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[ameriecelestino]

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Amerie had spent all morning, despite the late night she had had finishing things up at work, cooking and getting everything ready for the Christmas lunch she had planned with her boyfriend. Boyfriend. It was still a terms she was getting used to referring to someone as again considering it had been a while since she had dated anyone, yet alone a guy. She went to check on the turkey, grabbing her phone from the counter to check if Dean had replied to any of the texts she had sent him earlier that morning. She was trying not to worry, but he was usually pretty good at replying. It had kind of been their thing with their somewhat busy scheduled. However, she decided to brush it off and figured he might still just be asleep while she continued on in the kitchen as time started to approach their agreed time to meet.

[islaricci]

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"Can you please remind me why I keep hanging out with you again?" Isla asked despite knowing the answer to her own question very well. Regardless of how obnoxious and annoying Dean could be, he had sort of started to grow on her. He'd become an unexpected friend, if you will, if friend was even a term she would use to describe him. "When we agreed to hang out, I thought it meant grab a drink and maybe some food.. Not helping you out on the ranch shoveling whatever this is."

[ameriecelestino]

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Today had been wonderful so far, and a part of her had been questioning whether or not parts of it would have felt the same had she gone through her own wedding back in the day instead of bolting. However, she knew she couldn’t keep dwelling on the past as there was no undo button. All she could do was try move forward, and seeing Josiah with someone else here tonight had kind of served as the reality check she’d needed; that there was no going back.

Since moving to town, she had tried and failed numerous times. Either prioritising work over her relationships leading them to ultimately fail, or whenever she had tried dating they’d ended up on more friendlier terms with the person. Though recently there was someone who had caught her attention, but even he was hard to get a proper read off of whether or not he was actually interested. Tonight might have answered her question though when she had spotted him with a gorgeous blonde from the other side of the room while getting her drink refreshed.

[ameriecelestino]

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When they had gone their separate ways at the carnival, her in search for her friend to make sure they were okay, and him to sort out whatever it was he had needed to sort out before the fireworks started, she hadn’t expected the night to take such a drastic turn. Her ankle was still sore, but not even a sprain could stop her from working or making plans. She was glad Dean had agreed to meet up for a drink and catch up seeing their plans had gotten interrupted. Although she had made it clear she wasn’t going to try beating him in a round of pool tonight, without going into details as to why. Sipping off of her glass of wine, a smile shaped on her lips when she spotted the familiar face. “Hey stranger.” She greeted, “Care to join me for a drink?” She added as she removed her purse from the chair next to her by the bar, placing it onto the counter in front of her instead.

[islaricci]

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"I told you that shirt would look nice on you!" Isla stated confidently while folding some trousers that were going back on the display table next to the changing rooms after someone had tired them on. "It surely is an upgrade from those hideous plated once you got. You know the once, with holes in and such." @dean-walker

[ameriecelestino]

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"I'm glad that we're doing this --" Amerie stated while she struggled to clip on the final hoop ear ring. It was no secret that she hardly ever wore jewellery, especially large statement pieces like these, considering what she did for a living and the lack of a social life outside it. "There!" She chimed once she'd managed to finally clip it together and giving herself a one over in the mirror, before turning towards him. "I hope you can forgive me for the lack of a blonde curly wig, by the way. Blonde has never been color." She chuckled softly, and the one she had tried on didn't exactly look nice on her and she wanted to look nice for him. "Are you ready to get going?"

[islaricci]

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"You know, this wasn't such a bad idea after all!" Isla stated with a smile as she looked over at her friend after having played their first round of wach-a-mole. "Who knew you could actually have a good idea for once!” She added, before a small smirk took shape on her lips. “You know, it really helped envisioning that it was you I was beating the crap out of every time. What do you say? Best out of 3? Looser buys the other lunch?”

[marcelvaughn]

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"I am very glad that you decided to take me up on the offer and come check the place out!" Marcel said with a loop sided grin shaped on his lips. He had been doing his best with managing the place for the past 5 or so months, all because of Marcel's former career in the NFL. It was good for business, apparently, or hopefully so. "If you would like, we could take a boat out to the lake. It will probably be freezing as the water is still cold, but there is either that or I can fire up the barbecue?"