Even for me (I suppose that's saying something) this is way too rose-colored glasses, we needs some angst.
Jon has never really noticed other people, even when other people notice him. But he and Stephen are leaving less notes to each other (Post-Its are on the shopping list and have been there for weeks but they both keep forgetting to grab them). So running into someone who is always up for something, who he doesn't need to write notes to...
I'm guessing he begins to double-think things when they're telling funny stories together and all of a sudden Jon realizes he can't remember the last time he heard Stephen laugh. Or, or, one of Stephen's friends left their polaroid at the apartment and Lisa takes a picture of her and Jon together and it falls between the couch cushions and Jon comes home to find a new stack of Post-Its and a "Who is she?" or something similar in tiny handwriting from Stephen.
But they don't have time to actually fight, they just keep leaving passive-agressive and outwardly aggressive notes. Finally something happens where Jon gets off early, or his switch shifts, and he comes home and Stephen's there eating Spaghettios or something and they just stare at each other for like five minutes before they start talking. (One of them ends up spending the night in the student center.) And it's a while before Jon stops feeling sick all the time and before Stephen misses falling asleep next to him.
After Lulu shows up there's probably some kind of blowout. Stephen thinks about keeping in contact with her and Jon is like wtf. Or Jon has his little altercation with her and Stephen flips out at him for trying to 'handle' his family. Maybe? (But sometime after she comes Stephen decides to start pronouncing his name with the silent t.)
Of course. You know. There's not much of a message inside. And it very much has only her name.
Oh, Jon's mom is displeased.
Like, maybe, there was just sort of a silent agreement he could stay, but they didn't want to hear much from him and they certainly didn't want to hear from anyone else that he and Jon were getting together. Or that he wasn't showing up at Youth Group. Or that he wasn't doing whatever else people (who they didn't tell what happened, of course) expected from him.
Which is why the suggestion to elope is such a surprise. Who popped the question? Idk it could be either. Or just a tacit agreement. Stephen shows up at Jon's (one night when the Colberts are out) with all his stuff in his car, or something.
Re: more smush fic
Jon has never really noticed other people, even when other people notice him. But he and Stephen are leaving less notes to each other (Post-Its are on the shopping list and have been there for weeks but they both keep forgetting to grab them). So running into someone who is always up for something, who he doesn't need to write notes to...
I'm guessing he begins to double-think things when they're telling funny stories together and all of a sudden Jon realizes he can't remember the last time he heard Stephen laugh. Or, or, one of Stephen's friends left their polaroid at the apartment and Lisa takes a picture of her and Jon together and it falls between the couch cushions and Jon comes home to find a new stack of Post-Its and a "Who is she?" or something similar in tiny handwriting from Stephen.
But they don't have time to actually fight, they just keep leaving passive-agressive and outwardly aggressive notes. Finally something happens where Jon gets off early, or his switch shifts, and he comes home and Stephen's there eating Spaghettios or something and they just stare at each other for like five minutes before they start talking. (One of them ends up spending the night in the student center.) And it's a while before Jon stops feeling sick all the time and before Stephen misses falling asleep next to him.
After Lulu shows up there's probably some kind of blowout. Stephen thinks about keeping in contact with her and Jon is like wtf. Or Jon has his little altercation with her and Stephen flips out at him for trying to 'handle' his family. Maybe? (But sometime after she comes Stephen decides to start pronouncing his name with the silent t.)
Of course. You know. There's not much of a message inside. And it very much has only her name.
Oh, Jon's mom is displeased.
Like, maybe, there was just sort of a silent agreement he could stay, but they didn't want to hear much from him and they certainly didn't want to hear from anyone else that he and Jon were getting together. Or that he wasn't showing up at Youth Group. Or that he wasn't doing whatever else people (who they didn't tell what happened, of course) expected from him.
Which is why the suggestion to elope is such a surprise. Who popped the question? Idk it could be either. Or just a tacit agreement. Stephen shows up at Jon's (one night when the Colberts are out) with all his stuff in his car, or something.