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Grey had managed to pull himself away from the crowd. Currently propped against the ship’s railing, his one hand relaxing on the cool metal and the other pinching the stem of a champagne flute. All the while as he watched the sea of beading and feathers and red on red, the wind tousled his hair. “Nearly forgotten what it’s like,” he said, softly, making conversation with the person nearby. Yates. Strange what a year did. “It’s like I’ve forgotten how to get going.” @yatesstarters​

“well then, maybe you shouldn’t have left,” carmen said curtly with a fake smile. she shouldn’t have been bitter about grey leaving, he didn’t owe her anything, she was just a little sensitive to fact that the men around her seem to vanish into thin air only to reappear a year or so later without so much as a text. she sipped on her drink and twirled it around shaking the ice. “you missed a lot you know.... i’ve got a boyfriend now, like an actual boyfriend.” carmen knew that he wouldn’t care but the idea that he might have some reaction even if it was just teasing her, made her tell him. 

“Carmen!” Leo walked a brisk pace across the quad when she spotted a familiar head of dark hair, going to meet the girl who the locks belonged to. “I’m glad I ran into you,” she sighed, a relieved grin on her face. “Are you going to some… Charity thing in New York this weekend?” The smile on her face became more hopeful and even anxious than it had just been as she awaited her friend’s response. While Leo had been pretty successful at her attempts to avoid New York’s social scene this summer, she knew the dwindling act wasn’t something she could keep up forever and, as if on cue, her presence had been requested that weekend. “Please tell me you are. Lord knows I cannot go through that alone.” @carmenpeck​

carmen removed her airpods and continued to walk with leo their shoes clacking against the cobblestone. “hey!” she smiled.  “i told my mother that i wasn’t sure. if you’re going then i’ll go,” being in new york without your friends was unbearable, a circle of hell that dante himself wouldn’t have been able to conceive of. “i’ve got a few dressed at home that have yet to be worn,” she was already mentally riffling through her closets and putting outfits together. 

Despite them being at dessert, Tanner’s heart continued to beat at a quicker pace than normal. This was a date. A real, full-fledged date. He’d been anxious about finding the perfect nice, but not too nice restaurant. “You should try some of this,” he offered, after spooning a bite of sea salt caramel ice cream, humming softly. Then, with a nod, which turned into a series of gentle nods, he added, “Have you picked your games out yet? Keep trying to make guesses and I keep feeling like you’ll pull something like Pretty Pretty Princess just for the heck of it.” @carmenpeck​

carmen reached over, dipping her spoon into tanner’s bowl of ice cream. she brought to her lips and smiled, “that is good.” she returned her spoon back to her scoop of strawberry ice cream. she was having a really nice time on their date, she had never been on a proper date before. no guy had ever wanted to take her out like tanner did, then again most of the guys she had been with just needed a cover or only wanted sex. carmen scooted closer to tanner, their legs now touching, “as good as that games sounds i’ve something a bit more adventurous in mind.” 

Darby’s hair looked wild, disheveled as she rushed over to where she had left Carmen in a corner of Somebody’s Baby, needing a night out after the stress of the camping trip. “Um, so if you see a bouncer, just warn me? They caught me lighting a cig in here. Think they’re on the warpath now,” Darby complained, ducking behind her friend as if the girl could shield her from the people searching for her. She took a sip of her nearly empty vodka Redbull, feeling her heart rate pick up as she did so. “How’s Tanner’s dick, by the way? Boring you to tears yet?” @carmenpeck​

“sure, i don’t know why he cares, it’s not like this places follows any safety regulations,” and now that carmen thought about it, she had never seen a smoke detector anywhere in the building. she sipped on her long island, but darby’s question made her cough, sending the liquid down the wrong pipe. “his dick is really good, like really good. he’s a little too vanilla for me at the moment, but that’s going to change pretty soon,” after the team supernova win carmen was given the prize of picking what games her and tanner would play. she had a few ideas of what she could do to help him explore. “it’s nice though, i’m kind of over almost dying every time i have sex.”

It took Romeo all of twelve seconds to realize someone was speaking to him. He’d been knee-deep in a weed induced, semi-wakeful coma, one where thoughts were just a random misfiring of neurons to the beat of Stayin’ Alive than any real, cognitive reasoning. “…Yes?” He said, casting a glance over his shoulder just in time to see a man lumbering towards them that he was suddenly sickly certain was going to rob him. “Oh fuck, oh god. Please… sir… I have no money. I’m just a little boy!” He grabbed Carmen’s hand and wriggled it around in the air like a fish out of water. “She’s the one you want! Take her! I’m innocent!” @carmenpeck​

“romeo! what the fuck!”carmen pulled her hand away from romeo and rubbed her wrist that was now sore. her eyes widened with confusion and mild horror as romeo screamed for his life. she contemplated leaving him there to roll around terrified of the guy who came across the room to put his phone on the charger, then she remembered that she was trying to be a better person.  rolling her eyes she looked over at him and said, “the bad guy i gone, i scared him away with.....with my.....” carmen looked down at her hands, “with my guns.” she held two finger guns and waved them around. 

Tanner looked around at the clearing, at what he once assumed had been a sight for many campfires, given some sideways logs. At the sound of snapped twigs, he turned his head, in time to watch as Carmen weaved her way through the trees. Titling his head back, he smiled. “I might get in trouble for fraternizing with the enemy.” Yet he stepped towards her. His hand reached for her hip, laying upon it gently. “Here, though?” His head cocked back, nudging towards the trees, indicating the space around them. “This our neutral territory? I don’t know about you but I think I’ll definitely need one this week.” @carmenpeck​

“likes wise, but avoiding the enemy is so damn hard when they’re this cute,” this was going to be an interesting week, both carmen and tanner are overly competitive people more so now that they’re on opposing teams. they wouldn’t want someone to think that they had thrown the competition for the other.  “i’ll need it too,” carmen smiled as tanner pulled her in. “do you think we should make a bet?” she asked coyly, tiling her head up to look at tanner with her big eyes, “say maybe the winning team gets to pick the games on game night for the next month?” 

“So I brought these totally awesome alcoholic freeze pops, but there’s a tiny wee bit of an issue,” Darby started, approaching Carmen outside of her cabin. She already had a bottle of pink wine in hand, taking swigs straight form it all afternoon. “I left them in cabin… the one I’m sharing with Harry. Will you be like, my emotional support shield so I don’t have to speak to him?” She asked, hoping she could avoid more awkward encounters with the boy who’s bed was only a few feet away from hers now. “Because if I’m forced to speak to him every day I might go feral. Run off into the woods and become a maenad.” @carmenpeck​

“of course i can get them. i’ve got you girl,” carmen smiled and she lightly shoved darby. “i can be your emotional support shield for this whole trip, when i’m not kicking ass for our team.” somehow the whole harry trend had skipped over carmen, she was fine to be in the cabin with him as he was unaffected by his charm. more so now that tanner was around. “there’s no need to runaway, darbs.”