okay, so,
addictedkitten brought up all these possibilities for canon fic based on the ryan/keltie thing, which, ehhh, BUT I AM EXCELLENT AT COMPARTMENTALIZATION SO NATURALLY I THOUGHT THIS WAS A MARVELOUS IDEA.
now i want epic, quietly angsty fic about how ryan has cheated on her already in the past (WHICH IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WHO HAS READ HER BLOG FOR LONGER THAN A MONTH), but he always goes back to her and she always takes him back, and he sometimes just thinks "i shouldn't do this, any of it, and i can't believe she's tolerant enough to take me back all the time, i'm a fucking idiot but she makes me happier than any of the others" BUT HE STILL IS AN ADULTEROUS WHORE.
things are okay, though, and they go along their merrily, on-and-off way, UNTIL - well, until SOMETHING happens after ryan moves to la (which means that things are already strained and wistful and shit), something involving brendon. ahaha i'm not sure yet on this bit, my brain just kind of filled in an outline like "ANGSTANGSTANGST, DETAILS I'LL MAKE UP LATER, MOAR ANGST, SEXSEXSEX" D:. BUT. it will involve a text message, maybe from a drunk brendon on accident, meant for either ryan or someone else (i haven't decided, yet, some kind of drunken confession over text seems too cliche and making it meant for someone else seems like a cop-out), and keltie finds it the next morning and it breaks one of their "rules" somehow (STILL MORE DETAILS I DON'T FEEL LIKE WORKING OUT AT FOUR IN THE MORNING WHEN I CAN'T FUCKING SLEEP).
and, well.
keltie goes back into the bedroom, and she looks down at their bed - rumpled, ivory sheets, and she knows from earlier that they smell of boysweat and sex and sunshine, and the fabric softener spencer's mom always gives ryan after they come off tour - and she wants nothing more than to toss ryan's phone on the nightstand, fit herself back around the sun-warmed curve of his body. but she can't - this is, this.
it's not that it's in and of itself too far, but it feels like the culmination of so many things, so many things she just ignored, that she was content to ignore, to sacrifice her awareness for happiness because that's just how they
worked. but now, this is too much. it's all too much.
ryan shifts on the bed, scowls into his pillow, and for a second she thinks about lashing out, throwing the phone at the wall above the bed across for her, wiring and plastic shattering against the solid oak and plaster, but she feels drained, all of the sudden. old, as if the lines of the message across the screen had been etched into her skin, and instead of making a scene, she sinks into the sheets, legs folded under her, and waits for ryan to wake up.
. . .
IDK, I DIDN'T MEAN TO WRITE THAT FROM A KELTIE POV :( also, despite the lack of detail, IT STILL MANAGED TO SUCK BECAUSE IT'S FOUR IN THE MORNING. wait, no, five now! ANYWAYS. basically, blahblahblah break-up, blahblahblah OH SHIT THAT TEXT WASN'T SRS SON but ryan doesn't correct her because in his HEART OF HEARTS he sees those words, supposedly from brendon, and it triggers something in him to stop, and the thought of telling her it was all a mistake - doesn't even really occur to him, really.
um. then some more angst, and jwalk photography and canyon shenanigans (thank you ryan ross, for posting blog material just when i need it!), and sex. and sex and sex and sex om nom nom.
nommmmmmmmmm.
( and now for a greta/ryan songfic idea aka OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BRAIN )in other news, i am a horrible, self-indulgent person who will never back up my horrific ideas by good writing because i am a lazy, lazy child.