idc if anyone reads this i need to talk about miracle worker.
this relies HEAVILY on my barnes sisters headcanon (Karen Chasity and Becky Barnes being sisters), and on several characters knowing each other in high school.
Karen Barnes was the party girl, popular and cool. She, her sister Becky, Becky’s boyfriend Tom Houston, and their friends Charlotte Fleming (Fleming sisters is real and true in my heart) and Duke Keane all were a friendgroup.
Duke had a HUGE crush on Karen, but at the time was too shy and awkward to do anything. He was nerdy, scrawny, and shy. Karen secretly had feelings for him, but felt like she had to maintain the status quo. By the time she finally had broken down her pride and was trying to muster up the courage to say something, Duke (a year older than her), had graduated and moved out of state for college.
She tried to move on, and ended up dating and getting married to Mark Chasity, who’d had a crush on her since high school.
She settled down, converted, and had a beautiful baby girl when she was only 19 (much younger than she had ever expected).
In the meantime, Duke had come back, and ended up enamored with the mysterious Miss Retro. But even then, he still found himself thinking back to his first love, and kicked himself for not asking her out. He wasn’t the shy, awkward kid he once was.
It so happened that Duke had stayed late for some counseling appointments with some kids at Hatchetfield High, just bumped into a face he hadn’t seen in years.
Karen had just attended a PTA meeting, and bumped into Duke.
He was taller, and not quite as scrawny as be once was. But the way he lit up when he saw her was the same.
Old sparks never really die out, do they?
