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I am so far away from home. I am so afraid but I cannot show it. I’m going to be all on my own out there and people are not kind to me. I’ve always been alone, but never this kind of alone before. I don’t really know you, but you seemed kind. And earnest. You would not lie to me. Is it safe? Will I be happy there and safe? Boston is nice too?

Shane’s brain cycled rapidly through a half-dozen celebrities, porn actors, Grindr profiles, every attractive bartender who’d ever served him a beer, trying to find a comparison for this level of outrageously concentrated beauty in one person, but he was drawing a blank. The man—Ilya Rozanov, Facilities Attendant, his badge read—gestured around the supply closet. “I help you find something?” -- Canon-divergent AU set during the 2017-18 MLH season. Shane Hollander doesn’t have a single Cup to his name when he meets a very hot and very annoying janitor who works at the Metros stadium.

shane: "fuck off"

hayden: jesus what a dick

probably not very he was probably busy being suddenly being a teenage millionaire getting laid whenever he wanted. like he’s definitely too busy going OH MY GOD I GOT OUTTTTTTTT

to miss anything about home. this is his freshman year do you understand. he’s getting alcohol poisoning the third month in because “this does not happen to russians.” he’s having four different pregnancy scares before an older player sits him down and says listen bro you ALWAYS take the condom with you. he’s buying a car and wrecking it in the first week. he’s wandering around plymouth more hungover than he’s ever been in his life being personally attacked by reenactors hammering out horseshoes.

Britney Spears as Lucy CROSSROADS (2002) Dir. Tamra Davis