i. they’re no more than ten years old — spoiled rotten, in clothes too fine and too tailored for any typical child. their parents are chatting about business deals and trades and they don’t understand a word, but are instead thrown together at a table with other children. the pair are like dissonant notes as they find themselves arguing an hour into brunch. though when they’re retrieved by their parents at the end, blake kisses her cheek; their parents begin gushing fraudulently about how much their children already like each other. that meeting was no more than a b i t t e r foreshadowing to an acrid partnership.
ii. four years later and she looks almost angelic in a white dress with pink-stained lips, feigning a saccharine sweetness that would be enough to rot your teeth out. the arrogance of any boy bearing the halo of such opulence as his own was plastered across his face as he took a long swig from his fathers’ poorly-hidden brandy. music from the party outside seeps into the basement, a dull background music — though it’s enough for heather as her hips swing to the beat. “come on, blakey. dance with me!” the blonde persists ( demands; a girl used to being granted what she wants ), holding out a hand to him with a challenging glint in her eyes that marred her otherwise innocent expression. a grin flickered across his often unreadable features as he eyes her hand, accepting it after a beat — placing a mocking kiss on the back of her palm. a bow follows, a gallant act highly contrasting to the less than chivalrous boy. a smile creeps across heather’s soft features.
but if she was sugarcane, he was nicotine — where he was bitter to the taste and quick to harm, she would draw you in and tear you apart slowly from the inside out. blake was a fool to think he was any exception.
iii. she doesn’t remember this kiss. he’s well over a head taller than her now ( fourteen inches, to be exact ) but she manages to hold herself in a way that makes him feel like she’s staring him evenly in the eyes. heather nash has never been easy to figure out, and perhaps that’s what kept blake around for so long. that, and the fact she could be considered his best friend. a pain in his ass, no doubt, but considering she could match him quip for quip, it was something he could deal with. seventeen years old and she’s straddling his lap in the middle of a party, his hands resting on her waist and upper thigh while hers roam. from his hair, his neck, his chest, his face, his arms. they don’t stay in one place for too long, much like the blonde herself. the pair had never been known for their discretion, but it was the public display of them together that was unusual. typically he didn’t dare to kiss her in front of a crowd, but when she arched a brow, an inebriated dare, he captured her lips with his. fingertips dug into the soft skin of her hips, cool hand slipping just below the hem of her top when her’s twisted into his dark hair. it was messy and quick, all nails digging into skin and unrelenting stubbornness of who might be the first to crack. after a long moment, he pulled back, oddly pleased for once when she seemed to be the one left ill at ease after an exchange with him. “have a nice night, sweetheart.” blake proceeded to rise, dropping her onto an empty couch cushion and dipping out into the rest of the party. he went to bed alone that night.
iv. this time, he doesn’t remember. it’s new year’s eve at the sinclair family cabin in the catskills, a yearly tradition not meant for subtlety. but large parties made it much easier to go unnoticed — so when you throw nearly one hundred people used to having all eyes on them into a house in the mountains, it turns into a power struggle. this year it comes with another girl licking salt off his abdomen accompanying a shot, and a disheveled boy with heather on his lap placing a line of lazy kisses down his neck. lipstick is smeared on blake’s collar, though heather’s own appears nothing less than pristine when they finally find each other, alone. “having fun with the sinclair girl?” heather’s words have a lofty air to them and she arches a brow, glacial irises taking him in as if she were preparing to consume him entirely. and not in a fun, tease him and leave him way. his features remain otherwise blank as he throws her own words back at her — “wish she was you, princess?” there’s a certain magnetism crackling on the balcony as they find themselves inches apart; like a silent siren’s song, drawing them closer. or maybe it was that aforementioned power struggle — and neither were keen to losing. ten. she reaches up, fingers ghosting across his jaw as the distance lessens further. she appears to be considering … well, something. seven. she leans in as though to kiss him and — five. innocent pink mouth twists into an amused smirk before her lips brush against the corner of his mouth. “you’re drunk. and i don’t like sloppy hand-me-downs.” three. he could have grabbed her wrist, could have said something, but then she’s turning away. the party grows louder for a moment as she shoves through the double doors and enters again.
the door shuts behind her with a click as the clock ticks over to midnight. they’re both alone when the new year begins.
v. for two people who act as though they’re solid gold, they sure do seem to hate what stares back at them when they look in the mirror. they both need a break from their own minds and that reprieve is found in each other — her back pressed desperately against the wall with legs wrapped around his waist, his lips burning a path down down down her jaw, her neck, the hollow of her collar above her breasts, with a hand lost somewhere within the space of her hips and the curve of her ass. the empty quiet of the long island home rings in blake’s ears and he’s longing to fill the hollow silence — god, he was such a fucking cliche. the poor little rich boy, prepared to use his so-called best friend as a way to fuck his personal issues away. going wax poetic about emotional emptiness thanks to the negligence of busy, wealthy parents. ( a breathy gasp ghosts past the shell of his ear as his left hand edges beneath the hem of her impossibly short skirt and he’s clearly right where she wants him. )
get the hell over yourself, blake, and blast through two hundred dollars on blow like the rest of your former prep school prick friends instead.
it was a shame, the way heather was like a drug in and of herself. the way her soft moans sear themselves into his memory and acrylic nails rake red down the arm caging her on the marbled countertop. even more of a shame that blake couldn’t bring himself to walk away this time as his thoughts scatter and she breathes out direction: more, stay there, keep going. when he finally looks at her, head angled back against the cabinet with pupils blown wide and platinum hair long enough that it reaches the counter she’s perched on, something reaches into his chest and twists. a feeling he can’t quite identify squeezes there again — an apparition of regret? remorse that, surely, this doesn’t mean anything to her the way it shouldn’t mean a thing to him?
heather, so often cold, is warm beneath his hands. his nerves blaze as her grip strengthens on his upper arm and she tightens around his fingers and jesus fucking christ — in that moment, he would do anything she asked him to. anything at all. her eyes are squeezed shut now when he dares to look at her face, but if he were to look just a few centimeters to the left, he would hate the image mirrored back to him from the glass pane of the cabinet. cold, imprudent, foolish, blank — but then she’s shuddering against him, a wicked moan filling the air like poison for only a moment before his lips meet hers and silence it. maybe, maybe, maybe they could feel something worth remembering.
danny + el / maggie + ray for the ships meme thingy
lady n tramp babs
Who said “I love you” first: danny probably said it Accidentally and was like ? damn we’re just going to go with it now ig i love you
Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background: i think ? they would each have a pic of them together as their phone background
Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror: danny’s fingers are way too chunky for this kind of Artistic Expression ( and his spelling is tragic, honestly ) so definitely el
Who buys the other cheesy gifts: um eloise ‘queen of cheesy gifts’ st clair
Who initiated the first kiss: danny is an entire Whimp of a man who would much rather sit and stare at el like the potato he is than initiate shit
Who kisses the other awake in the morning: honestly ? danny wouldn’t want to wake the sleeping beauty so whenever el is up earlier than him, she’s definitely the one to wake him with kisses
Who starts tickle fights: danny is far too Old to be starting childish games el
Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower: el. and the answer ? a yes always
Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch: bc danny works in the evening/at night, it would be difficult to take him lunch. he also has so much time in the day to spare that he can surprise his girl w lunch
Who was nervous and shy on the first date: danny ‘grown man‘ mullen
Who kills/takes out the spiders: danny, quite reluctantly
Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk: oo bitch both of these lameos. they turn it into a competition
arrest me, officer
Who said “I love you” first: ?? this is hard but maybe ray ? why are my boys so Soft
Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background: we have already established this and ray has a pic of maggie in his police hat as his phone background
Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror: ray’s notes would be like, ‘who lookin fine today ? u lookin fine today‘ but by the time el goes into the bathroom, it’s already disappeared, meaning he gets into a habit of writing them and then taking a pic to Prove it was done. i also think if either of them write anything on the mirror, the other answers underneath
Who buys the other cheesy gifts: ray thinks he’s a damn comedian so any gift he buys has an ulterior motive TRUST
Who initiated the first kiss: ray probably initiated it by daring maggie to. ‘i know u wanna kiss me so :/ might as well just :/ get it over with‘. but technically it would be maggie.
Who kisses the other awake in the morning: you really think ray can get up in the morning without the aid of his human alarm clock ? unlikely
Who starts tickle fights: ray does and they turn into an all tickle war gdi
Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower: ray doesn’t even need to ask bc he gives a Look and maggie knows what he’s asking
Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch: considering before they were even together, ray probably complained that she was bringing her dad food but not him, i think most definitely maggie
Who was nervous and shy on the first date: ray probably had no nerves prior to his mother getting involved, making sure her Handsome Boy is just that. he leaves his house a rack of nerves and has to put on a kanye west song to Prepare himself
Who kills/takes out the spiders: i hope maggie does bc otherwise they’ll be a house full of spiders
Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk: ray doesn’t often drink so he happily sits back and watches his drunk gf tell him how Beautiful he is
luv u !! / [ 📲 • sms ] —— hold on i gotta do something real quick. (crime au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— do you like me? (rk au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— stop one wording me. (fr au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— what happened? where did you go? (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— talk dirty to me (pjo au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— it’s okay you don’t need to lie to me. (fd au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— did you miss me? (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— do you wanna come over? (exes au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— maybe i can stay the night with you tomorrow (fwb au)
these kids are RIDICULOUS
[ 📲 • sms ] —— hold on i gotta do something real quick. (crime au)
[alex]: babe?[alex]: ...are those sirens i can hear? [alex]: need any backup?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— do you like me? (rk au)
[alex]: pfft no[alex]: ....do you like me?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— stop one wording me. (fr au)
[AS]: alright then. what do you expect me to say?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— what happened? where did you go? (normal verse)
[alex]: i am VERY DRunk and v lost and iKD where i am[alex]: han cmoe find me[alex]: im srry for yrelling at u pls come save me from this SPID E R[alex]: SPIDERS EVERUWHERE [alex / incoming call]
[ 📲 • sms ] —— talk dirty to me (pjo au)
[alex]: luke just stepped in pegasus shit and i promise i had nothing to do with it?[alex]: oh you meant sexy dirty talk?[alex]: there’s nothing hotter than watching you beat people in battle training?[alex]: that first text really ruined the vibe, didn’t it?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— it’s okay you don’t need to lie to me. (fd au)
[alex]: sorry[alex]: that’s a first, isn’t it? me saying sorry to you? blimey we might as well be a real couple
[ 📲 • sms ] —— did you miss me? (normal verse)
[alex / unsent]: more than anything[alex]: you know what the answer is
[ 📲 • sms ] —— do you wanna come over? (exes au)
[alex]: yeah, of course! [alex]: that’s not weird, is it?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— maybe i can stay the night with you tomorrow (fwb au)
[alex]: is this a sexy stay the night or you want to watch blue planet and fall asleep in my bed and steal all my blankets stay the night[alex]: i mean we could do both?
part deux! / [ 📲 • sms ] —— are you trying to sext me? (rk au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— how come you never text me anymore? (fwb au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— sorry didn’t mean to bug you (rr au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— i s2g i’m punching you so hard the next time i see you. (pjo au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— i s2g you get on my nerves. (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— are you going to ignore me again tomorrow? (fr au)
these kids r terrible
[ 📲 • sms ] —— are you trying to sext me? (rk au)
[AS]: if i am, are you into it?[AS]: i’m at some boring dinner and wish i was there with you
[ 📲 • sms ] —— how come you never text me anymore? (fwb au)
[AS]: bc you don’t wanna talk about what i want to talk about han
[ 📲 • sms ] —— sorry didn’t mean to bug you (rr au)
[AS / read][AS]: anything else?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— i s2g i’m punching you so hard the next time i see you. (pjo au)
[AS]: my body is ready 😉
[ 📲 • sms ] —— i s2g you get on my nerves. (normal verse)
[AS]: sorry i don’t act like you want me to act when you flirt with me and then you make me feel things for you
[ 📲 • sms ] —— are you going to ignore me again tomorrow? (fr au)
[AS]: well, i kinda have to? there’s gonna be other people from our schools there[AS]: leave early and i can drive you home? with a pit stop on the way home?
[clears throat]: [ 📲 • sms ] —— why did you stop texting me? (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— what do you wanna do tomorrow? ☺️ (fwb au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— maybe i can stay the night with you tomorrow (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— what happened? where did you go? (gang au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— k. (fd au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— what’s wrong with you? (rk au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— are you mad at me? (normal verse) [ 📲 • sms ] —— what do you wanna talk about? (fd au) [ 📲 • sms ] —— do you like me? (fr au) [ 📲 • sms
i live for the pain
[ 📲 • sms ] —— why did you stop texting me? (normal verse)
[AS]: well, you said we weren’t friends. i assumed that meant you didn’t want me to text you?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— what do you wanna do tomorrow? ☺️ (fwb au)
[AS]: everyone is going to eliza’s basketball game? [AS]: come over we can study for french[AS]: and i can give you that head i was gonna give you yesterday?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— maybe i can stay the night with you tomorrow (normal verse)
[AS]: oh for sure, it means you can actually stay at the party past 10pm[AS]: i mean luke-y won’t mind right? or are we not telling him
[ 📲 • sms ] —— what happened? where did you go? (gang au)
[AS / four hours later]: i’m okay[AS]: they had a sudden job[AS]:....can i come over?
[ 📲 • sms ] —— k. (fd au)
[AS / read][AS]: cool story babe.
[ 📲 • sms ] —— what’s wrong with you? (rk au)
[AS]: what’s wrong with me? what’s wrong with you?[AS]: meet me in ten minutes[AS]: unless that pretty bartender of yours is keeping you busy
[ 📲 • sms ] —— are you mad at me? (normal verse)
[AS]: no...it’s just....[AS]: you can’t expect me to hang out with you when luke is there
[ 📲 • sms ] —— what do you wanna talk about? (fd au)
[AS]: your behaviour bowden[AS]: you’ve been a bad girlfriend
[ 📲 • sms ] —— do you like me? (fr au)
[AS]: on the record: pfffft no[AS]: off the record: yeah….do you like me?
[AS]: i know i probably (definitely) don’t deserve a second chance, but there’s something about you i just can’t get out of my system, hannah.
Send “☎” for a RUSHED text.
[AS]: omw to steal ur girl which is my girl which is U
Send “⁇” for a DRUNK text.
[AS]: HEeeEY BbaY, OH AH, I WaaAANNNNAAA KNOOOOOOOW iF Yuo’LL BE MY GIRLLll
Send “✿” for a SUGGESTIVE text. (every text alex sends is a suggestive text tbh)
[AS]: now you’ve quit celibacy club, would you be interested in joining my new club? meetings are held in my bedroom whenever you want xxx
Send “ø” for a LATE NIGHT text.
[AS at 2:42am]: baaaabe i have a thing to tell you[AS at 2:42am]: i thnik i love you[AS at 2:42am]: wait fuck i Shouldn’t sent thAT[AS at 2:42am]: i totally DON’T love you
Send “✘” for a HATEFUL text.
[AS]: i’m not some toy for you to play with when you’re bored, hannah
Send “@” for a SCARED text.
[AS]: hannah answer your phone[AS]: hannah? [Missed Call from Alex Sampson][MIssed Call from Alex Sampson]
Send “%” for a CURIOUS text.
[AS]: so....are you wearing anything under that dress babe?
Send “$” for an ACCIDENTAL text.
[AS]: tom u need to help me!!! what the fuck do u even get someone as an anniversary present?? do u even get someone a six month present???? i’m just amazed she put up with me for six months, should we celebrate that??? [AS]: fuck lmao hey babe that wasn’t meant to go to you[AS]: thanks for putting up with me though
Send “♀” for a HEARTBREAKING text.
[AS]: you’re the only person i’ve ever felt anything like this for before, and of course you’re the only person who doesn’t want me. figures.
will’s feelings for maddie went from friendship to crush in his fourth year (??), when she came to the dickinson house for dinner to hang out with arthur. he blames her infectious smile that made him forget what he went into the library to get, but it was their conversation about the technicalities of some weird niche defence spell that made me go all heart eyes
will has sat through only one quidditch game in his entire life, and that was purely because he wanted to cheer maddie on. even if he brought his charms homework because he got bored within the first five minutes, he looked up every time the commentator mentioned her name.
will anonymously sent maddie a massive package of sweets and stuff one valentine’s day anonymously, but the third year he asked to give to them her put them on the wrong bedside table and he just assumed she got them but never told him about it and was too nervous to bring it up
blair & sunny
sunny has a cat who hates everyone (even sunny, but because he’s never actually home), except for blair and he often comes back to their apartment to find the cat curled up next to blair all happy and content
sunny is a huge freaking nerd who likes sci-fi tv shows and makes blair watch them mostly to watch her watch them and he gets all excited and makes microwave popcorn and hot chocolates (with baileys in them, because they are adults) and they watch them until they fall asleep together
once sunny and blair are full blown in love he plans an actual proposal to make up for their fake one that was organised by their parents. they fly out toparis and go to the louvre and he has a ring that is a lot simpler than the pre-existing one but it is so much prettier & actually has meaning and sentiment behind it
