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[duckworth]

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tags: Finn

female
seventeen
currently doing/location
secretly likes Finn & single
feeling rather depressed right now

❝ I'd have to say I'm in love with f o o d.
There's just no room in my h e a r t
for a n y t h i n g but that! ❞
- Ellie
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Elizabeth couldn't help but smile quite sincerely when Finn looked so happy. She could almost imagine him with a wagging tail and resisted the urge to pat him on the head like a puppy dog. He just looked so excited, and quite frankly, a happy Finn meant a happy Ellie. Most of the time. Really, on the inside, while she was all grinning on the outside, Elizabeth was feeling more than vaguely disappointed about Finn's taste in girls. She had never liked Scout much, mainly because the girl tried too hard and was a huge wannabe, always trying to claw her way to a higher social status by hanging out with the preppies and sometimes the plastics, although the wannabes tended to annoy the extremely popular ones. Elizabeth wasn't the most popular, but she was definitely higher on the social ladder than Scout. Ellie was an official preppie, and could have become a plastic if she had wanted to, but she was a sight more down-to-earth than most popular girls (and guys) and preferred to be a bit closer to the average people. Most plastics didn't speak to anyone less popular than a preppie, but the preppies tended to be friends with everyone, which was why Elizabeth was allowed to stick with Finn, even if they didn't speak much in school. Her reasons to dislike Scout only grew when the two developed a mutual attraction. However, Finn didn't seem to be able to realize that Scout liked him every bit as much as she liked her. It infuriated Elizabeth to the point where she worried about it nearly all day, and in her spare time, she mourned that Finn was blind to her own affections. It was pretty bad, actually, because Elizabeth rarely ever spent the time or effort to worry about anything, no matter how big. She was normally a happy-go-lucky sort of person who rolled with the punches easily and effortlessly, handling anything life threw at her. Of course, life couldn't throw her a particular next-door neighbor's heart, as much as she wanted it to be hers. Part of the problem was probably that Elizabeth kept her emotions very well-hidden. A good actress, Ellie had kept her crush on Finn a secret for years. Ever since freshman year, and Finn had sort of grown out of that awkward puberty phase, Elizabeth had realized that Finn was very attractive, something he didn't even know himself. Of course, he had always been adorable his entire life, and he was still mostly cute in that adorably awkward sort of way, but he was gradually looking less like a boy and more like a man. Ellie wondered just how long she had liked Finn. She didn't think the crush had started in freshman year. In fact, it had probably started way before that, when they were still just little kids, but it had taken her until high school to figure out why her relationships never lasted. It wasn't because she was afraid of commitment—it was because she hadn't ever gone out with a guy she liked as much as she liked Finn. Sometimes Elizabeth thought she loved him, but then she shook those weird romantic thoughts out the way, stubbornly claiming that love wasn't something you developed so early in high school, and it was something found over time. She didn't think she was mature enough, even as a senior, to fully understand love. She merely dismissed her infatuation with Finn as a puppy crush sort of thing, a puppy crush that refused to fade, as much as she tried to find someone else to fancy.
Still lost in her thoughts, Elizabeth was barely paying attention to Finn, who was almost bursting with excitement at the chance to ask out his crush since like, forever, that she almost didn't notice when he asked her a question. Staring blankly for a minute, she realized he had asked her who she was going with to the masquerade. Laughing humorlessly, she chugged down the rest of her Dr. Pepper before crushing it, enjoying the feeling as she squashed the empty can flat. "I decided a few seconds ago that I'm not going to the dance, actually. I don't have anyone to go with, anyways," As a popular preppie, Elizabeth could probably find a sucker to drag along to the masquerade, but that wouldn't be nearly as fun as going with someone she actually liked. Unfortunately for her, Finn, the person she was going to ask as friends, was planning on asking out Scout as a date. And the rest of Ellie's guy friends seemed to be attached to another girl already, again, as dates, not as friends. Apparently dates to dances overruled friendship, even though Elizabeth herself would gladly ditch a date to hang out with a close enough guy friend. It was just something she did, putting friendship before relationships. That was just Elizabeth. She never really liked dancing anyways. She danced like a dad at prom, which wasn't very good dancing at all.

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[chagrin]

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name: finnigan kohara
age: eighteen
location: school
tagged: elizabeth
crush: scout

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---------For Finn it was more than obvious that Elizabeth could have easily gotten a date to the masquerade. He knew her well enough to know that that if she wanted to do something nothing could stop her from doing it. He accepted her answer, finding her excuse believable enough to slip by. And besides he was too excited with this whole thing to keep a cool head and a straight mind anyway. If this whole Scout thing wasn't going on it was safe to say that Finn had no aspirations of joining the party. He didn't like events like those. They were usually overcrowded with bad liquor given out in secret. It was not much to look forward to anyway. And now when he thought about it he couldn't be sure if Scout wanted to go either. I mean he could totally see why she wouldn't, but then again she had all the right reasons to go. But the question was would she want to be seen with him at the party? "Do you think she'll come?" he asked, a bit disappointed and brought down by his own thoughts. He looked towards her like a puppy begging for praise. He was getting really desperate by now. Teenage love is the worst kind. It is never clear but it hurts most. In his love haze he couldn't see how badly Ellie felt about the whole thing. Not that he could. She was too good of an actress for him to suspect anything.

ooc ✯ I'm sorry for the short and late reply. I have a writer's block for the situation and was not sure how to continue.

[spring.]

{{ boop .-. }}

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age: sixteen ⅞
single
standing: emo
wearing: dark blue skinny jeans
a black tank top
black knee-high boots, small heel
a leather jacket
friends: finn ;; caspian

victoria heard nothing from him and she began to make her way down the couple of stairs. she heard footsteps and she turned back to him, holding her books much like a child. 'i'll be honest with you. i don't get the whole girl fight crap. it's pointless to me and something i will probably never understand. but you're my friend and so is arabella so i don't know what you expect me to do.' victoria muttered something about cliques being stupid under her breath. 'but you've been me best friend since, like, forever pip squeak so how about i make it up to you and we go to the mall this afternoon and look at prom dresses. you can try on the ugliest ones we can find and then laugh at them.' victoria smiled.

"sounds like a deal." she spoke with a small giggle. "and girl fighting is quite pointless, so don't try to understand it." she spoke, shrugging. girl fighting was usually due to a man, or a difference in ideals. obviously, this wasn't over caspian, but a difference on the 'hierarchy' of the school. she watches caspian then returns to going inside the school. 'i have to put this stuff in my locker. while we're at the mall, remind me to pick up a new bag." she said. "come on, we can cut the rest of our classes. you won't get in trouble." she spoke, walking back into the school. her locker resided not too far from the roof door, due to the hallway being usedf or a couple of health classes and being one of the larger hallways. she opened her locker, tossing her books into the locker unceremoniously.