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New Comic Book Releases - 5/24/23

If you're not familiar with where to go to find comics you can use this locator. Let's go ahead and take a look at what's out this week. 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Mateo had to collect something he’d left at Spencer’s bar a few nights ago. Things were easily forgotten when he had to rush off somewhere. When Mateo had time to spare he’d end up here   because time was precious and he was trying to do better. He didn’t want his relationship ending up like the last....something that caused him avoidance to get involved with someone again. After grabbing what he had left behind he was going to head out, although he stopped noticing a familiar face.  Someone whom he met when he just got into town...and he might have flirted with her. Now he thought about it, well, it would look bad because he was going to take her out and then he never showed up. ‘’Hey...’’ This was going to be awkward because now he was faced with the woman he was going to take out on a date....in his girlfriend’s bar. ‘’I know I said I’d buy you a drink.’’ Now they happened to be conveniently in a bar. He needed a drink himself to get through this but he sort of laughed it off. ‘’But...right now? I don’t think my girlfriend would be happy if she saw me sat with you. In her bar...’’ 

@splinteredsinner

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how the potter’s stole christmas

summary: the potter children are surprised to see santa is not really who they thought he was

warnings: none, just james potter and his wife traumatising their children

word count: 691

a/n: IDK WHAT THIS IS BAHSHAHA BUT ENJOY <3

the potter household is pitch black, the only light coming from the christmas lights around the christmas tree.

mateo and leo tiptoe out of their bedroom, trying to be as quiet as possible so as to not alert their parents.

“hurry,” leo whispers, pushing mateo along.

“don’t push me!” he whispers back, pinching him in the arm then quickly placing his hand on leo’s mouth to muffle his whimper.

“m’gonna tell mummy,” he says, walking down the stairs and holding tightly to the ballisters.

they head for the couch and hide behind it, having a perfect view of the chimney and the tree.

“she’ll know you were up and she’ll punish you,” mateo smirks, raising his eyebrows for effect. “now shush ‘n pay attention.”

with a grumble, leo kneels beside his brother and peeks his head around the couch. they wait in silence for a few minutes, their eyes drooping with sleep with each tick of the clock.

suddenly, there’s a commotion coming from the kitchen. they hold their breath as boots creak on the floorboards, a man wearing red and carrying a big sack making his way to the tree.

“santa!” both boys gasp and cover their mouths with their hands. their eyes are wide as they follow his movements, watching in awe as santa opens the bag and takes out big boxes. he hums a christmas carroll as he places the gifts under the pine leaves.

neither leo nor mateo can believe that they’re actually seeing santa claus with their own eyes. they’ll have to tell their parents tomorrow!

a clicking sound catches everyone’s attention, the brothers looking at each other in confusion when another person walks into the room.

she’s wearing a red a-line dress that ends a little above the knee, white fur on the hem of the skirt and the sleeves. she has a christmas hat on, and she’s holding up a smaller bag, heading for the chimney and plucking one of the stockings off the mantle.

leo taps mateo on the arm excitedly, “mrs claus!”

“i don’t know why you insist on wearing these costumes,” mrs claus says, rolling her eyes in exasperation.

hold on… they know that voice. it’s their mum.

“it’s part of the fantasy!” santa— their dad— exclaims.

their mum fills up the stockings with candy, leaning against the wall to wait for their dad. “you didn’t even put on the beard,” she laughs.

james gets on his feet and takes the plate of cookies the kids left for santa before bed. “it’s itchy, okay?! besides, what if the kids came down and saw someone in pyjamas leaving their presents instead of santa?”

oh, the horror.

“should’ve come through the chimney, then,” she taps his nose.

james scrunches it, pinching her side until she squeals. “don’t be a grinch,” there’s a smile on his face, and he takes a bite off one cookie.

she reciprocates the smile, taking a bite off herself when he offers the cookie to her. james leans one hand on the wall next to her head, caging her between it and his chest.

she runs her hands all over his chest, giving james’ shoulders a squeeze before linking her fingers behind his neck. “just telling it like it is, mr.clause.”

james smirks, pushing one leg between her legs so that they separate. he cups her cheek, forcing her to look up to him. “you should watch your mouth, mrs clause. if not, you might just find some coal under the tree f’you this year.”

“coal, hm? did i not make the nice list?” she asks sweetly, batting her lashes innocently.

the brothers look at each other and take this as a sign to escape. they scramble to the stairs on their tiptoes, pushing each other to reach the safety of their room, but they still manage to catch the end of the conversation.

“y’re number one in the naughty list, actually,” james says lowly, his lips hovering over his wife’s. he grinds her hips along his thigh, his body tingling when he hears her soft moan. “but don’t worry, honey, i’m sure y’can make it up to me.”

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Merrily Ever After (Branjie) - Kiki

Summary: Brooke and Vanessa are trying their best to have the most magical Christmas ever, but married life and three young kids make it slightly challenging. No drama, just fluffy Christmas vibes. 

A/N: To the small handful of people who still read Branjie in 2021, merry Christmas lmao 

This is technically part of a Christmas series that I wrote last year but can definitely be read alone. The ao3 link for the previous 3 parts is here:  https://archiveofourown.org/works/28198815/chapters/69099264 

December 2nd:

  If you had asked Brooke Lynn Hytes and Vanessa Mateo to describe what their future together would look like, this definitely wouldn’t be the first idea that entered their mind. Ten years ago, they had just gotten back together and had gotten engaged pretty quickly after that. They got married as soon as they possibly could, had the most perfect wedding and were so in love that their friends often made fun of them for it whenever they were around them. Brooke imagined that she would be one of the head partners in her legal firm and would eventually start working part-time so she could spend more time travelling the world with her beautiful wife. Vanessa thought they might have a kid or two and live a relaxing life in a gorgeous house that they owned, where she could still work on her clothing designs from home but more importantly to her, could focus on being a fulltime mom too.

  What they failed to imagine was that they would be at their local mall waiting in line for three hours to see Santa at the beginning of December with three young children, who seemed like they would rather be doing anything else other than waiting. They had adopted the twins – Lucia and Lina – when they were babies and they were now eight years old. Four years later they adopted Leo - who in Vanessa’s mind was the cutest little baby boy she had ever laid eyes upon - and their family finally felt complete. Vanessa loved her kids and she loved Christmas so every year, she was determined to make sure that they had the best Christmas ever. She wanted them to be able to look back on their childhoods and remember all the fun times they had at Christmas time and she hoped that they would grow up loving the holidays as much as she did.

  Brooke Lynn on the other hand had never hated her life more than she did in that moment and wanted nothing more than to go home. She agreed with Vanessa, she wanted her kids to have the most magical Christmas memories that they would be able to look back on for their entire lives…she just didn’t think that needed to be done in a busy mall with hundreds of screaming kids. She couldn’t even complain about the screaming kids in question considering one of them was her own.

  “Leo I swear to God, I will tell Santa to put you on the naughty list if you don’t quiet down!” Brooke whispered furiously, not wanting to draw attention from the other parents in line as she scolded her son. There were velvet ropes all around them to keep everybody in line and Leo had decided he would swing out of them to keep himself amused whereas Brooke was about to have a nervous breakdown if he didn’t stop it immediately. He had also decided to yell about how bored he was and how much he hated waiting and whilst Brooke agreed with him, the headache she could feel coming on didn’t need to hear about it every few seconds.

  “Brooke that’s a serious threat, you can’t just go around saying things like that, especially when Santa is so close”, Vanessa joked and laughed under her breath when she saw how miserable her wife looked. She took Brooke’s hand in hers and squeezed it gently, trying to comfort her before she got even angrier. “It’s gonna be over soon, babe. We’re almost at the top of the line and then we can go home.”

  Brooke took a deep breath, rubbing her thumb against Vanessa’s hand in response and had to laugh at her wife’s attempt to comfort her – it sounded like something she would have to say to the kids, not her wife, but it worked. Brooke just focused on the fact that when they got home she could relax with a glass of wine and put this trainwreck of a day behind them. It was Vanessa’s turn to cook dinner that night and Brooke loved her wife’s cooking more than anything, so maybe the day had potential to get better. She looked down at the twins, Lucia was sitting on the ground reading one of the many books she had borrowed from the library and Lina was watching Tiktok dance videos on Brooke’s phone. Brooke didn’t understand the app at all but as long as it kept her daughter quiet and entertained, she was happy.

  The twins were identical in looks but completely different personality wise. Lucia was the exact same as Brooke had been when she was a child. She always got good grades, was a perfectionist, loved ballet class and was always reading. Brooke and Vanessa were convinced that they didn’t need to get her any Christmas gifts as nothing made her happier than her monthly trip to the library. She was a lot quieter than Lina and found it a lot more difficult to make friends than Lina did. Lina could walk into a room and become best friends with everyone in a matter of minutes. She was always talking and could very rarely sit still, constantly wanting something to do to keep her occupied. She was a bit like Vanessa in that way, Brooke thought. Despite all of the twin’s differences, they were still the best of friends and it melted their parent’s hearts to see them always getting along. Brooke had to remind herself of the cute moments when the kids were testing her patience, especially now.

  “Mom, what is Gmail?” Lina asked, holding Brooke’s phone up to her. Brooke immediately noticed that the screen was displaying an email to one of her most important clients, with nothing but a Tiktok link in the subject line.

  “Lina, what did you do?” Brooke screeched as she snatched the phone from her daughter, trying to assess the damage. She clicked the link and it was a dance tutorial for a song in Spanish, Brooke didn’t know the song but she really didn’t care about that right now. She quickly sent off another email to the client explaining that her daughter had sent it by mistake and apologised way too many times than was necessary. As she locked her phone and put it in her pocket, she looked down to see Lina with tears in her eyes.

  “I’m sorry mom, I was just trying to send the video to mamá so we could learn the dance later, I didn’t mean to mess up.” Lina choked out in between sobs and Brooke immediately calmed down, not wanting her daughter to be upset. Brooke wrapped her arms around her daughter and hugged her tightly, not able to stay mad at her.

  “Lina, baby, it’s okay. I know it was an accident, you don’t have to cry, okay? Look, we’re almost at the front of the line and you can’t meet Santa with tears in your eyes, can you? Do you know what present you’re gonna ask him for?” Brooke spoke to her daughter so sweetly and Vanessa smiled, laughing at how whipped Brooke was for their kids. She always acted like she was the tough parent but as soon as one of them started to cry, they had Brooke wrapped around their little finger – anything they had done was instantly forgiven.

  The grumpy looking teenager dressed as an elf motioned to them that they were next to meet Santa and Vanessa was more excited than the kids. The three children walked up slowly and Brooke swore she had never seen Lina look so shy before – there was nothing like the promise of gifts to make a kid quiet and well behaved. Vanessa basically had to have the conversation with Santa on behalf of the girls as they suddenly were unable to say anything other than tell Santa their names and say “thank you” when he finished speaking to them. Leo didn’t seem to have the same problem as his sisters and confidently stated that he would like a python for Christmas, as well as a cage so that he could keep it in his room. Brooke and Vanessa wished he had never opened his mouth.

  “Absolutely not, Santa is getting you that train set that you already asked for. Isn’t that right, Santa?” Vanessa cut her son off immediately before he could get any further in asking for more reptiles. There was no way in hell she would be letting one of them into her home. The man with the white beard slowly nodded and agreed with Vanessa that Leo would have much more fun with a train set. Brooke had to hold in her laughter as Santa agreed with his wife, knowing that if he had even tried to disagree, it wouldn’t have ended very well for him.

  They took some pictures of the kids with Santa, Vanessa directing it like it was a photoshoot. Once she was satisfied that she got a picture with all three at least looking in the direction of the camera with their eyes open, they left and the next family took their place. Vanessa insisted on getting hot chocolates for the ride home and since Brooke couldn’t deny her wife anything, that’s exactly what they did. As soon as all of the kids were sitting comfortably in the car and had their seatbelts on, they were ready to go. As Brooke drove away from the mall, Lucia spoke up.

  “I never want to wait in a line that long again.” She stated firmly, like nothing could change her young mind.

  “I agree, Lu. Never again.” Brooke agreed with her daughter as Vanessa turned around in her seat, speaking to her daughter directly.

  “What if we go to Disneyland one day, Lucia? How are you gonna get on any of the rides if you won’t wait in line?” Lucia’s eyes opened wide in realisation at her mamá’s words because she knew she was right. Vanessa turned back forward in her seat to catch Brooke rolling her eyes. Vanessa giggled and Brooke rolled her eyes again at the fact that she had been caught, but smiled softly at their shared secret. They were surprising the kids with a trip to Disneyland in March as part of their Christmas present. It had taken an extremely long time for Vanessa to convince Brooke to agree to it but Brooke had to admit that she was excited. Vanessa had been planning it for months now and she was so excited to see her kid’s reactions to all of the different parks and their favourite characters, but deep down a part of her was excited to see just how much her wife was going to have to pretend like she didn’t want to cry whilst waiting in lines. Her wife’s face whilst waiting for Santa today had proved her point and she was way too excited to laugh at her pain. She turned on the radio to a station that was playing Christmas music and took out her phone, continuing to order presents for the kids so that they would get delivered on time.

  Brooke looked out at the road ahead of them and smiled softly. Before she had met Vanessa, Christmas was just considered as a day off work for her. As a kid, she never liked it that much as she had to spend the day in whatever ugly and uncomfortable outfit her mother had picked out for her. The day was also usually spent in her grandparent’s house and most of her memories of Christmas as a child involve being bored. As the music played on the radio, she took a peek in the rear-view mirror and melted – the three kids were fast asleep, Leo’s head resting on Lina’s shoulder.

  She couldn’t believe that Vanessa had changed her life so much in such a short space of time. She had grown up with such a different plan as to what her life should look like and now all of that had changed. She knew that all she needed to be happy was Vanessa, her kids and her cat Thackery. Maybe getting another couple of cats would make her happier, she knew she would have to work hard to convince Vanessa of that one. But as far as Brooke was concerned, her life was perfect. There was nothing she would rather be doing than celebrating Christmas with her family and that was a fact.

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  Later that evening, they arrived home and everyone started to feel more relaxed. Everyone but Vanessa. Allowing the kids to sleep for the entire journey home was probably a foolish mistake but neither Brooke or Vanessa had it in them to wake them up. They were now full of energy and were running around the house playing some new game they had invented.

  Brooke was trying to get them to settle down so they could get changed out of their clothes and into their pyjamas. She wanted to put them down on the couch in front of the TV and let a Christmas movie entertain them for 90 minutes so they could calm down a little bit before bedtime. All Vanessa saw, however, was potential for disruption to her precious Christmas decorations.

  “Brooke I’m not joking, if they break something I will cry.” Vanessa stated in a very serious tone, pleading with her wife to back her up on this one.

  “Guys, come on. Remember how hard we all worked making the house look super pretty for Christmas, we can’t ruin it, okay?” Brooke spoke directly to the kids as she picked Leo up and carried him as far away from the Christmas tree as humanly possible. He had decided that crawling underneath it and shaking the branches would be a fun thing for him to do and the thought of the tree ornaments breaking was making Vanessa want to scream.

  She had a flashback to two weeks ago when all of the new decorations she ordered had finally arrived. They had all gone to pick out the perfect Christmas tree (the kids didn’t seem to care and just wanted to get back in the car because of how cold it was) but Vanessa was bursting with excitement to get home and start decorating. She had failed to remember that the standards of three young and hyperactive children wouldn’t match her decorating standards and had to redo the entire tree once the kids had gone to bed to make it perfect. Thankfully they didn’t notice that the entire thing had been changed, she would’ve felt bad if they did.

  Brooke had to sit her down and have a serious conversation about letting her standards of perfection go because with three young kids, they were unattainable.

  “I know you want it to look like a Winter Wonderland in here babe, but it’s just not realistic. Leo can’t even keep his room clean for more than thirty minutes and the girls are obsessed with anything that sparkles or has glitter on it,” Brooke chuckled as she rubbed her wife’s back, her arms wrapped around her as she tried to comfort her and calm her down at the same time. “The house looks absolutely beautiful, you did an amazing job, but I think we just have to remember that it’s not gonna stay perfect the entire time. We can always bring it back to how it was if it starts to get a little messy, right?” Vanessa nodded at Brooke’s words and removed herself from Brooke’s embrace so she could look her in the eyes.

  “You know that sounds hypocritical as fuck coming from the bitch who had a breakdown last week when she sent a document to a client where the font was a size 13 instead of size 12, right?” Vanessa laughed and Brooke rolled her eyes as her wife brought up the memory that was definitely not one of her finest moments.

  Memories of Brooke comforting her were always some of Vanessa’s favourites to replay in her mind when she was feeling stressed or overwhelmed. She knew that no matter what life threw at her, she would always have Brooke. Brooke would always be there to hold her and whisper in her ear while she cried or to help her focus on her breathing when she was stressed -- and nothing made her happier than remembering that. It was as if Brooke could read her mind as when the kids were finally sitting down on the couch watching the Grinch and Vanessa had just started making dinner, Brooke appeared in the kitchen doorway to check in on her wife.

  It was only then that Vanessa looked down at Brooke’s hands to see what she was holding – the small bit of mistletoe that Brooke loved to keep hanging on their bedroom door during the holiday season. She would take it down all the time and use it as an opportunity to get extra kisses from her wife (it’s not like Vanessa was ever going to say no), particularly when she felt that Vanessa wasn’t feeling her best. Vanessa just thought it was cute.

  Brooke pecked her wife on the lips and wrapped her arms around her from behind while Vanessa kept stirring the sauce she was making. They stood in silence for a while before Vanessa’s mind started to wander.

  “Where’s Thackery?” she asked, feeling Brooke shrug her shoulders from behind her.

  “I’m not really sure, he’s probably napping. But don’t worry, he’s definitely here somewhere,” Brooke’s tone of voice sounded like she was hiding something and Vanessa needed to know what. Vanessa swiftly turned her head and raised one eyebrow at Brooke, asking her to elaborate. “He may have ripped a couple of the stockings down from the fireplace but don’t worry, I fixed it.” Vanessa rolled her eyes and couldn’t help but laugh at Thackery’s behaviour, he was 11 years old now and still acted like a little kitten.

  “Which one’s did he take down?”

  “Lila’s and your nephews. Everyone else’s escaped the damage.” Vanessa’s sister and her two nephews were coming to spend Christmas with them so naturally, Vanessa decided to get them their own stocking so they didn’t feel left out. She knew the fireplace looked a bit crowded and clearly Thackery thought the same if he felt that it was necessary to rip some of them down. Brooke gave her wife one last kiss before going to find the cat, making sure that he didn’t do any further damage.

  Vanessa added some pasta to a pan of boiling water and returned to her sauce, tasting it to see what she needed to add more of. In the distance, she could hear Brooke yelling at the kids to be quiet while they watched their movie and the kids not caring at all, continuing to be as loud as they were before. She couldn’t wait for dinner to be ready so she could go and join them.

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  December 15th:

  Staring at the giant mountain of kids toys in front of her, Vanessa knew she had made a mistake. And that mistake was telling Brooke that she wanted to take care of the kids presents by herself without any help from Brooke.

  In theory, it had seemed like a fun thing to do. She was looking forward to sneakily interviewing the kids to see exactly what they wanted, making lists and shopping for them. Brooke was more than happy to let Vanessa do it herself, toy stores not really being a place she wanted to spend her free time in, but Vanessa regretted her decision now more than ever.

  It was now Saturday morning and with Brooke at home, Vanessa thought this was the perfect time for Brooke to keep the kids occupied while she locked herself in her design room and started to wrap the presents. The only problem was that she couldn’t remember where she had put a lot of them.

  Vanessa saw a lot of her own personality traits in her children. Leo was mischievous, Lucia was a perfectionist. But when Vanessa reminisced on her own childhood, she couldn’t help but notice that Lina behaved the exact same way that Vanessa had when she was her age, which is exactly why Vanessa always had to be one step ahead of her. At nine years old, Vanessa had already discovered all of her mom’s hiding places and knew exactly what she was getting for Christmas before December had even begun. Vanessa knew she had to get inventive with her hiding places and that is exactly what she had done…and they were good hiding places. So good that Vanessa couldn’t remember where she had put some of the stuff.

  Vanessa didn’t want to admit defeat but she finally admitted to herself that not letting Brooke help out was a big mistake. She texted her wife, who was probably in their living room playing whatever game their kids had invented that week, and asked for help. Immediately, Vanessa could hear Brooke’s footsteps coming up the hallway and when Brooke opened the door, the last thing she expected was to find her wife sitting on the floor surrounded by, what seemed to be, fifty different kinds of kid’s toys.

  “V…what’s going on?” Brooke asked her wife as she sat down opposite her, trying to understand the situation.

  “I should be more like you, Brooke.” Vanessa stated with a sad tone to her voice.

  “What?”

  “You would have made a list. You wouldn’t have forgotten your hiding places. I literally lost some of the kids Christmas gifts because I can’t remember where I put them. Who does that? Who hides something and doesn’t remember where they put it? You would’ve made an Excel spreadsheet with everything’s location written down and I can’t even remember where I put them and—” Brooke cut her wife’s rambling short by putting her hands on Vanessa’s cheeks and telling her to breathe. After Vanessa’s breathing stabilised a bit, Brooke held her in her arms so that Vanessa’s head was resting on Brooke’s chest.

  “Babe, I know that our house is much bigger than the apartments we used to live in but…it’s not a mansion. It’s not possible for you to lose these gifts, have you even looked for them?” Brooke asked as she looked down to find Vanessa with a guilty look on her face.

  “…no. I just panicked when I didn’t immediately remember,” Vanessa sighed and wrapped her arms around Brooke’s waist even tighter. “I’m just so stressed out, B. I really want the kids to have the most magical Christmas this year. They’re at the perfect ages for it, soon they’re gonna grow up and stop believing in Santa and it’s not gonna be as magical for them anymore. I wanna make it really special while it still counts.”

  “V, you could give Lucia a new book, let Lina go on your phone for an hour and give Leo a cardboard box to play in and they would all think it was the best Christmas ever. Everything here is just a bonus. Don’t beat yourself up because there’s a small problem, I’ll help you find everything and it will all be okay,” Brooke kissed her wife on her forehead when she suddenly had an idea on how to cheer her up. “I think you should go and get dressed, there’s something we need to do right now.”

  Brooke immediately stood up and grabbed her phone from her pocket, sending off a text as she walked out of the room. She left Vanessa with a confused look on her face but she decided to just accept whatever mysterious plan her wife had come up with. She went to go get dressed and put some makeup on, not being able to hold back her smile as she knew she was going to spend the day with her favourite person.

  One hour later, their best friend Nina was at their door with arts and crafts supplies in her hand. The kids loved when Nina was babysitting. They always got to make fun things and she always brought the snacks that they loved. Brooke and Vanessa never had any issue leaving their kids with Nina as they trusted her more than anyone to take good care of their babies.

  They got in Brooke’s car and after ten minutes of Vanessa trying to guess where they were going, Brooke decided to finally let her in on the secret.

  “When you made your list of everything you wanted to do as a family for Christmas, what was the one thing I said no to?” Brooke asked and Vanessa immediately began racking her brain trying to remember her list. There was visiting Santa, picking out a real Christmas tree, going to see the lights in the city and…ice skating. Brooke had said no to ice skating as soon as she saw it on her list and while Vanessa was sad she wouldn’t get to complete her entire list, she understood why. Leo was accident prone at home, let alone when he was on ice with a big blade attached to his feet. Brooke said it would be in the interest of everyone’s safety to keep that kid off the ice rink, at least until he was a teenager and Vanessa had to agree.

  “There is no way Brooke Lynn Hytes is taking me ice skating right now.” Vanessa said in disbelief but also full of excitement. Brooke’s idea of fun was…well, anything but this and the fact that she was taking her out on her day off to do this meant so much to Vanessa.

  “Of course we are. You didn’t think I’d let your list be incomplete, did you?,” Brooke winked at her as she pulled into a parking space. “When was the last time you went ice skating?”

  “Uh…never?” Brooke looked at her in shock and couldn’t help but laugh.

  “So you wanted to bring our children ice skating for the first time…even though you have never done it before yourself. Do you have a death wish?” Brooke asked sarcastically and it was Vanessa’s turn to roll her eyes.

  “I figured since you’re Canadian, you’d be really good at it and could teach us all,” Vanessa replied as she took her seatbelt off and they got out of the car to start walking towards the ice rink. “If that little kid out there can do it, then how difficult can it be?”

  The answer to her question was that it was very difficult. Vanessa had fallen on her ass twice and did not appreciate Brooke laughing when it happened. Just as she was about to give up and walk off (or more likely, crawl off) the rink, she started to get the hang of it. Brooke was skating backwards so that she could hold Vanessa’s hands and pull her forward but soon enough, she didn’t need the help.

  They were skating side by side at quite a slow pace, so slow that kids were zooming past them, but Vanessa was very proud of herself. She thanked Brooke for saying no to doing this activity as a family because Jesus Christ, if Vanessa was falling on her ass, the kids would have had no chance.

  They decided to stop when it started to get extremely cold. Vanessa wanted to get a coffee to warm up but Brooke said no.

  “We’re not going home yet, babe. We still have one more place to go.” Vanessa wondered where they could be going. They drove for about ten minutes and as soon as Brooke turned onto the street, Vanessa knew exactly what Brooke’s plan was.

  Eleven years ago, they met at a club for their friend Detox’s birthday party. Since then, the club had been shut down which had upset both of the women, but it had been replaced by a beautiful restaurant that they had grown to love. They went there every year on their wedding anniversary and clearly, Brooke knew how much Vanessa needed a magical moment like that to cheer her up. She saw her wife working so hard to create perfection for everyone else that she figured it was the least she could do to give back to her a little bit.

  They ordered the same thing that they did every time they went there – Brooke got a steak and Vanessa got seafood pasta. They decided to get a taxi home and shared a bottle of white wine and Vanessa had never been happier. Just a couple of hours ago she was crying on the floor and now she was in one of her favourite places with her wife. As if things couldn’t get any better, Brooke had another small surprise for Vanessa.

  “I might have kept note of every hiding place you told me about and wrote it down…just in case you did forget. Not that I didn’t have faith in you, it’s just a lot to manage and—” Vanessa shut her wife up by leaning across the table and planting a kiss on her lips.

  “I fucking love you so much, do you know that? You have saved my ass big time, thank you so much!” Vanessa felt like all of her worries were just melting away and Brooke was to thank for that. They went home shortly after, Vanessa resting her head on Brooke’s shoulder the entire way home. She was so content after spending the day with her and after seeing the beautiful surprise that Brooke had pulled off for her, it made her even excited for Christmas morning so she could return the favour with a surprise of her own.

  Brooke had been begging her all year to get another cat and all year long, she had lied and said that she didn’t want one. Well, technically it wasn’t a lie…Vanessa didn’t want one, she wanted two. The kittens – Henry and Apollo – were waiting in the shelter until Christmas Eve, where she would take them to her sister’s house for the night so Brooke wouldn’t be suspicious. Then when Alexis and the two boys came over in the morning, she would surprise Brooke with the kittens.

  Vanessa couldn’t wait for the two tiny new additions to their family but more importantly, she couldn’t wait to see Brooke’s face.

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  December 24th:

  It was 10pm and Brooke’s hands were stinging from the amount of papercuts she had. They had been wrapping presents for the last hour and arranging them under the tree so the kids would know that Santa had visited. They had even gone to the trouble of precisely nibbling on the carrots that were left out for the reindeers, just to make it all more believable. It was crazy what parents would do to keep their sceptical 9-year-olds believing in the magic of Christmas for as long as they possibly could.

  “Next year can we hire someone to wrap all of this crap? My hands are about to fall off.” Brooke said dramatically and with the look she earned in response from her wife, she knew the answer to her question was “absolutely not”.

  “The smiles on their faces in the morning will be worth your busted hands, I promise.” Vanessa replied, trying and failing to contain her excitement.

  Vanessa always thought that Christmas Eve was more fun than Christmas Day – it’s a day full of excitement and preparation and always spent with family. In the afternoon, they decorated Christmas cookies and they loved to see how differently their kids approached it. Leo picked the brightest colours of icing he could find and slathered them onto the cookie without thinking twice. Lucia spent her time meticulously drawing faces onto the snowmen cookies and drew perfect little designs on the snowflakes, whereas Lina chose to use pink icing and didn’t switch to any other colour for the entire time. She also added a lot of sprinkles and edible glitter.

  That night, they all got changed into the matching Christmas pyjamas that Vanessa had bought them (she had to convince Leo that Santa would give him an extra present if he wore the same outfit as his older sisters) and naturally, she made them have a family photoshoot.

  Vanessa uploaded the pictures from her photo to her laptop and sat with the twins who giggled at each picture. There was always one person who ruined the picture – Leo had his eyes closed, Lucia wasn’t smiling, Lina was rolling her eyes, Brooke was looking at Vanessa instead of at the camera. But there was one perfect picture amongst all of the other ones and it was already Vanessa’s favourite picture she had ever taken. She couldn’t wait to hang it up in their living room and look at it every single day.

  Thirty minutes later, they finally finished with all of the wrapping. They decided that checking on the kids to make sure they were actually asleep was a good idea, considering how excited they were when their parents tried to put them to bed earlier.

  Lucia and Lina were fast asleep, both sleeping with their unicorn stuffed animals. Brooke knew they were growing up super quickly and that they would probably grow out of sleeping with stuffed animals, but she hoped it wouldn’t be anytime soon. It was so adorable how they still clung onto the same toys that they had when they were babies every time they went to sleep. Leo was also in a deep sleep in his own bedroom. Thackery was asleep at the end of his bed so they quickly closed the door and left before they disturbed them and woke them up.

  Vanessa dragged Brooke back to the living room so they could continue another one of their Christmas Eve traditions – watching a Christmas movie. Vanessa had already decided they would be watching Love, Actually and Brooke had no choice but to agree. They cuddled up on the couch, Vanessa assumed her favourite position of wrapping her arms around Brooke’s waist and resting her head on Brooke’s chest. She felt her wife kiss the top of her head before whispering;

  “You’re gonna fall asleep in about five minutes, babe.” Vanessa rolled her eyes in response.

  “No I won’t, this is one of my favourite movies of all time.” Brooke wrapped her arms tighter around her wife and allowed herself to focus on the movie. She couldn’t help but notice her wife’s breath starting to get heavier. She gently shook Vanessa in an effort to remind her to not fall asleep, but all she got in response was Vanessa muttering something about this being the best Christmas ever. Again, Brooke had no choice but to agree.

  Twenty minutes later, Vanessa was in a deep sleep and Brooke knew she had to make the executive decision to pause the movie and go to bed. She picked her wife up and carried her to their bedroom, placing her gently on the bed. Vanessa was in such a deep sleep that she didn’t even notice that she had been carried to a different room.

  Thankfully, they were already dressed in their Christmas pyjamas so they didn’t need to get changed. Brooke was starting to feel sleepy which she knew was probably a good thing, considering they were going to be woken up by three excited children in a number of hours.

  Brooke brushed her teeth and hopped into bed, checking the clock on her nightstand. It had just turned midnight, meaning it was officially Christmas. She wrapped her arms around her sleeping wife and gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek before snuggling into her. She could smell Vanessa’s coconut shampoo, a scent that always calmed her down and in some ways, helped her sleep since she associated it with Vanessa. Brooke was so excited for tomorrow morning that all day she had been thinking she would find it difficult to sleep. She felt like a young kid again, anticipating the excitement of Christmas morning. But she knew that was all thanks to her wife, who had taken it upon herself to restore the magic of Christmas in Brooke’s adult life. Vanessa was like her comfort blanket, always making her calm and extremely happy. She could start to feel herself becoming more and more drowsy as she finally let herself succumb to sleep.

  “I love you, V. Merry Christmas.”

[cottoncandyjester]

Let’s do it

This is pretty vanilla but I feel like Mateo’s first ever time would be with his darling so it’s not only their first time having sex but it’s his as well

This contains: smut, prince being awful at giving advice, mateo being vulnerable, blowjob

“Z-Zeke, how do you pleasure a girl?”

Zeke choked on his drink his face filled with shock as he looked up at mateo who looked just as embarrassed as him. “Okay, wow..ah..alright bro. Sit down” Zeke said softly trying not to make this too awkward “pleasuring a girl is like...tuning a guitar. Just gotta hit that sweet spot that makes her happy her needs are very important so make sure you ask her what feels good. Also it’s okay to be gentle” he explained and that didn’t help too much.

So mateo asked prince and that only scared him “pleasure her?! Pffft just ram it in and call her your filthy little slut remember little guy. If it’s not rough she will dump your sorry ass” prince chimed out and mateo shuddered in fear “h-huh?! Y-you call her a what?”

After you and mateo went on a date it wasn’t long until he hovered over you on the bed lips brushing along your neck hands creeping up to fondle your breasts. Your sigh of pleasure freaked him out to the point where he thought you weren’t liking it.. you weren’t telling him that you like it so he didn’t know.

“Y-you like that y-you..a-h..Slut?” His voice cracked clearly uncomfortable with that and you looked at him confused. “What?” You questioned and he gulped feeling his emotions get the better of him and he scrambled off you face red and tears in his eyes.

“I-I-I’m sorry! You aren’t saying anything! H-how am I supposed to know what you like?! I-I don’t know, I just..” he paused his words with a shaky sigh feeling tears roll down his face making you sit up and crawl towards him “hey..mateo, calm down” you whispered out and he looked up at you face filled with fear.

“I-I screwed this all up huh? I’m sorry I just screw it all up I just want you to feel good” he hissed out before you reached softly cupping his face which calmed him down enough to look at you. With that you pressed your forehead against his feeling his breathing level out.

“This experience isn’t about me or you..it’s about us, okay? So relax and do what comes natural..”you said softly and mateo gave a small nod before leaning in to kiss you softly slowly relaxing as he felt you tug at his shirt

He pulled back so you can take it off immediately feeling a strong embarrassment as your eyes landed on his upper body pale white splotches scattered about body fit from all the sports he plays. “Lay down” you ordered and he did just that before you started to press you lips against each white splotch.

“You’re so beautiful you know? Just a beautiful boy” you whispered against his skin hearing a hushed moan escape him “r-really? I-I look beautiful?” He questioned out making you smile “Mhm! The most beautiful boy ever” you purred out kissing down his chest and stomach stopping at his pants.

You glanced up at him noticing his flustered expression “can I?” You asked and he gave a small nod shuddering as he felt pull his pants down seeing his cock spring out seeing that he was fully hard.

“You’re so cute” you purred out licking up his cock feeling him twitch in surprise “a-ah d-don’t t-that’s so naughty~” he stammered out turning his head away shyly immediately bucking his hips up when he felt your mouth around his cock. He couldn’t help himself since it felt just too good.

“N-Ngh, y/n t-that f-feels so good” he hissed out as you sucked his cock bobbing your head up and down swirling your tongue along his cock feeling him grip your hair as breathy panting escaped him thick locks covered his face as he bit his bottom lip trying to suppress his moans.

It wasn’t long until he was arching his back letting out a cry of pleasure as he cummed. He immediately felt guilty for cumming in your mouth “a-ah! You- I- Don’t swallow it!” He stammered out in shock at the sight of you gulping.

“It’s fine, just relax” you said softly as you stripped down climbing ontop of him brushing his cock against your wet hole “you ready?” You asked and he gave a nervous nod. You sinked down on him interlacing your hands together with his as you felt him slowly push up eyes glistening with tears “i-is it supposed to h-hurt?” He hissed out a shaky huff coming from him as you took all of him.

“It’s just a new feeling baby, just relax okay?” You whispered out moving his hands and resting them on your waist as you started to move. The pleasure was indescribable, mateo felt like he was melting. He gripped your hips bucking his hips up slowly becoming a sobbing drooling mess in only under a minute.

Your insides squeezing his cock in ways that made his head spin like crazy. “Ngh!! Y-y/n! It feels- a-Ah y-you feel- don’t stop please!” He was losing his mind in bliss nails digging into you as he felt you slam down on his cock making he nearly squeal in pleasure.

“W-wait! I-if you keep doing it like that I’m gonna cum” he whined out making you smirk at just how adorable he is. “Then cum~” there was something about how you said that that made mateo snap. He pulled you down arms wrapping around your waist keeping you against him as he pounded away hitting your gspot every single time.

“A-ah! F-fine I’ll c-cum but you have to as well” he demanded his voice gaining confidence as he kissed along your neck hearing your sweet moans which only fueled his fire. After slamming into you one last time before he shuddered cumming inside and filling you up.

He shuddered slowly letting you go trying to relax his racing heart, you looked down as him before softly pushing his hair out his face seeing his adorable blissed out expression before leaning down pressing soft kisses along his face.

“For our first time, that was absolutely perfect” you whispered out with a smile which Inturn made him grin as he returned some of your kisses “c-can we do it again?” He asked out having a newfound passion in his eyes. He could definitely get used to do this a lot more

[imtheiliad]

Sooty appreciates your love and says it's only natural ;)

He's had a busy day being naughty because I broke routine and that's a big no-no to him.

And headcanons, how about do you have any wishes, hopes or far flung fantasies for the next crossover or are you a meh over it person re crossovers and LS?

please give the baby a hug/pets/favored form of affection for me ♥

here is a picture of bby boi eddie

overall im much less invested in LS as a whole cause, well someone 👀, but I love like everyone else and would love to see more interaction between the LA crew and LS friends:

I want Grace and Maddie to meet and solve a complicated call together, and become friends.

I kinda want TK and Bobby to meet, like tell me this unlikely friendship wouldn't slap.

And I need Judd and Chimney to meet, and have the moment where Judd realizes that he's the rebar story, bonding over loving their babies and amazing partners.

Buck meets buttercup.

TK makes an assumption about Eddie (with a side of inference to Buck) like "Carlos and I would love to go on a double date with you guys"

HEN AND TOMMY PLS just need them to be cool and badass together

TK, Marjan, Paul, Mateo, Nancy in disbelief with Chimney and Hen over the in love idiots.

Actual Marjan and Buck interaction where they talk cool rescues and just become good friends.

okay ill shut up now.

[bestsportmedia]

Antonela Roccuzzo’s Mom Patricia Blanco and sister Paula Roccuzzo talk about their family and clothing company in new interview with ¡Hola! Argentina.

Hola: How did Enfans, your clothing company for kids, start?

Paula: After the arrival of my nephew Thiago. When Anto began to learn about the world of motherhood with her first child, she started to have an interest in everything about kids, and among those things, clothes. Then she started it with our cousin Andrea, who is a designer of apparel and an innate creative. Anto had started Design in the Argentine Industrial Chamber of Apparel, but even though she did not finish it, she knew several things. I was the last to join the project, with the same motivation, when my first child, Felipe (3) was born. And with Mom’s help, it started taking shape.

Patricia: From day one they put a lot of enthusiasm and work. The roles were very well divided. While Andrea and Paula are in charge of the design and Anto of the trends, I am in the administration. For now, it is only for sale in Rosario and we ship throughout Argentina, but the idea is that it can reach the world.

Hola: How do so many women work together?

Paula: In addition to working together, we meet on Thursdays and Sundays, that doesn’t change for anything! [Laughs] We prioritize the family and the bond, so before any conflict, we resolve it without losing the values ​​we always handle.

Patricia: When I met José, the girls’ father, his family already had the Unique supermarket chain and the wholesale distributor, then I joined and there was never a single problem. We always stayed close and we knew that our priority is family. Although la Negra [Antonela] is far, there is constant communication and, luckily, we can travel very frequently.

Paula: When she [Antonela] comes, mom’s house becomes a club. There are family gatherings all the time. Mom is the great engine of all of us.

Hola: How are you as a grandmother, Patricia?

Patricia: I enjoy it to the fullest. Today, that is my priority. Now Pau and her husband Tato are moving near my house, and I’m happy because I’m going to have them as my neighbors. I already taught Felipe how to ride a bike around the neighborhood. On the Anto’s side, Mateo is the most naughty, but he is pure love, he is the most expressive. Thiago is polite, moderate, tidy, much quieter. . When I go to Barcelona I sleep with them, Ciro is very young for now, he is more attached to his mother.

Hola: How did you transition Antonela’s move to Spain at 21?

Patricia: At first she would come and go every three months, but I got used to it.. Just as I am now, I am not invasive and I respect the decisions that each one makes. Although it was hard, I supported her and encouraged her to continue with that routine. It was also hard for her, but it had to be done, and today is the proof. Carla also left when she was young, first to Bariloche and now to Buenos Aires. Luckily, I will always visit them and they like to come to Rosario to visit. December is the best month of the year because I have them close and we celebrate [holiday] at home. One year we have Christmas and the next New Year, we take turns with the other families. At least there are thirty of us. In addition, we celebrate “no birthdays”, a typical family celebration that we created to celebrate everyone’s birthdays.

Hola: Does your husband José also enjoy having a large family?

Patricia: He has no choice. [Laughs] My husband’s family is very good, and as soon as I joined his life, they welcomed me and we formed a great circle. On Sundays we get together, the Blancos and the Roccuzzo.

Hola: Are you also close with Messi family

Patricia : Yes, we see them, but not as often as we see each other between the Blancos and the Roccuzzo. Luckily, they are also close and have a very nice relationship within their family. We see them for family events and share the holidays. We understand each other very well. Moreover, Jorge Messi with José usually have their men’s getaways. They go to the court together, since they are both Newell’s Old Boys fans, and play tricks on tournaments.

Hola: How do you cope with media exhibition brought by the family that  Antonela formed?

Patricia: At first it was a little difficult for us. It is hard, but we got used to it. For my part, I understood the situation and stayed out of it. I never respond when we were assaulted, nor do I call to say thank you when they speak well of us. We prefer to stay out of the press. My other daughters are recognized by surnames, I go more unnoticed. We are not offended, we are proud of who we are and the family we have.

Paula: I’m proud of my sisters. What happens to me is that  if I go somewhere and if they hear my last name, they instantly ask me if I have anything to do with Antonela. I look more like dad, but they usually say we look alike. I never lived it as a burden. To me, she’s my sister, like always. Sometimes it’s hard when Leo comes to our homes  But luckily he is very prepared, all this time he endured it, and when they come to Argentina, they come to enjoy their time with the family. The plan is to be together and share the time.

Hola: What’s Leo Messi like in private ?

Patricia: Very good, like all my son-in-laws. When I travel to Barcelona, they welcome me at home, I see them and I feel very happy, because it makes me feel very good to see how they get along, how they are with their children. They live the roles of mom and dad very clear. I see them well and they welcome me in the best way, it is a pleasure to be with them.

Paula: Just like my sister, I’ve known him since he was a kid, he was always a close friend of my cousin and we shared many anecdotes and moments. We were accompanying him on the road to who he is today. He never changed.  

[finderskeepersff]

70.

Flicking my blunt out of the car window “you remember we beat Lamar ass right outside your street, he crashed your dad’ car when you said for him to not drive it” I chuckled “I remember, I was angry. All I wanted him to do was sit and wait and he crashed it because he wanted to reverse the car out” kissing my teeth “good times, so what you doing with it? You got builders at the place now” Kyle asked “building the home again, put my son’ name on it and it will be his home. Rent it out, I am doing it for my son. My parents can kiss my ass, but thanks for coming out with me. I just wanted to see it. The street ain’t changed you know, you see how big the plot is, I did all that fucking shit for them, all that. And all I wanted was some loyalty, some love. You know, but it is what it is. How many niggas been outside right here, sitting here waiting to kill me, waiting to take me out. And I walked out there like I don’t give a shit, what can I say Kyle. I ain’t want to do this to my childhood home but they don’t deserve anything from me” I find it hard, it hurts me that I did that but I needed to get rid of it and I feel better in myself “next stop” putting my car engine on “oh yeah, I ain’t tell you” looking in my rear-view mirror, Omar also put his car engine on to go “I am going to have a baby girl” I grinned, I am still trying to digest this though. It will be a baby girl, a girl, a whole ass daughter “no fucking way!! Little Sofia!?” nodding my head “a little girl” Kyle screamed out hitting my arm “oh shit, bruh!! I am fucking so happy for you!” I laughed out “I am still trying to digest it, it’s a daughter. I am scared. Cartier is easy. He a little nigga like me and I can help him, daughters are hard. I ain’t know, I have been raised with boys. Jasmine was never my problem so I didn’t bother, I don’t understand her like I do my brothers, I am worried I won’t be able to connect with her. She going to be so sensitive, I have to hold her close, I have to show her she don’t need no nigga and that her dad will always have her. Cartier is going to be a breeze but he hard headed. That little nigga be wanting to bite me for saying no but a girl, and if she look like Sofia my god. I am done, shit like that makes me feel like scared. I can’t lose in this game, I can’t leave my daughter alone either” I been thinking hard on this “Cassius, you know what you need to do. You already said it, love. That is all, you show them love” he is right, love over everything.

“Why do we need to stop at a Walmart? Shit is dumb” Omar said “we need a few black bags for your body if you don’t shut the fuck up” I said as we walked into Walmart “I was being dead ass, you and them two go and get them bags. Ethan and Kyle with me” I walked ahead towards the Garden section “I want you Ethan, go ahead. Check if that place is not busy” Ethan walked ahead of me “you really doing it?” Kyle said “I am, you see my dad is low and I am high. I just want him to know that. No love lost, I don’t care anymore. They the ones that needed me, they are living in family home. They ain’t got shit” Kyle nodded his head “you broke those chains Cassius, he ain’t got no hold on you anymore. He treated you like dirt” turning the corner, look at this old ass nigga on his knees. Ethan pointed and walked by him, he doesn’t even see around him. I really want to beat his ass “wait here” I said to Kyle while I pushed my black double breasted coat back and stuffed my hands in my pockets of my three piece suit, I have a business meeting to go too after this. I feel so big though, this body armour is heavy as shit. I stopped right in front of him, my Gucci shoes all in his face as he stared down at them “do you shine shoes boy” my dad looked up at me and I laughed, I stepped back “they Gucci, watch it with the dirt” Carnell’ eyes are on fire, he wants to kill “what’s good dad!” I spat laughing “you on your knees working nine to five, you thought you would be a kept pimp. I am doing great, I just wanted to check on you” my dad is not moving at all, I smirked looking around me. Taking my hands out of my pockets and crouched down slowly “listen here old man, if your wife ever goes into that police station I am coming for you. I have eyes and ears everywhere, I run New York and I will kill you. Don’t ever fucking speak on my name again, got it? I know your every move in my city nigga, any of these niggas will kill you on sight!” I spat, Carnell looked around him and his face slowly dropped “give me those bags” I said to Omar, he threw them to me and I caught it “keep these bags with you” I hit the bags right in his chest “hold them” I said, Carnell just stared at me “I said, fucking hold them!” he placed his hand over mine and I moved my hand back “you take these with you, and tell that wife of yours, these bags are for the both of you. Take them home, I will find out if you don’t take them too” I sniggered” getting up from my position “gentleman, this is my dad. Don’t get it twisted with me” placing my hand in my coat pocket, grabbing a pile of money out “here” grabbing a dollar from the pile “make that dollar into something boy!” I spat, throwing it at him. Walking around him, he said that to me well I guess he can have it back.

I breathed out as soon as I got into the car, that was hard. Taking in a deep breath “you did well Cassius, it’s ok brother” Kyle patted my shoulder “they talking, they are trying too. But I will kill them both, I will do it. I have too, it’s me or them Kyle” looking over at him “it’s me or them, they will never pick me! They will never bro!” Kyle grabbed my arm “I get it, Cassius I do. It’s ok, they wouldn’t pick you. You don’t need to explain shit to me, they know your heart and took advantage. Just relax my nigga” nodding my head “I know Brooklyn would be hard but I had too, Kalia said it to me and I was like I need to show them. I got to be there for my kids Kyle. I have to be there. No nigga is going to look after my daughter, not happening. It’s me or them now and I am choosing me, it’s me” looking ahead of me “it’s done now, until I find out they doing something else dumb but now we will go to the meeting. Also watch Kalia, she going to be on my dick. I am testing her so much, all men going to be at this meeting and she going to look so lost, I am late too” I did it on purpose, poor girl is going to be thinking why is everyone foreign.

Resting my back against the elevator as we rode up to the top floor, staring down at the picture of Cartier that Sofia sent me. I miss him so much and it’s already been one night, he is so damn naughty and you can see from his face he is up to something, smiling to myself staring at the picture before I replied back to her.

To: Sofia

From: Cassius

Miss you both so much, thank you for sending me the picture of Cartier. Send me a selfie too xx

Pressing send on the message “we on top floor?” Omar asked “we have a meeting on the top floor of the hotel Omar, first time?” I said as I locked my phone “kind of, I am usually front line” nodding my head “well you just stay quiet and you’re with me, don’t be side tracked by his craziness. He will have a lot of shit going on, do not do anything or touch anything. I mean it, all of you” I can hear the music seeping through the elevator as it opened, Laurence pulled the key card out. Moving away from the back, it’s funny because they all moved to the sides to make way “like I said” I said as I moved by them, I shook my head seeing the half naked girls already. Stepping off of the elevator, Raphael is always a mess every meeting. Some guy just started walking so I followed him, I will not be tempted by this at all because I am a happy man “Cassius! Move out now!” Raphael shouted, he is playing poker with some random men and girls all over, seeing Kalia in the corner “everyone! Out!” he shouted, nodding my head at Kalia “I will see you later” he slapped the girls ass as she walked off and nearly hitting into me, like I want her tits on me “move it” Fabian pushed her “are these seats clean to sit on?” I pointed “friend, you can sit here. It’s fine, it’s good seeing you, music off, we do business” waving Kalia “take a seat, Ethan” I sat down on the chair “you are a new Cassius now? Reformed? Jesus got you?” Raphael talks so much shit “I will get you by the throat soon if you don’t shut up” this guy is just stupid as fuck “I have someone else coming” squinting my eyes “who? You didn’t say, if I don’t like this person I will kill them” Raphael frowned at me “no, good friend” looking up at Omar, I just bowed my head at him.

I ain’t ever tell Raphael to bring anyone else to this meeting and what he do, invite someone I don’t know, on sight I will kill this person “Mateo, come in” getting up from the seat and my people also moved and straight got their guns out “no, no, just relax. He is good people, Cassius we need him” I know this motherfucker “Mateo, you being real? I had shit with these people, I don’t want them near me” Raphael got up also “let’s all relax, please” Mateo is so smug, he has bought two people with him “Santiago, come in. Come. We are all here for one thing” I am not sharing anything, sitting back down “Ethan” waving him over, I am watching these Latino dickheads “boss” Ethan said next to me, moving my head back “get Kalia, sit her next to me” I moved forward, my eyes never leaving theirs. These are related to Samuel, this is bullshit, I am not sure the game Raphael is playing but he likes to play a lot of games. Kalia moved around the table with Ethan “so can we start, want to play poker?” shaking my head “I have other business to attend, you know this so hurry up” Kalia is scared, I know it from her face she wants to cry. She is playing with the big boys now, she better be ready for this.

This is Samuel’ people, I know of them just they gave me no issues. They also work for me, well did anyways “so tell me about this detective friend of yours, what has she done? What is happening tomorrow night Cassius, come on now don’t hide her. Share your women” side eyeing Raphael “the import of guns and drugs will be arriving tomorrow, this is something I set up. This is my informant, so the cut goes me, Kalia and Raphael” fuck them “they are going to help us sell” shaking my head laughing “we can help you” I slammed the table with my fist “you work for me! You ain’t no boss! Shut up!” I shouted “girls, dance. It’s fine” Raphael said, Mateo laughed “you need to understand I help you, I keep these Latino gangs in check. Your warehouse got taken, you not good enough come on” he laughed “Omar” I said, the only sound I heard was the bullet enter Mateo’ head. Kalia gasped “welcome to the big boys club, aye” I got up and got my gun out “sit your asses down now, Santiago. You disrespect me, you come here! Trying to sit here! Your boss is dead, pussy. He gone” walking around the table, the two men are falling over each other “we don’t know” he said, they barely speaking fucking English “you think this is a joke!” I spat turning to Raphael “Cassius, come on. You think I am stupid, I bought the traitors to you, he came to me. I said come, now he gone. Oh well, I am with you” he chuckled “right, so Raphael. This is Kalia, she is going to cry any minute now but she knows that we will kill her so she is stuck, now you fucking get this shipment here” she nodded her head “it’s done, it’s fine. I can get you in. Nobody needs to die” nodding my head “well I ain’t going, Ethan is. This should be simple, I have a new warehouse, this whole fucking shipment will be feeding through to Atlanta, Miami and here. Raphael, I need you to send some men to Atlanta, I need to get start getting back to normal there” Raphael nodded his head “done, yours my friend. You want them dead too” he pointed behind me, holding the gun behind me cocking the gun back and shot the bullet. I just heard a scream, looking behind me, seeing I hit his leg “close enough, I want them gone. I have another meeting to go too. Raphael, have a good party. I got to go” walking off in a rush, dapping him as I went by.

I shouldn’t find this amusing but I do, entering the elevator with Kalia “not like working for the law is it? You look like you seen a dead body” I laughed, she looked at me “his brains was on the wall, you lot are crazy! In a hotel? There is cameras” nodding my head “Raphael got money, he ain’t stupid. That foreign fucker been around, he is the biggest dealer in Europe, he hangs with all the rich folk but you know that, they won’t question anything. Shit will be cleaned up” Kalia still looks disgusted, grabbing my phone from my pocket seeing it’s Sofia. Answering the call “hello” pressing the phone against my ear “hey baby, I miss you” I didn’t think she would ring me like now “I do too, I am just going to a meet up. I will call you back, you should go to bed. It’s late” rubbing the back of my head “I am trying too, it’s not the same. I am also worried so it don’t help” I knew she would be “you don’t need to do that, I just need to do a few things here. I will call you later, just try and sleep you need it” I don’t want her worrying “fine” she is not happy “aight” the elevator pinged open, turning around to get off “I am scared Cassius, I don’t like you there” closing my eyes sighing out “it needs to be done Sofia, I need to be here and I need to sort this all out” looking behind me hoping Kalia ain’t with me because I really can’t be seen with her in public, she ain’t so that is good “I love you, tell me you love me” I chuckled “I love you, happy?” shaking my head laughing, she is funny “call me, I will hopefully wake up” knowing Sofia she will wake up when I call, she wants to know what time I go to sleep “bye” I love her “bye bub” I said before disconnecting the call, I said it so she can’t complain.

Walking into the cafe with just Kyle, I don’t want a whole group of people with me “Cassius!” Mitch got up from his seat “Mitch” getting my hand out, he dapped him “long time brother” he said to me “same, I am glad you’re well. You know Kyle” I said stepping back “I do, you good?” sitting down at the table “Mia was asking me where I am going at so late at night, she think I am cheating but I goes I am going drinking with the boys, so yeah. Here I am, you said for me to not tell” I know Mia will be on his case “sorry about that, I just needed you to come out here. Nobody here, just us. This is something I just strictly want you to deal with, I been thinking. I am not involving you in anything, I don’t want you to even be linked to me but I have to think. I can’t trust many people, I got Kyle but I need someone that is” I paused thinking “someone that will be around for longer than me” Mitch frowned at me “you dying?” he said in shock “no, but I can be any time. Do not tell Mia anything, Sofia is having a girl. Unless she says it, it’s got me thinking. I have my money, here, there and around. I just had this feeling that what if in that moment, I tell someone to give something to my girl and my kids and it don’t happen. I need someone with a good heart because with the life I am in, nobody is loyal but you are. You are an accountant and you can say no but I am going to ask. I want you to put some money, not all just some money into a fund for my kids and Sofia. Only they can get it with you, I need to make sure they have money to live, I am trying to think like a good person that has a good job and it’s hard to do that because you put shit in accounts and they question it” Mitch picked his drink up and drank it, it is a lot to take in “you look smart” he pointed at my clothes “I wanted to make a statement that I am back around” I laughed at myself.

Mitch is thinking “it’s a lot to take in, to be that trusted. And I respect you Cassius and I understand your situation” Mitch went silent “I don’t want anything from this at all Cassius, but I have an idea. Safe deposit box, you can put the money there. We have it in my place of work underground, secure and nobody will know. I will need someone to come in and act as Sofia Bundy, bring the money. They need to walk with me down there, it’s all CCTV so someone needs to come there and act as if they are doing this. I will be there, I can register it all under Sofia while that person is there, take the bag down and put some money in there initially. And I can start to slowly add more, for five minutes them cameras go off, meaning no memory is stored because we have to do this swap over. Nobody knows that, I can add to it that way. I am trust worthy there but I think that is that best way I can help. I just need you to sign some papers, I will send them to you put it in the bag with whoever you send ok?” nodding my head “thank you so much Mitch, you don’t know how much this means to me” I feel choked up doing this because I want to be here with them forever.

[megashivergirlworld]

The stages of me,with the though of meeting Abraham Mateo:

PLEASE GOD,POR FAVOR,MAKE THIS YEAR BE THE YEAR I MEET MY BABY AM:

iM GONNA CAPTURE HIS SOUL WITH MY SEXY SMILE:

HE IS GONNA FALL DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH ME..UGHH MY HEART ACHES ....:

HE IS GONNA WHISPER TO MY EAR SWEET THINGS..AWWW STOP IT YOU NAUGHTY BOY:

AND WE GONNA LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER:

AND THEN......I WOKE UP!!!!!

[messiology]

What lio meant is in english that mateo is one very naughty boy who lives on his own terms u know like has tantrums and all but they can control him so its no big deal. Like people before they start with "leo hates mateo" crap u gotta clear it out that leo didn't really abuse his son with hatered or something just its how we casually talk here. Lol

GOD, THANKS. HE SAID IT AS A JOKE PEOPLE, HE DOESNT THINK ANTO IS A BITCH OR HATES HIS OWN SON

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drawthisheartxx

Ace

It might seem cheesy, but Chrysanthi knows how people look at them.  People who don’t know her think she’s with Ace for money, or that he’s gotten himself a trophy girlfriend to show off.  The keychain is more of a joke than anything else, and a subtle reminder to him that in her eyes, HE’S the prize.  She also got him a cock ring and a part for his bike that Xavier had clued her in about him needing a new one. 

Angelina

Mateo gave Angelina a painting he’d done of her with their daughter that exuded love.  Just in case she still questioned his reasons for being with her, he filled an entire notebook with reasons he knew she was the one for him.

Annie

James bought Annie a house.  They’d been staying in a rented townhouse once they moved to Nashville, but he knew she spent the majority of her time looking for more permanent places.  There was one house she loved and constantly pointed out to him, and for Christmas, he bought it. 

Bruno

Aliki gave Bruno a few little things, but his main gift was a night off of work where her mother would keep the twins at her house.  Using her connections, she arranged for four of Bruno’s favorite porn stars, both male and female, to come over and fuck the both of them until the early hours of the morning.  There was also the option to record it all, but she left that up to him.

Clyde

Chloe, having been on the island a week longer than everyone else, hired a local photographer to take pictures of the entire extended family.  She knows how important family is to Clyde, and wanted him to have a record of all of his children in one place. 

Dia got him new underwear, as she always did, and a few shirts that she knew he liked and probably wouldn’t be able to get on the Island.  Since she wasn’t positive what she would be able to bring with her, she kept his main gift small this year, buying him a simple David Yurman bracelet she thought would look nice on him.

Leo gave him a pair of cufflinks with the Batman logo on them that he’d insisted they buy before he knew his father wasn’t a masked vigilante that solved crimes when he was working.  Leo tried to take it back but couldn’t figure out which box Dia had wrapped them in.  Late on Christmas day, he would give Clyde a picture that he’d drawn of himself and Bear and hug him before bed.

Kristina didn’t really have time to get him anything, but she helped organize the kids gifts for him and made him a batch of cookies she knew he liked.  She also was the one who convinced Chloe and Dia that the best gift they could give him was a foursome.  It was a little risky on her part, not knowing the other women that well, but ultimately it worked. 

All three women spent the night with him Christmas night.  The kids all stayed in the big house and after Clyde checked to make sure all of them were passed out, he opened the door to find the three women already going at it on his bed and a video camera set up to record it all for him. 

Jimmy

Joey gave him a stack of DVDs that she’d had made from all the home videos she’d taken of the boys while he was in jail.  She hadn’t mentioned them at all, and the few times he’d asked if she’d taped something, she’d told him that she hadn’t had time to, knowing that she would be surprising him with this for Christmas. 

Leo

Marina sent him very, very naughty pictures of herself in his jersey.

Lizzie

Xavier gave Lizzie a necklace that he spent way too much money on and took her to New York City for the weekend so he could spoil her.

Bennett gave her a picture he’d painted of her getting fucked by Xavier that somehow looked tasteful. 

Missy

Dean booked a trip for the two of them, somewhere warm and tropical where he wouldn’t be too preoccupied with work to pay attention to her.

Hendrix didn’t think it was appropriate to get her a gift, but did so anyways.  He stopped by when he knew Dean would be at work and gave Missy a Luke’s Diner mug with his favorite peppermint hot chocolate mix in it.  He also gave her the dick, but they still don’t acknowledge that that’s happening.

Salvatore

Aside from letting him know that she was pregnant, Adriana gave Sal a couple’s massage and an Audemars Piguet watch.

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