millie’s long list of malex fics | Here With Me by Shenanigans
Alex Manes was practical under the eyeliner and septum piercing. He had two very simple rules: 1. get out of Roswell as soon as he graduated and 2. don’t fall for straight boys. The first was going to be fairly simple. He’d saved enough cash to buy a car. He could drive to LA and live on his Mom’s couch out there. He could just crash for a little while; he was sure. All he’d have to do is get there. He could knock on the door and she would have to smile and let him in. She would have to because that’s what Moms did.
The second?
He watched Isobel Evans’ steal one of Michael Guerin’s fries from where they were sitting shoulder to shoulder on his tailgate. He watched her laugh, wrinkling her nose at him as he held them out of reach and before pressing against him to take another.
That was going to be harder.
Known as “ the ongoing saga of people think Michael and Isobel are dating”.
comment: ooh the pining is so good in this one. talk about that mutual pining!! to be fair, this is 9k of pre-malex, but i think it should be required reading because the idea that everything thinks michael and isobel are dating is so legit it blows my mind. this fic does an amazing job of exploring that dynamic. it’s also chock full of scenes of michael and alex just... being aware of each other. watching each other. thinking about each other. some of the lines are dripping with that mutual pining shit that gets us all so hyped and rereading it, sometimes i really do feel like my brain’s gonna burst with how good it is.
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