WORD:

Mishmash
n. 1. A hodgepodge or hotchpotch a confused jumble; 2. A confused mixture.


QUOTE:

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
- Richard Bach

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." - Richard Bach

One thing Mark usually wasn't was oblivious. Well, he was a typical man, so he had his moments. He didn't know the bloody difference between Maybelline and Clinique, or why the hell a push-up bra was needed when a woman had natural beautiful breasts with her own anatomy. He just wanted to play with them, end of story. That night, he definitely had an oblivious moment... or maybe it was more his son lulling him into a false sense of security here.

Music was Justin's life. He sang, he performed. It was what he did. It didn't matter if it was in a professional setting or not. More often than not, he was be doing something with music. The Karaoke evening at their hotel seemed right up his alley, but Mark never assumed is kid would want to sing by default. Sometimes Justin would be all over the mic like a rash, and it was game-on for anyone trying to get it off him. But this trip, Mark had witnessed Justin mostly laying back, with his priority definitely being focusing on time with Sasha.

( Then Amarlie pulled the big sister card, and it was cute... )

MARK CAMPBELL // Original Character

Portent

Shelby hadn't been paying that much attention to her playlist. She just liked to listen to pop music when she was working out, so she had put on Backstreet Boys Radio on Pandora and let it fill her ears as she jumped onto the exercise bike. But then she heard a song she hadn't heard in a while and it made her pause. Shelby had enjoyed these last few months not working and being a girlfriend and getting settled in a new city with all of its restaurants and places to visit.

But she had also been worried about having to pack up and leave that in just a handful of days, not sure if everything would be the same when she returned. It would be the first time she was in a relationship while racing professionally and she didn't know how the hectic schedule and the travel would affect it at all. To hear that song as she was preparing to travel to Miami, she had to believe it was a portent. A little sign from the universe telling her that everything was going to be okay. Now if only she'd have a similarly good break when she took to the racetrack at Marlins Park next weekend.

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Shelby Manning
Need For Speed OC
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WORD:

Portent
n. 1. A sign or warning that something significant is likely to happen; “an occurrence of crucial portent.”


QUOTE:

"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
- William Throsby Bridges

Portent
n. 1. A sign or warning that something significant is likely to happen; “an occurrence of crucial portent.”

Euan sat, and he waited. Just like countless days before this. If he couldn't be there to sit, and wait, he made sure someone else wasn't very far away. The interior of this hospital and this ICU room had become like a second home to him, even more so than his office at work. Life went on, day in, day out. Euan still worked, now elevated to Captain. He still had his fingers in countless pies, and saw horrific things in his line of work. His past forever haunted him, but these days, he saw it as a foundation of fuck-ups upon which to build a better life.

This life, he wasn't just a cop. He was a father, a husband, a son, a grandson, a brother, an uncle, a friend. He cherished every single one with each breath he was gifted with inhaling. Fuck knew, he didn't deserve any of it. Not really. He should have been dead and buried long ago. It was impossible for him not to think of this as Karma somehow coming back to get him for all the cuntish things he did. It didn't matter if he wasn't the same person anymore. Nothing erased your past.

( Noah was like a son to him. Not young enough to be his biologically, but Euan always felt way more old than his years... )

Euan Fitzpatrick (Original Character)