#[out of cottony candy]

[kteezy997]

The Candy Man- Part Three//W.W.

Warnings: mention of weight gain, judging spouse for gaining weight, planning to trick spouse, and some brief but very filthy smut, oral sex female receiving

Your secret affair with Willy went on for several more weeks. It was the highlight of your week, every week. He would bring over his delicious chocolate concoctions for you to try, and you would make love all over your house.

You loved having something to look forward to. You loved having someone that took notice of you, and made you feel beautiful and desired. Willy was charming, of course, but also sensitive and bright eyed, with such a positive energy to be around.

Each moment with him was a slice of heaven. At first, it was all about the sex, and how excited and willing to learn he was. But, in time, you found yourself falling in love.

You weren’t surprised that your husband still had no clue about another man coming over to sleep with you. He hadn't picked up on the exponential change in your mood, or the scent of another man on you, or the little love marks on your body. The man you married wasn’t the brightest bulb on Christmas tree. But he did begin notice that you had gained a few pounds. He made a couple of snide comments about your weight.

You hadn’t really paid attention, but once he rudely pointed it out, you realized that you had plumped up slightly in your belly area. It hurt your feelings, especially since he barely spoke to you and now whenever he did, it was to acknowledge something he viewed as a flaw. You figured the extra weight was brought on by all the sugar you had been eating on account of your lover’s chocolate.

You thought very little of your body’s changes until you missed your period the following week. Your stomach dropped at the thought of being pregnant, but not by your husband. You were worried about what he would do if he found out. You worried for your sake and for Willy's. You decided to call your doctor to be totally sure, and then you’d figure out your next step.

…….

When Willy came by that day, he was smiley as usual and wrapped his arms around you as soon as he entered the house. “I’ve missed you.” he cooed, kissing you with passion. It was difficult to be apart for a week at a time, for the both of you.

“I missed you too, Willy.” you said, squeezing him back as you hugged. “Listen, I gotta talk to you about something.”

“Of course. Is everything okay? Does he know?” There was a sudden urge of panic in Willy’s last question.

“No, no. It’s just…I think I could be pregnant. And you are the father, I haven’t had sex with my husband in months. I don’t know what to do.” you were anxious about your future when it came to this baby. You loved Willy, but you were a kept woman, your whole life could turn upside down as a result of this situation.

Willy's eyes were as big as saucers and he was silent for a moment before he said, “Wow. Okay, okay, listen, everything is going to be alright. Whatever you decide to do, I will support you.” he assured you, taking your hand. “I know that we haven’t known each other very long, but I love you, y/n. It sounds crazy, I know.”

“It does, it does sound crazy. But I love you too, Willy.”

He smiled softly at you, and he pulled you to him, and held you in a warm embrace. He smelled sweet like sugar, but also like fresh cottony linens.

You felt so safe with him, but you didn't know if that feeling could translate into the real world. You life with Willy looked so uncertain at this point.

But, his words of love and support lifted your spirits.

……

The next day, as you suspected, the doctors visit confirmed that you were indeed having a baby.

You spent the next week thinking of a plan of action. You were so torn between your mundane, yet familiar life with your dull husband, and the idea of running away with Willy Wonka. Willy had told you that his dream was to own and run his very own chocolate factory, to share his creations with the entire world.

No matter how big or unattainable his dreams may seem to an outsider, you knew that Willy was the kind of person to not take "no" as answer, and to chase his dreams all the way through to fruition. He was so full of joy and optimism and so easy to love. It would be the greatest adventure to be with him on his candy journey, especially along with your child. You knew that he would be a wonderful father.

But you didn't know how you and Willy would carry on in the meantime, before he found the success he was striving for. You didn't even know where he lived, or if he even had a home. For goodness sakes, you couldn't give birth or raise a baby in the streets!

There was one thing that would inhibit your life going forward with your husband. You were married to a blond haired, blue-eyed man with an athletic body. And you were impregnated by a skinny man with green eyes and dark curly hair. If you wanted to make your husband believe the child was his, you would have to come up with some genetic evidence.

Well, your mother had curly hair, so that could work in your favor. But the green eyes...perhaps those were descended from your father's side, yes, from the great grandfather you never got to meet, as he had died when your father was still small. Your husband would believe you, as he wouldn't have anything to disprove it.

Now, with your plan in your mind, all you had to do was sleep with your husband, to make him believe he impregnated you. The timeline of your fake pregnancy wouldn't line up with the actual one, but you knew that your husband could be fooled easily.

This could work for awhile, you thought, until you and Willy came up with another plan to run away together.

…….

You told Willy everything. You even mentioned that you would have to sleep with your husband for the plan to work. You didn’t want to have sex with him, but you had to at this point.

“I understand, y/n. And I’m not mad at you, but maybe I am little jealous that he will get to be inside you, I have to admit.” he looked down at his hands in his lap, pouting his lip a little, “He doesn’t deserve to be with you. Not in any way. You’re way too good for him.”

“You’re so sweet, honey. We will be out of this situation soon.” you caressed his cheek, smooth and soft to the touch, “You’ll have your own chocolate shop in no time and then, your own factory.” you put your hand on your stomach, “We believe in you, Willy Wonka.”

He grinned, putting his hand on yours, “I can’t wait to meet him, or her. The baby is going to be so beautiful, just like you.”

“I hope they have your curls.” you said, softly brushing your fingers through his silky locks.

Willy blushed, “I still can hardly believe it. I’m going to be a father.” he shook his head, then looked directly into your eyes, “And I’m going to give this child the life they deserve, and you too. Neither of you will have to want for anything, if I have something to say about it. We will have more than we’ve ever dreamed of, y/n.” he declared, leaning in to kiss you most tenderly.

“I’ve been thinking, and I really think that I can help you with the business side of things. You can be the chocolate maker and I’ll be your business partner. That way, it’ll be like we are truly in this together, Willy.”

He smiled from ear to ear, “Pinky promise? It’s the most solemn vow there is.” he held his pinky out and you tucked your own around his firmly.

“Pinky promise.”

…….

You were a little hornier than usual due to your pregnancy, so you and Willy got down to business straightaway after your important conversation. This rendezvous could also help you out by remembering it later in with your husband. Thinking about sex with Willy would make your reactions to Mr. Hudson more convincing.

As you lover went down on you, you threw your head back on the couch throw pillows. You moaned, nearing your orgasm already when Willy suddenly stopped licking. You looked down at him between your legs, “What is it, Willy?”

“Does being pregnant affect the way you taste? Because…” he licked his lips, pondering over your flavor, “you taste…salty, which is unusual, because you’re always sweet.”

You laughed, “I don’t know. I’m sure it can cause a little bit of a change.”

“Oh, okay.” he nodded, “You know, I’ve masturbated to the thought of eating you and chocolate at the same time.” he admitted.

“We can try it sometime, baby. Just keep going for now. I’m so close.” you loved how he felt comfortable enough to admit something so dirty to you, but all you wanted in that moment was for him to make come.

“Yeah, yeah! Right, sorry babe.”

You erupted just moments later and squirted in Willy’s face. You couldn’t get the image of him smirking with your juices on his lips out of your head. It came in handy when you had to seduce your husband later that night. Willy had a way of being encouraging.

@gatoenlaciudad @thebetawolfgirl @musicandbooksaremyhappyplace @softhecreator @tchalamss @chalametbich @bitchyunknownuser @lixzey

[luxxid]

morning sex 🙏🙏

something like you can't fail to cast admiration, right? a precious mortal unconscious, so lithe and pristine. the serenity of you greeted him in the morning when dawn had just begun to stroke the sky with pink and yellow strokes. it was a beautiful sight to behold, a sight that could not be replicated in any other way. the sight of you sleeping peacefully was a sight that could only be described as an awe-inspiring experience, one that filled his heart with admiration and awe.

your hair covered your concealed eyes, your long cilium fluttering unconsciously ever so often. those plump thighs barely touched the silky white nightgown you wore. your breasts were practically busted out, your cleavage was such a ravishing sight to lock eyes with. there was almost something almost irresistible about your white lacey panties.

how could he give in to his sinful thoughts? he was under the sway of that immoral mentality. You were such an alluring angel. the only thing he wanted to taste early in the morning was you, and the saccharine, candied taste of your pussy. the thought of his digits tunnelling through the depths of your cunt drove him feral.

in fact, that was what he was doing at this moment. his visions had finally come to reality. he had carefully parted your legs, cautious not to douse you from your slumber. he practically ripped apart your velvety panties that cached your addictive relish. his tongue probed your sweet sex so skilfully, his lissom digits brushed over your clit lightly, his fingernails grazing over your lips. oh, how he would cherish it more if you were conscious.

his heart rate raced as he imagined your skin sliding against his in a sensual embrace. his thoughts were reprehensible, and his body was aching for a climax. he wanted to be inside of you, to feel you, to taste you, and to make you quiver with pleasure.

was he too concentrated on the piquancy of your sugar-coated pussy that he failed to notice you had risen from your sleep? your eyes locked with the man nibbling your cunt so gracefully, a moan automatically elicited from your throat. your hands reached for his cottony locks as you caressed through them. the lewd noise of your drenched pussy became his only vice, his lips wrapped around your clitoris and tongue flicking it as if it were a lollipop. his hand clutching your hips as he continued to ravish you. his irises were burning with lust as you squirmed beneath him in pleasure.

his hands were restless as they roamed around your body, feeling every curve and every inch of your being. his tongue was like a wild animal, licking and sucking on your most sensitive areas. his movements were slow and deliberate as he explored your body with his mouth. you felt your pleasure increase as he shifted his body to give you the most exquisite sensations.

"shhh angel, i'm here," he spoke, his voice wasn't exactly clear as he was occupied with enthusing himself with the tang of your honey-varnished clit. his lips ventured deeper into your walls as you tugged on his streaks. it was as if he hadn't cared if you woke up or not. the only thing he was potent on was pleasuring you and himself

⚜ SCARAMOUCHE, KAEYA, Tartaglia, KAMISATO AYATO, Thoma, DOTTORE, Pierro ⚜

[pyxis-deliveryservices]

*Pyxis is just walking back home after their short time at the roller-rink. Wasn't as fun doing it alone, but they still had a bit of fun.*

*They've already passed out all their candy for the evening, currently using their amulet to give them their curled sheep's horns, sheep's ears, a cottony black tail, and hooves that clack on the ground as they walk back to their apartment*

"Kay. Game plan. Drink, smoke, drink, then pass out on tha couch eatin peanut M&Ms."

[catgrassplantdad]

I would like to hear about Ians aftercare. I love mickey aftercare but everyone tell me how Mickey acts post sex towards him 🥹

☀️ hi, anon! i love this! the plan was to just give a brief description of the headcanons i have about this, but then it spiraled. so here's a short drabble about ian receiving aftercare from mickey. 💫

The blindfold is carefully slipped off of him, and Ian opens his eyes, squinting against the low lamp light. He's still dazed, and there's hot, lingering pleasure still warming him, everything just now starting to recede out of him. He's laying flat on his back, loose-limbed, sweat making him stick to the sheets. There's all kinds of shuffling beside him as he takes his shuddering, uneven breaths, and he sees that it's Mickey stacking pillows against the headboard.

Mickey pulls a towel off the nightstand where it had been waiting for them, and then he's right beside him again, blessedly close and comforting, kneeling over him and so, so gently wiping him down. Slow drags on his skin, the softest touch he can manage. Ian hisses when he dabs around his cock, still so sensitive, and Mickey soothes him with a hand on his stomach, murmuring, "sorry, I got you..."

When Mickey leans away to drop the towel onto the floor and rummage around on the nightstand, Ian brings his hands up to his face, closing his eyes and wiping away sweat. He groans when he gets the spins to a surprisingly unbearable degree, opening his eyes back up quickly and trying to focus his vision on a single point on the ceiling, trying to ground himself. His head is all cottony. There's a dull ringing in his ears.

He doesn't normally go completely nonverbal the way Mickey so often does, so he's able to mumble "C'mere, please," and bat a hand out toward his husband, smacking the mattress.

"I'm comin'," Mickey assures him, shuffling over with a water bottle in hand. He drops it on the mattress to take Ian's face in his hands, cradling him sweetly, his touch so warm. "Wanna sit up for me?"

"Mmm," Ian grunts agreeably. Yeah, he wants to sit up. So he can drink the water Mickey has for him. He wants to feel more steady. He wants...ah. He wants a fucking hug.

He groggily heaves himself up, and then Mickey's helping him ease back against the pillows he's stacked for him, all nestled and propped up and cozy. His husband slides into his lap, straddling him and pressed so close, all warm and soft and so lovely and loving. His arms wrap around Ian's shoulders, and Ian buries himself in him. Yes, this is it. Such a good fucking hug. He lets his hands rest on Mickey's hips, his face pressed against his neck, breathing in that warm, slightly musky smell of him, familiar and beautiful. They sit like this for a moment, and his head begins to clear.

He peers over Mickey's shoulder and sees the cuffs lying unbuckled on the bed, the blindfold discarded beside them. He wraps his arms tighter around Mickey, taking one wrist in hand against Mickey's lower back and rubbing it tenderly, remembering. He felt so good. He feels so good.

"Here, drink," Mickey says softly, leaning away to grab the water, Ian unwinding his arms from around him. He unscrews the cap and hands it over, and Ian carefully takes it from him. He holds it with both hands, not trusting his trembling fingers to grasp it with just one. He takes a couple of sips, and fuck, that feels good on his raw throat. It cools him down.

Mickey watches him drink it, then takes it from him when he's done.

"Feelin' alright, tough guy?" he asks sweetly. Ian nods. "Want a snack?" And how is that so cute?

"Yeah." Ian nods again.

Staying firmly seated on Ian, Mickey leans aside again and grabs the little packet on the nightstand. It's trail mix, but it's the kind that's mostly chocolate. Just a bag of candy, really. Ian's got a hell of a sweet tooth, especially after this kind of exertion, and Mickey knows it. He's prepared.

Ian smiles as Mickey carefully rips open the bag and reaches in. He holds up an m&m, and Ian opens his mouth, still smiling. He lets Mickey feed him, laughing a little bit.

"You're cute," he says as he chews.

"Fuck off," Mickey replies, no heat to it. And then, "You're fuckin' cute."

He feeds him another piece of chocolate.

"I can do this part, baby," Ian says as Mickey digs into the bag again. "Can feed myself." Not that he minds, really. He likes this kind of attention.

And Mickey looks at him all soft then, in that way that he does sometimes when he's about to be earnest and sweet, and it's got Ian melting a little bit already.

"I wanna do it," he says. Ian's heart clenches.

"Okay."

He lounges there, leaning back against pillows that his husband piled up for him so he would be comfy, said husband in his lap and being the perfect grounding weight and presence, eating chocolate that his husband slips between his lips with fingers that had only just been wrecking and unraveling him. And he enjoys feeling wholly treasured, entirely taken care of.

[finsterhund]

Dunmeshi moment. Ignore me

Underbed monster is like cooking with the lightest fluffiest finest shredded meat that could ever exist. They're kinda reptiles or amphibians. So maybe like alligator meat with the texture and consistency of cotton candy. The outer "skin" is fabric, textile, yes. That's true. But the stuffing inside? Probably incredible. Lightest fluffiest cottony meat to ever exist. Is practically a gaseous form. Melts in your mouth, doesn't require chewing at all. Probably could be considered a liquid food diet.

Vast majority is located in their fat little chubby outer tails. That's where they store all their reserves after all. Makes sense. They drop those tails to escape predation. Biting down on an Underbed monster's tail might be like biting down on a cattail plant. Fluffy stuff just explodes into your mouth.

Might even be able to siphon it out of them via a syringe like drawing blood without killing them.

The drawback though is they almost exclusively eat human flesh and scavenged garbage. So, might not be the safest out there if you're a human yourself. That and they will definitely try to eat you first, and are a whole lot better at that than you are to them.

Cotton candy except it's cotton... meat.

Meat floss but like, it comes out of the critter like that.

They eat kids so it's deserved honestly. Uno reverse card.

[twsted-princess]

A Day For a Princess

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @fumikomiyasaki!!!!!!

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS APPLE!!!!!!!!" Mori shouted presenting a very messily wrapped box to the birthday girl in question. Carol smiled though she had to lean back with her friend's shouting as she took the rectangle, already knowing what's inside thanks to a tiny missing piece of wrapping paper. "Thank you Mori." she said calmly before opening the brightly colored polka dotted package to reveal a board game. Serpents and Stairways, it sounded vaguely familiar to a game back home but she passed the thought away. She watched him bounce on his toes before putting it aside. "Do you like it? I got it from Mr. Sam we can even play together!!" He beamed brightly while Forte put a hand on his shoulder. "Easy easy, we can play later. It's Carol's day remember?" Mori nodded "Ok!!" before hurrying off to fill his cup of punch. Carol giggled from her spot on the couch. She really wasn't planning on having a big party but her dorm mates, specifically Melanie, threw her a little bash. Streamers, a few bowls of chips and candy, even a cake that was baking in the oven. Her friends and some of her tutoring students were hanging around as Alto's boom box played various songs from Bopify , talking among themselves as Carol picked up her phone. She looked down and furrowed her brows. James hadn't called her at all. Not in the morning, not when the party started, not even a text. It was a weekend and he couldn't be that busy. But she couldn't help but be worried for her boyfriend. At best he got into a fight with Barry again and at worst......the clowns took him. She bit her lower lip and took a breath, it's ok. Melanie saw her and sit down to her. "He'll come, I know he will." Carol smiled, yeah she did trust. She grabbed her green plastic cup from the table and took a sip, letting the cold water cleanse her mouth. From over the music and talking Ace break it while looking at the window. "Uuuuuuuuh guys? Someone's coming.....and they're on a horse?" Wait........wait a minute. There was only one man she knew that would pull this stunt. Carol looked through the window to see......him.

James, on a chestnut steed, dressed as dapper as can be with a picnic basket in arm. He steadied his horse and pet their neck as he saw his beloved. She looked back to the party and Melanie's smile grew bright, making the pushing gesture with her hands as James hopped off. The birthday girl took a breath before walking to the door and opening the door. He was there, smiling down at her. The two stood there lost in each other's eyes before he took her hand, planting a kiss on the back. "Hello my princess." Princess........oh. Her face turned a bright red as he smiled. "H- Hi James." God why did he have to be smooth. Ignoring Ace gagging in the background James gestured outside to the horse. "If I may?" Carol nodded before looking back at Melanie. She nodded and Carol took his hand as he led her to his horse. The beast friendly snorted at her causing the two to chuckle. He picked her up so she was fully seated before getting onto the saddle and the two were off. Her hands insistingly wrapped around his waist as they trotted along the dirt road, the path in full bloom. "Soooo....mind if I have a hint to what you have in store?" she asked but he shook his head. "Not yet but we're not far away." She smiled before curling into his back hugging him with a little giggle since she could feel him warm up. A few minutes passed until they reached an open field, daisies and white clovers dotting on the land as blue painted the sky with cottony light clouds. James then got off and led the steed to a spot to graze before carrying Carol down. Hand in hand they found a spot, he opened the basket to pull out a gingham blanket to lay. The two sat down before he pulled out more things. Apple juice, apple turnovers, and an apple cake causing her to smile. "You really know a way to a girl's heart huh?" He rubbed the head sheepishly as he got a plate for her "I uh...made them all myself. Had to remember my grandma's recipe, it's not easy when you don't have an actual list." She smiled taking a turnover while he poured some juice into a cup. Once he had two cups he raised his and she did the same. "Cheers." They clicked glasses before laughing, the turnovers were delicious if a little burnt on the bottom. They watched the clouds roll pass, guessing the shapes and being in their own world. As she listened to the breeze he slid a daisy ring onto her hand. "Fabio taught me." He smiled as he held one for himself, she blushed hard. This guy......... Soon James sat up "Carol, I need to tell you something." She followed, getting up as he took her hand. "In my home village, we have this legend. Of a man who took a weak dying plant into his care, doing everything he can to help the sprout grow. Everyone thought he was crazy except for a woman. She shared his passion and the two poured their love into the plant, as it grew mighty and strong so did their love for each other." He squeezed lightly before looking her in the eyes. "To me, love is something that grows. From past struggles to days of doubt. From moments of joys and the times that remain immortalized. It's something you nurture and become patient with. To cherish until your hands grow callous with age and your days surrounded with those who call you family. I want that love. And I want to grow with you." He then pulled out from the basket an apple sprout, potted and bright green with new life. "Will you.......help me raise this. So it will grow and bear our love?" Carol felt her eyes well up but he wiped them away, he was tearing up too. "Yes.........absolutely yes." She said before pulling him for a kiss. He kissed her back as they fell back onto the grass, their new sprout beside them, a life they'll cultivate together.

[sailoryooons]

Dominus | Drabble | kth (m)

☾ Pairing: demon!Taehyung x unnamed f. character

☾ Summary: Taehyung is a demon that has needs. Some of those needs include feeding off of fear and fucking until he's numb. Thankfully, he knows how to do those things at the same time.

☾ Word Count:  2,628

☾ Genre: Smut, pwp, strangers to one-night stand

☾ Rating: 18+ Minors are strictly prohibited from engaging and reading this content. It contains explicit content and any minors discovered reading or engaging with this work will be blocked immediately. 

☾ Warnings: PLEASE TAKE THESE WARNINGS SERIOUSLY. THIS DRABBLE INCLUDES INCREDIBLY DARK THEMES SUCH AS: explicit language, manipulation, power dynamics, explicit sexual content including spit play, breath play (intense choking), mentions of getting off on fear, unprotected vaginal sex, pet names (Tae calls her kitten), honorifics (she calls him dominus which means master in this world), masturbation (female) voyeurism, rough sex, orgasm control, light mentions of blood, no after care, mentions of alcohol and drugs, trance like state post sex, Taehyung is a demon and he is REALLY terrible in this - please read this IF YOU ARE OKAY WITH THE WARNINGS.

☾ Published: September 4, 2022

☾ A/N: This is a side drabble to my series Carved. The series is incredibly dark. You do not need to read the series to read this drabble, but it would make a teeny bit more sense. Carved Tae seems to have a lot of stans (cough cough myself included) so I decided to write this to get myself out of my intense writers block.

☾ Disclaimer: All members of BTS are faces and name claims for this story. This is entirely a work of fiction and by no means is meant to be a projection, judgment or representation of real-life people. Any scenarios or representations of the people and places mentioned in works are not representative of real-life scenarios.

Masterlist | Ask | Carved Series 

Glittering lights make Taehyung dizzy. He stares at them, coalescing purples and blues and pinks. They flicker in the fog of the club - or maybe it's the smoke that Jimin is blowing in the air as he breathes out vampire, luscious lips pursed. The smoke smells like candied fruit, pleasant among the smell of sweating bodies pressed against one another. 

Taehyung sips the blue drink. He has no idea what it is but he looks up at the lights and they are alive. Fuck. Synth makes the alcohol so much better. He is buzzing, his arms like TV static and head cottony. 

As usual, they have a private booth. It’s just Taehyung and Jimin tonight. It’s not unlike Jungkook to turn them down for a night out, especially now that he has that Carved to worry about. 

Not for the first time, Taehyung feels a rush of anger that he purchased her for Jungkook. He should have just bought her for himself. He could think of several things that he could do with her.

Taehyung adjusts the body chain laying down his middle. It loops around his neck and his waist, made from demon stone and Parthos steel. Though it glitters prettier than any other metal in the world, it could cut through Vanir skin and decapitate a Vaesen if pulled tight around the neck. 

Tan skin peeks out from the collar of his low cut shirt. The ruffle of his jacket snakes up the right side of his neck, curling around the back like a serpent on his shoulder. He’s always had exquisit taste: clothes, food, art, Vanir slaves, drugs. 

Tonight is no different. 

Spreading his legs wide, Taehyung runs his tongue on his bottom lip, and drags his dark gaze from the lights flashing over the dancing bodies to the lone Valkyrie in front of him. She sits rod straight, her gold eyes cast down. Taehyung taps the edge of his glass with his nail, slowly evaluating her from head to toe. 

Caramel skin covered in some cosmetic glitter that makes her shimmer like the drugs Jimin snorted earlier. White, leather skirt that does nothing to hide her generous ass or her little pink panties underneath. Tan planes of stomach that Taehyung wants to sink his teeth in. White, leather bralette, breasts spilling out the top.

Mouth watering. 

The valkyrie is afraid. Her fingers twist in her lap and she chews the inside of her cheek. She uses her dark hair, silky and smelling like rose to hide her face as her male companion climbs into Jimin’s lap. 

Taehyung has no mind for Jimin as he shoves his tongue down the witch’s throat. He stands up, stretching his long limbs. The room tilts on its axis and he laughs, utterly delighted by how fucked up he feels. 

As carefully as possible, he collapses onto the booth next to the valkyrie. She flinches and he grins further, slouching in the seat next to her so that he has to look up at her through his lashes, eyes round. 

“Hi,” he offers. Up close she smells like roses and vanilla - and fear. “You smell divine.”

“Thank you, dominus.” Her voice is soft and accented.

Taehyung resists the urge to bite his fist. Up close, he can make out the freckles across her nose and cheeks. The longer he stares, the more they appear. They move, swirling on her skin like constellations. He is hypnotized, open-mouth staring at her as the freckles dance. 

He blinks and they return to normal, unmoving and simple. 

“Why so afraid?” he murmurs. Taehyung’s head leans, almost resting on her shoulder. She glances at him and he bats his eyelashes at her. “You don’t have to be afraid of me. I’m harmless.” 

“You are powerful, dominus. It is difficult to be in the presence of greatness.” 

Liar, Taehyung thinks. He smiles, pointed canines on full display. She chews her inner cheek again. Taehyung slowly brings a finger to her cheek, brushing her skin. It’s so warm he almost moans, his eyes fluttering at the touch of her. 

To his pleasant surprise, her eyes shutter and she leans towards him a bit. He bites his bottom lip, dragging his fingers across her cheekbone and down the slope of her soft jaw. 

“You shouldn’t bite the inside of your cheek,” he whispers. “Might hurt yourself, kitten.” 

“I’m sorry, dominus.”

“Hmm. Don’t be.” 

Taehyung spreads his legs and pats his thigh. She hesitates for a moment and he drags his fingers up his dark trousers slowly before patting his thigh again - much higher this time. The valkyrie moves slowly, bottom lip between her teeth as she shifts. She throws her leg over his waist, facing him without meeting his eyes. Her ass settles on his cock and his blood thrums. 

Cold hands skate up and down her arms as he seeks the warmth of her skin. Taehyung is cold by nature, craving that warm blood rushing through her body. Her face isn’t hidden behind a curtain of hair now. Her eyes are large and round, button nose small on her heart-shaped face. She is the perfect Vanir: soft, supple, pliant, thrumming with vitality. 

Burning gold eyes that belong to the race of the valkyrie look at him tentatively. Her heart rate skips as Taehyung’s fingers settle on the hem of her skirt, brushing back and forth on the curve of her ass cheeks. 

Taehyung’s eyes go to her collar. It’s pink, a tiny E resting on the hollow of her throat, glittering with diamonds. He lifts one hand, going to her neck to trace the leather. She closes her eyes and sways in his lap. Taehyung smirks. 

“What’s the E for, hmm?”

Dark music pulses from the first floor. It hums through the floor, through Taehyung’s feet and through his ribcage. It’s a pleasant vibration, mixed with the alcohol and demon dust Jimin offered him before coming to the club. 

“Eden, dominus,” she whispers. “I belong to the club, dominus.”

“Such a pretty little thing, what a waste to be in this club.” Taehyung pouts up at her. He splays his hand at the base of her neck. He’s transfixed for a moment. His hand is so large in comparison to her delicate, tender neck. It would take a simple squeeze to end it all. Her little life is nothing in his hands. 

Instead of choking her to death like he wants, Taehyung tilts his head to the side. “Have you been treated well?”

“Of course, dominus.”

He tsks. “Come on, kitten. Be honest with me. You’re so afraid, sitting here with us. I don’t want that for you. I want you to feel safe. Has someone made you feel unsafe here?”

The valkyrie’s eyes water. She looks down, chewing on her bottom lip as she worries at the hem of her skirt. Taehyung gently brushes his hand from her chest to her bottom lip, pulling it lightly with his thumb. She stops gnawing at the flesh, but the damage is done. Her lips are roses and thrumming with the blood from the pressure of her teeth. 

“Some are rough, dominus. But it’s okay, we deserve it.”

“Hmm. Such a shame, to be rough with you. Do you like it here?”

“It is fine, dominus.”

Taehyung hums again. “What would you say if I offered to buy you?” Her wide eyes fly up to meet Taehyung’s. He hears the way her breathing stops. Starts again. Stops. Starts again. Her heart patterns like the wings of his father’s hummingbirds. “Your face is a waste here. You could come home with me.” 

“I-I am not good enough for a lord, dominus.”

Taehyung’s hand on her face goes rigid, gripping her chin harshly as he forces her to look at him. Her fear spikes, sour scent making Taehyung salivate. “I’m not a lord, kitten.”

He relaxes. Takes a deep breath. Caresses her skin for a while to get her to calm down. She melts into him after a time. 

“I don’t deserve it, dominus.” She whispers. She tangles her fingers together. Taehyung watches her, gaze fiery. “I’m just a Vanir. It would be an honor to be a part of your home, dominus.”

“We’ll do it then.” She looks up at Taehyung sharply. “When I leave, you’ll go with me.”

“Truly, dominus?” 

Taehyung gives her a wolfish grin. “I promise.” 

Bathrooms at Eden are pristine on the upper level. Taehyung doesn’t bother to lock the door. The valkyrie is looking around the room, eyes round like a doe. Taehyung watches her. The pink lights of the bathroom make her look magenta, her skin shimmering as she marvels at the vines and roses climbing up gold, carved mirrors.

A waterfall trickles behind Taehyung, the water spelled to be shimmering gold as it falls from the eyes of a weeping angel, hands clasped up to the sky. Foliage and flowers cover the walls, making the bathroom smell like jasmine and honeysuckle. It smells almost as delicious as the valkyrie who leans against the skin and looks at Taehyung with desire.

She opens her legs slightly, hips tilted up so he can see her panties. He grins ferally at her - perfect. 

“I bet you have the prettiest pussy,” Taehyung purrs. “Hmmm? Will you let dominus see?”

Sucking her bottom lip in her mouth, she nods. Slowly, she traces her hand under her skirt, pushing up the hem. Taehyung leans against the wall, legs spread with his hand resting on his cock. He’s hungry - not for food, but for the Vanir in front of him.

She pulls aside the delicate lace underwear and Taehyung smirks as she spreads her legs a little more. “Like this, dominus?” 

“Get on the counter.” 

She scrambles to listen to him. On the counter, she spreads her legs wide for him. He is fixated as she pulls the panties to the side again, opening herself up to him. She’s wet and pink. Taehyung hums in approval. 

“Play with yourself for me, kitten. Get it nice and wet so I can fuck that little cunt of yours.” Her chest starts rising and falling as she looks at him. He smiles. “Then we can go home, yeah?”

The valkyrie nods. She obeys immediately, hand tracing up and down her glistening folds. Taehyung strides forward, watching as her movements stop. He grins and leans over her mound, spitting directly onto her cunt before walking backward and leaning against the wall again. 

“Continue,” he says.

She complies, spreading the spit around her clit in lazy circles. He tells her to trace her hole with delicate fingers - she does. He tells her to pinch her clit - she does. She follows his every command, absolutely flushed and read all over, sweat beading on her brow as he has her edge herself.

Finally, Taehyung pushes himself off the wall. His movement is so quick that she barely tracks it, dazed as she looks up at him. Taehyung lifts her off the counter and throws her on her stomach. She lets out a soft sound of surprise and a whine as her forehead smacks the mirror glass. He ignores it in favor of unzipping his hands, stroking his heavy cock in his hand.

The valkyrie watches in the mirror. Taehyung is transfixed by the way his cockhead splits her hole. He grins, prodding her with the tip as she moans and clenches before he sinks into her on the upstroke, throwing his head back and gasping. 

Taehyung draws pretty little sounds from her mouth as he fucks into her cunt. He knows if he looks down in the mirror, he’ll see her eyes rolling back in her head. Her screams are of pleasure and border on pain as he digs his nails into the flesh of her ass, drawing blood. 

But he’s not watching her. He watches himself, watches the flush on his neck and the way his hair sticks to his forehead as she bends her further into the counter. Watches the veins throb and the way shadows begin to twist around him as he splits the valkyrie open. 

Her pussy flutters around him and he realizes she’s going to orgasm. Taehyung grabs her by the hair, pulling her back as he growls into her hair. “Don’t you dare fucking cum.” 

She whimpers in response, but nods. 

With one hand holding her down to drill into her, Taehyung uses his free hand to lift the loop of chain around his neck up and over his head. She lifts her head for him, watching him in the mirror as he drapes it around her head. 

Taehyung gathers the chain in his fist, pulling gently at first, just cutting off a little bit of air. She moans and he wraps the chain tighter, gripping it as he fucks into her harder, her hips slamming agaisnt the bathroom counter. 

The valkyrie pants against the mirror. Breath mists the glassy surface, her spit smearing across it as Taehyung shifts so that he’s leaning over her, pulling up on the chain and cutting off her air supply completely.

Taehyung begins to count the strokes it takes for her to panic. Someone enters the bathroom - a shinigami woman who gives him a grin in the mirror as she drifts to a stall. Taehyung barely acknowledges her as he twists the chain a fraction harder. 

“Cum,” Taehyung barks at her. 

Underneath him, the valkyrie’s hands curl into fists. She clenches around him once - twice and convulses, cumming with a scream and her last breath. 

He doesn’t stop. Cum drips down her legs, he can see it dripping down the tan flesh. 

It takes almost two minutes for her to start gasping for air. She grips the counter, red in the face as she fucking takes it. Taehyung feels a sliver of appreciation - a Vanir who knows not to fight back. A Vanir who takes what her master gives her, who pants against the mirror and lets her eyes roll back into her head. 

Another thirty seconds goes by and her heart begins to give out. 

It’s all he needs. Taehyung cums with a growl, letting go of the chain. The valkyrie gasps for air, sagging underneath Taehyung as he falls on top of her, crushing her into the sink.

For a few moments, Taehyung feels like he’s floating. There’s a buzz in his veins and his mind is somewhere else where it’s fuzzy and electric. The valkyrie doesn’t move under him, but he can feel her panting, struggling to catch her breath. She is still shaken from the choking and he grins, laughing as he finally pulls himself off of her.

The valkyrie melts to the floor like a puddle. She sags, still breathing heavily as she looks up at Taehyung. There are stars in her eyes as she watches himself tuck his cock into his pants. She smiles at him, dazed and delighted. There is spit all over her face, makeup running. A soft bruise has formed where she hit her head on the mirror. 

Rolling his shoulders, Taehyung heads to the door. 

“Dominus?” her voice is small behind him. He doesn’t even glance at her as he opens the door and lets himself out, leaving her dripping and disheveled. “Dominus wait!” 

Taehyung doesn’t wait. He walks back out into the cool interior of the club, the music swelling around him again. He stops by his booth - Jimin is gone. Taehyung doesn’t care. He knocks back one of the glasses full of blue liquid and snaps his fingers toward an attendant who shows him a bill. He doesn’t look at it - just flourishes the pen and heads toward the stairs.

As he passes the bathroom, he hears the valkyrie sobbing. 

Taehyung grins. 

[aquamarine0710]

Snippet #5

‘What a nice dream!’ [Hero] thought as they chewed on the soft cottony food in front of them.

“…i”

They paused, ‘Hmm? Why does this taste like hair oil?’

“STOP CHEWING MY HAIR GODDAMNIT!!”

[Hero]’s eyes shot open and they spat out the weird fibrous things in their mouth.

“WHY ARE YOU SPITTING ON IT NOW?!” A pained voice yelled from below them.

‘Ah?’ [Hero] looked around blankly, ‘This isn’t my place?’

“You piece of-“

[Villain] grabbed [Hero]’s neck and forced them to look down at them, growling, “Look at what you’ve done to my precious hair!”

“A-Ah? [VILLAIN] ?!” [Hero] felt their heart stop for a second as they looked at the saliva covered hair.

“You chewed it up! Are you a goat or something?!” The other scolded as they tried to remove the saliva from their golden locks.

“A goat?… AH SO THAT WEIRD TASTING COTTON CANDY WAS YOUR HAIR?!”

“YOU THOUGHT ITS COTTON CANDY?!”

They stared at each other dumbfounded.

[Villain] let out a deep sigh, “Well whatever, lets take a shower.” They hauled [Hero] over their shoulder almost effortlessly and took them to the bathroom, “Here we go.”

An hour later, they got out of the bathroom with [Hero] carrying [Villain] in a princess carry. Unlike how effortless [Villain] made it look however, [Hero]’s arms were trembling, a lot.

“Can I put you down now babe?” [Hero] smiled through gritted teeth, almost able to feel the pain they’d have to face the next day already.

[Villain] looked up at them and patted their head, “Nope. It’s punishment. Carry me to the kitchen now.”

[Hero] laughed dispiritedly and carried their beloved to the kitchen.

[konata-izumi-kinny-writes]

Fukase X Reader Hcs

Sfw and Nsfw

Fukase loves you to death, despite how aloof and secluded he is, he does open up for you.

Depressed Bilingual Musical Weeb Memer Boyfriend

Holds your hand in public for support. Crowds can be overwhelming.

He grabs random snacks and candy for the two of you from a nearby gas station. He also gifts you supplies for whatever hobbies you may have.

His favorite movie is Ponyo.

Fukase usually doesn't sing for people unless he absolutely has to, but he will sing for you if you ask him.

Hes fine with almost any song except for the high range test. It terrifies him that people torture the other vocaloids with it.

If you have a good singing voice, he will ask you to sing with him (politely of course)

He likes the backrooms

He loves Kikuo songs, he'll hum them at random when he's alone or in your presence.

Fukase is a huge sucker for animals. And they like him too.

He'll pick a possum off the street and just beg to keep it as a pet.

Speaking of pets, here's the pet names he calls you by

"Ragdoll" "baby" "Babe" "My little phantom" "Teddy Bear"

Fukase's hair is super soft, one of the softest things you've ever felt.

His lips are soft too 😘

Very passionate kisser

He smells like fresh blankets out of the dryer. Just that warm cottony smell.

Ok so, before you go thinking that the deformed side of his body is all crusty and gross, its not. Its basically like the rest of his skin except for the different color and the fact that its slightly warmer than the rest of him.

Fukase's love language is physical touch and kind words.

He wants to be touching you 24/7, 365 days a year. Whether it be a hand on your thigh, waist, shoulder, whatever he just wants you to know he's there.

Rests on your shoulder and whispers sweet words in your ear. And he means every single one.

"I love you so much Baby, you mean the world to me. Love ya, ragdoll."

Legit wants to marry you. Won't say it out loud in case it scares you away though.

Aight peeps, Nsfw ahead! Prepare yallselves ;3

Big dick.. very very big dick

Switch, he likes it when you ride him, but likes being dominant too.

Very grabby and will grope and squish you any time he can.

Kisses all over

The little noises he makes are just to die for 😩

Moan for him, he will get 10× hornier than he already is.

"Keep moaning for me Ragdoll~ just like that, baby, ohhh~"

Very good at eating you out/blowjobs and loves doing them for you.

If Fukase finds you wearing his clothes prepare to be fucked in them

One thing that turns him on big time is when you wear a short skirt and your ass shows when you bend over or smth.

Will let you peg him

Wear thigh highs for him PLS

"Babe. Baby. Ragdoll. I need you to sit on my face please. Like right now"

Aight yall thx for reading :D

[animebw]

Reading One Piece: Chapters 824-825

-”THAT’S MY DAD?!” “You just put to together?!” skdjfhskdhf LUFFY HOW

-”AAAAAAAH! I FORGOT TO TURN OFF THE STOVE!” Never before has a man squandered his aura of badassery so quickly as Luffy has at the start of this chapter.

-”Come quick... and pull me out!” Am... am I going crazy, or is this Hody?

-Oh dear... Kado likes to get angry drunk. That bodes ill.

-Aaaand he’s already crushed one of the new generation’ frontmen. Lovely.

-”A week’s worth of food for all of us?!” “I figured you’d be hungry.” Man. This crew is a mess.

-Cottony candy snow, huh? Guess it’s no surprise Whole Cake Island would be a land of dessert.

-This guy’s French still makes me cringe out of my skull.

-”I would never make a dish for the kind of people who’d destroy their own comrades without thinking!” That’s sounding like the Sanji I once loved.

-...dammit, she’s gorgeous.

-Lol, even comic strips are navy propaganda in this world. I feel ya, dude, I always root for Team Rocket roo.

-Aaaah, good old-fashioned machine gun arm.

-”I’ll be come a mummy... Nami, do you suppose that would be a rejuvination for me?” pfft

-”Emergency food supply...” “Don’t look at me like that!” As hilarious as this is, it’s also interesting just how useless Luffy’s become. Halve his crew and seafaring becomes a near-death experience.

-And so the invasion begins! So much for taking the sneaky way in...

[rrazor]

positions | m. issei

tags: fluff, mildly suggestive content

issei never knew how much he loved touching you until he was granted unconditional permission to do so. he thought he was relatively independent and someone who didn’t need as much reassurance or physical affection compared to other guys around him, like oikawa and hanamaki or even iwaizumi.

he thought he’d be fine, satisfied, content with just having you sit next to him or holding your hand or just being near you.

he thought wrong.

but he’s okay with that—you always indulged him after all, more than happy to have him close. your face lights up in a way that’s so adorable it pains him and has his fingers itching for contact.

he toys with the edge of your hoodie, watching your in-game character dash about. turning his head, he dips it into the crook of your neck, closing his eyes. his arms automatically tighten around you as he noses into the skin there.

“‘sei, you bored?”

he mumbles his “no” into your skin, smelling clean and cottony from your shower. his legs tangle with yours underneath the blankets. the side of his right foot comes up to brush against your bare calf and he begins to wish he wore shorts instead.

you hum, fingers tapping away at the screen while his slide up under your hoodie. you glance down at them before looking back to your screen again. issei grins happily behind you, gently roaming his hands across your stomach and up to cup your boobs. your skin is soft, recently moisturized. you talked about how you bought a new one, how it was “natural” and made your skin feel like velvet. he agrees, roaming his hands around and taking in all your dips and curves.

“hey!” you squeal. “i’m fighting!”

he chuckles, kissing your cheek. “and you’re gonna lose if you don’t focus.”

you huff, but to his delight, don’t tell him to stop so he lets you grumble, snickering like the cat who got the cream.

｡⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ

he wakes up to a delirious fog, overheated and chilled to the bone. bringing his hand up to rub at his eyes, he blinks through the darkness of his room, slowly extending an arm to his phone on his nightstand.

5:37pm.

“nii-chan… room… dinner.”

he hears footsteps get closer to his door. a short series of knocks.

“issei?” your voice is soft. “are you awake?”

“yes,” he tries to say, but it comes out a rasp, too quiet. he wonders why you’re here anyways, on a school night when there’s a math exam tomorrow. an exam he hopes he’ll pass given the state he’s in.

the door opens gently, allowing the soft yellow light from the hallway into his room. you walk in, hands carrying a tray. he hears the china knock into each other.

“oh, you’re awake.”

he nods, watching you set down everything on his nightstand before putting a hand over his forehead. the steam of the mug rises and already, he can feel how dry his mouth is.

“how’re you feeling?”

he clears his throat, wincing at the amount of phlegm he’s forced to clear out. you frown, if your down turned eyebrows are anything to go by. he can’t see the rest of your pretty face behind your mask.

“been better,” he croaks.

you huff out a laugh. “got enough energy for your meds?”

he nods, sitting up just enough to make it easy to wash the pills down with water before he slumps back into bed.

“are you hungry?” you ask, sitting down at the edge of his bed.

he shakes his head, letting you touch his forehead again.

“tired? wanna go back to sleep?”

he hums noncommittally, bringing his hand up to hold onto your wrist. you run your fingers through his soft curls, making him shiver.

“go to sleep,” you whisper.

he shakes his head, pulling you hard enough that you fall over him in surprise. he wraps his arms around your torso, burying his face in your chest.

“hey,” you chide, resting on your elbows above him. “you need to rest.”

he nuzzles into your shirt, relishing in having you close. the smooth, cool cotton of your shirt a welcome feeling on his overheated skin.

“missed you.”

straight through the heart.

“i missed you, too,” you whisper.

“stay a bit?” he pleas. he knows he shouldn’t, but he can’t really help himself.

you bring the blankets up over yourself and his heart soars. he tucks himself on top of your chest, heart pounding in his chest as you pull your mask down to kiss his forehead. it’s tender, so comforting.

he falls asleep to the smell of cotton and camomile.

｡⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ

“babe.”

you hum, lips resting against his forehead. the clock on the bedside table reads 9:48pm in muted led.

he can’t see you in the dark, tucked in so close to you. issei’s resting beside you again. because he can’t ever get enough. because that’s where he belongs, hands on your skin, head tucked into your neck. he’s tall, might as well be two metres, two whole hundred centimetres but issei adores it when he gets to be the small spoon.

“d’y’ever think about the people who got infinity symbols tattooed or those moustaches—wonder how they’re doing?”

he can hear you, feel you laugh.

“no, i would’ve never if you didn’t bring it up,” you snort. “forgot about those dumb trends.”

he chuckles softly into your pajamas, slotting himself closer to you. he can’t explain it but an overwhelming surge of love blooms in his chest when you bring the blankets up to cover his shoulders.

you’ll probably end up on opposite sides of the bed in the morning, maybe even turned away from one another. s’fine, he usually ends up scooching over to you anyways. the rise and fall of your chest slows. it’s a bit too early for him to doze off—.

“g’night, ‘sei,” you mumble, kissing his hairline. “love you.”

he nods imperceptibly, kissing where your heart is. “night,” he whispers. “love you more.”

you mumble something into his hair. he draws infinity signs on your back.

｡⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ

today, he’s the big spoon—sorta. you’re on the train to the mitsui outlet park. it’s crowded, likely because of the kamen rider event going on. the rest of his family got there early to participate from start to finish.

it’s 11:58am and he’s caged you in between the train walls, a nice barricade from other passengers.

he’s zoning out when he hears your stomach growl.

“did you eat breakfast?”

you look up at him sheepishly. “no?”

he leans down to knock his forehead against yours, lips curling upward when you make a funny noise.

“i think i have candy in my pockets.”

his mom was giving them out in the morning after finding them in her purse. she handed him a few saying she got them from work.

“really?” your eyes glimmer as your hands reach into his pockets. your rummaging digs up two pieces of caramel. you unwrap them and feed one to him before pocketing the plastic.

“y’know i think i love you a little bit.” you grin, tongue swirling caramel goodness.

“yeah?” he snickers. “can’t blame you. i’m the ultimate catch—tall, funny, handsome.”

you roll your eyes, watching as he leans against the glass perpendicular to the doors. he stands closer when the doors on the opposite open. you raise your fists up in front of you. “i’ll have you catch these hands.”

“you could have just told me you wanted to hold hands, babe,” he chuckles, grabbing your right one and leaving a quick kiss on your forehead.

“don’t twist my words,” you grumble. your words are half spoken into his chest when he presses closer as a businessman squeezes by.

“oh, don’t worry.” he winks. “i know you and i have other plans for these hands later.”

you snort. “yeah, prayer.”

｡⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ

issei leans back against the couch, tilting over onto the arm to rest his head as he settles into his food coma.

“issei, come back and have some marinated duck!”

he groans a little, telling his grandmother that he’d be over soon. though he could eat a lot, the walls of his stomach could never defeat nor contain the power of his grandmother.

he decides it’s a great time to take a picture of his extended stomach and send it to you.

>> (05:47) babe >> (05:47) [img.png] >> (05:48) i’m expecting

>> (05:51) what the Hell >> (05:52) tw: mpreg

>> (05:53) did you just trigger warning me?

>> (05:53) yes

>> (05:54) damn >> (05:55) well I don’t need this negativity in my life >> (05:55) relationships r built on mutual respect >> (05:56) I’ve told u I love you what more do u want

>> (05:57) nudes

>> (05:57) 😔😢😢

>> (05:58) here’s one of mine >> (05:58) [img.png] >> (05:59) 🥰❤️❤️❤️

he’s never sat up so fast in his life.

“issei, are you coming?”

he bites his tongue. “yes, grandma.”

｡⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ

he comes back home to you two days later. he drops his bags on his bedroom floor and is about to run out the house to yours when his mom yells at him from the kitchen, “issei, sort through your things before you go!”

his shoulders slump and his head hangs but he gets it done and then he’s off.

>> (02:12) I’m home 😎😎💩 >> (02:12) wait ididnt mean the poo emoji

>> (02:13) welcome home 🌸

>> (02:13) Open the door  

you do, though it takes you a millisecond too long but he’s not going to gripe too much about it. he engulfs you in a hug the moment he sees you and nearly knocks your cell phone onto the pavement. your arms automatically go behind him. swaying, you stay there, sun shining and leaving an orange tint behind when you close your eyes.

“welcome back, ‘sei.” you nuzzle your head into his. “how was your grandma’s?”

he mumbles something but doesn’t make any effort to move. not wanting to attract stares, you slowly waddle backwards to get him through the front door. on your third step back, he just picks you up and does it himself before closing the door behind him and returning to his original position.

“‘sei,” you drawl out. “my back huurts.”

he pulls back the slightest, eager to see you up close yet wanting to keep you close. “i just wanted to hug you, is that so bad?”

“bedroom” is all you say. he frowns but lets you take him there anyways.

you sit on the bed and pat the space next to you. he instead opts to kneel down on the floor and rest his head on your thighs.

“‘sei?”

“grandma’s was good,” he murmurs, eyes closing when you run a hand through his curls. “thank you for the nude.”

you laugh and he takes the chance to get up and pull you into bed with him. he rolls you on top of him, brushing your hair away and cupping your face to pull you in for a kiss. his tongue is warm, soft, lax and you melt into him, onto him.

“wait,” he mutters.

“hm? something wrong?” you lean up a bit.

“i left your food at my place. my grandma made you some.”

you hum, leaving kisses on his jaw and swinging your legs. “we can go over later. kiss me more, please?”

he grins. “thought you’d never ask, babe.”

[blessyourhondahurley]

Sweet as Cotton Candy

Flufftober prompt: Sparklers & fireworks Suptober prompt: Secrets Random word: spray

As we used to say back in the good old days of pornalikes on tumblr, squint with me, friends. This video is of a low enough quality, as are my eyes, that the guy looks like a young Misha to me. From that flimsy premise I have concocted you a silly little ficlet. Please enjoy.

(Read on AO3)

The park, this cloudy Tuesday afternoon, is sparsely filled. From the bench where he sits, Dean can see a couple small families of tourists strolling the paths and no other souls within view. Sammy and his little middle school friends had vanished as soon as they'd gotten their entrance passes punched, a single reedy “thanks, D!” hanging in the air behind them.

The lonely life of the chauffeur, Dean muses. They only love me for my car. He shrugs, shakes his head a little. Can't blame 'em, though, she is a nice fuckin' car...

So now he has the afternoon and evening to kill before his brother and his posse have thoroughly nauseated themselves on fair food and rickety rides. He looks over the schedule of shows on the back of the park map he'd grabbed on the way in. Princess tea party at 2:00 and 5:00, no thanks... Magic shows every 45 minutes, ehh, maybe if I get bored enough... Dive show at 3:00 and 6:00, mmm, swimmer's bodies... Fireworks at dusk, free hot dogs and sparklers, wonder if the kids'll wanna stick around for that...

Making a mental note to wander closer to the dive pool around 2:45, he stands and strikes off in a random direction, looking for something to catch his eye. Two random turns on the path later, and his eye is absolutely seized.

The grounds of the park are scattered with little kiosks and pop-ups – a stand selling cheap plastic jewelry here, a wobbly table with sand art for the kiddies there. Directly in front of Dean is a vendor with a compactly stacked set-up: bottom to top there's a speaker, a signage-wrapped crate, and a cotton candy machine. The vendor looks like he's around Dean's age, and lord, he is cute, with a gangly build, fluffy brown hair, cheekbones that could cut a man, and blue blue blue eyes. He glances Dean's way and flashes him a little smile, then turns his attention to his work.

The boy taps a hidden button and cranks up a generic 80's pop song. He sprays some sort of liquid into the brass bowl of the machine, then takes a few steps back, shakes himself out a bit and... He starts to dance.

Dean's jaw drops to his chest. This kid can move. Those lanky legs seem to float him above the cobblestones. He cops a few poses, does a nice moonwalk, some tight spins, a bit of the Robot... It's like he inherited all of Michael Jackson's best secrets. Dean can't take his eyes off him.

The vendor, meanwhile, keeps his eyes trained on his machine. Wisps of sugar begin to gather in and above the bowl, and without missing a beat the kid grabs a thin paper cone and starts to gather the strands around it. He keeps dancing, grabbing a second cone to better direct the cloud of sweetness exactly where he wants it.

The cottony ball is the size of Dean's head, then bigger still. The boy walks a full circuit around his station, twirling and twisting the mass into a perfect pastel-colored globe, then hits the button to kill the tunes. He struts to a stop in front of Dean and presents the treat with a flourish and a smirk.

Dean never makes it to the magic show that day, or the dive pool. He doesn't even go on any rides. He has a fantastic time at the park, though. The only thing sweeter than that cotton candy is the taste of it in his new friend Cas's mouth.

[nnatsume]

coffee candy w kaoru?(๑•᎑•๑) take breaks while writing, okay~?

💌; HALLOWEEN NIGHT !

a / n : ah minnie! i haven’t seen you around a lot recently. :O the local kaorup has come to request their daily dose of kaoru, and i have come to serve. thank you! i’m afraid i’m taking too many breaks nhaah, i have around 20 prompts in my inbox? gotta get them out before we get into the christmas mood.. habkdk here’s your kaoru!!

i added you into this rose anon! it fit so nicely i simply had to, and i wanted to minimize my workload juuust a little bit. thank you for requesting as well!

coffee candy — “don’t sleep so soon!”

cinnamon — “aren’t you a bit cold? take this.”

back to the prompt list ✦ event masterlist

✦ coffee candy and cinnamon ft. kaoru

the last streaks of sunlight were starting to fade behind the horizon, leaving the sky a velvety blue. a few stars were starting to show themselves, little dots behind the cottony clouds. the night started to lay itself upon you, cold enveloping you. you picked out a costume fit for the weather, however, the many layers still didn’t manage to protect you from the frosty air. as much as you rubbed your arms, no warmth came out of it.

you shivered. and kaoru noticed. “one minute, darling.”, he announced, detaching himself from your side to trot over to your luggage. he didn’t lie when he told you that he came prepared. you watched as he fished out a few blankets, tossed them onto the grass and picked out the fluffiest one. “aren’t you a bit cold? take this.”

a minute later, you found yourself enveloped in softness and warmth. you were rolled into cotton, and then softly placed onto his lap. from up there, he smiled down on you with the most tender smile you’ve seen. the make-up accentuated his features–kaoru really looked like a divinity, a myth. you thought he was joking when he said he would dress up as your guardian angel–but there you were, questioning if he actually was your guardian angel. you got warm rather quickly, the heat rising to your face assisting you greatly.

“now you’re warm, aren’t you? my sweetheart..”, he commented, a hand poking your cheeks. he noticed–that made you bury yourself deeper into the roll that you were tucked in. you heard his laugh, muffled a little bit by the cotton around your ears. “aww, are you hiding? i’m hurt, won’t you show me your pretty face? ♪”

you fell into a tranquil silence. kaoru had reached into your cocoon, playing with a little lock of your hair. when you would look back up, you would find him looking back at you instead of where he was supposed to be looking. it made you feel precious, and tired. his soft touches across your cheeks were slowly lulling you into a long sleep, and the look in his eyes kept you warm and comfortable.

until he pinched your cheek lightly.

“don’t sleep so soon. the meteor shower will start soon, won’t it? you said you wanted to watch it.”, he said, a grin stretching across his face at the annoyed look that you sent him. “ahh, don’t look at me like a criminal! i’m innocent. ♪ i don’t want you to miss it again, really, really.”

“i was so comfortable, though..”, you muttered in complained, rolling over. from up the hill, you had a perfect view of the horizon. “i’ll forgive you if you pay me in candy.”

kaoru feigned a look of shock, “my candy? the one that i so carefully stole from the puppydog?”, when you nodded, kaoru gasped, placing a hand on his chest dramatically. “you rascal.. fine, then so be it.. i’ll do it for your forgiveness!~ how much do you want?”

“i’ll tell you later.. pet me some more. maybe i’ll change my mind.”

“your wish is my command, darling.”

[chocosvt]

⚬ pairing: junhui x reader ⚬ word count: 8125 ⚬ warnings: none! ⚬ genres: secret relationship, some slice of life uni moments, FLUFF, very light angst, spice, roommates!wonhui.

✧✎ synopsis: you’re friends with junhui - but also, not really. it’s friends and a little bit more than that. it’s difficult keeping your relationship a secret, especially when you’ve never loved someone the way you love him.

✧✎ a/n: NOBODY MOVE! I WROTE A JUN BDAY FIC ;_; this is really just me projecting all my years of love onto a word doc. enjoy!!

It was midnight, and the apartment was dark, unmoving. No one had bothered to clean the blue cereal bowl left in the sink and there remained bread crumbs on the countertop from lunch. As you flicked through the strange glimpses of late-night television, yawning in an outrageous width, there was a hunger pang, accompanied by an immediate craving for some sort of sweet candy.

So, you did what seemed best: fit into your sneakers and a windbreaker and push open the door to Jun’s bedroom while he was curled up on his side watching his drama. Wonwoo would usually be occupying the adjacent bed, though he had stayed over at Joshua’s dorm to study for his next history summative. Yet he’d left his beat-up, decaying textbook on his pillow.

“Put on your slippers or something, we’re going to the convenience store.”

Jun didn’t say anything, rather he continued holding out his phone, the bedsheets pulled taunt to his nose. Looking at Jun’s desk that sat next to the door, you picked up the rubber band ball he’d been adding to since his twelfth-grade year and threw it at his shoulder.

“Ow!” He squeaked dramatically. His head then poked over his shoulder as he attempted to see where the ball rolled off to.

“Put on your slippers,” you reiterated, “I want strawberry tangs.”

Without much effort, Jun quickly gave up looking for the elastic ball and returned to watching his drama, establishing his comfort while somehow still persisting to ignore you. He was very much so a homebody, and if it weren’t for you guiding him out the apartment like a grandchild taking their elderly for an afternoon walk, then he might’ve never left his bedroom apart from his class schedule. Yet, you knew exactly how to persuade him, weaken his heart that was already soft and golden.

An immediate whine rumbled in his throat when you jumped on the bed, pulling at him until he finally rolled onto his back, at last pressing pause on his phone. You tossed a thigh over each side of his silhouette and gripped the boy’s wide shoulders, gazing unflinchingly past his black fringe and into those big, glistening eyes.

“Come with me to the store,” you weren’t sure if you were offering or demanding, “please?”

“I-Isn’t it a little late for that?” Jun stumbled through his laughter. “Why do you need me?”

It was a surface-level question really, but nonetheless, your heart still skipped a beat. In only a second or more the silence was bearing down too heavily and it felt like your heart was a book with all its pages out. Jun’s eyes were twinkling as he blinked up at you.

“Walking around alone at night? Hello? Do you have no concern for me?” Came your joking counter.

He tossed his head back, the black fringe bouncing from his lashes. His capitulating yelp of, “fine, fine, I’ll come” was satisfactory enough for you to remove yourself from the boy’s tiny waist, where you stepped on the floor and nearly sprained your ankle due to that dumb, elastic ball. At least you found it. While you returned the toy to his desk, Jun quickly threw a worn jean jacket over his black long sleeve and didn’t bother bending down to fix his sneakers, his heels jutting out the back.

At the convenience store, the only shoppers were you, Junhui, and this lady wearing a huge pair of sunglasses, though you figured she was far from the strangest of the midnight stragglers.

It was rather quiet, even with the fluorescent lights buzzing and the battery-powered fan keeping the cashier cool at the register. You grabbed the first package of strawberry tangs while Jun sorted through the other flavours very meticulously.

“What about blue raspberry?” He said. “You don’t want that?”

“I don’t know, I just really have a craving for strawberry.”

Jun detached a bright green package from the rack. “Sour apple? What about that?”

“Not tasty at all. Pass.”

He grabbed another package and quirked his eyebrow. “Sweet cherry? Come on. That sounds good.”

You lightly hit his arm with the strawberry candy, your laughter echoing over the shelves, “I just want strawberry! If you think the sweet cherry sounds good then you buy it!”

But Jun just shook the black fringe from his playful gaze, stuffing his hands in his pockets. “Tangy zangys are the bottom tier of gummy candy. No way.”

“So shut up then.” The words were harsh, yet your smile was no more menacing than a butterfly.

Since it would be impossible for Jun to leave the store without stocking his snack collection, you shopped for longer than expected, filling a basket with spicy chips and hard candies and a few chocolate bars. Heading home down the nighttime street, beneath the moonlight, the infinite expanse of a blackness that felt like a cocoon, you had already ripped open your strawberry tangs while Jun tore the corner off a tiny pouch of bubblegum poprocks.

They crackled loudly on his tongue, in which he made sure to hover in close proximity to your ear, ensuring you could detect every small fizzle. Each time it warranted you to shove him away, muttering a cheap laugh about how it wasn’t required that he lean in so generously, though you couldn’t evade that one nervous thought ticking at the back of your head: you wanted to kiss him, wrap your palm around Jun’s neck and taste the electric bubblegum from his heart-shaped mouth.

“Aren’t you glad you came with me?” You asked, suckling the sugar off a red candy strip.

Jun swallowed his poprocks. “I guess you can word it like that.”

Standing at the living room fish tank, you opened the tab to the flake box and shook the food into the water, your pink guppy who you had so fittingly named, Princess Pebble, swimming toward the surface in order to nip at the flakes. Wonwoo observed you from his seat at the kitchen table, dragging his spoon through the remainder of his cereal, scooping out the last soggy pieces.

“I feel good about it,” Wonwoo hummed, referring to the history test he wrote yesterday, “I think I might’ve left out some information on the essay question.”

You closed the fish flakes and returned to the table, where you left your cup of tea.

“Eh, who cares,” you mumbled behind the rim, “you’re gonna get like a ninety-five anyways.”

The boy shrugged, pressing a fingertip to his glasses, moving them higher up his nose. He had always been diligent with his studying, though he often left the apartment to write notes at the library or a classmate’s dorm. It was difficult to accomplish much when Junhui would distract him, and rather than reading his textbook, Wonwoo would always end up playing computer games with the latter.

“Did you hear Jun come home last night?” You asked, gulping the rest of your tea.

Wonwoo set his bowl into the sink and filled it with water, smiling. It irked you somehow. You were only curious about whether or not he heard Jun return from his dance practice.

Joining him at the sink to clean your mug, you bumped his elbow. “What’s so cute over here?”

“Nothing,” he hummed dismissively, “I heard him crawl into bed, that’s pretty much it.”

“And that’s funny or something?”

“You ask about him quite frequently.” Wonwoo turned to you with a suspecting glance, one that made you subtly desire to dump a cup of water over his head. “You know that, right?”

The morning air was cool, yet your face felt immensely heated, almost prickling.

“I ask because we’re fri—”

“Friends. Yeah, yeah.” Wonwoo huffed, the omniscient smile creeping back toward his mouth, to which you could do nothing apart from gawk at your roommate despite his reiteration of a musing that wasn’t at all unfamiliar. “I’ve always loved you for your innate sense of comedy. It’s priceless.”

It’s what everyone assumed anyways. You and Jun fought tooth and nail to articulate your friendship, to paint with the colours that would lead everyone to believe it was true. Most often your explanations worked, yet there remained some who were particularly stubborn. Wonwoo was an evident case. But he was too close, too eagle-eyed, and he saw that you and Jun behaved in a manner completely beyond friendship. Despite the likewise feelings, something unbeknownst kept you apart.

“I know exactly what that means, idiot!” Echoed your shout as Wonwoo disappeared down the corridor, hoping to take refuge in his bedroom.

“I’m glad!” The depth of his voice reverberated into the kitchen, and you heard his door quickly shut.

No less than a few seconds later did Junhui reveal himself from around the corner, clean and freshened up after a steamy shower, one he desperately needed upon immediately passing out, sweat-soaked and exhausted in his bed the night before. Soonyoung definitely hadn’t taught their lesson with any degree of ease. Pretending you weren’t just quipping at Wonwoo, you smiled.

“Were you two fighting?” Jun asked, pulling out a frying pan from the cupboard. He usually whipped together an omelette for breakfast.

“No, not at all. We never fight, remember?”

Jun scoffed while opening the fridge, removing an egg carton and a plastic wrapping filled with vegetables. Still hungry, you started peeling open a tangerine from the fruit basket and stood next to him as he organized the produce onto a cutting board. Ever so faintly, you could smell the crisp scent to his aftershave. It was peculiar how a bit of foam could render your chest that cottony.

“In fact, when’s the last time you even remember an argument Wonwoo and I had?” You prodded.

“Two days ago,” Jun laughed, “when Wonwoo wanted to watch that exploration documentary on King Tut, but you changed the channel so you could finish the last season of Home Makeover.”

Pressing his rose lips together, Junhui casted you an innocent glance. “So there’s that.”

Separating a small slice of tangerine, you gently pushed the clove into the boy’s mouth. He smiled softly as he began to chew. With the gentle tang of citrus in the air, you set a hand on Jun’s shoulder and buried your face against his warm neck, whispering, “yeah, and it was definitely worth it.”

Quite frankly, neither you, Jun, Wonwoo, or Joshua were fairing optimally at the library. While Wonwoo sat on the opposite side of the table helping Joshua organize his economics presentation, you were neglecting your biology packet, instead choosing to sketch a tiny Princess Pebble in the paper’s upper corner. Jun had been tasked with reviewing his latest theatre script, yet he hadn’t even flicked through it. He was intrigued by one of the numerous mangas he’d saved to his phone.

“Take the last point off here,” Wonwoo said, peering over Joshua’s shoulder at his laptop, “there’s too much text, and this isn’t a major branch of your topic anyways.”

Joshua sighed as he made a few clicks on his keyboard. “Dude, I don’t think I can edit another word. This class is so boring.”

“Mr. Canning is just a boring professor,” Wonwoo sympathized, “it would be best if it were someone who weren’t so… dry. I guess is the right word.”

Slumping back in his chair, Joshua huffed, “he’s like a human chalk stick.”

Desperate to discuss something that wasn’t related to his lacklustre econ class, Joshua spared a glance at Jun’s unopened script. “Shouldn’t you be learning that?” He asked.

Jun didn’t look away from the phone in his lap. “I can’t do it here.”

“That means he’s going to open it for the first time at one in the morning, the day of his performance.” You chuckled, outlining the sketch of your guppy using Wonwoo’s pink gel pen.

Harshly, Jun’s hand smacked your knee under the table and you couldn’t help but laugh, garnering an over-the-shoulder glare from a student in the corner who’d been trying to focus on their colossal textbook. Wonwoo smiled at them apologetically while Joshua feigned as though he were typing something on his laptop. However, Jun’s hand didn’t leave your knee, and your laughter became an immediate drought, to which the sole thing you could feel was his palm creeping higher up your leg.

Attempting to be subtle, you turned your head slightly and looked at the boy with a bit of a warning expression, though Jun simply continued to scroll through his manga.

“I’m going to check the world history section,” Wonwoo announced, rising from the table, “anyone want to come with?”

Joshua pushed out his chair. “I’ll come just so I don’t have to stare at this shitty powerpoint.”

As soon as the boys walked beyond earshot, you pinched the edge of Jun’s ear. He finally tossed his phone onto the table, though he didn’t exactly appear compassionate, rather he was smirking, for he knew if you truly didn’t want his hand touching your leg then you would have bumped it away.

“You can’t do that.” Nonetheless, there surmounted a need to establish some insignificant boundary, one that neither of you were going to follow through. “Not when they’re so close.”

“But they didn’t see.” Jun replied, squeezing your inner thigh. “It shouldn’t matter.”

“It does. What if Joshua saw?” At that point, Wonwoo was fairly conditioned to your lingering fingertips, grazes and stares. He usually pretended not to notice them. However, Joshua was a risk.

Jun shrugged. “I don’t know. Don’t you worry too much? I always touch your leg.”

That was the problem. People trying to convince other people that their relationship was wholly platonic didn’t linger in such an intimate way. They didn’t creep fingertips up the other’s inner thigh beneath a tablecloth, or possess a gaze that traced the other’s lips like a delectable piece of candy when they spoke. There shouldn’t be any whispers pressed quickly against the other’s ear when no one else was looking, or the dire urge to climb into the other’s lap when their legs were wide open.

Both of you were afraid. Neither of you wanted to break the question that would thrust your relationship into the light. You kept waiting for the right time, but it always seemed one step ahead.

The movie theatre was nearly empty as the longwinded credit screen continued rolling, the last few congregations throwing their soda cups and empty packages into the garbage on their way out. Still, the floor of practically every row had been scattered with butter popcorn or melted m&m’s, shiny chocolate wrappers left crinkled in the recliners like the employees were supposed to take them home as gifts. Wonwoo put his hands on the back of his head, examining the disastrous rows.

You sensed he was feeling rather lucky about not being scheduled that night. Jun forced himself from the recliner and picked up his cup of fruit punch, jammed with way too many ice cubes.

If no one else was going to comment, you might as well. “That wasn’t the worst.”

“Agreed.” Wonwoo said, pushing up his glasses. “The murderer’s ploy was difficult to follow at times. I started getting confused when he left his car in the woods.”

“What?” Jun gawked. “That’s when you got confused? I didn’t even know what was happening after the first half hour.” His eyes gleamed in astonishment.

“Same.” You admitted. “I guess you’ll have to explain in the car.”

Reaching into the cupholder, you pulled out the package of strawberry tangs with nothing but a tiny amount of the powder-like sugar left inside.

“Thank you for picking up your trash,” Wonwoo sighed, taking the lead down the stairway while the credit music still played, “I’d hate to be working tonight.”

The wide corridor was completely vacant by the time you exited the theatre. Ever so slightly you could hear the galactic sound effects from the arcade machines. That buttery scent of popcorn seemed to waft no matter where you stood in the cinema. Wonwoo announced that he was going to check the concession counter to see who was on cash, but assured he would meet you and Jun at the back exit. Jun hurriedly downed his fruit punch in a large gulp before you emerged into the night.

You were confined to the small overhang by the doorway, for a hard rain was pelting against the concrete and turned the night air considerably cooler. Not one of you had checked the forecast beforehand, and you would undoubtedly get drenched straight through to the flesh in your thin long-sleeve.

“How are we going to make it to the car?” You groaned.

Pulling up his hood, Jun only laughed. “Now is a good time to be able to teleport.” He then stuck out his hand for a moment, the raindrops hitting his palm.

“Does it feel like bullets?”

“No. It feels kind of nice actually.” He remarked.

Curious, you rolled up your sleeve and extended your arm into the downpour. Jun was right, it felt satisfactory as each of the brisk droplets splashed your skin. However, you prematurely discovered the rain wasn’t so appealing when Jun suddenly shoved you from beneath the overhang.

“Hey— what the hell?!” You squealed upon the immediate repercussions, the cold water already leaking through your top while Junhui slapped his thigh, cackling.

Wanting to erase that luminous grin of his, you attempted wrestling the lanky boy into the weather, but no more than a few harmless drops skimmed his shoulder. Yet, with another brute shove, Jun stumbled, feeling the silver needles of rain pour down from the night sky and swirl at his dampening sneakers. He was laughing as he grabbed your wrist, pulling you hard against his chest before you were even cognisant that an immense wetness was soaking through your every article.

You wished it had been indignance drumming in your heart rather than affection, because it was taking every single fibre of your being not to kiss him. As the droplets beaded down his skin, he was like a springtime flower caught in the morning dew, and when he carded back the wet, black hairs plastered to his forehead, you thought it was possible to fall into him and never feel that concrete scrape your knees. Gently, his hand touched the small of your wet back, his breaths deepening.

He urged you in tighter as his tongue ran along his bottom lip, tasting the rain.

You were shivering, frigid, though your blood was far too warm to let yourself take note. Instead, you moved your head closer, closer, Jun’s cold palm cupping your cheek and your eyes fluttering shut and your soft mouths just brushing together— until Wonwoo appeared from inside.

Instantly, you two pushed away from each other. With his eyes widening, Wonwoo stuttered.

“I-I’m… I’m going to pretend as best I can that something weird didn’t almost happen.” He stated, swallowing thickly. “Just… Why did you two have to get soaked? You’re sitting in my car, y’know!”

At last, you felt that icy shiver trickle down your spine.

“S-Sorry.” You hummed, teeth chattering.

“I guess it’s fine,” Wonwoo sighed, “I have some towels under the passenger’s seat.”

Not long after returning to the apartment, Wonwoo gathered his laptop and slipped into his pyjamas. He proceeded to flop onto the couch to edit his research paper, though it didn’t take much for his eyelids to start weighing down, his dense paragraphs blurring together on the screen. More often than not you would take advantage of Wonwoo’s midnight crashes in the living room.

After exchanging your damp, terribly cold clothes for a warm t-shirt and sweatpants, you found yourself cozied beneath Jun’s comforter for the umpteenth night. The boy’s head rested against the crook of your neck, where his slow breaths were cool to your skin, though they occasionally became heavier when your fingertips stroked at his smooth hair. He was much like a kitten who loved a thorough scratch behind the ears. You swore that he purred whenever you rubbed the right spot.

Holding out his phone, he’d been finishing an episode of his drama before bed. You tucked some of the black locks behind his ear, noting how much it’d grown over the months. Then your gaze wandered over every detail that shaped his face, as though he were a textured oil painting.

His eyes were always glimmering, seemingly innocent and curious, yet you knew just how much that earthly shade could darken when he fell into his professions. When Jun acted on stage, his gaze lost its untainted nature. It moulded into the role of the sinister characters he preferred playing. When he danced in blazing lights, those eyes were sharp enough to consume, to cut, almost like a razorblade.

But then you studied his lips, his heart-shaped cupid’s bow, the small constellation of moles that dotted his skin like kisses from past soulmates. You thought back to the mist and the rain, his hand resting against the small of your back, how close you were to tasting the flavourful, fruity mix of his drink. In fact, you wondered why you didn’t just kiss Junhui whenever you wanted. What was stopping you, in that moment, from turning his head toward you so that your lips could press to his?

Suddenly, the boy laughed at his phone screen, to which you felt the brassy reverberation erupt in his chest, his eyes glinting and his mouth stretched into a box-like smile. You pulled a few strands of hair from his forehead as he seemed to be glowing, his cheeks rosy.

Jun mewled in surprise when your fingers threaded rather tight through his black locks, feeling you tilt his head up until his gaze was burning into yours.

You didn’t hesitate. Leaning forward, you kissed him sweet and slow.

Jun’s eyes fluttered as the pressure warmed his mouth, a small whine getting caught in his throat upon the gentle sting of your hand tugging at his tresses, his scalp tingling. His phone sunk into the bedsheets, and instead he was gripping your t-shirt, moving his head with yours as the kiss deepened. He tasted like mint, and his small whines were silky.

How on earth could you have ever shied from kissing him when it felt so relieving? Nothing else held any significance to you apart from making his pretty lips shine.

However, you needed to catch your breath. Releasing the firm grasp on his hair, you detached your mouth from his, your chest rising and falling in great lengths. The boy’s eyes couldn’t be more glazed, his lips shimmering, flushed garnet and slightly swollen. Neither of you uttered a word. The blankets fell from Jun’s shoulders as he straddled your waist eagerly. Again, his mouth slotted with yours, and your hands slid up his caramel thighs, imprinting his flesh with the curve of your fingernails.

If you kept quiet enough, then perhaps Wonwoo would remain asleep until morning.

Standing amongst the crowd in the cramped performance hall, it was inevitable that you would get bumped around like a tiny, flying pinball. After rutting into Wonwoo’s shoulder for the third time, he seemed dauntingly close to losing his indolence and snapping, though he realized it wasn’t your fault that others were pushing toward the front of the stage and bit his tongue.  

It became tradition for Soonyoung and his students to rent the downtown performance hall and host a fundraiser. The event typically lasted a few hours, with a few short interludes where the dancers would retreat backstage to catch their breath. Being Jun’s roommate, you and Wonwoo were always granted access into the small dressing room, and though you never admitted it, you loved experiencing that small flash of pride whenever the moonstruck audience watched you slip away.

The next interlude was closing in. Despite the different dancers on stage, you really, truthfully, only watched Jun. Each time he captured the centre position, you couldn’t help but cup your hands around your mouth, being one of the first to cheer overtop the deafening music as he moved so fluidly, with poise. He was a completely different person when he performed. Somehow, his tender-hearted nature would peel back and he’d emerge a domineering beacon.

As soon as the stage ended, an uproar rippled from the audience and resonated deep in your ears, to which you couldn’t help but slightly bury your head against Wonwoo’s shoulder to muffle the cacophony. Nonetheless, you were clapping, smiling, staring fondly as Jun grabbed his collar and fluffed it out, welcoming a slight gust of humid air. His skin was dewy with sweat, and yet he glowed beautifully, even when he was breathing so heavily through his nose.

Soonyoung was speaking into his microphone, but you missed half his speech, and before you knew it you were being dragged by Wonwoo through the crowd toward the backstage entrance. The room was at least big enough to accommodate the dancers. Jun was in the corner, gulping down his water.

“Only three more songs,” Wonwoo smiled, “you guys really stepped the level up this year.”

It took a moment before Jun replied, the column of his neck glittering as he completely crushed the plastic bottle in his hands.

“Yeah,” he burst out, “I’m freaking dying.”

“It’s for a good cause at least.” Wonwoo reasoned, ignoring how you stepped on his foot.

After Jun rolled his eyes, he was staring at you.

The air grew much too thick, and you had to clear your throat. “S-Seriously, you’ve improved so much. I can’t believe it.”

“Thanks,” Jun replied, scratching his nape, “it’s nothing special, really.”

“Uh? Nothing special?” Wonwoo quirked an eyebrow. “Didn’t Soonyoung say you’re one of the best in the class?”

When Jun innocently flitted his gaze toward a distant spot and pressed his lips together, Wonwoo merely huffed, announcing he was going to the lobby for a drink of water. You watched him wind between the busy dancers, either wiping down their sweat or fanning themselves, until he disappeared out the door. When you faced Jun again, you looped your fingers through the satin collar of his stage outfit and kissed him quickly, knowing everyone was too occupied to take note.

He squeaked, “what happened to being careful?”

“This is your fault.” You eagerly pinned it on him. “Try being less hot.”

“That’s horrible advice. And also not possible. Which makes it worse than horrible.”

You weren’t sure whether or not you wanted to feel his mouth again or whack the side of his head with his deflated water bottle. Opting for latter, you stole another kiss, though you tensed in surprise when Jun wrapped his arm around your waist to secure your body firm against his. Hastily, you pushed at his toned stomach, your heart drilling manically as you looked over your shoulder toward the dancers. It didn’t appear as though anyone had seen and you breathed out in relief.

Suddenly, Soonyoung poked his head through the doorway.

“Ten minutes!” He shouted before disappearing.

Jun was staring at you with the most ingenious twinkle.

“That was your fault.” He purred, tapping your thigh with his water bottle. “Try being less hot.”

You did feel a small sliver of guilt. After all, Wonwoo had been waiting back at the apartment for approximately an hour, twiddling his thumbs, wondering why you and Jun required so much goddamn time just to buy some hot fudge sundaes. The molten taste of the chocolate, the vanilla ice cream, cold and sweet, was completely stolen from your lips by the boy whose lap you were occupying. Wonwoo’s sundae sat on the dashboard, dripping slowly beneath the evening sunlight.

And yet, that infinitesimal sliver was plucked straight out when Jun latched onto a sensitive patch of your neck, softly digging in his teeth and swirling his tongue. Your fingers sheathed through the black hair and pulled up at the roots, knowing how much pleasure he took from the dull sting. Button by button, Jun started to simultaneously open your shirt, to which you questioned if this was really happening, if you were really going to sort of out the complications of intercourse in his car.

The device abandoned in the passenger’s seat buzzed. You already knew the name to the text. As Jun kissed his way down to your collarbone, licking and suckling, you reached for your phone, feeling it buzz again with another impatient text. The guilt from earlier began to resurface.

[ wonwoo | 7:49pm ] This is suspicious now. WHERE ARE YOU? >:(

[ wonwoo | 7:49pm ] Actually screw that. WHERE IS MY HOT FUDGE SUNDAE?

The screen blipped with yet another message.

[ wonwoo | 7:49pm ] I know you’re reading these… Answer me or I won’t feed Princess Pebble!!

“J-Jun,” you piped up, hearing his low, husky mumble while he continued to mark your collarbone, “I think we need to go home now.”

The boy splayed a few more open-mouthed kisses against the skin before peeking up at you, his eyes wide and glimmering, lips flushed a deep magenta. With half the buttons of your shirt hanging open and your heart blazing, you had to snip the venereal longing in its bud.

“What’s wrong?” Jun hummed, pushing his fingers through the loops on your jeans. “Who’s texting?”

“Wonwoo. He’s been waiting for almost an hour, and his sundae is gonna be a puddle at this rate.”

He blinked a bit cluelessly, though still in musing. “There’s no way to be quick about this, is there?”

Rebuttoning your shirt, you shook your head and laughed. “Let’s wait before we ruin the car. I’m sure there’ll be a better time in the future.”

Jun nodded in agreement and relaxed back into the seat, a ray of sunshine that bled golden slanting through the windshield. Somehow, Wonwoo’s sundae wasn’t a complete pool sitting in the plastic cup, but that didn’t negate the fact he was still going to start his theory on responsibility and trust the moment you stepped onto the welcome mat. As you finished clasping the last buttons, something had caught Jun’s eye out the window, for he immediately panicked and tightly gripped your waist.

“Oh my god, g-get off my lap,” he grunted, to which your head bumped against the ceiling during the hurried shuffle and your knee whacked the gearstick.

“Ow! Okay, I’m going! Jeez, could you not give me a warning?”

“No,” Jun remarked, looking quickly to the rear-view mirror to straighten out his hair, “it’s Jeonghan and Soonyoung. They just came out of the store.”

When you glanced out Jun’s window, you noted the duo making their way across the parking lot, some plastic bags filled with groceries hanging from Jeonghan’s hand while Soonyoung appeared to be texting someone. To both your dismay, Soonyoung immediately recognized Jun’s car. You watched as the blonde bumped Jeonghan’s shoulder, how they took a slight detour on their way over.

“We have to talk to them?” You whined. “Are you kidding? Lock your window.”

Jun’s brow pinched together. “How is that going to help? They already saw us so just relax.”

“You’re telling me to relax? You practically threw me off your la—”

“Shht,” Jun snapped as the two boys drew nearer, “just shhhhht okay?” And with an incredibly large gulp, he plastered a happy-go-lucky smile to his mouth and let the window slide open.

“Jun?” Soonyoung called, leaning down slightly to peer inside the vehicle. “What’re you doing out here, huh? Back from shoplifting?”

Jeonghan bent down too, grinning snidely. “You looked a little frazzled or something.”

“Me?” Jun pointed at himself. “No, I’m fine. Just – we have to leave. Wonwoo is waiting.”

“Wonwoo?” Jeonghan seemed excited. “I haven’t seen him in a while. Hey, tell him I’m still appreciative for writing my World History paper on the Persian Empire.”

You knew it was best to stay quiet, but you couldn’t help your slight choke. Wonwoo had come home one day saying that one of his classmates offered him seventy-five bucks if he’d write their history paper. He wasn’t going to oblige originally, but cracked after listening to his classmate type out their introduction in the library, that it was just so bad Wonwoo felt piteous and decided to pitch in.

Gaping at Jeonghan, you exclaimed, “that was you?”

“Yeah. I mean, I still dropped that class. And Wonwoo definitely thinks I’m a dumbass. But I didn’t have to do a spot of work, and now I’m getting smooth nineties in English. You just have to make up some shit and do a couple fancy indents and you’re set.”

Jeonghan paused, then leaned in a little further to look you up and down. “Y’know, I’ve never seen you before. How easily do you give out your numbe—”

“We really have to go,” Jun interrupted, already clicking the button to roll up the window, “see you at practice, Soonyoung. Bye Jeonghan!”

The two boys didn’t really have any other option apart from stepping back, allowing Jun to exit the parking space and turn onto the road. Not that it would help much, you turned on the air conditioning until it felt like the wind was pure ice, hoping that you’d be able to preserve Wonwoo’s melting fudge sundae. You made sure to text him on your whereabouts, that you were heading home, and churned up a white lie about how you ran into Jun’s friends who held a persistent conversation.

It wasn’t entirely false. And yet, Wonwoo still managed to see through it.

[ wonwoo | 7:54 pm ]: Just say you were making out.

[ wonwoo | 7:54 pm ]: Btw, I fed Princess Pebble.

[ wonwoo | 7:54 pm ]: I’m not a sinner. Unlike you guys.

Later that evening, after delivering Wonwoo his melted cup of chocolate ice cream, after Jun quickly threw some extra clothes into his backpack and ran to his late-night dance practice, you were standing at the fish tank with some new plants you bought for your guppy. As the bright lights of the tank reflected across your face, there was a strange feeling inside you. It seemed like turbulence, confusion, your heart experiencing one sentiment but your brain thinking another.

You hadn’t realized you were absently standing there until Wonwoo came into the dark living room, holding a crumpled tube of toothpaste and his toothbrush. Watching the pink fish swim in between her new seaweed arrangement, he asked you if there was an extra tube stored in your bedroom.

“Don’t think so. Text Jun and ask him to stop at the store when his practice ends.”

“I’ll do that…” Wonwoo sighed. “Hey, you know I already fed Princess Pebble?”

He accompanied you at the tank. For some reason, you refused to look at Wonwoo. You felt unusually vulnerable, like a fragile shell that could be cracked open even by the gentlest hands, and the more you thought into your emotions, the harder your heart started pounding.

“I-I know,” you smiled weakly, “but I got her some new plants today. I just put them in.”

Wonwoo could always tell when something was off-kilter. You almost hated how sharp his senses were, that he was able to detect with such accuracy how you were being eaten up inside. Softly, he touched your shoulder, urged you to turn toward him so he could see the honest colour in your eyes.

“What’s wrong?” He frowned, pushing up the bridge of his glasses.

You felt terrified, but there was no sense in pretending.

“How do I tell Jun that I’m in love with him? That I don’t want us to be a secret anymore?”

It was a weighted question, and you knew that. But it was also the truth. As much as it could be invigorating to maintain a secret relationship, you were beginning to feel the brittle side effects that came with keeping such love behind closed doors. You didn’t want Jun to push you from his lap just because his friends might’ve seen you, nor did you want to keep an eye out for whether or not you should knock his hand off your thigh in public. The secrecy had been fun, but it wasn’t enough.

Scratching the blue collar of his shirt, Wonwoo appeared uncertain.

“I’m not sure, honestly. I just think you shouldn’t repress this. You need to be upfront.”

“How?” It sounded like a desperate plead. “I don’t know how, Wonwoo.”

“Stop overthinking it,” the boy advised, grabbing onto your shoulders and giving your frame a small, grounding shake, “you know Jun. You know he isn’t a rash person. You know if you tell him he’ll hear every word of it. It doesn’t take a genius to see you’re all he thinks about.”

Wonwoo  brushed at the side of your cheek with his thumb. “Don’t hurt yourself like this, okay? The next time you’re alone, just say how you feel. I promise it won’t be as bad as you’re hypothesizing.”

You inhaled a deep breath and nodded. Overthinking was a poison to you. It shouldn’t be that difficult to be honest, especially when you knew how attentive Jun was, the manner in which he always adapted himself to be of a comforting presence.

“Okay,” you attempted to draw together some confidence, “I’ll do that.”

“Good.” The boy grinned, still fiddling with his empty tube of toothpaste. “It really doesn’t bother me that you guys run around together. Just… please… never do anything weird in my bed.”

The next time you were alone with Jun, it was all but a desirable circumstance. Once you came home from work and heated up some leftover dinner in the microwave, you decided to feed Princess Pebble, though your jaw unhinged as you noticed something a little unorthodox about her tank: a pink blotch floating against the surface of the water. Immediately, the tears welted hot and stinging against your eyes. You had to use the small net to scoop your guppy out from the water.

Remarkably, Princess Pebble had lived a long life for a fish. You remembered walking with Jun to the pet store one summer afternoon, after you two finished your last day of eleventh grade and had just escaped a brutal chemistry exam. Rather than studying beforehand, you spent ample time researching different types of fish, and would often send Jun pictures asking him to choose which one he thought was cutest. Yet, at the end of it all, you chose a guppy with the prettiest pink scales.

“Don’t most people want a puppy? A kitten? And you choose a boring fish.”

Jun had teased, sounding awkward and a bit lisped through his braces.

Somehow, Princess Pebble had managed to live a five-year lifespan. Wonwoo told you most guppies live for two years, three years if the owner takes good care. Sitting at the kitchen table, you placed her body onto a piece of paper towel, the thick tears dripping down your cheeks while your sinuses grew wet and congested. You didn’t know if it was petulant to be your age, crying over a pet fish. In fact, you didn’t even possess the heart to rise from the table and discard her body.

It wasn’t much longer until Jun returned home after his theatre class, to which you heard his key rattling in the lock. Wonwoo was scheduled for a shift at the cinema, most likely handing out overpriced popcorn and chocolate and having to reject every person who asked for his number.

“Hey,” he called, shouldering off his backpack, “Wonwoo texted me. That weird thriller we were looking at is playing next week. We should—,”

Jun paused the moment he heard your runny sniffling. He didn’t realize that your fish was sitting on the paper towel until he took a few steps closer. You felt embarrassed Jun had to see you like this. If you were crying, it had always been over something with a little more gravity, like the time you were distraught about flunking your laboratory practical, and Wonwoo couldn’t persuade you to open your bedroom door no matter how frequently he stood outside, pleading.

Plucking at the collar of your shirt, you used the fabric to clear away the tears. Without a word, Jun grabbed another chair from the dining table and pulled it next to you, scooting in close. As soon as you felt his arm drape around your shoulders, it was like someone had pulled the plug on a bathtub filled with water, to which you pressed your face against his neck and sobbed harder.

“I’m so sorry.” Jun whispered, hugging you tight to his comfortable chest. “It’s okay to be upset. I know how much she meant to you.”

He drew soothing strokes down the back of your head, and he sat with you until those wet pearls ran dry with salt. You knew it wasn’t wise to keep her body out in the air, that you would have to discard her somehow, yet the thought of having to flush her away seemed too cruel. Jun wiped the soft glisten from your cheeks with his sleeve, his fingers then tracing up and down the side of your face.

“I-I don’t want to flush her.” You blubbered.

The boy shook his head. “We won’t do that. We’ll find a good way to handle it.” His thumb brushed tenderly below the fragile skin of your eye for a moment, and he seemed to be in musing.

“Wait here.” He announced, suddenly running into his bedroom.

You could hear Jun shuffling through his closet, moving around clothing hangers and pushing aside boxes still filled with some of his old belongings from homelife in Shenzhen. When he remerged into the living room, he was holding a particular tissue box, one that you hadn’t seen since twelfth grade biology. You, Jun, and Wonwoo had painted and decorated the box as part of an optional project, to see if you could grow any plants from the packets of radish and tomato seeds your teacher had.

Nothing ever grew. Wonwoo claimed there had been some green sprouts when it was his turn to look after the makeshift garden, but that his cat snuck into his room and ate them all. Jun always kept a multitude of random things that dated back to your adolescence. As awkward and bumpy as those times were, seeing the tissue box reminded you that there had been precious moments too.

“Why do you still have that?” You laughed, even if your chest was aching.

“Because that was the first time us three did something together.” Jun said, returning to his seat beside you. “It was one of the first memories I made after moving away from home.”

You fondly looked at Jun while pulling the tissue box toward you, slathered in old, chipping acrylic paint and obnoxious, starry glitter.

Licking the dry salt off your lips, you smiled. “Princess Pebble would love this.”

“It can be her shrine. When Wonwoo comes home, we can find a good place to bury it.” Jun explained. “I know I called her boring five years ago, but I didn’t mean it. I loved her too.”

In the pensive silence, you thought back to your conversation with Wonwoo, recalling his firm grip on your shoulders as he reiterated the importance of freeing your heart, of not bogging yourself down with too many untold truths. Then, you glanced at Jun. You thought about that fluttering feeling when you kissed him, when you ran your fingers through his hair, listening to his deep-chested laughter whenever he gleefully buckled over into your lap after telling one of his hit-or-miss jokes.

The boy tensed slightly as you pulled him into a hug, though he quickly came to ease and warmth. You thanked him, because it just felt like the right thing to do for his compassion.

And then you told him something else.

“I love you.”

Without missing a heartbeat, he murmured against your hair, “I love you too.”

It was late, unreasonably late, the past-midnight late where the entire world falls still like an unperturbed pond. Downtown was completely hushed. Every so often the wind picked up, though it inevitably withered away in between the buildings and emerged a pitiful whistle onto the street. And yet, despite the fact you should be tucked in bed while the moon protected the silence in her silver hands, you were pushing outside the convenience shop with Jun close behind.

He took the end of a straw into his mouth and slurped at the sweet, cherry-flavoured slushie that was beginning to empty. Immediately, he crinkled his forehead and his face contorted.

“How many times have I said not to do that?” You laughed as he passed you the slippery cup.

“I don’t know. Three?” Jun replied with a grimace. “I can really feel it. Wait, I need a moment.”

You stopped next to the traffic post at the end of the street. Jun grabbed at his hair and squeezed like it was some miraculous remedy for curing a brain freeze. Directing the straw into your mouth, you sucked up the cherry syrup and crushed ice until you felt the distant ache thrum inside your head.

“Okay…” Jun concluded, brushing the long, black fringe from his eyes, “I’m good now.”

Thrusting the drink back into his hands, you couldn’t help but huff: “you’re such a baby.”

As though to prove your point, Jun started whining. “My head is so, so cold. It’s freezing.”

“So put this up or something.” You teased, reaching around the back of his neck to pull the boy’s hood over his head. Giggling slightly, you grinned at him as he shot you a questionable glance.

The streets remained quiet, and the sky was remarkably clear, no more than a few ragged and thin clouds drifting over the stars. The last time you had been on this corner, you were licking the strawberry sugar off your fingertips while Jun crumpled his last packet of popping candy. You remembered tracing the rose tint that warmed his lips, each fibre in your muscle twitching because you just wanted to wrap a hand through his locks and kiss him like he was your last breath.

You didn’t understand how you could love one person so much. Why love often fused itself into your bloodstream more than functionality. Your heart knew how to beat, yet it stumbled whenever you gazed at him. Your lungs knew how to filter the air, yet they closed up whenever you caught his eye. Your tongue knew how to articulate, yet it tied itself in a knot the moment he’d touch you.

“Hey,” you mumbled, patting his arm, “can I ask you something?”

Jun looked away from the stars, sipping at his drink again. He nodded.

The moon probably wanted to crush your heart in her hands for how loudly it was thumping.

“What if I told you that I want people to know we’re together? What would you say?”

Despite your anxiousness, you weren’t as afraid as you anticipated. Maybe it was because Jun didn’t immediately sour or attempt to disparage your sentiments. You couldn’t tell what he was thinking as he blinked at you, but it didn’t matter. When it was most important, Jun picked his words carefully.

“I’d tell you that I want the same thing,” he admitted, his tone deepening and the amber in his cheeks sparked with pink, “that I want people to know how I feel about you… That I’ve always been in love with you.”

You smiled wide, like a kid who just got their braces off. Unable to contain such a rapturous energy, you stepped in close to Jun and held onto his shoulders, dotting the corners of his mouth with small kisses before you pressed your lips against his. You felt him smirk, though it seemed too devious. Jun had suddenly wrapped his arms around your lower back, pushing you in chest-to-chest. You melted as he kissed you, your fingertips ghosting along the soft hairs at his nape, the moonlight on your skin.

When you arrived back at the apartment, you could hear a few of Wonwoo’s gentle snores echo from behind the bedroom door. Just before you slipped away into your own room, Jun left a goodnight kiss to the top of your head, his hand thoughtfully squeezing your hip.

“I-Isn’t it a little late for that?” Jun stumbled through his laughter. “Why do you need me?”

It was a surface-level question really, but nonetheless, your heart still skipped a beat. In only a second or more the silence was bearing down too heavily and it felt like your heart was a book with all its pages out. Jun’s eyes were twinkling as he blinked up at you.

You finally knew what you should have said.

“Because I love you.”

✧✎ a/n: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SWEET PRINCE!! never would i have imagined that someone who’s on the opposite side of the globe could mean so much to me ;_; mr. moon has been such a healing presence, and it’s bc of him that i have found so much happiness these past five years! whenever i see him smiling and laughing and have good ol times just being himself, all my worrisome thoughts somehow fade away and i feel only joy!! 

anyways, i don’t want to ramble for too long (i could really fill a page with my cloying sentiments r.i.p) but i hope this was a wholesome fic!! the stars aligned and for once i was able to write a fic for a member’s birthday :_) 

[lue-arlert]

From Across the Country - Chapter 7

Summary: Armin and Ivy have been pen pals since primary school. After a break in communication, they’re finally reunited via the paper and ink through which they’d grown so close.

WC: 3.1k

Chapter content warnings: OC content, modern au, implied intercourse (18+ MDNI), mentions of sexual content (18+ MDNI), possessive behavior

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Friendship

The season was slowly morphing into a darker theme, images of bats and vampires and mummies cluttering the two-story house with accents of cottony spider webs. Large bags of candy were tucked away in the pantry inside deep bowls shaped like cauldrons, and orange and purple string lights were being stapled to the front porch awning by Connie, held up by a large yellow ladder.

Ivy was spotting him below, leaning against one of the steps on her elbow as she watched him work, smoothing out her dress as a gentle fall breeze rustled around her. “You said we were getting pumpkins tonight, right?” She asked as she looked up at him.

“Yep, as soon as Sasha gets home from class, we’re going.”

“Alright.” She reached up and grabbed his hand to help him down as he finished hanging the lights, then folded up the ladder and carried it around to the garage.

She and Connie went back into the house and checked on their lunch, pulling the oven open to inspect their food before taking seats at the dining table to finish waiting. They chatted for a while about work until the food was ready, then they continued their conversations over their meals and cleaning their dishes when they were done.

As they made their way to the living room, a knock on the door echoed through the house, and Ivy hustled to answer it.

“Afternoon,” the mail carrier smiled, handing a small rectangular package to her.

“Afternoon,” she responded with a matching smile. “Thank you.”

“Welcome, have a good day!”

“You too!”

She shut the door behind her and turned the package over, her smile turning into a giddy grin.

“What’d he send you now?” Connie chuckled from the couch, knowing just from her expression that the delivery was from Armin.

“Not sure. It’s pretty light.” She stepped over to the couch and sat beside him with her legs crossed beneath her, and pulled the tape away to open the sealed box.

Carefully, she pushed the flaps open and lifted the plain envelope that sat atop the bubble wrap. Folding it open, she blinked in surprise at the short message.

My Ivy,

I hope you enjoy your care package. Sorry for the short letter. It’s been a rough week. I’ll write more soon.

Yours,

Armin

She furrowed her brows and set the letter beside her, then picked at the tape that sealed the bubble wrap shut. Upon its opening, she grinned again at the contents, removing a bag of chocolate covered blueberries, three movie theater passes, and a small fabric bag that laid at the bottom of the bubble wrap.

“We can go see something this weekend,” she said as she handed the theater passes to Connie.

“Sweet.” He took them and gave them a once over, reading the theater names listed on the back that were eligible to receive the passes.

Ivy sat the blueberries back into the box and opened the fabric bag, noticing a soft jingle from the inside. Her fingers became tangled in something thin, and she slowly removed the item, revealing a silver chain carrying an oval locket that had a tiny engraving of an ivy plant on the face of it.

Her mouth hung open as her fingers grazed the hinge along the side of it, eyes watering as she looked it over.

“Whoa,” Connie said quietly, looking into her palm.

Licking her dry lips, she popped open the locket to find nestled in the right frame one of her floral stickers, and in the left frame a mailing stamp.

She let out a shaky breath and sniffed away the tears forming in her eyes as she wrapped her fist around the necklace and looked into the box again, finding it empty aside from the snack she had returned to it. She turned back to the letter and glanced over it once more in hopes that more than just his four sentences would appear, in hopes that there would be an explanation for the necklace. When she found nothing further, she dug her phone out of her dress pocket and pulled up her contacts, tapping Eren’s name.

The line rang for a few seconds before a groggy voice answered.

“Hello?”

“Eren,” she sniffed. “Are you alone?”

“Are you okay? Are you crying?”

“Yeah,” she rubbed her nose with the back of her hand.

“Yeah, I’m alone, Armin’s out to lunch with our friends. What’s wrong?”

“Did he show you anything that he sent me this time?” She stared down at the necklace, rolling it through her palm with her thumb.

“Are you talking about the movie passes? Yeah, he had me grab those the other day.”

“Is that it?”

“Yeah… do… do you not like them?”

She shook her head while rolling her eyes and wiped away a tear. “It’s not that, Eren—he sent me a necklace.”

“He what?”

“He sent me a necklace.” She looked down into her hand again and her lips trembled into a smile as she stared at the smooth silver. “A locket.”

“I didn’t know about that, no. He must’ve gotten that when he went to have his watch fixed the other day.”

“Eren, what do I do with this? This is such a big gift.”

“Wear it? What’s the issue?”

Ivy paused, clenching her teeth and pursing her lips in thought. “Nothing, I guess. I… I must just be overreacting. He’s never sent me anything this nice before.”

“Maybe because I’m not a girl, I don’t see what the big deal is. Just wear it. Maybe send him a picture of you wearing it. You like it, don’t you?”

“Yeah… I love it.” She then scoffed and shook her head. “I sent him a pen, and he sent me a necklace… what a trade off.”

“He really liked what you sent him. Do you wanna see his paper thing you sent? He put it all together.”

“Sure.” A grin took place over her lips.

She could hear some shuffling and creaking, as if he were crawling out of a bed, then a brief silence before Eren’s voice came back and said, “Okay, I just sent it to you.”

Pulling the phone from her ear, Ivy minimized her phone app and opened her texting app, tapping Eren’s name. The image of a layered paper display of an ocean scene was sitting atop a shelf on a desk. Above that on the wall, she could see a cork board with what looked like the bottom of the picture she had sent him previously when he first started up correspondence with her again, nestled between other posts and papers on the board.

Her heart drummed loudly in her ribs and she slowly brought the phone back to her ear, her smile softening. “Thank you, Eren.”

“Yeah, no problem. He didn’t tell you about it in his letter?”

“Actually, he didn’t really even send me a letter.” She picked the paper up once more and read it off to Eren. “What does that mean? Is he okay?”

She heard him sigh from the other end of the line. “Hal… Hal tried to talk to him again. Except this time, she actually came to the dorm. He said he didn’t want to speak with her and she hit him.”

Ivy’s breath caught and her eyes widened. “Is he okay?” She asked in a quieter tone.

“He’s fine now, it was just a hard slap. It was enough to give him a little bit of a black eye, though. I swore he wrote you a full letter, he sat next to me while he responded to you. Maybe he changed his mind.”

“Hmm.” She nodded in thought, then looked down at the necklace once more. “I wish it was November already.”

“Me, too. I’m having a hard time keeping this from him.”

“Yeah.” Ivy nodded to herself, then her eyes fluttered to her lap absently. “I’ll let you go.”

“Okay. I’ll talk to you later.”

“Yeah, bye.”

They disconnected from each other and Ivy sat back against the couch with a heavy sigh, dropping her phone between her legs and pulling the necklace to her face.

“Put it on.” Connie said plainly, making her jump.

“I forgot you were there,” she exhaled. “Do you really think I should?”

He gave her a ‘no duh’ look and rolled his eyes with a sarcastic smile. “Ivy—please.”

“What?” She stared at him with hunched shoulders.

“Just wear the damn necklace, I know you want to.” He stood from the couch and began to walk into the kitchen, stretching his arms out.

She rolled it around in her hand before glancing over it once more, then carefully unclasped the dainty lobster claw hook and wrapped the chain around her neck, hooking it together, and pulling her hair from under the chain. As she grasped it in her palm against her chest, her eyes came back up to look at Connie entering the living room once more.

“Ivy,” he started, sitting down with two snacks, passing one off to her. “You need to make a choice.”

“What do you mean?” Her brows furrowed as she opened the snack packaging, staring at him.

“You’re dating Porco, but you’re in love with Armin—make a choice.”

“I’m not in—Connie, please.” She scoffed and turned away from him with a blush. “We’re friends, we’ve been friends for years. We’re just friends.”

Friends. Yeah, sure.

“Whatever you say, man. Just think about it, yeah?” Without another word, he grabbed the remote and flicked on the television, turning it to his favorite media streaming app.

Ivy kept quiet as she munched on her snack and watched the show Connie picked, holding her tears back. Her fingers barely left her necklace, and her mind never left his words. She loved Armin, as a friend. He’s a good friend, he cares about her, as a friend. There was no further explanation needed, no further convincing herself that she felt anything more than platonic adoration for him.

Finally calming her mind, she shook her thoughts away and turned to the tv, giving her undivided attention to the show as Connie laughed to himself over the characters and scenes.

Once Sasha returned from class and the pumpkins had been acquired, the trio sat at the dining table that was covered in newspapers and pumpkin guts, carefully carving and prodding at the gourds. They played spooky music that derived from their favorite horror and thriller movies, and snacked on Halloween themed cookies as they continued their activity.

Sasha’s pumpkin was a classic Jack-o-lantern, pointy teeth and triangular features with long eyebrows.

Connie created what looked like a clown, but you had to stare at it for a moment to see the clown characteristics to it—it was certainly the same amount of unsettling as a regular clown, though.

Ivy’s was the same as she made every year, a kitty with pointy paper ears that she coated with a thick layer of glue to keep them sturdy in the chilly fall air.

Following her evening with her roommates, she had met with Porco at his apartment, having a late dinner together then sharing a heated dessert of each other’s bodies, where she was now bouncing and rolling her hips on his lap on the couch, her dress draped over his thighs while he squeezed her hips pulling her down on him again and again, his face buried in her neck as his deep breaths fanned her glistening skin.

Her hands were wrapped around his neck as she leaned her head back, soft mewling escaping her lips.

As Porco groaned and slid his hands to her waist, they were both growing closer to their finish when the door to the apartment opened widely to Porco’s roommate stepping in with grocery bags in her hands.

The two gasped and stopped their ministrations, Ivy hiding her face in Porco’s shoulder while he wrapped an arm around her and reached his other hand out towards his roommate. “Pieck, fuck!”

“Ahh!” She turned her face away and held her arms up, hunching her shoulders. “Porco! Why didn’t you tell me she was coming over?!”

“I didn’t think you’d be home yet!”

Ivy quickly crawled off of his lap and grabbed her panties from the floor and excused herself to the bathroom as Porco hastily redressed himself, pulling his pants back up over his ass and fastening his belt before standing.

“Sorry, Pieck.”

She slowly glanced over her shoulder at him and exhaled loudly. “Anyway,” she sighed, “help me bring in groceries while your girlfriend hides, will you?”

“Y-yeah, okay.” He looked to the bathroom door, then followed the black-haired woman out to her car.

Ivy heard this request and decided to wait in the bathroom until they were back inside, leaning against the door while her heart pounded violently.

She gripped her necklace, staring at the tile floor and she rolled it through her fingers, feeling the engraving beneath the pads of her fingertips. She tried to ignore what Connie had said to her, bury it away into the deepest parts of her mind to forget it.

The only problem was that she couldn’t get Armin out of her brain.

After several minutes of being lost in her thoughts, a soft knock on the door brought her back to reality and she pulled it open, glancing up at Porco who stood smiling at her.

“It’s safe to come out now.”

She returned the smile and stepped out of the bathroom, taking his extended hand and following him back into the living room.

The three of them found a movie to watch, the embarrassing tension having been lifted. Porco had his arm draped around Ivy, his fingers absently playing with the straps of her dress, and he noticed she wouldn’t leave her necklace be, constantly turning it over and giving it a squeeze or letting it dangle from her knuckles.

“That’s pretty,” he complimented quietly, leaning into her ear and shoulder. “Where’d you get it?”

“Armin sent it to me.” She blurted, eyes never leaving the television screen. Realizing what she said, she turned to look at him, his brows furrowed and lips pulled together.

“Why did he send you jewelry?”

Ivy panicked, not knowing how to save herself from this, and shrugged while dropping her hand into her lap. “We send each other gifts all the time. He must’ve thought of me when he saw it.”

Pieck could hear their whispered conversation and her eyes widened slightly as she glanced to Ivy, meeting her gaze briefly. She knew immediately that this wasn’t right, that Ivy’s receiving and wearing of this necklace meant something more than what sounded like just a friendly gift. She made note to speak with her privately when she got the opportunity and turned back to the television, acting as if she hadn’t heard anything.

The eye contact that Ivy made with Pieck was brief, but she knew that she put herself into hot water. She glanced back up at Porco and shrugged again. “It’s nothing, Pock.”

He pursed his lips and sat back into the couch, his arm still around her. He remained silent for the rest of the movie, then offered to walk Ivy to her car as soon as it ended.

He trudged alongside her down the four flights of stairs, hands in his pockets as he watched his feet connect with each step until they reached the parking lot.

Ivy couldn’t think of anything to say to him, her bottom lip tucked between her teeth. When they reached her car, she slowly pulled the door open and turned to look up at him. “Pock, I—”

“Could you, um,” he interrupted, “could you not wear it around me?”

She blinked in surprise at him, her hands resting on the top of her driver’s door.

“I don’t want to see that you’re wearing jewelry from another guy.”

“Pock, he’s just a friend.”

“I don’t care.” He shook his head, squeezing his fists in his pockets. “I should be the only one marking you and giving you jewelry.”

Ivy’s head bounced back in surprise. “‘Mark me’?” She asked with an exasperated voice.

“You’re my girl, Ivy.” He took a step towards her and brushed some of her hair behind her ear, then cupped her chin to tilt her face up to his. “You shouldn’t be wearing jewelry from another guy.”

“Porco, we’re just friends.”

He shook his head and leaned his face down, kissing her firmly. He pulled away just enough that their noses were grazing, and whispered, “Friends don’t send friends expensive jewelry. Please don’t wear it.”

She blinked at him for a moment before nodding, glancing away from him. “Alright.”

Porco kissed her again, then stepped back from her and watched her sit into her car, shutting the door for her.

Ivy laid in bed, staring at the ceiling with her phone laying over stomach in her hand, soft music playing from it as her other hand was clasped around her locket once more.

She was mulling over Porco’s words, about how he was claiming her as his, even though they’d only been together a few weeks. The idea didn’t sit right with her, but the more she thought about it, the more sense it made that he would be upset over another man sending her jewelry—much less a locket with such meaningful contents.

She sighed and rolled over onto her side, placing her phone on her wireless charger and tucking her hands under her cheek. The necklace was a solid symbol of their friendship—nothing more. Nothing deeper than friendship. There was no romantic love involved.

Then why did she dream of Armin that night, with his arms wrapped around her as they embraced, staring into each other’s eyes as his thumb caressed her cheek? Why did she dream of their hands intertwined and smiles being exchanged? Why did her dream self feel butterflies and like she was floating, like all her cares were gone in the world, and that nothing mattered besides Armin?

She wouldn’t remember these dreams in the morning, as they had quickly left her subconscious as she stirred awake in the new day, a new day that she would spend working on her reply to Armin—her friend.

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Clematis.

Here's an extract of the Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of France by P.V Fournier, renowned french herbalist, pp295-296)

Most woody and climbing clematis are the lianas of our flora. Neighboring Anemones, they belong like them to the Ranunculaceae family.

Their white, purple or blue flowers are made up of 4 sepals, often colored like their petals.

Their fruits grouped at the head are each prolonged, by a long style garnished with a silvery plush, so that the bushes of Clematis in the fall, are located from afar by a quantity of cottony tufts with a silver reflection.

Clematis would come from the Greek, designated among the ancients, various climbing plants. This word comes from klêma, which means branch / flexible wood.

All Clematis are very poisonous and can only be used with great care. They contain in their juice poisons still incompletely known, but similar to Anemone camphor and aconitins, causing inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes.

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[The "white-vine" clematis, clematis vitalba.]

Popular names :

Beggar's Grass, Burning Clematis, Solomon's Vine, Poor's Grass, Virgin's Cradle, Hair of the "Lady", Pipe Wood, Smoking Wood, Old Man's Beard.

Description :

- This large liana with a flexible stem of 15 to 20m, hollowed out in the length of many small holes which make it porous, is known to all the country people as "wood to smoke", coarse material of basketry, as rope or occasional tie.

- Its young grow and are sometimes eaten cooked in water instead of asparagus or are found candied in vinegar. In fact, at the start of the growth, they still have little bitterness and are still accepted by the cattle (then refused afterwards.)

Properties:

- All parts of Clematis are acrid, itchy, reddening (which dilates the veins and increases blood flow to the part of the skin it will be applied to) and blisters (which severely irritates the skin). In fact, it is almost exclusively reserved for external use, where it is shown - if it is judiciously used - detergent and antipsoric (used against scabies.)

- Inside, the plant acts as a very violent hydragogue and drastic purgative, becoming too quickly toxic for it to have ever been used commonly (other than in homeopathic doses).

Popular uses :

- Young buds and dry leaves in low doses, act as purgatives and diuretics (which promote the work of the kidneys).

- Do not exceed 3g of freshly leafy buds per 100 to 200g of water. as an infusion, taken 3 times at 1 hour intervals, acted as a strong purgative.

- Do not exceed 5 to 10g of dry leaves in 1l of boiling water for a very strong diuretic effect (which will not be suitable for sensitive natures and which is more dedicated to fight against dropsy. Dropsy is an abnormal effusion of fluid in a part of the body which eventually results in edema.)

In any mode of administration, it is necessary to start with the lowest doses and to monitor very carefully the reactions of the digestive tract 1/ and of the body in general 2/. (this little wink @echoesofthefall)

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Popular use also used Clematis against chronic skin diseases (according to the old tradition the hot cures the heat), in gout, rheumatism, joint pains, etc.

It has also been used to treat certain symptoms of syphilis, which is a mockery for a plant so often linked to the Virgin and its purity.

In the old days, beggars rubbed leaves and stems of the plant on certain parts of the body to create ulcers and inspire pity, hence the name beggar grass.

The decoction of fresh leaves is a very tonic detergent and was often used by the ancients to bring about the putrefaction of the flesh more quickly, and therefore the renewal of these so-called flesh.

Note that there are many types of species of Clematis, one which looks a lot like the white-vine clematis is the fragrant clematis, which we will call "small flame", or "flame", it is very similar to the first, if not for its smell (sweet honey like, in spring), its leaves are much more divided than the first, but its properties are identical.

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(this post is dedicated @salfige 💜, with about 2 months late ^^')