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[ TRUE BLUE ]
CHARLIE AND RORY ───── soulmates
"I miss you. Call me?"

I
can't
hide
from
you
like
I
hide
from
myself

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BREAKING NEWS! Teenage heiress, Lorelei Myrtle, has been spotted wandering around Southampton with a new beau! Sources say that the pair have been getting closer in the months since former youth hockey coach, Gordon Bombay, was hired by her family's competitor, but we can't help but wonder what Lester Averman has to say about this. More on page 9.

...

If someone told Rory all those months ago, when she was just finally both settling into being part of Team USA and her strange feelings for Averman, that she was going to spend the following summer with Charlie of all people, she probably would have laughed.

The conclusion of her relationship with Les, a gradual petering out brought on by too much distance and too little to talk about, one that ended with shed tears and the promise that they would still be friends? She knew that would happen. It was something she saw coming, something that she saw in every shadow and bad day in the short time they were together.

But this?

Two months at her family's Hampton's home, eight whole weeks doing nothing but basking in the sun, window shopping, and sailing the bay with Charlie Conway?

She never could have seen it coming.

She never could have predicted that they'd fall for each other, either.

As all the good things in her life tend to, though, things swiftly begin to go downhill as soon as they touch down in Minnesota for the start of term. Reunited with their friends on foreign grounds, surrounded on all sides by people who want to hurt them, the couple finds that their budding relationship might not be able to survive the world outside the bubble it formed in.

And when Charlie messes it all up, Rory decides that she will go to just about any length to make him realize what he's missing.

Because, after finally finding a person who understands her, she's not willing to let him go that easily...

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CAST
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MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG as LORELEI MYRTLE-CARRINGTON
─── the motherless heiress
"have you ever been in love?"

JOSHUA JACKSON as CHARLIE CONWAY
─── the fatherless son of a waitress
" I'm sorry. "

CHRISTOPHER ORR as RICK RILEY
─── the fake boyfriend
"it's all a game, baby."

MATT DOHERTY as LESTER AVERMAN
─── the (real) ex-boyfriend
"oh, man, you have to see this!"

VINCENT LARUSSO as ADAM BANKS
─── the best friend
"I wish my life was boring."

also featuring the cast of d3 & the cast of ocs from poppies!

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NOTES

↳ DISCLAIMER(S): MATURE THEMES; drug and alcohol use (by adults and minors); physical and verbal child abuse; character death; classism; drama; more than canon typical violence; discussions around mental health; so much drama; teenagers being who they are; and many more potentially triggering things. please be cautious going forward. reading is not worth risking your mental health!
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started on: november 26th, 2024