Forum: O‘ahu
06-17-2025, 08:01 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess was done for.
Just absolutely,...
Jess was done for.
Just absolutely, cosmically obliterated by a girl who confessed love like it was a punchline and held his hand like it was gospel.
He didn’t even try to hide it.
Didn’t...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-16-2025, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t say anything at first.
Didn’t...
Jess didn’t say anything at first.
Didn’t need to.
Not when she laced their fingers like that—really laced them. Like she wasn’t hiding. Like this wasn’t a bit or a dare or something she’d...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-16-2025, 01:52 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess barely kept it together.
He could play...
Jess barely kept it together.
He could play it cool—hell, he usually played it cool—but the second she said that?
That she’d follow him too?
Yeah. Game over. There went his brain. There went...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-16-2025, 12:49 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t breathe right for a second.
...
Jess didn’t breathe right for a second.
Because that—that pinky bump?
That wasn’t chaos.
That wasn’t sarcasm or sabotage or one of her candy-laced distractions.
That was a choice.
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-16-2025, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t even flinch when the bottle cap hit...
Jess didn’t even flinch when the bottle cap hit his chest—just looked down at it like it was a gift. Like she was a gift. Chaos-wrapped and sugar-fueled and absolutely unhinged in the best way.
He...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-15-2025, 10:41 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t even pretend to argue.
Couldn’t....
Jess didn’t even pretend to argue.
Couldn’t.
Not when his whole body was still humming with the echo of her voice—You’re gonna ruin me—said like it was worship, not warning. Not when her...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-15-2025, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t move.
Didn’t speak.
Didn’t...
Jess didn’t move.
Didn’t speak.
Didn’t even breathe for a second.
Because that—that kiss, that girl, that firestorm of a human being who tasted like salt and candy and apocalypse—had just...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-14-2025, 02:16 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess couldn’t stop smiling.
Not the big,...
Jess couldn’t stop smiling.
Not the big, smug, scene-stealing kind of smile—though God knew he had that in his arsenal. No, this one was quieter. Lopsided. A little wrecked around the edges. Like...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-13-2025, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t respond right away.
Didn’t need...
Jess didn’t respond right away.
Didn’t need to.
Because Sam was sitting beside him spinning entire crime empires out of sugar and sea salt, kicking driftwood like it owed her money, and daring...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-13-2025, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t laugh this time.
Not right away....
Jess didn’t laugh this time.
Not right away.
He just looked at her—really looked—like she was more than the chaos, more than the mutiny, more than the punchline she always threw up like a...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-12-2025, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess didn’t say anything right away.
Mostly...
Jess didn’t say anything right away.
Mostly because he was too busy short-circuiting.
Because Jesus Christ—blowfish smuggling? Midnight banana stands? Velvet robe, no shirt underneath?
Yeah,...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-12-2025, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess watched her walk away like she was the...
Jess watched her walk away like she was the crime.
Like if Officer Buzzkill looked up right now and asked what Jess was guilty of, he’d point dead ahead and say: her.
Because yeah, she was...
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Forum: O‘ahu
06-12-2025, 10:07 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 144,573
Jess blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Then...
Jess blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Then tilted his head slow, like he was trying to figure out if she was serious—or if this was just another one of those moments where Sam Carroll declared war on the...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-28-2025, 12:45 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
Jess couldn’t stop smiling.
Not the cocky...
Jess couldn’t stop smiling.
Not the cocky kind he wore when he was pretending not to care.
Not the sharp-edged smirks he threw around like armor.
This was different.
This was wrecked and open...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-27-2025, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
Jess was grinning so hard it hurt.
Actual...
Jess was grinning so hard it hurt.
Actual physical pain.
Rib-cracking, lung-aching, face-splitting pain.
Sam, sitting there like she owned the whole goddamn universe, delivering the worst fake...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-27-2025, 07:53 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
Jess was done for.
Finished.
Dead in the...
Jess was done for.
Finished.
Dead in the water and not even pretending to swim.
Sam dropped her forehead against his chest, groaning about how he was personally responsible for her “romantic...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-26-2025, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
Jess was wrecked.
Absolutely, categorically,...
Jess was wrecked.
Absolutely, categorically, no-recovery, call-the-coroner wrecked.
Sam tucked herself under his chin like it was the most natural thing in the world—like they hadn’t just been...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-26-2025, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-26-2025, 08:34 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-26-2025, 06:57 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 31,508
Jess slumped deeper against the wall, the cold...
Jess slumped deeper against the wall, the cold concrete bleeding through his soaked T-shirt, the scrape on his elbow still stinging from where he’d tried—and failed—to pull off a spinning sword block...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-25-2025, 10:13 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,295
God, he was so screwed.
Jess barely managed...
God, he was so screwed.
Jess barely managed to stay upright, still half-doubled over from laughing so hard his ribs ached, the humid O‘ahu air punching into his lungs like even it couldn’t handle...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-25-2025, 09:16 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,295
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-25-2025, 08:47 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,295
Jess had no shot—none.
He was already...
Jess had no shot—none.
He was already half-gone when she leaned into him like she belonged there, like her laughter was the soundtrack to his pulse, like her fry warfare was a love language and he...
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-25-2025, 07:55 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,295
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Forum: O‘ahu
04-25-2025, 06:43 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,295
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