Hey Choices fandom!! It's been probably a few years since I've posted on here regularly. I've never stopped playing Choices (VIP member), but I lost interest in Tumblr.
I'm probably one of the first members of the fandom (had this blog since 2016), and I'm thinking about coming back here. I'm surprised to see I still have 2100 followers lol! I've been looking around, and it's kinda sad to see that some of my favorite blogs haven't posted in years! 😭
So let's see how this goes. I love fanfiction and fanart. I used to post my own screenshots and write fanfiction. I don't write anymore, but maybe I'll start doing screenshots again.
Anyway let's see how this goes. I love Choices and hope to meet and reconnect with members. Stop by anytime!
Premise: Sienna Trinh is tired of everyone thinking she’s a goody-two-shoes and decides to change her image.
Book: Open Heart (post series)
Pairing: Sienna Trinh x Max Valentine (M!OC)
Rating/Category: Teen. Fluff.
Words: 1,420
A/N: I'm using @choicesflashfics week 18, prompt 1 (in bold). Submission for @choices-february2023, day 12 prompt: Marriage. Late submission for @choicesjanuarychallenge Day 5: Drink.
The bar was packed with the after-work crowd enjoying Happy Hour specials. Max Valentine parked himself on a bar stool with a clear view of the door.
He ignored his cousin’s attempts to convince him of the merits of having a bachelor party. No matter how many times he said no, Tony just kept going.
His day had started at six with a conference call, and he was tired. But Sienna had texted earlier to ask if they could meet for drinks and welcome her old roommate from medical school who had recently transferred to Sibley Memorial.
Max knew how hard it was for Sienna to uproot her life in Boston and move to DC. So, he was doubly committed to seeing her settled and happy here, with her own friends.
When his wife walked in a few minutes later, Max left Tony mid-sentence to grab Sienna before the crowd swallowed her up. When she saw him, her face lit up with a smile that likely mirrored his.
She reached him first, placing her hands on his arms for balance as she stretched on her toes to peck his lips. It was too short and not satisfying at all. He hauled her up to give her a proper hello, his lips capturing hers in a searing kiss.
“Hi,” she whispered dreamily, her fingers trailing the edge of his jaw.
“Hey.”
“Are you two done?” A woman asked, amusement coloring her tone.
Max glanced at the tall brunette standing behind Sienna and extended his hand. “Not even close. Max Valentine.”
“Kelly Macintosh.” She shook his hand. “I know who you are. You’re on Si’s Picta feed a lot. A huge improvement on Wayne, by the way.”
The last was directed at Sienna, who grinned cheekily and nestled against Max. When Tony joined them, she made quick introductions.
“You look nice,” Tony said, greeting Sienna with a friendly kiss on the cheek. “Now that you’re here help me convince Max that he needs a bachelor party. It’s a time-honored tradition, and the guys are looking forward to sending him off in style.”
When Sienna looked at him in confusion, Max just rolled his eyes.
“I keep telling you, cuz, I’m already married.” He held up his left hand and pointed to the wedding band. “I don’t need a stag party, not anymore.”
The hostess interrupted to tell them their table was ready, and they followed her to a corner booth. They exchanged small talk while they waited, ordering drinks and appetizers for the table when their server arrived.
When they were alone, Sienna stared at Tony with a steely-eyed gaze. “What kind of stag party? Vegas and strippers? Just how, exactly, are you planning to send my husband off in style?”
Tony sputtered, and Max settled back to enjoy his discomfort. He let Sienna grill his cousin while he turned towards her friend, who was trying to hold back her laughter.
“So, you must have lots of young Sienna stories,” he mused. “What was she like in med school?”
“Studious with a hint of mischief,” Kelly replied. “She was always baking muffins for everyone when we had early morning class and cookies for our weekly study group. Definitely had a reputation for being a good girl, willing to help everyone out.”
Max laughed and winked at Sienna. “So, she hasn’t changed at all.”
“Don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a goody-two-shoes,” Sienna complained. “I can be bad too.”
“Oh, yeah?” Max grinned wickedly, picking up the drink the server placed in front of him. “Just how bad are we talking here?”
Suddenly, there was a commotion near the bar, and they looked over to see a woman lying flat on the bar while her friends did belly shots.
“I can prove that I’m not Little Miss Nice,” Sienna insisted stubbornly, nodding towards the bar. “Body shots, here and now.”
“I know med school was a few years ago, Si,” Kelly cut in with a rueful shake of her head. “But I don’t believe people can do a complete a one-eighty in personality. You’re not the type of person that strips down and does body shots in a bar, surrounded by a bunch of strangers.”
Max raised Sienna’s hand to his lips and bussed the inside of her palm. “You have nothing to prove…Killa Cream.”
Sienna flushed when she caught his reference to the tag name she’d graffitied on Edenbrook’s back wall. The incident had been part of a Boston Bucket List she and her friends checked off on Kyra’s last week in Boston. She and Max weren’t talking then, so Cassie must have told him.
The conversation topic changed, but Sienna wasn’t paying attention. She watched the woman at the bar, now standing upright and laughing, and her frustration rose.
Okay, so she had never done a body shot in her life. Science geeks never got invited to those types of parties in college. And med school students preferred getting drunk and spouting Latin medical terms. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t do it if she tried.
Besides, who said she was the one who had to strip? Body shots were an equal-opportunity game.
A considering look entered her eyes, and she gazed up at Max, not even trying to hide her eagerness.
“Nope, puppy dog eyes are not going to work this time!” he said vociferously, reading her thoughts perfectly.
“But Max…” she pleaded. “You always say you’ll do anything for me.”
“What’s going on?” Tony asked.
“Body shots,” Max bit out, not taking his eyes off Sienna, and then he sighed in resignation. “Tony, get the tequila and lime.”
Sienna knew she looked smug, but she couldn’t help it. Kelly caught her eye and grinned, raising her glass in a toast.
Tony returned with a bottle of tequila, a couple of shot glasses, lime wedges and a salt shaker. Max cleared space on the table, took off his jacket and set it aside. Then he unbuttoned his shirt and shrugged it off his shoulders, but not stripping down completely.
“Sienna, you lucky girl,” Kelly wolf-whistled, but Max ignored her.
“We’re going to keep it beginner’s level,” he told Sienna pointedly. “Abs or neck, dealer’s choice. One shot, in a glass. Lick, shoot, suck. Got it?”
Sienna nodded and stepped back as Tony helped Max get horizontal. His torso was flat on the table, but his legs dangled off the edge and she stepped between his thighs.
Max cupped her jaw, his green eyes peering into hers. “One more thing. If we end up in the tabloids, I will take great pleasure in saying I told you so.”
“Whatever,” Sienna said, unconcerned, and shushed him by shoving a lime wedge between his teeth.
She stared down at her husband and thought about where to start. But she knew that if she got one chance only, it would have to be her favorite spot.
Sienna threw him a wicked look and sprinkled salt along his abs, giggling when she saw the laughter in his eyes. She leaned over him, licked the salt from his skin and took a shot of tequila. She bit into the lime and gently pulled the wedge out of Max’s mouth, enjoying the tart flavor before she tossed it away.
She moved closer to kiss him softly and could still taste the lime on his lips. She felt him smile through the kiss, and his hands gripped the sides of her waist.
She coursed her fingers through his blond hair, enjoying the feel of his warm bare skin beneath her and completely forgot where they were.
Sienna abruptly broke off the kiss when Tony coughed loudly. She stepped back and sheepishly peeked at Kelly and Tony standing beside them, shock and awe on their faces.
She had been this close to climbing on top of Max, which would have landed them on HS Tea for sure.
Max pushed himself off the table and started to button up his shirt. He smirked, once again reading her thoughts.
“I stand corrected,” Kelly teased, fanning herself exaggeratedly with her hands. “Med School Sienna would have never done something like this.”
Sienna blushed when everyone laughed and buried her face against Max’s chest. His arms enveloped her, and his lips grazed her earlobe.
“When we get home, Si,” his voice dropped to a whisper, making her shiver, “it’s my turn to show you exactly how bad I can be. I promise you that it will be downright wicked.”
I've been holding onto this for far too long. I am absolutely in love with this stunningly gorgeous portrait of my beloved OTP, Alex and Thomas Hunt in Lake Tahoe for their winter wedding by the lovely irdeinfierno on Instagram.
Submitting for: @choicesmonthlychallenge "to be" ; @choices-february2023 marriage ; @choicesholidays "marry me" ;
[All Thomas Hunt x Alex Spencer Masterlists] [Red Carpet Diaries]
Return To Dagger Mountain - @liaromancewriter (Open Heart)
Tension - @jerzwriter (Wake The Dead)
Time Together - @alj4890 (Red Carpet Diaries)
(Light NSFW / Mature)
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Fanfart
A Snowy Kiss - @storyofmychoices (Open Heart)
Family Affair - @liaromancewriter (Open Heart)
Tension - @jerzwriter (Wake The Dead)
Together is the best place to be - @theartoflovingthomashunt (Red Carpet Diaries)
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Edits & Text Fics
Animal Farm - @liaromancewriter (Open Heart)
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Day 6: Maxwell appreciation week: Family @maxwell-beaumont-appreciation
I am going to share my dear friend @alj4890 's work The other friend
In the last chapter Maxwell and his wife Amanda share this beautiful moment that I couldn't get away from my mind. The scene is from this chapter
Also I had promised her that I will do my first fanart of the year for her before officially opening the requests for fanart... So here's the little piece that I made... Thank you!
