rowan

When Hazel had gone home and told her parents about her school year, they had listened and enjoyed her stories, but to Hazel's surprise, they were really enthusiastic about her new friend Lucy Holland. From what she could glean, her parents were sort of important. It didn't really matter to...

Archie felt like he was drowning. In both his uncharacteristic nerves and uncertainty but also his overwhelming fear of not being enough. The fear that after all the tumultuous torture that had been the time spent trying to find his biological father, the man would reject him in the same way his...

Surrogacy was a viable and accessible way for many couples to become parents, and a subject Pia had tended to many times in her years in maternal medicine. She had just simply never imagined in all her experience with surrogacy as a healer that she would find herself walking the same path. At...

Valente's apprehension shows mostly in his hands. The irritating action of applying the cuff links he detested to each sleeve, the knotting and undoing, and eventual coming together of his messy tie as he attempts to piece himself together. To piece together a semblance of an appearance to...

Sky was starting to come to terms that this year was going to be filled with a lot of lasts. And she had come down early to make the most of her last Halloween. She had run into Leo and it was good that she had spend some time with him tonight after all she had spent every last one of her...

Diana's life had been a whirlwind of crying babies, diapers, lack of sleep and lack of time for herself for the past few months. Since her mother had started helping it had gotten significantly better, but Diana truly started to think the whole concept of twins was some sort of cruel joke by the...

Emery grumbled as Rāwhiti dragged him out of the castle, telling him something about sunshine being important. He didn't really care where they hung out, but it was so much easier to read books and pretend to ignore him when they were inside. Still, he reluctantly followed the other boy outside...

Caleb felt good about the ball this year. For once he didn't feel the need to watch for Louis out of the corner of his eye. He was with Manaia and while it was a date it felt, casual, and fun for once. It wasn't a bet, it wasn't a dare, they were just here together because they wanted to be. It...

Louis had only recently noticed his sister apparently had a boyfriend. They had their own separate lives, and he knew Giulia wasn't that much younger than him, but it had still taken him by surprise. It made him realize he wasn't spending a lot of time with his sister, maybe not enough. Next...

It was winter. the kind of weather that was cold, wet, rainy, and grey, but none of them to an extreme just a dull middle ground. It wasn't as cold as home but when you got to a certain point, the details stopped mattering. in fact this kind of cold was worse it went through your soggy clothes...

((Open after Rowan and I get a few replies in)) If there was one thing that Celia had learned over the past year, it was that nothing good ever came by mail. For a while, she had tried to eat breakfast alone so that she could avoid any questions about why she never opened her mail at the table...

Continued from here Eric couldn't recall the last time he had felt like this. He must have been a very small child, before he started to realize he could put his emotions away on the inside and force them out as anger eventually. Now, Eric didn't feel angry. He just felt sad, crushed, empty. He...

Caleb had always appreciated the clarity he got when he made his way to the cliffs. The danger kept him sharp in a way he never felt stuck in a classroom. The wind whipped at his face and despite the summer looming just out of reach it was a bit chilly all the way up here. He looked down for a...

The first clue had been while Analei had been walking through Obsidian Harbour. A woman had approached and stopped her, and though the lady assured her it was a happy vision, they were near Bleak Street, so Analei just brushed it off as an odd occurrence. She didn't think about it again until...

Santiago knew being sent to Hogwarts was supposed to be some kind of punishment but he hadn't expected it to feel so much like a prison already. Classes hadn't even started and he was counting down the days till he got to go home. He couldn't handle everyone else's excitement and he had ended up...

Linden had a few weeks off work. he needed them to recover. it was funny, usually he was the one looking after cas, the last time cas had had a gallery to plan for he was the one who made him food, made sure he ate it and that he showered and in general looked after himself. but now the tides...

Ezra loved being back at Hogwarts, but it was a little annoying that his best friend in the world was in a different house than him. Mostly because he could never find Dorian when he needed him. He had been hoping to run into Dorian so they could have lunch together, but he didn’t see him...

Eric had no idea if this was a good plan or not, but he felt like he needed to do this for Connor’s sake. Things between them hadn’t gotten any better since their argument and Eric wanted it to stop. He needed Connor, and he needed Connor to be okay. He knew his mum was trying to shield him from...

the year was just starting and sky had missed hanging out with Giulia. she was one of her best friends they hadn't been able to meet up all over the break and they ad both been caught up over the end of last semester they hadn't hung out much. but this afternoon that were going to hang out and...

Penelope felt a little weird about Holden being at Hogwarts. In the past, sharing schools with him had never been a very enjoyable experience for either of them. But Penny was determined for Hogwarts to be different. Holden just needed to be open for it, he would see it was full of good things...