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17: Someone you miss
Jared, Peter, and Nora. My parents and sister. I knew that following my dreams would mean leaving Philadelphia, but it doesn’t mean that I miss them any less.
23: My relationship with my sibling(s)
Answered
24: My relationship with my parent(s)
Answered
27: A description of the girl/boy I like
I don’t have any interests at the moment, care to recommend someone?
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20: What I hate most about myself
I hold everyone - both others and myself - to incredibly high standards and sometimes can’t realize that humans are all flawed and making mistakes is inevitable.
21: What I love most about myself
My ambition and drive, as well as my independence while achieving my goals.
22: What I want to be when I get older
Next step on the ladder is being a publicist, maybe a CCO in a few years?
23: My relationship with my sibling(s)
My younger sister and I drifted when I went off to college. Isn’t it ironic that I chose Penn State over Boston University due to its proximity to home, but ended up spending less time with my family? We still talk rather often and have rekindled our relationship over the past year, and I am honestly so thankful for that.
24: My relationship with my parent(s).
My mother, my idol, my queen. She is everything that I strive to be and more. She managed to make a name for herself in the male-dominated field of politics, which is pretty admirable. I don’t think that I’d ever be as badass as her to have my own congressional district, but one can only dream. I was always closer to my mother than I was to my father, mostly because he’s always been a bit of a workaholic. But I do love him a lot and I know that he worked hard to get where he is. I think both of my parents have instilled that drive in me. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, right?
25: My idea of a perfect date
Picnic in the park, followed by a stroll along the lake. Very low-key and intimate, and also simple to plan. Sometimes those things are the best.
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0: Height
1: Age
2: Shoe size
3: Do you smoke?
4: Do you drink?
5: Do you take drugs?
6: Age you get mistaken for
7: Have tattoos?
8: Want any tattoos?
9: Got any piercings?
10: Want any piercings?
11: Best friend?
12: Relationship status
13: Biggest turn ons
14: Biggest turn offs
15: Favorite movie
16: I’ll love you if…
17: Someone you miss
18: Most traumatic experience
19: A fact about your personality
20: What I hate most about myself
21: What I love most about myself
22: What I want to be when I get older
23: My relationship with my sibling(s)
24: My relationship with my parent(s)
25: My idea of a perfect date
26: My biggest pet peeves
27: A description of the girl/boy I like
28: A description of the person I dislike the most
29: A reason I’ve lied to a friend
30: What I hate the most about work/school
31: What my last text message says
32: What words upset me the most
33: What words make me feel the best about myself
34: What I find attractive in women
35: What I find attractive in men
36: Where I would like to live
37: One of my insecurities
38: My childhood career choice
39: My favorite ice cream flavor
40: Who I wish I could be
41: Where I want to be right now
42: The last thing I ate
43: Sexiest person that comes to my mind immediately
44: A random fact about anything
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fxckingfabianrp:
“I’d hope not. I’d actually like to keep breathing.” Fabian laughed a little, very much enjoying her touch, not that surprised by the price. “Pretty expensive.” He nodded his head, looking at himself in the mirror. “Yeah that sounds good, we’ll make a day out of it.” Like they were making a day out of this. He enjoyed his time with Jacqueline.
Jacqueline finished wiping his face after washing off the exfoliator. “Now it’s time for the mask. You’re going to leave this on for 10-15 minutes while relaxing. Think you can relax?” she asked jokingly as she began pumping some of the cream onto her fingertips. “Let’s go later, then. Once this mask is done. We can get lunch after too, there’s a new sushi place that opened a few buildings away from Sephora,” she proposed, looking forward to spending her day with Fabian.
cxreynolds:
Cecelia shrugged her shoulders. “Alright, it’s worth a shot. Any help is better than trying to get it done on my own. If we can’t get it, I’ll just hire someone.” She didn’t think it was unmanageable with two people, and she really didn’t want to pay the money to hire someone to come out and move it if she didn’t have to. “Thank you regardless, by the way,” she said with a smile as she picked up the other end of the couch and started to slowly walk towards the back door of her home.
“I know a few budget-friendly movers,” Jacqueline offered. Granted the woman probably didn’t need budget-friendly options, but she figured she’d still offer. Thankful that her yoga pants allowed her some flexibility, Jacqueline grunted as she lifted her end. She was exerting herself, but she could handle it. “Please tell me you don’t live on the first floor,” the blonde pleaded - not that she was going to back out now. “No problem, helping others is always an opportunity to make someone else’s life easier and for me to gain a new acquaintance. Win-win.”
declanflanagan:
“About a month. I feel like I’m gonna say something stupid about being ready for it and jinx it”, Declan laughed. Like with everyone he had dated, he had tried to be understanding that his situation could have been very confusing to Jac, even if he didn’t at all agree. It truly wasn’t confusing at all. “They just pick names they like and then are already attached to them when the baby comes, whether it fits or not. I’m not judging, but it just won’t work for me. I can’t name someone I haven’t even met”, Declan said with a shrug of his shoulders. It still didn’t make sense to him. “And I’ve been getting asked if we’re thinking about names ever since I found out she’s pregnant.”
“I’d love for you to meet her”, he smiled. To be fair, he was gonna be shoving that baby into everyone’s faces. “Just… say if it’s gonna get complicated”, he said, the smile didn’t halter much but he had to get serious for the moment. Her bonfire brawl could be just a rumour because small towns talked, but he had a feeling it wasn’t. “You, uh… you seem to be having enough ex drama and I want none of that.”
“My parents actually named me after Jacqueline Kennedy. My mom had a great amount of admiration for her,” the blonde woman added. Even though her mother was a politician herself, she seemed to have great respect for the former First Ladies of the United States more so than their husbands. “I think it’s just a reflex action to ask that question, I’ve never actually thought about it. But you do make some valid points, I’ll keep it in mind if parenthood ever ends up being in the cards for me.”
Jacqueline shook her head and waved her hand dismissively. “I don’t think it’d be complicated. As long as your family is alright with it, I’m alright with meeting your daughter when she’s born. We’re friends now,” she assured Declan, but her smile faded when he mentioned the brawl. “I had nothing to do with that. I mean, I was in the middle of it but it was between my ex from five years ago and my cousin. They apparently hated each other long before I became part of the equation,” she explained to Declan. “But he and I are no longer involved romantically,” she added quickly, omitting the minor detail of the kiss that the pair shared right before the brawl. She doubted that Declan would think less of her based on a fight that she was not directly involved in, but she still felt the need to clarify that she wanted none of what happened that night.
noah-levinstein:
“Really? I mean it’s not for everyone, it’s..time consuming to say the least. Though I imagine in this day in age, communications related jobs are pretty time consuming as well. Are you in PR or..?” He raised an eyebrow, clearly interested in her background. He nodded along her words and smiled. “I know where that is. I live in New England for a while, had some friends who went to Bryn Mawr College. We’re a long way from that, a lot less rainy and cold though,” he said with a friendly smile. “The romper is a very good choice,” he agreed. “I mean I may be bias but yanno,” he added with a shrug, his smile widening at her question. “I don’t know what I need advice on right now but I’d happily go for some ice cream right now. One of those things I never eat in the middle of the day but I think today is the kind of day to indulge.” He kept his eyes on hers, smiling softly before grabbing his bag and pulling away from the counter so she could pay. “Will you judge me if I go for vanilla though?” He laughed softly as he opened the door to the store for her and followed her out, pulling his sunglasses out of his blazer pocket to slide on.
“PR is correct. I guess I knew that this was my field, seeing as I knew from the very start. I was just trying to do something that’d help me get into law school one day, but I wanted something with more opportunities than pre-law - I guess I made the right call,” she explained. “My mother has a law background, but she ended up going into politics. I guess I just always admired her and wanted to be like her.” Once she had paid for the romper, Jacqueline was more than ready to keep her word and treat Noah to ice cream. “I guess it’d be hypocritical of me to judge, seeing as I usually like vanilla with some sort of mix-in. My go-to flavors are cookies and cream or cookie dough,” she admitted as the pair walked to the nearest ice cream place. “Vanilla is super versatile though, you can basically turn it into a customized order. Mix it in with fruit, candy, chocolate, cookies - you name it. I actually think I’d do that today, order vanilla but mix in whatever my heart desires.”
elencortiz:
It was just a little bit of shopping before going back to the flower shop. She loved shopping, she liked picking out clothes, and although Elena had a very very decided style, she tried to expand her horizons everywhere. She was just in the overalls section when her attention was called for and she turned to face a woman who reminded herself very much of why she didn’t find herself all beautiful. The blonde was supposed to be in a silent movie or something, or billboards featuring her face, because she was beautiful and Elena though that while being entirely sure of her heterosexuality (maybe). She needed to clear her throat to concentrate her efforts on the pieces of clothing she was holding out, apparently needing her opinion. “What’s the occasion? I mean, they are both beautiful, but it depends on where you’re wearing it to.” She asked quickly, thinking that it would definitely be decisive in her opinion.
A beautiful brunette had opted to be Jacqueline’s impromptu fashion consultant, and for that she was grateful. “My friend’s bridal shower, I’m a bridesmaid. Bride wants us to wear blush pink to the shower... and to the wedding. You know how it is,” she explained. Jacqueline wondered if she would be this particular when her time to get married rolled around. “What are you shopping for?” she curiously inquired in return.
Jacqueline did a quick twirl while holding a bunch of black and silver balloons - well, she did it as well as she could without her skirt flying up. It was her company Fifteen Minutes’ fifteenth anniversary of being in business, so naturally the public relations firm needed to do a photoshoot. With a limited budget but also standards to uphold, the most social media-savvy person on the small team was tasked with finding a photographer to do their shoot for an affordable price. She’d found Heath Levinstein through an Instagram search and she managed to convince her team to go with him. His work was top quality and his prices were within their budget.
“How did that one come out?” the blonde woman asked as she handed the bunch of balloons to her coworker and approached Heath. “Thanks again for agreeing to do this, and for being so flexible with time and location,” she added gratefully with a smile.
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fxckingfabianrp:
“Definitely tingling,” Fabian confirmed with a laugh as she rubbed on his face. He tried to keep a straight face for a bit but couldn’t. “I’m sorry, just in between the tingling and the rubbing, I can’t stop laughing.” He did find what she said next interesting though. “Oh, that sounds like a dream actually. My t-zone is so oily sometimes it’s ridiculous.” The laughing stopped and h became way more invested in the situation. How much does one of these sets go for?”
“You’re getting a free facial, and I have a golden touch. Not in the same sense as Midas, though,” Jacqueline joked. “This one would be about $300, but I know Sephora has some for a much lower rate. My rewards are expiring soon, maybe I’ll lend you my Beauty Insider card to buy some,” she offered, “I’ll go too, of course. Never know what you’d come across.”
Cecelia stood in her driveway, hands on hips with a perplexed look on her doll-like features. She felt like an idiot for ordering a new couch with no way of possibly getting it inside all by herself. There wasn’t much to her to begin with, but still she tried several times (all unsuccessfully) to move it. It was fitting for how her day was going so far. First, she got called in for an emergency at work, then she couldn’t get her daughter to nap, and now there was the couch dilemma. As much as she hated asking for help, she knew she had to if she wanted to get the couch in the living room.
As soon as someone walked by, she approached them. “Hey, would you mind doing me a favor? I thought I could get this couch inside by myself, but it turns out I can’t. If you help me out, I’ll buy you food, or a case of beer…or anything really.”
Yoga mat in hand, Jacquline decided to take the long way home today and get her step count up by strolling through The Strand. Maybe one day, I’ll live here, she thought to herself. That was, if she stayed in Hermosa Beach in the long run. She’d been growing homesick for the east coast for a while now.
Jacqueline’s thoughts were interrupted by a woman asking for help. A perplexed look crossed the younger one’s features as she looked at the couch. Resting her yoga mat on the lawn, Jacqueline tried to remember the focusing exercises that she had just done. “I can’t promise that this would be successful, but I can try,” she agreed, crouching down to puck up one end.
peterstewart:
“Trumpet dress just sounds so much uglier. Like if some high end model said ‘Oh, yes, this is a trumpet dress,’ I’d probably start laughing. Mermaid dress is a lot nicer.” Peter nodded, obviously curious when she mentioned originally being from Philly. “So what brought you here? Cause you’re not exactly close to home or anything, Jackie.” He sighed, obviously not seeing the situation in the same light that she did. Obviously he was impartial to Jared’s side of things, but despite that, he didn’t know if she was going about it the right way. “You out of all people should know he rarely means what he says. He didn’t straight up tell you ‘hey cousin of mine, you’re a skanky whore,’ so even if you think that’s what was implied, it really wasn’t.” He shrugged lightly, his view of what happened apparently much simpler than everyone else’s. “He doesn’t. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even know I’m talking to you. I’m just…I don’t know. I have three sisters, and if I fucked up with one of them, I’d appreciate if Jared tried to put in a good word. That’s all it is. He may have said something stupid, but that doesn’t mean he is stupid. He’s grown up enough to understand that. Just talk to him. It’s not gonna be better overnight, but it’ll be a lot better than it is now.”
“I just know the dress styles, I didn’t invent them. Take it up with whoever did,” Jacqueline joked, pausing thoughtfully. “A job did, after college. But another one came after two years and it kept me here. I don’t know what’s coming once I’m ready to move on from this job,” she admitted. Would she return to the east coast? She probably would not return to the Philadelphia area, but maybe to New York or Washington DC like she had initially planned. She knew that she had at least a year left in her current post - she had time to think.
“Then I think it’s about time he began watching his tongue. He’s not a teenager anymore, Peter. We can’t keep looking out for him and then running to his aid when he says something fucked up, even if he didn’t mean it,” the blonde reiterated. What was it with men not understanding just how damning the words were? “I know he didn’t mean it, but he needs to talk to me himself to make things right,” she told Peter firmly. “I appreciate what you’re doing for him, but you can’t fight his battles for him, Peter.”
declanflanagan:
“Ah, weddings”, he said, shaking his head. It was for his personal feelings about weddings and not demanding brides. “Well, you know, you don’t argue with the bride. It’s a good colour on you, at least”, Declan said. It was one of those count your blessings things, everything could be one colour but at least it was one colour she looked good in. “April 14th. So we’re getting there, and I think I’m more nervous than ever. And I’m like a fucking boy scout, always prepared”, he said with a chuckle. He had spent a moment wondering if talking about this was weird for her - he had been once told that dating someone who was having a baby with someone else was weird, and while they weren’t dating anymore, it still could be weird. Jacqueline was sweet and polite, she could be asking just to be sweet and polite.
“No, we aren’t naming her until she’s born. I’ll know when I get her”, Declan said with a nod. He still thought naming a baby before it was born was completely ridiculous, despite that being about the hundredth time he was asked for the name. “I can drop you an invite when she’s born. If you want to come see her.”
Jacqueline understood why Declan may not be super keen on weddings. She had never been married and then divorced, so she had no idea what he felt and should not assume that she did. “April 14, that’s just about a month away,” she remarked. Their situation was complicated: they dated while he was expecting a child with someone else, but it wasn’t your usual cheating situation and that was why Jacqueline was not angry about it. If Declan had been married to or in a relationship with the baby’s mother while he was dating Jacqueline, that would’ve been something else entirely. “You seem really happy, and I’m happy for you,” she told him genuinely, being caught slightly off-guard by his invitation to see the baby. “I... I’d love to,” she replied to Declan. They were probably at the friendly stage at the moment, where Jacqueline coming over to see his daughter wouldn’t be too weird. “Now that you mention it, it is kind of strange that parents know what they’re naming you from the get-go. Like, how do they know? Intuition?”
nora-sawyer:
“What, a pink vibrator?” Nora wiggled her eyebrows. “Sorry but you have to admit one awkward moment would make a bridal shower juicy. –Yeah, I remember Hannah,” she murmured. “We met at a party once. Isn’t it strange? How most people our age are getting married while the marriage is the furthest thing from my mind.” One faint chuckle later, Nora ran her fingers down the pale pink fabric. In that brief moment, Nora wondered if love was enough to make a marriage work. Or did it take a whole lot more? Hm, she’d have to do a survey next time her married friends invited her to a game night with their other married friends. Distracted from her thoughts, she looked up, a bright smile lighting up her features instantly. “Oh, modern adaptations of the classics. It’s fun, you can say she enjoys it very much. Plus, she has a PhD in Drama and Theatre so I trust her. And, of all people, she picked me to show her around and be the first person to read her new play!” A brief pause. After days of keeping the information to herself, she was happy to share it with someone, who truly cared. “Hey Jackie? Thanks for asking, means a lot.”
“And you know who has to deal with the fallout: the bridesmaids,” Jacqueline pointed out with a knowing look, albeit a fond one. She could never actually be tired of Nora’s antics, as they were what made her so endearing and fun to be around. “It’s been on mine,” Jacqueline confessed as she ran her fingers alone the lace detailing of the romper. “Not with anyone in particular, just the fact that I’m happy with my life but I’ve always seen myself getting married. I used to think I’d be married by twenty-five, but clearly that didn’t happen.” Jacqueline listened intently as Nora spoke about the visiting playwright, nodding in approval. “You’ve done your homework I see. You have quite some material to talk to her about,” she commended her friend, her eyes looking sincere as she nodded in response to Nora’s following comment. “Of course, Nora. I’m interested in your life, really. And I know how hard you’ve been working. Us ladies need to look out for each other.”
“If it tingles it’s working,” Fabian said as he applied more exfoliator to his face. “That’s what they usually say right? I don’t know.” He enjoyed times like this with his friends. Unconventional hangouts made the best memories in his opinion.
“Yes, that’s correct. Is it tingling yet?” Jacqueline asked her friend as she massaged his face some more. She’d gotten this skincare set as a prize in a work-related event and was all too happy to share it with Fabian. “It’s an entire regimen. It’s worked well for me, now my pores are less clogged and my T-zone is less oily.”
noah-levinstein:
“I wouldn’t say a lot,” he said with a soft laugh, a blush creeping up his neck and onto his cheeks. “But I definitely wasn’t the most popular. So it’s gonna be interesting seeing them all now. Ah right right, I keep forgetting i’m old,” he joked with a smile in her direction. “I went to high school here actually, I’m from Hermosa Beach originally. Mira Costa High School, so I’ve seen a few people I went to high school around town but there are some I havent seen since graduation. So it’s bound to be something.” He shrugged as he started to bring the ties to the counter. “Nothing like a good trip down memory lane to give you perspective, yanno? Where on the east coast are you from?”
“I wanted to be a lawyer up until the end of my freshman year in college. Then something told me that I would enjoy a communications-related discipline more. I think that a lot of people I went to school with would be surprised that, after eight years, I went down a totally different path,” she said with a shrug. She didn’t regret where she had ended up, despite it being a lot less lucrative than the legal profession would have been. It was better to love what you did than hate it but rely on it for income. “I’m from Philadelphia originally. Well, from Bryn Mawr, which was a half-hour drive away from Philly on a good day,” Jacqueline replied kindly. “I think I’m going to buy the romper, actually. Thanks for influencing my decision, Noah. Anyway I can repay you? Perhaps offering some advice of my own, or treating you to coffee or ice cream.”
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“Express, Charlotte Russe - it’s cute and affordable, don’t judge - Betsey Johnson, Adidas.”
