High School AU Snippet (Possibly but not definitely to be continued??)
So, the other night I had a random, sudden inspiration (which is kind of rare these days) and wrote...whatever this is.
It's a high school AU. Gawd. I sort of hate myself, lol.
The thing about Eduardo Saverin is, he used to be Mark’s best friend.
It sounds dumb, right? Total girly type of thing to say. But it’s true. And it’s kind of…kind of weird.
They became friends in sixth grade when they sat next to each other in Social Studies. In the tradition of most preteen friendships, it didn’t take anything more than that shared age, location, and mockery of the weird librarian to create a bond. Even if they didn’t have many personality traits in common, they had the kind of easygoing relationship and generic hobbies typical of all eleven-year-old boys. They played video games (even though Eduardo wasn’t great at them and Mark didn’t find them very engaging) and listened in on Mark’s sister’s phone calls with her boyfriend and watched R-rated movies with naked girls that they were too young to appreciate. It was pretty great.
At first, seventh grade was fine, the same as the year before, even though some of the girls would occasionally tease Mark and Eduardo (but especially Eduardo) and try to find out if they had a crush on anyone, but whatever. Neither of them cared.
But then things got kind of weird.
Eduardo hit this major growth spurt all of a sudden and he was taller, like, every time Mark looked. But still, it didn’t matter, even if Mark was a tiny bit mad that he still hadn’t started growing. But the thing about it was, Eduardo started acting weird along with it. His previously sunny disposition was suddenly all gloomy, and sometimes he’d get mad at Mark for no apparent reason or he’d randomly decline invitations. And it wasn’t like Mark was acting any different, so he didn’t understand what the problem was. It was mostly little things, like how Eduardo had been all excited for the Zuckerberg’s new pool all last summer but when it was finally done he suddenly never wanted to go swimming. It was like he was embarrassed about his body all of a sudden, which was dumb because it wasn’t like he had ever cared about that before. Or whenever they watched R movies together, and there was a sex scene, when they used to laugh, suddenly Eduardo got all nervous and freaked out.
Mark tried to ask him about it a few times but he just got all weird and quiet, so Mark let it go, but he was confused and kind of pissed. His mom (because this is back when Mark actually talked to his mom about stuff) said in a kind voice that it was a confusing time for both of them and it had to do with puberty. But duh, Mark knew that, but since when did something as stupid as that get in the way of their friendship?
Anyway, it all blew up at the end of the year when Mark started going out with Erica Albright.
It wasn’t even real dating. It was dumb, middle school fake-dating where you instant message each other and hold hands at lunch. Erica was nice, sure, but Mark still didn’t really care about girls in that way.
But Eduardo flipped.
He was really upset about it, and Mark didn’t understand why. He said that Mark was ditching him for Erica but that wasn’t even true, not at all, and when Mark said that it was Eduardo who was ditching him, Eduardo just blew up at him and stopped making any sense whatsoever. He said something about how Mark was a total idiot if he didn’t get it and couldn’t he see what was right in front of him and Mark didn’t know what that meant at all so he snapped that if he was an idiot, why was he ahead of Eduardo in the class rank? And then Eduardo just stormed out.
And just like that, their friendship was over. They didn’t hang out, and they didn’t even talk at school. In eighth grade Eduardo found a different group, the kind of jocky guys, who Mark personally thought were way below Eduardo’s intellectual standards. And Mark was still dating Erica, and surprisingly, it lasted for the whole year, even if it was fake middle school dating. Mark wasn’t going to apologize to Eduardo because he didn’t do anything wrong, and he was really frustrated and confused that their friendship had ended so abruptly, especially because he never could quite figure out why. He still can’t, really, four years later.
Then Eduardo went to Brazil the summer before high school, and he came back looking like that.
It's a high school AU. Gawd. I sort of hate myself, lol.
The thing about Eduardo Saverin is, he used to be Mark’s best friend.
It sounds dumb, right? Total girly type of thing to say. But it’s true. And it’s kind of…kind of weird.
They became friends in sixth grade when they sat next to each other in Social Studies. In the tradition of most preteen friendships, it didn’t take anything more than that shared age, location, and mockery of the weird librarian to create a bond. Even if they didn’t have many personality traits in common, they had the kind of easygoing relationship and generic hobbies typical of all eleven-year-old boys. They played video games (even though Eduardo wasn’t great at them and Mark didn’t find them very engaging) and listened in on Mark’s sister’s phone calls with her boyfriend and watched R-rated movies with naked girls that they were too young to appreciate. It was pretty great.
At first, seventh grade was fine, the same as the year before, even though some of the girls would occasionally tease Mark and Eduardo (but especially Eduardo) and try to find out if they had a crush on anyone, but whatever. Neither of them cared.
But then things got kind of weird.
Eduardo hit this major growth spurt all of a sudden and he was taller, like, every time Mark looked. But still, it didn’t matter, even if Mark was a tiny bit mad that he still hadn’t started growing. But the thing about it was, Eduardo started acting weird along with it. His previously sunny disposition was suddenly all gloomy, and sometimes he’d get mad at Mark for no apparent reason or he’d randomly decline invitations. And it wasn’t like Mark was acting any different, so he didn’t understand what the problem was. It was mostly little things, like how Eduardo had been all excited for the Zuckerberg’s new pool all last summer but when it was finally done he suddenly never wanted to go swimming. It was like he was embarrassed about his body all of a sudden, which was dumb because it wasn’t like he had ever cared about that before. Or whenever they watched R movies together, and there was a sex scene, when they used to laugh, suddenly Eduardo got all nervous and freaked out.
Mark tried to ask him about it a few times but he just got all weird and quiet, so Mark let it go, but he was confused and kind of pissed. His mom (because this is back when Mark actually talked to his mom about stuff) said in a kind voice that it was a confusing time for both of them and it had to do with puberty. But duh, Mark knew that, but since when did something as stupid as that get in the way of their friendship?
Anyway, it all blew up at the end of the year when Mark started going out with Erica Albright.
It wasn’t even real dating. It was dumb, middle school fake-dating where you instant message each other and hold hands at lunch. Erica was nice, sure, but Mark still didn’t really care about girls in that way.
But Eduardo flipped.
He was really upset about it, and Mark didn’t understand why. He said that Mark was ditching him for Erica but that wasn’t even true, not at all, and when Mark said that it was Eduardo who was ditching him, Eduardo just blew up at him and stopped making any sense whatsoever. He said something about how Mark was a total idiot if he didn’t get it and couldn’t he see what was right in front of him and Mark didn’t know what that meant at all so he snapped that if he was an idiot, why was he ahead of Eduardo in the class rank? And then Eduardo just stormed out.
And just like that, their friendship was over. They didn’t hang out, and they didn’t even talk at school. In eighth grade Eduardo found a different group, the kind of jocky guys, who Mark personally thought were way below Eduardo’s intellectual standards. And Mark was still dating Erica, and surprisingly, it lasted for the whole year, even if it was fake middle school dating. Mark wasn’t going to apologize to Eduardo because he didn’t do anything wrong, and he was really frustrated and confused that their friendship had ended so abruptly, especially because he never could quite figure out why. He still can’t, really, four years later.
Then Eduardo went to Brazil the summer before high school, and he came back looking like that.