Can you imagine all the upperclassmen sitting around talking about Neil? Exchanging all the little things they learned about them that day?
like
Matt slamming into the girls dorm hissing, “he hates vegetables, he told this to me, he hates vegetables but he loves fruit.” And all the girls gasp.
“He sent me a TT A TT emoji from his English class.” Renee says. She’s been saving this information until just this moment when they’re all together. She’d seen it in the middle of her tutor session and delicately touched her fingers to her mouth.
“Nicky taught him that.” Matt snaps his fingers and points at her, excited that he knows another thing.
“He hates his English class, it bores him to tears but he said it’d be useful.” Dan says.
“Isn’t he taking a speech class or something? Maybe it’s for interviews?” Allison says, because being pulled into The Great Neil Josten Mystery is honestly the best thing to happen in weeks. The first time she laughed since, well, ya know, was when Neil ate a beet for the first time in the cafeteria and immediately stuck his tongue out far enough for the beet to fall off.
"What could his english class be useful for? What could he mean. Does he want to be a writer? Does he like books? What’s this about?“ Matt paces around the room and they just spend hours breaking down everything they know about their new fox.
Until the fox in question comes in to hang out with them before his practices with Kevin. And their heads just snap to him like “NEIL.”
And it startles him every time.
hi imagine adam and ronan getting into a fight where adam storms out of monmouth and gansey calls him hours later like “can you please come do something with your boyfriend?” and in the background he can hear the clutter of noah and ronan making a makeshift band out of crap around monmouth and playing blink 182′s I Miss You
i saw her and my heart crawled up my throat. like her eyes were the only stars on a clear night. but how do i tell her that the world is less real around her. everything stopped in the palm of her hands. like she could reform me from seawater. like she could revenge me all the nights i spent wanting.
i can’t get adam parrish: spontaneous sleeper off my mind like…..
adam routinely falling asleep on gansey’s shoulder whenever he sits shotgun in the pig
ronan being put on ‘crash watch’ during latin because everone knows that adam hates sleeping in class but sometimes it just happens
(crash watch includes taking adam’s notes, waking him up ~gently~, and being a good boyf)
adam and persephone having naps in cabeswater after he finishes his training for the day
sometimes blue encourages adam to sleep when they hang out. usually he ends up sprawled over her lap and snoring loudly as she watches sitcoms, and usually orla or persephone document it in the form of like 60 pictures
blue had one printed and taped to her wall
noah and adam staying up late and talking and talking until they end up cuddled on adam’s bed (adam is lil’ spoon ofc)
adam sleeping in the hondayota during his breaks
ronan and adam staying up studying for finals and adam eventually slumping over and crashing on ronan’s lap (ronan’s face is so red google earth can see him through the roof of st. agnes)
Paul Eluard, “Absence”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
[Text ID: “My voice discovering you”]