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tagged by @asher-orion-writes and my words are: Breathe, Eyes, Step and Glass, and also tagged by @adie-dee with their words: Bunny, Call, Night, Bottle.

Doing this for Bad Influences again <3 it’ll be a long one here <:)

BREATHE

I shifted onto my other foot and continued, “Brownies cannot use such symbols-” “Brownies can use many symbols, not all, but many. Especially ones concerning humans. None of us saw which symbol it was.” I swallowed around a dry throat and her honey brown eyes followed the movement. The hairs on the back of my neck rose at the attention, my skin burning, my breathing quickening. I flexed my hands and tried to breathe out slowly, evenly. “That was on my land-” I growled. “Rules are rules, Diana.” Her voice was strong but this time there was a more violent undertone to it. “You of everyone should know this. What I want is for Hannah to-” “You know her name?” It was my turn to interrupt.

EYES

I scrabbled at the unforgiving glass then my knees buckled and I dropped onto the rough carpet. My breath was coming in ragged gasps and I knelt there awkwardly pressed against the wall on my knees, letting the distress and confusion wash over me finally. My eyes were fixated on a single thread on the carpet but I couldn’t see it, my throat burned at my harsh breaths, my hands clenched and unclenched periodically. I couldn’t see, I couldn’t focus. My ears echoed with my heartbeats. My shoulder ached all the while I sat and hyperventilated, I must have reopened it.

STEP

“Unfortunately. She had some choice words about her ‘confused’ daughter spending time with a known bisexual. Although she was very calm when discussing it.” Mackenzie goes quiet again, barely acknowledging any of my words. I really didn’t want to think about what happened after Hannah and I spent the afternoon in the greenhouse, but I still felt a little bitter about the past few days. It definitely shut Mackenzie up quickly too. I step onto my porch and dig into my jean pockets for my keys while turning to Mackenzie, one eyebrow raised. I wait until he is gone into the fading sunlight before opening my door. At least this time I didn’t need to shout at Jasper.

GLASS

“I don’t suppose you can clean that yourself? You know how I hate dirty hands.” I frantically nodded and turned hastily towards the stairs. “Not up there, girl! You’ll get blood on the carpets! Clean in the greenhouse,” she hissed before trailing up the stairs herself without a backwards glance. I hurried to unhook the keys by the back door then hurry inside the greenhouse. Once the glass door closed firmly behind me, I let the tears fall freely and sniffled into the cool damp air. I’m not a child, I reminded myself forcefully. Suck it up, clean yourself up, wrap it up, you don’t need help.

BUNNY

“I’ll go find the other contestants.” He finally says too loudly to nobody in particular and turned stiffly for the door. Just before leaving, he stops to wave to me, a soft smile on his lips showing off his bunny teeth, then strides away. I sighed and put the guide book down. The woman stared hard when she gave me the contact forms back. I tried to tell myself that I was on edge and her sharp eyes didn’t mean anything but she was beginning to peel away at my walls.

CALL

My phone did have a missed call from Mackenzie and a follow up text message that said that Jay was on her way. I forced myself to take a slow and steady breath to calm my stilling racing heart. They couldn’t possibly blame this on me right? I could still talk to Hannah. I could still fix this spell. I frowned and let my phone drop onto the floor. I will fix this damn spell.

NIGHT

Mackenzie growls now, brows furrowed dangerously low and stared directly at me. I held his gaze, fingers flexing on my biceps. And to think I'd just painted them last night. "Continuing to degrade the keeper of the court will not get your voice heard sooner." “Maybe so. but Ive been repeating myself for a week now. maybe some degradation will get her attention." Mackenzie scoffs and stands abruptly. If he needs to go cool off over some snide remark, fine.

BOTTLE - found none ;-;

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I will now tag people :D Your words are faith, height, food and heat.

another find the word tag game from @emelkae this time! :D my words were: fall, twist, ignore, and down. (I tagged you in the other tag game before I saw this so consider this a single tag? <3 ty ily)

FALL

I let my tears fall freely as I tried to peer through the fog. There wasn’t any time to notice which way I was dragged into the forest. I barely had time to look at the person that grabbed me. I wiped at my eyes with my clean hand and tried to see which way I should go to get back home. Only the almost full moon watched me wander aimlessly, sniffling like a child. I cringed and scrubbed at my eyes hastily again. When I removed my hands, I shouted and flinched back.

TWIST

I stumbled blearily into the dim bathroom. Everything smelt clean and sterile, the sink tap gleamed in the light when I flicked it on and the tiles were pleasantly cool against my feet. In the mirror, I looked like a mess; my long hair was in tangles and still had bits of forest stuck in knots, there were dark circles under my eyes, and traces of blood I had missed in the night streaked my cheek. The bandages came off easily, and bloody. I tried to twist around to see the cuts on my back but even if I moved in the most uncomfortable way possible, the swelling and bruising made it hard to tell what my attacker had actually carved into my back.

IGNORE

Sunday night, I was hurt and bleeding in the cold Greendale preserve. Monday morning, Mother reminded me about Greendale’s Festival than that afternoon I tried to ignore the creepy customer and the couple that was with him. Now, I’m sitting comfortably with an empty journal in my lap. How could I explain any of what happened? How could I find the words? I decided to reread my Sunday entry instead. The words were so peacefully ignorant of the pain that would begin barely hours later in the foggy night.

DOWN

“Possibly. Even if it’s a new moon or some other rules needed for the spell, you have a time limit. Although that’s likely the safest option so close to Greendale’s court. If Jaylee Swanson herself has already caught wind of somebody breaking the rules then, as it is her job, she will need to take this very seriously. Which, of course, will cause any intelligent or reliable wisp to put a shorter time limit to this. Normally, the time frame is a month but with a shorter time-”

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Jasper Webb | 22 | The Holly

went to high school with Diana Duran

fav colour is ‘electric yellow’

wanted to be an astronomer

fav artist is Hozier

if you were there, you convinced him to do it

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