#*joel

"i still can't believe summer nominated me." or that she hadn't thought to try and pay to get out of it alongside her cousin. they'd all laugh about it once the bidding was over. in fact, she was laughing about it now as as finished writing down the first round of bids with joel. "at least it's all for a good cause, right?"

"i'm so glad you're here." could it be said enough times? she'd begged for so long for joel to come visit. there were so many summers she'd spent at her father's house trying to take pictures of the beach and sunsets, but it hadn't worked. now that she had taken the cheerleading job and made her time in carroll more official, he'd taken the bait. "it's like right when i think i'm going to have to go to la to see you, here you are."

there were plenty of people to talk to, and her cousins had been so welcoming. still, there was nothing better than looking across the table at the person who already knew the second half of her joke before she got the words out. "tell me you think it's soy charming, like so friday night lights!" she didn't need the confirmation for herself, she simply wanted to know that he was enjoying his time here so far. "tons of people have probably tried to chat, right?"

send a 👫 and i’ll write four headcanons i have about our muse’s relationship:

emily @holyemu

everything she knows about video games, she learned because of her love for emily. she always has her friend's streams on, even if it's just playing on her phone when she's doing other tasks. she's well known in the chat for gifting subscriptions to people on a whim with the username emuing. this doesn't mean that she's an expert by any means, in fact she still doesn't even own anything other than a switch, much to emily's disappointment.

when emily got the job at google, ingrid wanted to throw a huge party for her friend to celebrate the achievement. but, she settled for a dinner at carroll's best restaurant where they ordered everything on the menu and drank too much champagne while giggling about big girl jobs.

in high school, ingrid got them matching best friend necklaces, the tiffany note silver pendants to be specific. she thought the gesture would be just another thing that cheered her friend up from the trials of school. her's has the initial e, and emily's has the initial i. she can often be spotted wearing hers so that she's always keeping her friend close.

she's actually pretty oblivious to emily and nathan's romantic overtures. she can't really pick up on that type of flirting, and just assumes the two are really close friends like she and em are. she will be very surprised to hear about what happened on new year's eve, and what happened in the hospital parking lot.

joel @joelabernathyy

ingrid has never once asked joel about his family drama. she has no interest in trying to trace lineages or meet family members outside of her friendship with him. people are important to her if they're important to joel, and that's that. of course, she gets along just fine when he brings her to family events. she's a great buffer, and can make small talk, but at the end of the night she always knows where her loyalty lies.

they're always each other's date to award shows. one of them is always on an invite list for the oscars or what have you, thanks to nepotism. while in her earlier years, she always just went with her father, those days are over. now she gets to sit at a table with her best friend and make jokes, the shows go by a lot quicker. and the photos look a little bit better, or at least they get published in listicles a lot more often.

while they were at an underground show in los angeles, the place got busted by cops. house lights went up, music cut off. it was the closest ingrid has ever gotten to being in trouble. but joel grabbed her hand and they ran so fast that she thought her lungs were going to burst. safe to say, they got away from the arresting officers. the next week, there was another show and they decided to test their luck again. they've never had a run-in with the law since, and still laugh about it to this day with each other.

🌸˚˖⋆ ──★ happy birthday joel hawkins ★── ⋆˖˚🌸