( It shouldn't be this hard... )

( Man, you sure... )

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( It was, sometimes, very easy to get Reid, at nine, to cheer up. And that was, from a dead-point blank expression and closed up posture to downright bouncing. )

+ Alya
+ Tyler
+ Pogue
+ Caleb
+ Isabel
+ Chase
+ Dad
+ Mom
+ To find out what's there next
+ Because it would totally suck donkey balls to give up now, wouldn't it?

ooc: Girls 'verse, and later than the current date, probably by about four years or a bit more.

A/N: This started with a vignette and grew into a 7K words or so monster. But it's very relevant to the muse, so here we go. Pogue is lieutenantwitch, the Tyler and Alya mentioned do not have journals currently; Caleb is theirgoldenboy, and Chase is broken_circles. Not binding to any other muses but the ones mentioned (and used with permission), unless their muns decide to pick on any or ( Read more... )

A/N: Takes place during the boys' freshman year at Harvard, the day after this. Pogue is lieutenantwitch, Caleb is theirgoldenboy, Tyler doesn't have a journal yet, but that's more and more likely to be remedied soon.

( Reid was alone in his room, studying. )

A/N: This is set somewhat in the future; the character featured is for now an NPC.

( Reid kept his head in the crook of his arm on the pillow, watching the candlelight play on her skin. )

If you had the choice to be the hero or the villain of the story, which would you choose? Such a fun question, isn't it? Or it's supposed to be, at least ( Read more... )

Pogue stared at the sheets of homework spread before him. Then looked, eyebrows up, at his younger friend. "Man. You totally suck at math."

"Mind your language, son." Richard's voice drifted in, making Reid snort quietly and Pogue scrunch up his face.

"Yes, dad." He lowered his voice. "It's not even that you don't get what has to be done, you ( Read more... )