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Nicole Reynolds, 22, aspiring author.

[nicolerxynolds]

dylcnm:

“hi, friend!! happy bonfire!! — i was talking to my kiddo last night about how e x c i t e d i was for today, and he demanded that we go to the shop and made flower crowns for e v e r y o n e !! so, we did it!!“ dylan exclaimed, opening up her hemp-made backpack that was hidden in the shade, to pull out one of each type of flower crown. “ take your pick, lovie!! “

“The voice filled with enthusiasm took Nicole by surprise but as she saw what the girl who the voice belonged to was holding, she felt her own excitement build up. “It makes sense to me now why you are the florist for the wedding.” She picked up the flower crown with her favorite colors in it and put it on right away. “Please tell your kid that I said thank you. What’s his name?”

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suzythepark:

Suzy was having fun so far, with her soda on her hand she sat down with a bright smile. The sand was hot and it felt nice in her legs that were wet from playing in the water. She grinned before speaking to the person next to him.  “Are we going to roast marshmallows in the night? Because I remember doing that when I was a kid!”

Nicole went to this party as support but she made a promise that she won’t consume too much alcohol. Not that she ever did drink. She just wanted to make sure that no one will influence her into doing so until she got drunk. As she seating by the bonfire, she was happy to see that she was not the only one still sober. “It’s the only reason why I cam to this.”, she said with a  soft laugh.

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edwxldorf:

Ed was outside a local the Cafe, with his guitar resting on his leg while is fingers moved showing his skill, before he looked up and smiled at someone who was passing by and stopped “I accept requests” he joked.

Nicole stepped out of the cafe with her usual drink in his hand when her attention was caught by someone playing his guitar. She decided to watch him play and once he stopped, she was surprised he spoke to her. “I don’t think you know the song I would like you to sing.”

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kodylm:

“Honestly,It’s almost ten at night and I just woke up from my name. Man it’s gonna be a long night. Anyways,How’s the night going for you?”

“Well, good evening to you then. Or should I say good morning because you just woke up? I am not sure.” Stop talking, Nicole. “Well, it’s been quite boring and I’m just looking for something to do.”

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c-lairewright:

Well I can’t say I ever though I’d see myself back here, but I have to admit I missed this place. 

“That seems to be the case for a number of people here. There really must be something about Santa Monica that is special. Where did you come from?”

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Closure, or A Fresh Start?

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charlie--bennett:

He was afraid of the questions and soon his fears would be confirmed. Charlie didn’t want to be forced to relive their breakup. Or their relationship, for that matter. It was good – maybe the best time of his life. It was because of Nicole that Charlie pursued photography. So much about him changed when he met her, but not enough. He nodded at her statement, though he knew he would still answer. He felt guilty, like he owed her an explanation.

The first question stunned him into silence. He thought for a while about the best way to phrase it. Her eyes felt like they were burning through him and he was too ashamed to look at her. “Well, we were long distance,” he began, though he paused. Distance wasn’t the reason. It was a factor, sure, but they could have done it. “You knew about the alcohol, but it was worse than I let on. I wasn’t going anywhere, Nic. I was a functioning alcoholic working for my dad. You deserve better than that, and then when you left I guess it got worse. I didn’t want you to throw your life away on a helpless case.” He said all of this in a rush of emotion. It still hurt, but it was his truth. “I’m sorry about the way it happened.” He remembered it often, how he had gotten drunk and broken up with her.

There was no way this would end well. At least, that is what Nicole believed. She doubted that she will get the closure she needs from him, but she was still going to give this a shot. Besides, closure is not what she need from him. What she needed were answers to the questions he never gave her a chance to ask. Maybe, once she will hear his answers, she will finally be able to move on. She did not want to because Charlie is her person but there was a need for her to. Otherwise, she will never get better.

As she waited for him to speak up, she could feel her heart beating really fast. If only he looked into her eyes the same way she looked into his, she would feel less scared. However, he didn’t and that made listening to his answer more difficult to do. Once he finished speaking, that is when she spoke up. “I can tell by the way that you paused that you believe that we could have survived being apart.” Her voice was shaking as she spoke, and she decided to take a breath before going on. Nic. That nickname of his for her made her smile, though. “You believed that you weren’t going anywhere but I believed it otherwise. Look where you are now! You are a successful  photographer. I was never going to throw my life away on a helpless case because you are the opposite of that.” The tears were forming in her eyes then. It finally fell once he apologized. “It’s okay. It didn’t make me stop loving you.” Oops.

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charlie--bennett:

He chuckled, humorlessly. She was even still making excuses for him, as if she didn’t see all of the terrible things he was. “You and I both know you’re being too generous.” He shook his head, “It’s okay to be mad. I wish you were mad. It would make me feel better.” Charlie was speaking honestly now. He was immediately interested when she said she wrote articles about love. He wondered if any were about him… or perhaps any other guys in her life. He decided not to push it. “How do you know Oliver?”

For Nicole, Charlie’s laugh did not make her feel better. It sounded like was he was trying to make fun of the situation, after all. And that was never a good thing to do for her. “I don’t think there is something wrong with being that way.”, she admitted. “I was never mad at you. I was really hurt but if breaking up with me is what you wanted to do, why would I get angry?” She didn’t expect this much honesty from him and she did not expect her to reciprocate it. Still, she liked that it was all out there now. “His parents are friends with mine. What about you?”

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coveredinpaintbalo:

“I happen to be an artist - so it works for me. I do admit it doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s okay. Everyone can make their own choice on the matter, and that’s a good thing.” Balo says softly, “It was nice meeting you, if we ever meet again, I hope it’s not a literal bump in.”

“You have a reason to keep your head in the clouds then but when the time comes that you have to focus on reality, I hope it won’t be difficult for you. As a magazine writer, that won’t work for me but I do like having my head in the clouds as well. It keeps me hopeful.”, Nicole admitted. “Santa Monica is a small place so I feel like this will happen again.”

[rpmemesandmusings]

SEND “BEEP” FOR A RANDOM TEXT FROM MY MUSE.

I’ll randomly generate a number between 1-29 for one of the following:

A funny text

A sad text

A scared text

A late night text

An excited text

A taunting text

An angry text

A frustrated text

A concerned text

A loving text

A confession via text

An accidental text

A wrong number text

A text that wasn’t sent

A text for help

A helpful text

A comforting text

A drunk text

A bad idea text

A rude text

A long text

A one word text

A text asking for advice

A final text

A flirty text

A hyper text

A weird text

A sarcastic text

A heartbreaking text

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Closure, or A Fresh Start?

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charlie--bennett:

Charlie would have never agreed to this if it wasn’t for Nicole and the guilt he carried around regarding her. He was sure that breaking up with her was the right thing because really, she deserved so much better than him. But the way he broke up with her was terrible. Charlie had agreed to help her with her work project in a split second, and only now was he considering that it would bring up their past. This was going to hurt.

 He glanced around the room and then, finally, looked at Nicole. She looked just as nervous as he felt. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, he thought. What kind of questions are they going to ask? The instructions said this was a way to get “closure.” What does that even mean? Maybe he could finally be honest with Nicole and tell her all of the reasons why he knew they should break up. Maybe she’d appreciate it. Although, maybe she was already over him and was just doing this for work – that might have been Charlie’s biggest fear. Of course, he wanted her to move on but a part of him hoped she still cared. He forced a smile onto his face and nodded, “Yeah, sure. I mean, we’re already here, so we might as well.”

When Nicole asked him to do this for her, she did not expect him to say yes to it. What expected from his was to laugh at her for her request and say no straight to her face. That said, when he said yes to her request, she was surprised in a good way. It made her wonder if he still cared or maybe still loved her the same way she loved him and she secretly hoped that through this project, she would find that out and not painful things from their past. Deep down though, she knew she would find both out.

Once his eyes were on her, she tried her best to show him a smile. Despite this being her idea, she was not asked about to review the questions that were prepared for them. She knew that was best because if she did review them, she would reject a lot in order to avoid the pain that his answer to it will give to her. Her nervousness was leveling up then because she knew that in just a few moments, she would hear his truth and she was unsure if she was ready for that. She loves him still, after all. “Just know that if there are any questions that you are not comfortable answering, don’t answer.” She picked up a question right then and took a deep breath before reading it out loud. “Why did you break up with me?”

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alcxiss:

alexis had just returned home from her one month ’business trip’ in boston with her pockets thousands heavier. she was never happier to ditch the pixie cut wig and would be thrilled to never hear the name ’trina vanburen’ again. however, walking down the familiar roads, her pointed red stilettos came toe to edge upon an abandoned wallet. picking it up, she rummaged through it, about to pocket the roughly two-hundred dollars in cash before she felt a presence. without looking up, her eyes basically rolled out of her head— “geez, you’d think there’d be some kinda identification in here?? how do we return it to the owner??“ an innocent voice played on her lips, sliding the counted out money back into the wallet.

Walking down the streets of Santa Monica gave Nicole the feeling of safety and comfort that she has not felt in a long time. Maybe it was because she lost the one person who made her feel that way, or maybe it was because she spent so much time away from home. Either way, she was grateful to get the chance to be back. She was so lost in the clouds that it took her a while to realize that her wallet was not in her bag anymore. She must have dropped it and as she made her way back to where she was earlier, she saw a familiar blonde with her wallet in her hands. She approached the girl with a smile, hoping that everything she had in her wallet was not stolen by someone else. “I thought I put an ID of mine there. If I remember correctly, I placed it right between the two bills.” She pointed at what she was referring to and there it was, sandwiched between two 20 dollar bills. “Hi, I’m Nicole and I own that wallet.”

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Closure, or A Fresh Start?

Last week, at work, Nicole pitched an idea for their magazine, which was to ask different couples to sit in a room together and would have a conversation in which they would be asking each other questions they always wanted to ask but were too scared to. Those conversations would be recorded and she will be writing an article about each conversation. It was a such a good  that everyone, including her boss, loved it. Not bad for her first time, right? She thought so too until her boss pretty much required her to be the guinea pig for her idea. She remember his exact words. “You have an ex-boyfriend, don’t you? Why don’t you two do it first and we can see how it goes?” She was unable to say no, obviously. It made her grateful that Charlie did not say no to her request of doing it with her.

So there she and Charlie were, sitting in a room with a video camera pointed at them and a table with questions on top of it. As they were being given the instructions, she could feel her heart beating fast. What on earth was she thinking, she thought. She decided to try and hide her nervousness by listening to the instructions. “So there are questions on the table in front of you and the two of you will be asking each other those questions. You can choose not to answer but we prefer if you would do. Also, please be honest throughout this conversation. Think of it as a way for you two to get closure. I’ll leave you two to it.” The person who gave the instructions left then and it took Nicole a long time to finally speak up. When she found the courage to, all she could say was “Are you sure you are okay with this?”

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starstruck-raphael:

“As to you,” he added almost forgetting her name, “Nicole.” How could Rafe have almost forgotten her name? He always remembered names but maybe today wasn’t his lucky day. He repeated to himself mentally not to ask many question or else she’d feel pressured.

“For me being a lifeguard has been a ride. I saved a few kids from drowning and on breaks I swam around for a bit doing laps with others. Probably not as exciting as pool lifeguards though.” he said. “There was this one kid who his parent though that they lost but it turns out that he was watching the dogs at the dog beach. Spent the entire day looking for him.” Saying that the beach wasn’t eventful was a lie, it is always more dangerous at the beach.

“That’s my name.” It made Nicole wonder what was going on in his head because as she said his name, there was something to it that she could not figure out. Is there even a proper way to ask what a person was thinking? She does not know and she wished that she could find out. As he answered her questions, she snapped out of her thoughts. “You sound like a modern day hero. On behalf of all those kids you saved and will save, thank you. It sounds to make like your job has its perks, too. I would do anything to get the chance to swim in these waters whenever I want.” As she said that, she realized that she did miss Santa Monica. What if she never left? Would things have been better for her or would it have been worse? “Part of me feels like I would get along with that kid. I can imagine how happy his parents must have felt when you found him.”

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coveredinpaintbalo:

“Of course, but isn’t that the wonder of it? The clouds are full of possibilities - you’re much more limited on the ground.” Balo could tell she didn’t agree with her, and that was fine, everyone had things they believed in and things they didn’t. “Sometimes when my mind wanders, it gives me ideas for my paintings.” She nods, “I understand. I hope you have a good day!” She smiles, giving the woman a quick wave.

“I get where you are coming from but the clouds just provide people with an illusion. The possibilities it has may not be realistic and once that is realized, more things can be done.” This is why Nicole did not open her mouth when she was around people. She often forgets to stop talking when she should. She did appreciate that the girl in front of her just let her be. “If we are talking about it for someone in the field of art, it works.” She shrugged. “Thank you. I hope you have one as well.” 

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coveredinpaintbalo:

“Sometimes it’s nice to keep your head in the clouds though, there’s so much up there, it’s a world of open possibilities.”  Balo defends, “although, I have to admit, it’s not the best thing to do while walking. I should work on my timing a little more.” She smiles, “I’m sorry again, though, and sorry for rambling too.”

“It is but you should remember that what happens when your head is in the clouds may not happen once it is back on land. Some people forget that.” A sigh escaped Nicole’s lips, but she shrugged it off. Seeing the blonde’s smile, she returned it. “I understand so don’t worry about it. I- uh, I should go.”

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starstruck-raphael:

“Either one is fine with me, Rafe is shorter so you could use that.” he replied. He felt somewhat bad, he just saw her after how many months and decided to throw billions of questions at her. Oh well, whats done is done. she did seem very ready though.

“Sounds pretty interesting, I myself haven’t really gotten to travel a lot. I did get a job as a beach lifeguard here and I took off today just to stroll down and actually enjoy the scenery.” Rafe answered. “Compared to what you did it does seem a bit boring but staying home does have its perks.

“Rafe it is, then. Hello, Rafe. It is nice to see you again.”, Nicole greeted him with the best smile she can show. Where was she getting the courage to talk to someone not close to her? She did not know either but she appreciated the anonymous source. "It is the most interesting and most fun thing I did in my life, to be honest. Europe is a beautiful place. Enough about me." She paused and thought of questions for him. "How is your job as a lifeguard? I hope it hasn't been dangerous or anything. If there is one thing I know, it is that everyone deserves a break." She raised her eyebrow at him. "It definitely does. Having a chance to stay with your loved ones is one of those."

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charlie--bennett:

Charlie sighed, “Nicole, I was an ass to you. I know that. You don’t have to treat me well.” He couldn’t feel anything but guilt – why was she being so sweet after what he’d done? Part of him wanted to know how she could possibly still be pleasant, but he didn’t think he deserved it. “That’s awesome, what did you publish?” he figured this topic was safer than the other. “Oh? Bride or groom?”

“Doing one bad thing to me doesn’t make you an ass, even if it was the most painful thing I experienced. Every good thing you did for me makes you deserve to still be treated will.” If Nicole was being honest, there was another reason why she still treated him nicely but she decided to keep that to herself. “Just a number of articles about love.” She rubbed the back of her ear then, which is something she did whenever she felt awkward.  “Groom.”