FEEL * / CELESTIAL

❝ shining light, show and tell. don't be scared, t r u t h is hell. down we go, wish me well. no one knows where we fell.❞ — celeste reinaldi, thirty - one , manhattan.

[ifeelcelesticl]

@reinaldipatriarch

     when the head of the glorious reinaldi clan wanted to have some of her time, she was sure to keep it as long as three or maybe four minutes. all she could give to the old reinaldi man was her rage and penitence, she regretted the trust she used to have for charles reinaldi ever since her wedding day. “ quite interesting that you still act like… ” taking a small pause like she didn’t have all of her sentences constructed very well inside her head. “ like you still deserve my respect and words, father. ” when the word father slipped from her mouth, she uttered it like an insult. celeste was almost renewed after what her family condemned her to, however that didn’t mean the flame of rage burning inside cece wasn’t there anymore. it was there, flaring up every time the face of her father made her think of how much she used to rely on him but how he failed her little daughter.

     “ i’ve got business to do, appointments to make so if you excuse me, i’ll frankly claim that i don’t have time for you. “ striaght-forwardly, celeste refused to even sit down, she was standing with her arms crossed and a solid discontent all over her look, waiting for the patriarch to free her from this conversation.

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@bcrberry

      it was right the middle of their tittle-tattle session where they talked about the famous reinaldi brunch with all its details. was it even an event when they didn't criticize it from its bottom to top with cordelia? no, the blonde was celeste reinaldi's favorite lady in this city except her sister but as luck would have it, cordelia and adri were never fond of each other so celeste had to act like she was ignoring this fact at the times she wasn't trying to become the bridge between them, not to mention that attempt of her never really ended up well. 

         of course, gossip girl was in the limelight for their agenda. " like i said delia, we can't just act like it's all sunny and bright when someone is there to plot the evil for us, we don't even know a proper thing about that person, i can't accept that anymore. " her teeth slightly sunk into her lower lip right before the most interesting part of their conversation started, it was the part where they spilled the things only okay to spill between two of them. " the person gossip girl referred to as the certain unknown man, it was aiden. " talking about him was enough to send a shiver way down her spine, all this hiding was very ironic for someone like her, out in the open.

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— * | CORDELIA FREYA WINDSOR › MANIP PT. 1

an old picture taken at a birthday party resurfaced of acclaimed event planner celeste reinaldi ( @ifeelcelesticl ) and corporate attorney cordelia windsor, both ladies are members of new york’s elite and could be seen as socialites.

[ifeelcelesticl]

thebritishbloke:

Marcus looked at the other lifting his shades for a second to give them some eye contact. “Come over here quickly, I need you to look at something for me.” He replied in his strong British accent as he puts his shades back over his eyes.

    giving him some attention, she gazed at him for a while.  “ and who are you again? ” she asked as her brain couldn’t match him with the faces she from her memory. she didn’t move a bit before getting her answer. 

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philliplangham:

“Audrey-” He tried to speak in between his wife’s angry ramble. He had been on the phone with her for the last ten minutes; his missus outraged because Phillip had left this morning before even finishing their argument last night. That was all they did lately: argue, and Phillip was honestly tired of constantly arguing. He swore her voice was so loud, the person next to him could hear everything she was saying. “I have to go babe,” he said, trying to remain calm, yet still Audrey was yelling at him. “Honey, we’ll talk about this when I get home, alright?” Phillip said, a little bit more stern this time before hanging up. He downed the bourbon in front of him in one gulp and sighed, his day ruined now.

     “ you could just go on phil, nothing i don’t know about. us girls generally don’t hide from our fellow female buddies that men in our lives are giving us hard times. you call that gossip, we call that support system. ” a grimace mixed with a humorous expression could be seen over celeste’s features. “ someone just hearing this out could say, ‘ oh look at her, giving the poor guy hell ’ but is it just like that? i don’t think auds is the only one to blame here, phillip. ” cece claimed as she watched him tilting the bourbon down.

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— * | GOSSIP REPORTER STEPH › EDIT PT. 1

@ifeelcelesticl , @aidenserrano , @rosromano, @fuqdominique, @bluebelledison

[ifeelcelesticl]

aidenserrano:

he had come out of his hiding just for her. of course, she was the celeste reinaldi and there was nothing but respect for her, therefore he knew he wasn’t the only suitable bachelor lining up for her attention. still, he couldn’t help but hope to heavens they would end up together, that they would confide in one another for the rest of eternity.

aiden contained himself, with half a smile and a sad gleam in his eyes, stepping closer to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear, he whispered cautiously to her, “we have to be careful. i cannot let the media see me,” he explained, wanting so badly to kiss her lips but not being able to. 

“i wish– i really wish i could kiss you right now,” a muffled laughter escaped, as he laughed at himself and his own desperation. “i missed you, i missed you so much,” his eyebrows furrowed and there was a spark, a hope that she missed him just as much. “gosh, you look so beautiful,” his fingers tangled into the mess of her curls, and he caressed her cheek with one thumb. the other hand held hers softly, and aiden was quick to explain himself, “i’ve been gone, i’m so sorry– i’ve been escaping from… from my family.”

it was a milestone for them, they don't have to hide their affair anymore. months passed, she was a widow and she didn't let someone in for this, for him. they could start, their time would come. reinaldi clan might hate it or love it, did she care? she wasn't inside their playground anymore, their playground turned into ruins,  a big tombstone with ethan's name covered it now. but this equation had many variables and one of them was aiden's hide and seek from his family. they had to keep it low while every single cell of hers was screaming for his love.

another step and now they were closer. the space between them seemed a lot to her when her longing was there to multiply every single feeling she had, make it harder like it wasn't hard enough already. his small touch was tempting, made her complex completely react, like she could melt in his hands and it had a warmth directly heating her heart up. his whisper made its way to her ears and the next thing he said was all about what was going on in her headspace too.

they were like two magnets, pulling each other stronger and stronger as each millimeter between them melted and her desire was burning, being this close to him but couldn't kiss him left an unpleasant soreness on her lips. "i wish i could spend the rest of my day with only you, that's how much i missed you." her voice was soft as celeste mused. his fingers around her golden hair locks, celeste was squeezed under the weight of her own sensations. after their fingers interlocked, she knew she had to break the invisible wall between them. so, a bigger step towards him and they were united. her arms around his neck, she nestled to him. "i'm tired of hiding. your hiding, our hiding, all of it."  

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adrianareinaldi:

“CELESTE, what are you doing?” adriana immediately walked from across the room to cece, holding her sister’s arm as she spoke. “i thought abraxas was out of control but this, this is on a whole different level!” adri tried not to raise her voice as she reached out to the poor, recently slapped guest. “god, i am so sorry– i think my sister has had one too many mimosas, and i apologize on her behalf.” turning back to celeste, adriana crossed arms, waiting for an explanation. 

        “  nothing. “ simply replying with a kind smile blossomed over her lips, she was always in control of her actions, after ethan’s death she couldn’t let anybody decide for her, she did that once and it cost her one and half of a year and six months without seeing aiden. her sister was maybe the only person who could get questions like this answers from celeste.“ my love, now this one touched at my heart, how could you compare me with mr. freeze? “ with an expression of unsureness, she left her humorous intentions behind. “ adriana, i never drink at an event when i am one of the hosts, don’t act like you don’t know me. this is a serious deal, the gossip girl, she is around us and to catch that degenerate, i’d do more than just an innocent slap on the face too. “ her sister was one of the essential parts of her, someone above all of the other people in her life. that’s why celeste wanted to give her an explanation .

[ifeelcelesticl]

GOSSIP GIRL SAID:  slap someone in the face. now.

        looking at her phone’s screen, a barely audible laughter escaped from her. ‘slapping someone’, nothing she couldn’t dare. when she dared, she dared boldly and why was she doing that again? for the little possibility of revealing who this person was. tucking her phone inside of her dior bag, she waltzed through the first male she saw around because she would never physically hurt a fellow female. “ here’s the deal, i’ll be slapping you in five seconds and believe me, it is for the salvation of upper east side...  ” before he even tried to resist, her fingers met with the other’s face, not a violent one but surely enough to leave a slight red flush over his face. the first thing she did after that, very casually like nothing ever happened, was to look around to see someone reacting unexpectedly like.... someone reaching their phone and start writing about what they saw immediately. her gaze wasn’t even over the guy who was graced by this slap, when she said “ sorry. ” it was more like she was talking to the air but not him. 

[ifeelcelesticl]

anonymous texter: dare? slap someone in the face. now.

watch me.

[ifeelcelesticl]

anonymous texter: truth or dare, celeste?

now, you are going a bit too far but... let me say dare.

[ifeelcelesticl]

fuqdominique:

“and it would be a pleasure to work with you again in the future, celeste.” dominique had a lot of partnerships with events, but celeste was one of her favorites, since them seem to get along all the time, and the younger one has a lot of fresh ideas which she loved. “a big dinner party of bachelors? we can plan it as soon as this brunch is over. i am very excited for the ideas you’ve got.”

        “ it is also a pleasure for me, we are a good pair of hard working women. ” with a quick nod she certified her own words’ accuracy. “ would you like to learn more of it or maybe you should tell me about what’s going on with your life, my working schedule sometimes makes it hard to keep myself inside of the upper east side’s loop. ”

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aidenserrano:

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he had missed her. one fact. but if she missed him, he didn’t know. celeste was a beautiful woman, now gladly single and ready to take on the world. and him? he was well, a runaway from the british monarchy and a man who kept it all on the low. he didn’t know how to be something she missed, he didn’t know how to be something to her. 

yet he was there. at the brunch, too nervous to approach her, but brave enough to come. he didn’t know how she had been, and frankly, he was sorry for being away for all these months ever since the last time they saw each other at ethan’s funeral, when he had tried to convince himself he was only a friend and a friend only.

but friends don’t look at each other the way they did.

approaching her in a corner, he tried to get the least bit of attention from them. the last thing he wanted was yet another media news about celeste’s new lover – and he knew they had their sketchy, nosy little eyes on them. “i– i need to talk to you,” he pleaded, looking her in the eye. “after all these months i just… i can’t let go, okay?”

       ethan's death was bad news for the upper east side, they thought it would ruin celeste's world like it did ruin the other people's who were close to him. but did it? she never felt freer before, his death was her revelation, revival, a chance to start all over again. she had to act like she was mourning, people wanted to see her mourn like it was her new job and she could understand that because she made people believe they were the picture perfect couple and he meant everything to her. tabloids believed them, even the closest people to her believed too. only one person knew and that person was more than just a confidant, he was her lover too. 

        her marriage with ethan was nothing but a story of abuse but she was a reinaldi and people wanted to see a couple they can adore wholly, she had to stay quiet about it. meeting aiden, her tongue which kept all of the untold secrets, it got loose because her feelings were too deep to contain inside so she had to let him know, that he was her world and her marriage was not real.        the months they spent, not seeing each other, she was keeping herself busy with her hectic schedule so that she could focus on something other than the hole in her soul his absence left. not like anything could fill that hole, she was thinking about him all the time like he was living at the back of her mind. with all the places she had been, her eyes searched for him and if you'd ask her, this could be the last place she might see him. when she was having her minute in a corner, the moment he approached and celeste’s gaze fell upon his familiar features she could spend hours just watching, her heart skipped a beat. 

       heaviness of her feelings glued her lips for a moment but she had a lot to say, a lot she amassed just to tell him. " aiden, i---- i missed you so much. " her longing was taking the control, plaguing her mind, her body was nearly benumbed as she tried her best to tame the urge she had. she wanted to wrap her arms around him more than anything.

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fuqdominique:

“you and your sister have done a great job, love,” she smiled back at her. “i am, very much. and this choice of champagne, you have a lovely taste,” she dominique said as she took a sip of her drink.

       “ if it wasn’t this brunch that gathered us, dear dom, i’d be contacting you very soon for another event. ” dominique and celeste partnered up for a lot of her events, they were both excellent at their fields and celeste believed in the strength that having the right allies brings. “ a big dinner party for some well-known bachelors i’ll be planing is ahead and for those kinds of dining events, you are the number one person i team up with. ”

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adrianareinaldi:

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“i–” she hesitated, hungry and desperate for her sister’s support. taking cece to somewhere private where they could not be seen, adriana finally allowed herself to burst into tears. “i– i kissed brax yesterday and i’m– i’m so confused, cece… this whole ordeal is killing me, it’s killing me softly because… because… i am in love with him. and he is not.”

        with a constant smile plastered over her softly carved features, she was making sure the guests were having their times and everybody’s glasses were full but with this little private moment, the words fell from her little sister’s mouth, her smile erased and a nullity sat over her face. she was watching them, they looked wonderful. but didn’t ethan and her used to look like that when it was nothing but an illusion? trying to convince herself it wasn’t the same with her sister, she thought maybe this time reinaldis did the right matchmaking. she was disappointed, angry and primarily concerned. “ adri, what are you... i always thought you were so... happy? ”

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fuqdominique:

attending to events like this was like a thing that dominique knows from the back of her hand, so she didn’t really prepare that much for the said brunch. the blonde gets out of her car and enters the reinaldi’s, then takes a look around the place for a bit, while grabbing herself a glass of champagne. “this place is wonderful,” she suddenly speaks up.

        hearing the woman’s compliment, a demure smile pulled the corners of her lips upwards. “ thank you for your attendance, i’m pretty sure you are going to have a lovely time here. ” the event planner always had to make sure people are satisfied and it didn’t change with this family event. with her sister, they put a lot of work on the fanciness going around. 

[ifeelcelesticl]

CELESTE REINALDI FOR SUMMER BRUNCH / -- * ( EVENT 01 )