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Half-Baked Holiday | ksj | M

Granny Park’s Gossip:

That Seokjin, don’t get me started on him. He’s worked hard to open and run that bakery of his, you know, and I’m so proud that it’s so successful now. Wish he would find a nice person to settle down with, though, he deserves it, as long as he’s been on his own. Well, I guess you can’t really call it alone when he’s got that grump of a best friend always hanging around him. He really should be paying her, what with all the time she spends at the bakery with him. She’s always waking up on the wrong side of the bed, but she’s not so bad when she brings me some of those cookies of his, or just around Seokjin in general, if I’m honest. Too distracted by staring at that pretty face of his, I suppose, though who can blame her?

pairing } seokjin x reader

word count } 12.6K { also on ao3

genre } friends to lovers, idiots to lovers, bakery au, fluff, smut, literally the slightest bit of angst

warnings } fluff, fluff, fluff; jin is an idiot and so is the MC, like they’re genuinely both dumbasses but in different ways; pining; misunderstandings; masturbation, spanking, unprotected sex, oral sex - male receiving, exhibitionism a little, rolling pins are used in ways they are not intended to be used; several mentions of jins squeaky laugh and also his red ears bc they’re my favorite things in the world

{ The Snowball Effect Series Masterlist }

a/n } whaddup i finally finished this thing barely on time so yEET i yet again maintain my status as queen of last minute deadlines!!!! HBH is my Baby, I love it, it’s my perfect shiny garbage baby, and if you like it, you should DEF check out the others!! They can be read as standalones, but it’s really really really really really really highly recommended that you read them all in order, as they all end up in the same place and there are a ton of little easter eggs and references and shoutouts woven into the entire series!!! Extra special shoutout to the authors of all the other stories, @fortunexkookie (ryn), @taehyungforreal (ashley), @stutterfly (kristi, who also made the incredible banners!!!)

You're a good person. You pride yourself on being kind and giving. Every year you make donations to several charities. You help organize summer fundraisers so kids can eat. You buy the most ethically-sourced groceries possible. You leave your change in case someone else can use it. You always tip at least 20% when you go out to eat. Out of everything, though, of all the good deeds you try to do in your life, there's one thing that makes you a truly outstanding human being.

You don't lose your fucking mind every time the urge hits you.

"But how many calories are in the Holiday Donut?" The lady in front of you asks. You can feel your eye twitching and even the young guy behind the register is starting to falter in his bright grin.

"Um, I'm not-"

"Look lady," You cut in. "You have heard about nearly every thing on the fucking menu. It's a donut, stuffed with strawberry creme and coated in colored frosting and sprinkles. How many calories do you think are in it? Just order the banana nut muffin like you always do, get your coffee, and leave, so the rest of us aren't stuck in a line for another hour."

The lady looks scandalized as she turns to glare at you, but all it takes is a single cocked eyebrow to send her huffing out the door. She mutters a few choice words under her breath as she goes, but you pay them no mind.

"Your usual is almost ready, Pumpkin." You level Jin with an unamused glare as he pushes his way through the kitchen doors with a steaming tray of scones in hand.

"You know I hate that name, Spice," You remind him dryly.

"You know I hate it when you run my customers off with that dark cloud you call a personality, and yet here we both are," he responds. He just smiles at your eyeroll and you do your best to ignore the fluttering in your stomach. Instead you make yourself comfortable on one of the barstools at the counter.

Seokjin's bakery is as busy as it ever is; several of the tables are taken, either by students on their nth espresso or families doing holiday shopping or people just looking for a place to relax amidst the bustle of the streets. There's someone perched on the stool at the opposite end, close to the register, but you pay them no mind. You're too focused on the mug Jin slides in front of you - green and chipped on the handle, it's your favorite - and the steam wafting up from the cocoa inside. There's a thick layer of marshmallow on the top and a candy cane sticking out, just like you like it, and a Holiday Bagel on a small plate next to it.

"Thanks. You're still an ass, though." He has the decency to look offended at your words, and you grit your teeth against the smile that threatens to split your face. He always looks so cute when he's huffy.

"One of these days I'm going to make you start paying for your food like everyone else, and then you'll start treating me right."

"Sure," You agree in a monotone as you pull your phone out and start tapping away on it. "That'll be the same day that you stop asking me to do your books for you because you can't be bothered."

The sigh that expels itself from his lungs is almost as dramatic as the play he dragged you to the week before.

"I am perfectly capable of doing my books myself, thank you. I let you do it to keep you busy."

"Mhm, sure, I believe that," You tell him. He scoffs again and you barely register the hand he shoots forward to steal your bagel before you're slapping it away. "You don't even like strawberries and kiwi, Seokjin, and you will lose a hand."

You don't look up from the emails you're sorting through on your phone, but you don't have to in order to know that he's got both elbows braced on either side of you. You've known him long enough to know that this is his Pout Stance, and you dare not look up because there's no denying him when he looks like that.

"You're so mean to me, Pumpkin. All I do is spoil you with good food and perfect company," he whines, "And what do I get for it? Insults and mockery. You could at least give me a kiss every now and then."

You choke on your cocoa. It burns your nose as it starts to come up that way, and the dark liquid dances across your phone screen as it molds to every crack and crevice.

"Goddamn it, Seokjin," You sputter. He's already holding a cloth out to you, apology written on his face even as you glare at him. You pat your phone dry as best you can before resigning yourself to the fact that it's just going to smell like warm chocolate and peppermint until the next time your best friend flusters you.

"To be fair, I didn't expect you to be so opposed to the idea," Seokjin mutters. He continues under his breath as you wave off his attempt to help again, something about him being handsome enough, but you aren't listening. Because that's the only real problem between the two of you.

You aren't opposed to the idea. It's all you can think about most days; in work meetings, while you're doing paperwork, in team briefings, while you watch TV, when you're asleep. What his pillow lips would feel like against your own occupies nearly every waking thought you have. The others are torn between fantasies of what being his would be like and memories of him in general, neither of which you're lacking in.

You've known Seokjin for years. You don't even know how long since you insist you met when you were twelve and Jin is just as insistent that you met when you were nine. All you remember is being alone on the side of a playground playing hopscotch by yourself and then giggling at something the nice boy had said and then the two of you were inseparable. You aren't even sure how long you've felt like this towards him. It could've been high school, when he was one of the most sought after boys in school and yet still made time to comfort you every time a boy rejected you. Maybe it was college, though, when he was further away than he'd ever been and yet always answered your calls and responded to your texts and you'd cancel dates because he had randomly driven up to see you. Maybe it was after, watching him run his own bakery and do what he loves every day with the brightest grin you've ever seen on his face.

You can't be sure. All you know is one day you were washing dishes in the back after being his guinea pig for some new creation, and he told some dumb joke, and when you turned around to mock his squeaky laugh like usual, you couldn't. Because he had flour on his cheek and chocolate on his lip and you'd never wanted to kiss someone so bad in your life.

And then it just devolved from there and now the butterflies in your stomach have just set up camp. It's been too long, but you can't risk your friendship with him over some stupid crush. He means too much to you.

Your eyes don't leave his back as he disappears back into the kitchen, still complaining about something under his breath, and you suppress a sigh.

Shopping is the worst. You aren't really sure why you're here, because you hate shopping and you hate crowds and you especially hate holiday shopping because it's like Satan himself smashed the two together. You get all your gifts online or early in the year, you don't go anywhere near a mall from October to March, and it works for you. You don't have to deal with holiday crowds. Ever. So why are you on hour five at the largest mall in driving distance with no breakfast, sore feet, and full bags hanging from every possible place they can?

"Does that really seem like something Taehyung would like, though? I got that jacket for him already, I know, but this seems so much more fitting. What do you think, Pumpkin?"

Oh. Right. Seokjin had showed up at Too Damn Early For A Saturday O'Clock and demanded you accompany him for his holiday shopping.

"I think that if I don't eat something in the next ten minutes, I'm ripping your head off and eating that instead. And for dessert I'll demolish those fancy chocolates you got for Jimin." A passing mother gives you a horrified glance as she ushers her toddler along and you almost wish you gave a shit. It's the mall, she can't control what other people say in this hellhole. You probably could’ve done without the emphasis on Jimin, though; Jin knows how much you worship those chocolates, you’ve said countless times that they’re better than orgasms, and still, he got some for Jimin and not you.

You aren’t bitter. Or petty. No. You’re an adult, and you’re not going to pout just because your crush got your mutual friends some sweets instead of you.

"If you touch those chocolates, you're going to march your ass right back to that store and replace them while I return all your gifts," Seokjin quips back. You glance over at him and wrinkle your nose at the two berets he has in each hand.

"What the fuck are you doing, Spice?"

“Wondering when you’re going to listen when I talk to you,” He responds. He holds both of the berets up for you to view more clearly. “Now, which of these is more ‘Tae’ to you?” He doesn’t react to the blank glare you give him, long since immune to your powers of pessimism, and instead just wiggles the berets in each hand so you actually look at them.

Neither are to your personal taste; one is diamond-encrusted in some kind of quilted pattern, with some kind of alternating animal print as well. The other is more understated, if you can call it that, with a faux-fur trim, a feathered poof in the center, and a truly obscene pink houndstooth pattern to it. You can’t help the wrinkled nose that the two options cause in you, and you ignore Seokjin’s huff of irritation in favor of looking past him to the rest of the options. You only have to look for a minute to find something better suited, which mostly means Jin wanted to give Tae something truly gaudy on purpose.

“Here,” You say, stuffing the hat into his hands. He stops mid-rant - something about how you should be helping him more, though you aren’t sure why because he’s the one that dragged you here and is lucky you haven’t bailed yet - and focuses on what you’ve just given him. It’s not a pretty beret, by any means, and is by far the cheapest one there, but it’s got some kind of artful splatter across it in greyscale tones, with a pop of red around the rim to accent it. Seokjin just stares at it for a second before turning his gaze on you, and you shift uncomfortably.

“What?” You eventually ask.

“Nothing,” He says airily. “Just surprised.”

“At what?”

“You paying attention to people and being able to buy good gifts.” He puts the other two back into place and heads towards the registers, ignoring your indignant squawk.

“I get you perfect gifts every year!” You don’t miss his eyeroll, and it makes you want to strangle him a little.

“I don’t count,” He tells you as he settles in behind some grandmother buying entirely too many things that have to be for her grandkid. “You know me better than anyone, and you have access to my Amazon wishlist.”

“Yeah, except none of that is on your fucking wishlist,” You mutter. He turns, eyebrow arched and ready to get more backtalk, but you just make a face at him.

He drags you to five more stores after that and abandons you in the middle of Williams Sonoma. You’re on your third lap of the store, ready to disassemble the fancy grill they’ve got on display to see if he’s somehow in there, when he appears, probably from the ether or some shit. You’re still trying to figure out how he managed to phase through time and space and the massive shelf of Martha Stewart Collection Cookware without you noticing, and in the meantime he takes the massive amount of bags from your hands and deposits something in your palms instead.

It takes you a minute to register the warmth, but the smell hits instantly and makes your stomach grumble loudly. You’d be embarrassed if you weren’t so fucking hungry.

“Eat,” Seokjin commands. “We’ve got more shopping to do for the bakery.”

You can’t even argue because your mouth is stuffed full of pizza pretzel bites - the only real reason to come to the mall, in your opinion. You’ve inhaled one serving in record time, and Jin doesn’t even react when you bust into the second one in the middle of some tech store. Instead, he just holds out a hand and waits for you to plop a pretzel bite in his palm.

It’s hours later, long after you’ve helped Seokjin drop off all the bakery supplies at the shop and carted the presents up to his apartment, that you realize you’re still holding on to the bag from the pretzel place. You’re about to toss it into your garbage when it registers that there’s too much weight for just garbage; curious, you open the bag up and dump the content onto your kitchen counter.

Inside is a small box of chocolates, the same kind you’d threatened to eat earlier in the day, your favorite flavor and everything, with a small note atop it.

These were supposed to be part of your gift, but you looked put out when you thought I wasn’t getting you any. Thanks for today. xxSpice

You resist the urge to smile; it’s only right that he give you sweets after the frankly absurd amount of time he’d made you spend at the mall. Still, you can’t deny your lip twitches along with your heart at the knowledge that he’d been planning on including them in your gift.

And you might tuck the note away behind a postcard on your fridge, but you’re never going to admit to that.

The next day when you get to the bakery, Seokjin doesn't hesitate to shove you into his small office and push you into his desk chair before he disappears back into the kitchen. The usually cluttered space is empty, devoid of the usual invoices and order forms and whatever the fuck else your best friend keeps on his desk. Even the picture frames have been moved, placed haphazardly atop a filing cabinet. Something flutters in your chest when you notice the one directly facing his chair is one of the two of you.

Taken years and years ago, back when you were first moving into your college dorm, when you were both tired from carrying boxes up the seven flights of stairs to your room. You still remember how irritated you had been when Jin's parents insisted they get a picture of the two of you in your matching university hoodies. You don't remember what it was, but you remember Seokjin cracked some dumb joke or said something ridiculous. He must have, because in the picture, you're looking at him with a softness in your face that isn't present any other time.

Seokjin reappears with a steaming mug and a hand behind his back. The familiar scent of warm chocolate and peppermint hits you, followed closely by the warm-butter sharp-mint honey-glaze smell that you remember taste-testing for him so many times that you're almost positive it’s going to linger on your gravestone.

"That's mistledough." You narrow your eyes, and he rolls his own. His hand pulls out from behind his back to reveal the treat he'd concocted in college and perfected not long after. Shaped like a sprig of mistletoe and a warm honey brown color, the mistledough is easily the best selling product that Seokjin has.

And it's only on sale from Black Friday to the first day of January.

You don't even know what's in it. He's never told you, hasn't let you watch him make it; he'd just show up randomly and shove a weird-shaped treat under your nose and tell you to eat it. And of course you did, because you've been whipped for him since the first day he made you smile on that playground.

It's not important, really. What's important is that he's brought you cocoa and mistledough, which means he's bribing you for something important.

"No," You tell him.

"Please," He pouts. "You don't even know what it is yet." You huff and look anywhere else. His pout is dangerous for you and you know it, and you refuse to be bought for some cocoa and bread.

In an attempt to avoid the puppy dog eyes he no doubt is wearing, your eyes flit around the room. They eventually settle on the mass of shopping bags to your right. You turn, seeing the collection of various wrapping papers on the left and the collection of tape beside them.

"No," You repeat, turning your glare on him. "Wrap your own damn presents, Spice, I'm not doing it for you this year."

"But you do it so much better than I do!" He steps forward, setting his bribes in front of you so the scent wafts towards you that much more. "Your corners are always perfect, Pumpkin, and the edges are so well matched, and you get the pattern to line up perfectly, and-"

"No, Jin," You tell him, already standing. "I told you last year that it was the last time I'd be doing it for you, and that was only because you left it to the day before - again - and had to be in the bakery. I already wrapped all my presents, I'm not doing yours too."

He doesn't even say anything. He just widens his eyes a little and looks down at the scuffed tile floor, kicking his shoe dejectedly against the foot of the desk. There's utter silence in the room, only broken by the muffled chatter of customers and the beep of one of the ovens every few minutes.

You last for a solid ten minutes. You know because the smell of more mistledough fills the air, and you know Seokjin wouldn't try to bribe you with anything that wasn't the freshest batch.

"Why can't you do it?" You grumble, already sitting back down and picking through the wrapping paper.

"I've got like a hundred orders to fill today. That's not even really an exaggeration, either. Soobin's been on cake duty all day so that I can get to work on the mistledough orders and still have time to finish Tae's cake before we leave." You sigh and turn to look at him.

He looks stressed; that's not unusual for this time of year, but it still makes your chest clench. You want to pull him close, run your hands along the furrow between his brows until it's smooth again. Smother him with kisses until he's giggling and happy and remembers that he's a badass culinary god and that he can handle this and that you love him.

"I wish you would tell people no sometimes," You say instead. You slide one of the biodegradable rolls onto the desk and start looking through the drawers for the massive ruler you know is tucked away somewhere. "You can't fill every order. Let people pine for their fancy bread, they don't deserve it anyway."

"You know I can't do that, Pumpkin," He says, breaking off a piece of your bribe and leaning against the tattered desk. "We only just got to where we're steadily in the black, and the seasonal stuff brings in a lot of money. I've got to milk that for as much as I can."

"Yes, because you being overworked and stressed like this is a much better alternative. I'm pretty sure your eyebags have eyebags." You wait for the dramatic gasp, but it doesn't come.

Instead when you look up at him from where you're digging through presents, he's staring at the picture of the two of you. Whatever he's seeing is beyond that, though, invisible to anyone but himself. It's not rare that he gets introspective and quiet; it's actually fairly common when it's just the two of you. You don't know why. You don't want to know why. You just take the moments when they come and wait for him to say whatever he's going to say.

"You're my best friend," is what he eventually says. Your hand stutters where it's slicing paper, mimicking the pang of heartbreak that shoots through your veins. You love being his best friend.

You just wish you were more than that.

"Yeah," You say offhandedly, "No one else wanted the gig, so I guess I'm stuck here." You can feel his eyeroll, but he pats your shoulder as he heads back into the kitchen. When he reappears a while later with fresh cocoa and a bagel, you pretend to be mad that he steals a bite of it until he laughs at your grumbling.

When you leave his smile feels lighter, and you tell yourself you're imagining his eyes lingering on your back as you go.

You’re gonna kill him. You really are. You’re going to absolutely skin him alive, you don’t give a fuck how cute his face is or how hard he makes your heart beat. There’s not a single fucking thing he could say or do that would make up for this.

Maybe if you hadn’t been out here waiting for nearly twenty minutes. Maybe if your phone showed that he had even opened the last six texts you had sent him. Maybe if it wasn’t Seokjin who insisted on leaving at like ten in the morning to being with, even though you had plenty of time to get there because you didn’t even need to run by the bakery because he’d already put Soobin and Yeonjun through what probably counted as actual military training in order to prepare them for today. Frankly, it’s a miracle Seokjin is even leaving them on their own today, considering how hectic it gets. You’re entirely sure that it’s only because Soobin has worked there since the bakery opened and Yeonjun joined not long after so they both know the ropes as well as they possibly can. And because Seokjin was likely up until an ungodly hour preparing and baking an enormous amount of mistledough for today.

In fact, he’s probably still passed out up there, you decide as you climb out of your truck and head into your best friend’s apartment building. You’re cursing under your breath the entire way, paying no mind to the scandalized elderly gentleman that shoots you a Look. You really are gonna kill him, you decide as you shove the key he made you into the lock and jiggle the handle slightly so it’ll actually turn. You’re going to drag him out of his stupidly comfortable bed and probably try to shove him down the garbage disposal or something. His shoulders may present a challenge, but you are up for it.

Your mind is so made up that you don’t even register the bags he’s got ready by the door, or the coolers full of groceries that are packed and ready beside them. You just sidestep it all entirely and head down the hall. You don’t even register the faint sounds, muffled by the door to his room, and by the time it all finally reaches your brain, it’s too late. You’ve already thrown the door open as wide as it will go, which means you get a perfect, unobstructed view, even as Seokjin startles and yelps.

Because of course - of course - he isn’t sleeping or showering or packing. No, instead he’s got his fist wrapped around his cock and is thrusting shallowly into the warmth of his palm. The universe loves to torment you entirely too much, clearly. Why else would it offer you such an unhindered look at the love of your life’s dick?

It’s a nice dick, too. Long and the perfect thickness, a pretty dusky pink head. You can’t lie and say you’ve never imagined what Seokjin’s dick looks like - you basically grew up with him and the others, and young boys talk about their dicks. A lot. Plus, you’ve had a crush on him for several years now.

You just never could have imagined that it’s so absolutely gorgeous that you can feel your mouth water. It’s impossible to tear your eyes away from it, in fact, until Seokjin gets over his initial shock and shoves his blanket over his lap.

“What, uh,” He starts, throat rough. “What are you doing here?”

“Uh...you asked me to pick you up, remember? Because your car doesn’t have four wheel drive like the truck.” You learned a long time ago how to avoid being embarrassed around Seokjin, but even that can’t stop the burn in your cheeks as you force yourself to make eye contact with your best friend. It’s a struggle to focus on anything that isn’t the planes of his naked chest, broad and tanned despite the winter weather, but you manage.

Barely.

“Right, yeah, but...uh, weren’t you supposed to call? And aren’t you early?” The tips of his ears are as red as your face feels. The contrast between the current situation and his obvious shyness is so endearingly distracting, it takes you a full minute to focus back in on what he’s saying. “--at this point, I mean, I know that we apparently aren’t there yet, but really, I don’t mind-”

“Wait,” You interrupt, “I’m still stuck on how I called you four times, both before I left and en route and once I got here, waited another ten minutes since I got here early because I know you like to be early, and yet somehow this is my fault.”

“Well...you should have knocked! Why wouldn’t you knock when coming into someone else’s apartment or bedroom?”

“Why didn’t you hear me coming? The floor in your hallway is a million years old, it squeaks constantly, how did you miss that?”

“Well, I was a little preoccupied.”

“Clearly.”

“You still should have knocked.”

“Why did you give me a key if you wanted me to knock? And when have you ever knocked on my door when you show up randomly? Besides, I figured you were asleep and didn’t want to wake you up while I took all your shit out to the truck.” His face softens a little, and a shy smile teases at his lips.

“Thanks, Pumpkin,” he says quietly. Your stomach flips violently at the look on his face and you roll your eyes at it.

“Yeah, whatever.” You pick up the clothes he already has laid out and throw them at his chest. “Get dressed, you’re buying me breakfast on the way to the cabin.”

He doesn’t protest as you leave him and gather his bags up, balancing them atop the coolers of groceries and snacks he’s no doubt made for everyone. It only takes a little finagling, but you manage to get it all downstairs and into the backseat of your truck. Fat white flakes are falling from the grey sky by the time you’re finished, and Seokjin’s nose and ears are still pink when he eventually gets in as well. You turn the heat up, just in case it’s not residual embarrassment heating his face.

He doesn’t even say anything except a muffled thanks. After a few minutes, you’ve almost resigned yourself to an awkwardly silent car ride.

“So…” Seokjin eventually says in a too-casual tone. “About earlier-”

“No,” You hiss before he can continue. “No we are absolutely not talking about what happened.”

“Oh, come on,” He implores as you turn into the first drive-through you can find. “It was bound to happen eventually, considering-”

“We really don’t need to talk about it,” you insist.

“I’m just saying that I know you aren’t really one for...y’know, sexual activity,” He ignores your open-mouthed gape and continues, “But I have my own needs, and self-satisfaction is the best balance between the two that I’ve found. That said, I’m sorry you had to see it, I know it probably made you uncomfortable. Because. Y’know. Dicks.”

You’re still gawking as he finishes his spiel, and you feel a little like a fish. You surely must look like one, with your mouth hanging open in shock, your eyes as wide as saucers, and the general air of befuddlement that surrounds you. There are so many things you want to say, questions you have, all of them colliding in your brain.

“I like sexual activity just fine!” is what makes it out, just as the speaker beside your window crackles to life. There’s a long, pregnant pause in which you and Seokjin just stare at each other.

“So...what can I get for you today?” The worker says through the speaker. You want to die, just a little, as you rattle off your order and Seokjin’s to him; the universe hates you, obviously, that’s the only real explanation here.

“We are not talking about this,” You tell Seokjin firmly as you pull away from the speaker. Your face is still burning, but you refuse to acknowledge it. “You are paying and then we are heading to the cabin and we are not ever speaking of this again.”

He holds his hands up in defeat. You almost believe that he’s dropped the subject, but unfortunately you know him too well for that. Which is why you shoot him a warning look as you pull up to the window and he starts to say something.

“All I was going to say is that my parents asked about you the other day. They’re mad that you haven’t been by lately.”

“I’ve been busy,” You say as you hand Seokjin’s card to the kid in the window. “I haven’t had time to visit.”

“You visit Jimin’s grandma like twice a week.”

“Yeah, well, Granny Park and I are friends. Not to mention I still have to unseat her as the reigning go champion.” You don’t mention that you’re sneaking her mistledough and cookies so that she won’t blab about the fact that you’re in love with Seokjin. Or that every time you go to his parents’ house, they end up talking about weddings and asking when you’re getting married. You can’t deal with that, not when you factor in your feelings for their son.

“I’m just saying. You’re like a daughter to them. They miss you. I’m going by there after we get back from the cabin, and I think they’d like it if you tagged along.”

All you give him is a noncommittal grunt and several bags of fast food. You love his parents, you really do. You just wish they didn’t come with the constant reminder that Jin only sees you as a sister.

He lets you eat in silence, though, content to munch on your fries and pretend most of the morning never happened. He sings along to every song that plays on the radio, and it isn’t until you’re about thirty minutes away from the city and doing your best to navigate the roads in the worsening snow that you get suspicious.

“When you say you like sexual activity just fine-"

“I thought we dropped this!” He sends you a look that just says ‘really?’ and continues.

“I just want to know what you mean. Because obviously we’re on two different pages.”

“I mean that I like it just fine. I enjoy it, it’s fun, I would like to continue having it in the future. What of that is strange to you?”

“No, I just...I was under the impression that you weren’t interested in that. You never really talk about it, and you’ve never mentioned any...partners, or anything so…”

“I didn’t realize I was supposed to inform you of every person I’ve ever slept with.” You glance over at him, astounded, and are shocked to see that his lips are pursed in a frown and his brows are drawn together. You resist the urge to reach out and smooth the lines on his face. “Wait, are you actually upset about this?”

“It’s just...I’ve told you about every person I’ve slept with.” You wince a little because he’s right. You’ve heard about every single one of his sexual encounters, some of them in great detail, and you do your best not to think about them. “If I had known that you were interested, then-”

“What? You would’ve set me up with one of your friends?”

“Who was the last person?”

“What?”

“Who was the last person you had sex with?”

You look at him again, a quick glance to try to figure out if he’s being serious or not. His face is hard, an emotion you can’t place clear in the set of his jaw and the steel in his eyes.

“I’m pretty sure there’s an actual blizzard starting around us, and you want to know who I fucked recently?”

“Yeah, I do. Fair’s fair, Pumpkin.” Something in his voice raises alarms in your head. You could insist that you don’t want to talk about it; he’d respect it if you were really serious, you know he would. There’s an edge to him right now, though, one you haven’t seen in a very long time, and you don’t like it. You want to smooth it out, sand it back into the gentle lilt you love.

“Fuck, Spice, I don’t know. That guy from the bar that one night?”

“What night? What bar?”

“I don’t fucking remember, okay? It was like...fuck, years ago, I don’t even remember what he looked like, let alone his name or what bar it was. Are you happy now? For fuck’s sake, I didn’t think I had to report to you every time I wanted to get laid. You’re my best friend, not my keeper. I didn’t think it was any of your business.”

He mumbles something under his breath that you don’t catch; between the sound of the heater going full blast and the Christmas carols he’s got blaring through your truck’s sound system, it’s hard to hear anything. Still, when you glance over at him again, something dark sits in his expression, and you’ve got a gut feeling it’s your fault.

Things remain tense even after you arrive at the cabin. Seokjin doesn’t wait for you to help him, just loads all of his stuff into his arms and wobbles his way inside while you’re still slinging your overnight bag over your shoulder. The door slams behind you as you enter, caught by the wind of the growing storm outside, and you send what you hope is an apologetic wave to where Taehyung and Star - his girlfriend of forever and one of your closest friends - sit in the den.

You immediately make your way to the kitchen, swiping a tin of cookies and making hot chocolate, all while ignoring the overly aggressive chopping your best friend is doing behind you. You’re sure Star and Tae aren’t surprised when you flee to the room that you’ve unofficially claimed over the years.

You stay there for most of the day. The door stays open, just in case someone actually wants to come talk to you; you have no doubt that everyone can hear you cursing at the dog show you’re watching, and at one point you’re pretty sure you hear Namjoon’s voice steer someone away, but you can’t be sure. You don’t even want to be sure. All you really want is to know what the fuck you did to piss your best friend off and get him back to normal.

You can’t just ask him, though, because he’ll no doubt get even angrier that you don’t already know, despite the fact that you have no way of knowing unless he actually tells you.

Frustrated, you pick up your phone and flip uselessly through the chat you have with him, trying to find literally any explanation for how he’s acting. The group chat with all the boys plus Star and Cat has been quiet most of the day, only the offhanded comment about someone leaving now or going to be a little late.

Your chat with just Cat and Star is almost as quiet. There’s a featured video of Seokjin blowing up at Jeongguk a bit too harshly considering the younger had just nabbed some kimchi before dinner, but that’s essentially it. You’re tempted to ask Star to get Seokjin to tell her what’s going on, but not only do you not want to drag her into whatever this is, you also know better. He wouldn’t tell her anything. She isn’t his best friend.

As much as you’re looking forward to the rest of the night, there’s a sense of dread deep in your bones when you eventually emerge from your room. You only do so because you’re out of hot chocolate and you know that you’ll be dinner if you’re late to eat.

You wave off Star’s curious look when she sees you; you don’t need her worrying about you, not when she’s got so much else to focus on, if the crutches leaned nearby are any indication. Hobi and Cat haven’t arrived yet, which only adds to the sinking feeling in your gut, but you brush it off. They would call if they had trouble. You know they would. Besides, Cat said they’d probably be leaving late.

Seokjin doesn’t even look at you as you pass him to get to the dining table, and that hurts more than you’d like to admit. The real sucker punch comes once you sit down, however, when you see a mug of hot cocoa with your signature candy cane placed just to the right of your plate, only to realize that Seokjin’s mug of special coffee he loves so much is placed at the other end of the table.

Away from you.

Air catches in your lungs, and it sounds silly that you’re tearing up over your best friend not sitting beside you, but he always sits beside you. Always. No matter what the two of you have been fighting about, he’s always sat beside you because he likes to laugh at the faces you make about the conversations going on, and he feeds you the best bits of meat while you act annoyed about it but secretly love it.

You knew Seokjin was upset, but you hadn’t realized he was this upset.

Jimin sits beside you and introduces you to his neighbor, but you don’t even catch her name, just that he keeps calling her Snow and she looks at him like he’s the meal and that there’s a massive purple bruise along Jimin’s neck that you have a sneaking suspicion is her handiwork. She looks vaguely familiar, but you can’t be bothered to place her, not when Seokjin is laughing about something Star is saying and looks entirely too at home down there.

On your other side, Namjoon and his roommate are talking about a science something or other that they’ve been working on. They’re both so invested in the conversation that neither notice Namjoon dumping the extra spicy sauce over his rice instead of the mild that he prefers. You can’t even bear to listen as he starts complaining to Seokjin that he made the food too spicy and the resulting tirade from the eldest.

If anyone notices your sour mood, they don’t say anything. It’s not surprising, when you think about it; you’ve long been established as the grump of the group, and you don’t expect that to change, even with the girl Jeongguk brought along that seems torn between whether she actually likes him or not.

Yoongi catches your eye at one point and you just cock a brow at him.

“Where’s Jisoo?” You mouth at him across the table. He looks to Peaches, the girlfriend of his that you’ve only ever met once in passing, and looks back at you. You way your eyebrows at him halfheartedly and Yoongi rolls his eyes. It’s disappointing that Jisoo isn’t here. She always provides some sort of entertainment.

If nothing else, she usually provides some semblance of distraction.

By the time dinner ends, you’re fairly positive no one knows about your spat with Seokjin, or the strange tension between the two of you. You’re sure no one noticed how you didn’t eat much of anything; everyone was too wrapped up in their own conversations and relationships to pay much attention to little old you.

You really should know better by now.

Jimin doesn’t move from his spot beside you, even as the others begin gathering dishes and your best friend disappears into the kitchen with the promise of cookies and chocolate-covered treats in an hour or two. Snow disappears, no doubt after a silent conversation between her and Jimin, and you roll your eyes at how he watches her disappear into the room they’ve claimed.

The two of you sit in silence; it’s a game of wits, almost. You know he knows something is up, but you also know that he knows you aren’t one to just offer up your thoughts. But he knows that you know that, and he knows you know he isn’t going to let it go because he can tell something is actually bothering you this time.

“So are we going to talk about why Seokjin has been so pissy all day and how there’s been a notable lack of Pumpkin by his side, or are we going to continue to pretend that everything’s fine like we did through dinner?”

You wish you were better able to resist him. Maybe your time with his grandmother has weakened you to him, and maybe you should work on being less transparent with him, but either way, you slump in your chair and set your empty mug of hot chocolate down with a thump. You still send him a glare that he smiles through and make a mental note to tell Granny Park that there’s a reason for his sudden need for scarves that she should ask him about.

“We had a fight.” You eventually grumble, eyes darting to where Seokjin stands over in the kitchen, dipping marshmallows, pretzels, and other treats into melted chocolate. “I think.”

“You think?”

It doesn’t take very long for you to recount the day’s events to him. You even tell him about The Incident from that morning that you walked in on, because once you start talking you can’t seem to stop until he knows it all.

“And now he’s pissed, I think at me, but I can’t figure out why. I mean, it wasn’t any of his business, but you know how I am with him, so it’s not like I could just not tell him, but I don’t understand why it pissed him off.” You huff a little. The frustration with everything that rolls in your stomach collides with the hurt you feel over Seokjin snubbing you, and it’s so distracting that you almost miss Jimin’s careful whisper of your name.

“Have you ever considered just asking him?” Jimin says softly. “I’m pretty sure having an actual conversation with him would fix this whole thing.”

“But…” You hesitate, twisting a stray thread from your sweater between your fingers. “Jimin, what if he hates me?”

There’s a vulnerability to your voice that you hate, one that only Seokjin, Jimin, and Granny Park have ever seen. It’s rare, mostly because you hate feeling vulnerable, but it makes Jimin’s eyes soften ever so slightly even as he bursts into a fit of giggles so powerful that he almost falls out of his chair.

“This is not helping!” You hiss, shooting a look at where Seokjin is rolling out chocolate chip cookie dough. He doesn’t look up at Jimin’s outburst, but his lips twitch ever so slightly into a frown and the crease between his brows deepens.

You know that look, too well. It’s his ‘I Do Not Care Even Though I Actually Do But I Don’t Want You To Know I Care” look. You saw it frequently when he first went off to college, when he was constantly worrying about all the boys he left behind in that little cul-de-sac. You really hoped it wouldn’t ever come back.

“I’m sorry,” Jimin says eventually, wiping a tear away from one eye. “I really am, I promise, I’m just. Oh, I think I might lose a bet.”

“What? How is that helpful, Jimin? Y’know what, where’s that dumb dog thing Yoongi made you, I need to smush its face until I feel better--”

“What you need,” Jimin says as he places a gentle hand on your shoulder to sit you back down in your chair, “Is to stop abusing my lovingly crafted plushies and actually talk to Seokjin.”

“I can’t tell him how I feel, you know this Chim-”

“Did I say confess?” Jimin asks as he stands, eyes flickering to where his neighbor-slash-girlfriend(?) is in their room. “Just talk to him. I mean really talk to him, okay, about why he’s upset. I think you’ll be surprised.”

Jimin doesn’t give you a chance to protest; he’s gone and disappeared down the hallway before you can blink, and you don’t want to know what’s happening in that room.

Eventually you meander over to where Seokjin is sliding cookies out of the oven, each perfectly placed to allow for the perfect bake. You putter around for a minute or two, opening and closing cabinet doors at random. You aren’t finding anything interesting, certainly not the strength to have this conversation, which is why you’re startled when someone says, “It’s all the way to the left.”

You turn, and Seokjin is absently stirring leftover melted chocolate. When you fail to move, too busy staring at him in confusion, he turns and points to a cabinet beside you. “The cocoa,” He says, “It’s all the way to the left.”

“Thanks,” You mumble as you move toward it. Inside is a box of candy canes and a weathered tin that you recognize from Seokjin’s apartment. Its twin sits in the bakery, right beside the register so that it’s close at hand for when you inevitably come thundering in with a storm cloud above your head. Each holds the special cocoa recipe that Seokjin learned from his grandfather, who learned it from his grandfather.

You chance a glance at your best friend; he knows how much you love that cocoa. The people in this cabin right now are the only people he’ll make it for - save for Hoseok and Cat, who still haven’t arrived. Seokjin’s ears are burning red, and a weaker person - or at least one less accustomed to him - may have cooed at the sight. But you’ve spent too long building up the walls so that he’ll never find out just what you keep tucked away in your heart.

“I’m-”

“Sorry.” He finishes for you. “I know you are. And...I forgive you.” You nod at his words; you couldn’t even hazard a guess as to what had actually upset him, but you’re glad he’s forgiven you for it. Still, it nags at you, because what if it happens again? Unlikely, considering you haven’t been able to get laid in actual years because you’re too smitten with the man standing across from you, but still.

“Are you going to tell me why you were upset, or are you just going to play with chocolate all night?” You eventually ask. He sighs, heavy and long, and turn to lean back on the counter beside you. He’s wearing his ridiculous alpaca apron that you got him for his birthday, and that only makes him more beautiful as he considers what he wants to say.

Your heart lurches painfully in your chest. He’s everything you’ve ever wanted, and it almost feels like he’s close enough to touch, but you just can’t seem to let your hand reach out to do so. You think if you could, you might be able to grab him and hold on forever, but something deep in your gut stills you.

The fear of losing him, of losing everything that you have with him right now - late nights at the bakery, shopping for birthday presents, the quiet moments in a chaotic world where you find peace in each other. As much as it hurts to love him, as hard as it is to speak around the words that strangle in your throat that speak truth to every feeling you’ve ever locked in the recesses of your heart, you can’t risk telling him. Because this pining and loving and eventually watching him grow old with someone he loves?

That’s enough for you.

“I just got jealous, I suppose,” Seokjin eventually says. “I always thought that you weren’t interested in sex, y’know? You mentioned it once in college that you’d tried it, but your little half-frown was there, so I knew you didn’t like it, because you get the same one every time you eat gingerbread because you hate it but you don’t want me to get disappointed that you aren’t eating the houses I make. I just thought it wasn’t something you wanted in life.”

“Um.”

“Which is obviously fine, sex isn’t for everyone, asexual people exist and are valid, as are those that are sex-repulsed, y’know? And I decided a long time ago when I first looked into it all that I didn’t care about sex in a relationship. That’s not the important thing to being partners with someone. But apparently sex is a thing for you, and I just wish I had known that because all this time I could’ve-”

“What, set me up with your friends?”

“No, definitely not. It’s just that we...I could have...it just hurts to know that you’ll have sex with other people but not with me, even though I respect that it’s your decision to make.”

“What.”

“But I just...I know I’m not entitled to an explanation, but I can’t lie, I would really appreciate one if you can give it. I mean...I dunno, I know that I had sex with other people, but we had that whole conversation in college about it, and you seemed alright with it, so I did. And I always told you about them, because communication and openness is important, and I wanted you to know that I was respecting your boundaries with that while also satisfying my own needs. But it really did feel weird, because...y’know, so I stopped. And I guess I assumed that if you weren’t fucking me, you weren’t fucking anyone.”

“What.”

“I just really care about you, Pumpkin, and I know I know don’t really say it a lot because I’m more of a ‘showing it’ kind of guy, but...I just would have appreciated knowing that. Especially since I’ve always been more than willing to love you like that.”

“Spice,” You say slowly, being careful to keep your face blank. “What the actual fuck are you talking about?”

Seokjin blinks at you owlishly. “What do you mean ‘what am I talking about,’ I thought I was pretty clear. I mean...yeah, I’d love it if you would have sex with me, but that’s your decision, and I’m curious as to your reasoning and logic. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, which is why I forgave you, because as much as it stings, it’s your choice. And I love you, as you know, so-”

“How would I possibly know that?” Your voice catches a little on the words, probably because you’re having a little trouble actually breathing. Everything is fuzzy and the words ‘I’d love it if you would have sex with me’ and ‘I love you’ are playing on a loop in your brain. Your entire world has just shifted on its axis, and yet Seokjin looks completely unbothered.

“Maybe because I’ve put up with you so long?” He teases with a fond smile. “I mean, I know we aren’t the type to say the words very often, but c’mon Pumpkin. We’ve been dating since you were twelve, not many would last that long without even a kiss.”

“We haven’t been together since I was twelve, though.” He raises a brow at your confused tone.

“Okay, thirteen, then.” He says. The confusion on your face must be apparent, because it begins to bleed into his, the beautiful features morphing to mirror your own.

“Seokjin, I don’t know what you’re talking about. We aren’t dating.”

His expression only gets more confused.

“Uh, yes we are?”

“Uh, no we aren’t? When the fuck did that happen?”

“When you were twelve, as I said. I asked you to be my girlfriend.”

“I feel like I would have remembered that happening.”

“Then you should go to a doctor, because it definitely did. It was the best day of my life. We were sitting on the playground, it was recess, you were upset.”

“I remember none of that.”

“You cannot possibly have forgotten this!” Seokjin exclaims. “I cheered you up and offered you my cookie, which you ate in like two bites even though I had made it with salt instead of sugar and it had to be disgusting, because some girl had knocked your cupcake into the dirt-”

“Park Sooyoung, that bitch, I remember that-”

“And then,” Seokjin continues, ignoring your outburst, “I was so deeply honored that you ate that disgusting thing that I offered you the equal honor of being my girlfriend. And you nodded and I kissed your cheek and then you punched me in the arm - which hurt, I might add, for days - and then I watched you play Pokemon Sapphire on your Gameboy Advance.”

The memory rushes in, though not exactly how he remembers it. Park Sooyoung had knocked your cupcake out of your hands and into the dirt, and you had been so mad about it that you’d started to cry. Seokjin found you, curled under a tree away from everyone else, and when he eventually learned what upset you, he’d told Sooyoung off like no one had ever seen. And then he’d handed you the best cookie you’ve ever eaten.

You think maybe that was when you first started falling for Seokjin. With the salty cookie that masked the taste of your own tears, and the angry tirade he had gone on despite the two of you not having known each other for very long, with the wide smile and squeaky laugh and ears so red and cute that you couldn’t focus on whatever he was saying and just nodded along to it.

“Well...why didn’t you say anything since then?” A thought crosses your mind, and it so horror-filled that you have to ask. “Do the guys know?”

“If they do, it’s not because I told them,” Seokjin answers easily. “When you introduced yourself as my friend, I figured you were just a very private person and didn’t want to rub it in their faces or something.”

“Is that why you always drag me along when you, Hobi, Tae, Cat, and Star go out for karaoke?”

“Obviously,” He scoffs. “What could be better than a triple date with your two best friends?”

“Literally anything! Hobi and Cat sing each other the most raunchy things I’ve ever heard, and Tae does all those weepy ballads or indie songs nobody recognizes, and Star’s got those dopey love eyes all night, it’s revolting.”

“You mean like those faces you make at me when you think I won’t notice?”

“I-” You huff, at a loss. “Well what about the other day, with that girl at Mistledough you were flirting with, who was flirting back and-” Realization hits you. “And she’s Jimin’s neighbor girlfriend lady!”

“Pumpkin. Are you serious right now?” He gives you a dry look, but there’s amusement written all over it. “You’ve heard my sales pitch a hundred times. You’ve given my sales pitch a hundred times, albeit with a little more of a monotone and general ‘I’ll kill you’ vibe to it. It was just so she’d buy all the treats I could possibly sell her.”

You make a small ‘hmph’ noise that you aren’t exactly proud of, but makes Seokjin laugh. He pulls you into a warm hug, wrapping his arms around your waist to keep you there. It’s a little awkward, because your arms are still crossed over your chest, but he doesn’t seem to mind and despite all the muttered complaints you give him, there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.

“So…” Jin says in a too-casual tone after a few minutes. You muffle a groan into his chest, already preparing for the worst. “What kind of sex are you into?”

“Oh my god,” You mumble.

“Wait, you’re right, I’m getting ahead of myself.” He clears his throat and stands to his full height. When he looks at you again, his eyes are full of something you can’t place exactly, but it makes your heart skip nonetheless when he says your full name. “Will you do me the honor of officially becoming my girlfriend? Again?”

You resist the urge to roll your eyes and nod. The grin takes over his face is blinding, worth all the trouble from the day, as is the soft kiss he presses to your cheek. You can’t help but huff when he pulls away from it, even, and he raises an amused brow at it.

“Does this mean I can finally kiss you the way I’ve been dreaming of forever?”

You do roll your eyes this time, but you let your fingers dance over his jaw and pull him into a gentle kiss. His lips are softer than they look, which you truly didn’t think was possible, and the way they mold and move with yours is warm and tender. You don’t even know how long you spend kissing Seokjin. Time isn’t real, not now, not with him pulling you closer and pressing warm against you like every single daydream you’ve let yourself have.

Years of repressed urges and desire come out before you can stop them, though. Your hands move down to rest on Seokjin’s impossibly tiny waist, slipping behind his apron to tease at the waistband of his slacks. Why he insists everyone wear nice clothes to dinner, you couldn’t possibly say, but they make his ass look phenomenal so you never complain.

The kisses become more heated, his tongue dipping out to taste your lips for a moment. Hands find their way to your ass and palm it greedily, and he tugs you flush against him. A hard length is pressing into you, and you don’t have to guess to know it's not the rolling pin.

Images - memories - flash through your mind of that morning. Your mouth waters and you pull back from Seokjin. Panting, lips swollen from kisses, and half-lidded eyes, he's never looked better.

"Can I suck your dick?"

He groans low in his throat and his eyes fall closed. "Fuck, Pumpkin, right here? Anyone could walk by." You drop to your knees as your hands undo the clasp on the pants.

"Doubtful, they're probably having that post-dinner nap, or playing some game." Anxiety pools in your gut; you know quite a bit about what Seokjin likes in bed, but you've never been sure if exhibitionism is on that list. "Does it make you uncomfortable? I don't have to. I've just been thinking about it all day."

Seokjin barks out a quick laugh and shakes his head. "No," He says, "I definitely would love for you to suck my dick in this kitchen if you want to."

"Good." You flip his apron to the side and tug his cock out of its confines. You don't bother dropping his pants all the way; there's no time, you're too impatient. "Let me know if anyone shows up."

Whatever he's about to say gets cut off by a sharp intake of breath as you warp your lips around the head of him. One of his hands moves to grip the counter behind him and the other rests lightly on your crown; he doesn't pull or tug, just keeps his hand as a gentle pressure as you sink him deeper into your mouth.

As much as you've never been one for sucking dick, you're in heaven. There's no other explanation for why it feels this good to have him sitting heavy against your tongue as he hits the back of your throat. There are still two inches left so you wrap your hand around it and hollow your cheeks as you pull back.

A strangled moan escapes him, and his fingers tighten ever so slightly in your hair. Heat floods to your core and you kick yourself internally because you could have been doing this for years. Your tongue darts out to slide teasingly along the underside of his cock and he reflexively thrusts into your mouth.

You cough a little and pull back, wiping spit from your lips as you catch your breath, and Seokjin is already spewing apologies.

“I’m fine,” You say as you sit back against the cabinet, tugging him to stand in front of you. His back is to most of the kitchen and your head rests against the hard wood behind you while you eye the hard wood in front of you. “I can take a little bit of roughness, Spice, don’t worry.”

He looks hesitant so you ghost your fingers along his length to tease him. His jaw clenches at the same time his eyes close and you resist the urge to smile. Tension bleeds out of his shoulders and when he opens his eyes again, he quirks a brow in a silent question and you nod.

In seconds, he’s in your throat once more, thrusting himself in and out at a slow pace that makes you clench with the desire to feel it elsewhere. You hollow your cheeks and suck properly as he fucks your throat, and he muffles another moan.

“Fuck, Pumpkin, please don’t stop,” Seokjin whines quietly. You smile, just a little, and take him back into your throat for a few seconds before pulling back and repeating the process. Each time he hits the back of your throat, he lets out a muffled groan that only makes you wetter. His cock is thick and your jaw aches and you’re struggling to breathe just a little bit, but the fucked out expression on his face is more than worth it.

Something clatters in the hallway and you freeze, Seokjin’s cock sheathed to the hilt in your throat. His ears turn red and he starts to pull back, but you stop him with a hand on his thigh. He looks down at you, surprised, and you chance a wink that makes him chuckle.

Footsteps make their way past, giggles following close behind, and you hear the door leading to the hot tub open and close. After a few seconds of silence, Seokjin relaxes, pulling out of your throat. You take a few deep breaths and glance over to the door, curious.

“Jimin and Snow,” He tells you, one hand absently stroking along your cheek. “We probably shouldn’t use the hot tub tonight.”

You wrinkle your nose. “Why would I want to anyway? Have you heard Namjoon’s lecture on what could potentially grow in a hot tub if it isn’t sanitized regularly? It’s not a fun lecture.” Seokjin laughs, squeaky and adorable, and helps you to your feet. He doesn’t hesitate to pepper kisses along your cheeks, and you wrinkle your nose even as tilt your head so he can get the places he missed.

“Now when you said that you can handle a little roughness…” Seokjin says, voice a soft murmur in your ear. You make a small hum of affirmation, encouraging him to continue. “Does that mean I can spank you for not finishing blowing me, or is that something you’d rather not do?”

“Fuck, Seokjin,” You hiss, rubbing your thighs together. “Now you have to do it.”

He’s got you turned around in an instant, your fancy dress pants on the ground a few seconds later. His hands mold to your ass, cupping the flesh briefly through your underwear before letting his hands fall away.

It’s methodical and slow and torturous, how he peels away that last layer keeping him from your wetness. You know that the fabric is soaked through, it has been since you first got his dick in your mouth, and Seokjin groans at the sight.

“Even better than I imagined,” He mutters. Your cheeks heat in a rare blush, and you drop your head down between where your forearms are braced against the countertop. His hand smacks against your ass, lightly, and you choke back a laugh. Is that really what he thinks a spank is?

Another slap hits you, no real force behind it, and you scoff under your breath.

“What?” Seokjin asks. When you look back at him, he’s expectant, like he knows what you’re about to say.

“Is that what you call a slap?” You ask. He rolls his eyes and pulls his hand back for another. It already looks unsatisfying, and you can’t help but push him a little further. “I always wondered why your dough doesn’t rise high enough. Guess I know now.”

His eyes darken and a chill comes over you.

“Oh, is that how this is gonna be?” He asks. He gestures for you to face forward again and you do, curious as to the dark look in his eyes.

Something hard and cold smacks into your ass, and you yelp in surprise. There’s a little more force behind it, enough to sting pleasantly but not enough to hurt.

“Is that better, Pumpkin?” He asks. There’s a mocking tone to his voice, but when you look back, you can see the slant of his lips and tension in his jaw that shows he’s concerned. The rolling pin from earlier rests in his hands, and it flares something in your gut.

“Much,” You tell him as you turn back around. He spanks you with it again, and again, and again, and it isn’t until you feel something wet drip down the back of your leg that you remember the chocolate he was fucking around with earlier.

“If you get that on my nice clothes, I will destroy you,” You warn him. He laughs a little and there’s a thump as the rolling pin hits the countertop.

“Is that code for get me naked?” He asks, a laugh in his voice.

“No, that’s code for lick it up and then fuck my brains out.”

The laugh in his throat quickly becomes a growl and he sets to work doing just that. His tongue runs over your skin, gently lapping at the chocolate there, and several times he gets distracted leaving purple marks in his wake. He even slides tongue along your slit, long and thorough and quick, and you almost come just from the obscene moan he lets out.

"Fuck, please, I need you," You gasp out. Seokjin slides a hand under your shirt, massaging the muscles in your back as he does, and stands to his full height.

"Let me know if it hurts," He says softly. His voice is a whisper against your ear and it's never sounded quite so wrecked or beautiful. "I'll stop, okay?"

"If you don't get inside me in the next five seconds, I will go ask Jimin and Snow if I can join them in their kinky hot tub," you growl.

He curses quietly and thrusts his length inside you. Neither of you are quite prepared for what it feels like, and the moment he gets buried to the hilt, he stills.

"Shit, Pumpkin, I'm not gonna last long," He mutters. You can't even manage words. The stretch is absolutely blissful, just on the right side of painful when paired with the sting of your still-tender ass. He's the perfect height for this, too; perfectly lined up without either of you having to try very hard.

He pulls almost entirely out, leaving just the dusty pink head you remember inside. There's not even a chance to whine at the loss, because before you know it, he's slamming back in.

Seokjin's pace is erratic and harried; there's no smooth strokes here. You're both in too much of a rush, too drunk on the pleasure to want anything but release.

Hands move along your skin, one lifting your shirt so he can pepper kisses along your spine while the other reaches down to gently tweak your clit.

It takes three swipes of his finger to have your knees shaking with the power of your orgasm. You clench around him and he stills. You can't think, your brain is absolutely fried at this point; all you know is the feeling of him inside you and the disappointing emptiness when he pulls out.

Warmth hits your back and Seokjin's moans echo in your ears. You're almost afraid to turn around, afraid this is some hyper-realistic dream.

"Shit, hold on, let me clean this up," he says, panting. You can hear him moving through the kitchen and when he comes back, something cold and wet slides along your back.

You wait patiently as he cleans you up. He wipes away every instance of cum and chocolate from your skin - though he looks a little disappointed to be doing so, which you file away for later.

"God, that's so much fucking cum," You say, wrinkling your nose at the mass of wet wipes he tosses in the trash while you fasten your pants once more.

It's just in time, too, as Jimin and Snow come in from the hot tub, smiling and giggly with each other.

"Ah," Jimin says, looking between you and Seokjin. "I did lose a bet. Damn, she's gonna be so pleased with herself."

You glare at him, but there's no real heat behind it. The two of them disappear to get dressed in actual clothes, and you and Seokjin set to work plating the cookies and treats he'd made.

You can't stop the fond look at the rolling pin every few minutes.

Later, after you discover Cat and Hobi have arrived safely and you make sure they actually eat the plates set aside for them, you're on the hunt for Seokjin. He's disappeared somewhere and it's almost time for the countdown.

You finally find him - where else - in the kitchen, making a horrified face at Namjoon.

"What? It was good," Namjoon says with a frown. Seokjin just waves him off and Namjoon shrugs, grabbing a couple glasses of champagne and heading back to Slick.

You sidle up to him as close as you can get and he wraps an arm around your waist like it's second nature. It's surreal, that the man you love is pressing a kiss to your temple and handing you a mug of cocoa.

"I'm glad we talked," He says eventually. You hum your agreement; you aren't looking at him, just staring down into your cocoa as you absently stir it with a candy cane, but you do lean into him ever so slightly. "Remind me to bake Jimin a cake."

"Why? What's he done to deserve a cake?"

"He helped me out earlier, while I was cooking dinner. Helped me figure out how to say what I needed to, that sort of thing."

Your face shoots up as your heart clenches in your chest. "Jimin," You echo. "Jimin is why you decided to talk about your feelings." Seokjin just nods, eyes wide and not understanding why you have murder in your eyes.

"I'm gonna kill him so hard-" You say, already setting your mug down and turning to go find that short gremlin and skin him alive. You don't get two steps before a hand comes to rest on your shoulder, heavy but gentle.

Seokjin pulls you closer to him, a smile playing on his lips as he does. "Why would you want to kill Jimin for that, Pumpkin?"

"Because!" You exclaim. "Jimin's the only one that knows that I-"

The words tangle in your throat, cloying together into a ball you can't seem to unwind. You're too used to choking it down. You don't know how to say it.

"That you love me?" Seokjin finishes. You can't bear to look at him, huffing slightly as you turn to stare out the kitchen window at the snow-covered trees beyond.

Seokjin's hand glides down your arm to wrap around your own, tangling his fingers with yours. With a grace you tend to forget he has, he brings them both upwards until he can press a soft kiss in the center of your palm.

"Jimin isn't the only one that knows that, Pumpkin," He says quietly. You can feel your ears burning, a pleasant contrast from how it's usually him embarrassed and red.

"Whatever," you grumble, giving up on your mission to brutally murder one of your best friends. Seokjin laughs, loud and squeaky and wonderful, and pulls you into another hug.

"I love you too," He whispers. "Now, let's go join the others. I believe you owe me several years of kisses."

"You wish," You mutter half-heartedly. He hands you your cocoa and pats your still-sore ass with a wink.

"That's a great move."

"Really?"

"Yes." There's a pause as she waits for you to remove your fingers from the piece. "If you want to lose."

You offer her a weak glare that she ignores as she studies the board.

"I'm glad that you and Seokjinnie finally got things figured out. It was very cute to watch, but it was getting a little ridiculous, you know."

She moves a piece, and you squint to try to help you figure out her strategy.

"Right, it had nothing to do with your bet with Jimin," You say sarcastically as you move another piece. You eye her, one finger still remaining on it, to try to figure out if it's what she expected.

"Of course not," She says as you remove your hand. "That was merely a bonus." She immediately lays a piece, gaining even more of an advantage than she already had.

"Well then," You start as you lay another piece, "I'm sure you know all about Jimin and his neighbor, and Star and Tae I don't need to tell you anything about Yoongi or Cat or Jeongguk, either, probably."

Her fingers hesitate over the piece she's picking up, and her eyes narrow at you.

"Ah, don't be so cruel. You're supposed to respect your elders, you know."

"Alright, Granny Park," You say with a rare grin as you glance to where Seokjin is baking a ‘sorry we fucked in your kitchen’ cake and decoration some sugar-free cookies for her. "What exactly do you want to know?

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Not father by blood, but still your father; Roger Taylor x reader (oc! child)

*Author’s note*

Well after a full day of writing this idea in my head, I finally worked up the courage to post this. Sorry if it feels a little rushed with the romance stuff, but I hope the platonic stuff fills all of you with warm feels and gooeyness. There's not really much warning except for the arsehole Paul Prenter who has to ruin everything. So I hope you all enjoy this fic and don't forget to like and comment below and above :)

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Never did he think he’d be ready for this step so soon. But the second he set eyes on (y/n) (l/n), Roger Taylor was twitterpatted. It was 1971 when he first met her. Just shortly after Queen had recorded their first album, he was browsing through a record shop one day and that’s when he heard her recommend the new Hendrix album over the AC/DC.

From that moment on, it was love and first sight with Roger. But of course flirter that he was, she at first wasn’t interested but after a few attempts at being a gentleman at various occasions like whenever she saw him perform at the bigger pubs and small venues, she decided to give him a chance.

After about six months of being together, the longest he had ever had a committed relationship, (y/n) confessed something to him. She was petrified to tell him but he assured her that he wasn’t going to flee no matter what it was.

It was then she confessed that she had another guy in her life. At first Roger thought she was cheating on him but it was then she told him it wasn’t another boyfriend, but her son.

About a year before she met Roger, she and her ex-boyfriend dated for a good six years together, soulmates at college. That was until she found out that she was pregnant and at first she thought he was cool with it, until one day his stuff was packed and he was nowhere to be found. He never called or wrote to her telling her where he had gone, it was like he vanished off the face of the earth.

It was then any other relationship she tried to start up with, as soon as a kid was brought up, every guy high-tailed to the hills and didn’t want another date.

Surprisingly for Roger, he didn’t flee. I mean yeah a kid is a big responsibility but he was just in admiration of how strong she truly was knowing that even after all that she went through, she somehow still managed to keep a job at the café she worked in, raise a son all on her own and still somehow be this vibrant spirit he saw her to be.

Roger also decided that he would like to meet the little guy because if he was going to be in her life, then he needed the approval of the man who loved her most. And let’s just say the day Roger met little Caleb, he fell for him just like he fell for his mother.

Even at just 18 months old, Caleb immediately took to Roger and always wanted to be around him. He’d crawl over to him and try to stand up on his own by using Roger’s jeans as an anchor for pulling himself up.

As Caleb grew older, he came to see Roger as the father figure he needed. And Roger was more than happy to fill in that role. He taught Caleb everything from cars, to drums, hell by the time the kid was 4 he bought him his own mini-drum kit (hoping to teach him to play before Brian weaseled his way into teaching him guitar, or Freddie with the piano).

In fact all the boys of Queen grew to love Caleb like their own nephew and they couldn’t help but spoil the boy too much, especially Freddie.

It was now 1975 and the boys were off at Rockfield farm recording their 5th album “A night at the Opera”. But they were also prepping something else, for tomorrow was July 23rd, and that meant for the boys of Queen that it was going to be Caleb’s 6th birthday.

(Y/n) and Caleb were planning to get there by morning so that meant she was probably driving them all the way to the farm as they speak. Freddie and Brian were putting up the last of the decorations while Deacy tended to the cake.

“Please tell me the cake got done properly this time.” Said Roger as he came down the stairs with the gifts.

“No worries Roger, never doubt my baking skills. At least Brian and I know how to deal with eggs.”

“That was one time Deacy!” Roger exclaimed.

“Try seven. You’re lucky (y/n) came along when she did and at least tried to stop you from doing it the 8th time in a month.”

“Oh sod off! Fred, Bri the streamers up yet!?”

“Take it easy darling you can’t rush perfection.” Freddie said.

“I’m not rushing perfection, I’m rushing you!”

“Take it easy Rog, we’ll get this up in plenty of time.” Brian tried to assure his long time bandmate.

“Sorry, it’s just I want this party to be perfect for Caleb.”

“And it will Rog, you’re just overreacting. And as I’ve told you before darling there’s only room in this band for one hysterical queen.” Freddie said as he finished tacking the last of the streamers. “There, perfect!” he clapped his hands before stepping down the ladder.

“I honestly don’t get why we’re doing this. All this is is a distraction.” Paul’s voice piped in. Roger glared at him to see the snake leaning against the stairway and he snapped at him.

“If you don’t like it here then I’ll happily call you a cab back to London.”

“As your day to day assistant I have to be here.”

“Then if you’re going to complain take it up outside with the cows because they can take your shit. And I better not see you smoking anywhere near Caleb when he gets here!”

“For once I agree with Rog, so what’s it going to be Prenter?” asked Deacy. Paul knowing he couldn’t truly speak his mind, especially when Freddie was in the room he said.

“Just don’t make them stay long. Do the party for one day then kick them out.”

“They’re going to stay here as long as they want. Besides it’s been forever since I’ve seen the little tike. Why should you get to keep him all to yourself Roger?” Brian said. Roger grinned and said.

“Because I am his father and I forbid you to see him. Plus I know about those guitar lessons you’ve been trying to sneak him behind my back May.”

“Just saying, he’d look much better with a guitar in hand. Because the next thing we need in this world is another Roger Taylor. And god help us all when that day comes.” It was then Roger threw a birthday horn at Brian’s head.

“Children please. We can all murder each other but then who would be left to decorate the home for Caleb?”

“You and me Fred. So please both of you kindly set you rivalry aside and get back to work.” Deacy said as he got to work decorating the cake.

As the night went on by around 11:30 the boys finally got the house all set up for a six year old’s birthday party.

“Well I think that’s everything.” Said Roger.

“It looks good.” Said Brian admiring their hard work.

“Of course it is Brian because I designed the theme. That darling little boy is going to love it.” Freddie said.

“We’ll see come morning. What time did (y/n) say she’d be here?” asked Deacy to Roger.

“She said she’s be getting on the road at about 2-3am so that way she’d be here by around 7 maybe 8am.”

“Alright well my darlings I think after all this, we deserve a good night’s rest. Because tomorrow is party time!” Freddie proclaimed.

“Just don’t get drunk like last year Fred.” Lectured Brian.

“Don’t worry I took out all the booze this time around.” Deacy said. And with that the four band members heading towards their rooms and got a good night’s rest because tomorrow they knew they were in for a wild ride.

By dawn at the rooster’s crow, Roger groaned and placed his pillow over his face trying to block out the sound of the crowing. But then he also heard the sound of a car pulling up along the gravel driveway.

At first he thought nothing of it, that was until he remembered what day it was.

“Caleb. Birthday. Today! SHIT!!!” He quickly raced towards the window and saw (y/n)’s car pulling up and heard the engine shut off. “Fuck!” he quickly got dressed and of course in such a rush, he tripped a few times getting his pants on before banging along the walls trying to wake up Freddie and Brian. “WAKE UP YOU LOT THEY’RE HERE!!”

He raced out only to see that he wouldn’t be the first one to greet them. Ever the early rise he was, Deacy and (y/n) separated from their hug and they turned to look towards Roger.

“Well finally decided to wake up eh?” Deacy mocked.

“You…..I’ll deal with you later.” He sneered.

“Please Roger, no fighting with your rhythmic partner. Especially with the birthday boy present.” (y/n) said as she walked up to him and cooled his hot-headedness with a peck to the lips.

“Where is he?”

“Still asleep in the back. Little man slept through the entire ride over here. It hurt me to wake him up so early so that we could get on the road early enough to beat the London summer traffic.”

“Well it’ll all be worth it. I think he’s gonna love what we did for him inside.”

“And there she is! (Y/n) darling.” They turned to see Freddie and Brian standing along the porch. Freddie in his nightly kimono they got from Japan and Brian in a simple tank top and some shorts.

“Freddie, Brian. So sorry to have you guys wake up so early. Especially you Bri, I know how terrible you are in the mornings.”

“This is the one day of the year I’ll be okay with getting up at the crack of dawn. Need any help unloading anything?”

“Yes, I’ve got some of the remaining presents as well as some party games. If you lot could help me…..”

“Oh darling don’t be ridiculous, you will not be lifting a finger. You’ve already sacrificed some sleep just to get here, let us handle the unpacking while you and Roger handle the birthday boy.” Freddie said as he came up to (y/n) and placed both his hands on her shoulders.

“But—”

“He’s right love. The guys can handle the stuff.” Roger assured her. With the famed baby blue puppy dog eyes, she knew she couldn’t say no.

“Alright then you two. Come help me out then.” Deacy said as he unlocked (y/n)’s trunk and grabbed a few of the presents. Freddie grabbed the board games while Bri got the rest of the presents. As she went to open up the back door of her car, she told the guys to be quiet and they did as the three of them rushed back into the house.

“Here stay out of sight for a bit till I get him to wake up. Want to make this a surprise, I never told him where we were going.” Roger grinned and hid behind the car and got down so that he’d stay out of sight.

She opened the door and stroked her son’s cheek as she softly called out.

“Caleb. Caleb love.” He stirred and rubbed his hands over his eyes as he groaned and began to wake up.

“Mummy?”

“Hey handsome boy, time to rub Mr. Sandman’s sand out of your eyes. We’ve arrived at our destination.” Once Caleb became a bit more aware of where they were now, he asked.

“Where are we mummy?”

“Well baby; since I knew you were pretty bummed about the guys missing your 6th birthday party due to them recording their album, I thought I might bring you to a very special place. And there’s someone special who wants to see you.” (y/n) turned towards Roger and he slowly came into the frame and he said.

“Someone mention me?”

“Daddy!” Caleb called out. He struggled to get out of his seatbelt. Both Roger and (y/n) chuckled as (y/n) reached in to unbuckle him.

“Hold still sweetie, I know you’ve missed your daddy but you gotta stay still for a second.” Once she got him unbuckled, she moved out of the way and Caleb immediately flew into Roger’s arms.

Rog spun his boy around and playfully nuzzled him.

“Daddy! Daddy!”

“What? What?”

“Do you know what today is?”

“Hmm I don’t know is it…..Christmas?”

“No silly that’s still a long ways away. Although I wish it was Christmas.” Roger chuckled and he adjusted Caleb from his hip to around his waist.

“Okay is it……your first day of primary school?”

“Ewww no!”

“Then I don’t know, what is today bubs?”

“My birthday!”

“Your what?”

“My birthday!”

“It’s not your birthday.” Teased Roger.

“Yes it is.” Giggled Caleb.

“Oh really? Well if it’s your birthday then how old are you today?”

“Six years old, going on seven.”

“Six!? Wow that makes you a man now huh?” Caleb nodded enthusiastically while (y/n) playfully rolled her eyes.

“Please don’t make my baby boy think he’s too old for his mummy.”

“Oh never my love. No matter how old he gets, a boy will always need his mum, right champ?”

“Right! Love you mummy.”

“And I love you my little baby bear.” She cooed as she Eskimo kissed him while cupping his face and giving him multiple pecks all over his face. He groaned and ewed at the wet kisses he was receiving till he finally buried his face into Roger’s neck.

“Alright squirt, let’s get you inside.” Roger then carried Caleb into the house while the birthday boy kept asking if he could play with the farm animals, Roger answered with a maybe.

The three of them entered the house which had all of the lights turned off.

“Why’s it so dark in here?” Caleb asked a bit fearfully as he clung onto Roger’s jeans.

“It’s alright bubs, I’ll turn on the lights for yah.” The second the lights came on; Freddie, Brian and Deacy popped out from their hiding spots throwing confetti everywhere, blowing on small birthday bugles proclaimed.

“SURPRISE!!” Caleb’s face went full on ecstatic as he raced up to his uncle Freddie first who happily picked him up and spun him around.

“Happy birthday you lovely darling!”

“I can’t believe you guys are really here.”

“Better believe it lad, happy birthday buddy.” Deacy said as he placed the birthday crown on top of Caleb’s head.

“A crown befitting a prince, don’t you think so Roger? (Y/n)?”

“Indeed Freddie, and a very cute prince at that.” (y/n) teased as she gently pinched her son’s cheek.

“Mum! Prince’s aren’t supposed to be called cute!” he whined out as he rubbed his cheek.

“Oh right sorry, I meant handsome.”

“Alright Caleb, what would you like to do first?” asked Deacy.

“Presents!” the boy exclaimed.

“Uhh sweetie, how about we hold off on presents for a little while.” (y/n) told her son.

“Oh come off it (y/n) dear. Caleb is such a good boy plus it’s his birthday. If he wants to open up presents first, then he shall open his presents.” Freddie said as he playfully jostled the boy in his arms making him laugh.

“Fred you’re going to spoil that boy.” Roger said.

“I’m his godfather I’m allowed to spoil him. Now let’s open some presents.”

“Yaaaaay!” cheered Caleb as Freddie took him over to the ‘birthday chair’ (which was just one of the chairs from the kitchen but had some paper folded on the two top ends to make them look like a throne).

“Okay my darling Caleb you’re gonna want to open mine first because it’s the best present ever.” Freddie said as he gave him a very large (and when I mean large, I mean large, it could’ve been as tall as Caleb was standing up).

“Freddie what did you get him?” asked (y/n).

“Spoilers darling, go on Caleb dear open it up.” Almost immediately, the six year old boy is ripping up the wrapping paper and opened up the box to reveal a large shark bag chair with open jaw and everything. Since he saw the film JAWS, Caleb had been obsessed with sharks so when Freddie saw this while touring in America, he thought only one person had to have it.

“Wow!”

“You like it dear?”

“I love it, thanks uncle Freddie this is the best gift ever!” Caleb hugged his godfather thanking him repeatedly.

“Alright Caleb why not open the rest of your presents just so that your uncles and daddy don’t feel left out hmm?” he nodded and proceeded to open the rest of his presents.

From Brian he got some space coloring books and a Lego space set. Deacy got him some animal books and a new stuffed lion (he, Roger and Caleb considered themselves the lion coalition since they were all born under the Leo zodiac). Roger gave him some Hotwheels model cars as well as a new drum set that almost resembled the set that Roger uses on stage (Queen design included), and his mom gave him the typical mom gifts some new clothes (but she got clothes that she knew he’d like that would have sharks or monster trucks on them) as well as a new teddy bear.

After presents, Deacy brought in the cake and Freddie lit the candles. Brian picked up the birthday boy and they all gathered around the kitchen and everyone began to sing happy birthday to him. (Y/n) setting up the video camera began recording to keep the memory of this day forever in the years to come.

Caleb felt like the luckiest boy on earth because to him it wasn’t just his family that was singing to him, but when you can say your family is Queen, it makes you feel even more special. After the song, he closed his eyes to make a wish before blowing out the candles. Everyone clapped and cheered then Deacy began cutting the cake.

It was the typical family picture for a kid’s birthday party (minus all the screaming kids). Caleb telling the guys some of the things he’s done since summer holiday started for him, the four men listening intently, smiling and laughing. Pictures were taken all thanks to Brian, and for the rest of the day it was game time.

From musical chairs, twister, scrabble (of course they let Caleb win a few rounds), to pin the tail on the donkey. Caleb enjoyed playing each game because he liked playing with his family, especially his dad.

Later that night, Caleb was in the living room cuddled between his parents. He held his stuffed lion close to him as he leaned against his daddy’s arm.

“Did you have a good birthday bubs?” asked Roger. Caleb hummed tiredly as he cuddled closer to him.

“Seems our birthday boy’s tired himself out.” Said (y/n). She strokes her son’s cheek and she tells him, “Caleb, sweetie, would you like daddy and I to make you a bath before bedtime?” he nodded.

“Alright pal, I’ll come down and get you once your mum and I get the bath ready. Don’t fall asleep till then okay?”

“I’ll try.” Caleb says tiredly as he rubs his eyes. The two adults chuckle softly and stand up before heading upstairs to prep his bath.

As Caleb stretches himself out and yawns he then hears a voice say.

“Seems you had a good birthday.” He turns around and soon coming into the living room was Paul Prenter.

“Mm-hmm, it was fun.”

“The lads and your mum sure did spoil you.”

“Yeah. I like it when they do.”

“You know I shouldn’t probably say this but I’m not sure you know what exactly Freddie and the boys do.”

“I know who they are. They’re Queen, the greatest rock band ever.”

“That they are. And their fame is only going to keep growing, especially after this album.”

“Uncle Freddie says he’s gonna let me listen to some of the songs tomorrow.”

“And what a lucky boy you must be. I mean might as well let you have one final moment with them before they’re too busy for you.” Caleb turned to the Irish man and asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well after this album takes off, it’ll be nothing but non-stop tours, album recordings, concerts, press interviews, Queen will be the highest band in the world. Even bigger than the Beatles. They won’t have time for family matters.”

“Huh? But they always have time for me.” It was then Paul sighed clearly showing his annoyed impatience as he continued.

“Alright for your own sake I’ll be blunt. They won’t have time to spend with you. In fact you’ll just be a distraction to their work. Especially Freddie. He is the leader of Queen after all and he can’t have his vision compromised by a child. John and Brian will just grow tired of having to watch over a child constantly when they should be focusing on their rifts. And Roger…..well he’s always gotten the girls’ attentions. Eventually he’ll find there are better more flexible girls that won’t have a child to tie him down.”

“But he’s my daddy! He’d never hurt me and mummy.” Paul grinned and chuckled icily.

“To be honest I don’t even know why he calls himself that. He was never your father to begin with. Your real father abandoned you the moment your mother had found out you were created. Roger’s fooling himself because he’s just like the one who abandoned you.”

Caleb looked down sadly and could feel a lump in his throat and start to feel the tears pooling into his eyes.

“Caleb?” soon coming down the stairs was Roger. The second he saw Paul kneeling down before his son, he got defensive. “What’s going on Prenter!?”

“Oh nothing Roger, just asking the little tike if he had a good birthday.” Then like nothing had happened, Paul ruffled the boy’s head before heading on out for a smoke break. Roger eyed Paul skeptically knowing that something must’ve been up, but he set it aside and knelt down in front of Caleb.

“Your bath’s ready bud, you ready?”

“Can—can mummy bathe me tonight instead?” Caleb asked. Roger was surprised to hear that because bath time was usually their thing (in Caleb’s words, Roger was more fun during bath time when it came to battleship wars)

“Uhh sure. I’m—sure she wouldn’t mind.” Without another word, Caleb raced upstairs. As (y/n) was coming out of the bathroom, she felt something tackle her almost making her lose her balance. She looked down to see her son and she said.

“Caleb, what’s the matter love?” He spoke not a word but she did hear a sniffle and soft sob coming out of him. She knelt down and hugged her son and rubbed her back. At that moment, Roger came up the stairs and just stood there horrified to see his son crying.

(Y/n) shrugged in a ‘I don’t know what’s wrong’ manner but kept hugging and comforting her son.

After bath time thanks to Freddie, Caleb was allowed to sleep in his room while Fred took the couch. (Y/n) tucked her son in and kissed his cheek.

“Goodnight my sweet prince.”

“Night, night mummy.” He said. She stood up and replacing her was Roger.

“Sweet dreams monkey.” He leaned down to kiss Caleb on the opposite cheek but to his surprise, Caleb turned away refusing his daddy’s kiss. Heartbroken but still wanting to show his son some affection, Roger kissed the boy’s temple and patted his arm before standing up.

The two bid the boy goodnight before turning off the light and shut the door. As the two of them prepared for bed Roger asked.

“Did he say why he was so upset?”

“No. Why did something happen downstairs when you went to get him?”

“I mean I saw Paul kneeling in front of him, if he said anything to him I’ll throw him out the bloody window of the recording studio as soon as we get home.”

“You do realize you guys have the 24th floor of that studio right.”

“So?”

“Roger, I love you but I’d rather not date a convicted criminal.”

“Hey I’d become a criminal if it means protecting you and my son.”

“I know you would love. Let’s—just let him sleep and maybe he’ll come around tomorrow.” She kissed his lips and the two of them cuddled together for the night.

However the next morning Caleb shook his mum awake asking her if they could go home. Roger and her asked why he wanted to leave so early when they could’ve stayed a couple of weeks there, but the boy refused to answer. He just clung to his mum and asked if they could go home.

Giving into her son’s request, she packed up the presents and loaded the car up ready to head back to their home in London.

But when the four boys of Queen went to say goodbye to their number one fan, he hid behind his mum’s legs and clung onto her like a koala. He refused to make eye contact with them as he got into the backseat and hid under the window.

“What’s wrong with Caleb?” asked Brian.

“I don’t know.” Answered (y/n) solemnly.

“Roger what did you do?” demanded Freddie.

“Me?! I did—”

“Don’t go blaming him Fred, he wouldn’t talk to us last night. But—maybe I’ll get him to talk once we get home. I’ll let you four know when we get there.”

“Okay, drive safe love. And do you—mind if you check in on Veronica for me?” asked Deacy.

“No problem Deacy. I am you guys mid-wife after all. I’ll check on her and see how she and the future little Deacy duckling is doing.” (y/n) hugged all the boys goodbye before leaving Roger for last.

The two lovers embraced each other and Roger whispered to her.

“Please give my love to him okay?”

“I will Rog I promise. You keep making songs and don’t lock yourself in a cupboard again.”

“No promises love.” She rolled her eyes before kissing Roger softly while cupping his face. They eventually separated as (y/n) got in the driver’s seat and turned on the engine before finally pulling out of the farm and headed back into the city.

It was Christmas time and the boys were prepping for their live Christmas Eve show at the Hammersmith Odeon to help promote the success for “A night at the opera”. (Y/n) was getting ready to head over to the theater because afterwards she and the guys were gonna come to the house for a little Christmas gift exchange.

“Caleb love, are you sure you don’t wanna go see the show live?” (y/n) asked her son. She’s been noticing how lately Caleb hasn’t wanted anything to do with Roger or the guys lately and she was starting to get worried.

“I’m sure mummy. I’ll just watch it on TV.”

“Okay honey, if you’re sure.” He nodded solemnly as he fiddled with his new Star Wars X-wing he got from Deacy as a pre-Christmas gift. After putting on the last of her makeup, the doorbell rang and (y/n) went over to the door and opened it up to reveal her best friend since childhood Dani.

“Hey girl!” she proclaimed in an ‘I’m here’ fashion.

“Hey Dani, thank you so much for babysitting at the last minute.”

“No worries girl, I love that kid to death, he is my godson after all. Where is the little cutie?”

“He’s in the living room playing.” Sensing her best friend’s worry, Dani asked.

“You okay?”

“Honestly I’m worried about Caleb.”

“What’s going on?”

“Ever since his birthday he’s been acting a little strange lately. Anything having to do with Roger or the guys he’s—he’s been ignoring them or not wanting to have anything to do with them.”

“What? Really?” she exclaimed softly in shock. (Y/n) nodded.

“He won’t talk to me about it and I’m getting worried. What if he’s—”

“Hey, hey, hey don’t think about that right now. I’ll try and get him to watch their live broadcast and see if I can get anything out of him. After all when it comes to the really juicy stuff that gets to him, he’s always told me.”

“What exactly has he told you?”

“I’m sworn under oath to never tell mummy.”

“I’ll deal with you later, but right now I better get out of here if I want to get to the Hammersmith on time.” The two women hugged each other and (y/n) went over to hug and kiss her son goodbye before finally heading out to meet with the boys at the Hammersmith Odeon.

At the theater; the boys had gotten fully dressed and were about to start the live broadcast. When they heard a knock at their dressing room, Deacy went up and opened it to reveal (y/n).

“Hello (y/n).” he said.

“Hey Deacy, I just came back to wish you guys good luck.”

“Hello my love.” Roger came up and the two of them kissed. “Where’s Caleb?”

“He—”

“He didn’t come did he.” Roger said more as a statement than a question.

“I’m sorry love.”

“Is…..it something I did?”

“Honestly Rog, I don’t know. He won’t tell me.” He sighed and leaned his forehead against hers.

“You don’t think he hates me, do you?”

“No that can’t be it. He’s always loved you Rog. I wouldn’t worry about it now, you’ve got to focus on the show.”

“I know. But I just wish my little bud was here. It—really hasn’t been the same since his birthday.”

“We’ll figure it out soon my love.” She kissed Roger comfortingly and that’s when the producer came in and said.

“Queen, time to get on stage.” The couple separated from each other but took each other’s hands and the five of them walked towards the stage.

“I’ll be watching from right here cheering you four on.” Said (y/n) with a smile.

“We know you will darling. Hope the little darling is watching from home. I’m dedicating his favorite to him.” Freddie said. After Bob Harris gave the introduction, the boys raced on stage and performed their hearts out.

After the show, the boys and (y/n) arrived back at her place and there they saw Dani holding a sleeping Caleb on her lap. Dani looked and she smiled at the five of them.

“How was he?” whispered (y/n).

“He was an angel as always.”

“Did he watch the concert?” asked Brian. At that question, Dani looked down solemnly.

“I turned it on but he didn’t really pay attention. I tried to get him to talk to me but he wouldn’t tell me what’s going on.”

“You? His most trusted secret keeper?” asked Freddie bewildered.

“Yeah.” She said as she stroked his head softly. (Y/n) knelt down and gently picked her son up.

“Can I take him to bed?” asked Roger. His eyes filled desperate to hold his little boy again. Complying and fearfully thinking this maybe the only time he’d get to hold her son, she handed Caleb over to Roger.

He held him against his shoulder and took him upstairs to his room. Roger set Caleb down and tucked him in, he reached over and tucked the teddy bear the two of them won at the Autumn carnival last year. He stroked the little boy’s cheek with his thumb and whispered.

“I love you buddy. Merry Christmas.” He leaned down and kissed the boy’s forehead before sitting up and left his room. He came back down the stairs and (y/n) said.

“He still asleep?”

“Little guy didn’t even stir. That’s—the first time I’ve ever got to hold him since his birthday.”

“I know Rog.” She cooed as she hugged him and stroked through his long hair.

“Can we place our gifts for Caleb under the tree?” asked Brian. She nodded and the guys placed their Christmas gifts for Caleb under the tree, as well as the gifts they were gonna exchange to each other in the morning.

“I think I’m gonna hit the sack. We can start the gift exchange first thing in the morning.” Deacy said.

“Oh yeah cause you and Veronica are planning to go to her parent’s for dinner aren’t you?” (y/n) said as Deacy nodded. “That sounds good, we won’t keep you long Deacy. In fact I think you all deserve some rest after the show you all performed tonight.”

“You said it darling, 14 songs, four encores. I’m bloody exhausted.” Freddie said as he sighed heavily.

“Yeah. Goodnight you guys.” Said Brian.

“Night.” Soon everyone went to their guest rooms while Roger and (y/n) went into her room. As Roger collapsed onto her bed, she got on her night dress and crawled up towards him and cuddled up into his chest. Roger wrapped his arms around her and he nuzzled into her hair and without another word the two of them fell asleep.

By morning, the sound of little feet pattered towards the master bedroom. Caleb crawled up onto the bed and began shaking the figure underneath.

“Mummy! Mummy wake up wake up it’s Christmas! Wake up lazy mummy! Let’s go see what Santa brought!”

“Geez bud, you never cease using us as a bouncy castle do you.” At hearing the sound of a male voice instead of his mum’s, Caleb got off the figure and out popped out Roger.

“Sorry Roger.” Caleb said lowly as he couldn’t even look him in the eye. Feeling his heart clench that his son still wouldn’t look at him, he said.

“There’s no need to be sorry buds. So shall we see what Father Christmas brought you this year?” he asked trying to lighten the mood.

“Maybe later, excuse me.” He then left the room without saying a word. Roger tried to reach out for him but he knew it was pointless. He sighed solemnly and put on an old t-shirt and grabbed his robe as he went downstairs.

“What was all that racket I heard upstairs?” asked Freddie.

“Caleb woke up thinking I was his mum. But then as soon as he saw it was me he barely spoke to me.”

“Oh Roger darling.” Freddie stood up and placed a comforting hand on his friend’s shoulder.

“He couldn’t even look at me Fred. What did I do to him?”

“I’m sure it’s not something you did intentionally, not like you always do.” At that statement Roger glared at him. “Right not helping. Have some breakfast and maybe head back on up and see what’s going on. Cause more importantly I hadn’t gotten my Caleb hugs from him at all since his birthday and I’ve missed those so much.”

“Glad to see my problem makes you feel more like the victim than I am.” Roger muttered.

“Breakfast is ready!” (y/n)’s voice called out. As the boys of Queen gathered around to make their plates, Brian was setting up the presents so that while they were eating, they could quickly do gifts before Deacy had to leave to meet up with Veronica, their son Robert to head on out to meet her family for Christmas.

“Okay so I’ll be on the right side of the couch, Deacy you’ll be the left since it’s closer to the door, Freddie you’ll have the recliner, and Roger and (y/n) can take the loveseat.” Brian said.

“Sounds good to me.” Deacy stated as he came up towards his seat.

“Caleb come on down for breakfast love before it gets cold!” (y/n) called from the bottom step.

“I’ll be down soon mum!” he called out but she somehow knew that none of them would see him.

“Okay so….who wants to go first?” asked Freddie.

“I’ll go.” Roger said. As he went through each gift which included a new set of drumsticks with his name engraved on them, some new tools to help work on his cars, the latest “The Who” record, and some boat/yacht magazines. It was then he came across the last gift which was just a shoebox with a note that said.

To; Roger and the boys

From; Caleb

“Guys, this is from Caleb. And it’s to all of us.” Freddie, Bri and Deacy all came around him and Brian asked.

“Well what is it?”

“Open it Roger.”

“Alright, alright don’t get your knickers in a twist Fred.” He opened it up but the four of them were shocked to see what was inside.

“Are—are those…..” (y/n) started off.

“It’s all the little trinkets we’ve gotten him from our tours around the world.” Deacy said. The boys looked at each other worriedly as Freddie took out the tiny cat statue he got Caleb in Japan just last year. Deacy pulled out the snow globe of the Eiffel Tower that he got in Paris when he was 3 years old.

Brian took out the small spaceship he bought at a giftshop in Washington D.C. for his 4th birthday, and Roger pulled out the picture he had (y/n) take of them when Roger first bought him his first drumkit. Shaking his head he placed it back and said.

“Okay that’s it.”

“Roger, Roger what are you—” (y/n) tried to stop him but of course when Roger sets his mind to something, there’s no stopping him. When he finally reached Caleb’s room, he walked right on in to see the six year old on his bed twiddling with his thumbs.

“Care to explain this Caleb?” he tried his best to not shout at the boy but his tone couldn’t help but come off as betrayed, angered and heartbroken. “Caleb why are you giving us back all the stuff that we’ve given you throughout the years? In fact why have you been acting like we hate you?! You’ve avoided us for months, you can’t look us in the eye and you seem to not want to have anything to do with us anymore!”

Steadily Roger’s voice got angrier and angrier. But then just before he could blow off his top, he heard the sounds of Caleb sniffling. He looked down to see the little boy trying to hold back his tears but they kept coming out in tiny drops, like a loose pipe dripping water in the sink.

Roger’s anger immediately deflated and all that he was filled with now was regret.

“Oh Caleb, ohh buddy I—I’m sorry I snapped at you. I’m so sorry, c’mere.” He picked the boy up and held him close as Caleb finally started letting out all the tears he’s kept in for five months. “Shhhh, shhh. I’m sorry buddy. I’m so sorry. I’m not mad at you, it’s okay, it’s okay shhh.”

“Y-you….can—gonna….leave…..”

“Caleb, pal I can’t understand you right now. You’re too upset to talk, take a few deep breaths with me, okay?” Caleb sniffled but nodded. Roger set him back down on the bed and knelt down in front of the boy.

He took his hands and helped guide him through some deep breathing exercises.

“In for three….one, two, three. Hold. Then out one, two, three, four, five. Good, again pal.” The two of them did the breathing technique together then once Caleb seemed to calm down, Roger softly smiled and tucked away the boy’s bangs away from his face. “You okay now?”

“Mm-hmm.” Caleb nodded softly.

“That’s good.” He gingerly wiped away the access tears that stuck to the boys face and said. “Do you wanna talk? I know something’s been bothering you for a while now. Tell me Caleb what is it?”

“I—I can’t tell you.”

“Why can’t you tell me?”

“Because……because…..cause you’ll hate me.” At hearing that, Roger’s heart broke.

“Caleb. You know that I could never, ever hate you. Nothing in this entire world could ever make me do that.”

“But this might.”

“You’ll never know unless you try. Remember when you said you’d never be able to ride a bike? Hmm? Or play the drums? And what did you do?”

“I learned it.”

“Exactly. We never know what will come unless we take the dive and do it. Or talk about it. So come on pal out with it. I’m not a mind reader like Professor X. I can’t look into your head and see what’s been bothering you.” For awhile Caleb remained silent and refused to look Roger in the eye just like before.

But somehow Roger was patient and waited until Caleb finally spoke up.

“Are…..are you…..” he trailed off before looking away.

“Am I what pal?” Roger said as he turned the boy’s head back to him by gently cupping his face.

“Are you gonna forget mummy and me?” Roger was horrified to hear those words come out of him.

“What? No. Absolutely not. What made you get an idea like that?”

“M….Mr. Prenter told me back at the farm that—after this album you, Uncle Freddie, Uncle Bri and Uncle Deacy were gonna be so famous that you’d forget about us. That more girls would come to you and that you would leave mummy for them. And that….you wouldn’t…..want to be my daddy no more when they did.”

Roger was now a field of mixed emotions inside. There was sorrow and heartbreak of Caleb having to think this for over five months, no wonder why he wouldn’t see him or the guys. But there was also rage due to the fact that Paul Prenter, a grown man had the nerve to actually say things like that to a little boy.

“That son of a…..I know I keep saying but this time I mean it. I’ll throw him out the bloody window!”

At hearing the anger in Roger’s voice and seeing his blue eyes turn ice cold and murderous, Caleb whimpered and started trembling in fear.

“Oh no, no, no buddy, buddy it’s okay. It’s okay. I’m sorry I scared you. Come here.” Roger instantly reverted back to his calm state that he always used with Caleb and he immediately hugged the boy close to him.

He rubbed his back in soothing circles and rocked him back and forth trying to comfort him.

“I didn’t mean to scare you bubs, I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay.”

“No, no it’s not. I vowed that I would never get angry around you.” He stroked Caleb’s head before planting a kiss on top of his head. “Listen Caleb. Forget everything that Paul said to you.”

“But…..”

“No buts, as your father I forbid you to mention him right now.”

“But he…..Mr. Prenter also said that you weren’t really my daddy. That my real daddy…..never wanted me.” Roger rubbed his son’s back and said.

“First of all Caleb, I want you to stop calling him Mr. Prenter. Mister is something you only use when someone respects you back. And Paul doesn’t deserve your respect.”

“Then what should I call him?”

“Whatever mean name you can come up with.” Caleb thought about it before saying.

“Poo-poo pee-pee!” Roger laughed and said.

“That’s perfect!” he playfully ruffled Caleb’s head messing up his inherited (h/c) from his mum. “Now everything that poo-poo pee-pee said to you, is nothing but lies. I love your mother, and I love you. You both are my whole world, sure there have been women while I was on the road trying to get a hold of me but every time I denied them because I already had my best girl and best bud waiting at home for me. And that they are the loves of my life.”

“But when he—said that you weren’t my real father. Is….is that true?” At that question, Roger knew he had to word it carefully because at this point Caleb was still fragile and if he said that what Paul said about Roger not being his real father was true, the poor boy would have a breakdown and feel like he’s been living a lie.

“I can tell you this Caleb. The man who—was with your mum before me. He lost a great opportunity. And his loss was my gain. Because just like Queen, you and your mum are my family. Just like I hope that I’m a part of yours. Family doesn’t always end in blood, it’s the bond we share with each other. And the love we give each other throughout our lives. Do you understand what I’m trying to tell you?”

“Yes daddy.”

“Oh you have no idea how long I’ve waited for you to call me that again.” Roger said as he stroked Caleb’s cheek with his thumb and smiled down at him. “Can I get some lion cuddles and kisses?” Caleb nodded and cuddled close into Roger’s chest.

He clung onto his shirt before raising his head to kiss Roger’s cheek. Roger smiled and playfully devoured Caleb in wet kisses making him laugh and try to break free of Roger’s embrace. Roger chuckled and said.

“Now this is what I wanted for Christmas.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Your hugs and kisses are worth more than any presents Father Christmas can give. I’ve been denied this gift for five months so you better pay me back with as many hugs and kisses you can give me. Deal?”

“Deal.” The two men shook on it.

“Now tell me; who do I love most in the whole wide world?”

“Me and mummy!”

“You got that right pal. I love you so much Caleb.”

“I love you too daddy.” He hugged his father and Roger rubbed his back. “I’m—sorry I hurt your feelings daddy.”

“Shhh, don’t think of it anymore. All is forgiven. So long as you take back your gift.”

“I will. Do—Uncle Freddie, Bri and Deacy forgive me?”

“I’m sure they do. Freddie has been going on nonstop of how he’s missed your hugs. Wanna go down and see them?” he nodded and Roger picked him up so that he hung around his waist and the two of them headed downstairs. “Look whose finally decided to come down.”

“Caleb darling!” Freddie exclaimed. Roger set him down and Caleb immediately ran up to his uncle Freddie who picked him up and set him on his lap. “Ohh this is what I’ve waited for.”

“You happy now uncle Freddie?”

“Oh darling I am very happy.” As Roger came up to (y/n) she whispered.

“Everything okay now?”

“Yeah. I’ll tell you once he tires from playing with all his presents.” And with that the five adults watched as Caleb ripped open every single one of his presents and was all oooh and awe.

Roger finally got what he wanted and he was so happy to finally have his little buddy back on his side. Because even though he wasn’t Caleb’s birth father, he still looked at that boy like he was his own son. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Additions: Part 4

Pairing: Jaime x MC

Word Count: 4,050

Summary: With an important breakthrough and their first holiday season as a family of five, things start looking up for the Lewis household.

November, 2027

I’ve got the details for Thanksgiving. Sending them to your email soon.

Arden dragged a thumb to unlock the screen and sent a quick response to Ellen’s message. After slipping her phone back into the purse at her feet, she attempted to get back to proofreading the document in front of her, but distractions thwarted her efforts.

She’d always been partial toward any day that brought communities together, and Thanksgiving certainly fit the bill. But this year, she was interested in one very specific group of people and not the whole of Northbridge.

Their little family had seen a handful of holidays in the past few months -- Jaime’s and Will’s birthdays, Labor Day, Halloween. Each had been thoroughly enjoyable in its own right, but Thanksgiving was taking things to a whole different level.

Lips curving softly with her anticipation, she reviewed her calendar, making a few adjustments to clear time for next week’s session. She saw her inbox increase in another tab and popped over to check the files from Ellen.

She was still skimming over the plans when the door opened at the other end of the waiting room. Alex walked toward her, trailed by a middle-aged man who raised a hand to her in greeting.

With a smile, she closed the laptop and rose to meet them both. After exchanging a few words with the therapist and scheduling a subsequent session, she and Alex quietly made their way down to their car.

Arden hated parallel parking, but it was a necessary evil in this part of the city. Giving all of her attention to the backup camera and the view out her window, it was easy to ignore the silent passenger at her side.

She stole a quick glance after merging into the flow of traffic.

Her son’s mouth was firmly shut, his gaze fixed on the progression of vehicles beside them.

Alex was never talkative coming out of these sessions. He wasn’t very talkative in general, but it seemed especially unfair for him to be so close-lipped on the heels of a session where she knew he’d spoken freely to someone else. Grateful as she was for the improvement they’d noticed in the past six weeks, an inkling of jealousy always rose during their drive home.

Often, her natural curiosity got the better of her. She’d ask a probing question in return for a few syllables, followed by total quiet for the rest of the afternoon. She wasn’t making that mistake today.

Bottling up her impulse to speak, she adjusted the radio and waited until they’d made it to their neighborhood to even attempt conversation. “I’m really proud of you, Alex.”

The boy muttered a thanks against his palm.

“Mr. Spencer said that he gave you an assignment for your next meeting. Can we talk about it?”

“I guess.”

“He said he wants you to write some things down?”

“Yeah.”

“What did he ask you to write about?”

“Stuff.”

Arden gnawed the inside of her cheek to hold her instincts in check. Carefully measuring her breath, she turned onto their street. These appointments allowed her to have a bit of time alone with her oldest son, but without his siblings around, getting him to open up was nearly impossible.

“Okay. How would you feel about starting on it now while I make some cookies?”

Framing her requests as suggestions rather than commands had been one of Dr. Spencer’s recommendations after their initial meeting. It was only a small change, but the results had been surprisingly fruitful.

“Sure.” He tried to keep his response noncommittal, though she thought she saw the shadow of a smile cross his lips as they drove into the garage.

By the time she’d cracked a pair of eggs into the powdered mix, Alex had already neatly penned through the first several lines in his notebook.

Relieved that he’d engaged in the work so quickly, Arden cued up a playlist on her phone and connected to the bluetooth speaker on the windowsill. The music served as not only a buffer from the silence that she knew was awkward for both of them, but it also helped to keep her mind from wandering to boy’s thoughts. Much as she wanted to know what was going on in the next room over, she hated the idea of taking shortcuts.

Five months. They’d been trying to navigate his barriers for the entire time he’d been living with them. Thankfully, he hadn’t run away again since the night he’d fled to the docks, and he’d been doing a much better job of regulating his emotions over the past month. He even had a decent attitude most of the time.

But he was still so distant.

It made sense, really. Even disregarding all other circumstances of his life, his siblings were naturally the ones who used to receiving attention. With his sister’s eagerness to please and his brother’s sociability, it was easy for Alex to fade into the background. She just didn’t want him to stay there.

“Arden?”

Bowl in hand, she popped her head through the archway to see a perplexed face staring back. “Yes?”

“I’m stuck on a word.”

Her brow creased as she took the seat across from him. “Can you tell me how you’re using it? Or explain what it means?”

Alex stared at the paper before him, twisting the mechanical pencil between his hands. After several moments of thinking, he produced, “It’s like when lots of things are happening all at once and you don’t know what to do.”

Pandemonium?

No, obviously it’s not that, she chided herself. No fifth grader goes searching for that word. “Chaos, maybe?”

“No, it’s how you feel.”

“Anxious? Frozen? Overwhelmed? Dis–”

“Overwhelmed!”

Arden felt the tingle of pride as his face lit in recognition. She might not be a perfect parent, but she fared pretty well as a human thesaurus.

“That’s it! How do you spell it?” He scribbled furiously while she rattled off letters at a moderate pace. “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Let me know if I can help with anything else.” With a reassuring smile, she turned back to the kitchen and went back to stirring the thick dough.

When he called a second time, she’d just crawled into the bottom cabinet to find a cookie sheet.

“I’ve got another one!”

The pitch of his tone mirrored her intrigue. She could play find-the-word all afternoon if that was what he wanted to do. “Sure thing! I’ll be there in just a sec.”

Alex was looking up at her, pencil poised. This time, he was ready with a description as soon as she stood before him. “What’s the word for when somebody can’t stop doing something?”

“Umm…” She’d been stringing words together for a living for the past ten years, and she’d be darned if an eleven-year-old child stumped her over a definition. “Uncontrolled?”

“No, like they can’t stop drinking or doing pills or something.”

The ease with which he provided the correction halted her breath. “Like an addiction?” Her last word was tentative, everything in her hoping that her guess was wrong.

“Yeah.” He started spelling the word under his breath, jotting down the letters in quick succession.

Since he paid her no mind, she went back to lining the baking sheet, but this time her thoughts remained in the next room over. He was writing about his past. She knew he was. Temptation mounting, she increased the volume of her music to try to remove at least one of its sources.

“Can you help me again?”

Arden scraped down the sides of the bowl a bit too forcefully, nervous energy getting the better of her.

“I’ll be right there.”

This time, she risked sitting next to him. Strictly speaking, she wasn’t sitting, just resting a knee on the chair. She didn’t want her presence to come off as any kind of threat, but she didn’t want to squander this opportunity to strengthen his trust in her. Second guessing her decision, she almost missed his query.

“What’s the opposite of love?”

The simple question threw her off kilter, and her eyes narrowed as she considered his inquisitive face. “Hate?”

“Obviously. I know that. But like, what is it when someone doesn’t love somebody anymore?”

“You mean falling out of love?”

“No.” Maybe they did hate each other…

Tensing, Arden slid all the way into the chair beside her son. “Do you want to read me the rest of the sentence? Sometimes that helps.”

He shook his head mutely, tugging at the clip of his pencil.

“Alex, can you talk to me about what you’re writing for Dr. Spencer? Is it about something that happened to you?”

Slowly, he nodded.

Even if he wasn’t willing to talk about it, she didn’t want to lose the potential of the moment. She had to leave him with some assurance that whatever had happened in his past would never happen again. “Alex, you know that Jaime and I love you. I know that the adoption won’t be official for a while, but you’re part of our family. No matter what, we’re going to take care of you, okay?”

He leaned away as though he’d been struck. That’s what my real mom said too.

Arden’s throat tightened as she watched the tears gather in his eyes. Dropping his pencil, he tried to smack them away, but they flowed hot and fast.

Cookies forgotten, she scooted her chair close enough for him to feel that she was there. Although she didn’t risk touching him, leaving him alone in that state would have been impossible.

“You don’t have to answer this question if you don’t want to, but did he ask you to write about your parents?”

“Uh-huh,” he hiccuped through the onslaught of tears. “He wanted me to write about when I was home with them.”

Arden’s own eyes were streaming by the time he got the sentence out, and it was all she could do to keep from pulling him into her arms.

He’d never let his guard down with her -- never seemed this vulnerable before. Any snatches of weakness that she’d found had been the result of overhearing his thoughts, not because he’d actually allowed them to show on the outside.

A series of rising breaths came from deep in his chest, working up the power to say something. Suddenly, it all tumbled out, thoughts releasing as though they’d been pent up behind a dam. “She we’d be okay and that she’d come back. She promised she’d come back for us.” His words were barely discernible through the thick layer of tears. “But she hasn’t come back.”

Arden pressed her eyelids firmly shut to keep her head from splitting. We’ve talked about this. He knows she terminated her parental rights days after the kids entered the system. He knew when they came to live with us that this was going to be a permanent arrangement.

But that probably wasn’t what he needed to hear.

“Alex…” she started, but words utterly failed her. Taking the leap, she slid one arm around his shoulders. When there was no dissuading thought or action, she balanced on the edge of her chair drew him to her side. Though he remained almost completely still, it was enough. His head rested on her shoulder as his tears continued in a steady stream.

It was Jinx who eventually brought them back to reality, her cold, wet nose bumping against the elbow Arden had propped on the table.

What a mess! You both look terrible.

With a breathy laugh, Alex left Arden’s side and righted himself in the chair. “Hello, Jinx,” he greeted, stretching out a hand to pet her sloped back. Halfway down, he paused and turned toward Arden. “Is she supposed to be on the table?”

“Not at all. But maybe we’ll make an exception today,” she decided, watching with interest as the creature stepped closer to the boy instead of darting away. Selfish as her motivations often were, Jinx did have a genuine caring streak when she sensed others in distress.

The cat butted her head into his palm, purring loudly at his attentive petting. “Should we finish the cookies?” he asked, using his free hand to scrub the tears from his cheeks. “I think I’m finished writing for now.”

“That sounds like a great idea. You can help me with them if you wash your hands.”

Delivering a final pat to Jinx’s grizzled crown, he took his notebook and left the room.

Arden’s smile broke as she heard him turn the corner into the hall. What just happened?

Whatever it was, it wasn’t going to solve all of their problems. But at least it felt like a start.

Retrieving her phone from the nearby counter, she tapped out a message for Jaime: You’ll never believe what just happened with Alex. I can’t wait to tell you tonight over that bottle of wine we’ve been saving.

_____

December, 2027

“You can’t win Monopoly with just the railroads,” Alex whined, rifling through his stack of money in search of hundreds. Making his way to the end with a huff, he yanked out a set of papers.

Arden gladly received the four blue bills he extended across the table. “Then that just means there’s one less person for you to beat. I don’t see why you’re complaining if there’s no way I can win.”

Will’s short arm flung out in front of her, reaching for the dice. She nudged them closer, then watched his roll.

“Oh, man.” The words were barely recognizable around the yawn that divided them.

Sophia tapped a finger on the Luxury Tax square. “You need to move here.” At Jaime’s raised eyebrow, she withdrew the hand and slipped it under her thigh. “Sorry. You can do it yourself.”

Ribcage propped on the edge of the table, Will leaned over the board and moved his terrier across the requisite spaces in a series of hops. “I didn’t want to land on the ring again. Do we have to keep playing?”

Jaime took a long drink from his mug, exchanging glances with Arden from his end of the table. There’s a reason we went so long before getting a copy of this game.

Arden swiped a lock of hair away from her forehead, giving him opportunity to speak. One of them needed to take the high road, and it was beginning to look like he wouldn’t be the one to do it. “Will, are you sure? You’ve been looking forward to trying out all of the games you got for Christmas.”

“This one is boring,” he pronounced simply, rubbing his face across the forearm that was still stretched toward the game board.

“Is everyone else bored too?” Jaime queried. “I don’t want to cut it short if people are having fun, but it also doesn’t make sense for us to keep at it if everyone’s miserable.”

“I’m bored,” Sophia confirmed with a nod.

“It’s stupid. We should do something else.”

With the consensus from all three kids, it was easy to see that soldiering on would be pointless.

Jaime cocked his head to peep in at the stovetop clock. “Maybe it’s time for us to pick out a movie. It’s after 9:30. By the time we’ve made some popcorn and started watching something, we’ll be pretty close to midnight by time it’s over.”

Alex pulled in all of the money he could reach and filed it away in his banker box. “Can we watch one of my new Marvel ones?”

“Yeah!” Exhaustion overcome by excitement, Will tossed his stack of bills in the air.

“Hey, pick those up!”

Arden pushed in her chair and folded her arms over the back, rolling her eyes at the brothers’ innocent shenanigans. “You up for superheroes, Sophia?”

The thoughtful hazel eyes rose to meet hers. “Yeah.” They darted back to the cell phone in her hands, but her thoughts suggested her mind still hadn’t moved on yet. That one actor is pretty cute. Maybe he’ll take his shirt off…

Turning over her shoulder to hide the smirk that was cracking her lips, Arden checked Jaime’s progress in the kitchen.

_____

By the time the film had drawn to a close, Arden was comfortable enough on the couch to rethink their plans for ringing in the new year. Casting a look across the room, she found Alex and Sophia still very much awake, attention divided between their phones and the television in front of them. Jaime offered her the remaining popcorn from their shared bowl, but she declined.

Once the screen had faded to black, Arden carefully moved the bony shin that had been digging into her calf for the better part of the last hour. Unfazed, Will remained asleep on the other end of the couch. As the credits rolled, she made her way to the kitchen to find the pots and pans that she’d already slated for the task ahead.

11:54

Jaime was gently nudging Will’s shoulder when she returned with their noisemakers.

“Coats on, everybody,” she admonished, passing a pot and wooden spoon to each child.

Still jumbled from sleep, Will gave her an uncertain frown. With a yawn, he took the objects from her hands.

“Why are we doing this again?” Alex lifted his saucepan and wooden spoon to reinforce his skepticism. His coat dangled from the one sleeve that had made it over his arm.

“It’s a tradition.” Jaime’s staunch answer was punctuated by a vigorous shake of his own spoon. "It’s also a lot of fun.”

“Next year, we should have fireworks!” Will suggested a little too loudly.

Arden inclined a brow, thanking her better sense for keeping her youngest to such a rigid bedtime schedule. Tired Will was proving to have even fewer inhibitions than his rested counterpart. “We can talk about that later. For now, we need to get outside!”

The five of them huddled together on the front porch, several sets of teeth chattering as Jaime counted down the seconds before midnight.

“Happy New Year!” they rang out in rambling chorus before drowning out the well wishes with their noisemakers. Sophia’s eyes widened in surprise at the flurry of sound they produced. With the lack of sleep, Will’s easy smile was even more exaggerated than usual. Even Alex renounced his former inhibitions, delivering an occasional smack to Will’s pan instead of his own.

I love you, Arden.

On hearing Jaime’s thought, she paused beating her spoon and rose up to meet her husband’s full lips. His kiss was gentle and slow, rich in the celebration of a year well spent. Feeling his smile before he pulled away, she couldn’t help matching it with one of her own.

In spite of everything they’d told the kids about the glories of board games and banging on pots and pans, midnight kisses were actually her favorite part of the yearly celebration. If there was a better way to start each revolution around the sun, she had yet to discover it.

“This is really loud,” Sophia complained, tapping her spoon daintily against the rim of her pot. “I should have worn earplugs.”

“Next year,” Jaime suggested, and she smiled in return. He checked his watch. “It’s almost 12:02. Time to wind things down!”

Will fumbled over his spoon, but Sophia swooped down to catch it before it could roll into the bushes. Blinking rapidly, the boy held out a hand to take the object back. Sophia surrendered it, but kept a cautious eye on her younger sibling.

“And that’s our cue to go inside and get ready for bed,” Jaime announced, propping open the door so that he could follow the rest of the family into the house.

While the kids brushed their teeth, Jaime collected pans and returned them to their proper shelves in the kitchen. Arden trailed him aimlessly, leaning against the doorjamb with a yawn.

“Let’s get you to bed, Ms. Sleepy.”

“That’s Mrs. Sleepy,” she insisted as she fought to keep her mouth closed.

“I think we’re a whole family of sleepies right now.” With a low chuckle, he took her arm. “C’mon, let’s go say goodnight so we can all get to bed.”

_____

Arden stood before the mirror with watery eyes, yawn building as she watched Jaime strip down to his boxers. He tossed his dirty clothes into the hamper, sending her a curious look through the glass.

“Do you remember that year when you were sick and we couldn’t celebrate New Year’s together?”

“Uh-huh,” he answered, putting away his toothbrush. “And after you pulled the surgical-mask thing when I had the flu, I don’t really blame our parents for keeping us on opposite sides of the fence.”

“True.” She paused for a yawn, leaning close to the glass to examine her bloodshot eyes. “I tried to be extra loud so you could hear me all the way from my porch.”

“For the record, I was so doped up on cold medicine that I slept through the whole thing.”

“Well, I’m still sorry I did it. There you were, trying to sleep, and I was clanging like a drawer full of silverware.”

“You need some rest, babe.”

“I know, I know.” She took the pack of floss he slid toward her and cut a length. “That simile didn’t even make sense.”

He crossed behind her to throw his own floss in the trash can. As he passed, he kissed her shoulder through the flannel of her pajamas. “It’s bedtime,” he pronounced simply.

“It’s barely midnight and I’m completely useless. I feel like an old lady.”

“I guess we’ll just have to be old, tired people together, because I’m exhausted too.”

“Then let’s get you to bed, Mr. Sleepy.” There was a weary lilt to her voice as she wound the floss between two fingers.

“I’m just waiting for you,” he assured.

Arden finished flossing and made a show of prepping her toothbrush. “I know the kids were grilling each other about their resolutions for the year, but I never asked if you had one.”

While he considered his answer, she set about brushing, her weary hand slipping into the accustomed motion with ease. At her insistent face, he finally spoke.

“Nah, not this year. Unless helping Alex keep his is a resolution.”

She spat her toothpaste into the sink. “You mean what he said about doing better in school? That wasn’t his real resolution.” Catching his frown in the mirror, she clarified, “What he really wants is to stay in one place for the whole year.”

“I hate it that he’s still thinking like that.”

“I know, but I get it.” She ambled to the bed and tossed the covers back. “Maybe things will start to change once the adoption is official.”

“Either way, he’s not going anywhere.”

“Absolutely not.”

“He’s stuck with us forever.” Jaime flicked the overhead light and joined her, careful to keep his icy toes as far on his side as possible.

Arden burrowed closer anyway, eager to share what warmth he did possess. He scooted over to free some space on his pillow, which she eagerly claimed.

“What about you, my love? Any resolutions of your own?”

Eyes closing in consideration, she giggled at the first thought that came to mind. “I should probably stop drinking so much coffee...”

“We both know that’s never going to happen.”

“Yeah... Other than that, I don’t know that anything needs to change, really. I’m pretty happy with everything the way it is.”

“I am too. G’night, Arden.”

She tugged his arm around her stomach, her fingers curling over the hinge of his wrist to keep him in place. “G’night.” Breathing deeply of his woodsy scent, her mind ceased its drifting, settling finally on thoughts of the man beside her.

“Jaime?” She felt him jolt as she broke the silence.

“Huh?” he asked with a croaky voice.

“Changed my mind. We need more dates this year.”

“Can we talk about it in the morning?”

“Uh-huh. G’night again. Can’t wait to spend another year with you.”

The arm tightened at her waist, and she finally allowed herself to surrender to sleep.

#playchoices #playchoices fanfiction #wishful thinking #jaime lewis #jaime x mc

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incognitajones · 6 years ago

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okay so one of my favorite things about Fixer Upper is that they work in the same place!!! So if you're up for it what I'd like more than anything is for some fluffy caretaking h/c follow-up where Jyn takes Cassian home early to their(!!!) house! :D

Jyn’s phone buzzes once, and then again, and she reaches blindly for it while still staring at her computer. Two texts have arrived almost simultaneously: one from Bodhi, saying that he’s sick and going home, and another from Cassian.

feeling shitty think I have to leave early can I get a ride home?

Jyn smiles at the screen and thumbs back a quick response.

ugh, so needy (jk) sure just give me 5

When she arrives in the lobby, Cassian’s waiting on a bench by the main doors, looking so miserable that the small laugh she’s been holding in since he texted her dies in her throat. His face is unhealthily pale and he wobbles when he gets to his feet. She grabs his backpack by one strap and reaches up to push his hair off his forehead, hot and slick with sweat.

“You look awful,” she says, shocked into tactlessness.

“The food truck betrayed me,” he groans, dropping his head heavy against her shoulder.

“You should’ve known better than to listen to Bodhi and get the foot long,” she tells him, because it’s the truth, but she also strokes his hair in an attempt to be comforting. Poor Cassian. Although it’s still kind of amusing that her stoic boyfriend (he hasn’t taken a sick day in the year she’s known him) has been laid low by street meat.

He crosses his arms over his stomach and swallows hard. “I need to get out of here fast. Before it comes up all over this marble floor.”

Luckily she’d driven to work today, which she doesn’t often do; otherwise she’d have to call for a cab or an Uber and pray that Cassian could keep it together for the ride home.

The fresh air outside revives him momentarily. He lifts his head and breathes in deep, but then she sees another wave of nausea wash over him, his face turning a sickly yellow instead of its usual olive tone.

“Cassian? Are you going to…?” It takes him a second to focus on her, but eventually he swallows and shakes his head.

“I’ll get you home as fast as I can,” she promises, and keeps her foot on the pedal at a steady five miles over the speed limit all the way. Cassian rolls down the window and leans against the headrest, eyes squeezed shut, gulping in drafts of the wind blowing in. As soon as she parks on the street, he throws the car door open and hurries to the house��he doesn’t quite run, but it’s close.

By the time Jyn gets to the doorway he’s disappeared, but she can hear retching from the bathroom upstairs. Poor guy. She shuts the door behind her and hangs up his coat, abandoned on the floor; Cassian dropping his stuff in a pile in the hall is another sign he must be seriously ill.

She follows him upstairs and taps on the doorframe lightly in warning before she steps into the bathroom. “You okay?”

“No.” Cassian’s sitting on the floor, slumped against the side of the tub with his cheek mashed against the porcelain. “Trust me, you don’t wanna be here for this,” he groans, his voice echoing weirdly off the tile. He lurches back up to his knees and grabs for the toilet. Jyn grimaces and kneels behind him on the bathmat, rubbing his back in sympathy as he heaves. At least it doesn’t sound like there’s much left to come up.

After a few moments he lifts his head, panting. “This is disgusting,” he croaks, sounding so defeated that she blinks. “You’re never going to want to have sex with me ever again.”

Jyn stifles a laugh. “Oh, Cassian, don’t be such a drama queen. You saw me hungover after Baze and Chirrut’s housewarming party and it didn’t turn you off forever.”

“Don’t you have to go back to work?” His voice is slurred and faint.

Jyn shrugs. “I took the rest of the day off, I can do some work from home.”

True, watching anyone puke isn’t her idea of a fun time, but she loves Cassian and she wants to be here to do anything she can to make him feel better. She gets up, her knees cracking, and draws him a glass of cold tap water. He drinks avidly, gulping it down. “Careful, if you drink too fast it’ll just come back up,” she warns him.

She reaches for a clean washcloth and soaks it in cool water, gently wiping the sweat from his forehead before draping the cloth over the back of his neck. He sighs. “That feels good.”

The doorbell rings. She hesitates, debating whether to leave Cassian. It’s probably just someone selling something anyway. But he flaps one hand at her in dismissal. “Go on, it’s fine. I’ll just get into bed once my stomach finishes turning itself inside out.”

It’s Leia on the front stoop, Ben (now seven months old and so fat his chins have chins) propped on her hip. When Jyn opens the door he stretches out his arms with a gummy smile that dims as soon as he sees it’s just her. He likes Jyn, but he loves Cassian.

“I hear Cassian’s not feeling well?”

Jyn blinks. She spent so many years isolated, talking to basically no-one except her boss and Bodhi, and now there’s a whole handful of people who know stuff about her life, who care enough to ask questions. It’s a bit overwhelming sometimes, honestly.

But it doesn’t explain how Leia already knows about Cassian, unless she’s psychic.

“Bodhi texted Luke, who called me.”

Of course. “Yeah, looks like the two of them got food poisoning from one of their lunchtime adventures.”

“Well, we have gallons of this stuff.” Leia hands her a bottle of Pedialyte. “Don’t hesitate to come and get more if you need it. And if you want to come over for dinner later, in case Cassian can’t stand the smell of cooking, you’re welcome.”

“Thanks, Leia.” Jyn waves goodbye to Ben, dodging his grab for her fingers—she certainly doesn’t want to risk passing this germ on to the rugrat.

When she gets back upstairs, Cassian’s already in bed, huddled into a shivering ball. Jyn goes back and forth gathering supplies, trying to anticipate anything he might need: garbage can by his side of the bed, just in case he still isn’t finished puking; Pedialyte and water on the night table. She brings his favourite blanket up from the living room and drapes it over him, tucking it in around his shoulders.

She leans over to kiss his sweaty temple, about to sneak out of the room and leave him alone to get some rest. But he cracks open one eye and stares up at her pleadingly. “Stay?”

She can’t resist his pitiful tone. It’s awkward but in the end they work out a position that’s comfortable for both of them. Cassian curls on his side, head nestled on Jyn’s stomach just beneath her breasts, with her laptop on a pillow next to her thigh. She strokes her left hand absently through his hair, rubs his shoulder and kneads the tight cords in his neck, paying partial attention to the discovery document (she’ll have to re-read the whole thing) while she listens to his breathing. At first it’s laboured and interrupted by hitches as he holds his breath, willing himself not to be nauseous, but gradually it evens out and slows down. She glances down at his face; his eyes are closed, the tension in his forehead smoothed out by sleep.

Jyn thinks about shutting her laptop and crawling under the covers for a nap too. But her stomach suddenly growls beneath Cassian’s head, reminding her she hasn’t had anything to eat since breakfast. (Thank god she didn’t take Bodhi up on his invitation to meet them for lunch.) Cassian might not want anything to eat for a while, but she’s hungry. She slides out from under him gently, nudging her pillow over for him to use instead.

In the kitchen, she scans the fridge and cupboard trying to figure out what to make. Jyn has vague memories of her mom feeding her applesauce and bananas after she was sick, but according to Dr Google that’s no longer recommended for people recovering from gastrointestinal issues. A plain chicken broth and rice soup, she decides, maybe with an egg whisked in if Cassian’s stomach can take it. She’s still no gourmet cook, but she can handle that. She washes her hands scrupulously and gets to work.

The soup is nearly ready and she’s chopping a few green onions for her share of it when she hears footsteps on the stairs. Cassian stumbles into the kitchen, wearing nothing but pajama pants and his grandmother’s crocheted blanket wrapped around his shoulders. His hair is sticking up at all angles in an endearing mess. His eyes are bloodshot and he’s still pale, but he doesn’t seem to be sweating.

“Feel like you could eat something?” she asks, and he nods.

She fills a mug of soup and passes it to him. He cups his hands around it. “This actually smells good,” he says, sounding surprised.

Jyn nods. “I texted Bodhi, he says he’s feeling a little better already too. I guess the good news is this doesn’t last long.”

She gets a mug for herself and leans against the counter, eating in companionable silence. But after slowly sipping just half his mug of soup, Cassian puts it down on the counter.

She eyes him anxiously. “How’s your stomach?”

“Fine.” He yawns. “I’m just exhausted. Feels like a bus ran over me.”

He’s been working long hours lately—too long—and Jyn’s sure that’s part of the reason this virus hit him so hard. “Come on, back to bed.” She curls her hand into his and urges him up the stairs.

But when they get there, he tugs her down on to the mattress with him and she doesn’t resist. She notches her head under his chin and lets her feet slot between his. He pulls the crochet blanket up over both of them and wraps his arm around her waist, securing her against him.

“I really don’t want to go to work tomorrow,” he mumbles into her hair.

“You don’t have to.” She yawns too, fatigue catching up with her. “Tomorrow’s Saturday.”

“Good, then you can sleep in with me.” He spans his hand across her back, warm and intimate, and sleep slides over Jyn like a wave.

Next morning, Jyn wakes when the mattress shifts beneath her as Cassian gets out of bed. She doesn’t open her eyes but listens intently, hoping he’s not still sick. But the only noises she hears from the bathroom are running water, the friction and splash of brushing teeth. When Cassian returns he slides into bed behind her, curling up in an echo of her posture but not quite touching her. She can feel his warmth all along the line of her back.

Jyn smiles to herself and rolls over, nestling into the circle of his arm. “Feeling better?”

“Mmhmm.” He hums into the top of her head. “My appetite is definitely back.”

“Want to go out for breakfast, then?” she asks, thinking of waffles.

“No.” He grins at her, slow and suggestive, and dips his head to trace his tongue along the neckline of her t-shirt. She laughs and pulls him up into a kiss tasting of mint.

#jyn x cassian #rebelcaptain #cats and metersticks #my fic #prompt fill #more sick fic #fixer upper #modern AU

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theblessedbee · 6 years ago

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• ᑤᑗᖇSᙍ & ᕼᙍ᙭ ᙘᖇᙍᗅᖽᐸᓿᘉᘜ •

ᛉ . ꍏ ꃅꍟ꒒ᖘꎇꀎ꒒ ꃅꍏꈤꀸ . ᛉ

Just the thought of a curse for some is enough to send the mind on a terrible tangent. I'm here today to tell you not to fear, because I'm bringing you an arsenal of curse and hex breaking tips and tools.

• So what is a Curse? •

A curse is defined as a negative energy attack put upon someone or something normally to cause harm, misfortune or to take something away from another. Sometimes practitioners of malevolent magick can place this upon you, or even someone with strong feelings, normally negative. Sometimes we can trick ourselves into thinking we have been cursed, which can cause curse symptoms in itself. I wrote this guide for the cursed and uncursed, so those can be aware of what they are, what they do and how to escape its grasp.

• All about Curses •

☠ Comes in many forms ☠

Curses come in all shapes and sizes. The entropy or chaos curse, The binding, The lesson, and The special-purpose curse. It can even come from jealousy or admiration and manifest as the Evil Eye curse.

☠ Timing is everything ☠

Curses in general can become effective immediately or may be dormant for years, and some curses laid on families have been known to have plagued them for generations. The problem is often not solved unless you discover you have been cursed!

☠ Keep your lips sealed ☠

The more personal information someone knows about you, the easier it will be for them to inflict harm upon you. Such things are your appearance, your full name, and your magickal name. It's best to keep quiet about these things around people you aren't so trusting of, or when meshing with other practitioners. Either way, it's always good to be safe!

☠ Is your foe a pro? ☠

If you are cursed, then it is most likely low-end magick practiced by an amateur. Professionals are generally doing more important things with their magick abilities. However, amateurs can have a lot of raw power even when they lack technique, their curses can still be very harmful and dangerous.

☠ Most distastefully bad juju ☠

When life starts feeling like a real life horror movie, you have a special-purpose curse and they can cause a great deal of disaster and havoc in your life. The evil eye curse is considered a special-purpose curse. You can wear a protective talisman called a Nazar that sheilds from the curse being put upon you.

☠ Avoid phony bologna ☠

Be very skeptical if a psychic tells you in a random reading that you have been cursed if you have not suspected yourself that anything has been going on. Some may even try to charge you fees to remove it for you. Be very wary especially if the reading was offered to you for free or very very cheap. That technique is called the bait and switch. If you think you are really cursed, I recommend that you get a second opinion or find a trusted practitioner.

☠ Purify and protect ☠

There are a couple of ways to deal with a curse. The first is to become an initiate of magick and learn to protect yourself. Sometimes other banishing rituals or protective spell workings are used to overpower the curse, protective amulets and talismans can be worn, and blessed oils and sacred washes can be used to attempt to lift the curse’s effect. A major side effect in removing a curse is that when the curse is broken, its energy can recoil on the person who cast it, and if the person has not taken the adequate precautions, it could very easily backfire.

☠ Seek Heavenly Help ☠

Call upon your spirit guides and ancestors for help and guidance. Family members can protect you from psychic harm from the beyond, but you must ask for the help yourself. Speak to them and let them know how you feel about that you need guidance. I also highly recommend decorating common objects around you such as pencils and lighters with angelic symbols, seals and runes, such as Algiz the rune for protection. This will give you the reassurance and extra protection you need during a crisis.

☠ Are there real remedies? ☠

You can find remedies for specific curses online. You don’t need to practice before you do this, but it is very important to follow all the instructions carefully and conscientiously. Remember to carry some form of protection with you such as a crystal, amulet or talisman or a charm, so you don’t end up being a curse victim in the first place!

• The Curse Cures •

Lets explore the different methods we can use to cure a curse...

☠ Anti-Curse Bath ☠

This is by far the easiest way to cure a curse, and that's by taking a bath using salt, oil and hex breaking herbs. It will remove the negative energy attached to you from the curse.

You can use uncrossing herbs and oils of your choosing and steeping them a while before entering the bath. Be careful to choose ingredients that won't irritate the skin. This is best done under a Waning Moon, but timing isn't essential if you are in a desperate situation. Repeat this as much as you feel is needed. This will only work if it is you who is cursed, and it isn't caused by an external object and if so, you could risk being re-cursed.

☠ Gather ☠

Hexbreaking herbs

White Candle

Incense

Oils (Olive or Essential)

Salt

Moon Water, Gem Elixirs (Optional)

The Cursed Person

🛠 Process 🛠

☠Gather Ingredients

☠Visualize a magick circle around you

☠Light your candle and incense

☠Begin to fill the tub, use moon water, gem elixirs, and steep your herbs

☠Add the oil and salt, imagine your bath becoming pure

☠You can make a purifying scrub for your skin using salt and olive oil as a mixture

☠Step in to the tub and cleanse your body thoroughly, imagining the energetic ties being removed as you wash them off

☠Enjoy the bath until it's too cold. Blow out the candles and incense, uncast your circle and dry off

☠ A Vessel for the Vile ☠

Curses can sometimes be drawn out into a vessel of some sort. Back then, animals were sometimes used as vessels and sacrificed afterward. Eggs for one, have been popular vessels for uncrossing in Italian, as well as African American traditions.

An egg is normally used as a vessel because it can be broken open to examine the contents to determine the results. You will need a person to help you with this, preferably someone experienced in magick.

☠ Gather ☠

A White Bowl

A White Candle

Incense

An Egg

Moon Water (or any water)

The Cursed Person

A Helper

🛠 Process 🛠

☠Gather Ingredients

☠Visualize a magick circle around you

☠Light your candle and incense

☠Get the cursed person to lay down on their back

☠Begin to pass the egg over their body, starting at the head moving in smooth downward motions, being careful not to swish the yolk

☠Say a prayer of the persons choosing. After saying the prayer, crack the egg open into a bowl of water and examine what you see...

☠Close the Circle. Discard the bowls contents at the base of a tree or at crossroads far away from the home of the victim. This process may need to be repeated several times to be effective, to "trap" the curse

☠ Get rid of that thing ☠

If you have a cursed object and you can find it, you should take it and bury it far away from you! If you can't manage to find it, you might be able to locate it using astral projection to follow the link to locate the object. A pendulum might be useful for this as well.

Don't hang onto cursed things, no matter how pretty. They will only make you suffer endless misfortune. Here's what you can do...

☠Take it far out into the country

☠Throw it in a river so it washes away

☠Destroy it, and dispose of the parts in running water

☠Burn and flush the ashes down, set them free in the wind or bury them far away

☠Use Astral travel to get to the object, or its astral double, and destroy it there. You may need to cast a binding spell to find out who cursed you. Cut the cords and free yourself from their ties

💣Don't rehome it 💣

Cursed objects should be destroyed and discarded, don't give these objects to people you love, you may be passing your misfortune on to them!

🌼 Try your best 🌼

You may not be able to try every method that I have mentioned here, as everyone has different skills. Certain curses may take more effort to get rid of than others. Uncrossing requires copious amounts of time, energy and materials and it can also be dangerous. Be sure to exercise caution and use protection when doing this work.

• Curse & Hex Breaking Ingredients •

Heres a list of ingredients I put together that you can use to break curses and hexes.

💣 Watch out! 💣

Please do your research before using them anywhere on or in your body, or even burning! Your safety comes first!

☠ Angelica root ☠

☠ Eyebright ☠

☠ Agrimony ☠

☠ Batwing Herb ☠

☠ Frankinsense ☠

☠ Calamus Root ☠

☠ Hyssop ☠

☠ Myrrh ☠

☠ Alkanet root ☠

☠ Ginseng ☠

☠ Peppermint ☠

☠ Hydrangea ☠

☠ Rosemary ☠

☠ Feverfew ☠

☠ Elder Flowers ☠

☠ Basil ☠

☠ Jasmine ☠

☠ Galangal root ☠

☠ Pepper (black or cayenne) ☠

☠ Bay leaves ☠

☠ Lemon verbena ☠

☠ Sage ☠

☠ Fumitory ☠

☠ Hemlock ☠

☠ Blackthorn ☠

☠ Devil’s Bit ☠

☠ Licorice root or fennel ☠

☠ Stinging nettle ☠

☠ Chamomile ☠

☠ Mandrake ☠

☠ Vetiver ☠

☠ Cinquefoil ☠

☠ Mugwort ☠

☠ Wisteria ☠

☠ Linden Flowers ☠

☠ Red Clover ☠

☠ Dragon’s Blood ☠

☠ Mullein ☠

☠ Juniper Berries ☠

☠ Woods: Ash, Hazel, Oak, Rue, Sandalwood, West Indian Elm, Willow, Wormwood ☠

☠ Brimstone ☠

• Curse & Hex Breaking Crystals •

Heres a list of Crystals, Rocks & Minerals that I put together that you can use to break curses and hexes.

☠ Fire Opal ☠

☠ Amethyst ☠

☠ Hematite ☠

☠ Bloodstone ☠

☠ Moldavite ☠

☠ Sapphire ☠

☠ Jade ☠

☠ Smokey Quartz ☠

☠ Carnelian ☠

☠ Obsidian ☠

☠ Black Tourmaline ☠

☠ Amber ☠

☠ Labradorite ☠

☠ Kunzite ☠

☠ Malachite ☠

☠ Clear Quartz ☠

☠ Selenite ☠

☠ Tigers Eye ☠

☠ Howlite ☠

☠ Apache Tear ☠

☠ Rose Quartz ☠

☠ Jet ☠

☠ Staurolyte ☠

☠ Blue Kyanite ☠

☠ Spirit Quartz ☠

☠ Celestite ☠

☠ Fire Agate ☠

☠ Jasper ☠

☠ Fluorite ☠

I really hope you learned a bit about curses, and how to get rid of them. I hope makes you feel ready to take on the cruel, dark world. Even if you do encounter this one day, you will be prepared, and armed with an arsenal of knowledge that you can use to help yourself and others.

Thank you so much for reading,

and blessed be!

*images found on giphy

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Gaston´s No One Tarot Spread

In villainy, no one gives pep-talks like Gaston.

Period.

If you are anything like most people (that is, like, ALL OF THEM, LeFou!) you might feel a little... inadecuate from time to time, and maybe even doubt your value and your talents and all the good things that the other villagers wish they could have for themselves. Like an incredible thick... neck, for example.

So, in lieu of the usual negative chatter in your brain, allow The Gaston bring that down a notch and make your day better, because, like, seriously, NO ONE gives Pep-Talks like Gaston! (*whispers fan-girly-like* I heard that NO ONE is as good at expectorating like Gaston!!).

Aaaaaand we are going to use a Method that “Real Men that are Named Gaston (TM)” use: Bridge-Building, because nothing gets the macho inside all of us excited like murdering trees and using them in conjuction with a very sharp axe to create a bridge and get the fuck over it already.

BUT, Gaston knows that maybe you are not ready to murder trees and create ugly-looking yet quite sturdy bridges that in no way are used by Gaston to compensate for other things (no siree!). SO, the next best thing is using your tarot cards (that thing that has, like, ALL THE PICTURES IN IT, BELL!!!1!!!!) to build a “mepaphorycol” bridge and use IT to get the fuck over it already.

THE READING:

Shuffle the cards as best as you can, puny villager, and then form a line with all the cards face-down. You are going to take one card at a time and place them forming an horizontal line in front of you, face-up, so you can have your flimsy “mepaphorycal” bridge that will not help you compensate for other things that Gaston does not know about, why do you keep asking?!!!1!!

The first part is the Listening (to yourself): The first card you draw is the one that is going to represent your present-moment less-than-good mood and it shall represent that which is not making you feel al bubbly inside. In this part of the reading you are going to stop for as long as you feel like it (and even a bit more) to use this card to Listen to Yourself, because you have to give you time to identify your feelings and the root of them before attempting to build a bridge.

Then the Affirming: A very good thing you have, that others don´t have, that makes you special. Be gentle, don´t go expecting fireworks here! Just something nice that cracks a smile in your pretty face.

Recognizing: Yes, this one is for recognizing that your initial stand MIGHT have some value and is not unfounded, BUT, it also will represent the problem in a more positive scope and not as a gigantic problem. Even cards like The Devil or The Tower are not that horrible if you stop to consider them as something that you will survive and have their own weaknesses. The Devil loses power over you if you stop giving it freely to it, and The Tower might spell disaster, but all things can and will be rebuild if you reach for Hope.

The Affirming: BOOM! Something even better, something even more powerful and wonderful inside you that will give you advantage over everything that No One but you have. Like when Gaston reaches for his knife when his enemies think they have hom cornered! This is something that counters the last card and even uplifts the positivity when used with the second card in the spread.

Then Recognizing Shit less Dark: Then Darkness tries to overpower you again, but this card shows that no, your problem (whatever it is) is ACTUALLY afraid of you. Hear that? Actually afraid of you and here is why.

Then MOAR affirming: And in this Spread Position you are invited to keep drawing cards that signal a quality that, upon recognizing it inside you, will bolster your confidence. Please, say “No One...” and then draw the card in quickly interpret with a positive sping what is depicted to finish the sentence. And again, “No One...” BAM!, next card does it again. And again and again and again until you feel like going out there and kill a bear with your bare hands!!!!!L!!

Then Treat Yourself: The last card drawn is intended to inspire you reaching for a reward after doing some tedious work or maybe even giving you something, like, right now, man! This card wil show what, always being something that will NOT set your goals back if you do them.

Post-Mortem Analysis: If for whatever reason you draw a card for the pile that is sure to form up in position number “Six-dozen-eggs”, discard it a la “No One stops giving a damn like Gaston” and draw another one! Is that cheating? Let me answer the “mepaphorycal” question that I just raised with another "mepaphorycal” I, too, shall rise for you: “Have you lately made sure you have developed enough presence of mind to, like, notice already that you are inside a Humble Villanous Abode of Villany and Scum that ultimately helps you more than your local church???? (yes, I went there!!)” Thought so, then, because you are, indeed, inside a Humble Villainous Abode of Villainy and Scum! So, tl;dr: No One gives a Damn. No One. Especially Gaston!

A Word of Caution: You might start hearing a lot of voices objecting to the cards in the spread to remind you that you, like, suck. Well, in that case, Gaston´s recommendation is that maybe you should, like, PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE!!!!!1!!!

And, before you go out to kill bears with you bare hands like they are made of fluff, remember that No One has it all like Gaston! He even has the thickest Macho Manly Chest Hair in all of the realm, and.... Ooooooh, girl!

#TrueFairyTale

Note: Credit to rain1940 for the pic above.

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foxybluesky · 5 years ago

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Fasting Break: Best Foods, Fruit To Break Fasting

Don't you feel stressed out about random fasting information going around the net these days? Because it rather appears that you have to unleash all tidbits of knowledge about fasting in both heaven and on earth. Aren't we tired of these boring words? Like, they tend to make you do everything that'll make you fast, right away. And that's why I've gone all the way to analyzing a step-by-step guide that'll help you out.

How do you eat?

Do you know you have to eat the proper food in the desired amount before complements during fasting with nutrients, amino acids? In fact, you can't just break a fast. You have to go in certain ways... And that way and give your digestive system the time to adapt to food again, etc. Do you know the problem? Fasting appears hard, strenuous and even strict. And it is not. If you engage yourself in intermittent fasting now, for instance, with 16 to 24 hours fast, you don’t really need to worry. From my experience, I broke my fast 24 hours fast with 5 beers, bread, and sausages. It was stupid of course, but what I mean to say is: there is no great health risk from doing that occasionally. Although, we need to understand breaking 24 hours fast shouldn’t become complicated. When you eat once a day, you need to get one good, healthy, and nutritious meal. With meat, carbs, vegetables, etc. You shouldn’t break your fast every day with junk foods.

Best Foods To Break A Fast

But today, you'll learn about the best foods to break a fast with. And they are: 1. Diluted Apple Cider Vinegar. Some people got to realize that taking between 1 and 2 teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar stirred with water can sustain fasting. We also covered what we mean by Apple Cider Vinegar. You can eat this supplement as you fast too. I love the ACV because it balances alkaline PH levels. Most of the times, we’re extremely acidic than alkaline, because of alcohol, bad diet, etc. ACV could be acidic, but when consumed it actually turns alkaline. Also, it kills off bad bacteria gut since it has the ability to store fungal and bacterial overgrowth Also, it moderates blood sugar whereby the insulin levels influences and makes you feel fuller combined with eating. You may have already gone through articles on ACV and you might ponder on why I emphasize it as a food to break a fast? Since Apple cider vinegar is actually free of calories, it doesn’t create an insulin response and thus doesn’t break a fast. ACV is preventive. You can take a few tablespoons diluted in water during your fast, but I would recommend you to take some before breaking your fast. This way you’ll have two added benefits before your forthcoming meal: Measurements 10 to 12 oz water2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar1/2 teaspoon of Pink Himalayan SaltThe juice of 1 whole lime or 2 tablespoons of bottled lime juicePossible to add stevia to taste Living in Switzerland, I have to say I never found the cream of tartar in local stores. So, I tried this several times without, sometimes replacing lime with lemon. Caution I can say it, that ACV smells strong, to the first few sips might be hard. But overall, I really like it and it’s a big change of taste from coffee, tea, and water you usually drink on fasting. Also, all the added benefits are great. The reason why I say this is if you’re not a fan of the taste but still want to get the benefits of apple cider vinegar, you can also check out these apple cider vinegar capsules (with added salt and added MCT Oil for improved consumption). (Fasting Break ) Watch Video how to use Apple Cider For Fasting Break 2.Bone broth For Fasting Break

Bone broths actually taste awesome, and that’s why! Asides from my own personal taste, bone broth is excellent after a fast since it has lots of electrolytes. You’ll find magnesium, potassium, calcium, and sodium in bone broths since one of the main challenges when fasting is mineral depletion. Your gut’s been cleaned by the fast, drinking bone broth will help use the nutrients from the broth and the food you’ll eat afterwards. Bone broth is rich in collagen and will help you keep healthy bones, teeth, and nails. Then it's rich in glycine which might help with sleep quality. In as much intermittent fasting and Keto are known to disturb sleep, that can become handy, as it has several amino acids that are anti-inflammatory. Check Out Anabolic FastingWhen You Should Stop Taking CoffeeHow Long Does Vyvanse LastHow To Get Thicker Thighs And Hips In A Week 3. Spinach, kale To Break Fasting

Don't be deceived. You may see Spinach as an easy one. Well, it is. But when fasting, you might be depleted of some nutrients and vitamins. Kale and spinach are full of them, including: Vitamin CVitamin B2Vitamin B6Vitamin EVitamin AVitamin KManganeseFolateMagnesiumIronCopperCalciumPotassium You might either have them garnished in a smoothie, raw or cooked. I’ve as well come across many times people advocating for eating them raw, but I haven’t discovered that exact facts to back this up. So, I’d recommend that you eat them as you wish. You know why? They aid digestion; guide against constipation; keep blood sugar level. Perhaps, you could attempt to buy the already made kale smoothies, even if I’d advise you to make your own (so that you actually know what it has). Although, you can find good, all-natural Spinaches like this kale powder from Koyah or this organic kale and avocado drink from Medline. 4. Eggs For Fasting Break

Eggs are great for breaking a fast. To get lots of proteins with a little food measure, break with eggs. Taking eggs is great when breaking a fast. Because the protein will prevent muscle loss. When you exercise during the fast, which on your body in the first place, shouldn't have too much of an impact, eggs are leucine-rich. Leucine is one of the amino acid responsible for muscle growth. Eggs are easy to digest, low in calories, protein-rich and a massive way to cut appetite with a small amount of food. Especially when you take eggs that are boiled. Read: Benefit Of Egg Hips Widening Long Paragraphs For him, Copy And Paste 5. Nuts, chia seeds To Break Fasting

I should have included almond, helm seeds, and pecan to this list. You'll be deprived of nutrients. But eating vitamin-rich food such as nuts and seeds is a massive way to restore nutrient balance. For instance, chia seeds contain manganese, phosphorus, copper, magnesium, calcium, selenium, and iron. Seeds are rich in good healthy fat, proteins, and fibres. 6. Fish

When you are set to decide what to eat for the first meal, if you want to thread things lightly, you could attempt getting a fish broth instead of fish meat. And taking fish for your first meal wouldn't be too much of a challenge. It won’t be hard on your digestive system and fish is a great source of protein. 7. Broccoli and Cauliflower

Would you agree with me that Broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts are all cruciferous vegetables? And they’re actually rich in fibre, nutrients, and vitamins? Because with fish, I would tell that you eat them mixed or cooked. Hence, of all the cruciferous vegetables, I would recommend you to mainly eat broccoli, which is the most digestible one. Also, cruciferous vegetables are loaded with full minerals and vitamins, including vitamin C, K, B2, B9, A, B5, B6, iron, magnesium, manganese, etc. 8: Watermelon To Break Fasting

At first, allow me to confess that I do not take many fruits when I'm ready to break my fasts. Although I love fruits, they're composed of fructose. Although, when you break your fast with fruit, your body will actually break down the fructose to replenish your glycogen stores, since they’ve been emptied by the fast, it’s still not the most effective source of energy. That being said, while I would recommend when eating fruit to get something that’s also rich in fibre, just as an apple, watermelon shall be a massive way to break a long fast with semi-solid food. Watermelon is actually more than 91% of water. Therefore, making it simple to eat and digest and it could be a wonderful way to systematically start to eat again. Read: 30 List of Immune Boosting Foods to Get You Through Cold & Flu Season Benefits Of Dietary Supplements Staphylococcus Aureus: Quick Remedies. Symptoms And Causes 7 Reasons Why a Calorie Is Not a Calorie What Is The Difference Between Lemon And Lime 9. Banana

As earlier said, the fruit may not necessarily be the best way to break a fast, due to the fact of how fructose is metabolized in our body. But after some reading, I can say that banana could be a good food to break a fast. Banana is nutritious in good healthy carbs to help you out of ketosis the right way. It is as well rich in fibre. Some of them like butyrate might actually be good for your gut bacteria and it includes several vitamins and minerals like potassium, vitamin B6 and vitamin Since it’s high carbohydrates and pretty high sugar, bananas would help to increase blood sugar levels after a long fast, especially if you’re feeling down or tired from ketosis. 10. Unsweetened Yogurt, Sauerkraut, and Kimchi

Do you know that fermented foods are awesome for your gut bacteria? After fasting for a few days, eating fermented foods will help your digestive tract in repopulation with good bacteria and enzymes that it was stripped off from the fast. Asides from this, it'll also make it easier for you to digest food particles. Thanks to these probiotics. Preferably, you can start with fermented kale such as Kimchi or sauerkraut. If you opt for Kimchi, don’t make it too spicy. It could upset your stomach. You can also wait until you feel ready for dairy before eating yoghurt. Read:: How To Get Rid Of Stretch Marks How To Crack Your Neck Waffle House Nutrition 11. Avocado For Fasting Break

Avocado is popular to be the world’s fattiest fruit and, which is great for breaking a fast. It is not strange, because Avocado is really low in calories, but nutritious in healthy omega-6 and omega-3 fat. Avocado is full of antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins including: Vitamin KVitamin B6Vitamin EVitamin CCopperPotassiumFolate Moreso, it is composed of a huge amount of pantothenic acid, which is a complex B vitamin and one of the most important Vitamins. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to use macronutrients as well enough. It's worthy of note that whenever you break a fast with avocado, you'll get all those nutrients, in a rate of a high dose of pantothenic to help you use them as energy, a lot of good healthy fat (similar to MCT oil). I can remember I came across it in an article that avocado may sometimes be hard on the digestive system. It may come from fermentable oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAPs), which are undoubtedly short-chain carbohydrates. Certain people are actually sensitive to FODMAPs and will have a hard time digesting it, causing stomach-ache, bloating and other unpleasant symptoms. Other than that avocado is a very easy fruit to digest, if you’re not sensible to FODMAPs.

Conclusion

Definitely, there are wrong ways to break fasting and the longer the fast, the more you have to be thorough on your research on what to eat when breaking it. Breaking a fast the wrong way might be difficult on your digestive system, stomach, intestine, your energy levels and even your overall mood. You should not eat whatever you want when breaking a 7 day fast. Hence, what I’d urge you to do pick all these different types of food into account and consume the choice you prefer the most. Eat the food you’re of, that will not put a strain on your digestive system. Your first meal should be light. It should be around 500 calories, and it could depend on your habits and why you’re actually fasting. Read: How To Get Rid Of Hickies Fast In A Day When you do a lot of exercises, you may rank and keep growing muscles. Hence, the first food you might go to will be eggs and maybe bone broth. To sum up, you can choose to try various choices, as you're not sure of what best suits your body. Only that you shouldn't forget to see your doctor and ask him questions. Read the full article

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Easter Adventures in Tuscany and tackling Carol Field’s Colomba

Posted by Emiko Davies on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 · 5 Comments

Surely the best thing about colomba, the Easter equivalent to panettone, is the sugared, toasted almond topping that covers the whole thing and crumbles when you cut it, so you sort of have no choice but just to pick up the crusty sugary bits and eat those on their own.

I’d always thought that colomba would make a very good baking project but was somewhat intimated by getting the right shape — it’s vaguely in the shape of a dove, if you use your imagination — and texture — wonderfully soft, fluffy, sweet yeasted bread. I had attempted making panettone (this fig, walnut and date panettone) a few years ago with fair results — absolutely delicious results, actually, they were just not as fluffy and bouncy as expertly made ones from your favourite pastry shop where panettoni are hung upside-down to maintain their height and airiness.

But when I came across the familiar brown and gold paper forms for making colomba at the supermarket, I thought I’m only ever going to get a chance to make this now! Like the panettone, I referred to my favourite baking book for Italian specialties, Carol Field’s The Italian Baker.

Field recounts a bit of history behind the colomba, which I’m sure is little known to anyone these days. Colomba is a fixture at Easter tables all around Italy (and is often given as presents), even though it comes from the north of Italy, Pavia. It is one of those traditions that are now a given, where a slice of colomba, perhaps eaten with pieces of a cracked chocolate Easter egg and an espresso or a glass of dessert wine, is a welcome end to the meal (or indeed breakfast the next day). But the legend behind it is a medieval one and rather disturbing — maybe it was made up to encourage young girls to learn how to bake their own colomba (and make sure it was good) to get themselves out of sticky, undesirable situations.

The story goes that during the sixth century when Alboin, King of the Lombards, conquered Pavia after a three year siege, he demanded twelve girls to do with as he pleased. To quote Field’s story, “All except one girl wept and sobbed at her fate, but the one who used her head took some eggs, yeast, sugar, flour and candied fruits, and spices and made a sweet cake in the shape of a dove. When the king called her to his bed, the story goes, she brought him her colomba, which he ate with pleasure and then allowed her to go free.”

Field’s colomba recipe, in her typical style, is broken down into four different procedures (a sponge, a first dough, a second dough and that wonderful almond topping) to tackle that add somewhat to the intimidation but I tell you, it’s very doable (you’ll see the procedure is easy as pie and doesn’t require much effort or attention, even mixing by hand) and absolutely worthwhile. The only thing that I think will be a challenge for most modern home cooks is that the total rising time required is about 10 hours — that’s right. You can space it out in a day, if you happen to be at home pottering about, doing other things, the dough will just be sitting in a corner doing its thing — which is, I think, the best way to do this. If you want to split this up over two days, I would suggest doing the sponge and first dough one evening, then place the dough in the fridge to sit overnight and slowly rise — the only issue here is the butter, which hardens in the fridge, so the next morning let it come to room temperature again before proceeding with the second dough, shaping and rising. You can also prepare the almond mixture the day before if that helps.

One thing you will have after baking this is a whole lot of egg whites (you will need a couple of them later in the recipe but the rest can easily be frozen until you’re ready to use them for another baking project — I put them to use in some miniature pavlovas topped with cream and berries, see below!).

Carol Field’s Easter Colomba Colomba Pasquale

Note: I’ve amended the recipe to add some metric measurements and am only including the instructions for mixing by hand (mixing with a mixer is a luxury for me, I don’t have one! I always bake and knead by hand, but if you have a mixer you can be sure there’s a bit less time you’ll be spending on this). If (like all my Tuscan in-laws) you don’t like candied orange pieces you can either simply leave it out or you could replace it with sultanas (raisins) or good quality dark chocolate chips. I personally love them but I always look for artisan candied fruit, which comes in large pieces like quarters of an orange rind, which need to then be chopped but are soft, sweet but not too sweet and delicious — far superior to the pre-chopped, commercial sort. Really an entirely different ingredient.

For the sponge:

3 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast 1 tablespoon sugar 125 ml (1/2 cup) warm water 3 egg yolks 70 grams (1/2 cup) all purpose flour (I use tipo 00 flour)

Stir the yeast and sugar together with the water in a large bowl and let sit 10 minutes or until it begins to look foamy. Whisk in the egg yolks by hand, add the flour and combine until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm corner of the kitchen until doubled, roughly 30 minutes.

First dough:

1 teaspoon active dry yeast 80 ml (1/3 cup) warm water 45 grams (3 tablespoons) softened, unsalted butter 210 grams (1 1/2 cups) all purpose flour

In a small bowl, stir the yeast into the water and let dissolve for a few minutes. Stir this into the bowl with the sponge made above, then add the softened butter and the flour to make a rather sticky dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm corner of the kitchen for 1-2 hours or until doubled in volume.

Second dough:

145 grams (1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons) sugar 1 tablespoon honey 3 egg yolks 1 1/2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract 2 oranges (preferably unwaxed and organic), zested 115 grams (1 stick) softened, unsalted butter 1 teaspoon salt 250 grams (2 cups) all purpose flour 150 grams (about 1 cup) chopped candied orange peel (see note above for substitutes)

Take the first dough, now risen, and add the sugar, honey (warmed slightly if very hard) and yolks, stirring thoroughly to combine. Add the vanilla, zest, butter, salt and flour — this last one adding a bit at a time. Stir until you have a soft dough, then knead on a clean, floured surface until elastic, about 7-10 minutes (I recommend doing this bit by hand even if you’ve mixed everything until now in a mixer).

Place the dough back in the large bowl (lightly oiled around the sides), cover and let rise until tripled, about 3 1/2 hours. You’re looking a dough full of large air bubbles when it is fully risen.

Shaping the dough:

Separate the dough into two portions and on a lightly floured surface, flatten each piece and scatter over the candied peel. Roll into a log , flatten again and roll with your hands to obtain a log about 25cm (10 inches), with slightly tapered ends. Do the same with the other piece but shape it into a fatter log about 18 cm (7 inches). If you have the special dove-shaped form, simply lay the long piece along the longer side of the form (which corresponds to the tail and body), then, after making a slight indentation in the centre of the long log, layer the shorter piece over the top of this indentation for the wings. If you don’t have a form, you can also build this “free form” doing the same thing, placing the shorter piece over the top of the long piece, almost like a cross, on a lined baking tray. Cover with a clean tea towel and let it rise until doubled in size, about 2 hours (3 if your kitchen is cold) — you can also warm things up a bit by keeping it in the oven with just the pilot light on or (Field’s suggestion) even putting the tray carefully over the top of a pan of steaming water.

In the meantime, prepare the sugar almond topping:

50 grams of blanched almonds 25 grams of bitter almonds or apricot kernels (these can be found in specialist Italian delis — otherwise use regular almonds and a touch of almond extract) 130 grams (1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons) sugar 1-2 egg whites (as needed) 40 grams of whole (unpeeled) raw almonds 1-2 tablespoons raw sugar (turbinado sugar) Powdered sugar

In a food processor (or a mortar and pestle!), process the blanched almonds, bitter almonds (if using) and sugar until fine. Stir in enough egg white for the mixture to be spreadable but not too runny (if using almond extract, stir it in at this point). Very gently spread this mixture over the top of the risen Colomba, dotting with the whole raw almonds all over the surface. Sprinkle the raw sugar evenly over the top, then follow with a layer of sifted powdered sugar.

You’re finally ready to bake!

Bake at 200C (400F) for first 10 minutes, then reduce to 180C (250F) and continue baking a further 40 minutes. Cool completely on a rack before showing off at your Easter table.

Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua!

There is a phrase in Italian: Natale con i tuoi, pasqua con chi vuoi, which means you should spend Christmas with your family but Easter with whoever you like!

I’ll leave you with some scenes of my idea of a perfect Tuscan Easter, spent a couple of hours drive from Florence in Monte Argentario in the Maremma — incidentally, the place that inspired my cookbook, Acquacotta. It is a beautiful time to travel around Tuscany. Although it’s too cold to swim (that never stops my family from trying), the hot springs at Saturnia are lovely (and yes, we actually stopped the car to help guide a lamb back to its owner!), as is playing on the beach which is gloriously empty and spacious at this time of year — if you’re going there, have a look at the Argentario food guide I wrote for Gourmet Traveller last year as well as this one specifically about Porto Ercole.

P.S. The pastries below get a special mention because they are out of this world, particularly the one on the left, tette di monache, or, you’ll love this — nun’s tits — from Pasticceria Ferrini in Orbetello, which you’ll pass through to reach the promontory of Monte Argentario.

Source: http://www.emikodavies.com/blog/easter-adventures-and-carol-fields-colomba/

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a friend of mine would like me to promote Scorpion (cbs) and I’ve seen the first two episodes and it’s pretty great so far ?? either way I’ve peeked into quite a few different corners of music/show/drama tho but at the sam time I know like nonE AHAH,,, tho for real you can get me into pretty much anything ?? I always find something to appreciate pffs 

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yelling ?? idk man for real I’m a huge chatterbox and I always want to talk to people haha !! really feel free to start a conversation with me about like,, most anything tbH,, if it’s a topic I’m not familiar with you should 100000% tell me about it ?? I’d love it :00 ( also we can always just hold a conversation in just screeching I’m down for that also )

 If you could choose a species in Obscura that you’d like to be, what would it be? Why?

geeeee all the species r pretty cool ?? tho bein a vampire or a werewolf is to u gh so like I honestly don’t think I could pull it off hAHAHA,,, tbh a beast blooded would be mighty cool !! I’d totally want to be a dragon :‘DDDD

 What is your ultimate weakness; what makes you feel all soft and squishy inside?

um,,, tbh ships ?? and not even just the romantic kind like give me familial ships,, friendships, hateships, platonic ships ???? I’ll just m elt inside hahahaha wow I’m super lame.,, just some kids just having to deal with each other’s existence in their lives is honestly the best,,, angst also makes me cry and hurt forever but I love it 8")

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Three random facts about you: HAHAHAH whoops I absolutely,,, s UC K at these pFF ok um,, um lessee other than the fact that I’m lame

a pair of magpies were going to build a nest in this smol conifer right up against a window in our house and like ?? yo you could see the beginnings of the twigs getting threaded through there and I was like :000 !!! hype ?? wow they chose this place to be home and I was so ready 2 take pictures of ugly baby dinos I mean cute baby magpies since it’s like I could sit on the arm chair that’s up against the window and I could have full vantage of the lil nest ??? as I was saying, hype !! bUT THEN MY MOM TOOK OUT A FRUIT KNIFE THE ONE WE CUT WATERMELONS WITH AND SAWED OFF THE WHOLE BRANCH AND THREW IT TWIGS AND ALL INTO THE TRASH AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHG -sobs softly- im just sorry for the poor magpie pair,,, I’m sorry we wasted all your hard work,,, ( mom’s explanation: this is my house so I’m not going to let them build a home on my home I was here first !! ) tho like I don’t think the magpies moved out tbh I saw the other day they were perched on our tree so ???? I’m just sad I missed out on the great pictures sob it was like a fairy tale ( I tried to talk my mom out of it by saying about how a pair of magpies were considered auspicious n all and I’m disappointed it didn’t work ?? I made a pretty good argument I feel ;v )

right so like last week we had a few slices of raisin bread from T&T ( our local Asian food supplier in the form of a supermarket eyyy ) and I was like,,, wow ??? dude how great would raisin bread french toast be like wOW !!? I’ve never made french toast before and tbh we’re like rice everyday ™ and honestly the inside of our fridge has never seen cheese or cream or pasta ( ok look I know uncooked pasta doesn’t go in the fridge but I was making a point ) and certain other western-type foods are rare guests ( a tragedy rly because I love that stuff ) bUT ANYWAY !! I was thinking about french toast and going,,, woah,,, woah woAH ??? we might actually have all the ingredients ?? we always have eggs, and… oh, half and half…? aw… we don’t have that— oH but you can make it with milk and butter ??? gasp i actually think we have like 1 stick of frozen butter from waaaay back and I’m sure it’s saved there omg this’ll work. we don’t have nutmeg but… I distinctly remember getting vanilla extract and my mom says we have cinnamon ?? I didn’t even know we had cinnamon !! wow this is going to work imma make it for breakfast tomorrow it will be great !! so cue tomorrow, I wake up earlier to get it ready ( lmao since usually I wake up like 5 mins before transit comes and toss stuff into my backpack and leave ) and,,, and it turns out we I overestimated what we had in our fridge aHAHA,,, what I thought was a stick of butter was actually yeast and there was ?? no sugar ?? I could not find sugar,,, we didn’t have milk either and I was v disappointed in myself bUT !! I still made it using soy milk and brown sugar ( it was super hard I was chiseling it with a spoon ) but luckily I did manage to dig out the vanilla extract + the cinnamon was def there, as were the eggs and salt was around. of course, had to use vegetable oil instead of butter to grease the pan as I’d planned but !! it totally turns out great and was a p good success considering a first attempt hahaha,,, topped it with bananas, crumbled walnut and maple syrup and it was great :^))))))

ummmmmmmmmmmm wow those turned out long hAHAHA,, uh no other interesting stories are coming to mind right away but like ?? I guess one time when I was a kid we were in Toronto I think and I,,, rushed some pigeons ( like when u try to make people flinch right ?? yeah ) some pigeons that were in a courtyard and like,,, ok so there was a lady eating subway and she was a respectable business lady or smth bUT SO THE FLOCK OF PIGEONS ALL TOOK OFF AND SHE ( understandably ) SPOOKED AND DROPPED HER SUBWAY AND WALKED QUICKLY AWAY AND WOW I FELT SO BAD AAHHAAHAAAaaa,,, either way the pigeons descended on the subway and it was never seen again,,, I still feel rlllyyy bad abt it I’m so sorry for like ruining that woman’s day sobbbbb

ohey and we come full circle aHahah,, one story about birds, another story about food, and then a story about birds and food aahhaahaHAHAA,,, pretty accurate reflection of my life tbh,,, I’m all about birds and food

oH,, oh,, ‘nother story came to mind which involves a rly majestic nosebleed but uh hmmm let’s save that one PSHH

#warning because wow is this a heckin long post !!#「 ooc. 」#obs: munday #aka listen to me fail at talking about myself + asdflsdfj edition :')#is this a week late or is it on time? no one will ever know

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TK: French Macarons for an inexperienced baker like me

Honestly I am not a fan of french macarons. I don't over hype it to anyone even. But what I do know is they are gorgeous to look at and whatever taste it has is over in two or three bites. I have always loved it when my bakes are uniform and macarons have a huge tendency to be because you get to have templates. Oooppss I'm getting ahead of myself. I have only found one out of a dozen articles I've read so far to have been able to perfect it on the first try. I did mine (which I still have to prove on the next bake) on my third even with a few lapses - some macarons have become lopsided but not too much to prevent it from standing on it's back. But! In this third test I was able to have feet, no burnt edges, not hollow, no cracks nor sticking on the paper (except for one!). It had even held it's shells beautifully even if I left it in room temp. The outer appearance was so good I was able to distribute it in the office FINALLY. I never had a single macaron thrown out this time.

+ O French Macarons! +

French Macarons are expensive especially if you get to compare it to, let's say cupcakes especially if you're let's say hungry. Macarons could barely satiate your hunger. It really is only a dessert. If you're an avid consumer of this, I will let you in on a secret: making it is not as expensive as you may think. The very basic recipe for the famed shell of a macaron only involves 4 ingredients:

First Bowl: Almond Flour/Meal + Confectioners Sugar

2nd Bowl: Egg Whites + Granulated Sugar

Granted that an unbranded almond meal/flour is expensive (200++ PHP for 200 GRAMS) and confectioners too but the yield in each recipe is astoundingly plenty. In the recipes I got I think you could get as much as 40 shells or more, depending on the size you are trying to achieve. So you ask me what makes a macaron expensive? Well I would like to say it's all in the technique baby!

WHAT I LEARNED SO FAR:

THE OVEN

Even if the oven that the bf gifted me is quite huge than what I'm using before, it's not IMHO ideal to cram in two cookie pans so whenever I bake it takes more than 1 go in the oven. In my bakes I had 4 (or sometimes more) pans ready to go. In each batch I had to adjust whatever setting I have in the oven because contrary to what you read, realize that your oven is not accurate. Now even if it is, your oven is different from another baker's. Because of this, by my 2nd test I have already got myself an oven thermometer. From there I found out the cause of the burnt bottoms (and tops!) as I experienced in my first. My oven is too dang hot. A 140C setting in my oven is actually 170C according to my thermometer. Later on this would be my gauge on whether I still have to lower my temp (sometimes 130 goes 160 for some reason) and even open the oven door a bit to reach ideal temperatures (138 - 140 is just fine). I followed this dutifully on the 3rd try and never got any burnt shells. I was also able to fully do the recommended 20 minutes of baking unlike in my first attempts that I'm not even reaching 10 mins that the shells have either:

burnt the shells OR

formed cancerous feet OR

worse, BOTH!

The setting that worked for me was:

I have used the Convection Fan (!!!)

Retained my temp around 138-150, sometimes I saw it rise to 160 but I do my best to lower it as soon as I spot it on my thermometer

18 Minutes is too early for feet, I achieved mine around 20, got better results around 22-23.

I keep a grease pan at the bottom of the oven as well since I found one blog which does it to prevent the bottom from burning too quick.

THE TEMPLATE

I usually just bake with parchment paper (Glad) but on the very last batch I retained my macaron mat (acts like Silpat only that it has ready made templates, costs around 400PHP). That was actually the best batch of all, I don't know if that contributed at all so I might get myself a new mat to test it as well. On my very first try I was too cocky and have piped it without any guide and I ended up with too many uneven shells. After trying it with templates, I am never going back.

ALMOND MEAL / FLOUR

First two attempts were almond flour and when the branch of Wonderbake only had almond meal, I tried it instead. It worked well too! There is a branded bag of almond flour in Rustan's (Century Mall) but I am not sure if I'm ready to test it with a 600PHP worth of ground almonds. One good tip is to sift at least twice with confectioner's sugar, one of which should be sifted together. This I read in some blogs make the almonds less oily because of the sugar being incorporated together with the ground almonds.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1458"] The ONLY French Macaron from my first test. The rest are either cracked, hollow or burnt.[/caption]

FOOD COLORING

P.L.E.A.S.E. use the gel type.

EGG WHITES

When you start making macarons and you're off to researching on egg whites and you're a beginner like me you'd see the word "aged" a lot. Apparently it means differently too with different bakers. Some say you just need a room temp egg (still whole) while there are extremes that had to let white eggs (uncracked!) out in room temp. They fully swear by it too! In all of my tests I never went as far as that, but I do bake with room temperature eggs (I simply rest the uncracked eggs on my dining table).

I am also a complete novice when it comes to separating yolks and whites that I look stupid on how I do it. I tried juggling it on their shells but I end up piercing the yellows. I attempted it with my hand and I ended up not separating it at all. What worked for me was I prepare 3 bowls and I crack the eggs on a small bowl and tip the contents on the large one, using an egg separator to prevent the yellow from falling. When I feel like I've separated enough whites I put the yolk on the other bowl. On the instance that upon breaking the yolk on my "tip bowl", I get myself a new one to prevent any yellows in my whites. I was told the meringue would never rise with just a simple drop hence the precautions.

THE LAVA EFFECT

One of my irks is how in almost all recipes you would read that you should stop when the macaron mix have become a "lava consistency". Just what the f is a lava consistency anyway? The 2nd one I think I did it but it was the worst test I ever produced. Based from my tests I think I finally know what it is and I can't fully describe if it's really lava. All I know is that you need to adjust your manner of mixing your macaron (there is a specific move you have to find any youtube video and it would be the same) according to your recipe. On my 2nd test I got up to 60 rounds and yet it still came out undermixed.

The last one was atleast 31-35 times and it was the perfect time to stop! I deduce there are two factors involved: the recipe and your own strength. If there's a lot more flour I reckon it's harder to mix and is dependent on how strong you are in fully incorporating all the ingredients. And oh before I forget. I dump the entire flour and sugar mixture over my meringue. My reason for this is this would ensure that I won't overmix at all, and the dry ingredients would be "soaked" on the meringue at the same time. Don't take my word for it, this is coming from someone who manually hand mixes chocolate chip cookies. Yes. I'm too lazy to bring my hand mixer out for that.

THE RECIPE

I will have to update this in the future once I find the best recipe. The last one I used produced really good shells but the taste (based on the people I gave it to), found it too sweet.

In summary, you need to do a mental checklist on every test you make to ensure that you prevent the same issues from happening again. You kind of understand it too after a while even without checking any blogs anymore. I sometimes guess for the cause of my issues and get it right when I check. I do hope though that my next ones would be the same or even better! It would be a bummer to get back to the old issues again. All that effort for nothing would be truly sad.

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Independent the whites from the yolk and beat it well by using a fork or by making use of a blender (it can find yourself seeking like foam). This mask should not be utilized on presently dry skins, and it can be a smart idea to seek the advice of a physician just before working with this mask. • Simply rubbing contemporary orange peel on your own face allows lighten skin color. What's more, it tightens the skin and increases the texture. three. The face scrub shouldn't be drippy. Don't insert a lot more olive oil, as this will likely dissolve the sugar. Incorporating as well little olive oil could make your face scrub tough and dry that will induce skin redness. Orange is very useful for your personal skin because it has anti-growing older, firming and astringent Homes. This citrus fruit can help make improvements to skin texture and complexion. You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in towards your Hubpages account. No info is shared with Facebook unless you engage using this function. (Privateness Policy) I didn't know egg white may be great for the skin. Many thanks a lot of for sharing. I have bookmarked this hub for long run reference! :) Popular acne may also occur because of particular hormonal activity through the teenage yrs that are sometimes connected with the doorway into puberty. This hormonal action usually will make the regulation of your sebaceous gland to malfunction, abruptly creating enormous amounts of sebum. This is why prevalent acne is mostly found in teens. In the event the openings of these sebum glands are blocked, the sebum can't escape and it starts depositing itself down below the skin pores, making them seem purple and swollen. When you found this short article beneficial make sure you have a instant to tweet, like, or share this post by using the buttons at the bottom in the site. I’d truly take pleasure in it. This is excellent! I are already searching ALL over for some thing such as this! I'll have to attempt Each and every recipe. Thanks for sharing!! Higher than stated facial masks offer you your every one in alternative ways, for that reason, you can select one of the selection and skin type. Professionally I am a dentist and an aspiring make-up artist. It is a PR friendly website. You should take a look at my About and Disclaimer portion to be aware of more about me and my blog, or send out me an email to convey HI! Clean your face with heat h2o to open up your pores. Using thoroughly clean fingers or simply a cotton ball, apply the combination onto your face, averting the sensitive locations all around your mouth and eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zqk8qy9pI

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There are many powerful vitamins and minerals in bananas which make them Mother Character's amazing attractiveness resolve! Dr. Oz even goes so far as to the tropical fruits are mother nature’s pain-free, inexpensive Botox. Additionally they perform miracles on acne and oily skin. Even so, if you wish to preserve some money and however handle your face to care that could retain you looking your very best, you can make your personal facial sugar mask. The sugar During this mask functions as a gentle exfoliate to eliminate useless skin cells from a face. Massage your favorite cleanser on to your face. Use heat h2o and work up a fantastic lather. This facial will work greatest which has a lathering facial cleanser since the lather allows keep the sugar on your skin. A high quality local Uncooked honey designed my skin glow in a means the Some others didn’t! So for the real great things about a honey mask, use the best quality honey you find. Wash your face. Use a mild cleanser to scrub your face with lukewarm drinking water, then pat your face dry using a cleanse, dry washcloth. In my view it is a great blend to get a mask to take care of acne and pimples, thanks to adhering to explanations: (i) Cinnamon can help rid your face or back again of acne by both of those drying out the skin and, once more, bringing blood and oxygen on the skin surface. Hi, I've oily skin, particularly vulnerable to acne, a lot making sure that I am able to’t try to remember a time Once i had crystal clear skin….. will the banana mask even now Focus on my skin??? I keep getting Energetic acne which leaves dark and deep places, producing my skintone uneven. Is loaded with citric acid, which Carefully lightens darkish skin and evens out discolouration. Also lightens dark spots and acne blemishes. In case you have oily skin you may substitute milk with h2o or simply a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. To produce orange peel ability, continue to keep orange peels out inside the Solar for a week or so for drying after which you can grind them. Depart the mask on for quarter-hour. To stop the mask from dripping everywhere you go, take into account laying down or sitting down in a cushty chair along with your head tilted back again. You can also use this mask inside the bathtub while you are soaking or taking a comforting bath. This really is used to detect individual browsers or equipment in the event the entry the assistance, which is used for stability explanations. Combine two spoons of peel powder with one among milk and insert a spoon of coconut oil to bind the elements collectively. Slightly cinnamon oil can be utilized While using the coconut oil, but I might only use a drop or two in a little jar of coconut oil–greater than that may burn off the skin. When it’s put on your own skin rather than in the belly, sugar can be quite a fantastic magnificence help. It’s moisturizing; it has glycolic acid, which encourages mobile turnover for youthful-seeking skin; and its modest particles make a terrific exfoliant.[one] You can combine sugar with any quantity of substances to create your very own face mask.

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In the Reserve of Genesis, one can study how Adam and Eve made use of fig leaves to protect "their nakedness" following ingesting the fruit through the Tree of Understanding of Good and Evil.[12] "The masquerade motif seems within the Bible on two diverse ranges: an make an effort to fool persons and an try and fool God. Information: The citric acid in lemon juice is an excellent cleanser, and so is milk. Yogurt is also a superb cleanser, in addition to a great softener. This is significant simply because using lemon juice on your own will make your skin truly feel stretched and dried. How I use it is I mix orange peel powder together with chickpea flour, lemon n a pinch of turmeric. My face is blessed which has a good glow n glow Pacific Northwest Coastal indigenous groups have been normally really skilled woodworkers. Their masks had been generally learn-parts of carving, at times with movable jaws, or possibly a mask in a mask, and sections moved by pulling cords. Exfoliate your skin when a week. This can support buff absent These dead skin cells and depart your skin sensation silky-smooth. You employ scrubs, loofahs, and exfoliating sponges. Make sure you make use of a gentler exfoliator with your face than on the rest of Your entire body. Caution: Aloe Vera supposedly has no Negative effects, and there won't be any studies of it remaining allergenic. Nevertheless, a lot of people might be allergic to honey. In spite of your allergen history, it's best to test it on your wrist before you decide to utilize it to the face. In this article, we’ll seek to cover all applicable factors linked to utilizing honey masks to be a cure for acne. You will discover numerous types of masks used in Africa. In West Africa, masks are used in masquerades that kind Section of spiritual ceremonies enacted to communicate with spirits and ancestors. Examples would be the masquerades on the Yoruba, Igbo, and Edo cultures, which includes Egungun Masquerades and Northern Edo Masquerades. The masks are generally carved with an extraordinary ability and wide range by artists who will usually have received their instruction being an apprentice to some learn carver - frequently it is a custom which has been passed down in a relatives as a result of many generations. Guidelines: Use this mixture 3 to four periods each week (even a everyday software is fine), but make sure to get ready it refreshing each and every time, as it is very uncomplicated to organize and most effective at that point. This is great! I are already on the lookout Around for a thing similar to this! I will really have to test Each individual recipe. Thank you for sharing!! two. Add coffee powder, sugar and cinnamon powder into the coconut oil and blend all the elements together. The distinction with efficiency masks is not constantly apparent-Slice. Ritual and theatrical masks on their own might be looked upon as practical, and protecting masks in a very athletics context specifically in many cases are built to enhance the appearance from the wearer. Health-related Make this happen before you decide to head to mattress and go away the mask on overnight. Rinse your face with heat h2o the next morning. It is suggested to do that for 2 months and afterwards evaluate the outcomes. In Europe, Schumann's affect combined with the early avant-garde artists to really encourage groups like Relocating Photo Mime Clearly show and Welfare State (equally in the UK). These firms had a big affect on the subsequent generation of teams working in Visible theatre, together with IOU and Horse and Bamboo Theatre, who make a theatre where masks are utilised coupled with puppets, movie and other visual sorts, by having an emphasis within the narrative composition.[fifty two] Purposeful masks

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Yogurt incorporates lactic acid, a delicate alpha hydroxy acid that is a good exfoliant.[3] It encourages skin lightening by fading blemishes and dark spots, stimulates collagen production, and stops premature growing old. It's something that all of the beauty industries have been utilizing inside their products because of it many skin Positive aspects. Together, they cited information and facts from 27 references. wikiHow's Information Management Workforce carefully screens the do the job from our editorial staff members in order that Every single post fulfills our superior requirements. Aloe Vera Gel with a minimum of ninety% pure aloe barbadensis leaf juice in it truly is great for sunburned or irritated skin. Aloe vera is known for its healing Homes and may do miracles to the skin. Over pointed out facial masks supply your each in alternative ways, as a result, you could pick one of one's decision and skin form. Wash your face 2 times day by day to help keep it oil-totally free, increase complexion, and prevent breakouts. You need to clean your face in the morning any time you rise up, and while in the evening ahead of intending to bed. Ahhhh, The essential brown sugar scrub. There seriously is just not a greater all-natural exfoliant than brown sugar. It will not tear the skin like oatmeal or salt can perform. In addition, it tastes delicious if it in some way will make its way into your mouth. Linked Lookups for face mask: Youngsters face mask fishing face mask cartoon face mask health-related mask monkey face mask beard face mask kevlar face mask nurse face mask breathable face mask water-proof face mask antibacterial face mask plague doctor mask mouth mask pretty face masks 3m n95 mask Far more... Make use of a heavier, richer just one over the winter, in addition to a lighter a person through the summertime. Consider a moisturizer which contains SPF to guard your skin in opposition to the Solar's unsafe rays. It may be if you use the ice directly to your skin. It is best when you wrap the ice inside a washcloth, then use it to your face for 1 minute. Also, it will make absorption of topical vitamins tough. Hence, exfoliation must be the first step previous to employing a all-natural banana mask. Next, scientific studies in animals present that vitamin C can be absorbed by the skin in an acidic atmosphere. It may be advantageous to add within an acid (like lemon or citrus of some sort) to stimulate vitamin C absorption.” Author Information Dr. Boling reminds us that bananas have medicinal Qualities that may be utilized to soothe a variety of inflammatory skin disorders, together with acne. Dr. Boling claims, “In accordance with a 2012 posting within the Journal of Pharmacology and Phytochemistry (You could decide on and add upto 5 images in the comment. The overall size of all your photos must be under 1 MB. Click on button and make sure to choose all the pictures you should upload.)

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It is generally accepted the masks, noise, colour and clamour are supposed to push away the forces of darkness and Wintertime, and open just how for the spirits of sunshine and the approaching of spring.[forty one] Resource A few images of the identical feminine noh mask demonstrating how the expression modifications which has a tilting of the head. In these photographs, the mask was affixed to your wall with regular lighting, and just the camera moved. Blend perfectly and use a uniform coating above your face, Primarily about the locations with extreme facial hair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9LctCQxINs (including Retin-A or the more moisturizing Renova) also get the job done by removing the best layer of useless skin cells while also making collagen while in the skin. "Collagen could be the skin's structural fiber," dermatologist Dennis Gross reported in O Magazine Is it okay to put it on during the night and sleep in and and acquire better yet effects? Or leaving it on from the evening isn’t going to make any difference if leaving it on for 30 minutes? I don’t need to dry out my face In that case. Many thanks for your posting by the way. If you are looking at the use of an egg white mask, the top avenue of treatment method will be to go to a skin care Expert or perhaps a clinical spa, the place individuals who give the treatment plans have the type of experience and instruction to advise you on no matter whether this sort of mask might be effective to your skin. Although an egg white mask is simple plenty of to generate at your home, generating one particular from a recipe discovered on line might be hazardous, particularly if you are not mindful of what supplemental components that are sometimes suggested, for example cornstarch and lemon, can perform in your skin. Choose one which fits your skin type and you simply are on the way to finding a lot of benefits of honey for the skin! This will likely cut down redness and soothe any soreness. For those who have aloe vera gel or glycerin, you can utilize that too, as these both have soothing Qualities way too. The proteins which can be contained in an egg white mask assistance the skin strengthen and sustain its elasticity, that's very important In regards to lowering the looks of wrinkles. [44] Even though these civic masquerades as well as their masks may have retained elements drawn from preferred lifestyle, the survival of carnival from the 19th century was usually a consequence of the self-conscious 'folklore' motion that accompanied the rise of nationalism in lots of European nations around the world.[forty five] Hello Lori! I've read as soon as that the condition with raw eggs is salmonella, waht do you concentrate on it? I love your content Shigong dance masks have been used in shamanic rituals to thank the gods, whilst nuo dance masks protected from undesirable spirits. Marriage ceremony masks have been accustomed to pray for good luck and a long-lasting marriage, and "Swallowing Animal" masks were being associated with protecting the house and symbolised the "swallowing" of catastrophe. So as to reduced your danger of Unwanted side effects with the use of an egg white mask, search for its application from a skin care professional.

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"My face is incredibly oily and I've blackheads on my nose and chin. This worked rather well, I will be employing it twice a week Any further."..." extra AO Afi Owusu Many thanks for the egg white mask I am going to try out it... I am desperate to see the outcomes in just a few days!!! Just how long will I really have to utilize it to see the outstanding success? I soaked strips of paper towel In this particular solution after which you can used it to my face to stop dripping. I see why Those people fabric masks are so large in Korea (They're just so hard to get from here while in the US.) It absolutely calmed my skin nevertheless I am going to need to repeat to see the lasting success. . Stay clear of paying too much time during the Solar, and always don sunscreen when you do. Opt for sunscreen with a minimum of 15 SPF. You'll want to dress in it every day, even in the darker, colder Winter season months. Cleansing the skin is the most important step of skin care routine. But most often people today associate cleansing the skin only using honey. Incorporating whey to face masks is a superb strategy, Anne! You may use it rather than h2o, or simply try out incorporating it in face masks, while you mentioned. By combining bananas with other substances full of strong nutrients, we may make face masks that provide many functions. We're going to evaluate banana face masks that combat wrinkles, banishing acne, control oil, lighten skin, and even more. Never decide your pimples. You can also make the inflammation worse and you've got a method increased possibility of getting a scar even right after it goes absent. There are a number of excellent suggestions for getting rid of pimples in this post on wikiHow. Use organic oils to moisturize your skin. A number of the very best are: vitamin E oil, jojoba oil, coconut oil, and shea butter. Olive oil is perfect for some skin styles, however it could cause some flaking for Some others. It could be if you use the ice on to your skin. It is best should you wrap the ice inside a washcloth, then apply it towards your face for just one moment. The orange powder is an essential and major ingredient ingredient of this finish procedure. It might be organized simply in your own home by generating the usage of adhering to steps. In a nutshell, you don't need to use fresh coffee beans. That is a great way to reuse, recycle and possess a far more sustainable coffee routine. Turmeric masks are generally utilized to even out skin tone and reduce the appearance of dim places or scars. Honey provides a slight bleaching result even though lemon juice and yogurt gently exfoliate to get rid of lifeless skin and inspire new cell progress. During this informative article, you will also come across critical recommendations on earning and making use of banana face masks. Now let's investigate three face masks that should benefit your skin in ways high priced chemical-laden beauty creams simply cannot.

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Just after viewing solution detail pages, glance below to find a simple approach to navigate back again to internet pages you have an interest in. An unbelievable moisturizer and lubricating agent. Coconut oil is blessed with healthful nutrients that nourish dry skin. Say goodbye to flaky peeling skin! It’s been an aggravating quest to discover my ‘HALLELUJAH!’ substances that just erase all my pimples, blackheads, whiteheads and scarring/hyperpigmentation away. Obviously I recognize that consuming many drinking water and never ingesting an excessive amount of junk foods/sweets also plays a very important section, Which’s why I’m trying to drink much more drinking water (and inexperienced tea lol). Just the other day I designed a scrub with with environmentally friendly tea leaves and honey and my face felt really nice and sleek, complexion seemed a tiny bit more even, and by the subsequent early morning, my pimples and redness experienced calmed down. Almost nothing dramatic, but it was noticible, my skin likey ^.^ This articles is accurate and true to the most effective from the creator’s knowledge and isn't meant to substitute for official and individualized tips from a certified Experienced. Raw honey was prized for its therapeutic Homes in historic civilizations. In Egyptian And Ayurvedic traditions, honey was utilized to deal with skin wounds and disorders (study more about the ancient works by using of honey here). Bananas also comprise Vitamin A which helps to correct all skin situations like acne, wrinkles, rosacea and much more. Additionally, it really helps to minimize the hyperpigmentation. It also will help to hurry up the therapeutic approach and so one particular and all it provides nutritious and youthful skin. Many thanks for often delivering terrific facts. I'd personally like to consider the turmeric mask – just questioning if it won’t shade the skin tone to yellow. So ladies, following time whenever you delight in tangy oranges, don’t neglect to feed your skin with the many splendor benefits of this super delicious fruit. That’s it for right now, right until subsequent time, get care and stay tuned to IMBB. Mix the above mentioned substances extensively in a little mixing bowl. Coat your face Using the mixture using clean up fingers. Allow it accept quarter-hour. In the meantime, you could lie down, shut your eyes and relax as being the mask does its magic. Once the time is up, rinse your face, and pat dry having a clean up towel. This service permits you to join or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you could earn income from advertisements with your content articles. No information is shared Except if you have interaction using this type of characteristic. (Privateness Policy) “Clinical trials have revealed that honey is a successful broad-spectrum antibacterial agent. It’s acquired a great deal oomph that it can even halt the ‘superbug’ MRSA from expanding. You need to take into account your perfume bottles no fewer than statement parts, and retail outlet them away from warmth and light to lengthen their shelf everyday living to maintain their scent and high-quality. […] Fresh new papaya mashed , some drops of lime juice combined in helps make a pleasant mask for growing older skin. Papaya is higher in Enzymes. It companies the skin and will help also with sunburn. I maintain it on for approximately twenty to 30 minutes . Amazing put up! I like a fantastic Do-it-yourself, would you be capable to go into element regarding why these things do the points they do

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Vitamin B – This vitamin assists in stopping and managing the skin within the signs of getting old. In addition, it assists in lightening the complexion together with nourishes the skin from deep within just. So it seriously moisturizes your skin, Management surplus oil, remedy acne. Furthermore, it brightens your skin so In addition it actually great for ageing skin. When you are searhing for an all natural, refreshing face mask ingredient to provide your skin cells a wholesome Enhance, orange peel powder is for you! This powder can be employed in face masks that will help those who: The citric acid inside the orange peel also exfoliates and brightens up your skin. Here are some orange peel face masks which you could make at your home for a radiant search. Assure to not smile or talk to the face mask on! This can extend your skin round the mouth and eyes and truly bring about wrinkles to kind. Here you may discover what are the best magnificence treatment options with yogurt and the way to create a honey and yogurt face mask for acne. i am having pimples for 1 yr i made use of a lot of but very little worked .can you recommend me through the use of pimples and marks received by them Thanx. I'm a black/african woman 0f 41. I am light-weight in complection, but my face seems to be so uninteresting and gray. I have attempted evri products but my skin retaliates skin care regimen. Source The caffeine information might help minimize swelling and restore the skin's dropped blush, brightness and vitality. The bottom beans are fantastic to scrub and scrub, when caffeine incorporates a tightening impact on your skin pores. Also, you are able to incorporate aloe vera to the combo. It is actually full of antioxidants that struggle free of charge radicals and also vitamin E and other nutrients that nourish and enrich your skin, making it extra elastic and sleek. When you mix it with other incredible natural ingredients it is going to jointly make a superb mask. This face mask not simply can help to deal with acne but in addition battle wrinkles, sunburn, and plenty of plenty of skin issues. Wash your face with a mild soap and pat it dry with a smooth towel. Utilizing cleanse fingers, rub the mask into your face. Implement the mask in a rather thick layer and maintain it on for 10 to quarter-hour making sure that it might soak in. Other advantages of coffee face masks include their ability to lessen face inflammation. This do-it-yourself mask might be your best ally for the people days when you have not bought much snooze or have slept badly and also you awaken with a little puffy face.

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@IntimatEvolution: Thanks! Natural elegance is far safer than chemical cosmetics and i am hugely thinking about them. Sorry, we just must be sure to're not a robotic. For https://www.facebook.com/steptoremedies/posts/2088296957930240 , remember to be sure your browser is accepting cookies. Process: Combine both of these in equal quantities to make a paste. Apply it in excess of your face and neck and let it perform for thirty min, after the mask feels dry, clean your face thoroughly. This mask gets rid of that surplus oil out of your skin and in addition dead skin cells. When you located this information beneficial please have a second to tweet, like, or share this post by utilizing the buttons at The underside on the site. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Mask-for-Acne ’d genuinely enjoy it. Use the face mask in your face, preventing the eyes and mouth region, the place the skin is dryer plus much more sensitive. The sugar scrub really should be of your consistency as witnessed while in the image. Use it for your body to get skin that feels rejuvenated and smells fresh. Skip the new h2o when bathing or showering, and use lukewarm h2o in its place. Very hot drinking water can truly feel stress-free, but it might also strip your skin of its purely natural oils. When you mix it with other astounding purely natural ingredients it can jointly make a wonderful mask. This face mask don't just aids to deal with acne but additionally battle wrinkles, sunburn, and many numerous skin issues. As we are aware that acne harm anyone whenever. so these banana face masks are your closing Remedy. As acne doesn’t only impact physically but emotionally way too it will make our self-self confidence minimal. Steer clear of the Solar between 10am and 2pm, as this is when its rays are most hazardous.[eighteen] If you do not like wearing sunscreen, consider using a moisturizer or Basis that have already got sunscreen in it. You will be certain to note a delightful improvement to your acne scars which can show up much less noticeable than right before! 1. As by now talked about, orange juice is full of ascorbic acid content material and deep cleanses the skin comprehensively. It lightens current acne place and blemishes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocarBNFYX8 brightens complexion and keeps in Test extreme oil secretion. Now lie down and rest for 15-20 minutes in advance of wash your face. Vitamin A in egg yolk is sweet for dry flaking skin when honey locked the humidity on your own skin. A little warmth the honey and include it to the egg white combined with the yogurt (be certain it’s fresh).

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Due to this fact, the openings of those glands cannot be cleaned, Whilst they ended up previously cleaned mainly because of the standard move of sebum. This would make these pores prone to infections by microbes and your situation will become a vicious cycle that receives extreme. The pores move forward to be crimson, itchy, and painfully swollen places over the skin which glimpse unattractive and depart darkish spots about the skin when they heal. This regrettable scenario is termed acne. You need to often discard the applied facial mask since it may have the germs out of your earlier facial. I have been intending to pamper myself for quite a while, and I believe that a facial mask is the best way to go. I'm definitely thrilled to test these, Specially because they all use cheap products from the fridge or cabinet. Massage lightly the paste on your own skin and depart it on for approximately 25 minutes. When the pack dries out, rinse it off with chilly h2o. Pat your skin dry and wow – your complexion adjustments instantaneously and starts glowing. Depart the mask on for 10 to 15 minutes. This mask is runny and could drip down your face. To circumvent yourself from acquiring much too messy, consider laying down or sitting down again in a very chair using your head tilted back. It's also possible to use this mask within the bathtub if you are getting a relaxing bathtub. Info: Even though the grains in the apple performs for a kind of Mild scrub for cleaning your face, the glycolic acid in it facilitates exfoliation. Searching for face masks? We're here to help you. Our facial masks deal with several different skin care considerations. Acne problems? There's a mask for that. Store our wide array of face masks for acne. My skin type is usual,Oily only when i awaken in early morning.I dont need to risk my face skin,i would like to moisturize my face but don’t understand how..I don’t believe on these presently creams.I need all-natural things.Can u pls guide me for glowing very clear skin. (i) As this mask is kind of sticky, Be sure to pull back your hair using a head scarf or band to stop your hair from receiving tousled While using the mask. four. Banana Face Mask to combat wrinkles: Some individuals connect with bananas as pain-free, low-cost natural Botox, and they rightly achieve this! Bananas are filled with potent nutrients to remarkably diminish the appearance of wrinkles, and make your skin glimpse more youthful and radiant. Enable the mixture to stay on your face for three to 5 minutes. https://www.facebook.com/steptoremedies/posts/2099810723445530 may want to sit back and chill out. The more you move around, the more most likely the combination is to come back off your face and get with your garments/home furnishings. Clean your face with a mild cleanser. Undertaking this can clear away any Dust and buildup before you decide to exfoliate. Be sure to pat your face dry gently which has a thoroughly clean, dry washcloth right before applying the sugar-baking soda mixture. (i) Consider a small piece of banana peel and rub inside it within the influenced region for a couple of minutes until the inside in the peel turns brown. Furthermore, these peels is often soaked in boiling drinking water for on a daily basis and the resultant liquid can be used as being a skin toner. You may also use it to be a hair rinse to add shine for your hair and do away with dandruff.

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1. Use extra virgin olive oil for best effects. Processed solutions may well irritate your skin or cause acne breakouts. 3. https://www.facebook.com/steptoremedies/posts/2099734926786443 should not be drippy. Never incorporate extra olive oil, as this may dissolve the sugar. Introducing far too minimal olive oil could make your face scrub rough and dry that may cause skin redness. Be sure to take a little minute to complete your profile so we can easily personalize your practical experience and you should definitely acquire material and offers that are relevant to you. Honey, Conversely, is actually a natural humectant that helps the skin keep its dampness. It really works equally as correctly being a natural cleanser and exfoliant to advertise distinct and glowing skin. Make sure that you utilize pure necessary oil, not fragrance oil designed for diffusers or cleaning soap-building. If you cannot come across any, consider 1 teaspoon of lemon juice in its place. Non-public label hydrating firming anti-aging new products superfine fiber mask sheet peeling face mask Brown sugar is a wonderful skin-exfoliator. It can help slough off dead skin cells over the outer layer from the skin. This permits space For brand new healthy skin cells to regenerate and performance properly. It may also deep cleanse your skin, taking away grime and germs from in skin pores and preventing even further breakouts. Add lemon juice, honey and baking soda to a little bowl. Combine effectively and implement in excess of the face and neck. Stay away from the place around your eyes (lemon juice and honey will both of those sting). Honey and avocado are the right combo of hydrating components for dry skin. Floor almonds gently exfoliate, and their very good fats go away your skin sensation super soft. If you want to increase much more moisturizing benefits, add a tablespoon of oil to the combo. As this mask could get messy, It will be a smart idea to tie or pin your hair again. You may additionally want to take into consideration draping a towel more than your upper body and shoulders to shield your clothing. With this straightforward blemish-eradicating face mask, You merely want two other substances: honey and yogurt. These powerhouse ingredients are full of nutrients that give nourishing Positive aspects to skin. Honey, particularly, assists in evening out discolorations and blemishes on skin. OEM ODM rorec aloe vera olive pomegranate blueberry honey purely natural skin mask for face masks skin care The egg white, lemon, and honey mask may help decrease blackhead and acne even though the egg yolk, olive oil, and banana mask can help moisturize and nourish your skin. Browse this article to learn the way to create each! Turmeric masks have an everyday location in my magnificence program — I do them as soon as weekly. They’ll depart a slight yellow hue over the skin, but that fades in about half an hour. Should you observe residue following the 30 minute mark, you are able to soak a cotton ball with milk and go about People regions.

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Exfoliating sugar facials are Particularly fantastic from the Wintertime, when skin is extra at risk of dryness. Eliminating dead skin cells helps your moisturizer sink into your skin and get the job done more successfully.[27] If you’d want to attempt lemon juice in a very skin cure but are concerned about its acidity disrupting your skin’s all-natural pH equilibrium, try out including a little bit of baking soda towards the mixture. Ensure that you Obtain your hair absent out of your face just before implementing this mask. Placed on a headband or plastic shower cap to forestall the mixture from occurring your hair. So now you are aware of the wonder ingredient, the next concern is tips on how to rely on them in the mask which will advantage you. Of course, it would make a beautiful Mild cleanser in addition. I really like how it would make my face truly feel within the mornings. What a amazing concept! I like obtaining the most out from the objects I acquire, And that i generally sense lousy composting awesome, fragrant orange peels. Now I understand how to proceed with them! Respond to: Any genuine honey will do, but my private favourite is raw, unfiltered honey mainly because it retains far more of its powerful therapeutic Attributes. I can actually tell the difference between the kinds of honey I’ve useful for my honey mask. Patricia Wexler recommends Women of all ages exfoliate daily. "This as soon as-a-week matter is nonsense. But, I feel You need to know your skin. You should by no means glance red or irritated—it is best to search far better after you scrub." Applying orange juice on your face is so beneficial. So just envision how considerably more effective It will be to use the peel, rich in skin-boosting nutrients, with your face! • Shrink enlarged pores and retain distinct, younger-on the lookout skin by consistently making use of new orange juice on your skin for a couple of minutes. It could possibly mend concerns like dark places, pimples, and wrinkles at the same time. Wash oranges and peel off the top most section. Try and stay away from the white element just as much as possible. For this, ensure that you use a sharp knife. You can buy microdermabrasion kits. See a listing of the best facial scrubs and microdermabrasion kits. When you have water, which you hopefully do have at hand, use that to help make your facial somewhat more watery if required. You might continue using your facial if you want. Turmeric is a common ingredient in Southeast Asian splendor products. It truly is beloved for its skin lightening talents. Just be careful, the orange can stain very light-weight skin. A fairly easy approach to different yolk from whites is you crack an egg right into a bowl and get an vacant water bottle and squeeze it, be sure you maintain that grip. then place the opening in the bottle previously mentioned the yolk and Permit that grip go and it ought to suck the yolk to the bottle.

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meringue with the liquid from cans of chickpeas. The first time I observed it had been on Floral Frosting's site. For those who have not seen her work, go have a look. Her site is like sugar laden eye candy, with beautiful Other benefits of coffee face masks incorporate their power to scale back face inflammation. This home made mask will probably be your best ally for people days any time you have not received much sleep or have slept badly and also you get up with a little bit puffy face. Curly, frizzy or straight hair, every single wonderful hair model starts off from the shower. That’s why you’ll have to have to shield and address your hair with the very best hair care products which include shampoos and conditioners. There are a selection of shampoo and conditioner formulation which can help you take care of uninteresting or destroyed hair. Whether it is shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, hair colours, styling equipment or treatment method goods, you’ll uncover it all on Amazon India beneath 1 roof in your ease. Obtain on the net hair care and styling items, filter success based on brand name, price, purchaser critiques or Specific gives and savings. 1. Use excess virgin olive oil for most effective outcomes. Processed click here may possibly irritate your skin or bring about acne breakouts. A warning when employing lemon juice: Lemon could also make the skin photosensitive. Rinse your face thoroughly and use sunscreen for those who’ll be out in the Sunshine soon afterward. To open up your pores, You may also have a quick splash with warm h2o in its place to steaming. All of these substances have their very own super powers and will help you cleanse your face of the oil and Grime along with the acne leading to cells. Coconut oil is usually a hydrator, it is going to supply nourishment to skin that dehydrated and dry. It’s abundant n antioxidants and will help your skin for getting smoother and greater. If you wish for younger wanting, wholesome skin, then as an alternative to an apply switch to an orange per day. In the event the orange peel powder and oatmeal made use of collectively feels a little tough on the skin, incorporate more olive oil but don’t ensure it is way too runny as it will produce a drippy mess. Approach: In a very bowl or a container, include some sugar and grate some orange peel directly in to the jar. Pour in a few honey for the exfoliation of skin. Subsequent include coconut oil and mix well. Sometimes a witness for that prosecution seems in court in a very mask to avoid being regarded by associates from the accused. In Activity the protective mask will usually Use a secondary function to generate the wearer seem a lot more remarkable like a competitor. The caffeine material should help lower swelling and restore the skin's lost blush, brightness and vitality. The bottom beans are best to clean and scrub, while caffeine incorporates a tightening effect on your skin pores. This makes it the ideal component to be coupled with banana in an effort to decrease the wonderful traces and wrinkles.

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The reason why honey is usually identified as a base component for almost every beauty solution is mainly because it deeply moisturises the pores and skin from deep within just. The enzymes present in Honey enables it to easily seep into the pores and skin whilst conditioning it and softening it from deep in just. Mix each of these ingredients in the clear bowl, mix it nicely. Now place this bowl in sizzling h2o for two-three minutes. Now your mask is prepared for software. Firstly, combine fuller’s earth along with the orange peel in a bowl within their existing native condition. Now, insert the freshly squeezed juice to generate a paste on the 3. When you have a thick paste, add some drops on the crucial orange oil to it. Honey is really a natural moisturiser in addition to a purely natural antiseptic. This not merely keeps your skin gentle and healthful, but also can make absolutely sure significantly less of a scar is left powering. So So how exactly does one thing as fundamental as honey do that? It minimizes any inflammation and allows recover the skin more quickly. On top of that, the anti-oxidants existing in honey assist repair weakened skin. https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=face+mask can aggravate rosacea, leaving faces reddened and blotchy, and in some cases bumpy likewise. The apple cider vinegar helps you to stabilize the pH of your skin, though the oatmeal lessens discomfort and the opposite ingredients soothe and moisturize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVqzAomJgJk is A vital and major part component of this total procedure. It could be ready very easily at your home by generating using subsequent actions. Oatmeal is perfect for relaxing rough, offended pores and skin and for helping to mend eczema and acne breakouts. Paired with honey and yogurt, itâs a calming and revitalizing mask for all pores and skin sorts. . The sugar along with the olive oil kind a mild scrub, which also helps in eradicating particles trapped in pores. Good piece. Very good to obtain back to Fundamentals and out in the chemical laden cosmetics. I will be striving honey tonight. Use this around your face and go away it to act for twenty minutes, following that rinse off your face with warm drinking water, pat dry and implement moisturizer. Use this mask handful of time each week and the outcomes will amaze you. Fuller’s earth or even the multani mitti is surely an indigenous approach to take care of numerous skin problems. It is actually business remover of oiliness and strongly fights the blackheads. Additionally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjdq0EKA1Ck dries to variety a agency mask. Turmeric masks have a regular area in my elegance plan — I do them once each week. They’ll leave a slight yellow hue about the pores and skin, but that fades in about half an hour. Should https://www.facebook.com/steptoremedies/posts/2099808380112431 notice residue once the thirty moment mark, you are able to soak a cotton ball with milk and go in excess of People locations. I didn't recognize that strawberries Obviously have salicylic acid in them! I understood to search for the component when purchasing face/acne washes, but by no means realized I had some in my fridge currently. I like Finding out new things such as that! :) Virtually completed... We have to confirm your e-mail handle. To accomplish the membership approach, please click the link in the email we just sent you.

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The coffee and lemon face mask is ideal for the oily pores and skin. To prepare the face mask you will need two tablespoons of wet coffee grounds, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice plus a teaspoon of honey. Spread the mixture on your face. Loosen up for twenty minutes after which you can rinse with lukewarm drinking water. Coconut oil has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory Attributes. These Attributes assist secure the pores and skin from exterior pollutants. This is another Excellent cure for acne. This variation can be wholly produced from natural and edible elements. After the mask cools down, it's important to moisten a clear cotton pad in h2o and rub their pores and skin. Just after 40 a long time in menopause frequently surface on the pores and skin rashes. To cope with them, you should put together a mask: grind twenty five g yeast in 1 tbsp. l. yeast; Virtually concluded... We have to confirm your email address. To complete the membership course of action, remember to click the connection in the email we just sent you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZn8i5kT2A s because the career of cinnamon is to wash your skin from underneath, it provides out every one of the bacteria and your skin can get a lot more acne at the start mainly because it is finding rid of all the things beneath but following that your skin will seem great–it works similar to Proactive, it cleans every thing beneath advertisement maintains that cleanliness three. Make the mask smooth and perfectly-combined for easier software. I understand mine appears somewhat lumpy but it absolutely was however wonderful for application. With cleanse fingers, apply this mask on your own face. Wash off with warm water following ten minutes. Whilst foods has long been Utilized in facials for good, aestheticians have started pampering the pores and skin with a few pretty unanticipated elements, like beer, açai berries, and also—believe it—chilly clamshells. “These new treatments are generally far more strong than their predecessors, still they continue to be gentle more than enough for some complexions,” claims Francesca Fusco, a dermatologist in Ny city. These Do-it-yourself masks can function wonders for various skin issuesâfrom dry, cracked cheeks and dull foreheads to acne breakouts. Try and use organic components whenever attainable, because the skin in your face is thinner than other portions of Your system and may soak up toxins way more conveniently. Mix the primary 4 components inside a bowl, and insert three tablespoons warm, potent green tea for the mixture. Stir often for a few minutes, introducing tea as wanted right up until you’ve designed a thick paste. Uncooked honey was prized for its therapeutic Homes in historical civilizations. In Egyptian And Ayurvedic traditions, honey was utilised to take care of skin wounds and Diseases (study more details on the ancient works by using of honey listed here). Strategies: The apple honey mask will work greatest when it’s new. To paraphrase, following planning, you shouldn’t preserve it from the fridge to apply later. Since it is so brief and easy to organize, allow it to be just before you decide to plan to use it. A key part of the DIY coffee face mask is cinnamon which incorporates cinnamaldehyde and proanthocyanidins and is also answerable for protecting against clogging from the pores and skin pores although lessening inflammation a result of microbes. Which is so sweet of you to say. If you would like us to come up with any specific DIY or almost every other written content, do point out that while in the remark section down below.

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Do best natural face mask steaming in advance of hand. This could open up your face pores, allowing the mask to sink deep into your pores and get the job done its magic. Apart from implementing orange juice and peels on pores and skin, you may take in this fruit and its juice often to boost immunity, aid in digestion, protect against kidney stones, lessen Fats deposits, teat lousy breath, reduce blood pressure and cholesterol stages, and decrease the chances of building cardiovascular disease. Share Check out a small amount of the mask over the again of the hand or side of one's face. If it causes discomfort, Never use that mask. Rub gently more than puffy areas until eventually the shells are no longer chilly. Try this in the morning, prior to deciding to’ve done anything to the skin, to just take down under-eye bloat that may have accrued right away. thanks greatly, i`d experimented with it when for my wife and she or he love it, i am earning some a lot more for her once again. source under no circumstances rubbed the yeast on my pores and skin for a gommage or exfoliating action before washing my face so possibly I could Do this following time. I attempted simply a mask for each se. Make an egg white face mask. Egg whites can tighten pores, supplying you with A brief face elevate, as lemon has vitamin C that could get rid of blackheads and other blemishes. Defeat 1 egg white that has a fork right up until it's frothy. https://www.wikihow.com/Take-Care-of-Your-Skin . Superior to get back again to Fundamentals and out on the chemical laden cosmetics. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-All-Natural-Face-Masks will be seeking honey tonight. Are you aware that strawberries are among the best normal goods, created by nature, to apply on your skin? They comprise necessary fruit acids (AHA's), including salicylic acid, which happens to be commercially marketed with accomplishment for acne treatment. Avocado masks are utilized by celebs like Victoria Beckham and Jessica Biel, as well as best part is that you could try to eat the next half which you donât use on your own face. Superior, there is a spot for this. A friend online begun chatting with me about skin and she recommended a yeast face mask with milk. I never ever heard of this type of issue but I figured Why don't you, I love masks. So I tried it. I just pour a little bit of dry yeast (the minimal beads) into a little dish and incorporate several drops of milk. Yeast - a flexible solution. With them and pastries flavor improved, and alcoholic beverages more powerful and more wonderful skin. Inside of them you need to consider tablets, nevertheless the masks are ideal for refreshing yeast. Using yeast for that pores and skin Pots with a combination set in warm water and look forward to the fermentation. Vitamin yeast face mask in opposition to acne has testimonials only quite possibly the most admiring and grateful. Do it on your own: Submerge the shells in ice for 15 to twenty minutes. Remove with the ice and slip the tip of a finger snugly in the narrow mouth of each and every shell.

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Remedies and Masks out there out there at this time are of the best purchase and can play A serious function in affecting your General physical appearance. Amazon India presents you several of the very best pores and skin care products which can actively impact your grooming and help you realize probably the most out within your visual appearance and skin tone. Store on-line at Amazon India to find the best treatment plans and masks. Lie down and leave the mask on for five minutes. Wash it away with warm drinking water, pat your face dry and observe up with your favorite toner and moisturizer. Do it yourself Recipe #3 Home made Strawberry Mask And in contrast to Do-it-yourself and store-purchased face masks, SiO Natural beauty’s Carry collection skin patches can be worn every single night for supercharged therapeutic and wrinkle avoidance. No DIY face mask can make that assert. I put up with dry, delicate, blemished matured pores and skin that despise chemical substances. I am undoubtedly seeking the peel/coconut ouT right thru; do I stop the peel after the blemishes are out & cleared?, how/ with what do I cleanse these types of skin?, any moisturising & sunblock strategies? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facemask ! Yeast is unusual, but Yet induce allergic reactions,consequently, right before implementing the mask to the face, pre-attempt the merchandise on a small inconspicuous location of skin in position. Should you have any redness, itching or almost every other unfavorable reactions over the pores and skin, you are categorically forbidden to accomplish this kind of mask. https://twitter.com/steptoremedies/status/1087109036632391680 and various eruptions. Yeasts are battling inflammatory procedures while in the skin. Very good assist and acne and comedones; with getting old pores and skin. https://www.facebook.com/steptoremedies/posts/2088297497930186 might help to normalize the manufacture of Body fat and yeast cope with clogged pores and cleanse them. In place of yogurt, You should use sour cream, the effect will be the exact. In case you have blend skin, you'll technique such a mask: Clear one particular banana peel; It can be a little drying, but regular moisturizer cure afterwards would get the job done (even though I generally wait around a little bit immediately after masks, don't want to apply anything at all whilst pores are open. Now, clean the paste Similarly and gently using your fingertips within the clean neck and face; maintain your eye region distinct. Thanx. I'm a black/african female 0f forty one. I am light-weight in complection, but my face appears to be like so dull and grey. I've tried out evri solution but my skin retaliates skin treatment schedule. Guarantee never to smile or talk to the face mask on! This may stretch your skin around the mouth and eyes and actually induce wrinkles to variety. Lemon provides the necessary dose of vitamin C Within this pack. Acquire one particular tbsp of coffee powder, a person tbsp of honey, and squeeze in several drops of lemon into it. Combine nicely and apply on face and neck. Rinse off soon after 50 % one hour. Neglect expending time and money at your local spa. Comply with these easy recipes and pamper on your own with an ideal homemade face mask. Here are a few easy to do Do-it-yourself face masks which take advantage of yeast in decreasing the appearance of wrinkles.

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Stir the combination and massage movements rub in the pores and skin with the face and wash off soon after half one hour. three. Combine the pure and rice flour comprehensively and maintain it aside. After that, bring the container containing strawberry and pour this rice flour with puree With this. This is an easy face mask produced by Mixing finely floor coffee beans with olive oil. Gently rub the skin in round motion even though applying the coffee and olive oil mixture to the face. mask has to be utilized on clean up pores and skin of the face and continue to keep for twenty minutes, then rinse less than functioning drinking water. Clay masks are magnificent for controlling oily skin. Honey can help split up extra oil and highly absorbent clay gets rid of it whilst Carefully exfoliating. Bentonite and Moroccan Red are two of the best clay selections for balancing oily pores and skin. Oatmeal is perfect for soothing rough, indignant skin and for assisting to recover eczema and acne breakouts. Paired with honey and yogurt, itâs a calming and revitalizing mask for all skin types. Yeast - a versatile product. With them and pastries taste far better, and alcoholic beverages stronger and much more stunning pores and skin. Inside them you'll want to take tablets, nevertheless the masks are ideal for clean yeast. The use of yeast for the pores and skin @salamat: Use as soon as each and every three days and get the job done your way approximately once every single 2 days. Don't use everyday, as orange peel is often a potent, exfoliating and peeling ingredient. The important thing is to utilize it continually for a minimum of a month ahead of acquiring significantly radiant and glowing skin. Which is a single interesting mask! When I initially noticed the Image I believed it was a mask according to Turmeric, considering the fact that Additionally it is an orange powder, but a mask manufactured outside of floor orange peel would haven't happened to me. Many thanks for sharing! Great for combination pores and skin mask in good shape of milk: Split the yeast into many little items and place it in warm milk, it truly is in almost any scenario should not be scorching, or else the mushroom will die; An orange peel face mask could sound like a wierd plan, nevertheless it has a lot of Added benefits to offer to the pores and skin. It's rich in antioxidants and vitamin C that aid tighten and tone the pores and skin, providing it a healthful glow. If it leaves a yellowish tinge on your skin, soak a cotton ball in milk and rub it over the stained places. Use this mask two to 3 times per week. https://steptoremedies.com/coffee-grounds-for-skin/ is my holy grail. I have already been employing this product or service for each week now, and my skin has currently become so gentle, supple and radiant. I've an Totally dry skin, and just after employing this item I haven’t appeared again. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/722616702689546927 is totally worth the dollars, you put money into this product or service! All facts is presented on an as-is basis. The information, points or thoughts appearing within the posting usually do not replicate the sights of NDTV and NDTV doesn't think any obligation or legal responsibility for a similar.

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