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Monthly Reading Summary – September 2024

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This hat...

I just rewatched the most my favorite episode NMTB! After the Sutin episode (S25E04) I become Noel’s fan! 

What a beautiful concidence! xxx 

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Deep dive #2: Jessica Biel’s relationships timeline and all the interconnections

| Adam LaVorgna | Chris Evans | Justin Timberlake |

Disclaimer: This is done for fun. No hate, no drama, just some Hollyweirdness. It’s not a detailed timeline but more like key moments with some fun or surprising connections and anecdotes (to me at least). It’s just not possible to do one boyfriend timeline without mentionning another one. No famous people won’t be mentionned, neither most tabloids speculations. People already twist things, so it can’t be worse (right?). And please don’t judge my english.

Spring 1997: During the interview with All-Stars Magazine, 15 years old JessicaBiel shared that she only had two "sort of" boyfriends, both of whom were 17.

All-stars: In real life, do you ever date older guys? Jessica: I don’t really date very many people. I’ve had two boyfriends kind of! Both of them have been 17, so they’re usually older.

Spring 1998: 16 years old Jessica Biel is filming her second movie “I’ll be Home for Christmas” with Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Alberta and Vancouver, Canada. She met Adam LaVorgna who play the bad boy Eddie, they start dating while filming the movie. Even thought Adam is not very well known, he has been acting since he is 10. Nsync’s christmas song was used during the end credit of the movie. FYI The movie is available on Disney+.

"I knew when I first met [Jessica] there was something there. We did a movie together called I'll Be Home for Christmas. As soon as I saw her, I thought I'm definitely going to date this girl. There's no way she's getting away from me. It'll be three years in April." - Teen Magazine, March 2001

April 1, 1999: On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jessica said that Adam Lavorgna was her first real boyfriend. She said he is very smart and go to Avon Old Farms high school in Connecticut.

“First guy named Adam, oh oh trouble trouble” - Jay Leno

August 12, 1999: Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna did their first red carpet together at Barry Watson’s movie premiere "Teaching Mrs.Tingle". From what I have seen, it was Adam’s first red carpet of his career.

Fall 1999: 7th Heaven producers were looking for an actor to play Jessica’s character Mary Camden boyfriend and asked her if she had any suggestion. She suggested her then boyfriend Adam. His first appearance as Robbie Palmer in 7th Heaven was in season 4, Episode 10 aired on November 29, 1999. When the producers first called his team, they refused it without talking to Adam. He had to call them to tell them to accept it. He didn’t care for the show but just wanted to be with Jessica and make easy money. Adam shared that story on the Worst Ever Podcast in 2019.

January 2000: Lance Bass from Nsync guest-starred in 7th Heaven as Rick Palmer (Adam LaVorgna character’s brother). He appeared in season 4 episode 13 that aired on January 30, 2000.

I have a friend who worked for a publicist for some of the actors on The WB, such as [”7th Heaven” star] Beverley Mitchell and the people from ”Popular.” So I was having dinner with her and Beverley, and Beverley was talking about how she wanted a boyfriend this season, and I said, ”I’ll do it!” and she was like, ”Okay!” Source: Entertainment Weekly, January 2000

So of course while filming that episode Jessica was asked by Enews about Nsync. She said she knew about them but don’t own any of their CDs and they shared their differents experiences.

“Hum but I mean cool, I guess” - Jessica Biel about NSYNC

And also Justin Timberlakeand the Nsync guys watching that 7th Heaven episode during a MTV interview.

March 2000: Jessica did the scandalous Gear Magazine photoshoot. (She quickly regretted doing that photoshoot and shared how horrible the experience was). Adam was not happy about it. There were some tensions between them while she was spending time with the interviewer.

During the time I spent with her, the Boyfriend (whom she asks not to name) is constant presence, though he’s more than 3,000 miles away in Boston. What he thinks  and how he’ll react take up a large portion of Jesse’s thoughts. He’s nervous at her being perceived as sex idol, and having a writer from men’s magazine spend several days with her is not helping. Over the course of those days, the phone keeps ringing - the Boyfriend - and it’s stressing her. [...] Jesse and I are supposed to hook up the first night I'm in L.A., and I wait for the phone to ring at my hotel room. It never does. [...] The next morning, we talk on the phone. It turns out Jesse had a big fight with the Boyfriend on the phone, and, no longer able to deal, she went to her friend's house and spent the night. And her cell batteries died because she'd been talking to him so long, and I'd given her my wrong cell number and…" Really, I wasn't trying to blow you off. Everything went wrong last night. Please don't think that I'm just some Hollywood jerk," she pleads. [...] She fields another call from her beau. It's an agitated conversation, and when she hangs up the air is very still. Jesse has a tendency to become quite serious - she says she thinks way too much and it's suddenly uncomfortable between us. He told her he's unhappy with the situation and doesn't want to talk to her until the writer is gone.The phone rings again. It's the Boyfriend - he's being a jerk, he tells her. Go ahead and have a great interview.Jesse smiles and the tension is gone. "That's so fucking cool of him." Gear Magazine, March 2000

Summer 2000: When it was time for Jessica to leave the show to attend college on the East Coast with Adam (Jessica at Tufts University and Adam at Boston College), the producers of 7th Heaven contacted Adam and offered him a regular role for Season 5. Adam agreed, dropped out of college to be in Los Angeles for filming, while Jessica, who needed a break, still went to college in Massachusetts.

With hindsight, Adam regretted accepting the offer because now he feels like the producers asked him to comeback for season 5 to hit back at Jessica for leaving the show. Jessica was still working on the show during her school break, only appeared in few episodes and her scenes were very brief. Contrary to what was said in the medias, Jessica was never fired from the show. Aaron Spelling made it clear she still had 2 years left in her contract. They destroyed her character thought.

(Read the deep dive about the photoshoot and Jessica Biel leaving the show here)

2000(?): Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Chris Evans and a group of friends attend a party all together!!

April 2001: Jessica Biel and Adam LaVorgna did a photoshoot together for Movieline Magazine. They denied dating. Adam revealed in the Worst Ever podcast in 2019 that their PR told them to deny they were dating. (off topic: When I was a kid I had the green dress picture as poster from one of my teen mag)

August 12, 2001: Jessica Biel and Adam LaVorgna did their last red carpet together at The Teen Choice Awards. 7th Heaven won best drama award that day. Adam missed the moment they went on stage, and Barry asked where is he?

August 22, 2001: Adam attended Jessica’s movie premiere “Summer Catch” but they didn’t take pictures together.

October 5, 2001: The Enquirer is reporting that Adam LaVorgna went to Promises rehab in Malibu for cocaine and Vicodin addiction.

The Enquirer is reporting that Jessica Biel's boyfriend and 7th Heaven co-star [Adam LaVorgna] checked himself into Promises rehab in Malibu after Jessica and the show's producers both gave the cocaine and Vicodin addict  an ultimatum. An insider told the taboid, "The cocaine and pills drastically  changed his demeanor." After the two talked him into rehab, he appears greatful as the friend added, "Right now he's thanking God for Jessica and the show's  producers. They saved his livelihood - and his life." Source: Jessica Biel Fansite

Adam revealed in the Worst Ever Podcast in 2019, he started drinking at 10/11yo and had Opioid addiction (and then maybe doing heroin, I didn’t understand exactly what he said). He went to rehab multiple times and the first two times were paid by 7th Heaven producer, Aaron Spelling.

In the interviews with Elle Magazine and Cosmopolitan in 2005, Jessica mentioned, without explicitly stating his name, that the relationship was not healthy. Also mentionned in the London (2005) movie behind the scene.

Everybody’s gone throught a relationship that’s not healthy for you. When I was 16, I cried my eyes out to Elvis’ “Cant’ Help Falling in Love” because I felt so in love that my heart was breaking apart.  Elle Magazine, 2005

He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating—but then I realized he was the one cheating. He was putting it on me and making me feel like shit... But then three years later, I was still with him. And then it finally just smacked me in the face and I was like I’m done. I’m over it. Cosmopolitan, 2005

October 10, 2001: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans did their first red carpet appearance at the wrap party of her movie “The Rules of Attraction”. Unless I'm wrong, Chris’ first red carpet of his career were also with Jessica. There is no information about how they met. In the interview with Animal Fair on January 2003, it is mentionned they were friends before dating. In Chris' workout video for Not Another Teen Movie, you can see Jessica in January 2002 commenting on the evolution of his body after filming the movie. They were not dating yet when he did the movie.

Jessica was back full time to L.A after one year at Tufts University. She did another semester later in 2002.

Jessica is still under her 7th Heaven contract and is working daily with Adam LaVorgna on season 6. 7th Heaven showrunner who was still holding grudge against her, made Mary desperate to win Robbie back while he keep rejecting her.

Before writing this post, I didn’t realize that it seems like Jessica and Adam never lived in the same state until they broke up.

Somehow Adam and Chris built a strong friendship for over 20 years. Adam was Chris plus-one at the 2016 Golden Globes. 💁‍♀️

November 11, 2002: The last 7th Heaven episode starring Adam aired, season 7 episode 8. There were no official explanation of why Adam left, neither off screen nor on screen at that time. Adam later revealed in a interview with belief.net that the Hollywood life (easy money, barely working, drugs, partying) is not for him, he is unable to control him and left California for the East Coast. Neither Jessica, nor the cast ever mentionned his addiction.

Jessica’s initial contract being over after season 6, only apperared in 5 out of 22 episodes of season 7. They had only 2 episodes in common.

2002: Jessica and Chris shared the way they feel about their relationship

How is it dealing with a long-distance relationship? Well it’s not easy but I think we both feel really secure in our relationship and we’re making it happen. But it’s always tough. Source: Atnzone, 2002

His favorite way to relax: Hanging out with my girlfriend as much as possible. She's an amazing person. Source: Unknow interview, 2002

January 31, 2003: Jessica Biel attended Justin Timberlake 22nd birthday party with Beverley Mitchell, her future husband Michael and a friend. Justin’s exes Br*tn*y Sp*ars and Alyssa Milano were also there. (Random fact: Adam and Alyssa families are very close, Adam call her “his cousin”)

Beverley Mitchell used to hang out a lot with the Nsync guys in the early 2000s. She participated at many of their Challenge For The Children charity events in Miami from 2000 to 2005. David Gallagher also took part of it. Beverley became pretty close to the guys. Joey Fatone also attended her wedding in Italy in 2008, and she was often seen with Lance Bass. Beverley shared during a recent podcast  with Lance Bass (@ 56min)  that she asked Jessica multiple times to come to thoses events and that she is unlike them actually good at basketball but she always refused.

During a podcast with Tia Mowry, Beverley revealed that Jessica used to tease her for hanging out with Nsync. Tia also shared a story about a Teen People party she was with Jessica where Nsync were performing. Beverley also mentionned that strange moment Justin’s mom asked her about Jessica at the 2007 Golden Globes.

October 2003: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans filmed the movie “Cellular” in Santa Monica, Callifornia. The director of the movie, David R. Ellis, asked Chris to ask Jessica to play the small girlfriend role. He also revealed they had broken up after filming the movie but were back together during the press tour for the movie.

Interviewer: They are still dating? Ellis: They were dating when we made the film and then they took a little break and now they're [back]. She's here. She was just here for lunch with Chris. Now they're back together. They just took a little hiatus.

Interviewer: At the time, was it just a coincidence that she was cast? Ellis: No. What happened was I knew Chris was going out with her, and I said, "Why don't you show this to Jess and see what she thinks. If she'd like to come do it, you guys could do something together, it'd be cute." Unknow interview, 2004

November 2003 to February 2004: Jessica Biel is training and then filming the caothic Blade: Trinity in Vancouver, Canada with Ryan Reynolds and kind of with Wesley Snipes.

From Febuary to June 2004: Jessica Biel is filming Stealth with Jamie Foxx and Josh Lucas in Australia and Thailand.

January 27, 2004: At the Perfect Score movie premiere, Chris Evans confirmed their break up (unknow source)

June 30, 2004: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans confirmed back together. They were pictured together in Santa Monica.

September 2004: During press tour of Cellular, Chris shared that they decided to be more low key and how hurtful it could be to read about heartache in magazines.

Evans says he and Biel, whom he describes as "such a sweet girl," have agreed to keep their dating private. "Relationships are difficult," he says. "All that emotion and pain. I can't imagine opening a magazine and reading about my heartache at the newsstand. I said, 'Let's not be seen at clubs being loud and obnoxious. Let's not go to premieres or parties. Let's not get our picture taken.' She's all for it." New York Daily News

(Jessica is a teen star and yet has never been seen being loud and obnoxious at club in the last 25 years)

January 2005: Even thought Chris Evans said it’s a bad idea to work with your girlfriend, Jessica and Chris worked again together in the movie “London”.

“Just don’t do it” - Chris Evans about on set love after filming Cellular

During the interview with Allure in 2009, she is asked to comment about a picture from "London" with Chris.

JB: "That was the beginning of the sex scene in the movie." ALLURE: "Old boyfriend?" JB: "Yes." [rolls her eyes] "You know how it is...."

July 2005: In the July issue of Cosmopolitan, Jessica Biel denied rumors that she and Chris Evans were engaged but they do talk about it.

Interviewer: Do the two of you ever talk about getting married? JB: We always talk about it. We both want to be married, and we both want to have children. But we’re not engaged, so the rumors are false…so far.

On July 6, Jessica attended Chris’ Fantastic Four movie premiere in NYC

March 2006: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans are pictured together for the last time as a couple while walking Jessica’s newley adopted pitbull Tina.

June 30 2006: Wenn.com reports that Jessica Biel and Chris Evans broke up.

Jessica Biel and Chris Evans have called it quits after dating for more than two years, according to media reports in the US... Evans, who starred in Fantastic Four, is currently filming The Nanny Diaries with Scarlett Johansson. A source tells the US edition of OK! magazine that Evans has recently been spotted out in New York City with brunette public relations executive. Meanwhile 24-year-old Biel has been in Los Angeles filming Next with Nicolas Cage.            

October 2006 : Life & Style Weekly reports that Jessica is seeing Adam Levine. They have never been seen together or ever talked about each other. Zero detail about how or where they met. Sound 100% bullshit.

November 6, 2006: TMZ spotted Jessica walking her dog with Zach Braff. Yep that was before she eat him (it’s a Bojack Horseman reference). They never talked about each other and have never been spotted together after that.

November 28, 2006: People reports that Jessica and Derek Jeter are cozying up all over Las Vegas. They also have been spotted together at Social Hollywood on Nov. 15.

December 7, 2006: According US weekly and In Touch, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake were at Social Hollywood. It is kind of confirmed by Justin on his book.

When I met Jess, it was undeniable how beautiful she is. We were at a surprise party in Hollywood at a speakeasy kind of a bar, a private club, and we were standing around in a group of people. I made some sort of sarcastic comment, really dry. Nobody got it except her. She laughed, and I noticed, all of a sudden, and in the way where you wonder if a person’s like you, if they have a very dry, dark sense of humor, too. We talked that night. The DJ played “Lucky Star,” and we danced. And then she was gone. I didn’t ask for her number. It wasn’t the time. From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

End of December 2006/Begining of January 2007: Scarlett Johansson is filming the music video What Goes Around with Justin Timberlake.

From January 1 to January 5, 2007: Jessica is pictured with Derek Jeter in Puerto Rico for the first and the last time. They have not been spotted together after that.

January 5, 2007: Gossip site reports that Scarlett Johansson and Justin Timberlake were seen chatting away at his movie "Alpha Dog" party.

January 8, 2007: Perez Hilton reports on his blog that Jessica Biel was at Justin Timberlake first show of his Futusex/Lovesound tour. Confirmed again on his book released in 2018.

My first show for the FutureSex/LoveSounds tour was in San Diego. A friend who also knew Jess was going to come to the show, and she asked me, “What if I was to bring a certain somebody?” I said, “I could be into that.” Patience may not be my strong suit but, apparently, playing coy is. My friend brought her to the show. They were with a whole crew of girls, and they all came into the dressing room and hung out. After the show, they were going to go back to LA, and I was going on to Anaheim. I asked them if they wanted to come with me. “I’ll give you a ride, you can come on my bus. If you want …” And they did. Jess and I talked the whole way up, joking around. Before she got off the tour bus, I said, “Can I have your number?” That was when we started talking on the phone. We didn’t date at first. For about two weeks, we talked on the phone, because I was on tour.

Then the Golden Globes came up, and that’s when we planned on seeing each other. From that moment on, we started dating. We were both still seeing other people, keeping « ourselves safe from getting hurt, from really putting ourselves out there. It took a bit for both of us to admit to ourselves that we were really, really that into each other.

From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

January 11, 2007: Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz confirmed tabloids speculations and released a break up statement via People. There were already rumors of Justin and Cameron break up. Pagesix reported that Justin spent the new year at Kate Hudson party and Cameron with her family in Vail, Colorado.

January 15, 2007: Golden Globes Night! Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, both presenters that night, see each other for the first time since his San Diego show as planned and got flirty. They were just not expecting 35yo Cameron Diaz public tantrum!

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, who announced last week that they’d split up, got into a heated argument at Prince’s Golden Globes afterparty early Tuesday morning. The exes, who’d chatted politely during the awards ceremony and even shared laughs at InStyle’s annual afterparty, hit the rough patch in their officially amicable breakup at a wee-hours bash hosted by the singer at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. According to witnesses, Timberlake was chatting with actress Jessica Biel when Diaz approached. Biel stepped away, and the former couple had a serious exchange. Diaz walked away, Timberlake followed, and the two were soon spotted engaged in an intense 40-minute face-off in a side room. Diaz reemerged looking composed, but not before Timberlake held his head in his hands and, says a witness, “slammed his fist (down) into a cabinet.” Source: People.com

The pair was continuing the touchy-feely flirtation begun earlier that night at the Creative Artists Agency-sponsored bash at Sunset Towers. And his ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz couldn’t help but stare. “Cameron was across the room giving them the evil eye,” says a party source. “It was like high school.”  “All of a sudden she just lost it,” says one of the many witnesses to the tantrum of Diaz. “She came up and started yelling at Jessica.” According to a witness, Biel, 24, stepped away, leaving Diaz, 34, to unleash her fury on Timberlake, 25, who moved with her into a hallway. Says a guest, “First she started saying all these nasty things to him about Jessica like, ‘What is she? Your new f—king girlfriend? Look at her!’ And then she insinuated things about other guys that Jessica has been with.” The tirade went on for 45 minutes, until Barrymore finally intervened. Source: US weekly

No pictures of them together were published at that time. Years later, this picture will be shared

January 18, 2007: TMZ reports that Cameron Diaz is in Hawai with Kelly Slater. US Weekly mentionned that she flew there the next day of Golden Globes.

January 25, 2007: Jessica is spotted at the Sundance Film Festival.

People.comJustin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have been spotted chilling, flirting and snowboarding lately – but don’t peg them as a new couple just yet, sources say in the new issue of PEOPLE. Earlier this month, Timberlake invited Biel and a few friends to hang backstage at his concert in San Diego, and the pair were spotted snowboarding together with a group of buddies at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 25. - People.com

Still no pictures of them together.

February 2, 2007: Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette reps confirmed they ended their engagement to People.com

February 5, 2007: During the superbowl week, People.com reports that Justin, Scarlett and Joey Fatone arrived together at a party in Miami. They didn’t appear romantic according the source.

February 11, 2007: Justin attended the Grammy Awards as a performer and Scarlett as a presenter. On the red carpet, she adressed the rumors “We have a lot of friends in common, and it’s always good to see him”. Source: People

February 26, 2007: After GQ magazine Oscar party, Jessica Biel and Blade Trinity co-star Ryan Reynolds have a dinner with a group of people at Astro Burger in West Hollywood, including their PR, Meredith.

March 5, 2007: During the fashion week, Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson are seen shopping together in Paris, France. Jessica and Scarlett have known each other since they are teens. They did a photoshoot together for Teen People Magazine in 1998.

Jessica and Scarlett have always been friendly with each other over the years (Hitchcock movie premiere 2012, Oscars 2017 with JT)

March 9, 2007:  MTV reports that Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds were seen having a dinner at Santa Monica’s Balabu that week. The pictures seems to have disappear from internet.

April 9, 2007: People reports that Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds spend the week end together

April 2007: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake decide to be exclusive. Justin’s 1st US leg tour ended on March 29, 2007. They spend a month together and they decide to be exclusive before touring Europe from April 24 to July 10. His world tour ended in December 2007.

« When I came back from tour, we spent a month together. After that, I said, “I really want to be exclusive.” And, somehow, she said, “So do I.” It was crazy, because I was about to leave for Europe for three months. Two weeks later, I came back to LA to see her. Then she flew back to Europe with me, and we spent two weeks on the road together. We were going to different cities, having a ball, with room service and pay-per-view and great dinners. And Scrabble. We’ve had a lot of unforgettable times. From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

"At one point, we decided we were going to be exclusive. It was that moment; we had that conversation, and literally the next day he was like, 'OK, I'm going to Europe for six months. And I was thinking to myself, What are you doing? You're going to get your heart broken. This guy is the biggest ... whatever he is, and-are you nuts? You're so crazy. But he's just not that person."  Jessica Biel on Marie Claire, 2017

May 2007: In the may issue of Seventeen, Scarlett Johansson while doing promo for her movie The Nanny Diaries (also starring Chris) talked about the rumors linked to her and Jessica.

“We live in a world today where if two people are single – and one’s a guy and one’s a girl and they’re both famous – you’re going to be linked with somebody; If it’s somebody one week, it’s going to be somebody else the next week. It’s either me or Jessica Biel.” Source: People

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz attend the premiere of the movie Shrek 3 and are doing promo for it.

May 13, 2007: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake officially confirmed, they are pictured together for the first time in Manchester, UK. Jessica joined him during his tour.

July 7, 2007: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans who broke up a year before attended the wedding of a friend in Santa Barbara, California. It doesn’t seem to be someone from the industry, there were no other celebrity. Jessica explained on the Late show of Jay Leno that paparazzi followed her from her Brentwood house and she had to negociate with them. She posed for them in exchange of them leaving and stop bothering the wedding.

June 2008:  Intouch reports that Jessica Biel is moving with Justin Timberlake in his Hollywood Hills house but she will still keep her Brentwood house. She was rarely seen around Brentwood after this.

July 11, 2008: Eonline reports that Jessica, Justin and Chris were all at the opening of the nightclub Kress in Los Angeles but didn’t interact.

Justin Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel made a rare public outing, complete with public displays of affection Friday night in Hollywood at the official opening of Kress, which was crawling with celebs. Timberlake and Biel arrived around 11:30 p.m. at the four-floor club on Hollywood Blvd., where a reserved cabana on the roof deck awaited them. "They're very happy, and very much together," an onlooker told E! We're sure that was evident to Chris Evans, Biel's ex-boyfriend (they dated from 2001-2005). The Fantastic Four's Johnny Storm circled the roof all night, avoiding his ex. "They didn't interact. Chris just wandered around by himself, looking for a table to sit at," the source adds.

September 2008: People reports that Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds wed in Canada

October 12, 2008: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake did their first official  public appearance at Barack Obama rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.

December 10, 2008: Justin and Jessica did their first event together at the Make The Difference Network’s holiday party to benefit Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Make The Difference Network (MTDN) is a social networking website founded by Jessica’s family in 2005 focused on connecting nonprofit organizations (kind of like Gofundme for nonprofit organizations before Gofundme existed but without fees).

January 12, 2009: Justin and Jessica were having dinner at Yatai Asian Tapas Bar when Br*tn*y Sp*ars came in with her mother. They didn’t interact, she left 30 minutes later. Jessica and Justin left shortly after.

May 2009: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake did their first red carpet as a couple at the Met Gala. It was pretty unexpected because Justin never did red carpet with Cameron during their 4 years relationship. Anna Wintour co-chaired that year Met Gala with Justin.

Febuary 2010: On the february issue of Vogue Magazine, Jessica shares how she feels about all the tabloids speculations.

It’s definitely been weird and sort of bizarre to deal with. But you have to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. Honestly, I look at a magazine and they know more than I do. I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t feel the need to clear anything up. It’s the most precious thing that I have in my life, and I care about it so much that I don’t care about what anyone says or thinks. I have just not addressed it in any real way, and I’m not going to. It’s mine. And I really like that about it.

March 2010: Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz are filming the movie Bad Teacher...

February 28, 2011, Jessica and Justin are spotted at Bowling in Studio City with his mother, Lynn.

March 10, 2011: After many years of never ending rumors, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake reps confirms to People.com that they have broken up.

Reps for the couple released a statement Thursday, confirming the split: “Addressing the media speculation regarding Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake’s relationship, we are confirming that they mutually have decided to part ways. The two remain friends and continue to hold the highest level of love and respect for each other.”

Again after the break up, Jessica is pretty busy.

April and May 2011: Jessica is filming Playing for Keeps with Gerard Butler in Louisiana 

June to September 2011: Jessica is filming Total Recall with Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale in Toronto, Canada.

June 2011: In the June issue of Vanity Fair , Justin talks about Jessica.

"She is the single-handedly most significant person in my life. In my 30 years, she is the most special person, OK?

So I protect it, and until somebody shows me what would be more fulfilling at this point, that's what I have to do. I would rather not talk about her, because it's hurtful for me. It's unfortunate that even though you make the effort to say something, which I tried on for size, people do what they want to do.

I don't want to say much more, because I have to protect things that are dear to me—for instance, her."

June 2, 2011: Jessica is seen on Motorcycle Ride with Gerard Butler. Their reps tell People they are just friends.

Meanwhile Justin is spotted hanging out with Ashley Olsen. Justin reps denies the rumors of dating to People, he is hanging out with “a group of friends”. Estee Stanley, Jessica and Ashley’s stylist and close friend, was with them. (On this one you will have to believe me i saw all of them in one video with other people leaving a restaurant and hotel, I can’t post the source).

In May 2012, Jessica shared on social media the RAW backpack that Ashley Olsen gifted to her.

June 03, 2011: Enews reports that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake reunited at his best friend Trace Ayala girlfriend pregancy party but were just friendly.

Bumping into an ex at a mutual friend's party can be awkward for most of us. But not for Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, who attended the same party on Thursday afternoon in Brentwood. According to a source, the former couple was more than civil at the celebration..."There was no PDA, but they were talking to each other for awhile," a source tells us. "They ate and sat next to each other." But did it look like the onetime twosome were rekindling their relationship? Not exactly. The exes arrived and left the soiree, which was a celebration for J.T.'s friend and business partner's Trace Ayala's expectant girlfriend, separately.

They did kiss before departing, but it wasn't the romantic type of smooch.

July 3, 2011: US Weekly reports that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were spotted at the Black Hoof restaurant in Toronto where Jessica is filming Total Recall

August 2011: Multiple twitter sightings of them in NYC

August 28, 2011: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake confirmed back together, they are pictured riding bike in Toronto where Jessica is still filming Total Recall.

October 30, 2011: A unknow actor posted on twitter a halloween picture of him with Jessica Biel and Chris Evans. Jessica is dressed as a Kardashian and Chris as ...a thug...

December 23, 2011: A twitter user reports that Justin Timberlake proposed to Jessica Biel at the top of a mountain in Montana. He got the information from their ski instructor friend (not posting his tweet because he is not a public person). Justin and Jessica are known to do heli-snowboarding which would explain why they had an instructor with them. They didn’t confirmed or denied at the moment.

March 8, 2012: Jessica Biel is seen wearing her engagement ring for the first time.

May 7, 2012: Jessica Biel joins Twitter and Instagram

May 24, 2012: Chris Evans joins Twitter

August 2012: Jessica’s Brentwood house is sold.

October 19, 2012: Jessica and Justin tied the knot at the Borgo Egnazia resort in the south of Italy. Jessica was wearing a custom petal pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown.

October 21, 2012: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake flown to Tanzania for a honeymoon amongst the wildlife.

May 2013: Chris bought an house in the same street as Justin and Jessica.

In his interview with Hollywood Reporter in 2019, Chris mentionned that “he thinks” Justin Timberlake lives around here. The little shady interviewer doesn’t believe that he doesn’t know that Jessica also live there.

He keeps it closer to the vest about other people. He mentions in passing that Justin Timberlake lives around here — “I think” — without mentioning that Timberlake lives around here with his wife, Jessica Biel, who was once Evans’ girlfriend.

March 2, 2014: Jessica Biel took a picture with Chris Evans’ brother, Scott Evans, at the 2014 Oscar party.

September 27, 2014: Jessica Biel who is very well known for being fit is seen with a little belly at the beach in Hawaii.

October 14, 2014: For the first time, Justin shared a picture of them on social media during the New Zealand stop of his 20/20 Experience world tour.

April 8, 2015: They welcome their first son Silas Randall Timberlake. 12 days later Justin shared his first picture on Instagram. After few months, they stopped sharing his face.

July 2020: They welcome their second son Phineas Timberlake. They were able to “hide” her pregnancy because of covid lockdown. They never shared pictures showing his face.

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

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Royal(ish) Reads: Jul-Sep 2024

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[lolly-in-a-strange-land]

♡One shot♡

You don't belong here.

Gracie's brain had been screaming that for the past hour. It had been noticeably quiet when she got to see one of her favourite bands perform live, but now the anxiety was doing the merengue inside her head as she stood in the backstage area.

Her friend, Coco, was a seasoned groupie and had taken it upon herself to help Gracie put on one of her dresses and a pair of over the knee boots. Gracie, for her part, could not walk in the heels and kept having to surreptitiously adjust the dress so she wasn't flashing anyone. She also wished she was at home, watching something on Netflix now.

After an amazing Tool concert, she would have called it a night once the show was over and retired to her home. Instead she was in a backstage area, surrounded by other women, crew and roadies.

One of them had had some luck, Coco was chatting up a roadie. Gracie glanced around. A commotion startled her and she peeked out from under bangs. Coco had noticed too and made a beeline straight for the band.

Gracie could see Adam. He smiled easily and Gracie would have liked to go over too. She shifted in the uncomfortable heels. She saw Maynard and Justin. No Danny. Disappointed, she sat on the beaten up couch.

He was the one she liked the most, but she also realised she didn't really have a chance even when she was parading around dressed as a 'groupie.' She pulled out her phone and flicked through it, looking through photos of herself and Coco before the concert.

"Hey beautiful." She looked up. One of the crew had approached.

He looked nice. She smiled and lowered her phone. This wasn't her world, wasn't something she could do.

"Hey...um....sorry. I'm just about to head home." She said.

"Aw, don't be like that. You could stay and hang out with me." He insisted, stepping closer.

"I'm good, thank you though." She said, feeling something akin to panic at his insistence. And because she wanted to not hurt his feelings. "Thank you again, but not tonight."

"You and I could have a lot of fun." The guy said, and he was towering over her and the urge to stand, to make herself less vulnerable rose in her.

She wasn't aware someone else had sat on the couch until a big arm wrapped around her shoulder, pulling her closer. Fresh panic set in and her eyes lifted. Danny Carey was sitting next to her.

"Hey babe, sorry I made you wait." He said, easily.

The crew member stepped back, finally putting some space between her and him.

"Sorry man, didn't realise she was your girl." He said.

"Yeah, well, now you do," Danny replied, glancing at the crew member. "No is a full fucking sentence."

The crew member nodded and rushed away. Gracie's heart was beating erratically. She was very aware she was blushing.

"Thank you for helping me." She said.

"No, thank you for letting me be your pretend boyfriend." He said, smiling in that way that made her heart flutter.

The absolute cutest smile in all of metal music; unguarded and optimistic. She liked that. She was very aware that he hadn't moved his arm from over her shoulders.

"I can't believe I get to meet you." She said.

"Yeah, wish it had been under better circumstances," He said. "So, you have me at somewhat of a disadvantage. You know me, but I don't know you."

"I'm Gracie. I'm from Beverley Hills. I go to college." She replied.

"And what are you studying Gracie from Beverley Hills?" He asked.

"English Literature. That's my major." She said.

"So, are you more into the classics?" He asked.

"I do like some of the classics. This is probably really controversial, but I feel some of them aren't very accessible which is fine for the period they were written, but people will get really mean if you don't read them and act like you're uncultured, but I think people should read what makes them happy." She replied, blushing when he shifted.

His brown eyes were locked on her. How had she managed to secure Danny's attention? The question along with a whole heap of anxiety was spinning in her brain.

"Makes sense," He said. "And hey, I like a woman with controversial opinions. If I asked you to leave with me, what are the chances of you saying yes, Gracie?"

Leave to go where? She frowned and dared to look at him. Eye contact was tricky. His brown eyes were staring directly at her with a look she didn't recognise fully.

"To go where?" She asked.

"My place in Malibu. I've been sleeping in a bunk that is like a coffin and hotel beds that are too fucking small so I wanna go home. And I wanted you to join me." Danny said.

"Are you too tall for the beds?" She said, and giggled.

"Yeah, Gracie. At 6 foot 5, I am too tall especially for the beds on the bus." He said.

"I'm 5 foot." She said.

"Perfect height." He said, getting up.

She frowned at that and stood up too. The height difference was more accentuated when they stood. She didn't even come up to his shoulders, the heels added nothing and she suspected once they were off, she'd be even shorter compared to him.

She had to let Coco know she was leaving. Her friend was all giggles and smiles with the roadie she'd migrated back to. She gave Gracie a hug and thumbs up. Her misplaced confidence just made Gracie more nervous.

She walked back over to Danny and felt her cheeks go red when he put his hand on her lower back, guiding her through the backstage area and out into the warm night.

Going home with a rockstar hadn't been on her bingo card list and she was internally freaking out when they got to his. The house overlooked the city. It was expansive and modern. And seemed grown up compared to the dorm she resided in.

She watched him sit on the couch and relax. He glanced at her and tilted his head.

"You can sit down, Gracie." He said.

"Right, I'm making the place look untidy." She said, blushing.

"You don't take up enough space to do that," Danny replied. "Much as I enjoy the view of you in that very short dress and those heels, I didn't bring you back here to stare at you from a distance."

She blushed even more, making her freckles look more pronounced.

"I'm not a groupie." Gracie said.

"I know you're not, Gracie," He replied. "I could tell by how uncomfortable you were in the backstage area."

"Oh, I thought I was doing a big, grand revelation." She said.

"No, but it's no less adorable," He said. "Come here."

Gracie smiled and walked over, letting him pull her onto his lap. He smelled nice; like something wholly masculine. It was smokey and she knew she'd always associate the scent with him.

"Why did you invite me here?" She asked.

"To fuck you," He said, and her eyes went wide. "Multiple times."

"And after that?" She asked.

"Well, in the morning I was going to fuck you again, make you breakfast, see if I can persuade you to stay another night." Danny said.

"Consider yourself very persuasive?" Gracie giggled.

"I got you back here with very little persuasion, baby girl," He smirked. "So, you tell me."

She shifted and smiled more. His hands gently guided her to straddle him and she also attempted to tug the dress down again.

"Stupid dress." She whined.

"You will be naked in about five minutes, Gracie. That dress is definitely the last thing you should be thinking about." He said.

She blushed and her lips parted in a soft gasp when his mouth found her neck, kissing and biting the skin, teeth grazing her pulse point and making her whimper.

She tilted her head, granting access. One of his hands was on her hip, the other was one the back of her neck, travelling up and finding purchase in her hair.

She squeaked when he tugged her hair, moving her head so he could bite at her neck. She'd definitely be covered in marks and the thought of him claiming her sent her mind reeling.

He yanked her head down and claimed her mouth in a hungry kiss. She moaned softly and tentatively responded to him, hands holding onto his shoulders. She felt the muscles shift under her touch.

The yelp that left her lips when he moved her was absorbed into the kiss. The fact that he could just manhandle her made little thrills run through her.

Her back hit the couch and he was on her, pinning her and turning her body and dragging the dress off. The material made a sound like the seams were protesting as he dragged it off her.

Gracie whimpered when his mouth found her collarbone, lips and teeth travelling down her body. Her breathing was heavy and he nuzzled one of her breasts, kissing along her bra cup and making her skin prickle with warmth.

Whining probably wouldn't do any good, but she tried anyway. Danny's gaze lifted to look at her and he smirked against her skin, making her blush. His fingers tugged her bra down and she gasped when his mouth found one of her nipples, sucking and licking it until it pebbled. Gracie's head tipped back against the couch cushion and she exhaled a soft cry.

He reached under her when her back arched upwards, unclasping her bra and tossing it aside. His mouth went straight back to her breasts and she could only lay there, whimpering and moaning.

He pulled back, leaving her a trembling mess. Her nipples were oversensitive now and the skin of her breasts was covered in teeth marks. He sat back, pulling off his jersey.

Her eyes widened. It was one thing to see photos of Danny, but quite another to be confronted with the reality of how broad he was. Touching him felt like it should be illegal. He leaned down again, kissing her hungrily and caging her smaller body against his. She had nowhere to go and her body pressed against his.

One of his hands braced above her and the other gripped her thigh, wrapping her around him. Her hands held onto his shoulders. He pulled away from the kiss, leaving her lips swollen.

Her hips wriggled to gain some kind of friction and she could feel him against her; fully hard and huge. The hand on her thigh slid up and held her hip, halting her desperate grinding.

"Please, let me." She begged.

"Not until I say you can, Gracie." He replied.

She shifted under him, stilling when his dark eyes narrowed. That look definitely promised something if she kept moving.

Satisfied that she wouldn't move, he kissed down her body, teasing her breasts again and then moving down her stomach. She giggled a little when his hair tickled her stomach. She glanced down at him and she saw him smile against her skin. The dominant facade cracked for a moment and he lifted his head, reaching up and touching her face.

"Someone's ticklish." He murmured.

"You're probably ticklish too." She giggled.

"Yeah, not telling you where though. Trade secret." He replied, leaning down again.

His mouth travelled lower until he reached her panties, tugging them off and stuffing them in the back pocket of his jeans. Instinctively, Gracie spread her legs and his lips moved down, making her tremble again.

The first swipe of his tongue was teasing. Her lips parted in a breathy moan. And then several more moans as he finally made full contact. It felt like his mouth was everywhere, practically making out with her pussy.

Her head tipped back again and thrashed against the couch cushion and she squealed his name this time. His hand slid between her thighs and two long fingers sank into her, stroking in a 'come hither' motion. Gracie was incoherent by this point, moaning and sobbing. His tongue teased around her clit like he already knew direct contact was too much.

She was going to cum. Her back arched and her hips bucked. His other hand held her down, making her take what he was giving.

"Cum for me, Gracie." He murmured.

Then his mouth was on her again and she came on command, like her body was his. Her back bowed and her eyes rolled back, shuddering through the most intense release ever. Her body started to come down from the high and she watched Danny pull away from her, licking his lips and his dark eyes met hers, taking in her trembling form.

She watched as he pulled back, unzipping his jeans and dragging them and his boxers down. Her eyes went wide again. He was in proportion and huge. He beckoned her closer.

"That's it, good girl." He murmured.

His hand coiled in her hair and he gripped himself. She parted her lips and he pushed into her mouth, groaning as her lips latched onto him. The grip on her hair tightened and he started thrusting, using her mouth. He moved her and she let him.

He didn't push too hard though, seemingly aware of his size and her limits. Her gaze lifted to look up at him. His head was tipped back, eyes closed and lips parted. His noises were masculine and sent little thrills through her. He lowered his head and looked down at her, cupping her face with his other hand.

"That's it, just like that," He grunted. "Good girl. So fucking good for me."

Gracie would have been content to keep pleasuring him, but he stopped her, gently pulling her away. She obeyed. She also obeyed when he guided her to lay back down. She watched him remove the rest of his clothing. He covered her body with his own.

She whimpered when he pressed the tip against her folds, notching himself between them and coating himself with her juices. She gasped as he pushed forward, filling her slowly, letting her feel everything.

"D-danny....oh my God." She whined.

"Definitely going to be saying my name a lot." He smirked.

Gracie cried out as he finally filled her, bottoming out inside her and stretching her deliciously. It felt amazing and she gripped his shoulders.

He pulled all the way out, the tip grazing her folds and then thrust back in. The pace was was definitely not gentle. He took her in rough strokes and she squealed. He shifted to his knees, wrapping her legs around his waist.

Her lower half lifted off the couch and she was at his mercy as he thrust into her, making her moan. Her vocal chords felt frayed and her cries echoed around the lounge.

One of his hands gripped her hip again, fingers digging in and leaving bruises. His other hand reached up, palming one of her breasts and squeezing it.

Her eyes fluttered and she moaned again, arching into the touch. His gaze was on her, hungry and searing. The pleasure was intense and Gracie could feel another heavy release building.

Her moans grew in pitch and frequency and she saw Danny smirk when he realised she was close again.

"C'mon, Gracie. Cum for me," He growled. "Show me how much you love being fucked like this."

"I-i....oh....can't hold it." She moaned.

"Then don't. You have my permission, Gracie." He smirked again.

Her back arched again and she let go, body shuddering with intense pleasure. Her head tipped back and the moan of his name was almost a scream, echoing in the lounge, bouncing off the walls.

Her release must have set him off as he followed her, head tipping back and groaning her name, filling her. She felt the warmth of it.

She was still shaking a little as he slid out of her, leaning down and kissing her shoulder and up to her neck, nuzzling the space between. He nudged her across a little so he could slot himself behind her and cuddle her. She looked up at him, suddenly feeling shy again.

"So, do I leave now?" She asked.

"In such a rush to leave, babe?" He murmured.

"Isn't that what groupies do?" She asked.

"We've already established you're not a groupie, Gracie." Danny replied.

"I could be," She said, and he raised a brow. "Don't look at me like that."

"I'm so sorry, miss expert groupie," He grinned. "I didn't realise you were so particular about it."

"You're so mean in private," She mumbled. "And bossy."

"If you stick around, Gracie, you'll find out exactly how mean and bossy." He teased.

"Ringing endorsement." She said, and smiled again.

"Yeah, I'm quite the catch," He said, gently tracing his fingers down her stomach. "No, but, seriously, Gracie. You can leave if you want, no pressure. But don't leave thinking this was a one night fuck. Or you could stay, cuddle with me, let me fuck you again."

She blushed and smiled again. The idea of leaving was definitely gone. She rolled onto her side and snuggled against him.

"OK, you've convinced me." She giggled.

"Yeah, like I said, I'm pretty persuasive." Danny replied.

Gracie smiled more when his arm wrapped around her. He kissed her forehead and lingered there, breathing in her scent.

She closed her eyes and relaxed against him.

[justforbooks]

The actor Brigit Forsyth, who has died aged 83, made her name as Thelma in the BBC television series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? One critic described Thelma as so prim that she could turn the lifting of a lace curtain into an art form.

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais’s creation, which ran from 1973 to 1974, was the sequel to the popular 1960s sitcom The Likely Lads, which starred Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, two single north-east England factory workers who share a flat and the same interests – women, drink and football.

Thelma Chambers was brought in as a girlfriend for the upwardly mobile Bob, now in the white-collar class with a house, car and annual holiday on the Costa Brava, scoffed at by Terry, who clings on to his working-class roots. Thelma and Bob were married halfway through the two series of the show.

“Up until then, I had done a lot of drama on telly,” said Forsyth. “If I wasn’t being murdered, I was murdering somebody or I was a disturbed art teacher. I was playing quite a lot of deranged people, so comedy was a nice change.”

She created laughs again with the sitcom Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), in which she co-starred as the middle-class Elsie Beecroft alongside Janette Beverley as the more down-to-earth Sharon Wilkes, two employees in a greetings card manufacturing company.

But Forsyth’s own favourite television part was Francine Pratt in Playing the Field (1998-2002), the on- and off-pitch women’s football drama created by Kay Mellor. Her character, who hates the game, is married to the Castlefield Blues’ sponsor, played by Ricky Tomlinson, and keeps him happy in return for designer clothes and other luxuries.

“I have never played awful glamour before,” she said. “I had a blond wig, six-inch heels, makeup and my bosom hitched up high.”

Forsyth was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, to Scottish parents, Anne (nee Forsyth), an artist, and Frank Connell, an architect and town planner, and brought up in Edinburgh. She was mesmerised by Stanley Baxter’s performances as a pantomime dame at the city’s King’s theatre and, aged 18, landed her own first lead role, as Sarat Carn, on her way to the gallows, in Charlotte Hastings’s play Bonaventure with the Makars amateur drama group.

But when she left St George’s school, Edinburgh, her parents insisted she learn a skill, so she trained as a secretary. After a couple of jobs, she headed for London and Rada (1958-60), where she won the Emile Littler prize.

She began her professional career back in Edinburgh with the Gateway theatre company (1960-61) before moving on to the Theatre Royal, Lincoln (1961-62) and the Arthur Brough Players in Folkestone (1962). With other actors already named Brigit McConnell and Bridget O’Connell, she changed her professional name to Forsyth on her return to Lincoln in 1962.

At the Edinburgh festival three years later, she played one of the witches in a headline-making production of Macbeth. “That show caused an absolute uproar because they wanted the witches to have the bodies of young girls and the faces of old women, and they wanted us to have our top half naked,” Forsyth recalled. “But the Earl of Harewood, who was running the EIF at the time, said ‘No’. So they put nipple caps on us, which looked absolutely disgusting – and they used to drop off each night. It was absolutely hysterical.”

Later, in the West End, Forsyth played Annie in The Norman Conquests (Globe, now Gielgud, and Apollo theatres, 1974-76) and Dusa in the feminist play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (Mayfair theatre, 1976-77). She put her TV breakthrough down to cutting her hair short. “It proved a tremendously lucky omen,” she said.

That break came with Adam Smith (1972), in which she played the younger daughter of the title character, a Scottish minister (Andrew Keir). The director, Brian Mills, then worked with Forsyth on the psychological thriller Holly (1972), when she took the part of a young art teacher kidnapped by a mentally unstable student. Forsyth and Mills married in 1976.

Television roles kept on coming. She was Veronica, one of the product-promotion team, in The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Harriet in the inter-generational sitcom Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), and Helen Yeldham, a hotelier, in the 1989 series of Boon.

There were also appearances in soap opera: as GP Judith Vincent in The Practice (1985-86); Babs Fanshawe, Ken Barlow’s escort agency date who dies of a heart attack, in a 1998 Coronation Street episode; Delphine LaClair, a sales rep for a French company interested in buying Rodney Blackstock’s vineyards, for two short runs in Emmerdale (2005 and 2006); Cressida, mother of the millionaire Nate Tenbury-Newent, in Hollyoaks in 2013; and three roles in Doctors between 2000 and 2012.

Forsyth also played the miserable Madge, who frustrates her sister Mavis’s attempts at a relationship with Granville, in the sitcom sequel Still Open All Hours (2013-19).

A cellist from the age of nine, Forsyth starred as the real-life virtuoso Beatrice Harrison in a 2004 tour of The Cello and the Nightingale. Also on tour, she was a remarkably believable Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (2000) and played Marie in Calendar Girls (2008). “I’m Mrs Frosty-Knickers, the one who doesn’t approve of it all.”

In 2017, she played a terminally ill musician in the stage comedy Killing Time, written by her daughter, Zoe Mills, who acted alongside her. At the time, Forsyth revealed that her maternal grandfather, a GP in Yorkshire, had helped dying patients to end their lives. Declaring herself a supporter of euthanasia, she said: “He bumped off probably loads of people with doses of morphine.”

In 1999, Forsyth separated from her husband, but they remained friends until his death in 2006. She is survived by their children, Ben and Zoe.

🔔 Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell), actor, born 28 July 1940; died 1 December 2023

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[medium-observation]

November Release

Beetlejuice - First US National Tour

October 31, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Justin Collette (Beetlejuice), Isabella Esler (Lydia Deetz), Megan McGinnis (Barbara Maitland), Will Burton (Adam Maitland), Jesse Sharp (Charles Deetz), Kate Marilley (Delia Deetz), Lexie Dorsett Sharp (u/s Miss Argentina), Abe Goldfarb (Otho), Brian Vaughn (Maxie Dean), Kris Roberts (Maxine Dean/Juno), Jackera Davis (Girl Scout), Lee N Price (Ensemble), Eric Anthony Johnson (s/w Ensemble), Haley Fish (Ensemble), Kenway Hon Wai K. Kua (Ensemble), Sean McManus (Ensemble), Katie Lombardo (s/w Ensemble), Trevor Michael Schmidt (Ensemble), Corben Williams (Ensemble)

Notes:

Good capture of Halloween! This was filmed on the aisle so you can see some people getting up and walking around at times. LOTS of latecomers during ready set I had to get up to let people into the row, so there is no video there. The guy in front of me wouldn't stop moving so his head can come in and out of frame at times but it's always worked around.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB1KLh

Video is $20

Mean Girls - Second US National Tour (Non-Equity)

October 26, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Natalie Shaw (Cady Heron), Maya Petropoulos (Regina George), Kristen Amanda Smith (Gretchen Wieners), MaryRose Brendel (Karen Smith), Alexys Morera (Janis Sarkisian), Ethan Jih-Cook (Damian Hubbard), Joseph Torres (Aaron Samuels), Shawn Mathews (Kevin Gnapoor), Kristen Seggio (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), Justin Phillips (Principal Duvall), Justin O'Brien (Mr. Heron), Justin O'Brien (Coach Carr/Glen Coco/Math Moderator), Thalia Atallah (Dawn Schweitzer), Victoria Mesa (Lizzie Therman/Caroline Krafft), Lucas Hallauer (Tyler Kimble), Jonah Nash (Christian Wiggins), Mikey Corey Hassel (Shane Oman), Oshie Mellon (Sophie Kawachi), Megan Arseneau (s/w Caitlyn Caussin), Brandon Moreno (Jason Weems), Tyler Jung (Marwan Jitla), Reagan Kennedy (Taylor Wedell), Joi D. McCoy (Rachel Hamilton)

Notes:

Nice Capture of the new non-equity tour! There can be a head in the way at some points but it's worked around well. The video can be somewhat grainy at times due to how far I was + how dark the show was. Overall a great video of this incredible cast.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB1e1L

Video is $20

Come From Away - Second US National Tour (Non-Equity)

October 30, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Addison Garner (Beverley/Annette & others), Shawn W. Smith (Kevin T./Garth & others), Andrew Hendrick (Claude & others), Danny Arnold (Oz & others), Hannah Kato (Janice & others), Trey DeLuna (Kevin J./Ali & others), Stanton Morales (Nick/Doug & others), Molly Samson (Diane & others), Candace Alyssa Rhodes (Hannah & others), Kristin Litzenberg (Beulah & others), Kathleen Cameron (Bonnie & others), Jason Tyler Smith (Bob & others)

Notes:

Incredible capture of the new non-equity tour. No obstruction, very little washout in wideshots. Overall a perfect video of a great new cast.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB1DyY

Video is $20

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Guest Post - Beverley Adams on Lady Jane Grey

Today I’m delighted to welcome the lovely Beverley Adams to the blog! Beverley’s upcoming book is ‘The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey’ so I asked her what I wanted to know, and some more general research questions. Beverley has previously written on Edith Rigby, Ada Lovelace, and Margaret Douglas, so a varied back catalogue, though focusing on female history and biographies! Hello Beverley, can…

[noel-fielding-web-page]

How do you think? After changing channel will Never Mind The Buzzcocks stop using "sutin" joke?

This joke is eternal classic! Who would thought that a banal troll could make a whole part in history of the show :) Adam Buxton could be amazing host

Talking about sutin it's impossible to ignore this moment:

Also, I have noticed that someone mentioned it in urban dictionary:

Sutin

Slang for something. In 2011 it was recently made famous on a British TV show called "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" in the next lines round.

"DIS GUY MUST BE A ALIEN OR SUTIN"

I think that if the joke was really great since first time, then it will be great forever :)

[starkiddreamcasting]

there's a part of my brain that swears you've already done this, but nothing came up on tumblr search so sorry in advance if you've done this casting before. but could you do a dreamcast of the mad ones?

Apologies for how late this is but here is the Starkid dreamcast for The Mad Ones! I'll admit I knew nothing about this show before diving into this dreamcast but I enjoyed it overall. I'm trying to keep on schedule this month (at last a little bit) so I hope you enjoy.

Mariah Rose Faith as Sam

Bryce Charles as Kelly

Jamie Burns as Beverly

Will Branner as Adam

Understudies: Jaime Lyn Beatty (Beverley), Angela Giarratana (Sam, Kelly), Davis Hamilton (Adam)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Books I’ve Read In 2023

So, these are all the books I read in 2023. I usually finish about 8 books a year if I'm lucky.

1. Feral creatures - Kira Jane Buxton

The second installment in Buxton's animal lead dystopian future series. I had fun reading this book and chuckled numerous times while reading it.

2. The Queens of Innis Lear - Tessa Gratton

A medieval styled fantasy novel with strong Black/Bi-Racial female main characters plus some trans representation.

3. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea - Adam Roberts

A delightfully strange fantasy novel that makes you want to keep reading.

4. Lord of the White Hell: Book Two - Ginn Hale

The conclusion of Hale's LGBTQ+ protagonist lead fantasy series.

5. Journey to Jo'burg a South African Story - Beverley Naidoo

An excellent book that brings the reader back to the unpleasant Apartheid era of South Africa. Reading this book brought out a lot of sad and angry emotions but it was worth the read.

6. The Sister of reckoning (The Good Luck Girls, 2) - Charlotte Nicole Davis

The second part of the Good Luck Girls series that I read last year. Great book filled with empowering female characters. Plus some trans representation as well. My only complaint about this book is that it seems to have concluded the series and I would've liked another book before the series ended.

7. Shadow Fallen: A Dream-Hunter Novel - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Apparently this book is part of a series but I didn't know that when I picked it up. Great book and it's kind of a stand alone book as I didn't read any of the previous series entries and fully understood and enjoyed the story.

8. Moon Witch, Spider King - James Marlon

This is the second part to Marlon Jame's dark African themed fantasy series. I picked this book up looking for an entirely new story but instead we essentially get the first book repackaged from another characters perspective.

[tytclin]

2025 books list

did I improve my brain? we must hope so. it's long so I hid it under the cut.

Novels/Fiction

wicked by jeffery macguire (ok to pretty good)

illiad by homer (translated by emily wilson) (slaps)

odessy by homer (translated by emily wilson) (slap me up sally)

julia by sanda neuman (slapped)

north and south by elizabeth gaskill (slapped as fuck)

throne of glass series by sarah j maas (does not slap but I got into it)

the women by kristin hannah (slaps)

ready player one by ernest cline (does not slap)

runaway by alice munro (slaps)

going to beautiful by anthony bidulka (pretty good)

persuasion by jane austen (a thousand slaps)

sense and sensibility by jane austen (slapper)

lessons in chemistry by bonnie gamus (does not slap)

far from the maddening crowd by thomas hardy (slaps)

outlander by diana gabaldon (slaps)

cormoran strike series, robert galbraith (slapped as fuck)

pride and prejudice by jane austen (you already know)

mania by lionel shiver (mid af)

the covenant of water (DNF, yuck) by adbraham verghese

flight behavior by barbara kingsolver (slapped to the nth degree)

the wheel of time series by robert jordan (idc it slaps but I leave off sanderson because I hated his ones)

the summer i turned pretty by jenny han (does not slap)

gone girl by gillian flynn (good to very good)

we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver (slaps)

the ministry for the future by kim stanley robinson (kind of slaps but also kind of sucks, alberta gets turned into a nature preserve)

tortall series by tamora pierce (grew up with these, slaps a thousand slaps)

Nonfiction

thinking, fast and slow by daniel kahneman (slaps but the probabilities section nearly killed me)

bitch by lucy cooke (a slapperoo)

BIG by christina myers (mixed bag of good and not good)

the power of attachment by diane poole heller (ok)

four thousand weeks by oliver burkeman (time philosophy airport novel and slaps)

attached by adam levine & rachel heller (ok)

roar by stacy t sims (slaps)

good for a girl by lauren fleshman (slaps)

i will teach you to be rich by ramit sethi (good ish, this is written in the Male Blogger Style (tm) )

doppelganger by naomi klein (slaps)

no logo by naomi klein (good)

the body keeps the score by bessel van der kolk (good but has yikes parts)

limitless by jim kwik (good ish, another male blogger)

grit by angela duckworth (SLAP)

women who love too much by robin norwood (slaps)

emporer of rome by mary beard (ok ish)

laziness does not exist by devon price (mixed bag, interesting but I think the premise/arguements are flawed)

12 rules for life by jordan peterson (DNF, yuck) (sucks a thousand sucks)

win every arguement by medhi hasan (ok, very male blogger again)

do hard things by steve magness (slaps idc if I'm the only one who likes it)

how to win friends and influence people by dan carneige (slaps)

stolen focus by johann hari (SLAPS)

pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard (slaps)

Romance Novels

bridgerton collection, vol 1 -3 by julia quinn (good ish!)

the kiss quotient by helen hong (problematic but good)

at least 10 books by mary balogh (slappers)

some books by lisa kleypas (pretty good)

some books by tessa dare (meh)

some books by jo beverley (meh)

some books by mary jo putney (did not age well but slaps)

Specifically Georgette Heyer Novels

I thought these all slapped based on that fact I went feral for them.

an infamous army by georgette heyer

charity girl by georgette heyer

venetia by georgette heyer

the conqueror by georgette heyer

bath tangle by georgette heyer

the toll-gate by georgette hyer

the talisman ring by georgette heyer

the foundling by georgette heyer

pistols for two by georgette heyer

april lady by georgette heyer

a civil contract by georgette heyer

the quiet gentleman by georgette heyer

powder and patch by georgette heyer

the corinthian by georgette heyer

regency buck by georgette heyer

spring muslin by georgette heyer

friday's child by georgette heyer

faro's daughter by georgette heyer

the reluctant widow by georgette heyer

slyvester by georgette heyer

black sheep by georgette heyer

lady of quality by georgette heyer

false colours by georgette heyer

the nonesuch by georgette heyer

beauvallet by georgette heyer

the masqueraders by georgette heyer

frederica by georgette heyer

the grand sophy by georgette heyer

cotillion by georgette heyer

arabella by georgette heyer

the convenient marrage by georgette heyer

devil's cub by georgette heyer

these old shades by georgette hyer

[fardell24b]

Monday Writings - 23rd September 2024

23rd September

Excerpt from: Dubbo and Jane Johnson’s Genie – Chapter 15: Resolving the Distortion

Monday, 23 September 1996

“Lithium atoms, Magnesium atoms, Helium atoms?” Anna Marie Alwyn asked.

“Yes. The fission reaction might have enough energy to get rid of the Distortion,” Daniel Stanton said.

They were in Anna Marie’s house looking up at flashes in the sky. They didn’t realise they were being caused by a starship using different methods to try to get rid of the Distortion (which had been distorting Dubbo’s street layout since the sun had come up when someone had unconsciously wished for it).

The car labelled DS978 (and which belonged to Daniel’s parents) stopped outside the Manera Heights Plaza.

“Ok Jane; this should be close to where you are going,” Adam Greene said.

Jane Johnson got out of the car. “Thanks, Adam,” she said.

Adam drove off and Jane went into the supermarket to have lunch.

It was now 12:30.

Shannon McIntosh left the Odgen’s. “Liz, If I’m not back in an hour, would you look for the opal?”

“I shall,” Liz Blackheath responded.

“Cool,” Shannon said as she headed off.

At the Alwyn’s house, Daniel’s brother, Richard, arrived there. “Is Mum here too?” Daniel asked.

“She was stuck at the Lawson’s house by this Distortion,” Richard said.

“Got it,” Daniel said, still a little concerned.

Not long after leaving the Manera Heights Plaza, Jane found her house. She entered and found her sister, Mel, listening to the radio.

Excerpt from: Mysteries of Aurora

“The Information Desk to start with, then I’ll head to the Nordic Section. It’s supposed to hold most of the codices from that era.”

“Good idea.”

Freya was also curious about the Library. She arrived at one of the eastern entrances. “I guess this dates from the 20th Century,” she murmured as she tried to shield herself from the reflection off of the expanse of glass before her, which was overwhelming despite the fact she was wearing sunglasses. ‘I’ll probably need to use another entrance.’ She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and listened as she walked towards the door.

“May I help you?” the library assistant asked the colourfully dressed pink-haired girl with her eyes closed before her.

“Yes, directions to the Nordic Art section?” the pink-haired girl asked.

“I could guide you if you want.”

“You don’t need to,” the other said. She then rubbed one of her eyelids. “This is just a habit I have when I get visually overwhelmed,” she added quickly with a tone that implied that she was tired of explaining it.

“Yes, the Library can be overwhelming, especially for new students.”

“Yes. I arrived yesterday.”

“If you go left a dozen paces, there is a tactile map of the library, which is beside a usual map.” The assistant said.

“That will be useful.”

Freya ran her hands over the tactile map of the Library. “I’m here, near the eastern entrance…”

It didn’t take her long to figure out the directions. ‘Easy to remember, either way.’

Olivia and Janara approached the Information desk, near the Grand Atrium. “Let’s see what this says about it,” Olivia said.

“The Grand Atrium dates from the 17th Century and reflects the nostalgia for Roman Aurora of the period.”

“That will be something to look into at some point,” Olivia said.

“You’re looking into the Nordic Era first?”

Excerpt from: Totally Spies – Warehouse 13 –Alex and the Artifact

Beverley Hills High School 2:30 PM

It had been a long day at school. Alex Riviera certainly thought so as she left the school grounds. ‘It’s a good thing we haven’t been WOOHPed today,’ she thought.

Excerpt from: Spider Quinn

Sam squirmed. “What is this? A citizen’s arrest?”

“That’s exactly what it is,” Dafoanairi responded.

“We’ll wait for Spidey to come back, then go out to the waiting cops,” Ninja Talon said.

Back at Casa Lane, the Shadow was ready to leave. “Are you sure?” Trent asked. “Apparently the brownouts have just stopped again.”

“If so, I’ll just do a patrol, just a bit early.”

“I suppose so.”

SpiderGirl switched off the furnace again. ‘Now where’s the cable, so I don’t have to come down here a third time?’ She found it and pulled it out.

SpiderGirl rejoined the others. “Good work,” she said to the others. “The furnace is disconnected,” she called out.

The lights then came back on as the Enigma turned the power back on.

Peterson saw the door open and Ninja Talon leading Sam Elders out, followed by SpiderGirl and Dafoanairi. “Good work,” she said. “The power is back to normal.”

“Glad to hear,” Dafoanairi said.

Ninja Talon handed Sam over.

Peterson cut the ties and cuffed him. “Sam Elders, you are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say will be used against you in a court of law.”

“I would have gotten away with it, if It wasn’t for those meddling vigilantes.”

The Enigma watched from the roof as Sam was pushed into a car by Peterson. She saw that SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon were walking away to the east. ‘Now’s not the time,’ she thought. She then looked to where Dafoanairi was walking away in the opposite direction. ‘Maybe I’ll follow her instead.’

Dafoanairi realised someone was following her and looked around. She saw the Enigma on a nearby rooftop. “You can come down here,” she said.

“Sure,” the Enigma called out. She climbed down the side of the building.

“I’m glad you and SpiderGirl didn’t come to blows,” Dafoanairi said once the other had joined her.

“There wasn’t much of a chance. There will be another time.”

“Of course.”

“But what did you do, given your inexperience?” the Enigma asked.

“Not much less than you.”

“Good point, but…”

“I helped Ninja Talon subdue him,” Dafoanairi explained.

“Right. Where are you going?”

“A base. I don’t want you following me there.”

“I have my suspicions,” the Enigma said.

“And I have my suspicions about you. Let’s not wreck things by confirming them.”

“I doubt it would wreck things.”

“Maybe not,” Dafoanairi responded. “But it will make things more awkward than they already are.”

The Enigma considered what Dafoanairi had just said. ‘She may be right. Let’s continue as things are and hope we don’t slip up.’ She stopped. “Then I’ll head to the Pizza place,” she said. “See you another time.”

“Bye.”

SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon arrived at the spot beneath the Bridge. They looked around before removing their masks.

“Did Dafoanairi seem familiar to you?” Quinn asked.

“Not really,” Brittany answered. “She was snarky, but many people are snarky. I can be snarky.”

“That’s true, but something reminded me of Daria.”

“Daria? I don’t think so.”

“I don’t think it is either,” Quinn said, not entirely sure. “But it also could be. I still don’t want her finding out.”

“I don’t think she noticed anything about either of us.”

“It was a short time, wasn’t it?”

“Like only a few minutes,” Brittany said.

“True, but I’m glad that the brownouts are resolved.”

“But?”

“Jamie,” Quinn said. “I need to talk to him.”

“But you don’t know where he would be.”

“True, he might be at home, the Pizza place, the Historia, or even at Elly Aitkins’ place.”

“You could try the Historia first,” Brittany suggested.

“Well, it is the closet,” Quinn said.

At the Historia, Daria entered the café. She found that there were many people there.

“Daria!” It was Mrs. Rowe.

“The school let out early,” Daria said.

“I know. The brownouts. But it seems they have been resolved.”

“What is the news saying?”

“That SpiderGirl turned up and resolved the situation, along with Ninja Talon and an apparent fifth vigilante,” Mrs. Rowe said.

“I see,” Daria said as she went up to the counter. “As if Lawndale needs that.”

“It seems that Quinn’s resolution of the issue was temporary.”

“Maybe,” Daria considered.

Quinn entered the café soon afterwards. “Daria? Has Jamie been here?”

“I haven’t seen him,” Daria answered. “But I haven’t been here for long, you might ask Mrs. Rowe.”

“I shall.”

‘Haven’t been here for long,’ Quinn thought. She shook her head. ‘That doesn’t prove anything!’ She entered the office.

“Quinn?” Mrs. Rowe asked.

“Has Jamie been here?”