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Forum: Venice Canals 09-09-2025, 08:35 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She didn’t rush it. Didn’t rush him. ...

She didn’t rush it.

Didn’t rush him.

Just let the warmth between them stretch like a thread — soft and steady and impossibly tender — as their bodies moved in that slow, easy sway across creaky...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-08-2025, 08:42 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She didn’t answer him right away. Didn’t...

She didn’t answer him right away.

Didn’t need to.

Because that was the thing about Everett James — underneath all that silence, all that dry wit and stubborn weight — he listened. Really...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-07-2025, 07:09 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She should’ve said something right away. ...

She should’ve said something right away.

Should’ve cracked a joke. Nudged his shoulder. Done anything to cut through the sheer weight of what he’d just given her — not some hollow line or forced...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-07-2025, 01:49 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
For a while, she didn’t say anything. Didn’t...

For a while, she didn’t say anything.

Didn’t need to.

The room had gone still again — not with tension, but with something quieter. Surer. Like whatever invisible line had been stretching...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 06:35 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She felt it when he said it. Not just the...

She felt it when he said it.

Not just the words — Then I’m staying — but the way he meant them. Steady. Solid. Like someone who’d stopped rehearsing his lines and just wanted to say the damn thing...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 05:36 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She didn’t cry. Didn’t lean into him like...

She didn’t cry.

Didn’t lean into him like some tragic heroine who’d just decided to forgive the ghost of her first love. She wasn’t here to romanticize the wreckage.

She was here because he...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 04:43 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She could still feel the wine on her...

She could still feel the wine on her tongue—velvety and bitter, thick with all the words she’d almost swallowed instead.

But now, sitting on the floor next to him, legs half-tangled and spine...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 03:17 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She didn’t realize she was holding her breath...

She didn’t realize she was holding her breath until he spoke again.

Not because she didn’t expect him to — but because some part of her still wasn’t used to this version of him. The one who...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 12:26 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
She didn’t answer right away. Didn’t crack a...

She didn’t answer right away.

Didn’t crack a joke or soften the moment with something sarcastic, even though it twitched at the edge of her mouth like a reflex. Like maybe if she turned it all...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-06-2025, 08:39 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Her wine glass was already half-empty, but that...

Her wine glass was already half-empty, but that didn’t stop her from taking another sip.

Then another.

Not because it tasted good — it didn’t. It had been open too long and she hadn’t bothered...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-05-2025, 11:51 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
The music filled the room, low and amber and...

The music filled the room, low and amber and almost reluctant. Like even it knew not to interrupt. And Soleil just… sat with it. With him. With the silence he left behind after dropping words like...
Forum: Venice Canals 09-05-2025, 09:07 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,103
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
The front gate stuck the way it always did, one...

The front gate stuck the way it always did, one of the hinges stubborn from the sea air. Soleil hip-checked it open without ceremony, then reached back to flick the latch shut once Everett was...
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 07:48 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil stayed where she was for a moment after he...

Soleil stayed where she was for a moment after he left, staring at the empty shelf across from her like it might suddenly explain what the hell just happened.

It didn’t.

Of course it didn’t.
...
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 07:06 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil took the spoon like it was evidence in a...

Soleil took the spoon like it was evidence in a criminal case.

Gave it a once-over.

Then dipped it into the bowl with the kind of theatrical hesitation that would’ve made a lesser man anxious....
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 06:30 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil didn’t move right away. She tilted...

Soleil didn’t move right away.

She tilted her head, one eyebrow slowly lifting like she’d just been offered a back-alley tarot reading by a man holding a ferret.

“The fridge?” she echoed, arms...
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 03:54 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil stared at the swinging door for a beat...

Soleil stared at the swinging door for a beat after he disappeared, one eyebrow raised like maybe it would swing back open and deliver a punchline.

It didn’t.

Instead, she was left standing in...
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 01:05 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
The dinner rush hit Dally’s with the kind of...

The dinner rush hit Dally’s with the kind of momentum that didn’t ask for permission.

One minute, Soleil was wiping down a menu that smelled like someone had cried ranch dressing onto it in 2017....
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 10:17 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil stood there for a long second after the...

Soleil stood there for a long second after the door swung shut behind him.

The apron he’d tossed was still in her hand — crumpled, soft from too many washes, and smelling faintly like fryer oil,...
Forum: Oakwood 09-05-2025, 08:41 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil watched him flip the OPEN sign with the...

Soleil watched him flip the OPEN sign with the ease of someone who'd done it a thousand times — like he belonged here, like he always had.

And that was the problem, wasn’t it?

Everett James,...
Forum: Oakwood 09-04-2025, 09:35 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil didn’t answer him right away. Not...

Soleil didn’t answer him right away.

Not with a quip. Not with another grand gesture. Not even with a dramatic reenactment of Rhiannon the Depop ghost evading rent collection.

Instead, she...
Forum: Oakwood 09-04-2025, 07:46 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil’s breath caught — but just for a second. ...

Soleil’s breath caught — but just for a second.

Because God, why did he have to say it like that? Like it wasn’t a grand gesture, but a fact. Like it was already true.

Like she was already...
Forum: Oakwood 09-04-2025, 04:51 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil didn’t blink. Didn’t move for a...

Soleil didn’t blink.

Didn’t move for a second.

Just let the words hang there — soft and real and echoing in a way that made her breath catch. Not because they startled her. But because they...
Forum: Oakwood 09-04-2025, 12:10 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil didn’t answer right away. Didn’t...

Soleil didn’t answer right away.

Didn’t joke. Didn’t flirt. Didn’t deflect like she normally would.

Instead, she looked at him — really looked at him — and let the moment breathe.

Because...
Forum: Oakwood 09-03-2025, 12:56 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
The lull settled in like a sigh. Not the...

The lull settled in like a sigh.

Not the tired kind. The good kind — like the diner itself had loosened its apron strings after the chaos of the lunch rush and was finally ready to breathe....
Forum: Oakwood 06-12-2025, 09:09 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 130,689
Posted By Soleil Hawthorne
Soleil didn’t move for a moment. Not because...

Soleil didn’t move for a moment.

Not because she was unsure.

But because this—the heat of his breath still lingering at her temple, the way he’d said her name like it was both a tether and a...
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