#Gold triangle push up bra

[hypnoneghoul]

Hey, Pretty

WC: 2,3K

Relationship: Swiss/Mountain

Tags: Lingerie, Possessive Sex, Degradation, Breeding

Swiss knew how to push Mountain's buttons too well and that thing he bought would be like slamming all those buttons at once. Or, Swiss gets himself lingerie.

Notes: It was waiting for a while, enjoy

Read under the cut or on AO3.

Swiss is nothing, if not a tease.

He revels in having the power to make his chosen victim—or victims—break a sweat, make them all hot and bothered, lose control over themselves. Causing his packmates to cum their brains out after hours of teasing specifically makes something near pride bloom in his chest, he loves it. They all know it too, and even though Swiss always brings them to feeling need and arousal so intense it hurts, they’d never complain, at the end of the day.

Now, when Swiss saw that one ad online, he knew he had to get it and he knew who would be the first—because definitely not the only—victim of his purchase. Mountain didn't have to be teased all day to be brought to insanity. Swiss knew how to push all his buttons too well and that thing he bought would be like slamming all those buttons at once.

It didn’t take long for it to arrive, just a few days, but over those few days Swiss has had to excuse himself every time he thought about it, starting to chub up in his pants.

Oh, it was going to be so good.

Finally, the mail came. The multi ghoul snatched it and immediately ran to his room to try it on and prepare everything.

It was going to be so fucking good.

Swiss locked his door and all but ripped the package apart, cock filling out and kicking the moment his calloused fingers touched the delicate fabric. He put it all on with more care and he’d never been so glad for good online size charts. It all fit perfectly, and when he stood before a full body mirror his eyes lit up. He threw himself onto his bed and kicked off the panties, not wanting to get them dirty just yet. Swiss grabbed a bottle of lube from his nightstand and got to work.

He somehow managed to not cum in the process of getting himself ready to be fucked into oblivion, and around half an hour later he was shooting Mountain a quick text and slipping out of his room and into the commons. Thankfully, Swiss hadn’t come across anyone in there, or on his way. Not that he wouldn’t enjoy that, of course he would, but right now he was a neatly wrapped gift just for Mountain.

The multi ghoul didn’t have to wait much, the message he sent was suggestive enough for Mountain to not want to waste any time. Swiss heard the thump of his heavy footsteps on the other side of the den soon enough and got into position—leaning against the dining table with his legs outstretched.

“Swiss, love? What did you–” Mountain started, but froze as his eyes landed on Swiss. A quiet noise escaped his lips, his jaw dropped and his mouth went dry. The multi ghoul smirked.

He was wearing a bralette, pecs squeezed together by red lace in a way that gave him real cleavage, and an image of a cock sliding in and out from between Swiss’ boobs flashed through Mountain’s mind. Next time, he thought.

There was more, though. So much more. If he looked close enough he’d see gold around the multi ghoul’s nipples shining through the lace, something he really liked to play with.

There were soft chiffon cuffs pulled taught over Swiss’ muscled biceps—ready to snap at any moment—similarly to the delicate, lace gloves that looked movement-restictringly tight. Mountain wondered how they’d feel on his dick, if Swiss would even manage to wrap his hand around it.

The earth ghoul’s eyes stopped at Swiss’ soft tummy, a corset-like bottom of the bra made it lightly spill out at the bottom and the sight made Mountain salivate, rehydrating his dried mouth. Swiss’ belly hid the top of his panties and the garter belt just a tiny bit, and from there his cock caught his mate’s attention. It was half-hard, pressing against the tiny triangle of the panties’ front piece. Mountain wanted to rip the lace to shreds with his fangs. 

Noticing where the earth ghoul’s gaze lingered for longer, Swiss spinned, teasing Mountain with just a quick view of his not especially big, but full and round, asscheeks. The giant let out a growl, barely in control of himself anymore. His cock got so hard in mere seconds it hurt.

Last, but not least, his eyes skimmed over Swiss’ legs, covered in stockings, the same red lace as he rest of the set, up to just over his knees and held up by thin straps of the garter belt digging into his meaty thighs. The earth ghoul silently thanked Satan Swiss didn’t get an idea of getting rid of his body hair. It made it all so much better, his muscled arms and thighs and soft chest and tummy covered in thick, dark hair. Not to speak of the bush peeking out from all around the panties.

Mountain was feral.

“Well?” Swiss asked. “What do you th– ah, shit!”

He didn’t manage to finish, being interrupted by the earth ghoul pouncing at him with a growl. Before Swiss could even notice what was happening, he was already bent over the table with the side of his face pressed into the wood and fingers in his ass.

“Jesus Christ, Mountain…” he broke off into a moan when two of Mountain’s long fingers immediately found his prostate. He didn’t need any prep and his mate would notice soon enough that he was already slick and loose. Swiss knew perfectly well what would happen, of course he prepared.

“Get your dick out,” the multi ghoul whined, arching his back into Mountain’s touch. The giant only rumbled in his chest again and ripped one of his hands away from Swiss to follow his humble request. He heard the click of a belt buckle and noise of a roughly pulled down zipper and the next thing he knew the wide head of the earth ghoul’s cock was being pushed into him.

“Make me yours,” Swiss moaned and Mountain absolutely lost it. He shoved himself all the way in with a howl, nailing Swiss’ sweet spot dead on so hard it hurt, and all he could do was whine and babble and drool onto the wood under his cheek. He was already ruined, and they’ve just begun. The earth ghoul kept snarling over him, Swiss could feel drops of spit hitting his back as Mountain picked up a painfully fast and hard and precise pace that sent the multi ghoul to somewhere near the orbit.

“Mine,” Mountain growled, leaning down over the expanse of his mate’s body to scrape his fangs over the—already covered in sweat—skin of his neck.

“Y– yours,” Swiss wheezed out, being rocked back and forth with the force of Mountain’s forceful thrusts. He felt tears pooling in his eyes as his cock, still trapped behind the pretty lace, now wet with precum, was repeatedly shoved into the edge of the table. It hurt, but it felt so good. 

For a few moments the room was silent apart from the slapping sound of skin on skin, slick noise of Mountain’s cock fucking into Swiss, animalistic grunts of the earth ghoul and the high pitched whines of the multi ghoul. Both of them were too lost in it to think clearly enough to utter something coherent.

Mountain had his nose pressed into Swiss’ neck, his claws digging into his mate’s waist, pinpricks of blood escaping from under them. He desperately tried to hold himself up with the other hand, firmly planted next to Swiss’ head, tangled in his locs and adding that little bit more pain to all the maddening pleasure.

The earth ghoul slowed and reduced his thrusts to a series of deep grinds that made Swiss feel him in his throat. “Mounty… can I– I wanna see you…”

“Fuck… yeah,” he grunted and pulled away, even though there was reluctance. Swiss whimpered at the sudden emptiness and lack of pressure all over him, but Mountain was quick to turn him over so they’d be face to face. The multi ghoul grinned seeing his mate’s equally blissed out expression. He didn’t wait any more, hooking his legs around the other’s waist and pulling him in.

“Come on,” Swiss muttered and Mountain slammed back into him all at once, arms gripping him tightly. The multi ghoul whined loudly and all whorish, tears now streaming down his face and mixing with the spit that was already pooled on the table.

“You like that, don’t you?” Mountain growled, licking over Swiss’ racing pulse and moaning at the taste. “Being just a whore to be fucked and filled and claimed?”

“Yes, fuck, just for you.” The earth ghoul all but roared at that, returning to fucking him hard and fast, somehow even harder than before. Every thrust was abusing Swiss’ prostate and tugging at his rim and he feared he’d come before his mate. He could already feel the more and more pronounced swell of Mountain’s knot bumping against his ass and wanting to slip in, though. He didn’t expect either of them to be able to last especially long.

“Fucking– getting all dressed up,” he spat. “Like a slut.”

“Just for you.”

Mountain made a pained sound as if he would start crying, too, and Swiss felt him throb inside him. It must’ve been painful at this point, ready to burst, needing that wet, warm pressure all around, squeezing his knot and milking him dry.

“Swiss– shit, I– ‘m gonna–” Mountain’s voice suddenly got softer and finally something other than a growl broke its way free. He hid his face in Swiss’ chest and moaned prettily and if the multi ghoul knew anything at the moment, he knew it meant the giant really was about to cum.

“Come on,” he arched his back. As much as he could, at least, still being so tightly gripped and held in place by his near feral mate. “Gimme your knot, stuff me full. Breed me like the whore I am.”

Mountain made the sweetest noise as he shoved his knot all the way in, sinking his fangs into Swiss’ shoulder at the same time. The multi ghoul’s body went rigid and he might have blacked out for a moment when an earth shattering orgasm crashed into him, just as his mate’s cum started truly filling him all the way up.

One moment Swiss was shaking and crying through it and the next there was a heavy, sweaty body laying limply over him and pressing his own torso into the table.

“You alive up there, big guy?” he breathed out. He tried to chuckle, but the weight made it impossible, so all that left him was a wheeze.

“Mhm…” Mountain rumbled, his chest—and by extension Swiss’—vibrating with a beginning of a purr.

“Good to know, but I’m not gonna lie, it’s not too comfortable down here,” the multi ghoul grumbled with no real venom. Post-nut Mountain was too cute for him to actually complain about anything, especially after the little stunt he pulled.

“Thought you like it when I squeeze you.”

“I absolutely do,” Swiss giggled, “but not on our dining table, maybe. There’s a couch right there.”

“Oh… right,” Mountain said, but he was still slow to move. There was also the fact that his knot, locked in Swiss, was nowhere near deflating. The giant wrapped his arms around the multi ghoul—the process took him way longer than necessary, he got a bit lost in running his fingers over the lace that Swiss was still wrapped in—and hoisted the both of them up, Swiss hooking his legs around Mountain’s waist. The aforementioned couch was close enough so that if Mountain just flopped back onto it, he’d end up with Swiss in his lap. It was as awkward as ever, but it worked, and they landed with a huff and tiny moans at the pull of the earth ghoul’s cock. But they settled, Swiss taking off the gloves and nuzzling under Mountain’s jaw as the other wrapped a blanket that was nearby around him and kept him close. He himself was still clothed, after all, and Swiss—who had a tendency to go cold after coming down from his high—was all but.

“You are a menace, you know that?” the earth ghoul chuckled after a moment of relative silence, filled with just their purrs.

“Of course I do, sweetheart. And you love me for it.”

“I really do, don’t I?” Mountain sighed, rubbing his cheek against Swiss’.

“You’re completely enamored.”

“You’re no better,” he scoffed.

“Oh, I know. How could I not?” Swiss caught Mountain’s lips in a kiss. “You’re so beautiful, strong, smart and your dick is so good. Love your dick.”

“Ah, yes, of course. My dick. I love you, too.”

“Nothing about my dick? Or my ass?”

“Fine. I love your dick, too. And your ass.”

“Knew it.” With that, and another sweet kiss, the discussion ended, and they continued on purring happily, as close together as it can be. Some time later, probably unnecessarily long after Mountain’s knot would deflate, Swiss would get up. The earth ghoul’s dick would kick and slowly fill out again when he’d take in the image of his mate bloodied, bruised and well and truly marked, with cum leaking out of him and running down his thighs. Most importantly, he’d still be wearing this Satan damned lingerie.

Mountain would throw him over his shoulder this time and take him back to their bedroom. He had a few ideas earlier, didn’t he?

#hypnone writes #the band ghost #nameless ghouls #swiss ghoul #mountain ghoul #swissalps

[chubby-kiyo]

I’m a bit bored, so how’s about some non kink appearance headcanons

I’ll start with THH

Leon Kuwata - (He/Him bi, female pref)He’s an athlete, so I figure he’s kinda lean-muscle-ish, but with thicker thighs bc baseball players are just built different. Has smallish stretched ears (like 0g)

Sayaka Maizono - (She/Her, bi male pref) Built like a standard jpop idol, what else do you expect? She definitely puts blush and highlighter on her nose like a 2020 egirl.

Chihiro Fujisaki - (She/They, trans-femme (questioning), pan) All around petite, even their feet are tiny. Has chubby cheeks and a slight gap in her front teeth.

Mondo Oowada - (He/Him, gay) Muscular and a bit stocky, has naturally curly hair when he lets it down. Has scars on his hands from busting his knuckles. Pierced eyebrow, septum, and ears.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru - (He/Him, demisexual gay) Has a gym regimen that he sticks to religiously and is well muscled. He has fuller lips and a round face that don’t quite suit his body.

Celestia Ludenberg - (She/They, bi fem pref) She is plus sized and has an slight hourglass figure that is accentuated by her corset. Draws their eyebrows on in thin triangles and has a trad goth makeup look. Snakebites and stretched ears.

Hifumi Yamada - (He/They, aroace) We all know the man is fat, but the game really did him dirty. His body in my headcanon is evenly portioned and he has more of a hanging stomach that is tucked in his pants. Always wears comfy clothes because of sensory issues and has somewhat curly hair.

Sakura Ogami - (She/Her, pan) She’s already perfect in game. I do see her having softer facial features and thick curly hair though. She also loves to wear nude tinted lipgloss when she isn’t actively training.

Aoi Asahina - (She/Her, Lesbian) Midsized with thick thighs and muscular arms. Has a really cute button nose and a dusting of freckles. Has a small gold hoop nose ring.

Junko Enoshima - (She/Her, pan) She’s a supermodel, so yeah. She wears hair extensions, and her natural hair is pin straight. Has a small, upturned nose. (She also wears push up bras)

Mukuro Ikusaba - (She/They, Lesbian) All around muscular from combat training. Has freckles on her shoulders as well and scars on her hands/arms from knife fights.

Kyoko Kirigiri - (She/Her, bi, female pref) Slim and relatively flat chested, but doesn’t mind at all. Has very light colored eyelashes that match her hair.

Yasuhiro Hagakure - (He/Him, pan) Just kind of an average guy. He doesn’t work out or anything, so he’s a little bit soft. Scraggly facial hair. Likes to wear his locs in a ponytail with a bandanna, and he has some wood and glass beads in them. Pierced nostril and ears.

Toko Fukawa - (She/Her, Lesbian with one exception) Kind of scrawny and awkward. Hates wearing form-fitting clothes. Has knobby knees and doesn’t like wearing skirts that show them. Thick hair and eyebrows. She has freckles on her shoulders and a few other dark moles on her arms and back, like the one on her face. Is actually quite pretty, but doesn’t put any time into her appearance.

Byakuya Togami - (He/Him, Somewhere on the ace spectrum) Tall and thin, but not in an unhealthy way. Has long elegant fingers and big feet. Softer, androgynous looking facial features and double eyelashes.

Makoto Naegi - (He/Him FtM, pan) Is just kind of naturally chubby, and has a round baby face. Hasn’t had top surgery, but his body shape kind of evens him out. Thick, wavy hair. Has a gap in his front teeth and kind of a wide flat-ish nose with full lips.

#danganronpa #trigger happy havoc #danganronpa trigger happy havoc #makoto naegi #kyoko kirigiri #toko fukawa #byakuya togami #leon kuwata #mondo oowada #sakura ogami #aoi asahina #yasuhiro hagakure #hifumi yamada #chihiro fujisaki #kiyotaka ishimaru #junko enoshima #mukuro ikusaba #celestia ludenberg #sayaka maizono #danganronpa 1 #dr1 #thh

[katymacsupernatural]

Red and Green Satin

Dean Winchester x Reader

1600 Words

Written For: @spnchristmasbingo

Square Filled: Lingerie

Warnings: This is an 18+ fic. NSFW. Smut. 

It was a slow time of year for hunting, and you were grateful for it. It gave you a chance to recharge, to spend time with Dean without having to worry about catching the monster or getting killed. You weren’t sure if Monsters hibernated like bears, or if they hated the cold just as much as you did. 

Today was one of those relaxing days. While Dean was gone running some errands, you took the time to catch up on your reading. Lounging in the library, you ignored all the hardback, leather-covered books that you still needed to research, reaching for a romance from one of your favorite authors. 

With a cup of hot chocolate at your side, you dug into the story, immersing yourself in the tale of forbidden lovers and heroic escapades. At some point, you heard Dean come back to the bunker. He even came by, placing a kiss on the top of your head before taking your empty mug and leaving you to your reading.

Once the two characters finally realized their love for each other, you closed the book and stretched your back. Dean had left a sandwich by your side sometime during the day, and you munched on it as you made your way down the hallway and into the bedroom you shared with Dean.

Laying on the bed was a small white box wrapped with a silky red ribbon. Your name written in Dean’s cramped handwriting on the connected tag. You were curious, but also annoyed. The two of you had promised no gifts for Christmas this year.

Slowly pulling on the ribbon, you laid it on the side before lifting off the white lid. Inside, nestled in pink tissue paper were little scraps of red and green satin plaid tied together with gold ribbon. Holding the bottoms out, you weren’t even sure they would fit you, with the tiny triangle of fabric in the front, the three golden ribbons on each side, and the thin scrap that was the only piece of the back.

“Holy crap,” you whispered, setting it down to pick up the top. It had the same red and green satin fabric, mainly under the wire, wrapping around to the back. The cups were only half there, red sain, tied up like the big red bow on the package. You had never worn anything like this. It was much too skimpy. You liked to be covered, to hide all the scars, the cellulite, and stretch marks on your stomach and thighs. This would do nothing but highlight them.

You noticed a card hiding in the tissue paper, and with a shaky hand you pulled it out. ‘I know we said no Christmas presents this year. But I thought this would be for both of us. No pressure.”

No pressure. Just looking at it was pressure. Imagining what you would look like in it was pressure. Taking a deep breath, you started to shove it back in the box when you paused for a moment. A part of you wondered…wondered what it what be like to wear something like that. To be comfortable enough in your own skin to stand in that skimpy of outfit in front of the man you loved. A man who loved like Adonis himself.

Your curiosity got the better of you as you slipped out of your sweatpants and oversized shirt. Maybe you could try it on before Dean came to bed and let him know that it didn’t fit. Then he could return it, and you would never have to go through the humiliation of wearing it in front of him again. 

Your simple sports bra came off, along with your black panties. The satin of the lingerie felt smooth and soft against your skin as you struggled to pull it up your thighs. Finally, it was settled in place, the ribbon slightly rough against your skin. The bra was next, and you had a little more trouble with it. Getting it into place, you struggled to get the bow tied while supporting your generous breasts. Finally, the bow stayed tied, your girls pushed and piled high above the red ribbon. You were grateful that you had shaved that morning as you hesitantly stood in front of the mirror.

You tried to focus on the positives. How well the red and green highlighted your skin. Instead, your eyes went immediately to what you called the problem areas. Sighing in disappointment, you turned to take it back off when a loud whistle startled you.

“Damn, that even looks better than I expected,” Dean exclaimed as he leaned against the wall. “I hope you don’t mind.”

Crossing your arms over your chest did nothing but push your girls up even farther, pulling Dean’s gaze down. “Dean, you know I’m not a big fan of showing off my body,” you started to argue as he came forward. “I appreciate the gesture, but…,”

Your words faded away as his callused finger ran along the satin fabric, brushing the top of your breasts. “This is definitely a present I can’t wait to unwrap.”

“It’s a present you’ve seen before,” you retorted, but it ended in a whimper as his hand dipped down, following the gold ribbon from your hip to right in front where the tiny little green bow was perched. 

“And each and every time it’s like seeing it for the first time,” he answered as his hand pulled you tight against him. His green eyes were a darker, forest green as he leaned down, his lips ghosting against yours, driving you wild.

Suddenly it didn’t matter how exposed you felt in the skimpy lingerie. All that mattered was the feel of Dean’s arms around you, his lips rough against yours. Threading your fingers through his hair, you stood up on your tiptoes, your lips hot against his. 

Groaning against your skin, he picked you up, dropping you on the bed before stepping back. “Wow,” he whispered, kneeling between your legs, staring down at you. “How did I get so lucky?”

“No, how did I?” You argued as his finger traced the red bow on your breasts, tugging on it until it came untied. Pulling the fabric away, he greedily stared down at the present he had just unwrapped. “I definitely think I won here,” his voice was deeper, guttural as he leaned between your splayed legs, his hand resting warmly on the swell of your breast as his lips nestled against your neck. 

You weren’t about to argue as his thumb began a gentle caress of your pebbled nipple, pulling a soft groan from your lips. His lips left your skin long enough to join his thumb, his tongue swirling around the sensitive skin as his other hand skimmed down your belly, coming to rest on your satin covered mound. “As much as I love seeing these panties on you, I think it’s about time to unwrap my second part of the present.”

Your agreement was lifting your hips slightly off the bed so he could pull them down. They came off a lot easier than they went on, and you watched as Dean’s shirt and jeans joined them on the floor. “Much better,” he licked his lips as his hand continued it’s exploration down, rubbing against your most sensitive area. You were already warm and wet, turned on by the way he was looking at you and the feel of his callused fingers against your skin. 

He started to rub his finger against your nub when you pulled him back up for a kiss. “Need you,” you pleaded, wanting to skip the foreplay. Pushing on his shoulder until he was laying down, you straddled his waist. The red satin bow swung down, tickling his belly as you pulled his member from the slit in his boxers. Rubbing it along your slit, you groaned at the sensation before slipping the head inside. 

“Fuck me,” Dean groaned, his head tilted back, his teeth tugging on his lower lip. 

“That’s the point,” you chuckled, it ending in a moan as you sank down, filling yourself with his impressive girth. “Damn, that feels so good.”

Dean’s hands felt for and grasped your hips, helping you move up and down, creating a rhythm that worked for the both of you. Your head thrown back, you rocked up and down, loving the way he felt inside of you. 

One of Dean’s hands slid up your side, cupping your breast slightly rougher than before, rubbing your nipple between his fingers and you could feel the pressure building up low in your stomach. “Dean, I…, you moaned, wanting more. Needing more. Moving your hips faster, you ground against his hip bones before coming apart at the seams. 

Dean’s name left your lips in a screaming moan as you clenched around him, sending him over the edge as well. His hand grasped your hip tight enough to leave a bruise, yelling “Fuck,” loud enough for Sam to hear down the hall. 

Once the two of you stopped seeing stars, you laid down on your side beside him, his hand running up and down your arm gently. Both of you were half asleep, completely sated. “Well, I hope you enjoyed the present as much as I did,” he chuckled, using his other hand to play with the crumpled satin.

“Very much so,” you agreed, grateful that Dean had been able to pull you slightly away from your insecurities.

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[yungidreamer]

Gifted

Summary: The holidays are finally over and she Mingi and Yunho can finally come home. They exchange their gifts and share an unforgettable first under the Christmas tree.

Word count: 8.3k

Content warnings: warm, fuzzy, intense smut. Double penetration, oral sex, finger sucking, mild restraint and control. Cuddly aftercare.

The moment they walked through the door to their house they finally felt like they could breathe. Although Mingi wanted to immediately pull them into his arms, in the end, cooler heads prevailed and they did all the things they needed to do first. They unpacked their clothes, made food, and got all the presents they had received into places where they belonged. School would start on Monday, but that left them with a couple of days just for them. Everything was right in the world.

The Christmas tree was still up in their living room, just waiting for them to do their own private Christmas together. Aside from Yunho getting his suit from Mingi, they still hadn’t given each other the gifts they had bought for each other. While she finished preparing their food, the boys wrapped their presents. Her present was already wrapped in a simple bright red envelope with both of the boys' names written on the front in shining gold lettering. She stood the envelope in the branches of the tree, among their sparkling lights.

When the boys emerged from their rooms, presents in hand, they found her waiting for them in the living room with the food plated and warm mugs full of hot cider. They had made some carbonara as a quick and filling dish they could make with just things they happened to have left in the house. On her nearby laptop, soft music was playing. As tempted as she had been to put on Christmas music, it was starting to get to be too late in the year for it, and they had been listening to it on and off since Thanksgiving. Instead she had picked a little playlist of sort of melancholic instrumentals which would fade into the background of the room.

“What do you think about having a fire?” She suggested, giving her hands a little rub to warm them up. While they were gone, they had kept the heating low but warm enough to keep everything from freezing. No people meant no need to keep the house warm enough for comfort, and now it was going to take a little bit of time for the house to get back to its normal warmth.

“Yeah, that sounds good,” Yunho agreed.

“Would one of you mind bringing in a little more wood while I get it started?” She stood up, heading towards the fireplace. Mingi nodded and went to grab his boots and coat, while Yunho moved to work on getting some kindling ready. She swept the last of the ashes that had been left in the grate down into the little slats that dropped into the built in ash drawer. Yunho then took the little drawer to empty it into the bag of ashes they were collecting on the porch. By the time he got back, she was stacking some of the smaller logs they had inside on the crumpled and knotted newspaper he had helped to prepare. She stood up, getting ready to reach for the super long matches they kept on the hearth, but before she could try, Yunho came up behind her, taking them off the somewhat high shelf to pass to her. He loved when he could do something for her, something simple but helpful. It gave him a deep sense of satisfaction to feel useful or needed, even just for silly things.

Mingi came in, arms burdened with an abundance of wood, just as she slid the drawer back in. Striking the match against the base of the canister, she reached the tip of the lit match to the back of the grate, lighting the kindling from the back. After a few moments, the fire was crackling and popping as it started to come to life.

They ate their meal as they watched it, making sure that it was going to properly catch and grow. With satisfying food, a warm fire, and the Christmas tree’s glow filling the room, it really felt like they were home. When she started to gather the dishes to take them to the kitchen to do, Mingi stopped her, insisting it was his turn to do them and it would only take him a couple of minutes. Afterall, she had already done the dishes they used while cooking. She smiled and let him go as Yunho pulled her into his lap.

“Welcome home, love,” he nuzzled into her hair as he spoke. “I’ve missed you more than you’d believe.”

“I missed you, too,” her fingers played with the cuff of his old, soft sweater. “I really love seeing my family, I miss them too, but home isn’t home anymore without you two.”

“Someday we’ll tell them,” he sighed, trying to reassure himself of this as much as her. “Someday we’ll have a Christmas all together; you, me, Mingi and all our families.”

“Maybe just us, your mom, and my parents,” she said after a moment’s thought.

“Yeah,” Mingi said as he joined them again from the kitchen. “Don’t make me always have to spend Christmas with my parents. Besides, when dad finds out I’m with Yunho, I’m pretty sure he is going to completely disown me.”

“Maybe...maybe when push comes to shove, he’ll actually pick his son over his prejudice,” she tried to give a half note of hope as she spoke.

“Even if he does,” Mingi shook his head as he sat down beside Yunho, pulling her legs into his lap. “I don’t know that I want him there to ruin my happy moments. Even if he can get over the fact I love another man, nothing I do makes him happy anyway.”

“He’s a sour moron,” she stated without a shred of doubt. “If he can’t see what an amazing person he managed to raise, he’s too stupid for me to tolerate.”

“As long as you see it, that’s all I care about,” Mingi took one of her hands in his and pressed a kiss to the back of it.

“We see it,” Yunho confirmed, looping an arm around Mingi’s waist.

“Who is ready for gifts?” She asked excitedly, changing the subject.

“Meeeee!” Shouted both of the boys together.

“Okay, one second,” she told them as she stood up. “I have one more thing to wrap.”

“Wait, why didn’t you do it earlier?” Yunho protested, giving her a scolding look.

“You’ll see in one minute,” she chuckled, knowing they would get it when she came back. She scurried back to their shared room and dug into her desk drawer where she had been keeping the small bag, knowing they would never have a reason to look for anything in there. In the little plastic bag she found the four pieces of silver and lace that made up the lingerie set. It was more for show than anything else, but the little satin tank top and shorts might be something she would use to sleep in when it was hot in the summer. She slipped the bra, mostly made of little lace triangles and thin satin straps, on, followed by the little satin and lace thong, then put on the more practical pieces over them before finally wrapping herself in her large, fluffy terry cloth robe.

She scurried back out into the living room having wrapped herself up for them and was greeted by both of them bursting into laughter, their faces splitting into broad smiles. Indeed they did understand why she hadn’t wrapped that present earlier. It wasn’t terribly practical for cooking or fire building. She pressed a light kiss to each of their lips before kneeling down near both of them.

“Can we unwrap you first,” Mingi questioned hopefully.

“No,” she laughed. “I’m last. But,” she pointed at the envelope in the branches behind them. “You can open that first, if you want.”

“Fine,” Yunho reached up and pulled it out of it’s perch. Both boys looked at it with an intense curiosity. The paper was a bright and vibrant red and had a fine texture to it. It was the sort of paper that begged for the use of fountain pens and sealing wax. Yunho ran his fingers over their names and made a little O face before turning it over to slide his finger under the flap to pull it open. Inside was a little card made from the same paper on which she had written a short letter.

To the boys who make every day special and who deserve the world. Someday I can give you everything you deserve, but for now, enjoy this.

Together they opened the card and found a couple of regular printer papers, folded in quarters. They put the card down and unfolded the papers to see what they were. The first page was a dinner reservation for the first Tuesday in April at a restaurant they recognized as a fancy place in the middle of Manhattan. Mingi’s eyes widened and he looked at her then back at the paper to make sure he had read it correctly. Yunho flipped to the second page to find a reservation for that week in April at a bed and breakfast in New York City.

“That will be over spring break,” she elucidated as their eyes scanned the paper. “Our first trip together. And it’s far enough from everyone so we can just be us. I also wanted a good excuse for Yunho to wear that suit you got him. It would look so good on him. I can hardly wait.”

“This...this can’t have been cheap,” Mingi protested slightly. “You didn’t have to…”

“I know,” she shrugged. “I wanted to. I want to see the world with you both and that is just the first place.”

“We could have paid for this together,” Yunho pointed out. “It’s too much.”

“No, no,” she shook her head. “You’re going to drive us and we can split the cost of everything else while we are there.”

“You aren’t paying for anything while we are there,” Mingi said firmly. Yunho nodded in agreement as he scanned the page of the bed and breakfast again. Located next to Central Park. A great location for entertainment and close to public transportation. Yunho folded the papers and let them drop to his lap. He leaned forward and pulled her into a quick, grateful kiss. She really was too much sometimes. Mingi set the papers and the card on the coffee table before he pulled her into his lap.

“I love you so much more than I can say,” he said as he held her face in his hands, keeping her looking at him.

“I can’t wait to go to the city with my two favorite people,” she beamed at him. “We are going to have so much fun.”

Mingi sighed and kissed the tip of her nose. Her expression was like sunshine and he felt a little quiver in his chest as his heart skipped a beat. She was always pretty and just looking at her could move him, but her grin, how it made her eyes sparkle and how her lips quirked just that way sometimes hit him like a freight train and he could feel the breath be sucked from his lungs. In those moments he knew pure joy and a gut churning fear all at once. It was the thing that made him sure he could endure anything mixed with the, perhaps irrational, fear that it could all disappear.

Yunho read the expression on Mingi’s face and gave him a reassuring kiss on his cheek. He knew that expression, that mix of contradicting emotions which sometimes washed over him. He trusted it more, trusted that it wouldn’t disappear, but in his worst moments he still had those flashes of doubt that he could be that lucky, that people could really love him that deeply, and no matter what might come. Yunho leaned his head against the side of Mingi’s head, silently reassuring him with his presence, his faith.

“Mingi, love, why don’t you open what Yunho got you?” She suggested, running a reassuring hand over his chest. Mingi nodded, taking his eyes from her face but keeping her in his arms. Yunho passed him the wrapped box he had put under the tree, letting it rest in her lap as Mingi began to rip at the paper. 

Mingi laughed happily when he saw what was inside. The gift wasn’t the most expensive thing he had gotten that holiday, but it was one of the most thoughtful ones. With his old headphones wearing down from his constant use of them, it was something that showed how much Yunho paid attention to Mingi’s daily life and the things that made it better. He set the box on the coffee table with the papers and guided Yunho’s lips to his in a soft and grateful kiss.

“You like them?” Yunho said self consciously. “I know your old ones are starting to become unusable so I thought—”

“I love them,” Mingi interrupted. “And I’ll think of you everytime I use them.”

“I’m glad you like them,” Yunho gave him a blushing grin.

“Okay, now it’s our girl’s turn,” Mingi excitedly reached for the small package of his gift and placed it in her lap. He had wrapped it in silver paper covered in little white and grey snowflakes. She made a little cooing noise as she admired the pretty wrapping before she found the tape keeping it closed on the back side.

“Just rip it,” Mingi teased, poking at her.

“Fine,” She pouted slightly before complying and gently ripping at the wrapping. Under it she found a simple white matte box, which she carefully righted before opening it to see what was inside. There, she found the little silver and pearl choker he had bought for her a couple of weeks before break.

“Oh, it’s beautiful,” she commented, running her fingers over the small lines of seed pearls. The central panel, a square frame with a bright eight armed star in it’s center, sparkled in the low light. She carefully lifted it out of the box to better examine it, twisting it in her hand to admire the way the little crystals glinted and glimmered. She loved the elegant beauty of it, though she really couldn’t imagine what occasion she might have to justify wearing it.

“Can I put it on you?” Mingi asked, an excited glimmer in his eye.

“If you want,” she nodded, lifting her hair off her neck to make it easier. Mingi fed the necklace around her neck and brought the two sides together in the back, carefully working the fastening closed.

“Let me see,” Mingi said, leaning back slightly. She dropped her hands, letting her hair flow down her back again and turned to let him admire his gift on her. Though it hid slightly in the folds of the collar of her robe, the cream, sliver, and bright glint of the rhinestones looked remarkable against her skin. He loved it on her and he loved that it was his gift sitting there. It marked her as his at the same time it was a statement of his love of her.

“That is beautiful, Mingi,” Yunho praised from beside them. He lifted her chin slightly to get a clearer look at it, but also to admire how the angle exposed her neck. “It’s perfect for our girl.”

“What about yours,” Mingi reminded him, hugging her tightly in his arms. 

“Here,” Yunho handed her the small blue box, tied with a white satin bow. It was long and less than an inch thick and slightly heavy in hand. She lifted it curiously and gave it a light shake, enjoying the sound of whatever it was shifting along with the slight crinkle of tissue paper. Pulling at one end of the ribbon, she undid the bow and tossed the scrap of satin off to the side. She lifted the lid off the box and folded the layer of tissue paper to the side. The hair comb, finally revealed, reflected the flickering of the fire and the color of the lights off the curves of it’s decorative scrolls and long tines.

“It’s a comb you can use to keep your hair up,” Yunho explained, pulling it off the pillow of tissues in the box.

“It’s lovely,” she took it from his hands and turned it over in her hands. “It’s real silver isn’t it?” She had taken note of the little makers' marks that had been impressed into the metal near the base of the crest.

“Yeah,” Yunho nodded, nervously watching her reaction. “I saw it and I could just picture it on you. It would look so pretty in your hair.”

“Thank you,” she pulled his face to hers and gave him a slow sweet kiss. “It’s perfect. Practical, elegant, and thoughtful.”

“Can I put your hair up with it?” Yunho proposed. “I want to see it on you.”

“Of course,” she nodded, and started to get up. “I’ll go grab my brush.”

“I can grab it,” Yunho stopped her and hopped up himself, dashing down the hall to get it. He found it on the counter and caught sight of himself in the mirror. After the long trip home he looked a little tired and his hair was a little bit of a mess, but if you couldn’t look a little like a disaster at home, what was the point?

He headed back into the living room to find her and Mingi cuddling under the tree together. They looked precious, her small form enveloped in his long arms. Mingi’s face had a peaceful relaxation to his features that had been missing the whole holiday back with their families. Their inability to be themselves there had impacted them more than they would have guessed it would have. Afterall, six months ago that was their reality full time, but what a difference those few months had made. Home didn’t quite feel like home anymore now that they had been able to live as themselves, fully and openly.

Mingi turned, catching Yunho in his gaze and flashing the other boy a smile. Yunho moved forward and joined them again. She shifted to sit between his legs, giving him her back so he could brush her hair. He really loved when she let him play with her hair. He loved caring for her and taking little moments where he could just touch her without it leading to something. Even when it often did, he had to admit. He ran the brush through her locks, carefully removing the tangles before he started gathering it up towards the crown of her head. Twisting her hair into a bun, he gently fed the comb through the knot to secure it.

“Let me see,” Yunho put a hand on her shoulder, urging her to turn to face him. Turning where she sat, she looked up at him through her lashes, keeping her head slightly down to make sure that he could see the comb and his handiwork.

“Is it pretty?” She asked him.

“It’s nothing compared to you,” he responded, capturing her lips and lifting her face up to his. Her lips were soft and warm under his, tasting slightly of apple. He wanted her, he wanted them, and felt like it had been almost forever since he had been able to touch them without looking over his shoulder.

“Do you both want to unwrap the last present since you have both given me your gifts now?” She suggested, pulling away from him.

“Are we unwrapping you?” Mingi sounded excited as he drew up behind her.

“Yep,” she wagged her eyebrows at him playfully. Mingi’s face split into an excited grin that extended up to his eyes, making them into little joyful crescents. She stood up and grabbed the blanket off the back of the couch, spreading it out on the floor in front of the fireplace. She knelt down on the floor and crooked her finger at her boys, inviting them to join her. They hurried to join her, each taking a side.

Mingi’s hands went to the tie at the front of her terry cloth robe, pulling at it until it was untied. Yunho’s hands went to the front of the robe, pulling open the sides to reveal what was underneath. He slid the robe off her shoulders with Mingi’s help, and tossed it off to the side. She knelt between them in the silver satin set and the gifts they had given her. Somehow it almost looked like they were meant to be together, a symphony of silver and pearl. She knew how to present herself in a way that made it clear she was giving all of herself to them.

“You look so pretty,” Mingi let his eyes flow over the cascade of silver colored satin the draped her curves. “You are my favorite present of the year.”

Yunho laughed but had to agree, her invitation to intimacy tonight was the best gift he could have imagined. “You look perfect, but I’m feeling a little overdressed.”

“You are,” she chuckled. “But I think you could probably help each other with that.”

Yunho caught Mingi’s eyes over her head at the suggestion. He raised an eyebrow to the other boy, as if to ask, what do you think. Mingi gave him a little nod and they both scooted forward to stand before her, where they could reach each other and make quick work of their clothing. Mingi blushed as he looked into Yunho’s warm eyes, enjoying the desire that was lighting them from behind. Yunho leaned forward and brushed his lips over the sharp angle of Mingi’s cheekbones, feeling the heat of the blush that covered them.

“I’ve missed you like this,” Yunho told him as he pulled him against him. The line of their lean bodies matched, hip to hip, where Yunho’s large hand held the two of them together. He could feel the soft bulge of Mingi’s half hardened erection press against him and gave it a teasing rub of his own hip against it.

Mingi let out a small groan and put his broad hands on Yunho’s biceps. “You’re such a tease.”

“And you love it,” Yunho said proudly.

“Shut up,” Mingi laughed, moving his hands to the hem of Yunho’s black t-shirt.

“So impatient,” Yunho teased, but still lifted his arms over his head to let Mingi pull his shirt off him. The sight of Yunho’s bare chest sent a shock of pleasure through Mingi. He loved the perfect, soft, lean muscle of his body. Ever so slightly bulkier than Mingi’s own, he loved the naturally muscular body of the other boy. He simultaneously wanted his own body to be more like that and wanted to luxuriate in the exploration of it. His fingers brushed over the hollow in Yunho’s collarbone, a silly smile on his face as he did.

“Here,” Yunho reached for the buttons on the front of Mingi’s white button up shirt and made quick and nimble work of them. He slid it down off Mingi’s broad shoulders, kissing along his neck to the tip of his shoulder on one side as he did. Mingi let the shirt drop before bringing his hands to tangle in Yunho’s messy locks as his lips moved over his body.

Keeping his lips on Mingi’s body, his fingers dropped to the button on his jeans. Yunho flicked open the button and slid the zipper down. His fingers slipped in the waistband of Mingi’s jeans and boxers, slowly lowering them over his narrow hips. When the cloth fell, pooling at his ankles, Yunho’s hands moved to cup the small tight muscles of Mingi’s butt.

Mingi stepped out of his pants and pulled back enough to be able to see as his hands worked to remove Yunho’s as well. Yunho stepped out of his pants as well as Mingi’s fingers tickled along the fine, muscular v of muscle where his stomach became his hips and more.

“You look so good,’’ he told Yunho, not able to meet his eyes as he complimented him.

“So do you, my love,” Yunho hooked a finger under Mingi’s chin, lifting his face to meet his. Mingi shrugged shyly, not sure how to answer, when he felt like he wasn’t nearly as beautiful as his two partners.

“You’re both beautiful,” she said from where she still sat on her heels in front of the fireplace. When Mingi turned, she was looking at them both with such admiration he could almost believe it himself. She motioned for them to come back, reaching out for Mingi first as he came close. Sitting beside her, he admired the soft curves of her body and the grace of her limbs as she touched him. Her gaze followed her fingers as they danced over his chest and collarbone, then moved up to brush an errant lock of hair off his forehead.

“I love your face,” she said softly, cupping his cheek. “It makes me so happy just to look at you.”

“When you look at me like that,” he softened at her smile. “I feel like I could do anything.”

“Let’s start with unwrapping our gift just a little bit more,” Yunho suggested. Mingi eagerly agreed, his hand slipping in under the hem of the tank top to tickle at her waist before lifting it. Yunho helped from the other side as they slid it up and over her head, careful not to catch it on the comb or necklace. They were surprised by the light lace bralet she wore underneath, but not unpleasantly so. The triangles of delicate lace cupped her breasts, only barely hiding her nipples behind their gauzy fabric. Mingi’s fingers traced over the seam that ran down the center of one before cupping her breast and giving her nipple a brush with his thumb.

“I don’t know if I should be frustrated by the layers or if I like the surprise of it,” Yunho joked from the other side, running the fingers of one hand along the thin strap that held it up. She came to her knees and hooked her thumbs in the elasticized band of the silken shorts and slowly slid them down to reveal the satin and lace thong beneath.

“Just a little more,” she admitted with a giggle as she saw Mingi’s Adams’s Apple bob in his throat as he swallowed past the arousal that was filling him. Between her teasing lace lingerie and Yunho’s beautiful naked body visible just past her, he felt surrounded by temptations.

She stood up to step out of the shorts and Mingi took her gently by the hips, turning her standing body to face him, and brought his mouth to the dimple of her belly button. He mouthed the soft skin there, nipping the skin of her belly as his fingers tightened to dig into the cushion of her hips. Behind her, Yunho took the opportunity to splay his hands over the roundness presented to him, perfectly framed by the thin straps of her thong underwear.

Yunho pulled the panties down and off while she stood, not wanting to wait much longer and taking advantage of the ease the position offered for doing so. He helped her step out of them before he slid two long fingers into the crook of her thighs. Her knees twitched as he teased her lips, spreading the moisture already pooling there. He licked his fingers clean, then set to work unhooking the teasing bit of lace she still wore on her torso.

Mingi was still busy licking and tasting the flesh of her stomach as he worked himself lower to the juncture of her thighs. Yunho pulled at her, asking her to sit again and she acquiesced, slowly coming to sit between his thighs. She could feel his erection at her back and went to reach for it when he grabbed both her wrists.

“Not yet,” Yunho murmured to her. “Mingi, I’ll hold our girl, you make her scream.” His voice held an uncommon sort of determination and Mingi looked at him a second before nodding and moving to lie on his stomach. Mingi used his hands to adjust her hips to an angle that let him comfortably reach her then pressed her thighs wide. He leaned forward and dragged the tip of his tongue over her spread lips, teasing them and drawing a soft gasp and twitch from her.

As Mingi teased her with kisses along her inner thigh, Yunho took both her wrists in one of his large hands, keeping her from touching either of them. He kept them captive against her chest as he held her against him. Over her shoulder he could see everything that Mingi did to her, loving the intense and pleasurable look he had as he worked up to taking her with his mouth. When he finally gave her clit that first intense brush with the flat of his tongue she tried to arch and let out a low shivering moan.

“Shhhh, love,” he teased, kissing the pinking shell of her ear. “You can’t make it that easy on him. He’s barely touched you and you’re already going to scream for him? Can’t have that. Let’s keep your mouth busy.”

He parted her lips with the fingers of his other hand, slipping two fingers into her mouth up to the second knuckle and pressing down lightly on her tongue. The intrusion forced her to suck on his fingers with each swallow as well as kept her facing to where Mingi lay between her thighs. She whimpered around his fingers, giving them periodic sucks to keep the drool that threatened to pool in her mouth from dripping out.

Mingi looked up at the two of them as Yunho held her gently captive and muzzled, a haze of arousal darkening his deep brown eyes. Her eyes met his as his tongue played along her folds. She looked dazed, almost drugged by pleasure, her lips puckered around the other boys fingers in a way that made him think of them taking in other things. Mingi watched as he locked his lips around her clit gave it a gentle and sustained suck. She squirmed as much as she was allowed under his touch, her thighs fighting against his hands to press closer around his head. Her mouth went momentarily slack and a small drop of saliva escaped before she could swallow it. The look of her powerless against the pleasure they were giving her together made him almost painfully hard and he threw himself into pleasing her. He ate at her body, sucking at her most sensitive bits and thrusting his tongue in her tight entrance until she came apart underneath him with a force that left her quivering in its aftermath.

Mingi pulled back and came to his knees between her thighs before wiping the moisture off his face, watching her squirm, still moaning around Yunho’s fingers in her mouth. The other boy only pulled them out, also releasing her hands at the same time, as she started to recover,  already relaxing again under his grip. He wiped her damp chin and the skin of her chest, where a small spot of drool had developed near where he had kept her hands captive. She swallowed and leaned her head back against Yunho’s shoulder as she caught her breath.

“Are you ready for more, love,” Mingi asked, running a hand over her shoulder.

“I wanted to try something,” she said as she nodded in response. “What would you think of maybe having you both in me at the same time?”

Yunho and Mingi shared a look, blinking for a second at each other. Of course they had thought about it, fantasized about the possibility, but they hadn’t wanted to ask. Not only hadn’t they approached the idea of doing it together, they hadn’t even tried something more than mostly vanilla sex with her.

“We don’t have to,” she followed up quickly when it seemed like the silence stretched on.

“No,” Yunho rushed to assure her. “It’s just...are you sure?”

“Why wouldn’t I want to?” She looked up at him with eyes that seemed oddly innocent given the circumstances.

“Well, I mean,” Mingi said nervously. “You’re sort of small and we’re a lot to take all at once.”

“We can try it at least,” she suggested. “If it doesn’t work then we don’t have to, but I want to feel you both.”

“Alright,” Yunho agreed, swallowing past his own nervousness. “Do you want to move back to the bedroom?”

“I kind of want to stay here,” she replied. “It’s warm and this is sort of still part of Christmas. It feels right with the tree and stuff.”

“Mingi, can you grab the things we need from the bedroom?” Yunho requested. “Maybe including some pillows.” Mingi nodded, half jogging down the hall to their bedroom. He opened the bedside table and pulled out his favorite lube and a couple of condoms, something that had made it easier his first time with Yunho. Grabbing an armful of pillows, he scurried out to the living room. They were still waiting where he had left them with Yunho holding her against his chest.

Butterflies fluttered in his stomach as Mingi came near. He tossed the pillows on the side of the blanket nearest the fireplace and put the condom and lube near Yunho’s leg before taking a seat in front of her.

“How do we start?” She sat up a little straighter and ran her palms down her legs, revealing the niggling anxiety she had bubbling inside her.

“Let’s lie down,” Yunho put a guiding hand on her shoulder, bringing her to lie on her side with a pillow under her head. Mingi lay down on the other side, face to face with her, giving her a shy, reassuring smile. Yunho stretched out behind her, putting a hand on her hip as he pulled himself closer.

“Hi,” Mingi said somewhat stupidly as he looked into her eyes.

“Hi,” she giggled back. “Would you kiss me?” Mingi nodded, scooting towards her until his face lay beside hers on the pillow. He lifted her top leg to rest on his hip and put a hand on her ribs as he leaned in to take her lips. 

While Mingi kept her distracted, Yunho tried to figure out where he wanted to start. He had to take it slow, test the waters. He waited, watching as they kissed, their lips moving with an unhurried stupor. She relaxed under Mingi’s touch in the flickering of the firelight and Yunho let his hands wander to the curve of her hips. As his hand moved to cup the curve of her ass, she pulled away, turning slightly to look at him.

“Just relax,” Yunho urged. “Kiss our boy but promise you’ll tell me if I do something that hurts or just doesn’t feel good.” She nodded and moved back to Mingi, letting Yunho slowly touch her. Mingi pulled her closer, pressing her chest to his as he explored her mouth more deeply. He knew to distract her, keep her relaxed and feeling good, it would help make everything else easier.

Yunho cupped her flesh, spreading her cheeks and letting his fingertips tease along the smoothness there. She reacted to his touch without breaking the kiss, flinching a little before relaxing into his touch. Yunho took a little of the lube on his fingers, spreading it liberally around her. She let out a slightly tense chuckle and pulled her lips from Mingi’s.

“Maybe we shouldn’t,” Yunho sighed, taking his hand back. “We can do it another night.”

“No, no,” she insisted. “I’m just nervous and it kind of tickles. Just keep going.” Yunho nodded, letting his fingers return to test the tenseness of her body as he kept his eyes on her face, trying to read her expression. Her eyebrows raised slightly as he pressed against the tight ring of muscle, but she didn’t pull back. She let out a deliberate breath and closed her eyes, concentrating on the feel.

“Does it feel alright,” he asked, keeping his fingers moving gently as he felt her loosen up a fraction.

“Yeah,” she nodded, but didn’t move otherwise, finding it hard to stay relaxed if she did. “I feel like I don’t tease you nearly enough about having big hands.” 

Yunho couldn’t help but laugh at her timely sense of humor. “Big hands? Love, I have big everything.”

“Oh, I know,” she gave a deep, breathy chuckle. “Just realizing it for totally new reasons all over again.”

“Here,” he pressed forward, getting one fingertip inside her. “How is that?”

“Mmmm, good,” she nodded and her muscles fluttered around the intrusion. “Keep going.”

“Yunho is always gentle,” Mingi assured her, kissing her forehead and stroking her upper arm.

“You both are,” she put a hand on Mingi’s chest and pressed a gentle kiss to the tip of his nose. Yunho continued to move as Mingi playfully covered her face in little kisses until she was left a mess of testing pleasure and giggles.

When he could comfortably scissor two fingers inside her, ever so slowly, he decided he had prepared her as well as he could. He slid the condom on and covered it with lube before laying himself down against her back, positioning himself to enter her. Teasing his head at her entrance, he used his hand to steady her hips.

“Ready?” Yunho asked tenderly.

“Yeah,” she confirmed. “Please.”

Mingi looked over her shoulder at Yunho as he lay on the other side of her. His face was tense with concentration as he slowly pushed inside.  He sucked in a breath through his nose, taking in her scent and taking in the moment as he drew close to being fully inside her. She was still tight, but gave no sign of discomfort.

“How does it feel?” Mingi asked, looking at both of them.

“Good,” she answered. Behind her Yunho only nodded. He felt himself twitch in anticipation, still not sure if he should move yet.

“Should I...what should I do?” Mingi asked them, his hand massaging her waist slightly. 

“Let me move a little,” Yunho’s voice was tight. “Just to make sure it feels alright with just me.” Mingi nodded and looked to her as he felt Yunho shift in preparation to flex his body for the first time. She moved at the sensation of him pulling out half way, her eyes widening and breath catching in her throat.

“It’s okay?” Mingi asked, a worried look flashing across his face. Behind her Yunho stopped in response.

“I like it,” she let out a giddy sound and Yunho felt relief wash over him. “What’s next?”

“Always so eager,” Yunho teased her from behind but sent a look to Mingi over her, giving him the go-ahead to try and enter her from the other side. Mingi adjusted the leg she had draped over his hip, having to move up slightly to be in the right place and at the right angle. She was left between them, the top of her head reaching just past their chins, seeming so small between them. Her hands went to rest on Mingi’s chest, moving with a jittery energy as she waited for him to enter her. 

Mingi’s fingers moved to touch between her legs, making sure she was still slick enough for him to enter her comfortably. His fingers brushed over her sensitive clit, making her twitch and clench slightly with her whole body. Yunho let out a groan and bit his lip. Mingi wasn’t sure if he ought to apologize for accidentally teasing, but he couldn’t deny he liked the face that Yunho made in reaction. Mingi positioned himself and slowly penetrated into her body. She made a little breathy oh and Yunho’s eyes widened, a look of surprise coming over him.

“I can feel you,” Yunho breathed. His hand moved down to splay over her lower stomach, almost as if to test if he could feel Mingi invading her from both sides. Mingi pushed forward until he was completely inside. A shiver rode down his spine. She was usually pleasantly tight around him, but he could feel how much Yunho had already filled her. It was strange, Mingi had to admit, feeling both of them at the same time.

“How does it feel?” Yunho questioned both of them before directing a more pointed question to her. “Do you feel okay?”

“I feel so full,” she said slowly. “I want you to move.” Mingi nodded in agreement, putting his upper arm over her to hold Yunho’s hips behind her. Together, they tentatively moved, feeling the other through the thin wall of her body as they did. Within a few thrusts, the boys had managed to find an easy, synchronised rhythm. It was a strange and intimate pleasure that built between them. When they made love together it was always all three of them doing it together, chasing satisfaction as three parts of a whole. But this, this was somehow different. Between the way they could all feel each other at the same time and the way her body hugged them all the tighter with both of them inside it was a whole new experience.

Mingi would have sworn nothing could have felt this good. His hips stuttered in their movement and he felt the stroke of Yunho’s cock move along him through her body. It sent a thrill through him and his hand spasmed, gripping Yunho with enough strength to draw a hiss from the other boy. Mingi apologized, holding himself still in her as he struggled not to just let himself go.

“Mingi, baby,” she said from between them, feeling the tenseness suddenly suffusing him. “You can move. You can let go.”

“Don’t want to hurt you,” he shook his head.

“I’m okay,” she insisted. “It feels so good; just let go.”

“It’s okay,” Yunho echoed from behind her. Both the boys let go, finding tempos that only occasionally matched, but each sent bliss cascading through her body. Mingi reached his orgasm first, the excitement and novel sensations proving difficult for him to resist for terribly long. He spent himself deep inside of her, his cock twitching as he released the pent up cum that felt like it had been building up in him for weeks. He stayed inside her, enjoying the near overstimulation of Yunho stroking against him through her.

Reaching between them, Mingi began to stimulate her, hoping to bring her again though he hadn’t been able to wait for her. Her breathing quickened and he could feel Yunho thrusting still, though he was getting less steady in his movements. Around his softening erection Mingi felt her walls flutter and knew she was getting close.

“Come for me, love,” he begged, loving his fingers against her. “I’m sorry I didn’t last long enough.”

“‘s okay,” she panted, her breath hitching as the pleasure the boys were giving her began to overflow in her. “‘m so close.” Her words had taken on a lazy slur and her skin shimmered in the low light, having developed a fine sheen of sweat, sandwiched warmly between the two boys. Mingi moved his fingers faster and ground upwards with his pelvis.

Yunho moved faster in her, chasing his pleasure, knowing that she was close. He no longer felt the tight squeeze of sharing her body with the full, hard erection of Mingi, but she still hugged him tightly as he moved. The softness of her ass against his hips along with the light slap of flesh against flesh was heavenly. She let out a moan and her legs twitched and straightened as her muscles tried to flex when the pleasure washed over her. The pulse of her internal muscles finally pushed Mingi out of her body and Yunho felt the odd sensation of them squeezing, though not around him as they usually did. He felt them flutter against the base of his cock as he continued to thrust in her from behind. Seating himself as deeply in her as he could and tucking her tightly against his chest, Yunho came, filling the condom in long spurts.

Though he wanted to stay like that for as long as she would have allowed, he carefully pulled himself out and removed the condom along with him. She let out a sound of surprise and quivered again as he removed himself. Suddenly, it felt as though she was emptier than she had ever been and she struggled with the need to pull them closer to make up for it. It was an odd and overwhelming feeling after such an intense experience. Mingi started to pull away, just to get up and start cleaning the mess they made since he had had the most time to recover, but she caught him, her fingers clawing at him with their confused desperation.

“Don’t go,” she told him with a muffled distress, the tone catching the ears of both boys. Mingi scooted close to her again and sent a look to Yunho, still panting behind her.

“Everything okay?” he breathed, rubbing his palm over her chest.

“Yeah, yeah,” she said a little too fast and with too high a pitch to her voice.

“Babe,” Mingi’s hand went to her face, stroking the backs of his knuckles over her cheek. “Were we too rough? Does something hurt?”

“No,” she was quick to object. “I don’t know how to explain it. I just...don’t want to feel alone.” The boys looked at each other, blinking at her somewhat baffling answer.

“We’re right here,” Yunho soothed, giving her an extra squeeze as he did. “We just wanted to clean up a little, love.”

“I know,” She admitted, looking down a little.

“If I promise not to let you go,” Yunho proposed. “Can we move into the bath?”

After a moment she let her fingers drop from where they clung to Mingi and she nodded. Without a word, Mingi slipped away to start running the bath. Yunho held her, tucking her body tightly against his in the moment he gave Mingi to get things started in their bathroom. He rocked her gently, slipping his other arm under and around her as he whispered words of love into the quiet room. Finally he could feel her relax against him a little and he decided it was best to carry her to the bathroom, rather than ask her to walk back there with him. Standing up, he lifted her into his arms, facing him with her legs wrapped around his waist. She looped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his neck as he made his way down the hall.

The tub was half full by the time they got there and Mingi was in the shower rinsing himself off quickly. He poked his head out when he heard Yunho enter, still worried about their girl. Yunho stepped carefully into the large tub and lounged against the back of the tub as best he could, still holding her tightly against him. She didn’t say anything, but ever so slowly began to settle down in his arms until she seemed to almost go slack. Yunho gently dribbled water down her back where it was above the line of the water, trying to gently wash her without disturbing her.

Mingi, having finished his shower and gotten them all something warm to drink, returned to find her draped over Yunho’s chest as he carefully cupped water onto her back. Mingi set the drinks down, offering one to Yunho before kneeling down on the tiles beside the tub. Yunho, more thirsty than he had thought, downed a few gulps before passing the cup back to Mingi. Unencumbered by another body on him, Mingi decided it would be easiest for him to help by washing her as much as he could without disturbing her. He sponged down her back and along her upper arms, surprised that she didn’t really react, even to look at him.

Is she asleep, Mingi mouthed, catching Yunho’s eyes. Yunho placed his palm against her back to feel the rhythm of her breathing. It was slow and steady, seeming to indicate that she had, indeed, fallen asleep against him.

“What should we do?” Yunho asked, trying to get a view of her face, though it was tucked tightly in against the crook of his neck.

“Get her clean and tuck her in bed, I guess,” Mingi shrugged. Yunho could only agree, letting his hand move under the water to the apex of her thighs to swish and rinse her clean as best he could from that angle. She didn’t move as he gave her a light wash, only protesting slightly when he shifted her to pass her to Mingi who wrapped her wet body in one of their towels.

Mingi placed her in their bed and tucked her in under the covers before climbing in beside her. He pulled the comb out of her hair and slipped the necklace from her neck, putting both of them on the bedside table for the night. He spiraled her hair up and over the pillows in the hopes of keeping it out of the way for the night. Yunho emerged from the bathroom, clean and dry as Mingi finally settled down, spooning against her side. Yunho turned out the lights then joined them, pulling the covers high over all of them.

“Thank you for giving us so much,” Yunho whispered to her in the dark. “Thank you for giving all of yourself to us.” On the other side of her, Mingi gently nuzzled her cheek, giving it a little kiss before closing his eyes. Yunho reached across her, taking one of Mingi’s hand in his before finally letting his own eyes close. 

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.lingerie - aaron.

if you came here thinking eloise was wearing the lingerie, you’re wrong.

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2,400 words. enjoy, babes!

"C'mon, it's this way!" Beliath ushered, eyes gleaming with pride and joy as Aaron followed, feeling out of place and cold. He was already bored, but the shopping was alluring. There were some shoes, nice pants, and even a dress he actually "bought" for Eloise (the clerk already seemed kinda dazed when he came around. They were even looking at his chest as if in a trance. Weirdo.)

Beliath pushed him into a door. In this store, there were some beauty products probably aimed at women, some shoes. But these weren't comfortable at all. They looked painful. A lot of them were shiny and pointy like a sword. Beliath made a sound somewhere else. Aaron followed, with Eloise's baby pink bag and his new plushie of a cat with a cape he found randomly, to remember Ivan. His name was Navi.

If Navi could talk, he would probably curse. Beliath was standing in front of a mannequin wearing a black stripe mess.

"These would look incredible on me, don't you agree?" Aaron quirked a brow and put Navi on the bag. He didn't know what the hell that was, but it was horny and lewd like Beliath himself.

"Fuck is this?" He deadpanned, puzzled.

"... A lingerie set?" Beliath seemed to think he'd understand. He looked at the small stripes again. They were black and quite shiny, the lower piece was supposed to hold the junk in, but it was a small, flimsy-looking triangle held by exactly three black stripes. The top one was a bra without the bust. Therefore, there were two holes in it. He even poked it to see if it wasn't just transparent, but his finger met the cold and gray plastic.

"Make two holes on Eloise's old stuff she threw away. It's for free."

"But it is for free for all of us."

"This is a bunch of stripes. You can make one of these with straws and a blow-dryer." Beliath cackled, rolling his eyes affectionately.

"I think you should try to give Eloise a little show." He teased, making Aaron blush.

"I don't-!"

"You seriously don't understand the lingerie concept? Because-"

"-I do understand, but it's been a long time since I saw any, and they usually dressed people properly." Beliath gaped.

"What do you mean? Eloise never wore any for you? You bang like bunnies!"

"I told her she doesn't need to..."

"You turned Eloise down?!"

Beliath pulled him through aisles without another word on the Eloise subject, asking him what he liked and what he would wear.

"Why did you have to have a girlfriend right when I found that killer one?" He whined.

"You sound like Leandra."

"Ew. Forget that, you're disgusting." Aaron snickered.

"Oh!" His gasp made Beliath look at where he was looking. Then he gasped himself.

A cold, dark green delicate set was there in front of him. A lace thong with green tulle hanging on the sides matched a garter belt and transparent tulle thigh highs, with a delicate corset. It didn't seem as sturdy as the ones supposed to be useful. It was more for the visuals. It had some golden embroidered flowers and leaves, a very subtle and delicate shimmer adorning the threads, and it was smaller to fit between the bra and the belt. There was a bra, but this time covered with a transparent and shiny green tulle similar to the rest, golden bondage straps around the chest area. He didn't even see how he bought it.

Beliath was giddy when they came back, but Aaron could only think about showing it to Eloise and recommending the store so they could take a look. He took a nice bubble bath and put on a robe after getting everything right in place and giving himself a once over. His cheeks were tingling with embarrassment, but he knew Eloise would probably think it was pretty. His eyes wandered to his thighs covered by the socks. The doorknob turning made him squeal.

"Aaron? Are you in there?"

"Hi, Raph. Are you um- okay?"

"I should be asking you the same thing. Are you in need of help?"

"H-help? W-why?" He creaked the door open, clutching his robe into himself and walking backward as his friend tilted his head towards his general direction.

"Well, you are panting, and I heard you cursing under your breath..."

"Oh. I'm fine. Thanks, pal."

"You're welcome. And Aaron?" He stopped by the end of the hall.

"Yes?"

"I'm sure your lingerie looks amazing. Eloise is going to enjoy it. If she doesn't, well. There's always someone else. The embroidery must feel nice to the touch."

Aaron walked away too fast to hear Raphael giggling. When he arrived, Eloise was sitting down on his bed, Navi in her arms. She took a liking to him.

"Um... I have something to show you. Promise you won't laugh."

"I won't unless you bought a rubber chicken."

"No, it was something different." She gave him her attention, motioning for him to continue. He untied the knot on the robe, letting it slide off his shoulders as he turned his front to her. Her eyes widened, and she put a hand in front of her mouth. He was going to cover himself up, but Eloise held the robe and placed it on the bed without realizing he was going to grab it, eyes never leaving his form. She stood closer.

"Look, I think I should-"

"-You look so beautiful."

"... What?"

"God, this green and gold combo compliments your eyes so much. And this corset is so pretty..." Her hand ran along his waist, squeezing in the dip and caressing the curve when she examined the embroidery. Her digits traveled alongside the expanse of his back, sighing when she found the arch, and then she locked her eyes on his chest.

"Eloise? What are you doing?"

"You're a nasty little puppy, aren't you?" He whined, a huff of minty air coming out of his mouth. "Did you let Beliath help you with this?"

"N-no! I- I wanted to save it for you." His puppy eyes made her coo and kiss on his nose, giving an Eskimo kiss afterward and feeling her heart beat fast because of how much he seemed to enjoy such tender touches.

"I'm playing with you, you know. I'm not going to be jealous of our friend." She chuckled, popping one of the clips on the belt open. "You're getting harder and harder, aren't you, puppy?" He sighed, nodding his head.

"I'm going to reward you for this. Let's see if I don't have to use the whip on you for punishments today, huh?" He nodded again.

"Yes, Elo." She rubbed his head, unclasping the belt from the socks to get rid of his thong. After that, she clasped it again, paying no attention to Aaron's raging boner. "Please... I want you to look."

Her eyes locked into his, and he shut his mouth before a whine left his throat. She smiled, sitting on top of him and stuffing his thong on his mouth.

"You've been good the last time I dommed, so I'll give you a choice. How do you want this to go, puppy? Want me to suck you off?" He shook his head no violently. "How about I play with your tight little hole?" He groaned, sighing when she pulled the thong off his mouth and leaned down, kissing his forehead, then his nose. She stood up, rummaging through a drawer and pulling out the strap and the lube. He closed his eyes to relax, but then the rustling the fabric created made him pop them open to watch her strip until only her panties remained. Her boobs bounced off the dress lightly, making his mouth run dry. There were a few bite marks and red marks from the last time, which he appreciated.

She threw the items on the bed, crawling on top of him and bringing his hand to her right boob. Aaron immediately squeezed it, making her arch her back lightly. Her hips moved slowly but surely while she leaned down, unclasping his bra and throwing it aside, leaning down to bite his brown bud. He sucked in a breath and mewled at the slight, pleasurable pain.

Eloise's panties were wet, and the roughness of the fabric against his tip felt delicious, but he needed more, anything more. He pulled her arm down, meeting her lips and whining into the kiss, grabbing her ass and squeezing it. He relished on the moans she let out. His finger trailed, eyes asking for her permission. Eloise slid her panties off, barely registering before he pounced on her, throwing her on the bed and placing himself between her legs, making sure his ass was in the air, his back arched nicely for her.

He kissed her thighs lovingly, feeling her skin and the sweet perfume. His eyes locked into hers as he darted his tongue out, circling her clit slowly. She sighed in contempt, running a hand through his hair in approval. He was itching to taste her, but he knew how she reacted when he changed the pace she set, and this time, she wanted to take it slow.

Her mind was foggy, and pants left her parted lips as he circled his tongue, the wet heat spreading through her abdomen and creating pressure. His lips closed around her bud, sucking it in and letting it out with a pop. His hand trailed that path to her inner thighs slowly, and Eloise enjoyed the view. His nose bumped against her, making her body jolt while he kept her close with one strong arm. The fact that she could snap her fingers and such a big, strong man would bend over for her was more than arousing, but the prospect of how he'd get back at her for taking so long was equally sweet.

Aaron lapped up for a while, circling his tongue and curling his fingers inside her just the right way. Eloise sucked in a breath and curled her toes. The familiar shudder rose from her feet to her upper body. He smiled against her, eyes shining with mischief. Her hand pushed him away, seeing herself on his face and smiling. He'd earned his reward.

"How do you want me to fuck you, puppy?" He eagerly put himself in all fours, giggling at himself when the bed bounced. Eloise gave him vivid laughter, making him smile fondly even when her eyes couldn't see. The bed dipped behind him, and a cold hand came to caress his rear, squeezing and teasing. He moved his hips, coaxing her into giving in slowly, his hair falling to the side and showing his neck that she so eagerly leaned in to kiss.

Her hand slid up and pinched one of his nipples, making him moan lowly and push his hips back. Leaning against him, Eloise wrapped a hand around his shaft, pumping slowly and expertly. His hips wiggled, soft moans left his throat as he rocked like an obedient pet, sighing and squeezing the sheets when she picked up or slowed down. Soon, he felt the shiver that came with the warm lube coating his hole. She stopped jerking him. Her finger prodded, complimenting how pretty he looked over the wet sounds and small gasps.

"Eloise, f-fuck."

"Shhhh, baby. Patience." He whined in frustration, which made her chuckle and grant him her whole finger, making him sigh in relief. He rocked his hips on the pace she set, a pretty arch on his back. Eloise judged it was time to add another finger, so she did it slowly, lubing him to her liking and checking on him. Aaron was a mess. His dick was leaking on the sheets, now abandoned by her. He wanted her to jerk him off already, but he knew she was going to drag this out until he could finally fuck her.

The strap's tip was warm. Aaron's eyes fluttered shut, finally feeling the stretch.

"You're so relaxed, puppy. That's it." He moaned, hips jerking while she cooed at him.

From there on, the only sounds he could focus on were the ones she produced. Her labored breathing from the recent orgasm, her hands sliding against him, her praise, and the light slapping sounds that started to submerge on his mind.

"Anh- fuck! Yes, yes!" He keened, but the pillows muffled the sound, making Eloise pull his hair roughly upwards. He hissed, feeling his dick jump violently.

"Let people hear how good you feel, puppy. Who's making you feel so nice, huh?"

"You, you Eloise, please don't stop, nhg-"

Her hand slapped his ass hard, hips hitting just the right spot.

"Look at you. You're enjoying my dick this much?" He nodded fervently, making her chuckle and soothe the sting on his rear. She let his head go, and he put it to the side as not to muffle more sounds, or else she was going to punish him. The bed hit the wall repeatedly, making him rock back into the dildo. That was heaven to him, being with her like this, skin to skin and feeling so, so good.

His moans got ragged and urgent all of a sudden, making Eloise slow down for a while, then grab his dick and pump it. He punched the wall, making her chuckle.

"Are you ready, puppy? You've been such a good pet." He nodded, barely being able to form any words at all. She moved her hips quickly, pumping him until the knot on his stomach snapped. White-hot pleasure flashed through him as she let go as soon as he came, letting him spurt the load on his own while she focused on fucking into him.

After a while, he pulled away, whimpering. Eloise pulled out, laughing at his disheveled state and pushing him to the side, where he fell like a doll, eyes already heavy. Eloise forgot about herself and dressed one of Aaron's shirts, picking the sheets up and throwing the dildo in the bathroom sink, washing it, and putting it back in place. As soon as she came back, however, there was no sign of Aaron in the bed.

"Aaron? Uh- weird, where is- ah!"

He clasped a hand in her mouth. The growling sound she heard was a clear answer.

"About time you came back..."

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25 Days of Christmas With Levi: Day 4

Day 4: Christmas Shopping

Shopping for Levi was about as hard as trying to put clothes on a Titan, Y/N decided as she traveled through the streets of Stohess.

She was lucky he wasn’t with her, he had been pulled into a meeting she wasn’t required to attend, so she was using her free time to try and find him something that wasn’t the normal boring gifts.

He always got tea, not that he didn’t love it, he absolutely loved getting tea. But EVERYONE always went with tea. He ended up with months of tea after the holidays.

Cleaning supplies were just a horrible gift to give the man she loved. Funny, sure, but she had already done that one year. Back before they were together.

The problem was the fact that Christmas was also his birthday, she thought as she perused the streets in hopes of finding a few items to give her lover.

He never wanted anything, so that made it even harder. Levi never asked for anything and when she brought it up, he always scoffed at Y/N’s idea she needed to give him something. “I have you” he would always say. Something surprisingly romantic, even with the harsh tone.

Y/N stopped outside a store that was oddly lacking displays, but the sign was beautifully adorned with scrolling gold script. It read Lingerie.

She was curious and decided to see what that was exactly. She had never heard of the word and when she poked her head in the shop, her eyes widened in wonder as she gasped.

It’s was indecent, the scrapes of lace and material hanging off the dress dummies were see-through and tiny. Obviously some kind of fancy undergarments, this lingerie came in all colors and a variety of different styles.

She pushed the door closed and let her eyes wander around the store, taking it all in. Her lips curved in a wicked smile. She had just found a gift that Levi might actually like more than tea.

She imagined the look in his slate blue eyes when he saw her walking towards him in the little garment hanging in front of her. Thin straps leading down to lace cups of the top, allowing nipples to be clearly seen. It was opened, two filmy panels opening up from the bow tied right below the breast. It would leave her toned stomach and navel on display as it floated down to stop just past the curve of her ass. The bottom was even more scandalous, it would barely cover her at all. The lace triangle matching the lace of the bra cups. It was bright red with white ribbon and looked absolutely wickedly sensuous.

His pupils would widen, his eyes giving away his arousal. She could just imagine the strength in his hands as he caressed her skin over the material. Him pulling the top down to free her breasts, leaving it on rather than ripping it off of her. Although the bottoms would probably be torn to pieces as he would be desperate to bare her core to his touch. His cock straining to drive into her, his need to make her scream filling him. The thought made her shiver.

The bow was a nice touch, like it was gift. She grinned to herself. That’s exactly what it was. She was going to gift him herself, wrapping her body up prettily in that lace to let him do whatever he wanted.

She hummed to herself as they boxed up the little outfit, it was a perfect gift for him. He would never guess what was inside from the discreet packaging they had put it in. As she made her way out of the store and back onto the street she thought of the next idea that would be appropriate for him to open in public.

She had seen a beautiful knife on display a few shops back. It would be something she could out under the tree in the Mess Hall. She didn’t want Levi opening this lingerie in front of all their comrades. She felt a rush of excitement as she made her way back towards the shop with the carved knife. Sex and knives, gifts that might actually beat out the rarest teas she could ever find. It was going to be a great Christmas.

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Chapter 2 : Welcome to Cordonia

The Royal Romance from MC’s POV

MC x Liam x Drake (love triangle)

MC: Jenna Dewan

Liam: Daniel Henney

Drake: Daniel di Tomasso

Maxwell: Xavier Serrano

Hana: Yoon Bora

Olivia: Sophie Turner

Music (Book 1, Chapter 2):  Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles

*The characters and original storyline are all from The Choices: The Royal Romance book 1.  All characters belong to Pixelberry.

*I apologize for any misspelling or improper grammar structure. Sorry for any mistakes. English is not my native language. And also this is my first time doing something like this. I was inspired by other amazing fanfiction writers on this site.

After packing my bags and leaving my New York apartment behind, one single thought came to my mind: Is this really happening? Here I was, on a plane, with Maxwell and Drake. And I still couldn't believe that I'm leaving my home for someone I've just met, who actually supposed to be to a prince, a real one, not some prince of some kind of a fairy tale. What was I thinking? Where was my common sense? I didn't even know will this all be worth it in the end. What if I made a total fool of myself there? I didn't know much about royalty. I wasn't sure what actually awaits me there... All this thoughts and doubts... I noticed I was driving myself insane. But truth is I didn't care. I just wanted to see him. Liam... My heart pop out of my chest just saying him name in my head.

"Say 'goodbye' to New York and 'hello' to Cordonia!", Maxwell exclaimed as the airplane begin to take off the ground. We were suddenly in the clouds.

"I can't believe this is actually happening...", I said to Maxwell in disbelief.

Can someone please pinch me to see if I'm not dreaming?

"Believe it. We'll be landing soon, ready or not. And if you are not ready, those ladies of court are going to eat you alive", Drake said as he crossed his arms and glanced away from me.

What the hell that was supposed to mean? Is that a threat? A warning? Perhaps some kind of friendly warning... even through it didn't sounded much friendly to me.

"Yeah, don't scare her, Drake. Are you okay, Riley?", Maxwell asked with worried look on his face. He almost felt like a brother I always wished to have and I never had one... And he definitely sounded like one now.

Well, Drake, mission accomplished.

"Honestly..."

No. How can I possible be okay? This is all still new to me... I didn't know what to expect... I was worried but... also excited.

"I'm not afraid of anything", spoke my adventurous spirit. I didn't wanted to give him the satisfaction of knowing.

"Heh. We'll see once we land" , Drake said.

You mean if we land? And when I say 'we' I mean 'you'. I still haven't decided whatever I should throw him out off the plain or not.

Judging by the look on his face I've noticed that he liked what I've just said. Strange. But I didn't care. Much.

"I don't get why you're being so grim about this... " I suddenly felt the urge to confront him.

What is your problem? Seriously?

"Look, no offence, but I've seen girls like go come and go. It never ends well. Not for you, not for Liam, not for the royal family."

No offence? Too late for that. Don't you think?

Even if I was angry at him I believed him. There was something more hiding behind his words...

"She is not some crown-chaser", said Maxwell trying to look angry at him.

Thanks, Maxwell, but I will take it from here... I'm perfectly capable of defending myself even if it means literally like punching Drake in his face.

"Drake, I'm different that those girls. Liam being a prince doesn't matter at all to me." True.

It was true. It didn't matter me. At all. Now that I think about it I even didn't usually go for rich boys, much less royalty...

"That's exactly the kind of naive thinking that's going to land you in trouble here."

I scoffed at him as I thrown my earbuds on and turned up the music. He said something. It felt like mumbling. I didn't hear what. I looked out the window and watched clouds as they move through the sky. I eased myself into my seat, thinking about Liam, thinking about the last night... An hour late I have realized that my thought are wondering... At one moment I was think about Liam, kissing him, and on the next moment butchering Drake. That was so tempting. Where is Michael Myers when you need him? I hope I not become a serial killer in the end of all this. And It hasn't ever started yet... I'm doomed. I wonder what would Liam think if he knew what I was thinking about right now. Would he cared for Drake? He would probably think that I am insane. I smiled quietly at the thought of that. I've seen from the corner of my eye that Drake is looking at me intrigued by my laugh. He is in such trouble. I'm going to figure him out and I'm going to make his life a living hell.

A while later...

"Hey, look! You can see Cordonia out of the window. You don't want to miss this!", said Maxwell nagging me to look. I pulled my earbuds out and looked out the window to see the beautiful town surrendered by water and green trees. I saw the palace standing at the top of it. It looked magnificent. I presumed that was the place we're headed for intentionally.

"That's Cordonia? It's like it look something out of a fairytale! The sparkling ocean, the swaying trees..." I was impressed. I wasn't even imagine how it would look like... All I was thinking was Liam... Well, most of the time. That part was true.

"If you burst into song. I'm jumping out of a plane" , said Drake annoyed by Maxwell's behavior and my words, obviously.

Please go ahead, I won't stop you or perhaps you need someone to push you? This guy is really getting on my nerves... But I didn't wanted let him notice it.

"I'm just saying it's beautiful", I said as I calmed myself down.

"It is, isn't? Are you ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

One car ride later, I stepped onto the ground of the Royal Palace.

"Welcome to your home for next few months", said Maxwell helping me with my bags. I didn't expect that I'll be living here.

"This is where I'm staying. I didn't realize I'd be living in the palace!" The Palace was more beautiful in person. It had gold trim with white and blue colors all around it.

"Most of the nobility live here while the social season is underway... Including all the ladies vying for Liam's hand", he explained.

"Yeah, living under one roof just makes it easier to attend the rose ceremony later", said Drake, laughing.

He is joking, right?

Maxwell rolled his eyes. I knew it.

"Drake's just kidding... at least about the roses... Anyway, I'll show you to your room...", he nodded his head showing me the way to the main entrance.

"This is my cue to take off. See you around... if you're lucky", Drake said taking his bags and leaving. I saw laugh on his face, again.

What that supposed to mean? 

I followed Maxwell into the palace, where I climbed the grand staircase. I couldn't help that noticed the bright-red carpet rolled down the stair. The dominant color of interior was gold. The palace was more beautiful on the inside.

"So, what the deal with Drake. Why is he is jaded?", I had to ask.

"Oh, don't mind. Drake's never really... fit in."

"Not used to courtly life?"  

"Definitely not. He's a commoner. He's always been outsider here. Even if he is Liam's best friend", he explained.

Drake was Liam's best friend! I found it difficult to believe. They were so different for each other. How can someone be friend with Drake? He has no manners and dislikes everyone and everything he encounters while Liam... Perhaps I judged him too hard.

At the top of the stairs, Maxwell turned down a corridor, showing me my room.

"Your room is here in the west wing. In case you need anything from me or my brother, our rooms are just couple doors away."

"I didn't know you had a brother."

"Yeah, an older brother. His official title is Duke Bertrand Beaumont. As the eldest son. He is the hier and I'm the spare. You'll see him tonight. He'll be excited to meet you."

He stopped short in front of an ornate door.

"This is it... Here is your room!"

As I opened the door I found a lavish guest room with full-length paintings, gilded ceiling and a bed of fluffy pillows.

"As a royal quest, you're spared no luxury..."

"So nothing is stopping me now from jumping on the bed?"

"Only your dignity", he laughed.

"Perfect."

I ran and jumped on the bed, feeling happy as I sinked into the mattress.

"This is so much better then memory foam." Not that I really knew.

"I'll let you settle before your big debut tonight..." Excuse me, my what?

"My what?"

"I'm sorry. I keep forgetting that you're not used all this. The first event of the social season is tonight.... The Masquerade."

The Masquerade? Does that mean that everyone's going to be wearing costumes? Will I need one?

"It's the ball where all the suitors will be presented to the Prince, as well as to the King. Not everyone dresses in costume, but you can be sure that the ladies competing for Liam's attention will be pulling out all the stops." He locked doubtfully at my modest-looking suitcase. And then I remembered I didn't have a costume. "I guess it's too much to ask if you've got a costume or fancy ballgown in there..."

"I packed a dress." It should do that job.

"Well, I wasn't sure so I've made an appointment for you at the palace boutique. Maybe you will find something you like better there."

"I'll check it out."

"Remember. Tonight is very important.It's your chance to make a first impression on all influential people at court and to stand apart from everyone else."

"Don't worry. I've got this."

A few minutes later, I stepped into the palace's boutique and find a women in her bra and underwear, holding a dress. He shrieked and covered herself up with her wardrobe. I immediately turned away from her. She had long straight brown hair with side bangs and beautiful dark brown eyes. She was gorgeous.

"Sorry. I didn't realize someone was already here", I apologized.

"No problem. To be honest I didn't have an appointment. I'm Hana. I suppose you are also here to prepare for the Masquerade tonight. Since you are here and now already dressed, I must assume that you're just like me... searching desperately something to wear", she sounded polite and friendly.

"More or less."

"I can show you around. The boutique has most exquiste gown. Let me just slip my dress..." She put on a dress she was holding in her hand as trying to reach for a zipper. She looked like she was struggling.

"Need a hand?", I offered my help.

"That would be amazing", she sounded thrilled.

I moved towards to her and zipped up her dress. She picked up the matching mask. She was wearing pink dress with gold design throughout.

"Thank you. Not many girls here are like you..." What do you mean?

"Helpful?"

"Nice." I believed her.

"Ah, this dress is perfect!" I agreed. She looked like a princess.

"Now what about you? One must have a mask for the Masquerade!" I totally forgot.

"Have you seen the angel costume? You'd look amazing in white.Or there's also a red one, if you're feeling more... devilish."

"I'll take a look..." , I said as I walked over to the angel dress. I decided to try it.  A few minutes later...

"How do I look?", I asked her while I was watching myself in the large mirror. It looked like the perfect dress for occasion like this.

"Heavenly!", she ran up to me and spun me around. I felt excitement running through all of my body. I picked up the matching mask and I was ready.

That evening I met Maxwell at the bottom of the main staircase.

"Nice outfit. You look great."

"Thanks."

He guided me to the doors of the grand ballroom and then whispered in my ear.

"One thing I should mention. As soon as you enter, you'll tell the herald your name and title so that you can be announced..." But I don't have a tittle...

"What's my tittle?", I had to ask.

"You really don't have one, but since my family is sponsoring you, you could technically be considered as 'lady'. Or we can go with your hometown. I guess I should've asked before. What's your last name?"

"Brooks."

"Well, it's not a classical name as Catherine Elizabeth Middleton... But It would do."

As I make my entrance to the grand ballroom, the herald announced Maxwell and then turned to me.

"Please announce me as Lady Riley Brooks."

The herald announced me and I walked into the ballroom. It was exquisite as I imagined it would be. People were all over the room dancing, talking, laughing in their fancy costumes. It looked like everyone is having a good time. But I knew better...

"I've got to talk to Bertrand for sec. You'll be okay on your own, right? Just mingle."

"Mingle... Right... I can do that..." This can't be harder then working in a restaurant and serving costumers. I can do it.

Looking across the ballroom I saw Drake standing alone... and on the other side I saw Hana and a group of finely dresses ladies. I walked towards Hana and gave her a wide smile. I was so glad to see her. She was so polite and friendly towards me.

"Hello again. I'm glad to see you made it", she said with the smile on her face. She was glad to see me too.

"Thanks."

"So, what do you think of the Masquerade?" , she asked curiously.

"Honestly, the Masquerade is a little overwhelming." It was beautiful but it was just too much.

"I know what you mean. I've been coming to these events since I was a little girl!"

I saw sadness in her eyes. I understand. I guess that's was the price you have to pay when you're born in royal family. I wanted to comfort her. I just didn't know how.

"So it never gets easier?"

"To be honest.... It gets more complicated. At least as a child I could run around and have a little fun!"

"Who says we can't do that now?" I saw on her face that she liked that idea.

"Believe me, it'd cause quite a scandal." She was right. I understand. But I don't care... I'm not noble. I'm free to do whatever I want to do with no shame attached to it. At least I was till this moment.

She was about to say more when someone caught her eye from across the room.

"Please, excuse me. There is someone I need to greet. But maybe we can talk later?" , she said.

I was really looking forward to it and I noticed she was too.

I nodded and start walking towards Drake. As i approached him, he nodded and give me a stiff bow. He was wearing the same clothes he did earlier today.

"Good evening, my lady", he sounded politely. I guess it's because he didn't know with whom is he talking to.

"So you do have manners",  I teased him.

".. Riley? Is that you?" , he said. He was looking quite surprised.

"Yeah. You didn't recognize me?", I continued.

"I... I was caught off-guard. You clean up well."  

I took you by surprise, didn't I?

"Drake... was that actually a compliment?", I keep teasing him.

"Uh, no. " He stopped talking for a second surprised by my question and then he continued. "Looking the part doesn't mean you're going to be welcome here, you know."

"Well, you are as charming as ever..."

I turned away for him feeling angry and trying to keep myself for hitting him.

"Hah. Compared to the most of nobles here, I'm your best friend."

Somehow I understood what we wanted to say.

"Drake. I believe you."

"That's the first smart thing you've said."

Here I was, feeling angry at him... again.

"Thanks."

I turned towards to him with furious look on my face. He notice it.

"Look, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just trying to help."

"You have a very peculiar way of helping."

"I'm just saying the things that I wish someone would've told me a long time ago."

That was the second time I believed him. Perhaps, there was something more in Drake to be seen then his tough exterior. As I was about to say more...

"Ahem! Pardon me, but I absolutely must steal her away", said a women with long bright red hair as she pulled me. I was surprised by her and her behaviour. I managed to control myself not punching her in her gut with my elbow. It wasn't the right place to do such a thing. I saw Drake's laughing out of the corner of my eye. I guess it was written all over my face... But I wasn't here to amuse him.

"Forgive me for being forward but I've never seen you here before.I always notice when heralds announce a new name. I make it a point to know all of the ladies at court. I'm Lady Olivia Nevrakis, Duchess of Lythikos. Lady Riley Brooks... I can say that I'm familiar with your house. It must be... nouveau. Well, seeing as you're the new girl at court, let me give you some advice. When you are presented to the King, you should kiss him shoes when you curtsy to him", she said to me trying to hide away her mischievous look on her face. It was unsuccessful. I notice it.

Excuse me? I didn't believe in a single word she said.

"Really?"

"It's Cordonian custom to show deep respect and reverence for the monarchy. You're lucky that I was here to warn you! Otherwise, you'd look completely ridiculous."

She didn't seems like to be a genuine type of people. More a bitch to me. And I was very good at reading people. She wanted from me to humiliate myself. It was obviously. I wasn't planning to give her that kind of satisfaction. Drake was right...

"Thanks", I said in disbelief.

As I turned away for her Maxwell rushed back to my side.

"Prince Liam is here. Ready to see him again?", he nodded his head at him.

My heart skipped a bit just at the mention of his name.  I looked across the crowded ballroom and there he was... He was wearing a back tuxedo with a red sash draped across his torso. He looked stunning as ever.

"Do you think he'll be glad to see me?" , I asked Maxwell seeking for encouragement.

I was feeling nervous and my palms were sweating...

"Only one way to find out... Go talk to him."

A took a deep breath... It's now or never...

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[minhoslut]

♡ summary: Y/N is a fairy in a world of magic hating humans, who moves into a house with seven young men after being kicked out of her old dorm. She learns about all their secrets while hiding hers for as long as she can. Lots of parties, games, sex and maybe even love.

♡ pairing: ot7 x fem!reader, fem!reader x various idols

♡ chapter:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ? |

♡ series warnings: alcohol consumption, blood mention, drug use, mxm, fxf, threesome, foursome, orgy, swearing, anxiety, depression, past trauma, past abuse

♡ series genre: fluff, smut, slight angst

♡ series rating: R

♡ word count: 3417

♡ posted on: AO3

♡ chapter five: we like to party

♡ A/N: the smut arrives uwu

After breakfast, you decided to go for a run in the forest to help get rid of some of the excited energy you were bursting with. Wearing a dusty rose sports bra with matching capris leggings , you began stretching in the backyard. It was nice to be so close to nature, it made your magic tingle and the instinct to release your wings was strong. You sighed at the thought, it was so fucked that magical creatures couldn’t just be part of society, usually they just lived a little differently, no harm done. Yeah sometimes they did bad things, but so did humans! They are so jealous and scared of things that are different though. You clicked your tongue and took a few deep breaths before heading into the woods.

The birds were calling to each other in the trees, and everything smelled fresh. When you reached the lake with the waterfall you stopped to take a dip, stripping naked and slipping into the cool water. Diving down to the bottom, you laid across the sand and relaxed in the silence. You had always loved being deep underwater, just sitting or lying down and being surrounded by silence. You didn't like being alone though, so when you were younger you would create a water being to talk to and play with. Silently, you wished that you could share things like this with someone, but humans can't hold their breath as long as fairies can so you'd just be outing yourself.

An idea struck you as you looked up at the surface and realized how deep the lake was, a smile crossing your lips. Standing up, you released your wings into the water and sighed in relief. Flying was a no, but at least they could be unfurled. The silver, blue and gold flecks in your wings sparkled in the water, refracting light all around you. They wouldn't get wrecked in the water, despite what some human tales of fairies said, you weren't a butterfly after all.

You fluttered your wings a little bit, creating a small current in the water. It was so freeing to be able to have your wings out, you closed your eyes and flapped your wings hard, making the water rush around you. Jumping up, you burst from the lake and brought your wings back in before falling back into the water. You swam some laps and explored the depths of the lake for a while until you began to get bored. Pulling yourself up on the shore and shaking yourself dry, you redressed and ran back to the house.

~

"Hey Y/N!" Taehyung greeted you from the deck where he was stringing some lights up. "Need any help Tae? Can I call you that?" You asked as you joined him, "For sure as long as I can call you N/N!" He said a grin on his face. You laughed and agreed, holding the nails for him while he hammered the lights to the side of the house. "Do you take these down every week or are they new?" You questioned as you handed him another nail. "We had some up but they kinda got broken... So we just got around to replacing them haha." His answer was vague but you didn't push, not like it mattered much anyway.

"Tae come in for lunch- Y/N you're back! You come too~" Jimin said sweetly, poking his head out the back door. Returning the nails to their bin you wiped your hands on your pants and headed inside, taking a seat at the table next to Jungkook. Jin and Namjoon placed plates of steaming dumplings on the table and everyone sat to enjoy their late lunch together.

"After lunch, Kook and Yoongi, can you guys start setting up the music stuff, and Jin, Hobi and I will do drink/food prep, Y/N, you and Tae continue doing outside! Sound good?" Namjoon said as he began clearing dishes from the table now that everyone was done eating. Various words of agreement were exchanged as you all headed to your assigned areas of setup. You collected the nails once again and followed Tae along the side of the house. When the two of you had finished with the lights you moved onto setting up some chairs and a pong table.

You ran inside to grab some cases of beer to keep by the pong table, bumping into Hoseok as you go. "Sorry~" You called sending him a smile as you went, getting a cute dimple smile in return. Cute dimple. "Tae~ Is this the right stuff?" You asked walking up to him as he set up the triangles of cups. "Yeah, just set it underneath for now." He responded, taking a case from you and shoving it under the table. "What next?" You questioned stretching your arms while Taehyung grabbed his phone out of his pocket to check the time.

"Well it's near dinner so let's see if everyone else is finished with their jobs." He suggested, linking his arm with yours and pulling you inside. "Anybody need help finishing up?" You shouted as you grabbed two glasses and filled them with water from the fridge before handing one to Taehyung. A bunch of no's echoed through the house in response to you, so you began pulling burger buns out and cutting them. "Ooh are you gunna make us burgers?" Taehyung asked coming to sit at the bar, leaning his elbows on the table and propping his head in his hands.

"Yes cute boy, I am! I'm excited for the party so I don't want many dishes~" You told him while you prepped the patties and toppings, cutting various vegetables up and placing them on a plate. He laughed at your nickname for him and rose from his seat to help you by setting the table and lighting the barbeque. Once it was hot enough you put the burgers on and turned on some music while they were cooking. "Are you surprised? It’s like bubblegum pop, because I broke all the rules, because I’m going to show you the real me, really really me, I’m a cherry on top yeah~" You sang along to ITZY  as you flipped the burgers.

The smell of the barbeque lured the six men to the table when they had finished their tasks. "Damn what smells so fuckin' good?" Jungkook said as he entered, "Y/N made burgers~" Taehyung answered from his seat at the table where he was getting his bun ready. "Y/N remind me to wife you up." Jungkook said as he sat down, you laughed at his comment and shook your head, bringing the now cooked patties into the kitchen. "Let's eat!" You said, a smile set upon your lips.

~

When everyone had finished eating, Taehyung cleared away the dishes and everyone split off to their own rooms to get ready. You pulled out various options for tonights outfit, and stripped out of your current clothing, sliding into a silky pink robe with fur trim on its sleeves . Dress, skirt, or pants… You scanned through what you had pulled out and sorted them into groups. A knock at the door pulled you away from the piles of fabric, “Come in~” Namjoon opened the door and stepped in. “Hey Y/N, uh, just wanted to give you the lowdown of the party rules of sorts, but if you’re not ready I can wait-”

You interrupted him with a wave of your hand. “I wouldn’t have let you in if I wanted to wait.” You said smiling at him. “Ok, sure, well, the only real rule is don’t take anyone to someone else's bedroom.” Nodding, you turned back to your clothes, “Joon, can I call you that? Should I wear a skirt, dress or pants?” He came and stood beside you, “Uh, dress? And of course you can, we are friends after all.” Hearing him say that made the smile on your lips blossom into a full grin. "Thanks Joon~ I'll see you in a bit."

Now that you had narrowed it down to dresses thanks to Namjoon, you were able to pick your party look. A longsleeved off the shoulder white top with black trim layered underneath a black dress with two zippers down the whole thing and chain straps attached by a hoop . Popping in some silver hoop earrings and brushing our hair, you moved to the mirror. Lip Gloss, brow gel and a simple cat eye wing and you were set. You surveyed yourself in the full body mirror, checking your outfit and unzipping the bottom half of the dress. "Okay sexy, let's get some!"

~

You bumped into Hoseok first, when you had come down to the second floor. He was wearing a classic white t-shirt tucked into light blue straight leg jeans with a frayed hem, cinched with a black belt and a back crossbody bag with white polka dots across his chest. A simple silver chain hung around his neck and tied everything together. "Hey Hobi! You look really good! Ready to get some chicks?" You ruffled his peachy blonde locks, making Hoseok laugh and shake his head. "May I escort you to the dance hall, princess?" Stifling a laugh, you took his offered arm, "I'll allow it, sir knight."

Jin and Jimin were putting away anything breakable in the living room when you entered with Hoseok. Jin was wearing an oversized white t-shirt tucked into belted black jeans  and Jimin was in a wide neck black tee tucked into black skinny jeans with rips at the knee, a black belt and a silver chain with a long silver tooth on it . "Looking good~ You guys know how to lure in people, huh?" You whistled taking them in. Jimin ran a hand through his black hair and Jin blew a kiss your way. "Says you!" Jungkook said as he and Namjoon entered the room.

Jungkook was fixing the pale pink button-up he had over top of a white tee with a black design on it. His jeans were light blue skinnies with rips at the knees, a black belt holding the in place. Namjoon wearing navy blue slacks with a shimmery peach short-sleeved button-up tucked into them, the top button undone. "Knock out after knock out huh, do they put something in your water here?" You joked, "You've obviously been drinking it too Y/N~" Yoongi teased coming to stand by you, dressed in ripped blue jeans, an oversized tan shirt, and a purple and black flannel overtop.

"Well then, let’s get started!" Jin said clapping his hands and heading to the kitchen, "Shots! To kick off the night and welcome Y/N to our home officially!" Hoseok cheered following after Seokjin. The rest of you also joined them and Jin poured out eight tequila shots, everyone prepped their lemon slices and salted their thumbs. "To Y/N!" Namjoon cheered, the same praise echoed by the six others before you all took your shots.

Soon after your celebratory shot, people began to show up to the house, welcomed by the boys who quickly introduced you to them. The music was turned up and the rooms were quickly filled with people, drinking and laughing. There were so many stunning people in the room, you surveyed them as you sipped your drink, pleasantly buzzed by this point. You noticed Jin speaking with a girl on the deck and began making your way over to them.

The girl has wavy long bleach blonde hair and eyes that were somehow round and sharp all at once. She was wearing a black crop tank top, a pair of black cargo pants and a chunky choker with a big silver hoop on it. There were several chains hanging across her pants, as well as some joining the choker on her neck, and a black belt with silver cut-outs was cinching her waist in. It was a simple but sexy ensemble and you were captivated.

"Hi~" You said coming into their conversation, "Hey Y/N! This is Chungha, Chungha, Y/N." Jin introduced the two of you and excused himself to the washroom. "You look amazing tonight, Chungha! I love the vibe." You said in a flirting tone, touching her wrist softly. "Mm, I could say the same to you Y/N. You're their new roomie, right?" Nodding, you twirled your white hair cutely, "Do you come to these often?" You questioned, "Pretty much every weekend haha. I like coming to dance with people." Dance huh? "I love dancing as well! I'm glad people seem to actually dance at their parties~" You chuckled.

"Well then how about we get on the dance floor?" Chungha grabbed your hand and pulled you into the house, holding your body against hers as you danced together. She kept her hands on your waist, swaying with you and grinding your bodies together. Your hands were around her neck and the distance between you was getting smaller by the second. Someone came up behind you and pressed themselves against your back. Turning, Seokjins deep brown eyes locked with yours and you pulled his arm over your shoulder.

The three of you danced together as you moved lithely between them, passion thick in the air between you. Chungha pulled you into her and kissed you hard, her lips soft and warm, tasted like cherries. A second pair of lips connected with your exposed neck causing a soft moan made its way out of your mouth and into the kiss with Chungha. It was obviously Jin who was kissing your neck, you could feel him holding you closer, his cock pressed against your ass.

Chungha pulled out of your dance floor makeout sesh and took your hand in her right and Seokjins hand in her left. She led you both up the stairs to what you assumed to be Jins room, kissing you again when you had all entered the room. "Are you both ok with this?" She asked between kisses. You looked at Seokjin and nodded, "Yes." You both answered truthfully, excitement and arousal tinging your voices.

"Strip for us baby girl~" Chungha said sitting on the bed and pulling Seokjin down beside her, a delicate hand on the bulge in his pants, giving slight pressure to encourage his arousal further. You unzipped your dress slowly, pulling the zipper all the off and shimmying out, tossing it into a corner. Now you were left standing in your top and a black mesh thong with rhinestone straps,  you kept your eyes on them both as you crossed your arms and peeled the top off of your body, letting your breasts bounce out.

Your nipples hardened at the coolness of the air, and you plopped yourself into Chunghas lap, "Please warm me up~" You breathed, lips almost touching the shell of her ear. "Patience, baby." She flipped you over and left you lying on the bed, "Touch yourself while you watch us." It was more of a demand than anything, but you complied easily, one hand running across the mesh of your panties and one on your sensitive nipple.

Your eyes followed as Chungha stripped Jin naked and began to stroke his now rock hard cock, making lewd sounds tumble from his lips. "Mm, I know you like being watched big boy, should we give her more of a show?" Chungha released Jin and began to take her own clothes off. You arched your back and fondled your boobs as you stared at Chunghas body, clad in a matching lingerie set. It was leopard print bra and thong with two sets of straps to hold it together and the bra which consisted of two strips of the leopard print fabric, barely holding her in. A big silver hoop sat just above her pelvis connected to the straps, and another on her bra between her breasts .

Seokjin let out an audible "fuck" as Chungha knelt in front of him and took the tip of his cock into her mouth. Your eyes never wandered as she slowly engulfed his full length, making him throw his head back and moan deeply. You whined from your spot on the bed, wanting to join in on the fun. Chungha pulled out slowly, letting the head out of her mouth with a wet 'pop.' "Oh? Impatient little slut aren't you~" She purred, still pumping Jins length. releasing it, she stood up and led Jin to the bed, "Lay down Jinnie."

Jin laid on the bed flat and Chungha came up onto the bed to join you both. "Suck his dick, nice and slow for me," She directed you, pushing your head over to his cock, "and Jin, you better make me cum with that smooth-talking mouth of yours." Stripping out of her lingerie, she positioned herself above his mouth. You took his cock in your mouth, tongue flat, and moaned around it as you deepthroated him.

The taste of precum coated your mouth, making you drool even more. Wet, sloppy sounds filled the room and Chunghas breathy moans were like an angels chorus, turning you on even more. Your cunt was begging for attention and your fingers rubbing yourself through your panties just wasn't enough. You bobbed on Jins cock and hollowed your cheeks as you pulled off. Licking around the head, you swirled your tongue and cupped his balls as you did so. Chunghas moans got louder, you lifted your eyes and watched as she rode Jins face through her orgasm.

"Y/N you lie down now and get those panties off." Chungha ordered, moving off of Seokjins mouth. You laid down supine near the edge of the bed, with your knees bent and pulled your thong off. Anticipation was radiating throughout the room, Jin hopped off the bed and stood at your feet. Chungha climbed on top of you, laying down on you and hooking her legs on either side. Your breasts were pushed up against hers, making you moan and she started kissing you again.

You felt the head of Jins dick slide across your dripping folds before pushing it between your and Chunghas soaked cunts. The three of you moaned together as Jin picked up his pace fucking between you both and hitting your clits just right. You kissed along Chunghas neck, her skin soft and warm. She, in turn, sucked hickies along your neck and chest, licking at your nipples as her mouth roamed. "Fuck her." Chungha gave the command and Jin followed, his thick girth was thrust into your tight pussy.

Seokjins name tumbled from your lips in a mantra as he fucked your roughly, all while Chungha continued to suck and nip at your skin. Suddenly, Chungah pulled off of you and moved up to hover above your kiss swollen lips. "Can you do two things at once like a good girl?" She cooed, seduction dripping from her tone. You mewled out a yes and licked across her pretty pussy. You inserted two fingers inter her core and pumped while you sucked on her clit, curling your fingers to hit the right spot. Hearing her moan your name encouraged you further as you tried to stay focused with Jin snapping his hips into you roughly.

"I-I'm close." You heard Seokjin say breathlessly, "It's safe cum inside~" You whined, not wanting him to stop, the knot in your stomach getting close to coming undone. He started rubbing your clit and you arched your back, fucking Chungha harder with your fingers. "Let's cum together, now." Chungha purred and just like that you could feel her thighs shaking around you. Jins hot seed filled you up perfectly, and you were brought to your peak as he continued fucking you through his own orgasm.

Jin pulled out slowly, causing you to moan wantonly as his cum leaked out and mixed with your own. Your lips were glistening covered in Chunghas cum, it tasted amazing. "Mm, thanks you two~ Let's get you cleaned up." Chungha said getting off of you and hopping down off the bed. She pulled her clothes back on and left the room, returning with a warm cloth which she used to wipe you down. You saw Seokjin grabbing new boxers and a big t-shirt, which he handed to you once you were wiped clean. You thanked him as he grabbed his own set and slid under the covers, beckoning you to join him, which you did. Chungha blew you both a kiss as she left, and then everything went fuzzy.

#bangtanhq #bts #bts x reader #bts polyamory #kim seokjin #kim namjoon #min yoongi #jung hoseok #park jimin #kim taehyung #jeon jungkook #everything is not what it seems

[ao3feed-fuffy]

Every Touch is a Weapon

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by worddancer

It felt like she was sixteen again in all the best ways. Up against the hordes of hell with nothing more than a stake and a push up bra. Well that and back up, and people who cared about her, and people to call home and check in on. Turned out everything she fantasize when she first heard there was a second slayer? Well two decades and change later she got it. And that felt so good.

Fucking off for a few hours in the middle of the day so she didn't have to hear Buffy and Spike wear off the energy from the previous nights slayage on the other hand....

Words: 2484, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Weapons are meant to be used

Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Multi

Characters: Faith Lehane, Spike (BtVS), Buffy Summers, Dawn Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Rupert Giles, Andrew Wells

Relationships: Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers, Spike/Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane/Spike/Buffy Summers, Xander Harris/Dawn Summers

Additional Tags: on the road, Getting Together, becoming more than a weapon, Child Soliders, Living, Immortality, OT3, because this ot3 is gold, balanced triangle, Finding Family, After Sunnydale

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #fuffy #buffy summers #faith lehane

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

One of the complete redesigns I did when we first started streaming: Morgana from League of Legends. I read her background blurb and got angry cause she has a lot of potential with a backstory involving familial strife, law vs. chaos as ideology, and resorting to dark powers to fight for what you believe in. But her design was.... just generic bra and skirt, and some evil makeup, I guess?? Ugh. So I basically started from scratch, which means this write-ups is gonna be just a little longer than the first.

More under the cut.

What Stayed In:

I kept the color scheme, for the most part, the belt part of her skirt, and her posture. Or rather... what I think her posture was supposed to be, cause she sure doesn’t look hunched over in the original, more like she’s got a sore shoulder.

So not much.

Initial Redesign Ideas:

I decided that Morgana should be more monstrous because of the dark magic she was using. I wanted to give her more colors than just purple and gold (LoL has a problem with 2-color costumes), so I went for a sickly green that would add to the “wrongness” of her design, as well as hint at multiple sources of corruption. They tried to make her look malnourished, I guess?? --

[Not even the splash artist was sure what was going on with her torso.]

--so I pushed it to the extreme in the redraw. I was also trying to maintain triangles as the main shape in the design.

Storytelling Elements and Later Additions:

So, Morgana has a sister in the game who fights against her, named Kayle.

I wanted to add elements of that old life to her appearance, so I changed her hair to blonde, like her sister’s. I also gave Morgana a tabbard similar to Kayle’s, with the same symbol on it, albeit old and worn-out. Forgotten, almost. The final change I did was adding the corrupted halo. The blurb on Morgana’s life sounds very obviously disapproving of her life choices, but I was more interested in making the sisters not so cut-and-dry good or evil. Kayle is very lawful, so she has to eliminate evil, at any cost. Morgana disagrees with that kind of ideology, and ends up resorting to making some bad deals in order to face her sister. Is either of them right? They both sound like they’re suffering in their respective positions. So I wanted Morgana to be a bit more sympathetic and interesting.

Final Thoughts:

You could call me out for giving her even less clothes than she had before, but I would argue that it makes sense in this context. Morgana’as power comes from dark, unnatural magic, unlike her sister’s armor and sword (Kayle’s equipment has a backstory of its own). I feel like she would have continued to give more and more of herself to gain more power, possibly even to the point where she can’t wear armor anymore. 

But I didn’t give her a silly bikini and buttcrack-showing skirt and call it a day. The developers couldn’t even be bothered to give her any indications of her backstory. If they had at least given her some deformities or something, I probably wouldn’t have been so angry. At least something fun came out of it.

-Icy

#stream redesign #redraw #redesign #League of Legends #Morgana #video games #image #bikini armor #Bikini Armor Battle Damage #BikiniArmorBattleDamage #BABD #long post

[prettymuchimagines]

triangle [b.a + z.k]

Request: Hey before I say anything else I just want to let you know how amazing a writer you are. Also I’d like to request an imagine if that okay. One where the reader is liked by two of the boys (maybe Brandon and Zion) and has to chose but it’s a constant back and fort?

Word count: 1,258 masterlist 

“Oooh I got you!  YES!!!!” you jump out of the seat and shout louder. “I can’t believe you lost again!”

Brandon playfully shoves you. “Y/n stop being a sore winner.”

“You’re just jealous B. Happens to us all.” 

He shakes his head at you, begins to tackle you on the couch. “I’ll get you back for that little girl.”

You can’t help but laugh, one at the disgusting comment he just made and two, because he’s tickling you and won’t stop. 

“BRANDON! I’m dying here!” Giggle escape your mouth, laughter following immediately behind. “I’ll do anything! JUST STOP!”

You try rolling on the floor and get out of his grip, but he just pulls you back up. 

Laughing along with you, or possibly at you, Brandon sits on top of your waist and smiles. “Anything?”

Rolling your eyes at him, you nod. “I’m not giving you another foot rub. I can’t believe I lost that bet against you. I’ll never do that again in my life!”

“A date. You and me, someplace romantic. What do you say?” 

His eyes are full of hope as you gaze into the brown sea of Brandon’s eyes. 

“Of course.” You lean up, peck his cheek and push him off you. “Pick me up tonight, 7pm?”

“I wouldn’t miss it for the world.” he says, watching you grab your phone and open the front door.

“Don’t be late.” you wink and leave, entering your car.

“Does this look alright?” Brandon asks walking up to the guys in the studio. 

“Where are you going? Why the hell are you dressed up like your going to a red carpet event?” Zion asks.

“A date with Y/n. I’ve been wanting to ask her for a while now.” Smiling instantly when he says your name, trying to not blush in front of his friends. He opens his phone to text you

I’ll be there in 10. Can’t wait to see you Y/n. 💛

“I think you look handsome.” Edwin places his hand on Brandon’s shoulder. “Y/n is one lucky girl.”

“GET IT MAN!” Nick shouts out, suddenly silenced by the death stare given by Zion. 

“Thanks guys. I’ll be back late.” With that, Brandon drives to your apartment. 

Meanwhile, you are still in your bra and underwear, looking for the perfect dress for this date. You really liked Brandon and wanted to look your best. You had a gold sequin dress that was the perfect balance of flashy and fancy, along with your maroon/plum heels. That dress couldn’t be found ANYWHERE. Panic begins to rise as you get the text from Brandon and you haven’t even gotten dressed. Makeup and hair still needed to get done too! 

You opt for a short shimmery skirt that stops just before your fingertips at your side. Paired with a loose white cream tank top, and a black bomber jacket. Finding your black heels and choker to finish the look. 

Hearing the doorbell, you hope the makeup from earlier looks alright as you run your fingers through the beach wave styled hair.

“I’m so overdressed aren’t I?” you begin to close the front door. 

“Babe!” He puts his hand in the middle of the door edge and the wall, catching it while staring at you. “You look so damn gorgeous!” Looking you up and down, he licks his lips. “Perfect outfit for a perfect lady.” 

Hardcore blushing right now, you nod and kiss his cheek. “Thank you.” Walking to his car, your arm is holding onto him. 

Brandon gently pushes you against the car before opening the door for you. “I’m going to win our date. Looser gets to kiss the winner.” he winks and opens the door. 

@brandonarreaga: Although she lost mini golf, she won my heart. #perfectdate #perfectlady #loserkisseswinner

“Did you all see this?!” Zion shouts, running across the house for someone to listen to him complain. 

“See what?” Austin asks, eating some cereal. 

“She kissed Brandon. He posted about her. God, I wanted to be with Y/n and Brandon isn’t backing off!” 

“Zion, cool down. Just go win her over.”

“You know what, I’m going to do just that! Thanks Austin!” he runs off to his car, taking the long way to your house, to pick up roses for you. 

You are still in your outfit, lounging on the couch with Brandon while watching The Princess Bride. Legs are intertwined with B’s and the blanket keeps all the revealed skin warm. Getting to the part in the movie where they’re in the dungeon and on the pulling/torcher machine, when the doorbell rings. 

“I’ll be right back B.” you lean up and kiss him softly before getting up, pulling your skirt down. “One second!” you shout towards the door. 

Opening the door, you find Zion standing there, holding three dozen roses. “Y/n I have loved you ever since we first met at the dog park. I need to let you know my feelings and I hope you feel the same way.” 

Zion continues to ramble on for another good four minutes or so. Brandon has gone to the bathroom, leaving you alone with the guest at the door. 

“Z, I’m with Brandon.” you say feeling guilty, for some reason. Brandon makes you happy and tonight was a night you didn’t want to end. Both of you agreed for him to stay the night anyway. 

“I know Y/n but I just...” he drops all the roses to pull you into a kiss. His hands wrap around your lower back, keeping you pulled in close to him. You begin to kiss Zion back and getting into the kiss, feeling like his lips were made to fit yours. That’s when you jump and stop, standing still in your tracks.

Brandon walks out and starts to shout. “Get the hell off my girlfriend!” He pulls you back into his embrace, checking you for any signs of harm. 

“You knew I like her, yet you’re here with her for the night! I thought we agreed to not make a move!”

“Zion what the hell are you talking about? You’re holding three dozen roses and kissing my girl! I gave you long enough and you did nothing, so I went for it.”

The boys continue to argue, you turn the movie off and send them both on their way. Locking the door you sigh. You really had no desire to be in a love triangle. 

It has been two weeks and both boys have taken you out almost every day of the week. You’ve become exhausted from the back and forth of it all. You were not a toy and if they honestly did love you, they’d respect your decision. After thinking it through you call them both to come over to talk. 

“I love you both so much, you know that. I hope you can respect my decision on who I want to date. There’s nothing against the other person, but I can’t be living like this. I feel like I am a rope being pulled in two different directions.”

Brandon’s hand finds your knee and rubs it softly. He always knew how to comfort you, without saying a thing. On the other hand, Zion keeps his eyes on you, sending you the familiar message of how he will always be there for you. 

“I’m so sorry Zion. My heart is saying Brandon, over and over again.” Tears begin to fall and you feels as if you’ve now crushed his life. You didn’t want to do this, knowing you’d see him daily or so. 

THE END.... hope you enjoyed this. It’s kind of long, I got really into it! Loved this request!

#brandon arreaga #brandon arreaga imagine #zion kuwonu #zion kuwonu imagine #prettymuch #pretty much imagines #prettymuch imagines #prettymuchimagines #date night #love triangle #raelynn #rae lynn #mini golf

[onlinemarketinghelp]

The 65 Most Inspiring and Successful Shopify Stores https://ift.tt/2XdsTuo

Starting an online business can be intimidating. There are so many things you have to deal with, like how not to go broke, how to optimize your landing pages, or what to name your business. But, let’s put that aside for now. Let’s look for some inspiration.

We’ve gathered a list of 65 online Shopify stores for you to take inspiration from.

All of them are successful ecommerce businesses. Each of these businesses carved their own way to success. And, for each of them, success meant different things. Their successes vary from having high-end clients like Ben Affleck to earning multimillion-dollar investments and six-figure revenues. Hopefully they’ll get you inspired about your own online business.

Best Shopify Stores for Clothing

Negative Underwear

This company’s goal is to help women feel confident in their own bodies. They don’t want to rely on push-up pads or bows for women to feel sexy. And it must be working for them since this Shopify store’s revenue grew 150% just a few years after it launched. They have gained acclaim from big names such as Forbes, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal for making a place in the industry and bridging the gap between functionality and appearance.

Unconditional

Unconditional’s website design is nothing but striking. It’s simple, yet eye-catching. This Shopify store started in London, more than a decade ago. They describe themselves as “a winning combination of the laidback and the edgy”.

Sir

This Shopify store is bold, it’s big, and it’s beautiful. With its serene photography style, it does a great job sending a calming message through the theme of the store. Located in Sydney, Australia, this store steals a place in our list for one of the most striking Shopify stores for clothing.

Bluebella

This Shopify store takes a place in our list because of their fashion-led luxurious lingerie and nightwear collections. Their designs reflect a modern take on lingerie. They claim to use unusual fabrics and trims to create stunning new silhouettes. There’s so much to say about this store, but we’ll let their stunning website do most of the talking for them. Taylor Stitch

Taylor Stitch launched its online Shopify store in 2010 selling custom and tailored menswear. Their aim is to make sophisticated dressing affordable. This Shopify shop creates a bond with their customers by encouraging them to share their individual stories. Over the years, their customers have shared amazing stories and pictures from fly fishing trips, motorcycles crashes, hurricane clean ups, and wedding days. Since the launch, their revenue has tripled each year. Just three years after their launch, the company made an expected $1.5 million in sales, and is continuing to grow since then.

Triangl

An Australian couple launched this swimwear line in 2012. The idea of this Shopify store first came to Erin Deering, one of the founders, who realized that she couldn’t find any bikini that she liked that was also affordable. By the end of TRIANGL’s first year, the company made over $5 million. The following year this top Shopify store earned five times that much, at $25 million. TRIANGL offers simple and sporty styles in bright neoprene fabric.

HELM Boots

Founded in 2009 in Austin, Texas, HELM is dedicated to classic style with a versatile, modern perspective. HELM casual & work boots and shoes are produced and sourced in U.S. facilities, making them 100% made in the USA. This young boot retailer is gaining quick traction and getting orders from the likes of Ben Affleck. Introducing their Shopify shop in 2009, they have since then been committed to crafting handmade leather boots with pride, care, and purpose.

Milk

This Shopify shop offers clothing for babies while keeping comfort, style, and practicality in mind. The store was conceived in 2016, with an idea to design clothes for everyday living and playing. That’s why this Shopify store pays extra attention to practical shapes with soft, natural, and versatile fabrics.

Yoga Rebel 

This Shopify store has some of the most striking yoga wear you’ll see. They have a wide variety of styles, patterns, and colors to choose from including animal prints and floral patterns. When it comes to products, they also offer maternity wear, hoodies, yoga mats, and many more products.

Marc Wenn

All products are designed by Marc Wenn in London. They focus mainly on shoes, wrist watches, and backpacks. Marc Wenn advises doing many things that don’t scale to ensure good business at first. For example, personally emailing the first 100 customers to say thank you will go a very long way for any business, just as it did for this Shopify store.

Charnos

Charnos is a Shopify store mainly for lingerie. But they don’t just design beautiful and elegant lingerie, they’re also passionate about creating bras with the perfect fit. This Shopify store makes sure that their products fit the needs of modern, fashion-conscious women to provide them the support and comfort that they require.

Khara Kapas

Kharakapas, means ‘pure cotton’. They sell Indian-culture-inspired and handmade boutique clothing. Their clothes combine an understanding of the elegance of cotton, earthy colours, versatile prints, and minimalistic design that is a celebration of the uninhibited spirit of style. Their products are produced locally in India, but they provide shipping worldwide. With its modern take on heritage, this Shopify shop racks up over $1,500 sales per day.

Argent

This Shopify shop is on a mission to make women look great and feel comfortable when they’re at work. Their vibrant blazers and floral jackets are nothing but eye-catching. This Shopify store does a great job at providing a wide variety to women who want to look sharp at work (or outside). 

THINX

An amazing women’s company which sells period underwear is making big headway and big bucks. This Shopify shop raised $130,000 in 2014 from crowdfunding and has grown 23 times since. 23 times.

Gymshark

Created in 2012 by teenager Ben Francis and a group of his high-school friends, Gymshark has grown from a screen printing operation in a garage, into one of the fastest growing and most recognizable brands in fitness. This Shopify store is a fitness apparel and accessories brand manufacturer online retailer based in the United Kingdom. Supported by over 3 million highly engaged social media followers and customers in 131 countries.

The Candi Factory

With it’s simple design and basic structure, this Shopify store is one worth mentioning. They keep it simple by adding some soft colors and expressions to their clothing line which helps them stand out and create an identity. All in all, their minimal design goes well with their products, that appear to be full of life.

Best Shopify Stores for Accessories

Toyshades

This trendy Shopify store doesn’t shy away from adding a little bit of color to their shades. Their website is very user friendly and easy to navigate through. They have a number of collections to offer when it comes to products, including autumn shades, winter shades, everyday eye-wear, and more. Oh, and they regularly post their trendy collections on their Instagram page, if you’re interested in that. 

Wolf Circus

Wolf Circus is a Shopify store with a line of fine jewelry products that are hand made in Vancouver, BC. All of their products are hand fabricated or cast using the lost-wax casting process, by using either recycled sterling silver or recycled bronze that’s coated in a high grade 14k gold plating. This Shopify store markets themselves as an “attainable luxury”. They’ve gained recognition for their accessories that they’ve been known to produce with great quality and fine regard for detail.

Biko

This Shopify store has a very simplistic design, with just a few navigational options. The element that makes it stand out is it’s photography. They describe themselves as a “modern nostalgic jewelry brand”. Based in Toronto, they hand-craft every piece that they make, with materials including sleek mixed metals and natural stones.

WP Standard

In 2013, WP Standard won Shopify’s Design Award, giving it some serious exposure to their target audience – the design- and quality-conscious tech crowd. It’s one of the top examples of how design can play a huge part in the success of a Shopify website.

SoYoung Inc

This line of bags for both moms and their children earns 25% of its revenue from their online Shopify stores. The profit margin on those sales is higher due to the higher margins thanks to direct sales. On their Shopify website they have a wide variety of different collections for adults, kids, and babies to choose from.

Sunday Somewhere

This Shopify store was developed in late 2010 by Dave Allison, and has reached worldwide recognition since then. The premium eyewear brand focuses on quality, simplicity, and originality for its strategy.

Minaal

This Shopify store sells high-quality travel gear for digital nomads. It was launched by two guys from New Zealand, who realized how dissatisfied they were with their travel gear, and thought it’d be a great idea to quit their jobs and start their own business. In December 2015, they launched a 2nd Kickstarter campaign and raised $707,631 from over 2,400 people. The campaign’s goal was only $10,000. This is a great Shopify store example of a business with a long-term goal that’s passionate about the travel experience.

Watch Outfitter

The company was started by a 17-year-old who had a knowledge of watches and passion for jewelry. By the end of the first year, this Shopify shop was making $13,500 in monthly revenue. They source their watches from a number of different vendors within the U.S., Europe, and Asia. This allows them to offer wholesale prices, with high quality materials and design.

Michael Nelson

This trendy Shopify store made it to the list of top 10 creative Shopify stores to look forward to in 2018, and let’s just say it didn’t disappoint. With it’s funky colors and designs, it’s hard not to be amused by the creativity behind this great Shopify store.

Bremont

This British luxury watchmaker is a Shopify example of an award-winning company producing beautifully engineered chronometers. The annual production is approximately 8,000-10,000 pieces. In 2017, there were remarks of the company increasing its earnings to £14 million.

Nerdwax

Nerdwax is an all-natural and organic beeswax. The company rejected two offers from Shark Tank. This Shopify store is definitely doing something right if it has made over a million dollars in total sales to date.

Best Shopify Stores for Cosmetics

KKW Beauty

KKW, the hugely popular beauty brand by Kim Kardashian West has been creating storms with the amount of recognition and fame it has gained. Hosting periodic sales, the products are not only very high in quality, but also are sold out within minutes. It’s easily one of the top Shopify stores for cosmetics.  

Kylie Cosmetics

Kylie Cosmetics, the wildly popular beauty company, uses Shopify to run their fantastic online store. Kylie Cosmetics hosts periodic flash sales which are some of the largest on the internet. This is another example of a Shopify store where the products sell out within minutes.

Jeffree Star Cosmetics

Jefree Star Cosmetics is the cosmetics brand of Jefree Star, an American make-up artist, fashion designer and model. With a hot-pink website look, Jefree Star Cosmetics includes a tonne of holiday and special editions for their customers, as well as free U.S. shipping for products over $100. It’a arguably among the top most popular Shopify stores for makeup and cosmetics.

Concrete Minerals

Founded in 2009, this Shopify store example is all about creating high-end vegan, cruelty-free cosmetics with a unique twist. Their policy is less and more — less ingredients, more pigment. They’re committed to using no parabens or preservatives in any of their products, and are also 100% gluten-free. Located in Southern California, they provide free shipping worldwide on all orders $50 and above.

NCLA Beauty 

This Shopify store offers a wide range of nail products and other cosmetic items, such as jelly balms and lipsticks. What’s interesting about their website is the way they’ve designed it. All we can say is that they’ve nailed the design!

Beardbrand

Eric Bandholz built an online business for men’s beard care. In less than a year the company was making $120k in monthly sales. Beardbrand’s email list also quickly grew to over 7 thousand emails.

Best Shopify Stores for Health and Beauty

Flex

Flex is an alternative to tampons. The great thing is that it allows women to enjoy sex while on their period. If you don’t think that’s a worthy business idea, this Shopify store raised $4.6 million in the first half of 2016 alone.

SkinnyMe Tea

This Australian company sells all-natural detox teas. Founded in 2012, their mission is to help people achieve their health and wellness goals. In only-9 months after this Shopify store started, they were earning $600k in monthly revenue.

Bootea

In 2016, Bootea took over the dietary and lifestyle scene with its detox tea. With one of the best marketed Instagram products, this Shopify store has achieved listings with multiple national retailers and over 1 million customers worldwide.

Little Sparrow Tea

Little Sparrow Tea is a boutique tea company from London. Their goal is to create authentic and wonderful tea experiences. They offer a selected number of teas including white, herbal, black, and green tea. This Shopify store also has a tonne of information about the health benefits of tea, as well as other interesting tea posts on their blog. 

Happiness Abscissa

The Happiness Abscissa (Ha) is committed to reflecting happiness. According to their philosophy, The Ha is a subjective scale that incorporates neurobiology and sensory elements that can be optimized to improve one’s sense of wellbeing. This Shopify store is another very well designed example that you can take inspiration from.

Skinny Teatox

Skinny Teatox is a 100% natural detox tea program that promotes good health and weight. With the undeniably appealing website design, this Shopify store has been included in the list of the top 40 Stunning Ecommerce Stores Built Using Shopify. All the ingredients in Skinny Teatox are 100% natural. There are no chemicals or preservatives. Ingredients include: tea leaves, senna leaf, ginseng, chrysanthemum, cinnamon bark, cloves, rhubarb, ginger, and more.

Press London

PRESS founders, Georgie and Ed, developed a love for cold-pressed juices and had come to rely on them as a convenient, delicious, and healthy part of their diets. This Shopify shop is committed to providing juices that are not only a source of daily enjoyment, but also help them add their daily much-needed nutrition.

Nutriseed

Nutriseed is a Shopify store passionate about nutrition. They’ve grown exponentially in the last few years, from humble countryside beginnings to a current state of the art British manufacturing facility. They’ve got a hands-on approach which requires them to maintain complete control over the quality of their products, from start to finish. They have almost 50k followers on Instagram, and over 200+ products sold a day.

Cookbook VillageCookbook Village sold cookbooks originally on eBay and is now thriving on Shopify. The founders have a background in marketing and utilized their store’s blog, email marketing, and Google AdWords to streamline their business’ success.

Best Shopify Stores for Electronic Accessories and Gadgets

Quad Lock

Quad Lock is a Shopify store developed in Australia in 2011. This gadget allows you to securely and conveniently attach your smartphone to your bike, car, or arm among the many mounting options available. Since its release, the Quad Lock bike mount has been adapted to suit a range of different applications, including a wall mount, belt clip, and a tripod adapter. 

Master and Dynamic

For all the audiophiles out there, Master and Dynamic is selling high-quality headphones. The products from this Shopify store are part of the $1 billion headphone market and rival Beats by Dre with their quality.

Studio Proper

This Shopify shop is a product design studio that’s based in Melbourne, Australia. They define themselves as “focused on simplifying everyday interactions with technology in a beautiful and minimal fashion.” The products that they offer include mounting solutions for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, desk stands, travel accessories, wall mounts, and much more. They keep their website design simple and minimal.

Studio Neat

Studio Neat used Kickstarter to fund their product ideas. In 2016, they launched a new campaign for a smartphone tripod, raising almost $210k in 30 days. Their goal was just $50k.

ZeroGravity

This Shopify store makes it on our list because of their trendy tech accessories. Based in Los Angeles, they design all of their iPhone cases in house. What’s interesting about them is that they have very intricate and vibrant designs that are embroidered on iPhone cases for all shapes and sizes, and a huge selection to choose from.

Shopify Stores for Home & Furniture

St. Frank

This Shopify store sells beautiful, handcrafted decor. They have it all when it comes to decorating your house, as well as a website with a sleek looking design. You can find all sorts of accessories for your home from this Shopify store, ranging from pillows to kitchenware, and everything in between.

 Mignon

Mignon is a small online boutique that started off as a kitchen goods retailer, before expanding to include other types of housewares and party provisions. This Shopify store been listed part of the 25 Shopify Store Examples That Will Inspire You.

Hem

This Shopify store stands out for its modern theme that matches the products. Each product page is accompanied by a detailed description, as well as big imagery and description of the designer of the product. It’s definitely one of the top Shopify stores in terms of appearance.

Floorplan

This top Shopify store is about rugs, rugs, and more rugs. Not only do they give you a wide selection to choose your favorite rug from, they also give you the possibility to create a custom rug, exactly how you imagined it for your home.

Au Lit Fine Linens

This Shopify store has its purpose set to “change the way people sleep & improve the quality of their lives”. The store offers a wide variety of bedding, pillows, duvets, and other bath and comfort products. What’s great about this Shopify shop is that it has a section dedicated to tips and advice, for those looking for guidance and more.

Wrightwood Furniture Wrightwood Furniture started as a store in Chicago. Today, the company makes over 12% of their revenue from their Shopify store. Their online Shopify store is a lead generator for their physical location sales as well.

18 Karat Store

If you’re looking for inspiration for homeware and furniture, this is the Shopify website to look at. Their product range is described as modern home decor, inspired by nature. They have products that range from home furniture to artwork, and they use warm autumn colors to accentuate their products on their website, giving this Shopify store a warm, cozy feeling.

Haus

This Shopify store has a very simple website. Not only have they chosen a smart business name, but the colors that they’ve selected for their website help their products to stand out. You can easily navigate through this store to look for the products that you’re interested in.

Best Shopify Stores for Art

Nick Mayer Art 

Nick Mayer Art has one of the most interesting Shopify art stores out there. It reflects passion. A former marine biologist, Nick Mayer now pursues his true calling as an artist. And what better way to showcase his beautiful work, than with an eye-catching Shopify website.

Raven Roxanne 

If you’re looking for inspiration for a Shopify website for art work, this is the right place to be. Raven Roxanne has a uniquely designed Shopify website. She uses subtle colors on her web page, giving it a homely feel. And on the homepage, you’ll find a captivating video of her creating art.

Leif

Leif is a lifestyle shop that has products for everyday living. This includes home decor, textiles, table linens, artwork, apothecary, stationery, and more. This website uses soft colors and delicate fonts that fit just right with the products that they sell, and the overall feeling of the store.

Some Other Great Shopify Stores Worth Mentioning

Luxy Hair

Luxy hair is a Shopify store which is known for creating clip-in hair extensions that thousands of women all around the world choose to use every day. They instantly add length, volume, and allow you to experiment with color, without any damage to your hair. Their website has a hair blog, transformation videos, information about their story and products, and much more content to learn from.

Canada Icons

Canada Icons is an online Shopify store – and a museum – which sells Canadian brands and goods. The business revolves around telling stories and is proud of its Canadian heritage.

Pipsnacks

Pipsnacks sells healthy snacks and is a Shark Tank success story. The initial Shark Tank investment was $200k in 2013. In 2014 the company made $800k in revenue and was expected to increase it by at least 800% in 2015.

Pure Cycle

The cycling industry is worth $6 billion. In 2012, Pure Cycle, then Pure Fix Cycle, sold over 2,000 bicycles and made almost $4 million dollars.

Tattly

Tattly started as a side hobby for designer Tina Roth-Eisenburg. Today, it’s a growing temporary tattoo business. In 2015, this Shopify store shipped 2.6 million temporary tattoos ranging from $5 to $15 per sale.

Leather Head Sports

Founder of Leather Head Sports, Paul Cunningham, had such success selling his sports leather goods he had to switch from Etsy to Shopify. He hasn’t looked back since.

Craft and Mason

This company sells specialty coffee and delivers it to your door. The founders focused on counting their pennies from day one and providing real value to coffee lovers to help grow their business.

How Can I Set up a Successful Shopify Store?

If you take a look at all the above Shopify store examples, there’s one thing common in all of them. They’ve all prioritized their website and made sure to make it appealing to the audience that they’re trying to target. They aren’t just selling a product, they’re selling a story. That’s what makes them unique.

If you’ve already selected your product, here are some useful tips that you can implement to make sure that your Shopify store is on the right path:

Your Shopify theme. Make sure to select a Shopify theme that reflects the sort of business that you’re part of, and the type of products that you’re selling.

Color combination is everything. You can use colors to your advantage and help your products stand out even further. By using the right colors for your Shopify store you can help convey the right feeling about your brand to your audience.

It’s important that you focus on accessibility alongside design. Your Shopify website should be easy to navigate through, and your customers shouldn’t find it difficult to find the products that they’re looking for.

Photography can help bring your store to life. By using the right pictures for your store, you have the potential to make a difference, and make your store more enticing. Good pictures can help capture your audience’s attention and show them the value in the products that your store is offering.

Conclusion

Which of these Shopify stores did you enjoy the most? Which one of the stores inspired you the most to aim high with your own store? These Shopify stores vary in their successes but they are all great sources of inspiration for a successful ecommerce. Most of these examples make thousands of dollars in sales each month. Some have a reputation for really cool clients like Ben Affleck too. Maybe in our next roundup we could feature your store? So, why wait? Get started with your own ecommerce store, and launch it in less than 30 minutes! 

Want to Learn More?

The Ultimate Shopify Dropshipping Guide

List of The Most Popular Online Business Ideas

Shopify Themes: How to Pick the Best Shopify Theme for Your Ecommerce Store

Top 15 Free Shopify Apps You Need to Install

Is there anything else you’d like to know more about and wish was included in this article? Let us know in the comments below!

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Starting an online business can be intimidating. There are so many things you have to deal with, like how not to go broke, how to optimize your landing pages, or what to name your business. But, let’s put that aside for now. Let’s look for some inspiration.

We’ve gathered a list of 65 online Shopify stores for you to take inspiration from.

All of them are successful ecommerce businesses. Each of these businesses carved their own way to success. And, for each of them, success meant different things. Their successes vary from having high-end clients like Ben Affleck to earning multimillion-dollar investments and six-figure revenues. Hopefully they’ll get you inspired about your own online business.

Best Shopify Stores for Clothing

Negative Underwear

This company’s goal is to help women feel confident in their own bodies. They don’t want to rely on push-up pads or bows for women to feel sexy. And it must be working for them since this Shopify store’s revenue grew 150% just a few years after it launched. They have gained acclaim from big names such as Forbes, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal for making a place in the industry and bridging the gap between functionality and appearance.

Unconditional

Unconditional’s website design is nothing but striking. It’s simple, yet eye-catching. This Shopify store started in London, more than a decade ago. They describe themselves as “a winning combination of the laidback and the edgy”.

Sir

This Shopify store is bold, it’s big, and it’s beautiful. With its serene photography style, it does a great job sending a calming message through the theme of the store. Located in Sydney, Australia, this store steals a place in our list for one of the most striking Shopify stores for clothing.

Bluebella

This Shopify store takes a place in our list because of their fashion-led luxurious lingerie and nightwear collections. Their designs reflect a modern take on lingerie. They claim to use unusual fabrics and trims to create stunning new silhouettes. There’s so much to say about this store, but we’ll let their stunning website do most of the talking for them. Taylor Stitch

Taylor Stitch launched its online Shopify store in 2010 selling custom and tailored menswear. Their aim is to make sophisticated dressing affordable. This Shopify shop creates a bond with their customers by encouraging them to share their individual stories. Over the years, their customers have shared amazing stories and pictures from fly fishing trips, motorcycles crashes, hurricane clean ups, and wedding days. Since the launch, their revenue has tripled each year. Just three years after their launch, the company made an expected $1.5 million in sales, and is continuing to grow since then.

Triangl

An Australian couple launched this swimwear line in 2012. The idea of this Shopify store first came to Erin Deering, one of the founders, who realized that she couldn’t find any bikini that she liked that was also affordable. By the end of TRIANGL’s first year, the company made over $5 million. The following year this top Shopify store earned five times that much, at $25 million. TRIANGL offers simple and sporty styles in bright neoprene fabric.

HELM Boots

Founded in 2009 in Austin, Texas, HELM is dedicated to classic style with a versatile, modern perspective. HELM casual & work boots and shoes are produced and sourced in U.S. facilities, making them 100% made in the USA. This young boot retailer is gaining quick traction and getting orders from the likes of Ben Affleck. Introducing their Shopify shop in 2009, they have since then been committed to crafting handmade leather boots with pride, care, and purpose.

Milk

This Shopify shop offers clothing for babies while keeping comfort, style, and practicality in mind. The store was conceived in 2016, with an idea to design clothes for everyday living and playing. That’s why this Shopify store pays extra attention to practical shapes with soft, natural, and versatile fabrics.

Yoga Rebel 

This Shopify store has some of the most striking yoga wear you’ll see. They have a wide variety of styles, patterns, and colors to choose from including animal prints and floral patterns. When it comes to products, they also offer maternity wear, hoodies, yoga mats, and many more products.

Marc Wenn

All products are designed by Marc Wenn in London. They focus mainly on shoes, wrist watches, and backpacks. Marc Wenn advises doing many things that don’t scale to ensure good business at first. For example, personally emailing the first 100 customers to say thank you will go a very long way for any business, just as it did for this Shopify store.

Charnos

Charnos is a Shopify store mainly for lingerie. But they don’t just design beautiful and elegant lingerie, they’re also passionate about creating bras with the perfect fit. This Shopify store makes sure that their products fit the needs of modern, fashion-conscious women to provide them the support and comfort that they require.

Khara Kapas

Kharakapas, means ‘pure cotton’. They sell Indian-culture-inspired and handmade boutique clothing. Their clothes combine an understanding of the elegance of cotton, earthy colours, versatile prints, and minimalistic design that is a celebration of the uninhibited spirit of style. Their products are produced locally in India, but they provide shipping worldwide. With its modern take on heritage, this Shopify shop racks up over $1,500 sales per day.

Argent

This Shopify shop is on a mission to make women look great and feel comfortable when they’re at work. Their vibrant blazers and floral jackets are nothing but eye-catching. This Shopify store does a great job at providing a wide variety to women who want to look sharp at work (or outside). 

THINX

An amazing women’s company which sells period underwear is making big headway and big bucks. This Shopify shop raised $130,000 in 2014 from crowdfunding and has grown 23 times since. 23 times.

Gymshark

Created in 2012 by teenager Ben Francis and a group of his high-school friends, Gymshark has grown from a screen printing operation in a garage, into one of the fastest growing and most recognizable brands in fitness. This Shopify store is a fitness apparel and accessories brand manufacturer online retailer based in the United Kingdom. Supported by over 3 million highly engaged social media followers and customers in 131 countries.

The Candi Factory

With it’s simple design and basic structure, this Shopify store is one worth mentioning. They keep it simple by adding some soft colors and expressions to their clothing line which helps them stand out and create an identity. All in all, their minimal design goes well with their products, that appear to be full of life.

Best Shopify Stores for Accessories

Toyshades

This trendy Shopify store doesn’t shy away from adding a little bit of color to their shades. Their website is very user friendly and easy to navigate through. They have a number of collections to offer when it comes to products, including autumn shades, winter shades, everyday eye-wear, and more. Oh, and they regularly post their trendy collections on their Instagram page, if you’re interested in that. 

Wolf Circus

Wolf Circus is a Shopify store with a line of fine jewelry products that are hand made in Vancouver, BC. All of their products are hand fabricated or cast using the lost-wax casting process, by using either recycled sterling silver or recycled bronze that’s coated in a high grade 14k gold plating. This Shopify store markets themselves as an “attainable luxury”. They’ve gained recognition for their accessories that they’ve been known to produce with great quality and fine regard for detail.

Biko

This Shopify store has a very simplistic design, with just a few navigational options. The element that makes it stand out is it’s photography. They describe themselves as a “modern nostalgic jewelry brand”. Based in Toronto, they hand-craft every piece that they make, with materials including sleek mixed metals and natural stones.

WP Standard

In 2013, WP Standard won Shopify’s Design Award, giving it some serious exposure to their target audience – the design- and quality-conscious tech crowd. It’s one of the top examples of how design can play a huge part in the success of a Shopify website.

SoYoung Inc

This line of bags for both moms and their children earns 25% of its revenue from their online Shopify stores. The profit margin on those sales is higher due to the higher margins thanks to direct sales. On their Shopify website they have a wide variety of different collections for adults, kids, and babies to choose from.

Sunday Somewhere

This Shopify store was developed in late 2010 by Dave Allison, and has reached worldwide recognition since then. The premium eyewear brand focuses on quality, simplicity, and originality for its strategy.

Minaal

This Shopify store sells high-quality travel gear for digital nomads. It was launched by two guys from New Zealand, who realized how dissatisfied they were with their travel gear, and thought it’d be a great idea to quit their jobs and start their own business. In December 2015, they launched a 2nd Kickstarter campaign and raised $707,631 from over 2,400 people. The campaign’s goal was only $10,000. This is a great Shopify store example of a business with a long-term goal that’s passionate about the travel experience.

Watch Outfitter

The company was started by a 17-year-old who had a knowledge of watches and passion for jewelry. By the end of the first year, this Shopify shop was making $13,500 in monthly revenue. They source their watches from a number of different vendors within the U.S., Europe, and Asia. This allows them to offer wholesale prices, with high quality materials and design.

Michael Nelson

This trendy Shopify store made it to the list of top 10 creative Shopify stores to look forward to in 2018, and let’s just say it didn’t disappoint. With it’s funky colors and designs, it’s hard not to be amused by the creativity behind this great Shopify store.

Bremont

This British luxury watchmaker is a Shopify example of an award-winning company producing beautifully engineered chronometers. The annual production is approximately 8,000-10,000 pieces. In 2017, there were remarks of the company increasing its earnings to £14 million.

Nerdwax

Nerdwax is an all-natural and organic beeswax. The company rejected two offers from Shark Tank. This Shopify store is definitely doing something right if it has made over a million dollars in total sales to date.

Best Shopify Stores for Cosmetics

KKW Beauty

KKW, the hugely popular beauty brand by Kim Kardashian West has been creating storms with the amount of recognition and fame it has gained. Hosting periodic sales, the products are not only very high in quality, but also are sold out within minutes. It’s easily one of the top Shopify stores for cosmetics.  

Kylie Cosmetics

Kylie Cosmetics, the wildly popular beauty company, uses Shopify to run their fantastic online store. Kylie Cosmetics hosts periodic flash sales which are some of the largest on the internet. This is another example of a Shopify store where the products sell out within minutes.

Jeffree Star Cosmetics

Jefree Star Cosmetics is the cosmetics brand of Jefree Star, an American make-up artist, fashion designer and model. With a hot-pink website look, Jefree Star Cosmetics includes a tonne of holiday and special editions for their customers, as well as free U.S. shipping for products over $100. It’a arguably among the top most popular Shopify stores for makeup and cosmetics.

Concrete Minerals

Founded in 2009, this Shopify store example is all about creating high-end vegan, cruelty-free cosmetics with a unique twist. Their policy is less and more — less ingredients, more pigment. They’re committed to using no parabens or preservatives in any of their products, and are also 100% gluten-free. Located in Southern California, they provide free shipping worldwide on all orders $50 and above.

NCLA Beauty 

This Shopify store offers a wide range of nail products and other cosmetic items, such as jelly balms and lipsticks. What’s interesting about their website is the way they’ve designed it. All we can say is that they’ve nailed the design!

Beardbrand

Eric Bandholz built an online business for men’s beard care. In less than a year the company was making $120k in monthly sales. Beardbrand’s email list also quickly grew to over 7 thousand emails.

Best Shopify Stores for Health and Beauty

Flex

Flex is an alternative to tampons. The great thing is that it allows women to enjoy sex while on their period. If you don’t think that’s a worthy business idea, this Shopify store raised $4.6 million in the first half of 2016 alone.

SkinnyMe Tea

This Australian company sells all-natural detox teas. Founded in 2012, their mission is to help people achieve their health and wellness goals. In only-9 months after this Shopify store started, they were earning $600k in monthly revenue.

Bootea

In 2016, Bootea took over the dietary and lifestyle scene with its detox tea. With one of the best marketed Instagram products, this Shopify store has achieved listings with multiple national retailers and over 1 million customers worldwide.

Little Sparrow Tea

Little Sparrow Tea is a boutique tea company from London. Their goal is to create authentic and wonderful tea experiences. They offer a selected number of teas including white, herbal, black, and green tea. This Shopify store also has a tonne of information about the health benefits of tea, as well as other interesting tea posts on their blog. 

Happiness Abscissa

The Happiness Abscissa (Ha) is committed to reflecting happiness. According to their philosophy, The Ha is a subjective scale that incorporates neurobiology and sensory elements that can be optimized to improve one’s sense of wellbeing. This Shopify store is another very well designed example that you can take inspiration from.

Skinny Teatox

Skinny Teatox is a 100% natural detox tea program that promotes good health and weight. With the undeniably appealing website design, this Shopify store has been included in the list of the top 40 Stunning Ecommerce Stores Built Using Shopify. All the ingredients in Skinny Teatox are 100% natural. There are no chemicals or preservatives. Ingredients include: tea leaves, senna leaf, ginseng, chrysanthemum, cinnamon bark, cloves, rhubarb, ginger, and more.

Press London

PRESS founders, Georgie and Ed, developed a love for cold-pressed juices and had come to rely on them as a convenient, delicious, and healthy part of their diets. This Shopify shop is committed to providing juices that are not only a source of daily enjoyment, but also help them add their daily much-needed nutrition.

Nutriseed

Nutriseed is a Shopify store passionate about nutrition. They’ve grown exponentially in the last few years, from humble countryside beginnings to a current state of the art British manufacturing facility. They’ve got a hands-on approach which requires them to maintain complete control over the quality of their products, from start to finish. They have almost 50k followers on Instagram, and over 200+ products sold a day.

Cookbook VillageCookbook Village sold cookbooks originally on eBay and is now thriving on Shopify. The founders have a background in marketing and utilized their store’s blog, email marketing, and Google AdWords to streamline their business’ success.

Best Shopify Stores for Electronic Accessories and Gadgets

Quad Lock

Quad Lock is a Shopify store developed in Australia in 2011. This gadget allows you to securely and conveniently attach your smartphone to your bike, car, or arm among the many mounting options available. Since its release, the Quad Lock bike mount has been adapted to suit a range of different applications, including a wall mount, belt clip, and a tripod adapter. 

Master and Dynamic

For all the audiophiles out there, Master and Dynamic is selling high-quality headphones. The products from this Shopify store are part of the $1 billion headphone market and rival Beats by Dre with their quality.

Studio Proper

This Shopify shop is a product design studio that’s based in Melbourne, Australia. They define themselves as “focused on simplifying everyday interactions with technology in a beautiful and minimal fashion.” The products that they offer include mounting solutions for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, desk stands, travel accessories, wall mounts, and much more. They keep their website design simple and minimal.

Studio Neat

Studio Neat used Kickstarter to fund their product ideas. In 2016, they launched a new campaign for a smartphone tripod, raising almost $210k in 30 days. Their goal was just $50k.

ZeroGravity

This Shopify store makes it on our list because of their trendy tech accessories. Based in Los Angeles, they design all of their iPhone cases in house. What’s interesting about them is that they have very intricate and vibrant designs that are embroidered on iPhone cases for all shapes and sizes, and a huge selection to choose from.

Shopify Stores for Home & Furniture

St. Frank

This Shopify store sells beautiful, handcrafted decor. They have it all when it comes to decorating your house, as well as a website with a sleek looking design. You can find all sorts of accessories for your home from this Shopify store, ranging from pillows to kitchenware, and everything in between.

 Mignon

Mignon is a small online boutique that started off as a kitchen goods retailer, before expanding to include other types of housewares and party provisions. This Shopify store been listed part of the 25 Shopify Store Examples That Will Inspire You.

Hem

This Shopify store stands out for its modern theme that matches the products. Each product page is accompanied by a detailed description, as well as big imagery and description of the designer of the product. It’s definitely one of the top Shopify stores in terms of appearance.

Floorplan

This top Shopify store is about rugs, rugs, and more rugs. Not only do they give you a wide selection to choose your favorite rug from, they also give you the possibility to create a custom rug, exactly how you imagined it for your home.

Au Lit Fine Linens

This Shopify store has its purpose set to “change the way people sleep & improve the quality of their lives”. The store offers a wide variety of bedding, pillows, duvets, and other bath and comfort products. What’s great about this Shopify shop is that it has a section dedicated to tips and advice, for those looking for guidance and more.

Wrightwood Furniture Wrightwood Furniture started as a store in Chicago. Today, the company makes over 12% of their revenue from their Shopify store. Their online Shopify store is a lead generator for their physical location sales as well.

18 Karat Store

If you’re looking for inspiration for homeware and furniture, this is the Shopify website to look at. Their product range is described as modern home decor, inspired by nature. They have products that range from home furniture to artwork, and they use warm autumn colors to accentuate their products on their website, giving this Shopify store a warm, cozy feeling.

Haus

This Shopify store has a very simple website. Not only have they chosen a smart business name, but the colors that they’ve selected for their website help their products to stand out. You can easily navigate through this store to look for the products that you’re interested in.

Best Shopify Stores for Art

Nick Mayer Art 

Nick Mayer Art has one of the most interesting Shopify art stores out there. It reflects passion. A former marine biologist, Nick Mayer now pursues his true calling as an artist. And what better way to showcase his beautiful work, than with an eye-catching Shopify website.

Raven Roxanne 

If you’re looking for inspiration for a Shopify website for art work, this is the right place to be. Raven Roxanne has a uniquely designed Shopify website. She uses subtle colors on her web page, giving it a homely feel. And on the homepage, you’ll find a captivating video of her creating art.

Leif

Leif is a lifestyle shop that has products for everyday living. This includes home decor, textiles, table linens, artwork, apothecary, stationery, and more. This website uses soft colors and delicate fonts that fit just right with the products that they sell, and the overall feeling of the store.

Some Other Great Shopify Stores Worth Mentioning

Luxy Hair

Luxy hair is a Shopify store which is known for creating clip-in hair extensions that thousands of women all around the world choose to use every day. They instantly add length, volume, and allow you to experiment with color, without any damage to your hair. Their website has a hair blog, transformation videos, information about their story and products, and much more content to learn from.

Canada Icons

Canada Icons is an online Shopify store – and a museum – which sells Canadian brands and goods. The business revolves around telling stories and is proud of its Canadian heritage.

Pipsnacks

Pipsnacks sells healthy snacks and is a Shark Tank success story. The initial Shark Tank investment was $200k in 2013. In 2014 the company made $800k in revenue and was expected to increase it by at least 800% in 2015.

Pure Cycle

The cycling industry is worth $6 billion. In 2012, Pure Cycle, then Pure Fix Cycle, sold over 2,000 bicycles and made almost $4 million dollars.

Tattly

Tattly started as a side hobby for designer Tina Roth-Eisenburg. Today, it’s a growing temporary tattoo business. In 2015, this Shopify store shipped 2.6 million temporary tattoos ranging from $5 to $15 per sale.

Leather Head Sports

Founder of Leather Head Sports, Paul Cunningham, had such success selling his sports leather goods he had to switch from Etsy to Shopify. He hasn’t looked back since.

Craft and Mason

This company sells specialty coffee and delivers it to your door. The founders focused on counting their pennies from day one and providing real value to coffee lovers to help grow their business.

How Can I Set up a Successful Shopify Store?

If you take a look at all the above Shopify store examples, there’s one thing common in all of them. They’ve all prioritized their website and made sure to make it appealing to the audience that they’re trying to target. They aren’t just selling a product, they’re selling a story. That’s what makes them unique.

If you’ve already selected your product, here are some useful tips that you can implement to make sure that your Shopify store is on the right path:

Your Shopify theme. Make sure to select a Shopify theme that reflects the sort of business that you’re part of, and the type of products that you’re selling.

Color combination is everything. You can use colors to your advantage and help your products stand out even further. By using the right colors for your Shopify store you can help convey the right feeling about your brand to your audience.

It’s important that you focus on accessibility alongside design. Your Shopify website should be easy to navigate through, and your customers shouldn’t find it difficult to find the products that they’re looking for.

Photography can help bring your store to life. By using the right pictures for your store, you have the potential to make a difference, and make your store more enticing. Good pictures can help capture your audience’s attention and show them the value in the products that your store is offering.

Conclusion

Which of these Shopify stores did you enjoy the most? Which one of the stores inspired you the most to aim high with your own store? These Shopify stores vary in their successes but they are all great sources of inspiration for a successful ecommerce. Most of these examples make thousands of dollars in sales each month. Some have a reputation for really cool clients like Ben Affleck too. Maybe in our next roundup we could feature your store? So, why wait? Get started with your own ecommerce store, and launch it in less than 30 minutes! 

Want to Learn More?

The Ultimate Shopify Dropshipping Guide

List of The Most Popular Online Business Ideas

Shopify Themes: How to Pick the Best Shopify Theme for Your Ecommerce Store

Top 15 Free Shopify Apps You Need to Install

Is there anything else you’d like to know more about and wish was included in this article? Let us know in the comments below!

The post The 65 Most Inspiring and Successful Shopify Stores appeared first on Oberlo.

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Four jockeys, two cities, one love, all Pride.

New York City - June 25, 4:15PM

“You know what’s so great about being based at Gulfstream?”

Joel looked at me over his sunglasses, black eyebrows quirked like he was ready for me to say something foolish or obvious. “The year-round riding?”

“Good point,” I allowed. He was such a workaholic, but I liked that look on a guy. “I was thinking more that Miami’s Pride is in April, so we get to do two per year. Aren’t we the luckiest motherfuckers on the planet?”

We were, to my way of thinking, or at least I was. Me with my paragon of a boyfriend, handsome and talented and a Classic win deep into a very good summer. Me in one of the most beautiful cities in the world--New York was no Miami, but it was a good place to be on the second Saturday in June, and the third Sunday was even better. Me surrounded by color and life, music, chanting in twenty different languages. Me and him and everyone else, the same and different for that moment.

“You just like parades,” Joel said, and wrapped his arm around my waist. “And marches and rallies. You remember…”

He cut off, a hint of a smile on his mouth, and I tried to decide what he might be remembering. Us two months earlier in Miami Beach, dancing on one of the drag floats with his cousin Dani, wearing Hawaiian-print board shorts and not much else? Us the year before, the weekend after Belmont, our first Belmont and our first New York Pride, or us this past Friday night at Fantasy, the ‘Men At Work’ theme and Joel’s breeches in a context different than the one I was used to--

“That rally,” he said. His arm tensed, his hand on my hip. I was wearing a tank top, Breeders’ Cup purple the perfect shade for a Pride weekend, and the sides were slashed down far enough that his skin was warm against mine. He turned his head, looking beyond the High Line, and his lips met my curls. “You remember.”

I remembered: the two of us in a crowd heading for the Miami-Dade courthouse, the wet June heat. His mouth, vodka-flavored; my best friend texting where r u and me ignoring it. Joel trying to tell me something, to open up, and me ignoring that too because I was a dipshit, or scared, because it was easier to go for what I wanted in that moment instead of what I was afraid I might want for life. The two of us at the start.

Across the rooftops Fifth Avenue was visible, the glitter and noise of the March snaking slowly through Manhattan. People we knew were down there, street-level, in the parade itself and along the sidewalks. Tallis was somewhere with Jessa and her girlfriend, and we’d have to go find them pretty soon, because we had dinner reservations at Ngam. As though on cue, my phone buzzed and I slid it out of my pocket, expecting a chiding Tallis text. Instead it was Lexington’s own blond-bitch princess, a picture of Felix and Adair in front of a rainbow horse statue in Triangle Park. A giant LexPride flag wrapped them together. I’d have sworn Adair’s smile was brighter than the light reflecting off their sunglasses.

“The cutest,” I declared, and showed my phone to Joel. “Great. Now we’ll have to one-up them.”

There was no question of the quantity of photos in my phone. We’d been walking all morning, pausing to get drinks and take pictures and kiss. If Felix was going to be all adorable, we’d be adorable right back at her--even more so, because I had a secret weapon of industrial-strength cuteness, and he was standing right next to me. Joel’s flannel had accumulated more pins and patches beside his old rainbow Cuban flag button as we’d stopped at stalls and merch booths, and--I rubbed my arm against his shoulder, where skin met the soft, torn edge of his sleeve. Was it the same flannel? Black-and-red plaid, faded, the softest thing in his closet. Back then, in front of the Miami courthouse, it’d been buttoned up; now it was open over his bare chest, sun glinting on a gold cross and the warm brown skin of his abs, black boxer-briefs visible above cut-off jeans and his Jordans.

“Just so you know,” I said, and I hadn’t expected my voice to be rough. “You look deadly.”

“You should be looking at the parade,” Joel said, but a smile slipped across his face. The hand on my hip eased north, his fingers hooking inside my shirt. His other hand tipped up the brim of my hat, then adjusted the JEWS FOR JUSTICE patch and the rainbow Keshet pin. A pinky lifted my Magen David from where it dangled over the Breeders’ Cup logo. “You look like free advertising.”

“The powers that be should pay me for this endorsement,” I said, and tugged his face down to mine. “The best is yet to…come.”

Joel snorted. “I guess I’ll give you some credit for waiting so long to whip that out.”

“Considering what you were whipping out on the dance floor last night, I deserve all the credit.”

In the sky above us, the sun passed over a cloud. It’d been like that all weekend, fast-moving clouds shot with brutal sunlight. Colorful sunscreen and body paint were everywhere. Yesterday Joel, long-suffering mensch that he was, had let me draw stars and horses all over his arms in rainbow splotches of zinc, a gigantic green outline of Florida on his stomach, a heart on each cheek. Now he pushed his sunglasses into his hair and gazed at me. “Ben.”

“Petsl.”

Tatteleh, I wanted to whisper to the smooth skin beneath his jaw, bubbeleh, gelibt boychick, every soft, sweet thing I could think of, all the endearments that weren’t enough in English and were somehow almost enough in Yiddish. He had a tendency to forget--how good he was, how beautiful, even on days like Pride when it was so easy to remember that we were loved, when it was safe to love.

I liked reminding him.

“I hope you’re having fun.”

“I’m always having fun,” I said, which was only the truth.

“Well--” he said. “But you know what I mean.”

“You mean,” I said, “that the racetrack is suffering without us.” He pressed his lips together, a sure sign that he was trying to be serious and failing to resist my notable charms. “You mean that the bettors are pining. You mean that Jamie Hamilton is gnashing his teeth over race five, which you would be winning right now if you weren’t here. Is that what you mean?”

He kept looking at me, his eyes soft black without the blue-tinted aviators, humoring me.

“Thank you for being here with me.” I kissed his cheek, the skin tasting faintly of sunscreen. “I know I can be a one-man gay Pride parade, but this only happens once a year.”

“Twice a year,” Joel murmured, turning so that I felt his smile on my lips. “If you’re lucky like us.”

New York City - June 25, 5:05PM

Jessa’s new girlfriend was one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen.

To be fair, every woman I laid eyes on was up there; I just happened to really, really like women. And maybe I should’ve been jealous--maybe I should’ve looked at Esther draped over Jessa like kudzu and sucked my teeth--maybe in the back of my mind there was a highlights reel playing, the two of us that summer when everything changed, and the two of us in an Ozone Park walk-up, a Morningside Heights cafe, a Saratoga ballroom. But Jessa was happy and it was Pride, and as my grandma would’ve said, my cup was overflowing.

“Your cup,” Jessa said, giggling. “Tallis.” She grabbed the solo cup out of my hand as it tipped, my elbow on the railing of the rooftop bar. “Some poor soul down on the street won’t know what hit them.”

“Hey, like, if I time it right--like, when Ben texts me they’re heading over I’ll have to keep an eye out,” I said. “I’ll spot Joel’s frowny-face a mile away and then I’ll dump this right on Ben’s head.”

“That would definitely give them an idea of our location,” Jessa agreed. Esther looked at her and then at me, smiling and a little confused. Her face, I decided, was sweet. She looked like an icon of Black Mary, round cheeks and big dark eyes and a neck that wouldn’t have seemed out of place with the swan boats, her hair hidden beneath a bright blue-print turban. Jessa leaned over and darted a kiss at her, and I thought very hard about anything other than the berry flavor of her favorite purple lipstick, the way the sun hit her deep brown skin. “They’re Tallis’s friends. She just has a strange way of showing affection.”

“Ben understands me,” I said loftily. “And Joel respects me. Like, on the dirt, at least.” I sipped at the rest of the cocktail in my cup, what Jessa called an Ice Pick. Something along the lines of an Arnold Palmer, but with vodka. It was refreshing as hell on what was turning out to be the hottest day of New York’s summer so far. “They were supposed to come to the rally but--I mean, I suppose they were hungover. I guess I’ll allow it, like, how often does Joelito get smashed? Not often.”

Still, it would have been nice to have them at the rally. Ben was more political than he let on, and Joel was more political than he looked, and it was always chill when they were around, among the chants and the signs. If I couldn’t have Iris and Marcy, my best friends from high school, armed with slogans and literature, the boys were a good next-best.

“Those were some pictures from last night.” Jessa cocked an eyebrow. They were sparkling today, her perfect eyebrows, pink glitter swept along their arches to match the fuchsia braided into her hair. She looked like cotton candy, pink and purple swirled together in a galaxy-print romper and her lilac lips. “Tallis, I kind of figured you might wear something similar today, yet here you are in civvies.”

The pictures in question involved breeches, because Ben and Joel were predictable. I looked down at my own gear. “So maybe I didn’t feel like wearing my work uniform, geez.”

“Still,” Jessa said, face straight and brown eyes dancing. “Does what it says on the tin.”

The tin said DOWN TO RIDE in white block letters across my sports bra. It was too hot for real clothing, and Pride wasn’t for real clothing anyway, and I couldn’t figure why Jessa was giving me a hard time. Between my bra and cut-offs and Docs I still had more coverage going on than half the people dancing on this roof.

“You look great, Tallis,” Esther said, almost gushing. Maybe she felt like she had to be extra-nice, since she was kissing on my former lady-friend right in front of me. “Can I ask what your work-out regimen is like? Because Lord, you are in really good shape.”

“I mean,” I said. “I mainly just, like… ride horses.” I flapped my hands at my chest, not that there was much chest to be flapped at. Whatever boobs I’d been packing had long vanished in favor of muscle. “Like Jessa said. Does what it says on the tin.”

“Oh,” Esther said, and did that thing again, her eyes swerving between me and Jessa like she’d missed something. They hadn’t been dating for that long, they were still in the gooey stage of staring at each other and touching every three seconds, and when I’d heard--when I’d gotten back to New York after the Derby and Jessa had called me instead of responding to a simple hook-up text--when I’d seen Esther today, lovely and giggling on Jessa’s arm… It was difficult to be angry, or even that sad. Sad was a well-worn spot in my heart that would probably never scar over. But it was Pride, and Jessa was happy. Esther made her happy. Esther, who looked at me again and said, “Well, you look amazing.”

“Speaking of pictures,” I said, because things were starting to get awkward, “check what my guru’s up to.” My agent’s wife had texted me an hour or so before, and I flashed my phone at Jessa. “I mean, for real, look at this old man! I gotta tell him to perk up. Somebody up there better dunk his head in a cooler or some shit, like, it’s too early for naptime.”

Jessa giggled. “If I were Phil I’d have drawn dicks on his face.”

“Good to know,” Esther said. She slipped Jessa a sidelong look, lips pursed. “Remind me not to fall asleep around you.”

“That ain’t what you’ll wake up to,” Jessa said, composed. I tried to ignore that face of hers, the calm one she pulled on when she was delivering lightning bolts, the smooth full cheeks and innocent expression that came out when her hand was on your thigh. “Tallis, there’s a cutie at the bar giving you mad eyes.”

I tugged a curl of my frohawk and turned, hoping I seemed casual even though if said cutie bopped my way she’d find out soon enough that there was nothing casual about me. She was pretty, all legs in a pair of sailor shorts, black ink peeking out of her waistband and a belly-button ring turning olive skin golden in the sun. She had a tallboy in one hand, the aluminum hiding her mouth as she sipped, round sunglasses low on her nose.

Jessa whistled and kicked my ankle. “Quit standing around, girl. We’ll keep an eye out for the boys.”

Ben and Joel could take their time, as far as I was concerned. The girl at the bar wasn’t looking away, and Jessa and Esther had their heads together, tittering like pigeons, and it was Pride. Maybe I should’ve been at the track, making money instead of spending it, but there were a few things I loved more than horses and this was one. All around me New York was partying; from this high up the streets below looked like they were paved in glitter. Hands were being held and cheeks kissed and in bathrooms and stairwells and on balconies and throughout the parading streets people were in love. I was in love, with my work and the people in my life, even if... And some of that feeling I could pinpoint, I had the receipts committed to memory, and some of it seemed like it’d always been in me, and some of it I knew would never leave.

But there was always room for more.

Lexington - June 25, 5:35PM

It’d been five years, I realized when the float was swinging past Broadway, aimed straight for the arena.

“What?” Phil called, her hip twisting under my hand. She’d been dancing, so it seemed, since we woke up that morning, hungover beyond the telling of it in a hotel off Red Mile and Felix beating our door down, get the fuck out of bed, Eduardo, we got bigots to piss off. Phil grinned, her face close to mine. “Five years since what?”

“Five years!” I put my lips to her ear so she could hear me over the loudspeakers, the grand marshal in the distance and our float blaring Tegan and Sara. “I know you ain’t forgot. It was all your idea anyway.”

She looked at me a moment longer, and then her smile broke into laughter. Sun glinted off her tongue ring, a tiny little gold-edged rainbow for the occasion. “Oh my god. Eddy. I totally forgot I popped your Pride cherry. Baby.” She kissed me, still laughing, and I caught the taste of orange-bourbon slushies on her tongue. “Mazel tov, man. Happy anniversary.”

June was a good month anyway, so I’d always figured, the Belmont being my preferred of the Crown races and my birthday landing another week in, and now Father’s Day. I did like being a father. Add Pride into it, and June was the heavy favorite for best month of the year, as far as I was concerned. Phil linked an arm around my waist, moving faster as the DJ switched over to a Gaga remix. Her cheek pressed mine, the gold lame fabric of her dress slightly sticky under my palm. “I’m glad we’re still here.”

Still here. Still in Lexington, still together--still brazenly queer, her, and still a little squirrelly about it, me. I remembered that conversation, when we’d been together for nearly a year. You’ve really never been? But Felix… Felix, Pride enthusiast extraordinaire. Felix, who’d probably be Grand Marshal of Lexington’s Pride before she turned thirty-five. Felix, who right then was about a mile ahead of us, her and Adair and Maribel with Iona on the Ruffians float. It was the first year that batch of ritzy Kentucky horsewomen had reserved a spot in the parade. Felix had scoffed, but I liked what I thought it said about her mother.

“Anybody give you a hard time yet?” Phil said, and leaned past me to wave. “Here, we should start throwing beads again.”

There was a bucket of beads at our feet, half-forgotten as the sun and noise had gone to work on us. It was real easy to forget a lot of things, I’d noticed, this particular weekend. The mass of color caught my eyes, made me look everywhere at once instead of focusing on any one detail. The simplicity of the whole thing gummed up my gears. For once, for just a few days, you could believe things were all right.

I grabbed a handful of beads and raised them, looking out at the crowd on the street. “Anybody gave me a hard time, you’d have known about it. Seeing as you been all over me all day.” Phil bumped her hip into mine. “I’m not complaining, mind.”

“You better not,” she said. “And they better not.” Her lips tightened, her profile sharp with its sunglasses against the downtown skyline and the bright blue sky. “When we were getting ready to push off I heard that new guy say something to Marisa. ‘Who invited the hets?’ Some shit like that.” She tossed her beads out to the air, aiming for a couple of girls in UK gear, then leaned into my shoulder. “Like, of course I’ve got to come out to some rando on Pride. Of course.”

“You don’t have to say anything to anyone.”

Our float was one put on by the art collective Phil was part of, had been running in the Lexington parade every year that I’d been going. Any new guy participating needed to introduce himself to Phil, not the other way around. It prickled me--how this happened every year in some form, somebody looking at us and thinking they knew what they were seeing. It bothered me because it bothered her, not so much for my own sake. That had been part of the reason why I’d never been to Pride, before Phil took me. It had seemed like I’d be butting in, even if I belonged there, and I’d never been sure I did. Phil had been the first person other than Felix I’d said those words to. Even now I didn’t know, not really.

“Eddy,” she said, and kissed me softly. “Don’t worry about it. It’s been a great weekend.” Her hand slid down my back, slotting into my pocket. “Also, you look hot.”

“I am hot,” I told her, and pulled back just enough to drop a strand of beads around her neck. I’d been doing this off and on all day, watching the multi-colored beads nestle into her cleavage until she complained they were sticking to her and took them off. “It’s very hot out, if you hadn’t noticed.”

“Uh-huh.” She lifted her hair with both hands, the heavy black weight of it, and pulled some magic trick to keep it in a bun without an elastic. “I meant that new ink, but you’re not wrong. You should take up meteorology when you get bored with agenting.”

I examined my right shoulder where it lay open to the warm air. I’d finally used up all the real estate on my left arm, the round petals of a Bayahibe rose inching down over the back of my hand. The first and only ink on my right arm thus far was our daughter’s name, etched into a scroll to match the one with my mother’s name on my left bicep. When I looked up again, Phil was looking too, green eyes narrowed over her heart-shaped sunglasses. She licked her lips and winked.

“I’m just saying. I’d marry your ass if I hadn’t already, tattoo like that.” She leaned in again, her mouth against my ear. “I like commitment.”

I liked it too. My whole life people had been calling me serious, too serious sometimes. In the early days someone had told me Phil got bored easily, and maybe it was true, but if it was, apparently my glitz hadn’t worn off yet. Hers sure hadn’t, and I doubted it ever would. She’d been hard to resist then, smirking at me over a big fancy Nikon, her tongue ring and those hips I wanted to die between; she was even harder to resist now, the soft stamp of motherhood on her, that gold dress low-cut over a strappy black bra and sandals winding up toward her knees.

Somewhere on this float was a guy who thought the two of us didn’t need to be here. Somewhere in the parade was our baby and her aunties. Phil had started this chapter of my life and we’d finish it together, us and Mari and Felix and Adair, and right then I couldn’t think of anything better.

Phil’s hand pressed harder into my pocket, then flashed my phone. “Someone wants you.”

“I know she does,” I said, and kissed her nose. She giggled, swiping open the phone. “So who wants me now? Better not be Tallis.”

“It is Tallis,” she said. “But not for work.”

The picture on the screen was my errant little girl-jock, smack between Gwen Taylor’s daughter and a very pretty girl I didn’t recognize. New York soared behind them, and color exploded in every corner of the picture, Tallis with a rainbow painted across the slope of her nose and Jessa wearing pink braids and purple lipstick. happy PRIDE 2 my favorite bi babes, the text read. B good & kiss Mari PLEASE xoxoxox Tallis n Jessa

Phil giggled, her head tipped against mine. The sun lit her skin and the unicorn-sheen blush she’d swept on that morning. “Happy Pride, Eddy.”

I kissed her and kissed her again, murmured it back to her, let it sink into me. Viva Orgullo.

Lexington - June 25, 6:30PM

Somehow, this was the first time I’d cried at a Pride festival.

The amphiteatre was crowded to capacity but every scrap of conversation and laughter died as the recitation began. Voices swelled over it, the choir on the stage singing ‘Amazing Grace’ while the speaker read out Antonio Brown...Luis Conde...Eddie Justice...and maybe it was shoulders pressing mine, a hand on my waist, and maybe it was Adair’s face on the platform among the women singing, and maybe it was too many other faces in my mind, too much terrible potential.

Eddy’s arm on my shoulders went tight. He didn’t say anything, and neither did Phil, not even to whisper jokingly that the rainbow painted on my cheek was about to smudge. I licked my lips, then said, voice low, “Can I hold Mari?”

I knew they were looking at each other over my head, but Phil smiled as she shifted the kid in her arms. Mari’s weight was comforting, her cheek rolling against my chest and her hair smelling of sunscreen. I wanted to close my eyes and bury my face in her black curls, but Adair deserved more than that, and so did the woman speaking.

So did the dead.

“She sounded amazing,” Eddy said a few minutes later when the crowd around us began to move. We stood there on the grass, an island of three and a snoozing baby, watching couples kissing and groups forming, friends calling out directions and plans. “They all did, but Adair--por Dios, up there looking like an angel.” He slapped my shoulder, tweaking the thin strap of my dress. “And you, Miss Slutty Charms, pride of Lexington.”

So maybe the dress was bright green and transparent in the sun, and maybe it was so short as to barely deserve the name, but I thought the Honeycomb Hills snapback and high-top sneakers kind of leavened the look. Anyway, Adair’s eyes popping when I’d come out of the hotel bathroom this morning was the whole point. I hefted Mari up, patting her back as she mumbled something. “That’s Mrs. Slutty Charms to you, asshole.”

It still felt bizarre, being someone’s missus, bizarre and impossible and perfect. We were nearly a year in, me and Adair, and I was never going to be used to it. It was just one more thing kicking this year’s Pride into the stratosphere: the rock on Adair’s finger, the smile on her face now there for yet another reason. I looked at her again, across the crowd, still on the stage with her chorus. She’d come meet us in a few minutes but for now I wanted nothing but to stare at her. Her long legs in that high-waist skirt, her brown belly under that bright pink crop top. She had on one of her fun prosthetics, rainbow-print plastic meeting her thigh, and a pair of lacy leather gladiator sandals. Even on a stage full of women in peacock feathers and wild hair, she glowed.

“So am I getting my daughter back any time soon?” Eddy peered at us, his disapproving dad face out in full force. “You going to add kidnapping to your long list of incorrigible activities, Felicity?”

I hmm-ed and didn’t answer. Truth be told, Mari was something to clutch right then, something to remind me that life was still going on. Eddy’s eyes softened, and he pushed us over to a bare spot on the ampitheatre’s north wall. “You ok?”

The stone felt gritty on my thighs when I sat down. “I hate being afraid.”

He didn’t say, what do you got to be afraid of?

I let Phil take Maribel off my lap. She was starting to wake up and would probably be hungry, and that was her parents’ arena, not mine. Flicking open my phone, I showed Eddy the screen. “Look at this.”

He chuckled, gray eyes skating over the picture. “Yeah. Tallis texted me earlier too. Looks like they’re all having fun, eh?”

The text had arrived sometime late in the afternoon, when our float was just pulling up in front of the arena. It was a message like a dozen others I’d gotten over the past month, pictures and captions from Pride festivals in cities all over the country. I liked seeing them--liked knowing where all my friends and colleagues were, that they were having fun, they were safe. And it wasn’t like Ben Goldfarb didn’t text me more or less endlessly anyway. Fucking up your Laurel track record, nbd or hey you ever been to the Keys? Next time you’re at GP we’ll go, pictures from the jocks’ room, Joel frowning at the camera.

It was cute, and this message was too: the two of them on the New York City High Line, Fifth Avenue’s blaring-bright parade in the distance. The two of them smiling at the same time for once--hell, you could even see Joel’s teeth--the two of them in love with each other and their world. There was a ball cap barely staying put on Ben’s curls, and sun flared on a pair of necklaces, gold and sapphires. Everything about it broke my heart.

“We don’t deserve them,” I told Eddy. “It was supposed to be better by now.”

“Felix, come on.” He showed me his own phone. “It is better.”

The text displayed was pure Tallis. She was the most joyful kid I’d ever met. She and Ben both--and Joel in his own way--and all of that, everything I knew about them, just made my eyes sting again. “You know Ben gets… and he didn’t tell me this, Canseco did. People send him death threats.”

Phil looked up from where Mari was nestled against her with a juice box. “Jesus Christ. Eddy, you never told me that.”

He shook his head. Phil had braided his hair for this weekend and it looked fantastic, tight rows against his scalp, his profile all jaw and nose. “Felix, you got to focus on what’s in front of you.” He waved his phone at me. “Let them live. They’re living, so let them. You think maybe Joel left out a detail when he told you that?”

There had been plenty of details when Joel had told me that, but I knew what Eddy meant. There was no way Ben got those kinds of emails and Joel didn’t. I’d gotten them--still did; they’d slowed down for a minute and then ticked up again when Adair and I sealed the deal. Almost always men, telling me how they’d fix me, they knew where I lived, every filthy word under the sun. Sometimes women, the hellfire types. Stuff about Adair--about my wife--that chilled my blood.

It was worse for the boys, I knew it, and for Tallis. No one had ever slapped a goddamn swastika on any of my nastygrams.

Phil touched my arm and nodded across the amphitheatre. “Adair’s about to come ask you why you’re sad.”

She was moving toward us, Phil was right, and I had about three minutes to get my shit together, because I wasn’t going to ruin tonight. None of this was news. We’d been dealing with it and we’d keep dealing with it, because the generation coming up deserved better.

Eddy leaned over, and somehow managed to get his arms around all of us. He kissed my cheek above the rainbow paint and tucked blond strands back under my hat. “You’re part of the reason they’re here at all, mija. Don’t downplay it.”

Who knew selfishness could get spun into heroics?

“I’m here,” he said, quiet, and his chest moved like he’d drawn a deep breath. “We’re all here. Todos juntos.”

We were here and we weren’t going anywhere, not out of our cities and certainly not out of our sport, and if I hadn’t managed to fix everything, maybe they would.

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The Sequel - 837

See No Evil

André Schürrle, Juan Mata, other Chelsea/BVB players, and random awesome OC’s (okay they’re less random now but they’re still pretty awesome)

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“Can you stay until Monday when Schü and Lukas come?”

“Probably. I thought you didn’t want it to be like one guy leaving in a taxi and then the next pulling up?”

“I don’t, but I realized just now that Sunday is our only chance for privacy. We can go out on the water. I hate that I can’t lay on you exactly like this outside because people will see. Seriously, all I’ve wanted to do for weeks is lay on you in the sun.”

“I’ll stay as long as you want, baby girl.”

Christina was fibbing, because she wanted to lie on André in the sun too, but that didn’t seem relevant to the conversation happening in her bed. Both rider and player went below deck to change for their transition from sun bathing to horse show. Player got distracted by cell phone and ended up lying in the middle of the nicely made bed to read his email. Rider got distracted by player in bed and laid flat on top of him in her dainty black bikini instead of getting in the shower to wash away the SPF-30. Her earlier statement would have been completely true if she had edited it to say that she spent the previous three hours wanting to lie on him that way in the sun. She flatted each of her horses first thing in the morning and then returned to the boat to have breakfast with him, ran back to the show to help Stefanie with her class, and then retreated to Lilly XO to pass the time until her own classes. Rider and player passed the time catching rays on the main deck, up in front of the bridge. The marina was packed. There were tons of people out on their own decks, or traveling by on the water taxi, or even jet skis. They were a 30-second walk and one chain link fence from the horse show stabling, and the horse show photographers. They were in Cannes, where celebrity sightings on boats are virtually listed on the attractions signs. Rider and player couldn’t do anything up there at the front of the boat, in the light of day, that friends wouldn’t do.

“I should get up,” Christina observed noncommittally while the Spaniard rubbed her back. She was resting on her elbows and forearms in the middle of his chest, and the stretch in her lower back still felt great even though she’d been in the same position many times topside.

“You should just put the riding pants on with the bikini top. You will win. The guys will have blue balls from watching your breasts bounce around on the horse, and the women will be too jealous to ride well. Or don’t go ride at all. Stay here exactly like this so I can have this view,” Juan suggested as a solution to her problem- her problem being her total lack of motivation to go get on Dirk.

“Yeah?” She looked down at her cleavage and pretended to be surprised that a member of the male species found her breasts appealing when barely covered by some small triangles of fabric and barely supported by some skinny strings. “They look that good in this?” she asked, playing dumb. He nodded from his pillow, and she used her hands to kind of squish her breasts together, still looking down at them. “Do you think the guys would think about, like, kissing them?” Juan nodded again but still didn’t say anything or change the typically warm and friendly expression on his face. He wasn’t emphatic. “Probably sucking on them too, right?” His ex pulled one of those little black triangles to the side and ran her finger over her nipple tentatively, still feigning both ignorance and innocence.

“Yes, I think so.”

“What about...rubbing their dicks in between?” Christina covered her nipple and smooshed both breasts together tight, her chin to her chest so that she could look all the way down at them.

“Sure, of course.” The Chelsea man’s face was beginning to show signs of his being more than just passively listening and watching her game, particularly when her tongue slipped out to wet her lips. She took a second to glance at him, which he didn’t notice at all since his eyes were fixed lower than that, and then tried to lift her right breast up as much as possible.

“Guys like it when girls...lick...their own-“ This is too stupid. I can’t do it, she laughed to herself, practically snorting out loud right as she leaned down to lick herself. Her game was too cheesy even for her, and it was clear she wasn’t going to be able to turn her best friend into some desperate, drooling fool with it. “Okay I’m done,” she announced before unceremoniously heaving herself off his upper body.

“Are you trying to give me blue balls too?” Juan complained, hands out and palms turned up. His posture was still relaxed though. He wasn’t incredulous.

“Yes,” she replied flatly over her shoulder on her way to the shower. I’m not taking clothes with me because it’ll be more fun to traipse around in a towel if he’s still down here when I get out, and it’s impossible to pull breeches onto damp legs anyway. Also, I distinctly remember that the last time I was in London he told me he liked to have to wait to be with me, like having to be around me all night knowing we’re gonna fuck later makes it even better. It’s only 4 now and I won’t be done until at least 10:30 tonight, the reigning Tour Champion smirked at her reflection in the full-length mirror behind the sink. Like its mate in the “hers” bathroom, it continued under the sink and the vanity down to the floor, so she could even see how her shoes looked. It was a thoughtful detail that made her wonder if the designer had shoes in mind or simply interior design style. Regardless, the boat felt homey to her. It didn’t feel like a floating hotel suite anymore. Those were her bathrooms, and it was her bed, and the crew worked for her.

Her shower was brief and the Spaniard was indeed still in the room when she emerged in her towel, but he pretended not to notice her walking around to gather breeches, underwear, her Hermès belt, a sports bra, the correct watch, a fitted black v-neck tee, her gold “You Make Me Happy” pendant necklace, knee-high stockings, the brushes and products necessary to dry her hair, a CWD baseball cap, flip-flops, the barn-access wristband, and her card wallet. Christina thought of each item separately because each one gave her another chance to move about the master stateroom in her butt-skimming towel. The footballer paid her no attention. He was entrenched in his phone. It wasn’t until she was fully dressed and ready to depart that he finally acknowledged her, and that was just to find out what he should wear to the horse show. The slim navy shorts and lightweight chambray button-up he chose were a problem for her. They were perfectly appropriate, weather and occasion-wise. They just made him way too distracting. He looked too cool, especially with his sunglasses and blindingly white sneakers. He was the epitome of hot, wealthy, classy, cool French Riviera Guy. Instead of getting that “I’m here with the hottest guy” feeling she sometimes experienced when she held André’s hand, she felt a kind of anticipatory jealousy. They walked over together with the dogs and Christina wished she could hold his hand, not just because it would be nice but because she could feel as if she were warding off the interest of any other women who found the petit but well defined Chelsea man devastatingly handsome and appealing.

The first class on the 5* agenda was the most difficult of the competition formats for inexperienced spectators, of which there were many in Cannes. Juan needed the detailed explanation too, twice. His sort-of-girlfriend invited him on her course walk in hopes that it would make it more clear. No one looked twice at a non-horse-person trekking along the track with a rider. It was normal, and common. Christina thought twice about it in a roundabout way. She thought about how Tom would have thrown some shade if he were there, and so she was extra glad to have Isandro looking after her horses instead. She was glad to be reunited with her longtime groom anyway. He didn’t tell her what to do, or talk about personal matters. He just took care of the horses and let the rider look after herself. That was a nice alternative after weeks and weeks on the road with her groom/babysitter.

“Okay so this is 7B, which is annoying because the combination is big oxer to boring vertical and it makes the horses go “ahh I have to brake!”, and then- see that tripody thing over there?” The rider with the dog leashes in her hand ducked down some to point between some gold and white striped rails to show her course walk newbie friend what she was talking about. “Once you pass that, the first phase is over and the second one starts simultaneously, if you’ve been clean so far. If you knock anything down or go over the time allowed just in the part with these first 8 fences, then you’re eliminated and you stop after passing through the timers. If you’re clean, you continue and jump the other 5 fences. There’s a buzzer to let you know to stop. It’s all really confusing for everyone because it looks like some people are jumping a different course, and the buzzer is coming at all different times because it’s the same sound to signal you to start, and, yeah. It’s just annoying.”

“It’s not that difficult to understand,” Juan shrugged, his lower lip pushed in and his chin pushed out.

“When I was a kid I got so hung up on getting through the first phase that I often forgot where to go in the second phase. My trainer had to call the jumps to me.”

“That happened to you in Sweden, cariña, Like a couple of months ago.”

“Shhh that’s different! I just thought I was done already. Totally different. Come on guys. More jumps to sniff,” Christina told her terriers. The foursome traveled to each of the remaining 5 fences in very different numbers of steps. The one who would have to travel the route on horseback did it in 3’ strides. The other human just walked normally at her side. Spencer and Lucky had to trot to keep up. They got locked into Christina and Stefanie’s grooming stall when everyone left with Dirk. Something about Cannes made him way naughtier than they could ever be. He was set to follow his first year performance there, with the dropping of his person’s shoe in his water bucket and the dumping of his person into the mud while celebrating, by being a total attention whore.

“Stop hitting me with your head!” she complained to him after the fourth time he interrupted her conversation with Marcus by violently thrusting his face into her back. Isandro went back to the tent to get her bat, so she was holding the horse’s lead. He didn’t like being tethered to someone ignoring him.

“What was I saying?” Marcus asked after the interruption.

“Karen’s horse.”

“Oh yeah. It turns out that Ralph Capristo started him. You bought your nice pony from him, I think?”

“That’s really weird.”

“Why? Did he only do ponies?”

“No I mean it’s weird that you know where I got a pony more than 20- D! Knock it off!” Christina wheeled around and yanked on Dirk’s leather and chain lead when he hit her in the shoulder. “You are such a baby.” The stallion reached for her with his nose. Her free hand was on her hip, so he sniffed at it. He’s literally batting his eyelashes at me right now, she realized, watching his big and soft, brown eyes. He appeared to be begging. “Fine, I’ll pet you.”

“You can’t hold him accountable for anything,” Juan pointed out.

“Dirk gets away with murder. He could eat Lukas and she would give him something for his stomach to help the digestion,” the other rider added.

“Ew.” His young colleague wasn’t going to argue the point though. She was stroking the really soft part of Dirk’s muzzle, on the side, right below the lower part of his figure-eight noseband. Both his German and Argentine grooms used a little baby oil there like lotion or conditioner. His skin felt like a high-end jersey knit pillow case- Christina’s favorite to sleep on.

“The most spoiled animal. Look at him. His eyes are closing. I’m surprised he is willing to walk all the way here from the stall. He probably expects someone to carry him on one of those platforms and fan him with palm leaves.”

“Stop picking on him,” Christina replied to Marcus without looking up from her stallion. He really did appear to be nodding off, or just savoring her relaxing touch. His beautiful and inquisitive head ended up very near to her, and she couldn’t remember if she took a step closer to him or he took one to her.

“I’m going to go ride my horse instead of spoil him.”

“K bye.” My pony deserves to be spoiled. He’s the best there is. “You’re not spoiled. You’re treated just right,” she mumbled quietly once Marcus was gone. Just Juan was left, holding her water bottle. She really appreciated having someone there with her who wasn’t on her payroll or her client list. It was always nice to have someone around who just wanted to support her and experience the event with her. But he was second fiddle to the Holsteiner. Dirk was the best company. He was literally the only “man” in her life who needed her attention and love the way she always craved the attention and love of someone dedicated to her, even before she met someone who fit the bill and before she figured out that that was what had been missing. Dirk loved his person unconditionally. That was the fourth thing Christina knew to be true, even though she told Juan there were only three things. Saying it out loud made it sound like a silly thing, she thought, and to her it was very serious, so she never did.

“I wish I could shrink him down to cuddly toy size for you, or bottle him,” the Spaniard smiled a moment later. His ex zoned out and wasn’t sure how long she’d just been standing there petting the horse. “You could take him everywhere with you and then you would be happy and relaxed wherever you go.”

“Then I couldn’t hug his head.” White shirt be damned, she decided, demonstratively wrapping her arms around her equine partner and his bridle and his ear net. I’m going to put a jacket on over all the black hair anyway.

“I don’t know how you were finding yourself in such difficult situations with him over the winter. He is like Xanax for you.”

“You say that like I’m one of those crazy girls that needs Xanax.”

“I don’t mean to imply that. I just mean...You’re always so happy with him. It’s a beautiful relationship. Look how much he loves you.”

“He just likes shiny things.” Christina rolled her eyes behind her current favorite sunglasses- black metal frame aviators with three little black trademark Givenchy stars in the top corner of each lens. The horse was investigating her belt buckle with his lips while she held onto his long nose. “I like shiny things. My son likes shiny things. My horse likes shiny things.”

“I like shiny trophies. Is there a trophy for this class?” Juan asked when he finally reached out with his hand and his not-shiny leather watch to pat the animal’s forehead.

“I don’t know. Maybe. It’s more like a warm up than a thing that matters, but sometimes everything has a trophy because the class sponsor wants to donate one, or call it a “Blah Blah Blah Cup”.”

“Isandro is back. I don’t see your crop though.”

“It’s probably in his back pocket.”

“Are you going to win the trophy?”

“I dunno, Ask this guy. D-Money, do you feel like winning a trophy?”

“He always feels like winning a trophy,” Isandro supplied upon arriving on the scene. He did in fact have Christina’s little bat in his back pocket, and he presented it to her after tightening Dirk’s girth, taking his scrim sheet off, and throwing her up into the saddle in her helmet instead of her shades. Tom didn’t trust her to remember to bring the bat with her, so he was usually in charge of it. He stuffed it into the pommel of her saddle, or under one of the flaps. The other groom wasn’t aware. It wasn’t a big deal. The rider felt good about everything. It occurred to her that back during the time that Juan referred to, when she had so many troubles in the saddle, even with Dirk, something as little as having her routine interrupted by a missing crop would have truly disrupted her and she might have mentally used it as some kind of excuse to anticipate riding poorly. She still had no idea how exactly she got out of that rut.

With every round she jumped, that rut looked smaller in the rearview mirror. Juan watched her and the Holsteiner stroll through the 1.45m class, in two phases, as if they were simply playing around at home. No hooves, knees, or belly rubbed a rail or plank, and no time was wasted. There was no special prize for their victory. They got a nice ribbon and a neck sash, and the honor of leading the lap of honor, on which Dirk acted like he was getting repeatedly stung by bees. He bucked and hopped around, scooted sideways, and kicked at nothing. The crowd enjoyed his happy antics. He got a frozen chocolate banana for otherwise being a good boy. His rider and her holiday and horse show companion wanted to grab a bite to eat for themselves at Bâoli, a hip and happening spot between the stabling and the stadium, but there wasn’t enough time before the first round of the Global Champions League. Calvin required a long warm up, and Christina said that if she were going to have a meal billed as particularly special, she wanted the ability to indulge and have lots of food and that wouldn’t work if she had to ride immediately after. They had sandwiches in the VIP chalet instead, and then Caesar salad and French fries on the back of the boat later, after the St. Tropez Pirates finished the first part of the Champions League event in third place.

“Don’t let me eat too many delicious waffle fries or I won’t be able to put on the sexy nightgown I intended to bless you with after this,” the Pirate who jumped clean warned. She was sitting Indian-style on a lounger with her salad bowl in one hand and a salty, waffle-cut French fry on her fork in the other. “Well, I’ll be able to. I just won’t want to.”

“What kind of sexy nightgown?” The Spaniard sitting the same way opposite her on the end of the lounger kept his voice low. There was no one around at the rear of any of the neighboring boats, and no one on the paved walkway at the end of their gangplank. Spencer and Lucky where the only ones who could overhear the conversation.  

“It’s actually not that sexy. It’s just that I look sexy in it. And I feel like looking sexy.” Christina was completely nonchalant and carefree about how she spoke, and at what volume.

“Why’s that?”

“I’ve felt pretty good for 36 hours and that hasn’t happened, consecutively, in as long as I can remember. I like to...put my body out there when I feel good.”

“You’re feeling yourself,” Juan smiled, mocking her.

“You’ll be feeling me too.”

“Multiple ways! By the way, this is the best Caesar salad I have ever had. I like your sailboat chef, cariña. I should hire him away for the restaurant.”

“Keep your paws off my chef!”

He smiled again while he was chewing, and shrugged his shoulders unevenly. You know what? He looks happy too. He has his Spain glow and we’re not even in Spain. I wonder if the glow is actually just the Away With Chris glow. I hope it is. I hope I’m the reason he looks as happy as I feel right now, ‘cause I’m pretty sure he’s the reason I feel so happy. I don’t have to think about anything. I get on and ride and it’s like it used to be- no second-guessing, no over-thinking, no trying too hard. The horses aren’t any different than they were. I think they just feel from me- from my hands, and my seat, and my legs- that I’m 100% with-it, there, capable, ready- and so it all just...works. And on top of that, I don’t have the anxiety away from them either. I’m not all, like, consumed with worry about the future, or my relationships. The expat glanced up from her bowl of kale and romaine at the Chelsea man picking through his, perhaps to find croutons. He put a sweatshirt on when they got back to Lilly XO, with athletic shorts instead of the nice ones he had on. His sleeves were pushed up. Christina watched his wrists. I love when the most pressing thing on my mind is containing my thirst. All day long I’m just like, “Gosh, Chris, stop thinking about holding onto one of those gorgeous wrists while his hand is wrapped around your throat. Staaaahp.” That’s how it should be. I hope happiness doesn’t require living on a 56m sailboat docked in one of the most glamorous ports in the world, with ideal daily weather conditions, a personal chef, and my horses sleeping closer to me than they even do at home.

“Hey.”

“What?”

She leaned over the platter of fries between them and tilted her face to the right just enough to avoid smashing him in the nose when her lips caught his completely unaware. She pushed her salty set against his for a second and then endeavored to move them with hers, to open up for her, to make a really gross tasting kiss that she absolutely had to have that very minute. He acquiesced quickly, so he must not have minded the mingling of anchovy, lettuce, and potato from the bites of food they were both enjoying before this emergency kiss that just had to happen.

And a Chelsea player, she added to her list or preconditions for happiness.

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Every Touch is a Weapon

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by worddancer

It felt like she was sixteen again in all the best ways. Up against the hordes of hell with nothing more than a stake and a push up bra. Well that and back up, and people who cared about her, and people to call home and check in on. Turned out everything she fantasize when she first heard there was a second slayer? Well two decades and change later she got it. And that felt so good.

Fucking off for a few hours in the middle of the day so she didn't have to hear Buffy and Spike wear off the energy from the previous nights slayage on the other hand....

Words: 2484, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Weapons are meant to be used

Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Multi

Characters: Faith Lehane, Spike (BtVS), Buffy Summers, Dawn Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Rupert Giles, Andrew Wells

Relationships: Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers, Spike/Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane/Spike/Buffy Summers, Xander Harris/Dawn Summers

Additional Tags: on the road, Getting Together, becoming more than a weapon, Child Soliders, Living, Immortality, OT3, because this ot3 is gold, balanced triangle, Finding Family, After Sunnydale

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#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs