#asteriaeos

It was only a few hours until the annual End of Summer Softball game and knowing her boss was on the opposite team. Well, somehow that thrived her to be even better. There was only one thing she didn’t expect during this nice summer day and it was seeing him. Her eyes lifted up to see him standing by one of the food trucks with some woman flaunting over him which shouldn’t have been much of a surprise since he didn’t really care about rubbing it in her face when they were together. Why the hell would he care now? She almost spun herself around to walk in another direction until he yelled her name. She exhaled as she closed the distance between them, her dark hues drifting towards the blonde on his arm. “Nate,” she glanced back at him. “Here I thought you hated these types of events.”

featuring: @alaraosman​​

Just get on the gosh darn ferris wheel ride, Cole. There it was, tall as it had been every year, lit up and bright under the North Carolina summer stars and all Cole could do was stand there, looking at it. She could remember the distant laughter of being on it with Luca, as they shared milkshakes and he tried to convince her that the wheel was going to break, purposely going back and forth on it. They would even laugh about the corny, terrible nature of the Notebook scene where Ryan Gosling hung on a ferris wheel to get a date with Rachel McAdams, but all of that was beside the point. Here she was now, solo to the festival for the first time, and no one to ride the big wheel with. 

featuring: @natebancroft​

This would not be the first time Cole had lost the baking championship. She wasn’t that upset about it - more so the fact that she had to haul all of her ingredients and things there and hadn’t even placed. It meant sense to her, though - her heart truly wasn’t really into it this year. She had more joined to perk herself up, pick herself up and to keep herself busy, but it had just ended with her covered in her ingredients, with a delicious pie, but still - a losing title. It had made her more anxious, the twisting of her ring more than prominent and while she walked back to set her pie down, she hadn’t been looking. Cole was more transfixed by the moving, lit ferris wheel, her favorite part of the festival, when she felt herself collide with someone, the pie in all of its gooey ooey berry contents going all over them. 

Eyes widened, body stiffened, heart dropped. Not again. 

Location: Ferris Wheel

To be continued...Something about the words and the way he’d said them had left Natalia with a feeling she hardly recognized it had been so long. Something between butterflies and electricity that she couldn’t quite put her finger on. But whatever it was had been enough to inspire the raven haired woman to make the first move, send that first text saying hello the next morning. One thing led to another and now here she was, waiting in front of the Ferris wheel for Vick to arrive. He’d had some last minute logistics to attend to when it came to the restaurant’s part in the festival which made sense, but as the minutes ticked by, the nerves were starting to creep in. Had this been a good idea?

Location: Build Your Own Bouquet by Bethel’s Flower Shop

Ophelia stood by the front of the bouquet station just watching as people went about selecting flowers and blooms for their own arrangements. Slowly she wandered over, just taking a moment to smell and admire a few of the bundles of flowers. All sorts of shapes and colors between from sunflowers to hydrangeas, it was hard to know where to start or what options to pick when everything was so beautiful. Hearing a happy laugh, the brunette turned to see Ivey and her mom Dominique approaching. “Well! If it isn’t my favorite pair of people from library storytime!” She exclaimed with a smile, waving to the little girl. 

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A beer and a half in, Reagan was feeling pleasantly buzzed. Enough so that she was actually dancing, or rather, swaying, as close as she ever really got to dancing, in time to the music. The band was decent and the atmosphere enjoyable. No one was being overly raucous or causing real trouble, there was nothing to be on guard for. Even still it was hard for the surgeon to relax entirely. After you were on a battlefield, something inside changed, made it nearly impossible to not at least be on alert at all times. The crowd was thick, making it a bit difficult to maneuver as the brunette decided to head back over for another drink. The combination of ground sticky from liquor and trying to navigate around everyone eventually led to Reagan losing her balance, falling directly into a stranger. “Shit! Sorry, hard to get around in here.” She apologized, glancing up to make eye contact. 

Where: Boardwalk (Food trucks)

“Okay, so what kind of food do you have here?” Liv asked Stevie, approaching with a curious and interested look on her face. One of the reasons Liv loved the events in Asteria was because of the good food. She loved to bring her boys out too, so that was exactly what she was doing after they got done with school for the day. “Do you have anything these guys might like?” She looked down to her eight-year-old and five-year-old. “They just got done playing carnival games and said they’re starving. A little bit dramatic, if you ask me, but look who their mom is.” 

🎡 ✨🦋 ... presenting cole wilkes 

     at the end of summer festival! 🎡 🎠🎢