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Tweak says, "blondes are so under rated"

Lyra Aquilina Campbell (lyra_yes) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2021-12-18 00:02:00

Entry tags:

avery duffield, lyra campbell

WHO: Lyra and Avery
WHEN: Thursday 16th, nighttime
WHERE: Avery's place
WHAT: Post Musing, and Avery's got something to ask
WARNINGS: TBD but probably amorous

Lyra hummed her way to Avery's place after leaving Erato, her headphones in her ears felt like they'd directly plugged her into the music. It was too bad Avery wasn't musical, too bad he didn't have any instruments at his place (aside from, heh, you know) because she really felt like playing. And maybe it'd impress him. She bet he'd think she looked hot with a guitar.

He'd thought she looked hot on her birthday, something she was still feeling warm and pleased about. Hot and cute. She tried to remember if he'd called her either of those things apart from when they were in the middle of getting naked and she didn't think he had. Compliments outside of sex was definitely something she could get used to.

Although they were pretty great during, too, to be fair.

But then, so were his smartass remarks.

Lyra hit the button for his floor and leaned up against the back of the elevator, smiling to herself. Post-curse, this crush was only growing, and maybe her feelings, like the hopes she had for her dad, were setting her up for disappointment or hurt but... Lyra thought about the heck yeah I do message he'd sent when she'd asked if he wanted to hook up, and found it hard to care.

She smeared on a little grapefruit chapstick, then lifted her phone to get a good angle, though it was harder to get a good cleavage shot when you'd been dressed for the outdoors in December, and sent it to him.

I'm in your elevator 😏 better open your door

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lyra_yes
2021-12-19 10:10 am UTC (link)

"Course she do," Lyra said proudly, even as Avery pulled her closer, trying to ease her off topic by making her thighs open just that little bit more to fit against his body. It might've completely worked, if they were talking 'bout anything other than Rosario.

"That ain't the point. Don't go antagonising each other, 'kay? Be sweet like you were sweet to me," she ran her fingers through his hair again, mouth both smiling hopefully with the request and really close to his. God, she wanted to be kissing him, but if he wasn't going to make an effort with Rosario, if he turned out to be one of those guys who was only sweet to women he was banging, then this was not going to work.

And even though she hadn't thought about being a girlfriend till a few moments ago, Lyra really, really wanted it to work.

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phantomtruth
2021-12-19 10:53 am UTC (link)

Avery pressed his lips together, really doubting that being sweet to Rosario would do a damn thing when it came to her opinion of him. And he'd already held back once (a bit) and it hadn't changed anything. "She doesn't like me," he repeated, more of a grumble this time. "She disagrees with everything. Why's she so bent outta shape about Archer, anyway? I said one thing and she went off."

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	lyra_yes 2021-12-19 11:03 am UTC (link)
	"Dunno if you've noticed, but Archer tends to inspire that reaction," Lyra pointed out dryly, sitting back on his lap. "She got her own shit going on with him. We all got our own shit going on, Aves, can we not take it out on each other?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2021-12-19 11:51 am UTC (link)

"I'm not taking anything out on anyone-" They were off topic. They were waaaay off topic. Avery groaned in annoyance, partly because Lyra had pulled away, and partly because she should be talking to Rosario about this, it wasn't just him, she was the one who- OFF TOPIC.

He licked his lips quickly. "Look, she- she- I will try so long as she doesn't start rolling her eyes at everything I say." They'd started off okay, after all, in that last message exchange. Hadn't been all bad.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-19 12:13 pm UTC (link)

"I'll talk to her too," Lyra said, doing a great job of being Switzerland even though being Switzerland was really hard when it came to Rosario.

Well, usually. Usually she was solidly on Rosario's side. But to be fair on Avery, Rosario had been pretty judgmental about him right from the the beginning.

But no, no, she was not gonna be one of those girls who took her boyfriend's side over her best friend. Or vice versa. Maybe it was just her destiny to navigate a space to live between people with wildly different (and stubborn) world views, but she could do that, right? She'd been doing that all her life. Maybe the more she did it the less exhausting it would get?

"Thank you," she said, and poked his chest with a small smile. "She's my best friend. And you... I really like you."

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phantomtruth
2021-12-20 02:55 am UTC (link)

Oh, but was there a whiff of "sisters before misters" about this? Rosario certainly had the advantage of time and familiarity. Avery would have to grit his teeth and wind his neck in. Who knows, maybe Rosario could turn out to be alright when she wasn't being a sarcastic... person.

"Alright," he said. "Anyway, I'll be in Tennessee in a few days so she'll have a nice break from me. Gotta show my face for the campaign insta account." He faked a bit of enthusiasm and then puffed out a derisive breath.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 03:14 am UTC (link)

Lyra was about to point out that Rosario had way too much going on in her life to even notice Avery being out of town for a bit, which was supposed to be reassuring rather than dismissive— but then he mentioned a campaign. With that one word, three bits of information that had, this far, just been three totally unrelated bits of trivia now crashed together in her mind like the word was a magnet. His surname was Duffield. His family was from Tennessee. His brother was following his dad into politics.

"Wait wait wait," she said, hands on his shoulders as if she thought he was about to get up and go somewhere. "Is your dad Alexander Duffield, the senator?!"

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phantomtruth
2021-12-20 10:21 am UTC (link)

"Oh, yeah, I thought you knew that?" Avery looked up at Lyra, an eyebrow raised. Hadn't she known that? Or maybe not, like not everyone was into politics or anything, especially knowing senators from other states. "Uh, yeah, yup, Republican senator. They live in a perpetual state of campaign. Partly why my mom is... you know. Image obsessed." He shrugged. "You know the name?"

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 10:40 am UTC (link)

Lyra shook her head, annoyed at herself for not putting it together sooner. He'd mentioned stuff, she just hadn't clicked. "Yeah, fuck, hold on," she said, and by that she meant, hold on to me, as she leaned back as far as she could to stretch for her half finished beer on his desk, trusting that he wasn't gonna let go of her hips. (And that felt kind of nice too, trusting that someone would hold on. Maybe not something she should read a lot into but... it felt good.)

"I worked down in Tennessee last year," she said, taking a swig, her free hand curled around his arm that'd clenched to hold her. "And me and the other girls, we fought, 'gainst basically every policy he backed. I chained myself to a Planned Parenthood fence, one time. His attitude on climate change? Bullshit. Yeah, I know the name. And you had to grow up with all that? Shit, Aves," she said, giving him a frown of sympathy while her hand squeezed and her thumb stroked his arm.

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phantomtruth
2021-12-20 11:03 am UTC (link)

Avery whistled under his breath and laughed. "Fuck, Lyra. You did that?" He never paid any attention to his father's campaigning. He just had zero interest in any of it. "We grew up in Vermont. Dad decided to get into politics there when I was a kid, but... well, Bernie Sanders is the senator there. No way my dad was ever going to beat the Dems. So we moved to Tennessee. Dad started drinking beer instead of wine and stopped wearing a tie. My mom runs the social media and stuff." He shrugged, and laughed again. "You really chained yourself to a fence?"

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 11:13 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, well, sometimes the old fashioned protests make the best statements," Lyra said, pleased with herself and pleased with his reaction. Like, she didn't think he was gonna jump in and defend his dad's shitty actions or anything, that was never a worry, but it felt really good to impress him for something that seemed like... the obvious choice any decent person would make. She shifted her hand up, sliding it around the back of his neck as she settled a little closer, smirking. "Oh man, they are gonna love me."

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phantomtruth
2021-12-20 11:24 am UTC (link)

He looked into her face, not minding her fingers in his hair again. It felt quite soothing in a way. "Wait, you're gonna come?" he asked, doubtful but also with a little bit of hope. Dealing with all that shit would be so much easier if Lyra was there. "What about your family? You don't have to. Most of the year I barely talk to them, you wouldn't have to deal with them."

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 11:31 am UTC (link)

"No, no I just meant, at some point..." she began, before she saw the way hope softened his eyes, and the quick way he reassured her that she didn't have to, which made Lyra suspect that yeah, he did actually want her to come. "I can't for Christmas itself, but, I dunno... how long are you stuck there for?" Maybe she could stage her own kind of rescue? She didn't half hate the sound of that.

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	phantomtruth 2021-12-20 11:43 am UTC (link)
	"Ten days, til just after New Year," he said. "I got away with skipping Thanksgiving so they're making Christmas be a whole thing. And then I can go back to normal life for a few months." Put in a little effort once a year, and then Mom would stop bugging him for a while. It worked out, more or less. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lyra_yes 2021-12-20 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Lyra chewed on the corner of her lip as she thought. Half her work was shutting down over the holidays and if she swapped out a shift or two at Taco Bell it might work but... Lyra tilted her head at him. "Do you want me to come?" The temptation to make a shitty parent or two, like, face themselves was pretty strong. Hmm. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2021-12-20 12:10 pm UTC (link)

Avery didn't answer straight away. Saying what he wanted was a bit unsettling sometimes. "Well... Okay, let me just... Mom said she'd pay for your ticket, and..." He sighed and shook his head slightly. "She said she'd buy you new clothes for Christmas. I'm sorry. She doesn't know you but Xander told her you don't dress like the other sorority girls. I don't care what you wear. But she wants you to dress the part. If that's too much you don't have to. It's so fucking rude." At least it was all out there, so Lyra would know what she was getting into.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 12:27 pm UTC (link)

Lyra's mouth dropped open again, and she shook her head so hard her curls slapped at her face. "Your mom is not buying me clothes," she said firmly. "No fucking way. If I'm going, I'm going as me or not at all, and they can suck it."

The more he talked about it, the more she wanted to go, just to dig in her heels against something shitty. Just to not abandon Avery there for ten whole days. Just to see what these kind of people lived like, honestly, and to bring back horrified stories to Rosario. "I just want to be a menace busting in to seduce the senator's son," she added, with a devious smile, and she leaned forward to kiss the side of his throat. "Is that so bad?"

Seducing the Senator's son... honestly, kinda sounded like one of the books on the list Erato was going to send her, hah.

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phantomtruth
2021-12-20 08:35 pm UTC (link)

He found himself laughing at her words, as she threatened to rock the whole Duffield family to the core. "They won't know what hit 'em," he promised, feeling a whole lot better about the holiday to come. And also, about her lips on his throat. "God, you are glorious." He buried his fingers in those curls so he could kiss her fiercely, certainly more focused on this plan now.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 09:27 pm UTC (link)

Glorious— no one, no boy had ever called her that before, and Lyra loved it. The passion in it, and the passion in his kiss, Lyra struggled away to put her bottle down and was back with a vengeance to kiss him again, squeezing her thighs around his body.

"Eh," she said, breathing harder when she broke the kiss but still trying to mimic the casual way he'd said it earlier. "Well you're my boyfriend, I gotta look out for ya."

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	phantomtruth 2021-12-20 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Avery grinned and pushed up the bottom of her sweater so he could get his hands underneath to tickle along her ribs. "You're a menace," he growled against her mouth as he kissed her again. Her calling him her boyfriend felt pretty fucking nice, actually, even if he had been sorta thinking it for a few days. He could get very used to hearing that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lyra_yes 2021-12-20 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	Lyra yelped against his mouth at the tickle, her body squirming hard against his in an attempt to both get away and— well, to squirm hard against him. His growl had sent shivers through her too, she didn't want that stopping any time soon. "Takes one to know one," she said, closing her teeth down gently (but not too gently) on his lip. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2021-12-20 10:45 pm UTC (link)

He tugged up the bottom of her sweater and top, intending to pull them both off over her head at once. "None of them could ever," he said, and that squirming she was doing was definitely helping him where he needed to go. He thought for a second of having her in his childhood bedroom, somewhere that definitely didn't see any action from anyone else while he was living in it, and felt a touch of excitement. She'd so fucking show them.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-20 11:34 pm UTC (link)

She had to break the kiss again so he could undress her, and since it was already broken she grabbed at his shirt, pulling it off too and dumping it on the floor with hers. "You can, though," she said, her chest heaving against her bra – she'd worn one of her good ones, knowing she was coming over tonight. "You can know me." God, she loved the sound of that. And the feel of his skin, hot against hers.

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phantomtruth
2021-12-21 04:03 am UTC (link)

His little groan let her know how into that idea he was, as he ran his hands up over her bra. The skin of her belly against his felt so good, especially since his room was a little cold, being not able to afford heating all the time. Looking up at her, he kissed her as he pushed her bra up, one hand holding her waist as he dipped his head to press his lips against the soft skin of her breasts, finding her nipple to suck it into his mouth while he rubbed his thumb over the other. Her nipple grew hard against his tongue as her hips grinding against his was making him hard too.

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lyra_yes
2021-12-21 04:28 am UTC (link)

"Oh," she gasped, gripping her fingertips round his arm against the duel shock of his mouth, soft and wet, and his thumb, firm and slightly cool, heightening the sensations in her nipples. "Oh, fuck that's hot," she breathed, arching her breasts toward him in encouragement, one hand buried in his soft hair and her hips canting against his. God, so much better than their first time, for so many reasons, and she didn't even have her pants off yet.

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