pony boy

richie wants to touch him now, like when he was still a funhouse mirror full of possibilities; the corner of his smoother jaw that didn’t have stubble, the arch of his cheekbones where his glasses should be, like richie’s. maybe it’s the alcohol and the promise of a killer hangover tomorrow, the music fading and seeming so far away that it leaves just the two of them, or the din light filtering in from the streets and casting a soft glow on everything. maybe it’s the sudden realization that this guy was so close, so close and so real, and there would never be a “right time,” always just a neon flashing light in richie’s skull blinking “now, now, now,”

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steve: your son in my room.

joyce: what

Upside Down

but the continuation of el not liking ANY of mike’s actual character traits continued on in s3

like when mike is a massive nerd and voices the swimming manikin “right, mike!” and el walks away? when he sings to her in the beginning and she says she doesnt like it?

it just goes along with him showing her roary the dinosaur, doing his yoda impression and talking about star wars in s1 and el is just flat out not interested & walks away

02x05 | 03x03