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seb offers a smile in silent thanks for the refill. his bandmates loved going to bars after a gig which was fine, but he wasn't much of a drinker nowadays — or since high school, but seb hates thinking about that night. "damn, am i really not hiding my heartbreak well?" he teases back, clutching at his definitely aching heart. he takes a sip of his drink, humming at the crisp cold. there was something definitely troubling about what izzy was describing and while he hasn't seen that kind of behaviour between susan and riley, he truly hoped that wasn't a behind-closed doors situation. at the very least, seb hadn't witnessed riley flirting with anyone else, so he supposes cheating wasn't on the table thankfully. "we just met, but i doubt that's just how you are in a relationship. like, you must have been put in a situation where those were normal." he shakes his head at the comment about deserving a girl like susan. in truth, he hadn't been too upset about how that developed. it was clear where susan's feelings truly lay, and seb and susan were way better off as friends anyway. it was more like the idea of being with someone in that capacity that made the loss of the potential of it hurt. "and i'm not saying this to change your mind about saying no to me. despite my obviously bleeding heart that i'll likely need to get a blood transfusion for — thanks for that — i'm only saying this because, well, hurricane riley's wrecked quite a few hearts and it'd suck if you stayed a casualty."

"well i wanna believe that i'm better than that but ... i'm not entirely sure." once, when leanne had been sobbing to her drunk about her relationship woes, izzy's response was to sign Theo up for NA so that all his close friends thought he was a drug addict. not something that she had done to riley ... well she had submitted his number to the STD hotline so that he believed someone he hooked up with had an STD. so she wasn't a saint by any means. "oh no. i don't want your heart to bleed." she laughed softly before tilting her head. really ... what was the harm ... he's probably see she was crazy after one date. "fine. you can take me out. no promises you wont regret it."

grnlght

yeah, so... maybe he should have hooked up with literally anyone else from any other house. not that riley was completely remorseful ( if at all ) about it. eliza was hot and a conquest he couldn't resist. sue him. "you're gonna believe hudson over me? wow." riley scoffs, doubling down on the fact that his escapades with another ravenclaw weren't true. "yeah, alright, babe. i'll talk to you tomorrow." it was a cycle with them, and riley wasn't fussed about izzy breaking it any time soon. so much so, that when she crosses her arms over her chest, riley takes an obvious moment to ogle. "hudson's my best friend. just because you guys share a laugh or two doesn't mean anything." he argues, though if he was spilling his secrets to izzy? riley'll have to reconsider. "go ahead — run to that little bitch smith and get your disappointment over with."

#grnlght #izzy: hogwarts ! !

"hudson had never lied to me. unlike you, who seems to like to lie to me every five minutes!" this was it! this had to be the final straw because she couldn't do this anymore. they couldnt just keep having crazy make up and break up sex, justifying that as a relationship. she had so many options! well ... she had options before riley chased them all away but it shouldn't be hard to get those options back right. "he will not be disappointing and i sure as hell will not be talking to you tomorrow! im done!" shes said this all before but this time she had to mean it. if she didn't? she was finally starting to realize she might be a little pathetic for him. "have a great life, riley." she huffed, turning around to stalk back up the trail towards hogwarts.

ohisms

‪‪❤︎‬ ˚｡⋆ ↪ 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒 & 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 ! ( a collection of 75+ kisses. feel free to specify the initiating muse. potentially mature content within. UPDATED 02/25 ! )

finally kissing the person you’ve been pining for.

pulling them in for a kiss while showering together.

a kiss shared during a game ( truth or dare, spin the bottle, etc ).

kissing your lover to show you forgive them.

a coy, chaste kiss meant to say thank you.

an intimate kiss full of relief the second you're finally alone.

wiping away your lover’s tears as you kiss them.

a kiss muffled by laughter in a library, hidden away among the shelves.

lazy kisses on the sofa while the television runs.

kisses while wrapping your legs around your lover.

a quick peck on the cheek as one party rushes off.

a kiss to prove you don’t have feelings for them.

a kiss to convince them not to leave bed in the morning.

a kiss to distract them from stitching a wound.

a parting kiss before one party goes away for a long time.

biting their lip amidst a kiss, drawing blood.

heated kisses while tugging on their hair.

abruptly kissing a stranger to scare off the people following you.

an emotional kiss bringing one party to tears.

a bruising kiss full of desperation and urgency.

distracting your lover from a task by kissing their neck.

standing on your tiptoes to kiss their forehead.

kissing down the column of your lover's neck, leaving marks.

a kiss while being reunited after a long time.

kissing your lover in a moment of sheer joy.

a dutiful kiss with no true feeling behind it.

kissing your lover to take away their pain.

colliding with a wall, then each other's lips.

a kiss placed over their freshly bandaged wound.

a kiss while slow dancing close and intimately.

sharing a spontaneous kiss with a stranger.

an abrupt , heated kiss during the middle of a fight.

a kiss motivated by a dare from a third party.

an adrenaline-fueled kiss while standing on the ledge of a rooftop.

kissing them to shut them up.

urgent, messy kisses as both parties scramble to undress.

a kiss to wake your lover up in the morning.

sharing a kiss in a heavy downpour of rain.

kissing your lover just above their waistband.

kissing your partner to seal a marriage.

pushing your love down onto the bed to worship their body with kisses.

a possessive kiss to stake a claim.

a kiss to resolve suppressed ( romantic / sexual ) tension.

a kiss attempting to convince the other party to stay.

kissing the top of their head as you hold them.

a risky kiss between forbidden lovers.

a kiss while hiding away from flashing cameras.

a kiss that means absolutely nothing.

kissing the swell of your lover's breast.

a kiss that leaves lipstick stains.

a kiss shared on a rooftop while the sun ( sets / rises ).

a flirtatious kiss on the back of the hand.

sensual kisses down the length of their back.

kissing them to confess your true feelings.

sneaking off to a public bathroom to make out.

a kiss to forgive one another after a fight.

a kiss on the forehead as the other sleeps.

an ( accidental / mutually ) drunken kiss.

an unexpected kiss during a fake dating scheme.

kissing your partner after they've given you head.

caging your lover against a wall with your arms to kiss them.

a kiss after receiving good news.

an emotional kiss, relieved to find your lover alive.

crowded, heated kisses in the backseat of a car.

a tentative , exploratory kiss between friends.

a kiss shared between enemies during combat.

a kiss that smears blood everywhere.

kissing them even though you know you shouldn't.

kissing your lover after believing you’d lost them.

a kiss after a devastating event , meant to comfort.

a possessive kiss in front of a jealous third party.

kisses while pulling them into your lap.

a heated kiss while holding them by the throat.

kissing your lover under the night sky while stargazing.

a kiss to seal a promise that you just made.

kissing your lover lazily first thing in the morning.

holding your lover by the jaw to kiss them.

holding their face, kissing the tears from their cheeks.

a kiss to your lover’s stomach as you travel down their body.

an abrupt kiss that you melt into after a moment of hesitation.

sleepy , domestic morning kisses in the kitchen while making breakfast.

a rushed kiss before one party leaves for work.

a final kiss shared while holding your dying lover.

#meme ! !#kinda awake #can yall tell i finished grad school ???

"i'm sure it's not you. riley's just a dick." and he says this lovingly and truthfully. before susan, seb would witness multiple crash-outs from groupies and riley just laughing in their face. no remorse, no nothing. it was times like those where seb didn't envy riley and his ability to disengage. "then i retract my earlier offence. i'm actually touched and will only slightly mourn the loss of hearing them." a smile tugs at his lips. seb shakes his head. "oh, listen, you don't have to explain yourself. i'm perfectly content in taking that friendship route." he says, and then he quickly adds before he loses the courage ( and riley wouldn't care, right? he's got susan and doesn't even remember izzy ), "but ... if you ever think differently? or even want to test out if you're still capable? let me know."

izzy paused for a moment ... before she grabbed his glass to refill his pepsi. she didnt ask many questions, and she respected a person who came into a bar with no intention of drinking. she placed his glass back down before letting out a sigh. "i get it. im gorgeous and you're taking my no hard." she teased before she slowly got a serious look on her face. "i dont know if you wanna be a test dummy. my last relationship was a cycle of screaming matches and cheating and sex and maybe one good day before more screaming. you don't ... deserve that, i can already tell. you honestly do deserve a girl like susan and i am ... decidedly not that. at all. and i like that about myself, i do! i just don't wanna say i didn't warn ya."

seb takes a sip of his drink and then immediately ( nearly ) chokes on it. "what?" because the thought of not remembering izzy at all sounds incomprehensible. she was beautiful. seb doesn't think he'd ever forget her, and he only just met her today. "no? i'm actually kind of offended now. is there a criteria i need to meet to coax a corny pick up line out of you?" he teases, tapping on his glass. "i get it, and i appreciate that, too. but i think everything worked out in the end. everyone's happy." well, maybe not as happy as the lovebirds.

"its no big deal ... apparently i just wasn't important enough to remember." izzy shrugged as she picked up her rag, concentrating on a wet spot on the counter. anything to ignore the justified lurch in her chest from being forgotten. but she laughed, looking up at seb before shrugging. "corny pick up lines are for guys who dont actually deserve conversation ... you're not like that." she hummed leaned forward slightly against the counter. " ... its not that i wouldnt wanna date you, you know. its just ... i dont think im good at things like that anymore."

"no, it's not like that. i just — i don't know. personally, i wouldn't be too happy if one of my bandmates tried to ask out my ex without asking if it was cool." more of a decency thing than anything else. "you don't think so?" his tone is full of surprise. while seb wasn't privy to riley's shenanigans in high school, he was well aware of his rampage as an adult surrounded by a plethora of willing women. something shifted in riley when he got with susan — anyone could see that. "they seemed really loved up. i don't think i've seen riley like that... ever." which is probably not a smart thing to say to riley's ex, especially after she's just said riley had cheated on her. "what?" seb blinks, another nervous laugh escaping him. "i mean ... maybe? the flirting, not the pick up lines. i promise i don't have a rotation of them."

"well lucky for you? he apparently does not even remember i existed." because that was fair! izzy was swamped with therapy and memories and she cringed at the mere mention of how whipped she was that she kept coming back and riley decidedly did not ... remember a thing. she was a blank space in his memory. not that she cared ... much. she hated to think of herself as forgettable but also, he seemed to have dumped every piece of knowledge he had in his brain to only concentrate on susan. it was sweet ... gross but sweet. "well i do. but dont worry, i havent used any of my corny ones yet on you." she hummed before she shrugged her shoulders. "if i had been around for that? trust, i would have sabotaged nordisk to let you win susan ... not that she's like ... some trophy to win but ... you get it, right?"

grnlght

fuck, was isobel irritating. hot, but extremely irritating. she knew exactly how to press his buttons and rile him up, even if she so innocently claimed otherwise. the mere thought of izzy sneaking into hufflepuff for smith has him on the edge of a frenzy. "you don't think i have friends in hufflepuff? i'll know." acquaintances and enemies, more like. "did we? three days with no contact and you're jumping to us being broken up? you're so goddamn pathetic. i was busy." three days, sneaking around with other girls in empty halls... yeah, those were definitely grounds for a breakup, but not for them. "but yeah, if you're so intent on wasting your time with a guy who won't make you cum, be my fucking guest. just don't come running back to me when you're disappointed." in reality, the moment izzy comes back to him? well, riley would welcome her with open arms, a smug smirk, and a quickie in a corridor.

#grnlght #izzy: hogwarts ! !

"busy hooking up with someone else! from my own house! but of course, you either didn't care enough to hide it or just were too stupid to think over the consequences of making out with someone i share a dorm with!" it was getting dark and they shouldn't even be in hogsmeade anymore. they should be arguing anywhere but here where actual townspeople could see them but ... they were probably used to it by now. "my orgasms are none of your concern anymore and trust me! this is the last time i ever want to speak to you!" she huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. but ... she didn't stop away. she could have but she didn't. " ... no one in hufflepuff likes you, you liar. hudson and i barely tolerate you."

sebastian's cracks a smile, a nervous chuckle escaping his lips at the unexpected flirting. was it still flirting if it was said by the woman who had just rejected him moments ago? or was that just how she was with her friends? seb supposes he'll find out. "thanks," he says, before following izzy's gaze and settling on riley and susan once again. "oh, shit," seb sounds, whipping his attention back to isobel. his eyes widened in alarm. "you and riley? wow, i had no idea. i wouldn't have... well, you know." not that there was a rule like that in his band — seb swears riley and carter used to swap dates and hookups. "yeah, susan's a sweetheart," seb agrees. when they first met, they had hit it off. actually, there was a point in time where he thought they were really hitting it off — they even shared a kiss. "i guess the opposites attract kind of thing really works for them."

"you wouldn't have ... what? flirted with me? you always let him control what you do?" izzy lived her life by one simple rule. she wouldn't let anyone tell her what she could or couldn't do .... well, besides her therapist because her therapist was smart and always looked out for her. she had never allowed riley tell her what to do ... she was just always the idiot who walked back to him. and that was on her. "i just ... dont trust its real. and i dont want to tell her that because she will get sad but if he breaks her heart? im castrating him which is what i should have done when he cheated on me the first time." she cheated on him back but ... that was neither her nor there. she did notice the look that passed over seb's eyes and izzy slowly leaned back. "huh ... did you flirt with her too? i hope you're not using the same pick up lines."

grnlght

at the mention of that ponce, riley's jaw tightens. to think smith was on riley's level in any capacity was generally irritating, but for him to go for his fucking girlfriend? yeah, smith's going straight to the infirmary once he's done with him. "no the fuck you aren't." riley says, his eyes darkening. "if smith values his life, he'd have gone back to his house and stay the fuck away from you."

#grnlght #izzy: hogwarts ! !

riley could be jealous but the double standard of the situation was that if she was jealous? she was the crazy one who didn't let him breathe or whatever lie he would tell his friends. truth of the matter was that he was the crazy possessive one. not her! well ... maybe her a little. "i have friends in hufflepuff. i can easily sneak in and see him and you would never know. and you can't stop me. we broke up!" not that those words meant anything. broken up, not broken up ... it was messy.

"yeah, he's on bass. i'm on drums." seb explains with a small nod. he's sure if it was carter or riley in his place, they'd be some sort of offended or ( at the very least ) pulling up their discography on itunes or something. the band's been gaining popularity in recent years. "guilty? for what?" sebastian questions, brows furrowing. he was acutely aware susan and riley had gone to school together, though the details were vague — the two seemed to skirt around any mention of school... which was fine. sebastian didn't exactly like reminiscing on his own high school experience.

"well if it helps? i think drummers are extremely hot." friends gave each other compliments like that right? izzy wasn't sure ... had been a very long time since she had a guy friend. she didn't really count hudson, as his presence in her life could only be counted on if she wanted a brunch buddy to beat a dead horse with. she sucked in her teeth before slowly turning her gaze towards susan and riley. she might have to go spray them with a hose, they were disgusting. "at school? that ... used to be me. i dated nordisk off and on for like ... a year? basically drank the kool-aid and now im free. but ... im sure you know how susan gets. she'd apologize to an ant for stepping on it."

#susan: face ! !#i need to finally watch this damn

maxanor

LOLA TUNG as PUMPKIN FORBIDDEN FRUITS (2026) dir. Meredith Alloway

leneemusing

send ‘you know i love you, right?’ for my muses reaction ( can be platonic or familial, not just romantic ).

#meme ! !

yenvengerberg

MIKA ABDALLA as ALLIE HAYES Off Campus: Season 1 (2026)

#izzy: face ! !#her WAIST !?!?!?!?#insane

firstprinced

Mika Abdalla as Allie Hayes OFF CAMPUS (2026)

#izzy: face ! !#shes kinda insane but ive BEEN with her since snack shack where she was calling conor sherry shit pig !!!

there was a time sebastian did dabble in the art of one-night stands and casual hookups. earlier on in the band's career, seb could hardly resist the pull of having women scream his name and then eagerly throw themselves at him. but he learned fairly quickly that he wasn't the kind of guy who could sleep with strangers without getting attached. "oh, well, riley and i are in a band together, and i met susan through riley." seb explains, sparing a glance at the lovebirds displaying the most public of affections in the packed bar. "we just wrapped up a gig down the street." he says this casually, as if they didn't just play to a sold out venue. "how do you know them?"