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i want you to be a fully-fledged character, familiar, recognizable. the thing i love about second-person is not that it inserts me into the story as a reader, but that it inserts the narrator as this omniscient, invisible, inescapable force.

Classic “there was only one bed”

Alternatively, there was only one couch

Having to share one blanket, fighting over it the whole night.

There’s only one pillow, and neither of you can sleep without one. You both end up using each half of the pillow to rest your head on, causing your faces to be only a few inches apart.

All other seats are taken, so you both have to squeeze into one chair.

Wanting to borrow the same book but there’s only one copy of it available at the library. After arguing over who will get it, you both decide to share it and study together.

Or sharing a book with your friend during class since they forgot to bring theirs.

It’s raining heavily, and you don’t have an umbrella. Your friend helps you out by sharing their umbrella with you.

Being trapped somewhere (eg: a cave)

It’s culinary class and your assignment is to create a dish. All the work stations are occupied except one. You and the other person have to work in the same place, and turns out, that person is none other than your rival.

The DA goes as Sherlock Holmes for Halloween just to tease Abe

Abe loves candy corn

The DA insists they go trick or treating

Abe brings his real gun as part of his costume and they tell him off about it for a month

They carve pumpkins together and Abe is actually extremely talented at it

They go tic taccing to steal corn stalks to decorate and then realize they both live in apartments, so instead of outside the door they hang them outside their windows. Theres a bad wind storm and they end up in the apartment across from Abe’s pool. It makes the news as mystery corn. They don’t confess.

Abe secretly really likes cheesy cute decorations, like little boo ghosts that are smiling and witches that are crashed into the front door.

Well. it's not the worst thing for having gone from barely half done to this in an ~hour