#so i left early lol and now i am Simming

[ofmdee]

an Angel 😇

[ithinkabouttzu]

Boy Next Door || pt. 2

A Choi Beomgyu Fic

Word Count: 3.3k

Summary: y/n has been neighbors and frenemies with an insufferable boy, Beomgyu for quite some time. When one day he wakes her up to an offer of a lifetime. A fake relationship with him, in return to get back at her ex and his fling.

Warnings: Fake relationships, beaten windows, an obnoxious Beomgyu, bad driving, a cheek kiss, ex bestfriends & boyfriends, a hint of betrayal, Jake Sim is your ex lol.

{pairing: Beomgyu x Female oc}

“y/n”

“y/n cmon wake up”

You jolt up from your sleep from the commotion, to see a tall man in front of you, and in fear, you jump back from your previous spot on the bed, still half asleep, you grab the closest thing to you, a pen from your night stand, and hold it out warningly towards the suspicious man until you hear a familiar voice.

“chill y/n it’s me,” He says in a loud whisper, holding his hands out in defense.

You move quickly putting the pen on your night stand, turning the lamp on.

“You scared the shit out of me gyu!! Don’t do that again, you hear?!” You see his mischievous eyes catching yours for a second, the sunrise shine was hitting Beomgyu’s face in the most perfect way. It was almost angelic the way he looks right now, if only he didn’t act like aggravating you was a sport.

Looking at him, you catch yourself being stared at also, then suddenly feel yourself getting nervous by his strong, hard gaze. You grab your phone, breaking the contact between you two, and taking your first look at it.

The first thing you see it was, 8:13 AM. It was 8 in the morning, 8 in the freakin morning and Beomgyu was already annoying you.

“How did you even get in my house you creep?!”

“First How dare you call me a creep? I thought you loved me Y/n!” He says with his best dramatic sigh, Raising his hands to his chest in a heartfelt gesture, then raising his hand to his forehead in a cinematic way.

You form the biggest side eye you could in that moment, before throwing one of your many pillows onto him, pushing him out of his acting scene, and dramatically falling onto your bed.

“Wasn’t that good? You know, with my amazing looks, I could be an actor if I really wanted to.” He says smirking to himself. Sometimes his boasting was so frequent, you didn’t know whether he was being joking or not.

“Actually answer my question. How’d you get into my house?” You look down at him, he was laying back down into your bed, right beside you, only difference between you two is that you were sitting up right .

“Answer mine first, do you think i’m handsome enough to be an actor, y/n? C’mon say what you think, doll. ”

You hated when he called you pet names, it never failed to bring a deep shade of red onto your cheeks, or bring a smile to your lips. That’s the one thing you also hated about Beomgyu, besides the violence he’s committed your window, he was actually quite charming, You knew he wasn’t interested in an acting career or your opinion, all he wanted was for you to call him handsome. All he wanted was for YOU to compliment him, and it’s almost like he attentively chooses these words, just so he can get a reaction out of you.

“Sure, you are very handsome.”

“Very handsome? I didn’t know you felt that way about me, y/n.”

“Just tell me how you got in here!” You glare at him strongly, you weren’t up for playing games, especially at this hour.

“Okay chill y/n, Your mom let me in before she left for work.” He props himself up with his elbows, looking up you for your reaction.

“Unbelievable. Why would she let YOU in?”

“Because she loves me y/n that’s why”

“Yeah sure thing Gyu” You reply in the most sarcastic manner possible.

You twist your body onto the side of your bed, preparing your body to get up from your comfortable position. Your plan was going to be to get ready before he actually got here, but of course, life never goes as plan.

“Okay. So what’s the deal, why are you here so early?”

“Well, I…” He trailed off, looking up at your ceiling blankly. You could tell from the look on his face, he was trying to find the right words for whatever he was about to avow.

“I- I wanted to maybe take you out for breakfast, or boba… If you want! And we could talk there ya’ know?” He looks down from the ceiling and looks towards you in confirmation.

Was he asking you on a date? Maybe not a date but asking out your female friend for breakfast was definitely a bold move, well, especially friends that have the same relationship as you and gyu.

“mmmm, lemme’ think about it. Are you paying?”

“Sure y/n” He chuckles out, his head that was tilted low to the ground was now raised up and bright.

“Let me get ready, then we’ll go, okay?” You get up, starting to look around for the clothes that you’ll need for breakfast.

“Okay” you look back at him to see he has not moved one inch, still holding the pillow you threw at him.

“Get out!” You motion to the door. Ready for him to make his exit.

“Okay. I’m driving though”

~~~

Oh god. You know the one thing that was scarier than going to spring formal with Beomgyu? His driving.

“Slow down gyu! You’re gonna kill us with driving like that.” You hold on to your seatbelt as he took a sharp turn left, if he turned just a second later, you guys would’ve been T - boned by a semi truck.

“My driving is just fine, it’s just everyone else’s driving that sucks.” he snickers back at you. Beomgyu was swerving around town just so you guys could get some breakfast, if you were lucky you’d be able to actually eat food after this. his bad driving could make anyone lose their appetite.

You guys finally get to the place, it’s a nice, bohemian styled coffee/breakfast shop downtown. You order pancakes with an iced coffee and he just gets a black coffee.

“Just black Coffee? What are you, 40?” You retort at him.

“Sophisticated coffee for a sophisticated person.” He replies back arrantly.

Beomgyu was anything but sophisticated.

You guys settled for a seat by the window, almost no one was there but you guys, and an old man with a cup of coffee at the back of the store.

“Okay so what do we need to talk about? I’m all ears.” You lean back in your chair, If you had to be dragged along to his spring formal, then he was going to be the one to make all of the plans.

“Okay so” As he starts the waitress brings out your food and drinks, you could smell the warm pancakes being placed on the table with a mixture of his Black coffee.

“What a nice couple, you guys let me know if you need anything.” The waitress smiled and left before you could correct her.

“See! If we look like a couple to strangers, we can definitely look like a couple at formal” Beomgyu exclaimed out, he definitely had a unique way of thinking.

“Alright so, here’s the list, it’s now spring break, Sunday to be exact, we have 6 DAYS to get everything in motion, The dance is Saturday. I already looked and most dress shops are closed downtown today, so we can go tomorrow, we’ll go looking for dresses first, then we can look for a tuxedo, for me. ”

You hear all of these plans he’s made go out of his mouth, What was the point of coming here if he already had planned everything out?

“Okay so why are we here then?”

“To decide what colors we’re gonna wear of course, We can’t NOT match” He says insolently as rolls his eyes at you.

“Really? We could’ve had this conversation in my bed.” You roll your eyes back at him, you could’ve still been asleep if it weren’t for him.

“Okay so let’s think, what’s your favorite color?” He asks you with a smile, you think to yourself, only for the most obvious answer to come out of your mouth.

“Purple”

“Purple it is then! Wait, what do you think Hazel and Jake are wearing? What if they wear Purple?” You see his chest fill up with sighs of stress. He was one big ball of energy in the morning. He was worried about colors and dresses and all you could think about was how good your pancakes taste.

“I doubt they’ll wear purple, probably something tacky, like yellow or something” You roll your eyes yet again, why does Gyu even care what they wear?

“Hey! I like yellow, it has a nice touch to my skin” He touches his face lightly before rambling on again.

“So, what shade of purple? lavender, baby purple, dark purple?”

“Baby Purple? That’s even a thing Beomgyu??” You yell out into the conversation. “Purple, just purple is my favorite color, period.”

“Well that was great help” He rolls his eyes yet again at you. “At least give me some type of detail, dark purple, or light purple?”

“Light Purple” Dark purple wouldn’t necessarily look bad, but it wouldn’t look as good as a lighter shade of purple on you and Beomgyu.

“Okay great, you know actually, lavender would look nice on you, y/n” He smiles up

at you.

Beomgyu was being nice? This was definitely a very rare occurrence, he was usually so occupied on annoying and harassing you that he left little room for some actually nice words.

“Thank you Gyu, You look nice in any color.” You give a compliment back to him, it was true though, he really did look good in every shade of color.

“So, are we ready to leave now? That’s all we had to talk about, right?” You eat the lasts of your pancake, and grab your purse, gathering all your things to leave, as the waitress brings in your check.

“And, well” He pauses while scratching the back of his head. “Ya’ know..”

“What?!” You raise your voice slightly. Beomgyu was officially pushing your patience, He turned a cute moment between you two, into an annoying interrogation. Having a conversation with him was the equivalent to a conversation with a toddler.

“You know, we should probably tell our parents when we get back, I mean, We can’t go shopping for outfits if they don’t know” He breaks eye contact, moving his head towards the window, looking outside to the pretty weather.

“Yeah. You’re right.” You say lowly, the thought of having to tell your parents suddenly gave you a wave of second thoughts. You didn’t think this through, this wasn’t a good idea, no, this wasn’t a good idea at all, you should’ve never agreed to this.

Bringing our families in this could hurt more than we think, how will we even tell them? You think to yourself, as all of these thoughts swarm around your head.

“I mean, your mom’s already kinda suspicious of us, when she let me in this morning she asked me like, a million questions.” He rambled on.

“Really? What’d she ask?” You were now intrigued to what he had to say.

“Why I knocked on the front door, because, ya’ know, I usually throw shit at your window”

“Why didn’t you wake me up from the window?” You were actually curious. There was never a situation serious enough where he didn’t resort to window beating.

“Well, I- uh” He takes his eyes off of yours again and back to the window.

“You know, I uh, thought I should wake you up in person is all, just because, you’re gonna be my date, and well we have a lot to get done.” He smiled awkwardly at you.

Gyu always had a way of words, his comebacks and charm never failed to make a smirk appear on other people’s faces, but with you, he wasn’t like that, he was funny, and witty and awkward. It was cute he showed that side of him to you.

You smiled at him before moving on with the conversation . “Let’s text our family group chat, okay?” You suggest to him.

With a quick text to your mom asking if you could invite the Choi’s over for a family dinner, it was officially. You and Beomgyu were going to tell your families tonight about the formal tonight, and whatever their reaction was could determine whether you guys even go together or not.

Despite Beomgyu’s usual loud, fast driving, this car ride home was quiet, and slow. You could see the nervousness all over Beomgyu’s face, even though he tried covering it up, you could notice it clear as day.

You finally could see the familiarity in the streets, knowing you were close to your and Beomgyu’s house.

“What do you think they’ll think?” You hear him say, not taking his eyes off of the road. “I don’t think they’ll mind” You reply back. What could he be so worried about?

“You know, i’ve never really had a girlfriend.” You hear him reply back. “I meant I’ve had flings here and there, but not ever a real girlfriend”

“Really?” You were surprised. One because you see girls sneak in and out of his window almost all the time. Secondly, Beomgyu is arguably one of the most attractive boys in your town, and he’s never had a girlfriend? Ever?

“Really. Just never really found the right one.” Before you guys could continue with the conversation, you had already arrived at Beomgyus home.

“I’ll see you tonight, okay?” He looks out of his car window towards you.

“Yeah of course! I’ll see you then.” You send him a sly wink before getting out of his car and walking the 10 feet distance to your house.

You feel the anxiousness creep up into your stomach. You needed to get ready for tonight. If his parents didn’t except your “relationship”, then the whole thing would probably be off.

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You looked in the mirror one last time, examining every strain of your hair, Your outfit was simple, but in this case, simple is key. You don’t want to seem like a showboat to his parents.

Why are you nervous anyway? The Choi family has known you for years now. Why all of a sudden does it matter what you wear around them?

You check over your makeup one more time, before closing your bathroom door.

“Come down, y/n! The Choi’s are here!”

It was now or never.

The smell of Korean bbq captivated your nostrils with joy as you walked down the stairs of your house.

“Y/n! It’s so great to see you!” Mrs. Choi

greeted you with a big hug as you met her at the end of the steps.

“It’s great to see you too!” As you hug her, you feel holes burning into your head, the culprit, would be the one and only Choi Beomgyu, right behind Mrs. Choi, giving you the biggest smirk on his face. If only they knew what would be said tonight.

“Come outside on the patio! We’ll serve our bulgolgi there!” Your dad yells, closing the back porch door on his way outside.

~~

Everyone was in their own seats chewing on their bulgolgi, the dads talking to the each other about god knows that, as were both of your moms were going on about your siblings and Beomgyu’s older brothers. It seemed as if even though you two were the ones actually present, neither of you had enough good going on to peak any of their interests.

*BING*

You hear the sound coming from your phone, and of course you pick it up out of curiosity, to see a text message from the boy sitting right beside you.

“Wanna to tell them?” The text message says in front of your screen.

You look up from your phone to Beomgyu, nodding your head. He clearly got the message because right after, because he cleared his throat, catching everyone’s attention and making them go silent.

Beomgyu sits up, making eye contact everyone before looking at you. “Alright guys, me and y/n have been meaning to tell you something” You sit up too, joining Beomgyu.

“Oh my God, you got her pregnant!” Mr. Choi exclaims, leaning back in his chair in shock.

“I knew they were together! See that’s why he’s been coming over to see her so early!” You mom chimes in.

“Son, what did I tell you about protection?!” Mrs. Choi yells out. You look over to your dad, to see a plain disappointment look on his face.

A wave of embarrassment washes over your face as you hear these words come from your parents and his.

“WHAT?! NOOO!” Beomgyu sits back down, leaving you the only one standings

“I am definitely not pregnant!” You join the sitting group of people, pointing your finger out aggressively.

“Why would you think that? I was gonna say that we’re going to spring formal together!” When Beomgyu said that the whole patio when silent. You could almost hear a needle drop if you listened close enough.

“Really! Well that’s great honey!” Your mom clapped her hands together in excitement. You could see Mrs. Choi walk around the table, and engulf you in another big hug.

The hug was nice and warm. Mrs. Choi’s hugs always gave you love when you needed it. “So, when are you guys going shopping for dresses?”

“Tomorrow! We’re wearing light purple together!”

“Are we invited?” You mom looked at you with desperate eyes as she motioned her finger back and forth between the her and Mrs. Choi.

“Mm, sure?” Beomgyu said before looking back at me in reassurance and giving him a strong nod in return.

~~~

Dinner had now finished, and the Choi parents were off to say their farewells and goodbyes to your family and a thank you for having them over, while that happened, you and Beomgyu finished cleaning some extra dishes from the patio and putting them into the cabinet.

“So what do you think about them knowing?” He said, drying off one of the plates you had handed to him.

“I like it, it doesn’t seem so unnatural” You laugh at your own statement, it seemed as if both of your parents liked the thought of you two being together romantically then anything else.

“Son let’s go! We’ve got a big day tomorrow!” You hear Mrs. Choi yell from beside the front door. It was a small walk from your house to theirs but it was still preferred that they all walk home together.

“Bye y/n, I’ll see you tomorrow morning, sleep good, okay?” He dries off the last plate and puts it up into the cabinet where the other plates are.

“Bye guys!” You yell out as beomgyu’s parents have already gotten a head start on him out the door.

Before you turn back to the stairs, you see Beomgyu look back into the house, as if he forgotten something.

“Are you missing something?” You ask.

“Yeah, I am” And with a quick gesture, Beomgyu had made it back over to you by the steps and planted a sweet peck on your cheek.

“Goodnight y/n. Sleep good, okay?”

Before you could reply back he was already out of the door and running to catch up with his parents.

You hold the cheek he kissed with your hand. What was that? The biggest question that lingering into your head was, why did you enjoy that kiss?

You walk up the steps still in shock. Still blushing from the sudden moves from your next door neighbor.

~~~

As you got ready for bed, the excitement crept up on you as you imagined spending the whole day with beomgyu tomorrow, tomorrow was going to be something, and you were totally ready for it.

A/n : Sorry for the long wait guys! I really loved writing this and i hope you all enjoy! If you do enjoy make sure to let me know and like!! 💗

[ohem1111]

just some ramble-y updates

some sims related and some not. non-sims stuff will be below cut off 😎

sims related:

so i DID find my most recent just dessert legacy save so that will start back up soon! i did have some things just about ready to post but decided to hold off in case the save was lost lol obviously i still had a back up from when she was a child so worst comes to worse i could have caught back up but i would have been missing the new sims i made and the new house (that i had already rebuilt once since my cat unplugged my pc mid build)

also i did end up starting to write my own challenge and i feel like i did so much yesterday. i might end up making a discord way off into the future if anyone is interested in giving feedback or anything once it is actually more solid and refined a bit. i think i might wait until the life and death pack comes out because im interested to see what could be included in a specific gen that i have in mind. i might ramble some more about it another day but im really excited about it.

not sims related:

the wild robot movie was so good and i cried like 3 different times, i don’t know why i am so emotionally attached to the story (i do know, im mentally ill LOL) but regardless i recommend it.

like a week or so ago i pulled a muscle in my back/shoulder but on friday i tried lifting again and made it wayyyy worse so ive been in so much pain lately, not fun. i am kinda feeling ok right now though as long as im not moving too much

right now as i am typing this im waiting for a video for work to finish exporting so that i can get on the sims but so far its already taken over 2 hours and it has approximately an hour an a half of export time left which i hope is a lie since i need to wake up early tomorrow. i literally just realized its not even 8pm yet but im already exhausted from waking up at 6 this morning and not going back to bed. i just want to play a little bit of sims today since i haven’t at all.

tomorrow morning my boyfriend is taking me to cvs to pick up meds and out to breakfast as long as i am up early enough to do all of that and get back home before my monday morning work meeting 🫠 there is this small local chain coffee shop where i live that has the best breakfast food. they updated their menu u over the summer and added cinnamon bun pancakes and they are incredible so i’m looking forward to it lol

also complimentary freya picture for reading all of that lol i hope you all are having a good day 💚

[magpies4nights]

GUYS DONT PRESS P ON THE TITLE SCREEN WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE (Dev log #15)

AT LAST, SUMMER IS HERE!!!!! I am so excited I can finally rest I- oh right. Summer classes. Sigh. Well, they don’t take up the whole day thank god and I don’t need to be there, but It’s still not exciting. Oh well. Maybe I’ll play the sims 4 again and check on how my poor little torture victims are doing/j Jk jk, I don’t torture my sims. Unless you consider naming them things probably EA wouldn't approve of, then yeah I guess I am a horrible person.

But yeah, on the week I released the demo (which by the way, thanks for the 58 views!!!! thas crazy) I was putting up with finals. Some of my classes had to be pushed to the next week, and that was INFURIATING. It was kinda agony because I just wanted everything to be done and over with and I was practically exhausted. Like sleeping at 7 pm exhausted. Yeah......Well, should I even talk about how my life is going? I flunked the review for my major. Thank god, honestly. I mean, I didn't do it on purpose, and I am sad in a way that I flunked it, but I didn't want to continue on the route I was going on. I feel kinda stupid for even trying but I guess it's ok to make mistakes in your early 20's rather than your 30's... for some reason.

Ok, dev time. I decided to take a break from making sprites for a bit. So I worked on a part of the game that I would have left a secret, but I think it’s quite funky hehehe

I like old computers. I would have replicated the windows XP thing because I have so many memories of it, but I'm scared Windows might snipe me or something. I once was lying on the couch my parents turned into a bed (I think I was sick at the time), and it was late at night, and the computer was shutting down (it played this sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2jGy76v0Y) and for some reason the noise absolutely scared the absolute living shit out of me (I think I was like 4-5 years old and I was terrified of bassy sounds). I do not remember ever having any positive relationships with computers before I turned 6 lol. I’m pretty sure I used to think I could live without them. Oh you poor bastard. If you saw me now not only would you not understand a single word I’m saying, you would be incredibly disappointed with how dependent I am on computers. I think once I'm done with that I'll try to fix whatever is going on outside scene, because that's the only scene that causes the game to crash. I'm pretty sure it's because there's too many objects, because when I turned off the animations and the visibility it still took forever to load (like, nearly 2 seconds. The scene takes 4 seconds to load, and normally a scene would take me less than a second to load). soooo, uh yeah, I'm trying to find an occlusion culling equivalent to solve this because that's a 3d game thing, and this is a 2d game lol. I'm thinking of turning off visibility for when they're outside the viewing frustrum (player's line of sight, or more like rectangle) because it cuts down half the time for when the scene loads. If nothing works I guess it's just deleting and re-adding the child back into the scene every time the camera is on them... sigh. If it ticks me off too much I'll probably return to doing sprites because there's still a lot to do lol.

Well.... I so far got no other ideas for references in this game, so I guess I'll put in the inspiration of the outro (which is the Portal outro)

(not my video)

I know, I know. Cheesy. BUT instead of it being in the antagonist's view, it's the protagonist's view instead. I tried singing for the song, but every time I do I make Jojo Siwa sound like a professional vocalist (I don't even know why she still sings. Didn't she bust one of her vocal chords already? Or is that a rumor? Either way that's already gotta be a sign that you probably shouldn't continue on the route you're on.) I literally had 5 attempts on my computer and they all sound horrible. I'm not going to put them on the internet for my sake and your sake too. So yeah, no vocals. But the lyrics will still be there. They won't have the typing effect though.

I once had a strange dream that I was looking through the itch.io comments and someone kept spamming about how they headcannoned Xandra to be a trans man and were like honestly I don't know how my brain combined those several factors together but I find that funny.

yes its the caseoh meme. no i will not apologize

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Howdy hey, call me Skipp!

I'm relatively new to tumblr despite having an account for years. I was always a little scared of this platform, but now that I know more about how it works I've come to adore it!

I figured I should just clarify what my blog is like. This blog is far from currated! It is simply the dumping ground of my mind. This ranges from ocs, to fandoms, to random inner monologues put to text. The only truly cohesive thing about this blog would be the art. I love to do the art things and will post and repost it constantly! So the best way to navigate my blog for anything specific would be through the tags :)

With all that said, you weary travellers who are interested in my wears (fandoms), below the cut you will find a list of things that intrigue me.

Tales of Arcadia

my obsession with this series will come and go in intense waves but will never truly fade.

Percy Jackson/Rick Riordanverse

show reignited my adoration to intensities they definitely weren't before XD

Mystery Kids

I love this and all of the different possible iterations with other media as well. So much angst and fluff material too!

Secret Trio

I constantly remember and forget how much I love this au. Same as with Mystery Kids, I'm a sucker for all the different interpretations and inclusions of other media in this au.

Indie Horror Games (Sally Face, Slay the Princess, Fran Bow, etc)

This isn't, like, exclusive to horror exactly, but games of a similar vibe and nature to those are what I find myself liking the most!

Undertale/Deltarune

been a fan since it first came out and I don't think I'll ever really stop

TMNT

got into the fandom through Rise and, ever since, I have been making my way through the other shows slowly, one by one. Currently on 2003, which I've heard is collectively believed to be the best, and am very excited.

Also looking for any good Rise!Raph angst fics, so if you've got any suggestions lmk!

Flying Bark Productions (ROTTMNT, LMK, MOON GIRL)

I am an animation nerd and my current nerd obsession is everything this studio has made in the last, like, ten years! Everything they make is just so...ashsreuvbevui!

Detentionaire

I don't care if everyone else has moved on, because I haven't!

Unus Annus

Momento Mori. I'm always down to reminisce and grieve with those who were there. This channel had such a profound impact on me so I'm not sure I'll ever be able to truly forget it, but that's fine with me.

Grojband

I'm totally normal about this show that no one around me seems to even recall and have totally not made a hella angsty au about it to cope.

Fashion

Like a crow, I like pretty things. Fashion is one of those pretty things. I repost a lot of couture.

Sims

I repost a lot of cc on here not just for me, but for anyone who might find interest in it as well (it's definitely just for me).

PowerPuff Girls

While I oddly enough don't remember much of the show, I have always been pretty deep into the fandom. Been reading fics and fancomics since, like, the early 2010s and just never really left lol

Miraculous Ladybug

I can't escape this show! I love the fandom, it's great. Love all of the artists and aus and fanart, but I've fallen out of love with the show itself. I will watch every single episode, I just won't talk about it because that's not where my interest lies.

These are definitely not all of the fandoms I am or will be a part of but these are probably gonna be the ones you see the most of!

[borreloadsavagedragon]

alright tell all of us your thoughts about kaito :)

I did not forget… I have just been con crunching but now I’m free to become the worse

Minor Zexal and Arc V spoiling ahoy

How I feel about this character:

Oh no you’ve opened a floodgate… welcome to oversharing hour with Jay

I’m very normal about Kaito, just ignore the two full cosplays + the EVA foam Orbital work in progress I have mapped out, the wall scroll that’s at my work computer, my ita pin bag, and the fact that I’ve done everything I can to make his deck competitive viable and god dammit am I still trying please print this deck a god damn banger starter, Konami, I can’t keep doing this without your help-

Short story but I used to be suuuuper YGO Vrains favoring from 2020 into early 2022, but I found myself drifting from it because one can only tolerate so much subtweeting and catty behavior over personal preferences, and I’d never really finished Zexal before, just has a half baked idea how it ends, like I watched a chunk of it when it first aired but never finished and proceeded to forgot most of it, so I picked it back up after deciding to pick up Kaito to write in an RP server with some friends because I remembered liking him and… well I didn’t stand a chance when I got back to him fjdhdhd

I deeply relate to the theme of self-inflicted loneliness because it’s easier to be by yourself, just getting walked out on, left in the dark, or even being shafted for reasons out of my own control, I really get that

Also taking on too much if it means the people you love will be ok even if the ending result is you’re not ok, where he is after his Duel with Yuma at the end of Zexal I and getting to repair all of those relationships he was damaged by is where I want to get to in life

Bonus fact that’s minor spoilers for another spin off, but I’m… not a huge fan of his portrayal in Arc V, I like that he’s there and acknowledge that it’s a different Kaito and I love all Kaito Tenjos as they exist, including the Structures Cosplayer, but… yeah, not a fan, I’m a big fan of showing vs telling and Arc V to me feels like it’s ALL telling for all of its supporting cast most of the time

All the people I ship romantically

The better question is who I don’t honestly because that list is far smaller, but if I had to pick favorites I’m very partial to Ryouga, Mizael, and Edo-

Something about rivals to lovers resonates with my very being, even if Edo is less of a rival and more of an enemy until Arc V does it’s usual-

I’ve written for Challenge and AntiHero both already actually, my docs is 99% Challenge Wips that are slowly coming along tbh, and GalaxyMaster takes more time to write since most of those are… you know what I’m getting at LOL

I stg Gallop's one mission was to make Kaito Tenjo a dating sim protagonist because I have no other excuse for why they gave him so many boyfriends and even girlfriends across Zexal and Arc V, Yugioh’s surprising most eligible bachelor

My non-romantic OTP

nervous laughter

Chris.

I like to think of them more as divorcees who are just fine staying apart

Also gestures vaguely at the first answer

My unpopular opinion

I don’t know if I have many tbh, besides disliking Arc V’s rendition of him / not liking mentor at all lol— Like maybe how I genuinely believe he’s the strongest rival bc his record was the best even after he was put up against forces behind human understand and was even considered dying majority of the time of Zexal while remaining arguably mostly human, Zexal’s wack

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon

Oh my god, the duel I hate the most in all of YGO is Kaito’s duel against Heartland because not letting Kaito win against someone who’s become representative of the garbage he was put through is SO UNSATISFYING

Yuma coming in and finishing it up is symbolic in its own right because of the importance of bonds, but to me that was and always should have been Kaito’s moment, let Yuma and Astral show up literally any other time and I’m fine with it

ALSO WE DON'T GET THE RYOUGA AND KAITO GRUDGE MATCH, though Kaito solos everytime, I’m so sorry Ryouga

[purplesurveys]

1700

When was the last time you got more then eight hours of sleep? I think Friday? I actually fell asleep relatively early, around midnight; and ended up sleeping in, too. I think I had gotten up only by 10 AM.

Do you find that people don't really understand you? Maybe as an angsty teenager, but I don’t feel like this these days. It’s probably also a matter of finding the people who do understand me. Is there anyone in your life that you wish you were closer to? Now that I know Trina is leaving for Canada for good, I really want to get even closer to her in the three months she has left in the country. I’m glad that we got close at all, especially after getting promoted. She used to just be this high-ranking workmate who I thought was untouchable.

Would you say you are a gullible person? Very. I am everyone’s favorite for jokes and light pranks.

Are you one to swear often? I do tend to swear a lot, yeah.

Have you ever sat down and played video games all day? Only when I was younger and got obsessed with playing Sims 2. I no longer play video games but am very much capable of being on my phone all day and just go from one app to another.

What is one thing in your life that is no longer there, that you miss? Kimi.

What do you believe is the best thing about being a kid? Hard to tell when you’ve had a rougher childhood compared to everyone else. Idk...being doted on, I guess? I lacked attention in my own home.

What flavor Dum-Dum is your favorite? I have no clue what that is.

What is the last book you read/are reading? Did you/are you enjoying it? That would probably be Around the World in Eighty Days; it’s a good read, but I’ve just never had the time to continue it. I haven’t resumed reading since January.

Are you on a laptop or a desktop right now? Laptop; I have never owned a desktop.

If you could go anywhere right now, where would you go; why? I’m feeling significantly attached to Bangkok right now because it has been exactly three weeks since we saw Yoongi. Our trip overall was quite short – only four days total – so it only makes the feeling of ‘missing’ Bangkok a lot more intense. I miss the place, I miss their great public transport, I miss the nightlife, but I will say that I do not miss the weather. Remembering how humid it is over there still makes me squirm lol

Have you ever trusted someone you wish you wouldn't have? Yeah.

Have you ever been on a picnic? I’ve never been. I wish we had picnic-friendly places so I can actually experience a picnic. When I was at KL and was repeatedly going to their park, I felt really envious of the families who were there with picnic mats out and eating. I could only wish they recognize what they have.

Which is better tea or coffee? Coffee; I never liked tea.

Do you own an umbrella? Yeah, I keep it in the car.

Do you like the ocean? Sure.

Is there anyone that you wish you were with right now? No, I’m okay being on my own for the most part.

Who was the last person you hung out with? Bea, Ysa, Trina, and several members of a co-agency that we regularly work with for PR events..

What animal cracker is your favorite? I haven’t had those since I was, like, 5.

Is there anything you're currently holding back? Yeahhhhhh I wish I could just tell the team not to promote me, honestly; at least not yet. I don’t want to leave the company, but please give me like 1-2 years before stepping up to the next position. It sounds very bitchy and ungrateful to say on paper, but I’ve been promoted every single year I’ve been in the company and it always comes with a wave of fear and pressure every time. I wish I had longer periods of incubation(??? lol) before getting asked to step up to the next level.

Do you like your smile? Sure!

Have you ever watched something on the TV that truly disturbed you? Mostly commercials or when networks sign off for the night and do their ominous creepy jingles before transitioning to that TV rainbow screen thing.

Are you scared of needles? Yes. I am 100% not the poster child for vaccines and tattoos.

Is your current cell phone out of date? Not at all. I know tech companies churn out new products at 34788394x speed and in their terms an iPhone 13 can be considered old-ish, but all things considered a 1 year old phone isn’t bad at all. I’m not in a rush to get a new one as mine still works just fine.

Have you ever drank milk when it was spoiled? Ugh, yeah. I remember an instance when I was around 5-6, I drank some Milo that turned out to be spoiled and immediately ran to the sink to frantically spit it out because it tasted horrific. Ever since then I’ve had a fear of drinking milk.

Would you/have you ever bought a gym membership? I’ve thought about it before; didn’t push through with it. These days, I wouldn’t think of getting one.

Have you ever bought anything on the TV? Nopes.

Have you ever done something that you knew was wrong? Sure.

Do you know what all the keys on your keyboard do? Not all. I still don’t know what the ‘fn’ key does and I’ve never tried using it for anything.

What is the last channel you were on, when watching TV? I’ve never watched TV for the channels in agesssssssss. We cut out cable starting 2020, too.

What is your favorite restaurant? Closest to being my favorite is probably Mendokoro Ramenba but in general I don’t think I have found my favorite restaurant yet.

What is the last thing you spent money on? Just prepaid load, lol. I’m on major budgeting mode as I think my family is planning a trip to Incheon – something I’m largely against because unsurprisingly my mom never consulted with us and each of us is suddenly in charge of chipping in for something – and I need to make sure my track record as far as money looks acceptable for the visa application.

Do you know of anyone who hates you? I don’t think so.

Lose your arm or your leg; Which do you choose? I don’t like this question at all, but for the sake of answering this I’d pick the leg.

Has an animal ever bit you? Like, a genuinely angry bite? Yes, from Cooper. I feel like after getting those six shots in one day I can surpass anything.

Have you ever tripped over your own feet? Sure.

Do you ever take out the garbage? Yes.

Do wash your face thoroughly everyday? Yes, first thing I do in the morning and last thing I do before turning in.

Would you ever do a ride along with a cop? No.

Are things, in your opinion, overly expensive these days? They are, as a fact, more expensive.

Where was your last car ride to? Apart from getting back home, I went from MOA to Feliz to have lunch with my family earlier.

Are your nails long? They aren’t.

Have you ever gotten food poisoning? Yes. Hate it.

Have you ever had to put a dog to sleep? I have not.

What messenger services do you use? Messenger, Viber, Telegram, and very occasionally Whatsapp.

Have you ever lost someone important to you? Of course.

Are you listening to music currently? No but I have an episode of GMM in the background.

[leahlillith]

i just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart that you're releasing your cc for early access but still free. even if it's against the sims 4 guidelines, there are still so many who lock their cc behind paywalls forever. making cc is incredibly time consuming and a skill to perfect, i completely understand. yet, i still cant help but feel a bit disheartened when i see a nice lipgloss but it's been locked since july. i dont pirate the locked cc from shady people either, because that's worse, so ultimately im left... blueballed lol. so thank you for not hopping onto that train.

Thank you so much for those kind words. I understand you and honestly the fact you are saying this, is a huge reward for me. To be pretty honest I am, where I am now thanks to all of you and I will never stop appreciating that. It is always in the corner of my head and I truly want ALL people to enjoy my stuff.

As I said somewhere in past responses, I always rememeber when I was playing the sims and I saw pieces I wanted badly but I couldn't pay them because I had no money and this is not something I want to cause to people who like what I do. I want all of you to be happy with my cc, have fun with it.

The sims 4 guidelines or not, I think it is always better to share cause at the end it always gives some kind of reward <3

[obii-wan-kenobiii]

what is the mechanisms? based on your posts i'm 50% sure they're a band?

hi omg okay permission to infodump???? if you say yes i will reblog this and ramble for half an hour. actually i don;t want to wait so im just gonna put it under the cut (skip to the end for a very short summarized verison of everything)

SO THIS IS THE LEAD SINGER AND HIS CHARACTER IS JONNY DVILLE (he’s played by jonny sims) AND SO THEYRE ALL IMMORTAL SPACE PIRATES BTW AND SO IT’S SIMILAR TO A MUSICAL

SO TO BECOME IMMORTAL THEY GOT A PART OF THEIR BODY REPLACED BY SOMETHING WHICH IS CALLED THEIR MECHANISM(hence the band name) AND SO JONNYS IS HIS HEART AND SO HE HAS A MECHANICAL HEARt  AND HE GOT MECHANISED BY THIS VAMPIRE NAMED DR CARMILLA WHO LEFT THE BAND;  SHE ORIGINALLY FORMED THE BAND TO BE HER BACKING BAND BUT THEN LEFT AND THE ‘canon’ explanation for this is that jonny pushed her out an airlock

marius!!! so his name is marius von raum and his mechanism is one of his arms

he plays violin for the band and voices some of the screamier characters

oh!! jonny dville is the lead singer btw :)

okay and uhhhhh nastya rasputina!! she left the band in early 2015 for personal reasons but i still love her and am pretending she is still there she plays violin and doesn’t voice any characters but has appeared as herself in one of the albums

oh!!! also their spaceship is sentient and named aurora and her and nastya are dating <333 lesbian rights

and this is aurora 

drumbot brian!! as the exact opposite to jonny, his mechanism is everything but his heart, and he plays banjo and sings a bit too and he has this switch that has two modes, means justify ends and ends justify means which are two morality modes and so on mje he can’t do anything he would consider immoral but on ejm it’s the opposite of that

( my autocorrect changed ejm to run at first and that’s accurate honestly 😭😭)

oh did i mention jonny dville has canonically committed every non sexual crime?? jonny dville mr king of consent ily. maybe you’re a bloodthirsty murderer who kills people for fun but <333

okay uhhh ashes o reily!!! mx. o reily i love you please marry me i love them sm okay. uh the crews resident arsonist, plays bass and voices a few characters!! their voice is so hhhng. they burned down their entire home planet

brian got shot into space pew pew pew and floated there for a while until he was eventually found by doc carmilla 

and jonny is the first mate, he’ll tell you he’s the captain but don’t listen to him

brian is the pilot

ashes is the quartermaster

nastya is the engineer, oh and nastya’s mechanism is her blood!! i don’t think i mentioned that lol

and marius is the doctor (he says he has a degree but nobody has actually seen it so.)  not that you really need a doctor when these nine kill eachother regularly but anyways

but raphaella la cognizi, the ships science officer!! as cruel and brutal as she is… science! plays piano and voices multiple characters, her mechanism is her wings 

ivy alexandria!! the ships archivist :)  her mechanism is her brain, she plays the flute and one other instrument i believe? she doesn’t voice characters afaik but she has appeared as herself in an album once.  she stores information!! she’s like a living data collection center 

the toy soldier!!! it’s… present, as usual. we’re not really sure what it does, nobody is, all we know is that it showed up and won’t go away. it’s just happy to be there

and finally!!! gunpowder “prettiest mech” tim!!  he’s so,,,,, hhhhhhng.  his mechanism is his eyes!! he plays guitar and voices a few characters in albums!! he’s the weapons guy 

ABDHDHHSHD ALRIGHT NOW THE ALBUMS

okay so one thing you have to understand before all this is that they take old folk stories and retell them but make them either in space, cowboys, and much, much gayer

their first album, once upon a time (in space), think disney but much more violent and also lesbians

and then there’s ulysses dies at dawn!! it’s like green myth but mafia!!! ahdhhfhsjd it’s so good

tales to be told is just backstory songs/songs that didn’t make the cut for albums, it’s still great it’s just not one defined plot line as each song follows something different unlike the rest of the albums

high noon over camelot!! arthurian legend but cowboys and also mordred is trans and arthur guinevere and lancelot are all dating eachother ( i,,,,,cried at the end of hnoc :)))))

THE BIFROST INCIDENT!!! MY FAVORITE ALBUM OKAY 

SO THINK NORSE MYTH BUT MAGIC TRAIN IN SPACE 

AND THE MAIN CHRACATER IS LYFRASSIR EDDA

so basically

odin sends a train, the ratatosk express through the bifrost to get from midgard to asgard but the train arrives in midgard eighty years late and so lyfrassir edda is assigned to investigate it  and so it’s like this whole super elaborate plot and it’s amazing

and takes to be told. vol 2 is the same idea as the first one so

and then finally,,, death to the mechanisms :(  they broke apart in 2020 and they recorded their final concert and released it as an album and it’s always rlly sad to listen to :((

and finally,,,,,,,,,,,, backstories,,,,,,,,,,,,,

so jonny killed his dad bc he had collected debt and then proceeded to kill the person who made him kill his dad bc of said debt and then ran away with doc carmilla

nastya ran away from her family after she accidentally got them killed?  fun fact thta i noticed bc i read too far into everything: so nastya’s name is actually anastasia but she doesn’t go by that, and nastya means reborn AND SO SHE WAS REBORN AFTER SHE ACCIDENTALLY GOT HER WHOLE FANIMY KILLED AND AHHDHFHSHJFF

i have émotions abt these characters

tim fought in the war against the moon kaiser and when his ,,,,,,,,,,,best friend’’’’’’’’ got killed he blew up the moon bc he got mad and also he went on like a massive killing spree

marius doesn’t actually have a set backstory yet!! his actor is working on an album but they haven’t released it yet

raphaella also doesn’t have a backstory yet i believe?

ashes burned down their entire home planet bc some guy screwed them over

brian got shot into space pew pew pew and floated there for a while until the doc picked him up

ivy lived in a library and doesn’t remember her life, she got picked up by the doc and mechanised after she died

the toy soldier was made as a toy to serve someone and it stole its voice from an angel (heavily implied to be some sort of singer but i’m not sure) and it’s just stayed there

so this was. badly summarized and not well said but also hhhng thank you for asking me!!! basically the people in the band play characters who do retellings of stories, and they play characters in the stories. they’re all immortal space pirates and have a mechanical body part which is how they became immortal. they retell the stories like ten times gayer and it’s fantastic anyways. 

[squea]

how do you get your sim’s alien form so similar to their disguise? it’s so annoying how we can’t lock the two like the other occults lol

with difficulty anon,,,, ill do a wee tutorial under the cut n it requires mc command center

^heres my alien sim vs her human disguise, not i can only get this trick to work with everything bUT their clothing so keep that in mind

1. plop them down on any lot, click on the sim (by default they start in alien form), go to MC Command Center then Sim Commands... then Occult Commands... then Disguise Self. This will do the same as just putting ur alien in their disguise but instantaneously rather than waiting for their slow ass to do it

oh fuck tumblr posted this too early hold on

2. Click them again, go to MC Command Center then MC CAS then Copy/Paste... then click Copy for all the options

3. Repeat step 1 to put your sim BACK into their alien form (Remove Disguise).

4. Repeat step 2, but instead of clicking all the options for copy, use the paste options instead!

5. Now I am left with this: All I can suggest from here is modifying them in cas to change the hair and clothes to match. I know its a struggle dshfhds

hope this helped!

[ithinkabouttzu]

Boy Next Door || Pt. 3

A choi Beomgyu Fic

Word Count: 6.7k

Summary: y/n has been neighbors with an insufferable boy, Beomgyu for quite some time. When one day he wakes her up to an offer of a lifetime. A fake relationship with him, in return to get back at her ex and his fling.

Warnings: Fake relationships, beaten windows, an obnoxious Beomgyu, ex bestfriends & boyfriends, a hint of betrayal, swearing, Jake Sim is your ex lol.

{pairing: Beomgyu x Female oc}

You open your eyes up from the fast ringing of your alarm, not a boy standing in front of you this time, thankfully. You grab your phone, turning off the alarm and checking the time.

7:15 AM

Why were you getting up at 7:15 again?

It was now time to finally get back at Beomgyu.

He was usually your own personal alarm clock, and simultaneously at the worst times of the morning too, but it was now the day to give Beomgyu a taste of his own medicine.

You strategically make your bed and morning routine, all quickly and quietly, brushing your teeth as quick as possible and washing your face at a fast rate, hoping to make it to his house before he wakes up.

You had gotten the first pair clothes you found in your drawer and topping your look off with some mascara and blush all by 7:32. Now all you had to do was make your way to his place, the thought of doing something playful to the boy next door giving you a sudden rush of adrenaline and excitement.

You creep down the steps of your home, not too worried about waking your parents as though one of them had already left for work, you locate your shoes quickly by the door step. You put them on and headed out of the door quickly.

It’s almost like you were a spy on a big mission, how quick and quiet you were on the way to his home, how you got up extra early to do this, and how strategic you were being to getting over there.

A mission? A mission to abruptly wake up Beomgyu? Yes.

Was it petty to get up at the crack of dawn, get ready and plan your whole morning out, just to see the look on Beomgyu’s face when you wake him up? Maybe, only a little bit of course, but we all know Beomgyu would do the exact same thing, or already has done the same thing to you. In your eyes, you were just returning the favor.

The brisk air greets you as you walk the short distance between his and your house, you look in the driveway to see that Mr. Choi’s car isn’t there. He must’ve already left for work. Mrs. Choi would probably be out the door soon later.

You check your phone for the time, and it reads 7:41. Should you go ahead to his house? Should you wait until Mrs. Choi comes out? After contemplating whether or not you should wait until Mrs. Choi leaves, or if you should just go into the house it in hopes that she doesn’t catch you, and all before Beomgyu wakes up,

you finally come to the conclusion to move forward, not waiting for Mrs. Choi’s departure and taking the small risk.

You walk up to the driveway and around to the front door, and check the doorknob by a twist and a push to open the door.

“Open” You say to yourself in relief. Hoping that Mrs. Choi nor Beomgyu heard the clinking of the doorknob.

You take slow, small steps into the nice home, every decoration had been placed nicely with furniture there, you take in the nice living room space, and how nice it looks with the sunrise beaming through the window.

“Hello?” You hear a female voice call out. “Oh shit” You say to yourself. It’s Mrs. Choi.

“Is that you, y/n?” You see her appear from the hallway with her bag and cup of coffee in her hand, ready to leave for work.

You scrunch your whole face in embarrassment, if there was a chance you could climb into a deep, dark hole right now, you would. “Hi, Mrs. Choi” You say awkwardly, waving your hand timidly.

“You almost gave me a heart attack” She chuckles out, holding her chest around where her heart would be.

“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you, i’ll be on my way then” You turn your body towards the door, giving up the plan in hopes to keep the peace.

“ I’ll be off to work but you should stay! Besides, I know why you’re here” She says, wiggling her eyebrows in a mischievous manner, before passing you in the living room and out of the front door before you could correct her on why you were here.

You sigh in relief, checking the clock on your phone again.

7:55

“Shit” You say to yourself in frustration, if you had any lucky, he’d still he asleep, but this spring break you had almost just about anything but so called luck.

You walk to the hallway, dimming the living room light on your way out to cause less suspicion, hopefully your interaction with Mrs. Choi didn’t wake him up.

The hallway light was off, which was a good sign, you walk slowly through the hall, stopping every few seconds to make sure you didn’t hear any noise.

You finally get to Beomgyu’s room, the last door on the left, with a big sign that said “Thursday’s Child” on it.

It was now or never.

You grab the door knob slightly, turning it as soft as you can, trying to minimize the sound of any creeks from the door, you open the door quickly but quiet, to see a laid out, asleep Beomgyu, and a very messy room.

You tiptoe through the door and into his room, trying to stay clear of any clothes or gadgets on the floor, in hopes you didn’t slip or fall on one of his things.

His room was quite big, it was almost completely dark except from the small light coming through the curtains of his window. You could only see the outline of Beomgyu on the bed.

You walk closer to him, he must’ve been sleeping for quite some time now, considering his loud snores, he must’ve be sleeping hard too.

How do you even wake him up? You look at him, not wanting to disrupt his peace, he looked so calm sleeping, so calm for once, he always tried his best to show out to everyone he knew, but when he was sleeping, their was no mask he hid behind.

It was him. Plain and calm Beomgyu, the Beomgyu you first met years back when he first moved in next door, the Beomgyu that you fell smitten for. There was no facade, you could finally see right through him, and it was nice.

*BING BING BING*

you hear the noise, pulling you out of your trance. Oh shit. It’s his alarm clock, you think quickly on what to do, Should you turn it off? Should you make a run for it?

You don’t have a chance to put your thoughts into motion as you see that Beomgyu has already been woken up by the noise.

“Y/n, is that you?” Beomgyu says groggily, one eye still closed, and barely awake as it is.

“Umm, no?” You stand as still as a lamp in the room, you feel awkward to move but also too awkward to stand still, you were caught and now explaining to Beomgyu why you were here would boost his ego by a million.

“Did you really miss me that much, doll? Coming to see me before I wake up?” He says smiling as he lifts his head up from the pillow in which he was face first in.

You feel the same familiar heat creep up onto your face, the close pet names never failed to turn your cheeks a slightly different shade of red.

Your plan had gone to shit, now he was teasing you with his little nicknames, might as well feed into his game that he liked to play with you.

“Yeah actually, I did miss you that much, gyu” You whisper, looking down at him with your biggest doe eyes. The roles were now reversed as though he was the one who stilled over your words. You could see a visible gulp come from his throat, and although he was almost half asleep a couple seconds ago, he was fully awoken now.

You finally silenced the loud boy, if only you knew that any earlier than maybe you could’ve saved your ears a lot less damage.

That didn’t last long though before he dismissed your words and picked back up with his teasing.

“Come er’ come sit with me” He looks up at you with almost desperate looking eyes, motion towards his bed. He was sitting fully up right by now.

You sit down slowly at the end of his bed. The tension in the room was almost suffocating as Beomgyu looked at you, “Why don’t you come a little closer? I don’t bite, doll” He snickers the name out in a slight smirk.

You could feel that the energy in the room had shifted, what was a joking, light atmosphere, had now turned into a serious and nervous setting.

You scooted a couple sides to your left , closer to the front of him.

“So how’d you get in? I’m guessing you broke in?” He chuckled lightly, His dark eyes were now turned into a lighter shade as he giggled. You felt relief wash over you as there wasn’t even have as close of enough tension than from before.

“Well, your mom let me in.. Kinda’, sorta’” You drop your head down, looking your head down into your lap, then looking back at him with an awkward smile on your face.

“What? Did you like, threaten her to let you in or something?” He says as he turns on his nightstand light and checks his phone. It was almost funny watching him on the other side of your guys’ morning feuds.

“No gyu!” You laugh back at his words. “I snuck in, and she caught me before leaving for work.”

“Ohhh, so you failed at sneaking in, and you failed at waking me up yourself? Got it” He said nodding his head sarcastically.

You roll your eyes at him. When you were with the boy, you almost feared that your eyes would end up getting stuck from rolling and batting your eyes at him.

“Shut up! Well anyway, when are we leaving for today?” You change the topic quickly, not wanting to admit that you did in fact fail at waking him up.

“I’m not sure, my mom is going to work until 11, then maybe around that time?” He looked at you for your response.

“Sounds fine to me” You shake your head in agreement.

It was needless to say that you were a little nervous about dress shopping, I mean, what if you couldn’t find one that you liked? What if you Beomgyu can’t find a tuxedo he likes?

You sigh, thinking about almost everything bad that could happen at dress shopping.

“Ya know what? We’re home alone” He says, making you turn your head at him with a smile.

“So?” You smile at him a sarcastic oblivious expression.

“Sooo, that means I get we get the house to ourselves… Just you and me” He trails off from the last part of his sentence, getting quieter at the end.

“Oh yeah?” You ask him, leaning closer to him, questioning to yourself what he was going to say to you next.

“Kiss me y/n”

You pull back from your close position before. “What do you mean?” You hold your breath as you wait for his answer.

“I mean, we might have to do it at the dance. So might as well get in our first one now, I mean, not our first one but, our first one in a while”

You stop in your place immediately frozen by old memories that finally resurfaced coming back to haunt you.

“Don’t you remember? We were freshmen and we got into my dad’s booze, you and Jake had just broken up?” He says, sitting up fully now.

Hearing the familiar words struck a forgotten memory inside of you that you truly tried getting rid of for so long.

“Yeah, I do.”

It was fall break a couple years back, you and him had become stuck like glue, (all before Hazel split your friendship with Gyu apart) It was halloween night, you guys had been hanging out all night, making fun of the trick or treaters and rating their costumes as they went through the neighborhood. It was so late, and it was a weekend, so both of your and Gyu’s parents decided it would be best if you just stayed at the Choi’s place that night. His parents never really minded for you to stay over, the only rule was that you guys wouldn’t sleep in the same bed together.

~~ Time jump back 2 years ago ~~

“Hey when my parents go to sleep, you wanna drink the soju from the cabinet?” Beomgyu looks at you mischievously, you and him were about the fall asleep, laughing and jumping around all night had made both of you tired. With him on the floor of his room with a sleeping bag, and you on his bed.

“What! No! We’ll get caught!” You sit up in his bed, looking down at your left to see him snickering at you.

“Cmon, have a little fun y/n, let me go get it and i’ll bring it back in here” He says, getting up and walking towards the door.

You watch him leave, not saying a word to him as he left. You feel the excitement bubble up in your stomach. You had never drank, and now you were about to for the first time.

He comes back minutes later, with a bottle of peach Soju, and 2 small glasses for drinking.

“My dad has like 10 bottles of these! We could drink the whole bottle and he wouldn’t even notice!”

You chuckle at his enthusiasm.

He sits down and the floor and you join him. Getting your glass, and eagerly waiting for your drink to be poured.

You could hear the rain from outside being picked up into a loud thunderstorm as he poured your first drink of the night.

You clink your glass with his, before chugging the drink in unison.

You feel the peachy bitter taste go down your throat with a slight sting as you gag lightly in reaction to the taste.

“It’s not that bad y/n! Cmon let’s take another”

Another turned into another which turned into another. Before you guys could go for another drink, the bottle was already empty.

It was calming. Beomgyu took the cups and glass bottle to put up and throw away, leaving you by yourself, listening to the rain slow down into a quiet drizzle.

You listen to the tranquil sound closely, hearing other components such as the wind, and the tree beside Beomgyu’s window that was tapping lightly on the side of the house.

“You already asleep?” The voice opens your eyes wide open and your body alert. You calm down when you see Beomgyu standing in front of you with nothing in his hands.

“No, just listening to the rain” You reply softly.

“Oh yeah? What do you say we go out there for a second and see it?” He matches your soft tone, holding his hand out for you to reach.

You grab his hand, and sit up. Brushing your clothes off gently and put your slippers on, silently agreeing to his idea in a reassuring nod.

You and Beomgyu walk down the hallway of his home. Good thing his parents slept on the other side of the house, that way they wouldn’t hear you and him going outside.

“We’re totally gonna dance when we go out there” He says in a silly way. You could tell the alcohol had gotten to both of you as you were laughing at his silly movements down the hallway.

You hold onto his shoulder, feeling a sudden wave of dizziness come over you.

“Are you okay y/n?” He asks, hugging onto your arm, holding you up.

“I’m okay, yeah i’m fine” You slur as you continue your steps out of the hallway and into the living room, where the front door was.

It was a short and silent walk from the living room to the door. Still holding on close to him, in case you might skip or fall onto the ground.

Everytime he moved his hand or his arm you felt butterflies warm your body.

There was something so fascinating about the boy standing next to you, he was so sweet, and funny, and was really the best friend you could ever ask for. It might just be the liquor, or the true feelings you’ve felt deep inside of you, but whatever it was, you decided to listen to it for the first time as you stepped out of the door.

The rain was so nice, it wasn’t too strong, and the thunder and lightning had disappeared a while ago.

A cold gust of air rushes through the wind beside you and Beomgyu. Out of instinct you hug into the side of him, feeling his warmth, you decide to lay your head on his shoulder comfortably.

You look up at him, pulling back from his shoulder, to see him fully red. He had never been this quiet around you ever.

He turned your way, now facing you. The small front porch light giving you a clear look of his face. His cheeks were a deep shade of red, and his eyes were big and brown.

He had become so close to you that you could smell the peachy fragrance you and him had been drinking on his breath.

You felt those butterflies consuming your body, and moving you closer to him, if that was even possible.

You feel his arm intertwine with your waist, pulling you into him, and holding you tight.

You were startled by the warm, soft pair of lips on your mouth, you understand the situation, placing your hands on his face, and quickly kissing him back.

It felt like a million fireworks on the fourth of July. All of the collywobbles, dithers, and heart skips all arising from your chest and into your passionate kiss with Choi Beomgyu.

You enjoy the last seconds of the kiss, before feeling his lips part from yours.

You look up at him. Examining his eyes for any signs of displeasure or discomfort in the kiss. He looks into the rain, refusing to meet your eyes.

You feel your heart sink slowly, You could tell on his face he didn’t like it. Your eyes started to slowly fill up with sadness. Ready to pour just like the rain at any moment.

“I-I’m sorry” He says quietly, finally back looking at you.

You stay quiet. Now you were the one refusing to make eye contact, staring out into the rain while trying to process what was going on.

“It was just in the moment, i’m sorry y/n!” He looks at you, worried for your expression, in his eyes though, your silence said enough.

You walk past him and go into the house, moving past the furniture and hallway to his room, in which you quickly get your bag of things, and head back out to the front door quickly.

On your way you meet with him at the front door.

“please don’t leave! I swear I didn’t mean it like that! Y/n?” You could hear his voice cracking slightly at the end of his sentence.

You look back at him to see his eyes glossy and desperate, and sad like the storm outside.

“I’ll see you later” You say sadly, before jogging off to your home, crying as you make the short journey to your door step.

Thank God the front door was unlocked to your home. You open the door quietly, coming inside and shutting it. Running to your room, and not looking back.

You went into your bathroom, taking a good look of yourself in the mirror. You were a mess, you had tear stains all over you, your pajamas were wet from the rain, you slippers were dirty from the mud, and you heart was shattered by the boy next door.

You sink slowly onto the floor, you’re crying picking up again. Your first kiss was supposed to be magical, and special. Instead it was by your friend who showed you unrequited feelings.

~~ Present time ~~~

“Yeah, I remember, and that’s exactly why I won’t kiss you” You pull back and sit up from your spot. You feel yourself getting angry from the past. The one bad thing about Beomgyu is that he knew you liked him back then, and he still kissed you, knowing he didn’t like you back. He could’ve just NOT kissed you but no, he had to try and lead you on, or at least that’s what you think happened.

“okay, okay that’s fair, but I was a kid, wasn’t thinking”

“Beomgyu that was 2.5 years ago, you’re still a kid now” You look back at him with a side eye. You could feel yourself getting annoyed by the old memories.

“Well, just know that, I would never, and i mean never, do that again to you if I had any other chance in the future” He says in a very serious tone. You turn to look at him, his expression was serious and genuine now. You could tell he truly meant what he said.

“Thank you” You reply to him.

You look at him, exchanging the serious look between each other, feeling the tension that died down before rising back up into the air.

The ding that came from your phone cut the quick tension into half as you picked it up, breaking the eye contact between you and Beomgyu.

You read the text message in your head.

“Mrs. Choi gets off at noon, let’s go around then? Come downstairs so we can get you ready for dress shopping! - mom”

“Oh shit.” You say out loud, catching Beomgyu’s attention. “What is it?”

“My mom thinks I still am sleeping. She doesn’t know I left!” You audibly smack your forehead in disappointment. How do you even explain this to her without her thinking you came here for something totally different.

“Just tell her you’re here, that I wanted your advice for something?” He spurts out loudly, giving you an idea to use.

“okay, good one” You type out the words, looking them over before pressing send.

“Hey mom, I’m over at Beomgyu’s, he needed advice for something. I’ll be right over!” Is what it reads.

You see your mom typing but then just leaving you on opened, before sending a reply back.

“Advice at 8:30 am? Lol, breakfast is ready so come home!” You read the text she sent to you.

“She definitely didn’t believe me gyu! She probably thinks i’m a just a nympho banging you!” You yell out dramatically.

You could see Beomgyu return back to you with the equally dramatic face,

“Hey! You wish you could bang me” He turns his face into a boastful smirk as you roll your eyes at him, collecting your things and getting ready to head off to your house.

“See you later loser” You hear him shout as you leave his room and into the hallway.

You get out of his house quickly, feeling the breath of fresh air gave your chest some relief. The tension in his room, and the thought of old memories made it almost hard for you to breathe.

You turn back, making sure the front door was shut, while smiling sadly, remembering that your first ever kiss was right where you were standing. It’s almost like things never really change from how they were in the past.

You walk through the grass between your house and his, the morning dew getting your shoes wet.

You finally get to your home, and opening the door to find your your mother in the kitchen eating something that looked like french toast.

“There you are!” She turns around from her chair and gets up to greet you at the stove where your leftover breakfast was placed.

“Thank you for breakfast mom” You say looking towards her, grabbing your plate and heading to the table.

She joins you quietly. It was usually just you two during the morning times, everyone else was either at work, or school, or just didn’t want to get up, but it was nice having special time with your mom.

“You were giving advice to him? In that outfit?” She says in a mischievous tone while looking you up and down.

You look down at your clothes, you were wearing a tight shirt (or one that just hugged you in all the right places) and some jean shorts. “What’s wrong with it?” You question her.

“Nothing, just use protection that’s all honey” Your mom says as she gets up from her seat and putting her dish in the dishwasher.

“Huh?!! Mom it is not like that at all!” You explain, while getting your plate to also put in the dishwasher as you were now too disgusted to eat.

“Alright well, clean up your hair and makeup, and find a cute outfit for you to wear. We’ll be leaving in few hours” She shouts as she moves towards the stairs and up into the second floor of your home.

“Okay” You say tiredly, too quiet for her to hear you. Later today was going to be a long, very long.

~~~~

“Aren’t you guys excited?! This is going to be so fun guys!” You mom shouts in the front seat of Mrs. Chois car.

You turn your head to Beomgyu, looking at him with the most disappointing face ever, as you fasten your seatbelt next to him.

“Purple, that’s the color right?” Mrs. Choi asks you. Good thing her driving wasn’t as bad as her sons.

“Right, pretty color for a pretty girl” Beomgyu says, cutting you off before you could reply to his mom.

He turns to you and smirks, “How excited are you to be going to the dance with me?”

You laugh to yourself at first, forgetting that you were supposed to be enjoying your free Monday with him.

“I’m very excited Beomgyu” You lower your tone softly. You would be lying if you said you didn’t actually enjoy any bit of this, I mean, it was all for a bigger cause. Just imagine seeing the look on Jake and Hazel’s face when they realize that you and Beomgyu are going together. It would drive them crazy, and that makes every bit of this worth it.

You guys finally reach the small dress boutique after a short drive.

“I know whatever you pick, you’re gonna look pretty in it” Beomgyu says to you, meeting your eyes while you unfastened your seatbelt.

You smile back at him lightly, before getting out of the car and into the store.

You’re not sure If it’s something i’m the air, or maybe the thought of revenge on your old friends, but something about Beomgyu had changed. Maybe it was the conversation you had with him earlier, but he seemed much more calmer and mature. He wasn’t goofing around or doing something that would normally have pissed you off.

“Hi! Welcome to our store! Would you like to see some of our newer dresses?” The lady at the front of the store said to us as we walked in, she had a clipboard in her hand and a pen in the other, for what you assume would be to sign people in with.

“You guys must be the y/l/n’s? Your dressing room is this way, let me walk you to it!” The kind employee takes you and the others into the deeper part of

the store, where the dressing room was, followed by a big common room with a big mirror for your guests to look at the dress you tried on.

“So what style and color are you looking for?” The woman takes you back even further to the back of the store, leaving the rest of them in the common area, and bringing you to where all of the dresses are.

“Uh, I’d like light purple please, I don’t care for a certain style” You chuckle out nervously. Trying on any type of clothes was stressful, but the ultimate fear was coming here and not finding a dress that you liked.

“Alright of course! This way” You followed the woman throughout the store to where the purple dresses were.

“Wow, these are all so beautiful” You look around at the dresses in awe. If there was any moment you felt special, it was right now in this moment. The dresses were beautiful, each individually made to a beautiful style.

“Let’s say you pick a few out first? I’ll bring them to the dressing room for you. Just take your pick.” The lady replied to you sweetly, snapping you back into present time. You had never seen such beautiful dresses. Beomgyu is the one who picked out this store, but you didn’t know how perfect they would’ve looked.

You examined the first couple dresses that are in front of you, carefully deciding which dresses you would be lucky enough to try on.

“How about this one?” You look at the employee for her approval, in which she nodded in return. It was a beautiful v line evening dress, long with gorgeous silk and shimmer.

“This one too, please!” You pointed to the other dress. It was a lavender split neck mermaid dress, long and embroidered with natural glittered floral. The dress was almost breathtaking. One you would only see in the movies.

“And one more?” The lady says, grabbing the other two dresses for you to try on.

You look around very closely to all the dresses that were there. You imagined what Beomgyu might like for you to wear, or how you would look in formal pictures.

The shimmering color popping out of the hanging dresses caught your eye, you take a closer look at the dress, fully intrigued now by the pretty color.

You pull the dress to the side or the other dresses, getting a full look at the gorgeous dress.

“It’s an A-line long lace Lilac corset dress! One of our best sellers in some of the other shades!” The dress salesman says, pulling you out of your thoughts yet once again.

“Can I try that one on too?” You ask. You feel yourself fidgeting with your fingers, it was awkward having to pick out dresses with someone you hadn’t ever met.

“Of course! Let me take you to your dressing room! Right this way” The woman grabs the last dress and takes off quickly. You pick up the pace in your walking, in worries that you might lose the employee with your dresses. Finally you get to the the dressing room, right beside the common area.

You look back in the common area to see the moms chatting about God knows what, and Beomgyu, looking at you reassuringly, waving at you. You smile, his eyes meeting yours immediately brought a smile to your face, his wave bringing some comfort in the nerve wracking situation.

You go into the dressing room as the woman puts the dresses on the rack.

“Once you’re finished trying on your first dress, let me know and you can show the dress to the others in the common area” The woman says, closing the dressing room door and leaving you in it.

You stare at yourself in the mirror. “You got this y/n. I know you do” You say to yourself, before grabbing the first dress of the rack and dressing into it.

~

“Okay. I’m ready!” You knock on the inside of the door, letting the woman know you were ready to show the others.

The first dress was pretty, it fitted nice on your shape and it was very airy and comfortable.

The lady opens the door and walks towards the common area, with you falling shortly behind her.

You get up into the front of the group, making a quick turn for them. Before stopping, and examining their faces for any reaction.

Beomgyu, had looked as pale as a ghost, he had his eyes locked in on you the whole time, not attempting to let go.

“You look beautiful, Y/n” He says, before taking a deep breath in.

“She’s so gorgeous, no wonder you asked her out!” Mrs. Choi yells out sweetly.

“You’re beautiful angel” You mom smiles at you sweetly, if you looked close enough you could see her eyes had become glossy, you could hear her sniffing as she tried hiding back her emotions.

“Let me try on the other 2, okay?”

You follow back to the dressing room, taking off of your dress carefully and putting back on the second dress.

It look a little more work getting in the dress, as it was one of the more fancier dresses in the shop.

You looked like a princess. One from straight out of a disney movie. You looked, ethereal. This dress could be the one.

You walk out of the dressing room, holding your dress up in case you don’t trip on it while walking to the common room.

“You look amazing, now let’s go show them!” The lady says walking with you the last couple steps before you reached your destination.

“Y/n?” You hear the voice call out to you. You almost immediately recognize the accent, whipping your head back to identify the familiar voice.

You feel yourself freeze as you look behind you. Lo and behold there he was, looking at you with a speechless face and a soft smile. There were so many things left unsaid the last time you saw him, it was almost surreal seeing him in the flesh after so long. Jake Sim

“Jake? What are you doing here?” You look at him questionably. The whole groups was now focused on him. You could feel the awkward tension as the group starred at him like hawks, especially Beomgyu.

“Me and Hazel went shopping, i’m just here to pick up the ribbon for her corsage.” He says, examining who was all there with you.

“Beomgyu?” He looks up, seeing Beomgyu in the chair right beside you.

Good thing looks can’t kill, because if they did, Jake would have fell out right then and there.

Jake walks closer to the group, ready to conversate with you until the store packages in his ribbon for him.

“What do you want?” Beomgyu spits out at him, crossing his arms and furrowing his brows. Beomgyu was a lot of things, but one thing he wasn’t, was happy, and when he wasn’t happy, he was going to show that.

“Are you going to the dance with y/n?” Jake looks at Beomgyu, following closer in an interrogational way.

“Yeah, I am” Beomgyu says, glaring up at him with deathly cold eyes.

“What’s up?” You ask, cutting the tension between the two.

“Oh nothing, I just wanted to ask you guys, maybe if you would want to come out to dinner with me and Hazel one night, like a double date or something? Catch up you know?” Jake says looking at you, completely ignoring Beomgyu who was sitting right next to you.

“Um” You look at Beomgyu and examine his expression, seeing whether or not he would be interested in it, which he was clearly not.

“Sure” You say, looking back at Jake with an awkward smile. You could hear and audible grump come from the boy beside you.

“Alright great! See you guys later, you

look nice by the way, y/n” He says, pointing at your dress before heading off to the register where his corsage ribbon laid.

“I’ll text you, okay?” He says one last time before getting his things and leaving the store.

You still felt frozen in your spot, this is not how your dress shopping was supposed to go.

“How about we try on that last dress?” The employee says, motioning towards the dressing room for you.

You look to the side and see Beomgyu sink into his chair.

“I think we’ll just take this dress” You say to the woman, slightly chuckling out of awkwardness before moving to the dressing room, and changing back into your normal clothes.

You look in the mirror one more time before leaving the dressing room once and for all.

“You ready, y/n/n?” Your mom asks you, getting up from her seat and up to you, rubbing your back comfortably.

You nod your head in assurance as you head to the register at the front of the store.

~~

The drive home was short and quiet. Beomgyu hadn’t spoken a word to you after the encounter with Jake happened.

“Well, We’re home! Would you like to come over tomorrow while we shop for suits?” Mrs Choi asks you, looking back to where you were seated.

“Of course” You smile nicely at her. You unbuckle your seatbelt with ease. While the boy beside you hurried out of the car quickly, and slamming the door shut. Making you flinch at the noise.

“Sorry about him, i’m sure he’ll forget about it soon” Mrs. Choi says as you all get out of the car.

“I’m gonna go talk to him, if that’s okay?” You ask Mrs Choi, ready to follow gyu into their home.

“Sure, me and you mom will be out here talking until then” She says, before going back into whatever conversation she had with your mom.

You walk up to their front door step, opening the door and following quickly behind Beomgyu.

You follow through the house quickly until you get to his door, you knock lightly, waiting for a response.

“What do you want?” He yelled out.

Before you replied back you opened his door, to find him sitting on his bed on his phone, not looking up once to see who it was.

“Hey, it’s me. Sorry about Jake” You say walking closer to him, and finding a seat beside him on his bed.

His face was completely focused on the game he was playing on his phone, refusing to look up at you.

“It’s okay. I get it. Why wouldn’t you want to be with a guy like him.” He says, lowering his head even lower than it was originally, if that was even possible.

“No Beomgyu, I liked having fun with you. I really did, I mean, this is the most fun. i’ve had in months! These 3 days with you have been one of the best moments ever.” You say softly putting your hand on his shoulder, looking at his face, he looked saddened, or maybe angry, you weren’t sure but you wanted to make it better in any way you could.

With a kick of courage coming from you, you plant a small kiss on his cheek before heading out of the door. “Goodnight Beomgyu.”

You walk down the hallway and into the living room, smiling to yourself at your sudden move as boldness. As you walk on your way to the front door, you hear a door swing open in the hallway and slam shut, with quick footsteps coming shortly after.

You finally make it to the door, opening it and ready to head out, before you hear a familiar voice stopping you, “wait.”

You turn your head to see Beomgyu there, breathing hard from the running.

You make eye contact with him, his eyes were deep and soft. Before you could say anything you feel a strong pair of lips on yours. Kissing you soft and firm, it felt perfect, his lips matching in sync with yours so well, before long, you feel him back away.

“Goodnight y/n” He says, regaining his breath from the strong kiss, before giving you another small kiss and pushing himself back into the house.

You look out to see both of your moms in the driveway, shocked of what they just saw.

“Goodnight guys, see you later” You say, running down towards the front porch and towards your home quickly, finally into your house at a rapid pace, forgetting everything behind you.

You shut the door as you sigh to yourself. Beomgyu somehow always had a way of getting the last word in.

A/n: I hope you guys like this one! So sorry for the long delay! This was a bit longer but I hope all of you enjoy a bunch, if you do, make sure to like and reblog (only if you’d like ofc!)

[igglemouse]

...

I’ll be honest that I think the reason I’ve been slowing down is because I have lost interest in my legacy and I feel if I have I know others have. Again, I have put myself in the corner of creating 5 different heirs with different themes and characters and...it’s a lot of work! That word there, work, I don’t like that here.

I remember when I first reset my legacy it was a soft reset, basically a time jump and I still respected the backstories of my previous legacy, hence Dulce, Marta, Telah, Wilfried and his aliens...it’s been a lot juggling around. 

The first reason I moved down to 3 early this year was because as I mentioned before I was planning on doing a fantasy story and this would have given me time to do that, then I gave up on that idea and went back up to 5 and while I love Wilfried and Talla, it’s back at that point where I’m juggling all these stories and I feel each story suffers because of that. 

For example, Delfina’s Winterfest and Pregnancy would have been a bigger deal but I had Dalton’s next episode looming and as I mentioned...it is a hard one to shoot. With everything pointing to a large magical battle and all...so I just like here’s winterfest, here’s a baby, okay lets move on because I know I have to finish this Dalton episode soon.

and I’ve done that before! I mean with Carnage I posed every fight scene and had a battle scene at the end that I was proud of...but it would take a while to do that and while I do that I feel like the other heirs just linger. 

The pacing of my legacy is slow but when you bring it to 5??? I worry I am at a turtle’s pace now! It’s been a year and between 5 heirs one has had a baby!  Sometimes they disappear for more than a month because of rotating them all and bleh...have I learned anything!?

Well, of course I have, but have I applied what I learned?

So, all this to say is that yes, I’m strongly thinking of restarting and this time completely fresh with none of my old sims, all new. 2 heirs and then I could actually have more time to do other stuff without feeling that if I don’t release anything there is no progress. 

Then maybe I could actually work on more story projects? Maybe I could have time to do tags lol? Carnage season 2, which was titled ‘Moon’ and I abandoned that because so much time went into running 5 different legacies...and maybe the fantasy story I’ve been wanting to tell and maybe I’d actually get to releasing poses! I remember one day I watched @whyhellosims go through my old Carnage posts and then message me about  how much they were enjoyed and it just made me so happy! A lot went into that. I’ve had stray thoughts of picking up where that left off...

I don’t know! 

I do know that I always appreciate the support you all give me! I know some are really into the heirs I’ve created and the stories they have, I’d hate to disappoint and end their stories. I know my legacy never has a set ending but if I do I think I’d like to time skip and wrap their stories up someway somehow...

[jobesimming]

Legacies - Episode one (Pt.1)

POV: Belle'Anna Darling

UGH! Another day in this horrendous house! Thank God I'm going out with the gang. Before I could even breathe this morning— My mother Posha was in my room yelling at me. I understand this is my first ever "C" on a test...but girl it's most definitely my last dealing with you. Porsha has always been on my ass for the simplest things. I think I'ma apply for a job at Naura's Family Vet because I'm ready to move out. And my father, you ask? I don't know him and have never met him. I only know he looks just like me and his name is Messer Darling. The fuck type of name is Messer?

(LOL, I thought it said brunch and I'm sorry....but I'm not fixing it!)

Man, why did Aspen ask us to be here so early? I love the twins dearly...but they're doing too much. Yes, the boys are famous because of their ridiculously hot father-- but why they gotta fuck with my sleeping schedule? I don't mean to get off topic but.....

Mr. (Andrew) Martinez, Monroe, and Aspen.

But I mean...just look at their dad... How can a sim be this hot? But like I was saying. We're all gathered at "Sarah's" for brunch. Only for the simple reason that Aspen wanted us all to start hanging out again. I haven't seen the twin since the beginning of school. They were on tour with Mr. Martinez all school year. The funny thing is, Aspen is starting to act and Monroe is more of an influencer and a singer. And they're kinda our glue. The girl sitting next to me...I don't even know her. Jer'isha is their cousin and she's extremely pretty. I remember Micheal liked her...

Then you know...Hot girl summer came......BTW WE'RE NOT DATING! Babes... it's hot girl summer...no, ma'am. You can never take the city out of this girl.

"I really missed you guys." spat from Aspen's mouth as he continued to chow down on his "veggie" burger...btw, ew. "I'm sorry we haven't been here to hang. Promise to not hate us too much."

"Yea, yea, yea, whatever. We missed y'all, y'all missed us. I just want to know if Mr. and Mrs. Martinez will let y'all come to my party. Y'all gotta turn up! I'ma get some big booty bit-"

Naura abruptly cuts me off with her hysterical laugh, "Yea no. The Twins can't be caught in a scandal."

Here goes Mama Naura. Which brings me to think—she's still crushing on Monroe; someone she's been looking at all day...well, morning. I told her to ask him out before he had left for London last year. But of course--she let her toxic father control her! Hell, just to let her breathe, she spends the night at my house. It's ok though, Ms. Youtuber will be moving out soon. I stared at her and she giggled, "Whatever." she mouthed and I flicked her off. Aspen gasped, which caused us all to laugh. A few minutes later we ate and caught up with one another. Aspen explored his sexuality, Jer'isha is now going to our school and she's moving in with the twins, Monroe sings now, and that's about it. I mean Micheal said something about an early summer fling....but no one knew who he was talking about and I wasn't paying attention. I had just thought about it when Naura texted me about it. I'm not going to bore you with that conversation though. I don't even like Micheal. I just wanted a nut and I dipped. We slutting these boys out all summer. I don't know though, Aspen looks good. He's definitely the cute twin.

"So how does that work Asp? Like are you gay now?" asked a very confused Naura. Please excuse my very ignorant friend. She comes from a very dull household.

Aspen chuckles, "Honestly, I'm just human and living life at this point." When he said that, it confused Naura even more— so he continued to say, "Meaning I'm not living life with labels. I am Aspen Myles Martinez and I plan to live life to the fullest."

LORD, could Aspen be any hotter... Naura was STILL lost so I had to explain, "Basically... it's none of your—OR anyone's business Naura." She got it now, but she's a little hurt. I mean it's not her business to know unless she wants to get in his pants. AND she bet not, that's my twin.

After that nice and friendly exchange. It was time for us to leave. Naura and I have a nail appointment, the twins have an audition, and Micheal is visiting family. We started to say our goodbyes and Monroe pulled me to the side, "Wow, you somehow managed to look even hotter than the last time I saw you." Which left me completely dumbfounded. Before I could retort, Asp had yelled for him, "See you tonight." left Monroe's lips, then he disappeared into the distance.

Hey guys!! Hope you guys liked the first part of episode one! I think I'm going to do eight episodes for season one. Season one will be, summer, Season two will be when the Kids go back to school. The series won't just be about the kids, but also their parents and families.

[recurring-polynya]

can you please do a Renji birthday Drabble where Ichika learns to say “daddy” (or whatever, I’m not so knowledgeable about babies lol) in front of him

“I am not sure,” Byakuya said firmly, “about the use of kidou to create artificial barriers during the combat simulation.”

“It’s the same as the cones Vice-Captain always uses, except people won’t jump over them! Sir!”

“Abarai, tell Yuki to use the cones.”

Renji, who had been edging toward the door, sighed. “The kidou are a great idea, sir. And 3rd Seat Yuki did a great job designing the whole course. You’ll have a great time. Ow.”

A stuffed anthropomorphic seaweed had smacked him in the face.

“Waaaaah!”

“Shh, Daddy is talking to Uncle Byakuya,” Renji murmured, jogging his one-year old daughter in his arms, hoping the bouncing would pacify her.

It was Rukia’s first day back at work. It was Rukia’s first half-day back at work. She had been practically gleeful when she arrived at the Squad Six offices to pass off Ichika. Her hair, which was down to her shoulders now, was wrapped up in a tidy little bun, and her eyes were edged with sharp, black liner. Renji did not remember his wife bothering with eyeliner before she had a baby, but he refused to rib her about being excited to be back. Rukia loved her baby, but staying at home didn’t suit her. Renji was honestly looking forward to her getting back to what she loved almost as much as she was.

Renji had a suspicion, which he had voiced to exactly no one, that he was going to enjoy going to part time, which was supposed to have started fifteen minutes ago. It wasn’t that he didn’t like his job. He loved his job. He also loved his daughter and he was really looking forward to spending more time with her. That is, if he could ever manage to get out of his division office.

The office door slid open, and 4th Seat Kuchiki Choei’s head popped in. “Hey Captain-- oh, is Vice-Captain still here? Hey, Vice-Captain! Do we still have that Hollow dummy? The one that looks like a giant spider?”

“It’s in the attic storage of Barracks #2,” Rikichi announced.

“Oh, great, thanks!”

“Wait, what do you want it for?” Renji yelped, as Ichika tugged his bandana down over his eyes.

“Hey, Yuki, am I leading the Red Team or the Blue Team in the combat sim this afternoon?” Choei asked conversationally.

“You’ve got the Blue Team.”

“I thought I was leading the Blue Team,” Byakuya frowned.

“Aah! Aah! Aaaaaaaah!” Ichika sang.

“Which one of us gets the mess hall in our initial territory?”

“The mess hall is neutral, after what happened last time!”

“I think you guys have this under control, I’m just gonna--” Renji attempted to extricate himself.

“Abarai, which team is Yuki usually on?” Byakuya stopped him in his tracks. “I feel like I should get an additional officer to make up for his absence.”

“He’s sitting right there, you could ask him,” Renji pointed out. “Look, it’s one-fifteen, and Ich--”

“I rearranged all the teams,” Rikichi announced. “It’ll be fun.”

“Oooh, who did I get?” Choei asked, striding into the office. “Hey, Ichika!”

Ichika stopped trying to wrench herself out of Renji’s arms for a brief moment in order to wave one chubby hand at Choei, who cheesed back at her.

“How could you rearrange the teams?” Byakuya protested. “Abarai, did you look at his teams? Are they fairly balanced?”

“I didn’t,” Renji admitted. “But what’s the worst that can happen?”

“Da,” Ichika said, patting his face. “Da.”

Eighth Seat Shirogane’s head suddenly popped into the office. “There’s an inspector here from the First? Does anyone know where Vice-Captain left the blueprints for the new barracks? Oh, Vice-Captain, you’re still here!”

“I have them!” Rikichi called. “The inspector was supposed to come at two!”

“The First always calls early,” Byakuya noted, his eyes narrowed. “They hope to catch us unawares.”

“Hey, Captain, I’ll trade you Extra Large Gotou for Taniguchi!”

Renji cringed. He regretted ever telling Choei about Squad 11 nicknames.

“I’m not unawares! I have those blueprints right here!”

“DA-DEE!”

The entire office went dead silent, and five pairs of eyes swiveled over to where Ichika sat tall in her father’s arms, looking very proud of herself. “Daddy!” she announced again, and then jabbed one tiny finger at the doorway, scowling for punctuation.

“Awwww!” Mihane gasped.

“That was so cute,” Choei added.

“Was that…” Byakuya started slowly. “Has she…”

“That was the first time,” Renji managed, his voice going a bit wobbly.

“Good job, Ichika!” Rikichi cheered.

Ichika beamed.

“What are you doing, Lieutenant?” Byakuya barked, suddenly. “You were supposed to be off at one! Begone! Do you think we cannot handle ourselves without your benighted presence?”

“Just gettin’ outta here!” Renji agreed, slinging Ichika’s diaper bag over his shoulder, to a chorus of “See you tomorrow, Vice-Captain!” and “Bye-bye, Ichika!”

“Good job, kid,” Renji congratulated as they stepped out into the mid-day sunshine. “So, what are we gonna do today?”

Ichika regarded him for a moment and declared “Daddy!”

Renji nodded firmly. “You’re in luck. A whole afternoon with Daddy it is.”

[criquette-was-here]

Long Awaited Replies

Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since my last activity here. Stuff’s just got real last few months and I am now experiencing some heavy RLS which makes the future of the whole Feverfew project quite uncertain. I’m very annoyed by the fact I have to move the release date over and over again, but, fingers crossed, I’ll be able to manage to make it this year. But before I post any updates, I need to answer my inbox!

@landgraabsims​ said:

feverfew is absolutely gorgeous!! is it inspired by any real-life places or towns? i live in england and it reminds me of a few in-the-middle-of-nowhere villages i've visited c:

Thanks @landgraabsims​! Yes, Feverfew is based on British countryside aesthetics without any towns or villages in particular. It has a bit of everything, really. It’s a fantasy place after all. But I do use a lot of real life references for making landmarks for it.

Anonymous said:

any idea of the date of release for feverwood? just redownloaded sims 2 and im in loveee

Hey Anon! I’m glad you like it! I really hope to make it happen this year.

Anonymous said:

i would die (or pay) for zagoskin omg it looks like TS3

Oh, thank you, Anon!

@katzengirl​ said:

Hello Criquette! I don't have a challenge or a question or a request. I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the things you've shared with us! I hope you're having a good day.

Hello Kristina! That is so sweet, thank you ^___^ I hope you’re doing fine too!

Anonymous said:

Hi there, Criquette. Been having fun with your Rural Charm set and the Better Lighting.  Ran into one small problem with the RC. One of the narrow curves picks up the texture from a road section with a crosswalk, so that looks a bit odd (30degree inner?).  And a question - is there a Better Lighting for the Iron Bracket street lamp with the seasons banner?  Thought the iron bracket would work, but it's not. Anywho, Thank You for ALL the work you put into making our hoods look fantastic!

Hey Anon! Thanks! Depending on the road DR you’re using, there can be some  texture issues here and there since Rural Charm is optimised for road texture without any markings (apart from the broken white line). As for the Iron light post with a banner – no. I’ve only made 2 Maxis’ base game lamp posts.

Anonymous said:

It's amazing how this one game embraces so many different types of players. I'm planning to create my very own nh from scratch, and I'd be a liar not to recognize how your game pics inspired me to the task (not to mention your ever impressive work of hood deco cc throughout these years). For all that, as much as I'm just another anon, thank you, sincerely. But that left me wondering: do you also/still play with the other ts2 game modes or they no longer interest you?

Oh, that is so kind, Anon. Thank you! Yes, I do love to actually play the game. I enjoy building/decorating lots as much as live mode. In fact, I often get carried away during playtest sessions and just keep playing in lot mode and that’s why there are lots like ‘The Tower Inn’ or ‘The Moose & Beaver’ or sims like Tilda Phidbach, WHT-FC28 servo and their field lab.

Anonymous said:

Criquette, do you know something about this project? thesims1master tumblr (the idea is to make the game look like the beta version. I ask, because I liked it so much, but I haven't been able to find the person behind it and I'm very curious to see more or download it, as well as his world, which I've been waiting for since last year lol)

Hey Anon! Oh, I don’t think I know anything about this project, no. But it looks rather interesting!

@forever-evenfall​ said:

Hey Criquette! I just downloaded your Lighting Remedy (because I only just realised I needed to change the txt file and not just download it lol) and when I placed your lighting text in the program files, the lighting itself worked, but the terrain itself was flashing red. Do you know what I did wrong? I literally don’t think I can play without the fix lol. I am using UC and I placed it in the Fun With Pets/SP9/TSData/Res/Lights folder. Should I have put it somewhere else?

Hello Eve! I might be wrong, but isn’t it Mansions & Gardens SP that stands for UC? Anyway, flashing red terrain is really weird consequence for just replacing a txt file. Neighborhood terrain doesn’t have any dynamic light. It has a light map instead which comes with Lighting remedy too. If you only just replace the lighting txt file without putting LR light map into your ‘Downloads’ folder, the only issue you should get would by unsynchronized light directions for hood decos and the terrain itself.

Anonymous said:

I'm having a problem: not all the decorations I put in the neighborhood are showing up in simulation mode, even with the fade off and the long-range vision on. I think there is some code that I need to add to the game files to make all the decorations appear. But I can't find how to do this: c Can you help me?

Hello Anon! Basically, there’s only one type of hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode and that is neighborhood effects. All the decals, flowers, fields, all the animated stuff (except for texture animation, e.g. Maxis’ marquee sign) is not showing up in lot mode. There’s nothing we can do about it. Yet. If you think that there’s a proper hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode, please PM me with some screenshots and we could try to sort it out.

Anonymous said:

Hello--Anon who asked about additional pieces for the Rural Charm set--I see now, thank you for explaining about the floating intersections.  Is there anything you recommend then, to add on to existing roads? Otherwise, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Hello Anon! Oh, you’re most welcome. There is a tedious way to replace a texture on the existing tile of the real road, to make in into intersection so that it would connect better visually with decorative road pieces. But that takes time. What you have to do is to determine the tile you want to edit using technique described in this tutorial and then you have to change the texture name in the corresponding line. The texture names for the intersections (their index name parts) can be found in any road DR beforehand.

@sunradersimblr​ said:

Hi, I'm just wondering if you've ever done hood deco of a highway rest stop like the type we see in the U.S. along interstates and state highways, just a green space, usually, with toilet facilities and a place for a picnic and parking lot? I need one for a story and thought I'd check with you. Thanks for all the great work you share! 

Hello Sunrader! That would be really nice addition for the highway set, but I haven’t made it. Thought it’s quite possible to make something similar if you use ‘One side exit piece’ from the motorway set and add some picnic tables, umbrellas and benches using street tables & benches set. There’s also many 4t2 deco conversions for toilets and other small size decos that would help to create a decent resting stop.

@nataliepop​ said:

Hi there Criquette! There's a new game called Townscaper which I think you'd like. The architecture has an English aesthetic and you build cities or towns but it all starts on an ocean. It's in early access, so I hope by the time it officially releases they add boats and piers. Look it up on Steam or Youtube. I saw it via someone who usually does Cities Skylines videos. Btw, have you ever played that? Also, apart from sims what else do you enjoy playing? Anyway, hope you are having a good day!

Hey Natpop! Thanks for a lovely game suggestion! I’ve checked it out and it looks really fun. Can’t say I’d play it though XD All my free time (which I don’t have atm) is reserved for simming hood deco making working on Feverfew ^^

Anonymous said:

hey~ i love all of your stuff, you're so talented (๑♡⌓♡๑) i wanted to ask, do you think you'll ever release feverfew's sc4 map? 

Thank you Anon! That’s very kind. I’m not sure if there’s any point in releasing SC4 map I used for Feverfew because it’s completely differs from the way it looks now. The road layout is different, there’s no canal, no islands on the river, hills are different, etc. It has been heavily terraformed and edited during development process. I’d recommend just to wait till the Feverfew neigborhood release.

Anonymous said:

Hi! Do you have any idea of when Feverfew will be released? :) 

Hey Anon! It will be released this year, hopefully!

Anonymous said:

Hello :D Is it possible to get your linden trees as lot objects in build/garden section? I love them and they beautify my neighborhood but could really use an option to select them on lots too :)

Hello Anon! Yes, that’s possible, though I can’t say if I could make it myself. What I can say though, is that there’s a linden trees redux coming soon. It would make linden trees look better and highly optimised so that it would only take 4,5 Mb instead of 60 Mb without any losses in texture quality and resolution. 

[staytheb]

Elusive

Pairing: TXT’s Yeonjun x OC [Chaeyeon] Genre: college!au, slice of life, slight fluff Word Count: 4,580 Summary: Yeonjun and Chaeyeon are just friends, but it could be a little more than that. Well, maybe more for Yeonjun as Chaeyeon’s a bit oblivious.

Warning: none... i think. lol

hi! so i got to writing about Yeonjun from TXT! so the group has been removed from RESERVED and over to INACTIVE for now as i still dunno how often i will write with them in mind, but this came about and i’m still learning the members so this may not be as accurate. then again, this is a re-work of my other story Exclusive which only features one pairing and not a second one like the original. anyways, hopefully all my re-works can be done by the end of the year and to include more groups to write for as well. other than that, happy reading and kthxbai, Admin Lia~

"You've got to be kidding me." Chaeyeon said in disbelief upon arriving early to her 8AM class.

Apparently it had been cancelled for the remainder of the week and she totally forgot about it.

"I really need to pay better attention."

Running a hand through her hair she heard a chuckle from behind her and turned around to see her classmate and friend, Yeonjun, walking up to her with a bubble tea in each hand.

"You're cute."

Chaeyeon made a face upon hearing his compliment.

"I'm not."

"Anyways, good morning." He greeted with a cheery attitude.

Chaeyeon frowned knowing that for her it was not a good morning.

"It's not. Anyways, why are you here?"

"To hang out with you since I knew you forgot that this class was cancelled for the rest of the week."

He grinned as Chaeyeon rolled her eyes.

"Oh wow, the great and mighty Choi Yeonjun gracing me with his royal presence. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness."

Yeonjun's excited expression dampened a bit.

"Gee, thanks, Chae. I was gonna give you this taro milk tea to make you feel better, but instead I'll enjoy it myself."

He smirked as he took a sip out of the purple drink.

"Ah, so delicious."

"Go ahead."

Chaeyeon shrugged as she walked right pass him.

"I'll buy myself something else and kill time before my next class."

Yeonjun followed after her with a pout.

"You do know that the taro was for you, right?"

"I do, but you put your nasty germs on it and so I don't want it."

"But you share things with everyone else though?"

"I know, but you're a different story."

"Then you can have the other one."

He offered her the greenish-brown drink.

"No thanks. I don't really like mint chocolate as bubble tea."

"It's not like I have cooties, Chae."

"Um, Jun, have you forgotten about your fans?"

She shot him a look.

"Because I'm not tryna get killed, which I'm surprised that there is none lurking around sending me death glares."

"Stop. I don't have fans." Yeonjun disagreed as he brushed off the topic.

"Whatever you wanna call them, they won't kill you. You're my friend and I haven't seen them give you any dirty looks."

"One, they're two-faced because when you turn around to look at them their so-called angelic faces appear. Two, I'm a female friend that's closer to you than they'll ever be to which to this day I still don't know how we're friends, honestly. We don't really have that much in common."

"Friends don't always have to have similar interests, Chaeyeon. It's mutual respect and a connection. Anyways, is that supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?" Yeonjun interjected upon hearing the part about them being friends.

"You can take it however you want."

Chaeyeon chuckled before continuing.

"Anyways, true, but maybe it's because you always copy my homework and sit next to me in class when you can literally sit anywhere else."

"Because you have better handwriting and you don't stare at me constantly."

"I wonder why."

She rolled her eyes before shooting him a look.

"Psh. And here you say they're not your fans."

Serena then took the purple drink from him and took a sip to assure him of their close relationship.

"Thanks though, but you still owe me something to eat from last time."

"Yeah, yeah. I know. You won't stop reminding me. Anyways, forget about them. They're not important."

He dismissed the topic about the fans.

"I'll meet you in the library at our usual spot then, yeah?"

Yeonjun informed her as the two split in different directions. While Chaeyeon was casually making her way up the stairs towards the library she suddenly heard her name being shouted from behind her. Just as she had turned around to see who it was she was suddenly tackled to the ground with the person on top of her while her drink fumbled away from her.

"Smile!"

The male announced happily as he held up his phone with one hand while the other hand held a placard to take a self-portrait of himself and Chaeyeon which she immediately partially blocked her face in time.

"Get off, Sim Jaeyun!"

Chaeyeon tried shoving the friend and classmate of hers off of her.

Jaeyun chuckled nervously as he obeyed while backing away from Chaeyeon with a good amount of space between them as another friend and classmate, Park Jongseong, joined them a moment later while catching his breath.

"Sorry, Chaeyeon. I tried, but once he saw you he ran so fast that I couldn't keep up." Jongseong explained once he caught his breath before a cheeky smile appeared on his face.

"Also, I wanted to see what would happen and the outcome was hilarious."

"You're a brat, Jongseong." Chaeyeon scoffed while fixing herself, but shot the two a friendly look.

"What are you two doing out and about so early in the morning?"

"Trying to complete the scavenger list." Jaehyun answered as he held up his placard.

"I really want this customized leather jacket just for Beta Heta Mu members."

"Of course. You're cute, Jaeyun."

Chaeyeon smiled before her eyes landed on the boba that Yeonjun had given her.

"But you owe me a drink though."

"I will if only..."

"If only what?"

"Basically Jaeyun wants you to help him out with gaining points." Jongseong answered with a blank look.

"That's why he ran so fast to catch you."

"The last time I helped I still didn't get my reward."

Jaeyun nervously rubbed the back of his neck before casting the female a pleading look.

"I will double the reward. Please help me out, Chaeyeon, especially since you're a Nu Tau Zeta member and it'll double or even triple the points."

"Ugh, fine, but I'm only gonna do just like two with you since you tackled me."

She then glared at him.

"You already took one, so you're left with one now."

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" Jaeyun thanked her while wrapping his arms around her in a hug.

"You're the best."

"Yeah, yeah. You're lucky that you're cute. Anyways, just tell me one of them that you need to do."

"I don't get why you put up with it when you know that you don't want to do it." Jongseong stated as Chaeyeon shrugged.

"I dunno. I guess you gotta give good karma to receive good karma."

"Wow. So it's basically for your own selfish gain?"

"Sure, why not? Don't judge me, Jongseong."

"You're cute, Chaeyeon."

He laughed as she narrowed her eyes at Jongseong.

"You want to do a few tasks, too, don't you?"

"Am I that obvious?"

"If there's a customized leather jacket, then yes."

Jongseong laughed with a nod.

"You caught me."

"Anyways, I already did the 'Tackle the opposite gender'. Let's see what else I can do." Jaeyun muttered as he checked his list and marked off the ones that he had already done.

"Oh, how about this one, Chaeyeon?"

Jaeyun showed Chaeyeon one of the tasks as she nodded.

"Sure, Jaeyun."

Jaehun happily got his phone ready to take the picture as Chaeyeon endured Beta Heta Mu's scavenger list for the sake of friendship while partially covering her face since she didn't want to get exposed either. She ended up doing a few more for both Jongseong and Jaeyun. The things she does in wanting to help out friends since the tasks weren't breaking laws or humiliating towards the members or others involved. Something she definitely gave the fraternity credit for. After that the trio bid goodbyes with Chaeyeon picking up her wasted boba drink to toss before making her way inside the library.

Yeonjun entered the quiet area where he and Chaeyeon met often in the library while spotting her sleeping with her arms folded on the table and using them as pillows. He chuckled at the sight while placing a ham and cheese bagel sandwich along with an iced americano by her things. Once he settled in the chair next to her while taking a sip of his own iced americano did Chaeyeon stir awake. She looked over at him sleepily while scrunching her nose at the aroma of the drinks.

"Gah, I hate the smell of coffee."

Yeonjun's eyebrows furrowed.

"I thought you like coffee?"

"I actually don't like coffee at all."

She pushed her coffee away and towards Yeonjun while picking up the bagel to eat.

"Thanks."

He stared at Chaeyeon questioningly in mid-bite of his own ham and cheese bagel sandwich.

"Wait a minute, Chae. Are you telling me that you hate coffee despite me buying it for our study sessions together since we've met?"

"Uh, yeah, basically." Chaeyeon answered with a sheepish laugh.

"Sorry, not sorry?"

"Dude, why didn't you just tell me? You honestly finished it every time or left a little bit and I didn't think anything of it."

"Because you genuinely looked pleased every time you gave it to me. It was cute and I just didn't have it in me to tell you the truth."

"I can't believe you didn't tell me."

"You'll get over it. Anyways, Jun, now you have double the coffee for your day today."

Yeonjun side-eyed her while taking the other drink back and taking a quick sip from it.

"What else are you hiding from me?"

"A lot of things." 

Chaeyeon cast him a secretive smile as she continued eating the bagel. Yeonjun left the subject alone as he brought out his materials to study, a loose piece of paper floated to the ground and Chaeyeon went to retrieve it instead before her friend could. Upon closer inspection she realized that it was the same BHM scavenger list that Jaehyun had.

"I forgot you're a Beta Heta Mu member." Chaeyeon remarked while placing the paper on top of his bag.

"So you're doing this, too?"

"Something like that."

He picked up the paper to scan it.

"I haven't really started, but I don't think I'm gonna do it either."

"Why not?"

"I don't have time. I really need to pass my classes this semester. I barely managed last semester."

"It's easier to do with a friend or two, Yeonjun. The scavenger hunt list, I mean. I'm sure you have some."

Yeonjun rolled his eyes.

"I do, Chaeyeon, but my schedule doesn't correlate well with theirs."

She glanced at him curiously.

"Do you want to complete the list?"

"Well yeah, I do, but I don't have the time to do so."

"What do you get out of this list if you complete the whole thing?"

"Well the points I accumulate will give me entries to the End of the School Year raffle."

"But there's something else that you want, right?"

Yeonjun smiled embarrassed as the thought of what he wanted popped into his head.

"Yeah."

"And that is?"

Chaeyeon tried to get it out of him.

"Tell me and I'll help you."

"You will?" He asked shocked before eyeing her suspiciously.

"Wait, why? You would rather be in bed right now than doing anything really productive."

"I have my moments, Jun, and I feel like doing something productive today besides school stuff at the moment."

"Y'know there's like more than fifty things on that list, right?"

"True, but it's mainly to help out a friend. Also I know that you want this. So what is it?"

"If I complete that list or score the most points out of anyone for that list, then I get to be center for the group photo when school's over."

"That's it?"

"Yeah. Oh and I get to host the final house banquet this school term and the first house banquet next school term."

"Okay, that's good."

Yeonjun looked at his friend unsure.

"Are you sure you want to help me?"

"I mean, not really, but I don't mind helping out others from time to time." 

Chaeyeon shrugged with a small smile.

"Alright, thanks, but I do need a date though for the banquet."

"And I'm sure that won't be a problem."

"Could I ask you in advance since you won't be all..."

"Fangirl mode?"

She cocked a brow as he nodded with a laugh.

"Yeah."

"You're cute, Jun. See, even you're thinking those people are fans now."

Yeonjun rolled his eyes, but looked at her with hopeful eyes despite feeling a bit giddy inside.

"So what do you say? Will you be my date?"

"I'll think about it."

He scoffed at her response as Chaeyeon chuckled.

"Anyways, let's go make you center, Choi Yeonjun, and a banquet host."

The pair got to working on the tasks that were quick and easy to do at the moment. After helping Yeonjun complete almost everything listed that she was comfortable with, Chaeyeon went to her last class for the day. Afterwards she had tutoring sessions in the library. Just as the tutoring ended Chaeyeon felt her phone vibrate. She ignored it since it was only a text message, but when it vibrated several more times she went on ahead to check it out while gathering her things and headed out of the library. Chaeyeon received several messages from her sorority's president, Im Jinah, and upon scanning the last one it was informing her to report to the president as soon as possible.

"Hello, Chaeyeon." Jinah greeted her with a smile as she motioned for her to sit.

Chaeyeon noticed the others of her sorority council in the room as she took a seat.

"Take a breath and slowly exhale. It's nothing bad or serious, so don't stress about that." Jinhee, the vice-president, chuckled as the treasurer, Jiyeon, smiled.

"Yeah, it's only to discuss attendance for the social gatherings this school term."

Chaeyeon relaxed and looked at her fellow sisters calmly awaiting permission to speak when prompted to.

"Now, Chaeyeon," Miso, the secretary, began with a gentle look in her direction, "We know you wanna be low- key and we're okay with that."

"Yeah, like super low-key under the radar type." Jinhee added with a laugh before speaking again, "But we definitely would appreciate it more if you attended one more event before the school term ends."

Jiyeon nodded in agreement.

"We acknowledged the fact that you do, do your part as a fellow sister of Nu Tau Zeta and haven't caused us any scandals or embarrassments since being with us."

She then cast a look at her fellow council members.

"Still..." She trailed off as Jinah continued instead.

"As the president of Nu Tau Zeta, I'm ordering you to attend one more social event as per socializing with those around you not in Nu Tau Zeta. Plus, you'll need to stay for more than an hour. Not just make appearances to several attendees and leave soon after."

Jinah smiled as Chaeyeon made a face causing everyone else in the room to laugh.

"You don't have to mingle much, just chill or relax and eat good food. Just stay past an hour and you're set to leave."

Chaeyeon nodded.

"Alright, will do, Jinah."

"Think of it this way, Chaeyeon, by joining a sorority you're committing yourself to a lifetime of network connections."

Miso grinned as Chaeyeon nodded with a smile.

"I know."

"Wonderful. That is all."

Chaeyeon was dismissed and returned to her room for a quick nap.

"Alright, fellas, it's officially midnight and the votes are accounted for and the results are now out!"

Yeonjun and the rest of his brothers awaited the results of the overall winner of Beta Heta Mu's Scavenger Hunt.

"Who will be our number one picture center and banquet host this school term and next school term?!"

Yeonjun anxiously awaited the announcement.

"Number one is..." The member paused for dramatic effect.

"It's Choi Yeonjun with a whopping nine hundred and nine points!"

Everyone congratulated Yeonjun as he was shocked and surprised that he actually won the scavenger hunt. He later learned from his president that Chaeyeon was an elusive member of Nu Tau Zeta and that a majority of the campus forget she's a member. The Nu Tau Zeta's president assisted in adding the sorority into the fraternity's scavenger hunt and was the one to review all the photos to see if any sorority members were featured in any of the pictures. Anyways, Chaeyeon's elusiveness allowed Yeonjun to win. Yeonjun smiled, causing him to think seriously about her.

Chaeyeon's phone buzzed and she reached out to find her phone to silence the call. She almost fell back asleep, but her phone buzzed once more and she silenced it once again without bothering to look at the caller ID again. Chaeyeon sighed when her mobile went off a third time and she repeated the same action as before. She felt it vibrate and dinged a second later to notify her that she now got a message and it repeated three more times and Chaeyeon knew that she wasn't going back to sleep peacefully unless she put it on 'do not disturb' and only set it for alarms instead.

Picking up her phone to do just that, Chaeyeon was surprised that it was already so late and that it was Yeonjun contacting her. He usually just messaged her once or twice. Even then he hardly ever called her unless he needed something. Or wanting to be an annoying brat to bother her, but it didn't happen often. Just as she was about to set her phone to 'do not disturb', Yeonjun's name popped up indicating that he was calling her for a fourth time. Chaeyeon contemplated whether to ignore it or not, but decided to answer the call.

"Hello?"

"Can we meet?" Yeonjun asked her out of the blue.

"Bruh, it's like one in the morning."

"Please, Chaeyeon."

Chaeyeon was about to decline when she heard his next words and reconsidered his suggestion.

"I got your favorite boba."

"I'm listening."

"You're cute. You know that, right, Chae?"

"I'm not, Jun, but whatever."

Yeonjun chuckled before speaking again.

"I also have your favorite snacks. So will you meet with me please?"

Chaeyeon thought about it before speaking a few seconds later.

"Honestly, it's late, Yeonjun, and yesterday's events were super eventful for me. I just kinda wanna sleep before classes start later today."

There was a long pause and Chaeyeon believed he may have hung up on her or she may have dozed off for a bit, but he was still on call with her and she gave him a moment to speak again. Still, Yeonjun didn't speak and she wondered if he had dozed off instead.

"Yeonjun?"

"Hmm?" He hummed a few seconds later.

"Oh, you're still awake."

"Yeah, I'm still awake."

Silence fell between them again until Chaeyeon broke it.

"Do you still wanna meet right now, Jun?"

"Yes, Chae, I do, but I also don't want to trouble you if you don't want to. I know how important sleep is for you."

"True for sleep, but you've already called and messaged me, Yeonjun."

Chaeyeon sat up and ran a hand through her hair slowly.

"Plus, I kinda can't go back to sleep right now."

"I'm sorry, Chae."

She could hear the sincerity in his voice and a small smile graced her lips.

"It's fine, Yeonjun. I'll get ready after you tell me where you wanna meet?"

"Do you remember the place where we met the first time?" Yeonjun asked not hesitating to tell her the meeting point.

Just as Chaeyeon was about to reply she was distracted by the vibration sound and light blinking from her roommate, Nayoung's, phone across the room. She ignored it, replied back to Yeonjun that she did, and hung up.

"Um, is it right here?" Chaeyeon asked herself when she arrived outside the classroom that she had first met Yeonjun.

"Or was it at the library?"

She second guessed herself upon not exactly remembering which location it was that they had met first.

"Shit. I should've just asked him."

"You're cute."

She heard from behind and languidly turned to face Yeonjun.

"You know, Chaeyeon, if we were together, I would have to set your alarms for all of our anniversaries and add in notes of our special places." Yeonjun responded while appearing from around the corner of the building holding a bag of snacks and two bubble tea drinks in hand.

Chaeyeon laughed with a shrug.

"Luckily we aren't, huh? I'll be a lost cause if anyone was in a relationship with me." She admitted taking her boba from him along with the bag.

"Thank you, Jun."

"You're welcome, and you're not a lost cause, Chae, just forgetful. Super forgetful and clumsy. It's cute."

"True, but not the cute part."

The two began roaming the campus aimlessly.

"Anyways, why do you wanna meet so randomly?"

She nudged him after taking a sip of her bubble tea.

"Oh, did you win the list thing and now you're center and host?"

"Yeah. It's all thanks to you."

"I helped a little. It was all you, Yeonjun."

"Actually, I only won in the end because you were a Nu Tau Zeta member that helped double my points along with gaining secret bonus points."

"Ah, so now you know I'm part of a sorority."

He smiled, but was still left wondering what other things she kept hidden in general.

"I know it's none of my business, but I feel like there's a lot of things I still don't know about you."

"But isn't that better though?" Chaeyeon remarked not looking at him.

"The less you know, the less you are aware of things."

"Why do I have a feeling that there's another meaning to those words when its coming from you, Chae?"

Yeonjun looked at her with a curious look just as she turned to face him with a small smile.

"You're thinking too much, Yeonjun."

"I don't think I am. I feel like you've been hiding yourself from me or at least trying to keep yourself distant for some reason."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"No, but I would like to get to know you better."

"Isn't what we have good enough?"

"But what if I want more?"

Chayeon stopped walking with Yeonjun doing the same and they faced one another while she cast him a curious yet cautious glance.

"Why?"

"Why what?" He asked, confused.

"Why do you want more? Why do you wanna get to know me better? Why are you suddenly interested in my life? Why?"

"Would you believe me if I told you that I have feelings for you?" Yeonjun answered with his own question instead.

"Are you being serious right now?"

"Yes, I am."

"Choi Yeonjun." Chaeyeon used his full name as a warning while Yeonjun did the same thing to mess with her.

"Lim Chaeyeon."

She narrowed her eyes at him with him shooting her a playful one.

"Out of all the girls and maybe guys in this school and your life, why me?"

"Honestly, I don't know, but here we are and all I know is that I like you and I would like to take our relationship to the next level."

"You do know that if we don't work out our friendship is ruined, right?"

"Chaeyeon, meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."

"Gosh, you're such a dork. I can't believe you would use that on me." 

Chaeyeon playfully punched his shoulder when she heard those words fall out of his mouth with Yeonjun laughing sheepishly.

"Okay, maybe I picked up a few things, but I really do mean them."

"Seriously though, love is a little too strong right now. We're just gonna go with like, okay?"

"So does that mean you also like me, too?"

"Well, I never actually thought about it beyond that or anything." Chaeyeon coyly responded as Yeonjun rolled his eyes knowingly.

"Nayoung was right. You really do like playing hard to get."

"I do not."

She then narrowed her eyes at him.

"You should not listen to Nayoung. She likes messing with me."

"Oh, yeah?" He answered with a mischievous glint in his eyes as he neared her and brought his face closer to Chaeyeon's.

"I started noticing all of your little signs yesterday that Nayoung pointed out to me when she told me, but thought it was just your introverted self at work."

He smiled wider.

"But now I'm beginning to think otherwise."

Chaeyeon slightly pushed him away while taking a step back herself to put some distance between them.

"Whatever, Yeonjun. Is this the only reason you asked me to meet you at one in the morning so you can clarify my feelings for you?"

"Partially." He answered with a chuckle before continuing.

"But I was hoping you'll actually say yes in being my date for the banquet."

"What if your fans kill me when they find out about us or whatever. I'ma die at the hands of some stupid girls that only like you superficially."

Yeonjun started laughing and Chaeyeon punched him again.

"Seriously, Yeonjun, it's not a laughing matter. I'm being serious about my future life here if we actually get together."

"I know, Chae, I know."

He calmed down from laughing before reaching a hand out to pull her body against his.

"And I'll be here to protect you."

"Couldn't you've just said that without pulling me against you?" She asked him while becoming aware of their close proximity.

"No, then I wouldn't be able to do this easily."

"Do w-"

Yeonjun pressed his lips against Chaeyeon's, silencing her in mid-sentence. When he pulled away, breaking the kiss, her first response was to slap his chest after regaining her senses back and he laughed.

"I can't believe Nayoung basically told you about my kissing preferences." Chaeyeon stated while feeling all sorts of emotions building up inside her and she didn't know which one to express more.

"Well she did tell me that I would have to make the first move since you would continue to run away from it."

"Of course she would."

"Anyways, now that I got the elusive Lim Chaeyeon to myself, you think she'll open up to me more now?"

"I dunno. She has a mind of her own, but I'll ask and get back to you as soon as possible on what she says."

Chaeyeon smiled after calming down the feelings inside of her.

"Although she does say and think that you're cute though."

Yeonjun gave her a look and she giggled at his reaction while hooking their arms together and leading them to walk aimlessly once more in a random direction after taking another sip of her bubble tea drink.

"C'mon. Let's just take it slow for now. It's too early to process all of this. We can deal with this when it's later in the afternoon or something."

"How about an official date?"

Yeonjun offered as Chaeyeon side-eyed him with a playful smile gracing her lips.

"How about no?"

"I respect your decision, but you're really not making this easier to take it a step further."

Chaeyeon chuckled as she took a sip. Yeonjun still didn't give up.

"I'll show you that it'll be worth it in the end, Chaeyeon."

"Okay, Yeonjun, and I'll try my best to be more open with you as best as I can."

"It's a start."

Yeonjun grinned happily as Chaeyeon smiled with a shake of her head.

"Yeah, it is."