starchilde_lost: (comic: oh jeepers shucky darn)
Rachel Grey ([personal profile] starchilde_lost) wrote2013-03-30 12:17 am

[Lots of people]

[Dated March 31st, 2012]

She wanted this to go smoothly. She wanted this to go smoothly so badly, it was almost making her nauseous as she finished setting the table and setting out the last of the food. Some of it she'd made, some of it she'd bribed members of the kitchen crew to make for her, but all of it was hopefully something someone would like. And hopefully none of it would end up on someone's face.

Because she really didn't know.

She'd never really done anything like this before. Sure, there were family-style dinners at the mansion and with her grandparents while she was with them, but nothing like that existed here. She had no idea how this group of people that meant so much to her would get along with each other. She knew they'd all try, for her sake, and bless them for it, but she had a habit of making friends and family out of very opinionated and stubborn people and once the wine and beers were opened, who knew what would happen.

So she just said a prayer and hoped for the best as she got up to fiddle with her hair again.

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[personal profile] leftwithmybones 2013-04-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"See? We're all going to get along just great so long as you remember to follow up with that," he says, the picture of an accommodating man, smiling easily. "Plus, then, I won't have to stop making sweet yam mash for you. And that's just good news for everyone involved."
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[personal profile] likesthestooges 2013-04-09 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Trust me, I don't do the stupid things on purpose," he said with a laugh, thinking back to the few fights that he and Rachel have had.

"Usually they're just really misguided attempts to do the right thing that in hindsight are a horrible idea."