Feeling alone, Lyla goes out to see Tim, bottle of moonshine in hand. They talk a bit about football and other unrelated things before it starts to get personal. And before she propositions him, a proposition he rebuffs. Of course that doesn't go down too well, but she ends up admitting a few things, mostly that she doesn't know what she wants ( Read more... )

After Isabel's disappearance, Tim goes and does what he does best: Gets really fall down drunk and passes out on his best friend's bed. That night, Jason isn't too amused to find his room occupied, but through all the bickering and physical assault, Jason's there for him the way only a best friend can be ( Read more... )

Isabel was gone ( Read more... )

Dated to October 10th. After the fight over Joe, Buck avoids everyone until he sucks it up to go and give his apologies and mend the bridge.

Dated to October 9th. While slowly recuperating psychologically, Buck plays football with Tim and tries to coax the other man to think more about his future and have faith in his own abilities ( Read more... )

Yesterday had gone by a hell of a lot smoother than Isabel had been anticipating. It had been her twentieth birthday and her fifty-forth week on the island. Surely, she had thought, the island would have found some way of messing with her on her birthday ( Read more... )

Spotted: S, B, and C, not letting a little thing like locale stand in the way of tradition. It may not be Manhattan, but that doesn't mean that our favorite expatriates won't be doing their best to pretend otherwise. The annual Masked Ball has started off with a bang - but will it end the same way? Somehow, we think the recent arrival of Lonelyboy ( Read more... )

Jess had never been a spoiled princess, no matter what people teased her about sometimes. She grew up with two brothers and a family who loved her dearly but expected her to be able to fend for herself by the time she was ready for college, so she sometimes figured she could do just about anything, from scrub the floors to whip out the mace ( Read more... )

Tim runs into Lyla in the rain. Deciding to have lunch together, they manage a conversation which alternates between easy and awkward. In the end, things fall apart on them, in a rather predictable way.

Dated to the 4th of October

Tim's actually disappointed it's not raining. Those had always been his favorite games, the memories of mud on his knees and clumps of grass stuck in his helmet lingering long past any memories of who scored the first touchdown and who got credit for the sack in the second quarter. Still, his adrenaline for a real, actual game (even without real ( Read more... )

As the days went by and the rain still did not stop, Serena wouldn't let the weather prevent her from going outdoors. Coming back in soaking wet despite raincoat and umbrella seemed to teach her nothing. Still she went out every day ( Read more... )