My Fave Is Problematic

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imagine nursey growing up in a household where he could get any material thing that he wanted just by asking but the person who tucked him in at night was a nanny who changed every couple of months and most of his birthdays and holidays were spent at andover with quick ten minute phone calls from his parents in between business meetings and having no friends because all of his schoolmates were assholes who raided their parents’ medicince cabinets for fun and hated reading and all the classes that they were fucking privileged to take and he had to attend all these fucking galas where people gave to charity but it was never a real charity it was always something to help themselves mostly and everyone was so fucking cruel to one another no one really liked anyone and without friends or family and crafting his chill out of survival because if he doesn’t care then he can’t be hurt, right? nursey grew up getting everything he wanted but never feeling like he was truly wanted but

BUT THEN

imagine dex growing up in a house that was crumbling under the footsteps of his five siblings and enormous extended family who stayed over a lot because heat in one house was easier to pay for than several houses and dammit family sticks together and imagine dex going to school with bag lunches that sometimes weren’t the right ones and his mother knows he doesn’t like ham and cheese but she handed him his sister’s on the way out the door so he eats it because she doesn’t need anything more on her plate and imagine little dex getting made fun of because his clothes sometimes have holes in them and all of his notebooks are second-hand and he can never get snacks on the lunchline because that is an extra dollar he doesn’t have and never getting to go on field trips because yeah it’s only twenty dollars but that could buy a pair of new shoes for his little brother so he doesn’t really need to go to the aquarium anyway and becoming so angry at everything and everyone because his family might not have money but they are good people and why can’t the world see past appearances and damn why does dex want to hit everything? dex grew up with nothing but the endless love his family could give and the, also seemingly endless, torment of his peers because he never had a dollar to his name

AND THEN

they meet and clash because their lives are so so different and it makes them resent one another because they think the other isn’t grateful for the fucking amazing things they had (ie money and love) and they clash so hard at first but then they see it, recognize it in one another, that want, that painful desire for something they didn’t have (love and money) and then they finally realize it- oh, you do get it, but just not in the way i thought

AND LIKE

imagine them recognizing this want in one another and it pushing them together and imagine dex teaching nursey what real love and affection and comfort and care is and suddenly nursey doesn’t need his perfectly crafted chill to repel the disappointment because dex does a lot of things but he never disappoints in terms of love and then nursey teaches dex that there are things far more important than money and repairs all of the insecurities dex grew up with and hey, maybe he buys dex an expensive present every once in a while because if nursey can’t spoil his boyfriend, then who can he spoil?

and yeah that’s why i ship dexnursey (or nurseydex seriously wtf)

he ate paste in elementary school, but like in a cool way. like he wasnt the weird kid, it was just a well known fact in the class that Justin would eat paste if you dared him to 

(in fact he’d do most things if you dared him to.)

he won the science fair three years in a row, and his parents still have the ribbons. 

hates spaghetti. “it feels like im eating hair” “its noodles” “yeah or like. worms” 

had a turtle as a pet once. most of his entertainment at that point in his life was caused by him feeding the turtle different vegetables and giggling to himself

has older sisters 

hates long periods of silence. it just creeps him out. that’s why his best friend is holster who is Very Loud and why he likes to surround himself with people

bi

once painted his nails pink and then insisted they were “salmon” for an entire week simply to piss holster off

has literally never dated someone who is not blonde 

has a secret, somewhat shameful collection of sticky notes and highlighters? like, he keeps it in a drawer that not even holster knows about. he literally has like every color, size, brand of highlighter and enough sticky notes to last him three lifetimes. he doesn’t even use them. he never fucking studies. he just. likes them. 

texts holster’s mom a lot. they have inside jokes. it’s gotten to that point.