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“What’s wrong?”
“Erm… well… fuck. Ok. Colin.” She clears her throat. “I’m so sorry, but this is a call of shame.”
“A what?”
“A call of shame. I might… I might have chlamydia.”
“Oh.” MY FUCKING GOD. He doesn’t say that part out loud but he thinks it very loudly. “Ok.” She’s going to be freaking out.
“No. No, not ok. Not ok at all. We fucked!”
“I remember.” It is absolutely top of the wank bank.
“And not like sensible adults.”
“I remember that too.” If felt fucking incredible.
“So you might have chlamydia.”
“I understand how STIs work, Pen.”
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30 Jun 2026
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It's maybe not something he should be doing for his friend. It is maybe too much, not normal, but Colin likes how it makes him feel. For two months a year he gets to be a man who has a girl to buy flowers for. Sometimes when the florist says for your girlfriend? he will say yeah, and when they say lucky girl he will say yeah, yeah she is or I'm the lucky one and for a few moments he is another person entirely, a man with a purpose and a life and a warm flat with a pretty girl in it, waiting upside down on the sofa for her peonies with her hair trailing.
Better than the reality, that he is a thirty-two year old loser with no job (which is why he can afford to be loping around the city all day looking for flowers). No job no girlfriend no point.
It is the happiest he is all year.
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colin has a realisation during peony season
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04 Jun 2026
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Colin discovers Penelope using the stuffed bear he gifted her for more than just snuggling and it leads to a very unexpected Valentine's Day gift.
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02 Jun 2026
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office hours by lilacsandpoppys
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 May 2026
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colin bridgerton returns to university with unfinished coursework, terrible metaphors, and entirely too much unresolved tension with penelope featherington, his childhood best friend and current teaching assistant. penelope, against all better judgement, agrees to an editing session.
just one editing session. what could possibly go wrong?
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29 May 2026
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Colin insists on escorting Penelope to Aubrey Hall for Christmas, even though that's the last place she wants to be. She is determined to rid herself of the Bridgertons for good and find her happiness elsewhere. However, when a carriage accident and the nastiest snow storm in years finds them trapped at a roadside Inn unchaperoned more than one secret may be revealed.
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- Part 1 of Partners. Lovers. Friends.
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26 May 2026