#asuza is beautiful

[waifubuki]

[forbiddenlullaby]

Caste heaven fic

My alternative happy ending 

So after Azusa finally gets the king card again he thinks of the perfect way to get back at Karino But the ex king keeps pestering him tho " didn't you say you would get your revenge on me? Come on I'm waiting" "You're all talk" " I knew it you are weak you can't do it" Then Azusa orders the students to get him karino in the kings classroom and to blind fold him and handcuff him. " So how do you feel now that you are in my hands karino? I hope you are prepared for it." He takes a knife and cuts karino chest until it bleeds while he sticks a vibrator around karino's dick. He then licks the blood in the knife " revenge tastes so sweet" " take these off" " don't you get it? This is a punishment." Karinos starts to get desperate to see azusa's actions because he is so turned on right now. That's all he loves psycho Asuza finally paying full attention on him. "Hey Karino, why are you so hard? Aren't you ashamed? Well I was expecting this since you are a fucking pervert. " He them licks karino having fun with his suffering. He sits on him and starts riding on his dick while he still blindfolded. " This doesn't look like a punishment for me." " Shut up I am doing this for my own release." " Isn't it good to be in control. I always thought you loved it. You are so perverted." " shut up shut up" " but you will never cum like this" "Untie me" " no" " untie me now" Azusa then just loose the strings a bit and karino grabs him with force and pin him down. " I will show you now who is the perverted one." Azusa then start losing his mind on moanings while he is fucked senseless. They get to the sofa and karino kisses him passionately. They cum 3 times. " why does it feel so good with you? It isn't right. I'm not like this. I'm not like my mom." " what?" Azusa that started crying but hold it in then gets on his feet and leaves. But karino stops him. " what did you say?" "None of your business. " He then leaves. (...) They are at the school's roof. " So I guess you gave up. Do admit you are weaker than me?" " not in a million years." Karino smiles. " so why did you stop?" " I realised something." "And what is that?" " Your obsession with me it's your weak point. All the effort you put in becoming king while you never even care for any of that. You never get any girl you were always stuck with me even if you said that that was only harassment. I finally realise that after all these time the best punishment you can get it's to never touch me again." Karino it's stupefied. " do you realise that like this, it really looks like we are a couple like you said right? You are like the woman on strike." " shut up." " and did you realise your feelings? Or that rare epiphany moment was only limited at that?" " I don't know what you are talking about." " You do. If you don't then you are really dumber than I thought." " get out. I'm ordering." "Fine let's see how you do it without me. Im' pretty sure your body is already used to it by now." (...) Karino and Asuza never talk again. He ignores him and it's easier since this time Karino is just a prep. But it's so annoying somehow. He just wants to get his revenge in the traditional way. Maybe he could ask someone to beat the hell out of karino and than live his life. It shouldn't be this hard. But when his sees karino playing basketball and taking off his shirt all sweaty he remembers all that memories again. And can't help but feel anxious. He hates it. Hates how right karino was. He is so used to it that only seeing him like this makes him hard. He runs away to the bathroom and tries to jerks off, but he can't. Even while thinking about karino. Which is the only thing that can get him hard nowadays. He still can't. He breaks the bathroom in anger and gets out just to meet karino on the outside. " need my help?" He yelps but goes back to the bathroom. " do it quickly before someone come in." Karino grab him by his legs and fuck him while azusa entangled them around his hips. It's so fuckin good he cums in seconds. " you were really pent up weren't you? I knew it you where going to ask for me." " Karino just shut up and fuck me or I will." "Make me." Asuza kiss him until their lips get numb. They fuck once again while karino bites Asuza's neck. (...) " son of a ... he bites me!" " Azusa where are you?" Karino is long gone and Kuze is looking for him. Don't make sense but his is the Jack again and atsumu is the queen. Yeah the fucking queen. " I'm going." He goes with them and they get lunch together. They are like the royal of the royalty. And karino is always missing actually. Probably because he can't be seeing with them. "Does anyone knows where Karino is?" " Hm I think he was teaching the girls how to dribble." "What?" He then without knowing was there after lunch. Right where they were playing. " Hey Azusa do you want me to teach you too?" " Don't get ahead of yourself prep." " So why are you here." " I'm the king I can do whatever I want." "Sure." Karino then follows Azusa into the kings classroom. Karino pushs Azusa against the wall. " What are you doing?" " Don't you want it?" " Who said I want you?! Get out before I ask someone to beat the shit out of you." " Listen what happened yesterday will never happen again!" " Tsk. Stop it Azusa we both know you won't last a week without me. " " Well you will see." (...) 1 week later and he was totally fine. 2 weeks had past and he was even better. It was just so pleasing to watch Karino freaking out that it was almost better than doing it. In fact seem him get uneasy was better than revenge. He already win it over just with it. He couldn't stop smiling and the joy was taking over him. " How are you still ok?" " Secret." Then Karino's face got darker. " Who is this?" "What?" " With whom are you doing it with?" " Are you nuts Karino? " He was jealous. If it didn't hurt his pride he would have invented a story saying that he actually did that with someone just to see his reaction. " So how you are not a bitch in heat right now?" " Because the only pervert here is you. Now get out of my way." " I think I get it now." He then grabs Azusa and kiss him by force. Azusa resisted at first but then gave in. Shit. He can't be like that. Karino puts his hand inside his pants and start stroking him while sucking his nipple. "You are hard." He whispered. " Stop it." " You don't want me to. You are rubbing against me." "Hmm." " See how we are a perfect match?" Asuza them finally gets away of his hands. " No! Go away!" " What's wrong now?" " You! Stop using me just for my body! Shit I'm not a fucking toy for your entertainment!" " Didn't you said you realise it? My feelings for you." " What?" Azusa then gets red. " How can you be so clueless? You were right. My obsession with you goes beyond rational that's why I did everything I did to you. And you never break. You are the strongest and sexiest person I have ever met so how could I not fall? You did that to me and you have to take responsibility." " Why are you saying this now?" " Because I'm tired of playing games with you. Since the beginning it was never a game to me. You are the first one that makes me ever feel things." "That's a joke right? You rapped me multiple times and now you are saying you like me? What is wrong with you?" "Everything is wrong with me. But right now it's you. You drive me insane." Azusa is so red right now that he goes next to the window to breath properly. Karino follows him. " I'm sorry." " What?" " I know what I did was wrong but I wanted you so bad." " Yes you were a jerk. I don't know if I can forgive you." " I know I'm sorry." " But you were the only one that acknowledge me. So you have credit with that. " " hum?" "And sometimes you weren't such a jerk like when you saved me." " A-and I can't stay away from you. " Karino is looking at him with hope. Azusa is so fucking red. " Can I touch you?" "Please." Karino then kisses him with all the passion he has. And for the first time ever the two of them make love. Karino kisses Azusa's whole body like it was a temple he was adoring. His favorite religion. He loved him multiples times to make up for the times he did just use him. This feels so much better. Hearing Azusa calling out his name, grabbing onto him and finally letting himself go and get lost in the lust was the most perfect moment of his existence. " You are so beautiful." Nobody ever treated him like this. He finally felt love from his actions. Karino was loving him. And it all felt perfectly right. Like he was born for that happiness. To be his. And both knew that he was. " Love me till I cum." " Yes sir." The end. Azusa and Karino was getting dinner together they seem to get a long well to atsumu and kuze that just happened to pass by them. They grab some food and when things start to heat up and atsumu didn't want to make out in the movies the went to a hotel. They run against azusa and karino there again. They were at the same fucking hotel What were the chances? Same of this new love working fine? Probably not without some bickering. Because you know that's how love is. Is always messed up ❤

[writingwithcolor]

LA's Asian Locations

Hello! I’m Kore, I’m Korean, Thai, and Chinese, and live in LA. I’m going to be sending some other things in, in a seperate POC Profile, but this was getting long. But if anyone ever is writing about Asians in LA(since there are… you know… a lot of Asians in LA), or just LA in generally and want to have their character visit one of parts of the city where more Asian people live, here is a small guide to most of them. 

Westside

Asian-Americans in LA have a shit ton of places you can go. To begin with is the Westside. This is the area near the Ocean, but isn’t directly on it generally. It’s called the Westside, because it’s almost the western most part of LA. On the Westside there’s Little Persia, with a lot of Persian food, and UCLA. This is specifically called Westwood, but we also call it the Westside. So hah. But because of UCLA there ends up being more East Asians around here because of UCLA, because of this, there’s a super strong East Asian presence around here with a lot of restaurants and stuff. In Mar Vista around here, there’s also a Chinese School that’s super big and popular.

Little Osaka

Then there’s Little Osaka, technically still part of the Westside, also technically called Sawtelle because it’s like three, maybe four, blocks of Sawtelle Blvd. But Little Osaka deserves a special mention of it’s own. This is the first of two Japanese areas in LA, however, Little Osaka also has a lot of Korean things, with many Korean people running Japanese stores. Little Osaka, is super popular to just mostly get food. There’s nothing actually to do here? But hey, food.

Koreatown

Next is Koreatown. So this place is almost in the heart of LA, it’s about 30 min to an hour from the Westside in terms of driving. This is half residential and half not. It’s 100% lit at night. In the heart of Koreatown we’ve got a lot of night clubs, and places to drink. On the peripherals, it’s dead at night. But there’s good food, and a lot of supermarkets. Around 60k Koreans live here alone. There are a lot more than that in LA. Around here is also Little Bangledesh. I’ve never actually been, but that’s also mostly made up of Korean people. Recently Little Bangledesh tried to take over half of Koreatown and make it into little Bangledesh, but was defeated in a vote, as Korean people really didn’t appreciate that. 

Right outside of here is Wilshire Korean School, which is a bilingual private school that has Korean School on Saturdays. This is one of maybe… three? Proper Korean schools in LA, most people just home teach their kids Korean. There are two supermarkets here. Galleria and HMart, both of them in Plaza sort of places. Galleria’s has better food, and probably better shopping. But HMart is the OG Asian supermarket and is near two really awesome desert places. One of them you can get a sweet bread, shaped like a fish, filled with ice cream and either red bean, custard, or nutella, and the other one you can get patbingsoo at, or Korean shaved ice.

Little Tokyo

There’s also Little Tokyo. Which I don’t think I’ve ever been to, odd, since I’ve lived in LA my whole life. But I mostly keep to Koreatown and the Westside too.

Chinatown(s)

Okay now for the Chinatowns. So there’s technically one, and that’s in the middle of LA. But let me tell you, that’s not Chinatown. It was, once upon a time, however, a lot of Chinese people moved out of there and to either Alhambra, or Montery Park. So we’ve got Old Chinatown, New Chinatown, and Chinatown. Now I can’t remember whether Montery Park or Alhambra is Old or New, but these are both out a bit a ways from the Chinatown in the middle of LA. 

In that Chinatown, all the festivals are thrown. It’s also tiny. Alhambra is a lot more laid out than Montery, which is super laid out. But Montery Park, and Alhambra, have got great food. Also no social lives, but great great food. There’s a supermarket here, when you leave the heart of Chinatown, and walk for maybe 10 minutes, that’s probably the biggest Thai supermarket I’ve ever seen. I mean… You can buy so much coconut sugar here. It's insane.

Thaitown

There’s also Thaitown!! Which is closer to Koreatown than both Old and New Chinatown. This is where you can get a lot of Thai Food, and products. There’s not a lot to do here, and it’s mostly disappearing. But food. Really though, this place is super duper duper boring.

Little India

There’s Little India as well. It’s maybe three streets at most.

Little Saigon

Little Saigon is the heart and soul of the Vietnamese diaspora in LA. It’s beautiful, and actually really awesome. Unlike Thaitown though, you can get good Vietnamese food outside of it. They’ve got streetfood (illegal in LA technically), and a super duper ginourmous market that’s bigger than the biggest HMart that I’ve ever see. It’s so… big.

Everything else isn’t of much note, I’m not going to lie. I hope you’ve enjoyed this guide! I enjoyed writing it for sure.

More PoC Profiles here

Commentary

I’m assuming much of the above is confined to Los Angeles (City) proper. Because much of the Asian population in LA moves pretty fluidly between cities, here are my additions for LA County as a whole (including some key LA landmarks that were left out).

Torrance, Gardena and parts of Culver City: Home to the largest Nikkei and Japanese expat population in LA. This used to be the homebase for Toyota America until they moved their HQ close to their factories in Texas. However, many other Japanese companies still use this region for their American homebases, and as such the biggest Japanese grocery chains (Nijiya, Tokyo Central and Mitsuwa) all operate their largest Californian stores here. This region also has sizable Korean, SE Asian and S. Asian communities. One of LA’s more popular Indian grocers (Samosa House) is based in Culver City. Asahi Gakuen, a Japanese Saturday language school designed to help Japanese American kids keep up with the Japanese national curriculum, is also based here.

San Gabriel Valley aka 626: This includes not only Alhambra, Montebello and Monterey Park, but also Arcadia, Covina, West Covina, San Gabriel, Duarte, El Monte, Commerce, Asuza and Chino). It’s a pretty big, diverse place home to a large number of diaspora in various waves from Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and South Asia. The annual 626 Night Market (a street food fair) is held near the Santa Anita racetracks. When I was a kid, most of my lion dance jobs for the Lunar New Year were in Old Chinatown, but they have all since moved here. The diversity in cuisine is incredible. To get a sense of just how many different types of food there are out here, I recommend reading old reviews by the late, great Jonathan Gold from the LA Times.

Glendale and Pasadena: Large Armenian and Persian communities. Lots of very good bakeries, restaurants and also Armenian evangelical churches.

Artesia and Norwalk: Little India, basically, but there are also large Vietnamese and Filipino communities. Pioneer Blvd. in Artesia in particular has many Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi grocers, restaurants and clothing shops.

All of the cities I have mentioned have things like language schools, religion and culture centers, grocers, restaurants, etc. specific to the communities I’ve described above.

Religion (Major landmarks):

Hinduism: Venkateswara Temple - Malibu; Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple - Chino Hills;

Buddhism: Zen Center Los Angeles - Koreatown; Koyasan Betsuin - Little Tokyo; Nishi Honganji - Little Tokyo; Higashi Honganji - Little Tokyo; Zenshuji Soto Mission - Little Tokyo; Guan Di temple - Old Chinatown

Taoism: Thien Hau Temple - Old Chinatown

Shintoism: Konko Church - Boyle Heights, Gardena, Whittier

There are also many gurdwaras and mosques spread out throughout LA County (North Hollywood in particular for LA proper), but I’m not saying where they are because humanity is terrible.

Addendums for Little Tokyo:

Japanese American Museum: Covers the history of Japanese Americans in the US, internment during WWII and Little Tokyo. Also provides assistance to families looking to review historical, declassified records about interned relatives.

Nihonmura Plaza: main setting for festivals for Tanabata, Obon and New Years. Has a nifty looking traditional Japanese fire tower

Kinokuniya: LA branch of a major Japanese bookstore chain

Addendums for Koreatown:

Dawooljung/ Korean Pavilion: A gazebo and open space across the street from the Seoul International Park and the Koreatown Community Center

Schools for Eastern Medicine/ Acupuncture: There are at least 2 schools in Koreatown for Eastern/ Chinese/ Alternative medicine that quite a few Asian Americans who run their own clinics have trained at.

LA is so big and so diverse that there’s no one way to really capture how much of Asia is represented here. I know our county registrar and DMV offers information in Armenian, Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Farsi, Korean, Tagalog/Filipino, Vietnamese, Hindi/ Urdu, and Japanese because at least 5% of the voting population speaks each of those languages. I’d love to see further additions from other Asian Los Angelenos.

- Marika.

[tiramiso]

Ass

What’s the one food Elias, Yukiya, Azusa, and Randy would never, ever eat.

Elias: Green Beans

Azusa: Pizza because usually it’s really greasy and has too much tomato sauce. At least the pizzas he’s eaten. 

Yukiya: Ass

Randy: Broccoli 

[gin-no-bara]

Recently someone asked you what you think about the Sakamaki, and now I would like to ask you what do you think about the Mukami and Tsukinami. I really like your views on the characters, so I hope you do not mind my question. ^^

Well, overall I am really not a fan of any of the Mukamis (＞＜).

Not only did they fail to make me fall for them, I failed to understand their role in the story. I mean, there’s no reason for them to have been a part of the Adam and Eve plan since they never could be Adam anyway. So what was the point??? To make the Sakamaki’s jealous so that they fell for Yui??? Well they already made each other jealous! They didn’t need the Mukamis for that???

So yeah I just kinda always scratch my head at their existence in the story at all.

But, regardless here is my individual opinion of them:

Ruki: I freaking love Ruki’s voice. His was the first I heard of the Mukamis and omg. He oozes dominance and arrogance and apathy. For all the Mukamis, I listened to their MB drama CDs first, and Ruki’s is fantastic. He is so frightening: a total manifestation of calm control and power. And he holds you over the edge of a tower by your throat to prove it. But even when he starts to lose control by the smell and taste of your blood, he maintains a sexy, domineering air about him. Plus, his character design fits his voice so well. I mean look at him ಠoಠ:

However, his route in the MB game is another story.

I was enjoying his route since he was just as domineering and frightening as his drma CD. But when he killed the stray kitten that Yui was taking care of, I immediately lost all desire for him and wanted to stab him in the eye because he didn’t just kill the poor thing, he removed its fucking soul. 

I mean what the fuck Rejet?!

I was disgusted with him and refused to finish his route after that. As much as I enjoyed his CD, I can’t really listen to it anymore without getting pissed about the kitten all over again 😡😡

Yuuma: I salivate over Yuuma’s character design (•ω•)

I don’t normally like big guys irl, but his long hair and well-toned body make big guys in anime totally acceptable 👍👍 A++. I’m not a fan of his accent and the way he speaks, but his voice itself is still quite (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

His MB drama CD was amazing. I’ve listened to it soooo many times. He kidnaps you quite roughly, basically just grabbing you off the street as you try to run from him. But instead of taking you to Ruki like he is supposed to, he decides to take you to his own special cabin that no one knows about. He is rough and dominant and sadistic. You try to fight back and run, but he holds you down and cuts your clothes off with a knife. 

Yeah, it’s great 😁😁

But I haaaated his game route. I like rough and sadistic, but I draw the line at a wife beater. Punching and kicking a girl is not ok with me, especially with a vampire as large as he is with a human girl as small as Yui.

No. Just no. 

So when Yui started to fall for him after he did all that, I got pissed. Really pissed. In HDB, Yui would recognize that the feelings she had for the vampires were wrong and she would usually try to fight the feelings before eventually succumbing to them as her mind became twisted and masochistic. In Yuuma’s route, that didn’t happen. They ended up in this happy, romantic ending without any of that. And I was just sickened. Not only did it make zero sense, but it romanticized some serious abuse.

I didn’t bother playing his other endings after that. But I am at least still able to enjoy his drama CD, unlike Ruki.

Kou: I listened to Kou’s drama CD once. Just once.

I’m a masochist, so I like fear and pain. But holy shit did Kou pass my limits. He tortures you, ripping open bite marks over and over.. and the sound effects are just … Nope Nope Nope. Not for me. 

I am not a fan of his fake happy go lucky voice either. I prefer controlled and dominant voices. His voice drops can be rather frightening though, but also hard to hear as he tends to whisper them under his breathe. His emotional flips are similar to Laito, but Kou’s are a lot more frequent.

I haven’t played Kou’s route though because I know that he is enormously emotionally manipulative and psychologically abusive – and that is very triggering for me. Laito is very emotionally manipulative too, but I’ve heard that Kou takes it much farther, and I just haven’t been motivated to play him because of that. His character design does nothing for me either (＞＜)

Asuza: @cpt-trips is trying to get me to fall in love with him lol. But I haven’t listened to his drama CD yet. And I haven’t played his route. I just… Can… Not… Handle…. His…. Voice…. And… His… Slow… Speaking. I will try for her sake though. Hopefully soon lol. 

Onto the Tsukinamis. 

I have not played their routes (though I’ve read a few translations and discussed them with people who have played their routes). However, I have definitely listened to several of their drama CDs. I think their storylines make a hell of a lot more sense than the Mukamis, so I’m looking forward to playing their routes once I get Dark Fate. 

But here’s my opinion of my experiences of them so far:

Shin: OMFG. Shin’s voice. 

I loved this seiyuu as Shikamaru in Naruto so when I heard him as Shin, I flipped out. He is wonderfully terrifying as Shin. He is all out of fucks to give and will not hesitate to hurt you. And he let’s you know it very quickly. He has a voice drop too, one that is used very rarely but it will send shivers down your spine. 

I’m not a fan of the combination of glasses and an eyepatch though. I think that looks rather ridiculous. They should have just left it with the eye patch. But his hair and eyes are 👍😍

Carla: Ok I looove his character design. He’s so goddamn pretty. That beautiful hair and those eyes. Jesus Christ those eyes. 

But…. his voice just ruins it for me! It doesn’t fit his design AT ALL! He sounds like a 50 year old grouchy man and I don’t find it sexy whatsoever! 😭😭

I have tried, I really have, to get adjusted to his voice because I like how mean and sadistic he is. And I think I’d enjoy his DF route. But no matter how many times I listen to his drama CDs, I just get totally turned off by his voice. I really don’t know if I’d be able to handle his route lol.

So yeah.., those are my thoughts on them. You won’t see me reblog things involving the Mukamis or Tsukinamis too often because, overall, I enjoy the Sakamakis so much more, so I tend to just immerse myself in everything that has to do with them. 

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[splendentgoddess]

Ahahahahaha, I would’ve loved to see Kagome call Kikyou an idiot to her face! Not this late in the game of course, but back when the real Kikyou was acting like how this illusion Kikyou acted for Kagome’s test. That would’ve been beautiful, to see Kagome talk back like that to the real Kikyou. Of course, then Kagome wouldn’t have needed to be put through this particular test. She had to face down her phantom version of Kikyou because she never had the courage to talk back and defend herself back when the real Kikyou spoke to her like that.

And yeah it would’ve also been cool if the real Kikyou had somehow been aware of what Kagome’s vision was on Mt. Asuza, and made a comment like “You did good” or whatever, which I could see Late Kikyou doing because she’d already had her own character growth by that point.

“I don’t have a reason in hell to fear or hate you.”

This is such an important moment in Kagome’s character development, and I’m glad she got to have it.

[artificialqueens]

Straight Outta Azusa (Biadore) - Duhlano

Important!

I changed my name from Red to Duhlano, so please remember! Enjoy this oneshot!

A/N - It’s Raining Men is stuck in my head and I really liked the movie ‘Straight Outta Compton’, so this is inspired by that great movie! P.S Tupac- Starin through my rearview is used in this fic!

T/W - Swearing, Use of drugs, Use of alcohol, Violence.

Davis - Naomi Smalls

Danny - Adore Delano

Christopher - Bob the Drag Queen

Jason - Violet Chachki

Shane - Courtney Act

Roy - Bianca Del Rio

It was mid 80’s. Danny wanted to be a rising star.

His imagination took him anywhere when he wrote lyrics and spit real shit.

He guessed thats why he was so accepted to the culture where rap originated. He was gay, and others didn’t seem to bother. Of course there were a few bumps now and then. Like when his friend Shane wanted to take him to a blind date. Never going to happen.

Danny was a 26 year old man that worked in a studio, answering calls and not-so secretly observing the guests on the local radio.

Because of where Danny lived, people were scared. Danny had been involved in a long of gang activities, even shootouts. He liked to drink, not too much, and had gotten high a few times in his life. But music was his passion.

He dropped out school when he was 14 years old. He didn’t need education if the fire for music was what kept him living. Danny’s writing for music were considered quite offensive and a 'fuck you’ to the corrupted government they were living in.

Danny didn’t like to consider their 'group’ as, well a 'group’ but he got a couple of cool bitches who could sing. There was Jason, Christopher, Davis and Shane. The weirdest mixed-racial kind of group you can get. They didn’t care about race or the division American’s were forced to believe, they loved music and the opposing of the government.

Danny sat on the back of Davis’ car, a pen in his hand, paper in the other and a joint in his mouth. Christopher was calling someone. Christopher wasn’t really a singer, but they liked to consider him as a 'manager’. That guy was working his ass off to get them some gigs.

Davis and Shane were standing beside the 7/11 behind Christopher and Danny, talking and nodding there heads when they turned to walk towards the pair. Jason was busy working that night so it was just the 4.

“Hey Danny, how you holding up?” Davis asked, leaning on the car. Danny lifted his head and looked to his notebook.

“We don’t need your dictatorship, this beginning to look like World War III shit." Danny spoke, whilst shaking his head, crossing that idea immediately.

Shane smirked looking over at Danny’s papers. "Not so good I’m assuming, Davis.” Davis chuckled, brushing over his red Vauxhall car, his pride and treasure.

Danny flicked the bright joint over at Shane, missing him. “I’d like to see you come up with something better."

"I do.” Shane leaned forward to Danny. With that, Danny pushed himself the fuck back away.

“Go on then, prick.”

“A new member."

"Piss off.” Danny held his hand up in front of his face and chuckled quietly. Shane pushed his hand down with a quick slap, to which Danny looked at the darkening midnight blue sky, littered with stars. Inspiration please come to me, Danny thought.

Shane knew Danny was pushing away his ideas but Shane was certain this would work out. Danny just had to listen for once.

“Listen, this could work out. This dude is smart, Danny, really smart."

"What does that got to do with music, Mr. Aussie phd, doctor, biologist idiot.” Danny mimicked Shane as Shane pulled out a card, flicking it at Danny.

“The fact he is one of the biggest musicians and producers in Asuza, Mr. American Know-It-All.” The card lay on Danny’s lap, staring him in the eye.

Danny stood up and put the card in his pocket, walking towards the 7/11 to get a drink. When Danny entered the brightly lit shop, with one flickering on the far right, and a middle-aged Mexican man standing smoking at the till.

Roy Haylock

Music Producer & Musician

340 San Gabriel Drive, CA, 91723, USA

Roy Haylock? Huh. How come Danny didn’t know of him. Danny put the card back in his pocket and grabbed a Coke, going towards the till.

After paying, Danny heard a car swerving and pulling up towards Davis’ car. Danny cursed to himself as he seen Christopher squaring up to the 3 other unknown men. Davis and Shane backed Christopher up, Danny had to step in.

Danny walked confidently and quickly towards the groups growling at each other.

“Hey, hey, hey what’s going on here?” Danny stood in between them, holding a hand up which glared yellow from the street lights.

The older looking one stepped up. “Your boy here,” The man pointed at Shane “And that Dardo boy, was beating my cousin over here.” The man’s finger moved to the slightly cocky boy standing beside him.

Danny rolled his eyes. Looking at Shane. You fucking idiot, Danny mouthed to Shane.

“Ok, well man, I apologise in behalf of my friends, can we just leave it that?” Danny turned to the pair, standing, clearly unimpressed.

“No we can’t, fist and fist, faggot.” The older man’s hand tensed up, as Danny spun around laughing at the name he was called.

“You’re really funny yknow I think-” Danny cut himself off with a upper-hand right hook to the mans face, sending him straight to the ground. Christopher and Shane bounced on the other man standing who was about to swing for Danny. Davis ran to the car, starting it up.

“Get in, now!” Davis shouted as the other 3 that were punching the pair, sprinted in the car and speeding away.

“Shit.” Danny breathed out, leaning back.

“Yeah shit.” Christopher sighed.

-

340 San Gabriel Drive.

Danny stood outside a beautiful looking music studio in Downtown. Shane, Davis and Jason stood beside Danny as they stared at the oak door.

“Let’s do this then.” Jason sighed as they walked in together.

The wood and nature effect gave Danny an impression of comfort but the urban and rewarding vinyls gave it a modern effect. Nice. There was a small desk with an equally small assistant, working away.

Shane coughed quietly, bringing the old assistant out of her peace.

“Oh sorry there boys! How can I help you all today?"She smiled, standing up. She was so precious.

"We’re here to see Roy. Roy Haylock?” Davis asked, scratching his neck awkwardly as the woman’s face lit up.

“Ah! Roy. Right this way boys!” They followed the giddy old woman towards a small room as Shane and Danny giggled about the cute woman.

The assistant left, leaving the 3 to the small door. They all shrugged in unison.

Danny leaned forwards, knocking the door. Seconds later, the door was answered. Danny was shocked. He immediately locked on Roy and due to the lack of oxygen and the increase of creepy staring, Danny knocked himself from thoughts. He was speechless at the nicely dressed Roy in front of him.

“Hey guys! - Shane!” Roy walked towards Shane, hugging him tightly. Well thats every chance Danny had with Roy. God dammit. “Davis!” Roy turned around to hug him too as Jason and Danny stood awkwardly.

Roy detached himself from the boys and looked at Jason and held out his hand.

“Sorry 'bout that, I’m Roy, nice to meet you.” Roy shook his hand, smiling cooly.

He turned to Danny but stopped, looking him up and down. Danny bit his lip as he held his hand out. “I’m Danny, and that is Jason.” Roy shook his hand, looking a little shocked. Hm. “It’s really nice to meet you Danny.” Roy smiled shyly but then composed himself. “Come in, come in!”

The 4 walked in, Shane and Davis sitting on the little sofa, along with Jason jumping on them, whilst Danny sat on a little chair, laughing at his friends.

Danny didn’t acknowledge the glances Roy would steal whilst they all small talked, and Roy didn’t know the glances Danny would steal. It was a little intense.

“So, You are allowed to use this studio 3 times a week for 3 hours, and I guess I’ll be joining you. Start making ideas for albums, gigs, shit like that. Sound good?” Davis and Jason high fived whilst Davis gasped, looking at Danny who had the biggest cheesiest grin ever.

Danny didn’t know why but he ran over to hug Roy, who was taken aback.

“We’re going to make it boys!” Davis shouted, whilst Jason ran over to hug Danny and Roy.

“Let’s party!” Shane screamed, jumping into the air.

-

It was 11.43pm in Danny’s small apartment. They were all drunk, and Christopher joined too. Roy and Danny were in the kitchen, opening the fress pizza they had just ordered.

“So Danny, why do you do music?” Roy leaned against the cold marble breakfast bar.

Danny turned to a huge dimple smiled Roy. He immediately melted. Danny didn’t know that in a space of 13 hours, he would fall in love. He felt connected, and almost drawn to Roy. Not to mention, Danny was heavily attracted to the man. He couldn’t help but admire him.

“Honestly? It’s the only thing I’m good at.” Danny answered, smiling briefly.

Roy leaned closer to Danny.

“I don’t think I believe that.”

“It’s true, I pride in my music only, it’s the only thing I’ve ever loved.”

Roy smiled.

“Would you love anything else?"

"Who knows."

-

A few months later, Danny and Roy met up for a coffee. It was a peaceful, warm day and the sun seemed to seep through the tinted windows of the shop.

"My treat, what do you want?” Roy asked as they sat down in a cute little booth, smiling widely.

“Just a sandwich and coke please.” Danny answered, pink tinting his cheeks slightly. Roy noticed and smiled.

“Do you think we’ll need a couple of weeks and the album will be finished?”

Danny nodded, to that Roy and stood up walking to the counter to order.

Just then a tall figure stood in front of Danny. Looking down on him like a piece of shit.

“New boy?” The figure asked as Danny stood up, biting his lip.

“No James, It’s not. You can leave me alone.” Danny looked up at him, raising his brow.

James laughed quietly as he leaned towards Danny. With that, Danny moved back.

“C'mon Danny, please.”

“No! You cheated on me, I don’t want to see you.” Danny held his hand in front of his face.

“I said I was sorry.” James sighed, looking down. Fuck him, Danny thought.

James was probably Danny’s first boyfriend. This happened a year ago and when Danny found out he was cheating, he dumped him. No way was Danny gonna let ANYONE treat him like shit. Thats why Danny thought he liked Roy, because he treats him nice, like a human.

Danny was interrupted by his thoughts when he started to worry when he felt a pair of hands around his waist and immediately relaxed and let go of the breath he didn’t realising he was holding in.

“Everything okay babe?” Roy took his left hand, tracing Danny’s shoulder with it. Danny caught on to what Roy was doing, but couldn’t help imagine if it was real, it was giving Danny goosebumps the way Roy touched him.

“Y-Yes, everything’s good. This man here was just leaving.” Danny turned around to Roy smiling, silently thanking him for saving him from killing his damn self.

Danny gasped when he felt a pair of lips kiss his neck briefly. He was speechless, Roy’s lips felt amazing against his skin and couldn’t help his face shade into a bright red.

“Thats good, our foods coming.” Roy detached himself from Danny which almost made Danny empty but nonetheless, James walked away with an angry expression and both sat down.

“Thank you so so much Roy, honestly you saved me.” Danny spoke as soon as James was out of sight, sighing.

Roy smirked. “Not a problem, Who was that anyway?”

“This guy I used to date, total douche.” Danny waved it off, taking in what happened 30 seconds prior. Reminding him, Danny was surprised how Roy moved his hands across his body.

“Do you do that professionally? Save young gay men from big scary monsters?” Danny laughed loudly as Roy joined.

Roy shook his head. “Just a gay man saving another gay man."

Danny bit his lip. Roy was gay. So cross that idea of being straight off the list of reasons why Roy would not date Danny.

"Nice.” Danny giggled whilst standing up grabbing their meal.

-

One year later

“Are you ready for this California?” Shane screamed shouted down the microphone, staring back to 4,000 people standing, screaming back yes.

Davis was jogging circles around the stage, getting hyped up to the beat. Looking over at Christopher from the side of the stage, giving him a thumbs up.

Jason was up at the front row,high fiving fans who were screaming and jumping at the beat that was building up. The hall they were in was full to brim, even then, there was people outside, desperately trying to listen.

Roy was up at the deck where a close friend Matt was playing the record as Roy started to sway his hips dancing, closing his eyes, taking in every bit of his life as he good.

As for Danny, he was staring at Roy being every bit of Roy he was being. Silly, funny and someone Danny was in love with. Danny pulled his gaze from Roy to the thousands of people there to listen to Danny’s lyrics, Danny’s voice. He was truly and forever grateful for everything he had. He was finally a star, finally important in music industry, rapping about the government, feelings and being high. Real, deep, meaningful music. There was just something missing.

Danny took a deep breath as he started.

“They got me starin at the world through my rearview

Go on baby scream to God, he can’t hear you

I can feel your heart beatin fast cause it’s time to die

Gettin high, watchin time fly”

-

Roy breathed out backstage, leaning on a railing 3 hours after they started the concert.

Danny got up behind him, picking him up.

“That was fucking badass!” Danny shouted, sweating buckets.

Roy laughed loudly, dropping down, hugging Danny briefly.

“That was great Danny, you’ve fucking made it!” Roy shoved Danny lightly as his face lit up, jumping up and down.

“They’ve got a party outside with a bunch of fans, wanna come?” Danny asked, putting a hand on his hip.

Roy looked at Danny and how he became attached to Danny, rising up to a star. It was a whirlwind of months and nearly 2 years, but they had all made it.

Roy took a breath in, he had to do it. They had only been on 4 tours but California was their biggest crowd yet and probably best performance.

“I have to do something first.” Roy closed his eyes and leaned in.

Danny and Roy slips connected, smiling into the kiss, Danny pulled Roy closer.

A cheer was heard behind them from some management team and the rest of the group. They stopped and looked behind them, still holding eachother.

“Fucking finally!” Shane threw his hands up in the air, cheering.

Roy and Danny laughed, holding their heads together.

“What took you so long?” Danny whispered, blushing.

Roy chuckled. “I had to build up the courage one day, I’m guessing you like me back.”

“Fuck yes.”

-

They all went outside with a couple of beers, the car playing music loudly in the car park with the street lights illuminating everything.

They were all singing along with the song playing, dancing and bumping into each other.

Roy held Danny’s waist, moving with him.

“We’ve made it Danny.” Roy smiled, looking around him, pecking him quickly.

“I know Roy,” Danny looked at the car jumped on the roof of it, bringing Roy with him. Roy raised his eyebrow as Danny raised his beer bottle.

“WE’VE FUCKING MADE IT!” Danny screamed as Roy hugged him and everyone cheered back.

Davis, Jason and Christopher joined them all on the car hugging each other.

They made it.