things are sweeter when they're lost

"I’m not going to be the girl you marry; I’ll be the girl you’ll be thinking of 20 years from now while you engage in polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline." Layla Matin. 23. Fury.

[tsarchived-deactivated20150713]

Terra shookher head, “I am not surprised.” She did not continue the thought out loud,however. Usually people met her with disbelief when Terra confessed that she was not fond of movies, especially those movies that everybody seemed to love. “What made you dislike this one in particular?"

[layla-matin-blog]

“It was just bad.” Layla said, and usually she was more expressive than that, but bad was already so concise. It paralleled how horribly low-effort the movie was, and as she strained her head for words, she wrinkled her nose. “The acting was horrible. The plot was horrible. There was nothing redeeming about it all,” she said. “I’ve watched film projects made by middle school children better than it. I’ll probably binge on golden age films tonight to get the nasty taste out of my mouth. Head. Whatever.”

[sorrowssinclair-blog]

“I know a lot of people who’ve seen it, but I think it’s like a horror movie.  People only want to see it for the shock value, to see what’s so bad about it.”  She didn’t say anything else, Lola knew it would make her hips ache, and not because it was sexy.  It was the prospect of what it was, a feeling she wasn’t used to anymore.  She shoved her hands into her pockets, fingers spread wide inside them.  “Yeah, Kingsman, it’s apparently based off a comic, but I don’t think that matters.  The main guy was really cute, too.”

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla nodded. That was why she had watched it. She came in knowing nothing about the movie or the book, only about how bad it was. “Really cute?” She asked, smirking. “What a shame, then. I don’t really know what to do now. I sort of want to forget about the movie, but I don’t want to go back to campus.” 

[mr-rowan-steele]

  “Yeah—I mean itlooked even better than the last movie and that came out what, ten years ago?” he said on impulse, saying the first thing that came to his mind to ground himself in the conversation. Vivid images of middle school flashed before Rowan’s eyes—and he visibly cringed thinking about the inexcusable awkward social circumstances that haunted him in his younger years. How distant 2004 seemed.

  “I, uh, saw it by myself,” he admitted. He didn’t think of it as such a forlorn occasion, but no one else he knew wanted to go see it with him. “It was a matinee showing… last week. Nobody was in the theater.”

[layla-matin-blog]

“I don’t think I watched that one, either.” Layla said. She hadn’t. Ten years ago she was 13, and although her snobbishness, especially against cartoons, had relaxed as she had gotten older, she knew she wouldn’t have watched it, and she knew she wouldn’t have watched the new one now without some sort of catalyst. It wasn’t at all surprising that the theater was empty. “If you found it good, and you had fun, I’m not judging you at all. I don’t really watch movies with people, either. I like watching movies alone. Is that strange?”

[furynyx]

"Course it wouldn’t surprise you." Nyx said with a roll of hr eyes. Furies were egocentric beings by nature so she’d learned how to let go of everyone she surrounded herself with constantly selling themselves. Bella climbed to new heights when it came to being obsessed with oneself and everyone else came off as saints in comparison. "Female, a little taller than me. The usual." Nyx didn’t even necessarily want someone to go home with that night. All she really wanted was someone to make sure she always had a drink in hand and a little distraction until she passed out. 

[layla-matin-blog]

"What?" Layla said, jutting out a little pout. "Are you saying I'm not pretty? Because I'll have your head for that, you know it." She said, grinning and then returning to focusing on her phone. "Mhm, noted, I'll tell you if I find anybody." She said, glanced at Nyx once, and then out of the window again, her face expressionless. "I'm going to get spectacularly smashed."

[deathly-dee]

  With that, Dee became engrossed thinking about the sparkling, chaotic nightmare that would descend on her house if she told anyone. Well, if Layla found out she ever told anyone. Wasn’t that the key point? She’d keep her mouth shut around Nyx, but if it came up, well, what could she say? It was all she could think about in the silence to the dorms, and just in the haphazard nature she came across Layla, she left her—at the front door of her dorm. It was a curt goodbye, and Dee was off to the soccer field, soccer ball in hand.

   The furies would always be a mystifying, enigmatic group of girls to Dee.

[thelittle-raearchived-blog--blog]

Looking at her, she wrinkled her nose lightly. She was confused, Layla wasn’t the talkative type…or at least Ariel didn’t think so. “It was okay.” she shrugged “I don’t know much about movies…but uhm it was fine.” taking a look at the phone, she thought if it would be too rude to ask if the person on the other line had hang up on her. It seemed something that would bother anyone, but not Layla apparently. “Uhm, why didn’t you like it?” internally wondering why the girl was talking to her, she didn’t mind it…but it was definitely odd.

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla smirked at the girl's discomfort. She hadn't intentionally meant to put her at unease, but now that she had, it was almost amusing. "Ah, specifics. I can't remember. I've put it away from my mind already." She said, tilting her head, tucking her hair into her ear. "Don't worry, I'm still not going to bite."

[kellerallison]

Fifty Shades of Grey; A book read by many, loved by many and jerked off to by many. Fleur, however, didn’t even waste her time with the shit show representation of BDSM until now. She just couldn’t help herself. Especially with the delicious cast. Though like most things in life— it was a disappointment and she could honestly agree with the woman who spoke to her. She had sat three rows in front of her and the demon enjoyed watching her reactions during the film. “I can’t say anything good about it except for how attractive the leads were— so you tell me.”

[layla-matin-blog]

"Mhm, I'm not sure I can say much different," Layla said, wrinkling her nose. "It was a complete waste of time, mostly. I'm not sure their attractiveness was even worth it. Really, Christ, I'm not sure that any of it is worth even wasting time thinking about now. But I just have to talk about how awful it is. I never usually watch movies with anyone, so, I hope you don't mind."

[camillasloane-deactivated201503]

"I think I need a drink," Camilla groaned a little, and then laughed, recalling one of the more questionable scenes in the monstrosity they’d just witnessed. "I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie use a fake baby.” 

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla grinned. "I do, too." She said, and then wrinkled her nose at the memory. "Christ, yes. I was cringing so much at those parts. Actually, I legitimately want a drink now, oh my god. Will you judge me if I chose to drink so early in the day?"

[tsarchived-deactivated20150713]

SinceChristmas Terra shuddered at even the mention of Spongebob. Coincidentally the remark came from the very girl she shared this distaste with a couple of weeks earlier. She shook her head eagerly, “No, nothing can get me to watch Spongebob,” Terra promised. Ira had tried to convince her – one more episode, please, T! – but she would not have it. The movie she had just watched, however, was not any more educating that the burger-burning sponge. “I am not generally fond of movies,” Terra admitted finally, “But I had high expectations for this one. Needless to say, I won’t be going to the movies again for a while.”

[layla-matin-blog]

The woman's response made Layla smirk. She recognized her face in an instant, but it took her a moment to remember why she couldn't put a name to it. "What a shame," she said. "I love movies. I'm sad that it put you off, but at the same time, I can't really blame you."

[deathly-dee]

   Dee considered it with a disconcerted groan—she’d just cleaned up her place for the first time since she moved in. It may as well be psychological torture to see glittering specks everywhere no matter what you did to clean it all up, and Dee didn’t doubt Layla’s capacity to dump buckets of glitter all over her apartment. “Where the hell would you get glitter anyway?” Dee asked incredulously. 

   Thinking about it—of course they’d take a left, because all of the furies lived in Flannery O’Connor Court. Dee felt stupid for not realizing it earlier, so she kept her mouth shut with her jaw clenched. 

[layla-matin-blog]

"I keep my sources a secret." Layla said. She had no idea. It was probably sold on the internet by the pound, or something. She'd figure it out, if it ever came to that. When they took the left, she could almost see her dorm in the distance. Just a little bit more. And then she could take a bath and forget about the past several hours. She didn't have anything more to say, and hoped Dee wouldn't comment on the silence.

[mr-rowan-steele]

   Rowan’s eyes darted away to avoid looking at the woman next to him—it was rude to stare when someone was on the phone. The following silence was awkward, and Rowan wasn’t sure if the woman had addressed him or not, and he’d hate to start talking and find he wasn’t the person she was talking to in the first place. Gingerly turning his head, he coughed and focused on the woman “Were you—uh—talking to me?” he asked. 

   ”… The Spongebob movie was good,” he murmured under his breath, shifting around so maybe the woman couldn’t hear him if it turned out she wasn’t talking to him. 

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla couldn't help but smirk at the man's uncertainty. It could have been annoying, but he somehow managed to pull it off as cute. She tilted her head a little, nodding after he murmured under his breath. "Was it, then?" She said. "Were you watching it with anybody?"

[sorrowssinclair-blog]

“What did you see?  That… I don’t even know what to call it, 50 Shades of Grey?”  Lola ignored the beeping of the phone, a chime that used to alert to texts, talking through it on account of the girl doing the same thing.  Layla, if she remembered correctly.  “The one I saw was really good, really weird.  And Colin Firth was really good in it, so yeah.  It wasn’t a waste of a ten.”

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla snorted. "Yeah. That one. I can't believe I even considered it, looking back." She said, touching her phone on instinct, before realizing it was the other girl's. "Oh, really? I should have watched that instead, then. Was that, what was it called... Kingsman?"

[furynyx]

"Are you kidding me?" Nyx asked as she looked over at the girl. "So I pay for the taxi and you won’t even come home with me? I don’t think that’s very fair." The shorter girl said while trying to feign seriousness before breaking out into a smirk. "I won’t pretend I’m not utterly heartbroken, but if you leave with someone that means you’ve gotta find me someone pretty too."

[layla-matin-blog]

Layla smirked, pulling her phone out of her pocket and opening the front camera. "I mean, I guess I could try. No promises, though. Unless you want to come home with me, which wouldn't surprise me. I'm amazing." She said, taking a few pictures of herself. "Any preferences? Gender or otherwise?"

[chalkboardnails]

[layla-matin-blog]

"It was horrible," Layla said. "I would have had a better time watching the new Spongebob--" And then there was a beeping sound on the other side of the line. She glanced at her phone, and then put it down. A little frown crossed her expression, but without pause, broke the sudden silence by addressing the person beside her. "How did you find the movie?" 

[belladuponts]

Had they been talking about another topic along with Layla’s current state in graduating, Bella wouldn’t have pressed Layla. She knew better than to. However, her silence put the fury in a rather funny state. If she let it go, Bella ran the risk of looking awkward. On the other hand, Layla and Bella had an unspoken agreement that was rarely broken. So, given her two options, Bella chose the lesser of two evils. “Layla, I asked you a question. It’s rude to ignore me.”

[layla-matin-blog]

"I'm a very rude person." Layla said, looking to the side. After a moment of terseness, she shrugged. "I did answer you. It's going well. I'm, unsurprisingly, doing well in all of my classes. I'll graduate with flying colors. I just don't know what I'll do afterwards." She said, taking a moment to pause, surprised at her own willingness to offer information. Well, she had started already. It would only annoy Bella if she let herself be vague. "Graduate school's an option, maybe, but I still don't know. Work, very much, is the most obvious one for me. I just don't know where." 

[furynyx]

"Remind me to stay around other people when I’m low on funds." Nyx said with a roll of her eyes. She didn’t mind paying, the Anti Hero was always good to her money wise. There was something about being a fury that made her want to be presentable at all times; just in case something came up. And she lived with Aurora so that meant she had a daily hair, make up and clothes check. Nyx spotted a passing cab and hailed it for the both of them. "You tell him where we’re going and I’ll get my quarters together."

[layla-matin-blog]

The only response that Layla deigned to give Nyx was a smirk. They entered the cab, Layla sitting close to the window, giving it a glance before looking at Nyx again. "If I don't come home with you, don't feel offended, yes?"