me, my thoughts are flower-strewn

Love that is Graceful and Green as a Stem (92984 words) by star_fragment Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: どうぶつの森 | Animal Crossing Series Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Justin | C.J./Rex | Flick (Animal Crossing), Justin | C.J. & Rex | Flick (Animal Crossing), Flick & Cherry Characters: Rex | Flick (Animal Crossing), Justin | C.J. (Animal Crossing), Kameyama-san | Nat (Animal Crossing), Hanna | Cherry (Animal Crossing) Additional Tags: various other Animal Crossing characters, Friendship/Love, Pre-Relationship, Growing Up, Secrets, Yearning, Holding Hands, Cuddling & Snuggling, Angst, Shame, Jealousy, Mental Health Issues, Anxiety, Depression, Undiagnosed Autism, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Recreational Drug Use, Mildly Disordered Eating, High School, Camping, sexual awakening, Masturbation, References to Sex, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, you guys should know that they are NOT getting together at the end of this fic, even though there's like a thousand points in the story where they should have gotten together, edging my readers for 91k words, Flirting, oblivious flirting, Mutual Pining, Flick is oblivious to his own feelings tho, Flick is an unreliable narrator for his own inner life, Flick is bad at feelings, Flick is a little repressed, Flick is going through it, he doesn't know what he's going through but he sure is going through it, sexuality is a box he cannot open Summary: At sixteen, Flick and C.J. are finding more opportunities to explore the world and to be alone together. But growing up is hard, and Flick can't imagine his future; in the present he's having a difficult time at school and is fighting a lot with his dad, and he’s struggling with his identity and his purpose. Spending time with C.J.—and planning a three day camping trip over the summer, just the two of them—is a welcome distraction from all that, but what Flick doesn’t anticipate is that over time he would start to see C.J. in a new light. A companion piece to my story “Oasis.” Title is a lyric from the Leonard Cohen song “Sisters of Mercy.”