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DANTE MORTEZA ∙ twenty ∙ ❝ time won't fly it's like i'm paralyzed by it i'd like to be my old self again but i'm still trying to find it ❞

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andrcmedamarshall​:

“Don’t make me make you walk in a straight line first,” Andie groaned as yet another person approached where she was set up with her tattoo gun. She’d been convinced by some others to set up a stand and tattoo people at the afterparty to promote her tattoo parlor, but she was getting more drunk requests than she would’ve enjoyed. “What exactly were you hoping to get done today? And before you mention it– no I will not tattoo your ass.”

“I mean you can if you want, but given I’ve only had two beers it’d be my lack of coordination that would throw me off, not the alcohol.” Dante explained to the other, pushing his hands into his pockets as he overlooked the others work station. “Wasn’t going to ask for an ass tattoo, I actually wasn’t going to ask for anything-... right now. Just thought I would come and see some of your work and if you were in the mood for chaos, maybe help with some design ideas for people who are too drunk to know what they’re getting tattooed on their bodies.”

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“Shit- sorry, I wasn’t looking where I was... Oh, Rory. Hi.” Dante greeted the other, having been distracted by some shouting going over by one of the tents and having ran into the other. He took in how the other was dressed, a smile creeping onto his face as he shook his head fondly at him, “Of course you went all out and of course it wasn’t for the Scottish team. Shouldn’t have expected anything less, huh?”

@rorygoldstein​

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pipparcsewccd​:

“What’s with the face?” Pippa asked, spotting the other, “Have I got a milk moustache or something? Come on, spit it out.”

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“What face? This is just my face?” Dante told the other, scrunching his eyebrows up in confusion as he overthought whether or not he was making some sort of face at the other. “But now that you mention it, you do have a bit of a milk moustache going on.” He told her, tapping his own upper lip. “It’s a look though, I say you should rock it.”

[juleshighmcre]

“Someone left me a box of muffins on my desk this morning– don’t worry, I got them checked over, we’re all good,” Jules clarified before the other could butt in. “I may have already eaten two for breakfast but would you like the last one?” she asked. “Hazelnut and chocolate chip… I think,” she told them, peeling back the wrapper of her own and tucking in. “You can also help me solve the mystery of who got them for me too if you’d like.”

[dantexmcrteza]

“To be honest, I wouldn’t have questioned their origins anyways. Free food is free food and I would have simply took my chances, it’s probably how I’m going to go if I’m not careful. ‘Death by being too naive and accepting food from strangers because it was free’.” He quoted, making a swiping motion with his hand as though he was reciting what was already etched onto his tombstone. “Though I didn’t realize that accepting said muffin would also mean accepting a Scooby Doo mystery, but given I have nothing to do with my day and I’m a sucker for hazelnut, I’m in.”

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lilyxpxtter​:

“That means I have a lot of wiggle room then,” she commented with a matching chuckle. “You should own a café then if you’re so passionate about coffee. You never know, it may be a hit,” Lily responded.

“I guess you do, I’ll expect something good from you next time we cross paths.” He smiled at the other before letting out a small snort. “Oh no, I don’t think so. I’m passionate about drinking it, not so much about making it. I’ll happily stick with my day job but I will always tell cafe’s that they should to an equivalent of a wine tasting with different blends of coffee because I think it’d sell really well.”

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delilahhartwell​:

“Because I have to go to serious lengths to get that cereal, Dante. If you want to also eat that cereal, you can buy it yourself. It’s not shitty off brand you buy in Tesco,” she pointed out. “You’re still on strike one. Three and you’re out,” the blonde warned, though she was in no way going to kick him out. He was by far the best roommate she’d ever had, and they also shared a dog together. Would be pretty difficult to split that up now. “Are you trying to give us a ship name? Awh,” she cooed. “I kinda like Delante. Delante’s Palace.” She sighed, “Well now you’re living with a girl who is very in touch with her emotions so you’ve gotta learn or this is going to be very uncomfortable for the both of us,” Lila told him. “Nope. I asked you to kiss me. I need to check to see if I’m into guys and you’re a guy, so I figured that would be a good test.”

“Why do you need to go to serious lengths? It’s like in every supermarket I’ve been too over here, it’s not like it’s rare.” Dante tried to argue, though he knew there was no point, in the end Lila would win. Just like she always did, mostly because he gave up half way through an argument. “Yeah, yeah, you just don’t want to admit you need me just as much as I need you.” He tutted. “Kind of, Delante sounds better then any of the ones I mentioned though. Sounds like some Italian restaurant, but that’s sort of fancy vibes.” Dante let out a sigh and nodded, “I’ll work on it, I promise.” Dante continued to blink at the other, still not being able to process what she was asking. “And if I do that you’re not going to like punch me or slap me in the face or something, right? It’s also not going to make things weird, is it? I don’t want that kind of energy where I live.”

[josiebelova]

LANDON KIRBY in YOU CAN’T RUN FROM WHO YOU ARE (S3E11)

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rcidandcrson​:

“Eh.. Comfortably well off I suppose.” Reid answered giving a shrug of his shoulders, he didn’t really think about it too much. “But I earn a good wage myself so there’s that too.” Which in part explained his current lodgings. They were modest by his parents standards but there were definitely expensive playthings inside his home. “You’re welcome to any of it whilst you are here. Have fun, it’s what it’s all there for in the first place. Just be careful with the guitars.” Reid offered with a grin. 

“You suppose.” He couldn’t help but let out a small scoffed laugh, because if this was comfortably well off he’d love to see what rich looked like. “Thanks, wish I could give you something in return but the only thing I guess I have of value in my name is joint custody of a cockapoo named Waffle.” He told the other, perking up a little when the other mentioned guitars. “You play? Also, can I see them?”

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lilyxpxtter​:

“I could try and come up with a better one,” Lily joked, “but now that I know it’s Dante, I think I’ll use that one. I guess coffee advice from an American is something I should be taking. Mine’s Lily by the way.”

“I mean I will admit that the one you came up with wasn’t super creative.” He chuckled, “But it was descriptive and maybe that’s all it needs to be.” Dante smiled at the other and gave a small salute, “I’m happy to be of service, I think it’s classed as a good deed to make sure that people are having the best coffee experience that they can. And it’s nice to officially meet you, Lily.”

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delilahhartwell​:

“Either of those will do, yeah,” she nodded without sarcasm. “Okay– dude. When you moved in, I told you two rules. Only two things you had to abide by to live with me, didn’t really care what other shit you got up to. One, pay your rent on time and two– don’t touch my fucking cereal. And what did you do? You broke one of the sacred rules of Lila’s palace,” the blonde shook her head dramatically. “Fine. You were in love, whatever,” she waved her hands. “You don’t pat me on the head. You sit here and hug me like a man,” she instructed. “I am not being that dramatic, Jesus,” Lila groaned before sitting up and turning herself around on the sofa to face him. “Can I kiss you?” she asked seriously.

“Why are you so protective over cereal, though? It’s cereal!” Dante exclaimed, “It’s not like I wasn’t planning on going out and replacing it and the way you reacted made me think I was about to be homeless.” Dante continued, remembering the others reaction to finding him with the bowl in front of him and spoon in his hand. “Also, it’s not really Lila’s place anymore, it’s our place-... Dila? Lante? I don’t know, but it’s ours.” Or at least he liked to hope that was how she saw it. “So sensitive to my feelings, wow.” Dante sighed and moved to hug the other, “You’re forgetting that I don’t really have experience with situations like this, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do in them.” He grumbled before giving the other a pointed look when she once again claimed that she wasn’t being dramatic. “I’m sorry?” Dante stopped, frozen in place, blinking several times at his housemate. “Did-... Did I mishear you, or did you just ask to kiss me?”

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“So your family is like, rich or something, huh?” Dante asked, looking around the others place, having only been here a couple of times and not for a long period of time, he hadn’t really allowed himself to explore the others belongings. “Like, this stuff looks like it would cost quite a lot and you live in a nice place.”

@rcidandcrson​

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delilahhartwell​:

“I don’t think it’s dramatic enough, Dante,” she huffed. “Yes, I know about your crush on that moron, you don’t need to tell me again,” Lila spoke into the pillow, raising her head off it only when the other began to pat it awkwardly as she gave him the side eye. “There there? Am I a cat?” she asked exasperatedly. “But it is the end of the world, though. I went through so much to get to where I am now, happy and comfortable in being a lesbian… and thought I had been there, done that with all of the questioning,” she groaned at the thought of having to do it all again. “Actually. Yeah, there is. I think.”

“And what would be more dramatic than an existential crisis, world imploding? Universe collapsing? You do happen to be more on the dramatic end of the spectrum when it comes to shit like this. You were citing Shakespearean like sonnets when we ran out of cereal last week.” Dante pointed out to her before frowning. “Okay one, he’s not a moron and two, it was more then a crush.” Not that it mattered now due to Rory hating him and having a boyfriend. “I’m not good with comforting people, I’ve never really had to do it before or had it done to me. I’m trying.” He explained, still not knowing what boundaries he could cross and whether a hug would be too much. “It’s really not.” He grumbled, “What is it? Because anything that will get you to cut the drama I’ll do.” 

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lilyxpxtter​:

closed starter - lily & dante ( @dantexmcrteza​ )

“Hey coffee guy,” Lily called over to Dante before catching up to him. “Sorry, I didn’t catch your name the last time we spook. I tried the whole more cream in the coffee instead of a couple cubes of ice, definitely a game changer. You know your stuff.”

"Me?” Dante couldn’t help but ask when the other called out to him, “Is that the nickname I’m getting, I guess it could be worse.” He shrugged, especially now the cat was out the bag about what he’d been doing over the past few years, he could deal with coffee guy. “Of course I do, coffee is a stable in my life and I know how to maximize the experience. But I’m glad it worked for you and it’s Dante- my name.”

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delilahhartwell​:​

“Merlin, sorry,” Lila apologised as she blinked herself out of her trance. “I am going through an existential crisis and it’s literally all I can think about right now,” she explained, shuffling back up on the sofa to face him. “You know when I kicked you out last week so Arya and I could watch that gay show together? So it was really great, and I have a huge fucking huge crush on her but that’s not even the thing I’m having a crisis over and we should probably talk about that at some point in the future that’s not right now–… I also had a crush on one of the characters. A guy. So now I’m like–… am I actually a lesbian? Am I bisexual? Do I also like guys? Because I’ve never had a crush on a guy before but now I’m having a whole new sexual identity crisis and gahhh–” she finished, shoving her head into a pillow.

“An existential crisis? That seems a little bit dramatic don’t you think?” Dante couldn’t help but ask, though he was wondering where he played into all of this given how much she was staring at him. Or well that was until Lila continue to ramble on about said crisis. “You’d think that be the crisis part, in fact that is the crisis part I could help you out with because been there, done that, have the trauma from it all.” He pointed out. When her head went into the pillow, all he could do was awkwardly pat her head. “There, there.” He soothed slightly, trying to think of the best thing to say. “Just because you have a crush on a guy doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. Sexuality is fluid, maybe you’re pansexual and you’re attracted to the person and not their sex. Or maybe you’re just attracted to the person rather then their sex.” Dante told the other, “Is there anything I can do to help you in this crisis?”

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text // dante & hazel

HAZEL: That's honestly every night for Maddie and I LOL.

HAZEL: Was Delilah with you too?

DANTE: Well yes and no, funny story.

DANTE: She wouldn't answer her phone, I thought the worst, turns out she was just asleep in her room and I didn't know until she came stumbling out after midnight for a glass of water.

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text // dante & rory

RORY: Why do you care?

RORY: They're still fucking terrible so most people text Liam if they want to get in contact with me. But I am not giving you his number.

DANTE: You're joking, right?

DANTE: I care about you, so therefore I would like to know if you're safe.

DANTE: Because you don't want me talking to your boyfriend? You know it's inevitable that we'll meet one day, he's friends with my housemate after all.

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text // dante & rory

DANTE: Look, I know you probably don't want to hear from me and if your phone habits are the same as what they used to be you may not even get this.

DANTE: But I just needed to check in and make sure you were okay?