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two years too late, chapter e i g h t

A gust of wind blew the door shut behind you, Alyssa pulled the hat off of her head and let out a groan. “Officially ready for spring,” she laughed.

You rolled your eyes, with mid-January upon you, spring still felt like a far fetched dream--one with sunshine and flowers and maybe more kissing than winter.

The Chelsea Market was always a fun Sunday afternoon adventure, but only if you stopped for a snack and felt up for handling the crowds of people, scarves wrapped around necks to shield from the winter air outside.

You trailed behind Alyssa at first, meandering around the booths, glittering gold jewelry and beautiful pottery lined the counters, smiles from the hopeful merchants.

“This is cute,” you cooed, picking up a signet ring and inspecting it closely.

“Maybe your boyfriend will buy it for you,” she elbowed you in the side, her eyebrows raised in suggestion.

“You’re so obnoxious,” you laughed, brushing her comment off like snow on your boots. “And uninformed, clearly.”

Alyssa had been bugging you about it for a while. Ever since he slept over, she’d been coming up with questions that only made you more nervous. You were not about to bother Harry with a conversation about labels or logistics. Instead, you felt rather content with just ignoring all of that and hoping for the best. After all, your important conversations track record didn’t look so good.

“Oh come on, it’s not like he’s seeing anyone else.”

“You don’t know that,” you said casually, as if the thought didn’t make your stomach churn or your heart ache.

“He spends most evenings in our apartment and a lot of his days in fittings or tour meetings or doing whatever he does. I don’t think he’s seeing anyone but you.”

You bit your tongue, not because you didn’t agree, but because you hoped she was right. The room was filled with other people hiding from the cold on the West Side, wandering around and inspecting tiny treasures.

A tap on your shoulder. “Hi, sorry to bother you, uh--are you Y/N L/N?”

Your eyes pulled up from the necklaces you now held between your fingers, Alyssa’s head whipped around to inspect the source of the question.

You didn’t get recognized often. While internet fame was something you dabbled in, your personal life was pretty untouched, meaning a trip to Chelsea Market wasn’t exactly the time you’d planned on seeing someone who read your stories. Hence the lack of make up and greasy hair up in a bun.

“Hi, yeah, how are you?” You stuck a hand out for her to shake excitedly, a beanie pulled over her head hid what seemed to be blonde curls.

“I’m good, I don’t mean to interrupt, I just, uh, I follow you on _The Scoop _and online.”

“Oh thank you, thanks so much! What’s your name?”

“Courtney,” she smiled. “Nice to meet you. Could I get a picture?”

She shoved her phone over to Alyssa, who hid her surprise well when she held the camera up in front of you.

“Say cheese,” she said, her tone rather flat and a forced smile on her face.

“Thanks so much,” Courtney looked over the photo quickly, shoving it back in her pocket when she deemed it was acceptable. “Nice to meet you, have a good one!”

She left as quickly as she’d shown up, Alyssa’s eyebrows arched when you turned to look at her. “Don’t get famous,” she shook her head. “That would be so annoying to have to deal with all the time.”

“She was nice,” you laughed, turning back to the jewelry. “At least she wasn’t awkward.”

“She was awkward,” Alyssa stared at you, her face contorted in a way that let you know she thought you’d lost it. “What about that wasn’t awkward?”

“Okay, you’re the one who rubbed your body all over that Spotify couch because you thought Harry sat there. You can’t judge her for wanting a photo or to say hi.”

“I was young and stupid,” she narrowed her eyes at you, brushing hair behind her ear when she moved to the next vendor: succulents and mason jars.

“Right,” you rolled your eyes at her. “Speaking of, though--”

She looked back at you, her eyes expectant as you picked up a potted plant to look at the price. Fourteen dollars for a cactus? Nevermind.

“I, uh--I have a new assignment at work.”

“Yeah?” Her expression shifted, excitement in her eyes. “What is it?”

“An interview.”

“Of a person?”

“No of a plant,” you held the tiny cactus in her face. She shoved it away and made a face. “Yes a person.”

“Who?”

You looked around, thankful for the buzzing around you of people in coats and hats. “With him.”

“With Harry?” Her jaw dropped and she seemed to freeze in front of you when you nodded. “Uh--I know I don’t get the whole journalism thing but that seems, like, wrong...wasn’t the whole point of keeping it a secret so you didn’t get fired? How the hell are you going to manage that now?”

“I don’t really know,” you said honestly, putting the cactus back. Her eyes grew rounder at your quiet words. “But it gives me time to figure it out!”

She pulled you away from the vendor, her voice a whisper. “Does Carly know?”

“No! Whitney gave me the assignment last week--I haven’t, I don’t even really know how it’s gonna work yet.”

“Jesus, Y/N--this feels fucking risky.”

“Okay, thank you for the moral support.”

You pulled your arm out of her grasp and threw your attention towards the handmade soaps at the next booth.

“I’m sorry, I just,” she let out a sigh. “This is a big change.”

“I know,” you said. “He made a good point though: it would explain the photos of us. We can just brush it off that way, y’know? Say I’ve been with him for work, interview comes out, photos make sense, it all blows over.”

She tilted her head to the side, her bottom lip between her teeth in thought. “You better hope.”

You didn’t necessarily believe it would blow over, but saying it would seemed better than admitting this was getting out of hand. Like a web that was spun and now trapped you, your relationship with Harry and the ties to work felt like they were growing by the second. “Yeah, well, going to dinner with him tonight.”

“Dinner, like, out?”

“Yeah,” you nodded, a few steps forward, another booth, this one with lotion. “Somewhere uptown.”

“Jesus, I thought dating him was bad enough but now you’re going to be seen with him and you have to recognize how that is going to change things!” She was more animated now, her emotion elevated as the words tumbled out of her mouth.

You turned to look at her, straight faced and calm. “We’re not dating.”

“Right. Okay.”

“We’re just hanging out,” you whined a bit when she turned away from you, her hands now on a book as she flipped it over to read the back cover.

“And making out,” she replied coolly, a lift of her eyebrows in challenge.

“That too.”

She smirked at you from the corner of her eye, a reminder that while she loved you and wanted you to be happy, she also wanted this relationship to work out, for fear of what would happen if it didn’t.

He hadn’t given you any guidance on what to wear. Nice, he’d said, the chef was a friend of a friend, plenty of celebrities went and hopefully it wouldn’t cause much of a scene for him to be there. You only hoped that the black dress buried in Alyssa’s closet was good enough.

So when you walked in to find a table in the back for two, far enough away from any other diners in the restaurant, a wave of relief washed over you and the emerald earrings that used to be your mothers.

“Good?” He asked, pulling out your chair before you sat.

“Yeah,” a nod. “Should be fine.”

“S’nice to actually, y’know, be out.”

More nodding, the nervous kind, when a waiter appeared with a drink menu and a napkin over his wrist--like they did in movies. You weren’t nervous to be with him, it was more just a nervousness that seemed to spike when you realized the way people looked at him in public, the wandering gazes and excited smiles. And maybe it was the fact that you were bare-legged in a wintry New York, the leather of Roger’s backseat cold against your legs when you had climbed in.

But it was fine--glasses of wine were delivered to the table and you heard about the specials, wowed by the art on the walls and the dim lighting that made the room feel even more private.

“You don’t think it’s too romantic for a work thing, right?”

You looked up from the menu. “Huh?”

He set his wine glass down, looking around the room. “The place--I mean, you think people will believe that we’re here to talk business?”

“Are we here to talk business?” You laughed at the look on his face, a goofy expression that reminded you of being kids, sitting across the table from him at Annie’s over a good fry up.

“I mean, figured I owed you a proper date,” he laughed, the words lodging between your lungs and setting up shop, a trickle of anxiety like a leaky faucet.

“Doesn’t have to be a date,” you said quickly. “S’work, really, right?”

He cleared his throat, an awkward beat passed when you sipped your wine. A date would be nice. It wasn’t like you didn’t want it to be one. But the harsh reality of Harry leaving for tour in a few months seemed to loom overhead like a storm cloud on a summer afternoon--inevitable and threatening.

And besides, avoiding a label would make that break much cleaner, void of rubble or ramifications.

“So, how does this work?”

“Well,” you shifted on your seat, thankful for a change in topic. “We have to talk about the direction.”

“The band?”

“No, the direction of the story,” you laughed. “I’m interviewing you. So what? What do we want to share that makes this different from all the others?”

“Oh,” a huff of air escaped his nose through a laugh before he let his eyebrows sink low in thought. “I dunno, where do you see it going?”

You hummed, eyes wandering from one portrait on the wall to another. He ran a hand through his hair but then set his elbows on the table, his gaze on you as he leaned in.

“Whitney said something about how I wouldn’t be impressed by fame--so I guess I have to take it in the direction of bringing you down to earth.”

“You don’t have to bring me down to earth, Smalls,” he twisted his face into a scowl, pretending to be offended when his fingers twisted around the stem of his glass. “M’already down here!”

“I think it’d be fun to do a piece that shows you as you.”

“What do you mean?”

A shrug of your shoulders. “The kid that I’ve known for ages--not just the funky pants and the hair.”

A gasp, “they’re fun!”

“They are fun,” you laughed, “but they’re not all of you.”

“So you want to show what’s underneath the pants,” he wiggled his eyebrows, lifting his glass to his lips and leaning back in his seat.

“No--what? You know what I mean,” you rolled your eyes, letting a sip of wine wash away the blush on your cheeks.

“Sure, sure,” he teased. “I mean, you’ve seen it, so.”

“Harry,” you leaned forward. “That’s a good example of the things you can’t say in public with me.”

“Right. This is strictly a professional relationship,” he gained composure, raising his voice so people around you could hear his declaration if they happened to be listening. He was cut off by a server, one who memorized your orders and kept the wine bottles coming.

So you didn’t talk too much work--you mostly talked about Alyssa and Carly and listened to him detail his meetings and his ideas for the upcoming leg of tour. New cover songs, bigger venues. Just as many fun outfits. His eyes crinkled by the sides when you asked if he was excited, but his smile faded suddenly.

“Listen, I’ll be--I know it’s not ideal for me to leave--”

“S’fine,” you said, finishing off what was left in your glass, hoping the final sip would numb the ache in your chest at his words. “You’re going to have so much fun!”

“Right but we just--”

“The interview will be done by then,” you cut him off, as if his hesitation was about the story, not everything written between the lines.

“Smalls, I don’t mean that.”

“Oh.”

The waiter came and lifted the bottle off the table, pouring the last of it into your glass. Harry watched you, his eyes unreadable once you were left alone in the dim light, a candle flickered between you.

What did he expect from you? A confession of your love and a teary admission that you didn’t want him to go on tour? Work was work, you’d been left behind far too many times to not know the empty feeling by heart.

“It’s still fine--we don’t have to like, have that conversation of what it means when you leave and what it means now.”

“We don’t?”

“No.”

Didn’t that conversation scare guys away? Didn’t it feel needy and overwhelming--especially when one of you was an international celebrity who probably didn’t need any strings attached? You weren’t about to be the small town girl with a big dream, you’d been her once before, she was a person you didn’t care to know.

Maybe you were jumping to conclusions. Your heart beat slowed when he let out a sigh.

“Back to my place? Watch a movie?”

You nodded, you’d been hoping he’d invite you.

You stumbled in behind him, eager to kick your heels off once you grabbed hold of the wall. They clattered against the hardwood floor and he let out a laugh. “That bad?”

“Terrible.”

“Want socks?”

“Sure,” you dropped your purse on the floor and padded over to the couch, hoping if you got to the remote first, you’d be able to pick whatever film you’d pretend to watch.

“TV’s better in the bedroom for a movie,” he said casually, his voice disappearing down the hall as he walked to--you assumed--fetch the socks. You looked around the empty living room, the leftover pasta from his dinner in a paper bag on the counter.

Celebrities bring home leftovers too, you thought. Good for the story.

You stood up and ventured down the hall--you’d caught a glimpse of his bedroom before, only bits that were illuminated from the moon that shone through the window. This time, he flipped the lights on and walked over to a dresser.

“Do you keep clothes here even when you’re not?”

“Eh,” he shrugged, his voice high as he pushed a few pairs aside. “Basics. Socks, underwear, some work out stuff.” He tossed you a pair and turned to look at you, leaning against the edge of his bed.

A mirror on the wall above, a telly that came down from the ceiling. Crown moulding and a beige carpet laid on top of the same wood that spilled in from the hallway. His bedroom was at least the size of your living room and kitchen combined. Big enough that a beautiful navy armchair sat in the corner, a throw blanket splashed over the side.

“What’s your favorite thing about New York? Aside from that Thai place?”

He walked over to another armoire, one that stared back at the king-sized bed. He lifted a remote and pressed a few buttons, the TV lowered from a slot in the ceiling. “Who’s asking? Y/N the journalist or Y/N the girl in my socks?”

“We’re the same person,” you laughed, hoisting yourself up on top of the comforter, a stark white that smelled like traces of lavender and tuberose.

He rounded the corner of the mattress, propping a pillow behind him when he climbed on, too. He kicked his shoes off, a floral patterned shirt was already unbuttoned low enough to expose flecks of black ink on his chest.

“Roof deck upstairs is nice. Don’t go up there too much.”

You laughed, leaning over to shove him a bit. “Seriously. A restaurant, a super cool studio? New York must be filled with celebrity hot spots.”

He turned his head to look at you. “You want an exact location?”

“Sure.”

His fingers traipsed up to his lips, tugging at the lower one like you’d seen so many times. He let out a hum, a soft one that seemed to echo off the sheets. “Your living room.”

“My living room?”

“Yeah,” he said simply, his eyes flickered over to you.

“I can’t write that in the story.”

He laughed. “So that was Journalist Y/N asking.” A poke to your stomach before you retreated.

You rolled your eyes, leaning your head back on a pillow to stare up at the ceiling. “What do you wish people knew about your time in the band?”

He crossed his arms, another stoic stare into the distance. “I loved it, honestly. I think in the years since it’s been over there’s been a lot of talk about the things that were hard. But, it was still a lot of fun--despite all of the shit that came along with it.”

You looked up at him, he looked down at you. “Sounds like a robotic answer if I’ve ever heard one.”

“It’s true!” he laughed, his lips quirking up to a smile. “Meant every word of it.”

“I know you did.”

He scooted down on the bed, until he was laid beside you, your eyes on him and his on the ceiling. When he looked over at you, he smiled, his lips pulled up before he leaned in and kissed you, a hand on your waist.

You’d thought about having sex with Harry more times than you could count--not in a weird way, just in that teenage crush turned celebrity way. By the time the fire of your teenage crush was put out, pictures of him were sprinkled over the internet, inescapable and hard to ignore. And then you had to listen to other people talk about wanting to have sex with him.

You never imagined it to be so comfortable, a laugh when he nearly elbowed you in the face, a giggle when a book fell off the nightstand.

You didn’t think it would feel so natural to lie on his chest and stare out the window in his bedroom, watching the sky spread towards Brooklyn. But it was better than you imagined. Real, tangible, and still slightly unbelievable.

So instead of focusing on the voice in your head that felt like all of this was destined to crash and burn, you let him kiss your shoulder in the shower that night, beads of water dripping towards the drain like the anxiety you tried to ignore.

Carly seemed content with doodling flowers on the side of the staff meeting agenda sheet. You watched as her pen looped around the petals, down towards the stubby grass, back up towards the sun she’d scribbled on the edge of the margin.

Whitney was nodding continuously as Gabrielle explained the new lead she had on a long-standing project. All you could think about was your terribly unethical behavior.

It hadn’t really hit you at first. Not in the shower, not when you changed into a pair of his sweatpants. It didn’t even sink in when you ate breakfast in his kitchen and climbed into the backseat, Roger behind the wheel to drop you off at the office.

It didn’t even begin to take form until long after you’d texted Alyssa and given some details--more over dinner tonight, you promised.

So maybe what did it was when you walked into the meeting to see a line of text on the agenda that made everything feel more real.

Digital Department Updates: topics, stories, interviews, etc.

Whitney loved to have the writers go around and share whatever new, exciting things they were working on. And while it normally felt like a good time to humble brag about fan mail or well-received stories, today it felt more like a set up.

Carly had no idea about the interview and now, as of last night, you were officially sleeping with someone you were writing about. That added a whole new layer of nervous sweat to your forehead. So when Gabrielle finished her update and shifted slightly to offer you a smile, it took prompting from Whitney to make you talk.

“Y/N,” she smiled, “why don’t you let everyone know what you’re gearing up to work on.”

You smiled at her, wide eyes when you realized she wanted you to break the news to Carly. Right here, in front of everyone. Maybe it was your own fault. Maybe she assumed you’d already told her--after all, Whitney was missing a huge piece of context.

Sure, if Harry wasn’t someone you’d grown up with, wasn’t someone you had feelings for, and wasn’t someone you were now sleeping with, you’d probably have already told Carly that you got a once-in-a-lifetime assignment.

But the whole ethics mumbo jumbo seemed to blur some lines and make that conversation a bit more difficult. You let out a quiet laugh, wishing you could disappear into your sweater or melt into the floor.

“Yeah,” you looked around the table, all eyes on you as you adjusted in your chair. “Lists are going well--great one the other day about obnoxious New Year’s resolutions.”

A few smiles from coworkers, you looked down the line of those who sat across from you, willing them to ask a question or change the subject--even someone suddenly having a heart attack felt like an unfortunate, yet welcomed, distraction.

“Great--big interview coming up, though, right?”

Your chest deflated a bit, Whitney’s excitement for you was pure and encouraging. She wanted to help you grow as a journalist and she was putting enormous faith in you by giving you this assignment. You only wished she’d entrusted you with a celebrity that wasn’t the one you were sleeping with.

“Yes, yeah. I’m uh, I’m doing a story with Harry Styles.”

A few quiet gasps, Gabrielle seemed excited and Rachel--one of the interns--had eyes as wide as swimming pools. Carly’s head turned slowly, her gaze pulled up from the doodles on her paper to land on your face, her expression somewhat glazed over.

“Huge!” Whitney smiled. “It’s going to be great! You’ve been in contact with his team? Someone reached out like his publicist said they would?”

“Yep,” you nodded, “was planning to fill you in this week in our one-on-one.”

“Great, can’t wait to hear about it,” she clapped her hands together. “Anything else?”

“No,” you shook your head. “S’all.”

You turned to look at Carly partly out of fear and guilt, but also because it was her turn to give the staff an update on her recent projects. She looked at you, her eyes unimpressed and her expression unreadable.

“Right--me,” she parted her lips to speak and then shrugged her shoulders. “Not much is new. Wrote a story about Camila Cabello and she tweeted about it. That was cool.”

Carly seemed to look anywhere but at you--her eyes scanned the rest of your coworkers, down the line to Whitney at the head of the table. “Amazing, yeah. Any exciting things coming up?”

She pursed her lips, a thin line of disappointment. “Nope--nothing.”

“Well more will come,” Whitney smiled, her words an attempt at reassuring your friend.

You could feel the resentment emanating off of her for the rest of the meeting--but it was especially obvious when you walked out behind her. Once you were far enough away from the conference room and the rest of the staff, you cleared your throat. “I think we should talk.”

“Good idea,” she turned around, her eyes narrowed. “Care to explain?”

“I was going to tell you!” You crossed your arms quickly, looking around to watch as people settled back into their cubicles. “I didn’t know she was going to put me on the spot like that. I would have preferred to tell you not in front of everyone else.”

“Well too late,” she shrugged. “Does she know? Is that why you’re doing a story on him?”

“No,” you tugged at her arm, pulling her back towards your desk and away from a marketing woman who passed by. “She has no clue--which is shitty, I know. I guess his team wanted to do some interview with a different outlet, she brought it up maybe a week ago.”

“And you’re doing it?”

A nod. She turned a corner around someone’s desk, you kept following her.

“And you didn’t tell her that you grew up with him?”

“No! Carly, this is huge for me, okay? I know it’s fucked up and I know I’m a terrible person but she offered it to me and I couldn’t pass it up. You know I asked her for more news before Christmas.”

“I know,” she let out a sigh, slowing when she reached your cubicle. “I just--I don’t know, I kinda thought she would have asked me to do it knowing how much I like him.”

“Yeah,” you sighed, deciding to keep Whitney’s comment about professionalism to yourself. “I think she just wanted to throw me a bone and, besides, she figured I didn’t know much about him and I think she thought that would lend itself to a different take.”

She was quiet, watching as you went to sit at your desk. She leaned on the edge of your cube, another sigh escaping her mouth, she rolled her eyes back in her head as if she was about to become a puddle on the floor.

“Are you mad?”

She shrugged, made a face, and then laughed a little. “I’m jealous--I wish I had found out some other way than that. And I do think it’s kind of fucked up that you’re doing it. I mean, aren’t we supposed to be unbiased as journalists?”

You offered a challenging smirk. “And all of your stories about him have been unbiased?”

“Being a fan is different than being a friend,” she wrinkled her nose at you.

You shushed her, waving a hand to calm her down. “Listen, I know. Maybe--I dunno--maybe you can come with me when I interview him one time and I’ll tell Whitney that you were a big help and,” you paused, unsure of where you were going with it. “You can help keep me unbiased.”

She laughed a little, her head tilting to the side. “You’d let me tag along again? I wasn’t too annoying the first time?”

“Annoying? I was prepared for you to be intolerable--and you were pretty put together, surprisingly.”

She pushed some hair over her shoulder, a metaphorical pat on the back. “I was pretty cool, wasn’t I?”

“I’m sorry I didn’t get to tell you first.”

“S’alright,” she shrugged. “But I wouldn’t hate being invited. I can ask him more questions and it’ll be work!”

“How exciting!” You teased.

“Hey, not all of us know everything there is to know about him.”

“You probably know more than I do.”

“Do you know that he eats his meals one food group at a time?”

You blinked a few times, “what? No--I’ve never noticed.”

“Huh,” she pulled her head back in surprise. “Maybe I know too much.”

You’d gotten a text from Harry that afternoon--an invitation to dinner at his apartment.

Harry S (3:21pm): Just us. I’ll cook.

The sky was dark when you left work and the subway wasn’t nearly as comfortable as Roger’s leather backseat--but rides to work didn’t seem like something you should get used to.

The doorman at Harry’s building opened the door for you with a smile, the security at the front desk handed you a post-it note with his handwriting on it.

952347 - xx H

You headed for the lift, only realizing what it was when you saw the keypad above the other buttons. You pushed the button for his floor, typed in the string of numbers, and watched as the light above turned green.

He gave you the access code to his flat.

You didn’t think much of it, not until he greeted you off the lift with a kiss, the scent of dinner wafting over from the kitchen. He had a glass of wine poured on the counter--his was over by the stove.

“How was work?”

“Fine--I told Carly about us.”

“About us?”

You clarified, immediately regretting your choice of words. “About me interviewing you.”

“Oh,” he nodded, heading back to the stove to look at whatever was sizzling in the pan.

You shrugged out of your coat and hung it by the lift. “She took it fine. What are you making?” A change of topic felt necessary.

“She was fine? Really?” He stuck a spatula into the frying pan, pushing something around over heat.

“I told her maybe she could tag along to one of our meetings.”

“Meetings? S’kind of hot.” He looked at you over his shoulder, his eyebrows shot North as if he was still in middle school.

You leaned against the island now, your glass of wine in hand as he snickered to himself. It didn’t feel totally necessary to have the conversation--you know, the one post-sex where you derive some sort of meaning from whatever just occurred.

So you didn’t--you sat at the island and told him about your day, the way Whitney put you on the spot and the way Carly seemed more relaxed than you expected. He asked about the items on your desk. Stellotape? Pictures? A phone?

You told him more about Whitney, about the way she totally intimidated you at first and how one day you dreamed of having an office like hers. He smiled at you over plates of honey roasted chicken, you offered to do the dishes after.

And once you were sat on the couch, the news on as if you were just ordinary people, your phone buzzed with a FaceTime call from Jessie.

“Why’s she calling?” You looked at him quickly, your heartbeat rising when he pulled his head back.

“I don’t know--have you talked to her lately?”

“No--and it’s late there.”

You slid a thumb across the screen, a smile when you saw that she was laying in bed. “Hi, Jess--how are you?”

“Can’t sleep. Where are you?” She squinted at the new light from her screen, a yawn escaped her lips.

You moved the phone to show Harry quickly. “At Harry’s. Just had dinner.”

“Oh,” she said. “Hi Harry.”

“Hi Jessie,” he leaned towards your shoulder and offered a grin. “What’s wrong?”

She let out a dramatic sigh. “Insomnia strikes again. What are you two doing, anyway?”

“Just hanging out,” you said, your tone so casual it almost sounded suspicious, even to you.

“Yeah?” She smiled a bit, the look on her face told you she was about to say something you wouldn’t like. “You should have a monopoly rematch.”

“I didn’t cheat!” Harry said quickly, a frown crossed his face when you looked up at him.

His words immediately brought Jessie’s energy level up, she rolled her eyes and let out a sharp laugh. “Bullshit, Harry! You’ve always been rubbish at board games--there’s no way you beat all of us!”

“Maybe you just suck at buying property,” he said, his tone serious and his face still twisted--he threw in her full name for shock-value, “Jessica.”

“Okay--anyway--Jessie, maybe a good cuppa and a book?”

Another groan, she sighed and sunk deeper into her pillow. “I dunno--maybe.” She told you about a date she went on, a nice kid, good job. She reminded you that Adam’s birthday was in a week, only a few days before Harry’s.

Soon enough she bid farewell, yawning into the camera and promising she’d catch up with you soon. You knew what it meant: you have to tell me why you’re hanging out with Harry.

When you hung up the phone the room was quiet. The telly was on mute and Harry seemed to let out a yawn himself, a smile when you locked eyed.

“You didn’t tell her anything, right?”

“No--did you?”

He shook his head.

“Best to keep it to ourselves,” the words felt somewhere between a statement and a question, both woven together to fall out of your mouth and settle on the couch between you.

You hoped for some type of signal from him, but he was quiet. “Are you okay with last night?”

He turned to look at you, anxiety crossed his face. “Yeah--I--are you?”

“Yeah--I just, kind of, y’know, takes it to the next level.” Your words felt clunky and articulate.

He let out a small laugh before he let his arm rest on the back of the leather sofa. “I guess so--is that bad?”

“No, s’not, I just--I don’t want you to feel like you have to, I dunno, be nice to me.”

“Smalls, have I ever not been nice to you?”

It was your turn now to lift your brows, a challenging look in his direction as you adjusted beside him.

“Never mind,” he laughed.

“I just mean--we don’t have to, y’know, make a big deal of it.”

A nod. “You don’t want to make a big deal of it,” his tone mirrored yours, not a question, not a statement, somewhere in the middle.

“Nothing to overthink, yeah?”

“Yeah.”

Maybe you said it more for yourself and less for him. For the knot in your stomach or the rush in your veins. For the girl who was fifteen and wishing he’d come home, the girl who knew he wouldn’t. Nothing to overthink.

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Elements That Aid In Highest Quality Decal Printing

There is no specific reason why all the decals are not awesome. The cost of decal printing techniques can vary from each other to give from high to minimal quality results. That is why; it is advised to pick the great quality materials and methods. There are multiple factors involved that have a huge impact on the end results and they demand your attention while picking up the material for the decals.

Higher Resolutions:

Use the 1440 dpi resolutions for printing to match the colors and to print a complex design. It is good for detailed images that will look very amazing. The companies today can receive the lowest resolution pictures and convert them into high-resolution pictures before printing.

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Travel Guide for International Students in The UK – Affordable & Hassle Free

Whether you are an international student or not, you are free to go to the UK for any reason, including business, travel, or education. You must prepare for it because this country is different in every way. The UK might be characterised as a friendly and enjoyable nation. Of course, it's a fantastic place to study. However, it's also a great mode to meet new people, travel, and sample different cuisine. This travel guide for the UK should be a great help to you as you plan your trip.

Book your flight

When travelling to the UK, reservations for flights are crucial. Numerous websites provide discounts and exclusive packages online. If you need further clarification, you can get travel assistance from Ocxee's most knowledgeable professionals. Simply navigate to the website and log in to enjoy services provided by trusted vendors. Once you've made a decision, purchase your ticket early to receive a discount. Because your fare will be expensive if you book your ticket during an emergency period. So reserve your flight and take advantage of air travel to explore the nation of your dreams.

Travel Insurance

If you're going on a foreign trip, it's essential to get enough travel insurance before leaving. Find out if you have travel insurance and what it covers for situations related to the coronavirus, such as medical care and travel interruptions, as well as any planned activities like adventure sports. If you're choosing a new policy, be sure to check the coverage of these issues.

Make sure you are properly insured before departing on a vacation so that you are not held liable for unanticipated expenses like high-priced medical care. For more accurate results, use the insurance assistance service of Ocxee that answers your questions regarding the kind of insurance you need to purchase.

When you travel, be sure to bring the necessary information about your insurance policy, such as the policy number and the emergency support phone number, with you. In case they need to call your insurance provider on your behalf, provide your travel companions and friends or family back home with the details of your policy.

When travelling to the UK, compiled a list of documents

If you want a hassle-free trip, make sure you maintain your paperwork meticulously. The list below will be very helpful to you if you are a student.

Passport

UK Visa

Covid Vaccine Certification

Copies of identified documents

Proof of Accommodation Booking

Flight Tickets

Travel schedule information

Foreign Currency

International travel insurance policy

Contacts in the Address Book and Email

A map of the UK or the destination city

As an alternative, you could bring your driving licence. Additionally, you may want to carry the results of your tuberculosis test in case law enforcement asks for it. Also, you need to have copies of all of the documents with you. Don't forget to label your bags with your full postal address and contact information.

Apparel

There are three seasons in the UK: summer, winter, and rain. As a result, prepare your wardrobe after checking the weather on Google. Here is a list of some clothes to pack that are essential.

Jumpers

Trousers

Underwear

Socks

Shoes/trainers

Flip flops - for wearing in showers / communal wash area

Swimwear

Shirt and tie for any smart-casual events

Bathroom and Hand Towel Set

Bathrobe

Dresses

A Rug/Shawl

Coats

Scarf

Slippers

T-shirts

The type of clothing you choose is a personal decision. You have two options: either bring a lot of clothes or bring fewer clothes but wash them frequently. Remember that the dorm rooms are small when you are packing. The weight of your luggage will only go up if you bring extra clothing if you are staying in a private residence. For further information on the weight restrictions for student luggage, please refer to the rules.

Book the best student accommodation

You should arrange your accommodation before you arrive in the UK. The important thing you want is to arrive at a place to stay. Your university should be the first place you turn. Every student who applies before a specific deadline is typically guaranteed to house.

Most students either rent a room from a private landlord or live in university housing, sometimes known as "halls of residence." For your first year of college, living in residence halls is recommended since it saves you the hassle of attempting to find a suitable place elsewhere. You may easily make acquaintances at some universities because they offer halls just for international students.

Some of the top student accommodation options in central London include The Stay Club Camden, Arbury Court, iQ Shoreditch, iQ Magenta House, AXO New Cross, and iQ Hammersmith. Use Ocxee's accommodation search finder for additional details of housing options in every city in the UK.

Open your Bank Account in the UK

If you intend to stay in the UK for longer than a few months, you need open a bank account. This makes it easier to pay bills and keep your money secure. You can avoid paying foreign exchange costs by using a UK bank account to make purchases in the UK.

Opening a bank account may take some time because banks need a lot of information to confirm your identity and credit standing. Check to see whether you may begin the process in your own country to save time. Check to see whether your current bank has any connections to UK banks to make the process simpler.

Although student bank accounts are a terrific choice, not all banks provide them to international students. Use our verified list of businesses for money transfers and financial assistance.

Use an international sim card to make calls

The likelihood is that your current phone will function in the UK if you're wondering. Cellular frequencies come in two varieties: the GSM band and the CDMA band.

The majority of the world uses the same GSM band as the UK. However, it's worth double-checking if you're travelling from Japan or North or South America as your phone might not function in the UK. Your phone might not function in the UK if it only supports the CDMA band.

Ocxee provides free international SIM cards so you may stay in touch with loved ones when travelling to the UK.

Few Affordable & Hassle free places for roaming around in the UK

Museums

The majority of British museums are free to enter. There is something for everyone, regardless of your interest in the arts. The National Gallery, Natural History Museum, TATE Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum are just a few of the most well-known museums in London. Having them all be free is the nicest part.

Like the National Railway Museum in York and the National Museums in Wales, several cities in the UK are home to intriguing art galleries and museums.

Free city walks

Anywhere you are, set aside some time to take a free walking tour. Why not do it in your hometown as well? That way, you could act as a tour guide for your friends and family when they come to visit! I'm sure there would be some information and locations that you haven't heard about yet.

Guides typically request a little donation as payment after the trip. Tipping is not required and no set amount must be given.

Affordable bus fares

London has excellent connections with other European cities if your budget allows for a somewhat higher expenditure. Did you realise it would just take two hours to reach Paris? However, that is using a train, which is a little more expensive.

But if you have a few days off, take a bus and go through Europe. The name of the coach firm that offers hundreds of inexpensive routes around Europe, such as London-Amsterdam, London-Paris, and London-Brussels, is Flixbus.

Beautiful Nature Parks

Why not go experience the UK's natural beauty at the end of the day? Everywhere you go in the UK, there are beautiful National and Nature Parks. There is a sizable park, forest, or nature reserve in every region of the United Kingdom, and they all have beautiful scenery and animals. Spend the only sunny day outside!

Rutland Water, the Lake District, the Peak District, London's Hyde Park and St. James' Park are a few of the well-known locations you can travel to.

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CTON - Forecasting & Analysis of the CTBN Market Trend

The initials CTBN stand for Certificate of Therapeutic Nondestructive Inspection. A certification which ensures that the material being used for Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic uses is capable of withstanding stresses and strains to pass the tests. The purpose of this certification is to guarantee that the material is safe to work with in both practice and theory. As of now, the major applications of CTN are air conditioners, sealing & adhesives, electronics and waterproofing. In future, however,CTBN prices would be a bit lower.

As of now, there is a current market for Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic materials, as well as a current market for Therapeutic Equipment. Therapeutic uses involve applications which require the use of specialized equipment and/or machinery. These equipment can include infusion pumps, deodorizers, and lasers. Non-therapeutic uses entail various types of instruments such as imaging equipment, testing instruments, scalpels, and other tools. It should be noted that this market is growing and the current market for Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic Equipment is expected to grow in the coming years.

There are currently four major manufacturers operating in the ctbn market. These manufacturers are Kohler, Volvo, OTI, and Dow Chemical. These manufacturers control about eighty percent of the ctbn market. As per statistical research, these manufacturers concentrate their efforts on manufacturing products suited for application areas of exposure and/or corrosion resistance to specific fluids and metals. While all these areas are important, it is important to understand that the above mentioned manufacturers are primarily involved in producing goods that can be used for the manufacture of refrigeration coils.

Given the above information, it is reasonable to assume that ctbn sales volume growth will be driven by the market share gains of these manufacturers. As ctbn gains market share, there are also certain key regions that experience significant sales volume increases. Some of these regions are North America, Japan, Eastern Europe, South America, China, Australia, India, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The above specified areas boast ctbn shipments corresponding to more than thirty percent of the total ctbn volume shipped.

Based on the ctbn market report for each of the above selected regions, it is estimated that the manufacturing cost of ctbn products is predicted to increase in the coming years. In addition, there are also forecasts that the manufacturing cost of ctbn products will decrease in the coming years. The regions where ctbn shipments are increasing show an increased demand for manufactured goods from overseas vendors. This demand is likely to increase further as ctbn gains more market share. These regions also appear to be witnessing a strong growth in private sector consumption of ctbn products.

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Summary

Further key aspects of the report indicate that:

Chapter 1: Research Scope: Product Definition, Type, End-Use & Methodology

Chapter 2: Global Industry Summary

Chapter 3: Market Dynamics

Chapter 4: Global Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 5: North America Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 6: Europe Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 7: Asia-Pacific Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 8: South America Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 9: Middle East and Africa Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use.

Chapter 10: Market Competition by Companies

Chapter 11: Market forecast and environment forecast.

Chapter 12: Industry Summary.

The global CTBN market has the potential to grow with xx million USD with growing CAGR in the forecast period from 2021f to 2026f. Factors driving the market for @@@@@ are the significant development of demand and improvement of COVID-19 and geo-economics.

Based on the type of product, the global CTBN market segmented into

CTBN with 8-12% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 12-18% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 18-22% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 22-27% Acrylonitrile

Others

Based on the end-use, the global CTBN market classified into

Adhesives & Sealants

Coating

Electronic Appliances

Aerospace

Composites

Others

Based on geography, the global CTBN market segmented into

North America [U.S., Canada, Mexico]

Europe [Germany, UK, France, Italy, Rest of Europe]

Asia-Pacific [China, India, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, Rest of Asia Pacific]

South America [Brazil, Argentina, Rest of Latin America]

Middle East & Africa [GCC, North Africa, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa]

And the major players included in the report are

Emerald Performance Materials

Zibo Qilong Chemical

CTBN Market report offers great insights of the market and consumer data and their interpretation through various figures and graphs. Report has embedded global market and regional market deep analysis through various research methodologies. The report also offers great competitor analysis of the industries and highlights the key aspect of their business like success stories, market development and growth rate.

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Cumene Market

Cut and Stack Labels Market

Cutting Boards Market

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CTON - Forecasting & Analysis of the CTBN Market Trend

Summary

Further key aspects of the report indicate that:

Chapter 1: Research Scope: Product Definition, Type, End-Use & Methodology

Chapter 2: Global Industry Summary

Chapter 3: Market Dynamics

Chapter 4: Global Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 5: North America Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 6: Europe Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 7: Asia-Pacific Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 8: South America Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use

Chapter 9: Middle East and Africa Market Segmentation by region, type and End-Use.

Chapter 10: Market Competition by Companies

Chapter 11: Market forecast and environment forecast.

Chapter 12: Industry Summary.

Based on the type of product, the global CTBN market segmented into

CTBN with 8-12% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 12-18% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 18-22% Acrylonitrile

CTBN with 22-27% Acrylonitrile

Others

Based on the end-use, the global CTBN market classified into

Adhesives & Sealants

Coating

Electronic Appliances

Aerospace

Composites

Others

Based on geography, the global CTBN market segmented into

North America [U.S., Canada, Mexico]

Europe [Germany, UK, France, Italy, Rest of Europe]

Asia-Pacific [China, India, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, Rest of Asia Pacific]

South America [Brazil, Argentina, Rest of Latin America]

Middle East & Africa [GCC, North Africa, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa]

And the major players included in the report are

Emerald Performance Materials

Zibo Qilong Chemical

CTO Distillation Market

Cumene Market

Cut and Stack Labels Market

Cutting Boards Market

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At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On

MILAN — Every Sunday morning here a time-warped market springs up in via Armorari and along a triangle of neighboring streets just steps from the great cathedral, the Duomo. On folding tables and the steps of the old post office vendors sell curious ephemera, principally postcards, coins and stamps.

The Mercatino Filatelico e Numismatico was founded in 1938, when Benito Mussolini’s Fascist party — which had come to power on a promise to transform an economically crippled and divided nation into a new Roman empire — still had a fragmented Italy in its grip. By then the country already was two years into an unholy alliance with Nazi Germany and another two away from going to war.

This is prehistoric stuff by the standards of a digital era. Yet for many in a country with a notably aging population, the past is, to paraphrase Faulkner is never dead and not even past.

At the Mercatino Filatelico one can find Fascist period currency adorned with an imperial eagle for 10 euros ($11.13) or, for a little more, a propaganda postcard of the Führer embracing towheaded Hitler youths, if you have a stomach for such things.

Whether consciously or not, Italy’s wartime past still shapes the work of many top designers here, who themselves represent an aging national population. It informs their outlook. It creeps into their collections. It is there whether they concede it or not.

Giorgio Armani

Take Giorgio Armani, who at 85 is the product of that war, a man impoverished and hungry as a child, badly burned and temporarily blinded by an accident with an unexploded shell at 9, and who emerged in adulthood a personality so driven that, even now — a billionaire many times over — he lives to work.

At a guess, few going into an Armani emporium are likely to note in his output the echoes of a formative and terrible past (although the more informed among them may pause a moment to ponder the eagle that is Mr. Armani’s insignia). Yet the most consistent and powerful sense at Armani shows is of a tropism toward the war years and the images of them that he has retained.

Military uniforms are the basis of a lot of men’s wear and yet you do not have to look all that hard at an Armani show to see how this season’s down-filled Alpine blanket ponchos resemble gear that was worn by Greek troops to cross the Alps or how the shearling versions of the cappotto di montone, or mountain coat, derive from images that would have been seared into the consciousness of anyone who saw a newspaper during the war.

Of course, Mr. Armani presents these things in fancy updated versions — technical fabrics, silk blends, swank velvets — and not regulation olive drab or the uniform wool that must have weighed a ton when it became caked with mud and snow.

Yet at the peculiar little Sunday market there are plenty of postcards depicting World War II soldiers who look as though they might have walked right out of a Giorgio Armani show.

Fendi

“Buy less, buy durable things — that’s going to be the future,’’ Silvia Venturini Fendi said before her show on Monday morning.

Hers is also an ethos ripped from an austere wartime past. Ms. Fendi is just 59 and yet lately she, too, has been preoccupied by an almost military utility in men’s wear, as she said before her presentation, and by clothes that have at least the interior functionality she invests in one of her brand’s famous Baguette bags.

Practically speaking, that translates into a style of jacket that zips apart to become a bolero (or, more aptly, an Eisenhower) and that resembles an ironic glamour take on hiker daddy gear from REI. Patch pockets for stowing credit cards, hand-held devices and cigars were added to clothing because … why? Weighty mid-calf Army gumboots similar to ones that also turned up at Ferragamo, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada were amped up with supersize lug soles that gave the models the appearance of giants, another battle trick.

“I like men’s legs,’’ Ms. Fendi said, referring to the trousers she had designed with pants legs and redundant and encumbering skirting at the rear. These not only made scant practical sense but lacked the advantage of demonstrating the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” axiom that men often have the best gams.

At the Fendi show the big reveal was a group of photochromic coats created in collaboration with Kunihiko Morinaga, the Anrealage designer who was shortlisted for the 2019 LVMH Prize. They were meant to change color or reveal hidden patterns when exposed to ultraviolet rays.

At the show’s finale, four models walked onto the runway and froze as banks of UV lighting were lowered around them. In the abstract, it was fascinating to ponder future uses of smart fabrics that react to environmental factors — particularly the military camouflage they were designed to produce.

Yet, as sunlamps descended and the white coats turned Fendi yellow, I suddenly found myself wondering what had become of that mood ring I had in seventh grade.

Prada

Miuccia Prada is another child of World War II, although, at 70, she is, of course, too young to have experienced it firsthand. But we all know enough about transgenerational transmission of trauma to understand that even that someone born four years after the war ended grew up steeped in the legacies of its ordeals.

Her show on Sunday, she said afterward, resulted from an urge to consider honest work, intelligence and culture a bulwark against what she called the “chaos’’ of our time. Was she referring to the racism, xenophobia and political intolerance that increasingly characterize the political landscape of Europe? She did not say.

Maybe Ms. Prada had the uncertainties of an unregulated gig economy in mind when she designed a collection that was, by turns, handsome and severe (double-breasted cavalry-style greatcoats; boxy jackets; stirrup trousers) and fanciful enough (tailored pajamas and sleeveless sweaters) to suit both “permalancers” marching off to corporate headquarters and those whose work arrangements allow them to slouch around at home in their underpants.

Either way, the Prada show had a quality that seldom deserts her, that of intellectual strictness. Held at the Prada Foundation headquarters — one of the more compelling private artistic philanthropies — and on a set constructed for the occasion and that evoked a corrida (some called it a de Chirico painting, an inevitable default whenever there is a colonnade) the show made the case for Milan’s position as a thriving laboratory for experimental industrial design.

Fashion may be Italy’s second-largest business sector (after industrial fabrication.) And Milan may be, as many now say, the New York of Italy. Yet if not for Prada’s continued existence, you would have to give those laurels to Florence which — at a fifth of Milan’s population and a fraction of its size — is by contrast an Italian Renaissance Podunk.

Gucci

Alessandro Michele may have done as much as anyone around to combat toxic masculinity when, as Gucci’s newly named creative director, he introduced to mainstream fashion gender ideas that registered as radical. It was only five years ago that Mr. Michele had his prophetic men’s wear debut at Gucci, offering girlie clothes and fur-lined mules worn by sexually ambiguous beings that were presumably — or at least genitally — men. As it turned out, Mr. Michele was perhaps not so much a savant as some kind of cultural dowser, wandering the landscape with a trusty witching wand.

He was certainly early to divine an erosion of fixed gender roles already underway in the broader culture and then shrewdly to commercialize it. Or was it cunning?

Mr. Michele is, he said in an interview before his men’s wear show, someone who works from instinct. The notes he issued to explain his latest presentations may have been scripted in gender studies gobbledygook dense enough to make a knotty Judith Butler treatise seem like“Horton Hears a Who!’’ Yet the man himself is far less complicated, driven by emotion more than rationality or marketing. And, while he is a frank nostalgist, he is no dope.

His understanding of the allure for a digital generation of the mystical, the symbolic, the analog and even the occult turned Gucci into the single biggest-selling fashion label in Italy. In a sense he is like those stamp collectors at the Mercatino Filatelico — compelled by the markers and emblems of a past that, while there in plain sight, we barely register anymore.

Others may have seen in his latest presentation — in a return to the men’s wear schedule in Milan after several seasons away — a swing of the pendulum. Mr. Michele all but guaranteed that take-away by setting a giant one swinging at the center of a convention space covered in sand and then surrounding it with tiered seating resembling the jury boxes from “Judgment at Nuremberg.’’

From the perspective of this observer, his show — of baby-doll dresses worn as overshirts, shrunken and holey sweaters, grandpa tweed coats, grass-stained denims, and lamé or brocade trousers that looked as though you had run them up yourself on a Singer — read as a continuation of the history lesson that he has been delivering all along.

Mr. Michele cannot, at 48, have even a second hand experience of wartime conditions. Yet whether he concedes it or not those years, to a surprising extent, inform his work and not because it was a time of gender dispersion. The past is an occupied country and when Mr. Michele talked about his show as a return to the childhood joy of self discovery, free from gender constraints, he was speaking the language of anyone whose consciousness or experience has ever been colonized.

Like a lot of marginalized people — Mr. Michele is gay — he evolved a rich fantasy life and a knack for subverting narratives that historically left little room for people like him. The irony is that he then took those sustaining fairy tales and used them to conquer the world.

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Sunlight Inks Market 2023: Industry Size Outlook, Increasing Trend Diversity, Analysis, Future Scope

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Illegal Abortion Will Mean Abortion By Mail

With the prospect of a more conservative Supreme Court on the horizon, some progressive women have begun to fear what will happen if Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion, is overturned. Some of these prophecies have centered on a popular meme in the pro-choice community: The coat hanger.

During a recent rally, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon held up a wire coat hanger as a warning that we should not return to the previous generation’s means of obtaining illicit abortions. And Representative Lois Frankel, a Democrat from Florida, banged a coat hanger on the table at a briefing while discussing the latest Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

And this isn’t counting the many happy hours in progressive cities that have become peppered with gallows-humor cracks about coat hangers and back alleys.

But medical technology has progressed significantly since Roe was decided in 1973, and we—realistically, fortunately—won’t see a return to women using coat hangers or other implements to self-abort. Instead, it’s more likely that more and more women will turn to shady online pharmacies to buy abortion pills through the mail—a practice that is already occurring with surprising frequency and effectiveness around the world.

Women who want to have an abortion early in their pregnancies can take a combination of two drugs: misoprostol, whose brand name is Cytotec, and mifepristone, which is also called RU486. They are both on the World Health Organization’s “List of Essential Medicines,” which means they are considered safe and effective. The combination can be used until about the tenth week of pregnancy, and the medications are already used in roughly a third of all abortions.

Misoprostol, which also treats ulcers, is available in pharmacies, and it’s about 85 percent effective in inducing an abortion on its own. It is much more effective when used with mifepristone, but FDA restrictions dictate that patients can’t receive mifepristone even at a retail pharmacy, and possibly not through the mail, either. Most abortion providers think it’s really only legally safe to dispense mifepristone to patients directly, in person. In some places, like the Hawaiian island of Kauai, there are no abortion providers, and women must take a 300-mile round-trip flight to get an abortion. So instead, many turn to Google.

Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, conducted interviews with 32 people from 20 states who sought out abortion pills online for a study she and her colleagues published last week. She found women turned to mail-order abortions because a clinic-based abortion was too expensive, or because state restrictions around abortions—like waiting periods and ultrasound laws—were too onerous. Some just preferred the privacy and convenience of doing their own abortion at home.

These online abortion pill pharmacy websites, though, seem to give the women pause. They seem illegitimate and are riddled with broken English: “In this recession growing economy were we can’t afford more childrens, we need some source which can be easily available online,” one website notes. Some of the websites pop up, then shut down unexpectedly. It would be difficult for these same pharmacies to open up in the U.S., since FDA regulations require pharmacy patients to have prescriptions. In the end, none of the people Aiken interviewed ordered the pills, instead opting for unreliable herbal treatments or a last-minute clinic visit.

For a study published earlier this year, Elizabeth Raymond, a senior medical associate at the research organization Gynuity, Googled phrases like “buy abortion pills online.” The researchers ended up ordering 18 of the pill combinations from 16 different websites, none of which required a prescription. The pills came from India, where there is a large generic-drug industry. Shipments cost between $110 and $360, and the packages took between three days and three weeks to arrive.

Even then, it wasn’t entirely smooth sailing, as Raymond and her co-authors write:

Two buyers received troubling communications from product vendors. One warned about the legality of purchasing online: “Please do not share this info with any other side because investigation team is searching the details for this type of medicine.” In the second case, the vendor complained that he was unable to get payment from the online payment platform and threatened to withhold shipment until the buyer paid another way. After some convincing, he finally sent the product. In addition, one buyer who paid with Western Union received two fraud alert calls—one from Western Union advising against purchasing pharmaceuticals online and another from her credit card company.

Raymond noticed that some of the blister packs of pills were broken. “It’s our speculation that the shippers are afraid that the customs service will be able to feel through the packaging and see that that there are pills in there, so they crush the blister pack,” she says.

Although the mifepristone pills contained the expected amount of the medication, most of the misoprostol pills contained less than the labeled dose. (They might still work, even at a lower dose, Raymond says.) What’s more, none of the pills came with instructions for use.

Still, says Daniel Grossman, an obstetrics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “it doesn’t appear that women are having serious complications” from these DIY regimens. If the pills are taken late, they could still work, but are less likely to. Mifeprex, the brand name for mifepristone, has been used by more than three million women in the United States and has caused 19 deaths, a rate of adverse events that’s lower than that of Viagra.

Pro-life groups, meanwhile, insist that the pills are not safe. Because of the risk of ectopic pregnancy, among other reasons, “the practice of obtaining abortion pills over the internet is risky, and it ought to be illegal,” says Steve Aden, chief legal officer at the pro-life group Americans United for Life. (Grossman says that while attempting to self-abort could delay the diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy, the pills don't affect ectopic pregnancies or make them worse.) The people held accountable, Aden says, should be the companies providing the pills, rather than the women themselves.

If Roe is overturned, Raymond says, the abortion landscape will roughly look like this: “In some states, abortion will still be legal, so people will travel to those states. Some people won’t get abortions. Some people will get abortions, but later. And more people will probably use these alternative methods for getting the service.”

Women on Web, a Canada-based service, ships the abortion pills to patients who live in countries where abortion is illegal. Rebecca Gomperts, the organization’s founder, says the organization gets 10,000 emails each month asking for help and staffs a help desk that speaks 17 languages. The service asks women to fill out an online form about their health status, which doctors in various countries review, then fill prescriptions for the abortion pills. In 12 years, she estimates they’ve helped 70,000 women perform their own abortions.

Women on Web doesn’t ship pills to the United States, however, because as Gomperts told me, in America “there’s such an aggressive anti-abortion movement that will do anything they can to close down services. It could potentially jeopardize all the other work of Women on Web.”

The United States, she said, “should be able to solve its own problems” regarding abortion access. “It’s a very rich country,” she added. “The problem there is caused by the huge inequality in the society. There’s no reason the situation in the U.S. should be the way it is.”

If women do start turning to web-based services in greater numbers, it raises the question of whether they’ll face legal risks. Gomperts says it’s legal, in most countries, to receive medicine through the mail for personal use. But other experts I spoke with were not so sure.

The SIA Legal Team, a group of lawyers who specialize in women who induce their own abortions, knows of 21 people who have been arrested or prosecuted for ending their pregnancies outside a medical setting, or for helping someone else do so. (It might be an undercount, since the organization relies on news reports to track cases.) The charges brought against women who self-abort can range from child abuse, to the abuse of a corpse, to a failure to report a death, says Jill Adams, SIA’s chief strategist.

None of the women were prosecuted for buying abortion pills, specifically. But Adams notes that buying pills online and even Googling “buy abortion pills” can leave a paper trail that can be used as evidence in a trial.

Because of this risk, Plan C, an organization that provides information on self-abortion, says some people seeking abortion pills try installing private networks on their computers in order to hide their search history, use secure texting services like Signal, or pay with Bitcoin and other private methods.

In seven states, self-induced abortion is already illegal. In 2015, a woman in Indiana named Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide after she allegedly used abortion pills she ordered online. Prosecutors claimed her fetus had been born alive, and she allowed it to die. Her conviction was later overturned on appeal.

Sites like Women on Web tell women that if they require medical attention after aborting at home, they should just tell the doctors they had a miscarriage. The doctors shouldn’t be able to perceive the difference, they say. “The police in some countries put a lot of pressure on women to confess,” Gomperts said. “They should never confess that they did [abort].” If women are further along than 10 weeks, the service sometimes advises them to go to the emergency room of a hospital and take the pills there, in case complications occur.

If Roe is overturned, abortion laws would be up to the states, and about 22 states would likely ban abortion, Amy Myrick, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, recently told Kaiser Health News. In those states, Grossman speculated, doctors might begin to practice harm-reduction by, for example, giving women information about how to use the pills, without providing the actual pills themselves.

However, it’s not likely that, say, a doctor in California could prescribe abortion pills to a woman in Texas over the internet, since Texas has already outlawed the practice of telemedicine abortion, and it would likely continue to do so.

It’s also possible that Roe won’t be overturned outright, but abortion restrictions will tighten further under a more conservative Supreme Court. That’s already the reality for women in many states. Across wide swaths of the country, women must take multiple days off work and drive for hundreds of miles to get an abortion because their home states have imposed waiting periods or created restrictions that have caused clinics to close. In the past seven years, states have enacted nearly 1,200 such restrictions.

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Indeed, while late-spring proms, summer weddings, and holiday all remain key selling seasons in this category, the business in this area has become a more year-round one. “Our clients tell us they don’t have to markdown our formalwear unless we’re using a really seasonal fabric,” says Mark Spero, vice president of Lubiam USA (which launched its evening wear line, Luigi Bianchi Mantova Flirt earlier this year). “Otherwise, it’s a seasonless business, and the more basic tuxedos really maintain their margin.”

“It’s become a super-strong classification for both us and our clients year-round,” notes Vince Marrone, CEO of Respektwear, which manufacturers Paisley & Gray (where suits range from $275-$315). “What I hear from stores everywhere is that if you do it right and give the consumer something a little different, they will start buying it not just for a specific occasion, but in order to wear it for almost any occasion.”

“The dinner jackets we provide at Tallia Orange are different than anything on the selling floor and we are able to offer the customer this sort of fashion at very accessible prices,” says Suzanne Anderson, vice president and creative director of Peerless Clothing. “And since guys know that their wife or partner is looking amazing when they go out, he does not want to wear the same boring blazer or trousers to a party anymore.”

Unquestionably, the trend towards slimmer cuts has been a boon to the industry, especially those companies serving the younger consumer. “One of the reasons we’re launching a larger capsule for spring/summer ’18 is we discovered that the younger, more modern consumer not only likes this new cut of formalwear, he understands it,” says Spero (whose jackets run in the $1,095-$1,195 range). “And they don’t just see it as formalwear, they see it as fashion.”

Adds Nelson Suriel, executive vice president of Jack Victor USA (who also oversees the Ted Baker line of formalwear, with both lines offering suits in the $795-895 range): “With many younger guys being more in shape today than ever before, there is a real need for more 7- and 8-inch drops and this observation has led us to increase our offerings in our stock programs”

Most of all, many consumers are drawn to the ability to buy “formalwear” as separates, leading to multiple uses for both the jackets and pants. “Our customers like the convenience of buying the jacket as separates, especially if he can buy the jacket in one size and the pant in another,” notes Anderson. “In fact, when we sell Tallia in the ‘Designer Collections’ of stores, the pants are more aggressive in modeling like a jogger or cropped trouser and will often outsell the matching jacket, but when we sell the line in a “Tailored” department, the jackets sell more evenly to our pants.”

“Separates are a big selling point for younger customers because they seem to favor buying complimentary pieces rather than matching suits,” notes Marrone. “For that reason, we try to come up with two or three groups of suits each season that are interchangeable.”

“Both formal and informal events are dictating a lot of separate coat and pant sales,” affirms a spokesperson for national chain Men’s Wearhouse. “Separates not only accommodate the size preferences of our customers, but they also love the option to mix and match pieces in order to create looks that are both unique and versatile. Personalization is such an important part of the business.”

In addition, many young consumers are using these pieces as just part of an ensemble, pairing them with sportswear and other pieces they already own. Adds Suriel: “We have definitely found that some guys are buying our jackets, especially our solid ones, to wear out with denim or five-pocket pants.”

Indeed, solids remain on the market, especially in colors such as black, burgundy, navy and (coming for both spring and fall), teal and turquoise, but variety is key. We are still seeing a trend in navy blue tuxedos, but we are also are seeing an interest in fancy dinner jackets with a pattern with a traditional tuxedo pant. It’s a great look and an amazing way to change up your formal wear style!” says Lindsay Morton Gaiser, buyer for Denver-based specialty store Andrisen Morton.

“Guys are still looking for colors, such as navy, burgundy and light gray,” affirms Rubenstein. “They also love textured and fun multi-colored coats that can be used with a pair of jeans for a cool night out and with a pair of black tux pants for a formal event are popular. I even had a customer who made a black and white herringbone tux coat with black satin lapels and satin trim, and which had an Alabama football jersey for the lining — for his wedding!”

Adds Tallia’s Anderson, “We are always testing new ideas, which means we are adding more details and fancy fabrics to our trouser offerings. We’re also working with different types of lining designs and appliques for fall ’18. As fashion accent colors, we are focusing on different types of greens, but we also feel strongly about reds and yellows. For patterns,we are seeing a lot of camo and animal prints as well. If it’s different, it will sell.”

“Our customer definitely wants something new, so everything I design has a twist,” says Alison Mangaroo, creative director of Paisley & Gray. “It might be a fantastic lining, a great trim, a contrasting fabric under the collar; it might also be using a tartan pattern or wide stripe. Because younger people have more confidence than the older generation, they can not only wear cooler stuff, they practically demand it. No kid really wants a basic black jacket anymore.”

Lastly, as Rubenstein wisely points out, great merchandising is just as important as great merchandise. “During ‘formal season,’ we always have a fully dressed mannequin in the front of the store or in one of our large windows,” he notes. “Customers don’t think about replacing their tuxedos unless they see one that impresses them, or it no longer fits since the last time they wore it! Either way, the mannequin will usually trigger the memory and lead to purchasing!”

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