Really sad to hear the passing of Angus. He gave us a character we all came to love and cheer for. Truly sad to hear the news. Wishing his family and friends my condolences
I randomly got covid so it wasn't the flu and sadly something terrible has happened within my family - so I'll be M.I.A for a while -updating stories, ranting etc while I just take some time for myself
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Summary:
Fezco has to go to a parent/guardian meeting at Ash’s school, and he really doesn’t want to. Ash has had some problems with fights but does well in his classes.
But then Fez meets Ash’s English teacher, Miss Lexi Howard and….well being dragged into school doesn’t seem like a bad thing anymore.
Funny when you think how Ashtray, A CHILD, is on discord chatting to people probably about goods etc and keeping an eye on stocks. When Fez, an older teen, is sat on the sofa watching Stand By Me, laughing, crying, and fucking singing.
They spoke every single day.
Every. Single. Fucking. Day.
About anything.
Fezco would call up Lexi to talk and she would do the same.
Laughing, smiling, sharing personal stuff.
They consoled one another.
One night Cassie didn’t come home.
Lexi felt bad that she started to not even worry about her sister.
To tell the truth, she didn’t feel like her sister anymore…
Lexi missed the old Cassie.
And Fezco was always there for her to talk to.
He would sometimes just close his eyes and lay back, listening to her voice.
He could listen to her forever.
And she would do the same.
As if they were meant to be there for each other.
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Lexi laughed as she sat on her bed, knees up with a book faced down on her legs. Long forgotten as soon as she saw her screen light up with Fezco’s name.
“So what book was you readin’?” He asked.
Lexi actually forgot the item was still in her lap and blinked down at the book and then smiled.
“Oh! Erm…it’s just a collection of short stories from various writers.”
She looked at the cover and closed the book, putting it at the end of the bed and moved back to leaning against the headboard.
“You really are smart you know that?”
Lexi felt her cheeks burn. He would always do this. Compliment her, and she wasn’t used to it but the feeling she got was intoxicating.
“Fezco, I just read-“
“Nah, I remember when I first met you. And I thought, ‘damn.’ Especially when you started to come by more with Rue and hang out more. The shit you would say would just blow my mind shawty.”
Lexi smiled and bit let lip to hearing her nick-name. He started saying it a week ago and she loved it.
“You remember that?”
She heard and huffed laugh come through.
“Course I do. How can I not? Ya kno?”
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Lexi thought back to that day.
Rue has asked her to hang out and of course she obliged. Rue told her they would just walk around, here and there and maybe get some food and watch a movie.
Sounded grand to Lexi.
“Can we stop by here? Get some things for…you know later and stuff?” Rue asked and shrugged a shoulder, narrowing her eyes from the bright sun, trying to see Lexi in the daylight.
Lexi nodded and walked towards the store. “Yeah sure.”
Her eyes went to the ice cream freezer and a drinks cooler that was outside.
“Hey, you want an ice cream?” She asked.
Rue was more focused on getting inside and talking to the dude she was told about but she didn’t want to go alone and thought well if Lexi did see anything she wouldn’t say anything.
She quickly looked at Lexi and let out a, “yeah, sure, yeah.”
And went into the store.
Lexi was looking over the freezer and cooler, wondering what to get.She opened and closed the door after struggling to open it for a bit and then looked up through the window right in front of her.And there he was.
She saw Fezco talking to Rue but only saw him properly when he stood up and opened the freezer door.
She was just staring at them wondering what Rue was doing until he leaned in as if being handed something and then handed it to Rue quickly.
Fezco said something to Rue and motioned his head to Lexi as he was looking at her. She quickly looked away from his stare and walked into the store to buy the ice cream she grabbed.
She walked in with an awkward smile and lifted her hand with the ice cream.
“I grabbed us these.”
Fezco looked up and down at her and he nodded his head.
“Good choice.”
Lexi looked at him and smiled.
“Lexi this is Fezco. Fezco this is Lexi.” Rue introduced them and shifted awkwardly as if she felt a little awkward.
Little did Lexi know why at the time.
“Lexi Howard.” Lexi pushed her hand forward and then cringed at herself.
“Sorry, I don’t know why I did that.”
Fezco let out a laugh and shrugged one shoulder.
“Nah, you got manners and shit. S’all good.” He went to shake her hand but was too slow as she brought her hand up to hide her embarrassment briefly.
“Do we need anything else Rue?” She asked her friend who stood there watching them. She shook her head, hiding her smile.
Lexi walked closer to the counter to pay until Fezco lifted a hand.
“Nah, you good. My treat.” He let out.
Lexi smiled and lifted her brows.
“Oh… thank you! …you-you sure?”
He nodded and grabbed a neatly rolled joint that was hidden behind his ear that she didn’t see. “Ye.”
Was all he replied and he shyly looked away.
“Anytime you guys wonna’ drop by, feel free, kay?”
Rue smiled to this and told him she would.
Lexi just smiled and nodded her head and looked away from the glances he was giving her.
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“Luckily you liked those ice creams….’cause it got you to keep comin’ back.” Fez laughed.
Lexi looked at the phone in her hands. “It wasn’t the ice cream.”
She swore she heard him chuckle out “aw shit”
“Well…for Rue it was something else….” Lexi’s voice went sad at the thought of her friend. Rue’d sudden loss of her dad and turning to anything to take her away from the pain she was feeling. To feel anything other than the pain or nothing at all seemed to be her goal most of all. She just wanted to see her dad again.
And so did Lexi.
And that was probably why she didn’t tell anyone about Rue. She was also missing her dad. But her circumstance was way different to Rue’s. Her dad was gone forever, no way to get in touch, or just the thought he was still around.
Lexi’s dad disappeared, yeah he wasn’t around but the thought that he was still breathing, that she knew of, was one of comfort compared to the thought of her dad no longer even existing.
“You….you know I was always hopin’ you would come back with her to the store ya’ kno?” His voice sounded so soft and quiet.
Her stomach felt like it dropped to hearing that, but in a good way. “Really?”
“Ye. Every time Rue would show up…I….I’d be like lookin’ for you. Times when you wasn’t there, damn Lexi I’d be so hurt.” He laughed at the end which made her laugh too.
He really liked her from the first time they met.
“Remember when I tried weed?” Lexi randomly let out. The memory was burned into her brain.
She cringed thinking about it. She though why the hell not when Rue suggested it.
They headed to Fezco’s house one day, but just sat in the living room. Not seeing the rest of the house, not that she can remember that really other than waking up to Fezco and Rue laughing, calling her Bobby and saying there was a fire.
She didn’t know Rue drew a beard on her face until she got home and Cassie said, “Nice new look.”
Fez giggled down the phone.
“Yeah, I was worried about you tryin’ it. Didn’t want you to feel like you had to…”
“…..I dressed up as Bob Ross for Halloween because of that day.” She confessed.
She couldn’t tell because she obviously couldn’t see him. But Fez was grinning widely now.
He knew she did, and he saw her at the party when he arrived dressed as Tony Montana.
He saw Rue and Lexi sat on the sofa at the party and went to go over and join them until some guy grabbed his elbow and asked him for some pills.
He glanced back over to them before turning his back to make the deal, but by the time he turned around he saw Rue and Lexi both stand and make their way over to the other side of the room to another sofa, watching Rue bend down and talk to some young kid and girl sat down.
Fez thought he best just find a place to chill since he just came here to deal and relax, choosing to go sit outside near the pool with less people. He took one more glance of Lexi stood there, blue shirt, fitted jeans, that wig on her head and he smiled to himself before heading outside.
“I saw you. I wanted to come say ‘hi’ but….you guys were busy and I had some shit to deal with. But I’m sorry I didn’t get to tell you how cool your costume was Lexi.”
She was blushing again. “Thanks”
She wanted to tell him she saw him too. She spotted him in his suit, the white substance over the front of it resembling Tony from Scarface. She wanted to go up and tell him he looked great and she liked that movie too.
She wanted to tell him she liked him all those years ago.
But she was just happy they were able to reconnect and feel as if they’d been talking every day since he looked at her through the window.
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