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Daniel had been Southside born and bred. He’d been raised in a small three bedroom shotgun house with his twin brother. His dad was a mechanic and his mom taught at the local headstart program. They didn’t have much but neither did anyone else in the neighborhood. Frankly they were the lucky ones because his parents always were able to cover the bills and still put clothes on his and Dave’s backs and food on the table three times a day. His two best friends were Mickey Milkovich and Ian Gallagher. They became friends in kindergarten after he had comforted Ian when he cried on the playground cause his mommy was sick and had run away again and Mickey had beaten up the kids who called Ian a crybaby because of it. 

They were the Three Musketeers going everywhere and doing everything together. That lasted until they were sixteen. That year Daniel realized he was gay, that he liked guys. He got a fake I.D. and went down to boys town to pick up a guy to fool around with since it seemed everyone else in his class was fooling around. He knew that gay guys were not excepted by a lot of the thugs in their neighborhood but he for some reason he let the guy he’d picked up walk him home from the L station. Unfortunately some of the thugs in his neighborhood saw them kiss good-bye and Daniel grab the guy’s ass as they kissed. The last thing he saw was a tire iron being swung at his head.

Daniel woke up four days later with both of his legs broken in multiple places, a broken clavicle, three broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a brain injury. He spent three and half months in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center to relearn to walk and function in the world. At the end of it his aunt had arranged a full scholarship for him and his twin brother at the boarding school she worked at in Ohio. While he was happy for his safety he greatly missed his two best friends. 

Now it was six years later and Daniel was moving back to the Southside of Chicago. His parents were killed in a drunk driving accident and had left everything they had to him and his brother, including a one hundred fifty thousand dollar insurance policy. Dave had been drafted by the Bears earlier that year so he signed the whole thing over to Daniel. He ended up moving back into his childhood home and was working on opening his own restaurant in the neighborhood. The area had become popular recently amongst hipsters and other young professionals so there would be plenty of clintental. He was planning on hiring local southsiders to work there but he was surprised when his first interview walked into his office. “Mickey? I can’t believe it! I have been so worried about you!”, he said surprised. “I tried calling after I left but Mandy said you were in juvie and then your phone number was disconnected a few months later. Do you know what happened with Ian? Last I heard his mom came back and he disappeared.”, he asked him hoping Ian was okay.

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Debbie had barely had any time this week to do anything. Today was the first day off she’d had in awhile and she was almost out of food. Grocery shopping was interesting because she was on a strict budget. Franny had been fussy in the cart so Debbie had taken her out for a few minutes so that her daughter could help her grab things off of the shelf and shake them around. The last thing she needed was for Franny to start screaming. Once she was ready to move aisles she would scoop her up and plop her back into the seat of the cart, but for now, she was fine. Her small hand was placed in Debbie’s as Debbie threw a package diapers into the cart. She feels the infant’s hand slip from her grip and before she knows it Franny has knocked over an entire row of crackers. “Francis!” Debbie scolds quietly at the giggling bundle of red hair. She bends down, keeping an eye on Franny as she collects the crackers off the ground. While she’s placing the boxes of crackers back on the shelf Franny wanders down the aisle where a gentleman was doing his own shopping. Her chubby hand yanks on his pants and she babbles nonsense at him, wobbly on her legs as she had only started walking recently. Debbie looks up and she panics instantly. “Franny?!” She looks one way and doesn’t see her, but relief soon floods through her body when she sees her daughter wrapped around a strangers leg at the end of the aisle. “Jesus Christ.”

Tobias fixes their hair, the other ruffling it succeeding is both annoying them and getting their attention. So as they look up at the other they give a look full of annoyance, but one that also asked the question ‘what do you want?’

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          Q U I E T L Y––  Hermione sat in her chair, close to the fireplace. It was probably close to about two in the morning, but she didn’t want to go back to sleep. SCREAMS AND LAUGHTER filled her dreams of the wild-eyed woman who carved that scar onto her arm. For a while, that was all she dreamt about. She spent so many nights, trying to stay awake but it was to no avail. Months passing, the dreams were less frequent; but when she did have them, they were so incredibly vivid.

     So that is what brought her to this; sitting cozily in the Head Boy and Girl’s shared common room with a mug of hot chocolate { brought by the Heads’ shared house elf, who she thanked kindly and offered a snack in return }, and a copy of Pride and Prejudice sitting in her lap as she read. She almost did not even hear the footsteps of the other Head treading down the stairs.

Ian couldn’t help laughing when he realized the guy he’d been seeing was also a top and at least right now neither one was willing to take it up the ass. It was just too funny. Once he had climbed off of Trevor and sat next to him with his arm wrapped around his shoulder, he looked over at him, “Um there’s other stuff we can do right? Would you like to make out, touch each other and maybe we can try um oral?”, he asked as he fidgeted a little bit. “I want to make you feel good.”, he admitted to Trevor self-consciously as he raked a hand through his bright red locks. He couldn’t look him in the eye from nerves as he waited for an answer.  

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Nicole tucks the three year old in slowly, covering her up and placing a stuffed animal beside her. She can't help but smile a little at the peaceful state of her little sister. It was rare she got her to go down so easy but it made sense since none of them had really been sleeping very much lately. Her dad was out of town on business for a few nights and it was like a huge weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. Her brother had fallen asleep in her bed and Nicole didn't think it was necessary to carry him to his. he was ten and getting heavy-and besides all three of them slept in the same room anyways. She exits the bedroom and heads into the kitchen where she had began to clean up some of the mess that was left from supper. She hears a knock on the door and her eyebrows knit together. She makes her way to the door and opens it.