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[madammuffins]

Max (at some point) is gunna be showing off around Bradley cuz they're frenemies but Brad gives him butterflies and he likes how Bradley mean-flirts in a way that makes the blood rush to his head and his ears ring.

So Max, being the mastermind that he is, will pull his shirt off to reveal his tattoos, make some overly confident comment.

Brad will roll his eyes. Point out the earrings, brow piercing, scar on Max's lip where he removed the old lip ring - no doubt due to old workplace dress code (and Max will get a thrill from how much attention Bradley has been paying him).

What Max won't expect is the bored way Bradley will begin unbuttoning his suit jacket as he's asking about the material of Max's earrings, loosening his tie as he's commenting on the detail and quality of Max's tattoos. Max drops his skateboard, can't feel his fingers, as Bradley begins to unbutton his shirt. Stops at the seventh button down. Opens it to bare his chest, revealing nipple piercings.

"14 carat black diamond. Lab grown, we don't support all that blood shit." He sniffs as he buttons himself back up. "Surgical grade titanium, of course." Brad catches the shock on Max's face. His haughty, shit eating grin almost snaps Goof out of it as he fixes his tie. "What?" He all but purrs. "Do you think you were the only one to get body modifications here?" Bradley tsks, picking his coat back up. Looking Max up and down slowly before turning to leave. "I didn't just stop at the chest either."

[eveandtheturtles]

"The Bath Tub Incident"

Pairing: Bayverse!Leo X You

Summary: A little mishap in your apartment ends with you needing to stay a bit with the brothers. They are curious what happened.

Rating: Strong T for some words and topic I guess lol

A/N: everyone mentioned are 20+ y.o.

A/N2: do you ever see a post on Tumblr and it is too fucking funny to not torment Leo with it? Here we go.

Tag train: @madammuffins @tinkabelle19 @leosgirl82 @sharpwindow @raphsmuneca @m1dnyt3-w0lf @pheradream-15 @kikithedreamerwriter @fyreball66 @dilucsflame33 @scholastic-dragon

"Hey, Leo?" Donnie looked at his eldest brother over the breakfast table.

"Yeah?" Leo replied then took a bite of his sandwich.

"Not that I have any business in it but I think we both are kind of wandering," Donnie took a glance at Mikey and Raph, who were now listening in like hawks. "And don't get me wrong I love your girlfriend, we all do..."

"Can you just get to the point?" Leo hated when Donnie was beating around the bush like that. He knew exactly where the genius bastard was going. He was mortified of the question but like, just get over it.

"Right, so how exactly did that bathtub brake?"

"Well, Donnie, as you said before it isn't-" Leo started, through his gritted teeth.

"We tried to have sex in it and we slipped," you cut him off.

Leo covered his face. Here it comes.

"I TOLD YOU!" Mikey jumped up banging hands on the table. He started silly dancing around the table. "I was right, I was right, oh yeah. Who's right? It's Mikey!"

Raph was too busy howling in laughter, while Donnie looked like the smuggest motherfucker on Earth.

"This is what I was trying to avoid!" Leo hissed to you.

You shrugged and stuffed your mouth with pancakes. "What were you going to tell them? That the Foot invaded my bathroom?"

The look on his face told you everything.

"Oh, my god!" You swallowed quickly not to choke on your food.

"I was going to stage things up a little!" He tried to defend himself.

"Like how?!"

"I don't know!" He threw his hands up.

Next to you Raph was crying laughing, his head on the table banding his fist on it.

"You ripped my shower fixture and bent my tub! You wanted to add more to the damage cost?!" You gaped at the audacity.

"It seemed like good idea at the time!" Leo hid his face in his hands. Hiding his shame.

"Y'all owe me 20 bucks!!" Mikey shouted from across the lair. His arms in the air. Hero posing.

"You are so lucky your dick snapped last night bc I swear to god-" You started and Leo made a whiny noise.

Donnie made a zoom on Leo's face. This was going into family archive of the most embarrassing breakfasts folder.

[keylakinktober]

Looking for a specific fanfic.

It's a rottmnt Donatello fanfic where he's a streamer using a very "detailed" turtle persona when in reality it's just him. I can't remember anything other then it was written beautifully and was still being written when I lost it a few month ago maybe a year or two ago I'm not sure I've got horrible sense of time.

Edit: Adding to this, it was an x reader fic where he interacted with the reader on his alt account bootyyyshaker9000 while his main streamer account that reader watched was Ryan von orthelo or however its spelt

Edit 2: it's been found! Ty for the help yall <3

Fanfic is called Therefore Love on wattpad written by MadamMuffins

[margoteve]

I'm curious, what inspired you to start writing in the first place? Was it something that you just always enjoyed or was it something you discovered you liked doing at some point in your life? 💜💜

Ty for asking;) this is probably a bit lengthy answer.

Well, I always enjoyed stories. I have dyslexia so when I got older and my mom stopped reading to me it got hard to focus on text and it was much easier to watch cartoons. I eventually got to go to therapy for reading and writing. Mom really had to fight for that to happen lol.

Then Harry Potter arrived to Poland (it was around the time of the 4th part). I got all 4 published parts for Christmas and I basically blasted through all 4 in a week. I am not sure but I may have been in grade 3 or 4 by that time???

I basically discovered that books have some magical stuff in them and I was voracious reader. (Lol neurospicy kids unite).

I still enjoyed cartoons and in particularly Biker Mice from Mars. One day watching an episode and a realisation struck me. I could write a book. I could put my silly ideas I had about characters on page. I didn't know back then what fanfiction was at the time lol. But my Polish language/homeroom teacher was encouraging and I realized I was actually good at it and once I started writing and I never stopped.

And then eventually also slowly switched to writing in English as I realized I could reach more people that way which also helped me learn the language. Then landing in with Megamind fandom really got me going;)

But I don't think I would be here where I am if I didn't get that therapy for dyslexia in the first place.

@tinkabelle19 @thelaundrybitch @raphsmuneca @m1dnyt3-w0lf @madammuffins @thoughtfulraven @cornistasiathecoblinking @followmetoyourdoom <3

[writinandcrying]

ALRIGHT BABES LISTEN UP

YES IM TALKING TO YOU READERS OF THE TMNT X READER / ROTTMNT X READER TAG

As you well known, the tmnt / rottmnt tag had a great hit during the pandemic (that’s how I got here in first place) more than 10 posts PER DAY being posted on those tags (it has heaven, I have several saved and fav authors that I could make a list of my all time fav stories and series if someone is interested) and during a dark time between 2021-2022, it hit its Great Depression

We lost some great content creators (hi loves, if so happens to you guys ever see this: it’s ok to move on from a fandom, just want to let you know you are contributed wonderfully to the tag and your work shall never be forgotten; at least not by me mwah mwah) with the rottmnt movie, the tag once again rose!! New content was posted on the tag! And rottmnt finally having more spotlight in it (thank god cuz the series is way underappreciated than it should be) but the tag is slowly declining to dark days again (not as bad as it used to be thank god but anyways)

With that being said!

Do you know when sometimes some authors deliver a link for ao3, and some of us bats an eye (aka me. I used to bat an eye to it. USED TO!!)

Well. Y’all gonna read this author work especifically:

This Angel right here (link and you will be directed to their ao3 page) they went out of their way to write a fic with TWENTY SEVEN chapters dedicated towards Donnie (I don’t even know how many to the other boys, but they are doing a series for each of them and if this isn’t pure dedication idk what it is) with more than TREE CHAPTERS ONLY TO SMUT

So y’all gonna sit your ass on ao3 and read that shit and y’all gonna LIKE IT.

P.s: if you are an author

*:･ﾟ✧ Hi there *:･ﾟ✧

Please feel free to post content however you like, I just wanted to give a special shout-out cuz I swear to GOD this user is doing gods work and no one is celebrating it ( which honestly? It should, here have your special praise baby @madammuffins )

And to baby authors or author who have trouble posting regularly- If you ever gets shy into posting new stuff here: this is a sign for you to do it, the corn bots are eating the tag up, and I swear I won’t be able to survive another content depression

Anyways, that’s it

Hope you guys have a great day, see ya!!!!

[pens-swords-stuff]

Congrats on surviving another level in this bitch-ass world (especially now that we're playing on world-wide survival mode apparently)!! Achievement unlocked: Birthday!

I absolutely love the way you phrased this entire thing, thank you so much!!!

[madams-fics]

Sorry the image is so...

Fucking large?

~☆~☆~

"He gave you a horse?"

Jaskier leans back on his golden steed, flaxen tail flicking angrily at the shift in weight on his back. "No."

"Then-" Fuck trying to speak to the bard was like trying to pull teeth. It was never this hard before.

"Rigal encouraged me to purchase a new horse after my last was wounded and passed on." Jaskier blinked hard, turned away.

"You-" Hell and damnation Geralt felt like a complete fucking asshole. "Multiple-?"

"As fun as trudging the entire lengths of the world after you was, it does get tiring being the slowest man on Earth." Jaskier's words were light, but his tone… so cold. "Most companions don't appreciate having to wait."

The silence that stretched between them was painful, awkward. Geralt couldn't let it end on that note.

"What did you name your last steed?"

Rigal leaned forward from beside Geralt, his own black gelding easily keeping pace. "Wasn't it Roa-"

"Roads!" Jaskier hollered too loud, neck and ears flushed even from this distance. "I named her Roads."

"Ahhh…" Rigal fell back in his saddle, "A bay named Roads?" Lips pursed as he exchanged a look with Geralt. "I don't think so. But I may be wrong."

But that was okay. Because Geralt knew.

He knew, and that was enough.

~☆~☆~

I just have a new hyperfixation and I’m okay, really. [No I’m not].

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If you want on the tag list let me know. It will be posted on Wattpad and Archive of Our Own once Fuselage and Black as Betrayal are finished.

Tag List: donovyn--nox

[madammuffins-redflags]

Red Flags

Genre- Romance, Supernatural

Rating- Adult

Content Warnings - Gore, Horror, Suggestive Elements, Violence, Mental Illness, Triggering Situations/Thought Processes, Domestic Abuse, Unhealthy Relationships

Zee is as old as the world! Probably. Maybe. She can’t really remember that far back, and time blurs together after a while. She does know that once humans started their witch hunts her kind moved to their own dimension, a pocket that mirrored Earth. Residing both beside and within it simultaneously. Magic in the mortal realm is faint and waning, but still her kind is common. Humans and “demons” and they’ve come to be called, are tightly woven together after all.

Zee’s special gift is amplification. Her job is to use her talent to grant mortals whatever their silly desires are for their short, pathetic lifespans in exchange for something her bosses want or need. It’s for magic. It essential to magic. It’s not just waning on one side of the coin anymore.

And then Abidan is born. The singular most accident prone human she has ever had the misfortune to lay her eyes on. Hilariously he also has the highest concentration of unadulterated magic dwelling within him since the Dark Ages; making his natural clumsiness all the worse - a natural magnet for everything foul. Every dark desire buried no matter how deep is brought to light around him, and Zee finds herself becoming a protector in her own twisted way. His guardian. His only constant, his companion… Until no longer can they tell who is relying on who and which one of them is tearing the other apart with their toxic version of love.

Characters (click names for character boards)

Zee - A demon with a contradictory color scheme she is absolutely the picture of power and s elf-assurance. When she finds herself falling for a weak mortal human her life quickly spirals both inwardly and with her own kind.

Abidan - The abuse he has suffered from a young age and the horrific things he has been exposed to has changed him to a sardonic, bitter man with a dry sense of humor. He keeps everyone at a distance - everyone but Zee.

Read on WattPad Here

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TAGS - Red Flags, redflags, Abidan, Zee, original novel, madammuffins, WIP

TAG LIST - @nemothesurvivor, @thelastoftheflyinggraysons,

[spacetimewraithwrites-archive]

I *love* your playlists! Omg. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank YOU ❤️❤️❤️!!!!! 😭

[extreme-technicality]

Have you been asked about your Bakugou headcanons/theories yet? Can I get a link/list summary? I was page stalki-SURFING and I couldn't find the things.

Oho. Ohohohohoho. No, I HAVENT been asked about them yet. Will I take this opportunity to explain, in great detail, every single one of them tho?

You bet your ass I am 3:)

(It’s all going under the cut tho, cuz I foresee this being hella long and I don’t wanna fuck up anyone’s dash)

Ok, so let’s start by getting the fairly popular ones out of the way:

1) Bakugou likes cooking and uses it as a way to destress. 2) He fucking hates the cold/winter in general3) He’s touch-starved as FUCK4) You can pry demisexual!Bakugou out of my cold, dead hands5) Because of the MASSIVE FUCKING EXPLOSIONS LITERALLY AN ARMS LENGTH FROM HIS EAR, boi is going deaf and as a result is learning JSL6) Boi gets nightmares And now, on to my more personal ones. • He and Camie are friends (well, him and the entire group who took the supplementary lessons are all friends, lbr) and he’d rather die than admit it• He gets up scary early in the morning, just to have some peace and quiet to himself. Baku does things like review his notes, go for a morning jog, and more recently he makes breakfast for the whole class on weekends• His closet in his parents’ house is far more diverse than the closet he has at UA. Part of it is that there’s just not enough room for it all, but he doesn’t see the need for a lot of fancy clothes taking up space when he’s only gonna need the workout gear and his lazy clothes. • In a similar vein, he’s got great fashion sense and Kirishima in particular makes him h u r t with his Crocs and his stupid bright patterned shirts and everything. He doesn’t say anything at first (cuz he has a reputation to maintain) but when he does, he says it LOUDLY. • Bakugou likes to keep his space organized. His room at his house has an All Might merch collection to rival Midoriya’s, but he brought almost none of it to UA. (The exception is his favorite All Might figurine, he’s a little superstitious about it and thinks it brings him luck.) His room is just about as normal-looking as Ojirou’s. For the first semester of dorm life, that is. • The next two years see an increase in little knickknacks and personal shit lying around: stuff from the Bakusquad, a framed photo of him and Kirishima hiking (taken by Masaru), scorch marks from when he wakes himself up from the nightmares, stuff like that. • He hates that Kaminari has a higher grade in English than he does• If he doesn’t understand an emotion or how to describe/quantify it, he completely avoids talking/thinking/wondering about it. Complete denial. Bakubitch has the mindset that “if I ignore the thing that doesn’t fit it’ll either go away or solve itself and I can keep focusing on being number one”. It’s a really, REALLY unhealthy mindset. Someone get him a therapist. • He texts with perfect grammar/punctuation• Thanks to Kaminari and Camie, he becomes fluent in Vine• Bakugou actually really likes kids! He just doesn’t exactly know how to relate to them (cuz he’s an 84-year-old man in a 16-year-old’s body lmaooo), but he legitimately wants to take care of them the best he knows how. • He’s one of those organized nerds with playlists to go with every single subject. (I’m actually working on making a general studying playlist for him to go along with Grumpy Cat, can’t remember if I said it here or not.) Likewise, he’s got certain highlighters for each subject (like yellow for English, pink for math, purple for hero history, etc. etc.) and his notes are #Aesthetic. Even Iida is jealous. • His music taste in general isn’t very varied though; mainly rock variations and the studying stuff (I’m making a general Bakugou playlist as well, I’ll link it eventually)• Yes he listens to MCR. Yes he’s unashamed of it. Yes he’ll blow your face off if you try and laugh at him for it. He also likes Green Day and LADYBABY. • Halfway through second year, he finally fucking apologizes to Midoriya for bullying him mercilessly for like ten goddamn years. That’s not a theory, or a headcanon, that’s a deadline. Horikoshi you have until summer of their second year for you to make Bakubitch apologize for telling Mido to kill himself. Do it, coward. • Speaking of middle school, Baku runs into his henchmen from then once when he’s out with the squad. They get pissy that he’s ““replaced”” them so easily, the squad leaps to his defense without missing a beat, Bakugou gets choked up and makes them all dinner with his characteristic bad grace. It’s adorable (also a oneshot I’ve been meaning to write for a while now lmaooo, might post it as a drabble later). • He interns with Miruko!!! Cuz that’s my whole ass wIFE right there and I want to see her interact with my son, also cuz they have really similar personalities and what with her being the number 5 hero, Bakugou has a lot he can learn from her. I think that’s it for now, if I think of any more I’ll add them in the reblogs. Thanks for giving me free rein to ramble my heart out!!! Damn, I should do this more often…

[sidhewrites]

@madammuffins replied to your photo: World Building. I got super carried away with the...

I honestly love this. I wish I could draw. I have a vivid image in my head of your dwarves and their lives now. So lively and clean! Which is pretty opposite what many people have their dwarves be, i think.

  it’s the antisemitism

no but really thank you so much <33 I really wanted to do something unique without straying too far from the idea of dwarves with beards in mountains, so I just took things and made them make sense

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship; Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit (slowburn)

Posted: Wattpad, AO3

Playlist

Updated

[eveandtheturtles]

Bayverse turtles (seperate) with a mutant reader who hibernates in the winter?

Leo

The first time it happens he is startled.

Like yeah, you mentioned that but he couldn't help but panic a little when you just wouldn't wake up.

It takes Donnie's expert opinion to calm him down.

"Don't scare me like that!" Is like probably first thing you hear when you wake up. Will not let go for a long time.

He reads to you while you sleep.

Has a warm cup of tea ready for you when you wake up.

Next time you plan VERY THOROUGHLY your hibernation and he has a dedicated spot in his room for you.

Both the knight and a dragon guarding you in your sleep. He will exact utmost revenge upon his brothers if any of them tries to wake you up.

Has to chase Donnie out of his room. He doesn't care that his bro wants to observe you for "scientific reasons". NO DISTURBANCES.

Gets Donnie to plan your meals before next Big Sleep so you have all the nutritions you need.

Mikey

Freaks out a bit like Leo when it happens. Mostly bc you probably did tell him about it but his ADHD brain forgot.

Whips you out THE BEST pillow fort for next time.

Hangs out around you all the time BC he misses you so damn much. When will you wake uuup he has so much stuff to tell you and show you!

Draws you when you sleep.

Makes you a feast both before you sleep and when you wake up. All your favourite food

Raph needs to sit his hyperactive ass down or he'd wake you up. Donnie needs to explain it is bad to mess your cycle like that.

After that he is super worried and hides his percussion in case that makes noise.

He still tells you everything at the end of the day.

He hides in the fort with you when he feels super low and needs to remember you are still there for him.

Wrote you a song when you slept.

Cuddles you so much when you are awake.

Raph

You will have the coziest nest to hibernate. He knits you blankets, pillows, socks, sweaters, scarves and anything you want.

He will sit by you and stroke your head waiting for you to wake up.

Doesn't talk much. He isn't a talker

"Took you long enough" he grumbles when you wake up and kinda just sags on you.

He missed your voice and your eyes looking at him.

Better return the favour of skritches. He missed the way you'd scratch his neck and head.

Then order your favourite take out, maybe cook something himself.

Carries you into the main part of lair "LOOK WHO IS UP!"

Will not leave your side after you wake up.

Like Leo he is bodyguarding you.

One time Mikey sneaked past him and you had some stuff drawn on your face.

Raph was pissed and Mikey had to hide from him for at least a week, cause it was on sight.

Raphie proceeded to clean your face as carefully as he could. No one disrespects you. Not even his brothers.

He makes sure you'd build your muscles/body mass quickly after waking up.

Donnie

You write him a statement allowing him to monitor you when you sleep.

He is super excited to know how your type of mutant works.

He preplans EVERYTHING.

It is a bit annoying when your boyfriend doubles also as a doctor bc he monitors everything to have clear data.

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT

After the first time you kind of revoke his permissions bc while you love him it was very tiring.

He calms down after that.

Like Mikey he has a pillow fort of sorts for you in his lab so he can spend as much time around you while you sleep as he can.

The pillow fort is covered with materials that cannot get set on fire. He made sure of it.

Oh and a forcefield just in case.

There's a big mug of coffee waiting for you when you wake up.

Still threatens everyone in the lair to cut off their WiFi if they dare to wake you up.

Gets Mikey to cook you a good, healthy meal but also throws in some of your favourite things in there as well.

When you sleep you are kind of like rubber duck for him to read his codes to find faults in them.

@turtle-babe83 @thelaundrybitch @m1dnyt3-w0lf @leosgirl82 @madammuffins @sharpwindow @tinkabelle19 @scholastic-dragon @dilucsflame33

[imaghostwriter]

Hey you bombshell! It's Madam Muffins dropping by to tell you congrats! I'm so excited for (and proud of) you! Out here killin' it! As per your competition request I guess the one thing I'm really proud of dight now is that even though my WIPs are old (older than my kids) I'm still working on them, finishing them. Some of them have great base ideas, even if the execution is *cringe*, haha!

sorry it took so long to get back on this, i had to help out my flatmates with some stuff

but look who it is! my favourite muffin, striking again. thank you, you beautiful bundle of broccoli ❤️❤️

one of the reasons why i love your url so much is actually because it has the nice, warm and yellow colour of custard which always reminds me of apple strudel for some reason. so i guess you could say you’re sweet through and through :D

[margoteve]

Early from trip

I present you my first drabble between my OC and Donnie, post the fic I am going to start posting later (probably next week).

I'm gonna tag @madammuffins

Rating: T

“Hey, Donnie, your girlfriend is in your room~” Mikey called from the ceiling as Donnie entered the main area, exiting his lab.

Donnie looked up surprised. He was mid tinkering with a new something - pocket capture cube. Still in Beta. 

Last time they talked Kara was supposed to be in Chicago for some academic conference. She hadn't mentioned coming earlier.

“Thanks!” Donnie placed the cube back in his lab and made his way to his room wondering what was this about that she just didn’t drop by the lab.

At his door he noticed two Post-It notes. One read: Lock the door behind you; the other: Do not turn on the light.

“Okay?” He said to himself, a but suspicious of what she was cooking up again. And maybe a little bit excited. He missed her.

He took the notes down and walked inside his room - which was really dark, did she do something... - and shut the door behind as instructed.

Suddenly, two red lightsabers lit up Kara’s figure. He noted the black, spaghetti strap dress with a thigh split and deep neckline that she was wearing. He licked his lips.

“Oh gosh.”

The red light illuminated her grin. She wiggled her eyebrows, tossed him one light saber and took on a battle stance. He caught the sword and mimicked her stance. It was on.

[inkovert]

For your ask game: vengeful.

Ooo I like it >:) I could’ve gone with another scene between Mira and Vince but I decided to use this one to showcase another oc of mine that I rarely talk about: 

“Cami, hang back a sec, would you?”

I swiveled around to meet Dawn’s smoldering green eyes. “I’ve barely taken two steps, Dawn, what could I possibly have screwed up so fast?”

She smiled, her head eerily tilting to the side. “Based on the details you included in your application, I’ve decided to assign you to another more important task.”

I watched her with a steady stare as she strode over to a table a few feet away. She set her hand down on two large cardboard boxes  stacked atop one another.

I nodded toward them. “What’s that?”

Her complacent smile persisted, making me uneasy. “These ” —she firmly pressed her fingertips on the lid — “are supplies for making signs for the carwash. Jaden’s supposed to be in charge of that, but he’s been out sick for the past few days. It appears he won’t make a full recovery in time for the event. I need someone to get started on them.”

Folding my arms across my chest, I shifted my weight to one leg. “Let me guess. I’m that lucky someone.”

“My, my, you are smarter than you look.” Her saccharine tone made my skin itch.

I acknowledged her comment with a condescending sneer. “I hate to break it to you, but I don’t do arts and crafts.”

She regarded me skeptically. “But on your application you put down that you were creative and artistic, right?”

I didn’t bother to ask how she remembered a thing like that. “Yes, but what I meant by that was I’m creative when it comes to problem-solving. I’m good with logic. And I only put down that I’m artistic ‘cause I used to play piano.” Something she already knew.

“I see.” Her eyes fell away to the floor, her tone dry and unimpressed. “Well, I’m sure you can find some way to combine those measly talents to help get the signs done.”

Uncrossing my arms, I walked over to the table and uncovered one of the boxes. It was packed with stencils, construction paper, markers — practically everything a third grader would need to carry out an art project. I sifted through the pile of supplies, holding up a few stencils for inspection. “How many signs do you need?”

“Seventy.“

I dumped the stencils back in the box. “What?”

“Give or take.” She added with a shrug, like that was supposed to make up for her obviously unreasonable request.

“I see, and is anyone else working on these with me or is this gonna be a fun solo project?”

She turned to survey the room at large. “Well, everyone else is already pretty deep in other projects at this point. I wouldn’t want to pull them away or it could cause a lot of confusion.” A gleam of mischief illuminated her face.

“What about the new guys? They’re not doing anything.”

“Their help is needed elsewhere,” she responded, not missing a step. “So I’m leaving things up to you. Have them done by Thursday.”

My thoughts stuttered. “That’s in two days. The carwash isn’t until Saturday.”

“Yes, but I need to approve them before Saturday. You’ll show them to me on Thursday and that way you’ll have enough time to correct anything I don’t like before the event.”

I fought to contain my annoyance. “I can’t get all this done by myself in two days.”

“Can’t? Or won’t?” Her tone sharpened and immediately my defenses went up. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but your application did say you were hardworking, diligent and enjoyed taking on whatever challenges were thrown at you. Don’t tell me those were all barefaced lies?”

My eyes narrowed to thin slits. She wanted me to make seventy signs in the span of two days with absolutely no help? It was unnecessarily excessive, not to talk of completely unfair.

While my eyes sent one message, my mouth delivered another. “You know what, Dawn? You’re right. I will enjoy this challenge, and whatever other challenges are thrown my way in the future.” I beamed.

“Glad to hear it." 

Leaning against the table behind me, I spoke to her retreating figure. "I’m not sure what game you’re trying to play here, but just so you know memorizing my application just so you can use it against me is a little pathetic.”

She paused and her head raised ever-so-slightly at my comment. Glancing over her shoulder, her face remained unfazed as she said, “And just so you know, the signs are the most important part of the carwash. No signs, no advertisement. No advertisement, no money.” The corner of her red lips lifted. “It would be a shame if someone were to screw that up.”