SO JAMESON MENTIONED THAT FAMILIAR VOICE AGAIN AND HE SAID "somehow familiar" so he didn't actually recognize the voice and I'm thinking hannah's voice is probably really similar to avery's😭😭😭
a/n: damn no please no nothing, I see how it is 😔. jk, I take a break from hiatus because you requested 🫶 hope u like
‼️ this is set in an au where Grandest Game does not happen. Gray meets Lyra while buying limes when they're both in college and end up together. It gets leaked that the Hawthorne Heir is dating and Keith tells Gray to either marry Lyra or leave bcz he thinks he's not serious so they're married here but still in college (seniors)
♡ Lyra's roommate was moving back to Italy. Only one problem - her cat. The cat was attached to Lyra 24/7, even sneaked out a few times into her classes. Her friend eventually decided to leave the cat with Lyra seeing her attachment
♡ Another problem - Lyra had late ballet classes apart from her college classes some nights. She didn't want to leave the cat alone in the apartment all day so she asked Gray to cat-sit somedays
♡ It became an arrangement of sorts. Gray would pick up Cara in the middle of the week and drop her off before weekend
♡ They looked like a couple co-parenting to an outsider
"Did you book her grooming appointment ?"
"For Thursday, yes"
"Evening?"
"Yes. I restocked her treats and food in both apartments too"
"ugh, I'm so jealous you'll be getting snuggles and I won't"
"Highly doubt it sweetheart. You're welcome to snuggle in her place instead though"
♡ Gray was supportive. Gray was attentive. He was a great partner but that didn't matter with the situation he had on his hands right now
♡ Cara did not like Gray. Whether it was his place or his cologne or lack of Lyra, he didn't understand why the cat didn't like him
♡ He bought Cara seven different types of treats but she wasn't interested. He would fill up her bowl with fresh water and food but she wouldn't eat till he left the kitchen
♡ He stayed in the other room, watching different videos on YouTube to see how to form a connection with Cara but it never worked
♡ He tried buying new toys but the cat would sit in the corner and judge. He would pspsps like Lyra but the cat never came running to him. It didn't make sense to him
♡ By the third week Grayson was babysitting, he noticed two hours before Lyra would come to pick up Cara. Cara would sit on the same sofa as Grayson, 10 feet away, staring at the door
♡ Some days, they would both be staring at the door or Gray would keep sneaking glances at his watch in between. They looked like lovers waiting for their beloved to come home
♡ Lyra, who would unlock the door and barely have a step in, would be greeted with an energetic Cara and Grayson already walking half way to her, grabbing her bag
♡ They may not agree on a lot but they agreed Lyra was the center of their world. Lyra would sit, Cara would be snuggled up in her lap and Gray would have an arm around her
♡ She would walk to another room and have sounds of feet & paws shuffling behind her. After three weeks of constant attention, she came up with an idea
"Let's get another cat"
"Another ?"
"Yeah, so both of you can have company"
"But we do have each other's company"
*Lyra looks at both of them sitting miles apart*
"Oh"
♡ They ended up getting a small calico kitten, full of energy and fierce. A little fur ball full of surprises. The biggest surprise, her being attached to Gray
♡ She came up to his ankle but that didn't stop her. Bella clawed up his trouser when he would be cooking. Sleep nestled between his shoulder and pillow or simply sunbathe in his office while he was working
♡ Safe to say, Gray had a connection with Bella and was getting tons of snuggles too
♡ One day while Gray was cooking, Bella knocked his cologne bottle on the ground and ran away. Gray cleaned up the whole floor three times, just to make sure the cats or Lyra doesn't get hurt
♡ He made a mental note to buy a new bottle but didn't have time. When he went to pick up Cara two days later, Cara walked in a circle around him and sat in his lap
♡ Grayson was frozen. Didn't even breathe. He didn't know how to name the feeling but nothing felt better than being chosen by a cat
♡ He scratched behind Cara's ears and gave her snuggles. He even told his brothers about it, like it was the biggest achievement in his eyes except neither Xander or Jamie were happy.
♡ Why ? A very long long time ago, Gray had denied letting them adopt a kitten when they were kids because he didn't like fur on clothes. As revenge, they had laced his place and clothes with tiny dog fur so none of the kittens would go near him and he would give Cara & Bella to them
♡ Sadly for them, Bella had grown up around dogs and Gray had scrubbed his apartment & clothes clean before getting Cara just to not make any mistakes. It's ok though, the brothers had decided on a different revenge for their beloved brother with cats they couldn't snuggle with
♡ extra crumbs: Gray, Cara & Bella would go to Lyra's events and cheer her. Gray looked like a proper cat dad. One cat on his lap while the other was hiding in his coat, chilling on his shoulder
— what the naturals characters spotify would look like
pt1: cassandra hobbes
june 10th: music @thenaturalshq
total minutes listened: 68k
top artists: noah kahn, phoebe bridgers, lord huron, gracie abrams, frank ocean, Olivia dean, maroon 5
# of playlists: 7
(p.s this girl has the most random music taste ever so this is not going to make sense but its fine trust)
playlist i — title: main
running up that hill - kate bush
mind over matter - young the giant
drag path - twenty-one pilots
fable - gigi perez
teenage dirtbag - wheatus
tongue tied - GROUPLOVE
+ 46 songs
playlist ii — title: Playlist #3
pink + white - frank ocean
i've seen it - olivia dean
lady lady - olivia dean
white ferrari - frank ocean
I know the end - phoebe bridgers
let alone the one you love - olivia dean
motion sickness - phoebe bridgers
best part (feat. H.E.R) - daniel ceaser, H.E.R
+ 12 songs
n: that's all I suck at this but ALSO FIRST EVER NATURALS POST SO WOOOH
also these are songs that I think she would listen to, not songs I associate with her... should I make a seperate post for that...?
credits: @rainforcsts for being my continuous inspiration and lit one of my fav blogs on here and reminding me that frank ocean exists with her wonderful natural headcanons go look at them rn 😡
just dance try hards to the max. they get overly mad when people do the method where you just move around the wii stick instead of putting your whole life into it, and because nash has a track record of using that method he’s banned from just dance competitions
they forget their beef all the time. lyra gets mad when she remembers though. once someone reminded her at an event and jameson went to whisper something to her and she, very loudly, yelled “YOU HAVE AN ITCHY WHAT?”
after that he got avery to convey the message that he was never speaking to her ever again (avery agreed to his face but then went up to lyra and started a completely random convo. she was like “whats ur fav ice cream flavour” and lyra was like “i like sorbet better” and avery was like “cool” then walked away and shot jameson a thumbs up to make him think he talked to her)
speaking of beef, jameson apologized at the WORST possible time. it was right after they’d gone through hell and back dealing with alice and she was caught so off guard by him apologizing over something he did (im assuming with the timeline) days/weeks ago that she said to his face that she didnt care
jameson felt relieved because it meant she hadnt been affected by it but lyra felt bad because she didnt want to brush off his apology. yes this caused more awkwardness, yes everyone was over them
he picks at her food whenever she leaves the room and it drives lyra crazy, not cuz he takes a lot (cuz he doesnt) but cuz hes so consistent with it that she sees it coming every time
once she counted how many fries were on her plate before going to the bathroom and when she came back, she noticed one was gone
this was, coincidentally, the one time grayson snuck a fry off her plate. and yes he did stay quiet while his girlfriend yelled at his brother for something he didn’t do
DANCERS OF THE FAMILY!! they are GOOD at dancing but they think ballroom dancing can be boring so they always make events super chaotic. think robin and barney dance in how i met your mother
both anatomically incapable of whistling (somehow)
jameson buzzed once as part of a dare (and cuz tobias would never have let him but he always secretly wanted to be a part of that boy band of highschoolers who buzzed their hair in the summer) and lyra always called him the real slim shady
yes he took the slim part to heart, he knows hes a skinny king
them and averygrayson get a bunch of dating allegations, but esp them cuz they post a lot together. but its literally just them using tiktok game filters when theyre bored
speaking of making tiktoks, they esp do this when avery/grayson are handling some event at the foundation that doesnt involve them. Usually they involve jameson cuz like hes high up there too but when he isnt, the two of them do “whats in my gfs purse/bfs work bag” hauls, lip sync to tiktok audios, and other stuff like that
do u know that one audio where its like “where do u wanna eat? lemme guess, taco bell?” “where do u wanna eat? starbucks?” they made a tt to that but alisa made them take it down
respectful shit talkers. will say “he really is struggling, BUT” to start off a shit talking session and end with “but its not my place to say”. it pisses grayson off so bad because he’d rather them just be straight up then beat around the bush
lyra will disagree with him just for the sake of disagreeing with him. he could say an entirely factual statement and lyra would still be like “no i dont think thats right”
jameson will randomly ruffle her hair while walking by and it makes her really mad
they raced once and lyra hated every bit of it cux she couldnt go over like 100 without fearing for her life
lyra believes in pantsing. jameson does not. unfortunately, lyra doesnt care and pants him anyways
whenever lyra messes up her words jameson makes it a joke for the next 3 weeks
actually he does this with everyone so whenever he stutters or something it becomes a whole thing because everyones pissed off at him for dragging it so they try and get back at him
for secret santa one year jameson got her and he wrapped it pony shaped, then turns out it was just a big box underneath, which led to a smaller box, which led to a smaller box, and by the end of it lyra ended up being gifted a bracelet and jameson was personally responsible for 90% of deforestation due to all the wrapping paper
but the necklace had the lyra constellation on it and even tho she was annoyed she loved it
speaking of christmas, lyra lowk drags that holiday as a whole cuz she loves it so much but she gets sooo sentimental about it like she’ll put christmas cards on everyones doors and like decorate like her life depends on it
jameson just cannot take anything seriously tho so he sent her back a christmas card of him taking a selfie with the dog filter on. then he straight up just put text over it that said merry christmas
lyra asked him who told him to send the ugliest fucking card ever and he said “the spirit of christmas”
THATS ALL!!
i tried to not make it too corny cuz i hate when people are like “no theyre GOING to be best friends 🥹” like no theyre GOING to be cousins who shit talk each other when theyre not in the room but still enjoy each others company okay
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