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keatonchadwell‌:

“Dang, Mumford, chill out.” Keaton laughed a little, reaching up to get the book. He wasn’t the tallest, but he was..definitely taller than Lark. “No need for threats, I’m not Flash. I can only move so fast.”

“Okay, I’ll admit I was being a little harsh. But it got you to help, didn’t it?” Lark teased, smiling as he retrieved the book for her. “My grades and I thank you. I might even say I owe you one.”

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effy-baker‌:

“How am I suppose to do that?” Effy asked Lark as they weren’t that far apart in the heigh department. “What book is that?” She asked her, narrowing her eyes as she craned her head back. “Can’t we… I don’t know, find the e-version?” She asked, as she lazily looked around for a ladder. “Man, the things we do for our soulmates or whatever.”

“Look at us with our short girls problems. Thank god it’s only a book and not some life or death situation.” Lark shook her head with a laugh. “Oh just one that’s probably totally boring and hard to get through but has some information I need for a paper. And of course, it’s only in print. What’s the point of technology if we’re not going to use it, right?” She rolled her eyes before smiling over at her best friend. “Aw Effy, I appreciate your help. I really do. But don’t worry, some tall person’s got to walk by soon. Or I can always force Gordon to come back with me later. Yeah, maybe I’ll do that just to annoy him.”

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“Care to help a girl in need?” Lark asked as her eyes caught a passerby in the library, pointing a manicured finger at a book on the very top shelf. “See that book up there? The red one? I need it. And before you make a comment about my height, just know that some of these books are awfully heavy and I’m not afraid to retaliate.”

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ohjoellefarkas‌:

“ looking out for me, huh? don’t make me throw up all over our food. ”  he narrowed his eyes at her but gently touched her knee before he ate a fry. “ it’s hard to say no to sloan. I can’t tap out before her. she’d never let it go. ” he shook his head. without much thought, bennett would slip up and let gemma into his personal life. he’d been doing that recently and he realized he wasn’t fighting it anymore like he used too. “ your gonna turn into a bottomless pit sticking around me. be prepared. ”

“Okay, gross,” Gemma scrunched her nose at him. “Do you always react this way when people are nice to you?” She asked, already knowing the answer. But she realized it wasn’t something that bothered her. If anything, it was something she was starting to find endearing about him. “I’d say you’re ridiculous, but then I’d be a hypocrite. Because we both know I hate losing more than anything.” Even if her kind of competition didn’t usually involve drinking someone else under the table. “Am not.” She scoffed. “I have self-control, okay.” She laughed, throwing a fry over at him.

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ohjoellefarkas‌:

“ you’re lucky you’re buying me food. I was ready to sleep all day. ” bennett rolled his eyes in hyperbole, only to soften his expression slightly, indicating that he was happy to be hanging out with gemma despite the hangover he was having. he hadn’t had one like this in a while. but that only meant he had a good time with sloan. “ @larkmumford​

“Sleep all day when you could hang out with little ol’ me? Please.” Gemma teased with the roll of her eyes. “No, I know how to entice you into hanging out with me.” And since things were so good between them, she didn’t mind using that her advantage. “And I can do it all under the guise that I’m trying to look out for you, because you really do need to eat something to soak whatever damage you did last night up.” She smirked as she grabbed a french fry and pointed it at him before popping it into her mouth.

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ohjoellefarkas‌:

“ truly done, right? ” he playfully narrowed his eyes at her briefly. bennett anticipated hearing her lie with a cheeky smile. he knew her well enough at this point. “ hmmm. it’s not like I’m trying to be right. I’m just right, you know what I mean? ”

“I think this is when you say something to distract me, so I stop thinking it about it.” Gemma teased. He saw right through her at this point, that was obvious, but she realized she was starting not to mind. “Oh yeah, totally know what you mean.” She said sarcastically as she handed his drink back to him. “Maybe you should spread some of this wisdom to the rest of us.”

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thenewburymedal‌:

“Knowing this town, they’ll probably have another election tonight. Maybe you’ll get a second shot,” Raf said with a shrug. This town felt…extra enough that they might do that. Just a lake/pool party felt almost low-key for the town, despite how wild the night already seemed to be getting. “I’m on decent terms with both, but I doubt they’d be here.” Or at least, he hadn’t seen them around. And it didn’t quite feel like either of their vibes. “So I think I’m safe from the nostalgia for now.”

“I honestly wouldn’t put it past them. But would I subject myself to that again?” Gemma asked before shaking her head with a laugh. “Honestly, knowing me, probably.” She admitted. What could see say? She loved a good competition. “Oh, well, that’s good. My ex and I were on bad terms for so long, it was awful every time we’d run into each other.” She cringed at the thought. Thankfully, they were in a much better place now. “But hey, the less stress for you the better. We’re all here to have fun tonight, right?”

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marlothekid‌:

Baby held up her glass confidently. “Absolutely, fuck high school.” It wasn’t exactly what she’d said, but it was how Baby felt and it seemed to be the gist of it. “You know, we can like totally get you a crown. Who says you can’t still be spring fling queen?”

“Totally,” Gemma smiled before taking a sip of her drink. Okay, maybe she wouldn’t have gone that far. She enjoyed high school well-enough, but still there were moments that totally sucked. “Wait, really?” She asked, her eyes lighting up. “I mean, that’s probably so totally extra, but like... who cares, right?”

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effy-baker‌:

“Is that what these events are suppose to do? And here I thought the purpose of these things were to provide us with a space to like… chill out and have fun.” Harlow teased Gemma, although even he… in all his very high glory could see how old memories could be brought up. But the way he saw it, those were memories. As in, happened. Life was happening… like right then and there… so why not enjoy that? “Oh, you’re fine? Like how fine?” He asked with a grin. “Good to hear cause I thought after the comparing the prettiness of the crowns, I’d lost you to the dark side.” Harlow didn’t want to nod, but she was pretty right. He was sure that win would have definitely gone to her head. “Oh, yeah. Feel free to finish that.” He said, laying back into the grass to watch the stars above them. “So had I lost you to the dark side, were you going to go tackle whoever won Spring Fling queen?” He asked with a laugh.

“Ha-ha. Very funny.” Gemma rolled her eyes at him as she shoved his shoulder lightly, knowing he was right. Clearly, she was still working on being more chill and letting herself have fun. “What? It’s the truth. I know you probably don’t remember the different crowns, but...” She replied unabashed as she took the joint from him, coughing a bit as she took a hit. “The Spring Fling one was, like, extra pretty.” She gushed before laughing at his next question. “Me? Tackle someone?” She shook her head at the thought. She hated losing, but she wasn’t sure if she’d ever go that far. “I don’t know. Maybe. Would you have cheered me on if I did?”

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ohjoellefarkas‌:

“ nah, that’s now what we’re gonna do. ” bennett pinched the bridge of his nose, laughing humorlessly at her past. “ you really wanted to be that girl who mentions she won spring fling for the rest of her life? come on, you’re better than that, babe. not winning humbled you. ” he stroked her cheek with his thumb before handing over his cup. 

“Oh really?” Gemma turned looked over at him, prepared to fight him on it even though she knew he was right. It was the last thing she should be thinking about right now. “No, I just wanted to mourn the loss for a second. Okay? There. Done.” She rolled her eyes over at him, fighting a smile. “Do you always have to be right about everything?” She teased before taking his cup to refill it for him.

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vsaugis‌:

Saffron knew better than most people how humiliating a loss can feel. Despite the best coaching, she had a habit of internalizing her mistakes. So on that level, she sympathized with the woman, but she was mainly confused. Since her knowledge of high school was all secondhand, she couldn’t tell if not winning Spring Fling Queen was as bad the woman was making it sound. Nonetheless, she wasn’t going to let her have a meltdown in the kitchen. “It sounds like a bullshit excuse someone gave you to cover their ass. Aren’t those titles normally decided by public vote?” she pointed out. “Sure, I’ll have a Jack and Coke.”

“That’s exactly what I was thinking. I mean, that just doesn’t make sense considering how the vote was carried out. But that was years ago now, so I really shouldn’t be thinking about it.” Gemma said, really as a reminder to herself. “Okay, coming right up.” She teased as she began to fix them each a new drink. “I’m Gemma, by the way. Almost Spring Fling Queen.”

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p-finch‌:

Shawn watched as she paced and kept his mouth shut, knowing that she probably wasn’t done thinking about it all. He shook his head and held up his soda, wanting to sympathize with her but he was on his path back to sobriety. He had purely been there for moral support. “It means they’re pretentious assholes, what else did you expect here? They wouldn’t know taste if it smacked them in the face, G, you can’t let that go to your head too much. What they think is bullshit. Hey, you’re my Spring Fling Queen, okay?”

“Oh my god, that was so stupid. I’m sorry. Totally didn’t mean that.” Gemma shook her head, mentally kicking herself for momentarily forgetting about Shawn’s sobriety. “Okay fine, maybe you do have a point...” She laughed, a smile slowly creeping up on her features. “Ugh, Shawn, you are way too nice to me. I mean, if you’re saying that... With your taste... Truly means a lot. Now enough about me. How are you? How’s your night going?”

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thenewburymedal‌:

“Maybe someone’s ballot was unclear and they split the point,” Raf responded, trying to reason through how a half point would even be possible. Or perhaps the council’s votes were weighted somehow. It’d been too long since he’d been involved in investigating high school politics for him to really know. “Thanks.” Raf nodded, taking the bottle and pouring some in his cup, which was mostly empty, but still had slight remnants of the drink before. Raf wasn’t particularly picky, though. “Pretty good. I haven’t had any ex run-ins yet, so I haven’t been forced down memory lane just yet.”

“Yeah... probably.” Gemma reasoned with the nod of her head. Whatever it was, it was totally unfair. But she guessed she’d never know what really happened with the vote. “Oh good. Ex run-ins are totally the worst. Especially when you’re on bad terms. Or still have feelings. That’s, like, the easiest way to get forced down memory lane right there. So I hope you don’t run into them, whoever they are.”

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marlothekid‌:

“No, but like really, what does a mean? A half a point? How does that, like, even happen in an election?” She asked, confused, but also concerned since the girl seemed real beat up over the whole think. She smiled at the suggestion of another drink. “Yeah, of course.”

“Right? It’s like, just tell me I lost. I don’t need to know the margin. Especially one as confusing and as close as that one.” Gemma shook her head before smiling. “Good, but I certainly do.” She nodded her head before going and pouring them each another drink. “Cheers... to moving onto better things since high school.”

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thenewburymedal‌:

“It’s impressive you still remember the score,” Raf offered. He’d had friends in the running his senior year, but he’d barely remembered much else about the process. “I don’t know if I remember how queens and kings were picked.” If Raf had to give his best guess, he would’ve thought it was by vote, but “half a point” made it sound like there were other factors in consideration. “Sure, is there any rum left?” 

“When you get that close to winning Spring Fling Queen, I guess you just do.” Gemma shrugged. It may have seemed silly, but to her it was a big deal. “It was your typical paper ballot system, which is why the half a point doesn’t make sense. Who know, they probably just said that to make me feel better.” But, shocking, it just made her feel worse. “Uh yeah, think so.” She said before going to peruse the bottle selection and handing the rum over to him. “Here you go. So, how’s your night going?”