#barblissa

[satinserenity]

CUTIES 🥺🥺

[fabflava]

Watching a show you’re secretly obsessed with around family is the hardest test of self-control. My cousins are in town for spring break, and I swear they’re trying to expose me. Like, why did they call Ava ‘Alyssa’ with their whole chest?? Who is Alyssa??? And why did they say, ‘Melissa and her fireman are so cute together’ like I don’t actively pretend that man does not exist??

And the worst part? I can’t even correct them. I can’t let them see the real me. If I say one thing, it will unravel everything, and they will see me for the deranged, fanfic-reading lunatic that I truly am. So I have to sit there, smiling, nodding, pretending I’m a casual viewer when, instead of launching into a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation on why Ava and Janine and Barbara and Melissa have undeniable tension that the writers are too scared to commit to.

I wish I could swap my online mutuals with my real-life family JUST for this week. At least they would understand the struggle and appreciate my think pieces LOL. Pray for me for Wednesday’s episode, y’all. I don’t know if I can make it. 😂😂

[notshaunashipman]

SOMEONE PLEASE SEDATE ME THEIR HEIGHT DIFFERENCE IS EVERYTHING

[schemmentishoward]

Barbara: Melissa, you have to react when people cry

Melissa: I did. I rolled my eyes

[90stvqueen]

After by thesexfiles

Barbara Howard/Melissa Schemmenti | Angst/Smut | Explicit | 7,617 words | Complete

After Joe asks Melissa for a divorce, Barbara offers her comfort.

“I want to,” Barbara said — it wasn’t clear if there was more to her sentence or if that was the totality of it. She cupped Melissa’s face, drawing it toward her. Her gentle touch and conflicted expression communicated what her words could not.

“You can’t,” Melissa said.

“What if I did?”

Read it here.

[thesexfiles]

always an angel; never a god by thesexfiles

Barbara Howard/Melissa Schemmenti(/Gerald Howard) | Angst/Introspective Smut | Skating the line between Mature and Explicit | 3,987 words | Complete

After dinner, Gerald, Barbara, and Melissa settle into routine.

Has she ever looked at him like that?

Her jaw goes ever-so-slack, her eyes just so slightly widen. It's beyond love but not beyond fear. Awe on her face. Reminds him of the way she looks at the ocean when they're on a cruise. Like she's seeing God.

It’s been that way for fifteen years — long before Melissa made her debut in their marital bed, long before Gerald even thought to suggest it.

Read it here.