strawberry fields

Oh, no, we don’t....do that in Wonderland, and my mother isn’t that type either. She just wants me to be happy. If someone wanted me to do that, I don’t think I would be okay with it, unless it was someone I loved in which case that’d be a perfect world.

I don’t know if it’s acceptable of me to answer this given the fact I’m seeing someone else now.....

But if I had to answer, I’d say I miss just doing nothing with her all day, or us play fighting and getting all messy in paint and just things being easy with us...I miss talking to her about nothing for hours and her entertaining it.

Oh....wow, uh, I guess because some kids asked one day and word got around. It’s a nice side income too, so, that’s why I suppose.

ELA: I just needed to night of being slightly more stupid than normal. Now I'm back to my harmless, average level of stupidity. So, you don't have to worry.

ELA: (...)

ELA: I know, I do. But it doesn't seem to love me, evidently.

ELA: I'm just wallowing, I don't wanna leave my friends...

ELA: bottom line I am no longer drowning my sorrows in tequila I have graduated rocky road ice cream. It's safer but still might end in me vomiting

ORION: You know it's impossible for me not to worry when it comes to certain things, Ela.

ORION: Bad shit happens, but you have to just...try to get through it.

ORION: It sucks right now, I know it does, it's valid to feel like that.

ELA: Ry, come on. I know you.

ELA: would you be texting me right now if it wasn't for everything that happened at the ball?

ELA: I know what happened at the frat party still bothers you.

ELA: Kaela's a long story, it's definitely not something I wanna unpack right now.

ELA: Maybe staying in Auradon was a mistake.

ORION: am i annoyed, yeah. i can admit that. doesn't mean i don't care about you and want to make sure you're taking care of yourself...?

ORION: in due time things will get better, they always do, even if they feel like they won't....trust me, i know.

ELA: You know me, I'll get myself into trouble one way or another. Kaela's mad and me. You're mad at me. Liv and Nate have a wedding to worry about

ELA: good.

ELA: it's not ideal, nope.

ORION: who said i was mad at you? and why is kaela mad at you??

ELA: I don't wanna say I told you so..

ELA: But I'm sorry I obviously don't want to be the center of trouble between you guys.

ELA: Just my pride ✌️

ORION: it doesn't matter, at the end of the day, i just wanted to make sure you weren't out getting into serious trouble.

ORION: we'll be fine.

[7 hours later]

ELA: hey, I'm sorry. I'm fine.

ORION: .....good.

ORION: clara wasn't all that pleased i was texting you.

    The Roux castle was insane, and had a totally different archetchture than any of the buildings she grew up surrounded by in Olympus. It was beautifully antique and covered in old portraits that were well kept but looked, very, very dated. When Andie wasn’t connected to Finn at the hip, or scanning the ballroom for Amelia, she was wandering and mingling and trying not to look like the introvert she was. Thanks to her DNA, she couldn’t even use alcohol as a way to open up, so she found herself admiring the art, despite the fact that she didn’t consider herself the most creative type of person. 

However, she spotted someone who might be. Future leader of Wonderland. Definitely looked like a stoner, rumored to sell drugs last year to a few of her tourney teammates before they got drug tested and knocked from the team. That, obviously, wasn’t her business. Reaching out to touch one of the statues, placing her hand in it’s, to jokingly shake it, it snapped right off - much to Andie’s surprise… she didn’t even grip it that hard, what the hell. Immediately looking over her shoulder in panic, she felt like an idiot when she made eye contact and knew for a fact he had seen that whole thing. “Ha…” 

“Please don’t tell anyone you saw that. I have no idea how protective Ame’s brother is about that stuff.” taking another look, she squinted her eyes. “Honestly I kinda think it looks better that way. But you’re the artist right? You’d know better than I would.” She had seen his flyers around town, about his studio. She was gonna ask Finn to go so she could watch him pretend to be an art connoisseur. @orionliddle​

To be frank, Orion really didn’t want to be here. These events weren’t his kind of thing, all formal and delicate, wearing something that made him feel constricted and afraid to get all dirty. Plus it was in the Roux castle, the last fucking place he would be if it was up to him. But, Clara wanted to go, and as her counterpart he swallowed his complaints and just opted on getting comfortably high out of his mind to make it through the night. If he had to hear one more royal give their opinion on him postponing his coronation he was going to lose it. It was his choice, his kingdom, his mother was still fairly young so he had time and frankly it wasn’t anyone else’s business how he was choosing to run Wonderland and when he chose to.

So he took a step away from the masses to catch some fresh air, could you blame him? At least there was some decent, original art pieces hanging around here, gave him something to busy his mind with. Hearing a noise, he glanced over to see a girl, Hercules’ daughter if his assumptions were correct. They’d never spoken, never had the need to, so he offered her his usual lopsided smile before getting back to looking around.

But then he glanced back over just in time to see her snap the hand off of a marble statue, brows raising a bit in shock, he’d heard she was strong but damn. Rolling his eyes at the topic of Mitch, he shook his head, “I could give two fucks what goes on with him. Trust me, I’m not saying anything if you don’t.” A small smile slipped onto his lips though at the admission she at least knew him for something other than his side hustle of dealing, “That I am. You must be really fucking strong to break marble, remind me not to piss you off.”

arms crossed over her chest, fingers loosely clutching the stem of a champagne glass, clara was trying to work out what she was information she was clearly being left out on. for one, it looked like riley and luca were turning the corner from friends to something more, which might’ve elicited some response other than grumpiness if she and riley weren’t currently at odds. for another, while one of her brothers was entering a relationship, the other had swiftly exited one. and so had… mitch and ela? she started at the feeling of a hand on her waist, but recognized ry’s touch well enough that her calculating expression barely wavered even as she tucked herself into his side. “nice to see you could pull yourself away from your phone,” she quipped shortly, though she didn’t make any move to put distance between them. technically, this was a date, and even if the green-eyed monster she carried inside her wasn’t as enraged as it once was, it didn’t mean she liked him frantically texting his ex. “i think… politics had a hand in this.” though she was a royal council member, and a fan of auradonian gossip, it wasn’t like she had more than just speculation and her own personal observations to work off of, and in her opinion, there weren’t enough days in between the last time she’d seen mitch and ela give each other moon eyes and now, when triss was on mitch’s arm instead. “maybe mitch’s dad forced mitch to date someone more… i don’t know, poised?” for once, she didn’t mean to inadvertently insult ela, but that’s kind of just the only way she could frame it. “or maybe triss needed to ditch my brother quickly, him being the son of a villain, and this was what they could come up with. maybe both.” she sighed at the thought, sad for her brother and hoping it didn’t make orion second guess his relationship with her. “any guesses?”

he felt his smile falter just the slightest whenever she made the comment about his phone, know it was because of who he was sending messages to and not the fact that he was on. “clara, i was just checking to make sure she wasn’t doing anything stupid. i’m here with you because i like you, and only you, and you can trust that.” orion explained easily, his voice full of truth as he squeezed her waist, “i know you’d do the same if something was going on with your ex.” it wasn’t a dig, but a way pointing out that he had his reasons, and they weren’t anything beyond platonic. knitting his brows together as she spoke,he glanced over to where beatrice and mitch were mingling, “yeah...it does seem a bit out of the blue. but i also don’t keep up with this royal mumbo jumbo so i thought maybe i just missed something?” he explained before taking a sip of his drink, listening to the rest of her explanation before rolling his eyes, traditional royal families were some of the most judgmental people he had to deal with. they always talked to him and his mother like aliens, like they didn’t know a damn thing, but he always forced a smile and got the conversation over with as fast as possible, “if that’s the case, that’s really fucked up.” orion breathed out, shaking his head, ignoring the buzz in his pocket in favor of focusing on her. “you check up on him yet? he seemed like he was really into her.” he asked, thumb smoothing across the curve of her hip as he raised a brow, looking over her face. “i have no fucking idea what’s going on, all i know is you look beautiful and i think we should probably hit the dance floor.”

ELA: ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Ry.

ELA: how it's that releivantsce?

ELA: omg hahahahahhah

ELA: To be FAIR i did not know whe was gonna go so

ELA: OMG IS SHE THERE WITH SIREN

ELA: Are they making otu

ELA: if you see them making out tell me

ELA: I'm at the snuggly, I ran into sterling and i'm gonna ask him to buy more shots 'cause nate's coworkers cut my off, rude

ORION: ela please, focus, okay?

ORION: i don't want you getting hurt or worse, can you like, call a cab or something? i can send you an uber?

ELA: I can like hear your worried voice in my ears right now

ELA: Pouty

ELA: and you're probably already miserable too because you're at a ball lmaoo

ELA: Aw, Ry that's sweet

ELA: You're so good

ELA: I wish Kaela had a twin, I fucking love Kaela so much

ORION: ........ela.

ORION: how much have you drank tonight?

if the champagne she was downing could kick in soon, that would be great. kaela gracefully snags one of the flutes from one of the roaming waiters as she makes her way to the outskirts of the ball to find orion there… on his phone. “you could at least act excited to be here,” she jokes, falling into place beside him, turning her back to the wall so she at least had a good people-watching spot. “is this not your scene either ? it’s becoming abundantly clear it’s not MINE, somehow it just didn’t register last time i came to one of these.” @orionliddle​

staring at his phone, he was messaging ela, because by now he’d gotten to know her fairly well. and, for some reason, she really was into mitch...but that was beside the point. none of this added up tonight, mitch and triss’s engagement was entirely out of left field and orion was trying to check to see if ela was alright. maybe that would piss off clara, but it was only because he didn’t want ela to get into any trouble that she couldn’t get herself out of, nothing more. he was entirely smitten with clara, his feelings for ela were all but mute now. thumbs going at it against the screen, he barely heard the voice speaking to him, a bit preoccupied. then she spoke again, pausing as he glanced over at who it was, only to realize ela’s message she’d just sent was a total lie. “trust me, totally not my scene....uh, have you spoken to ela?” it was a little blunt and he sighed before handing her his phone to see the message she’d sent him.

@clara-christensen​

ELA: WHO is gonna get me in trouble

ELA: it's not like I have a reputation to uphold

ELA: as a matter of fact YOU might get in trouble, texting me

ELA: I'm at snuggly and i'm kind I'm with Kaela

ELA: not kind

ELA: find

ELA: fine*

ORION: i don't know, someone...who knows you arent alright right now?

ORION: cmon, we both know you respect yourself too much to do anything stupid.

ORION: i don't give a fuck, at the end of the day you're my friend. this situation is major, i don't see what's wrong to check in on you.

ORION: right, you're with kaela.