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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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The Loud House Valentine’s Day Double Feature (Back in Black and Stage Plight) or My My My Once Bitten Twice Shy

What is up my Loudites? And while I am returning to the Loud House I do have some sad news to get out of the way first.. i’m ending regular coverage of the Loud House. I don’t like doing this.. but when I picked up the show, I didn’t really have a set schedule.. and that was a bad thing as I didn’t get nearly everything I wanted done. Now I have one and honestly it’s been great: it allows me to stay focused and if I end up not feeling what I was going to do that day, provided it’s not a comission or specfically needed that day, I can swap things around a bit easier.

The reason I bring this up is Nick’s way of scheduling means I CAN’T reasonably put the show on the schedule. They often don’t announce airdates until the wee before, which isn’t a bad thing WATCHING, and isn’t unresonable for a children’s network. But for someone who likes to have a concrete schedule at the top of the month, still flexable and able to make changes if they come up but at least some idea of what i’ll be doing and when, that’s a non-starter, as not knowing when a show’s going to be there or not really messes with things. In contrast Disney puts up their entire programming schedule for next month towards the end, so I know if a show’s coming back, and thus that it’ll probably be around for next month’s too. And if it goes away a week earlier than expected then super I have that space for other sttuff. But I just have too much other stuff, paid and on my own time, to keep friday’s open in perpetuity.

I will however still reviewing the show infrequently as I still love it, Season 5 will probably have plenty of episodes I want to talk about, already it has Leni running for mayor which sounds like one of my wonky spinoff ideas and I love it all the more for that, and ther’es tons of episodes I have and haven’t seen to dig into. So like Lori I won’t be in the house on a daily basis but i’m still going to show up a lot. I already have an April Fools special planned, as well as a retrospective ready for some time in the future. And of course if more Sam and Luna episodes show up, you know i’ll be on those as fast as humanly possible so yeah not leaving the show.. just not coveirng it because I like having some control of my schedule, it’s a thing with me.

Good then we can get to why your ACTUALLY reading this unless you’ve already scrolled past or scrolled up to this. Next Sunday is Valentine’s Day, and so to continue Valnetine’s Shenanigans on this fine blog, i’m doing some romantic style episodes of the loud hosue for you. I did intend for this to be bigger, but frankly i’ve been running behind on reviews and running out of steam lately, so I paired it down to the two I wanted to do most. So for today we’ll be covering two of the show’s couples: One they badly need to bring back and I question why they haven’t, and one that I feel has gotten a lot of flack for things that aren’t it’s fault. Both are really adorable so expect some awkward blushing, bats, blood, and other stuff rhyming with B under the cut!

Back in Black: So we begin our double feature with Lucy

Yeah I have not covered this adorable harbinger of death enough on this blog, and intended to do this one, among other lucycentric episodes back in october.. and the fact I didn’t is a good argument for why I have a schedule now ain’t it? But sometimes your plans not panning out right at the exact time you planned them works out for you. Not getting to do Plan 9 From Mission Hill during Pride Month meant I got to do it on comission later. And not getting to do this one at Halloween means it still works fine just fine for valentine’s day.

So we begin the episode with Lincoln working on his science project, with Rusty coming over to help.

Shockingly though not only is he not just taking a nap or hitting on Lincon’s sisters while Lincoln works but actually helping, he’s actually good at it. I’m as suprsied as you. Though this is early in his characterization, so he hasn’t’nt been established as horribly sucking at everything or his friends being done with his bullshit QUITE yet. Give him time. This is an interesting moment in the character’s history though, as it’s the episode that firmly establishes him as a close friend of Lincolns. While he was already turned from a member of a random violence gang to LIncoln’s buddy in the span of season 1, this episode cements him as one of his closer pals simply by him coming over and the two being fairly familiar with one another. Granted by that same token Girl Jordan should be in the group.. and I have nothing to add to that. Add Girl Jordan to the Lincrew. Just do it.

Anyways Rusty brought his brother along. And you’d expect me to be terrified as there’s now three of them. But.. nope I like Rocky. He’s a chill kid and his personality goes together well with Lucy’s as while he’s a more typical kid, he’s still very subdued in his emotions like she is. Also he mentions both parents so my divorce theory.. is honestly still valid as this was three seasons ago and I could buy their mother left during that time.

And yes Lucy’s in love.. and stalking him a bit as she follows him around the house sighing while he wonders who did that.. though it is a nice clue their compatible. When you can sense the presence of someone whose big running gag is showing up out of nowhere to scare the crap out of people that means something. And it’s either that you’d really get that person or your Wolverine. Or one of his kids. Or his clones. Or clones of his clones. What i’m saying is Rusty’s mom banged the wolverine and his family tree is really weird even by marvel standards.

But I do give her a pass as she’s not trying to be creepy or obsessive, she just doesn’t know how to talk to him as he’s your average kid and she’s a creature of the night. It’s just a kid being shy which is very refreshing both because pre-savnio being fired the show had some very messed up ideas about relationships and gender politics at times, the latter of which actually crops up here, and because having grown up with the cartoons of the 90′s and 2000′s.. I had to put up with things like this.

Full Disclosure: I DO ship sonamy.. but only after around Sonic Chronicles, where Bioware and then Sega decided to not make “Constantly harasses sonic despite him clearly not being interested and saying so vocally” and “Obessess over him to a point I worry she’s going to break his legs so he’ll never run away from her again”, as well as aging her up from 12. Still find her ungodly annoying at best and terrible at worst before that point, Sonic CD and Sonic Advance excluded. And yes I am that huge of a nerd, damn proud of it too.

What i’m getting at is that a little girl unable to talk to a guy and only being kinda creepy because that’s what she does is LEAGUES better than “IT’S NOT CREEPY WHEN A WOMAN DOES IT”. Given this episode was written by a woman that probably helped a lot if not entirely but I don’t blame her for that.. more on that later.

Point is she’s smitten but her first attempt to talk goes back as he rushes to leave after she tries talking to him.. and also appears out of nowhere to spook him. Come on man, your better than that. YOu sensed her before why not now? Up your game. But yeah Lucy’s depressed while Lincoln talks to her about it, about them leaving and once Lucy confesses she’s into rocky asks what he’s into. Lincoln.. has no idea as he’s barely been around Rocky. He’s just an average kid he dosen’t quite understand. Normal is the word he uses and Lucy ponders that. We next see the three most traditionally feminine sisters, Lori, Leni and Lola, all pissed someone stole their stuff, though Lori does suspect Lola at first because let’s face it, this fits her MO of being an entitled brat and not being above petty theft. But no the culprit is Lucy who genuinely apologizes and understands that their mad but the other girls are fine with it given the context, which Lucy explained, and are happy to make her over. This is where the problem I was hinting at comes in: ALL the girls are on board with this makeover plan. the problem is.. only the three who came in in the first place make actually sense making Lucy more tradiotnally feminine. Lori loves fashion and is a control freak who has troubles with empathy at times especially at this point in the series, Leni while not INTETIONALLY hurtful is kind of ditzy and thus can miss some cues, and Lola has a yawning starless void where her soul should be. For these three? Yeah this plot actually makes sense they wouldn’t think of Lucy’s feelings and actually help her use who she is to get rocky or tell her it doesn’t matter she’s beautiful as she is.. then presumably bring the wrath of god down on that poor child before things were cleared up. The issue is more dragging the other sisters into it. It only fits the three above to really give a shit about making Lucy more “normal” and “Girly” and “Other stereotypical bullshit”. Luna is very chill and empathetic and would be the first to say “Wait maybe making her the opposite of herself isn’t a good idea”, Luan is likewise empathetic though I could possibly see it she really doesn’t need to be in this plot, Lynn ENTIRELY doesn’t fit as she prefers sports and getting dirty and what not and is the closest to Lucy out of the sisters and thus would probably be the most defensive about her not changing and that could’ve actually been interesting, Lana would be the same minus the being closest and Lisa is coldly detached a lot of the time and wouldn’t care about any of this on a good day. It feels HORRIBLY offensive and out of character to have them all suddenly be “nah your not girly enough”. These girls don’t give a shit about whose more feminine than who and it’s really bad to pidgeonhole them as that. However.. I dont’ blame episode writer Gloria Shen entirely for this. She wrote it, she gets some of the discredit.. but she didn’t DIRECT the episode and a LOT can change from page to screen. No THAT was series creator and known sexual preadator Chris Savino. And i’m not just blaming him because he’s a creepy asshole, but because the seasons he directed, seasons 1, 2 and most of 3, had a bad habit of having episodes where all the girls acted as a group and often to weak ends, like the green house, the one where they all fought, the gender swap episode or heavy meddle.. which is a headache for another day. Point is it doesn’t surprise me he didn’t fix this or even genuinely cared to differentiate them and it’d be until next season where the show fully became an ensemble piece. SO yeah I blame him on this not for his horrible history, but simply because it sounds like his writing style and as director, and a producer on the show, he had the power and responsibility to fix things and did nothing. So if it wasn’t directly his fault in the first place , he certainly didn’t fix it, call it out in storyboarding or well anything. So yeah shared blame all around.

So after a makeover montage, Lucy is uh... well I can’t describe the abomination they’ve created.

I mean.. none of it works, and I think that’s very much the intent, dosen’t make it any less horrifying. Nothing about this is right: makeup REALLY shouldn’t go on a child in any circumstace so the blush on her cheeks is creepy and makes her look like one of those creepy porcelian dolls that i’m 100% sure either are planning to kill us all one day or were made to keep the souls of the damned trapped inside forever. The ear rings just look creepy and again are a bit much for an 8 year old, and the blonde hair just brings it all together. The pink outfit is fine.. I guess but the face is just so unsettling I can’t process the rest of her outfit and i’m not even going to try.

Point is she looks terrifying, and not in the fun way she usually does, and Rocky dosen’t know what to make of this. Oh and if your wondering why he’s here Lynn just.. took a hockey stick to Lincoln’s project to get the Spokes Boys back over here, and Lisa mocked him for pointing out the obvious holes in their plan despite being 4 and LIncoln having a girlfriend at this point. Granted his relationship with Ronnie Anne at this point is also kinda effed up, but given you all pushed him in this direction, Lisa still has no room to talk and they amicably broke up at some point once the writers decided “Let’s pretend like this never happened and they were just friends, despite her being introduced with a crush on him and us still replaying episodes with said relationship in play, instead of actually dealing with this directly”. You may be easily able to guess what hte retrospective’s about at this point. So Lori comes in for phase two .. WITH BOBBY!

Just.. I cannot tell you how much I needed my boy to calm me down after the last two scenes of horribly off character writing and ... that thing up there. He dosen’t do much this episode but every episode is better with Bobby and that’s a scientefic fact. So Lori claims they had a double date fall through which Bobby barely follows along with.. and it does kinda feel pressurey to kinda force Rocky’s hand here but her intentions ARE good, and a group date is a good way to relive presssure. It just ends up falling through becaue Lori wants her to act intentionally helpless, which makes no sense both for Lori’s personality given how driven and controlling she is and how Bobby clearly knows both things and likes the first and she worked on the second for him. So yeah the golf date falls through and Lori apologizes for being a bitch about all of this, as they all do, which again. .has me questioning WHY we needed the whole sister group instead of just Lori and co. Or even just Lori. The show REALLY needed to learn character ballance and while it is struggling on occasion, as seen with how lincolncentric this season has been so far, this episode reminds me it used to be MUCH worse.

But Lucy thanks them because their intetnions were good, i’m going to need a citation on that given it came off as them wanting her to change because they found her weird nad not because they genuinely wanted to help her, and goes off to sulk about being alone. Lincoln dosen’t know what to do till the next day where, again suprisingly, Rusty had the right idea and had them come over to his place. We also find out he’s scared of blood.. which.. I can relate to. Seriously i’ve only insulted the guy once the whole episode

But we find that out because Rocky made his own because he actually found Lucy’s really cool, what a kid. So Lincoln gets the brothers over to his house by damaging the project himself then claming they need to go back and once he sees Lucy’s around has Rocky go into the kitchen to get them some sodas which he agrees to because why not.

So in a nice little change-up on the running gag Rocky shows up startling Lucy and we get a really fucking cute scene as they hash things out. They have a normal conversation, finally getting past their shared awkwardness, in part because he admits he prefers her as herself. As it turns out Rocky wasn’t scared.. he just thought she was too cool for him and felt intimidated and like Lucy had no idea what to say. The two then blush and after my heart melts and I freeze it back into shape in a few hours, the two decide to go look at her coffin collection and the next day proudly show off their perfected fake blood.. which destroys the project one more time. WAH WAH WAH. Oh rusty... I knew I could count on you to fuck up at least once.

Back in Black Final Thoughts: First off Black in Black: Weird Name. I mean it kinda gives the game away, not that fans would thikn horrifying mistake lucy would stick but still, and dosen’t really fit. Call it “Why Do Ghoul’s Fall in Love” or something like that or something related to makeovers. Makeover Mistep. Don’t Make Me Over. Makeover Your Case... okay that last one sounds more like the Legally Blond equilvent of Cobra Kai but the point is it’s just weird. Outside of the parts I already went in detail about why their dreadful.. this ep is pretty good. That one bit isn’t enough to derail the episode, merley take it’s goodness down a notch, and Lucy is genuinely fun to watch and her heartbreak is hard to watch, and Rocky was an engaging new character with lots of potetial. A large part of why I did this episode. is to ask WHY he hasn’t come back. Rusty’s now a major character, to the point he’s co-headlining an episode next week with Zach... why Zach’s getting an episode, a SECOND one at that I have no earthly idea but the point is the show’s getitng comfortable enought heir giving lincoln’s friends starring episodes without him too, as Liam got one , if alongside Lynn the power couple of 2021 I tells ya. My point is, besides when is Stella getting an episode dammit, that Rocky really should make a come back as he both provides another character for Rusty and the rest of the lincrew to bounce off of, and he and Lucy had genuine chemstiry and now she has her OWN cast there’s an easy story there about her friends reaction to her dating a non goth. There’s a lot of story potetial with this precious boy bring him back. But overall Pretty in Black is a decent episode, worth checking out if you haven’t seen it and rewatching even if you have.

Stage Plight: So we open with Luann, whose one of my personal faviorites along with Leni, Luna, and Lucy. Granted I haven’t checked out her yearly bouts of going ax crazy on her family yet, but we’ll see in april. But outside of that, which is easy enough to isee iven it’s three episodes out of 214 where she’s like this and she gets her compuance, I find her precious, awkward, and entertaining, from her habit of saying “Get it “ to her love of puns, to the fact she’s essentially a wholesome version of the batman villian the ventriloquist..

Yeah in case you forgot about this gag, she often talks through her dummy Mr. Coconuts.. who functions as her sounding board and helps her figure things out, talks like he’s from the 40′s or 50′s, and in general is a delight. He also once or twice, including this episode acts of his own free will so I don’t know if this is a Child’s Play situation and a dying comedian put his body in her dummy and she’s just rolling with it, if she somehow put a piece of her soul in a dummy or what the hell’s going on here. Compared to the series recently what with it’s mayoral campagins, children murdering guys, and actualy factual spies, this is mildly sane. MIldly. This may also be a serious and untreated case of Disociative Identnity Disorder, but given it’s not framed that way, and Coconuts just seems to be Luann’s way of talking with herself, for now she has’nt gone full vintriloquist. Thoguh givne her april fools day behavior and her profession as a comedian, she probably WILL become the new joker at a some point.

So the two are talking about Luann’s crush on Benny. Benny was introduced back in L is for Love and is one of the only three love interests there to actually return, and along with Sam the only onen to get multiple episodes about their relationship with their respective loud and a full personality. He was also MASSIVELY hated. For those who joined the fandom more recently, Luann was massively shipped with Maggie, an emo girl who showed up in Luann’s second spotlight episode and one where she didn’t torment her entire family, one I still need to see but have read about. It was pretty cute and nothing was wrong with that or the opposites attract dynamic. But said fans got REALLY and understandibly upset about his introduction and were presumibly none too happy he got to return and got his roll expanded. And I.. genuinely like the kid. I have nothing against Maggie and in fact poly ship her with both Luann and Benny, as both seem like they’d be open to that and her dour demanor creates a nice contrast between the chipper luann and the somewhat chipper but also chill benny in the middle. I just feel he’s a very likeable character, sweet and awkward and very much on Luann’s wavelength. Like Sam he’s SIMILAR to his love intrest, having Luann’s love of puns, mime and the theater, but is also not quite as giggly about it and as I said has a bit more of a chill to him, in contrast to how sam is slightly more energetic to Luna’s near constant calm off stage.

I also like him because he’s voiced by Sean Giabrone, an up and coming voice actor who I first met watching the Goldbergs as Adam. His other biggest role so far has been playing Jeff on Clarence, though he’s currently picked up another lead voice roll as Yumulack on Solar Opposites, easily one of the best parts of that show, and has done othe rminor and recurring work, but I feel he’s got the potetial to have a long and fruitful career in voice acting if he wants it. I mean he’s far from the first former ABC star or former Ron Stoppable to make a long and successful voice career of himself. Be the next will fredle man you can do it.

But yeah I like him and think their cute together and feel demonizing a ship for one that had a low chance of happening isn’t fair, especially when you know, we’re in a fandom where incest runs rampant and is STILL a recurring problem to this day. Pick your fucking battles for god’s sake. As I mentioned you can put maggie in with this relationship or Still ship luaggie regardless.

So back in the episode Luann and Coconuts notice Benny signing up for the school play and decide to join him.

Yeah i’ve noticed that a LOT of school set plots are about one of the mains joining a play to either be near or play romantic lead with their crush, or romantic hyjinks happening anyway. Seriously i’ts a lot. I DID think most of them were around romeo and juliet, and Proud Family, Pepper Anne, and Ned’s Declassified all are probably why, it’s actually way more diverse and i’m happy to give credit to shows and movies for that: Jimmy Neutron used Macbeth (IN SPACEEEEEE), American Dragon Jake Long used Antony and Cleopatra, as did the comic strip Foxtrot (That one I remembered), Daria used the canterbury tales, Arrested Development used Much Ado about Nothing, and one of my faviorite instances is the film Get Over it. It’s a cheesy as hell early 2000′s high school pg-13 comedy, that I loved as a teen and nos nostalgicaly love but am aware it has issues and some stitled acting as an adult where our hero joins the high school play in order to win his ex girlfriend back from the douchebag she’s seeing now and ends up falling for his best friend’s kid sister instead. They do a mid summer’ night’s dream, which is not only awesome SOMEONE thought to use that one , as the film has given me a special affection for the play.. but it’s a cheesy musical version written by the gloriously over acted director of the play played by martin short.

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My faviorite part of it is the boy band style number about Hermia. Yes really. And I didn’t even get into the fact Siquo is one of the main character’s best friends, Kristin Dunst had to reshoot a scene while making the first rami spider-man , our heroes weird parents who are sex therapists and have no real filter AND offer Coolio a threesome on their advice show, and yes the actual coolio and yes that was an actual person that existed, or best of all the douchey rival who stole our heroes girlfriend, whose not only a former boy band member whose band peformed the song love scud, but also threatens our hero with nunchucks at one point.

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Just see this movie.. i’ll hopefully talk about it some day.

Point is this kind of plot is stock.. but it’s the good kind you can do a lot of twists and turns with as every example mentioned, even the ones using the crush thing, had some clever twist or turn. And this one is no exception as we’ll see.

So we meet Ms. Berardo, the schools HAMMY as hell drama teacher who gives herself an entrance and is just wondrously entertaining throughout. She’s played by Grey Delise Griffin, which I could recognize immodestly and man does she bring it. Seriously bring her back. Wonderful character. So our heroine and her leading man audition and in a refreshing change of pace they do not get the lead rolls, instead a modern valley girl and a jock who writes his stuff on his arms do so instead. But since Bernado’s a bit nuts, she decides to have the Montagues and Capulets practice separately despite tha not making a ton of sense, to drive up tension and what not. I mean isolating an actor to drive up tension is a vallid technique but even having not read Romeo and Juliet since high school, over a decade ago, I can tell you they have several scenes together and this is a logistical nightmare. However our heroine finagles her way over to swapping camps so she can talk to Benny since honestly given the whole thing was a way to get to spend more time with him, she might as well quit otherwise. It also.. isn’t a bad tactic. She wants to know him before asking him out properly, which is fair and a good way to go, and they already know each other and are friendly, and it’s something she likes doing anyway as they were both involved with a play in his first appearance and her liking theater makes sense as she’s a comedian, and while she clearly prefers standup, it’s often a natural evolution to go fromt hat to acting in comedy stuff or making your own show, so it’s not a bad idea to learn that side of the buisness too.

So Luann FINALLY gets to talk to Benny.. after fast ball specialing mr coconuts in the way of someone trying to sit down

But we get a really cute moment as the two just.. talk like two dorky teenagers; They talk about the real mimes of la, which I want badly to be a show.. even if it’s just to find out what the Mime from Animaniacs is up to now. Where DID that guy go? Did the anvil finally kill him? These are the kinds of things that keep me up at night.. which is probably why I’m finishing this at 4 in the morning. But the two have genuine chemistry with Luann offering him her banana, phrasing, and making a pun he chuckles at. It’s adorable as all hell.

And Bernardo notices, and since her leads have no sparks she regretfully demotes them.. though their reaction is hilariously realistic as both are just happy to have less lines and walk off. She decides to cast Luann and Benny despite being freshman which would never happen but eh this is a unvierse with a snakebird and spies trying to destroy cherries with a death laser why I do I care two seasons later if two freshman got the leads in the play. Still I love the twist: our hero wasn’t trying to get the lead to creeiply force intamacy or anything.. the two just had natural chemistry and the director noticed that and wants to use it.

But while this should be great.. it isn’t as Luann keeps dodging actually kissing Benny when they rehearse the kiss. The reason.. is really frigging endearing. Luann simply hasn’t kissed anyone before, this will be her first.. and naturally she’s REALLY nervous about having it in front of a crowd or Benny thinking she’s a bad kisser. And I mean... while I had no personal experience at that age in kissing, most media and personal accounts detail it as awkward as fuck. But that’s the irony: she dosen’t KNOW it’s always awkward and thus is putting a ton of pressure on herself like anyone her age.

So she breaks under the pressure despite the reasurances of her Dummy/Possible Sign that she needs therapy and while she finds a way out the next Day Benny has aburbtly quit because of “chess club”.. which he’s not in. Luann finds him and talks to him about it, worried it’s her fault.. and she’s right, though Benny bowed out because she clearly wasn’t comfortable with him and didn’t want to make her kiss him when she clearly wasn’t comfortable with it. What a man what a man what a mighty good man. Luann TRIES to explain.. and then lets Mr Coconuts do it. Which usually in high school would lead to humilating rejection. instead Benny brings out his own puppet Mrs. Appleblossom.

Just those eyes.. black and souless.. like a doll’s eyes.. because htey are a doll’s eyes. So yeah Benny also has a puppet he uses to say the things he’s too nervous to say. Which is endearing even if again , KILL IT. KILL IT. I mean i’ts like tha tone guy from victorious if the puppets were actually charming and one of them looked like it was about to play hide the soul. Mrs. Appleblossom explains that Benny is also nervous and with the air cleared and the two realizing theyw ere nervous about the same thing... the inevitible happens

So that fades into the kiss happening on stage, with Luann’s family cheering her, our heroes take a fookin bow and Coconuts and Appleblossom look on.. and talk somehow...and somehow got in the seats on their own.

Stage Plight Final Thoughts: This episode.. is one of the series best, with great pacing, a low amount of repetition and a relatable conflict, while building up Luann’s love intrest to be a wonderful and engaging guy, and giving us a hell of a guest character and Mrs. Gerardo. This episod eis great, the chemistyr between Gambrone and Pucelli is fantastic. This one is just awesome and worth a look especially if the ship contrversy had hit you hard. It really is good. And there’s always room for benny. Until the next rainbow it’s been a pleasure.

#the loud house #lucy loud #luann loud #benny stein #lori loud #leni loud #lola loud #lincoln loud #rusty spokes #rocky spokes #valentine's day #animation #nickelodeon

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John Winchester and OC

A John Winchester and OC two part One Shot! (Or i might turn it into a small story. Who knows!) Hope you enjoy! ❤

Part 1-

John Winchester sat there on a lawn chair, Bobby next to him and the two men nursing a beer. It was the 4th of July and for once, the man didnt have a hunt to go on. He didn't have to drag his kids to some town and enroll them in yet another school. They could enjoy this night without a care.

That put a smile on Johns face. Sure, it was a tired looking smile, one that didn't reach his eyes. But a smile nonetheless.

Sam and Dean were running around and playing tag. Laughing and just being kids. Dean at the age of 9, Sam was 5. Finally having a day to be just kids.

"Bobby!" A female voice was heard and the men turned their heads to see a blonde women coming over.

Wearing jean shorts stopping a little under her butt, a white tanktop witha shirt sleeved red and white flannel shirt over it. The buttons to the flannel were unbuttoned, showing off the shirt underneath and her curves. On her feet were a simple pair of flip flops. Letting her french manicured toes be shown. Her Hands filled with containers.

"Shit..." the man with the baseball cap muttered under his breath. Standing up after setting his beer down, Bobby gave a small smile.

"Didn't expect you to come over this year, Scarlett." Bobby gave a smile to his neighbor.

"Yeah, well parents are on a cruise and besides. Its become a tradition, old man." She teased, stopping when she noticed that he had company. "Oh.. i should have called."

But Bobby shook his head and looked over at his friend, John and the two boys who stopped playing. Probably wondering who the strange women was.

"Nah, its fine... " while mentioning for his house guests to come over. Bobby put his hands into the pockets of his jeans, standing there awkwardly. "John.. this is Scarlett, lives down the road. Comes by every year to celebrate the holiday with me since... uh, since ma wife died." Bobby told his friend who nodded. "Scarlett, this is John and his two boys. Sam and Dean. They're hunting buddies of mine." Bobby introduced everyone.

Not missing the lingering look John was giving the young girl. Bobby wondered if he should have made Scarlett head back home.

"Well shit.. had i known there were more people, i would've brought more food." Scarlett laughed and shifted the containers she was holding. It was filled with uncooked meat and ingredients to make food on the day a special.

"Let me help you.." John offered, grabbing the top dish and earned a greatful smile from the girl.

Bobby walked off, muttering about going to grab the grill. Leaving the two adults and children to head inside.

"I don't remember Bobby ever mentioning you.. you hunt together?" Scarlett asked, setting what she held on the kitchen table. Only to start cleaning up the messy kitchen. Pots and pans dirty, along with plates and utensils. Beer bottles scattered around and cups in random places.

Dean, having been taken by the older women instantly started to help gather the dirty dishes. That act alone surprising the eldest Winchester. Not used to his son being so helpful when it came to clean up.

"Yeah, uh we travel around a lot but whenever in town i come over to fix up the car and hunt with Bobby." John shrugged and leaned agaisnt the counter. Arms crossed over his chest.

"Ah.. okay.." she nodded her head, secretly wondered what hunting buddy he was. If he hunted animals or the supernatural like her parents.

"Well, i am going to head to the store. Get some more food. But go ahead and tell Bobby to start grilling some stuff. I shouldn't be too long." She smiled and set some things in the fridge. Not wanting to leave it out in the hit kitchen.

"Can i come?" Dean spoke up, only to shut his mouth from the look his dad gave him.

"Dean! Manners boy!" He snapped at his son.

But Scarlett laughed. "That's fine, John. Hes just a kid. If its okay with you, he can come along. Push the shopping cart for me." She said, grabbing the car keys she had put in the back pocket of her jean shorts.

John had just sighed and shook his head, allowing Dean to go along. Dean, with a huge smile on his face let out a small 'yes' under his breath and looked at her.

Smiling as well, the two left the house and were soon in the car. Driving off to the grocery store. As she drove, Scarlett listened to Dean talk. Learning of his liking for cars and music. How he loved pie, cause thats what his mom used to bake. Along with how they never stay in one place for too long.

Arriving at the store, she let Dean push the cart around for her while she picked up some things and placed it inside. Dean, being the curious nine year old, looked inside the shopping cart and grinned. Soda, a few more different meats, hamburger and hotdog buns.

"Whats the flour for?" Dean asked, looking at Scsrlett as she was picking a few apples and peaches.

"Well.. instead of buying us desert, i thought it would be more fun to bake us a few pies." She winked at the small boy.

She could see the excitement behind his eyes as she finished getting what she needed. Once it was all paid for, the two left and Dean helped put the bags inside the trunk. Noticing the silver dagger that was poorly hidden under a jacket. Not that he said anything or even asked about it.

-Meanwhile-

John had taken the task in cleaning the kitchen while Bobby put the books they had been reading away.

"So.. whats with the girl Bobby? Bit young for you, don't you think?" John asked his friend, glancing over and smirking as he finished in the kitchen.

Bobby rolled his eyes, and turned to look at John. "What do you take me for? I ain't no idiot. I saw ya staring at her. Shes a good kid, finished college. Turning 26 soon." Bobby told John and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Dont start, Bobby.. you know i can't. Not after.." but John didnt finish. Bobby beat him to it.

"Not after Mary died. I get it. I DO. But ya got to put yourself and the boys first John.." Bobby frowned and looked over to where Sam was playing with his little green army men.

John just stayed quiet and grabbed a beer along with the meat. Heading on back to start grilling them.

Not even noticing how much time passed before he heard a sweet laugh coming from inside. Followed by Dean's laughter and soon both him and his brother came flying from the backdoor and went back to playing. Each holding a water gun and attacking one another.

The sight making him laugh and feel happy that they came to spend the holiday at Bobbys.

The two doing that for a few hours, by 6 they were laying around on the grass playing with the army men. Drying up from playing with the water most of the afternoon. Only stopping to eat lunch when their dad called.

After they all had dinner together, the burgers with a side of french fries. The five of them sat around the grass enjoying the evening breeze. It was a little past six when they ate, so they got to enjoy the summer sun while having dinner.

Part 2

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solasulad · 6 years ago

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Conflicted Thoughts Starting November

Somebody give me, uh Somebody tell me the answers Me and you isn't the answer, uh Me and you isn't Maybe I'm tellin' myself that But there ain't nothin' that'll change that What good would it be, if I knew how you felt about me?

Mood, I'm still sprung up on Hair.. Its been about 6 days so far since we linked up and I'm trying not to count the days but it feels like it might just end. The mood that night kinda just explains it, the look he had, like we only fuck thats that. ugh... But i still want him...

But a recap of tonight.. November 3rd...

So its my off day, Didn't really have anything planned besides see Abel later on in the afternoon tried to plan maybe 3 or 4 hours with him and cut if the vibe felt like he was into me..

Woke up around 11am, my neighbour told me he had a spot.. I was kinda hesitant about it but i said w/e and linked up with him. Went over to where he was at and we got it on, he ate me out and i rode him for a bit.. AND AGAIN NO FUCKING CONDOM!!! Like wow.. but i was mad horny these last couple of days.. I did the stupid with him and left.

But before leaving he's like I'm going to go ghost on him, basically saying that I'm going to disappear. lol true cause his shits small... Only thing he's good for is eating out and he's still trash at that. I just needed dick and most of the guys i know are all fucking busy or i already fucked them so i can't seem like I'm thirsty..

Anyhow, i linked with my neighbour.. Came home around 3pm and chilled at him for that bit. My friend calls me asking what I'm doing tonight told her about plans with Abel and she's like oh.. I really didn't want to go by myself so i asked if she was down to come knowing she has a set time to be home made it even better cause i wouldn't say for too long.. she down I'm down we meet for 6pm

Told Abel that she was coming then he invites his cousin who's around my age group.. ALL SET RIGHT?

WRONG!!!

So we get there and then leave to go to a restaurant near by, we’re all laughing and joking talking about bullshit or whatever...

We all seem chill and cool, we get back to his place and then he pours me a drink, i drink it but end up spilling the rest of the drink in the sink cause I'm not tryna get wavy or drunk.. I KNOW MY MOTHERFUCKING LIMITS BITCH!!

So i pour myself some coke and pretend that its the drink he made for me.

We sit outside listening to music and dancing enjoying ourselves.

Around 10pm my friend hits me saying she has to leave I'm like perfect, cause the vibe felt like abel was moving on to me again.. even his cousin the cute one said give them space. So Abels like no really? why don't you stay? She's like no we have to go, he's like am i staying? i said nah I'm the driver, so... She ends up leaving on an uber his cousin paid for, while i stay back.. I'm like fuck, now I'm stuck.. Gave myself till 11:30 and i would cut..

So she leaves and now its just me and them too. I got along with the cousin mostly because maybe i wasn't tryna lead abel on? But then abel plays a track ands like come dance with me.. He pulls me up and starts dancing in front of me.. I'm laughing it off and kept moving from him. Im sober as fuck but he doesn't know that. So i look over to the cousin he's just minding his own business, i kept laughing saying nah i can't dance. This man puts me against the wall grabbing my ass, i move over and sit down. Acting calm and cool. i just laugh it off...

Around 11pm his cousins like he has to go, do something and he’ll be back or so.Gave him a hug goodbye (btw he's not short he's like my height but his shoes are small lol).

So his cousins leaves and then its me and Abel.. we finish our last cigg outside and head inside, still listening to music he's like lets go in the room? Im like uhh??? thinking w/e let me see how far this niggahs willing to go..

So i go in the room and sit down on the couch.. he lays down on the bed then starts taking me shoes off talking about I'm not leaving tonight I'm sleeping over.. I told him no i can't do that cause family/responsibilities.

I test him for a bit to see how he acts and then he starts pulling on me telling me to lay down, grabbing me tryna kiss my forehead.. Im like noooo whipping his kisses off telling him i already told him. He's like what. I'm like i already told you FRIENDS!!

He's like i know, but you're my special friend.....

Im like no, so then he puts me in a position where i can't move and he's curled up next to me.. I kept saying NO NO GET OFF ME

but he held me down. i actually got scared in that moment like wth what if he does something I DO NOT CONSENT TOO!

So.. After breaking free of that position he held me down too, i sit on the couch and look at him. I tell him that were friends and that friends don't do that.

He's like i got love and respect for you but accepts were friends. LIKE REALLY NIGGAH? You kissed my belly talking about were friends???

anyways, long story short i sat on the bed again tryna look into his soul telling him that he's only seen my good vibe side, and that within a blink of an eye i can ghost him delete him off of all social medias and pretend i never met him if he keeps that shit up, he's like sorry blah blah blah but I'm spending the night..

REALLY MY NIGGAH AGAIN?

told him i couldn't and that i didn't have those intentions of spending the night he's like okay.. after a hard talk i tried to get it into his head.

So.. i felt uncomfortable after all of that. I told him i was leaving and he's mood changed he's like okay, I'm all alone.. I'm like i’ll text or call but not tonight.

He's like I'm more concern for your safety cause you where drinking.. In reality i took like half a cup of the juice and the rest was just coke after that. He walks me outside and gives me a hug. Doesnt really say much just mood changed after that...

So i get into my car and waited to warm it up but he was outside waiting for me to leave.. I ended up just leaving without warming it up and said fuck it.

But over all wtf. Why?? How?? like whats wrong with me. Does it say on my face that I'm easy? Want a fucking buddy?? I DONT GET IT!!

I don't even know how to feel after all of this. Like from this morning to now i just been thinking men are trash really shit. Called my friend and told her what happened but prior to telling her she's like i should give him a shot.. He's not the same religion or ethnicity as me either.. I don't even think i can also given the fact he has like 9 years on me... I DONT THINK SO..

But wow.. Way to start my birth month damn.

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