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wolfiemcwolferson · 1 year

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2.4k of a Piarles spiral that I might revisit in the future under the read more

Charles moves home after the divorce.

It’s George that suggests it. Well, he insists that he didn’t suggest it at all. He suggested that Charles do something for himself that he had always wanted to do but didn’t because of Peter and the…well, the crappy marriage thing.

“I meant for you to…go to Argentina to see that big waterfall or drive Route 66 or eat your way through Atlanta. I did not mean for you to sell this big house that you got in your divorce settlement and buy a house that is falling down in the middle of nowhere Alabama.”

But, that was what Charles wanted to do. After 10 years of playing the perfect spouse, he wanted to live in a little house and have a garden and be on his own.

And that’s what he intends on doing.

He buys a two bedroom house that looks like it’s in danger of blowing away, but it sits on five acres of land and the realtor tells him it’s got good soil for tomatoes.

Charles has too much money from his prenup and a college degree that he’s never used and so he decides to use both - slowly making this little house livable and presentable and also sitting for the teacher’s exam.

George and Alex come to visit over Thanksgiving, the only two who are still speaking to him from their life in Connecticut. The only two people Charles really cares about, and it’s good to see them. He shows them around the little town square and they have breakfast in the diner and Charles laughs himself silly when he gives George a big pour of the blackberry wine that Mrs. Fitzgerald - the biology teacher - makes and George sputters it all over his white shirt.

It’s good to see them and it’s good to see them go because Charles doesn’t feel sad about them leaving at all. He doesn’t miss a single second of that life and it’s like…the first time in the seven months since he moved here that he knows he did the right thing by selling that too big house with no happy memories.

Charles considers taking a trip over Christmas break. For the first Christmas in his adult life, he doesn’t have any place to be - both of his parents gone, Lorenzo is somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean and Arthur is filming some new documentary in Colorado - but then he drives into Birmingham and spends 400 dollars on books and he spends the entire break eating cheese and cranberry sauce out of a can (a delight) and reading.

He has to YouTube how to start a fire in the fireplace because he’s never used it and then he has to pay triple to have an actual chimney sweep come and clean it out so he can use it.

Because sure, he had called Alabama home for the first 20 years of his life, but he had grown up in a house in Huntsville with a swimming pool and a gas fireplace.

And then when a year of life in Alabama rolls around, Charles looks in the mirror and smooths the wrinkles beside his eyes away with his fingertips and laughs because two years ago, he would have been obsessively checking them or Pieter would have pointed them out and the only reason he’s noticed them now is because he had dirt on his cheek.

It’s different than anything he ever imagined for his life, but it’s the best thing he’s ever experienced and it was absolutely the right choice. To move here. To begin again.

There are fifteen houses on the county road that Charles lives on. He knows them all by name and he knows their kids by name. He was a bit concerned when he moved that the gay divorcee would be a bit too much for them all to stomach, but they had embraced him with love and acceptance and help when he killed his tomato plants on accident last summer and when it froze and he wasn’t prepared for the whole county to shut down and when he realized he was going to have to buy some kind of lawn mower.

The point is that when the Harrison’s come by on a Tuesday night and tell him that they’re going to retire and move to Arizona where their oldest daughter lives, Charles is pretty upset about it - sad that they’re leaving, but also a bit worried about the new family that will move in. Until they tell him their nephew is going to be taking over the family place.

“Good boy,” Mrs. Harrison assures him, patting his cheek. “Handsome and single.”

Many things slide into place for Charles all at once and he laughs, brushing it off and telling them he’ll miss them and that he’ll stay in touch, and then he puts it out of his mind.

Until it’s mid-August and he’s carrying a box of books out to his car that he’s collected over the summer for his classroom and he sees a shiny black pick-up truck pull into his driveway and Charles knows that this is the nephew.

“Pierre,” he introduces himself and then he’s got to bend down to catch the two small children around their middles as they come barreling up to Charles. “And these are my hellions.”

But he smiles when he says it and Charles shakes both of their hands making them laugh and giggle, waiting on them to introduce themselves.

“Arabella, but Daddy calls me Ari.” who is six.

And then, “Jessop, but you can call me Jessie because I hate Jessop,” who is five.

The exchange lasts ten minutes and it only happened because Pierre promised his aunt he would stop by and say hello and then he has to go because the kids need dinner and Charles tells him that he’ll have to invite them over for dinner some night, but it seems a bit like a nicety because they don’t exchange numbers or say anything else before Pierre is helping the kids up into the backseat and driving off with a wave and a megawatt smile.

Charles asks no questions, but he’s curious enough that when Abby starts talking about Pierre two weeks later during lunch period, he ignores the grades he’s supposed to be entering into his computer and he sits down at the table with the math teachers and listens to the story.

A messy divorce with his ex-husband who is still in Iowa and two kids who they had through surrogacy that the ex apparently didn’t want and Charles goes home that night and makes a pie - or an attempt at a pie so he hauls himself out of bed the next morning before the sun and he makes another one, which turns out better so he takes it to Pierre and his kids and he invites them over for dinner on Wednesday night.

It’s silly, but he has a kinship with Pierre that Pierre doesn’t know exists.

It’s extra silly because there’s no way for Charles to come out and say: I married an older man after I finished school because I was scared and I don’t think he really loved me. I never had children even though I desperately wanted them and I’m starting over and it sounds like you are too, so maybe we could be friends?

No, he just makes sure that he picks up his living room and he roasts a chicken and when the three of them show up on Charles doorstep at 6:30 sharp, he wonders if he miscalculated with Pierre.

By the end of the night, he doesn’t have to wonder. He knows he did.

Pierre listens to his children when they talk and he asks Charles questions about the school and he smiles with his nose scrunched up and when Jessie falls asleep on Charles’ couch while a movie plays, Pierre apologizes for having to get them back home and Charles’ apologizes for keeping them up so late on a school night and he leaves with a sleeping child on his shoulder and a promise to see Charles at the football game on Friday night.

Which turns out to be a joy. The two of them sit together and Charles buys the kids gigantic lollipops Ari tells him about how she’s going to play football when she grows up because girls can do anything and Charles' heart is stuck between breaking and falling.

“I don’t want to pry,” Pierre says a month later while the two of them are sitting on the bottom step of Charles' porch while Ari and Jessie run around in the yard and try and catch lightning bugs, “but sometimes you look at them like it pains you to do so.”

And that’s when the whole nasty business comes out about Charles’ finding his husband of ten years having an affair with his paralegal and how Charles feels like he just started living his life even if maybe he’s missed his chance at having a life with another person, Pierre takes his hand in his and kisses the back of it and asks him if he wants to go into town with him and the kids this weekend and see a movie.

“Don’t ask me on a date because you pity me,” Charles warns and Pierre kisses his knuckles again.

“I’ve been thinking about asking you out since you brought us that horrendous pie.”

And then…Charles spends six months waiting for the other shoe to drop - so to say.

Arthur comes in for Thanksgiving and he spend four days in the floor with the kids during the day and trying to get all the dirty details from Charles at night, but Pierre doesn’t get spooked by having a family Thanksgiving with Arthur - instead the two of them get a little too tipsy on Friday afternoon and Charles has to tuck them into the couch so they’ll take a nap, and Pierre kisses him about it when he wakes up two hours later.

Charles wakes up on Christmas morning and gets dressed before it’s even 5 AM so he can drive over to Pierre’s and spend the morning with them before they load up and go over to Pierre’s parents house two hours north.

Pierre kisses him on New Year’s Eve and then he fucks Charles slow and deep and asks him to stay over - let him wake up with him and the kids. Because they hadn’t done that yet - had been careful in front of the kids.

Pierre’s birthday is spent in Charles’ house where he makes another atrocious pie and Pierre takes his face in his hands and whispers what Charles has known for months now.

“I love you,” he whispers into Charles’ mouth and Charles puts his face in his hands and cries and cries until Pierre pries them away and kisses him again. “I love you,” he says, “I love you.”

It goes like that until the next fall - when Ari turns eight and says matter of factly while they’re sitting on the front porch and Charles cranks an old ice cream maker he found in town, “I think you should be our new dad.”

There isn’t enough oxygen on the planet for the next minute of Charles’ life, and the only reason he manages to keep it together is because Pierre is there squeezing his shoulder and it’s grounding him to earth.

It’s a month of frantic whispers between Charles and Pierre and tears on both ends and Ari and Jessie giving Charles a wide circle when he’s with them until Pierre sets a plate down on the counter with more force than necessary and hisses, “No one in this house is your ex and these kids deserve someone who loves them and wants them just as much as I do and you’re a fucking fool if you think there’s anyone else on this planet that I want to marry as much as I want to marry you because not only do I think you’re the other half of me, I think you were meant to be their dad all along.”

It shocks Charles enough that he stops crying silent, hot tears and then he says, “I want to take your last name.”

And Pierre knocks the plate off the counter in an effort to get Charles into his arms.

They get married in the courthouse and then they take the kids on vacation over winter break to Disneyworld and Jessie calls Charles Papa for the first time while they’re eating a breakfast of Mickey shaped waffles and later that night after Charles and Pierre have tucked them into their beds, they stand on the balcony of their overpriced family suite and Pierre soothes the hair away from Charles face over and over and says a hundred times i love you, Charles, I am so thankful to you.

Alex texts Charles on the five year anniversary of when the divorce became final and Charles laughs at the ridiculous picture George took of him holding up the divorce decree for the camera to see and Charles looks across the room to where Pierre is stitching Ari’s dance costume back together and he texts back, best thing that could have ever happened.

Charles and Pierre work out a system for dinner and activities and making sure everything is done and the kids are thriving and Charles has never wanted for anything else.

Pierre teaches him not to kill tomato plants and Ari teaches him the true meaning of forgiveness. Jessie makes him believe that he can do anything and so when Pierre looks at him while the two of them are driving home from another football game and says, “You ever thought about having a third?” Charles doesn’t hesitate to say yes.

“We’ll be ancient when they graduate.”

Pierre laughs and kisses the back of Charles hand like he always does and Charles could burst with love and affection and the feeling of it was all worth it.

So when they bring home their second daughter 14 months later, Charles sits on the couch with Jessie and Ari and Pierre and George stands across the room to take a series of pictures while tears stream down his face, Charles has to laugh when George says:

“This is definitely what I meant when I said you should do something for yourself.”

#piarles #maybe a future fic idk I just can't stop thinking about them #I love them #soulmates

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coriel-muroz · 8 months

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Household 20 - Jack is back and is furious when Jessica is around again

The household enjoyed having friends over for parties. To connect with new people, or to build work relationships, or to spend time with old friends.

Jimmy appreciated the party as being surrounded by people helped him ignore his stress over his sister's disappearance.

Beatrix was pleased her sister came. She worried Belinda spent too much time alone since Athena's death. Unfortunately, she wasn't good at bringing up her concerns.

Sometimes Belinda just wouldn't respond to her comments. But at least she didn't leave the party.

When Jack showed up, he couldn't believe that Jessica was there again!

This time, he told her exactly what he thought of her - she was a trashy home wrecker. Ruining his relationship with his wife.

Jessica wasn't about to put up with it, pointing out his own actions had caused Hazel to move out.

Beatrix, who has been heading to the hot tub, saw this fight and intervened.

When she pointed out to Jessica that Jack was not only going through a hard time with the separation, but also because his sister Mary Ann was missing, Jessica agreed to head home.and try to avoid Jack in future.

"My marriage was perfect, Beatrix. Maybe not the passionate love making nest you have here, but it worked for us." Jack was all worked up.

Beatrix let Jack rant a bit before convincing him to go inside. She wondered at all the flaws in his relationship that he refused to see. Would he and Hazel reconcile? Not without some major therapy.

Huntsville Revived #538

#huntsville revived #the sims 2 #household 20 #jimmy henderson #genevive lawson #household 18 #jack henderson #beatrix whitachre #belinda whitachre #jessica edison #ts2 #thesims2 #sims2 #sims 2

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thirtecnth · 3 days

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(Bryce Dallas Howard) THE MOON. Please welcome CAROLINE "CARRIE" KINGSTON (SHE/THEY) to Huntsville, WV. They are a 43-year-old RESIDENT who lives in TOWN. You may see them around working as an ARCHITECT. Poor unfortunate soul. We’ll see if they survive.

GENERAL

FULL NAME: Caroline April Kingston NICKNAMES: Carrie AGE: 43 years old DATE OF BIRTH: March 2nd SEXUALITY: Pansexual STATUS: Gatherer

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 5′ 7″ HAIR: Red EYE COLOR: Light Green

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: Huntsville, WV INCOME STATUS: High Class FATHER: Kingston MOTHER: Kingston SIBLINGS: Hope (Older), Christine (Twin) SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None HOBBIES: Art, Interior Design, Reading, Gardening, Dance

TRAITS

[+] Creative, Loyal, Comedic [-] Reticent, Soft, Clumsy

STORY POINTS

Life is a lot easier when you're born with your best friend. Carrie always had Christine and Christine always had Carrie.

They were around each other so often that it was easy to confuse the two of them. While it hurt Carrie in the beginning, both of them realized quickly that they could take advantage of it.

They played pranks on everyone. Some of them were a little mean but they were bored. Everyone would confuse them anyway so what was the point of being nice?

The only person who could tell them apart 100% was their older sister, Hope. She held the weight of their parent's expectations and she took good care of the twins. They respected her.

There was always some tension there but on a deeper level, the twins always cared about and would protect Hope no matter what.

Carrie always had a love of building and sketching. She'd spend her time in class doodling buildings on sitting and drawing city maps. She loved the design of them -- the intricate lines and hidden structures within the walls.

She knew instantly what she wanted to do when she and her sister made it to Europe for college... She wanted to be an architect.

It all became that much better when Christine decided to be her engineer. They could be a power duo for their entire lives and that was always what she wanted.

They studied diligently in Vienna and spent their off time living it up throughout the continent, experiencing everything they could get their hands on.

Eventually, they became very successful women. It was wonderful. They were doing great -- but their love lives took a bit of a toll.

Carrie met Irelia at a gala and they hit it off. Everything was so natural, so perfect, so sweet... Until she saw how smitten Christine was when she introduced the two of them.

She'd give up anything for her sister to be happy. Anything. Because she deserved it. Her happiness over her own every single time.

They got married and things were good! She had what-ifs stuck in her head every day since but Christine was so happy. It was worth it... Until one night, Irelia drunkenly kissed her instead of her sister.

Drunk herself, she figured it was a mistake. It had to be. It didn't help the what-ifs... But it couldn't happen again and her sister could never find out. It would break all that happiness she saw and she couldn't let that happen.

Months would go by but then they would banter and she would kiss her again. And again. And again. Every single time, it was the same. Carrie would say they couldn't do this and things would go back to normal again.

Until finally, after what seemed like the longest amount of time for Carrie, Christine was finally the one that Irelia hit on.

She wanted to say it was a complete relief that it was all finally over... But it wasn't. Her sister was inconsolable and Irelia was completely out of their lives. Even married to her sister, Carrie could at least see her. It was all over now.

Carrie honestly didn't believe she had to say anything about their past experiences. It was over now and Christine saw that she was cheating. That's all that mattered.

In her head, she believed she had done everything right in letting her sister believe that her marriage was perfect until that moment. That her sister was as perfect as Carrie believed her to be and the good memories would remain untainted.

The two of them moved to America after being commissioned for a huge project and figured it was time to check on Hope too. Time would go by without correspondence but not this much.

They returned to the town they had always been dying to leave and now were stuck there like everyone else.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

1. Owners looking for a business

2. Childhood Friends

3. Past Exes

4. Scorned people they play(ed) pranks on

5. Artist Friends

…More to come, I’m sure!

#carrie kingston.#carrie kingston. / intro #huntsvilleintro #...somehow i never posted carrie's bio??#i'm wild tbh

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shanneltarot · 2 months

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Is Love & Marriage Huntsville to blame for Keke Jabbar mentality before she passed?

In Reality TV Show Gossip: Is Love & Marriage Huntsville to blame for Keke Jabbar's mentality before she passed? The family is blaming the show & cast but was there a history of mental issues before the show? How to deal with mental stress after fame?

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#Keke Jabbar #love and marriage #Love and Marriage Huntsville #LAMH #tarot reading #trending #breaking news #mentalhealth #true crime #reality tv #reality show #Youtube

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prettyhennytea · 7 months

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Sheree Whitfield: Moving On and Ready for Love!

After her breakup from Martell Holt, star of "Love & Marriage: Huntsville," Sheree Whitfield is excited to embrace the single life and find herself a new man. We caught up with the fabulous 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star, and she shared some exciting details about her search for love.

"Since becoming single, I've been putting a lot of work into myself," Sheree revealed exclusively to Page Six through her rep, Chris Giovanni. "I want my future partner to be serious and bring value to all aspects of my life."

Seems like Sheree is definitely looking for something different this time around. In fact, she made it clear that she's on the hunt for a man with qualities that her previous partners locked.

"I'm seeking someone who is emotionally available and supportive," she explained. "It's important to me to find these qualities that were missing in my past relationships."

While Sheree and Martell are still friends, the reality star assured us that she's not involved in his personal life. "I am a single woman today," she confidently stated. You go girl!

Back in July 2022, Sheree confirmed that she was dating Martell after being introduced through a mutual friend. They were just enjoying each other's company and having a good time. However, her fellow 'RHOA' co-star, Kandi Burruss, had her doubts about Martell's intentions, expressing concern that he might be seeking publicly.

But Sheree is not letting anyone rain on her parade. She's focused on herself and ready to move forward. As she shared, "I don't want to be caught up in any mess."

In the end, Sheree's priority is self-love. She knows her worth and won't settle for anything less. "I really, really liked him a lot. But I like me more," she confidently declared during the RHOA Season 15 reunion.

We can't wait to see Sheree dive back into the dating world and find the love she deserves. Keep shining, Sheree!

#Sheree whitfield #love and marriage huntsville #rhoa #bravo #real housewives of atlanta #Martell holt #Melany holt #kandi burruss

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perezhilton · 13 days

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😢

#KeKe Jabbar

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blackmensuited · 4 months

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larashop · 8 months

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Swatch Irony Chrono YCS409 Cadmos, Swiss chronograph

#swatch #handsome #love & marriage: huntsville #men's fashion #sharp #style

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callofthxvoid · 3 months

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Please welcome IMOGEN GRIFFITHS (SHE/THEY) to Huntsville, WV. They are a 39-year-old VISITOR who lives in TOWN. You may see them around working as a CERAMIC ARTIST. Poor unfortunate soul. We'll see if they survive.

quick facts

Title: The Liberated

Name: Imogen Isolde Griffiths

Nickname: Griff (only by close friends)

Date of Birth: February 2, 1985

Age: 39

Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Hometown: Edmond, Oklahoma

Languages: English, French, Italian

Faceclaim: Natalie Dormer

Pronouns: She/They

Sexuality: Polyamorous Bisexual

Relationship Status: Divorced

personality

Myers-Briggs: ESFJ - The Consul

Enneagram: Type Two - The Helper (2w3)

Moral Alignment: Neutral Good

Occupation: Ceramic Artist

Role: Hunter

[+] affable, entrepreneurial, imaginative, generous [-] forceful, unpredictable, uninhibited, bourgeois

Character Inspirations: Astrid Leong-Teo (Crazy Rich Asians), Elizabeth 'Liz' Gilbert (Eat Pray Love), Emily Nelson (A Simple Favor)

background

TW: Infidelity

Growing up, there was nothing extraordinary about Imogen. She was an average girl next door, born into an average nuclear family, living in an average house with a white picket fence in an average suburban neighbourhood. Their parents were loving if a little old-fashioned, raising them to become someone who married into wealth, as opposed to someone who acquired their own wealth. They planned for her to attend college, but it was less about getting an education for a career, and more about finding a husband.

At college, she met a man from a prominent family and fell in love, marrying him after he graduated and dropping out of her own degree to become a full-time corporate wife. Their job was to support him, and they did that by keeping their home, by being in charge of their staff, and by planning their social calendar, making sure he went to the right events and met the right people there to network with. As a partnership, it worked well at first, but with time it became evident that was all it was—a business arrangement. She didn't mind that, but what she did mind was that she failed to feel as fulfilled by the life of a wife as she had been led to believe she would be, and the fact that he didn't seem to care how unhappy she was only made her feel more trapped. The handful of times that they tried to broach the topic of separation, they were met with adamant refusal, their husband's main concern being with the optics of divorce.

Things came to a head when she discovered that her husband was having an affair. At that point, Imogen knew that their marriage was over, but it was not because he had cheated on her—it was because she had felt relieved when she found out about it. Walking away with a small fortune due to the infidelity clause in their prenup, they were in the middle of starting over and figuring out what they wanted to do with their life when they met Ven Rawlins, joining him and his cameraperson Utena on the road.

She wound up putting her unfinished joint degree in Business Management and Communications to good use, becoming a mixture of a manager and a production assistant—handling the financial side of their operation and helping Ven build his channel into a sustainable business. Ironically, the same skills that had made them a good professional wife also made them a good networker and salesperson, allowing the three of them to take on bigger, more ambitious projects with higher risks.

They were on their way to their next adventure when they wound up in Huntsville. Imogen knows that Ven feels responsible, and while she doesn't love being trapped in a hell town, she can't find it in herself to regret how they got here. They know what it's like to simply exist without truly living—and they never, ever want to go back to that.

#bio: imogen #huntsvilleintro

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