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[milo-wray]

OPEN STARTER — @aurorabaystarter wherever your heart takes you

CLOSED BUT IF YOUD LIKE A STARTER FROM MILO DM ME AND I WILL WRITE ONE FOR A DIFFERENT TOPIC 💕

"What's one place in town that I shouldn't trust the reviews, good or bad, for?"

[fletcher-bailey]

CLOSED STARTER for @lucacochrane at the garden festival

Fletcher drops down into the grass beside Luca, his shoulder bumping his on the way down. He holds out the pile of loaded cheese fries, sprinkled with chives and bacon bits to boot.

"They charged like fifteen dollars for these," he says with a personal offense. "Would totally get it if it was a Bavarian pretzel."

He nudges the box of smothered fries toward Luca anyway. Fletch pauses to watch someone walk by with an overloaded tray of deep fried funnel cake dusted generously in powdered sugar.

"I should've gone with that, but the worst part about it is I'd be covered in sugar after. There's no nice way to eat it."

[heyits-asher]

CLOSED STARTER for @lucacochrane at the reef

"Yo, my guy."

Asher slides up to Luca at the bar with a square smack between his shoulder blades. Solid, and lingering when he doesn't take his hand away at first. Added to it is the long pause, and the gradual shift of Asher's eyes from the tap handles to Luca's face.

"I lost my wallet, care to spare some cash for a beer or two? I can totally Venmo you, I just took my cards off Apple Pay— okay, I actually never took them off, I just never added them after I broke my last phone."

[paxton-brady]

CLOSED STARTER for @jordanmitchell

All Paxton can about himself is that his survival instinct must be lacking because before he knows it, he is sitting passenger in a stranger’s car off to some secondary location. He’s tense, sitting stiff as a board and watching ahead, and his feeling of self consciousness from being bluntly told he needed to take a shower (and said stranger is bringing him to do just that) is quickly being replaced with curiosity.

( Who will they cast to play him in his murder documentary? )

“Uh,” he finally pipes up, the steadiness of his voice completely absent. “So, where are we going exactly?”

Pax slowly shifts his eyes to Jordan, and she doesn’t look homicidal. “I know’ to a shower’, but where is this shower, because you’re really taking me off the beaten path, and I know cell signals are really off right now, so you could leave my body in a ditch no problem.”

[declan-jackson]

OPEN STARTER @aurorabaystarter CLOSED

"I got this henna yesterday after I was in the beer garden and five beers deep."

Which is precisely when he shouldn't be making any decisions, but Dec holds his arm out where the stretch of something is drawn in a red-brown from wrist to elbow.

"What do you think it is?"

[robbie-becker]

CLOSED STARTER for @helenasoarcs at the botanical gardens

Robbie walks beside Helena on the curving gravel path, doing his damned best to not make a comment about the decorations pinned to the bushes and hanging from the temporary archways. There is a bag of kettlecorn he holds between them that he bought for her from one of the vendor booths— mixed with mini white chocolate chips and red and pink M&Ms.

"How much convincing do I have to do to get you to consider a carriage ride at the end of this?" he asks, light and teasing, followed with a small mouthful of candy and popcorn.

Robbie throws a side glance her way, a smile lighting up his face despite the undercurrent of subtle nerves. There is a difference between running into her somewhere, and asking Helena to meet up.

"I'm glad you came with me, by the way."

[maverick-liu]

CLOSED STARTER for @ambivalenceshefelt at the botanical gardens

Maverick makes a face at the kissing booth as he walks along the lantern lit trail — just looking at the rose garden, not wanting to wander too far in before meeting up with Sola. He nudges Nikki and nods to it.

"Think you can find it in you to be philanthropic for five bucks?" he teases. "I mean, it is for a good cause, right?"