gacked from just about everyone
so i am about to pull the plug. on my internet. *quibbles*
i - sigh. i have no choice if i want to have any hope of passing my exams tomorrow (except, idk, that is pretty much a lost cause anyway.) and okay, okay, i know, i have 1249832490832 requests i have yet to get to still, but. but drabbles! they are fun! and i expect to come home tomorrow, ( Read more... )
i - sigh. i have no choice if i want to have any hope of passing my exams tomorrow (except, idk, that is pretty much a lost cause anyway.) and okay, okay, i know, i have 1249832490832 requests i have yet to get to still, but. but drabbles! they are fun! and i expect to come home tomorrow, ( Read more... )
It's already close to midnight, and David's curled up on his bed, hugging a huge bowl of popcorn to his chest. The opening credits to Casablanca are already rolling across his tv screen when he hears a muffled, "ow, fucking shit--" outside his window (which makes David wince and grin a little at the same time), and then Cook tumbles through it a second later.
"Fuck," Cook repeats (and David cringes again), from where he's all, like, tangled up in his own limbs on the floor. "How the fuck does Joey Potter make this look so easy?"
"Um," David says. "Hi Cook." He bites the inside of his cheek really, really hard so he doesn't bust up laughing. "You're kind of late?"
"Yeah," Cook says, grinning. It's sort of... sheepish? Which is the first sign that something is totally off, because Cook is a lot of things, but easily embarrassed isn't really one of them? Cook hops to his feet, then, and throws himself onto the bed (which, okay, David is kind of used to, but he only narrowly manages to save the popcorn and the remote control from flying off the mattress).
"Cook," David sighs, even though they both know that he, like, totally doesn't care when it comes to Cook. Cook could probably do something crazy like, um, like steal a baby's candy, and David would still let him get away with it. Sometimes David worries that Cook makes him a really terrible Mormon.
"Sorry," Cook says, only he obviously doesn't mean it. David sighs again, but he pets Cook's hair without protesting when Cook puts his head in his lap. Cook grins up at him, and David can't help sort of grinning back. "So I, uh," Cook says. "I went out with Melissa tonight."
David is winded for a second. And, oh my gosh, his stomach is starting to do this weird little tumble; maybe the popcorn wasn't such a great idea? He pushes the bowl aside and hits the pause button on the remote. "Oh," he says. "How - um...?"
"It was great, man," Cook says, turning a little so he's facing the ceiling. "She's, you know, she's the way she is in school. Sweet and funny and really, really nice. And she loves reading, can you beat that? She totally blew me away."
"Yay," David says, obligingly.
"I know, right?" Cook is practically beaming. "Who knew cheerleaders would like picking up more than pom-poms?"
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Tonight, David's stomach is all, whatever, twisting up and clenching and burning and - he's just, he's not feeling well enough to concentrate.
He's totally going to say so, and also maybe to tell Cook that maybe he shouldn't spend the night after all, because if David's sick he doesn't want to pass anything to him, but then Cook says, a little wistfully, "I wouldn't have run late if she wasn't so awesome, man. I mean, I've got my priorities straight. You know that, right?"
And that - it's totally stupid, but David feels the heat spring up his neck anyway, because - because Cook totally blew Melissa off for movie night (which, hi, even David knows is pretty lame since they're both already sixteen - seventeen in a couple of months!), and that's sort of, um. David inhales, sharply, stomach settling, and he hides a little smile as he hugs the popcorn close again. It makes his chest feel all, like, warm and toasty. He loves popcorn.
"I know," he says, finally, and gives Cook's fringe a final pat. "Do you want some popcorn?" he offers, trying to sound cheerful and maybe teasing instead of all, like, strange and fuzzy. "Or did you have too much when you were out on your - um. When you, before you came over." Still, his voice comes out a little weird, sort of an octave too high, maybe?
But Cook doesn't really seem to notice. Instead, he grabs a handful of popcorn (some of it even spills onto David's lap, sigh) and rolls his eyes. "Shut up and play the movie, Archuleta," he demands. "Or I'm gonna tell your mom about the fact that you were in detention twice last week."
"Oh my gosh!" David yelps, and he totally doesn't care when he upsets the food by throwing his pillow in Cook's face, the weirdness already forgotten. "Shut up, that was totally your fault!"
Melissa and Cook stop seeing each other a couple of months later, and David doesn't feel too guilty for being, um, kind of glad when Cook tells him about it. It's - he doesn't not like Melissa, but... Cook's always been really, really clear about what (and, um, who?) his priorities are.
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Okay, first of all, Daviiiiiid my stomach was clenching and stuff with you (okay I did just get back from a chinese buffet, so uh, maybe that's not helping) and you just did a BRILLIANT job of him once again, SERIOUSLY DO YOU AND DAVID ARCHULETA JUST HOOK UP AND TALK ABOUT HOW TO CHARACTERIZE HIM OR WHAT?
AND YOUR COOK -- NO ONE EVER GETS TO DO HIM AS A TEENAGER AND HE IS -- I WOULD HAVE THE BIGGEST CRUSH ON HIM, I KNOW I WOULD. MOVIE NIGHT, BRB SQUEALING FOREVER, AND CASABLANCA, JUST, FUCKKKK THAT'S SO PRECIOUS.
And COOK HAVING HIS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, OH MY GOSH. OH AND ALSO, PUTTING HIS HEAD IN DAVID'S LAP. LAP. LAP. AND DAVID WASN'T EVEN FAZED BECAUSE THEY ARE BFF! KLDFSJSF THIS VERSE IS THE BEST THING EVER.
Iiiiiiiii love you a lot and gosh, this is -- okay, not really, because nothing will ever beat real-time conversation, but it's almost as good as talking to you anyways.
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and oh my gosh I *WISH*. I WOULD SIT DOWN WITH DAVID AND TALK FOREVER, HI. FOREVER. AIFJKEFWJC. AND THIS, TEENAGE!COOK, TOTALLY MY GUILTY PLEASURE AND AHHHHHHH, I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE HIM, IDEK. ADSOSJDNSOIJF!!!!!!!!!111 you already know how much i love this verse and i am SO EXCITED BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT, TOO, AND YOU ARE FANTASTIC.
ALSO THE LAST BIT OF YOUR COMMENT MADE ME FLAIL AND SPASM SPASTICALLY, JSYK. I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOUUUUUUUUUUUU~~
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oh gosh, could you imagine talking to him seriously?!?! just sitting with him and letting him babble at you and babbling back and laughing at his awkwardness because it's so precious, oh gosh THAT WOULD POSSIBLY MAKE MY LIFE FOREVER. TEENAGE!COOK NEEDS TO DO ME NOW. I WANT TO HIDE HIM UNDER MY BED. OR IN IT.
YOU SAID ONCE THE WORDS COULD LOSE ALL MEANING IF WE SAID THEM TOO MUCH BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IT, I LOVE YOU TOOOOOOO~
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I ADORE THE REST OF THIS COMMENT, I DO, BUT MOSTLY I JUST WANT TO CURL UP WITH THIS BIT AND MAYBE PET MY LAPTOP A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN YOU GIVE ME THE IDEA OF WHAT A CONVERSATION WITH ARCHIE WOULD BE LIKE, AND OH MY GOD, IDEK, HOW COULD I BE ANY HAPPIER THAN THIS? (EXCEPT LIKE I SAID, I WILL BE, SOMEHOW, YOU WILL MAKE THIS HAPPEN LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO).
IDK, HOW DID WE END UP SO LUCKY, IDK, EVEN MY DREAMS OF GETTING MARRIED WERE NEVER AS PERFECT OR AMAZING AS THIS IS. OR AS YOU ARE. <33333333333
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*FLAILS* AND THERE WAS THIS LINE: Sometimes David worries that Cook makes him a really terrible Mormon. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE, OKAY?
AND HEAD LAPPING AND LIKE POPCORN FLINGING AND PRIORITIZING!? WTF. WOMAN. W.T.F.
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I AM JUST GLAD YOU LIKED THIS, HA. BECAUSE I KIND OF ADORE THIS VERSE AND THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MORE OF IT IN THE FUTURE.
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OHMYGOSH DO YOU PROMISE!? BECAUSE I WOULD LOVE THAT.
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AND I DO, I PROMISE. I HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THESE BOYS, or, idk, THEY HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THEMSELVES, I'M JUST THE MESSENGER!
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OMGYAY. I THINK I WILL GO SQUEE INTO MY PILLOW NOW.
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Aw, David is the most adorable person in the world. Especially when he is jealous. But damn right, Cook knows what(who!!!) his prorities are.
I LOVE AUs SO I AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT THERE MAY BE MORE OF THIS VERSE \O/
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OMFG. BFF!COOKLETA. THAT WAS SOOOO GOOD. AND SWEET. AND PRIORITIES! SQUEALING FOREVER! ASBFAJFBLDJSFB YOU SHOULD TURN THIS INTO SOMETHING EPIC, DAWSON'S CREEK-STYLE. AAAH. FINAL EPISODE OF FIRST SEASON STILL SO CLEAR IN MY HEAD. *___*
ILU. ILU A LOT.
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this verse is kind of ridiculously big in my head, so there will be little bits popping up from time to time, DO NOT WORRY. ALSO ILU2 <3333333333 TY FOR THE FB!
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OKAY SO THE END SLAYED ME. THE PRIORITIES BIT? And I lol'd at Cook coming in from the window. I LOVE BEST FRIENDS!COOKLETA SOOOOOO MUCH, OMGOSH.
AND COOK BLOWING MELISSA OFF FOR MOVIE NIGHT, AWWWWWWWW.
LOVE.
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