dreaming with your eyes wide open

𝓵𝔂𝓼𝓼𝓪 𝓵𝓾𝓶𝓸𝓼. castle kid. daughter of lumiere and fifi. twin to lana. younger sister of leverett. friend to a thousand voices inside my head. enemy to all those who are afraid to dream. eighteen years young. walt high senior. daydreamer. storyteller. destined to live forever in the pages of a book. the girl behind the scenes. fencing team. yearbook committee. school newspaper editor-in-chief. timpani player. astronomy club. 𝔀𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓮'𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮.

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TEXT ✉️ LEXSA

Lexi: TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TELL THEM WITHOUT THEM DIVORCING ME

Lexi: Of course it was! I don't go around just making out with people! We were fighting and I was drinking and it was a bad combo!!!!!!

Lexi: I'M NOT PERFECT OKAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON

Lyssa: Oh, so you do still love them? Phew, you had me scared for a minute there!

Lyssa: I didn't even know you liked other girls at all, much less enough to kiss them!

Lyssa: I KNOW YOU'RE NOT PERFECT BUT I THOUGHT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WAS! I've been holding you guys up as #GOALS!

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TEXT ✉️ LACY

Stacy: Depends on the holiday? Halloween candy is always better. Valentine's Day? Not so much. The chocolate is always dry for some reason.

Lyssa: Huh, I can't say I've ever noticed that. Do you buy different brands than you'd normally get for Valetine's Day? Is your heart all dried up and love hating and that creates a placebo for your mouth? Or does the heart shape just throw off the ratio too much?

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TEXT ✉️ LYSSIO

Gio: Well that's just rude. That entirely depends on the holiday! I feel like Halloween and Easter candy have always tasted a little bit better to me? I mean peeps are the quintessential Easter treat, and they just taste all the better for it. Same with fun sized candy bars around Halloween. Plus a lot of wrappers are going glow in the dark for the spookiest day of the year, and that's fun.

Lyssa: You know they sell fun-sized candy bars the rest of the year long, right? Do they taste better because their wrappers are orange and black and have ghosts on them or do you just not utilize them when it's not a special occasion?

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TEXT ✉️ KESSA

Kettle: Easter egg shaped Reese's taste like a peanut butter punishment, so I'm pretty firmly in the "worse" camp.

Lyssa: I was JUST saying the same kind of thing to Rosalie! Although do you mean the big ones, or the ones they sell in fake little milk cartons that you pour out and have harder-than-usual shells that are more like an M&M?

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TEXT ✉️ Lyssalie

Rosalie: I am not sure if it actually tastes /better/, but I find myself liking the filling to outer layer ratio more with holiday-shaped candy.

Lyssa: Interesting. Is there a specific candy you feel that way about? Because for instance, I actually think holiday Reeses have an overwhelming amount of peanut butter compared to chocolate.

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TEXT ✉️ JYSSA

Jo: Um, logically? Probably not. They probably taste the exact same, but it could also have like -- idk a placebo effect where just because it's holiday shaped people tend to think that it tastes differently than it actually does!

Lyssa: Interesting. Do you think you eat enough of it to weigh in on if this placebo effect gets to you or not? Because now I'm really curious to see if people think that candy tastes better at their favorite holiday than it tastes at other holidays.

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TEXT ✉️ OPEN

Lyssa: So... the newspaper's back to assigning me filler pieces again, which means it would be a huge help if you guys could answer this week's 'important question' for me: does candy taste better, worse, or the same when it's holiday-shaped?

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TEXT | TOSSA

Tommy: Okay. How do I say this lightly.

Tommy: Romi & Juliet is the worst thing I've ever had the misfortune of seeing, and I don't know how to properly express that without offending anyone since half the town was in the show.

Lyssa: ugh, YOU don't want to offend anyone? I'm supposed to be writing an honest review about it for the newspaper - it's my first big college assignment and I'm struggling SO hard to find anything good to say about anyone who isn't Albie!

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TWITTER | LYBIE

@aforalbie: Opening night!!! I'm so stoked!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 #Romi&Juliet #MercutioRocks

@lyssalumos: #MercutioRocks because #AlbieRocks, obviously! You managed to do the best job possible with the material you were given!

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TEXT ✉️ LEXSA

Lexi: I'M WORKING THROUGH IT, OKAY.

Lyssa: WORKING THROUGH IT HOW???

Lyssa: WAS THAT THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENED? WHY DID IT HAPPEN? ARE YOU AND GIO SPLITTING UP??? WHAT'S HAPPENING?

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TEXT ✉️ LEXSA

Lyssa: So... am I just supposed to forget about what I saw at the ball, or are you ever going to talk to me about it?

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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

– Martin Luther King

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teeganpotts‌:

Contrary to popular belief, but I actually really hate tea. There. I said it.  I know, I’m going to hell. 

You’re not going to hell, silly! Hating tea is a preference, not a crime. But if you’re really worried about it, I’ll be sure to drink lots of extra tea in your honor.

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TEXT 🆘 LYSSAINE

Laine: hahahaha I mean, Melody Triton is like, their leader, and she got paired with her ex apparently. Maybe she's not as sweet as she seems and totally rigged it.

Lyssa: I mean, that depends on if she wants the ex back or not! If things are awkward between them it could have been her co-members deciding to play a cruel prank on her as payback for... not having the control they want over the situation? I'm not sure what they have to gain but it could be something!

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thomasdee‌:

Tommy cocked a brow. “Never considered it being that kind of corrupt. Personal experience or just a theory?” He chuckled, interested to hear what Lyssa had to say. “No, I only did it my Freshman year of high school and my date was fine, I’ve just never been one for Valentine’s Day in the first place. Something about the ‘magic’ and ‘romance’ doesn’t resonate with me. Never has. Maybe I’m just more of an organic everyday kind of love guy…Or maybe I’m not a ‘love guy’ at all. Sorry, now I went on a tangent.” 

“Personal experience,” Lyssa admitted, not seeing much point to masking it. The past was the past, after all; she wasn’t the one who needed to be embarrassed by it, the people who had played games with her results were. “And yet, you’re here anyway... Just looking for a good time, or maybe hoping that people who wind up on their own might be looking for ‘organic love’ of their own?” she asked with the tiniest of smirks. She was curious about why he’d think he wasn’t a love guy at all, when his earlier words seemed so contrary to that, but she knew she had a bad habit of asking a million questions at once and losing out on answers in the middle because of it.

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thomasdee‌:

“You know, the probability of actually getting matched with your ‘most perfect’ match is pretty low, considering how there’s only what – three, four questions on the survey? Chances are, they match 100% matches first and then just toss randoms together with a fake percentage. I don’t trust it, and that’s why I didn’t enter.” 

“You’re smart not to trust it, one or two bad eggs on the committee can totally ruin the entire thing,” Lyssa said. It wasn’t worth dwelling on last year when things had obviously changed for her so much for the better since then, but she had to admit, her romanticism and faith in the system were still shaken. “It’s much better to just ask the person you like than to hope that you’re going to find out you’re ‘soulmates’ or something. Only you get to decide that, it’s not the universe’s doing after all. But sorry -- total tangent! Have you had a bad experience with it in the past or something?” she asked curiously. Maybe she should have been doing a newspaper article about this kind of thing; she hoped that whatever Thomas was about to tell her was going to be fascinating.