#harry ackerman

Harry: Ironic. I’d have expected that line from someone who was at least dressed for the occasion. What is that? Last year’s suit? Ouch. Was that really the best you could do?

The Porters and Ackermans were going to be family. 

What that meant was that they were going to act like a family, without actually being one. There was laughter and smiles and compliments and anecdotes, but no one wanted to be there. No one wanted this. 

 Everyone had their masks on, but Harry’s was slipping. Since dinner, he’d been shooting daggers towards Lex. They’d never gotten along, but their rivalry had escalated ever since Lex’s engagement to Harry’s sister. ian had done his best to smooth things over between them, but nothing he had said or done had been managed to do much good. Most days, he felt like he was just preventing the inevitable. 

He noticed that Harry had made his third trip to the bar in as many minutes and, as he was looking like he was going to outdrink even Lex at this rate, Ian walked up next to him. 

Max couldn’t find Lex anymore, but that didn’t surprise him. Lex didn’t like most people. Max and Lex were cut from the same cloth: and they understood each other in a way that few others could. 

He’d arrived late -- it was hard dressing for the party of the century when your idiot sister wouldn’t lend you any money to invest in a new suit (he’d had to actually wear last season’s. God, he hoped no one important noticed) -- and Lex had managed to go off on his own. 

For a moment, he thought he saw him standing by the bar, but as he got closer it wasn’t Lex at all. It was Harry fucking Ackerman. 

"I always knew you would weasel your way into places you don't belong." 

Max was drunk and angry, but it was himself (and not Harry) who didn't belong here. He hadn't even gotten an invitation to the engagement party (an oversight, obviously. Lex would have wanted him there) and so he'd made Ginny (who'd gotten one from Ian) take him instead of Drew as her plus one. 

1. Into You by Ariana Grandea little bit dangerous / but baby that’s how i want it / a little less conversation and a little more touch my body / ‘cause i’m so into you, into you, into yougot everyone watchin’ us / so baby let’s keep it secret / a little bit scandalous / but baby don’t let them see it / a little less conversation and a little more touch my body / ‘cause i’m so into you, into you, into you

2. Young God by Halsey

he says ‘oh baby girl you know we’re gonna be legend / i’m the king and your the queen and we will stumble through heaven’

but do you feel like a young god? / you know the two of us are just young gods

he says ‘ oh baby girl don’t get cut on my edges / i’m the king of everything and you know my tongue is a weapon’

3. Bloodstream by Stateless

i think i might have inhaled you / i can feel you behind my eyes / you’ve gotten into my bloodstream / i can feel you flowing in me

4. Bedroom Hymns by Florence + the Machine

you had jesus on your breath / and i caught him in mine / sweating our confessions / the undone and the divine

‘cause this is his body / this is his love / such selfish prayers and i can’t get enough

i’m not here looking for absolution / ‘cause i found myself an old solution

5. You and Me by You+Me

you and me were always with each other / before we knew the other was ever there / you and me we belong together / just like a breath needs the air

i told you if you called i would come a runnin’ / across the highs, the lows, and the in between / you and me we’ve got two minds that think as one / and our hearts march to the same beat

they say everything it happens for a reason / you can be flawed enough / but perfect for a person / someone who will be there for you when you fall apart / guiding your direction when you’re riding through the dark