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summer of love - quinn hughes epilogue.

pt 1, pt 2. Spotify. Insta edit.

Warnings: angst.

Word Count: 3.3k+

Third POV:

Mable turned over onto her side, and smiled into Quinn's side. She had been here longer than those three days she promised herself. After getting coffee the day after they had confessed there feelings for one another, he had convinced her to finish out the summer with there families. Which now meant, she only had a few days left before heading back to California for school. That night on the boat, had cememented her feelings about staying longer and then the coffee run confirmed that she indeed, needed to stay. or else, she would feel the wrath of Jack Hughes, which was so not needed after a night of drinking. Quinn wrapped his arm around the girl, and kissed her head, hoping she was awake and that they could sneak away to get some coffee before everybody woke up. "Hmm, good morning handsome." Mable murmured wrapping her arms around his toned torso, sending waves of butterflies through his stomach. "Morning, sunshine." He murmured back, rubbing her exposed back. "Ready for some coffee?" He questioned and she nodded as she began to stretch. She brought the comforter up to her chest, turning around and pecking the dark haired boy. "Hi." She mused, giving him a grin. He smiled widely, reconnecting there lips together. They were going to miss this the most, the blissful feeling of knowing that they will wake up together, and enjoy some quiet time before beginning there day.

They exited Quinn's car going to there favorite coffee shop on a nearby lake, where you could sit and look out over the said lake. Mornings were spent here frequently, some where the future was spoken about and how to navigate it or the plans for the by week he had in the new year, the possibility of plans if he did not make the Allstar break. She would fly out to him when her breaks allowed it, he would meet her when he came out to California for games. They would make it work, they were Mable and Quinn after all. Those two would and could do anything they put there mind's too. Quinn looked over at the girl he had a crush on for many moons as she watched the morning sun rising. "Im gonna miss it here, I don't want to leave." She gently said, savoring the morning heat. Quinn smiled softly, reaching over and taking ahold of her hand. "It'll miss you too and your abundance of never ending sarcastic jokes." He said making her blush. "Besides, now that youre back, you'll never want a summer without." He added and she nodded. "Or I will bear the wrath of Jack." She said rolling her eyes playfully, before sipping more of her iced coffee.

Mable felt incredibly at peace, and she derserved that beyond belief. She had grown tired of putting on a front in front of her friends back in California, and you could see the changes in the way she presented herself, the way she spoke, what she spoke about and how she didn't second guess herself anymore. She no longer was nervous and afraid of what people had to say or think about her. In change of events, she was itching to play piano again. She missed it and the way that it transported her to a place of peace and quiet. Nobody knew that though and she wanted to surprise them at some point before she left. Being back at the lake, has shown her that she deserved to live the life she wanted. She deserved to be happy, and she would do anything and everything to make that happen when she went back to California. Quinn would do everything in his power to help her out in that aspect, and promised her he would be there every step of the way while being long distance. He wouldn't let her walk out of his life ever again, even if they break up. He wouldn't let her do that to him or his brothers and parents.

Mable and Quinn walked into the Hughes lake house to see Luke up making some breakfast. Mable plopped down on the bar stool facing him, grabbing the bowl of fruit that he had put out. "So, what's on your agenda for the day?" She quizzed the curly haired boy. He shrugged, "I wanna get out the picketball in the driveway." He responded and she clapped her hands together, "You have too!!! Gotta use my secret tennis skills from back in the day." She smirked causing the boys to groan. "God forbid, we forget you had many private lessons as a kid." Luke mused causing her to giggle. She hummed eating some strawberries, while scrolling on her phone. "So when are you leaving for California again?" Luke asked and she looked up, "Two days, day before you guys leave." She responded as her leg began to shake. A nervous tick she had picked up from years ago, her dad forming the habit long before that. "Didn't you say you met the Brissons?" Quinn asked and she nodded. "Yeah, I think my friend Lexi and Brandon? The oldest? Are still seeing one another." She said nonchalantly. "Wow, didn't think he had it in him." Luke joked causing Quinn to laugh. "Same with Lexi, she definetly has him wrapped around her finger. That's for sure." She joked, getting off the seat and began to walk outside. "Thanks for the fruit Luke, ill see y'all later!" She announced walking out there sliding back doors. "Bye Mae!" They both echoed back, and watched as she walked off. "Please tell me you guys are staying together." Luke said as soon as the door shut. "Yeah, I know we haven't said anything but we are doing long distance." Quinn responded putting a smile on Luke's face. "Oh thankgod." he laughed, grinning like a fool. "Good, because she can never fall off the face of the earth ever again." he added and Quinn hummed in response. Luke more than enjoyed his fellow youngest sibiling. They both together, withstood the playful nagging and jokes from there older sibilings.

Mable walked back over towards her family's lake house and she sighed, as soon as she saw her dad outside on the deck reading the newspaper. "Morning pops." she smiled walking up to the deck. He set down the paper and smiled, "Morning sunshine. How are you this morning?" He questioned as she sat down next to him. "Im good! Still trying to wake up?" She smirked at his coffee, and then at him. Let's just say, Jim and her dad had spent sometime on the boat last night before clocking in. They more than likely, had one too many. Something they saved for the end of the summer. One last deep conversation to end the trip. Mable's dad chuckled, nodded and sipped his coffee. "Your mama is up, she was looking for you." He said and she nodded getting up and walking inside the house. "Mama, good morning." She mused in Phillipino. "Mae! My sweet girl, I was looking for you this morning." She replied back in Philipino. Her mom wrapped her youngest in a big hug, "Im gonna miss you so so much when you go back." The ever sentimental mother cooed. Mable playfully rolled her eyes, "Me too. Only one more year." She smiled. "Too long." her mom responded, going back to the stove. "Hey, Ellen and I have been meaning to ask you something, love." Her mama started and Mable froze as she grabbed a glass cup to make some more iced coffee. "MM HM." Mable said, unsure of what her mama was going to say. Mama turned around smiling like a fool, "We wanted to see if you wanted to play for us tomorrow evening before you leave. We are having quite the feast for everybody. And it would only end right if you ended with your annual concerto." She said gleefully. Mable shrugged dumping ice in the cup and went to the expresso machine to make some expresso. "I don't know mama, it would only be if I felt comfortable enough to. It's still something I am working on in therapy. Ok? Maybe, I don't know." Mable responded in a jumble. Like yes, she would love to perform for them and end the vacation on a high note but she still wasn't sure if it was something she would enjoy doing. It would almost feel like a chore, she kept thinking. But she did miss it, it was something that was nagging at her. Truth be told, she had moved on from the topic in therapy and was working on another set of things. "You know, I actually just might." She smiled, dumping the expresso in her cup of ice. "Really?" Tabitha asked walking in, hugging her little sister. Mable nodded, "Yeah, ill need to practice though. Im a bit rusty. Don't let the Hughes anywhere near the house today." She said half joking, half serious. The mother and sister nodded happily, as Mable set up her office her office for the day.

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The following evening, the Hughes made there way to the Bennett's lakehouse for there annual end of lake season dinner. This year they would be eating some traditional Philipino food such as Adobo, Lechon and Sisig to name a few. Philipino food was a secret guitly pleasure of the hockey family, and would transport them back to a time of innocence and make belief as kids. Mable walked outside with a pitcher of lemonade and a tray of Adobo. "Oh yes!" Jack said eyeing the Adobo, causing Mable to laugh. "Oh baby!" Ella said taking notice of the two desserts the Hughes were bringing over. She made grabby hands at the Jewish Baklava and Lekach, that would satisfy the sweet tooths the Bennett's had. "Made it just for you sweet ella." Ellen smiled, giving the eldest daughter a side hug. "So sweet, thankyou." Ella smiled taking the tray gratefully. Ellen took sight of Mable and smiled, as Mable walked over to give her second mama a hug. "Hi mama." Mable smiled pulling her in for a hug. "Hi Mae, are you all set for the trip back?" she questioned, pulling away and Mable nodded. "Yeah, just need to get on the plane." She smirked before walking away. Quinn didn't want to admit it but he was scared about there future a little bit. He feared that them doing long distance was going to change there relationship. And it would, but not in the bad way that he feared. Mable was all in and Quinn needed to be reassured that despite the 2 hour and 50 minute flight between them, was doable. Long distance was doable as long as they had constant communication. Yet, what Quinn felt was more than understandable. Quinn was knocked out of his thoughts as Jack shoved him a bit to sit down. Quinn sat next to Mable on her right, and Jack to her left. "Please for the love of god, don't make a mess." She playfully scorned Jack at previous feast shenanigans. He cluthched his chest playfully, "Don't come for me like that Mae." He said dramatically causing her and Quinn to laugh. After a traditional Philipino grace, they all dug in.

"So who's excited for the new school year?" Ellen questioned Mable and Luke who both shrugged. "Still doesn't get any easier." Mable joked, earning a few chuckles. "Don't particually enjoy 90 degree dorms either." She added and had knowing nods. "But, it's my last year so. Then Ill be gone." She smiled, with Quinn taking a peek at her. She didnt look towards him, "Do you know you want to go? or do?" Jim questioned and she nodded. "Im thinking of Chicago, they have an amazing music program there if I decide to go to school for my masters or they honestly have amazing jobs there." She said innocently. Quinn was taken back a bit, she had never said that to him. Now, he realized that they would be spending more than one year apart long distance. "Chicago?" Jack questioned, peering over at his twin and she nodded. "Yeah, it's a place I've enjoyed visiting and can see myself there." She responded and everybody nodded. They all had one thought: Quinn. Did he get a say in this? Did he have a place in her life after this summer? "But it's not set in stone, ill go wherever I feel like going." She quickly added, feeling the thoughts of her family. "Besides, then ill be closer to this tall dude and maybe he won't be such a pain in the ass." She playfully threw at Luke, causing everybody to laugh. "Oh come on Munchkin! Im not that bad!" Luke defended himself. All hell broke loose at this point, which was right on schedule.

The family took the dessert in the house, all sitting around the grand piano in the living room. They all sat down with either expresso or coco, devouring the jewsish desserts. "I need that recipe." Ella said to Ellen who nodded, "Hey! She won't even give me it, that's not fair!" Jack exclaimed causing both families to laugh. "Haha sucks to suck!" Ella said playfully sticking out her tongue, which Jack reciprocated. Mable sat down next to Quinn who pulled her into his side, before throwing a blanket on them. She smiled softly up at him and thanked him as he handed her her coco. The family spoke about plans for the upcoming year and the schedule for next summer, a typical conversation that needed to be had. "You ok?" Mable asks Quinn quietly who hadn't said anything. He looked down at her and nodded, but she wasn't convinced. It was a discussion for later, when everybody went to sleep. Mable returned to the conversation at hand and chatted along with everbody. Ellen took notice of how queit Quinn had been and then looked at what he was staring at, she followed his gaze to the piano and smiled. "Hey Mae, how about you play something for us? A parting present?" She mused, knowing that it would perk Quinn up. Long ago when they were just about 10 and 9, Quinn had secretly been wanting to learn how to play so he could be like Mable. She was already so accomplished at the skill, and he was jealous. He also wanted to learn it, so she did not feel as left out or isolated because she did have those thoughts here and there. She had admitted it to Ellen one time, and from then on Ellen always made her feel proud of her skill and her love for it. So Ellen knew, that Mable sitting down at the grand piano like she had done so many times before play Bach and Beethoven as well as movie scores, would perk the dark haired boy up. It was inevitable, and Mable knew it. Mable looked at Ellen and nodded, shocking the three boys. "Any requests?" She playfully joked as she walked up to the piano. She sat down, flexing her hands after opening the cover. She strummed a few chords, awakening the floodgates. Before you knew it, she was in her own world.

That evening after everybody had gone to sleep, Quinn and Mable met up at her family's dock. This conversation needed to be had. "Why didn't you tell me about Chicago?" He questioned, crossing his arms over his chest and she sighed. "Because, I knew you would react this way when it wasn't even a thing. Me going to Chicago is a thought, that's it Q." She said walking up to him and putting a hand on his chest. He looked down at her, his hazel eyes sofetning. He nodded and she pushed some hair behind her ear. "I promise that whatever I decide, Chicago or not that you'll be apart of that decision, Ok?" She said searching his eyes. He shook his head, looking down holding back tears. "I don't want you not to go to Chicago M. I don't want to hold you back on where you could potentially go to. It wouldn't be right or fair." He said, the girl taken back a bit. "Quinn....no. Don't do what you are going to do. Please." She said as tears began to pool at her brown eyes. He met her's and grimly smiled causing her to cry out. "Please don't. Q. No." She demanded grabbing ahold of his arms. "Please don't, don't make me loose you too." She sobbed, as he wrapped his arms around her's. Holding back his own tears.

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6 months later:

By week had approached slowly, too slowly for hockey player. He coulnd't wait to spend it somewhere warm and surrounded by the ocean. Quinn was allset for the plane ride down, something he had been non stop thinking about for the past month after the all star break, when he joined nhl superstars. His stomach grew with butterflies, pulling him back to reality. He could do this, and even after all this time. Everything would be alrigt.

Mable was quickly finishing her tidying of her small apartment in Long Beach, California. Afer returning to California after the eventful summer, she had plunged herself into finding a new apartment that was not in San Diego. Once she found her apartment, she quickly made a phone call to Ellen to have her send over any and all recipes that she loved, something she hadn't done previously. Mable was calm, collected and confidant going into her senior year. She was so unlike the Mable that was seen previoulsy when she was with Lucifer. A summer with Hughes could do many wonders, for her soul and peace of mind. Once she moved into her apartment, she put up photos from when she was a kid. Specifially the one's at the lake, she could never escape the chaos of the boys and she wasn't trying to fight it anymore. She had given up the fight that they would always be in her life no matter what. She knew that, they knew that and the summer at the lake cemented it. She knew that Quinn would be in her life no matter what, together or not they were molded together forever. Much to Jack's dismay ofcourse. Mable looked at the clock and knew she had to leave soon, so she put everything away that needed to be put back and she made her way outside. She decided to catch a quick walk on the beach before leaving, so she could meet the situation with a level head. She had barely made it 2 minutes down the beach before she heard her name. She looked behind her and around, before whipping her head towards the mysterical person. Her mouth dropped open, and hurriedly made her way up to the person. She wouldn't be having a perfect movie airport moment, but like typical fashion, she would be having a beach one.

Mable ran towards the dark haired boy, that had stolen her heart many summers ago. He opened his arms as soon as they were close to one another, smiles dawning there faces. Quinn picked up Mable and spun her around a few times, causing the girl to shriek out loud with delight. She was his person, and he was his. There summer of love did not end like she feared it would but it blossomed into something bigger and stronger. Actual love, all year round love. You could see the extra twinkle in there eyes as they texted one another, facetimed or on the after game chats. It was undeniable the love they have for one another. One that would never falter, fail or go unnoticed and fall off the face of the earth.

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Road trip

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Nat has insisted on going to see your family for the holidays. You weren’t sure was the best idea, but you Nat kept pushing. She had smiled at you, promising she could endure any horrid a family holiday could bring.

“I want to see where you grew up and I know you want to go home,” Nat said softly, “I’ve been tortured, held captive, and I live with Tony. I promise I can handle it.”

“If you’re sure,” you smiled back.

The two of you decide to make a road trip out of the whole thing. There aren't many tourist destinations either of you care to see, but you were content to go along for the ride. You made an amazing playlist for the ride. You were currently singing from the passenger seat as Natasha drove.

“Y/n, what is this playlist?” Nat says through a laugh and your jaw drops.

“This playlist is pure gold!” You argue as Bon Jovi’s Living on a prayer ends.

“What it is, is a mess. The last song was Allstar by Smash Mouth-which you knew every word to-and now Bon Jovi?” Natasha stutters out.

“Yes I did!” You say proudly, squealing as How Far I’ll Go from Moana comes on.

“I’m gonna crash this car,” Natasha grumbles, trying to hide her smile.

xxxxxxx

You curl up in your seat, holding your hot chocolate tightly as you look at the snow outside. Natasha promised she was okay to drive and you weren’t going to argue, you’d just enjoy the view. You had relinquished the radio to Natasha and soft classical music now filled the car. It was less entertaining in your opinion but the smile on her face made it worth it. You can’t help staring.

“What?” Natasha asks, her eyes never leaving the road.

“I just really love you,” you sigh and her smile grows.

“I love you too, y/n.”

xxxxx

As soon as you’re off the highway your eyes are glued to the window. The streets are full of memories, passing faster than you can tell them.

“I got kicked out of that park one time,” you say and Natasha raises an eyebrow.

“Wild night?” You snort a laugh.

“Hardly, some friends and I went there after going to see a play at the community college a few towns over,” you explain, a soft smile on your lips, “we had bought a few tubs of ice cream and were hanging out on the lawn. It was...11pm, maybe?  Yeah, it had to be, because we were breaking curfew. We forgot to get spoons and had to use the lids of the tubs. It made such a mess. We had only been there a few minutes when the cops showed up. I guess the park closed at 10pm and there was a town wide curfew of 11pm so they told us to go home. We didn’t of course. We just went to sit on the curb outside one guy’s house. It was a good night,” you finish with a smile.  

“Sounds like it,” Nat says softly, “I wish I could’ve been there. To see you grow up.”

“No you don’t,” you shake your head, “I was awkward in high school. I hadn’t grown into my body, I was so clumsy. And painfully shy.”

“I would’ve loved you anyway,” she says taking your hand in hers, “I’m glad I get to see it now.”

“Me too. Thank you for coming with me. For making sure I came.”

“I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, my love”

#natasha romanoff x reader #natasha romanoff imagine #natasha romanoff x you #natasha romanoff #natasha x reader #natasha imagine #black widow x reader #black widow #black widow imagine #avenger imagine #avengers #marvel imagine #marvel

[hockeytrashgoblin]

Take it out on me Part 12

A/N: hi so this is the last chapter. We made it to the end. I hope you guys have enjoyed this story as much as I have enjoyed writing it. I decided that even if you guys don’t necessarily want further little imagines/stories about their lives after this I’m still gonna do it because I’m not done with it yet lol.

I also have an Alex Tuch story on the way soon and a Mikko Rantanen one as well. They probably won’t be full series but there’ll be something. 

Anyhoo enjoy the last chapter. Sorry it’s a little bit shorter than the rest I just couldn’t expand it really without making it seem too drawn out.

“Well Ziggy..” I said leaning over to pick up my little brown bunny. “We’ve got some troubles now. I don’t even know how this happened.”

I walked back into the living room and sat down with Ziggy on my chest. I sat there for hours just petting and baby talking to my rabbit. I couldn’t think of anything else to do so I just sat there. I guess you could say I was in shock. It was dark out by the time Freddie got back home and I was still laying there with the bunny.

“Hi baby, what’s up?” he asked kissing my face.

“Nothing, I’ve just been laying here with Ziggy for a while.”

“I’m glad that you enjoy having her so much.”

“She’s my pretty girl and I love her.” I said to Freddie before slipping back into my baby talk voice. “That’s right I love you so much honey. My baby.”

“You’re so cute.” he said laughing and kissing my head. “Have you eaten dinner yet?”

“No I was waiting for you. Plus I haven’t been feeling the greatest today.”

“Oh no how come?”

“I dunno. Just not good. Auston had another interview today trying to do damage control from that video from the airport.”

“Oh god..”

“Basically said that I was awful to him all the time and would cheat on him constantly.”

“You should do an interview somehow. Maybe make a youtube video or something? I don’t know I just want everyone to stop being so cruel towards you.” 

“I guess I could probably make a brief video about it. It couldn’t make it worse. And I’ve got more proof of things Auston has done than things he claims I’ve done.”

“I really think you should. You don’t have to share everything, just enough to make people be quiet.” he sat beside the couch and rested his head on my stomach while he started petting the bunny too.

“I’ll do it tomorrow after I go see the doctor.”

“Why are you going to the doctor?”

“It’s just a follow up on some tests I had a while ago. Don’t worry about it baby, I’m okay.”

“Do you want me to come with you?” he asked looking at me with concern in his eyes.

“You don’t have to.”

“Do you want me to?”

“Yes.”

“Okay then I’m coming.”

“I’m sorry..I’m still just so used to having to be brave and do everything by myself.”

“We’re a team cutie. I’m here for whatever you need and I know you’re doing the same for me. That’s how adult relationships work.”

“I love you so much Freddie.”

“I love you.” he smiled at me before getting up and grabbing the bunny.

“Hey where are you bringing her?”

“To her cage. I ordered us some food and I want to cuddle with you until it gets here. You’ve been cuddling Ziggy for hours I know it.” he said laughing and smuggling up behind me on the couch so we were spooning.

“I’m going to fall asleep like this for sure.” I said giggling.

“If you do I’m eating both of our food.”

“Don’t you fucking do it.”

“But I’m starving.”

“Then you should’ve ordered more food. Besides you’d never eat my food anyway.”

“How do you know?”

“You always get so worried about me when I don’t eat, you’d never make it so I didn’t have food to eat.”

“You caught me there.” he mumbled kissing the back of my neck.

The rest of the night was very quiet. I didn’t feel like talking much but that was okay. Freddie was always really good and secure about me just keeping to myself. He didn’t constantly think I was mad at him when I was quiet like Auston did and I really appreciated that since I didn’t like talking a lot. I was a very quiet and shy person so silence was just a nice comfortable thing for me and the fact that I could have that and still be around the one I love without him yelling at me was incredible to me. We watched a little bit of Law & Order:SVU before going to bed for the night.

When we woke up, we had a very normal morning. He showered while I washed my face and did the most basic skincare. Once we were both done in the bathroom we got dressed which was always interesting because we both had a habit of just wanting the other person to stay as unclothed as possible. It always took forever but we managed to leave the house at the right time to get to my appointment without being late. Once we got there and I got registered we sat down together in the waiting room.

“So what’s this appointment about?”

“I’ve had some blood-work done and an ultrasound and a few other tests a couple weeks ago. Just getting the results back.”

“I hope everything is okay.”

“I’m sure it is, love.” I said resting my head on his shoulder and holding his hand. “If I wasn’t okay they would have called me back in much sooner.”

“I guess that makes sense.”

“I could have gallstones again or something. That’s what they were checking for with the ultrasound.”

“So what would happen with that?”

“It would depend how big they are and stuff. Maybe nothing, maybe remove the gallbladder? It would really depend but it doesn’t feel the same so  I don’t really know. We’ll just have to wait and see.”

“I guess so.”

“I’m not dying Freddie.”

“Promise?” he asked smiling holding his pinky out to me. I locked mine with his laughing.

“Promise.”

Soon enough my name was being called and we walked back with the nurse. She took some information while I sat on the bed. Freddie sat on the chair and looked really serious and worried.

“Freddie, love, I’m okay.”

“I’m just nervous about what he’s going to say. Because if they haven’t found anything then what?”

“Just don’t think about that. If they haven’t found something bad then it’s good news. Stop worrying. It’s okay.”

“Hi (Y/N), how are you doing today?” my doctor said coming into the room.

“I’m okay, how are you?”

“I’m good. Who is this?”

“This is my boyfriend, Freddie.”

“Oh well nice to meet you Freddie.”

“You too.” he said politely.

“So the test results came in. This is going to be a fairly quick appointment because all I have to do is give results and see what you want to do about them.”

“Alright sounds good.”

“Okay so all the tests we did came back conclusive with the same answer..” what she said didn’t really register in my mind at all. Everything was going in slow motion while I sat there and watched Freddie leave the room and slam the door. “(Y/N) lay down.”

“Freddie..”

“It’s okay he’s out in the parking lot. Just lay down before you fall and hurt yourself.” she pushed my shoulders getting to lay down.

“How did this happen..? You put me on pills to stop this from happening.”

“There’s no trace in your blood at all of the pills (Y/N). So you weren’t taking them recently.”

“I was. I’ve been taking them every day.”

“I don’t know what to tell you. Is it possible someone might have messed with your medication?”

“Yes. There’s absolutely a possibility of that.” I was seeing red but I finished the appointment and made another one for a month later. I left the office and got into the car with Freddie.

“Freddie..?” I asked cautiously. “Can we please talk..?”

“How did this happen?”

“I think you know how it happened.”

“How long?”

“In the middle of allstar break.”

“Fuck..Is this it then? Are you going back?” he asked with a tear in his eye.

“Freddie don’t cry. I’m not going anywhere. You’re not listening. It didn’t happen before or after the break. It happened during the break. During.” I said slowly watching his face change.

“Oh! Wait so what you’re saying..”

“Oh my god Freddie it’s yours.” I said laughing. “I’m pregnant with your baby.”

“No way..” he said with a big smile on his face.

“Yes way.” I tried to kiss him but we were both smiling too big for it to really work.

“How far along does that make you then?”

“About two and a half months.”

“I want to go home and celebrate.”

“How do you want to celebrate Freddie?”

“However you want to.”

“Can we celebrate with bowling and ice cream?” I asked with a smile.

“I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate.” he kissed my hand and started driving.

#maple leafs #maple leaf #maple leaf imagine #auston matthews #freddie x reader #Freddie Andersen #frederik andersen #hockey #hockey imagines

[myrainydayloves]

On The Idea of Farms and Family

In which I post the longest fic I’ve ever written. It’s long ya’ll.

In which the gang visits old friends and are forced to help out with the up coming harvest. Featuring: family drama, a taste of angst, hurt and comfort, and more honey than most people could handle. Also featuring @blackquills-wife and her husband Klaus.

Rated T because swearing

The excitement was keeping her up. Tossing and turning as if to warm up for the long day of play tomorrow. Their family and friends were all coming to help harvest honey and fruit and vegetables then sitting down for a feast of fresh cooked food. Zed had been watching her prepare for weeks, making gallons of ice cream, ordering an entire cow from the butcher, setting aside the best ingredients, picking the most beautiful flowers, and cleaning endlessly. 

All with the widest smile on her face. 

Zed could still see the smile even under the bags under her eyes. And now she turned to him and blushed. 

“Have I been keeping you awake? I’m so sorry!” She whispered over the sound of crickets and rustling trees. 

“No, no, Annaka.” He said her name with such reverence, like just letting the syllables out would cause the mountains to move and the sky to break out in rain. “I was just thinking about how I don’t deserve you.”

And he didn’t, or so he thought. He wasn’t human like the rest of them. Zed couldn’t even help on the massive garden they planted for too long without becoming dehydrated and needing a shower. A real human could have tilled along side her, wiping the mud from her cheek-

“Not this again,” she groaned. “Zed, My Prince, I don’t deserve you! You’re the most wonderful person alive! Literally in the whole world! I adore you.”

“Ah But-“

Annaka silenced him with a kiss. “Please. You are my true love. If it’s your personality? You are my match in both art and books, outwitting me without demeaning me. You create comparisons I could never think of. I’m in awe of your brain. And of how you selflessly help others! I fell in love with you all over again when you just donated all your treasured books to the library after it burnt down. No thoughts. Just gave them to the town. And don’t get me started on your looks…”

A single finger traced down his chest and if he was able to get goosebumps, he would have them by now. She let her fingertips roll over his chest, tracing every scar with the wonder of someone discovering stars for the first time. The scent of honeysuckle blossoms from her conditioner filled his lungs as her hair curtained around them when she leaned in for another kiss. 

“Annaka…”

As they laid quietly, pondering their love, Zed slowly moved into kiss her when-

“HEY YOU’D BETTER NOT BE DEEP SEA DIVING IN THERE!!”

A Zapp of electricity killed the mood. 

“Son of a bitch……” she cursed. “You know what? Fuck it, let him hear. I want you-“

“I KNOW YOU’RE AWAKE, ANNAKA!!” Zapp cried again from outside their front gate, banging on the wood. 

“Fucking asshole, WHY ARE YOU HERE!!! I DON’T NEED YOUR HELP UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING, YOU STUPID BASTARD!!!”

“YOU FREAKIN INGRATE!!! KLAUS FIGURED YOU WOULD WANT US HERE WHILE THE BEES WERE ASLEEP!!”

“BEES DON’T SLEEP, ASSHAT-you know what? I’m just gonna frickin’ kill him. I’m just gonna chop his head off and use it for fertilizer. I’m just gonna-“ 

Annaka continued to whisper the other gruesome ways she planned on murdering her brother as she put on her robe. Even when she slammed the door to their room closed and walked towards the front gate, Zed could hear them screaming at each other. 

Family, huh? Were all families like this?

God he certainly hoped not. 

—

Annaka flung open the front gate, nearly smacking her brother in the face with it as it swung out. The Libra team stood happily, but sleepily, in front of her with Klaus already in his beesuit. 

After momentarily wondering where he could have found one that fit his colossal frame, Annaka turned to glare at her brother. All the excitement and joy she had been holding to see him vanished and she was right back to wondering how satisfying it would be to make him eat dirt. 

“Sorry to get here so early,” Mary apologized. “I hope we didn’t wake you up too bad.”

Zapp scoffed. “Oh she was up. And so was fishcake, showing her all the ways it can bend-OW!”

With a soft shimmer, Chain appeared on top of Zapp’s head, still in her jammies. Over the chorus of pained cries from her brother, she asked. “Do you have coffee?”

“Seconded,” Stephan grumbling, still wearing a suit despite the farmwork to come. 

“I’m sure Zed’s already got a pot going. Where’s Leo?”

“Still asleep in the back,” Mary said with a small smile. “He was navigating for us up until about an hour ago when he passed out.”

“Poor thing,” Annaka cooed. “I hope he didn’t wear himself out too bad.”

“He’s so adorable when he’s sleeping, reminds me of my boys,” KK cooed, heaving the sleeping boy over her shoulder like he was a naughty fat cat. 

After a few more greetings, Annaka guided them through the walled front yard. It was done in an almost perfect replica of Master’s old training ground. Everything from the rocks to the meticulously maintained meditation spiral. Zed often trained on rainy days or when there wasn’t much farming to do. Just the memories of watching his smooth graceful movements brought the smile back to her face. 

“This is lovely,” Mary cooed, taken with the koi pond. “Oh my! These koi patterns are beautiful!”

“Thank you, Zed likes to care for them. And they adore him.”

“Glad to see they can recognize family,” Zapp scoffed. 

Annaka punched him in the gut so hard that he fell to the ground looking for air. All without moving a single hair out of place. She smiled brightly. 

“How do you like that, bro? He’s been teaching me some moves.”

“Hate it, thanks,” he groaned from his human puddle on the ground. 

The group stepped over him and they entered the home. It was a relatively small living space. There were only a few rooms: a dining or maybe living area, the door to the main bedroom, and the tank room. They passed through the living space, stopping to set the exhausted Leo on the couch to sleep, and into the garden.

What Annaka liked to call her Garden of Eden.

Flowers bloomed from very vine, fruit swung heavy from trees, vegetables seemed to pop out of the ground to say hello. A stone fountain stood off to the side, water trickling over rocks and down into a stream the feed into the garden. 

“Ah that’s the irrigation system!” Annaka exclaimed. “We pumped it from a near by river and then let it fall over the Stone Mountain to aerate it, and then it flows to specific parts of the garden from the bowl here! Zed designed it! Isn’t it beautiful! Oh...the afternoons I spend in the hammock, listening to the water splash over the rocks...My Prince…”

“You’re still so cute, Anna,” Mary cooed. 

The girls held hands and gazed into the night sky together. 

“Oh Mary, oh KK! I understand how wonderful it is to be married!”

“Yes yes! My Klaus and I are just as happy as you two! Oh joy-“

“Why the frick are we here if this is the whole garden.”

And all the joy was Zapped out of the air again.

Annaka broke from Mary and turned to him. “This is just my private Garden of Eden. Our real farm is acres big.”

“Ah! You’re here! Zapp, the wood got wet from last night, will you come light it?” 

They turned to see Zed poking his head out of the window of an extremely small cottage. Annaka quickly explained that because they burn things like cornstalks and wheat stalks, things tend to get pretty smokey so they built the rooms housing the kitchen and subsequently the heater outside. 

“Course they got wet from your gills touchin’ em, Ariel!” Zapp spat, making his way to the kitchen without complaint. 

She continued to lead the rest of them on a tour, showing them the outdoor shower, her lovingly carved wooden platewear, her huge marble bathtub, and finally the tank room

Their bedroom was plain save the aquarium tank in the middle, except for, of course, the depictions Of Annaka in so many mediums. An oil painting of her artfully sleeping on the bed, a photo of her playing in the tulips, poems framed and hung on walls, sketches of her working in the yard. It was a shrine to her as much as it was also a bedroom. 

“Oh my, this feels…” Stephan stopped himself before he said, ‘fucking weird’.

Mary finished his sentence.  “So very intimate.” She said this over the sound of KK silently weeping and taking photos to send back to her husband. 

“Ah, Yeah,” Annaka responded, trying to shove them out the door while protecting the blush on her cheeks. “He’s certainly added more since I was last in here….” 

By then, Zed was calling them back for coffee served with the hint sunrise. Annaka pushed past Zapp into the kitchen to quickly throw together a decent breakfast, ordering the boys to go set the table under in the gazebo.

—

“Zed! How are you?” Mary cried when she saw him, wrapping him in a hug. 

“Happy, I would say,” he answered, setting plates on the table. “Very happy.”

Stephan couldn’t help a playful, “Yeah, we saw your art room.”

“And it was great! Your dedication to your young wife! Your adoration of her!” KK pressed her hands to her cheeks. “I’ve never seen anything like it! You’re so deeply in love.”

“Ewww gross, you like my siste-“ 

THUMP.

Zapp clutched the back of his head and cried, “HOW THE FUCK DID YOU HIT ME FROM THE KITCHEN! THE MASTER SHOULD HAVE TRAINED YOU FOR THE FRICKING ALLSTARS!!”

“COME HELP ME CARRY THESE DISHES, YOU AWFUL WORM!”

“I’M NOT YOUR SLAVE!! GET YOUR OWN-OW!!!! THAT’S IT!!! I’M ABOUT TO COME GIVE YOU A NOOGIE LIKE YOU’D NEVER BELIEVE!”

“AFTER YOU HELP ME CARRY BREAKFAST!!”

“F I N E!!”

Zapp trudged off to help with breakfast instead of continuing to insult Zed, who sat down at the newly set table. 

Klaus leaned in, still in full bee suit and asked, “So when are we going to get the honey? We should get it before the bees wake up, correct? We don’t want to disturb them.”

“Honey, they don’t sleep,” Mary cooed, petting him. “Don’t worry, the bees are excited to meet you too.”

“What is on the docket though? Assuming it’s not just twelve straight, uninterrupted hours of Annaka and Zapp screaming at each other,” Stephan asked. 

“I think it’s sweet, in a family way,” Gilbert said, sipping the coffee from his mug and finding that it tasted distinctly of chocolate and cinnamon. 

Chain huffed. “I do need my hearing to work, you know.”

Klaus smiled quietly, pulling Mary a bit closer. “My siblings and I never really fought. It’s nice to see how a normal family gets along.”

“Nothing about the Renfro’s is normal,” Stephan mocked in good fun. 

“Here, here,” everyone cheered, clinking coffee mugs with a laugh. 

The siblings in question returned holding breakfast, setting plates upon plates of home friends potatoes that smelled like garlic and spices, thick slabs of pepper crusted bacon, farm fresh eggs still sizzling on a large pan, and loafs upon loafs of bread. (I know it’s loaves but loafs is more pleasing to the mouth) All served with fresh butter and cherry jam. 

Without so much as a “Thanks for the food” the table descended on the breakfast like ravenous wolves. But the sound of silence is the highest compliment you can pay to food, sans pointing at things with your fork and going “mmm!!!”

Annaka kissed Zed when she sat down next to him and fixed him a plate like she’s done every day since they moved here. Without fail, she got up and cooked him a little something, even if it was just roasting some bread, before going back to bed. 

His heart soared when she drank the coffee he poured for her and she hummed, shoulders dropping and back relaxing. 

“Tastes goood buuuut-“ his heart plummeted until she stole his mug and took a big gulp. “That one tastes better.”

KK screamed with delight as he blushed. With that, the table broke into conversation about the harvest, about work, about life in general as the sun lazily crept up the side of the sky. Soon, the farm cats and dogs arose to work: scared off pests and chasing chickens out into the field before coming to beg for scraps at the table. 

All to soon, breakfast was over and the day was set to start. Annaka commanded them like soldiers off to cut down men instead of fruit. She, Klaus, and Mary were on honey duties. Chain and Stephan on fetching fresh water and mushrooms from the forest(she added a small wink at Chain). KK and Gilbert on fruit trees. And finally Zapp and Zed vegetables.

“Why are you giving me the dirty work?” Zapp complained. 

“With your abilities, you’ll be able to harvest the veggies in no time. And take extreme care not to hurt my melons! There are a lot this year and if we harvest them all now, we’ll be eating melon for every meal for a week.”

“K, I heard the first time you old hag.”

“Shut up and go pick my veggies.”

—

To say Klaus was buzzing with excitement was an understatement. He was floating off the ground as Annaka suited up and suited Mary up. 

“You look like the cutest marshmallow,” He cooed.

“Awww and you look like a big white polar bear!” 

Mary had been listening to Klaus talk about bees for a solid month and she loved her husband. But she was ready for a different topic. Despite this, she was practically drunk off his happiness. Fluttering around him like a worker bee did flowers. 

“Okay, let’s go get some frames, boys,” Annaka said, slamming the door to her workshop shut. Despite the door being closed she could still smell the uncapped gasoline and paint Annaka kept in there. Family tradition, she insisted. 

Mary questioned why Annaka was dragging such a huge wagon behind them until the hives came into view. There must have been two dozen hives, all four frames tall, standing in the field. 

After motioning them over, Annaka pried the box lid off and a swarm of bees greeted them. Worker bees buzzed around them for a bit before recognizing Klaus and Mary’s non threatening auras and settling into the box. 

“Now, we’re gonna take the top two boxes of each frame. Bottom two are for the babies and where the drones sex up the Queen. Oh-look! Her highness came to say hello!”

A bee the size of Mary’s thumb buzzed up to gently bonk Klaus and Mary’s hats as if to knight them before returning to her chambers. 

“Better back off my Klaus,” Mary jokes. 

Klaus turned to her. “I understand you’re joking but I want you to know that despite my excitement for the bees, you are equally if not more important to me right now. I love you.”

“I love you too.”

They shared a romantic gaze over the soundtrack of Annaka heaving and groaning over the weight of the supers. 

“It’s like 30 pounds a super!” Annaka cried. 

Klaus hugged Mary. “You are my beautiful wife.”

“Oof! These boys are thicc with honey!”

“And you my beautiful husband,” Mary whispered back. 

“Fucking! Sticky and heavy! What a combo!” She heaved, setting the first super in the box. 

The shlop sound of the sticky honey hitting the metal wagon was enough to jar them out of their love. Soon the work began, filling the wagon with four dozen 25 pound supers all filled with honey. 

“And here’s why I need Klaus. This wagon is now nearly 15 hundred pounds. Can you move it for me?”

Like he was pushing a feather, Klaus began to tug the wagon to the shop. 

Mary nearly choked on the smell of the workshop again, all deadly fumes pouring into her nose. Luckily, Annaka quickly dragged the extractor out to them and set up rather quickly, blissfully closing the door to what would knock out a normal person. 

“Okay so we put the frames in the extractor like thiiis. Then you close it. And you spin it,” Annaka taught to Klaus.

“Ah, for how long?”

“Eight to ten minutes for each side. So twenty minutes total.”

The couple stood shocked as she continued to spin it. Despite the agonizingly long time they had spinning that thing to look forward to, Annaka was still smiling. 

Must be the paint fumes, Mary mused silently. 

———

“Another break, Flounder?” Zapp asked, pulling up another arm full of carrots. “Why the fuck are there so many carrots?”

“Lots...of people...who juice,” Zed explained pouring water over his drying skin. “Ahh.”

Zapp stabbed his shovel into the earth, a satisfying thunk mixed with pebbles crushed. His designer jacket wrapped around his waist as he glared at Zed. It was like a cheetah who’s spotted a bird just close enough to take a swipe at. 

“We’re not gonna get anything done with you gasping like a fish on land. Did you really make my little sister do this all by herself, blowfish?”

A stabbed remark that hit so close to Zed’s heart, he felt it break. 

“I-“

Zapp crosses his arms. “Because if I find out my sister was slaving away in this heat while you played Southern Belle on the porch all day, I’m gonna be seriously pissed.”

“My skin gets dry. I-I over-heat because I don’t sweat. She agrees-“

“So you did huh? You just wanted to mooch of my sister’s hard work?”

Zed’s head sunk. He wished he could drown in the shame but...gills. For the life of him, he could not fight Zapp on this. A difficult silence fell between them. 

If only Annaka was here to explain. Or was he relying on her too much? Maybe he was a burden to her. Just a freak show she had to love because she was afraid no one else would love her. Was he taking advantage of her?

He stood up quickly. “I need to go sleep.”

“Sure, sure,” Zapp said flippantly. “Useless crustacean.” 

The tank room was a safe place for him. A place he could still be surrounded by his wife but also be alone to think and meditate. 

Zapp was good at getting under people’s skin. A talent Annaka shared but tried desperately to keep under control. Two siblings alike in more ways than one, he sighed. 

Just as he settled in to sleep, the door opened again, revealing a very sleepy Leo rubbing his eyes. “How long was I out? Is there still coffee?”

“Ah, yes. You can reheat it in the microwave, our stove is rather difficult to use for first timers.”

“Cool.” The door closed halfway before it opened again. “Wait, why are you in here?”

Because Zapp hurt my feelings-

“Just grabbing some air...well water.”

“Okay! I’ll catch you outside!”

“Ah Wait! Leo…” Zapp looked down at the lights on his tank. “Do you think...Annaka...that I’m good enough for her?”

A snort. “Of course, dude. She loves you like...so much. Even when you two were back at the office, she totally loved you. Don’t worry about it.”

“....thank you.”

“Course man.”

———————

Hours later, and I do mean hours, the honey was collected in a couple hundred or so jars. Annaka smiled at Mary, who wanted her arms to fall over, and Klaus, who also wanted his arms to fall off but was more than willing to catch Mary’s arms as well. In a box, she selected a few dozen jars and motioned for them to follow her back up the hill. 

“You guys did great for your first time! I won’t make you deal with the beeswax cleaning,” Annaka chirped. “And you’re welcome to take home as many jars as you want!”

Klaus’s eyes lit up. “Really?”

“Mhm! They make great gifts! I’ll even give you some of the tiny leftover bottles from the wedding!”

“Thank you!”

“Of course! I’m just glad we got all the supers back on! You both looked be-“

“HEY!! WHAT’S THE WIFI PASSWORD!!”

“IT’S ON THE DOOR!!”

“THANKS.”

Annaka turned back with a small sigh. “Anyways! I just wanted-“

“YEAH ANNAKA, LEO’S HUNGRY!”

The was a barely audible, “I didn’t say that!”

“And off we go to make lunch,” she muttered. “Sorry, Klaus will you carry these jars up for me? I’ll run ahead and get dinner started.”

Without waiting to hear his response, she dumped the box full of jars of honey into his weeping arms. It was like she just placed the world in his aching arms and he was barely able to keep from collapsing out of exhaustion. He stared blankly at the hill in front of him as Annaka scrambled up it. 

She walked into the kitchen to start the fire and found a Leo already trying to light the cornstalks. “Ahh, thank you, Leo. What would you like for lunch?”

To answer her, his stomach growled like tiger, shaking both of them. Annaka nodded with a soft ‘I see’ and shooed him to wash up as Zapp had undoubtedly thrown mud at him while they pulled up veggies. Suspiciously missing though, was her husband. 

Another growl for Leo’s stomach heard across the yard made it clear the matter could wait. 

Quickly, she whipped up some simple burgers with a side salad and potatoes wedges and carried them out to the gazebo where her brother sat looking through her vines of flowers and out into the valley. 

“Beautiful, isn’t it?” She asked. 

He didn’t turn to look at her. “Yeah…”

“Hey Big Bro?”

“Yeah, Zipp?”

Clicking her tongue at her embarrassing childhood nickname but letting the matter drop, Annaka said, “Thanks for coming. It really means a lot to see you here.”

Leo sat at the table and practically swallowed a burger whole, which somehow did not break the moment. After chugging down the fresh juice Annaka squeezed, he said, “He’s been working hard all month-“

“Can it, pubes,” Zapp snapped, glaring at him. 

Leo only smiled back. “What don’t want your sister to find out you trained all those newbies to watch the city just so you could be here? You should have seen him! We hit a new record, only three deaths this month thanks to this gu-“

“I said, can it!” He stuffed a burger into the younger boy’s mouth before slowly making his own burger. Zapp ignored the happy eyes Annaka was giving him in favor of artfully making a mess. 

“Zapp…”

“Annaka.” The use of her name brought her to full attention as he began looking out into the valley again. “Are you happy here? The middle of nowhere, hard physical labor, and fish brains? Mom and Dad said they’d be happy to have you back home and Master said he could use an extra hand with the new-“

“I would not trade this for anything,” she whispered. “With all due respect to Master and with a due swear words and insults to mom and dad. I am...so...so happy here.”

“But it’s hard!” Zapp snapped, losing all the teasing that usually kept him distant from others. Slamming his fist on the table, he cried. “It’s hard right?! You work your ass off and what can Zed even do around here? You always work so hard and make me look bad! And you found someone who actually loves you verse-“

He closed his mouth and twenty some odd years of emotional distress poured onto the table like spilled fresh squeezed juice. Jealousy was a rotten thing that spoiled all the fruit and vegetables. It crept into a person and decomposed someone from the inside out. 

“Oh!!! Is that Klaus I hear calling me!?” Leo asked as he stuffed burgers into his arms. “Bye!!”

A few moments passed before Annaka spoke, “Remember when we were kids and one of the caster kids tried to bury me alive at some conference. I bled out so much but I couldn’t get the boulders off me. Then, you came and rescued me, took me to the hospital, and then put that kid in the hospital bed next to me?”

“Heh, yeah. Fuck that kid,” Zapp said. 

“That night his dad came to visit us in the hospital. He gave me a bunch of flowers then pulled the curtain around that kid. I..” Annaka looked down. “He hurt his son. Broke a bone, I think.”

“Always knew that guy was bad news,” Zapp mused. 

She laughed, wine chimes rustled in the breeze, and she said, “That’s when I knew I wanted to help people. I wanted to keep them safe-“

“Yeah, I know. You’re moral and upstanding, I should be more like you-“

“Wait,” she said and the pond stilled at her words. Her brother looked up, all the same mess of white hair and stupid face he’d always had and she smiled at him. 

“You help people too, Zapp. We’re alike in more ways than one.”

“No, I don’t...I ruin everything. Ask anyone. You come and you clean up my messes and everyone loves you.”

“That’s because people can’t see past arbitrary values of morality. You sleep around and you drink and you smoke so you must be a bad person. I donate time and money to people so I must be a good person. Neither is true. Those who know you, who really know you, know that you are a kind person at heart. They know you struggle with vulnerability and are willing and able to understand you through your actions.”

She beamed at him. “Everyone loves you, Zapp. And how could they not?”

For the first time in a long time, Zapp felt tears running down his face. Honest tears of relief and of understanding fell from his eyes. His sister crossed the table and hugged him. 

“You’re the best big brother anyone could ask for, Zapp.”

And then he wept.

—————

Zed didn’t fall asleep. He floated there for hours, watching the water pump onto the small fountain in his room. Next to it was a small piece of marble he’d been carving to go on top for a while. It was going to Annaka, skirt all flared out and happy as the water shot up around her like the did in the city. 

He sighed and stared up at the ceiling again. Maybe a bit of training would help? Just to be angry? 

But he hadn’t felt anger at anyone since he moved here. Anger at things sure. Bees that stung me, fruit trees that dropped fruit on his head, and animals he caught eating their plants but not people. Not Annaka.

Not even Zapp. 

His door opened to reveal the man in question still smirking like he hadn’t been crying his eyes out. “Hey, sea urchin.”

“Hello, Zapp.”

The other man pulled a chair up to the tank and stared at the painting and poems and drawings of Annaka that covered the walls. Zed’s stomach churned in fear when he was finally looked at but Zapp only sighed. 

“It has come to my attention,” he said dramatically. “That I might have been too hard on you.”

“Is that an apology?”

“No, god no, of course not,” Zapp scoffed. “But...looking at all these...uhh...all this Annaka stuff...you still don’t think you’re good enough for her?”

Zed paused before sighing again. “No.”

“Well, man up and start thinking you do. Even if you have to fake it, she choose you and you’re stuck with her now.” 

With that, Zapp set the chair back and waved to him over his shoulder.

“...I thought you hated me..”

“Nah...I...you’re good by me.”

“Well you certainly don’t act like it,” Zed pouted. 

Zapp laughed and leaned against the door. “So?”

“I would like your approval to be with your sister. You’re Real approval without Annaka holding a gun to your head.”

They both shivered remembering how that day went. 

“Look dude, am I the one married to you? Do I suck your dick at night?”

“Vulgar.”

“But if you need my approval to sleep at night,” Zapp sighed, lighting a cigar and taking a long breath. After exhaling, he said, “Yeah you got it.”

They stayed like that for a second, Zed drying himself off and Zapp smoking under the watchful frozen eyes of many Annakas. Together they walked back out into the garden where all their friends laughing and talking with Annaka, surrounded by flowers and good food. 

She smiled at them, pushing at each other still, and said, “Hey.”

#lonely hearts #shake your debasement #writings

[artificialqueens]

Elastic Heart Part 9/10 (Branjie) - Mia Ugly

A/N: Thanks as always to artificialmeggie for the feedback.  She’s the best, you guys. 

Brock is in Houston when the lip sync finally airs. 

He’s seen pieces of it before but that’s all. They played a clip of it during the reunion, and he only took in parts of it. He’s really not looking forward to seeing the whole build up.  

Or the way it fucking ends.

His manager wanted him to host a watch party for the episode, but a brief conversation with Brock obviously made him re-think it (Brock’s hovering on the fine edge of ‘not okay’ and it’s starting to become fairly apparent to even the peripheral people in his life.)  So he gets to take the night off. 

He thinks about streaming it in his hotel room, but then he’s also a little worried about being alone. So he finds a local club that’s screening it, dresses like his usual disheveled self, and sits up at the bar.  

The episode is ugly, a slow slide into a car accident, tires skidding on the ice. His attempts at rapping are about what you’d expect, and Vanessa doesn’t do much better (she’s nervous, though, that’s all that it is.  If he hadn’t been there, if all that shit hadn’t been going on between them, he’s sure she would have crushed it.)

Then there’s the runway, where they both turn it out but not enough to save themselves. Brock watches Vanjie’s face during the critiques, watches her close her eyes and nod (he didn’t expect it to hurt this much.)

Christ, they were holding hands when they came back on the main stage. Brock had forgotten that.  The image on TV re-awakens the memory in him, and the feeling of their hands sliding apart burns against his palm.

He grits his teeth during the lip sync, watches the moment he stops dancing, watches the devastated look that comes over Vanessa’s face (his pulse is kicking in both wrists, in his throat.) He watches their hug afterwards and can’t help but notice how much they’re both shaking.  He sees himself mouth something in Vanessa’s ear and thanks God the mics didn’t pick it up, or the editors chose not to play the audio. He doesn’t know what he would have done. 

It’s a bit like putting together the pieces after a night of heavy drinking.  Some of the things Ru says are familiar and some are like they happened to a different person.  Brock watches himself thank the judges, watches himself tilt as he sashays away (almost falling but not quite.)

And then he’s back in the werkroom, staring at the camera like it’s the scene of a crime.

Brock holds his breath. He wonders if he could hold it for the rest of the episode.  His lung capacity is pretty good, and it’s almost over.  Almost there.  

“I’m - in love with him,” Brooke Lynn says on television. “Oh my God.”

Oh my God.

Brock’s entire body flinches, and he knocks his drink to the floor.  The sound of breaking glass is buried beneath the cheers and applause of bar patrons, reacting to Brooke Lynn’s stunned confession.

“Shit, shit - I’m sorry -” 

Brock said he loved him, he fucking said it on television, he didn’t know -

“It’s fine, no worries.” The bartender is coming around with a rag, bending to pick up the broken glass.  “Happens all the -” He stops. Blinks. “Holy shit, are you Brooke Lynn Hytes?”

“I’m just going to - okay -” Brock leaves too much money on the bar to cover his tab, and gets out of there as if an angry mob is chasing him. Oh my God.  Oh my God.

Somewhere across the world, Jose is probably watching this episode.

Oh my fucking God. 

His phone is ringing but Brock doesn’t answer it.  Text notifications are going off like mad and Brock doesn’t look at them.  He keeps walking down the sidewalk and when that isn’t enough, he breaks into a run.  He doesn’t know where he’s going, just knows he needs to get as far away from everything as possible. The show, the bar, himself. 

How did he not remember that? How did he not know?

How could he have been so -

(The first van ride back to the hotel, Brooke ends up in a seat beside Vanjie.  It’s crowded and loud, everyone still full of energy from the photo-shoot, from their first day of filming, as if there isn’t a hammer swinging gently above all of their heads. Brooke is fully in silent concentration mode, staring out the window at the blurred streetlights of L.A., thinking about her paint for tomorrow. It’s got to make an impact but it’s also got to show them who she is, and –

“Ooops, sorry girl.” Vanjie elbows her as she tries to get her jacket off.

“It’s fine.” Brooke smiles, falls back into her thoughts.  It’s not easy when Vanjie is as loud as a brass band right next to her, shouting into the backseat at a queen named Honey about some show they did together in New York.

The van turns a corner and Vanjie slides against Brooke, their shoulders pressed together tightly.

“Sorry, baby. I’m all up in your space. Honey, why you say that? You know that’s a damn lie!”

Brooke thinks about wigs. Short and blonde, maybe, really push the superhero couture. Or maybe bombshell, waves and – but that’s not really Detox. But it’s got to be -

“You sent me a message, you remember? After Season 10?”

It takes Brooke a moment to realize that Vanjie is talking to her.

“Oh. Yeah, I did.” 

“I gotta thank you for that.  I was feelin’ all sad and shit, feelin’ embarrassed.  It meant somethin’ to hear from people.”

Brooke can remember watching that first episode, thinking Vanjie was hilarious and bizarre, feeling sick when she was the first one sent home. She remembers the voice more than anything, and it was surreal hearing it in the werkroom today. Still doesn’t feel like real life. 

“If I knew you looked as fine as this, I mighta messaged you back.” Vanjie gives Brooke a slanted grin, and Brooke feels herself - horrifyingly - starting to blush. What is she, fucking thirteen? It has clearly been way too long since since she got laid. 

“I’ll include some pics next time.”

“I am here. For. That.” Vanjie claps it out. “You can make up for it by sendin’ me some now.”

“You’ll have to wait until the show’s over and they give us our phones back.”

“I just gotta use my imagination. Y’all hold still.”  Vanjie stares at her intently for a moment, and then blinks. “Click. There, real nice. I’ma throw a filter on it, give you cat ears or somethin’.”

“Whatever you want,” Brooke laughs. “Just don’t post it anywhere.”

“Vanjie could you like move over one fucking inch?” The skinny queen on the other side of Vanjie – who is… not Yvie - Scarlet, yes! Brooke’s brain hasn’t completely shut down – shoves into Vanjie, who in turn gets pressed up against Brooke once again.

“Hey, bitch, it ain’t my fault I got hips! Unlike some of y’all.” Vanjie glances at Brooke. “Sorry baby. Not tryin’ to get all up on you.”

She straightens up, but – and it might be Brooke’s imagination – she doesn’t seem to pull away as much as she did before.  Her hip is still warm against Brooke’s, her bare arm against Brooke’s shoulder. 

Brooke feels something internal stutter at the contact, like stones shifting somewhere underneath her ribs.)

He doesn’t look at his phone for two days.

The first call he returns is his sister’s (“Why didn’t you tell me things were that serious? Okay, I know what an NDA is but I’m your sister and you had your heart broken - no, mom’s fine about it, we’re just worried about you - well, you have to talk to someone, Brock -”)

The next person he talks to is Nina.

“Oh good, you’re still alive,” she says as she answers. “How does it feel to have broken the internet?”

“I - haven’t really looked.”

“Haven’t looked? At the internet? Just, in general?”

“I couldn’t yet. I’m going to, I just -”

“People are kinda freaking out about that episode.  You’re going to have offers of marriage from like, governors and stuff.  Tell them I’m single, by the way.”

“Have you talked to her?”

“No.  And she’s not saying anything. Her PR team must be circling the wagons, coming up with a statement.  Making sure this doesn’t look bad for her.”

That stops Brock’s heart for a moment. “Do you think it will?”

“Well, I mean, people love her. But they love you too. I’m sure her team just doesn’t want this to become about, you know, that bitch who broke Brooke Lynn’s heart.”

“Oh my God.” Is this what a heart attack feels like? Brock doesn’t know what else to say, can’t even fathom putting a sentence together.  Fuck, fuck, fuck - everything is terrible and complicated and this episode just made it all so much worse.

“Brock,” Nina says gently. “I have to say - I didn’t know. That you were so serious about her. It was all shiny and fun, I thought, I didn’t know -”

“It’s okay,” Brock stops him quickly.

“But I’m sorry about it. Sorry you didn’t feel like you could tell me.”

“I -” And what can Brock possibly say to that? “I’m sorry about that too. About a lot of things. I was kind of out of control near the end there. You should have made it to the Top 4.”

“It’s okay, I’m just going to sit by the phone with my hair in curlers, waiting for AllStars to call. Oh God, what if they’re calling RIGHT NOW?”

Brock laughs, even though his eyes are hot with tears. “I’m sure they will.”

“So what are you going to do? You have to say something. Everyone’s -”

“No.  It’s got to be up to her, she needs to decide how she wants it to go.  We were supposed to figure this out but -” He starts coughing then, which is embarrassing but unsurprising.  It lasts too long, and after he’s finished, Nina responds with a pointed silence.

“Sorry, sorry.  Smoking too much.”

“I don’t want to seem critical or patronizing or anything but - it’s um, getting a little self-destructive.  You know that right? This whole - thing.”

(“I’ll be around longer this time, bitch, believe it,” Vanessa is saying in the seat next to Brooke, too close and too warm. “Gonna show ‘em I’m not just a joke or nothin’. You best reserve this seat cuz I ain’t goin’ nowhere.”

“Good,” Brooke says automatically. Then she stiffens slightly because that might have been - not the right thing to say.  The word just came out of her mouth, she didn’t think about it and now she’s afraid to turn her head, afraid of what she’ll see if she looks at the queen beside her.

When she finally does, Vanessa is studying her.  There’s an odd little furrow between her eyebrows.

“Yeah?” Her voice is quiet, barely audible in the chaos of the van.

And Brooke does something totally stupid, reckless and embarrassing but – fuck, there’s no controlling it.

“Yeah,” she says, then watches Vanjie smile all slow and pretty, like someone who’s just heard an awful secret. 

“Huh.” Vanjie chews on her lower lip, and Brooke tries not to look anywhere near those teeth or that mouth. “Anyway, it – is – you know, whatever. Um.”

Vanjie’s the one who breaks eye contact first, looking down at hands that are clenched tight in her hoodie. “Lookin’ forward to getting’ to know you proper, and. Scarlet I swear to God you’re halfway on my lap, ho. I’ma kick you outta this van you don’t shove over.”

Brooke goes back to looking out windows, tells herself that this is not going to happen. Whatever that weird moment was, it was just a moment. Crumple it up like tissue and throw it away. 

She’s not too worried about it, honestly. She doesn’t do that sort of thing much, doesn’t have the time for it. And she’s never dated another queen before, it’s not really her thing. Vanessa’s cute as hell, but both of them have too much to prove here and Brooke’s worked too hard to get here to be distracted by the first pair of dewy brown eyes she sees.

Brooke has walls around her heart, anyway, and no one gets past those.  She’s not in any danger.

She wants that to be true.)

“So maybe. Stop it?” Nina says. “I don’t know.”

“I legitimately don’t deserve you.”

“Who does? Haven’t met him yet. Probably will soon, though, like on the set of AllStars 5. I’m coming for you, Drag Race romance. Oh shit, what if it’s the Vixen?”

“I’ve changed my mind. You’re the worst.”

“She’s a fighter, I’m a loverrrrr.”

“I’m going to hang up on you.”

“You say that, but you never do.”

When they eventually say goodbye to each other, Brock realizes he has three missed calls from his manager, and two passive aggressive emails.  They want him to say something, make a statement, set the record straight. Reporters are calling for interviews (Christ, and they haven’t even see the reunion yet.)

Jose also hasn’t called or texted.  Not once.  And that’s fine.  It makes sense.  It’s fine.

Instead of doing the responsible, professional thing (he might need a new manager by the time this shit is finished) he dials a number his hands would recognize in the dark.  There’s no answer.  He contemplates hanging up (throwing his phone into the sea) but instead grinds his molars together and stays on the line.  Waits for the beep.

“Hi, it’s uh Brooke.  Brock. We should probably talk, hey? About - that. That thing that happened. Anyway, when you’re up for it, give me a call.” (Oh my God, I’m in love with him.) “Anyway.  Hopefully - talk to you soon.  Okay. Um. Bye.”

Brock waits for his heart to restart, waits for his jaw to unlock just enough to breath. 

Then he goes on social media.  It’s all a bit of a blur after that.

* * *

After the lip sync, Brooke doesn’t go home. 

They move her to a different hotel in L.A. because she’s going to be back in a few days anyway for the reunion and the finale taping. She’s silent and robotic as she packs up her stuff, ratings poison.

She isn’t going to write anything on the mirror, but a producer basically won’t let her leave until she does and Brooke wants out of the werkroom so much she can barely breathe; she scrawls “My heart will go on,” barely legibly.  Then she draws a little ship underwater.  

She doesn’t read the letters the girls leave for her. Not at first.

She waits until she’s in her new hotel room, a couple drinks in to give her the necessary emotional buffer. The new room has more of a view than the last one, and she can see the ocean off of her balcony. Dusk is falling over L.A., smog mostly blocking out the sunset, and Brooke chain smokes (not good) and tries to meditate half-heartedly before she can bring herself to touch the folded papers.

In the end it doesn’t matter.  Because Vanessa didn’t write one.

Brooke laughs out loud when she realizes it, and doesn’t recognize the sound of her voice. Of course Vanessa didn’t write her a letter. After an exit like that, what the hell was she supposed to say?

The days leading up to the reunion are like weights around her wrists and ankles. Brooke goes to the hotel gym for hours every day, and follows it up by jogging on the beach. She throws herself into everything physical, tries to exhaust her body so much that her mind will shut off. She can’t think about what she’s done. Can’t think about what’s going to happen.  How it’s going to look.

And she hates that public perception is such a huge part of her concern, but fuck it, that’s how she makes her living.  And now she has no control over it, can’t remember most of it, and is going to have to do some wild amounts of damage control when the season airs.

They send a van to drive her to the theatre for the filming of the reunion. She arrives late and rattled, but is relieved to see Nina and Plastique and a bunch of the other queens already in the dressing room, getting into drag.  It feels good (for a moment) to be hugged and smiled at by people who don’t know how spectacularly Brooke Lynn just fucked up. She has to take these moments while she can, because God knows it’s all going to come out in a few hours.

Soju’s cyst is healing nicely, so there’s that.

“I can’t believe you’re here,” Nina says to the mirror, as Brooke pins her wig in place. “I thought you’d be Top 4 for sure.”

“You and me both.” Brooke tries to smile, brush it off. “Hoped you’d be up there with me.”

“So what happened? Can you like, mime it or something? Was it all those burner phones of yours? All the strange men you were smuggling into your room at night?”

Brooke laughs but the sound is like ice-cracking. “I’ll let Ru tell you all about it.”

The Top 4 queens get dressed somewhere else, so Brooke doesn’t see Vanessa until they’re making their way onstage (she tilts slightly, almost falling but not quite.)

Vanessa is flanked by Silky and A’Keria, and she’s wearing that electric orange/red again, a cocktail gown with huge feathered shoulders, a high neck and no back. She looks the best she ever has on the show, and Brooke feels the ground sliding underneath her heels as Vanessa meets her eyes from across the stage and quickly looks away.

Brooke bumps into Ariel as they find their seats. She can’t stay upright.

“Welcome back ladies.” RuPaul takes the stage in a neon orange patterned suit, smiling brightly. Brooke thinks she’s smiling back, but she can’t be sure.  Her face is not in control of itself when Vanjie’s in the room.  

The reunion is a bit of a blur after that.  But Brooke remembers the important parts.

[Transcript: RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11: Reunited

Time stamp: 00:34:18

RuPaul Charles: Now, every year on Drag Race we know that the queens competing connect with each other in important and lasting ways.  But this season, for the first time in Drag Race herstory, two queens had a very special kind of connection, right from the start.  Let’s take a look at some footage of - what the kids are calling - ‘hashtag Branjie.’

[A compilation of Brooke Lynn and Vanessa’s interactions is played. The queens onstage smile and ‘aww’ over particularly cute moments.]

RuPaul Charles: So Brooke.  Vanjie. Did you two know each other before the show?

Vanessa Mateo: [pause] I’ve talked about this before, like, we didn’t know each other.  He messaged me after Season 10 and I’d seen, you know, photos of him -

Shuga Cain: Girl, we’ve all seen those photos of him.

[Laughter]

Vanessa Mateo: But we never met or anything until we did the show.

RuPaul Charles: So the show brought you together?

Vanessa Mateo: [pause] I mean. Yeah, like you’re in this situation where you’re going so hard and there’s so much pressure, and then you meet someone and there’s this feelin’ - I don’t know. Someone make that make sense. Edit that.

RuPaul Charles: Brooke Lynn, what was it like for you? Was there a spark right away?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [does not respond]

RuPaul Charles: Brooke Lynn?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] Yes. There was.

RuPaul Charles: What was it like having that sort of chemistry but trying to balance the pressures of the show, the challenges, the runway…

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] Um. Difficult.

Vanessa Mateo: [pause] From the get-go, we said ‘we gotta keep this thing to the side.’ You know? Like it wasn’t gonna affect the competition. 

RuPaul Charles: But ultimately it affected the competition in a big way, didn’t it? Let’s take a look at one of what is - I would argue - the most dramatic lip syncs in Drag Race history. 

[The final moments of Brooke Lynn and Vanessa’s lip sync is played.  The queens on stage are visibly shocked.]

RuPaul Charles: Brooke Lynn, what was going through your head at that moment?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] I - don’t know.

RuPaul Charles:  Well, it seems like at some point you made a decision to stop competing.  And to many people you were considered one of the front-runners of the season.  So what happened?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] I - I just stopped. [pause] I’m sorry, it’s my first time seeing it.  It’s all a bit - I’m having trouble.  Putting it together.

RuPaul Charles: I can see that. Vanessa, maybe you’ll have better luck.  What was going through your head when Brooke stopped dancing?”

Vanessa Mateo: [pause] You know I - I didn’t want to see that. I didn’t know what she was doing at first, and then I realized - I don’t know. It wasn’t good, I tell you that. Not a good feeling.

RuPaul Charles: Why’s that?

Vanessa Mateo: It felt like maybe - she felt sorry for me? And I didn’t want that. I wanted to prove that I deserved to be here, you know, I didn’t want to be given nothing.

Brooke Lynn Hytes: No, it wasn’t like - 

RuPaul Charles: Do you have something to say about that, Brooke?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] No. She should - say how she feels, sorry. 

RuPaul Charles: You know, during the season there was a lot of discussion about your lack of personality, your being ‘closed off.’ How do you feel about those comments?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: [pause] I - don’t know.

RuPaul Charles: You don’t know, or you’re not going to talk about it?

Nina West: Brooke and I have known each other for years and I think that at this point it’s pretty obvious that she has a personality. People were kinda being hard on her, but being a quiet person, being shy or thoughtful is also a personality, and -

RuPaul Charles: I guess it’s just not one that’s particularly fun to watch.

Nina West: I don’t know, you get a bit of vodka in her, and it is extremely fun to watch. [laughter] Occasionally disturbing, frequently sexually confusing, but always fun.

RuPaul Charles: Brooke, do you agree with Nina? That people were too hard on you this season?

Brooke Lynn Hytes: No. 

RuPaul Charles: Do you think you owe some of the other queens here an apology? Because I know you all worked really hard to be here, and then you chose -

Plastique Tiara: I don’t think Brooke owes us an apology.

Nina West: No. Absolutely not. She doesn’t. That’s -

Rajah O’Hara: I think she does. If she wanted to go home so bad she could’ve taken my place.  She didn’t want to dance against Vanjie, fine, I would’ve.  She should have sent her own self home Week One. That’s how I’m feeling.

Yvie Oddly: Girl, come on. That’s bullshit.

Rajah O’Hara: We all busted our asses to get here, we all of us have friends on this show, we have people we don’t wanna send home.  But we do it anyway, and to see someone just throw it away pisses me off.  It’s how I feel, I’m not gonna apologize for that. 

Scarlet Envy: But props to Vanjie. I mean, whose dick do I have to suck to get into the Top 4?

[Vanessa Mateo gets up, takes off microphone.]

RuPaul Charles: Vanjie -

[Vanessa Mateo leaves the stage.]

Scarlet Envy: Oh my god - it was a joke.

Silky Nutmeg Ganache [standing up]: You want to come for my girl, you come for me too.  Okay? She ain’t deserve that, that’s the fucking tea. That’s some shady ass -

Scarlet Envy: It was a joke!

RuPaul Charles: Silky, I know that emotions are running high but -

Silky Nutmeg Ganache: Nah, I’m serious -

Rajah O’Hara: Bitch, this ain’t about you!

[Brooke Lynn Hytes takes off her microphone.  Brooke Lynn Hytes leaves the stage.]

RuPaul Charles: Well. Okay. [pause]  Anyone else have somewhere to be?

[End transcription]

Brooke runs in the direction Vanessa left, through scattering P.A.s, over lighting cables and through the back stage area. She ends up in a hallway, sees Vanessa stomping it like it’s a runway down at the other end. Brooke hurries to catch up with her.

“We have to talk.” When Brooke touches her arm, Vanessa shrugs her off.

“No, we don’t.”

“Yes we do! I need to explain -”

“Explain what?” Vanessa looks up at Brooke and the hurt in her eyes is like lightning. “I came here wanting to show I was more than just a joke, that I was somethin’.  And now that’s done. That shit that Rajah said back there, that shit Scarlet said, that’s what everyone’s gonna say!  I’ma be the bitch who didn’t make Top Four on her own -”

“No. No one is going to think that -”

“They already do, Brooke!” Her hands are moving wildly. “You think I needed this? That you had to throw it for me?”

“No.” Brooke will swear to the grave that she never once thought that.  That she went into that lip sync with no intentions and then in the moment - the moment she saw that fucking tear run down Vanjie’s face - everything stopped.  “I know you could have done it, I’ve seen you dance and you’re fucking fierce.  I’m the one that fucked up, I’m the one that made a choice -”

“You made the wrong choice!” Vanjie’s angry now, in a way Brooke hasn’t seen since Untucked. “I didn’t ask you to do that!  I didn’t want you to do that!”

There is a camera person and a security guard moving silently down the hallway toward them, and Brooke cannot have this conversation be part of some reality show available to the fucking world. She takes Vanessa’s hand and pulls her around the corner, down another hallway and out of an emergency exit. The door slams shut behind them and they might be trapped outside in an alley for the foreseeable future, but at least they won’t be on camera. 

“I’m sorry,” Brooke says.  Vanessa has her arms folded.  She looks smaller than usual, even in her three inch heels. “I’m so sorry. I know you didn’t ask for this.  And I didn’t go on that stage with any sort of - plan, it just -”

“You felt sorry for me, right?”

“That’s not true -”

“That’s what it looks like, though. That’s what everyone is gonna think!”

“Let them think what the fuck they want then.  Does it matter? You’ll know -”

“Does it matter? You say that to me - it’s my life, my life they’re gonna be talkin’ ‘bout! Me as a queen! My career - everything -”

“It’s my career too.  It’s my whole life too,” Brooke’s voice is rising with frustration - frustration with the situation, with Vanessa - but most of all with herself.  “I have friends, family, they’re going to see that episode and they’re going to be fucking furious at me for what I did. I worked hard to get here, I worked damn hard, and when people find out that I just gave up -”

“Am I supposed to feel bad for you now?”

“Well, I didn’t makethe Top 4.” Brooke regrets the words immediately (Vanjie’s eyebrows knit together and it’s the end of the fucking world.) 

“So what do you want? A thank you card?” Vanjie’s hands are so tight on her arms that Brooke can see her acrylics leaving indents in her skin. 

“No. Jesus. I just - don’t know how to fix this.  Would you be any happier, would this all be okay if I had sent you home? Is that what you wanted?”

“So that’s what woulda happened, hey? That’s the only other option here?”

“No but – I don’t know what you want me to say! This was my dream, Vanessa. Okay? I’m still a little fucked up about it, and I don’t know -”

“I didn’t ask for your dream. I didn’t want it!”  Vanessa wipes away a tear, and Brooke is taken violently back to that moment on the main stage right before everything fell apart. “You can’t put that on me.” 

“I’m not putting it on you, I’m just trying to explain.”

“Explain why, then.” Vanjie pins her flat with her gaze, the way she did that first time she looked at Brooke across the werkroom (and every damn time since then.)  “Why did you do it?”

A hundred thoughts go through Brooke’s head. A hundred moments between her and Vanessa: passing each other in hotel hallways, sliding folded letters under doors, kissing in shadows like they were starving for each other, could never get enough.  Brooke opens her mouth and wants to scream these moments out of her chest, take them, take them, they hurt too much. She tries to put it into words.  Tries to piece it together like a mosaic made of glass shards.  She tries.

“We’re done,” Vanjie says quietly, and then her eyes squeeze shut. 

(There is something howling beneath Brooke’s skin, a wounded animal.)

“Jose -”

“Nah, nah, I can’t - do this right now.  You don’t even - we’re done.”

“Don’t -”

“It’s done.” Vanessa takes a step back. She doesn’t say anything else, just moves cautiously around Brooke until she gets to the door.  It opens and Vanessa goes inside and she’s gone then.  She’s gone.  It’s done.

At some point, Brooke slides to the ground.  She doesn’t know when, doesn’t feel herself moving, but she’s on the ground just the same.  

At some point, she hears the door slam shut. She has no idea how long she’s been out there., maybe minutes, maybe days. When she finally looks up, she sees A’Keria Davenport leaning against the brick wall, single eyebrow raised.  

“Everyone’s looking for you on the inside,” she says, “The pair of you sure know how to make a scene.”

Brooke doesn’t have the strength to respond. 

“Mama Ru was not happy everyone leaving her set, no ma’am. Thought she was goin’ to flip her wig when you took off after Miss Vanessa.” A’Keria pauses, and then she laughs.  It’s a wholly unexpected laugh, warm and without judgment. The pearl beading on her gown clicks together as she moves.  “Next season probably no one’s gonna even show for the reunion.  They’ll just all be off dealin’ with their drama somewhere.”

Brooke might laugh but then things might escalate, and any emotions are potential threats at this point.   

“Shouldn’t be sittin’ on the ground in chiffon, girl.  Show some respect.”

A’Keria offers Brooke her hand, and Brooke reluctantly lets herself be pulled to her feet.  She dusts off her gown through sheer force of habit.

“You gonna come inside? Or you live here now?”

The thought of seeing anyone else is paralyzing. Brooke doesn’t know if she can manage it.

“Maybe – a few more minutes. Is Vanessa –“

“She and Silk are off somewhere, don’t you worry ‘bout it. We’re takin’ care of her.”

“I’m glad she has you.”

“She is a lucky bitch, that’s true enough.” A’Keria gives Brooke a gentle touch on the shoulder. “But you got people too, Miss Brooke. Don’t forget that.”

From somewhere on her incredibly ornate dress, some magical secret pocket, she produces a cigarette and a slim silver lighter. 

“Shouldn’t be encouragin’ your nasty habits, but I thought you might need somethin’. And – when it comes to Vanjie –“

She looks thoughtful, the way she looks in the werkroom when she’s sewing, quiet and focused while Silky and Vanjie spout all manner of nonsense beside her. It strikes Brooke suddenly that of all the queens this season, A’Keria might be the one she knows least of all.

“You know, some people are better at gettin’ stepped on than gettin’ lifted up. See what I’m sayin’? You get stepped on enough, you start to think that’s how it goes.  So when something good happens, like someone gives you somethin’ you didn’t even know you deserved -  you don’t know what to do with that. It messes with that story in your head. The one that tells you what you’re worth.” 

“I wasn’t trying to give her anything. I know she could have made it without me -”

“Girl, you really think I’m talking about the show?” A’Keria moves gracefully back toward the side door. “I’m sayin’ she ain’t mad at you.  Not really. She just don’t know what to do with – all this. It can be a lot to hold.” She smiles, a bit sad. “I’m goin’ in. You take care now.”

Brooke thinks about A’Keria’s words long after she’s gone.  She stays outside and smokes that cigarette down to the tips of her burning fingers and then steps on it, crushes it between the pavement and her heel.  She counts to twenty-five, then thirty, then forty in her head.

She goes inside.

At the live finale, Brooke watches from the audience as Nina West is named Miss Congeniality, and Vanjie lip syncs for the crown.

Then she flies back to Nashville, alone. She feeds her cats, she works, she travels. She calls her mom, she jogs along Cumberland River, she dances at bars with men she doesn’t want.

She smokes too much, and doesn’t sleep enough.

She dreams.

She doesn’t see Vanessa for five months.

#rpdr fanfiction #brooke lynn hytes #vanessa vanjie mateo #branjie #angst #smut #canon compliant #eventual happy ending #elastic heart #mia ugly #concrit welcome #submission #s11 #on set fic

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BLAST TO THE PAST: 1st July 2001

Hello again and welcome to BLAST TO THE PAST, where we review UK Top 40 charts from decades ago to see what was happening all the way back then. We’re taking a break from the 1980s and zooming past in lightspeed to 2001, specifically the week of 1st-7th July, as Summer had started to kick in. This chart in particular has some classics and some notable events, which we’ll get into right now.

Top 10

Okay, so first, we have a debut – yep, that’s right, it’s not just intense streaming that lands songs at #1 immediately, there were songs that were big enough to sell just that many copies to get to the top at their first week. At number-one, we have “The Way to Your Love” by megastars Hear’Say, who were pretty damn big in the UK, this being their second chart-topping single. Oh, yeah, and they were created by an ITV reality show, because, I mean, of course they were! They’re a British pop group from the 2000s.

Sadly, we don’t see the rise, yet we see the fall of classic cover “Lady Marmalade”, by the all-star cast of Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil Kim and Mýa, from the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, down one spot to number-two.

We have another top five debut, and not the last top 10 debut, with Usher’s “U Remind Me” starting its chart run at number-three.

At number-four, dropping two places from last week, we have “Angel” by Shaggy featuring Rayvon.

Number-five is home to two-spot-dropper “There You’ll Be” by country singer Faith Hill, from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack.

At number-six, we have the debut of Gorillaz’ “19-2000” featuring uncredited vocals from Miho Hatori as well as founding Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz.

“All I Want” by Alesha Dixon-fronted R&B girl group Mis-Teeq has dropped three spaces to its current spot at number-seven.

Do any of you remember Brandy? Because I sure don’t. Apparently she was huge, but I remember her feature on a Kanye track from Late Registration and that’s pretty much it. It’s somewhat strange that she collaborated with Ray “Hey-Fab-I’mma-kill you” J of all people, but—Wait a second! They’re siblings? And Ray J is Snoop Dogg’s cousin? Wow, he really had connections, huh? Anyway, Brandy and Ray J’s cover of Phil Collins’ “Another Day in Paradise” is down three spots to number-eight.

“Another Lover” by another-rando Dane Bowers debuts at number-nine. If you’re wondering who this Dane fellow is, he was in a boyband called Another Level then he was on “Celebrity” Big Brother. In fact, I don’t think I know who this dude is, and I see no reason to find out.

“Do You Really Like It” by DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies finished off the top 10 with a four-space drop back to the final spot in the ten most popular songs of the country as of July 1st, 2001.

Climbers

Let me tell you now – there weren’t many at all. In fact, other than the number-one, there weren’t any songs climbing the charts, rather a whole lot of new entries and a whole lot of fallers.

Fallers

Where do we start?

“Daydream in Blue” by electronica duo (sharing their name with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode) I Monster is down 11 spots to #40, “It’s Over Now” by Diddy’s favourite R&B group 112 is down 17 spots to #39 and “Best Friends” by pop group allSTARS* is down eight spots to #38, who had a show on CITV in 2001, and appeared on the Scooby-Doo soundtrack the same year, so I’m assuming they were for kids by kids.

“Close to You” by Wet Wet Wet singer Marti Pellow is down 16 to #37, “No More (Baby I’ma Do it Right)” by three (forgettable) little women known as 3LW is down 10 to #36, “Digital Love” by the best robots in music Daft Punk is down 11 spots to #35, “Out of Reach” by soul singer Gabrielle is down seven spots to #34, “Sing” by alternative rock band Travis is down 10 spots to #33, “Ride wit Me” by Kelly Rowland’s former crush Nelly featuring rapper City Spud is down six spots to #31, “It’s Raining Men” by ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is down 10 to #30, the classic “Papercut” by nu-metal band Linkin Park is down 15 to #29, 1980’s hit “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant is here for some reason, but it’s down nine to #28... seriously, why is this here? Apparently it had a “ringbang remix” which landed it into the top five in 2001. Huh, you learn something new and kind of dumb every day.

“Booo!” by lost-in-time musician Sticky (no, not Sticky Fingaz, this Sticky is some nobody without a Wikipedia page) featuring rapper Ms. Dynamite is down 11 to #27, “Here and Now” by the freaking Steps is down nine to #26, “This Time Around” by house music duo Phats & Small is down 15 from #15 to #25, “Thank You” by Dido – best known for Eminem’s excellent use of it as a sample in “Stan” – is down six spots to #24, “Have a Nice Day” by Britpop band Stereophonics is down eight to #20, as is “We Come 1” by electronica group Faithless at #19 as well as “My Way” by walking punchlines Limp Bizkit at #18. “Don’t Stop Movin’” by S Club 7 is down five to #14, as is “All Rise” by boyband Blue at #13. Wow, that was a lot!

Dropouts

Some data in this section may be inaccurate or non-existent, so bear with me as not all drop-outs will be noted in this section, mostly due to the fact that we don’t know a lot of them and I’m just going by what’s there on the UK Singles Chart’s official website.

There weren’t any returning entries this week, so I figured we’d go straight to the drop-outs that we know of, of which there are quite a few of, like “Cold as Ice” by M.O.P. (the Mash-Out Posse) dropping out from #36, “Heard it All Before” by Sunshine Anderson out from #35, “Rock da Funky Beats” by Public Domain featuring Public Enemy Chuck D out from #33, “Video” by India Arie out from #32, “Free” by Mýa out from #39, “Fiesta” by living trash-bag R. Kelly out from #38, “Never Enough” by Boris Dlugosch and Roisin Murphy out from #40, “Musak” by Trisco out from #28, “Jonathan David” by Belle & Sabastian out from #31, “Voodoo” by Warrior out from #37 and, finally, “Let U Go” by ATB out from #34.

NEW ARRIVALS

Now, let’s just jump right into talking about the ELEVEN new arrivals we have this week. I’ll try and keep it brief.

#32 – “Innocente (Falling in Love)” – Delerium featuring Leigh Nash

So, Delerium is an ambient/electronica group known for their hit song “Silence” featuring Sarah McLachlan and Leigh Nash is the lead singer of rock band Sixpence None the Richer, known for their massive hit “Kiss Me”. They would later go on to record a whole album together six years later in 2007, which I don’t really recommend – it’s kind of boring. Is this song a foreshadowing of what to come?

So I’m not the biggest fan of trance at all but I don’t mind this calmer, peaceful trip-hop-influenced stuff from Delerium, in fact I really love the opening guitar riff and the looming instrumentation (and what seem to be bells) before the steady drum beat kicks in and Leigh Nash starts smoothly singing the first verse, all over the instrumentation like she is the main force rather than a jackhammer beat, which is why a lot of EDM doesn’t click with me. However, this is almost not EDM at all. I mean, it’s kind of danceable electronica but, yeah, this is not trance at all, although the strings are definitely reminiscent and it does slowly pick up pace with some uglier synths like trance often does. I don’t know about this, it really drifts along the line between boring and dreamy, much like a lot of songs from Sixpence None the Richer. Did it have to be six minutes? No, but it doesn’t drag on too much in all its peaceful melancholy. I really don’t know why this was listed as a trance song on Wikipedia? Are they talking about the much longer and much worse Tiesto remix? If so, then why did they not specify? Maybe I’m nitpicking about the Wikipedia page more than I should but this song doesn’t really do much for me. If it had some more pop-rock edge from Leigh Nash, maybe I’d like it more, but as it stands, it’s just really weaksauce.

#23 – “Happy People” – Static Revenger

Ah, great, more EDM – lovely. Static Revenger is a Grammy-winning DJ, mostly known for making house and disco. This song in particular went platinum, so you know it’s going to be good, right? Well, if 6ix9ine’s (Platinum-certified!) “GUMMO” told me anything, it’s that sales don’t mean the art or the artists involved are any good... Maybe I should be more open-minded to dance music, I mean, I like a lot of 1990s house so this can’t be much different. I like the R.E.M. song with pretty much the same name, so it’s not like I’m averted to the concept of... happy people. This can’t be too bad.

Oops! I already kind of hate it and love it at the same time. This guitar riff is great but the synths are too static-y for the most part and the build-up feels too drowned out to really be a good build-up until the jackhammer beat starts coming in before the drop, which is a good climax but not entirely satisfying as the simple, repetitive hook stays exactly the same after the drop – I expected some mix-up? The keys introduced after the first drop are a nice change of pace and I appreciate their inclusion, and this is definitely a really fun, exciting and catchy track, however, I think this is just not my thing. It feels soulless and like a bit of a non-presence, which I guess is good for this type of club track? I don’t know, but I guess I just don’t “get” modern EDM still, even though this is barely modern, being early 2000s and all. Maybe I just don’t get EDM at all. Maybe I should learn to have some fun. Probably that last one. Next.

#22 – “Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)” – James

So, James are an indie rock band who have also dabbled in electronica and more experimental rock, including the artsy album WAH WAH. They’re apparently releasing an album next month, which I’ll definitely check out. This single is from their 2001 album Pleased to Meet You, which received mixed reviews by critics at its initial release. Has this song in particular stood the test of time?

Well, yeah, it has. Not in a way that I can be ecstatic about, as it still is somewhat dreary in its constant simplistic guitar strumming, but once the drum beat kicks in, it gets much more exciting and uses the quiet-loud dynamic well, albeit to a lesser extent than other alternative rock bands, as the main increase in volume is the lead singer’s voice, who croons over the oddly funky bassline and the cheap synths as well as the distorted guitar riffs after the first chorus which, yes, are awesome and are pretty nice as a back-up to synth bleeping and different string patterns that add to how intense and urgent the song seems to be, despite its slower tempo. Oh, yeah, and there’s an insane breakdown or solo before the final chorus, where the synths just freak out and that’s pretty damn cool, and the fact that the last chorus continues with the same instrumental makes the song all the more exciting, as it progresses in intensity just to abruptly end. I’m more of a (similarly-named) Travis fan personally, but this song rocks as well.

#21 – “Million Miles Away” – The Offspring

Remember these guys? I don’t know about everyone else, but I used to love these guys. They were one of my favourite bands, and honestly, probably still are as far as rock is concerned. The Offspring are a Californian rock band fronted by Dexter Holland, who always straddled the lines between alternative, pop punk and straight-up punk rock. They have a UK number-one and many other hits (and damn good deep cuts) in their arsenal, so how does this song in particular, from their album Conspiracy of One, fare?

It starts with a rapid and intense guitar riff that isn’t too heavy but fast enough to keep up with the simplistic, mad-cap drumming, creating an instrumental base for Dexter to moan about his break-up over. While I appreciate the instrumental, it is a tad too simple, as is the hook with the “oh, oh, oh” vocalisations and the singing feeling too whiny at times, especially in that chorus. While I love the instrumental to death, I feel Dexter’s sloppily-mixed vocals being all over it ruin it for me. However, there’s enough time where it’s just the backing and the guitar solo also rocks, so yeah, although I’m not a fan of the repetitive lyrics and delivery here, I can dig what’s behind it. Sadly, this is probably the first and only Offspring I’ll get to talk about – trust me, they’ve made much better stuff. My personal favourite of their singles is “Hit That”, if you want to check that absolute romp of a dance-rock track. They’re also releasing a new album this year, so I’m excited for that.

#16 – “Hard to Explain” – The Strokes

The Strokes don’t really need an explanation, right? One of the biggest American rock bands in recent memory, hailing from New York and bringing back garage rock in a huge way that led them to two top 10 UK hits. This is their first ever single, from their debut album Is This It, annoyingly without a question mark. Maybe XXXTENTACION could have lent them one, he seems to have had an extra one left around. That’s beside the point, let’s get into the breakout single from The Strokes.

It starts with a simple drum beat – possibly not from Fabirizio Moretti but rather from a drum machine - before going into one of the most memorable and slick guitar riffs of all time, thanks to guitarists Albert Hammond and Nick Valensi, with a funky bassline provided by Nikolai Fraiture backing not only the guitars up but also the distorted vocals from Julian Casablancas, with a catchy-as-all-hell hook that leads into an abrupt fake-end, before it picks up again for another exciting few minutes of punkish indie rock, with Casablancas’ vocals getting more strained and emotional throughout. I’m actually finding it pretty hard to describe and review this song fairly without insane hyperbole, as Casablancas says, it is pretty hard to explain, as it is one of my favourite hit songs ever, with its perfectly balanced amount of rowdiness and genuine intrigue, and dare I say, a certain classiness to the composition. Fantastic song, fantastic album, and a damn great band.

#15 – “Baddest Ruffest” – Backyard Dog

This is the 2002 FIFA World Cup song, made by big beat producing duo Backyard Dog, consisting of Aniff Akinola and Lloyd Hanley. To my knowledge, they haven’t done anything else, although Akinola here has rapped on other songs, like the mild success “Bounce ‘n’ Boom” and Kirsty MacColl’s top 40 hit “Walking Down Madison”, so it’s debateable if these guys are one-hit wonders, but if one of the most notable things the lead singer has been in was a Vimto advert, it’s safe to say you’ve probably been forgotten in time since. So, how’s Backyard Dog’s seemingly only ever piece of released music (other than their only studio album and the remix EP for this very song) that is documented on the Internet?

Well, it starts with what are assumingly sampled horns in one simple loop before a subtle but effective bass comes in and Akinola starts shouting, adding some ragga influence, but mostly I’d say this is a pretty simple big beat song, with a solid horn hook and even Akinola’s vocals adding a lot of uniqueness to an otherwise not-very-noteworthy track. Hell, I’d like this a lot more if it weren’t for the annoying chicken-like record scratching that makes up most of the song. As it stands, there’s one element that just tears the whole thing apart, which is unfortunate as this is actually a pretty fun and exciting, different song, and I do wish these guys had more material to listen to, because I’m digging their style. It’s pretty intriguing, even if it is just some big beat loops with Caribbean-tinged vocals being yelled over the track by a charismatic performer, who I’ll try and dig up other projects from. I hope these guys reunite to make some more jams.

#12 – “More than That” – Backstreet Boys

Listen, you know who the Backstreet Boys are. I know who the Backstreet Boys are. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand them. They’re talented men, sure, but it feels a bit too cheesy and sickly sweet for me to really get into. Does that ring true with “More than That”, from their 2000 album Black & Blue?

Yes, of course it does. Why wouldn’t it? It has a pretty interesting albeit typical Latin or tropical guitar riff, but the vocals from the boys here aren’t too great, and everything that surrounds them just feels like purely perfect pop blandness. It’s too perfect – kind of like “These Days” by Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Dan Caplen and Macklemore and “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B, both of which I talked about on REVIEWING THE CHARTS. It’s a good song, definitely, but it feels too manufactured for me to enjoy on repeated listening, as in the end, it is a soulless boyband song. What did you expect, a long, in-depth review that focuses on the vocal range of the boys and how excellently they mesh with the smooth R&B production? No, you’re not getting that, because there are better pop songs and better R&B singers that you could be listening to, even if it’s just the early 2000s. In fact, we’ll be talking about another in just a short while.

#9 – “Another Lover” – Dane

No, this is not who I meant! I meant Usher! I didn’t want this complete nobody to come in! Well, what does Dane have to say?

Nothing. He has nothing to say because he is uninteresting and typical lyrically. That was a dumb question, I don’t think he even wrote this song... but in R&B, it’s more about how you say it, and, damn, does he pull off the smooth, Latin-influenced production well! The Latin riffs are still present in the guitars, and the drums are more prominent than they probably should be, but Dane brings a great presence to the track, even if it doesn’t seem like he can actually sing very well at all, using his falsetto a lot of the time to mixed results, but he is fun and has more charisma than Juice WRLD and Dexter Holland when moaning about issues with a partner. I love the whispering in the penultimate chorus as well, which continues in the outro as some kind of acapella percussion, which I appreciate for its experimentalism if anything. This slick 1990s-resembling production and the man’s charisma make this a great listen, even if it’s not on Spotify and only has 70,000 views on YouTube... Yikes. Now, THIS has been forgotten in time.

#6 – “19-2000” – Gorillaz featuring Miho Hatori and Talking Heads (Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz)

I love Gorillaz. I’ve been a fan for a long while now, and I have grown to love how they blend genres excellently in accessible and catchy yet still experimental and strange pop songs, while still believing that the flow of an album is definitely important... well, they used to do that. Right now, with Humanz and The Now Now, it seems that they care more about the singular songs, which is fair because of streaming being more important now, but like the Avalanches, the flow of the album is seminal in my enjoyment of a Gorillaz album, and that has not been consistent recently, with bloated, boring albums and messes of songs like “Sex Murder Party” and... “Man Research (Clapper)”... from their self-titled 2001 debut album. Okay, so, maybe they’ve never been too great at the whole “making tight compositions” thing. This song is kind of proving as that chaotic structure not working too well. Let me elaborate.

“19-2000” is about the new millennium, as its title suggests, and follows the trends of the bridge between 1999 and 2000 very carefully, with a sampled trip-hop/hip-hop drum beat and catchy boyband-like vocalisations. However, it feels very messy in all its minimalistic joy. You have Miho Hatori’s repetitive lyrics about getting “the cool sunshine”, some reversed and heavily-edited vocal samples, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz doing whatever the hell they want in the background with some multi-tracked humming from frontman Damon Albarn, behind careless and slow verses from Albarn. You also have the “we gon’ break out” bridge thing, which is just kind of there? And then you have the various synth noises going on in one specific ear while there’s finger-snapping – could we have saved this for the video, guys? I don’t know, this song is fun and I’m still relatively positive on it, but like “Tranz” and “DARE”, it seems like too much is going on throughout. Also, I don’t know what’s Albarn, what’s Hatori, what’s Weymouth and where the hell Frantz is, so that’s lovely. It just piles into some kind of ball of musical elements, but they don’t mesh. They just keep growing.

#3 – “U Remind Me” – Usher

Usher is one of my favourite artists of all time. His charisma and personality is unmatched in R&B, and he will go down as a legend with some of the best club bangers and powerful and slick R&B ballads in music history. This is US chart-topper “U Remind Me”, from his third album 8701. While I’ve always preferred the Confessions era (my personal favourite Usher track is “Confessions Part II”), I can dig his earlier stuff and this is no exception.

Those introductory strings are damn beautiful, and then the piano and the synths come in, to assist Usher in all his glory, with his smooth delivery and scratched backing gang vocals. Sure, the lyrics can be seen as pretty corny or selfish and close-minded, but Usher pulls them off with his immense amounts of swagger, with a guitar coming in to match his charisma in the second verse. Oh, yeah, the song’s about a girl he can’t date because they remind him too much of an ex... for a song about what seems to be a first-world problem, Usher’s melodramatics may seem unnecessary, but they’re really not. The catchy hook and his many ad-libs really help rather than hinder, as it becomes pretty beautiful considering its potentially silly subject matter by the end. Maybe it’s too long, maybe it’s too overdramatic, but I don’t care. Usher pulls it off like no-one else ever could.

#1 – “The Way to Your Love” – Hear’Say

Okay, can I get a “get out of review” free card? Come on, it’s the eleventh new arrival and it’s the most anti-climactic, blandest-as-possible pop song, orchestrated by a trash talent show, with talented yet uninteresting and charmless singers, as well as cliché production – although the drums here are pretty cool albeit unfitting, I will admit – including the cheapest strings I’ve heard this side of Soundcloud rap, which I feel I’ve made too many comparisons to in a blog about 2000s pop music. Ah, well. What’s this song got to say, do or try and get across? Nothing. Nothing at all. This is so cheesy that I feel the milk being heated already... yet it’s not even funny. It’s just boring. It’s just a slog. Just an uninteresting, undeserving #1. At least it’s not “Freaky Friday”.

Conclusion

Best of the Week goes to “Hard to Explain” by The Strokes, no competition, although “U Remind Me” is an Honourable Mention and deservedly so. Worst of the Week? Although I have the most bile for our #1 here, yeah, it’s going to “Innocente (Falling in Love)” by Delerium for just being insanely boring, with Dishonourable Mention going to “The Way to Your Love”, I suppose. Nothing here is outright bad, just very uninteresting. See you tomorrow for REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

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↣ musical artist meme

Put 💕 by artists you like Put ✔️ by artists you dont mind Put ❌ by artists you don’t like Put ❓ by artists you’ve never listened to

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❓ The Wombats - ✔ Asking Alexandria - ✔ The All-American Rejects - 💕 The Front Bottoms - ✔ Fitz & The Tantrums - ✔ Florence + The Machine - ✔ dad. the band -❓ Birdy - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Gregory and the Hawk - ✔ Lenka - 💕 💕 💕 💕 alt-J - ✔ Alex Clare -❓ AWOLNATION - ✔ Bishop Briggs -❓ Daughter - ✔️ Marina and The Diamonds - ✔ McCafferty - ❓ Neon Trees - ✔️ Banks - ❓ Bad Suns - ❓ RHODES - ❓ Cruel Youth -❓ Robb Bank$ -❓ Bones - ❓ Beamon - ❓ Black Sabbath - ✔ Bexey - ❓ Lil peep - ❓ Ramirez -❓ Wu-Tang Clan - ✔ NF - ❓ Bone Thugs n Harmony ❓ Frank Sinatra - ❓ Tomppabeats - ❓ Saib. - ❓ Limes -❓ Muse - ❓ Daniel Caeser - ❓ Gallant -❓ Tom Misch - ❓ Sabrina Claudio - ❓ Brasstracks -❓ Summer Salt -❓ The Walters - ❓ Snails House - ❓ Jeff Bernat -❓ Jeffrey Lewis -  ✔ Max Frost -❓ Caravan Palace - 💕 Daft Punk - 💕 MGMT - 💕 Animal Collective - 💕 Osamuraisan- ❓ Mother Mother - 💕 💕 💕 💕 The Decemberists - 💕 💕 💕 💕 The Postal Service -  💕 💕 💕 💕 AJJ -  💕 💕 💕 💕 Band Of Horses - ✔ Foot Ox - 💕 Metric - ✔ Jukebox The Ghost - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Cornell - ❓ Young the Giant - ✔ Hue - ❓ Summer Heart -❓ Honne -❓ Willa - ❓ William Wild - ❓ The Antlers - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Cigarettes after sex - 💕 Turnover - ❓ Champs - ❓ Moose Blood -❓ Paradise Fears - ❓ Citizen - ❓ The History of Apple Pie - ❓ Alina Baraz & Galimatias -❓ Zedd - 💕 Mystery Skulls - ✔ Michl - ❓ Khai -❓ Little Joy -❓ Vanic - ❓ Phoenix - ❓ Witt Lowry - ❓ Grieves - ❓ Mac Demarco - ❓ Sloan -❓ Jason Reeves -❓ 2am Club - ❓ We Hold Hands And We Jump - ❓ Against Me - ✔ Boys - ❓ The Cure - ✔ Ke$ha - ✔ Stromae - ❓ Weezer - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Vampire Weekend - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Studio Killers - ✔ Foo Fighters -✔ Queens Of The Stone Age - ❓ Rage Against The Machine - ✔ The Hives - ❓ The Offspring - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Linkin Park - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Zomboy - ❓ Highly Suspect -❓ Keane - ❓ Royal Blood - ❓ In This Moment - ❓ Chevelle - ❓ Ghost - ❓ The Beatles - ✔ Depeche Mode - 💕 Duran Duran - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Franz Ferdinand - ✔ R.E.M. - ❓ U2 - ❓ HIM - ❓ Radiohead - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Modern Baseball - ❓ Aphex Twin - 💕 Grimes - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Phantogram - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Purity Ring - 💕 💕 💕 💕 FKA twigs - ❓ Wolf Alice - ❓ Teen Suicide - 💕 💕 💕 💕 The Cribs - ✔️ mewithoutyou - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Say Anything - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Salvia Palth - 💕 💕 💕 💕 Panucci’s Pizza - ❓ Manchester Orchestra - ❓ Neon Indian -❓ Unknown Mortal Orchestra -❓ Joywave -❓ Blur -❓ Catfish & The Bottlemen - ❓ Bon Iver - ✔ The Smiths - 💕 Led Zeppelin - 💕 Ocean colour scene - ❓ The Temper Trap - ❓ Blossoms - ❓ Kings Of Leon - 💕 George Ezra - ❓ Tom Odell - ❓ Jake Bugg - ❓ The Kooks - ❓ Nothing but Thieves - ❓ Mac - ❓ Keaton Henson - ❓ Noah Gunderson - ❓ Jimi Hendrix - ✔ Stevie Ray Vaughan - ❓ Michael Jackson - 💕 The Maccabees - ❓ Billy Joel - ✔ Little Comets - ❓ Milky Chance - ❓ Amy Winehouse -💕 Gabrielle Aplin - ❓ The Verve - ❓ London Grammar - ❓ The Who - ✔ The Vaccines - ❓ Joy Division - ❓ Arcade Fire -❓ Jamie T - ❓ The Coral - ❓ Tame Impala - ❓ Stereophonics - ❓ Blaenavon - ❓ Sundara Karma - ❓ Two Door Cinema Club - 💕 The Japanese HouseGromz - ❓ Cage the Elephant - 💕 The Black Keys - ✔ Mumford and Sons - 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The Man - ❓ Lullatone - 💕 💕 💕 💕 sublime - ✔ grateful dead - ✔ king crimson - ❓ rush - ❓ frank iero andthe patience/celebration -❓ flatsound - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Nothing, nowhere -❓ elvis depressedly - ✔ Cloud nothings - ❓ kimya dawson -💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 guns n’ roses -💕 social repose ❓ Arkells - ❓ July Talk - ❓ Jank - ❓ Father John Misty - ❓ Sky Ferreira - ❓ HAIM - ❓ Declan McKenna - ❓ Sean Bolton- ❓ Beach House - ❓ The xx - 💕 Transit - ❓ Knuckle puck- ❓ Trophy Eyes - ❓ Joyce manor- ❓ Boston manor - ❓ Sum 41 - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Godsmack -  💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Papa Roach - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Dope -  💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 P.O.D - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Trapt -  💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Limp Bizkit - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 The Pretty Reckless - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 The wonder years - ❓ Basement - ❓ American Football - ❓ La dispute - ❓ Surf Curse - ❓ Title fight - ❓ Brand New - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 The Mountain Goats - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 The story so far - ❓ Real Friends - ❓ Balance and composure - ❓ A day to Remember - 💕 Elliot Smith - ✔ With Confidence - ❓ Our last night - ❓ AS IT IS - ❓ Senses Fail - ❓ Ween - ❓ Away days - ❓ Sorority Noise - ❓ Broken bells - ❓ Beartooth - ❓ Delta spirit - ❓ DREAMERS - ❓ The strumbellas - ❓ Neutral Milk Hotel - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 National Parks - ❓ Daughtry - ❓ Handsome ghost - ❓ Cold War Kids - ❓ Colony House - ❓ Dance Gavin Dance - ❓ Kodaline - ❓ Sweatshop Union - ❓ The lumineers - ❓ Of Monsters and Men - ❓ Waterparks- ❓ Foxing - ❓ Cyrberbully Mom Club - 💕 daisyhead - ✔️ The Mowgli’s - ❓ Banners - ❓ Billie Eilish - ❓ Switch Foot - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Culture Club - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Eurythmics - ✔️ Tears For Fears - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Simple Minds - 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 A-Ha - 💕 The Bangles - ✔️ Cyndi Lauper - ✔️ Twisted Sister - 💕 Punch Brothers - ✔️ Nickel Creek -  💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 Poets Of The Fall - 💕

Tagging: anyone !!j

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NOTIFICATION CH. 4 - XEPHLEZ FIC

Jingle Jingle mother Fudger

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

                                  Sparklez Cadets - skype conversation

18:34 GMT

(Nebby-chan)

Hey guys, I might not be around much tonight because my family and friends are having a fireworks party because the missed the 5th (which was three weeks ago). I will have my phone on my and skype open but I might not answer as quickly for the moment.

(Dame-Space-A-Lot)

It’s okay Nebby! Enjoy your fire! :D

(captainvoid)

with that I am the next oldest adult

(Commander)

Youre the oldest anyway???????

(captainvoid)

shhhhh

(Dame-Space-A-Lot)

It’s the last episode of Mianite season 1 today!

(captainvoid)

yes they are going to be streaming in an hour or so

(Nebby-chan)

Alas, I cannot watch it.

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21:24 GMT

(Dame-Space-A-Lot)

Oh my gosh they fell off the side of the world :O

(captainvoid)

well thats certainly a cliff hanger

(Nebby-chan)

Was that a pun.

(Commander)

YOU’VE ANGERED SPACE!!!!

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Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

Thanks for the support over the last few months guys! #mianitefinale

Syndi works [fireworks icon] @Syndi

Well that was one hell of a finale #mianitefinale

Snow Fox @OMGitsfirefox

It’s a Christmas miracle #mianitefinale

Snow Truck @Tucker

@OMGitsfirefox it’s November #mianitefinale

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Nebby-Chan reblogged asinglecat

 Sparkleychan

Can someone tell me why CaptainSparklez change his twitter name is Sparkley-Pants?

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HoneydewBro

Xephos calls him that every time Sparklez encourages the shippers

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Sparkleychan

So basically Xephos calls him that in an insulting manner but Sparklez just went screw it and owned it?

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Asinglecat

Yes and it’s beautiful

 Source: Sparkleychan                        #This last month it seems that the two have been on a war mission with each other    #hopefully nothing goes bad but I sense some tenseness

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Lomadia

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 Lomadia  Lyndon is best cat #kitty #blackcat

BlueXephos  He is cute yes but don’t bring him into the office i will die

Cheatre Oh my god he’s adorable!

Bonnieboo  He looks silky smooth

Boulder Nilesy is looking cute himself <3

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YA BOY NILESY @_Nilesy

Who would win in a fight?

YA BOY NILESY @_Nilesy

Best pool boy Nilesy (ala me) or wood sprite @Inthelittlewood

Winter Woods @Inthelittlewood

@_Nilesy Well grass is super effective against water so me

YA BOY NILESY @_Nilesy

@Inthelittlewood So who is our fire type?

Winter Woods @Inthelittlewood

@Nanosounds

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Minecraft Youtubers you need to have a look at if you haven’t already

Wu Mcvitty

FuzzBeed Staff

 ...

4. BlueXephos and Honeydew

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(Xephos Left Honeydew right)

If you haven’t heard of these two; how have you not?

Red Xephos and Honeydew, or their real life names Xephos Riker and Honeydew Vine, were at the beginning on the Minecraft craze with the video “How to survive the first night” back in 2010 (Which is thoroughly hilarious because neither know what they are doing and it was before the proper craze). They are still at the top of their game several years later and there fan base continues to produced some top quality content.

Being part of The Ywhags they are also a package, having friends jump in videos and making and over arcing story line between them on a sever that is probably a mess and the managers worse night mare.

Though we don’t advocate drama, though it is more like a rivalry, Xephos has recently be “feuding” with another youtuber, CaptainSparklez (Number 6 on our list). It was spurred on by fans and commentators but during started during the Hunger Games Allstars, they have been passing jabs at each other in the last few months by tweets and in videos even to go as far as dressing up as each other on Halloween; nothing was scarier according to the both of them.

With the exciting return of their popular series “Shadow of Isarphel” and the charity lives streams starting within the next week, be sure to watch out for these two!

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Xephos needs to wear sunglasses more often and Honeydew should always be a cute pirate.

 Comments

 Susan Pine

I have watched these two from the beginning, they have grown so much!

Matt Light

I have genuinely never heard of these two?

Lilly Miguel

How have you not Matt!?

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LividCoffee

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 LividCoffee Fix minutes!!!! @honeydew @BlueXephos #jinglejam #pandas

Teddybear Ohmygosh you all look so cute!

Four3five  Are you dressed as your characters on top of that??

LividCoffee  @four4five Yes we are! Turps said we should to add some fun onto it!

Thisoneisforme What are you guys playing first?

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Jingle Jam Opening Steam [Day 1]

 458,304 veiws

I love cheese

I missed opening day D:

Freddy Fazbear

Do you have a list of the mods you played?

Hilna Tealeaf

You looked rather grumpy when someone brought up the Sparklez issue.

           AshGatcha

           I am not surprised, lately the two seem to be on un easy ground and Xephos i tired of people brining him up

                       Shepard

                       Well he brought him on himself

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Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

Why does everyone think I have a problem with Sparklez?

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

I don’t just for the record, I just get frustrated that that this is half the messages I get

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

And I only started talking to him four-ish months a go

Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

@BlueXephos My encouraging them hasn’t help has it

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

@CptSparklez In no way Sparkley-pants

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

@CptSparklez also don’t encourage the shippers I feel like I need to say that every time I talk to you

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Nebby-chan

Guys, we need to have a talk.

Over the last month BlueXephos has been a bit stressed and a few nights ago with the opening of the Jingle Jam it boiled over a bit.

The live streams have probably put a lot of weight on him as he needs to organise a lot of people for different days and run a group at the same time; piling questions on him about someone that is not part of the group and, dare say it, not even a friend of his probably doesn’t help.

The tenseness is not with CaptainSparklez but with us so unless they say something is going to happen let’s chill on the questions.

Edit: He had every right to talk about his frustration on his personal twitter; him and Sparkles are not on bad terms and understand the problem.

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#BlueXephos   #CaommanderSparklez                     #He is stressed please leave him be

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CptSpar

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 CptSpar Working on a secret video #Noonesawitcoming

Syndi That’s a lot of black screen

FoodFox Ooooh what is it

Noms It looks minecrafty, is it?!

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Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

I am doing this publicly.

Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

@BlueXephos Dear sir; to break the ice, get over this bad spot and to get rid of the negative feelings in the air.

Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

@BlueXephos Would you like to do a collab video together; no stream, just us.

Sparkley-pants @CptSparklez

@BlueXephos #forthepandas

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

@CptSparklez Thank you for the offer Sparkles.

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

@CptSparklez When are you gonna tell them that we already recorded it?

Snow Fox @OMGitsfirefox

@CptSparklez @BlueXephos SPARKLES HOW COULD YOU NOT SAY, WHEN??

Xephos all the way @BlueXephos

@CptSparklez @OMGitsfirefox The night after the jingle jam opening stream

#yogslash #yogship #xephelz #xephlez

[theradiodude]

In chronological order (by year) of single release, I give you the Miami High Playlist -- otherwise known as a musical journey through my life -- as a work in progress. Sugarhill Gang, The - Rapper's Delight Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight Soft Cell - Tainted Love Sugarhill Gang, The - Apache After The Fire - Der Kommissar (theDALE Radio Edit) Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - The Message Hall & Oates - Maneater Toto - Africa Toto - Rosanna Yaz - Don't Go Billy Joel - Uptown Girl Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (Remix) Naked Eyes - (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run) Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On Hall & Oates - Out of Touch Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah!) Laura Branigan - Self Control Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover Shannon - Let the Music Play Bangles, The - Walk Like an Egyptian Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Level 42 - Something About You Miami Sound Machine - Conga Mr. Mister - Broken Wings Phil Collins - Sussudio Scorpions, The - Rock You Like a Hurricane Sly Fox - Let's Go All the Way Wham! - Everything She Wants Afrika Bambaataa - Looking for the Perfect Beat Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain Exposé - Come Go With Me (Shortened 12-Inch Mix) Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (American '86 Mix) Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy Steve Winwood - Higher Love Swing Out Sister - Breakout Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot (Radio Edit) Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You Los Lobos - La Bamba Steve Winwood - Valerie (Remix Version) Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - 1,2,3 (Remix) Stevie B. - Dreamin' of Love Double Trouble & The Rebel MC - Just Keep Rockin' (Original Sk'ouse 12-Inch) Gloria Estefan - Get On Your Feet Young MC - Bust A Move Poison Clan - Dance All Night Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Snap! - The Power Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This Black Box - Strike It Up C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (feat. Freedom Williams) Michael Jackson - Black or White (No Intro) Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote Captain Hollywood Project - More and More (7" edit) Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It (feat. The Mad Stuntman) (Radio Edit) Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) Ace of Base - The Sign Real McCoy, The - Run Away Shawn Christopher - Make My Love (theDALE Radio Edit) Blackstreet - No Diggity (feat. Dr Dre & Queen Pen) Corona - Rhythm of the Night Faithless - Insomnia Method Man - All I Need (feat. Mary J. Blige) (Razor Sharp Remix) Skee-Lo - I Wish (Radio Edit) Amber - This Is Your Night Angelina - Release Me (Radio Mix Show) Audio Adrenaline - Free Ride Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check Charli Baltimore - Money (theDALE Radio Edit) Daft Punk - Around The World DJ Laz - Esa Morena Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry's Club Mix) La Bouche - Be My Lover (US Version) La Bouche - Sweet Dreams Mon A Q - Stay In Love (7-Inch Dance Radio Mix) Natural Born Chillers - Rock the Funky Beat No Mercy - Where Do You Go Planet Soul - Set U Free Quad City DJ's - C'mon 'N' Ride It (The Train) Robert Miles - Children Ghost Town DJ's - My Boo Audio Adrenaline - Blitz (feat. The O.C. Supertones) Brian McKnight - You Should Be Mine (feat. Ma$e) B-Rock & Da Biz - My Baby Daddy Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Freak Nasty - Da Dip Jocelyn Enriquez - A Little Bit of Ecstasy Lil' Kim - Not Tonight (Ladies Night Remix) (feat. Angie Martinez, Lisa Left Eye Lopez, Da Brat & Missy Elliott) Luke - Raise The Roof (Party Time Version) (feat. No Good But So Good) MC Lyte - Cold Rock a Party (Bad Boy remix) (MC Lyte main version) Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize (Radio Mix) Notorious B.I.G. - Mo Money Mo Problems Puff Daddy & Ma$e - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down Robyn - Do You Know (What It Takes) Rockell - In a Dream Savage Garden - I Want You Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar Timbaland & Magoo - Luv 2 Luv U (Remix) Tito Nieves - I Like It Like That Lathun - Freak It Usher - You Make Me Wanna.mp3 Beenie Man - Middle Of The Night (feat. Tanto Metro) Beenie Man - Romie Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody? Ace Of Base - Cruel Summer Ayla - Ayla Part 2 Backstreet Boys, The - Everybody (Backstreet's Back) Big Pun - Still Not a Player (feat. Joe) Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine (Radio Edit - No Phone Call) Busta Rhymes - Dangerous Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up (Remix) / Fire It Up Deborah Cox - Nobody's Supposed to Be Here (original version) Destiny’s Child - No, No, No, Part 2 (feat. Wyclef Jean) Dru Hill - How Deep Is Your Love (feat. Redman) (Radio Edit) Elvis Crespo - Suavemente Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank (Radio Edit) Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky K.P. & Envyi - Swing My Way L.O.X., The - Money, Power & Respect Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby) (Clean Version) Ma$e - Feel So Good Missy Elliott - Sock It 2 Me (feat. Da Brat) Monifah - Touch It (Radio Edit) Outkast - Rosa Parks Puff Daddy - Victory (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes) (Clean) Rob Zombie - Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Mix) Robbie Williams - Millennium (Radio Edit) Robyn - Show Me Love (Radio Version) Sonique - It Feels So Good (Radio Edit) Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Radio Edit) Beenie Man - Who Am I (LP) 702 - Where My Girls At? Alice DeeJay - Back in My Life Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (Original Radio Edit) Backstreet Boys, The - Larger Than Life Blaque - 808 (Remix) Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle Citizen King - Better Days Clubbed to Death - Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Variation) C-Murder - Down For My... (feat. Magic & Snoop Dogg) (Clean Version) Counting Crows - Hanginaround Darude - Sandstorm Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills Fragma - Toca's Miracle Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass) (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit) Jordan Knight - Give It To You (Miami Booty Bass Edit) JT Money - Who Dat (feat. Solé) Knowdaverbs - The Syllabus La Rissa - I Do Both Jay & Jane Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) LEN - Steal My Sunshine Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) Marc Anthony - I Need to Know (Pablo's Miami Mix Radio Edit) Memphis Bleek - Is That Your Chick (The Lost Verses) (feat. Jay-Z, Twista & Missy Elliot) (Radio Edit) Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) Outkast - Ms. Jackson Santana - Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas) Smashmouth - All Star Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Philip Steir Remix) Vengaboys - We Like to Party Will Smith - Miami Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (Live Remix) Furthermore - Fluorescent Jellyfish (Fluorescent Jellyfish Album Version) TLC - No Scrubs (Clean) Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful (Original Mix) 98 Degrees - Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche) Aaliyah - Try Again Alice DeeJay - Better Off Alone ATC - Around The World (La La La La La) Azzido da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Radio Edit) Daft Punk - One More Time (Short Radio Edit) Debelah Morgan - Dance With Me Destiny’s Child - Jumpin’ Jumpin’ Destiny's Child - Independent Women Pt. 1 DJ Jurgen - Higher & Higher (Radio Edit) DMX - Party Up (Edited) Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre (feat. Eminem) Eiffel 65 - Blue Jagged Edge - Let's Get Married (ReMarqable Remix) (feat. Jermaine Dupri & Rev Run) Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight Knowdaverbs - God Is Big Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around (Clean) 'N Sync - Bye Bye Bye 'N Sync - It's Gonna Be Me Nine Days - Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) P!nk - Most Girls P!nk - There You Go Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You Santana - Maria Maria (feat. The Product G&B) (Radio Mix) Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor Or Humanity Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You) Madonna - Music Trina - Pull Over (Radio Version) Aaliyah - We Need a Resolution (feat. Timbaland) Britney Spears - Boys Christina Milian - AM to PM Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger Dee Dee - Forever DJ Encore - I See Right Through to You DMX - Who We Be Janet Jackson - Someone to Call My Lover (So So Def Remix) (feat. Jermaine Dupri) Janet Jackson - Son of a Gun (Original Flyte Time Remix) (feat. Missy Elliott) Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real Jennifer Lopez - Play (Clean) Joe - Stutter (feat. Mystikal) (Double Take Remix - Allstar Extended Version) Lasgo - Something Ludacris - Rollout (My Business) (Clean) Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Get Ur Freak On OceanLab - Clear Blue Water (Above & Beyond Progressive Mix) Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean (Radio Mix) Tamia - Stranger in My House (Thunderpuss Radio Edit) Toya - I Do!! Train - Drops of Jupiter U2 - Beautiful Day Destiny's Child - Bootylicious Willa Ford - I Wanna Be Bad 'N Sync - Pop (Radio Version) Smashmouth - I'm A Believer Relient K - Sadie Hawkins Dance Tree63 - Treasure Tree63 - Joy Tree63 - Look What You've Done Tree63 - 1*0*1 Tree63 - Worldwide Aaliyah - More Than a Woman Angie Martinez - If I Could Go (feat. Lil’ Mo & Sacario) Brandy - What About Us? Britney Spears - Boys (Co‐Ed remix) (feat. Pharrell Williams) Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Radio Edit) DJ Sammy & Yanou feat. Do - Heaven (Sammy & Yanou radio edit) DMX - X Gon' Give It to Ya (Edited) Elvis vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation Eminem - Lose Yourself (Clean Edit - Quick Intro) Gigi D’Agostino - I'll Fly With You (L'amour Toujours) Grits - Ooh Ahh iiO - Rapture (Riva Radio Edit) In-Grid - You Promised Me (Tu Es Foutu) Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From the Block (Track Masters Remix feat. Styles P. & Jadakiss [The L.O.X.]) Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You (feat. Clipse) Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of My Head Linkin Park - In The End LL Cool J - Luv U Better Ludacris - Move... (feat. Mystikal) (Radio Edit) Ludacris - Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!) (Radio Edit) Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe No Doubt - Hella Good No Doubt - Hey Baby (feat. Bounty Killer) Overseer - Horndog (Radio Edit) Snoop Dogg - From tha Chuuuch to da Palace (feat. Pharrell) (Clean) Pink - Get The Party Started Tree63 - The Glorious Ones Beyoncé - Naughty Girl Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Crazy in Love (single version) Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body Lil Kim - The Jump Off (Super Clean) Linkin Park - Nobody's Listening Ludacris - Stand Up (Edited) Lumidee - Never Leave You Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now? Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks (feat. Ludacris) Missy Elliott - Work It (Hybrid Clean Edit) Outkast - Hey Ya Outkast - The Way You Move (Radio Mix) Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But You (feat. Hemstock & Jennings) (PVD Radio Mix) Sean Paul - Get Busy Switchfoot - Meant to Live The River Cry - Cry Me a River UKNY - I'm In Heaven (feat. Holly James) (Jason Nevins Presents...) Blu Cantrell Feat. Sean Paul - Breathe (Rap Version) (hurricān edit) Benny Benassi Presents The Biz - Satisfaction (Radio Edit) Airmen of Note, The - I'll Be Home for Christmas

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