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PSA: 28 days until the last day of school.

Not that I'm keeping track or anything like that. And not that I am just so ready for summer or anything. And not that I'm also acutely aware that it's 85 days until I get to tell people I'm Ash Li and really strike confusion in what my first name is. 🙃

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Not that I'm counting down or anything, but 43 days until spring break.

JUN

Your presence is henceforth required anytime I'm around my mother until my name is legally Ashton Li.

[Foster, Waters Siblings, Rachel, Calliope]

I suppose I should be thankful that a very ambitious idea for the Dreamery's third anniversary has hit me a full four months in advance, so there's at least a chance I could pull it off. 😬😬😬

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What are some of your favorite places to travel? Or, if you're not-so-widely-traveled (like me), what are some places you'd love to go?

TEXTS TO DAHLIA - sent ~7AM

-- Good morning!
-- Jun proposed last night.

FILTERED TO STELLA, ANGIE, EMBRY - after lunch

You know what's a hilarious thought? Me being a politician's wife. I mean, me being a politician's girlfriend is kind of a humorous thought on its own, but here we are.

Anyway, it turns out I'm going to be one, after some time as a politician's fiancée.

FILTERED TO TALLY

Hey, you. How are you?

WHO: Jun Li and Ash Liang
WHEN: Evening of January 26
WHERE: The back deck at their house
SUMMARY: Jun asks Ash a question at the start of the new year.
WARNINGS: None
BINGO PROMPT: Relationship Upgrade

( 你 會 結 婚 嗎 )

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been spending every day since Christmas snuggling the puppy my sweet and perfect fiancee got me because he knows me so damn well. :')

EVERETT

I [...] have terrible news.

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It occurs to me that as of next Thursday, I will have been back in Dunhaven for a full year. That just doesn't seem possible.

ANGIE, DAHLIA, STELLA, & TALLY

Just so you guys know, since you're the ones most likely to just show up there, I'm moving out of my apartment and in with Jun. My lease ends at the end of January and I had technically renewed it, but luckily with all the issues with the heating and cooling, they couldn't do much when I said that I wouldn't be paying anything for breaking or going back on my renewal. Lua is already all moved in, but I have until the end of the month to get everything else taken care of.

Also, funny story. He asked me to move in months ago when the cooling went out the second time, but I didn't think he was serious and just went back to my apartment when it was fixed so if you're ever in a situation where you feel like you are the most clueless, you can always be assured that I would probably win that contest.

TALLY

How have you been doing? I wanted to check in, now that we're on this side of the holidays.

TEXTS TO JUN

-- Hi.
-- So I'm back here, doing my laundry and getting my stuff ready for school tomorrow.
-- And I have a question.
-- I think I know the answer, but I want to ask it and not assume.

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It can't be almost Thursday, right?

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I'm coming for you, 2020. 💪🏻 You're going to be a wholesome year, whether you like it or not.

Happy birthday, Ash. It's 38-degrees outside and, coincidentally, about that temperature inside your apartment. I am not here for this, Arbor Crossing. ( Cut for image! )

Lua is also not here for it.

And just like that, the semester is over. Congratulations, fellow teachers. We've survived.

Of course, we all know that every student will forget the entirety of the last four months in the time off, but for now, let's just enjoy our well-earned respite.

[ASH]

Hi.

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Are you busy?

[LORELEI]

Excluding me from the filter

I never wanted

Hearing all of it from Duncan was

I'm trying really hard not to say something I'm going to regret

I didn't know he was going to bench you, too.

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