i'm not afraid.

& i feel the calling of adventure, & i hear the ringing in my ear. the lights are glaring, trumpets blaring, i'm right here.

[grceoh]

bruisedcamo‌:

eddy was about to say more about the cape hazel election debacle, but every thought he might have had about it vanished from his mind as soon as grace dropped her bombshell. all this time, he had assumed that grace was offered a better job, or that she’d become sick of small town drama, and that he hadn’t made the list of people she wanted to say goodbye to. not once did it cross his mind that she might be hurt or in some kind of peril, and though things were always weird between them, he wished he could have been there for her in some form, even if it was just through a get well soon card. “fuck, grace, i had no idea,” he said, brows furrowed with concern as he turned to face her more fully, drink abandoned on the bar in front of them, “are you okay now? i mean, obviously that’s a dumb fuckin’ question, but it must’ve been bad if you were out for four months.”

Grace didn’t expect this reaction from Eddy. Honestly, considering the way gossip always circulated through Cape Hazel and the relative closeness of the sushi club group, Grace assumed most people did hear about her accident, and if they didn’t reach out, well, maybe they weren’t as close as she thought. Eddy was one of those people. Her smile went from wry to embarrassed, and she shook her head of his concern.

“I’m fine, seriously. I just took a pretty bad fall one day, I was actually helping one of the kids around here with something, and my head went straight into the concrete. I’ll spare you the details, but I lost some memory, speech, motor skills, the works for a little bit there. See, watch this,” she chuckled, reaching for her glass to draw it to her lips. No one would notice how awkward and stilted her grip and movements were unless they paid close attention.

[grceoh]

fawnlockwood‌:

“Aside from you? Finn Nye, museum guy,” Reece said with a smirk, flagging down the bartender for another drink. “I voted for Netty Knight. Karen’s fine, I guess, but I definitely don’t want any more tourists, and Knight seemed the most experienced anyway – hey there, Jack and Coke, please.” She flashed a grin as she placed her order, then turned to Grace. “You want another? I’m buying.”

“I wouldn’t run for mayor of this town if someone gave me a million dollars,” Grace said. The thought alone sent a shudder through her body, and she shook her head at Reece. “I researched the candidates, but with everything going on I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time. Next year.”

Grace nodded her head at the bartender and gave him a polite smile. “Well, if it’s on her. I’ll take a whiskey sour, thanks,” she chuckled softly. Once they were gone, she turned back to Reece. “Enough about our inevitable doom. What’s new with you?”

[grceoh]

fawnlockwood‌:

Reece raised her glass in agreement, taking a sip before responding, “You know how time moves here. A day can feel like a year, a year can feel like a day – just depends on the mood of whoever’s mayor. Remember the one we had during high school?” She rolled her eyes. “That was a decade of my life, bare minimum.” Stealing a few fries from Grace without asking, she asked with her mouth full, “Any predictions for Mayor Sasha’s reign? Personally, I think the last day has been at least a week.”

Grace’s gaze lazily followed Reece’s movements as she took a few fries from her plate. After a pensive beat, she sighed. “I don’t know. Honestly, she hasn’t done much since I got back. Actually, I haven’t heard from her at all, which is surprising. When I heard the news, I assumed she would keep her dad’s blog up, but I guess not. I heard she turned him in, so maybe she’s trying to be her own person.” She paused again, thinking on the woman she knew and almost laughed at the thought. Still, she was a new Grace herself. She could give Sasha a chance. “Who did you think should be mayor?”

[flabbeycrossing]

[grceoh]

bruisedcamo‌:

four months ago, eddy wouldn’t have thought it possible to miss grace’s dry sense of humour, but life surprised him everyday, it seemed. with a chuckle, he took a sip of the glass of whiskey he’d been nursing since the moment grace had sat down, the liquor burning it’s way down his throat the way he loved. “oh, none of us voted for sasha, but she ended up mayor, anyway,” he said, “i’m not entirely sure if this is a democracy or a monarchy anymore, but now we have the spoiled brat of a murder accomplice governing us. i think i would’ve preferred the raccoon.” it was a weird situation, but eddy was beginning to expect the unexpected when it came to cape hazel. as he finished off his explanation, an old curiosity began biting at his heels, eating him up from the inside out. “where’d you run off to, anyway?” 

“How did that even work? Did she really get zero votes? It just doesn’t make any sense,” Grace asked, her features muddled with confusion and a little disbelief. She knew the cape could be unconventional, but...? Her expression turned wry, though, when he asked where she’d been. “I didn’t know how much Piper told you and everyone else. I had a pretty bad accident, and I couldn’t take care of myself, so I had to stay with my parents for a while. I’m still in PT and everything, but it was time for me to come home.”

Or so she thought. She was tired of the limbo as she laid around her childhood home all day, but now that she was back the cape didn’t feel quite right, and her old life felt like someone else’s skin. How did she win?

[grceoh]

bruisedcamo‌:

“only four months? it feels like you were gone a lot longer than that,” eddy replied as nonchalantly as he could. he’d been hyper-aware of grace’s presence since the moment she had sat down beside him, but he wasn’t going to be the first person to say something. he still wasn’t sure exactly where they stood, especially considering just how long it’d been, but if he was telling the truth, he’d missed grace. no matter how weird things had gotten between them, she’d been a constant in his life for a long time, one of the very first people he’d met in this weird little town. “this place isn’t what it used to be, but i’m glad you’re back.”

Eddy. Grace thought of him, along with the rest of their crowd, when she got back into town, but she was hesitant to take that step to reach out. They were perpetually in a weird place, it seemed, and she didn’t remember where they left off or know where they might begin again. Fate had it, though, that she would wander into Old York just when he was at the bar. She took her seat next to him, ordering a drink before she gathered her courage...or liquid courage. She sipped from her glass of wine and let out a light chuckle. “Obviously. I heard you all elected Sasha in my absence. Among other things. I was gone for less than half a year, and you all let this happen? I almost decided not to move back after I heard about that.”

[grceoh]

Grace smiled at the bartender when they set the plate of fries in front of her, uttering her quiet gratitude. It was strange to be back in Cape Hazel, and she’d expected as much. What she didn’t expect was for the town to be a completely different place. To the person beside her, she started, “You know, I was only gone for four months, but I feel like four years worth of stuff happened while I was away.”

[grceoh]

b!

bees. save them.

[grceoh]

h!

hydrangeas

[grceoh]

a

aromatherapy

[grceoh]

l

lemon water

[tru2002]

Put a letter from A-Z in my ask and I’ll tell you 1 thing I love which starts with that letter.

[stormyveins]

THIS IS CUTE PLEASE

[grceoh]

hcrdloves‌:

“why do you gotta make me out to be satan himself?” eddy teased, unable to wipe the grin from his face. he liked teasing grace, like this new dynamic they had despite everything in their past. “i’m the one who should absolutely be blaming the bartender,” he contested, “i know how our brains and the business work. the drunker people get, the more money they spend, and i fell right into that trap.”

“If the shoe fits,” Grace’s voice danced and twinkled as she bantered with Eddy. She didn’t know what had shifted in their relationship, but it was so much easier to talk to him than before, even if some things had circled back to their start. “Well, it sounds like you, also as a bartender, should have been cognizant of their intentions and avoided it, not the other way around.”

[grceoh]

fxrrxnbxllxrosx‌:

“Yes, sure,” Farren said, following the nod of the woman. “Who ees that?” She perked a brow, beginning towards the person that had been pointed out.

“Oh, her? That’s my friend Piper. She organized the clean-up. She’s really into the environment, it’s kind of her...thing,” Grace said as she led Farren in Piper’s direction.

[grceoh]

do you have evidence to support your statement?

[grceoh]

sparkleshineeva‌:

So it was Grace, a very angry Grace. And Eva was making it worse. She wanted to help somehow but she was frozen in the sand. “I mean no… But I didn’t really know… What else to ask…” Eva hated that she didn’t have a sleeve to anxiously play with. Instead the bottom of her tanktop would have to feel the brunt of her nervous habits.

Grace wasn’t normally so short with Eva, who herself was very pleasant, but she wasn’t in the mood to baby anyone after her tumble. “You could have just seen if I needed help,” she said, no less disgruntled before. While Eva continued to stand there and do nothing, Grace managed to find her footing and stand next to her.

[grceoh]

hcrdloves‌:

“okay, okay, so one time,” eddy said, unable to stop himself from laughing as he recalled the incident grace was talking about in his head. it seemed she still hadn’t forgiven him despite mending their relationship since. “those half priced drinks were the devil. it was the bartenders fault for serving me still,” he grinned.

“There are so many more times where that came from, though. I’m just not bringing them up to spare you from the embarrassment. Like the saint that I am,” she bragged airily, laughing when Eddy tried to deflect the errors of his ways. “I feel like you of all people shouldn’t be blaming the bartender.”