#sabrevander

Just five? Everyone I’ve spoken with, for the most part, has been generous and interesting.

Selene, person whose gotten to know me best is the easiest choice. @selenemacsuain

Evander, nice guy I’ve hiked with a few times @evander-winters

Zephyr, she can make any situation funny, that’d be a bonus on an island. @zephyr-dresden (isn’t she a package deal with Riyane, too? @theriyaneverday)

Sophie, also one of the few that can pull some semblance of a smile out of my grumpy ass. @sophie-gardener

evander-winters:

Congratulations! I hope that it was a fantastic celebration! Did you enjoy it?

It was just like any other day really. I didn’t plan anything, just spent time with family and people I care about.

evander-winters:

All of your family are in town? That’s a surprise. Any particular reason?

Family matter. Actually, you’re quite good friends with my sister aren’t you?

@evander-winters:

I still miss you terribly, and I still say I’ll celebrate properly when you’ve returned from overseas. It appears that your birthday has been fairly good to you so far. How is Scotland treating you today? Still having fun… you know, since when I asked you yesterday? At least tell me you love it more today than yesterday. I’m glad I got to catch you earlier on the phone, sorry it was such a short call because rehearsals were long, and our show tonight was only just after rehearsals ended. Most of us had to scramble to get dressed at the concert hall.

I love Scotland more every single day with every new place that I see and I miss you more with every moment that passes. My birthday has been as lovely as it can be without being back in LA. I’ve eaten a lot of cake and had a lot of bourbon so I’m certainly not complaining. And you don’t have to apologize! I get it, rehearsals are crazy. Filming is crazy. The lack of cell phone service in certain areas of the Highlands is crazy. How did the show go tonight? You stunned everyone as usual, I’m sure? 

@evander-winters

You’re always mentioning that I look like Bond, and then you post yourself looking like this and I think you’re winning where looks are concerned.

Well you know in every Bond movie I’ve seen, he does whisk the pretty woman away in the end. 

Daisy had never anticipated that a breakup could be so expensive. She was starting to think Taney was right, that the fact that the breakup happened before they got married was a small blessing. She couldn’t imagine also having to pay for a divorce attorney. Since the split, a lot of money had been funneled into living in a hotel, buying a house, pints of ice cream, and that speeding ticket she got that one day when she was crying and driving down the highway. That had not exactly been her finest moment. She had sold most of her furniture from her old apartment after she moved in with Axel, having assumed that she would never need it again. Now she found herself furnishing her new house practically from scratch as she desperately tried to make it feel like home.

Luckily she was able to get a rush delivery on the most essential pieces, so she had a place to sleep and a couch to sit on. The house still felt quite bare even with all her boxes piled everywhere. Ordinarily, she would have waited until she had unpacked and furnished the place to have guests, but she doubted that Evander would mind that it was mostly empty since she had fully stocked the fridge. He was probably hungrier than he even realized considering he hadn’t properly fed himself since rehearsals began. She texted him her new Beverly Hills address and busied herself with setting out all the food so they could cook. She had picked up steak with a bunch of different sides after realizing that it took six hours to cook pot roast and they did not have time for that. 

While she waited for Evander she tried to quiet the butterflies that fluttered in her stomach. They were taking things slowly, step by step, and that she didn’t mind because it had felt like a huge weight lifted off her shoulders to know he felt the same way about her. But the anticipation before each time that she saw him made her giddy and excited like a teenage girl with a huge crush. She wasn’t one hundred percent healed and whole again but she was working on getting there. She didn’t believe in needing someone else to fix her, but she wouldn’t want to give herself over to another person again without being all taped and put back together. So despite the part of her that so wanted so desperately to just kiss him when he finally arrived, she told herself to be good and instead reached out for a hug. 

“Look, I did it!” she exclaimed when she pulled back to look up at his handsome face, her arms still wrapped around his waist. “I bought a house!” She took a good look at him, trying to assess if he was practically starving himself, before finally letting him go and practically skipping back to the kitchen, her mood immediately improved now that he was here. “Come, I’ll show you the kitchen and we can stick that champagne in my fancy new fridge. And while food is cooking I’ll give you the grand tour! Plus you have to tell me all about the first week of rehearsals.”