[Taboo Crew] Let's Celebrate!

[Anabelle Grace Bryan]

Anabelle stepped up to the door, knowing that they had arrived later than everyone else. It’s just she had always firmly believed you couldn’t show up to a party empty-handed, which meant telling him that they needed to stop somewhere and bring a gift. While she had opted for wanting to get a plant, he quickly reminded her that they were all going back to New York, no one would be able to water it. His opinion? Well clearly that had won over because here she was carrying a bottle of aged whiskey against her side. “ I think we can just go on in,” he said, leaning down to open the door before smiling at her and letting her in first. “ Wow,” Anabelle said, widening her eyes as she looked inside before finally taking a step in. Every one was still wearing their pretty dresses and designer clothes. It was hard to believe that they were all just at an awards show, and here they were at a house party now. Anabelle set the bottle down on the counter, tracing her thumb back and forth over his hands. “ Oh my gosh, you guys!” she heard the familiar voice say and turned to face Dani with a bright smile. “ Way to get married without telling any of us! I didn’t even know you two were dating! Congratulations!” she said as Anabelle leaned down to hug the small girl. “ Oh, thank you so much.. Logan thought.. Well I don’t know what Logan thought,” Anabelle said with a slight smile before she tightened her hand around Luke’s and stood up to give him a quick kiss. “ Let’s see the ring,” Dani said, gesturing for Anabelle to lift her hand. Anabelle gave a slight laugh, lifting her hand up to show Dani. She had always said in interviews she was married, she just didn’t say to whom. The ring had never changed, silly girl. Anabelle waited until Dani was done looking and brought her hand to Luke’s chest, tapping it softly as she looked up into his eyes. “ I’m gonna go find you something to drink so you can celebrate your big win,” she said before giving him another kiss and making her way from him.

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[Collin Scott Reynolds]

Collin brought the beer to his lips, taking in a drink as he scanned through everyone. When was the last time everyone had gotten together for a party like this? But then he remembered – Natalia had broken up with him. Well, she was happier now. Engaged- even, so that was something. It had been a great night for Taboo. Braison, Anabelle,Blake and Joel all had killer performances, plus there were awards all around. Literally all over. That Logan Renner was doing something right. But he hadn’t expected Logan to win an award that night, that was slightly crazy. He finished off his beer, shaking his head as he watched Luke and Anabelle come in. Well way to keep that under wraps, Luke. Just flat out laying one on her before he ran up on stage and then thanking his wife by name, calling her Anabelle Bryan as he presented her on stage. There went keeping their careers separate. He spotted Luke alone and picked up two beer bottles before coming over, offering one out to him. “ Man.. congratulations,” he said, referring to the award before he leaned over and gave him a hug. He pat him against the back, seeing Braison in the back with Joel before he lifted his hand up. “ Fucking killer performance, man” he said, not able to see Braison after all of the circus until now. Collin left Luke with the beer, spotting Ellie before he slid up behind her and placed a quick kiss on her neck. “ Hi, did you come here with a date?” he said sarcastically as he narrowed his eyebrows together and turned her around to smile down at her before taking his jacket off and tossing it onto the couch behind them.

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[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire lowered the phone from ear after calling to check on how Brayden was doing. It was so nice of Riley and Mackenzie to agree to watch him on short notice, especially since they wouldn’t be back in New York until Tuesday. But she did miss the little guy, it was going to be hard not telling him goodnight tonight. She had changed out of the blue dress and put on a black skirt, blue cropped top. As she looked in the mirror she adjusted the top, pulling one shoulder down so that the strap of her bra was hanging. She felt more herself when Dalton and Ethan weren’t around. After a slight spin in the mirror she head downstairs and to the kitchen. Picking up a plastic cup she started pouring a mixture of things, not bothering to look at it. Her and Shane could share a drink, that was fine. She twirled her wedding ring around her middle finger and looked up to see Logan and Joel talking. That Joel boy was fluttering around like crazy. Then again, it was pretty much his night. Favorite male artist and artist of the year. Good job, kid. “ Hey!” she said happily, wrapping her arms around Logan in a hug. “ Congratulations, that’s crazy!” she said, placing a kiss on his cheek as she stood up on the toes of her heels and bent her foot back. “ And you..” she said at Joel, grabbing him by the cheeks and leaned in to give him a quick kiss. “ Congratulations you silly fuck,” she said before noticing the bottle of water in his hand. Claire smiled softly, “ I gotta get this to Shane. Have you guys seen Natalia?” she asked. Joel made a face of concentration, pointing out towards the crowd where he thought she was. Once she made it back into the living room she found Shane sitting on the couch with Ryan before she slid onto his leg and sat against his lap, crossing her own legs. Claire wrapped one arm behind his shoulders, tracing her fingers into the back of his hair as she offered him the drink. “ Do you remember the last time we were in California?” she whispered into his ear before smiling and leaning down to kiss him. Claire clutched her fingers against the front of his shirt, leaning against his body into the kiss before she pulled away so he could take a drink, and she could sit up in his lap to look for Natalia.

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[Bentley Douglas Wright]

Bentley took a drink from his beer as he looked out at the waves coming against the shore. What a nice fucking house, right on the beach. And all he wanted was to grab a board and get out on the waves. Though Libby probably wouldn’t be very mad at him, he did want to go make sure she was having a good time. Tori was here and he could only imagine how difficult a time she was dealing seeing Joel dote on her. It was strange how Joel being a good guy and not cheating was causing so much frustration in their little group. He was dead-set on being a good fiancé to Tori, on not becoming the person his brother was. And though he might want to talk to Joel about it, there were how many people at this party that knew about David to begin with? Madeline,himself,Ryan, Shane, Logan, Libby. And the only reason a majority of those people knew was because they knew his family prior, or were marrying into it. Maybe Joel just felt a need to tell Shane because Shane’s brother passed away, too. “ Excuse me,” he said, making his way through the crowd before he picked up a drink to take to Libby. “Hey gorgeous,” he said, lowering it down so that it was eye level with her. “ Try not to think about it,” he said with a sympathetic expression before he leaned down to wrap his arms around her and hug her.

[Mikayla Laurel Garrity]

“ So you’re going to be on Broadway?” Cody asked her and Kayla offered a tight smile, giving a shake of her head. “ I mean not any time soon, but I’m trying.” she said, leaning in to listen to him as he spoke. “ Tyler says it’s a shoe in,” he said seriously and Kayla gave a shrug of her shoulders. “ Tyler has more faith in me than he should. I’m doing auditions right now for Moulin Rouge but they’re worried I look too young,” she said but quickly narrowed her eyebrows as she watched Cody move his eyes over to the couch where Shane and Claire were. “ Yeah but you girls this day and age are looking a lot older each and every day,” he said distractedly and Kayla made a confused face. “ Well I’m gonna go find Tyler,” she said, patting him on the side of the arm. Kayla looked through the crowd of people, giving a soft smile as she spotted Tyler. So they were official, weren’t official. They’d never really discussed it. But did they really need to? Everyone else at school had known they were each others, maybe they were just behind on everything. “ Hey,” she said quietly as she walked up to him. “ Good job playing guitar with Joel on stage tonight… it was pretty hot,” she said, offering a smile before she stood on her toes to kiss him. Kayla offered her drink to him for him to have, wrapping her arm behind his waist. She hugged him tightly, kissing the front of his shoulder before she rested her cheek against his body.

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[Madeline Lea O'Neil]

Madeline ran her hand over the stomach of her dress. She had chosen not to dress up too much tonight – seeing as how she knew in her heart Joel was going to win, and then he was going to want to celebrate. So sexy meeting comfortable was going to have to work tonight. It amused her how surprised Joel was that he had won. Serious, kid? But after the trip to Africa, his meltdown, shattering everything in David’s room with a baseball bat, she had sort of wondered whether or not he would be okay. Ryan had volunteered to clean up the mess, not wanting the family to have to deal with David’s broken things. But he’d sort of been behaving weirdly since he came out of that room. She crossed her legs on the couch beside him, tracing her hand against the inside of his thigh. They both seemed to be keeping a close watch on Joel. And really, she couldn’t help but love Ryan a little more each and every time he was so protective of her brother like he was his own. She knew he felt that way. Madeline leaned closer to Ryan, taking the drink from his hands before she took a sip from it and smiled over at him, pushing her hair from her eyes. “ I’m pretty sure Shane is taking Claire back to your old place. Do you want to get a hotel tonight?” she asked, lifting her eyebrow up at him before she smiled slowly. It would be nice for nostalgia reasons to stay at his place, but she knew that when he went on tour she was going to surprise him by coming out so they could do exactly just that. Besides, she didn’t need an audience for what she had planned.

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[Cody Jensen Cavanaugh]

Cody took in a deep breath as he looked over at Claire and Shane on the couch. Pretty uncomfortable ever since Shane told him he knew how Cody felt about his girlfriend. He licked his lips, finishing off his drink before he looked over the crowd. He had congratulated most everybody on their performances and awards already. But he hadn’t congratulated Anabelle and Luke. He made his way over, grinning broadly at them. “ Congratulations guys, that’s great” he said, giving Luke a quick hug before he leaned down and hugged Anabelle, picking her up before he set her back down and took a step back. He excused himself, seeing Natalia before he made his way over. “ Hey hey.. Claire was looking for you,” he said, gesturing over to Claire and Shane. “ I’m sure you could interrupt what they’re uh.. doing,” he said, sliding his hand in his front pocket and gave a slight nod before he smiled at Natalia. “ I mean you’re her best friend, so I think that entitles you to be able to interrupt,” he said before licking his lips and biting the inside of his cheek. “ You look great tonight by the way,” he offered, taking one of his hands out of his pocket to gesture to her.

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[Dani Marie Cooper]

Dani watched as Anabelle walked away before she turned back to Luke and kept her smile. “ I know she probably thinks the sun shines out of your ass, and judging by the way you shake it I would be tempted to say the same thing. And I know the guys at the label are sort of entranced by your country life style and Collin is scared to say two words in front of you about Anabelle, but I’ll tell you something slugger. You break that girls heart and I will personally make sure you wish you were six feet under so you can quit dealing with my ass,” she said before placing on another bright smile. “ But congratulations! It’s so great,” she said, hugging him tightly before she backed away. Jake was around here somewhere, or at least she thought he was. He was probably with Joel somewhere. But she had seen Ryan. “ Hey “ she said, looking down at Ryan and Madeline as she took in a deep breath. “ Have either of you seen Jake?” she asked while lifting her eyebrows. But she took note of how Madeline was behaving towards Ryan, and she knew Ryan well enough to know she needed to get the hell out of there, cause they were going to do what they wanted no matter who was around. “ You know I’ll find him.. he should really start welling a bell,” she said, waving it off as she dismissed herself and moved through the crowd to try and find someone to talk to. “ Braison!” she said, stopping to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. “ What a good performance tonight,” she said before smiling at him happily and stepping away from him.

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[Blake Emma Renner]

Blake looked around the bedroom upstairs. How many nights had she spent in this home before they all moved out to New York? More than a small part of her was nostalgic. She lowered her hand to the bed spread. Logan had always been the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, even when she was in relationships with other people. He had easily gotten her to cheat on Taylor hadn’t he? It wasn’t like she had put up much of a fight, and she knew it was because she had loved him all along. And now being back here,. . she knew just how much she needed to start putting their relationship first again. Work got crazy and they were both so work oriented. But being back here, all she wanted was to spend some time with him, let him know that he was most important in her life. Sure it would have been easy for them to hang out alone tonight, but this had been a huge Taboo win, they should be celebrating with the rest of their Taboo family. And in the morning she could make him banana pancakes, let him play the guitar, stay in bed and just hold him.. or whatever. She was still just as crazy about him as she was the first time she saw him. When she came downstairs she saw Shane and waved happily. That boy. She loved him with all of her heart. “ Hey cutie,” she said before she leaned down to give him a quick hug before Claire sneaked her way onto his lap. “ Logan?” she asked, and was directed back towards Logan and Joel who were standing together. “ I hate to break up the Logan and Mini Logan party, but I’m going to need to steal my husband,” she said, taking Logan’s hand in her own before pulling him away. “ Have a different favorite Taboo artist just for the night.” she said with a smile before she wrapped her arms around his neck. “ You were amazing tonight.. Congratulations on your performance.. your award.. your success with everyone else’s career,” she said, tracing her thumb back and forth behind his neck as she stood on her toes and kissed him. “ You and I are taking a vacation soon. No work, no deadlines, no meetings, no rehearsals, no interviews.. just you and I,” she said, smiling down at his lips again before she gave him another kiss.

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[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel took a drink from his water bottle, nodding along as Logan was speaking to him. So he wasn’t in complete trouble, but Logan wanted him to know that he was always there to talk. And part of him sort of figured that Logan wanted Joel to take a break from everything. So he had heard about what happened back home in Africa.He had never skipped a practice, never not given a hundred percent of himself to his career. And he had skipped an entire weekend of rehearsals for the AMA’s until he arrived back in the states eight hours before the show started. “ Alright man, I hear you,” he said, giving a small nod. He shook his head as someone else offered him a drink. Maybe he deserved it. But he knew he owed it to Ryan and Madeline at least to not have them worried. The only time he ever had a problem with alcohol was when he was mad about David, but still. He owed them a relaxed evening.Plus he didn’t need alcohol to celebrate. And people kept telling him it was ‘his’ night. Which was bullshit. He wouldn’t be where he was today without Logan. And just like that Claire was placing a kiss on his lips. Well he had been in a compromising position more than once with Claire, especially when they were dancing together. Sure, he thought she was pretty. But she was Shane’s, and because of that he looked at her like a sister. “ Haha, oh wow. Thank you,” he said with a laugh, leaning down to hug Claire. But it seemed just like that, Shane was coming in to kiss him too, congratulating him. Joel made a face as Shane kissed him before he dropped his water bottle down to the side and wrapped his arms around Shane’s body and pressed him against the counter. Fine, you want to kiss me for shock factor? Balls to the wall. ‘ It’s about to start getting weird, people” Joel said before he pretended like he was going to kiss Shane again before he back away with a slight laugh, leaning down to pick up his water bottle. He shook his head, watching as Shane went to sit down by Ryan and Claire quickly following suit. “ That guy..” he said, wiping his mouth off on his arm. “ Oh hey,” he said, seeing Blake coming and stealing Logan away. “ All yours,” he said, giving Blake a hug before he started to spin the water bottle in his hands and left the kitchen. He smiled as he spotted Tori, making his way over to her. ‘ Hey girl..let me talk to you,” he whispered into her ear, wrapping his arms around her shoulders from behind before he lowered to kiss the side of her neck under her ear. “ You look beautiful tonight,” he said, resting his hands on her hips, lowering his head to kiss the side of her hair. “ Do you want to get out of here later? Maybe get a nice hotel.. “ he said, licking the corner of his lips. For being engaged, him and Tori had never actually slept together. And he thought a lot of that might be because he had never initiated it. But if he was going to give her all of himself, he could make her happy, right? Joel smiled before he turned her against his body and brought his hand to her lower back, tugging his fingertips into her soft skin under the fabric of her outfit. Joel brought his free hand up to the side of her neck, tracing his fingers into her hair before he leaned down to kiss her, nibbling against her bottom lip all the while pulling her closer against his body with his arm behind her lower back.

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[Natalia Anne Richmond]

"Alright babe. I love you too. Goodnight." Natalia hung up the phone, smiling. Ethan could make her smile even when they were miles apart. She looked around at the people that were there, more than when she first called Ethan. Jeeze, how long was she on the phone? Natalia grabbed a bottle of water and made her way over to Luke and Anabelle, “You guys are just too darn cute together. Congrats tonight by the way.” She said smiling to Luke. Natalia gave Anabelle a hug, “You look beautiful. Excuse me guys.” With a smile, Natalia made her way over to Braison and gave him a hug. “Dog, you killed it” she said in her best ghetto accent. “Thanks shawty. You look great!” “Thank you darling.” Natalia looked over in Collin’s direction when he yelled to Braison, she spotted Claire in the process. “I should probably go see her. I’ll find you again later.” Before she could meet up with Claire, Natalia was stopped by Anne Neal, “Hey. I just want to say that you are absolutely gorgeous.” Natalia smiled, “Thank you very much. You look beautiful. Also congrats on your win and that performance, it was great. Hate to be rude, but I gotta go see Claire.” She said as she pointed to Claire sitting on Shane’s lap. “No problem.” Natalia smiled again. Anne Neal was such a great girl, she seemed like she was having a great time on tour with Joel. Who wouldn’t? Joel was a lot of fun to be around. She would need to find him later on too. Natalia was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard Cody. He was right, she could interrupt whatever Claire and Shane were doing, being Claire’s best friend, she had the right to. Natalia looked back to Cody when he complimented her. “Thank you! You look great. Love the suit.” After excusing herself she made her way to Claire and Shane, “Me too, me too” she said smiling as she uncrossed Claire’s legs with her hand and sat down on her lap, wrapping an arm around the both of them. “Santa, I’d like a pony and a dolly and another puppy.” She laughed and then slid off of Claire’s lap. “Hey guys. Claire, you were looking for me?”

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[Braison Christopher Pierce]

Braison nodded as Natalia said she should probably go see Claire, “Yeah she was looking for you. Catch you later.” Braison brought the drink in his hand to his lips and finished it off. This was a party, he was going to party. He had a great performance and he just felt great. After getting another drink, Braison made his way over to Collin, stopping to see Dani, "Thank you thank you." he leaned down, hugging her. "You always look so beautiful. " he smiled and then continued making his way to Collin, “What up man?” he said as he gave him daps. “Sorry if I’m interrupting anything.” He said as he took a sip from his glass. “Joel seems a little busy, Logan is with the wife so not bothering him, and so I have to settle with talking to you.” He said jokingly. Of course he was kidding. Collin was one of his closest friends at the label. “So I was thinking about videos and I think we should do one for Sweet Love next. What do you think?” Braison had a tour coming up soon, but there was enough time to at least come up with ideas for a video. He was leaving a week from Thanksgiving, plenty of time.

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[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire smiled against Shane’s lips as she rested her body against him. Two stupid kids. She made a slight face as she felt her legs being moved. Definitely not Shane’s hands. But she smiled as she saw Natalia, sitting on her lap. Claire moved her arms away from Shane’s body and wrapped them around Natalia’s waist and rested her cheek against her back. “ Ooo.. Santa.. “ she said with a slight laugh before she sang quietly to him, “ Santa baby I’ve been an awful good girl.. so hurry down the chimney tonight,” she sang before winking at him. She let go of her arms being wrapped around Natalia before she situated back in Shane’s lap and looked up at her. “ Talk to Ethan long enough yet? Little bit of phone sex? Keepin’ it fresh?” she said, wiggling her eyebrows up and down at her best friend. “ You could always video chat him later. Shane likes those sessions. I can imagine Ethan would too. Little bit of a strip tease, throw on some Ginuwine. Bow chicka wow wow,” she said, wiggling her hips in Shane’s lap as she danced. “ You guys need to seriously spice it up somehow. Cause when is the last time you saw him? I think if I went more than a week without sex I would probably die,” she said, giving a nod. “ Let’s not even pretend it would be a week. I wouldn’t last more than two days. Which is going to be interesting when Shane goes on tour… You know I might show up at your place in a babydoll and try to seduce you a time or two. I know you think the Foxes are attractive,” she said, tapping her finger against her nose as she pointed at Natalia before bringing her hand back down to Shane’s and interlocking her fingers with his.

[Collin Scott Reynolds]

Collin looked up from Ellie and over at Braison who was coming over to him. “ Oh hey man,” he said, giving him a fist bump before pulling him in for a loose hug and patting him on the back. He turned his ear to listen to Braison as he spoke, keeping his arm wrapped around Ellie’s shoulders. “ Yeah,” he said while nodding a few times. “ Absolutely. Do you want to fit in shooting a video before you head out on tour? Isn’t that like.. in the next couple of weeks?” he asked, bringing his beer up before taking a drink. “ I’m game if you are,” he said before licking his lips. “ I have a couple of ideas for the video actually so it wouldn’t take me long to get everything organized. Do you want to have a meeting about it tonight or do you want to fucking party?” he asked, clapping Braison on the arm. “ We all work too hard, let’s get fucked up,” he said before turning around. “ Here,” he said, lowering his arm from around Ellie before he reached over and picked up the bottle of tequila. He took a quick drink from the bottle before lowering it from his mouth and coughing into his arm as he held it out to Braison. It was funny how they were all such a huge big mixture of people, but yet everyone fit in.