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"Fair," Jeremy nodded. "I guess I know what I don't like?" He shrugged. "Like, you know when people take a room and make everything white or grey? Don't like that," he explained. "I like a bit more character, and colour and stuff, but I dunno if there's anything in particular. Like this looks nice and all, but I can't ever imagine myself owning a house that looks like that," he shrugged.

Maybe something lighter and a bit more modern than that, but not ultra modern and sleek.

"I guess for now my policy is whatever bits and bobs I can afford, you know?" He added with a grin. God knew he'd probably be living in shared flats for whatever came next in life.

@oh-phineas

Nothing Aches Like A BJÖRKÅN Heart - Phinemy

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"So this year I'm living off campus with some friends," he explained. "I lived in the Salem dorms for the first couple of years, and I did love it, but we were all kind of feeling that it was maybe time to do something else? And like, have more of our own space." Jeremy did like having his own bedroom once more, and having that bit more space and privacy. But it was also an adventure in it's own way, finding a house and paying bills and working out what to make for dinner when the fridge was almost empty and hanging out with Finn and Nemo.

"It's been really fun."

@enchantedtomeet-giselle

Picture Perfect Moment - Open

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Jeremy did his best to take as many photos as he could; someone looking back over their shoulder as they ran away from the flurry of snowballs chasing after them. Another of someone stooping to start scooping fresh snow where they could and bravely facing the barrage. Another of Jae looking guilt-stricken as he realised his latest shot had flown wide and hit Jeremy in the chest.

But perhaps his finest, the best of all, came after Cruz was buried in the snow. Her head popped up, looking bewildered, and he raced to click his camera, and to take some more of the other Grand Prix kids bent double with laughter, before he too absolutely lost it.

Utterly breathless, he went into silent fits of the giggles that racked his abs until he was sore and wheezing.

@cruzzramirez

Picture Perfect Moment - Open

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Jeremy would dearly love to say that he didn't care about what Mirabel's family thought, and that the fuss would die down the second some celebrity said something stupid in America and everyone got something new to gossip about and that her family should want her to be happy!!!!!!!! But, well, for as much as he knew all of that to be true, he knew how much Mirabel loved her family and that they'd been through a lot.

He remembered how people at church always whispered about it, even if he didn't know too many of the details. He knew how sad it made Mirabel sometimes.

"I think you both deserve to be happy," Jeremy said, instead, a little pointedly, but still gently.

"And I think your family would want that too, Mirabel. I mean, I just... It all would die down eventually, you know? Nobody really cares about this stuff, they'd all have moved on soon enough."

"Instead you're both miserable, and the only people who win are those shitty people online who were being homophobes!"

@waitingona-mirabel

Best Laid Plans - Jeribel

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"But you can't-" Jeremy began to protest, before cutting himself off. Of course she could. She could study anywhere in the world that really suited her and get a great degree. It didn't have to be Swynlake. But, selfishly, he wanted her to stay! He wanted his friend to stay, even if he himself didn't know what his plans for the future held.

Jeremy sighed through his nose, and felt his heart sink even further than it had at the idea of the break up. What, was he going to lose his friend now?

"Ok, you can do whatever you need to do," he corrected himself. "But Pen, you didn't come to Swynlake because of Mirabel! You've got loads of friends here, and people who care about you and you're happy here, right?"

He asked her, and felt a wave of doubt. Was she happy here? He had always assumed, and hoped, but maybe she wasn't. His arms tightened a little bit around his friend. "I promise it won't always feel this bad," he said, speaking low. Hard to believe, in the moment, but he'd been there himself. It did get better.

@little-superstar-penny

Hibernation || Penemy

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"I mean, I guess some people think it's trendy?" Jeremy shrugged as he pushed their trolley through. Maybe with lots of bright coloured accents, and lamps, or some cool neon wall lights or something, then it might look cool, but to him it felt very dark. "I'm not going to pretend I'm a design interior master or something, but it's not my cuppa tea, I'll tell you that!"

They went on to the next little display, a much more Victorian looking room, all rich warm tones and things designed to look slightly old-fashioned.

"What sort of style do you reckon you'd go for, if you had your own house?" Jere asked, absent-mindedly. "This is giving like, old-money millionaire to me-"

@oh-phineas

Nothing Aches Like A BJÖRKÅN Heart - Phinemy

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It was hard to put it into words, really. He was sure that it was not the most complicated melody every written that would astound audiences through its skill and execution, nor was it the most simple and hauntingly beautiful through that simplicity. It simply felt right.

It felt like when he strummed the chords and he shifted to that minor, the soundwaves went all the way into his heart and the very fibres of his being reverberated along with it. It felt like when he found the right words they would pour over it like honey and people would listen.

"I don't know," he tried to think of the words. "I just feels like the kind of song that will make people listen, you know? I don't know why... like it will make them stop and pay attention and really hear the music and let it into their hearts-" He maybe sounded crazy, but that was the wonderful thing about Linnet; she understood, like almost nobody he'd ever met, what it was to really hear music.

"It's got that sort of ever-so-slightly melancholy quality but without feeling like it's trying too hard to be a sad song, you know? Like, whatever words that get put to it are going to be bittersweet? Do I sound mad right now?" He looked at her, hopeful.

@euterpe-of-hesiod

A Bolt From The Blue - Blueson

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"How do they want you to-" Jeremy opened his mouth in amazed protest, before he sat back, shaking his head. "Some people man," he sighed. It was like they wanted it to be impossible to understand them!

He nodded, not really used to thinking about history like that, but he supposed everyone saw subjects differently, right? Otherwise they'd all be studying the same things!

"I meaaaan-" He tipped his head from side to side. "I chose this module because I thought it looked the most interesting of the options I had? And it is interesting-" he hurried to add, as if he might somehow incur the wrath of his lecturer if he said it wasn't. "It's just that this reading is really technical and confusing-"

"How did you find that?" He asked. "Some people are raving about it, but I know not everyone loved it-"

@joanna-vane

The Books Hit Back - Joannemy

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Jeremy heard the warning go up and ducked forward, keeping his head down, as he watched the snowballs begin to fly thick and fast! He tried his best to get some photographs of the other teams in particular, who he hadn't had a chance to photograph yet - easier said than done when Cruz was moving like a blur in front of him and making it almost impossible for everyone else to land their hits!

Damn it was impressive!

Jeremy looked about as Cruz suddenly came to a halt, and then started as he realised what had happened. He stared in amazement, so much that he forgot for a second to keep taking pictures, but he did after a few seconds - catching the looks of confusion and panic and then the sudden onslaught of snowballs from Jae and Ava as someone started yelling about retreating! Jeremy scrambled after them, trying to get in the best spot for some more photos.

@cruzzramirez

Picture Perfect Moment - Open

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"Yeah, it's a shame really," he sympathised, taking another snap of Pippi as she snuffled around at some snow on the snowman's head. "I get why it's really useful to have everyone on campus in the first year, but then it does make it really tough if you have a pet and don't have somewhere to keep them locally-"

Granted, he'd never thought of it before, because he didn't know many people that had had that problem, but... well... it would suck to be away from home and have to give up your pet, right? "Still, living off campus is really fun too!" He added more brightly. "I've been loving it."

@enchantedtomeet-giselle

Picture Perfect Moment - Open

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"Never easy," Jeremy repeated, sympathetically. He could hear the fact that Mirabel was ... not actually answering his concern for her at all. Like the empty notes in a chord, he could hear it hanging in the air.

"She's..." He stuffed his hands into his pockets, and settled for a bit of classic British understatement. "I mean, she's not great."

He didn't want to lecture Mirabel on the fact Penny had really liked her, he just- ... thought it was absurd for them both to be hurting when they could both be happy! "She really misses you, and like... she's hurting, Mirabel." He shrugged, and looked at Mirabel sadly. "And I know you are too, it just-"

He tried to bite his tongue, and had to settle for a sigh as he swallowed the urge to tell her it was STUPID to break up because he knew, he knew he hadn't been the one on the receiving end of all the public attention. "I wish it didn't have to turn out like this, bud, for either of you."

@waitingona-mirabel

Best Laid Plans - Jeribel

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Jeremy's heart broke a little as he heard her croak out 'me too.' He wanted so badly to be able to fix this, to make it all alright and see his friends smile again. He had seen them that day on the beach! He had seen how comfortable they were together, had seen the glances stolen in the car on the ride home, had seen the way they both lit up when they told him about the same dates they'd had- It just didn't seem fair.

"Penn-" He protested, leaning back to look at her. It didn't help, he felt his eyes welling up with tears. "If-... if you wanted to go home, I totally get that, but you are so cut out for this! You're absolutely crushing it at your programme!"

Besides, he saw how passionate she was about it! He'd never seen her that passionate about her acting, and he'd heard her complain tonnes of times about Hollywood. "You are amazing, alright? Amazing! And I truly believe you can do anything you want. You don't have to... to give that up."

He didn't know that he could promise the fans would ever calm down, truly, or that people would ever not be invested in her private life, but surely as time went on more and more people would just ... let her go back to being a normal person? "I know how much you love your course. You can't give that up."

@little-superstar-penny

Hibernation || Penemy

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The fluffy ones, eh? He wouldn't have pegged Phineas for a fluffy rug man, but they were pretty cosy between the toes. But ok, that was good, helped him know what to look for as they crossed the entrance area and got a faint smell of meatballs from the cafe, and headed towards the maze of tiny little showrooms.

"I didn't know he had two? I knew about Frodo, but I guess I never really got to know him that well-" There had been the lingering... Pip of it all, when Tad moved back and then they just hadn't really overlapped too closely. "That must be tough, I mean, there's a reason living with partners is a risk I guess. Yo, what do you think of this room?" He asked, seizing upon the opportunity to change the topic. "All black walls? It's kinda gloomy, right?"

@oh-phineas

Nothing Aches Like A BJÖRKÅN Heart - Phinemy

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"Oh," Jeremy tilted his head, grimacing slightly as he tried to think of a polite way of saying he knew he wasn't going to win that didn't obviously imply the man would probably cheat (for which Jeremy bore him no ill-will, that was the name of the game with these things, sleight of hand, right?). "Well, thing is I don't really fancy my chances of winning. Not the quickest eyes-" he explained.

His hands might be quick, but he didn't trust himself to catch however the man pulled it off. "Have you, uh, had many takers so far today?"

@roux-clochard

The Old Shell Game || Open

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"Yeah, that-" Jeremy pulled up blank as his brain actually caught up with her question, and she could plainly see it on his face as he went through the mental process of remembering his break! And then staring at the clock ... and then...

"I genuinely don't know." He confessed, before he burst out into a laugh. "I've completely forgotten." It had been a long day, that was his excuse!

"I tell you what, we're pretty quiet now, right? I mean, I could go take mine now and then when I come back you can have yours, if you haven't already had it?" He suggested. So long as he could duck back if they suddenly got crazy busy, it should be ok?

@straythisway

Carry Out, Carry Away - Majere

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"Yeah, of course!" Jeremy smiled. "Of course! That's honestly the best bit," he added, lowering his voice as if he were making her his co-conspirator. "Getting to share the photos with people and see them all excited."

Especially with candid portraits, it was like ... showing someone how incredible you thought they were when nobody else was looking. "That's such a shame about the pet rules in dorms though. You think you'll move off campus next year then, to keep her?"

@enchantedtomeet-giselle

Picture Perfect Moment - Open

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"Oh a rug sounds like a vibe," Jeremy nodded. Yeah, he saw the way that smile was a pretty pale imitation of genuinely happy Phineas, but ... what could he say? Better to do something and take his mind off it all, right?

"I heard Tad and Hiro broke up, right? Is that why he's moving into dorms?" Sheesh. Rough few months for everyone.

"You think you'd go for a like... bright colourful patterny one? Or are you a guy who secretly wants a big fluffy rug?" They went up the escalator thing, and then well, the labyrinth awaited!

@oh-phineas

Nothing Aches Like A BJÖRKÅN Heart - Phinemy