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I havent post much about palestine but dear lord wtaf. Thats not war there people thats genocide. how tf do you think its okay to kill the innocent, then disprespect the body. what do you even think how does that to through ones head. thats what you think of when you hear cruel. that person had family, friends, a life beyond this war and none of that is capable of continuing due to the mindless murders happening. i know im not as active is posting about this but dear lord i was so disgusted seeing this. i know my blog is supposed to be fun and silly but this isnt fun and silly. this is a disgrace to an entire population and even if palestine is freed, the damage is done. a beautiful place with history is gone. we wont see this place the same for years especially considering the fact my own braindead government couldnt give half a damn to quit looking the opposite way so they have their big bucks. i felt the need to post this because with each passing day i know theres dead innocent people and i cannot contribute money, but i know i can contribute my voice. i hope for all the Palestinians out there they can survive the nightmares they face and can make it back to where they will have fresh, clean water, a hot meal, and a warm bed.

I will be going back to my posting soon but this was important and i needed l to share it.

From the river to the sea,

Palestine will be free.

How do you even begin to think that this is right?

via eye.on.palestine on insta. There's another video before this one, tw though, because it shows them getting shot.

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If you see me on this app no I'm not supposed to be here I'm procrastinating and feeling the weight of my sins and I'm perishing

[sk2lton]

PIERCER IN TRAINING﹙☆﹚—  TWST

you want to pierce your ears, jade offers to do it for you.

— warnings: mention of needles, ears being pierced of course, semi proofread

— characters: jade (ft. azul)

when you first complained about wanting to pierce your ears, jade offered to do it for you. immediately, you shot him down. it would be stupid of you to accept an offer from jade leech of all people to pierce your ears. the possibilities were endless. he could pierce the wrong part of your ear. he could end up making too big of a hole. he could make too small of a hole. you knew none of the staff would be impressed to see you walk in to the infirmary with your ears in dire need of first aid. however, you seemed to underestimate jade’s persuasive skills. that was your biggest and most costly oversight.

since, before you knew it, you were sitting in front of jade, after hours at monstro lounge, as he was readying himself to pierce your ears. “are you sure you can do this?” you nervously asked as you watched him slip a pair of latex gloves on. at least he acted like a professional piercer. 

“i have told you, i’ve done this many times. you have nothing to worry about,” jade spoke as he inspected some of the trinkets that were there to pierce your ears.

“define many,” you asked.

“myself, of course. floyd as well,” he seemed rather proud by this. however what he claimed to be many, wasn’t many. that was certainly not reassuring to hear. “now, can you please stop perspiring. what if your sweat makes my hand slip and pierce the wrong place?”

you froze, wiping the sweat off your face and away from your hairline. “you know what, maybe i’ll just wait to get a professional-”

“i am one. would you like to see my certificate?” jade asked, setting down the needle. 

you paused for a moment. sometimes, it was hard to tell if jade was serious or not. squinting at him, you spoke, “do you really have one?”

“no, i just thought that it would make you feel better if you thought i did,” jade said before he took a marker and begun trying to figure out where to pierce each ear. “i will not do anything bad, you have my word.” now that was more reassuring. 

“what if something goes wrong?” you mumbled, trying to stay still while he marks with two little dots where he is going to pierce your ears.

“that’s simple, it won’t,” he was rather confident in his piercing abilities. although you haven’t seen him in action, it was certainly comforting to hear his confidence remain fixed, despite the fact that you’ve continuously questioned his abilities ever since he offered to do this for you. although, an offer makes it sound like it was free. even though jade didn’t name a price, you knew it came with one that you would find out soon enough.

“i don’t think i’ve ever seen you this concentrated,” you tried hard not to make eye contact as he was very close to your face, still attempting to make the dots symmetrical. jade was completely and utterly fixated on the task at hand. his eyebrows were slightly furrowed and he seemed to bite the inside of his cheek in frustration. every now and then he would gently grasp your chin, moving your head around to make sure he’s gotten it right. that made it difficult to avoid eye contact and whenever your eyes would accidentally lock onto his, jade would let out a low chuckle. that chuckle sent heat straight to your face, but you tried to ignore it. 

once he was satisfied, he breathed out a long sigh. “this is your last chance to back out. are you going to take it or should i get started?” he picked up the needle, raising a brow at you expectantly. 

“just get over with it,” you told him. in response, he nodded. when positioning himself at a different angle, one that would aid him in getting the needle through your right ear, he leaned in close.

“if it’s too much pain, it doesn’t matter to me what you do. just don’t move,” jade advised you. you hummed in response to let him know that you had heard him.

“wait, are you going to do a countdown or something- ow!” you yelped as you felt the needle poke through your earlobe. although it didn’t hurt as much as you thought it would, jade had caught you off guard which caused you to let out that yelp.

“oh no,” jade said. 

“jade? what do you mean, oh no?” you tried to glance at him through your peripheral vision but failed. what did he mean by oh no? had something went wrong? you felt another pinch at your right ear and winced in response. “jade?!” you heard him suck in a breath. “why oh no?!” 

“i’m sincerely sorry.”

“what happened? what do you mean??” you felt yourself become increasingly more nervous, enraged, and confused. what had happened to make jade respond like this? did he truly mess up that badly?

“it’s best you don’t know. now, onto your left ear,” jade grinned.

“no way am i going to let that happen! what’d you do to my first ear?” 

“what are you guys doing here still?” azul walked out of his office, clearly annoyed by the ruckus being caused outside of it. “jade, why do you have a needle in your hand. and you, why are you screaming?”

“azul!” you ran to him. “does my ear look okay?” you turned to show him your right ear. azul shot jade a look of bewilderment. 

“yes, it looks fine,” he spoke. “did you always have an earring on this side?” 

turning around, you glared at jade who seemed to be chuckling to himself. of course, he had been joking about ruining your piercing. that should’ve seemed obvious from the start. after jade explained what you two were doing, azul looked at you both with amusement before retreating back into his office. however, before that, he had forced you two to promise not to do anything reckless and if you ended up needing to go to the infirmary, you had to say the injury was sustained in anywhere but the monstro lounge. once agreeing, you sat back down in front of jade, burning holes into him from your harsh scowl.

“remind me to never let you give me a piercing again,” you mumbled, arms crossed as jade moved around to your left side. 

“who else will i practice on?” he frowned.

“azul, i’m sure he’d appreciate it!” you sarcastically stated.

“if i ever came near azul with a needle, no matter what the reason was, he would make me pay,” jade said.

“next time, i’ll take a page from azul’s book then,” you grumbled. “and, this time can you countdown? it’s really annoying-” then once again, while you were unready, jade stuck the needle through your left ear. it hurt much less than the first time. “if you were an actual piercer, i would give you a one-star rating for this!” jade only smiled in response. next, you felt another pinch which you assumed was the earring going through the new hole. 

once finished, jade moved to face you directly. he nodded, seeming proud of the job he had done before he pulled out his phone, passing it to you so you could see yourself using the camera. to your surprise, your earrings were very evenly placed at the same level, in the middle of your earlobe. there was no blood and although your ears were red, that would fade over time. you smiled at the topaz and silver earrings which jade had insisted on. 

“thank you, jade. they look really nice!” you exclaimed.

“you’re welcome. now, for my pay, i’ll be calling upon you for a favour within the next few days, so don’t forget,” he spoke, pulling off his latex gloves. he begun to clean up his makeshift piercing station.

the fact that you had to pay jade back with a favour was probably more terrifying than the fact that jade was the person who pierced your ears. if you were to tell any of your friends this, surely they’ll boo at you for making such a stupid decision but in your defense, he was excellent at piercing ears. 

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10 E-Commerce Conversion tips to Boost Black Friday Sale in 2020

It’s time for online retailers to get ready, as the biggest sale events are on the way. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are important for retailers to increase their online sales. This year due to the global outbreak, we’ll witness some changes as many retailers decided to shift Black Friday Sale online. It means there will be an increase in traffic, conversions, and ultimately an increase in revenue for your business.

To beef up your Black Friday sale, you must come up with the right marketing strategy and plan to maximize your conversion rate. To help you to boost your conversion rate, we have enlisted important conversion tips that can convert your visitors to buyers.

1-  Perform Site Audit

Before preparing for the biggest sale event of the season, you must see whether your site is ready to join the party or not?

Ultimately your site performance plays a crucial role in driving conversions to your site. So, you must spend time auditing your site. Your eCommerce store’s reliability is the deciding metric to measure the success in sales.

Check your Site Speed

Your buyer is impatient to get hands on their favourite products and to avail exclusive discounts. But, every second your site takes to load, the higher the chances of bounce rate.

Page speed affects conversion rate; the slower an eCommerce site, the lower will be the chances to win the visitor. Likewise, high page speed can increase the conversion rate. Ensure your website optimization to perform well on the Black Friday Sale.

You can check page speed using different tools like Google PageSpeed Insights or GTmetrix. You can also improve page speed by following the suggestions given there. Shopify Pro also offers eCommerce store optimization services that can help you to win this online game.

Optimize the Site for Mobile Phone

Make your site mobile phone ready to increase conversions on Black Friday sales. Many buyers love to shop from their mobile phones, so we can’t ignore this crucial step. Your site must cater buyers with flexible and seamless mobile shopping experience.

Optimizing the site for mobile phones allows you to drive more traffic, as there is a significant percentage of users who buy products from one click on a mobile phone device. Consider one thing that responsive design doesn’t mean your eCommerce store is well optimized for mobile phones. Mobile Phone optimization includes mobile speed, navigation, and one-click checkout process optimization. Similarly, design advertisements and banners according to mobile phones. Leverage mobile ads for social media platforms to drive more traffic. The better mobile version performance of your site can boost conversions.

Simplify Navigation

Better the onsite experience, an ultimate increase in conversions. Simple navigation can help customers in finding their products quickly. Serve your customers with an easy navigation menu, so your visitor can find what they are looking for online.

Add sub-navigation, products, and categories to your main menu so buyers can easily navigate to the product through the menu.

Fast and Easy Checkout System

Audit your site’s checkout system and provide them with easy and fast checkout during the Black Friday sale. Customers don’t have time to fill unnecessary fields, so make sure to give them an easy to navigate checkout page.

Show discounts on the checkout page, enable auto filler functionality and provide your customer with a smooth shopping experience.

Fast Shipping Process

Prepare your Black Friday shipping plan; free shipping can play well to increase your sales. Offer free shipping to all items in your store and extend this offer to Cyber Monday. Giving reliable, secure, and free shipping of products can build your trust in your frequent buyers.

2- Setup your Email Marketing Campaign

Undoubtedly, email marketing is the most effective way to engage your customers, and it performs better than other marketing channels. It directly interacts with your customers and helps you to direct traffic to your site and thus eventually generates leads.

As Black Friday is here, hit your email marketing campaign to drive sales. But how can we increase conversions and open rate? By launching a strategic email marketing campaign. The very first thing you need to do is – customer segmentation.

Create your Black Friday Sale segmentation list

– Regular shopper

– Infrequent Shopper

– Loyal customers

– VIP buyers

– Email subscriber but never bought anything

– Special sales shoppers

Setting up your targeted email marketing campaign for those who are your potential customers for the Black Friday sale can help you to increase conversions. As compared to the general newsletter, personalized email campaigns work more efficiently and generate a 20% increase in conversion rate.

Promote your popular products and offer gift vouchers as well as gift sets that can create urgency in customers to buy your products. Let your customers know what your trending product is and why everyone is after it.

3- Use Social Media to Increase Conversions

With over 2 billion users globally, Social Media has become one of the leading marketing channels to market your products. With proper implementation and proven marketing tactics, social media can help you to boost conversions.

To boost your campaign reach, you must hit every social media platform like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat ads. Engaging content, conversion ads, and videos can help you to drive traffic from social media platforms.

After email marketing, contacting people on social media messenger apps is another way to drive traffic. Through it, you can directly target your audience in their inbox. Eventually, it will increase your online sales. While targeting your audience via messenger, make sure to design your personalized Black Friday sale offer effectively that can boost conversions.

4- Retarget your Loyal Customers

This Black Friday celebrates your loyal customers, incentivizes them with some gifts set or special discounts, and encourages them to buy your products.

Although good services or products can bring your buyer again to your shop, if you don’t target your frequent shoppers, sooner or later, they will leave. The more you retarget, the more you retain your potential buyers. Don’t forget to reward your VIP or highest revenue customers on this sale and give them a reason to shop again.

5- Turn your Black Friday Sale to Cyber Monday

Extending your sale to the weekend or even to Cyber Monday is considered another effective conversion tip for eCommerce retailers.

Plan your post-black Friday sale promotion and marketing strategy to capture more customers. Extending the sale can help in gaining more customers but stay focused on the Black Friday sale because that needs your energy first. You can extend the sale or special discount on the most selling or popular items as well as offers exciting discounts.

6- Offer Early Bird Discounts and Deals

An effective way to drive more customers to your online store is by offering exclusive and exciting early bird discounts.

Early bird discounts can cause eagerness and scarcity in customers, you can introduce exclusive discounts for first 40 buyers or less than of it. It helps in bringing more traffic and profit to your business. Design your early discount offers carefully and target your audience with engaging emails. As everyone is pampering themselves for black Friday discounts, your early bird discount offer can play well before sale day.

7- Automate your Black Friday Sale Process

To stand out of the competition, you must be a customer centric agency, and to give excellent customer support during the Black Friday sale, you must automate your sale process.

Automating your sale process can help to maximize your reach and give an instant response to your buyers. According to the studies, automation can increase conversion to 60% and allows you to target your potential buyers with real time response.  So, this Black Friday Sale, it’s time to embrace the automation process to drive leads and boost conversions.

8- Launch your black Friday Sale on your Landing Page

Launch your featured landing page for the Black Friday Sale featuring your exclusive discounts, offers, and flat sale. It is an effective way to increase conversions as many customers come to your site from emails. So, you must cater them with the perfect themed landing page.

Creating an explicit discount landing page for your online store can help shoppers in finding what they are looking for in the Black Friday Sale. Apart from exciting announcements, the landing page also helps you to engage with buyers. Create your email subscribers list and hit them with your black Friday offer emails.

9- Launch your Marketing Campaign

Create a master plan for your black Friday sale marketing campaign. An effective marketing campaign can boost up conversions and hence profit of the business. Consider the timing as a crucial part while planning your marketing strategies and campaign.

Focus on your services and strategies, analyze your competitors, and come up with unique selling value that can make you stand out of the crowd. Along with segmented email marketing and social media targeting, these are some of the important points you need to consider while launching your Black Friday Marketing Campaign.

Setup your ecommerce store’s black Friday sale theme

Attract and engage your customers with your customized black Friday themed website. Your buyer interacts with your website, and designing a usable and attractive shop can be effective tactics to increase engagements.

Set up a customized eCommerce website with the Black Friday theme, add banners and engaging posts on your site. Customizing an eCommerce store can be a laborious task, and it will take a lot of your time and energy. Shopify Pro is a leading eCommerce solution provider agency that can customize and develop your eCommerce website.

Add Countdown pop-ups

Create urgency in your buyers and let them join the party by giving an exciting countdown. A deadline or timer has a great influence on our mind. Knowing the fact that your favorite product or sale might end soon will create eagerness in customers to buy it.

Add countdown timer pop up to your landing page as well as send countdown emails to your buyers to let them know that time is running out.

Perfect your coupon code strategy and Free Shipping

According to Marketing Profs’ study, almost 57% of the customers said that they would not buy anything from the online store if they had not received any discount. Coupon codes can help you to attract buyers as well as it can trigger your potential customer to shop from you.

Coupons are considered to be an effective part of increasing conversions, so implementing a compelling coupon code strategy can increase conversions. Introduce different promo codes on your landing page and product pages and send personalized emails with promo codes to lead more conversions.  

One best thing about coupon codes is that it can turn your visitor into your buyer, so make them feel extra special by offering exclusive discounts on the right products. Increase urgency of the customer by displaying *Free Shipping* pop up with discount codes.

10- Discount Visibility on Product, Categories, and Cart Pages

A buyer comes to your site because he is looking for deals or discounts on particular products. So, from products to cart, your website should have discount visibility.

One way to boost your Black Friday sale is by showing what a customer can save by purchasing the product. Show Flat discount on your landing page that can attract and motivate your shopper to shop from you.

Design your banners with a discount offer, add discount filters on the product page and then let your customer know about the saved amount at the checkout page.

Conclusion

From marketing strategy to mobile friendly site, the article covered useful conversion tips that allow you to drive profit and revenue to all business sizes. Don’t only rely on discounts and offers, be customer-centric, and provide them with the best online shopping experience for what they are looking for.

Is your eCommerce website ready to boom in Black Friday sale? Before the big day, get tailored your eCommerce store from Shopify Pro, the company is providing customization and development services for different eCommerce platforms including Magneto, Shopify, and WordPress.

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Hi stunner! Basically a thing that I want to know is what are you’re interests like do you have a passion for something? ( it can literally be anything I just love hearing about people’s interests because they get so excited and feel free to rant to me 😂) I also have another question of so you believe in ghosts? (These are quite random but I’m curious) ❤️❤️

Hi loooove 🥰 lol, i have some interest for an example: i like to read books, watching shows or movies (if that’s countd then yes lol)uh, music, writing fanfiction (obv) and YES I BELIEVE IN GHOST LIKE i freaking love to watch where other ppl are telling their supernatural stories bcz I never experienced some of that and i want to lol and watch other ppl go on ghost adventures (i can recomend my favorite yt: omargoshtv if you haven’t watch his vid, then i highly recommend!

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T

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Massivelyimportantgiver on tumblr

Do you want to remain anonymous?

No

How old are you?

N/A

What's your sexual orientation?

Straight

Your pubic hair?

Hairy

Are you virgin?

Yes

How old were you when you first masturbated?

N/A

How did you discover masturbation?

N/A

How old were you when you had your first orgasm?

16

Can you tell us more about your first orgasm? How did it happen?

I didn't know what happened. I thought I wet myself because it was the first and only time I've ever squirted. I was running my clit

How often do you masturbate?

Sometimes once a month, sometimes it's once a day

When was the last time you masturbated?

Right now

Do you masturbate to any stimulus?

Porn on Tumblr

What do you think about?

Someone I have a crush on, or fantasies I want done to me

What's the last thing you thought of or masturbated to?

The idea of my crush taking my virginity

Have you ever walked in on or caught someone masturbating? (If yes, please tell us a little more about it)

No

Have someone ever walked in on or caught you masturbating? (If yes, please tell us a little more about it)

No

Have you ever had cyber sex?

No

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No

Have you ever had a wet dream?

No

What‚ is your favourite method of masturbation? (i.e. Hands/Toys/Lotion/etc.)

Hands

Are you loud or quiet when you masturbate?

Quiet

Do you ever masturbate in pjs? If so what type and how?

Yes Whatever I'm wearing and with my hand down my pants or I slide them off is her my sheets

Do you ever touch any other part of your body whilst you masturbate?

My nipples

Has anyone ever watched you masturbate live online?

No

Has anyone ever watched you masturbate in person?

N/A

Have you ever watched someone masturbate live online?

No

Have you ever watched someone masturbate in person?

No

Have you ever masturbated with someone? (Mutual masturbation)

Yes over snapchat if that countd

Do you enjoy watching others masturbate?

Yes, boys and girls

Do you enjoy being watched while masturbating?

I haven't but id like to try it

Who do you like to think about when you masturbate?

People I like at the time, randoms  I imaginage

Have you ever told them you think about them while you masturbate?

No

Does anyone know you masturbate? How did they find out?

No

Have you masturbated because your partner wasn't around to help? Where were they?

N/A

What is your most embarrassing masturbation story?

N/A

What is your funniest masturbation story?

N/A

Have you ever masturbated in unique or strange places? Or where do you do it?

N/A

Have you ever used something unique or strange to masturbate?

A stress toy banana

Is it easy for you to orgasm or do you have to work for it?

Sometimes easy but often takes a bit

What is the easiest way for you to get off?

With my hands rubbing my clit

Is there only one way you can get off? (i.e. Vaginal/Clitoral/Toy Use)

Clitoral

Are you able to achieve orgasm through only non-conventional or indirect methods? (Breast Play/Hands-Free/Anal)

N/A

Do you ever double penetrate while you masturbate?

I haven't but would try

Do you ever suck on a dildo, fingers or anything while you masturbate?

Yes

Do you edge when you masturbate? (Get to the point of orgasm and stop repeatedly to enhance the experience)

Yes

What position do you typically masturbate in?

On my back (missionary)

How do you react when you orgasm, arch your back, pull faces? Etc

Arch back, faces, moan

Describe how an orgasm feels to you when you cum? If possible

N/A

Describe a typical masturbation session.

N/A

How long do you usually last?

10mins

What is the quickest you have brought yourself to an orgasm?

3mins

What is the longest masturbation session you have had?

45mins

What is the most times in a day you have cum?

3 times

How wet do you get? Do you leak fluids when you orgasm? (If yes, please describe)

It depends. Sometimes I get really wet and can feel myself dripping. Oftentimes if I'm trying to get off fast I can stay quite  dry. I have squirted before I'm orgasm but only once

If you are older than 35, how has masturbation changed for you over the years?

N/A

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N/A

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Yes

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Yes I am during this survey

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Celestia & Clyde

For: @celestiaelisia, as part of @kylosupremeimagines Valentine's Day Fic Exchange.

words: 2,434

When Celestia had moved too West Virginia a few years back, she was trying to start fresh on her own, moving away from the past, one she wished would become forgotten memories and never return.  

Over the years getting used to letting people knowing her from her red hair and then her name, she stopped being a stranger, who had shown up in a warm spring day. Having met many strange, but kind characters around the small town, Celestia began making friends with people like  Earl from the garage, even the purple lady whose main job seemed to be telling gossip, wherever she would find someone to listen to her, but her favourite person was Mellie Logan, who quickly became a close friend. Shy at first seeing this woman Celestia saw. A woman who wore bright coloured outfits and had a loud personality. The more she learnt about Mellie, the more she realised that she was someone who would always fight for what she believed in and would always be there for her older brothers. Something Celestia admired. 

While this was happening, Mellie was noticing in Celestia, that she was so grateful finding another woman in this small town that she could find an interesting conversation with, instead of all these customers with their small talk and gossip. After having some drinks in and car rides. Mellie found a woman that she could trust and maybe see as a sister. As they became more comfortable together Mellie found that not only was Celestia great to have in her life and totally ignored Jimmy’s constant flirting with her friend and the fact she had gotten louder and more confident in her self over time and would accidentally shout in excitement, to Mellie’s great surprise.

As Mellie had gotten closer to Celestia, she found that she wanted her closest friend to meet her brother. As she had already met Jimmy on several occasions.  The only family member left to meet was her brother Clyde the owner of the ‘Duck Tape’, so as they were both going to meet up for drinks that night anyway, she thought this was the perfect opportunity to get two of favourite people to meet.

“He’s not a duplicate of Jimmy is he? I like Jimmy, but I don’t want to listen to that all night, I want to just spend time with you Mel”

“Don’t worry Clyde is a much more a quieter soul, except when he’s being protective, or being threatened and his cocktails are to die for too and I know how much you love those fancy drinks”

“Okay Mel see you in half an hour” Celestia said before hanging up the phone.                                                                              

That night when Mel picked up Celestia they talked all the way to bar, with Mellie telling Celestia about what the purple lady had said at her hairdresser’s business that morning, giving her a friend a big eye roll, making Celestia laugh with ease.

“Okay we here darling, it shouldn’t be too busy tonight” Mellie said with a wink, walking towards the bar door “Hello Earl” she said while guiding Celestia in, noticing the middle-aged guy just past the doorway. Earl nodding too the two ladies as they walked into the bar.

“Remember you need to talk to Earl, as you know how great he is with cars you defiantly need to ask him about yours soon, but that can wait for that, meet my brother Clyde he’s over there behind the bar” Mellie expecting some response she turned around to see that her friend had become a statue at the door and was staring at her brother with wide eyes and a blush on her cheeks.

Not hearing whatever Mellie was telling her, Celestia had noticed that the bartender was beautiful. With warm chocolate eyes, shoulder length, ebony hair and moles that where sprinkled onto his features. Not ever being someone to hold crushes, not even childhood celebrity ones. She was shocked that she wanted to know this man’s story and didn’t know how to start the conversation. Her confidence fading for a moment.

“Hey are okay there, that’s my brother the bartender” Mellie said, while waving her hand in her friends face and repeating her question. Gripping her friend’s hand and pulling her towards Clyde. Causing Celestia to shake her head and try to put on a calm expression, confident front to meet this new stranger.

“Clyde” Mellie basically shouted when finally reaching the bar counter and giving her brother a tight hug, before gesturing her friend to stand beside her.

“This is Celestia the friend I’ve been telling you all about”

“Hello she has been telling me about you for weeks, nice to meet you, could I get you something to drink?” replied Clyde.

“emmmm … nice to meet you … I think I might need to go to toilet before that” Celestia her cheeks going from pink too a bright red against her hair line. Then suddenly sprinting to the door opposite the bar.

“I’m not sure what that was about, she been great with new people recently, Clyde are you okay?” finally noticing that her brother was staring at the spot that Celestia had just stood.

Over the years Mellie had seen the insecurity and his obsession of the Logan curse, making him not binge interested in starting a new relation ship friendship or otherwise. So seeing how intense he looked softy at Celestia, as she came back to the bar. Mellie’s mind started to do cartwheels.

“Clyde!”

“what Mel?” grumbled Clyde.

“I haven’t seen you look at someone like that since high school, when you would hide in the Library, every moment you could”

“Mel!” Clyde blushed and watching Celestia blush in return, against his gaze.

“This doesn’t mean anything, you no one been interested in me for years because of my hand” he whispered.

“The only people who care about your hand in a negative way is you and drunk arseholes” Mellie announced just before, her friend had reached the bar again.

“Okay so my friend here loves a cocktail, what about make her your special” quickly Clyde nodded and then got his equipment ready, measuring his ingredients and pouring them before throwing a few cubes of ice in, shaking and putting it in a glass and pushing it towards Celestia, without making eye contact and moving onto the next customer at the opposite end of the bar, in haste.

“Does he dislike me?” Celestia asked in a soft tone.

“Don’t worry he always been soft spoken and pretty girls sometimes make him nervous, so what do you think of him?” watching the question flicker over Celestia head and her then causing her face to go bright red again.

“hmmm interesting” catching her friend looking at Clyde when she thought no one was looking.

“… Yes interesting”

Over the next few months Mellie carried on bringing Celestia to the bar every week. Celestia still couldn’t talk to him without blushing, always turning into a failed attempt of small talk. Over this period, she noticed the little quirks that made up Clyde. The way he would listen to the people in bar and smile when he heard parts of their conversations that amused him and laughing at Earl’s random jokes. The way that the skin by his eyes would crinkle when he laughed. How protective he would get over anyone looking at his sister or his brother Jimmy the wrong way. She got so angry when anyone laughed or talked when his back was turned, her small fists turned white from anger, the more she leaned about his daily nature.

What she didn’t notice was that when she would turn back to Mellie or when she would play pool. He would always be taking glances at her, to make sure she was alright. She was beautiful, he knew that from the moment he first saw her.

The way that Mellie had talked about Celestia, made him feel like, he had known you for years. That like his family he would protect you no matter what. He loved that Celestia made his sister feel heard, because even if Mellie put up a front, she was used to be only seen as someone who was pretty and knew about beauty and hair. That she had a past of some toxic friendships and needed someone like Celestia in her life.

Sometimes when a certain song he could see Celestia start to dance in her seat. Never comfortable enough to stand up, except when Mellie wanted her to join in. Twirling each other around, causing a big grin to beam on both of their faces. Celestia her eyes shining bright, something that he could see from behind the counter in the dim light of the bar. He did sometimes notice that your face grew a shade of crimson, when you where stood by him, but he thought that might just be the heat, even though Jimmy would sometimes tease him about it. The thing was he did really want to talk to her, but he was never good at words, he could kick customers out of his bar, no problem. But being honest was so difficult. It was so difficult to be vulnerable; he knew what it felt like to lay yourself open and for someone to just shred it too pieces.

Everyone that knew Celestia, would say how kind she was how she would always offer help, but knew when to step back a bit, when someone needed it. She was a mystery her a past something unspoken. All that mattered to him was who you were right now. He knew that, he had made mistakes in the past so how could he judge someone who made everyone around herself happy and would brighten up his day, like a lovely flame, that was full of warmth and compassion.

“You should speak to her, you should she the way her eyes light up when I talk about you” said Mellie one day.

“What if I’m not good enough for her, I don’t what to say to her” Clyde replied.

“Clyde talk to her, you might see something, I’m not saying she will jump in your arms, I think someone or something from her past hurt her” Mellie announced growing more serious.

“Does this thing have a name?”

“Nope sorry, we can’t go on a road trip and find them, but you know how I’m with trusting people, I’m rubbish at it, but I know I can trust her and I know you too need to give each other a chance, I know its always been hard for you, but both of you deserve to be happy”

A few months passed, including Christmas and the new year was already here.

As it was hitting the new years countdown, Mellie and Celestia where taking sips of there drinks, that Clyde had personally made.

“You know that Jimmy has finally got with Sylvia?” announced Mellie

“Jimmy did tell me, even gave me a big hug and said I had to meet her”

“Well that means, as I have decided to be pickier and more single for a while at least, that means my other big bear of a bother needs to find someone”

“He does deserve to be happy”

“I also know my best friend has been staring and trying to talk to him, for months now” this then causing Celestia face to heat up.

“Mellie you can’t be serious!”

“Have I ever lied to you? now let’s drink and dance”

Soon after fireworks and after saying bye to Mel, Celestia had started to write a, something from her past, that had happily come back to her and had even started writing articles for the local paper. She had started to feel that she was at home and she had a family. So many people cared about her and she cared about them in return. When she had arrived in the spring, she had felt so lonely for a long time and now she walked down streets on her own saying hello to locals, on her own or with Mellie linked in her arm. At Christmas she had gotten gift of a lovely outfit for her to wear for occasions, from Mellie and she felt beautiful in it.

After fairy lights and tinsel where put down, slowly paper hearts and pink sweets started showing up everywhere and everyone began to rush and make cards, to show how much she cared. She had even started to make been making one for someone, who she admired but wanted to know on a more personal and wanted to see his smile with his slightly crooked teeth, that always lite up his face.

So when valentine’s day came, she decided to focus on putting one foot in front of the other. With her new dress that Mellie had given, her only a month before and she began to walk up to Clyde and ask him, if he wanted dinner. It was an simple question “do you want to have a dinner with me?”,but when she stood before him and she looked into those warm chocolate eyes, the words froze on her tongue.

“Clyde ... I wanted to ask … you something”

“Darling did you want a drink or something, is Mellie about, haven’t seen you on your own for a while”

“Clyde would you …” Clyde noticed that she was blushing, and it was quite cold with the air conditioning, but her face didn’t seem to agree.

“Clyde would you go on a date with me, I wanted to ask you this for a while, but I would too see as more than friends, I want to learn everything about you, I want you to know that I see you and that if you don’t feel the same way it’s fine” rambled Celestia

“I …”

“I care about you and I know this may not work out, but whenever someone says your anything less than, I want to punch them in the face” she continued get more nervous.

“Darling hold on a second, breathe, I wanted this since I saw you entered this bar, with Mellie and I don’t think, I would spend tonight with anyone but this intelligent, beautiful woman stood in front of me right now”

Celestia grinned and pressed her lips to his cheek, causing them to grin at each other. Completely forgetting the card, that was in her bag. Before pecking him on the lips and blushing.

Tomorrow Celestia would tell Mellie, but this day was theirs.

 Happy Valentines week, I hope you enjoyed it xx

[siriuslyjamesii]

[owl] : You climbed up on a table and screamed for all the Order members in the bar to pay attention to you. Then you told the whole bar that if American college movies have taught you anything, it’s that they have to take you since you’re a legacy.

[owl]: i mean[owl]: im fuckn right[owl]: not that i wnt a by bc im a potter or some shite[owl]: but cmon[owl]: thouht it countd for smethin