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Best Friends to Almost-Lovers to Strangers

bonus sketch below:

BOY DO I

sally loves hazel the moment she meets her and whenever hazel comes to visit they just sit in the kitchen talking

i know i’ve said this before but percy and hazel hold hands all the time for no reason like no matter where they’re going they’re always holding hands

on the nights they were both sick in boo they sat up telling each other stories and giggling and probably crying a little through the stall walls

when percy’s in college in new rome hazel comes to visit and sleeps over in his room a lot

neither of them are all that great at dealing with their natural hair so usually they’re both just like “fuck it” and don’t even bother

BUT in a year or two hazel decides to twist it and she rocks it and percy’s just like “whoOA u go omg”

hazel can pick percy up (pretty easily too)

hazel holds percy’s hand when he gets nervous

percy’s usually too shy/embarrassed to actually try to sing well in front of people but he’ll sing around hazel

hazel loves riding on blackjack

percy mimicks the way she fans herself in a really exaggerated, dramatic way when she gets embarrassed because it makes her laugh

percy loves shopping and he drags hazel along all the time

as soon as september ends they are watching the nightmare before christmas non-stop until the end of the year

both hazel and percy swear a lot (get ur saint hazel headcanons outta here she used to get her mouth washed out with soap in school) and whenever they’re watching a movie together you can hear them down the hall just yelling “what the FUCK” “shisiIT SHIT shit”

whenever they’re hanging out they always end up tangled on top of each other with limbs all over the place in the most uncomfortable positions but they don’t even really realize they’re sitting/lying like that until someone comes in and is like “what the heck”

hazel takes percy to new orleans at some point and percy falls in love with the place

hazel goes to all of percy’s college swim meets to cheer him on

also to make fun of his speedo

the two of them have the worst resting bitch faces so whenever they’re together it looks like they’re about to beat you up

percy can’t dance for his life but hazel takes him out dancing anyway

percy takes hazel to see a broadway musical and hazel is in awe the entire time

percy has to shave his entire body for swimming and he goes to hazel like “thiS IS AWFUL HOW DO YOU DO IT” and she’s like “uh i don’t”

but she helps him figure it out and after a while percy’s like “damn my legs are silky smooth i’m gonna keep doing this even when the swim season ends” and when people are like “bro what” he’s like “excuse me i need to be as hydrodynamic as possible i am a son of poseidon this leg hair is bogging me down”

percy needs glasses but refuses to get them and ends up sitting there like “i can’t see what does that say” and “wait hang on what’s that” and hazel’s just like “please get glasses this is getting out of hand” and he’s like “no i can’t be a nerd like jason”

percy is just under 6’0 like he JUST missed it he’s 5’11” and like half an inch and hazel tortures him for it whenever he brings up her being 5’0