#how the order on the app drive thru thing would work but it did and im just an idiot and that's how im going to be living from now on

[apathyfairy]

listen i get so tired of needing an app to do everything but the invention of ordering on the app and picking up at the store is the best thing to come out of smart phones

[wrdn-tabris]

a little life update :-)

(pls help i need advice)

so

i have this friend. two friends actually. i went to visit them recently (june)

friend 1, lets call her cat had asked friend two, lets call her bee, to move down with her. bee agreed. issues immediately started. bee was off her meds and didnt want to get back on them, and started picking fights with cat, treating her badly and etc bc thats what bee used to do when she still lived with her mom. pick fights when her mood dropped and get into screaming matches (tho its not like her mom didnt also pick fights with her)

cats telling me abt this at this time and i feel bad bc i feel like i wasnt being a good friend mostly bc i didnt have the energy to hear abt how terrible it was going for her. i was going thru a lot when it started which isnt her fault or my fault, but i feel bad for not being more supportive. so cat stopped telling me abt it, bc i didnt know what to do or how to fix things. i thought stuff resolved itself but i went and visited and it hasnt. really.

so i arrive. bee doesnt come with cat to pick me up, which, ok disappointing but i understood she was tired. she didnt come to eat with us either. which also sad

next day cat asks for some rent money to get herself lunch, bc she forgot to make smth to eat before leaving and cat couldnt and wouldnt give their rent money so she could get lunch. so she asked us to bring her lunch from mcdonalds if she ordered somthing bc she had points on the app, and we had to decide tht if we are driving tht far out to where she works we might as well do something over there. cat asks if we should invite her partner with us and i agreed bc i wanted to meet him. we go to pick up her lunch, she asks me to buy her something rather than ordering smth off the app, which, feels :/ to assume ill just buy it for her. i would have if she asked but she just sent me her order. mybe an asshole move of my to say 'uhhh sure if ur able to order it off the app???'

get the food, fight thru traffic to get to her, have to fight thru parking traffic to get out of where she works. we end up visiting this old military fort and hang out for a few hours and when we come back we think bee is asleep. its like. 7:30? 8:00?

so i try to inflate the blow up bed i got for them to use for when they have other guests sleep over and me and cats bf wake her up while im trying to figure out how to work it so she comes out and snaps at us. i apologize for being loud, promise to be quieter but im inflating the air mattress so i might be loud for a few minutes. the ENTIRE time im inflating it shes standing there arms crossed glaring at us and clearing her throat the entire time. and maybe its just me but??? i find that to be a little fucking rude tbqh. me and the bf are guests and its making me feel unwelcome and regretting the money i spent to come visit her. anyways cat comes out from the bathroom bc bee is still there clearing her throat with her arms crossed even after i finished fixing up the air mattress, and its quiet as hell bc me and bf are both uncomfy. cat gets mad and upset bc were guests in their home and she shouldnt be treating her like tht. shes upset we woke her up but surprise surprise shes even MORE upset i met cats partner before hers bc she wanted it to all be 'together' even tho i agreed to meet bf bc i did! want to meet him! and that we went to the fort without her.

anyways.

i apologize to her abt that bc i wanted to meet him but shes like 'no cat knew i wanted to do this thing' which fair.

the rest of the week goes ok. i get to meet her partner and theyre so nice and funny and i was super excited to meet them. we hit off great. we get lunch with one of cats friends, bee remarks abt 'oh i used to get so upset abt ppl being happier than me, enjoyed making ppl unhappy and would go out of my way to do so, bc i didnt like that they were happy and i wasnt' i buy bee a present for her birthday and u kno week ends i go home, and turns out bees partner comes out to her abt some things and bee freaks out, gets super upset and reacts really poorly. starts crying and going off abt being betrayed and etc.

turns out partner breaks up with her the next day bc they were uncomfortable with the reaction and then she starts crying and going off again abt feeling betrayed and upset and wanting to kill herself and tht they told her they loved her and would never leave and etc etc etc amongst other 'its not faiiiir' reactions. i still hold the opinion she was upset bc they broke up with her first.

cat calls her out for her behavior and that shes saying some very inappropriate things and tht ex isnt an awful person. bee ends up demanding all the gifts she gave ex back and wanted to know what ex would be doing with special gifts they got her before they both broke up.

i honestly end up quite. disgusted? with her behavior bc any time she broke up with someone while she lived separately from cat, shed ghost us and wed only get her side of the story. cat all but ends up moving in with her partner bc bee refuses to clean up after herself and keeps making a mess of things and its just a bad living situation.

cat tells bee tht shes not thinking of renewing their lease at the end of the year bc she cant handle living like this and bee lashes out. ends up making a mess of their kitchen and breaking some of cats things.

she also uses special non stick stuff of cats and uses metal on it (which ur not supposed to do) and keeps using cats own dishes and dishes she got from her grandma and doesnt clean them or anything.

my thing is. i dont know what to do. i kinda wanna stop our friendship bc im upset at how shes treating our other mutual friend. but i dont know if i should talk to her bc ive asked cat if i should try and talk to her to get her to see tht shes not being a good friend and cats told me not to, mostly bc she refuses to see shes wrong. im leaning towards wanting to follow her advice bc she has been living with bee but also it feels so scummy not to say anything esp when i know shes going to be going thru a difficult time in the next few months. however if i talk to her, i dont want to cause her to lash out at bee or have any of her things that are still at their apartment broken bc bees already proven to lash out and break other peoples things when shes upset at them, and i dont want to make it any worse for her.

bee would tend to ghost us when she was stll living with her mother, so much so tht we wouldnt hear from her for weeks or months, esp when she was feeling bad. i would try to reach out to her just to make sure she was fucking alive lmao. im worried if i were to reach out and ask abt all this and end with our friendship splitting off, shed do something drastic like hurt herself. i want to reach out and try to salvage what i feel is a dissolving friendship but i also dont want to be friends with this type of person unless shes worked on herself. i still love and care for her but like i know who i would stick by if i had to which... feels bad to say and sucks but th fact is i am closer with cat, mostly bc when bee would ghost us me and cat would still talk and we have more in common.

i want to talk and ask her why she would do and say these things and treat ppl she loves like this but ive been told not to but it would feel wrong not to at least. reach out. i dont know what to do.

AITA?

[oblxvion]

kiss me thru the phone | megumi fushiguro (1)

-> pairing(s): megumi fushiguro x f!reader, a bit of yuji itadori x f!reader

-> wc: 4k

-> warnings: smut, phone sex, slight corruption, cheating, mutual masturbation, a bit of praise

megumi had always thought you were insanely attractive, what was there not to like? everything about you, how kind you were to everyone, how your smile could always lighten up a room, your body and facial features were just a plus. he’d never really thought about you in that way until you started to hang around him and his friends more. there wasn’t anything wrong with you in his mind, you had no flaws. except for one thing, he wasn’t the one dating you, yuji was. 

of course, there wasn’t anything wrong with that, he was glad that you were happy and if dating yuji put a smile on your face, then so be it. but sometimes, he wishes he had you all to himself. 

on the other hand, you were completely obvious to megumi’s liking to you. and you had reason, you were preoccupied with your feelings for your loving boyfriend. you would’ve never suspected that he felt something for you due to the fact that he was a very closed off person, rarely sharing intimate aspects about himself. regardless, you were still close with him because of how all tended to hang out together sometimes with kugisaki, who was one of your best friends. 

yuji had recently left for a business trip that was in his hometown, he said it was going to take a week, which you were fine with. you could use this time to spend some time with friends and family during the day, but at night, this was a completely different story. since yuji wasn’t home, you were left alone, having to deal with the nightly events. you enjoyed pleasuring yourself but having him pleasure you was just so much different, you had grown addicted to it, and now that he wasn’t home, you missed him even more. 

you had been laying in bed in a bra and panties, scrolling through your phone for what seemed like hours when you got a snapchat notification from yuji, bringing a small smile to your face. you quickly tapped on the app and opened his snapchat, he was in bed, clearly tired and ready to go to sleep. you swipe over to the chat and your fingers tapped on the screen as you sent him a message.

hi baby, how was your day? you sent him before swiping back to your other snapchats, answering them and going to explore the other apps on your phone. you missed him, a lot, in fact, but you didn’t want to seem desperate.

you opened kugisaki’s snapchat, she was watching a new show that she had told you about, to which you responded with a smile. then you opened megumi’s, he seemed to be in bed with his shirt off and LED lights set to a low dark blue. you chuckled to yourself as you had a good feeling about what he was doing, but you decided to play it off as you send him back a photo of you, making sure not to show anything that was meant for yuji.

yuji is typing…

snapchat from yuji

angel! my day was good, i’m a bit tired though, how was yours? his words made your heart flutter, you missed him. it was only going to be a few more days until he came home. 

good, i miss you

i need you right now.

you hoped he would get the message, you couldn’t deny the warmth near your core that was beginning to form. it had been a while since the last time the two of you had sex, the week before he left, you were on your period. as much as he begged you to have period sex, you didn’t necessarily feel comfortable at the time but you told him that it would happen in the future, to which he obliged.

i need you too, fuck, i don’t know how i’m gonna go without you for the next few weeks. you felt yourself freeze, weeks? the trip was originally supposed to only be a few days. did something happen? at work? with his family? all possible reasons to why he would be staying longer flooded through your head. 

i thought it was only supposed to be a week? what happened? your fingers trembled as you typed out onto the screen. how were you supposed to go weeks without him? you were already struggling as much as it is, you missed him too much.

yeah, it was but something came up at home and i need to stay to help. 

i’m sorry, baby.

you wanted to ask him if you could come but if it was something personal to their family matters, you didn’t want to impose and cause any stress. you replied with a simple “i understand,” not wanting to invade his privacy because you knew that it could be something that he didn’t want to talk about just yet, but he would tell you eventually and you were fine with that. it was clear that the both of you didn’t want to continue the conversation, however sensitive it may be. you snapped him a photo of you cuddled up in bed with a small smile, hoping to brighten his mood.

he responded with a picture of him laying shirtless in bed, he angled his phone perfectly for you to get a good view of his chest and abs, while his free hand was very close to the waistband of his sweatpants. you could feel yourself growing hot at the scene, but for some reason, it felt weird to be sending lewd photos of yourself after that conversation. knowing yuji, he probably was jerking off before you texted him, so you disregarded the other thought from before. 

you decided to have a little fun with him as you sat up in your bed, sending him a picture of your body, specifically the matching panties and bra. it was one that he had bought for you for valentines day this year, claiming that he didn’t need anything from you because seeing you in it would be all that he needed. 

he opened the snapchat almost right away, taking a few moments to respond while you responded to kugisaki and megumi. his response consisted of him sending you a video as he slid his sweatpants down to mid thigh, his hand slowly sliding up and down his shaft before picking up the pace. you knew he was close, you could tell. his body had a sheen layer of sweat, only telling you that your suspicion about him jerking off earlier was true.

“fuck…” he groaned through the video, his voice sending vibrations down your spine. you took it upon yourself to help him reach the release that he was so desperately trying to reach. you exited out of his snapchat and double clicked, brining your phone in front of you, trying to take a good picture of your breasts that you know he loved. once you took the photo, you made sure that you looked good before you hit send.

your heart dropped once you realized who the photo went to, it wasn’t yuji.

it was his best friend, megumi.

you frantically swiped through the chat to attempt to delete the ten second photo, but to your despair, he’d already opened it. what were you going to do? you needed to tell him that it was an accident, especially since you double snapchatted him as well. 

fuck, i’m so sorry that wasn’t meant for you

you were shaking, how was he going to react? how could you tell yuji? was he going to tell yuji? all these questions began filling your head as you awaited his response. what the hell were you going to do? just what the fuck had you gotten yourself into?

as an attempt to calm yourself down, you clicked on yuji’s profile, seeing that he was last seen 5 minutes ago, you hoped that he would snapchat you back. you were never one to cheat, it was only an accident. he would understand that, right? you didn’t send megumi that picture on purpose.

that was meant for yuji! sorry again!

megumi couldn’t believe what he was seeing, here you were, on his phone screen, sending him a lewd photo. he thought he was dreaming, the way the lingerie fit so perfectly on your body, he couldn’t help but palm himself through his pants. he had a feeling that the picture wasn’t for him, he knew that it was for yuji, you confirmed his thoughts by sending your apology but what was the issue with looking at it a bit longer? dragging this moment out to the fullest?

the things he wanted to do to you, how fuckable you looked, it was driving him insane. he wanted to have you, to hear your whimpers as he ruined you over and over again. but he knew it was wrong, he had always felt wrong for having these feelings about you while you were with yuji.

megumi fushiguro is typing…

snapchat from megumi fushiguro

you were terrified to open his snapchat, afraid to see his response, slut-shaming you for sending him a picture like that when you had a boyfriend. you had to know what he said in order to explain the whole situation or else you’d hate yourself for it. but his response was something that you did not expect.

nah you’re all good

look at you, fuck

you could feel your face grow warm at his comment, it wasn’t something you weren’t used to. yuji always told you how good you looked for him, but for some reason, this was different. you liked it, and you felt dirty for it. 

the right thing to do would be just to apologize for the confusion and be on with your day, but your mind and body were saying two different things. you knew this was wrong but your body was saying something else. 

he doesn’t have to know.

he won’t know.

before you even had time to respond, megumi sent you a photo. you hesitated to open it at first, what if it was a picture of his dick? he didn’t seem like the one to do that, but men in the past had done this to you before, so you weren’t so sure. but curiosity kills the cat, and once you opened his snapchat, you shifted your position, trying to get any sort of friction on your clothed clit.

he was on his bed in the photo, one arm behind his head as he held the phone at a good angle for you to see some of his body while he wore a mischievous smirk on his face, cocking his head to the side. who knew such a innocent act like this could get you all riled up? and to top it off, the words on the photo said put on a show for me.

it was obvious that his words had an effect on you, even though you couldn’t hear him saying them, your whole body was hot. it felt like this decision was life or death, it wouldn’t be that bad. 

you tapped out of his snapchat, stood up near your bed and angled the camera to make sure you got your whole body in the picture. nobody could deny it, you looked so fucking sexy in this lingerie. this was all so dirty, the fact that it was the lingerie that yuji had bought you and you were sending picture of yourself in it to his best friend. in a way, it almost turned you on even more. you loved yuji, you did, but this was getting you more excited than he ever had. 

you continued to send him more photos of your body, living for every response that he gave you. his responses sent a chills throughout your body, making you want to hear more, see more. it seemed that megumi wasn’t really one to send lewds but you could tell that he was very aroused by your photos with the comments he was giving you, it was addicting.

fuck, you’re so pretty

so fucking sexy

holy fuck y/n

it was wrong to be doing this, and you hated to admit that you were enjoying it every one bit. with just his comments and pictures back to you, you could feel your slick pooling in your panties. his photos back to you consisted of him sending pictures of his abs or pictures of him gently stroking his length through his sweatpants. 

you wanted more, him to say more, for there to be more, you wanted to see it. just from seeing his print in his pants, you could tell that he was nowhere near small, maybe it was time to take it to the next level.

his previous snapchat consisted of a body shot, clearly from the side so you could see how toned he was, along with his free hand down and under his waistband. it was a sight, you had to agree, it left you flustered. you wanted to one up him, make him be the one unable to control himself, make him be the one who’s flustered. 

you took it upon yourself to take a video of your body, hand slightly ghosting down your breasts, making sure that one could hear the small whimpers and noises you were emitting. you had to admit, you were hot, there was no doubt in that statement. once you clicked send on the video, a smirk took form on your face, you couldn’t wait for his reaction.

when megumi opened your video, he was surprised because all you had sent him before were pictures, but now seeing a video, he didn’t know how to react. he felt his whole body freeze when he heard your little moans as you gave him a perfect view of your body. he was impossibly harder than he was before, and it was all because of you. 

“fuck,” he groaned as he set his phone down, bring his hands up to his face. his cheeks felt hot, he would’ve never believed that this was going to happen. you, the girl he’d always wanted to be his own, sending him provocative pictures like this. it felt like a dream come true, he didn’t want to let it go to waste. 

on the other hand, you leaned back on your bed as you set your phone down beside you as you slowly began to bring your hands down to your pulsing heat. although you had been teasing him, you also had been teasing yourself too and you needed to let off some steam. you tried to think of yuji, how he loves and praises you, but all you could think of was him.

megumi.

your boyfriends best friend.

you tried to imagine what it’d be like if it were his fingers on you instead, sliding up and down your body as he took in every crevice, every dip of your skin. the feeling of his mouth on yours, on your body, between your legs, you wanted to feel him everywhere. you felt filthy, disgusting, but you needed him. 

just as you were about to bring your fingers under the waistband of your flimsy panties, your phone began to vibrate on the bed. you were a bit confused to be receiving a call at this time of the night but when you turned your phone up to face you, it was megumi. 

you were nervous to pick up, thinking that it would be awkward. but you had just sent him lewds, so you decided that didn’t matter. you picked up the phone call embarrassingly quick, only to see his face light up when yours came on screen. you didn’t know what to say, it was like all the words had suddenly fell back down your throat.

“hi princess,” he whispered, making your heart flutter. you mentally cursed at yourself, he shouldn’t be making you feel this way. you had a boyfriend. 

megumi took notice in your lack of response, chuckling lowly to himself. he thought it was cute, how you now could barely keep your composure around him. 

“hi,” you mumbled in response, his voice putting you in a haze. you’d hung out with megumi before, but never did you feel this way towards him.

“acting all shy now, huh? you weren’t so shy before, baby.” lust was laced in his voice, you found it undeniably attractive, the pet name sending a warm feeling throughout your body. “c’mon, put on a show for me.” 

you weren’t quite sure with what he meant with his words, but you had an idea. you reached behind you to unclasp your bra and slowly pulled it down for him to see, gently bringing your free hand to fondle with your breasts, forefinger and thumb playing with your nipple, making sure both got the same amount of attention.

this simple action had him throbbing as he held back a moan, he could feel the precum leaking down his shaft. oh how he wanted to ravish you, have you all to himself. you were addicting, he needed you.

megumi slid his hand under the waistband of his pants, stroking himself ever so slightly. he tried to hold back his moans as his eyes stayed glued to the screen as you played with your breasts. it was so overwhelming, he loved every second of it.

“fuck,” you moaned quietly, hoping he wouldn’t hear, but to your disappointment, he heard. 

“what is it?” he responded rather quickly, worried that he had done something wrong. the silence in his room and yours was undeniably loud, and he heard that small sound of you playing with your cunt. you tried everything to make sure that he hadn’t heard, but this whole situation was going south and you needed to relieve the feeling that was building up. you knew you would feel disgusting about this later, you’d feel like a horrible person for what you were doing. 

yuji didn’t have to know.

“‘need you right now, fuck, megumi, please,” you whimpered as you gently ghosted your fingers over your folds, silently cursing at yourself for getting so aroused from him, with him on the phone. you gently swirled your finger around your clit causing you to twitch at the sensation, stifling back a moan as you bit your lip.

the sound of you moaning his name and getting off on the other end of the phone was driving him insane, he needed to see you, to see your pretty pussy, all puffy and slick with your essence as you shamelessly fingered yourself for him. the fact that you had a boyfriend and this could be really bad for the both of you, seemed to only turn the two of you on more. 

“wanna see you,” your voice was small, he thought it was cute. “please.” he could tell that as much as you wanted to see his face, you wanted to see something more.

“fuck, y/n, okay, only if you show me after.” he pulled his sweatpants down just enough to free himself, his dick slapping against his lower abdomen. you swore you could feel your hole clench at the sight of his fully erect cock. sure, you had a large amount of sexual experience and seen a fair share of dicks in your life, but there wasn’t a single one that looked as pretty as his. he seemed to be above average size, a bit on the skinnier side but he made up for it in length, compared to yuji, who was around average size but had more girth than megumi. but you knew that megumi would be able to hit spots inside you that yuji hadn’t. of course, he still pleasured you but there was something about megumi that had you itching to have him inside you. although it seemed far fetched, you were just going to have to relish in this moment.

“like what you see, hm?” his words snapping you out of your trance, turning your head away from the camera which earned a low chuckle from him.

“shut up,” you mumbled, before looking back towards the screen. you saw him stroke himself, picking up the pace from the speed at which he was going at earlier. he tried to hold back the noises that were coming from his mouth but you loved them, you loved this.

“are you g’na show me that pretty pussy of yours?” he asked you, your face heating up once again at his request. you nodded your head slowly as you brought your phone down in between your legs. you never had done something like this in the past, but it sent adrenaline throughout your whole body.

megumi’s eyes stayed glued to the screen as you lowered the phone agonizingly slow until the phone was right in front of your clothed heat. the wet spot at your crotch was incredibly noticeable along with your free hand stuffed in your panties, trying to bring yourself close to the edge. you slowly pulled your hand out from under the waistband, fingers coated in your slick as you pulled your underwear to the side to reveal yourself fully to him. 

he felt his breath hitch in his throat, you were so wet. there was no doubt that you were talking to yuji before you talked to him but the fact that he had managed to get you even more turned on before, stroked his ego immensely.

but little did he know, most of this was because of him.

“holy shit,” he groaned as he began to stroke up and down his length, keeping his eyes on the screen. you had the prettiest cunt he’d ever seen, it was even better than he’d imagined, he knew he wasn’t going to last long. megumi had fantasized about this for so long, and now he has it right before his eyes. he continued to watch, giving you encouraging words of praise as you fingered yourself ever so slowly, making sure your clit also got some relief as well.

your saccharine moans echoed through the room as you began to pick up the pace, you were close. you could feel your orgasm as it was just on the edge, you just needed one more push.

“oh fuck,” you bit your lip as you tried to cover your sounds, your fingers barely grazing over your special spot as you fucked yourself with your fingers. “megumi, ’m gonna - ”

“you gonna cum? yeah?” he seethed, megumi could feel his orgasm approaching fast, he needed to see you cum before him. “imagine if it was me, using my fingers on you, my mouth on you. c’mon baby, cum for me.”

as soon as those words came out of his mouth, you came hard, imagining as if it were him who was the one with his fingers inside of you, easing you out of your orgasm. the sight of you coming undone before his eyes through the screen made him lose it as he came, hot spurts of his cum on his chest, groaning at the feeling of his long awaited release. 

you both stayed quiet as you caught your breath, the silence somewhat awkward, but for some reason, calming. once back to normal, you both exchanged a light conversation before ending the call.

you lay in bed, thinking about what you had just done. it was wrong, dirty, and you felt filthy for it. the worst part, you enjoyed it way more than you thought you would. the two of you knew in your hearts that things won’t be the same after this, there’s no way they could. it would have to be a secret, just be between you and megumi.

as you lay there, one thought played on repeat inside your head.

what were you going to tell yuji?

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[nelliebrookstone]

( BRIANNE HOWEY, 29, CIS WOMAN, SHE/HER ) * hey, i’m looking for the office of ELEANOR ‘NELL’ BROOKSTONE. they’re the EMPLOYEE who’s known around the office as THE BURN BOOK, if that helps ? not to be a gossip, but i’ve heard that they’re SUPPORTIVE but PETTY, is that true ? i also heard that they’re the one who CRIED IN THE BATHROOM BECAUSE SOMEONE TOOK HER YOGURT. anyways, here’s the coffee they ordered.

Greetings Earthlings, my name is Asha I am simply a fellow human from planet earth looking to hang out with my cool friends at the Build-A-Bear. I’m excited to be here! I have more information on Eleanor (nellie if you know here, nell if you don’t) below the cut! If you give this a lil like I’ll slide into your exclusive tumblr DMs to plot! 

So, who is Nell? Well let me tell you. As far as most people know, Nell is a former Masters Model turned Head of Talent Management for models. She’s a mix of sweet Alabama charm and scary dead smile energy, and she always has a compact for you to borrow in her purse. Most people know she always has a perfect french manicure and knows most people by first name. You might also know she recently divorced Parker and is no longer using his last name, please do not call her Mrs. Carson she’ll cry in the bathroom and then leave you a bad yelp review. You’re not even on yelp, you say? She’ll make one for you and then leave a bad review. 

But like a curated Insta, this ain’t it folks. So buckle up. (I say this dramatically but tbh she has had a pretty stable life)

Nellie grew up in a smallish town in Alabama. If you ask her, it wasn’t small at all. But it certainly was compared to large city centers, and definitely compared to New York. It was the kind of town where everyone knew your business, and Nellie had a lot of business. 

She was a teen queen! Head cheerleader, student president, shining volunteer of the county and Lady Alabama of 2010 (not to be confused with Miss Alabama, but if you ask her it’s basically the same thing). She was very involved in her community and her parents were well known in the area for their construction company. Everyone loved her that she was like the golden child of the town.

It was a great, privileged life! Her parents got married young, had a bunch of kids, and had the means to care for them! Her parents also have a very genuine love story, still passionate about each other years later. She and her sisters (all five of them) have always wanted a life like their parents’. 

The one difference between her and her parents remained her desire to roam and see the world. She wanted to travel, or at least live in a place where she could meet new people from new places. Moving to New York seemed like a great place to get some experience, though if you ask her mother she probably got the idea from some dumb TV show. She did. It was a lot of shows. And a lot of movies. There were a ton of romantic comedies that TRULY shaped this desire. 

she started sending in applications to various schools in New York. She was an honor list student with a lot of extra-circulars and passion to be at these places that shown through on all her apps. She got many a rejection, the one from Columbia was the hardest. It was the worst thing that ever happened to her at the time, so you can imagine how her life must have been. 

She DID get accepted to NYU for Public Relations! CHEERS ALL AROUND! She was so excited. She was gonna see the world and be a big city bitch 10/10. In college, she was quickly involved in everything from various clubs, to sorority, to trying to get involved with the community. It didn’t work out as well. New York was just such a different town...in that it was...big. And she wasn’t used to that. 

But she did meet a funky guy named Parker Carson! And they fell in love! And here is a short synopsis of their relationship: 

they met at a department store. Parker looked a little lost in the dress shirt area so she helped him pick out an outfit and the rest was, as they say, history. 

they had a great relationship at first, full of love and passion and fun times. he had a pokemon tattoo, she used to play pokemon snap. what a team! 

but really, they had a great time together...which led them to get married real early. In fact, for Nell, this was even a little late. She thought she’d be married with kids by 23. 

a lot of little things led to their downfall, but it can be boiled down to not fully understanding what it takes to live with another person who doesn’t mesh with your lifestyle. A big issue for Nell was kids. She wanted them, right then and there. He didn’t! No one’s fault, but it seemed to be a block they couldn’t get over. 

they’re divorced now. it’s fresh. she’s got a lot of conflicts about it. She cannot believe she is divorced before 30. she cannot believe she doesn’t have kids by now. She is under the impression she’s run out of time for everything, which is not true at all but it’s how she feels. She’s none too fond of the man at the moment. 

But listen! Nellie is a fun girl! She’s got a lot of ~zest~ for life and likes to do new things and try new places. She’s also just as comfortable spending the day at home on the couch with everything she needs within arms reach. She seems like someone who would be into partying but that’s really not her scene. She’s a brunch girl, a drive-thru movie theater girl, and an all-day 90 day fiance girl. She has an addiction to cherry cokes and always misses her stop on the subway because she gets distracted listening to her music and zoning out. She cries a lot during sad AND happy movies and can’t eat pork because she once knew a pig named Babe (no relation to the famous babe). Her favorite animal is the octopus and she volunteers with the homeless shelter every weekend. 

All of this doesn’t really come across in her work persona. She always seems like she’s extremely put together and very good at what she does. She’s quick, snappy, and not afraid to speak her mind. She’s a master at the backhanded compliment and is the master of the delayed burn (you won’t know you’ve been roasted until she’s down the hallway). She has a very charming way of speaking with a thick southern accent and tons of sayings that no one knows the meaning of, but sometimes that Nice Southern Girl smile comes out and you know she would be stabbing you if such an act were socially acceptable. Despite this, Nellie doesn’t think she’s a mean person. 

But I’m sure there are MANY people who think she is. Because...sometimes she is! No one is perfect, and she definitely has a reputation of being a major pain in the ass if you’re on her bad side. Nell remembers EVERY slight against her. Oh, she remembers when you commented on the amount of emails she sends. She remembers when you mentioned that you thought her font type was a little too bold. She remembers it all...and stores it in her mental burn book. 

This also happens often because she is...pretty sensitive. And because she’s going through a divorce, which is NOT what she had planned for in life, she’s like a stubbed toe away from a full cry every day. She’s started to invest in waterproof mascara but it’s not working out. She really DID cry in the bathroom over her yogurt. She also came back the next day and wrote a VERY angry letter on the fridge titled ‘to the person who likes to take things that don’t belong to them, I hope your mother knows she raised a THIEF.’

As petty as she can be, she’s also a great person to have in your corner. If you’re a friend, she will fight for you to the end. She’s very loyal and will often drop whatever she’s doing if you need her. She can be very generous, no expenses spared to lift up someone she loves. If you’re a friend of hers, she’s a great friend. The kind you can call at 2 am when she’s dead asleep and she’ll still come help you move out of your shitty ex’s apartment. 

Basically, Nell is a whole lot of things. Not all of them are great. But she likes to think of herself as a good person that cares about other people. She generally is! She’s also fairly good at having heart to heart conversations, and isn’t afraid to own her mistakes if she’s not still upset about the issue. But she’ll also try to ruin your career if you steal her yogurt. Fun! 

I’ll add more as I think of it, but for now I’m here for all the plots. Best friends, enemies, the person who caught her crying in the bathroom, the person who caught her angrily scribbling her name on all her yogurt, you name it! 

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Meet Me, Love Me chapter 2: daddys_pr1ncess

Chapter 1: The Lieutenant

Pairing: Walter Marshall x OFC (Erin)

Series Summary: After meeting a woman on the dating site Meet Me, Love Me, Walter finds himself falling into a messy web of lies, deceit, and heartbreak.

Chapter Summary: Erin does her best to stay professional around Lieutenant Marshall, which doesn’t last for very long.

Warning(s): masturbating, spanking, slight angst

Word Count: 2,488

“Valdez, you’re with Lieutenant Marshall today,” Officer Romero says before continuing down her list of every intern’s daily task.

Erin’s eyes pop. Today is her first day of field training. She’ll get to be front and center to all the action, which is the entire reason she signed up to be an intern in the first place. She’s been looking forward to this day for weeks. But why are they sending her out with a lieutenant instead of a cop with a lower position and less important things to do? And why, of all people, did it have to Walter she’s paired up with?

“You’re the guy I’ve been sexting for the last month,” she’d said that day in the restaurant as she realized that Lieutenant Walter Marshall was the.lieutenant, AKA the man she’d been calling daddy for the last three weeks. She’d never wished to be swallowed up by the earth more than she had in that moment. “Wait--you’re the guy who’s been sexting me!”

Holy shit.

She spent her mornings taking this guy’s coffee order and her nights making videos for him to jerk off to. How the hell was she supposed to show her face at work now that she knew what his dick looked like, had practically memorized every detail of it after all the pictures he’d sent her of his hard-on?

“What the hell do we do now?” she had asked, not necessarily to him, but to anyone who was listening and had the slightest bit of an answer.

“The only thing we can do.” There’s a reluctance in Lieutenant Marshall’s--Walter’s voice that she’d never heard before.

For some stupid reason, she let herself hope. Hope that he would say something along the lines of I know this is probably breaking twenty HR rules but let’s keep talking anyways, now do you wanna go to my place and fuck? Call her a hopeless romantic, or a stupid idiot. She’s not sure there’s much difference. But her chest had tightened and her heart had fluttered in those few seconds between his sentences.

And then he said: “We can’t do this anymore. We have to stop talking right now. Neither one of us knew who the other was when we started this… this… whatever this was. But it’s over. It has to be.”

Of course, she understood why he did it. Not only was it wrong to keep doing it while they worked together, but he was about ten positions above her, and that made it even worse. He had to save his job and his reputation.

She understood the logic behind it. But that didn’t make it hurt any less.

Now, a week later, she’s being assigned to him for the day. The wound is still fresh. She still finds herself reaching for her phone to text him, only to stop herself when she opens the app and sees his username. She still reads their texts as she's lying in bed at night, feeling like a clingy idiot. They no longer riled her up now, they only make her start to cry. It’s stupid, she knows that. It wasn’t a real relationship. But she misses having him there, misses talking to someone at all hours of the day. So how the hell is she supposed to act professional around him today?

Once Officer Romero has given her instructions, Erin walks up to her and says, “Sorry, but I thought--”

The older lady holds up a hand, silencing Erin. “First, don’t ever start a sentence with ‘sorry, but..’. If you’re going to say something, you gotta mean it. I expect that kind of confidence in you before you pass your training.”

Erin nods. “Yeah, okay. Sorry. I mean… uh, I was just…”

Someone calls Officer Romero’s name and she excuses herself. Just as she starts to walk down the hall she passes Walter on his way in. She tells him that Erin is going to be under him today and--god, what is wrong with her for finding something dirty in that?--Walter stops in his tracks. He looks around the room until he spots Erin. She tries to give an apologetic smile but it feels more like a grimace.

This is going to be a long day.

An hour later, Walter has settled in, scanned through paperwork, had his three cups of black coffee, and Erin decides it’s time to head down to his unmarked Ford Explorer and wait for him. She’s in an actual police uniform today--normally she’s in sweats and a police t-shirt--and though it’s something that would make her giddy with excitement, the thought of spending her first day out in the field with Walter is killing her buzz.

Walter doesn’t say anything as he makes his way to his car and hits the unlock button on his keys. Erin slides into the passenger seat. Walter turns on the car and adjusts the AC and the police radio without even acknowledging her presence.

“So, I want you to know that I didn’t do anything,” Erin explains. “I didn’t say anything to anyone, Officer Romero just randomly assigned me to you--”

He silences her with a look.

She hesitates before adding, “I just… don’t want you to think that I’m not respecting your wishes. I’m not trying to make your job harder for you.”

His expression slightly softens. Slightly. 

Erin doesn’t let her mouth get away from her this time. The car is tense and silent as Walter switches into drive and heads off down the highway. Erin doesn’t know where they’re going but he looks like a man on a mission so she doesn’t question it.

They spend the first two hours in silence. No calls come in. They just sit on a part of the highway directly between the two biggest cities in the area and wait for a call on the radio that never comes. Neither one of them speaks. Walter finally speeds off down the highway around eleven. Erin thinks he’s been notified of a crime that she isn’t aware of, and is slightly disappointed when they pull into a McDonald’s drive-thru.

“What are we doing here?” she asks.

He ignores her as he pulls up to the window and orders half the menu. He doesn’t even ask if she wants anything before finishing the order.

“Walter?” she asks, then quickly corrects herself. “Er, Lieutenant Marshall?”

He still ignores her. Once he’s paid and gotten the three bags of food, he drives back to their waiting point along the highway. Erin can only stay quiet for a few more minutes.

“I’m putting in a complaint when we get back to the station,” she tells him.

He finally looks at her, giving her a look that says, why the hell are you going to do that?

She just stares at him with a look of her own. If you want me to explain myself, you’ll have to talk.

“Why are you putting in a complaint?” he sighs.

“You’re being completely unprofessional.” Normally she’d be too shy to speak to an officer like this, but she’s had enough of the stupid chip on his shoulder. Plus, he’s seen her naked, so there’s nothing left to be shy about with him.

“I’m not doing anything,” Walter protests.

“Exactly!” Erin agrees. “The point of taking me with you is to teach me stuff. We’ve already wasted half our shift and you’ve taught me nothing, except that you eat enough for a family of four!”

“I only eat once a day,” Walter argues, like that changes anything.

Erin rolls her eyes. “That’s not the point.”

“And what is your point? Do you actually have one or do you just feel like yelling?”

“My point is that you’re discriminating against me,” she says. “You’re letting the whole ‘Meet Me, Love Me’ thing get in your head and you’re using it as a wall between us. You can ignore me for the rest of your life. Fine. But not today. You don’t get to not teach me just because you regret our relationship. So act professional and teach me, Walter!”

He doesn’t say anything. Erin opens her mouth to yell at him some more, when she recognizes the strange new look on his face. His eyes are glazed over and his mouth slightly parted as he stares at Erin’s mouth like he’s under a spell. Erin’s face burns as she realizes what he’s no doubt thinking about: she likes to be a brat sometimes just to get a reaction out of him. He punishes her accordingly every time, but it’s the hottest thing to both of them. Walter loves laying down the law--his law--and Erin loves being punished. Intense heat wets her panties and she squeezes her legs together. He notices. His gaze jumps to her legs immediately and he fucking licks his lips. Is he trying to kill her?

“Walter--” she says, her voice shaking, but Walter’s phone goes off before she can say anything else.

He answers the call and, just like that, the moment is over.

“I’m needed back at the station,” he explains as he hangs up the phone. That’s all he says for the rest of the drive.

…

That night, after enjoying a couple glasses of wine, Erin locks herself in her room, away from her roommates, and decides to watch Pornhub on her laptop. She hasn’t needed to do this in a while; usually sexting with Walter is enough to make her satisfied. So having to look up adult videos is just another bitter reminder that whatever they had--a fling? A relationship?--is done. She may or may not have pulled up her Meet Me, Love Me messages with Walter beforehand, reading through their own conversations as a strange form of roleplay.

What she does do, however, is hit the record button on her phone without realizing. Once she shuts her phone off for the night, it automatically stops recording. And somehow, either through her tipsiness or her fatigue, she hits send. The video of her masturbating--and moaning Walter’s name as she cums--goes straight to the lieutenant himself.

…

The next morning, Walter drags her into a windowless janitor’s closet, his nails digging into her arm. He’s never been rough with her before--occasionally he’ll use harsh words when she’s been acting like a brat, but they’ve never been in physical contact for this to happen, and she has a strange and possibly psychotic gratefulness that his touch will leave bruises on her arm, a reminder that he’s not just some figment of her imagination.

“What kind of game are you playing?” he growls in a whisper-shout, cautious of the people on the other side of the door.

She has no idea what he’s talking about. She says as much.

“Don’t play dumb with me, you dirty little brat,” he spits.

Erin’s going straight to hell for the way those words--and his angry growl--sends heat straight to her core.

Walter continues, “That cute little speech you gave yesterday about wanting to stay professional… you don’t get to say shit like that and then send me videos like the one from last night.”

“What video are you…?” And then it hits her. She has no memory of sending him anything, no memory of even making a video. “Walter, I didn’t mean--”

He takes a step towards her, his shoes now flush with hers. Their chests brush against each other with every inhale. Erin has to crane her neck all the way back to look him in the eye. Dominance radiates off of him, as strong as his cologne, and fuck does it make her wet. She tries to keep her breathing steady, to not make it obvious that her heart is racing, but it gets harder the longer he looks at her with that anger in his eyes. It’s as terrifying as it is arousing.

Walter puts his hands on either side of her head, trapping her. His face is so close to hers that she can feel his breath against her cheeks. “You moaned my goddamn name when you came. You said my name--and you’re really trying to stand here and convince me that you hadn’t meant that video for me?”

“Walter--” Erin begins, her voice shaking, but she can’t get anything more than his name out before his hands are on her hips and he’s spinning her to face the wall. He presses his body against hers. His warmth envelopes her but it makes her shiver. She wants him. God, does she want him. She’d willingly let him fuck her right here and now, damn whoever might walk in on them.

“My name,” he growls in her ear, “is Lieutenant, got it?”

“Yes,” she whimpers. It’s taking every ounce of self-control to not beg him to fuck her. She can feel his erection against her ass; this is just as exciting to him. She wants that cock inside of her, moving between her walls and teasing her pussy, splitting her open as he enters her, fucking her so hard that she can’t walk after.

“Yes, what?” he spits.

“Yes, Lieutenant.” Her arousal is already soaking her panties. She wonders if he can smell it, the way she can smell his arousal.

“Good girl.” He’s really trying to kill her, isn’t he? He knows exactly what that praise does to her, how it makes her weak in the knees. “Now be good and don’t scream.”

Erin pauses, but before she can ask what he’s doing he yanks her pants down. She gasps, her cheeks burning with embarrassment as the cool air hits her asscheeks. And then she gasps again--for an entirely different reason--when Walter begins to knead her cheeks in his hands.

Her Latina heritage blessed her with curves, which includes a big butt. She used to be embarrassed of it her entire life. And then she started dating guys and realized they like touching her big butt as much as she likes it being touched. But Walter’s hands are big enough to make her feel small, even as he touches the biggest part on her body, and that does something to her that she’s never experienced. Something she can’t explain but she knows she likes.

And then he spanks her. His hands come down roughly on both of her cheeks and she gasps, more at the sound than the pain. But when the sting finally registers, it’s not completely unbearable. In fact, there’s something about the way her skin burns that makes it… addicting. She wants him to spank her again.

And he does.

Three more times, on each cheek. He doesn’t bother to be gentle with her. The masochist in her loves it.

And later, as she feels the ghost of his hands with every passing second, she smiles to herself. That video had been sent on accident, but she’d do it over again in a heartbeat.

***

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Who was the last person you took a photo with? Was it self-taken? Angela and I took so many photos last Sunday. It was a mixture of selfie shots and photos taken by Hans.

Have you ever tried to learn another language? How did it go? Yeah, I enrolled in the Spanish and Korean courses on Duolingo. Spanish went smoothly for a while until it got to a point where it felt like I was just doing it as a game; the verb tenses eventually got too difficult as well, so it was natural for me to just take an indefinite break altogether. 

Korean was way too challenging from the beginning because of how similar the vowels sounded on the app; it was so much easier to just watch Korean shows and learn to read Hangul/pick up Korean from there.

When was the last time you charged your phone? It’s charging at the moment. It was at 2% just a few minutes ago.

So, what are your plans for the near future (a year)? Save money and get better at my job.

Do you prefer questions about trivial things, or more deep and meaningful? You mean on surveys? Trivial things. I like taking surveys so I can take a quick break away from life, not so I can get existential crises along the way.

What can you hear right now? Tell me even the tiniest things. I’m listening to music on my headphones and it’s pretty loud, so this is the only thing I can hear. My fan is also currently on its strongest level so I know it’s being quite loud, but I can’t hear it.

Where did you last ride in a car to and why? I went to the McDonald’s drive thru to pick up my BTS Meal lol

Tell me about a person that comes to your head whose name starts with M. A batchmate from high school named Mavic. We’ve talked like once since graduating, and it was her recommending some GOT7 songs to me since I had mentioned in a tweet that I found their music pretty good.

Do you drink alcohol? How often? Yes. Maybe once or twice a month, I’d say.

Do you have any bills that need to be paid right now? Nopes.

Can you rap freestyle? Or at least sing raps from songs? I can’t do freestyle but yeah I memorize a few rap songs, specifically from Watch the Throne since I had a phase where I was heavily into the album. I can rap some Korean verses but I’ll mostly need my phone as guidance to read the lyrics as I find them impossible to memorize hahaha.

Do you know anyone from the Philippines? Robynnn. < :D :D

What was the last type of soup you ate? Miso soup, from my Yabu meal last night.

Are you more logical or creative, or maybe somewhere in between? Logical.

Do you use bar soap or gel soap? Bar soap.

What colour do you associate with the flavour mint? Hm, either white or green.

When was the last time you had brunch? My family and I usually have brunch on Sundays, so this morning.

Does your bedroom door have a lock on it? Do you have to use it? It does. I use it occasionally during the day so my mom doesn’t just barge in - as she does - during my shift, especially if I have an important meeting coming up. Lately I’ve also been locking my room at night, just because.

How many times a year do you travel away from home? If you mean TRAVEL travel and not just driving to the next city to go to the mall, maybe 3-4 times a year. Obviously we’ve had to put a stop to that for now, but that’s the average.

Describe your go-to outfit to me, please. T-shirt or blouse + mom jeans.

Do you like your job? Why or why not? I do like it as it’s in line with my interests and strengths. It’s just very stressful this month as there are so many big campaigns we have to support in June so I’m not exactly having a very dandy time right now. But I like the job overall.

How about your boss? What's your boss like? I work under two bosses; one is my manager and another is a director. They’re both great and are very helpful guides. It also helps that the three of us are very close in age, so there’s no layer of intimidation that lingers when we work together.

Do you have a credit card? Do you rely on it? I don’t have a credit card per se but I have a credit line on one of my apps that I will use a few times a month. No, I make it a point not to be reliant on it and only use it for emergencies.

Are you bitter about anything at the moment? Tell me about it. Just the fact that it’s Sunday again and I have to work tomorrow when I feel barely well-rested. I love my job and working on the BTS Meal has been sunshine and rainbows, but I need to breathe lmao.

What colour is your bath towel? At the moment, it’s sky blue.

Who was the last person you saw a movie at the cinema with? Who paid? Gabie. We paid for our own tickets.

Do you message friends and family on Facebook regularly? Yes, it’s my main mode of communication.

What is the most played song in your iTunes (or other) library? According to Spotify, it’s Butter for the month of June (so far).

Have you ever shared a house with a significant other? I have not. I don’t even live on my own yet.

Do you have a song in your head? Do you remember how it got stuck there? Just the song I’m currently listening to.

When was the last time you did laundry? Hmm, never? I don’t do the laundry at home.

Do you still have a landline phone in your home? Yep. My grandma still prefers to communicate via landline, so we keep it around for her.

How are you feeling today? Happy, sad, or anything else? Hot and uncomfortable. Kinda crestfallen because it’s Sunday, but at least the worst part of the month aka last Friday is finally over and it’s all post-campaign work stuff from here. Also feeling giddy because some of my orders just arrived :D I guess I’m all over the place today.

What is your favourite brand of shoes? Nike.

If you smoke, what's your brand of choice? I don’t smoke as a habit, so I don’t have a go-to brand. If I do smoke, I just go with whatever brand since I just ask for cigarettes from friends anyway.

Have you ever built a snowman? Nope.

Does it even snow where you live? No.

If you had to volunteer for a week, where would you like to volunteer? A shelter for stray dogs and cats.

Who was the last person you made you upset? What did they do? Just some annoying people on Facebook who seem to find it fun to rain on other people’s happiness.

Do you have a crush on anyone? Tell me about them. Nah.

Have you ever had something signed by someone famous? What and who? A postcard from Sheamus and a poster from AJ Lee. Both wrestlers.

What was the last thing you said aloud? “Awww” after reading a heartwarming post on Facebook.

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Have you ever played golf? I went to the driving range a couple of times with my dad when we were younger and have played mini golf before, but I don’t recall playing a real game of golf.  Is there a lake near your house? Sadly not. What was the last TV show you watched an episode of? Star Trek: The Next Generation. Do you like beer? If so, what’s your favorite brand? No. What color is your favorite fruit? I don’t have a favourite - too many taste so good! How often do you update your Facebook status? Never. When was the last time you went to the supermarket? Yikes... a long while ago. I’m currently living with my family and mum is a superhero who organises the shopping each week (click & collect). Have you ever been pulled over for speeding? No, I’ve been caught by speed cameras but have never been pulled over. What was the last thing you ate? Onion bhaji. Do you feel bad when you throw food out? Yes, of course! I try my best not to be wasteful, but I’m not quite at ‘turning leftover banana peel into bacon’ yet. Seriously, it’s a thing! What’s your favorite sort of pasta? I really like tagliatelle.  What do you think about the new Apple Watch? I didn’t even know about it (I don’t follow news). Have you ever been on a log flume ride? Yes. What was the last wedding you attended? I think it was my uncle’s, which was at least ten years ago. I don’t care for weddings. Are you religious? What do you believe in? No, I’m agnostic. What’s your favorite thing about the weekend? Currently I’m not working much at all, so my favourite thing about the weekend is that other people in the household tend to go out of the house more often (meaning that I sometimes get the house to myself). How often do you go to the drive-thru? Not often at all anymore; I prefer to cook my own food and occasionally order food to be delivered. Do you know anyone who’s lived through a natural disaster? Yes, several people who have experienced hurricanes/tornadoes from the US or south-east Asia. How do you feel right now? Surprisingly OK; a little bit lonely. Also a little hungry, but I need to lose weight, so I’m trying to resist. Have you ever tried to make risotto? No, I find risotto quite sickly for some reason, so it wouldn’t be a dish that I’d choose to cook. What does your favorite perfume/cologne smell like? Fruity. How many brothers/sisters do you have? One brother. When was the last time you waxed anything on your body, if ever? Several years ago. I use an epilator to shave off leg hairs now. The ‘tash gets tweezered and occasionally removed with a razor. Have you ever broken a window, intentionally or not? No. How far do you think you can run? I can’t quantify it but I’m quite sure the answer is ‘not very far at all’. I’m so unfit, send help! What is your favorite video game? There are so many fantastic video games out there which are all uniquely amazing within their own right. I really couldn’t choose just one favourite. 

Here are my more recently played favourites (within the past three years): Red Dead Redemption 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Dragon Age 1-3, Mass Effect 1-3, Witcher 3, Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War. 

Here are my old favourites: Pokemon (especially Emerald and Fire Red),  Animal Crossing: Wild World, Dog’s Life, Gallop Racer 2, Mario Kart Wii, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Red Dead Redemption, RuneScape (now OldSchool), Horse Isle 2 (now Eternal), Sims 3, Zoo Tycoon 2.   Do you know anyone who uses a wheelchair? No. Have you ever made your own pizza or pasta dough? Yes, with help, when I was younger. It’s something I’d really like to try in the near future. What’s your favorite fast food place? Wagamama! The vegatsu curry and mushroom bao buns are to die for. When was the last time you went out for a meal? Oh, yikes... not for quite some time. I don’t really miss it though; covid kind of helped me to check myself and change a few old unhealthy eating habits.

Can you sing? Yes and no. Can I answer with that? If I’m really feeling the song and my voice is OK, then yes. If I’m not feeling it and my voice is acting up then no, God no. Do you wear a watch? I try to remember to, but I often forget. Sometimes I like the pressure on my wrist - I find that it helps to keep me calm. Other times I find the pressure really irritating and have to take it off. Have you ever watched an entire season of a TV show in one day? I have not; I tip my hat to people who have. It’s a superpower! Lord knows how they keep their attention focussed for so long. What did you have for dinner tonight (or last night)? Chickpea and coconut curry (with the onion bhajis). Would you ever consider getting plastic surgery? What would you have done? Not now, no. There was a time when I was considering having my nose made smaller. Have you used the app Yik Yak? No, I have never heard of it. Do you like shrimp? I like most animals, but spiders, ants and some flying insects still freak me out (I’m working on it). Shrimp are pretty cute. The peacock mantis shrimp is awesome! They can punch with the speed of a .22 calibre bullet, according to the American Museum of Natural History website. Tell me three of your favorite movies. Fast & Furious, Lord of the Rings, Ace Ventura. Are you lactose intolerant? Probably... I used to consume dairy, but I don’t any more, so I will probably feel unwell if I consume it again. Have you ever been in a car accident? If hitting a deer counts, then yes. Poor fella... I was driving home from an early morning survey for work, so I was pretty tired. It was a dark country road bordered on either side by deep ditches, dense shrubbery and woodland. I did an emergency stop, but the bumper of my car still bumped the deer in the process of stopping. I didn’t see where they went, so I assume that they darted off into the forest. I nearly caused another accident as I was driving away because I was still processing the shock (nearly let my car slip down the side ditch), but I managed to redirect the wheels in time.

What color shirt are you wearing right now? Blue. Do you know how to play poker? No, I got the hang of it once, but I haven’t played in so long that I’ve forgotten. Who is your favorite superhero? Hulk or Falcon; I’m leaning slightly more towards Falcon.

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50 Questions Tag

Thank you  @penicillinjimin @vante-love and @sweetpeajeon for tagging me!! It always makes me happy to see ya’ll tag me in stuff 💕💜💕💜

what color is your hairbrush? its like tie-dye with orange yellow and pink

name a food you never eat: peas🤢

are you typically too warm or too cold?: Usually too cold because I’d rather be freezing then burning up 

what were you doing 45 minutes ago?: working on some assignments for my classes

what’s your favorite candy bar?: snickers!

have you ever been to a professional sports game?: I went to a harlem globetrotters game as a kid, does that count?? 😅

what’s the last thing you said out loud?: “ Can i turn the ac on?” to my mom cause it’s freaking HOT jsdk

what’s your favorite ice cream?: mint chocolate chip (pls dont hate me namjoon!) 

what was the last thing you had to drink?: water

do you like your wallet?: yep! It has little gold stars lining the outside and big enough to hold all my empty gift cards xx

what’s the last thing you ate?: hmm it was something last night i think pasta?

did you buy any new clothes last weekend?: Nope! I’m trying to save up money because i went a little crazy buying things when quarantine started

what’s the last sporting event you watched?: I honestly have no idea 😂 i’m not really a big sports person

what is your favorite flavor of popcorn?: movie theater butter!

who’s the last person you sent a text to?: My friend and sister! We send hella tik toks to each other almost every night!

ever go camping?: Yeah during a school field trip in elementary school! One time was like a science trip thingy and the other was kiinda weird lol. We dressed up like we lived in the wild west and made our own butter and stuff

do you take vitamins?: yes

do you go to church every sunday?: no

do you have a tan?: No and lord knows i need one😭 i mean im black so i have a permanent one but still sdkld

do you prefer chinese or pizza?: pizza all day every day!

do you drink soda through a straw?: hmm i dont think i have 

what color socks do you usually wear?: grey or black with different designs (my favs are my dino ones!)

do you ever drive above the speed limit?: I don’t go anymore than 5-10 mph above the limit

what terrifies you?: omg what doesnt?? One thing that people think is a weird fear is running out of gas skjd best believe my tank is always full x

what chore do you hate the most?: Doing dishes, omg it feels like its NEVER ENDING the dishes keep coming and coming 🥺

look to your left, what do you see?: my tv, law & and order is playing as always lol

what do you think of when you hear an australian accent?: koalas and the desert 

what’s your favorite soda?: sprite!

do you go in fast food places or just hit the drive thru?: recently just the drive thru or curbside

what’s your favorite number?: 36

who’s the last person you talked to?: my sister

favorite cut of beef?: hmm lol i dont know, any cut??😅

last song you listened to?: Still with you by jungkook ( GO LISTEN ITS AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL🌹)

last book you read?: my elementary math book dsjk trying to figure out how to teach fractions to 4th graders is HARD

can you say the alphabet backwards?: probably not lmao, i would give up by like w or s

favorite day of the week?: Sunday!

how do you like your coffee?: I dont drink coffee but i love an early grey tea or black tea

favorite pair of shoes?: vans!

time you normally get up?: around 8am

sunrise or sunsets?: sunset🌆

how many blankets on your bed?: just one big duvet 

describe your kitchen plates?:we usually use paper plates but when we run out we use these white square plates

describe your kitchen at the moment?: Clean! I clean it every morning before and after making my tea 

do you have a favorite alcoholic drink?: SANGRIA omg i can drink these by the mfing gallon

do you play cards?: I actually have a solitaire app on my phone!

what color is your car?: Grande is white xx

can you change a tire?: Maybe if i had a youtube video or my dad with me!

your favorite state/province/county/city etc.?: Sacramento, California, it’s where i was born and whenever i visit it just feels so calming and familiar

favorite job you’ve had?: Working at Kohls with my sister, the managers were horrible but my coworkers made it so so fun

how did you get your biggest scar?: On my left hand I have a scare I got when I was taking bacon out the oven dskdj i accidentally touched the oven rack at the top and now im scarred for life, the bacon was good tho!!😂🥓

WOW okay that took awhile djkds but it was fun! Im going to tag- @cozysugaa @kookgyu @mintedmango @tearults @galaxiejoon 💜

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So here's a real long and real angry fuck coworkers/managers so hang on tight (tldr at the end).

I work in fast food, which sucks a lot, but it's a high school job yknow. Well the place I work at is often heralded for it's outstanding customer service, which includes having people take the drive thru orders outside. And often take orders outside in illegally hot/cold temps, to the point where the weather app/website has been blocked on our order taking ipads, to make it harder to call out the managers for their bullshit, but whatever.

So I'm outside today, and it's late May in the south, so it's hot as balls out, probs around 90, so technically people outside are supposed to rotate every 10 minutes. So my coworker, J, and I are sent outside to take orders, and we do have fans but they literally don't fuckin work, so that's real fun. After about 20 minutes, J and I both ask for some water, and the shift leader who's wearing a headset inside, M, does get someone to bring that to us. I told her where my cup was, and someone got it to fill with water, but doesn't pour out the soda that was previously in my cup, and just fills the top half with water, and brings out my delicious warm watered down soda. Which I'm not gonna drink, that's disgusting, so I just resign myself to thirst.

About half an hour after this, J finally asks for his rotation, which I'd been thinking about. M inside says to give her a second, they're busy, but she'll get it in a couple minutes. I figure I'll let him get rotated, wait a bit, and then ask someone to come outside for me as well. I settle on waiting 10 minutes. I do ask for some proper water from whoever comes outside, as that'll make it more bearable. 

Yet the replacement never comes. J and I continue to take orders out in the heat for about another half hour, complaining to one another. Finally, he calls over the headset, mentioning his rotation. M simply says "okay", and another employee with a headset, B says that they'll get to it, and stop whining.

At this point, I'm starting to feel really sick from the heat, as in I can barely breathe, I'm having to stop and catch my breath in between every sentence I say to a customer, and my chest hurts. I just really want some damn water, honestly.

Finally, Js headset battery starts to die, and he calls for a replacement. A new coworker, S (sorry for so many letters), says she'll bring him one, and about 5 minutes later when she walks out, we both ask her for water. Thank God, she brings some back for us, and J asks her about his rotation again, and she tells him "We have no one to rotate you with", which is bullshit, because she could rotate, B could rotate, multiple others inside could rotate, they just don't wanna come outside, when J and I have been outside for close to 2 hours, which is like really illegal lmao.

So J says again over the headset that he wants his damn rotation, and he's pretty pissed now, understandably. My dumb ass, trying to be the tough guy, insists I'm fine now, even though it's hard to speak from wheezing. This time though, none of the original people respond.

Soon after though, the night drive thru lead comes outside, to check on J and I, and after I tell her what's up she starts apologizing profusely, saying she hasn't been wearing a headset, she didn't know what had been happening, she had no clue we'd been asking for an hour and a half for assistance we hadn't received. Less than 5 minutes later, both J and I were back inside, with B and S on our spots, and M nowhere to be found inside.

I go to take a spot inside and have a really rough coughing fit, can't talk, can't breathe, etc. The drive thru lead, L, tells me to go sit in the back for a bit, which I gratefully accept. At this point I'm sunburnt, my throat aches, and I'm shaking violently. A few minutes later L comes back and starts apologizing again, saying she feels awful, saying she wished she was wearing a headset. I love L, shes a super sweet manager, and I know she's really upset. She said it was bullshit that we didn't have people to rotate, and that if she'd been listening, she would've gotten it done ASAP. Then I tell her a shift leader, M, had a headset on, and she got mad, mad that M abandoned J and I outside, and says she'll talk with her. M has always liked me, but I figured that was about to change. L left for a smoke break, and I caught my breath in the back for a bit before going to take a spot up front.

Later, when B and S came inside, B was bitching about how he "had to be in a position that wasn't even his because some people have to complain". This is about being inside, because although he was scheduled on an inside position, it's the position that rotates with order takers, and he's a little bitch. I told him that if he'd taken the rotation when J first asked, he wouldn't have to have been outside for as long as he was, because if J and I hadn't been worked to heatstroke, we would've been switched back.

M walks over, hearing our bickering, and immediately like "oh it doesn't matter now we're all fine now haha" and I'm still p mad so I say "Yes, but I certainly still feel dehydrated". M starts to try to defend herself, saying she hadn't heard us asking for water or rotations or anything, but says she knew that my first drink got fucked up, but apparently didn't try to fix it??? But still, her defense is bullshit, because she would respond with an "okay" or "I'm working on it" whenever J tried to remind her. B immediately backs her up, saying he didn't hear anything, even though he too responded, because he's a suck up. I just ignore them and keep working on whatever I'm doing, trying not to lose my cool on this incompetent shift leader who literally just got back from 6 months of not working bc she's at school.

After we've closed I'm talking to L in the back about the night, and she's close to tears apologizing to me still, and I feel terrible, because it's obviously not her fault, and she already gets shit from the other managers about the way she does her job. I tell her what M said about "not hearing" J and i, and she says when she talked to M privately, she claimed the same thing. Honestly, that makes me angrier than the whole being abandoned thing, because you're a leader, sis. Own up to your mistake and apologize and I would've moved past it and not typed out this whole thing. J was also super pissed, but M kept telling him that he should be over it now.

Another thing M did at the same time was told J and I not to "reset" to the speakers when we've reached the end of the drive thru lane, to allow the orders to process and not keep inundating the kitchen. It's a basic drive thru protocol to reset when we're backed up, to try and keep things smooth, and keep food in order. M yelled at J and I and told us to keep taking orders and not "stand around" at the speakers. Apparently she gave the same orders to B and S when they were outside, and L heard and told them they had to reset, it was the rules. M then went outside and told them not to listen to L, that she was in charge, and that they weren't allowed to reset. M is a shift leader just back from school, L is the night drive thru lead, aka Ms superior. L was, understandably, pretty pissed, especially since a lot of other managers don't respect her either. Work is a shit show, and I'm sunburnt.

 TL;DR - Coworker and I left outside in 90 degree weather for 2 hours, I without water, other coworkers bitch about having to switch out with us, leader denies hearing our request for water or breaks, same leader goes directly against superior managers orders, I'm sunburnt and pissed off.

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The Most Effective FRESH DOG FOOD DELIVERY IMO: HEALTH AND CONVENIENCE FROM THE FARMER'S DOG

At an occasion years ago, I talked with somebody who was a quite pet-savvy person. We spoke about dog food, as well as I mentioned adding fresh veggies-- carrots, beans, peas, etc.-- to the young boys' food. She looked aghast. "I don't feed my dogs individuals food," she said. "I don't want to transform them into beggars."

OK, the habits issue apart, when she stated "people food," I could not assist yet question: Well, what is dog food made of otherwise ... food? A minimum of, shouldn't it be constructed from food, genuine food, like the kind individuals eat? If a bag of kibble states it has carrots in it, exactly how's that various from providing your dog a carrot?

The discussion seemed ridiculous to me, and now, say thanks to benefits, it's come cycle ...

THE FARMER'S DOG FOOD REVIEW

WHY FRESH DOG FOOD?

This is the large, underlying concern: Why feed your dog fresh dog food?

At the end of the day, food is food is food is food. What makes one meal different from another eventually comes down to just how it's made, right? Take the carrot example. Boiling and also steaming both prepare the carrots, however steaming protects its nutrients while steaming sheds 60% or more of the carrot's nutrients. Eating a raw carrot may not be best, either, though due to the fact that study shows that some food preparation techniques may really boost the carrot's antioxidant power. Basically, a steamed carrot is a carrot, a boiled carrot is a carrot, a raw carrot is a carrot, a dehydrated carrot extruded right into kibble form is still a carrot ... however they're not all nutritionally equivalent. I believe we can all settle on that, as well as I believe we can all concur that there's absolutely nothing grosser than a boiled carrot. (Actually, perhaps steamed asparagus is grosser?).

Anyway.

If you're mosting likely to eat food, which of course you are, and also if you're going to feed your dog food, which of course you are, wouldn't you want it to be the most nutritionally-rich food readily available? Obviously you do! We all do! And the advantage to our dogs is that they don't have to pick between, claim, a smoked poultry bust vs. drive-thru chicken nuggets because we make the decisions on their behalf. So, it stands to factor that if we know fresh food is best, as well as we're in position to make a decision the most effective food to feed our puppies, we 'd wish to go fresh, yeah?

There are a TON of fresh foods hitting the market (more on that particular in a minute), however we've found The Farmer's Dog to fit our way of living, spending plan, and Coop's belly peculiarities.

Backing up one fast action: When I wrote about The Farmer's Dog previously, we switched foods after getting the results of Cooper's allergic reaction examination. At the time, I really did not write a complete review due to the fact that I wasn't certain how handy it would be given that I was so focused on food allergic reactions. We were so pumped to find a recipe that really did not include a single allergen from Coop's list, and also while he's restricted to among the three solutions for that extremely reason, it's made measurable, obvious distinctions in his stubborn belly. I wanted to sing that from the roofs! However, SO numerous of you have actually connected with details concerns I really did not answer in that blog post that I believed I would certainly draw them together in a full evaluation nevertheless!

Note: Because I assume turning proteins is so very vital, we're still rotating in The Honest Kitchen due to the fact that 2 of the three solutions from The Farmer's Dog do include irritants on Coop's list.

The other large point is that our food manufacturing system is deeply flawed. Romaine lettuce, any person? I'm certain you've all seen the congeries as well as gobs of dog food remembers as a result of tainted active ingredients, too. Actually, there's a significant one underway as I kind this: FDA Alerts Pet Owners concerning Potentially Toxic Levels of Vitamin D in Several Dry Pet Foods.

It's critically essential to me that we're feeding Cooper a food where the active ingredients are properly sourced as well as the production is smaller range for much better quality assurance. I fully recognize that no food manufacturing system is excellent. For that, we would certainly have to expand as well as make our very own, which allowed's be straightforward, isn't taking place.

THE VERY BEST FRESH DOG FOOD DELIVERY.

I assume we can all concur that fresh food is the method to go, however that's not without a substantial list of pros vs disadvantages when it concerns pet food. It's not like you can stroll right into the produce area of your local pet store and also pick up a fresh dish, ya understand? Let's take a look at a few of the evident advantages and disadvantages of fresh dog food as well as fresh dog food delivery services:.

Price: Equal parts PRO/CON. I enter into this carefully below re: The Farmer's Dog, yet these services are definitely more costly than getting an average store bag of kibble (though there are several superior kibbles that are similar or even more costly). I do assume it's worth taking a look at the expense of health-related issues from fast food vs. wholesome foods. However you men understand me: I'm NOT somebody that says in a covering declaration kibble is bad. It's not. Although I advocate genuine, whole food, these solutions could not fit your budget plan. #noshame It's my viewpoint that The Farmer's Dog is priced at a reasonable worth. It's most definitely a stretch if you've been feeding normal kibble, however not if you've been feeding premium or, as we were, a dried alternative like The Honest Kitchen.

Packaging: PRO! Alright, you guys. You know I'm consumed with searching for green remedies to every animal care problem. Well, The Farmer's Dog can be found in recyclable packaging AND the insulation is corn starch that you liquify in your kitchen area sink! The brand is dedicated to sustainability, as well, so you can trust that their production techniques are gentler on the setting.

Website/ordering: CON. You can not see the formulas till you create an account. I feel like that's a disappointment for those people that have dogs that are SO sensitive to active ingredients that we can't choose till we see every last active ingredient.

Ease: PRO! Extra on this below, yet having the food automatically shipped is a life saver.

Small-batch manufacturing: PRO! For all the factors mentioned above. And also each packet comes identified particularly for Cooper.

THE FARMER'S DOG VS OLLIE (OR NOMNOM NOW, PETPLATE, ETC.).

Fresh food + shipment is the future, y' all.

Hopefully by now you're on board with the fresh food item, yet shipment?

OK, so I know that you're busy. I'm hectic, you're active, we're all essentially extended so thin it's difficult to maintain. Grocery store pick-up has actually changed my life! I truthfully can't stand entering into the shop-- really, grocery buying is my single most despised chore-- so buying online then driving over and having a person tons it right into my auto is, in my opinion, the best invention of my life time.

At the very least it was.

Till ... Delivery!

Distribution is the next wave of convenience foods, which is SO much better than "comfort" foods like McDonald's or microwave meals since you can pick all your very own healthy and balanced foods and have them given your doorstep. My neighbors, who have 5 youngsters, obtain their groceries provided, and also I'm certain it's altered their lives right! Well, that's just how I really feel regarding fresh food distribution for my pets. I think more people are demanding delivery for more and more things (I have 3 different apps on my phone for takeout/delivery services ...) so you can expect to see tons of fresh dog food shipment brands appear to fulfill that requirement.

After my previous article, I got a lots of inquiries regarding exactly how The Farmer's Dog compares to Ollie. Truthfully? We've never attempted Ollie. I did Google a bunch of the brand names that are currently around, and also almost everything I read placed The Farmer's Dog towards the top for convenience, expense, and also alternatives. Right here's a testimonial from a food blog site I like if you want to check out some particular contrasts.

Just How Much DOES THE FARMER'S DOG COST?

It varies. It depends on the dimension as well as age of your dog as well as his or her everyday calorie requirements. Let's say you enjoy a sedentary pug. Well, your price is going to be reduced-- and also appropriately so!-- than my high-energy, perma-pup Am Staff mix. He needs a great deal of calories in the day to stay up to date with his skittering as well as cat chasing!

That said, they do supply arrangements to do the dish as a mattress topper, which I believe would be an ahhhhhmazing means to blend whole foods right into a kibble or dehydrated diet plan in a cost-effective method.

My recommendations? Try it at 50% off as well as see. It's either going to work wonders for your dog as well as his diet plan (which I truly do think it will certainly) or it will not! But, it can't hurt to try, specifically at such a reduced cost.

ALL-TIME LOW LINE.

At the end of the day, every person wants to do what's finest for their pup. That's it. All of us do the best we can with the criteria we have. No, this isn't mosting likely to be for everyone. It might not be a square meal option for you, either, yet the topper situation might work. Or, possibly you're ready to dive into something brand-new. Everybody's doing their ideal, and as long as you're caring your pet dogs, you're doing terrific. If part of that includes attempting The Farmer's Dog fresh dog food shipment service, I would certainly enjoy to assist you start with a discount: Click below to try it for 50% off!

What rocks have I left unturned? I attempted to answer the inquiries I had obtained via email as well as DM, but in case I missed something, or if an additional question cropped up for you as you were reading this, please leave them in the remarks! I 'd love to supply as much info as feasible, and if I do not understand the solution, I'm always satisfied to connect to the business to find the right information!

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Your Local Starbucks- Gajevy

Levy had to be imagining things. Like honestly. There was no way...

Get your answer sis. Period.

Honestly, it took Levy awhile to realize what was going on. She always went to Starbucks around the same time since starting university. The first time, she nearly died when she saw the heavily pierced man working behind the counter. As she waited in line, she watched as he barked orders at the staff yet was somewhat gentle with customers. Despite this, Levy was nervous to place her order.

I knew I should have ordered from the app while walking here. However, when it was her turn to order, another employee took her order as the large man disappeared in the back. Levy would admit that she was relieved though in the days to come she grew a little curious about the man.

About the second or third time around, she was able to meet the man. Well…sort of. Again, forgetting to utilize the app, she got a good look at him while waiting in line. He was huge. Like tall height and large muscles. He seemed to look naturally mean no matter what he was saying and possibly grew even more aggressive when speaking Spanish into the headset for the drive-thru. He just seemed out of place. Like he should be working at a mechanic shop, not a coffee shop.  

For some reason, while Levy was placing her order, he seemed quiet. Maybe he could smell her fear as she looked into those red eyes. He barely said a word once she placed her order unlike with the customers from before. He simply said, “Alright.” Levy wasn’t sure what she was expecting, but it wasn’t that. After a ten-minute wait, Levy received her drink and was on her way back to her dorm.

Did the sizes get bigger? Levy was a caffeine-fiend and made herself order the small size, yet for some reason her drinks seemed bigger than they were a couple months ago. Her imagination got the best of her, and she thought that the large man had been slipping her deal out of sympathy. Maybe she did have that permanent exhausted look in her eyes from studying. However, the rare occasions that she didn’t see the man, her drinks still appeared larger than before. If Levy wasn’t so anxious about interacting with people, she would have asked an employee. Starbucks’ website provided no insight either.

On her birthday, she went to get her free drink. This time she knew she ordered a small, so when presented with the largest strawberry crème frappuccino she’s ever seen in her life, Levy knew something was up. She had ordered ahead with the app and saw scribbled, ‘Happy Birthday Shrimp.’ Levy blushed. There were only three workers, including the large man, there but he was busy arguing in Spanish about how he couldn’t remake a drink again for the fifth time since the customer wouldn’t say what was wrong.

Levy decided to sit outside and read for once to enjoy her treat. She read for a while when she was interrupted by a large gasp. She looked up from her book and saw the other two workers looking at her excitedly. She looked confusingly at the two women gossiping. She could only hear, “That’s the girl!” in a loud whisper.

One of them grew bold and approached her. “Hey girl, sorry if we looked rude talking about you. It’s just that you never stick around after getting your drink.” Levy blushed immediately embarrassed and even more confused. “Hey, hey, don’t freak out. Sorry. Working in the industry, you kinda notice little quirks about regulars.”

The second woman spoke up. “We were just shocked to see you. Our shift manager, the lug with all the piercings, totally has a crush on you.”

“I mean you are so cute!” the first woman squeaked.

“Anyway, like lowkey some tea, he insisted that any time you were here to give you a size up if you ordered a small—which you always do. Oop! That probably sounded creepy.” The other woman covered her mouth and snickered.

Levy was beaming at this point. The two were talking so fast that she had no idea what to make of anything there were saying. “Sis, you need to go in there and ask Gajeel what’s up cause we been watching this charade for months. Get an answer sis. Period.”

Levy couldn’t say a word. She simply nodded and continued to drink her drink while the women left her to process their words. Gajeel was his name, but the rest about him crushing on her was not believable. Levy usually went when it was busy; there was no way he could have noticed her all those times. Sure, it was true that the drink sizes were larger, but maybe that was to prevent waste.

She sighed. She didn’t know what to make of any of that. Thankfully, her phone buzzed and she saw a text from her roommate/best friend about her birthday plans. It was definitely enough to put this whole Starbucks-guy business to the side.

~~~

This could not be happening…

Levy sat at her favorite Cuban sandwich bar and from the corner of her eye saw ‘Starbucks-guy’ walk in with her roomie’s boyfriend—Natsu.

Levy patted on Lucy’s arm hard. “Oh my god, Lucy that’s him!”

Her friend looked her confusingly. “Girl what?”

“Starbucks-guy!” She loudly whispered.

Lucy’s eyes exploded. She immediately turned to the man and blurted out. “Gajeel, you work at Starbucks?”

Levy wanted to die then and there. Why did Lucy have to put him out there like that. Her best hope was that he wouldn’t have actually recognized her and that the two women’s words were false. She wanted to melt on the spot. This was the most awkward birthday ever.

The man was out of his uniform and looked at Lucy in shock. “How did you-,” he then stopped and saw Levy sitting beside her. His eyes were huge. “Oh shit.”

~~~

Yeah there’s going to be part two. I got the idea from this guy who gave me a larger size t the couple times I’ve been. I doubt he has any romantic advances like Gajeel, but it’s a fun idea. Hope you like this so far. (Btw, I’ve never worked for Starbucks so don’t hold that against me lol)

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Every Love Story Starts in a Coffeeshop- Solangelo One Shot

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There were perks to working in a coffeeshop. Like the smell. The smell was… a little overwhelming, but soothing and constant. It was a homey smell. Or the sounds. The light chatter, the music, the whirring of blenders and coffee grinders. It was a symphony that complimented each other. Or the benefits! One free drink a day, flexible schedule for college courses, decent health care.

And there were also downsides, like there were to every job. Like the smell that lingered even hours after being off a shift, or the fact that the menu got old quick, or working on some of the busiest days at the busiest hours. And while some might say the worst thing about working at a coffeeshop are the pretentious customers with ridiculous orders, horrible attitudes, that eventually demand to see the manager because the drink wasn’t to their liking, that wasn’t it.

At least not for Will. He could handle those people. He was friendly enough that even the snobbiest customers would let up a bit and shrug off the inconvenience without getting him in trouble. He was good with people, with customer service, so the people he usually took orders for were typically just as friendly or reassured by his friendliness into a state of ease.

No, the worst thing about working at a coffeeshop was watching the people on dates. Every day new people were meeting for the first time at the coffeeshop whether because they met through an app or it was a blind date or just the first date. Will was always having to watch new couples in the earliest stages of falling in love and it was painful. Beautiful, yes. Cute, and often times it gave him secondhand embarrassment, but… more than anything it left him with a painful, bitter, longing feeling in his chest.

He both loved and hated seeing the couples come in for their dates, overhearing them laugh and slowly become at ease with each other. Or seeing them smile and blush at each other, slowly getting nearer as they talked. He saw so many new beginnings. So many new love stories in their genesis.

Meanwhile, he was the one preparing their coffees and teas and hot chocolates. He was the one adding the whipped cream that would be flirtatiously wiped away a few minutes later from some shy person’s upper lip by their dates. He was the one who had never gotten a coffeeshop date.

Which wasn’t to say he hadn’t dated. He had. They just never gave way to the storybook ending he often heard his half-sister Kayla go on and on about when they were younger. It never worked out and as horrible as it was, Will was losing hope.

He’d just started working at the coffeeshop to get some spare cash to splurge for October. He loved the month of Halloween and he wanted to get his costume ready in advance because otherwise, he’d be left with scraps. Of course, that meant everything would be ridiculously expensive. Thus- splurge money from a coffeeshop job.

He’d worked there just long enough to know the regulars. The customers that always came in at the same time and ordered the same thing.

Except for one.

There was one customer who came in once or twice a day, but never ordered the same thing. Will could never guess what would come out of his mouth or how simple or complex it would be.

He was a guy that looked about his own age with messy black hair that looked windswept. It shouldn’t have been a hairstyle that worked, but it did. He was darker than Will, and he was always wearing a black shirt. Different logos or designs, different pants, but always a black shirt and always a pair of scuffed and faded all-black Converse. Occasionally he came in with an aviator jacket, but if it wasn’t too cold it was just slung over his arm.

Will didn’t know his name, but he imagined he could recognize the guy in a crowd with ease. He knew he could recognize his voice without even looking, even with the few words they interchanged. It was a soft, husky sound with a slight rasp depending on how late he came in. He spoke with crisp, enunciated words and always ended his orders on a lilt like they were questions. Like Will could tell him, no he could not in fact have a pumpkin spice latte with extra whipped cream and no, he could not have that in a venti size.

And maybe, just maybe, this whole deal with this regular customer that wasn’t so regular was a little more to Will. Maybe… he had a slight crush on the sort-of stranger. And maybe he looked forward to the moments he would see him walk through the door and hoped that he’d come in a second time that day.

Of course, Will knew he could just ask his name with the excuse of writing it on the cup. But the guy always came in when they weren’t that busy, so Will would chicken out and just call out the name of the drink. He didn’t want anyone wondering why he asked his name when there was no one else ordering a matcha-vanilla tea, even if sensibly, no one would immediately deduce that Will just really wanted a name to go with the face of the guy who had him daydreaming cute scenarios from TV.

“October first,” his coworker said. “This is gonna be great.”

“What happens October first?” Will asked, resupplying the coffee beans into the grinder.

“You’ll see. It’s entertaining.” Will frowned, but his coworker was already heading to the window to supply the drive-thru orders.

The coffeeshop wasn’t too busy most of the day. It picked up around five to an onslaught of business people getting off of work and looking for a fix. Then it mellowed out and the chairs were mostly taken by college students studying with headphones and a hot drink.

The door opened and Will glanced over, freezing in the middle of perking up.

His favorite customer was wearing black and white paint on his face and neck. He’d morphed himself into an eerily realistic image of a skull, completing the illusion by blacking out his neck save for a trail of white up the center. As he got closer, Will noticed even his lips had been meticulously painted to look like teeth. The detail in shading was incredible, and Will couldn’t bother to stop gaping at him like an idiot.

“That’s right, you’re new.”

“Huh,” Will squeaked, raising an eyebrow.

The guy laughed. “Wait till you see me tomorrow. Can I get a… hazelnut cappuccino with cinnamon on top?”

“Size?”

“Regular?”

Will smiled to himself. “So… who did the face paint?”

“I did.”

Will’s eyes widened. “That’s… amazing,” he complimented. “I’ve never seen such good skull makeup.”

The guy smiled and pulled out his wallet. As he swiped his card, Will heard his coworker come up behind him. “Nico! I was hoping I didn’t miss you today. Classic skull, I like it.”

“Hey, Denys,” the guy said. Nico said. His name was Nico. Will finally knew his name. “Yeah, I figured I’d start off with something small.”

Will held back a scoff as he made the cappuccino. That level of work was considered small to him?

“How’s Hazel? She doing better?”

“Yeah. She’s okay. I’m hoping to help lift her spirits this month, she really likes Halloween and stuff so…. But it’s still pretty hard right now.”

“Yeah, I can imagine. Give her a hug for me, will you?”

“Will do. Thanks, Denys.” Nico moved around and grabbed the cappuccino almost as soon as Will put it down. “Thanks,” he said.

“No problem. Can’t wait to see you tomorrow.” Nico’s eyebrow twitched up and his lips quirked sideways. “Um. For the makeup thing. To see what you dress up as, I mean,” Will clarified, feeling his face heat up astonishingly fast.

Nico smiled wider and chuckled. “Yeah, of course. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Will waved weakly as Nico left, but he caught the reflection of his smile in the windowed walls before he got through the door. Will waited to be sure no one else was coming in and let himself plop to the floor, covering his face in his hands.

“I should not speak. Ever. Especially not to him. Oh God.” His coworker came back a few moments later and furrowed his eyebrows at the sight of Will on the floor. “Um. Got dizzy for a sec. I’m good.”

“Uh-huh. Wash your hands.” Will nodded and stood up to go wash his hands, hoping he would also wash away the embarrassing moment and never think of it again.

The next day, Nico came in fully decked out as a zombie. Latex wounds, fake blood, tattered but still somehow presentable clothes. He even had leaves in his hair. Will was even more blown away this time. The day after that, he had morphed his arms, neck, and face to appear like that of a wooden puppet’s. Another day he’d been dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow, which Will wrote on his cup. It had made him smile and he saluted him playfully before leaving.

For the next week and a half, Will saw the various degrees of costume and makeup that Nico indulged in.

One day when he’d come in dressed as a werewolf, complete with creepy face makeup and furry ears and canine teeth covered in fake blood, Will had finally gotten the nerve to actually hold a conversation.

“So why do you dress up every day and not just Halloween?”

Nico looked away from his wallet over to Will. He was currently sporting gleaming yellow eyes instead of his actual dark brown irises. Will kind of preferred them, but of course, he was biased.

As Will made his drink, Nico explained, leaning against the counter. “Well, when I was little, I always had a hard time deciding what I wanted to be for Halloween because I wanted to be a lot of things. I didn’t like that I had to pick one. So my sister Bianca came up with the idea that we dress up on the weekends all October, since school didn’t let us go in costumes. She came up with that idea after we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas-”

“Where everyday is Halloween,” Will said with a smile, recalling one of his favorite movies.

“Exactly. Once I got to college, I figured, why not dress up every day? It’s Halloween, it’s fun. October is 31 days. That’s way more fun than just celebrating for one night.” He shrugged. “Don’t you think?”

Will smiled wider. “Yeah. Definitely. But I’d never have the courage to go out dressed up for a normal day.”

Nico shrugged and smirked, giving the phrase wolfish grin a whole new meaning that made Will weak in the knees. “You should spend a day with me, then you’ll see it’s not too bad.” He grabbed his drink, nails filed into claws, and left the coffeeshop with a final wave back at Will.

Will wasn’t sure how long his brain decided to short-circuit. He spent the rest of that day trying to figure out if that was flirting or just a passing comment.

What he did know was that now he was staring at the costume isle in Wal-Mart at midnight. There was a part of him that was telling him this was stupid and unnecessary and ridiculous and that if Nico hadn’t figured out Will’s crush by now, this would definitely give him away. The other part of him was telling him it was a good enough reason to try something different. And that maybe this would give him a way in if Nico was flirting with him.

Finally, he grabbed one of the costumes and figured he had nothing to lose other than his dignity which was on thin ice as it was.

The next day, Nico came in and Will couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“Oh my God,” he said as Nico walked up to him, his own smirk on his face. “Oh, man I love this one!” Will said, taking in Nico in his black robe, painted in silvery blue body paint, his hair styled up with blue tips to create a ridiculously attractive Hades from Hercules.

“You dressed up,” Nico noted, smiling as Will tried to stop laughing. “You would be a Hufflepuff.”

Will spread his arms, his Hogwarts robe draping down. “Newt Scamander, to be specific. See?” He pointed at the little stuffed Pickett Bowtruckle in his shirt pocket. Nico let out a laugh that made Will feel all warm and jittery inside. “I uh, figured it was enough to be in the spirit and not too much that I’d get stared at.”

“I like it,” Nico said. “Can you guess what house I am?”

Will bit his lip and leaned against the counter, mimicking Nico. “Hm. Gryffindor?” Nico scrunched his nose and shook his head. Will narrowed his eyes. “You’re… nuh-uh.”

Nico smiled wider, a smile similar to that of a Cheshire cat. “Slytherin,” he supplied. Will stared at him, realizing how close they were, how hard his heart was beating, how he had to be very, very careful not to let his eyes glimpse down at his lips. “What?” Nico asked with a smirk.

Will smiled back. “That means you’re ambitious.” Nico nodded. “And cunning.” Nico’s eyebrows went up as though in a challenge. “That’s good to know.”

“Yeah?”

Will couldn’t stop smiling. Couldn’t stop the hammering of his heart with Nico looking at him like that. Couldn’t stop wondering about what it would be like to maybe get to know Nico when they weren’t separated by a counter.

Nico started to say something, but the ringing of his phone interrupted him. “Ah, one sec.” He leaned against the counter as he answered. “Hey, Hazel.” Will frowned. There was that name again. Who was she? “Yeah, I’m nearby. I’ll stop by. Hey, I’m at the coffeeshop, did you want anything? Gotcha. See you in a bit. Love you.”

Nico hung up, and Will tried not to seem to eager to know who it was or why Nico loved her because he didn’t want to indulge the deadweight that had settled in his stomach. Will was standing upright, hand poised on the register by the time Nico turned back to him.

“So what’ll it be?”

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Love you. Love you. The words were on a loop in his head. Was it his girlfriend? Did Nico have a girlfriend? Had he even been flirting with Will to begin with?

“Oi, kiddo,” he heard. He turned to see Denys bringing in a box of merchandise for stocking. “What’s up with the face?”

“What face?”

“You look like a kicked puppy,” Denys said. He dropped the box and heaved a sigh as he put his hands on his hips. “What gives?”

“Nothing. Really.” Denys hummed. “Hey, Denys?” He grunted in question, focused on the merchandise he had to unpack. “Who’s Hazel?”

Denys froze and turned around. The smirk on his face told Will he’d royally fucked up. He’d put himself in the guillotine willingly and now he couldn’t hide. “Hazel. Nico’s Hazel, I’m assuming?” Will gulped, figuring he didn’t have anything left to lose. The secret was out. Denys chuckled and shook his head. “Relax. That’s his sister. Sweet kid.”

“Oh. Oh.”

Denys laughed in a way that made Will blush and feel even dumber for his mini-heartache. “Ah, you’re such a kid, Will. Nico likes you. Don’t overthink it, kiddo.”  

“What? He likes me? Did he tell you that? Why do you think that?”

Again, Denys laughed aloud. He shook his head and looked at Will with a smile. “Well, he started coming in when we’re not all that busy. He started coming daily. He started coming twice a day even. Which, granted, he comes in daily for October because I know he always dresses up, but he started coming daily once you started working here. In September.”

Will furrowed his eyebrows. “That could mean anything.”

Denys rolled his eyes and smiled, muttering under his breath about being young and dumb.

Will didn’t want to indulge in the fantast Denys had given him. He didn’t want the false hope. He had bad luck when it came to crushes and relationships. And yet, if Denys noticed it… then maybe he was onto something. Besides, he knew Nico pretty well as far as Will could tell.

Maybe it was time that Will stopped waiting on the other person and just… took a chance. The idea was terrifying, but at least in the comfort of a dark room, Will could pretend he might actually be brave enough to do so.

The following day, Will insisted with himself that he would most definitely ask Nico to hang out outside of the coffeeshop. He consoled himself by remembering it wasn’t technically a date, it was just hanging out away from the smell of coffee beans. It didn’t necessarily have to be romantic, and that was absolutely normal. Besides, Nico had suggested himself before…. So technically, Will was just going to accept the offer.

Except that when Nico came in that day, he was trailed by a girl with pretty dark skin the color of dark chocolate and frizzy tight curls falling just under her shoulders. She had wide eyes and looked only slightly younger than Nico. She was wearing a dress that reminded Will of Alice in Wonderland and a headband as well as long white socks. Nico was dressed as the Mad Hatter for the day, and again Will was blown away with how he could make something silly so… attractive.

“Hey,” Nico greeted. Will smiled. “No costume today?”

Will shook his head. “Not enough in my wallet.”

Nico laughed and put an arm over the girl’s shoulders, jostling her playfully. “Alright, Miss Alice, would you like some tea?”

The girl rolled her pretty golden eyes and smiled. “Come on, Neeks, that’s the White Rabbit’s line. Can I get a hot chocolate?”

“Size?”

“Venti.”

Nico smiled and looked at Will. “And can I get a mocha frap with caramel?”

“Size?”

“Large?”

Will had to smile at that. He rang them up tried to ignore the heavy feeling in his chest. The girl was pretty. They’d even dressed up together. And Nico was so comfortable around her. And Will was happy for him, sure. Nico was a great guy, and it was nice that he had someone he liked.

Will just wished he was that person.

When he set out the drinks, he didn’t think he could handle a light conversation, so he set them down and called out Nico’s name before booking it to the supply closet to pretend he was busy. Denys was on break, so Will was free to mope for a few minutes without feeling like a kid.

A few moments later, recollecting himself and reminding himself he was perfectly fine and this hadn’t even built up to anything anyway, Will went back out to the register. Nico was laughing with the girl and hiding his face in a bashful way that was so ridiculously cute, it made Will want to scream.

The worst part of working at a coffeeshop had been one-upped. It wasn’t watching other people’s first dates or other people’s love stories begin. It was watching your crush so obviously happy with someone else during a coffee date.

The girl went up to him to get one of the pastries as Nico waited at the table. Will smiled his usual friendly smile as he rang her up. “I like your costume. Nico got you into it, huh?”

“It wasn’t too hard to. He knows I love Halloween,” she said.

Will handed over the pastry on a plate. “Enjoy your date,” he said as sincerely as he could. She furrowed her eyebrows and hesitated as she walked away, causing Will to panic. Had he been too transparent? Girls could catch on to those things so quickly.

He looked as she sat back down and ignored the way his stomach turned at the way Nico’s face changed. He stood up quickly and Will had half a mind to jump right out the drive-thru window to get away. But instead, he came face to face with the Mad Hatter and he had to take a second to catch his breath because he wasn’t expecting the urgency in Nico’s movements.

“Um hi?” Will said.

“We’re not on a date. She’s not my date. It’s not a date.”

“Uh… okay…?” Will answered, beginning to fidget nervously.

“No, I just.” Nico shut his eyes and looked back at the girl. She made a hand motion, suggesting he get on with whatever he was going to say. “She’s my sister. Hazel.” Will furrowed his eyebrows. “Half-sister,” he clarified.

“Oh,” Will said, feeling like an idiot. “Sorry about that then.”

“It’s cool, I just….” Nico took the top hat off and ran a hand through his unruly hair, groaning as he leaned onto the counter. Will glanced at Hazel who was half-wincing, half-laughing at the sight. She looked away when she caught Will looking at her. “Um. I was actually… kind of… wondering….” Nico glanced up at him and turned a deep shade of red. “Oh God.”

Will’s face quickly matched Nico’s. “A-Are you… trying to ask me on a date?”

Nico bit his lip. “Would you say yes if I was?”

This was what Will had been waiting for. What he’d been aiming for. This was Nico admitting he liked him and wanted to be around him more. Still, he was hesitating. Finally he whispered, “Dating has never gone too well with me.”

Nico tilted his head, lowering his eyes. “Well, I think that’s kind of the point. It’s not supposed to go well until it does.”

Will gulped and took a breath. Nico looked at him uncertainly, his face still red, still looking annoyingly adorable with his Halloween makeup and wacky costume. He smiled and shrugged. “As long as our first date isn’t in a coffeeshop.”

Nico’s eyebrows went up, doubly comical because they were already painted in a dramatic arch for the Hatter. “Wh- wa- so- Is that a yes?”

Will smirked, feeling a little smug that he’d reduced Nico to the same bundle of anxiety, nervousness, and embarrassment as he felt he was ever since Nico first came in with his skull paint. “Yeah. I’d love to go on a date with you.”

Before Nico could respond, Hazel called out, “Did he say yes?” from where she sat. She was leaning forward in her chair.

Will laughed when Nico let out a frustrated, “Hazel!”

“Hey, you made me come to be sure you actually asked him, I wanna know the result!”

Will arched an eyebrow at Nico. “You made her come as… back up?”

Nico squinted his eyes as he thought it over. “Yes?” Will laughed and smiled widely at him, fighting the urge to lean right over and pull him by his jacket lapels to kiss him. As Nico smiled back at him, Will couldn’t help but think that maybe his love story was starting in a coffeeshop too.

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surveys by lets-make-surveys

1 - When you wake up, do you get up straight away or do you lie around in bed for a while? Lie in bed, even on work days. I work from home, so there’s nothing to prepare or look nice for, anyway. I can stay in bed and just roll out of it and head to my desk at 9 AM to start the day.

2 - Who was the last person you video-called with? Have you done this more often since COVID hit? Video calls make me anxious, so I’ve always turned them down even when it was someone I’m close with who was trying to call, like Angela. The only person I’ve felt comfortable having video calls with was Gab but that obviously hasn’t happened in a while. I think the last people I saw on video was my dad’s family, though I was still shy and asked my mom not to put me in the shot for too long.

3 - How many times a week do you go out for food or drink? Back then I’d do it 2-3 times a week. Then Covid happened and I had to stop; but now that I’m starting to try to put in more effort to take care of myself, I try to bring myself to a coffee shop for me time at least once during weekends.

4 - Do you prefer getting takeaway or actually sitting in a restaurant and eating your meal there? Dine-in. For me ambience is a big part of eating food, and even if I had the once-in-a-lifetime chance of getting to eat the absolute best meal in the whole world, if I’m eating it alone at home I would still feel like shit.

5 - Where’s your favourite place to get takeaway coffee (or whatever your drink of choice is)? Starbucks. We have five joints in the highway I live on alone, so it’s both a personal preference and a I-don’t-really-have-a-choice type of situation haha.

6 - Do you tend to keep your phone on silent, vibrate or loud? It’s on vibrate during work days; then I’ve formed a habit of putting it on Do Not Disturb during weekends or holidays.

7 - If you have pets, when was the last time one of them annoyed you? What happened? Cooper thought my hand was a toy earlier so he was biting on it, and not in a very playful way.

8 - When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Around a week ago when I was buying presents; I needed to get my cousin the mechanical pencils and eraser she wanted for Christmas. I also came across the bookshop that Gab and I would make a habit to visit, but I didn’t go inside as I didn’t know if I was prepared for the memories that would inevitably flood back. I looked through the stuff they had on their windows, though.

9 - What was the last thing you ordered off Amazon? I don’t know if Amazon operates here. But the last thing I got from a local e-commerce app - don’t judge me HAHA - is a phone socket featuring the face of my newest K-drama crush. I placed my order literally 10 minutes ago.

10 - When was the last time you took a dog out for a walk? Is this your own dog or did you borrow someone else’s? Yesterday. Both were my family’s dogs.

11 - What jewellery do you have on at the moment? Not wearing any, haven’t worn any in a while.

12 - Do you have any products in your hair right now? What are they? Just shampoo and conditioner. I never put anything else on it; I don’t really deem hair products other than those two a necessity.

13 - Have you ever used a VPN to access foreign content online? Hahaha no. I’ve wanted to try it out, but I’ve always been paranoid that the NBI would come knocking at my door the moment I install one of those.

14 - Who was the last artist you listened to? Is this someone you’re a fan of? She’s a Korean singer named Cheeze, though she’s honestly unfamiliar to me. The song she contributed for the OST of Start-Up is my absolute favorite in the entire tracklist, and that’s how I knew of her.

15 - What was the last thing you had to drink? I’m at a cafe joint right now and they didn’t have my usual order of caramel macchiato, so I opted for a Spanish latté because it sounded new to me.

16 - When was the last time you cooked something for the first time? Did it work out the way it was supposed to? I made a Monte Cristo sandwich, if that counts as ~cooking; this was about a little more than a monthh ago. It worked out significantly better than I was expecting, given how rubbish I am in the kitchen. I lacked a couple of ingredients, like mustard for the sauce and the right kind of cheese, but I still ended up liking it.

17 - Black cats are considered to be bad luck - is this a superstition that you’ve ever believed in? Not me personally, but I know this is still widely believed in my country. It’s sad, so I approach black cats whenever I can and play with them for a bit.

18 - Would you ever eat blue cheese or do you find the idea of eating mould to be pretty repulsive? It is definitely not my favorite; I’d say 5 times out of 10 I would consume it, and the other 5 I would set it aside. I enjoy it the most in pizzas and as a sauce for chicken wings.

19 - Do you visit the dentist every six months like you should? Is that the standard schedule? Lmao. I only go when I have to.

20 - How old were you when you first used the internet? Was it dial-up or did you have access to proper broadband? I was first exposed to the internet at around the ages of 3 and 4, when my mom would use the dial-up internet to email my dad (he had just started to work abroad). For many years I thought Yahoo Mail was the only website that existed, since that’s all I saw my mom use. Eventually my dad got broadband for the family by the time I was 10, and the first website I ever looked up was YouTube.

21 - Are you old enough to remember using floppy discs? I remember those; I just never had to use them myself.

22 - When was the last time you purchased an actual DVD or CD? Andi gave me a Petals For Armor CD for Christmas, if it counts. Because they’re the most awesome fucking friend. The last DVD I bought myself was probably a Beyoncé's Life Is But A Dream, which was...holy crap, 7 whole years ago.

23 - Do you shave? Which body parts and how often? I do. I shave my underarms every few days, and my legs monthly.

24 - What’s your favourite season, and what are some of your favourite things about that season? We don’t have the usual four seasons we hear about in other countries; we only have wet and dry. Between those two, I definitely like wet more because I love the rain, and I like how cold it can get.

25 - When was the last time you burned yourself? I took a big bite of a lumpiang togue yesterday when it was still piping hot, so it felt like I almost burned my tongue and the roof of my mouth. But since I was a guest at my dad’s family’s house, I couldn’t spit it out.

26 - Have you ever been the victim of a theft or robbery? What was stolen? Did the police ever catch the person who did it? Someone stole my wallet in high school, and I never got it back. It was a small petty thing that the police didn’t need to be involved in, lol. I know my mom’s family got robbed when she was a teenager, though; the worst thing that got stolen was their grand piano :(

27 - What was the last TV show you discovered that you really liked? What was it that got you to watch it in the first place? START UP. I first heard of it from my co-workers who would mention the show here and there; and because I was new to the team and wanted to have something in common with them so that I can break the ice, I figured I should start on the show myself. Ended up getting obsessed with the show and gaining a new Korean crush altogether.

28 - Have you seen any of the live-action Disney remakes? Which one is your favourite? What about your least favourite? No, those have never looked even remotely appealing to me. I never saw the point of recycling movies that already exist and already feel magical by themselves.

29 - Do you have any exciting plans for tomorrow? If not, how are you planning to spend your day? It doesn’t sound exciting on its own, but I’m very much looking forward to be a homebody tomorrow haha. We’ve been with extended family for five days straight and I’m at a café right now for some me time, so tomorrow I can’t wait to just be at home and lounge around.

30 - Would you ever keep a working dog as a pet? Do you think it’s fair to keep dogs like huskies in flats when it’s so different to their natural environments? If the dog is already trained or certified to be a certain kind of working dog, I don’t see the point in keeping them for myself when they could be beneficial for other purposes. The only time I see myself adopting a working dog is if they’re already at the point of retirement and would need a loving home to live out their remaining years.

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1 - Are you a fan of garlic bread? Do you eat it on its own or as part of a bigger meal? Love garlic bread; I regularly have it with my pasta and occasionally, pizza.

2 - When was the last time your area was under some kind of weather warning? Did it end up being as bad as predicted? Last month, during Typhoon Rolly. Other cities had worse experiences, but it also wasn’t sunshine and rainbows on our end. We had a blackout for around two days and I had to file for an emergency leave four days into my new job, which was super embarrassing. It didn’t flood in our street but the water was high in other areas in our village, so we couldn’t go out for a while.

3 - Do you ever buy things from charity/thrift shops? What was the last thing you bought from there? I don’t recall ever buying anything from either.

4 - The last time you got fast food, did you eat in, takeaway or go through the drive-thru? My last fast food wasssssss Jollibee, and my parents got it for takeout so that we could eat as a family at home.

5 - If you have multiple pets, do they get along with each other? Hahaha no they don’t. It’s been six months since we got Cooper but the two still don’t get along, unless it’s Kimi trying to hump him. It’s understandable; Cooper is a vibrant pup that’s super excited and play bites all the time, and on the other side is a nearly 13 year old, nearly blind, can’t-smell-as-well-as-he-used-to senior dog; and I get that Kimi’s more sensitive to sudden movements now.

6 - Do you ever buy things off eBay? If you do, do you participate in auctions or do you just use the “buy it now” option? I never go on eBay. And since I’ve never checked it out, I never understood the gimmick of the website.

7 - When you go out, do you worry that you’ve forgotten to lock the door or turn something off? Yeah, this is especially the case with locking the front door.

8 - What fruits and vegetables have you eaten so far today? Do you tend to get your “five a day”? I didn’t know five a day is a thing of some sort; but it’s only 8:47 AM and I haven’t eaten anything at all yet today.

9 - When was the last time you were in pain? What caused it and did you manage to get it sorted in the end? Last night when my back was giving me hell. As for the cause...idk, years of bad posture maybe? I was able to deal with it for a bit with the new massage pillow that my dad got for Christmas.

10 - Do you live in an area that gets lots of snow? Do you like it? If not, would you like to live somewhere that gets that cold? I would love to move somewhere that’s generally more cold. Humidity gets exhausting to deal with.

11 - What was the reason for your last doctor/hospital visit? My fever had already been lasting for a week and wasn’t showing signs of going away. No Covid symptoms, just pure hellish fever.

12 - If someone had told you that 2020 would see a global pandemic, countries going into lockdown, compulsory face masks and millions of deaths, would you have ever believed that you’d live through something like that? My personal biggest surprise for 2020 wasn’t even the pandemic. I would have had a more violent reaction if I was told I would no longer be in a relationship and be barely talking to my then-girlfriend of six years by the end of 2020.

13 - Do you prefer having the blinds/curtains open or closed when you’re at home? Does it depend on the weather or the time of day? Always closed. I don’t ever voluntarily open the curtains or windows to let the sunshine in.

14 - Do you use an ad-blocker on your computer or phone? Why/why not? I use one on my laptop because the ones on YouTube can be extremely annoying. I didn’t know it was possible to put on ad blockers on phones (is it?).

15 - Do you still use a paper diary/planner to organise your appointments and schedules? No, but I’m thinking of getting a planner again for 2021. I used to get a Starbucks planner every year just because I wanted to get into their Christmas promo hype, but I never completed any of them. Now that I’m working and am busier all around, I see the bigger need for a planner. These days, I use a Google extension called Momentum to list down my to-do tasks. My parents also got me a corkboard for Christmas on which I stick notepads with things I have to do for the day.

16 - When was the last time you charged one of your electronic items? Do you have to charge that specific item often? I’m charging my laptop now. At this point it’s always plugged in because I want to keep the cycle count low, though I’m not sure if it’s the healthiest thing to do.

17 - Have you ever thrown or broken something in a temper? Yes, definitely. I’m not normally aggressive when angry, but sometimes it happens.

18 - What does your outfit look like today? Did you pick it out for a special reason? I have on a black sundress that I didn’t change out of. I wore it yesterday when I went to a coffee shop to spend some time on my own.

19 - Do you follow any vlogs or podcasts? What is it about them that interests you? I do follow certain channels who do vlogs, but I never tune into them since most of them have gotten a little uninteresting. I’m also subscribed to several podcasts like Andi’s and Renee Young’s, but I’m not always in a podcast mood; I subscribe because I want to support them.

20 - Aside from Tumblr, what websites do you spend the most time on? Do you go through phases of visiting certain websites? I visit Twitter and YouTube the most often. I will binge Reddit every now and then, and I will get into a Wikipedia black hole at least once a week.

21 - Do you have a good relationship with your siblings? If you don’t have siblings, what about your cousins or extended family? I do not maintain a relationship with my brother after he physically assaulted me last year. My sister and I are on good terms, but we’re not close in that I can cry to her or that we know each other’s secrets. We have a very good casual relationship, and we never argue.

22 - When was the last time you were up early enough to see the sunrise? I hate the sun so I don’t really do that lol.

23 - What movie series did you last watch from start to finish? Was it one you’d seen before? I only ever do this with Twilight. I have my annual Twilight Saga marathon where I watch all five films in one afternoon hahaha.

24 - Do you still enjoy watching children’s TV programmes? What was the last one you watched? Yeah, but only the ones I watched as a kid. My cousins and I watched the Wet Painters episode of Spongebob last Christmas Eve right after we finished Midsommar.

25 - Who was the last person to tag you in something on social media? How do you know that person? I have no idea. I’ve been going in and out of deactivation, so at this point I’m sure people no longer have any clue if I’m on a certain social media website or not.

26 - What was the last thing you took a photograph of? It was a screenshot of something I wanted to show Angela.

27 - Are you a fan of giving animals human names? Sure. I certainly find it funny when pets are given incredibly ordinary human names, like Bob or Mark.

28 - When was the last time you weighed yourself? Were you happy with what the scale said? Christmas Eve eve, when I saw a weighing scale in my cousin’s room. I mean it’s what I’ve weighed for the last 5 years or so, so I have no complaints.

29 - How often do you buy yourself new clothes? What was the last clothing item you bought for yourself? Used to be a few times every month, but I have not bought anything new since before the pandemic. The last items I got were still the tops with puffed sleeves that I bought in March.

30 - What is the reason behind your mood today? Is this something you could have done something about? I’m mostly at ease; a little anxious because work continues for a certain headache of a client even though we told them our office would be on shutdown; and a little melancholic for no reason. I’m trying to combat the latter by doing my embroidery and it’s kind of helping, but the sads are still lingering.

[toms-order]

Ocean Eyes

Part four

Tom Holland x female reader

Summary: he loves her but you're in love with him.

Warning: sad

part one

part two

part three

part five

Ocean Eyes Playlist

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Losing Tom was the hardest thing you ever had to do. You ignored all his texts and phone calls. Every time he’d come over you would pretend not to be home. It broke you more and more everyday. You tried to forget about Tom. You went on dates, you joined various dating apps. None of those dates worked out of course. Most of the guys were just creepy, or they had some of issue. You knew you were just making excuses throughout the date. “Oh he ordered that? It can’t work out.” Whatever you did never worked you still always craved Tom. You could never really get rid of that damn boy. He was tattooed on your brain.

It killed you that you had to stay away from him. It was slowly killing Harrison as well. Harrison had to stand by and watch the destruction she had caused. He watched you break down every night. He held you close when you couldn’t handle the pain. He watched Tom slowly lose his mind. Tom was confused, he was hurt. Why had you stopped talking to him? Did he do something wrong? Harrison had to watch Tom break, and he couldn’t answer his questions. He was stuck in the middle, and it was slowly killing him. 

Tom felt his whole heart breaking off piece by piece. You were his best friend. You were there for him through everything. You stood by his side thru thick and thin. But you were gone now. He felt anger. Why weren't you there? What did he do? Of course he had his love by his side. But it wasn't the same. He wanted you. He needed you.

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You were at your local store. You had ran out of ice cream and needed to stock up. You grabbed your favorite and Harrison's favorite before making your way through the ails. You didn’t see the body hat was coming your way. You crashed into them, dropping all your ice cream on the floor.

Groaning you bent down to pick up your ice cream.

"I’m so sorry i didn’t see you." The figure said. You ignored the familiar voice. They bent down to help you.

"Its fine." You said , annoyed. You looked up expecting to see someone else instead you saw Tom. The boy that caused all the ice cream. 

You quickly jolted up. You wanted to run out of there and never look back, but you also wanted your ice cream.

Tom looked up at you with wide eyes. Anger, sadness, and confusion flashed thru his eyes. He stood up, slowly handing you your ice cream. You took it from his hands. Both of you not saying a word.

Tom broke the silence. "Where have you been?" His voice held confusion, mixed with a bit of anger.

You avoided his burning gaze. “I’ve been busy.” You lie.

Tom scoffs “You’re a horrible liar.” 

You shook your head. “I can’t do this right now Tom.” You held the cold ice cream to your chest. You turned to walk away but before you could Tom grabbed your arm.

“Then, when Y/N? When can we do this? I’ve been trying to get your attention for weeks. Please just tell me what i did and i’ll fix it.” Toms voice cracked.His eyes watered “I promise I’ll fix it.”  He pressed his lips together, holding back a cry. 

You squeezed your eyes shut to hold back the tears that were trying to escape. you opened her eyes, looking at Toms distressed face. She grabbed his hand, giving it a squeeze. 

“I can’t.” You whisper.

You let go of Tom, before walking away. You left Tom standing there, heartbroken and confused. Tom felt his heart fall into pieces. The tears pooled in his eyes kept falling as he watched his best friend leave.

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Tom headed home, he didn't bother wiping his tears away. He had no energy to move, eat, or even breathe at that point. He was still so very confused. He thought about what he couldv'e done, what couldve caused her behavior, but he came up empty. He felt like his heart had been ripped out and stomptef on repeatiatly. He felt numb driving home. He forgot all about the food he was supposed to pick up so he could have dinner with his beautiful girlfriend. He didnt care how reckless he drove or how many red lights and stop signs he passed. He just wanted to get home and sleep his problems away.

Of course that wasn’t an option. His girlfriend had decided to stop by and pay Tom a visit. She waited on his sofa, flipping thru the channels on his TV. Tom didn’t notice her when he walked in. He tried heading straight up stairs. She watched him stumble in, she watched him trip over his shoes and throw off his jacket. He tried walking up the stairs, before he could make it, she called for him.

"Tom." She grabbed his attention.

He looked at her will tear stained cheeks. His eyes held sorrow He looked miserable, The bags under his eyes darkened, his face was paler than usual. Her eyes softened, she walked over to him, putting a hand on his cheek. Tom closed his eyes and let out a breath.

"What's wrong?" She whispered.

Tom let himself fall apart. He wrapped his arms around her neck, pulling her in for a hug. He felt her wrap her arms around his waist. He sobbed into her neck. She pulled him as close to her as she can. She let him feel vulnerable in front of her.

They stayed like that for a couple minutes. She didn't say a word, she let Tom take the time he needed. Slowly Tom stopped violently crying. He sniffled in her neck.

"Sorry." His voice was strained from crying. He pulled away from her. 

She wiped the tears from his face. “It’s okay.” She looked into his eyes, her heart ached for Tom. "Tell me whats wrong." She softly said.

He licked his lips. He was debating whether or not to say it. Saying it can make it real, and he didnt want it to be real. He let out a sigh.

"I dont think Y/N wants me anymore." Tom bit his lip, holding back another sob.

She felt the guilt creep up. Knowing that she was the reason Tom was so broken pained her. She felt her heart drop to her stomach. How could she be so selfish? She didnt think how tom would feel about his best friend leaving. She was filled with jealousy and rage and acted out. She knew she could never compete with Y/N. She thought she had to get rid of her. She thought if you were gone then she could have Tom all to herself. She didnt think about the pain tom would feel.

The tears well up in her eyes. "Tom." She whispers. She looks down ashamed. "Its my fault."

Tom looked at her with confusion. His eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean?"

She looked up at him, tears fell from her eyes. "I think you should talk to her. "

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You were numb.

Your ears were ringing.

Your vision was blurry.

Your cheeks felt wet.

You didn’t hear Harrison walk in. You didn’t feel him shake you. You didn't hear him ask you whats wrong. You didn't feel him wrap his arms around you.

You just sat still, numb. You felt anger pulse thru your body. You were angry at her. Why did she do that? Why did she take him away? Everything was fine without her. You was fine with loving him from a distance. Why did he pick her? Why did he fall in love with her? What was wrong with you?

You were angry at yourself. Why did you let her get you? Why did you let her take your best friend? Why did you fall in love him?

All these thoughts swarmed your head making your head feel on fire. Harrison stopped trying to get information out of you. He just held you, like hes been doing for weeks. He held you tight against his chest. He didn’t know what was going on but he didn’t care. All that mattered to him was that you weren't alone. You would never be alone.

The doorbell rang. It grabbed Harrison’s attention but you still couldn't hear. Harrison shook you, trying to snap you out of your thoughts.

"Y/N, the door." You still didn't move.

Harrison sighed before letting you go. He walked downstairs. He threw open the door ready to tell whoever it was to leave. But when he saw Tom, standing there with tear stained cheeks and his hair demolished, he knew he had to let him in this time.

He stepped aside, letting tom in. "Shes upstairs." Harrison says. He lets Tom walk up the stairs towards you.

Harrison stayed behind, leaving them alone to talk.

Tom walked slowly up the stairs. He grew nervous. He felt goosebumps creep up. His hands shook and he started to sweat on his forehead. He opened your door. He saw you sitting on your bed, your cheeks drenched in tears, the mascara you had worn covered below your eyes. Tom felt his heart ache. He hated knowing that he was the one you cried for. That he did this to you.

"Y/N?" He called out.

Toms voice snapped you back into reality. When you saw him your voice caught in your throat. Why was he here? He needed to leave.

"Just go away." Your voice gave out at the end of your sentence.

"She told me." Tom went straight to the point. He needed to hear it from you, not her.

You gasped. Why would she tell him? She promised she wouldn't if you stayed away. You did what she asked, why was she punishing you?

"She lied." You avoided his strong gaze. You wanted him out. You wanted to save yourself from the embarrassment.

"No she didn't." Tom tried to sit next to you, but you stood up, moving away from him.

"Please, just go." You snapped. You hated her. You hated every bone in her body. You wish she never came and ruined your life.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Tom sounded broken. He needed answers.

You laughed bitterly. "Why would you wanna know Tom? Why would you care? You're happy with her Tom, and I'm okay with that. You didn't need to know." You tightened your jaw. Your finger nails were clawing at your palms.

"I deserved to know." Tom spat. He needed you to say it.

"No you don’t. It was my choice and she took that away from me." You shouted at Tom. Your voice was slowly fading from all the crying. Your throat felt raw.

"Say it." Tom demanded. Tears fell from his eyes. "I want you to say it." He whispers.

You let the tears fall again. “I-I can’t” Your lip quivered.

“Say it!” Tom shouted, with tears dropping down to the floor. 

You flinched, tom never yelled at you before. You took a deep breath before letting it out slowly. You looked into his eyes.

“I love you.” You whisper.  

Tom felt relief flood through his body. He let out a breath he didnt know he was holding. He swore he could feel his heart gluing itself back together.

He walked over to you slowly. You looked down at your feet.

He grabbed your face in his hands, forcing you to look into his eyes. His thumb rubbed against your cheek. He pressed his forehead against yours.

"Tom what are you-" You were cut off by Toms lips.

You were shocked at first, but you started to kiss back. Your lips moved in sync. He pulled you closer, deepening the kiss. His lips tasted salty from his tears, but that didn’t stop you. He traced his tongue along your bottom lip. You let him in. His tongue explored your mouth.

You pulled apart. You could feel your lips tingling. You smiled at Tom.

Your heart was beating like crazy. You felt shivers up your spine.

Tom grinned at you. His eyes were sparkling with love.

"I love you." He whispers. "I'm sorry I didn't realize it sooner."

You kissed his nose. You brought your hands to his cheeks. 

“You really know how to make me cry, Tom Holland.” You chuckle.

He bites his lip. He grabs your waist lifting you off the ground. You squeal and wrap your legs around his waist. Your laugh fills the air as he spins you around. 

Harrison watches his two best friends finally come together. He smiles at them,leaning against the door frame. 

“It’s about god damn time.” He jokes aloud, bringing your attention towards him.

You both smile at Harrison. Tom let you drop down to your feet. “It would’ve happened sooner if it wasn’t for this crybaby.” Tom joked. He threw an arm around you, pulling you close. 

You rolled your eyes, shoving his arm off. “Fuck off.” You said with a smile. 

Tom looked at you with adoration. “Not anymore, my love.” He said. His words making you weak in the knees. You felt your face grow hot. 

You felt happiness for the first time in a long time. The boy who broke your heart, made your heart put itself together. 

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Here are my Top 13 deliciously creative digital marketing strategies for Pizzerias.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Did you know according to a recent survey: 83% of adults use smartphones or tablets to search for restaurant locations, directions, and hours. They use these devices in the following manner:

👉75% look up menus

👉👉55% read reviews

👉👉👉51% order from the restaurant website

👉👉👉👉50% use rewards or special deals.

Furthermore, there are more than 200 million posts tagged #food and 23 million with #drinks. Food and beverage photos are easily some of the most popular types of content on Instagram. 🍳🍕 Pizza is easily one of the most popular forms of cuisine available. Here are my top 13 digitally delicious pizza 🍕marketing strategies:

1.👉Can you be found?

Can you find your Pizza brand online by searching for it “by name”. If you are part of a franchised chain, type in your brand followed by your suburb. 🍕🍕🍕🍕

Being found online is the most important thing when trying to attract new customers to your pizzeria. The pizza business is hyper-local. More and more customers search on various local directories and search engines such as Yelp, Google, Facebook and other popular directories and social platforms when they are looking for new pizza places.

“Pizza near me” is one of the highly searched terms on Google.

🍕🍕🍕

You want to ensure that your pizzeria appears online and the basic NAP information (Name, Address Phone number) is correct for your business in the major local directories. This includes GMB (Google my business) We often see new client listings that are incomplete or incorrect. That confuses customers and the search engines, which can lower your online visibility.

🍕🍕🍕

Tip: Most directories will allow you to upload 10 images and some videos, but most businesses don’t!

This represents a huge advantage over your competitors. You can also post videos shot with an iPhone or Smartphone and then edit the videos on the phone.

There are also services, like Animoto, that allows you to create videos using photos.

2.👉How deep is your love?

A custom pizza loyalty program branded for the restaurant is much better than marketplace loyalty programs such as Groupon (although these platforms do have their merits).But wouldn’t it be great if you could run your own specials? 🍕🍕🍕

And unlike 3rd-party vendors, your pizzeria owns the program and keep all the proceeds. With your own custom digital loyalty program, you have full access to customer information that you can re-market easily.

Wherever possible , try and avoid the 3rd party marketplace loyalty programs where you have restricted access to your customer information and often higher marketing costs.

3.👉Let’s get Social

A Facebook Pizza Fan Page. The easiest way to connect with your fans and find new ones through natural social shares and specifically targeted advertising. 🍕🍕🍕

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest provide a great way to engage with your pizza loving customers and stay on top of mind. Your customers all use different social platforms, so it is important to be on more than one.

4.👉Website information

A Company Website. Before you can do anything else to grow your pizza restaurant with digital marketing, you need an official .com.au company website.Make sure pertinent information like your hours and contact information can be easily accessed on your pizzerias website .🍕🍕🍕

People should be able to find out your hours of operation of your pizza store / stores in under 3 clicks. We recommend that you also have the following tabs

Online Pizza Menu 🍕🍕Order Online Feature 🍕🍕🍕🍕

5.👉Multiple Locations on Facebook:

If you have more than one Pizza location, you could Set up a special feature called multiple locations on Facebook.🍕🍕

Once set up technically correct, you can re-share from location Pages to the main Page. This means less time is needed to curate branded pizzalicious content.

6.👉Post Regularly:

Most promotional posts talk about pizza discounts or a specific pizza. It’s the equivalent of the party guest who only talks about themselves. 🍕🍕🍕🍕

But if that person began conversations with questions, listened to other guests and made new connections, then you wouldn’t mind a bit of boasting every now and then.

7.👉Post at optimal times:

For example, if your Pizza store doesn’t open until 5 p.m., then posting about special offers on pizza's at 9 a.m. won’t work very well! 🍕🍕🍕

Additionally Because social network timelines are more algorithmic, we highly recommend a social media advertising strategy that pairs with your posted content

8.👉Feature a social media influencer:

Take advantage of local social media influencers by offering exclusive meals or curated experiences.

One way to feature a takeover is to invite an influencer to showcase nearby experiences they enjoy.

Go live!

9.👉Have an Instagram wall:

We know that customers flock to popular stores or locations just to prove they were there.🍕🍕Consider having uniquely tiled floors, wallpaper or other signage where people can take selfies which highlight your brand.

10.👉Online Reputation:

Monitor online review sites, find out what people are saying to your Pizza creations and respond to any feedback promptly. If you made a mistake with a pizza order, offer an honest apology, offer a refund and invite them to try you again.

11.👉Email Lists:

Building a customer “pizza lovers” email list is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways for pizza shops to connect with their customers effectively and re-market to them. 🍕🍕🍕

The key to engagement and conversion is to nurture the email list using relevant content to ensure high open rates and click-thru rates.

Also consider: Email Subscriber List and Automation Software. The right set of emails that get sent out at the appropriate times will save you tons of time, and increase sales.

12.👉Blog.

It should be located on the company website, well optimised for search engines and have plenty of compelling content for readers. It works best when it can be updated as frequently as possible. 🍕🍕🍕🍕

13.👉App

Creating a mobile app for your business provides your loyal customers a convenient way to order and drive up repeat business. 🍕🍕🍕

Mobile apps are also a great way to place your brand on the top spot of your customer’s mind when they think of pizza, and even when they don’t think of pizza as they look at their phone and there you are.

Now your turn:

Go and put these ideas into practice! If you found this article helpful, please be sure to share it with everyone who would benefit. ⭐⭐⭐

This list of tips represents the best of what we have actually used with clients. These tips simply work! We recommend you try one or two now and then try more as time and budget permit. 🍕🍕🍕

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Summary:

Digital marketing has become a necessity for businesses to thrive, and our list above is meant to make sure that you’re headed in the right direction.

To know more about us or how we can help with your pizza restaurant.

Feel free to get in touch with us on 📞+61 (03) 8839 4547 or simply visit us on www.clixium.com.au

[lonedailydoodle]

Daily Doodle 240 – December 12, 2018

Another day full of driving around running errands

But we got to rest at night and watched an episode of Doctor Who together, that was interesting, I never watched this before!

 Today I woke up early, got me some cereal and sat down to watch a video. After so, I got some outdoor clothes on and headed out to my grandma’s house who’s in the US. We were gonna cut down some plantains and feed the chickens

We did all this, I took a bunch of pretty pics and after an hour or so, we left back home where I changed, borrowed some money from mom as my PayPal money hadn’t transferred yet (Ugh), got some cereal boxes for Pixie, got the papers he told me to print yesterday and then left to Pixie’s school after a bit. I wanted to experiment with my Waze app and followed the same exact route it gave me to see if I’d really arrive at the time it predicted. I normally use the app to help me see ahead with traffic alerts, but I can’t trust it much since not that many people use it here and don’t report traffic.. But this time it worked, and I even arrived some 5 minutes earlier somehow

Anyways, I got Pixie after he was let out of school. We left to his house and then left to get some Chinese food. It obviously took a bit as it’s always fresh and while we like that, it still kinda doesn’t make sense they have a drive thru..

We left home after we got the food, we ate, and sometime later Pixie got his new roller-skates a friend gifted him. He used to roller-skate a lot in his childhood as much as I used to ride bicycles and it was really cool to see him get onto them again. He grew tired a bit later and we went inside again

A while later, we headed out to a car rim and performance shop Pixie wanted to go last time but was closed. This time they were open, so we went inside and browsed. Pix also spotted some rims he really would like for his Miata in the future and they fit in well with the colors he’s looking forward to!

We then left back home for an hour or so, Pix watched some videos, but we didn’t do much aside from that. Then we took Wilson out to the nearby Burger King to get some hot chocolate for Pixie. I now agree their whipped cream is really darn good! While there, Pixie saw a Subaru STI (It’s a pretty cool car, guys) so we parked nearby and looked over it

We drove to a friend’s house where we hung out a bit, then left to refuel and head home again. We didn’t spend much time there as we then left to weight one of Pixie’s dogs at a.. Coin operated weighing machine. It was the only logical cheap option nearby, so. They were weighing this dog for a medicine they’ll be giving her

After this, we left to a nearby Marshall’s where Pixie browsed around, then we left to a nearby Subway to eat together. Them sandwiches are so good, I’d still love to try their whole menu, but expensive!

We got home after this but left once again to drop off a comic Pixie ordered for a friend, I think it was that. We then spent some time at home, browsing memes together and cuddling up a bit. I also “scared” Pixie by turning off the room light when he left and dancing behind the door like a dumb dumb. He then walked in and gasped but quickly started laughing lots cuz of how ridiculous the whole thing was

After a while, we left to get some groceries as well as some hot chocolate pouches and whipped cream. We got home, dropped off the groceries and then left to weigh another one of Pixie’s dogs. I’m not exactly sure why we had to weigh this one this time

Anyways, we then finally stopped going out for today, just hanging out in Pixie’s room until we ended up watching a bunch of Doctor Who intro’s and it spiked my curiosity, they looked really cool! We then watched a whole episode together. Pix is a huge fan of this series and while I don’t know much about it, it was still fun to watch together, and I enjoyed it!

Pixie had school the next day though, so we kissed goodbye and got ready to leave. Before this though, I had told him that I wished to see a shooting star again since I enjoy seeing them and just as I said it, I saw one right where I was looking.. So there’s that..

Anyways, I left home and then spent a bit of time outside staring up at the night sky and spotting a few shooting starts in my peripheral vision. I hope nobody was looking cuz I looked so awkward staring up that late at night..

I got inside, put on some more bandages on new bug bites before they got worse, chatted with Pix until he went to bed and then wrote the doodle. I decided I’d be drawing it tomorrow since I don’t have anything scheduled for tomorrow and my eyes are getting red and dry again, so I need the sleep..