#Delfi Collective

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Who: Rocky Barnes

What: Delfi Collective Phoebe Ombre Dress ($299.00) Where: Instagram - January 4, 2024

Worn with: Maria Luca flats

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[calyxthenerd]

Heya!! I would really really love a lil wholesome writing abt my fav Soy Luna ship! Being Ámber and Nina (Ambina as I call em) (you can prolly guess who this is haha). But yea i'd love a lil piece where Ámbar asks Nina to stake with her kinda sheepishly and then while they're staking maybe Ámbar tries to impress her with a trick but ends up slipping and Nina catches her and they're both like 😳 honestly the details are up to you!! I'll love it no matter what and I'll prolly draw it and yea.

The whole team was around the rink, Nina was leaning against the rail and chatting with Luna, who was skating back and forth in front of her, Jazmin was filming Delfi in the corner as she talked about whoever their next video was about, Gastón and Matteo were practicing some moves for the new coreography, so were Jim and Yam, Simón and the guys were practing one of their songs on the bleachers, and then Ámbar came in

“Hey everyone, I’m gonna close up soon, so I figured I let you guys know so you can cool down and put your stuff away before leaving”

Upon hearing the announcement, everyone who was in the rink started their cool off exercises, while the band just walked out, issuing general goodbyes as they left, being followed by the rest of the crew as they finished their workouts, leaving Ámbar herself - who was collecting equipment around the rink and general objects that were left behind by other people who regular come to Jam & Roller - and Nina, who was struggling to fit the book she had brought back into her bag and had told Luna to go on without her

“Hey Nina” Ámbar calls out, making the other girl lift her head, a puzzled expression on her face, wondering what the blonde might ask of her

“I was watching the practice and I noticed you weren’t doing the routine with the rest, why is that?” She questioned

“Oh, I guess I’m still insecure about my skating skills and showing them in front of the others, but I practice a lot by myself and with Luna!” She so didn’t want to give the other girl the impression that she was slacking off! Because that was the person who could have her access card revoked! And also other reasons she was definitely not ready to think about yet

“Of course, I have no doubt of your dedication, Nina” as they talked, Ámbar had walked up to the spot the brunette was standing by the bleachers, and she laid a hand on the younger girl’s shoulder when she said that “If you have a minute, I’d like to over the routine with you?”

“Sure! Yeah, we can totally do that!” she stammers, averting her gaze and noticing her skates were untied, so she focused on that

“Cool, you tie your skates and meet me out there” she rolled back into the rink, getting into position and being joined by her companion shortly after

They performed the coreography very well, until the very end, when Ámbar was doing a spin that was part of the last step and slipped, which was very odd for the near-professional skater, causing Nina’s instincts to make her race towards the young woman and catch her by the hips, for a moment they both stood there, frozen, staring into each other’s wide eyes, until Ámbar, whose knees were already weak from being on her feet all day and trembled even harder from how nervous she suddenly was, fell on her butt, breaking the trance they were both on and making her grumble “I told everyone a million times to stop bringing water bottles in the rink!” as Nina offered her hand and helped her up

“Well, that was humiliating” the older girl glowered

“Nonsense, I made a fool of myself in infinitively worse ways on this rink, come on, let’s get you out of those wet skates and I’ll help you close up”

And off they went, unaware that they were starting something beautiful

[mariacallous]

The governing board of the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) will meet this week for a four day board meeting, during which it will discuss the Russian national organization’s relationship with the Kremlin — and whether to launch a formal investigation that could result in the suspension of the Russian organization’s membership.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is losing patience with the inaction of the IFRC. “We, Ukrainians, don’t have a lot of time. Every day the IFRC fails to act means one more day the organization supports the Russian aggression against my homeland. I am desperate,” said Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, in a joint interview with VSquare, Expressen (Sweden), Spiegel (Germany), Paper Trail Media (Germany), Standard (Austria) and Delfi Estonia.

Lubinets sent a formal appeal to the IFRC in mid-March after VSquare and our international partners exposed the Russian Red Cross’s (RRC) collaboration with the Putin regime in the Kremlin Leaks series. This cooperation includes supporting the Russian military and collecting donations for soldiers; cooperation in the organization of military camps for children; and entering into formal agreements with a number of organizations that have been sanctioned by the European Union, the United States and Ukraine for, among other things, their involvement in the deportation of Ukrainian children.

In the petition, Lubinets demanded that the IFRC condemn the RRC’s activities, conduct a transparent investigation, suspend their membership in the international movement for the time being and, if our revelations are true, expel the RRC from the organization. To date, the commissioner has received no response from the IFRC other than confirmation that his appeal was received. 

(The IFRC’s press service said that the organization has been in contact with Lubinets’s office since 2022, and that there will be further communication on his latest appeal when they have further information on the matter at hand.)

In the wake of the Kremlin Leaks revelations, the IFRC said it would “review” the articles’ claims, but has not yet launched a formal investigation, which – according to the organization’s own statutes – should be carried out by the Compliance and Mediation Committee. 

The IFRC has also consistently failed to respond to substantive queries from the press, but according to documents obtained through our public information requests, it held an emergency meeting at its headquarters in Geneva on March 1, four days after the first revelations were published. It was attended by, among others, representatives of the Red Cross movement’s major donors.

At the closed-door meeting, IFRC Chief of Staff Christopher Rassi pledged that the activities of the Russian Red Cross would be thoroughly investigated and that, if the matter came before the organization’s board, Russia would not be allowed to participate in deliberations. (In summer 2022, already after the full-scale invasion, Russian Red Cross President Pavel Savchuk was elected to the IFRC’s 20-member board.)

If the IFRC opens a formal investigation, RRC President Pavel Savchuk will have to step down from the IFRC board during the proceedings, according to a memo viewed by VSquare prepared by Swedish diplomats who attended the meeting. So far, the “review,”which has been ongoing for nearly six weeks, has been led by the organization’s management. According to diplomatic sources with whom we spoke, the review is now in its final stage and findings will be presented at a board meeting later this week.

The Russian Red Cross’s links with the Putin regime:

Documents leaked from the Russian presidential administration show that the Kremlin directly funds the Russian Red Cross, which was tasked with replacing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the occupied Ukrainian territories. 

The RRC President Pavel Savchuk was, at least until the publication of our first article, a member of the leadership of the All-Russia People’s Front (ONF), a patriotic organization led by Putin and actively supportive of the war. ONF holds the registered trademark for the notorious “Z” symbol.

Pavel Savchuk has also signed cooperation agreements with the internationally sanctioned organization Defenders of the Fatherland, which supports the war in Ukraine and is led by a relative of Vladimir Putin.

The RRC cooperates with the movement “We Are Together” (often referred to in Russian as #МыВместе), which supports the war and raises money and donations, including arms and personal protection equipment, for soldiers.

In January of this year, Savchuk signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of the RRC with the Artek children’s camp in occupied Crimea. It was signed by Konstantin Fedorenko on behalf of Artek. Fedorenko is internationally sanctioned for having helped deport Ukrainian children and for having organized patriotic Russian re-education camps for them (Artek is also sanctioned). 

The RRC regularly participates in military-patriotic training courses for children. In these courses, children receive weapons and military training. Red Cross workers pose with children and weapons. 

Pavel Savchuk, on behalf of the RRC, presented a diploma to the Russian arms factory Avangard, which produces rockets used to bomb civilian targets in Ukraine, and posed for a photo with a representative of the factory. The United Aircraft Corporation, a member of the state-owned Rostec Group, which produces fighter aircraft, also received a diploma from the RRC.

At least two members of the RRC board have openly expressed support for Russia’s war against Ukraine and one of them even called Ukrainians “Nazis.”

“This is a complex matter that is being discussed at the highest level of the organization,” the IFRC press service said in response to our query. The organization’s 20-member governing board meeting starts in Geneva, Switzerland today and is set to last for four days.

“A thorough review is in process but this takes time. Our teams are still working and ensuring we have gathered the necessary information to directly address these claims,” the IFRC said.

Last week, Christopher Rassi also met with diplomats to brief them on the investigation’s progress. During a meeting with the Swedish ambassador, he described how they worked nonstop over the last several weeks on the matter while keeping the board and the president of IFRC informed. 

The IFRC does not have to look far for a precedent. Last December, the Belarusian Red Cross was suspended from the organization after it emerged that its representatives had traveled with Russian units to occupied territories in Ukraine, wearing Russia’s notorious Z symbol on their shoulders, and that its leader had spoken publicly about how they were transporting Ukrainian children to Belarus.

Dmytro Lubinets said the Red Cross’s silence so far is part of a larger pattern that began as early as 2014 during the occupation of Crimea. At that time, the RRC occupied the buildings and office space left behind by the Ukrainian Red Cross in Crimea and also took possession of Ukrainian cars and computer equipment, according to Lubinets. 

“Russia does not allow [the International Red Cross] access to Ukrainian prisoners of war. And I haven’t seen any reaction from the Red Cross during this time. They hide behind the shield of neutrality. This is crazy,” Lubinets said.

Lubinets said that, in his view, the IFRC could not conduct an independent investigation as long as a representative of the Russian organization sits on its board. “But I have not given up hope. The international Red Cross community can still show that violation of the principles of the Red Cross is not acceptable. They can prove that the IFRC is not fully under the control of the Russian Federation.”

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Long Story Short, we are fixing it!!! part two

What if I told you I could fix everything that went wrong? Well, so I present to you my Soy Luna (can be whole DCLA too, but right now just SL) fix it fi collection where I fix scenarious of the shpw that went horenderously wrong.

|| "We keep this love in a Photograph" ~ The one where Delfi helps out ||

“Love doesn’t disappear in one night.” Nina shook her head while looking at Jim and Yam. “I can’t be his friend. I don’t want to be his friend.” 

“Well, maybe it is best for you to keep being apart.” Jim suggested. “Why don’t you think of Xavi?”

“Why would I think of Xavi?” Nina’s face turned confused. 

“Well, because he’s perfect.” Yam interjected. 

“Well, he’s very nice, but not enough to take Gastón out of my mind.” Nina answered. 

“Well, to amuse yourself. He’s a good person…”

“Amuse myself?” Nina questioned again. “What does that even mean?” 

“Xavi’s perfect!” 

“You have so many things in common.”

“Girls, why do you keep going on about Xavi?” Nina was still getting very confused.

“We just like him.” 

“Okay…” Nina shook her head, “but there is nothing going on with him. You can’t choose who you fall in love with. I love Gastón—”

“But if you’re part of his past…”

“What do you mean?” Nina looked at Jim and Yam. They looked at each other awkwardly. 

“We—we heard him talking with Matteo at lockers at Roller.” Yam admitted. “that you’re part of his past.”

Nina felt part of her insides broke at that moment…

“But now you make him part of your past.” Jim continued. 

***

Gastón was walking down the stairs at Blake. As he put his phone away, his eyes fixated on three girls on the floor. A red head, a blonde and a brunette…

The one who held his heart. 

How many times had he decided to move on from her at this point? Many. Had he succeeded? No. 

But he had to… Nina had moved on, and he couldn’t take all that heart break. He was too late now. 

“Gastón!!” He got shaken out of his thoughts. He turned around and saw Delfi standing beside him. “I was looking for you.”

“You were looking for me?” he asked, confused. 

“Yes, I was.” Delfi continued. “I’ve decided that I want to pursue photography, like study it.”

“Really? How did you realize that you like that?” 

“I don’t really know honestly.” Delfi shrugged. “I got a new camera as a present and kind of just got inspired. So I started taking photos and enjoyed it a lot. And like, photographers end up traveling across the world and going to all sorts of cool events, meeting all the celebrities. Imagine me working with Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande, or even better, royalty.”

“Well, that’s not always how it works.” Gastón shook his head, “No just anyone achieves that, but I know few who do, they’re friends of Mom and Dad, but even they don’t work for Taylor Swift.”

“You don’t think I can do it?” Delfi frowned. 

“I didn’t say that.” Gastón continued. “I mean, I believe that if you work hard you can succeed. I kind of have to believe that. For me it’s mostly artistic expression, not a career choice and I don’t care about parties.” 

“Well, it doesn't hurt to have fun while I’ll earn my living.” 

“That is true. If you need help…”

“Exactly! That’s what I need.” Delfi pointed toward him. “I need you to help me. You were one of the tops at the workshops last year. Give me some tips? Please.”

“Our styles are pretty different, but I can help you with the technical aspects. Obviously, if you want to work on it, you need your own point of view.”

“Yes, of course and I have a vision, I just don’t know how to make it a reality…” Delfi laughed, “and, you’re better than me, and I was actually thinking I could start with the Open and I would love if you were on my side.” 

“Sure.” Gastón nodded, “Of course I’ll help, but you’re sure you wanna start with the Open?” 

“Yes.” Delfi looked at him, “What’s wrong with it?”

“I just think that there might maybe be a lot of moving elements.” Gastón stated, “not saying that you can’t do it, but I’d get in some practice in first.”

“Okay, sure.” Delfi looked around for a moment. “Where?”

“Outside?” Gastón suggested, “More things to shoot there than here at Blake.” 

“Good idea.” Delfi’s eyes brightened. “Can you meet me at the park that’s between Blake and Hoja after school?”

“Why do you need me?”

“You think I can practice without my teacher?” 

“Okay, I can come. I don’t have anything today.”

“Good, I’ll text you the time.” Delfi squeezed his hand quickly, “Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.” He said after her. 

“Okay, what’s going on here?” Matteo showed up behind him all of a sudden. 

“Nothing is going on.” Gastón turned towards his best friend. 

“What did Delfi want?” Matteo asked.

“Help with photography.” Gastón answered. “She wants to pursue that now apparently, so she asked for some tips. I’ll help her after school.”

“Okay,” Matteo nodded slowly. “Hopefully this is all pure intentioned…”

“What are you talking about?” Gastón raised his eyebrow at Matteo. 

“I don’t know, but given your history…” Matteo eyed him, “...if this is some sort of a terrible bounce back plan, I need to stage a very big intervention…”

“What?” Gastón was still staring at Matteo. “No, no, no. She just asked for help. Get your mind off the planet of idiocy. I never actually liked her, you know that. She wanted help, and I know photography, so she came to the right person.” 

“Okay, okay, don’t get mad at me.” Matteo backed away in surrender. “I’m your best friend, so It’s my job to look out for you. That sort of thing is not your style anymore.”

“I know.” Gastón rolled his eyes. “Delfi and I, I don’t think either of us even remember that we used to date—until you reminded me of it.”

“I just want you to be happy,” Matteo pointed out, “Especially, as things are going so well for me at the moment, I’d like us to be happy together…but we are talking about the wrong brunette for that.” 

“When did we start talking about Nina?” Gastón looked at Matteo again. 

“Uhm, right now.” Matteo looked back at him. “I never specified… You’re the one talking about her, but that proves my point.” 

“And I am not having this conversation right now.” Gastón shook his head. Why did Matteo have to know him so well?

*

“Good, you’re here!” Gastón saw Delfi run up the hill. 

“You took your sweet time,” he pointed out. “I had the time to go home, change and come back here, and I live kilometers away. Don’t you live next to Blake?” 

“I do.” Delfi sighed, “Sorry, I took so long. I went home to change and then Aaron had to bother me…”

“Who is Aaron?” Gastón asked. 

“My idiot of a brother.” Delfi grimaced. 

“You have a brother?” 

“Yeah, I do.” Delfi looked at him. “Lives to bother me. I can’t wait to move out and leave that baby behind. Let him deal with Mom and Dad alone.”

“You’ve never mentioned him before.” Gastón pointed out. 

“Why would I have?” Delfi scoffed, “He’s a baby, four years younger than me, because Mom and Dad decided that they wanted a second one right before turning 40. But I mean, who talks about their siblings. You don’t.”

“I don’t have siblings.” Gastón answered pretty bluntly. 

“You seriously don’t?” Delfi looked at him. “I thought you would…”

“I mean, I probably would—actually I know that I would, but it is not possible.” 

“Oh.” Delfi seemed to realize. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it.” 

“Okay, this convo has gotten way too deep,” Delfi laughed awkwardly for a moment. “We were here to take pictures.”

She pulled her camera out of her bag.

“What model is that?” Gastón looked at it.

“Uhm,” Delfi looked at her camera, “Canon T7i.”

“Okay,” Gastón nodded. “I’m familiar with those. We have a Nikon D850 and a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, but those are a little more advanced.”

“Good.” Delfi strapped the camera around her neck. “So, how do we start?”

“Well, what do you want to shoot?” Gastón looked around the park. 

“How about that fountain?” Delfi pointed out. Gastón saw it, and tried not to flinch. The fountain brought back so many memories of Nina, and everything they had experienced together. 

“Okay.” He just nodded and followed Delfi toward the fountain. 

“So, I thought that… What if I took like a picture of the water stream when it hits the surface.” Delfi was already eyeing the fountain. She raised her camera up and snapped a few pictures. 

“Uh, come on!” She groaned as soon as she looked at the camera screen. “Why do these come out to be so blurry? It doesn’t look anything like I imagined.”

“Let me see.” Gastón took the camera from Delfi and looked at the picture. “Okay, I see what the problem is. First of all, you need to start with the manual focus. The automatic isn’t able to keep the focus on the smaller elements. Same thing with the flash.”

“Okay.” Delfi took the camera back and adjusted the settings. “What do I do then?

“Since you wanna capture something that’s in movement, I’d increase the shutter speed. Tripod would be pretty useful for this as well, but we’ll make do without one. Got it?”

“Okay…” Delfi looked through the camera lense and got closer to the fountain, “So now I just zoom toward the point I want to focus on, right?”

“Yes.” Gastón nodded, “take account of the light source, so it is reflecting how you’d want it to, and you might wanna up the aperture.” 

“Okay…” Delfi made a very focused face and pressed the camera's shutter. “Did these turn out okay?”

Gastón looked at the camera screen. “More than okay. These are really great, just need some editing, but you surely have that handled.”

“Really?” Delfi said while looking at the picture herself. “I can’t believe it! How did it turn out this good?”

“You have a good vision.” Gastón said to her. “You just needed some direction and a lot of practice. It will help you to finetune all the settings and find your own style.”

“Was this all covered in the workshop?” Delfi asked. “I don’t remember half of this, that you just told me.”

“Some of it was, but that was just one course. There was only time for some basics, honestly. I knew most of it already.” Gastón took the camera again from Delfi and turned it around in his hands. “Like I said, everyone has their own touch into it, which they develop over time. You can only go up from here.”

“Where did you learn then if not from the workshops?” Delfi asked him as they had moved to take pictures of a rose bush. 

“I started photography when I was nine or so. My dad taught me.” Gastón explained. “He's really into it, always has been. He has taught me all of his tricks.”

“Your dad?” Delfi questioned, “The most sought-after financial expert in the city is a photography nerd?” 

“You should see our house. Pictures everywhere.” Gastón remarked. “He is really good at it. Actually, that was how Mom and Dad met, on a photography course at their university.”

“So, your mother is also into it?” 

“No not really.” Gastón shook his head. “The course was mandatory for her major, while Dad was taking it as an elective. Mom actually was terrible, to the point that she would have failed the course if Dad hadn’t stepped in to help her, that’s kind of how they started spending time together, even if they pretended to be friends for like five months. So, photography is this family thing, but mostly Dad and I do it.” 

“Sounds better how mine met.” Delfi shook her head, “First year of residency at Swiss, there was a mass casualty and they ended up working in a case together. This was before Dad specialized in neurosurgery. Nothing is more romantic than poking around in someone’s torso area.” 

“I can imagine.” Gastón nodded again.

“But seriously, thank you for this.” Delfi smiled after finishing a series of pictures where she had tried to frame the sun with two trees—success of which varied a lot, but few of her pictures were genuinely good. 

“Don’t mention it, honestly.” Gastón shook his head. “This has been fun. You do know right, that I am only doing this as a purely friendly favor?”

“Yes, of course.” Delfi looked at him, a little weirded out. “Why wouldn’t I?”

“Well, you have had some interesting motives in the past.” Gastón pointed out. 

“Not that…” Delfi grimaced. “I thought that was in the past.”

“It is,” Gastón nodded, “but Matteo got in my head…you don’t want to know.”

“I’m not that desperate—” Delfi shook her head, “—anymore. Plus, I know your heart is occupied…”

Gastón decided to focus on a sliver of a cloud in the sky at that moment. 

“What is up with you and Nina anyway?” Delfi asked exactly what Gastón had been praying her not to touch on. 

“It is a long story.” Gastón was still looking onto the sky. 

“Well, since we're into chit chatting as it is, how about you tell me.” Delfi countered, “Things haven’t looked like they have gone that well lately. Why did you break up?”

“I didn’t mean to…” Gastón shook his head. “We were in a fight and I was mad at her. Then I forgave her, but by then it was way too late.”

“For goodness sake!” Delfi shook her head. “I most certainly didn’t break my heart for you to blow it like this. You can’t give up.”

“I love her, but she’s moved on.”

“You sure about that?” Delfi asked Gastón. “How do you even know?”

“There is that painter guy who she met at a competition last year. He’s always around.” 

“You’re not seriously telling me that you’re threatened by some guy she has known for a few weeks?” Delfi crossed her arms. “You do realize that there were sparks flying between you and Nina ever since that photography course. Anyone was able to see it, no matter how much I tried to ignore it.”

“I have no other choice—”

“Just stop.” Delfi held her hand up, “You helped me with this, so I’m gonna help you, because you clearly need a feminine angle on this whole situation. You’re my friend and I care about you. What you need to do is to just sweep her off her feet.” 

“It is not that simple.” Gastón tried.

“It really actually is.” Delfi shook her head, “I mean, you��do have your appeal. I would know, since I did once like you. Make sure that painter guy couldn’t possibly compare.”

“How would I do that?”

“You’ll come up with something.” Delfi sighed. “I can’t be the whole brains of this operation. Surely you have ideas, I mean we’ve already seen that.  For example, I most certainly saw you bring that rose in on the first day. You got this.” Delfi crossed her arms and looked to the sky. “At least one of us should be happy and I already used up my chance.”

“I mean, if you think it is not too late for me, then it should not be too late for you.” Gastón noted, “Pedro may come around.”

“Well…” Delfi laughed again. “I broke up with him through a video for a guy in an airplane. No coming back from that and it hasn’t seemed to bother Pedro that much, given that he was willing to fight Nico for that girl who was actually two girls. He sure was missing me during that time…” She shook her head after the sarcastic remark. 

“Like you said, maybe it is not too late.”

***

Nina was sitting with Luna and Jim when Yam took the stage as the Opening act of the Open. She looked beautiful and her voice shined through the whole cafeteria. Nina wished that that would be the sole thing she could focus on…but obviously it wasn’t. Her brain was going about 150 km/h as usual, and the object of her thoughts was sitting two tables to her right. 

Gastón was sitting at a table with Ramiro and they were both looking at the stage. 

The song that Yam had chosen… Yes I Do by College 11—It was a very pretty song. Nina liked it a lot, it actually had been one of her most frequently listened songs few years back, when it featured in a competition by now defunct production company YouMix. The song had been, well, perfect for all her daydreams at the time.

“And the sun is shiningAnd you'll walk with meI will never run awayPromise I will stayHere with you”

Nina tried to fight the urge, but failed miserably. She glanced at Gastón who was still looking at the stage. If only the things had gone differently…

“And I will say one day that I doGive my heart and my whole life to youWe will laugh we will cryAs the years all pass byWe'll still sayI love you”

Nina was about to turn her head back, when she suddenly—No, it was not…but yeah, it was. She suddenly saw Gastón turn his head and their eyes met briefly. Nina turned her head back quickly, but she could feel the heat rise on her face.  

He had turned to look at her. Why? During this song, nonetheless. Nina’s eyes wandered to him again—He had glanced at her again. 

“Luna.” Nina quickly whispered into her best friend’s ear. 

“What?” She turned around and looked at Nina. 

“Gastón.” Nina whispered while glancing at him again. “He keeps looking at me. I have to go talk to him, I can’t believe that he only wants to be just friends.”

“Then don’t be afraid and just go for it.” Luna nodded, “Be brave Nina.”

“Okay…” Nina got up from her seat and turned herself around, gathering courage to walk up to Gastón to ask him if they could talk in private for a second. 

She didn’t really want to admit it, but the back of her mind was already inventing some scenarios depicting him pouring his heart out to her, telling her how he never stopped loving her and pressing her down against the lockers for a fiery kiss—

“Don’t know what’s wrong with this?” As soon as Nina had been about to take a step toward she saw Delfi run to Gastón, clearly upset with something. 

Nina felt a dagger in her heart at that moment. It was not like she truly believed that they were a thing again…but at the same time, Delfi’s timing just seemed way too convenient…

Obviously, her mind automatically came up with ten thousand bad reasons and outcomes—She was too late.

“Here. You need to adjust this.” Gastón seemed to be explaining something to Delfi very patiently. 

“Oh, that’s was all that that was?” Delfi laughed and took the camera back from him and went on her way.

Even if she was gone now, the momentary courage that Nina had had was now completely gone. She just sat back down defeated and watched Yam sing the rest of her song. 

***

“Do stop admiring yourself.” Gastón said to Matteo in the Roller dressing room. He had sneaked away from the audience after Yam had finished, as Matteo would be up next soon.

“I just wanna make sure everything is perfect.” Matteo straightened his bow tie while looking into the mirror. 

“The bow tie won’t make your singing worse.” Gastón continued. 

“It’s all part of the bigger picture.” Matteo shook his head. “Very important…”

“If you’re nervous, you can just say that.” Gastón stared at Matteo, smirking. 

“Okay, I might be…a tad bit nervous…” Matteo admitted. “I just wanna get on stage already.” He blew some air out of his mouth. “Talk to me about something.”

“Why?”

“To distract me. Like, how did the whole teaching outing went with Delfi?”

“Well.” Gastón answered. 

“That’s the only thing you’re gonna tell me?” Matteo raised his eyebrow. 

“What else do you want me to tell you?” Gastón looked at him back. “Seriously, get your mind out of the gutter. We are friends and I helped her as a friend. She had no ulterior motive, we even talked about it.”

“You seriously did?” Matteo questioned again. “Define about it for me.”

“Well, she asked me what was going on with Nina—” Gastón admitted, “—and I told her. She actually told me that I shouldn’t give up.”

“Huh?” Matteo stared at him. “Delfi was speaking sense to you?”

“Pedro truly has done some good to her.” Gastón nodded.

“Well, are you gonna believe her, and do what I’ve been telling you to do.” Matteo looked him in the eyes again, “About Nina? You need to stop wallowing in your misery and worrying about that art guy, and conquer Nina back.” 

***

Nina looked at the sun that came into the view from behind the cloud. She raised her camera to the sky and grabbed a few pictures. 

She sighed as she looked at them. Too much light. She tried to remember what Gastón had told her about the light reduction techniques. 

Nina had the eye for artistics angles and human expression when it came to taking pictures of other people, while Gastón was almost equally good as her, but knew more about the technical aspects of photography, especially with nature elements. They complemented each other like that…or well…had complimented each other. 

The aperture was supposed to be widened and ISO lowered…that was it. Nina raised her camera again and took another picture. That looked better.

“Nina? Hi!!!” Nina turned around from the voice. Delfi was standing behind her, also holding a camera. 

“Hey.” She greeted her, just a tad bit confused. It was only 9 am, Nina had gotten up early—truth be told, she hadn't really been able to sleep—and gone out of the door with her camera. 

“Fancy seeing you here. Did you have the same idea as I?” Delfi also was holding a camera. “I thought, I’d try to catch the sunrise, but…seems like we're a little too late for that.” 

“Yes.” Nina nodded. “Little bit late… The sun just came from behind the clouds.”

“Did you take some pictures of that?” Delfi asked, with a little more excited tone. “Can I see?”

“Sure.” Nina handed her camera to Delfi so she could look at the photo. 

“Wow. This is super good.” Delfi handed the camera back, “Should not be surprising, I mean you were the best at the workshop after all… I should have also asked you for help, now that I think about it…” 

“Help to do what?” Nina looked at her confused. 

“Oh, so I decided I want to become a photographer.” Delfi explained, “So, I’ve been practicing. I asked Gastón to give me some pointers, and he gave me a little bit of a lesson before the Open yesterday.”

“He has been helping you?” Nina stopped on her tracks. It came to her mind suddenly that when she had seen them together at the Open, Delfi had been holding a camera, so that had been just that. Now she felt so stupid.

“Yes.” Delfi nodded. “He knows lot of technical stuff, but you knew that already.”

“Yeah.” Nina smiled smally. Gastón knew a lot of tricks that had been passed down to him from his father.

“You know, I remembered when Mr. Acosta told you two that you should work together.” Delfi continued. “Who knew that a teacher would be good at shipping.”

“Shipping?” Nina looked at Delfi confused. 

“Well, he knew back then how you and Gastón were made for each other.” Delfi continued, completely unbothered.

“Well… I don’t know about that…”

“Why not?” Delfi turned back to Nina. “Does that have something to do with that painter guy?”

“Xavi?” Nina questioned, “No, not at all. We are friends.”

“So, you don’t like him?” Delfi crossed her arms. “Come on, you can tell me. I am very unbiased judge.”

“No, I don’t like him.” Nina shook her head. “I did a little bit when we met, but that was over a year ago. We lost touch and I haven’t thought about him in over a year honestly, but now he’s here and…interested in me. I don’t want to be rude.”

“Okay, shutting someone down isn’t rude in the slightest.” Delfi said with an unfaced tone. “Come on, surely you’ve been taught the whole No is a complete sentence stuff.” 

“Of course,” Nina looked at her, “You haven’t met my mother.” 

“Well, mine are literal doctors and Mom works in the ER, so she’s seen some stuff.” Delfi continued. “I’ve been given the most thorough consent education possible. So, if you don’t like the guy, just shut him down and don’t feel bad about it, especially if Gastón is the one you want.”

“Well, he doesn’t love me anymore.” Nina shook her head. “So, it is not that simple.”

“Why do you think that?” Delfi asked, eyeing Nina suspiciously.

“I know him. If he was still interested, he would have done something.” 

“Would he?” Delfi tilted her head a little bit. “You don’t think he maybe is stuck a little bit too much on those gentleman tendencies sometimes. Maybe he just doesn’t wanna push you, because he thinks you have moved on.”

“I have not moved on.” Nina looked at a fountain further at the park. “But—”

“You two really should talk.”

“I know,” Nina looked down. She half couldn’t believe she was getting a relationship lecture from Delfi out of everyone, but deep inside she felt like she probably needed to hear this. “We’ve tried, but…someone always interrupts us. Jim, Yam and Luna always just seem to find us at school…”

“Why are you trying to do that in public?” Delfi sighed. “Look, I am not on the record for being the world’s best communicator, but even I know that if you don’t want to be interrupted, you need to make sure no one can. Jim and Yam are such meddlers, of course they’ll interrupt if there is a chance. Next time, don’t do it at the school or at Roller.”

Nina looked down again. Maybe Delfi was right…

*

Maybe Delfi had NOT been right. Nina was doubting that now as she was walking down the Lugar Benjamín street. 

What was she doing?

After parting ways with Delfi at the park, Nina had been thinking and decided to “seize the moment”.

Now she was half regretting her decision as she looked up at Gastón's house. It was 9:40 am on Saturday morning… And it was not like she would even get in. The metal gate stood in front of her as sturdy as ever, and she didn’t have the clearances to get it open.

She also no way could call or text Gastón to ask if he’d let her in.  Obviously, there was the buzzer, but… first of all Gastón had told her that no one ever used it and second…she didn’t even know if he was home. What was she supposed to say to Isla and Marco in that scenario? Nina didn’t know what they even thought of her anymore.

She couldn’t do this—

“Nina?” Footsteps suddenly approached her as she was about to turn around and walk away. 

Nina spun around 360 degrees and almost tripped on her own feet as her eyes met his deeply brown eyes mixed with a golden flicker. 

“What are you doing here?” Gastón stood in front of her, looking at her a tad bit confused. 

“I—I, I thought…” Nina felt herself freeze for a moment. He seemed like he might have been coming from a run or something, which was not helping her to focus. She shook her head for a moment and forced herself to focus. “I just came to realize…”

“Realize what?” Gastón was still looking at her and Nina wasn’t fully sure, but it almost seemed like something in his expression had changed. Like he was looking at her in a certain way…but that wasn't possible. 

“That, that we need to talk.” Nina forced herself to focus again. “It has probably been overdue for a long time now—”

“No, we don’t.”

“No? But…” Nina’s heart dropped. Was he still angry at her…? It didn’t look like it. 

“There are more important things I need to do first.” Gastón stepped forward and before Nina was even able to register what was happening, his arm had gone around her waist, pulling her against him. 

Her mind went blank at that moment, and the only thing she was able to do was respond to the kiss that was growing more passionate with every passing second. 

She only snapped back into reality as she heard the metal clanking of the gate. As they separated, Nina saw the gate opening and Gastón swiftly pulled her inside of the yard and closed the gate. 

They stood, just looking at each other for a while. Nina felt her heart speed up. “You—you forgive me? I thought…”

“I did, long time ago.” Gastón took her hand.” I was going to talk to you after the competition, but then—I saw that guy give you a flower, and I chickened out.”

“Xavi?”

“Yeah. I… It is completely my fault. I never meant it when I said I wanted to be friends. I was an idiot. I guess I was just worried and thinking that I lost you to someone else while I was angry at you, felt like my whole world crumbled down. I thought if you had moved on, I had to accept it and stay out of your way, but I couldn’t do it.”

“There is nothing between me and Xavi.” Nina started. Although, Gastón did deserve the truth of the matter. “Well… He likes me, he still does, but I’ve told him from the beginning that I am not interested in any relationship, because…I never got over you.��

“I tried, but it’s impossible to get over you.” Gastón looked at her in the eyes again and Nina got lost in the golden flicker in his. “I love you.”

“I love you too.”

There were no more words needed. She fell onto his neck and they kissed again. 

“Would you like to come inside?” Gastón asked after they separated. 

“But your parents…?”

“Not home. Even if they don’t travel 24/7 anymore, they’re still working like crazy. They don’t know how to stop. You don’t need to worry anyway, they’d be more than happy to see you again, especially as my girlfriend.”

*

“So, what do you think?” Jim spun around in the Roller’s dressing room after putting on her sparkly dress. “Ready for the rink?”

“Absolutely.” Yam looked up from the chair where she had been lacing her skates up. “You look beautiful.” 

“Thank you.” Jim giggled as Yam got up and the girls twirled each other around. 

“You both look great.” Nina had been looking at them through the mirror while she finished brushing her hair. 

“Thank you.” The girls laughed. “All ready? Let's go back to the rink.”

“You go ahead.” Nina responded. “I still need to lace up my skates.”

“Okay. We’ll see you at the rink. Hurry though, or you’ll miss all the fun.” 

“Don’t worry.” Nina laughed as the girls wheeled out of the dressing room. She brushed some hair out of her face and leaned down to lace up her skates—

“That should go to the lower hook.” She suddenly heard a voice behind her and felt a finger trace down her spine, in the exact way that made shiver travel down her body. 

***

Gastón watched Jim and Yam wheel out of the dressing room. He waited another beat before cracking the door open. 

There she was, his girl. She was absolutely gorgeous. 

He wheeled behind her as silently as he could, while Nina was lacing up her skates…and messing up the order that the laces were supposed to go on the hook. It was very unlikely of her, but she wasn’t that experienced of a skater, so it happened to everybody. It was extremely adorable. 

He stopped behind her, where she was bent over the skate in the chair and couldn’t resist the temptation and ran his fingers over her back. “That should go to the lower hook.”

Nina jumped and whipped her head around. “You scared me. Where did you come from?” 

“I staked out outside until Jim and Yam left.” Gastón admitted while pulling a strand of hair behind Nina’s ear. “You’re so beautiful.”

“Mora helped me with the dress.” She smiled shyly and looked up at him before fixing her skates. “You look good too. Suit fits you.”

“Family trait.” Gastón laughed and offered his hand to her. “Shall we?”

“You want us to just go to the rink?” She asked. “We haven’t told anybody yet.”

It was true. It had been few days now, but they hadn’t told anybody about their reconciliation, not even Luna and Matteo… They had just discreetly started their rendezvous at the Blake library again. 

“Well, why tell when we can just show?” Gastón suggested. “What do we have to hide?”

“We have nothing to hide.” Nina nodded. She grabbed Gastón’s hand, and he pulled her to her feet—

—or that should have happened, since Nina still managed to trip on her feet and would have fallen if Gastón hadn’t grabbed her. 

“You still can’t stand straight on your skates, can you?” He teased her while moving his hand on her back.

“I honestly don’t know how I’m supposed to stay up the whole party.” Nina shook her head as he helped her up. 

“Well, that’s easily solved.” Gastón smirked. “You can just hold onto me the whole time.” 

His other hand lifted her chin, bringing her face closer to him—

“Oh, hey.” They turned around to see Delfi entering the dressing room. “Sorry to interrupt, but I need to grab a lip gloss… Well, it is nice to see that both of you took my advice and clearly didn’t waste any time—”

“Both of us?” Nina and Gastón looked at each other and then Delfi again. 

“Honestly, maybe I should be a matchmaker…” Delfi kept going, “...or a life coach.” She turned back to Nina and Gastón, “By the way, maybe now you two could teach me stuff with the camera together? Also, what are you waiting for? Are you not coming to the rink?”

“Yes, we are.” Gastón nodded and grabbed Nina’s hand. 

They skated to the rink where the party was already in full swing. 

“Oh, there is Juliana.” Nina pointed toward the center of the rink.

“Right.” Gastón looked toward the rink and felt a hint of stress inside of him. There had been so many things on his mind, so he had almost completely forgotten that Juliana had said that she was going to treat the party as an audition. Well, he would just have to wing it…

“Hey! We should go show her some moves.” Delfi turned toward him before looking at Nina, “If you don’t mind that, that I steal him for just a minute.”

“No, I don’t mind.” She shook her head, “I am no help with impressing Juliana on the skates.” Nina squeezed Gastón’s hand. “Go.”

“Okay.” Gastón took Nina’s hand and kissed her knuckles before skating off with Delfi. 

***

“That was a battle.” Gastón remarked as he and Nina wheeled into the locker room.

“They were both good.” Nina nodded. “No wonder it was a tie.”

“Yep.” Gastón nodded again. “Now they just have to fight about who they sing with. Well, good thing that it is not our problem.”

“Very much so.” Nina looked at him. “Those tricks you did with Delfi were really impressive by the way.”

“Well thank you.”

“Surely Juliana will be impressed…” Nina continued. She looked at Gastón again and saw that he had been staring at her the whole time. “What are you looking at?”

“You are so beautiful.” He moved closer to her. 

“You’ve told me that about hundred times today.” She laughed. 

“Well, gotta make up for all the time I couldn’t say it.” Gastón smiled. Nina instinctively leaned against the end of the locker row as he moved even closer. His arm wrapped around her waist—

“Nina?” Nina had already closed her eyes in anticipation of the kiss until she heard an additional voice. Both she and Gastón turned to look. 

“Xavi? What are you doing here?” It truly was Xavi, who was standing at the entrance of the locker room, with a very confused expression. Where had he come from? 

Nina looked at Gastón. He didn’t look embarrassed in the slightest, actually, he was smirking and looked somewhat pleased that Xavi had witnessed what he had. 

“I came to look for you…” Xavi opened his mouth. “Are you—?”

“She’s completely fine if that’s what you’re wondering about.” Gastón interjected. “I assure you.” 

“Yes, I am.” Nina nodded before looking at him. “Can you leave us for a moment, so I can explain to him. It’ll just be a minute.” 

“Don’t worry, I trust you.” Gastón kissed her on her cheek and his arm briefly flew around her waist again, he was clearly making a point. He also winked at her before wheeling out of the locker room. 

“Xavi look—” Nina started. She mentally told herself that she had nothing to be ashamed of or feel bad about. She loved Gastón and nothing was gonna change that. “—I told you, from the beginning, that things between Gastón and I were complicated.”

“Well, they don’t seem that complicated anymore.” Xavi pointed out.

“No, they aren’t.” Nina admitted. “We talked it out and… I love him and never stopped. I told you that I wasn’t sure if anything was over yet, but I am sorry—”

“You don’t need to be sorry.” Xavi shook his head. “I’m an artist, I understand the impact the feelings have in life. Otherwise there would be no art. There is nothing you can do to change your feelings.”

“Thank you.” Nina nodded, “I’m glad to have you as a friend.”

“Me too.” Xavi nodded expressionlessly. “I came to tell you that I received a permanent placement at the artistic residency, but I’m turning it down now.”

“Why would you do that?”

“Well, the courses are great, but I came here to see you,” Xavi continued. “but I see that I am way too late and your heart is occupied. There is no reason for me to stay. It’s better for both of us. I will never forget you.”

“Me neither.” Nina looked after him as he walked out and sighed relieved. 

“Well, that went well.” Gastón wheeled back in, instantly after Xavi had gone. 

“Were you listening?” Nina questioned. 

“Of course I was.” He grinned at her. “Just to make things clear—” he grabbed her around the waist and kissed her so passionately that her mind went spinning. “—I love you.”

“I love you too. There could have never been anyone else while you were in my life.”

“Okay…” They were about to kiss again, but then suddenly were interrupted by Matteo’s voice. They turned around to see Matteo and Luna looking at them. “When were you gonna tell us?”

{}

The whole back and forth with Gastina S2 was so frustrating. So we've fixed it now. Honestly, Delfi was the one who helped Gastón and Nina get together at end of S1, but it is never mentioned again. Why wasn't it? Why weren't they friends? I am also a firm supporter of Gastón and Delfi as skating partners and as friends. Also, I didn't want to go over board with Xavi hate since...he's a little creepy and pushy in S2, but in the end he was a nice guy. At leats he took *no* as an answer, unlike certain other people (the bar is in hell).

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Lithuanian prosecutors accuse Russian intelligence of orchestrating Vilnius IKEA arson attack

Lithuanian prosecutors have accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating the arson attack on an IKEA warehouse in Vilnius in May 2024, as reported by Delfi.

Arturas Urbialis, a prosecutor with the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office for Organized Crimes, stated that the fire was set by two Ukrainian nationals, both under the age of 20, including one minor. The blaze erupted on May 9, 2024, engulfing metal shelves stocked with mattresses, tiles, furniture, and plastic bags on Vikingu Street. Fortunately, no injuries were reported during the incident.

Investigators allege that one of the accused traveled to Warsaw in spring 2024, agreeing to carry out arson attacks on shopping centers in Lithuania and Latvia for €10,000. After setting the Vilnius warehouse ablaze, the suspect filmed the fire and received a BMW 530 as payment. On March 13, he returned to Lithuania, collected materials for another planned attack, and headed towards Riga, only to be apprehended before reaching Latvia. Saulius Briginas, Deputy Head of the Lithuanian Police Department, revealed that the incendiary device had been hidden among flammable goods in the warehouse the evening before the shopping center closed.

Back in May 2024, The New York Times, citing sources from U.S. intelligence, reported that Russian secret services had stepped up minor sabotage operations across Europe, including setting fires. Among these acts, the IKEA store fire in Lithuania was highlighted as an example of such clandestine activities.

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Interview with Дмитрий Семёнов for RU Delfi Литва

27:57 Mykhailo [he nods], we cannot help but discuss the information that appeared about your brother in Russia [he raises eyebrows]. Yesterday this was discussed in detail. Well, just to sort of close this issue [he smirks] once and for all [he nods and throws pen on the desk]. 

Well, here they also wrote about Syrskyi by the way [he nods, brings his hand to face and starts touching his lips] that his relatives are also in Russia [he nods]. I've already seen in Russian public pages [he nods again], even those that are considered oppositional, here such a narrative has already started that Podolyak is speaking about the collective guilt of Russians but he himself-- [Podolyak laughs]. By the way, in some Ukrainian channels there is also [betrayal?]. Let's give your comment on this.  

Let's comment very briefly. First, I don't have and never had any relatives in KGB and FSB. Well, just so we can shoot you on this [is it an idiom, see eye to eye?]  The second. There certainly are relatives because in principle we lived in the Soviet Union. There are certainly some relatives in Russia who are citizens of Russia. I have not communicated with many of them for decades and this is not an ideological reason related to this war. There is an internal family reason which, well, accordingly, ideologically we are different.  

Now the third, very important. Strange about collective responsibility. I repeat once again, I am not a citizen of Russia, I have nothing to do with this. And accordingly, I'm only with both hands in favour of all citizens of Russia, including my existing, non-existing relatives being held responsible for complicity in a war crime, expansion against Ukraine. That is, accordingly, if they are citizens of the Russian Federation, they must bear what kind of collective responsibility to me? That is, look how stupid these people look who say, he is talking about collective responsibility but doesn't want to bear it himself.  

Wait. That is what I am saying that even if there are certain relatives, who of us doesn't have them, whether mine of somebody else's in the Russian Federation, they must necessarily bear legal responsibility for complicity in the crime against Ukraine. What does this have to do with collective responsibility from my point of view? That is, do you understand the intellectual level of those people who write this? I just wish I could understand their motivation. That is, motivation, what the complaint is in itself. The complaint is -- 

I will -- 

The complaint is,  conditionally speaking, a person, one or another, born in Soviet Union, could live in Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Russia, and so on, and I must now, if this person, relatively speaking, went there 50 years ago, I must now be responsible for him,  considering  that it is him who, as a Russian citizen, should bear responsibility on an equal basis with everyone else for war crimes? That is, how ridiculous it all is. Well, I emphasise once again, I never had any relatives in FSB, KGB [he smiles].  

Well, in principle, well, probably people like this conspiracy theory. Let's leave them the opportunity to continue saying this. This is so cool, isn't it? It should somehow discredit me personally, I understand [the connection is lost; they are using Skype. You can see some call history. His Skype account doesn't have a picture].  

31:50 By the way, a little remark and in principle, we can end it. Look, once again, unlike many, I have not had a physical relationship with Russian citizens for decades, regardless of whether they are manifested as my relatives or not, and this is connected not so much with ideology, especially the full-scale invasion, but with other reasons and therefore it's somewhat strange to make complaints against me for something that I have not just physically, but I'm not even in an informational relationship in principle.  

However, however, in principle, let's leave the opportunity for people to put forward conspiracy theories as if it affects my position. Well, that is, relatively speaking. Well, they expressed it all. And then there's Podolyak, like, Oh, yes, we should probably make friends with Russia, Russia is not a bad country. Russia probably deserves that we agree to kneel before it so that we stop waging a defensive war, so that we stop resisting. Do you understand the absurdity?  

36:40. They don't understand that a country that has a dictator, not even an authoritarian country but a classic dictator that is waging a bloody war, this country can be changed from the inside, only with blood, only with a bloody revolution, and they are not ready for this. They are ready to lie down on the sofa [he acts it out]: "Podolyak, why are you not responsible for your relatives whom you haven't seen, relatively speaking, for 30 years? You have to answer for this! Of course you have to [puts his hand on his chest]! Definitely! Send me a воронок [literally: western house martin; NKVD vehicle used to transport prisoners and detainees] here!" 

45:21 In the end I invite you to exchange congratulations. I congratulate you on your upcoming birthday that you have tomorrow [Podolyak thanks him]. For us, tomorrow is the day of restoration of the Lithuanian state, and we will also be happy to accept congratulations.  

I have great sympathy [what's the correct word for it?] for Lithuania, as you know. I have many friends and I have been to Lithuania very often. Lithuania looks very cool today and I want you to remain like this for centuries and it's very cool [the word he uses is  круто] that you are with us. And all these 2 years, it was something incredible, support from the Baltic countries, especially Lithuania. 

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9/1/24

Dream journal

I got sweet dream about us. It kinda strange like a piece of puzzle but yet connected each other. First picture was i with ninis at some lame boutiqe in market. They sell some old fashioned clothes, ninis is the one who want to buy a new one, she pick some floral one set dress and they have like 5 color option. And she asked my suggestion, so i told her to choose the nude color. But honestly the one set dress looks so old, basically all the collection are the same. But when ninis will try on that one set, she's pick some white faux fur skirt, i choose to not commenting at all because the skirt looks like a dngdut outfit. She try on and appearantly it is a long skirt and make her looks like a real dangdut singer.

The next scene was im hanging out with my HS friends, we're have a lunch together in some restaurant. We sat on bamboo gazeboo together, i saw esyege, fara bintang, delfi, pras, (i think all of my HS pals come). We ordered roasted chicken and eat it together. The resto looks lime cafe sawah pujon but smaller. I also saw my internee friend (fira) join us to lunch, she' back and forth to the rest room to change her pads. And i following her, and it looks like i got period too but it looks like mine almost done with it. So we hang out in rest room (its spacious and very clean with black tile)

We're strolling around at the mall spesificly kokas (i guess). We're holding hands, hugging and kiss each other cheeks. It looks like youre get lost, and finally we're meet amd having fun. We're window shopping and i lead the way. We choose some restaurant to eat, seems like you're so picky and crave a japanese katsu. When we're looking some resto, we met with my HS mates from my recent scene. They book some suite room hotel that located in that mall, we joined them and you always stick arround with me. You hug me frome behind, kiss my cheek, and never let go off my hand.

The scenery change, it is night we're on the way to another hotel together with my HS friends. But we lost in dark yet spooky and quiet street, esyege who lead the way is gone. We pull over and watching arround but my friend didnt appear so we find the location by ourself. After the long ride and bumpy journey finally we find some main street. You turn left and the street were crowded with vehicle. I hug you from behind, and you ask me to hug you until we arrive. After that we turn right and it seems like we're on dr sutomo street amd we're heading to GM --". There's justin bieber (seems like we chill together with him) he melambai2 di tengah jala buat ngasih tau tempatnya. Terus ada esyege sama temen2 smaku juga d depan gm nungguin kita, akhirnya kita parkir depan pintu masuk dan gmnya uda mau nutup (karna udh malem) terus pas masuk gm, kita harus copot sepatu abis gitu justin bieber tbtb ngasih selebaran konser dia ke aku. Pas uda sampe di hotel, ternyata banyak temen2 sma yg lain , ini kayanya lagi reunian deh.. tp temanya sleep over. Terus pas mau masuk kamar, mereka nyuruh buat naruh sandal didepan, aku nyuruh wildan buat ngasihin sepatu sama kaos kaki dia biar aku simpen dalem tasku jadi ntr pas pulang kita ga bingung (aku bawa tas ransel) abis itu dia rewel bgt, kayak mau gamau ngasih sandalnya ke aku. Abis itu kita disuruh nunggu d luar kamar gatau kenapa, terus aku disitu manja2an sama wildan, cium2 pipi, pelukan, dll abis itu kan disurih masuk, ternyata rahul panitianya. Disana ada 2 kamar besar aku pilih yg kanan, dan pas masuk wildan tuh uda gaada , dia asik sama temennya kali ya.. terus aku sendirian gege sm fara jg gaada. Akhirnya kan temanya sleep over jd aku join rahul sm tmn lainnya gataubsiapa buat skin carean dan aku dalem hati bingung buat solat karna blm solat magrib isya. Tp aku akhirnya maskeran pake masker sheet mask mahal gitu, tp sm anak2 itu d pinjemin smp kotor. Nah pas mau beresin maskerku, ternyta acaranya d mulai, jd kita kumpul di aula besar sebelah kamar (tp pake conecting door) terus wildan jemput aku, ngjak cepet2 tapi aku masih riweh sama maskerku karna mahal jd sayang. Terusbdia kyk ngomel gituu, akhire aku karna takut lgsg bawa masker sama ramselku tadii buat kumpul. Terus dia ngomel "kamu gabakal ngertiin kl ini acara penting buat aku" tp ak diem tok, trs kita duduk d kursi plg depan tp wildan msh marah.

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Latvian member of the European Parliament Tatjana Ždanoka has been accused of working with Russian intelligence services since 2004 in a joint investigation by Russian, Latvian, Estonian and Swedish media outlets.

Ireland’s Left independent MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have taken part in several events organised with Ms Ždanoka, including travelling with her to Lithuania in 2021 and 2022 to demonstrate in support of Algirdas Paleckis, a former politician and diplomat who was convicted of spying for Russia.

Ms Ždanoka, who represents a hardline electorate within Latvia’s Russian ethnic minority and has long advocated in the European Parliament on issues that chime with Russian foreign policy priorities, did not respond to a request for comment.

In a statement on her Facebook page on Monday, she declared, “I will not be intimidated by false accusations.” She denied collaborating with intelligence services, and vowed that “I and like-minded people continue and will continue to use the platform of the European Parliament to fight neo-fascism.”

The investigation by Russian independent news organisation The Insider, Estonian media outlet Delfi, Latvian investigative journalism centre Re:Baltica, and Swedish newspaper Expressen published emails between Ms Ždanoka and two people identified as intelligence agents in Russian security service, the FSB.

The emails dating from 2004 to 2017 show correspondence between Ms Ždanoka and two men that the reports describe as her “handlers” in the Russian intelligence services. The emails organise physical meetings in Moscow and Brussels, discuss her various activities in the parliament, and in one she requests funding for an event she organised.

She told The Insider that she did not recall knowing anyone with the name of one of the alleged Russian intelligence agents, and that the other was an acquaintance she knew socially.

Mr Wallace and Ms Daly have taken part in several events with Ms Ždanoka related to Russian issues.

Mr Wallace did not respond to a request for comment. In an email, Ms Daly said: “Would you ever cover the work that we actually do instead of occupying your time with these constant attempts to construct elaborate guilt-by-association conspiracy theories?”

Eight days before Russia invaded Ukraine, Ms Daly and Mr Wallace joined Ms Ždanoka for a protest in the European Parliament in which the three donned T-shirts bearing the slogan “stop killing Donbas children”. The slogan reflects the accusation that Ukrainian forces were killing children in the east of the country, part of Russia’s justification for its invasion, and the protest was widely covered in pro-Kremlin Russian media.

Ms Daly and Mr Wallace also took part in an online seminar about “politically motivated persecution in the Baltic States” with Ms Ždanoka in November 2021, according to a statement issued at the time by Ms Ždanoka’s Latvian Russian Union party.

As previously reported by The Irish Times, in November 2021 and March 2022 Ms Daly and Mr Wallace travelled to Lithuania to attend a court hearing and a demonstration with Ms Ždanoka in support of Paleckis, who was convicted of collecting information for Russian intelligence services in return for money and other benefits.

At the time, Ms Daly’s website described the trial as an example of “how espionage law is being misused in Europe and further abroad to stifle dissent”.

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I have been wondering about what jobs the other Roller Crew member's parents have since we know that they are all well of and I assume that all the parenst are quite busy since the kids spent all their time at Roller. So here are my collective ramblings on the topic.

Gastón's I have talked lot about. His dad, Marco is in finance which is the best I can say since I don't excatly know what those people do, but you bet that he is an important person and makes a lot of money. Isla, his mom, is an internationally high-profile real estate agent that deals in multi-million properties and is really good at her job

With Matteo, we know that his dad is a diplomat... and I think his late mom, Lucia, was one too, and that was how her and Alexander met. Then we have his second wife, Sofia, who he met and BA's Italian embassy, where I think she was a consultant of some sort, so not directly a subordinate to Alexander, so it's all neat and tidy

It's pointless to talk about Nina, we know what her parenst do

For Delfi, I also have quite good hc her parents. Serena and Daniel Alzamenti and both surgeons. Serena is a trauma surgeon, while Daniel is neuro surgeon

Jazmin's mom could be some kind of PR or marketing rep for some big company while her dad, an entrepreneur of some kind

I kind of like the idea that Jim and Yam's moms went to school together, and both became pediatricians. I have zero idea what their dad's could do

For Ramiro, I like to think that his parents are super put together since he's kind of all over the place. So some kind of high ranking people in some companies

Simon doesn't excatly fit in here, buy who's gonna stop me? His mom, Carla is a stay at home mom, while his dad, Diego, used to be a cook and at the time of SL was few year into starting his own restaurant as a family business. (I imagine that somw how though that he met Monica and Simon and Luna through that)