#jacaerysvelaryon.txt

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🖇 BAD IDEA ! jacaerys velaryon.

summary — you've never been good at giving advice, an ill attempt to help your friend helaena ends up in disaster when you receive a call at midnight. notes — first chapter!!! i desperately need to talk to someone about my ideas while writing this so if you want spoilers let me know lmao. warnings — cursing, mention of drugs, i think the pov is kinda weird in some parts but i don't wanna deal with it.

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ENGLISH IS MY SECOND LANGUAGE.

tap. tap. tap.

helaena's pen taps repeatedly against her textbook, green glitter ink shining in the sunlight as it comes and goes, filling the silence between her sighs. a cluster of noises that is soon replaced by the sound of her head slamming against the table.

"i'm tired."

looking up from your own book, and seeing your friend still with her head down as she draws random patterns against the wood, you decide that math can wait —preferably until aemond comes back and gives you the answers— and lean back against your chair.

"that's usually what happens when you stay up late."

"i didn't stay up late this time."

"bullshit." in lieu of her eyes, your own roll before landing on the small rubber frog on top of her abandoned pen. "daeron sent me a photo of you watching planet insect at five a.m with dreamfyre sleeping in your head."

shyly, helaena's head lifts until her frown is visible, and she speaks softly.

"what was he doing up at five a.m.?"

"all-nighter." you shrug and teasingly smile. "care to explain why your shitty sleeping habits are back?"

"it wasn't my fault!" your indifferent look makes her sit straight, and she fidgets with her fingers as she begins to rant.

"i couldn't sleep! you know jace's room is next to mine and he kept leaving voicemails to sara!"

your eyes close tight, face scrunching and dark spots appearing once you realize your mistake. you love your friend, you really do, but if you hear her complain about her cousin one more time you might kill her.

your eyes open to spot the frog pen once again, a gift from aegon after missing movie night and upsetting helaena, and you could swear his spirit mocks you through it as you decide to indulge your friend.

"how is he?"

"he's been moping around for weeks now. between hockey and sara i have never seen him this stressed before. it's annoying, he's always being loud. and he almost stepped on the spider i found last week."

you snort at her words and reach for the gummy bears in your shared pile of candy, handing the bag over for her to open and stretching before lifting your legs to the chair.

"you wouldn't have to deal with all that if your family wasn't so weird. was the spider fine?"

"yes." she answers while shoving the opened bag, and then begrudgingly adds. "my family isn't weird."

"helaena, love, i'm sorry to break it to you but most people don't share a mansion with half of their relatives. you're fucking weird."

"that's not true!" she sounded as if the words had a hard time leaving her mouth, as if they knew they were nothing but a ridiculous excuse and refused to come out. "cerelle lannister lives with her grandma."

the thing about your friend was that her family was definitely some level of weird. you didn't get to met her father before he died, but you knew the man was significantly older than helaena's mother, and that he had made them live with his daughter rhaenyra and her children, in an attempt to bring them all closer. therefore, they were one of those rich families that split a giant house in half and tried to pretend they didn't actually live together.

choosing to sacrifice a gummy bear, you tossed it at her face before answering.

"cerelle lannister's grandma is staying with her family while she recovers from a broken hip, it's not the same." you received a crumbled paper to the face after that, and your laughter resonated around the house as you started throwing whatever you could find at each other.

the door banged open, startling you both and making helaena cover her ears. her cousin jacaerys stormed in, muttering curses and banging a heavy bag against every furniture in his way.

you both welcomed him in, and both got ignored as he went directly to the stairs, solely focused on his phone.

"see!" helaena pointed after him. "i feel bad, i don't know how to help him."

your eyes were focused on the stairs, and you hummed something that almost sounded like 'i don't know' before turning to look at her.

"get someone hot to hit on him, or give him a compliment, something like that."

"that doesn't make any sense, how would that help?"

"i don't know," you shrugged. "it helped me after breaking up with ben. cregan told me he thought i was nice and funny and i thought about it for weeks."

"i don't get it."

"look. you just need to find someone that's, like, extremely out of his league to compliment him, or flirt with him. it's gonna build up his confidence." you grabbed a sour gummy from the pile before speaking again, words coming out mumbled as it moved around. "i'm not sure it's good advice but it worked for me, i guess, i started feeling better after that."

"okay" she said, unsure, and then once again with excitement. "okay! so you can do it!"

"what?" you screeched. "no, i can't. why would i do that?"

if you looked as bewildered as you felt, she had decided to completely ignore it.

"why not? you're pretty, jace thinks you're pretty. and he always says you're really nice too."

"i'm not flirting with your cousin, helaena."

"but you said it could work! you know, he used to have a crush on you when we first met." she spoke as if that should convince you, and you felt yourself cringe a bit at her lack of secrecy.

"i don't think you should tell me that, hel."

"but you said—"

"no, i'm not doing it. find someone else."

the door opens again, interrupting helaena before she can speak, and rhaenyra slowly walks in, dropping her bags on the couch as her tired eyes take in the room.

"hi girls, is he upstairs?"

"yes," helaena mumbles with her head half hidden in her arms." he looked angry."

"of course he did." she sighs. "i haven't seen him like this since—"

she stops herself abruptly, looking lost for a second before giving you a tight smile.

"anyway." rhaenyra clears her throat before turning to you. "are you coming to watch the game with us tonight, dear?"

"oh, yeah. helaena invited me." your eyes awkwardly move between your friend and her older sister, avoiding looking towards the stairs at all costs. "i hope that's okay."

"of course, sweetheart. it's always good to have you with us."

"thank you, rhaenyra." she gives you a smile, a real one this time, and squeezes your shoulder before walking off.

not long after, you were following helaena to her room, trying repeatedly to stop her from stumbling as she ran up the stairs.

"mom bought me a sweater, it looks like moss." she smiled and turned to you, almost falling again, but you were too distracted to fully pay attention to her.

from this part of the stairs, almost at the top, you could see a silver of her room's door, and consecutively, jace's. his voice resonated in the hallway, and although most words got lost in the distance, sara's name could be heard once in a while.

you hadn't known jace for more than two years, talked to him far less than that. still, jace had always been kind, welcoming, the kind of person that would come talk to you if he saw you by yourself, but now he spent most of his time alone, and whenever he spoke a small tremor accompanied his voice, whether from sadness or anger, or both.

"look," you turned to her. "i know i shouldn't ask, and you don't have to tell me if you don't want to but, what did she mean?"

helaena sighed and grabbed your hand, slowly guiding you to her room and closing the door before quietly speaking.

"he got like this before, when we were kids." she walked towards her bed and slowly sat down, pulling you with her. "with harwin."

"oh." you didn't know much about the man, but had vague memories of old classmates whispering about how alike jace and the old family friend looked, and later on about how laenor, his father, had divorced rhaenyra and gotten married to another man. and then, when harwin died, you had vague memories of young kids being cruel.

"yes, oh." she frowned, placing her head against your shoulder as lightly as she could, in the way she always did when she needed comfort but didn't want to be touched. "but rhaenyra will figure it out eventually. she always does."

she got up then, as if the last 10 minutes hadn't been filled with somber conversations, and headed towards her closet while rambling about what to wear and who would drive who to the game.

"just wait here a second." she entered the closet and closed the doors. playing with your hands as you waited for whatever it was helaena wanted to show you, you looked around the room and let out a bored sigh, soon distracted by your phone vibrating.

halfway in the air, your hand froze as helaena's muffled movements were replaced with the sound of something hitting the ground, followed by a small 'ow'.

"hel?" you stared at the door as you half-stood, hovering over the bed and noticing the lack of light underneath. "you okay?"

"yeah, i'm good."

"did you turn on the lights in there?"

at first you were met with silence, followed by the sound of her getting up, and then her voice. "no."

"right..." you whispered to yourself, reaching for your phone again once you made sure she turned on the lights.

"ta-da!" you looked up as helaena came out and did a little twirl, showing off the sweater and an old pair of jeans that she had embroidered with suns.

"you look great, it's really pretty." you smiled, reaching to feel the fabric. "what happened though?"

"oh, i tripped over my boots." she lifted her leg, grabbing her foot as if to show you before nodding towards the phone. "who is it?"

"aegon." you turned the phone for her to read the chat.

"ew. saliva, gross." she murmured to herself before placing her hands under her face and smiling. "send him a photo."

despite aegon's answer being immediate, it took you about a full 20 seconds to figure out what his text said. "he says that you look like 'that thing that was growing in grandpa's backyard tree last year'." frowning at the misspelled words in your phone, you added. "i think."

"great!" helaena smiled.

"right. and what's that supposed to mean, exactly?"

"oh, he has this big three that's all covered in moss and lichen, it's beautiful."

"i can't believe you didn't show me that, take a picture next time."

"sorry, will do." she smiled before turning to her vanity and grabbing two pairs of earrings. "fireflies or bees?"

"fireflies."

helaena sat next to you while putting them on, the two of you laughing at yet another text from aegon asking for money, before she softly hit your arm.

"oh, call him!" she whispered, keeping her eyes glued to the wall she shared with her cousin as if he could hear through the concrete. "ask him about jace!"

"what? no, i'm not doing that!" you whispered back. "what could aegon know anyway?"

"i don't know." she shrugged. "they were together all day, he might know something."

you looked at helaena annoyedly, fully ready to deny her. of course, around five seconds later your curiosity got the best of you and had you pressing the call button.

the phone rang five times before aegon picked up, shouting something that sounded almost like a 'hello' and forcing you and helaena to push it away.

"you know, i'm busy, and unless you're calling to tell me you've changed your mind about the money i'm hanging up."

"you're already high, why do you need my money?" you hissed, pulling helaena's hand away as she tried to take the phone.

"a man has to always be prepared." he slurred slightly as he spoke.

"don't you have a game to worry about, you—" helaena took the phone, interrupting whatever insult you had planned to throw at her brother as she leaned against her pillows.

"how was he? did something happen?" she whispered, signaling with her head for you to get closer. "he came home angry. and i think he was talking to sara a few minutes ago."

"nah, it was probably cregan. she was at practice today but she's been ignoring him."

the sound of a door opening startled you, hurrying to hide the phone under the covers while helaena repeatedly told aegon to shut up, both of you sitting still until the footsteps faded.

she turned to you with a relieved sigh, grabbing the phone and your hand before walking back into her closet. the two of you sat on the floor and huddled over the phone, struggling to sit comfortably in the dark.

"i have no idea what that was, but you do know you could've just muted the call, right?" aegon's distorted voice teased.

"shut up." the two of you said before you continued. "what do you mean she's been ignoring him?"

he exhaled tiredly, you could imagine him inflating his cheeks and looking away with wide eyes as he usually does whenever he has bad news to deliver. helaena and you shared a worried look.

"he tried to talk to her three times today, but she kept making excuses to leave. after a while she just started walking away whenever he came near."

"shit."

"helaena!" you screeched, turning to your friend with wide eyes. this had probably been the first time you had ever heard her curse.

"no, she's right. it is shit." aegon interrupted. "i mean, he deserves to know why."

"why what?" you asked.

"why they broke up."

"he doesn't know?" you asked bewildered. no one responded to your question, and when you looked at helaena for answers, she simply shook her head with a pitiful look.

that was bad. that was really, really bad. it also answered many of the questions everybody had, mainly why jace had been so upset compared to past breakups.

"well, shit." you agreed quietly.

you turned to the sound of the door opening. jace stood against the doorframe, looking around the room before giving you a weird look as he found you sitting in the dark inside of helaena's closet.

"uh, we're leaving now." he fixed the bag on his shoulder, giving you a small,sad smile similar to the one his mother had given you earlier, before leaving.

"we'll be down in a minute!" helaena yelled, getting up and offering you a hand, before bringing the phone between the two of you. "any advice?"

"try to keep him distracted, she's in the locker room with cregan."

if time travel existed this would be it, you would return to this very moment and kill helaena, friendship be damned. you could have gone with aemond, daeron, and their grandfather, or even alicent and her mushy boyfriend, but no, after dragging you downstairs, she just had to trap you in the most awkward car ride ever.

despite rhaenyra offering to let jace choose the music and luke not fighting him for the passenger seat for once, the car you had been forced to go into was the most quiet and uncomfortable place you had probably been in your entire life.

the torture lasted for a total of seventeen minutes, filled with rhaenyra asking any question she could think of to try and get more than one-word responses from jace, and helaena attempting to fill the silence with various insect facts. thankfully, around the twelve-minute mark, luke took pity on you and shared one of his earbuds until your salvation came in the form of the school parking lot.

"i've never enjoyed getting out of a car as much as i do right now." luke whispered while opening the door.

"i doubt you'll feel like that much longer." you whispered back with your eyes set on the rink's entrance, where sara snow stood smoking.

jace dropped his bag the second he saw her, the sound particularly loud in the almost empty parking lot. she looked startled, like a deer caught in the headlights, and she quickly walked away like one would when he took a step forward, leaving nothing but a half-finished cigarette and the kind of tension that could be cut in half with a knife behind.

he frowned, teeth grinding as his jaw clenched, before angrily picking up his bag and walking inside. everyone followed quietly while you stood in place, stuck as your eyes followed sara through the parking lot.

"hey, let's go." helaena nodded towards the entrance, reaching out her hand.

"i'll go inside in a minute" you distractedly murmured before going after sara.

you found her a few feet away, standing behind her car and taking deep breaths.

"hiding?"

"something like that." she huffed, running her trembling hands through her hair. she tried to avoid eye contact, still, you could tell her eyes were teary.

"do you wanna talk about it?" you asked quietly. "i'm not asking because of jace, i just— i thought you could use a friend."

"jace is great i just..." she swallowed hard. "i can't date him."

"why not?"

she hesitated, looking at you wearily before speaking.

"i don't think i can date any guy."

you stayed silent for a second, open-mouthed as you stared at sara in recognition. she looked away, muttering to herself about how she 'shouldn't have told you that' before she got pulled into your arms.

"there's nothing wrong with that, sara. you know that, right?" you could feel her tears against your shoulder as she nodded.

"i know." she sighed. "i don't wanna hurt him."

"i get that, but it's hurting him more to not know what happened and think he did something wrong." you said as you hugged her tighter. "look, it's up to you to tell anyone. but i think he would understand."

"i know he would," you could feel her crying against your shoulder. "but i'm still scared. you're the first person i've told."

you pulled away from her, raising your hands to wipe away her tears.

"i understand, it's normal to be scared. but look, at some point he's gonna find out what happened, and i think it would be better coming from you. and you don't even have to tell him everything if you're not ready yet, just know that he would understand." you looked into her worried eyes and added. "and so would cregan, if that's what you're worried about."

"you think so?"

"i know so. they adore you." you held her hands and smiled. "and if for some reason they didn't, i would personally kick some sense into them."

sara laughed for what felt like the first time in months, drying the rest of her tears and taking a deep breath.

"thanks for coming to talk to me."

"thanks for trusting me." you smiled and started to pull her to the entrance. "now come on, or we're gonna miss the game."

you look around for helaena and her family, ready to take sara with you, when she stops you and nods towards the locker room.

"i have something i need to do."

you follow her gaze to find jace talking to his mother by the door and smile, pulling her into a hug once more.

"good luck."

the last thing you see before leaving to find your seat is jace, surprised and confused to see her coming, taking a hesitant step forward before she places a hand on his arm and rhaenyra quietly walks away.

you find your seat next to helaena and smile at her, getting comfortable as you wait for the players and hoping things work out.

once the game starts, it seems that whatever they talked about worked out, because she comes to sit beside you with rhaenyra, both smiling and chatting, and luke excitedly mentions that jace plays better than he has in weeks.

the rest of the game is thankfully uneventful, and you spend most of it laughing at cregan, who sara keeps mocking for being too into the game, and aemond, who helaena mocks for looking like he would rather be anywhere else.

"i can't believe you almost punched the goalie!" luke laughs, throwing his remaining popcorn at aegon.

"yes, i can't believe it either." alicent scolds her eldest son.

you and helaena walk behind them, laughing at her frown, and then laughing harder as alicent's boyfriend criston quietly teases aegon about how to throw a proper punch.

rhaenyra, who walked in front of everyone, stopped in front of her car helping jace place his bag inside before turning to you.

"so, we were thinking pizza for the celebration, what do you think?"

"oh, i need to be home before eight, my parents are going on a date tonight and i promised i would take care of my sister." you shook your head. "but thank you."

"are you sure, sweetheart? we can eat quick and i'll drive you right after, i need to pick up joffrey from his playdate anyway."

"it's okay, i wanna get home early so they can get ready in peace."

"next time then." she placed her hand on your shoulder and smiled in a motherly way. "but at least let me drive you home, it's late."

you were about to decline her offer, tell her that you could just get an uber, but jace spoke before you could.

"i can drive her."

"don't worry, love. you should go celebrate. i'll meet you at the restaurant."

"it's okay, i don't wanna bother—" the words died in your mouth once you realized neither of them was listening to you. instead, jace stopped his mother, looking back to you before leaning closer to her.

"mom, i can drive her." he whispered pleadingly. you have no idea what he said after that, but she stared at him for a second, looking surprised, and finally handed him the keys.

"drive safe."

rhaenyra gave him a knowing look as she ushered everyone away, leaving helaena to yell her goodbyes as she entered her mother's car.

jace turned to you after closing the trunk. he placed his hand on your back, the cold skin sending shivers down your spine through the thin material of your shirt as he guided you to the passenger seat.

he wondered if you could feel his hand trembling against your skin.

he didn't even really know why he had gotten nervous all of a sudden, maybe it was because he didn't really know how to start the conversation he needed to have with you. or maybe it was because after sara had told him what she told him, he had felt surprised, and then he had felt something else that he couldn't entirely name.

all he knew was that he felt somehow different about you now. he always knew you were kind, but he had never expected you to be kind enough, or care about him enough, to go out of your way to make sure he felt better. the thought brought a fluttering feeling to his stomach and forced him to stare at you deeply, wondering what you thought about him, as he opened the door for you.

the streets were mostly empty, and quiet, and he kept messing with the radio's volume to fill the silence. he really, really hoped that whatever slow song was playing entertained you enough to not notice how loud his heart seemed to beat.

his nervousness wasn't going away, no matter how many minutes passed or how many glances he stole your way. so, once he saw the small park he knew was only a couple blocks away from your house, he decided that it was better to say whatever came to mind first and figure things out from there.

"i told her i loved her."

you turned to jace, a strange, astounded sound coming out of your mouth.

"oh." your gaze moved between him and the road, wondering how to answer without making things awkward. you had definitely been hanging out far too much with helaena, because your reaction had been as accidentally tactless and casual as hers usually were. "so, what? she didn't say it back?"

you turned away from him, pretending to look through the window. at this point, you seriously considered opening the door and jumping from the car. why would you say it like that? you knew she hadn't, you obviously knew she hadn't.

if he saw you mouthing a quiet 'oh my god' to yourself through the window reflection, he had been kind enough not to mention it.

"uh, she did." he answered with a grimace, although you weren't sure if it was because of his words or yours.

"but?"

"she loves me, but she's not in love with me." he sighed and stopped at a red light, turning to you and speaking quietly, his voice mixing with the calm melody in the background. "thank you."

"me? why are you thanking me?" you were confused. had his eyes always been this big and sad? his voice this soft?

"i know you told her to talk to me."

"i'm sorry, helana and aegon told me what was going on. and i know it wasn't my place but—"

"i appreciate it. i really do."

"yeah, well, i'm glad you worked it out." the music changed to something slower, older, and the light illuminating his face turned green. "how do you feel?"

"weirdly better, i think." he hesitated, swallowing hard as he looked at the car roof. "it's good to know it wasn't my fault."

"but?"

"i don't know. i guess i just—" he hesitated again, looking down at his hands as they played with the strings of his hoodie. "i just have a hard time... when people leave."

you turned in your seat to face him, watching how the light reflected in his eyes.

"it'll get easier with time. i mean, she didn't completely leave, even if you're not together anymore, she still cares about you."

he kept biting his lip, and you felt the need to say more, to make him feel better. little did you know that need would be a big mistake, and it would come back to bite you in the ass sooner rather than later.

"you know, everyone was really excited when you played tonight, you looked happy, and you did a great job."

"you think i did a great job?" maybe you were being optimistic, but you were almost sure he sounded like he usually did whenever he teased someone, and you could finally see a real smile on his face.

"i do. i mean, i think you're my favorite now. might have to start wearing your number." you teased back before reaching for his hand and holding it tight. "seriously though, things are gonna be fine, i know that."

it was different, but he smiled again. with downturned lip corners, and prominent dimples, and softer eyes. there was a strange feeling in your stomach, and your breath caught in your throat. you had been in this car countless times, but it had never felt as small and intimate as it did right now, when jace smiled at you like that.

there was another sound in the background, buzzing distantly in your ears at first. then it grew insistent, demanding, getting louder and louder and pulling you away from a moment that you didn't completely understand. you didn't know when the car behind you appeared, but it's continuous honks cut through the silence, sharp and angry as they intruded in the quiet moment.

jace coughed, nervously looking away and pulling his hand out the window to apologize. you turned to the window again and took a deep breath, wondering what the hell that had been.

the rest of the drive had been somehow worse than the earlier one. the two of you sat quietly, stealing glances at each other as the radio host's voice filled the car.

once the car finally parked in front of your house you sent him a quick smile that probably looked more like a grimace and whispered a 'thank you' before rushing to the front door, still thinking about what had happened. and then you kept thinking about it. while saying goodbye to your parents, while cooking dinner, and while your little sister made you watch tangled for what was probably the fifth time that week.

you also thought about it in bed, turning over and over. you couldn't sleep, it wouldn't leave your mind. what was that? talking to jace had never felt like that before, and you weren't sure you liked that.

you finally fell asleep, after checking the time for what felt like the millionth time, and the thought occupied your dreams as well. the location changed, and the time, but it was always him, staring at you like that.

a loud ringing interrupted what was maybe the fourth dream you had (the one in which luke was playing videogames while things happened, and kept acting like nothing was going on while you were losing your mind), and you picked up your phone with a groan, not even bothering to look at the name on the screen. only one person would call you at midnight on a wednesday.

"hello?"

"i thought you said you wouldn't do it!" that was the first thing you heard when you picked up the phone, helaena yelling exitedly.

"do what?" you asked in the middle of a yawn, reaching blindly to turn the light on. "do you have any idea what time it is?"

"time isn't important, you lied to me! is it because you thought i would accidentally tell him?"

"tell what to who? what are you talking about?"

"the flirting with jace thing!"

that did the trick in waking you up.

"what? what are you talking about?" sitting up, you pulled the phone even closer, you needed an explanation, desperately. "helaena, what are you talking about?

"okay, so i was getting ready to go to bed and he told me he needed to talk to me, right? and then he started asking me a bunch of things about you and when i asked him why he was asking he told me what you told him in the car!"

she sounded far too excited, somehow loud and quiet at the same time, and her words kept repeating in your head.

"what kind of things?"

"like if i had told you to talk to sara or if you ever talked about him."

"so?"

"so, he hasn't smiled in weeks, but now he won't stop! you were right!" she sounded so excited you could practically hear her bouncing.

"hel, i'm sure he's just happy he worked things out with sara. driving me home had nothing to do with that."

"you don't get it, he had the smile, the smile. that means it worked!"

now you knew, you were absolutely, incredibly, fucked. because you knew exactly what helaena was talking about, because jace had his smile, and then he had the smile. it was different from the usual ones, it was the one rhaenyra gushed about fondly from his first crush, the one luke teased him with when he wanted to embarrass him. and, most importantly, the one you had never gotten to see in person, not until tonight.

"i'll see you tomorrow and we can figure out what to do next!"

"next? i wasn't flirting—" she hung up before you could answer, leaving you confusedly staring at the wall. your body collided against the mattress, thinking about the disaster you might have accidentally gotten yourself into, and trying to figure out how to fix it now that helaena was decided to see this through. "fuck."

[spiderluvbot]

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS !

━━ helena’s cousin breaks up with his girlfriend and, after days of listening to her complain about it, you have a bad idea.

genre — real life x social media au. notes — it doesn't really follow the plot of the movie, i just had the idea for this after watching it with my mom (hence the name) and listening to greedy by tate mcrae. warnings — i don't know anything about hockey, i'm just a tate mcrae aesthetic enjoyer (any help is welcome).

( MODERN!JACAERYS VELARYON X FEM!READER )

ִֶָ𓂃🌷͙֒ ࿐ — chapters.

INTRO: bad idea.

DAY ONE:

DAY TWO:

DAY THREE:

DAY FOUR:

DAY FIVE:

DAY SIX:

DAY SEVEN:

DAY EIGHT:

DAY NINE:

DAY TEN:

ִֶָ𓂃🌷͙֒ ࿐ — extras.