your words lol. you end up walking in on him reading and youre furious, but more embarrassed than anything. he decides to play it cool and while youre screaming at him hes like “you like me?” and youre like “well of course i do, but not right this-” and remus just walks up to you and kisses you (awwe) and he pulls away and says “i meant like-like me, love” and you just melt in his arms and just uGH. i want this lmfao. (lol dont mind me writing a fic abt this)

ah sorry for this being so long! i hope you like it :) if u didnt like the diff genders then i can totally redo it, no worries :))) thank u for sending in an ask! send in other asks for the celebration and/or just to chat :)

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unironicduncanstan · 3 years

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[UNI’S LPS LORE DROP BITCH]

so ,,, i used to collect littlest pet shop (mostly the 1st and 2nd gen ones bc yall i am old) and theyre long gone now but. these are some of the lps i remember playing with and giving distinct personalities growing up. most of them didnt have names at all so im just referring to them with numbers and pictures. also warning it gets pretty Dark bc weird kid culture but here we go;;;

the first is #11 and #86. they were my absolute FAVORITES, a mother and daughter duo, a lot of their stories revolved around the kitten getting lost and the mom having to get to her, or the kitten dying and the mom having a mental breakdown. 11 mostly acted as a single mom but sometimes id cycle out different potential dads, usually the dog lps bc i did Not care abt the actual scientific lack of interspecial breeding possibilities

#25. a basic white picket fence ass dude, really common choice as the ‘dad’ in the above situation, he also was not immune to being ‘killed off’ for angst. was also cheated on a couple times by 11 (THOSE WERE AUS THO,,, DONT CANCEL HER ITS OK TO KEEP STANNING)

#200. she was #11s best friend, I think her name might have been hannah??? anyways if the mom and dad were killed off sometimes she’d “adopt” #86. but usually only after #86 fell into the custody of a terribly neglectful parent for a while and had to be rescued bc again, in my gay neurodivergent little brain peace was never an option

#487. another love interest for #11, usually competed with #25 in an almost edward vs jacob type battle of cool brooding boy and average mcfamily man. he was a big fav

#672. number #487s sister! usually either helped him get #11 like a wingman, or i’d flip the cards and make her manipulative and sabotage 11 bc she didnt think she was good enough for her brother. the personality switches id give characters were rly like. getting the bad ending in a video game,

#44. YET ANOTHER,, LOVE INTEREST FOR THAT ONE CAT,,,, but it was one sided and he always lost. poor friend zone ass simp im sorry man idk why you deserved that 😔 i think sometimes though id pair him with #200/hannah at the end. cant get the girl date her best friend idk i was 8 my morals were not always applicable to the adult situations i created

#14. SO I,,,, i ended up with three of these. and in the end i made them triplets that performed for the circus and were unhappy in their life of exploitation. i think sometimes they would. form a sui pact to escape their torment.

#137. HIS NAME WAS FUCKEN CHEESE

Groovy goat / unnumbered. I remember she was spanish to me but spoke mostly english, this decision was made bc i was an extremely white american child, and she was almost always involved somehow in a story bc she was my favorite design ever. anyways she usually was a model that would give a struggling lps a ‘makeover’ like that one scene in any dramatic disney live action film ever made

#464. another fav bc of her design omg. she was like a little sweetheart and would often play the role of ‘baby’ for any species i didnt already have designated ‘babies’ for. BUT, when i’d play with the other hamsters (we’ll get 2 them in a sec), i made them all the same age and theyd all crush on her at the same time lmao the DRAMA

#34, #35, #36. they were brothers and in order from left to right;;; biggest brother and a leader+positive role model, then the punkish middle brother that didnt like to listen and would often get them all in trouble, then the youngest nerdy brother that was naive and soft and did w/e he was told. they stuck together thru all their antics, except when #464 was involved, then theyd have a classic ‘fighting over a girl then realizing thats ridiculous’ arc. rly loved these guys cuz i always wanted a hamster so id pretend they were real animals sometimes too loL

#693. i got thsi in a mcdonalds happy meal but anyways she was a princess/queen/whatever and was very spoiled royalty. probably tried to behead some of the other lps idk. all she wanted was drama and money

#112. punk boy,,, usually paired with one of the ‘popular’ girls,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, oh my god did i government assign this dog duncan kin b4 td even existed yet

#48, #79 #42. !! HUGE FUCKEN BITCH ALERT !! (popular girls trio lol), i think a couple times i like, aged down #11 and got rid of the kitten for a ~highschool au~ where these girls bullied her but she ofc ended up stealing the middle ones man. and then other times i just paired the middle girl with #112 in a genuine ‘opposites attract’ ship . where were u guys when i was making duncney lps a thing tbh

#59. i love this guy but he was just an eccentric dork and mostly used for comedic effect

#43. love interest for #59 that he goofily fawned over till he eventually got the girl at the end of every story bc i loved cliches

#673. usually a mysterious adventurous girl from out of town that meets the mains in my story and befriends them/helps them out. also a close friend of the groovy goat character

“Paws off diary” Bull Terrier. ok this ones weird but he came in this lil electronic diary right (you can google how it looks to see what i mean) and there was this like, plastic bubble on top that he came in and you could stick him or any other lps in there and shut it securely cuz it was a diary so i. used it as like. a prison almost where id trap lps and the other characters had to ‘save’ them like they were rescuing a princess from a tower or smth. but it was usually just this lil guy. also he was given a name but i was kinda cheating skjdfsdf it was, “Max” bc that was always his name in the commercials for the diary--

#646 and #647, twin orphans separated at birth. did a lot of princess and the pauper esque ‘long lost siblings from different worlds’ reunion stories with these two

#94. so this one came with a head bandage and a little medical looking case to carry them in. i used the carry case as like an ‘ambulance’ or med helicopter to put ‘sick’ pets in and carry them to the hospital, and this pet had chronic illness so they were always the roommate patient at the lps hospital.

#10 and #142, the goldfish couldnt be taken out of the bowl if i remember correctly so. he felt sad and isolated but the seahorse was his best friend who was able to go anywhere so id stick him in the bowl with him a lot to hang out n make him feel better. solidarity

#463. i LOVED her design, so i used her a lot as just a friend to whoever i was playing with. she was also one of the bigger birds so shes the only one i remember really utilizing as a ‘this character can literally fly’ plot device. she also might have been magic i dont remember. ik whenever i did the circus story she was always in it

#37, #38 and #39. i lost the ‘girl’ one early on, like completely lost it and never found it again so idk what happened to it. so the story was the other two were brothers in a constant search for their long lost sister. sometimes id either have another lps be their sister or make a ‘found family’ trope out of somebody

#331. i had two of these and they come with little hats but i lost one of the hats so. evil twin story babey the regular one was a nice old pirate guy but the one with the hat was evil and nobody could ever tell the difference

#641, IM THE TRASH MAN! I START EATIN GARBAGE,

#long post #i had many more but these were my muses #original

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miaxeu · 4 years

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though the mist might prevent some from seeing it, MIA STOEGER is actually a descendent of DIONYSUS. it’s still a question of whether or not the TWENTY-ONE year old MYTHOLOGICAL STUDIES MAJOR from LOS ANGELES, USA has taken after HER godly parent completely, but the demigod is still known to be quite CHARISMATIC & DUPLICITOUS.

( y’all dont deserve this real messy intro but im workin w half a bwain cell at 4am so i beg thee 4 mercy. nywyy im the excited new girl who’s hella pumped to meet all ur charas : katya ! feel free to hop in my ims to plot or drop a like and i’ll hop in urs ! x )

POWERS

natural acting abilities — her ma’s a hollywoo agent so she started actin real early & now shes a big shot actress. there r more deetz on her career below !

chlorokinesis — it wasnt as natural as acting n she only started working on it when she turned 13 n started going to camps. b4 she just noticed shes good w plants but it wasnt super crazy or nything. its p good now tho ! shes prioritizing vine binding and manipulation 4 the self defense bc awards r cool n all but they dont rlly protecc from monsters ykwim

levitation — shes trying her best ur honor

alcokinesis — she cant conjure it or anything, she’s just immune to it ffff

BIO POINTS — cw: drug use ( full biography here )

her mom raised her by herself bc dionysus the party god was out of the picture immediately. she never told mia she’s a demigod & it was always just “ wow ur so talented ” or “ aww u got a green thumb ! ” but when she saw him claim 13 y/o mia by placing a weird hologram over her head while she slept, she knew she had to spill da beanz & tell her kid

ofc mia thought her mom was jus playing sum weird acting exercise w her bc her powers r so lowkey she could highkey just be a Mortal but insert sad whistle, the realizashun & the claiming meant heightened monster threat !! so yea ,,, one ended up chasing her a couple days later rip

aside from the trauma, mia was ok. mostly bc she ended up cryin for dionysus like any child would n lo & behold he came & helped !!! as he should. nywy she made sure to go to summer camps every year after that but mostly just for protection purposes

she lowkey rlly hates this whole god business esp now that shes grown lmfao deadass thinks she got a bad deal bc life threats arent sexy !!! went to eonia eventually bc its Too Much Man. she just wants to go back to work and her life w the mortals w/o worryin for her life. would deadass fade her father if she could. may or may not be majoring in greek mythology to figure out the logistics of it all out of spite, who knows !

PERSONALITY

not ! a Drama Queen — dont get me wrong, shes hella Extra in the way she moves n acts sorta like shes always bein captured on film. is quick-witted & playful & can be a huge tease/flirt if she feels like it, but miss her w Real Feelings ! totally not sentimental. srsly she will try to rationalize away everything and is just,.,., not good w it. so soz folks, we just keepin it breezy here

ugh, she’s an Actress — aka she can act like she cares tho ! shes very much into keeping ppl on her good side. shes friendly n palatable to everyone bc its how shes been trained & while it doesnt seem fake, its def diff when its genuine

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known — lemme circle back to the first one, ok so shes good w emotions but only in theory. does intense character work with her roles so she thinks that counts as her having eq when rlly shes just emotionally stunted, projecting n repressing like an idiot

blonde, skinny, rich, & a lil bit of a Bitch — shes only a bitch inwardly or to ppl she trusts enuff to let in on the gossip. if anyone full on opposes her or becomes real emotional, then this lil diva will rear its superiority complex head n snap a lil. will most probably do it v underhandedly n w a smile but it will be Brutal

girls just wanna have FUN ! — shes the child of da party god, so ofc she a true party girl. officially off the rails when she parties. inhibitions ? we dk her. can be insensitive in that case bc smtms its truly no strings attached, tis all abt the fun. likes company a lot & it doesnt even have 2 be loud or particularly abt her, she just likes having people around n the escapism of it all. will make friends with everyone n make sure they have a jolly fun time guaranteed at dionysus parties

Work Hard, Play Hard — real responsible when it comes to work and commitments and if she trusts/likes u enough, she’ll give it 2 u straight, no bs. def thinks Calling Out is an act of love but maybe does it a lil too harshly smtms. v much into efficiency, sentiments be damned. not the feely words type. will sit next to u or party w u or even pay 4 ur therapist if u need sum1 to talk to. she will Be There while u work thru it, so long as u dont expect her to change n be all emotional n stuff

if she seems a lil contradictory thats bc she kinda is. tis the good ol nurture vs nature. her ma’s a real no nonsense chick n her pops is a frat guy drama geek greek god whos rlly into cottagecore so u get this lil blonde bitch whos sorta teetering on the edges

OTHER INFO — cw: drug use ( full headcanons here )

re her career, she achieved pegot status when she was 18 aka she truly b dat bitch. shes not super mainstream famous tho, more like indie sweetheart, film snobs/critics fave typa gal. if ya want a trajectory she started w baby commercials then a sitcom from 4-10 ( think modern fam’s lily ) then it was off to the big screen & the stage !

mia has a lil bit of a drug habit. its not abusive or dependent, but it is a staple whenever shes parties bc alcohol is useless 2 her. started a lil young too bc hollywoo. primarily uppers/hallucinogens. she smokes weed a lil more liberally but the rest is mostly just an on occasion thing ( which, ngl, is a still a lil problematic when u party a lot rip )

after she got claimed, mia ended up going to demigod camps in a lot of diff places n countries, depending on where production would take her. there was never an established place, more like wherever was nearest when they wrapped up shooting bc monsters afoot n wutnot

she was always homeschooled but she still managed to go to a prom and homecoming bc party is life. that makes eonia uni p much her first chance at having a normal educational environment & experience and even then its anything but. still tho this is her moment !!! im lit rally begging her to get a personality that isnt her internally rolling her eyes going “ its not that deep ”

might put up a bio/stats page if im feelin sxc but i wud jus like the records to show that mia stoeger is a bi sxc babe bc me ? write a het ? no grassy ass.

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS — cw: drug use ( full connections here )

omg danny devito i love ur work !

,,, p self explanatory sdkjfs sum1 who loves her work ! it can be lowkey/highkey fangirl to a civil admiration

OR alternatively, y/m can Not Be a fan of her work. they might think the storyline of the projects she takes on r too out of touch n highbrow yada yada yada, but yes, we love to see either of it !

summer camp sweetheart !

someone she met when at camp when they were teens ? doesnt matter in what country/city, but mia was only visiting so it was truly a one summer romance typa thing. bc she was younger, im thinkin 13-17 or w/e she was probably sweeter n a lot more emotional then. was it either’s first puppy love ? first kiss ? first “ relationship ? ” idk, do yk ? truly, so many possibilities. nothin set in stone just hmu bub

summer camp pals !

p much the same as above but make it Platonic

party buddies !

or druggie pals. either way works but she wud luv it if theyre both xoxo

friends w benefits !

most probably ( but not limited to ) sum1 she met at a party skdjhsjk is it exclusive ? is any1 starting to develop feelings ? im down 4 nthing n evrything

alexa play true friend by hannah montana !

give mia her college bestie ! her confidant who knows her feels and can call each other out viciously with no ounce of resentment. we stan the friendships !

omg i love ur skirt !

that is the ugliest effing skirt i've ever seen. lmao basically sum1 mia pretends to like or acts civil w but rlly ,,,, Cannot Stand for w/e rzn

im p much braindead rn but those are just sum ideas !!! ofc the usual staples like the pals, enemies, wutnots are also v welcome we love to see it. if u also have a wc that u think mia would fit in, id luv to know more ! there are also a couple more detailed ones here, but pls feel free to shoot me a msg n we can get 2 plotting x

( * wipes brow * how did i type so much n say so little rip. mia is also a completely new muse so pls b patient n if i fuq up from time to time, pretend u do not see >.< nywy thnx 4 readin, sweets ! feel free to hmu here or at discord if ya wanna <3333 )

FULL INFO || EONIA TASKS

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survivormetaverse · 3 years

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Episode 1 - "I know the game will pick up eventually" ~Shaad

chile lemme not get thrown out for making all these stan twitter bitch references I'M LICHERALLY HARMLESS I DON'T MEAN MOST OF WHAT I SAY DKJFHASJKLDG

ngl tho i'm kinda shitting myself over these challenges bc i don't wanna get tossed on the first round JKAHFSJKDGHJ my ant eye et tea is through the ROOF

oh girl, first impressions? ngl, the gays and girls here seem quite lovely, hopefully they won't have to carry me the entire time LMAO

Okay like the only person I like/talked to is Jodi but she seems like a smart cookie so ima sleep with one eye open. But idk I'm ready to put on my fake ass smile and my fake ass kind words and get through this part. It's interesting with 6 people per tribe like if we lose I don't have that solid "core" yet but theres a chance that it would be me, jodi, amy because we were the first three on and active so idk. the immunity challenge is cool, the hunt challenge is cool too. im not good at timed puzzles, so I don't think I'm gonna go for it but a part of me feels like everyone across the tribes isnt gonna do it becsuse theyre scared so thats a good opportunity to sneak in and play with less people against me? idk idk idk ahhh

🎶Oh my god we're back again🎶 Hey peeps!! :DDD Here I am againnnn, how fun! Tbh I forgot this was today lowkey and Dylan reminded me and I was like oop 😳 also I am so sorry to everyone that I cannot help but sprinkle the fact that we are now dating in all of my first convos bc IM VERY GAY apologies✨ for how often I'm mentioning it I mean 😂 My tribemates seems so cool, Jennifer and Babs are newbies but seem up to the challenge, Jay A and Colin already giving off immaculate vibes✨ Me and Dyl are hosting Ingary in a month and I do have like work and everything so I don't know exaclty how active I'll be in this game/ how far I'll make it but we'll see won't we!!

not me being a leader of whateva

it's the lack of reading comprehension for me (that was shade directed towards myself)

In the fools tribe !!! Moth is in my tribe which is good because we have played together before. The immunity challenge is divide and conquer! So I believe I will be doing the endurance one. I think I’ll be okay... and the hunt announcement is a good twist !!! I’m not sure if I’ll participate in the first one.. but I’ll probably change my mind. ANYWAYS, I’m ready to kick some ass

Hey guys it's me Brayden and I am so here. I'm so excited to be playing again and stuff and I have already predicted the future that I'll be the winner. Anyways I was at an award ceremony for like the first 3 hours of the game which is kind of scary bc I feel like I missed alot but I'm trying to talk to people and stuff and see what's going on. I've briefly talked to Jodi, Amy, and Ginnifer (who is so hard to talk to btw I like send her messages trying to start a real conversation and she will just respond being like same or something). Anyways the other 2 people on my tribe are offline rn so ig I missed my chance to talk to them tonight so I'll do that tomorrow. Anyways I signed up to do counting and I'm so excited bc I literally KILLED the counting challenge on Kyoshi Islands so I'm so excited to hopefully kill it again. I also decided to play the hunt challenge even though I only have 3 chances bc I'm hoping alot of people will be scared to use one of their three chances to play in the first round and I can have a better chance of winning it. But I think I'm bad at puzzles. I didn't think it through that hard I think I got excited to play a challenge but whatever I'll probably win the advantage then in a few weeks win the whole game anyways see u later.

SO its the morning after the premiere!! Everyone's settled in!! and I kinda don't know how to feel?? Overall the premiere was kinda quiet, nothing happened worth noting tbh. Everyone on the tribe showed up, so thats good, but i think we're all just feeling each other out at the moment as for the people on my tribe! everyone seems chill but also i can't put my finger on it but SOMEHOW this tribe radiates chaotic energy. I don't know HOW or WHY but I just know it DOES. The way we're interacting in the tribe chat it seems like there's a very wide range of personalities and vibes. They're either gonna complement each other or clash, and I guess we're just gonna have to wait to find out which one!!! here are my quick night 1 first impressions that no one asked for :) Anastasia - she showed up kinda late bc she had life happening, understandable. BUT she kinda just jumped right in and started vibing with everyone!! so I think she's gonna be a strong social player. I talked to her and she seems really funny, I think I might really get close with her if I'm able to talk to her more Babs - IF our tribe does end up being chaotic, it's going to be because of Babs. They're definitely the most talkative and prominent person on the tribe, but I think they might come off as messy to others. they're really funny though!! so again I can see myself wanting to work with them if I can get to know them more. They are the biggest question mark on the tribe for me currently Elle - AH. I LOVE THEM ALREADY. Within minutes of us talking they mentioned Dylan and then I found out that they're DATING and I was SCREECHING. cutest shit i've ever heard. I'm so excited to meet and play with them. Dylan is one of my fave people in the org community so ofc I wanna get to know Elle and connect with them as well!! Jay - I think Jay seems like just a very genuine open person?? Like we talked for quite a while yesterday just about games and he was asking me questions about my experience with them and all that. idk if it's because he sees me as a threat or if its because he just actually wanted to get to know me. He lowkey gives me heterosexual vibes and idk if thats true or not but idk how to bring it up. but I def wanna keep talking to him and getting to know him!! I think he might be someone I can form a genuine friendship with Jennifer - kinda have no opinion so far. I think shes the quietest on the tribe. at least for me I didn't get the chance to hear from her much. kinda gives catfish vibes. kinda gives early boot vibes. idk. we'll see what happens!

Not too much yet tbh. Just finding my footing. People are loving my energy so hopefully they’ll keep me around

So i realized Amy is runner up from the season before mine in another org and so we connected over that... of course we are not going to tell anyone else but we did have that going for us to get started. brayden is only 16 but he told me he loves magic and wanted to learn more about it so i told him id teach him some stuff! dennis and i called and connected well BUT hes kinda playing SUPER hard and wanting to throw challenges already to vote people out.. this has never worked out for anybody!! josh is cool, he works at a grocery store so he's gonna kill the "b" challenge. ginnifer has been the most MIA but i have faith that we'll work together well for the popularity contest. yall know i cant play the reverse flirt game i so badly want to coin, but i do have romance tea for yall tomorrow. stay tuned........

Jay and I talked last night so i guess we're best friends. We decided to make an alliance and try to get Elle in it. But everyone has been pretty inactive besides Jay and Collin. I've only slightly talked to Jessica this whole game and Babs hasn't even said one thing to me and I texted them hi. And apperently Babs has left Jay on opened too so they might just suck at talking right now. Hopefully Babs will talk to me they seem so funny and cool D:

I won endurance 👑!!!! Hopefully the fools tribe wins this!!!! I played against Jennifer and Dennis. I could see myself playing with Dennis down the line if we merge. I haven’t talked to anyone but Moth. So I messaged my whole tribe Introducing myself. Hopefully things work out for me!

Thoughts after the first 24hrs: https://youtu.be/I62bDSzgf68

You hear something ??? Same. Why is my tribe so quiet 😂😂😂😂 I’m trying to read off the vibes but I see nothing.

I really love my tribe and the fact that they don’t know I played last season is a good strategy to play on my end

tbh i wish we lost i wanted to go to tribal and vote one of these people out :(

Welp we got second place in the first challenge :| which isn't bad!! But it's not first place 😂😂. But I had a fun day taking pictures so whateverssss. I said I would be chaotic in this game but the opportunity hasn't presented itself yet... Guess we'll have to wait and see✨

I think at this point, my team is shady and won't say anything to me so I am nervous.

The challenges were way harder than I thought. I didn't do well at all and let my tribe down. I feel like I will be the first to get voted out if we have a tribal hearing.

We lost yay. I had a feeling. Hopefully the tribe will keep me around for now since I won endurance.... lhsisowjshwowpwpwheowowhfiwpqpqpjw. Jared thinks we can vote Bri out. Which I’m fine with, I haven’t really talked to her at all. Jared and I are going to message the others and see where everyone’s head is at. Honestly I don’t care who goes home as long as I’m safe. Everyone is quiet which is so annoying. Blahhhhhhhhhh

Well it’s my 3rd time playing and it’s not off to the best start, no one seems to be talking to anyone. And we lost meaning we are going to tribal council. So fuck- I have no idea what about to happen. I’m just hoping it’s not me or Jess

if i must confess, my strategy is to have a 4-3-2 alliance. i need a 4 to have a majority, but i dont have a 4 yet. within the 4, theres a three person alliance w me jodi and amy, but within that three i believe that the core 2 is myself and jodi. i really dont care who the 4th is. i like having jodi and amy as an alliance because theyre both doing wayy too much which is great for me :) i dont think any of these people have idols but who knows. i would love to throw the next immunity i wanna go to tribal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like we’ve got something good. We’ve got an alliance that’s set to (hopefully) vote out bri due to inactivity. Let’s just pray it works

Trying to talk in this tribe is so difficult In both my other seasons I was pretty quiet all the time It is like that x10000 I was hoping to stay under the radar but that doesn’t work if no one talks at all I suppose it depends on if I’m being played or if everyone just doesn’t talk. I think there’s a plan. Let’s hope it goes well

OKAY SO. Moth, Jared and I have a little alliance going on. We are set on voting out Bri. I just talked to Danny and Shaad and they are down with voting Bri out. I have high hopes that I’ll be safe at tribal.

Better communication.. in sticking with that fact, our communication in my team could be better and we need to put more effort into what we do, I believe in us!

https://youtu.be/595h7hmL6VY

The start to this game has been a freaking snails pace...it’s unbelievable to me that these people do not want to talk that much, especially when it’s a tribe of 6. Colin and I talk the most, I’ve gotten a decent amount out of Anastasia, and to me it feels like those 2 wants to work with me and I am fine with working with them. Usually in a larger group you want to figure out who you can work with long term and use the first few tribals to establish trust, I may throw that out the window since there’s only 5 other people on this tribe. My strategy needs to be who the hell can get me past these first few votes before a swap happens, and I feel like I can rely on Colin and Anastasia for that. I’d like to pull in Elle, because she’s the one who’s talked to me the most out of her, Babs, and Jennifer. Everyone seems nice, but it would be lovely if people would be more active.

I’m enjoying the fact our tribe won the first challenge everyone is very nice I love it :)

This round has been pretty smooth sailing. I know the game will pick up eventually but for now, we are just going with the flow as a tribe

https://youtu.be/UZVzZ6d6GRU

ok so apparently ginnifer isn't famous. she's just a bit quiet and mysterious. ok with me, just gonna take a while because I'm a loud and outspoken person (and player). amy, dennis and I have an alliance called "fang gang" (it's really just 3 emojis of vampires) and we're going to run the premerge hopefully. I do like brayden a lot, and maybe I'll propose a 3 with him, amy and myself to have a solid 4 control the votes until a swap. round 1 not bad so far!

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Edgics:

Power Rankings:

Phantom

Jodi: I believe Jodi is thriving on this tribe. She is very obviously a social player who picks up on the littlest details. I’m sure she can sniff out a plot if it comes down to it. However, Jodi is the plot. She is the leader of her tribe and is easily the most active person in the game at the moment. So long as she keeps a smile on her face and doesn’t overextend to do something messy, she will find that she will make it safely to merge. Allying with Amy could be dangerous however since Amy has stated she needs to be voted out before a certain date. This means that Jodi needs to socialize with other members of her tribe and get new allies before hers will inevitably be voted out of the game.

Amy: Even though she wants to get voted out, Amy has set herself up perfectly at Jodi’s side. She can take the heat off of herself using Jodi and is able to hide better than others. As always, her UTR game has come out to shine. She hasn’t had anyone call her out and even though Jodi has seen her play she is still able to gain her trust.

Josh: Doing so well in the challenge has earned Josh’s place here. He makes his worth known early and has a great personality as well. This makes him very safe for any early tribal councils as no one is going to want to take him out; they want him on their side. Similar to Amy, he just seems to be using an under the radar social game which he is executing well at the present moment. And, as the star of the challenge, he makes himself safe for future tribals before the swap. However, I do fear that this early impression of competition prowess will come back to haunt him if he makes it to the merge.

Dennis: I would put Dennis higher, but Jodi, his ally, already is suspicious of him. She seems to think of him as a bit of a sneak and, as the tribe leader, her opinions matter the most. It is good that he is able to be Jodi’s ally so she might stray away from voting him out. However, his desire to go to tribal and play the game so early may bite him in the butt later down the line. I can definitely see him being called out for trying to play too hard too fast. At the moment, he remains high because he seems to be decently social and no one except Jodi has sniffed him out.

Brayden: There’s not much to say on Brayden’s game. He doesn’t seem to have any allies, his challenge performance wasn’t as good as others on his tribe, and he is not in any alliances yet. This spells disaster for Brayden if his tribe goes to consecutive tribal councils. Additionally, even though he was one of the few to play in the Hunt, he didn’t win and wasn’t even close to doing so. He even gave up part way through to do the immunity challenge. I would be saving them if I were Brayden, but hindsight is 20/20. If Brayden can squeeze into being the fourth of the Jodi, Amy, Dennis alliance instead of Josh then maybe his game forecast will be better.

Ginnifer: The thing that lands Ginnifer on the bottom is that she said that her tribe could vote her out if they lost the challenge. This primes people to already be willing to get rid of her in this game. Additionally, some people have expressed difficulty with talking to Ginny such as Jodi and Amy. The former still wants to give Ginny a try at being an ally while the latter was ready to vote her out if necessary. Ginny just needs to pick up social steam and outperform in the next comp if she’s going to have longevity in this game.

Fools

Jessica: In lieu of a clear leader, Jessica has stepped up as she started the first alliance on her tribe with Moth and Jared. No doubt, Jessica’s prior relationship with Moth helped facilitate. Additionally, this seems to paint them as the “active” members of this not active tribe. Therefore, it will be very easy for Jessica to dictate votes without getting labelled as a threat since her tribe is not active enough to do so. I can definitely see her leaning on Moth as a crutch, but for now she is the topdog of her tribe. Especially so since she was the only member of her tribe to win a challenge in Divide and Conquer.

Moth: As Jessica’s right-hand person, Moth is a secure spot. It also helped that they have played this game before and is on a not active tribe. This vibes well with Moth’s gameplay style since they aren’t a social powerhouse like Jodi or Colin. Instead, she keeps it more lowkey which makes this tribe in particular a great tribe for her to thrive in.

Jared: While he hasn’t provided a confessional yet, it’s clear he’s positioned himself well with Moth and Jessica. As the topdogs of the tribe, they are key people to get in with. Besides that, he seems to be a little more active than some others, but there’s not much else to say as of right now.

Danny/Shaad: Him and Shaad can trade spots on this ranking because they are playing similar games at the moment. They are both quiet and inactive, yet are not part of the core alliance of this tribe. This could spell danger for them in upcoming tribal councils if they don’t start working on people now. They seem to be safe for now based solely on Bri’s inactivity, but, otherwise, they need to pick up their socio-strategic game before it is too late.

Bri: She seems to be the most likely person to get voted out. She was not online at all for the first two days of the game and has since remained inactive. She is easy pickings for the top 3 of this tribe which really hurts my heart. I know her in real life and she is very sociable and easy to get along with. I have no doubt that in a real life game of Survivor or Big Brother, she would kill the social game.

S.E.E.S.

Colin: Similar to Jodi, Colin is the most social person on his tribe at the moment. However, unlike Jodi, he has not taken a leader position which works to his benefit. Despite being social, Colin has been able to slip under the radar of most people with a lot of them wanting to work with him. Colin is easily going to survive until the swap, but I will caution him from getting too many allies too quickly. This tribe in particular has a wildcard willing to blow things like that up so he needs to be careful.

Elle: Similar to her previous games, Elle plays an extraordinary social game and becomes very well-liked very easily. They have no problem fitting into any situation and I foresee them making it far if they gain the right allies. What puts her at number 2 as opposed to number 1 is that she hasn’t made any strategic comments yet. Instead, she is focusing on a social game which is not a bad thing. Colin has just shown more of his gameplay in these rounds.

Anastasia: Anastasia, despite being late to the premiere, has been able to socialize with key people such as Colin and Jay. Her prior connection with Elle has also sparked an interest in Colin in working with the two of them as an alliance. Overall, her and Elle sort of share the 2 and 3 spot since they are both well-liked, did well in the challenge, and are prime allies for Colin whose word will feel like law if this tribe ever goes to tribal.

Jay: Jay is neither here nor there. He isn’t in the bottom, but he is not calling the shots either. It is good that Colin wants him as his number 1 and that Anastasia likes him. Out of the three outside of this potential Elle, Colin, Anastasia alliance, he seems like he will be most likely to be saved until a swap occurs. His calls with people have certainly been helping with that as people are able to bond more with him through there. His activity could use work, but he doesn’t need to be active if he’s liked.

Babs: With another Jodi comparison, Babs has taken the leadership position of their tribe. However, they are not as social and, in fact, considered a big threat since they are so willing to talk freely and openly in the tribe chat. Their gameplay is going to be Messy, and people have already pointed that out, making them a clear target if this tribe goes to tribal council. Despite that, they aren’t at the bottom since some people, like Colin, have expressed interest in working with that kind of player as a sort of shield. If Babs were to tone it down and be more social with people (another problem with their game), they may be able to crawl up these rankings.

Jennifer: Sadly I have to put another phonetic Jennifer at the bottom. She did the worst in the challenge across her tribe and isn’t active either. For this round, it seems she would be the easy vote if this tribe had gone to tribal. She needs to start being more social and be more of a presence in people’s minds.

#episode #episodes

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yakovdzhugashvili · 4 years

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I WISH I WAS PRETTY WHY DO I. HAVE TO BE UGLY.

my flatmate is so pretty and when I say to her “being ugly is so shit” she says “but I don't think ur ugly” n I love her sm and it means a lot to me that she's so kind but she really has never been unattractive before. she doesn't understand what its like to be an objectively unattractive person (im not blaming her for that, she's not unattractive so ofc she doesn'tknow what it feels like. just like idk what its like to be pretty like she is). its SHIT. I feel like id have so much more confidence n such a better life if I was pretty instead of ugly. bc ngl theres a lot of stuff that my flatmate does/can do that I just can't bc im not beautiful n she is. I just wish I could be beautiful but ive tried everything n im always ugly so ive given up even trying. its heartbreaking. if ur an attractive person - feel blessed. it rlly destroys ur confidence when no on has a crush on u, no one thinks ur pretty, u never look good in photos or in the mirror, n everyone u meet knows that ur unattractive. being ugly has ruined a lot in my life n theres a lot of things that id love to be able to do that I can't do bc im just too ugly. I think thats what my flatmate n other ppl don't get abt being ugly - its not just the “I feel sad bc im not pretty” side to things, its also the “i get treated worse and there are things that I cant do/experience bc im unattractive”. I HATE MY ANCESTORS for giving me these repulsive genetics bc I HATE BEING UGLY. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE BEAUTIFUL but theres just no beauty in me. u can't create whats not there. I will never be loved or desired by anyone. I will never be able to make someone happy. I will never get to date or fall in love or marry bc im ugly, and ofc its my fault/my genetics’ fault n not anyone else’s. like don't get me wrong im not blaming other ppl for not finding me attractive - it makes sense, I find me ugly too. the saddest thing is when ppl ask me if I want kids n its like, I don't even have the option bc if I did want kids, I wouldn't be able to have them bc NO ONE would ever want to have kids with me. also if I had a daughter who looked like me I couldn't love her. I couldn't love someone who had my ugly face. I would raise her to know that she's ugly bc id tell her everyday that she's ugly n no one will love her - personally I think its better that way bc then shed grow up knowing the truth but most ppl would disagree lol. doesn't matter bc im not having kids anyway. but it would be nice to have ONE PERSON see me n think im cute but ik its impossible when my face looks this disgusting. so if ur pretty PLS ENJOY IT and recognise that its making ur life so much better bc being ugly rlly destroys a lot of things in life that id like to do (and its meant there are some aspects to my life that ive had to not even wonder whether I like/would like or not bc I knew from the beginning that it wouldn't be an option anyway. things like sex n having kids. I don't even have a sexuality these days bc whats the point when ur ugly lol?) such as dating, love, sex, marriage, having kids, fashion (no point having drip when ur clapped bc if I wore nice clothes, id just make the clothes look ugly with my repulsive face), taking cute photos, looking in the mirror and seeing a face u like looking back at u. I wish ppl were honest with me n told me that im ugly instead of sugar-coating it bc I know the truth. the evidence is there. trust me being pretty isn't just good bc u get to feel pretty, it will change ur life. like my beautiful flatmate will never know what its like to go through life being unloved n unlovable bc she has a bf who loves her bc ofc she does, she's beautiful? but me? ii am the ugly sidekick. its sad bc she always wants to take photos but its just embarrassing to be in photos with her. its even embarrassing to be seen with her bc guys love her n she looks so beautiful AND on top of that she's also thinner n taller than me. its embarrassing n even tho I love her sm and I feel so blessed to have met her, I can't bear the idea of being in any photos with her bc she looks gorgeous and I look even uglier compared to her. I don't wanna look back n remember how ugly I was, so I just can't be in photos. its sad. I wish I could have another chance at life as an attractive person, id love to know what its like. :( I am ugly. I want to hurt myself. I want to punch and hit my hideous face until its bruised bc then at least ppl know that im self-aware, that I KNOW that my face is disgusting and deserves to be beaten. I deserve abuse and not love bc of my face. its hideous. its shameful to have to walk around with a face this ugly stuck to u n theres nothing u can do to hide it. im humiliated. I will never be loved and I don't deserve anyones love, I wi sh I was beautiful more and more everyday.

#ugly problems #I wish I was pretty #I am ugly

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neonwizardheehee · 3 years

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personal rant & brain dump bc I’m listening to bigbang and feel emo:

so i have a few topics that are circling my mind thus this will get messy (as usual hahaha)

- music as I said I’m listening to bb and the way I wanna cry??? mainly bc i miss my sis talking about them and being all happy and proud.. and just her in general v.v I feel like i overdid her with kpop and that doesn’t feel good. i was supposed to be the baby but i got too invested and now i am so damn invested i scare her :((( it makes me so sad :( but idk how to stop.(current mood & playing: let’s not fall in love)

- romance the new girls i met here are so different from the friends i have bc they are extroverts. i never had extroverts as friends before so i feel blessed now. we only met recently but they already were so open to me about things no one ever told me. like 3/4 girls i met talked to me about their first time and BOI i was so glad that we casually talked about it bc my other friends wouldn’t do that in a million years bc they are too shy. it really felt good. also no one judged me which was very reassuring. albeit me feeling a bit dumb bc i couldn’t really add to the convo but apparently I get better at listening ig? also that made me think that sex and dating shouldn’t be such an “important” topic as it is with my friends before. one friend sees it as an achievement to have a s/o but doesn’t talk about it or either brags (kskssk giiirl that’s so funny yet annoying XD yes u can be proud of your boi and brag bc i’m here for that bc i’m just so happy for you but ... not at random moments XDD). this made me realize how ppl refer to their s/o when talking to others. bc my friends who are very chill with their relationship always say their name while said friend (and ofc some others where having a relationship is important) always say “my bf/gf” or “ex” when that specific info is not relevant to the story they are telling XD

anyways it also made me realize how BAD i am with talking about my own feelings and wishes. since talking about my worries feels like complaining and i am good at that - but it feels random and uninteresting for anyone to hear i think to myself (it prob isnt). i feel so smol when asked about that topic and all i wanna answer is “???”. even if there is no pressure. idk why I’m like this and it makes me feel sorry for the people around me :( I’m so confused and idk what the question is. i can do better with writing but idk why but i wanna find out one day hahah. maybe i should just ask my new friends for advice since they are not judging me and i trust them and want to learn to be better with that. altho there’s this thought that I’m uncapable of love which frightens me a lot. I know i’m okay without it and i don’t mind but i feel so sorry for the people who like me? it also might be natural and I’m just stressing myself over nothing so idk what to ask and do -since you can’t force love right? i mean i don’t really believe in love at first sight i guess but rather spending time with that person and liking them a lot. so id why I’m pressuring myself so much with this :( maybe i am just too scared? or maybe i am anticipating too much? it all could be possible bc for everyone love is different and every relationship is different. so it’s mostly me feeling sorry for not giving back as much as i should and could :( - that’s also the reason why I’m so pro polyamorus relationships bc I know I’m not enough and idk how and if i want to fix that bc idk the rules bc there are none hahhaha - but also that makes me feel good bc i know i’m not responsible for someone’s happiness. i am too egoistical and these thoughts work as a self-protecting mechanism I KNOW that’s why i do this. so i’m not stressing myself even more. i just feel so unfairly precious when someone genuinely praises me when we’re just two ppl and no one else :( might be bc i don’t understand that feeling yet. i def want to know that but also i’m scared that it’d take me down a road where i loose myself (for some foolish reason idk why). so in the end ig I keep trying and get used to that (i already made loads of progress this year so ig i shouldn’t feel like I’m being too slow)

- studying okay so next topic is also just me feeling like i do too few. this week went quite okay and i managed to study on out study server everyday (ofc i had my bad days but i still at least smth). well yesterday i hastily did some vocab and then teh whole day i spend with friends & kpop... like LITERALLY until the night. a friend of mine was proud of me for taking a break (me too yesterday) but today i don’t feel good about that :( i missed so much. i’m scared it’ll kick me out of my study routine (since it was so hard to get my ass down to study itself!). i really want to be the person who’s studying every day and feel good about that. so since i have another thing planned today i don’t think i’ll get much done today as well :(((( i just wanna be a wise guy who knows a lot T.T i already made progress i know but... i want more.. i really wanna do well here and not be stuck behind like i was for the past 6 years :( i wanna have ambition again and not just pass... i kind of hope i can manage to study at nights on days like this but also i need my sleep so i stil have to find a solution for that. bc even tho i regret not studying as much i don’t regret hanging out with people. that’s smth i missed out in my first semester and so important in times like this were I’m stuck on my own.

- religion so i have one christian friend here and yesterday we talked about church services and stuff like that and it was cool learning how it’s with her bc she goes to a very modern church (instead of me going to a traditional one 4 times a year). Suddenly i got sad tho and felt like crying :( even tho she was just stating her opinion i felt attacked and wanted to cry. after some thinking i think it’s just the way we are used to talking about religion bc we both grew up in an area where religion is looked down onto. for me .. i turned to myself and made up my own thoughts and beliefs bc i am too scared to talk and ask someone about it bc of all the accusations around me. religion was not smth to be discussed and only smth for yourself and maybe your family for me. the girl had to fight her way through all the “churches are old and fucked up and scary” things and since she goes to a modern one has good reasoning against them - that’s perfectly understandable and I’m so proud of her for speaking up like that. but like... it hit me on thw wrong side bc i am used to these old traditions and kind of like them even :( so it felt like she was insulting me. even tho she wasn’t. i just dont know how to talk about religion and how to practice reading the bible or praying and hearing her talk about how she does all these things.. makes me feel invalid :( it’s like the only thing that i have is that i was raised a christian. but y’know for me it was okay since i learned in school not to practice or show my religion.. so idk how to do it... and i feel baby and sad if i have to ask her for some reason. i tried to look up this on the internet but ofc everyone is even more crazily involved there and it scares me SO much. so i unfollowed everyone hahah. i also have this one podcast but i still feel bad bc i’m not able to really read the bible on my own ig :( these days I’m just blaming it on the translation that i have but deep down i know it’s me who’s not able to ask questions at the text. maybe i should try to talk to someone... my sis who’s also in the same situation as me... or said girl to take me along and feel like a complete newbie and a little bit like an outcast bc religion for me is so different than to her.

- christmas i really enjoy the christmas spirit but i also already wanna cry if i think about gifts. i hate that i have so many people i love and will prob get smth from them so i have to make smth in return. i am overwhelmed and scared already. i didn’t even make a list yet T.T feels like i should block time to figure out gifts in my schedule bc I’m just putting it off more and more :( and also i already feel sorry for everyone bc they will get shitty gifts bc I’m so bad at this :(

#now i feel drained and want to cry in your arms just bc #what am i so gloomy for today?#anyways sry if you read this #i truly am sorry #NOT @ SPOTIFY FOR PLAYING BABY DON'T CRY #not okay i just

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hxh RESUME

back at it again w/the hxh, heres my recap of the last few eps

ok so i totally forgot to recap that one ep at the end of the hunter exam arc lets see what i remember from like 3 wks ago lollll

i thiiiiink i left off in the middle of ep 21 lol. i really dont remember much tbh so im gonna skim the ep to refresh

exposition time! its so wild that if you lose ur hunter card That It like u cant get another or retake the exam hgabjdfuhasjf Ls

also the fact that you can sell it is rlly interesting

leorio & kurapika backing up gon as he confronts illumi again :’) good lil family

illumi u fool. gon is a shounen protag. he can do anything he sets his mind to

the fact that gon thanks illumi for telling him where killua is....hes literally THAT polite like...what a perfect boy

hisoka just fuckgin stepping out of the shadows....ok bitch

the fact that gon fucked up illumis arm that bad with one hand....boi is STRONK

AUGH AUGH AUGHHHH HISOKA IS SO CREEPY AUGHHH I HATE THIS BIIIITCH

ok but like is illumi implying that hisoka is a fr p*do bc uhhhhh thats so nasty oh lord. pls stay away from gon, and killua, and like everyone as a matter of fact

EWWWWWWWWWW I HATE HISOKA HES SO NASTY. PLS STOP MAKING P*RNO FACES IN RELATION TO 12 YR OLD BOYS.

no but rlly what IS hisoka gonna do now. im assuming he’ll show up p soon (tho probs not in the zoldyc arc like i thought bc its shorter than i thought)

ok the fact that they have the internet is hilariously wild to me for some reason....it just seems like this would be one of those fantasy shounen worlds with very little tech (a la one piece) but lol nope we can just google shit hvbhjdhjdfks

gon: it was fun when you beat me up for 3 hours and broke my arm! seeya dude!

i love gon he is so chill and doesnt seem to hold grudges except when it really matters (like hisoka and illumi)

hanzo has.....ninja business cards....thats amazing hvbhsdjkujfnd

dont worry pokkle, leorio was basically carried thru the hunter exam by various people and also won by default. he still deserves his license tho

an exotic game hunter sounds pretty cool! i wonder if we’ll see pokkle again. kinda doubt it? that sounds pretty firmly non-combat based, and therefore probably pretty far from any plot lol

so gons dad is a bigshot huh.....whatever hed be a bigger deal if he didnt abandon his son tbh

gon swinging his feet on the bench....sooo cute

so ging could restore a bunch of ruins but he couldnt raise his son...ok

im just gonna be bitter at this guy for abandoning the most perfect boy vhbhjfbsjhdhbfsk sorry dude but being a good hunter doesnt make up for being a shit father

gon is so precious ;_;

WHAT WAS SATOTZ GONNA SAY TO GON???

why does it look like theyre googling things on MS paint

ah yes, padokea, on the continent of Africa But Sideways

idk if i talked abt it before but the world map is WILD lmao i love how its all the continents/landmasses scrambled around.....im super curious abt that weird island in the top center of the map, thats the only thing that immediately sticks out as not having a real life equivalent

the music in this show is so charming :’) i love the main theme sm

gon is sooo precious i literally cant get over it. and his hurry to rescue killua is so sweet....and i love how naturally charming/charismatic gon is....pretty much everyone he meets likes him, especially leorio and kurapika, who basically adopted him after knowing him for like a day, and continue to be completely taken by him

ok wtf is satotz & co talking abt......do they know something abt ging that they arent allowed to tell gon???? shouldnt gon have access to the same info now that hes a hunter? i need ANSWERS

i bet this whole thing abt the hunter exam not rlly being over is a metaphor abt the hunter exam NEVER truly ending bc youre always being tested, or st

ok the ED continues to be So Much like especially the last shot where the 4 main characters look like theyre posing for a JC Penny catalog while the singer goes FULL metal-screamo

ok ruth and i just rewatched the next two eps woohoo

i love that there are tourist busses that take people to the front gates so they can like pose for pics and stuff vhbhjafdsfkj and its like ‘ah yes here are where the local assassins live!’ thats so funny yet it makes so much sense

i love that leorio passed tf out during the bus ride. big big mood

gon is so cute...hes like ok yes i understand that we’re not supposed to go in but i think they can make an exception for me bc im very polite.

those 2 dudes r so ugly and so dead god bless

that bigass buster sword....sir please

ruth and i rlly thot that the old guard guy was gonna turn out to be grandpa zoldyk or st lol

the fact that the dog managed to eat All their flesh but left some clothes....skill

also the dog is named mike but it sounds like the guy is calling him miku hvbjdfssk

this cant be the first time some morons have been killed here likeeee

i cant believe nobody has visited the zoldyk estate in 20 years damn they all rlly b havin no friends. depressing

the whole gates thing is wild. also that part where gon gets the math wrong on the weight.....BIG mood kiddo

ok the part where gons on the phone w/the butler is soooo good oh man. i love how gon just calmly dials the phone again after hes hung up on the first time and then YELLS....and leorio and kurapikas faces r so good

also the butler guy unfortunately has a point, it isnt foolproof that gon is here Legit....but he IS let him see his tiny bf :(

as ruth pointed out, the butler guy is reminiscent of kuro from one piece. same vibes

maybe if leorio was jacked like he is in the manga/1999 anime he couldve opened the gate that first time around....Ls

god i love this shows approach to Everything so far,....as ruth put it, half the time its like ‘oh wow they should do [x]/i wish theyd do [x] but ofc they wont cause its a shounen’ but then they DO do [x] and its like damn thats dope

anyways i love how gon is increasingly approaching situations with his Plucky Shounen Protag Attitude in full swing, and he pretty much gets shot down every time. BUT his general determination to see killua bc killuas his FRIEND and hes gonna RESCUE HIM is still a good and pure motivating force

like here, when hes climbing over the wall and hes like whatever i dont wanna have to deal w/being tested thats bullshit, i wanna see killua, my intentions are pure, im gonna try my luck with the dog....i was like ok yeah he’ll get over and like tame or defeat the dog and the guard will be suitably impressed bc nobodys ever done That before, and then gon will continue on to get killua

but NOPE instead the guard calls him down and explains that gon Will Die if he tries that, and then the guard will die too for letting that happen. and gon is like oh shit my actions have consequences for people other than me, wow.

and THEN the guard takes them in to meet the dog. and hot DAMN that is a scary creature. not even really a dog tbh. they did an excellent job making the dog Legit Scary and not just like, big and flashy looking....those eyes are so soulless, and the proportions are freaky

and the guard says exactly what i was thinking - that gon would use his Country Boy Woodland Creature Skills to workaround the dog....but then the subversion - this creature is NOTHING like the woodland critters gon is probably used to dealing with. theres no way gon stood a chance here. the guard just saved him from a really unfortunate death

i love all the Super Heavy Stuff in the servant house that seems so inconvenient vbhjdkfasjfld. also forgot to mention earlier but the guard guy being Absolutely Ripped was wild and kinda funny

training montage! gon continues to be so cute. and i love so much how leorio and kurapika are like no, you rest, we’ll take care of this. good parents!!!!

and then!!!! they sync up and use the power of gay love to almost open the gate. but then gon uses the power of Improbable Shounen Protag Healing Speed to toss that arm sling off and help out

i feel like leorio was side-eyeing gon like w8 a sec u broke that arm like a few days ago that aint right.....

oh man i almost forgot abt that scene with the zoldyks torturing killua :( :( this poor kid he doesnt deserve that

also mom zoldyck seems truly awful but i must say her aesthetic does fuck. the victorian-lookin outfit paired with the futuristic cyclops visor thing....excellent. also im betting this face bandages are from killua cutting her face

this family is so fucked up hvbsjdhjfbakdfn

killua telling his mom that gon is definitely gonna make it there :’) hes got such unshakable faith in his bf thats so good.....

back w/the gang, and immediately they run into more trouble in the form of the young girl butler, whose name i dont know, but i love her....her design is SO good oh man. a non-caricature black person? who also isnt sexualized? in MY anime??????

i love how gons approach to conflict is currently ‘let more powerful person beat me up for hours straight in hopes that they get tired or something idk bro’ like....i love him lol, is it in an effort to show how determined he is? he doesnt even try to dodge her blows or get around her....id be tryin to hop that fence lol

oh shit the tiny zoldyk kid from earlier is spying on them....she was w/the mom so im sure thats not good

when he punches the rock part and it breaks....strong boiiii

oh man that little flashback from when killua first came back and told her that he made a friend ;_; bruh

i love butler girl :( she wants to let gon but knows it isnt allowed....and as soon as she starts to waver BAM here comes mom zoldyck JFC that was so sudden and jarring....im assuming butler girl isnt dead cause that would be lame and anticlimactic

also IS THAT NEN??? NEN>>>??? NEN??? HM? NEN?????????

im so annoying abt nen i need to make one of those ‘is this a pigeon?’ memes w/’is this nen?’ bc thats me anytime anything remotely weird happens lmao

i do think its rlly nen this time tho

anyways shit is wild, cant wait to meet the full zoldyck family

PREDICTION CORNER:

as i said above i doubt hisoka will show up now bc this arc is a lot shorter than i anticipated. also im doubting that illumis even gonna show up honestly

i think we’re gonna have this OP for a while, as the part just at the end shows gon and hisoka fighting in what looks to be an arena, and ik the next arc is the heavens arena arc, which im assuming is the tournament arc....

also i have no idea what that weird building in the OP is but my guess is that its the building w/the heavens arena in it bc its tall and,,,,heaven

i predict there wont be much fighting in this little arc bc how tf else is it so short. at this point i rlly think gon is just gonna grab killua and go lmao. im super curious abt how thats gonna go down, considering that killua is currently strung up just bc he wont apologize...so i cant imagine his family would just let him leave w/gon. i wonder if killua will fight them, or if gons determination will impress them and then theyll let killua go (doubt it)

thats basically it....we’ll see abt the next few eps holla

#lj watches hxh #hxh #woohoo continuation

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