You Have Me. You've Always Had Me

James Norton at the Hennessy Gold Cup, Newbury Racecourse, November 26, 2016  (photos Rexfeature)

I was 13 years old. It was my birthday. And Royston Sinclair III had broken my heart in front of everyone. I’d snuck into your closet that morning and took that green beaded top that was your mother’s, that you kept so carefully wrapped up in tissue paper in your cedar closet. I was never supposed to touch it. But I stole it, and I wore it to school with my Chemin de Fer sailor jeans, and I thought no one was as stylish as I was. But Royston laughed. He said I was cheap. He said the only reason he’d been my boyfriend was because he was mad at Angie Morgan and he wasn’t anymore. He called me loud and weird. He said there was a rumor going around that I wasn’t actually a Gilmore. That I was the gardener’s daughter and…you’d bought me because you couldn’t have children of your own. And I was crushed. And I ran out of class… and I ran out of school, and I went to the mall. And I was sitting in the food court, wishing I had some money to buy a pretzel ‘cause I was starving, and I looked up… and there was Dad. Standing in front of me… at the mall.

i’m not crying you are

I just got to tell ya, before this thing goes on.. you got to realise, the only way out is in a body bag.

You’re the best, Grandpa.

James Norton and Laura Carmichael at the Bazaar Women of the Year Awards, October 31, 2016

Costume series ◆ Moulin Rouge

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The end.

dir. Baz Lurhmann

Hayley Atwell & Tom Hiddleston (◡‿◡✿)

#my flirting skills