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I am a prince, boy. Have you ever been with a prince?

I was so happy to see I’ve been tagged for the mystery blogger award by Random Tangent Blog who is as lovely as her posts are good. This is my first time ever being tagged in anything like this so I am very excited and thankful to be able to take part in this. So, you may ask the question, what is The Mystery Blogger Award? As quoted from the creator of the award, whose site you can find here:…

wow um ok 

Who would win tickle wars: probably april because dolph gets too lazy 

Who would draw pictures of the other in their sketchbook: dolph does and they are like super intricate and good and april maybe just doodles idk 

Who would holds hands while walking: april??

Who would gives cheek kisses: boTH OF THEM MAYBE 

Who would start a snowball fight: dolph

Who would slip the most on a date to go ice skating: both of theM?? LIKE THEY PROBABLY FALL TOGETHER AND LAUGH ON THE GROUND

Who leaves letter in the others locker: dolph is stupid and in love let him live

Who would bring lunch to school/work for the other: april basically does everything for dolph and he does nothing why does she even like him

Who would want cuddle at the movie theater date: april because dolph probs wants to make out

Who would buy cheesy cliche gifts for each other on holidays: april def

Who would start an argument about what color curtains they should have at home: dolph probably would just to be a dick

Who would remember their anniversary: april probably not dolph oops

Who would blurt out how much they love the other in front of people: dolph hahahah

Who would offer to wash the others back in the shower: dolph would in like a trying to be sexy way but april does in like a no seriously please wash your back kinda way

Who would post up statuses about the other on facebook: dolph hasnt updated his facebook status since high school so

Who would have the others picture as their phone background: i feel like april would have a nice picture of them together or something and then dolphs is like a weird terrible quality picture he randomly took of her doing nothing

Who would take pictures of the other while they’re sleeping: dolph would because he sucks like he doesnt do it to be cute he does it and will be like hahaha you look so ugly here 

i. For a long time, he doesn’t think about it. It’s the age factor, of course, that really troubles him and because of that he pushes it all to the back of his mind, thinking that if it’s there, if he doesn’t have to consider it, it won’t bother the ever loving hell out of him. That’s not the case. And really it’s difficult to avoid. Their mothers have insisted that they’re going to be married since Jill was about seven years old. At that time, Brad in his preteen years scoffed and rolled his eyes. That definitely wasn’t going to happen, thank you very much. Even when she was entering her own preteen years he’d mess up the top of her head and call her kid in an affectionate and overly platonic manner; just to prove them all wrong. 

He doesn’t enlist right away, he actually takes two years of college before he realizes that he’s not meant for this and she’s still only fifteen when it starts to really bug him. He kisses her for the first time when she’s seventeen and he’s fresh out of training camp, though even then he feels like a dirty old man. She doesn’t seem to want him to go away when he gets deployed and that tugs at him more than it should. Still, he leaves and he presses his head against the window of the bus trying so hard not to look at her. She’s turning nineteen when he comes back from his first tour and already he’s weary and worn out. He’s more excited to see her than he’d like to admit and it’s her that comes rushing at him when he lands. Her arms feel like home and for a moment he thinks he shouldn’t leave again.

ii. It’s always been him. She’s known that since they were kids, living in the same neighborhood and hanging out after school. It was him when she moved away, though back then she told herself that it was some silly schoolgirl crush and that she’d get over it. For awhile she did. For awhile she didn’t think about Owen Emerson and his smile and the way it felt when she was near him. For awhile she could think about other things, like how amazing being in drama club was and how she could do this for the rest of her life. She never thought she’d actually move back. She never thought she’d see anyone from Keene ever again, him especially, though of course  the moment her father announced it, she thought of him. It was all OwenOwenOwen and I wonder what he's up to. The worst part— the part that killed her— was that he didn’t even know she was there. This time it was him that moved. This time she was sure she’d never see him again. And this time, the moment she laid eyes on him in San Diego of all places, she hated herself for never getting over it.

iii. In high school, he got this strange reputation of being a sap. A hopeless romantic, they’d dubbed him, and though his friends would give him a hard time, Nick never really did anything to stop the comments. He didn’t mind. After all, it was the truth. He was a bit of a sap, he was a hopeless romantic, though he didn’t have a girlfriend until he was sixteen to get the opportunity to woo someone, he’d always known the way he’d do it. Delaney Fuller was a whirlwind he’d never expected and she knocked him off his damn feet with her bright smile and green eyes. Honestly, Nick would tell you, the moment he met her, he knew— I’m gonna marry this woman. No one believed in high school sweethearts then. Going away to separate colleges would sure to be a killer and he worried over that, but still, he knew. He knew and he wasn’t going to let her go.

iv. Boyfriend. She thinks. The word runs through her head repeatedly after he calls her out on it. Boyfriend. Boyfriend. Boyfriend. She’d never used it before. Honestly, she hadn’t even been aware she’d said it and a part of her kicks herself for giving him material to use against her. Boyfriend. She wants to be angry with him. She wants to be so damn angry with him. She wants to punch him in the damn chest and distance herself away from him, just so he understands how much it pained her that he missed her game. But he smiles at her, the corners of his lips flicking up just slightly and she thinks, fuck— I’m not going anywhere.

“This is...we shouldn’t stop this. Not like-...we shouldn’t, but more than that. Let’s not stop hanging out.” 

“You’re right. You’re right about everything. You usually are, and I’m admitting it because...I trust you. It’s-...you’re nice to be around.”

[text] I know everything.

Louise → Aaron

Louise: …You have reached the voicemail of LOUISE LANSING. She knows that this is a text but has set up Verizon’s new feature of sending texts to voicemail. So that’s where you are, her voicemail. Have a good day.

And speaking of incredible, amazing people who I am wholly and completely just so lucky to have in my life I can’t do this and not talk about Ashleigh who is honestly just the best, best friend I could ever ask for and not only has she been there for me through some of the toughest shit in my life the past almost two years, but she’s indulged me in some of the most ridiculous things ever

Not to mention we have enough ships to start a fleet  and enough characters to man the fleet and who else could I ever do that with?

And really how do I pick an Ashleigh character? There are so many of them that I have involvement with. But of course, of course I’ve got to talk about Reed Foster.

I think about my very random decision to join Bella Nova a lot. It was just on impulse, I found it, auditioned and was accepted the same day and that tiny decision honestly changed fucking everything. I remember being a little antagonistic towards Reed at first, mostly because I was new and didn’t know anyone, but also because I’m kind of an asshole but after awhile  I asked– can Reed and Halston be friends and  that’s the day it all began.

 From Halston’s overprotective mama bear tendencies towards Reed, to Camilla and her being platonic lifemates and karaoke queens, to that dumb horrible awful joke that she was going to flirt with Camilla’s much older brother. To the frenemy relationship between her and Minnie that was born on dare night, To her and Catalina being childhood friends I will forever and always look for a away for my characters to have some sort of connection to her.

Reed is everything you want in a unique, well played, well written character and then some. She’s not typecast whatsoever she’s intelligent and funny, she’s lazy and crude, she eats a lot of food and is obsessed with the nineties, she makes fun of her friends. She’s talented and artistic and just so fucking well executed there is nothing about her to hate.