In the Village of Near Misses

[resonant]

So my lovable puppylike ninth-grade boyfriend just got in touch on Facebook. He's living on a farm some miles outside our hometown, and his only neighbor is ... my pharmaceutically enhanced yet endearingly goofy twelfth-grade boyfriend.

If they could get Wonder If He Knows He's Gay Yet and Epic Love, Epic Daddy Issues out there, it would be a whole little colony of my teenage mistakes.

The spouse once said to me, "I don't know why your parents are always so nice to me," and I said, "That's because you haven't met the boys that I could have ended up with."

Comments

[kinetikatrue]

... is it wrong that my first thought was 'that's the set-up for a fic, right there'?

[china_shop]

Me too! Hee!

[resonant]

Um. I'm a little frightened to discover that I can now imagine a High School AU of my own life.

[kinetikatrue]

I admit I was seeing futurefic involving previously teenaged characters (see: most Breakfast Club fic, for instance) rather than a stright-up HS AU, but I totally read and love either.

(Alternately, you've got yourself an 'original' novel. *g*)