The ones I’ll never write #6
I’m deep cleaning my house to move, packing for vacation and have eleventy million things to do at work…. So naturally my brain is like remember that college AU you read last week… yeah so we need to imagine scenes for our own one you’ll never write!
So Shane is at college, on the hockey team … of course. He’s roommates with Marleau.
Ilya transfers in mid year, settles into the team, friend group etc. It’s one of those dorms with a shared common room and then rooms going off it so it’s Marleau and Shane, Ilya and Hayden… yeah that goes about as well you expect….
Ilya pretty much establishes his fuck boy with a heart of gold reputation straight away, lit’s a different sock on the door every night if you catch my drift. Guys, girls, on their own, in groups, it’s an open door policy basically, but you only get through the door once.
Shane is out and proud in this one, everyone is who they want to be. Still has his kind of shy, reserved persona but he can bite and he will if he wants to.
He’s dating someone and eventually he gets dumped. He’s sad etc…. Cue chilling in the living room.
Shane, sad but dealing with it “he was happy dating me he just didn’t want anyone to know about it.”
Marleau “dude that’s fucked up, you’re better off without him Hollander, we’ll find you a nice guy.”
“You?” Shane laughs, “you don’t know any nice guys.”
Marly and Ilya in mock offence point at each other and laugh.
“Seriously guys, I’m fine. Just let me wallow for a few hours and I’ll be all good in the morning.”
Ilya is looking at Shane intensely, they’ve been getting to know each other etc, are friends.
“It’s his loss Hollander, guy is an idiot. Anyone that would keep you a secret doesn’t deserve you anyway.”
It’s uncharacteristically heartfelt, Shane just swallows hard and doesn’t know what to do. Excuses himself to the bathroom, Marly is looking at Ilya with a furrowed brow.
“What?” Ilya asks, kind of playing dumb but he also kind of knows.
“Roz, you’re a great guy and I love you, but how do I put this nicely…. You’re a fuckboy.”
“Wow Marly I’m glad you were being nice you might hurt my feelings.”
“Seriously…. You fuck around, it’s casual, that’s your thing and no judgement man, you do you. But Shane doesn’t do that ok…. Don’t fuck with him.”
Ilya starts to cut him off with a protest….
“We can all see that you like him dude, but just….., if you do this you have to do it for real …. Can you do that?”
“Exactly, I’m not putting Shane off limits or anything, he’s a grown up and it’s not my place but just…. Don’t fuck around.”
So naturally…. He fucks around and he finds out…..
They end up hooking up, Ilya thinks by saying upfront to Shane that this is casual, I don’t wanna be your boyfriend, it’s just if we’re free and nobody gets a better option that night… you know a backup plan… that that means he’s not fucking around because they’re on the same page…..
And for a long time, they are… but then feelings happen….on both sides. Neither one says anything because Ilya is terrified and Shane knows if he does that it’s over because Ilya only wants casual so he’ll take what he can get.
Then of course it will all hit the fan. They’re cuddled up in bed in Ilya’s room, Hayden spends half his time with Jackie who lives off campus and has her own room. They’re just making out and watching tv, being cute.
Marly knocks Ilyas door and when he opens it, Marly looks like he’s about ready to murder Ilya.
Marly just gestures to the sofa where a girl is sitting, waiting clearly having been invited over to hook up. Ilya totally forgot… or maybe not I’ve not decided.
Shane won’t look at Ilya when he realises, just goes to his room. This isn’t new, it’s the agreement they have, but it’s not usually so in his face.
“Hollander…. Hollander.” Ilya is internally freaking out, this is the arrangement right, he knows he’s fucked up though, maybe he even did it on purpose for some Self sabotage because he knows things are getting out of his depth, but he didn’t expect to feel this shitty when he did it. Shane just ignores him, until. “Shane ….”
Shane cuts him off and is like, “no I get it, it’s fine, we agreed, I’m just a back up plan….” Ilya feels sick when he hears Shane say it like that again.
Then Shane sees the girl on the couch from the corner of his eye and he’s pissed again.
“Just do me a favour and atleast let the bed get cold next time.”
He slams his door and doesn’t come back out. Marly just shakes his head and joins Shane in their room.
The girl is like. “I think maybe I should go?”
“I get it, but why did you arrange to meet me if you’re dating someone…”
“I’m not…we’re not… it’s just casual…. It’s not.”
She looks him up and down and how heartbroken he clearly is. “Sure…”
Then avoidance, angst, fighting, make up, happy ending!
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