#romance request

this beautiful lady right here is one of alec's best friends. while alec was born & raised in london, he spent a lot of time here during the holidays after his parents split up and his mom moved back to her hometown. so he's probably known this lovely lady since his teens at least (i haven't worked out an exact timeline shh). growing up alec was a flirt and he was known to have a lot of flings and fwb's but he was always very clear that he was never looking for something serious. he's affectionate and craves touch so he was a v. sexual person. whether or not she was always just a friend or she was something more is up for discussion but i think that there were definitely feelings (on both sides) that got ignored or maybe brushed off as 'casual' when that wasn't the case. alec came and went a lot, but he would have definitely stayed in touch with her via the internet, letters, calls, texts, whatever, and always made it a point to spend time with her when he was in town.

when he moved to cali for college he probably made it a point to visit more often and likely offered to fly her out to visit him (he's loaded okay) but again things stayed in a limbo (friends or fwb's w/e) and she was likely around when he was in his messy relationship with his now 6-year-old daughter aurora's 'rory' mom. which when he found out he'd knocked her up was the first time he ever really tried to do the relationship thing. he never planned on having kids but he kind of fell into a domestic role throughout the pregnancy and found he kind of actually liked it - despite the drama with his now ex. a few months after rory was born the ex decided she was not enjoying the role and left the two of them, which was the driving force in alec deciding to move to beaumont, to be near family that could help him navigate being a single dad.

BUT i'd like to offer another option. maybe it's not just him. maybe she's been in a long-term relationship and she's just recently single again too. or maybe she was for a time and both of them were happy with their friendship (possibly fwb) roles for the last couple of years but with him getting back into dating she is like okay fine me too and does the same and triggers his jealousy?

just thoughts come at me, let's talk midnightxxxtish#4566

miko moved to town three years ago and has broken his own heart eight times since. he’s a funny thing, miko -- as cruel as he is kind, and he is exceptionally kind. he’s the sort of person who can spot a person from across a crowded room and think i want to know what it would be like to be in love with him, and without hesitating he’ll approach them. and for a while, he will love them. and then, eventually, he’ll start to realize their flaws. and it takes almost no time at all for realization to twist into obsession, and that obsession eventually sours the entire relationship for him. it can take anywhere between a few weeks to a few months -- but in the end, he leaves every man he’s ever wanted. but i mean it when i say he breaks his own heart. it’s never an easy thing for him, even though he’s always the one to break things off. he always wants it to work, but he doesn’t want to work to make it work -- he just wants it to be easy because his parents always made it seem so easy. so he’s cried himself to sleep, moped around his apartment, gone days at a time in mourning of what-could-have-been for one boy after the next. then, soon enough (too soon), he goes out looking for the next person to love.

it’s a vicious cycle, and boyd has been there for just about every round of it. boyd was the first neighbor miko met in his historic seafront apartment, and though they are wildly different people they hit it off as friends and now the two of them share a social circle of nearly a dozen thirty-somethings who adore each other, but boyd and miko have been especially close because they live next door to one another.

theirs is a strange dynamic -- they bicker and argue a lot, mostly because boyd is grounded and down-to-earth and tends to see miko as being miko’s own worst enemy in love (he’s absolutely right) while miko thinks boyd would have a lot better luck in his own love life if he weren’t so damn judgmental all the time (he’s also absolutely right). they exhaust each other. they know exactly how to push one another’s buttons. miko doesn’t try to charm boyd, and boyd sure as shit doesn’t try to make himself something he isn’t to meet miko’s bullshit standards. they are perpetually at an impasse, and somehow that’s worked for them and their friendship over the years.

so when does all of that become want? i guess that’s for us to decide. when the site opens, miko’s going to be fresh off a breakup and in the throes of his own melodrama, so i figure we’ll pick up from there. the crux of their relationship is that miko thinks grand gestures and a fairytale romance are the right way to have a “perfect” relationship while boyd doesn’t believe in a perfect relationship -- he believes in loving someone enough you want to work to make it work day after day after day, and he believes in all different types of gestures, not just big ones. when miko wants to throw in the towel and quit and leave, boyd wants to fight and make it work.

i like messy twisty things, and sky is so sweet and innocent that i can't help but want to mess with her. so this guy is not meant to be a stand-up guy, (at least not with her, maybe someone else can change that) and they are meant to be on and off, and ultimately they will not end up together. this ad is for the sole purpose of breaking sky's heart (repeatedly). i have nick bateman bc honestly, he's sexy af lmfao but this is pretty open? i would like it if he were 36-38

meet nick he's the son of another founding family and he's extremely charismatic, charming, and has a silver tongue, he can get away with almost anything (and has many many times over) and he's used to getting what he wants when he wants it. then there's sky who's a little naive and truly believes in love, so she easily fell for his charms. but he's not exactly her prince charming. in addition to being charming, he's manipulative and a cheater, and she's caught him cheating on several occasions, and there were probably many more that she's not aware of. but again, he's charming and she's a little naive which doesn't necessarily work in her favor.

basically, sky has been with this guy on and off for a while now, and their relationship is a messy, toxic cycle. he cheats on her, she finds out and breaks up with him; a few weeks, months later, he's back begging for her forgiveness with empty promises that he'll be better, that it won't happen again. she forgives him, they have mindblowing kinky makeup sex, and it's wonderful for a few weeks, maybe a month or two before it happens again. and this has been going on for since high school. though she did leave a little after high school for nearly a decade what happened during that time is open, but when she came back they fell right into their old messy habits? although i feel like it didn't get really messy/toxic until after she came back about 6/7 years ago. they might have even been almost okay in high school?

deep down she knows that he's never going to be faithful, but she loves him, and she wants to believe that it'll be different, that maybe she'll be enough. she believes that part of his heart does belong to her because why else would he keep coming back? and maybe she's right, and in his twisted way, he does love her, or maybe it's that just that he knows she'll always forgive him, or it's obsession & possession, or maybe it's the sex - that's up to you! this is not her endgame ship but i would like a good chance to play with the on/off cycle a bit before she finally comes to her senses and moves beyond him.