a collaborative au by @reindeereddie and @swiftiediaz
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summary: Evan Buckley is failing all his classes and he needs a tutor if he doesn't want to drop out of college all together. Eddie Diaz ends up being the one who helps him. And Buck really wants to hate him. God, does he really want to hate him.
But then, Eddie ends up actually being kind of a nice guy.
And Evan may or may not be falling stupidly in love with him.
Or;
A college AU in which Buck and Eddie find something more than just classmates in each other.
Chapter One
Evan
Evan Buckley took a deep breath, in through his nose, out through his mouth. Just like that stupid therapist he was seeing last year had told him to do. It didn’t work, just as he had expected. He shook his head and looked up at the grand building that sat in front of him, the yellowing of the exterior somehow seeming bleaker than it did last year. It put a pang in his chest that, once again, he had to walk through those doors he hated and take classes he knew he was failing and be surrounded by people that he despised.
Stupid For You - A Buddie College AU (chapter one sneak peak)
Written by @eddiesbuckaroo and @vampirebuck
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“Uh, Evan, what do you think?”
At his name, Evan perked his head up and looked toward the front for the teacher. But his attention wasn’t focused on Evan at all. His gaze was directed toward his computer. Evan closed his eyes for a moment and tried to recall the question, but nothing was coming up.
Another sigh.
“Sorry, sir,” he began. “Could you repeat that?”
“Not you, Evan. I’m talking to Evan,” the teacher replied with a point to the new Evan, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Well that’s definitely not going to be confusing,” Evan said sarcastically as he looked over to the new Evan, a look of equal confusion plastered over his face.
“And what do you suggest we do about it, Mr Buckley?” The teacher said, his tone full of something like impatience and frustration at the fact that Evan had even said anything. Like Evan wasn’t a 21-year-old grown adult who couldn’t speak for himself.
“What if we call him,” Eddie Diaz spoke up, pointing to Evan, “Buck? Like Buckley? And we can just call new Evan, Evan?”
“Yes, fine, whatever,” the teacher said shortly. “I guess I’m happy with that.”
Evan wasn’t happy at all. Buck? What kind of a name was Buck? It made him sound like he was about to go out to feed the pigs and shovel some hay right before jumping in his tractor and driving it to the supermarket. It definitely didn’t sound like the name of a business major.
Evan was more than not happy at all. He was furious. All he was to these people was a joke. The guy who always sat at the back of the class, who requested to do group projects alone and never had any friends to eat lunch with and got his mummy and daddy to pay extra for a room all to himself, if only to isolate him further.
By the end of class, Evan was fuming. He couldn’t even look at Eddie Diaz without wanting to throw his textbook at his head. He couldn’t focus on getting any work done, and so his document sat with jumbled words and letters left hanging in the air as they waited to be completed. And as soon as it hit 9:30 and the teacher had dismissed them, Evan stood up abruptly from his chair. He shoved his laptop and his textbook into his backpack and stormed out of the classroom. He heard people in the classroom laughing as he left, and though he knew the laughs probably weren’t directed at him, he simply let them and their joy fuel his anger.
a collaborative au by @reindeereddie and @swiftiediaz
read chapter 4 on ao3!
words: 15.4k
summary: Evan Buckley is failing all his classes and he needs a tutor if he doesn't want to drop out of college all together. Eddie Diaz ends up being the one who helps him. And Buck really wants to hate him. God, does he really want to hate him.
But then, Eddie ends up actually being kind of a nice guy.
And Evan may or may not be falling stupidly in love with him.
Or;
A college AU in which Buck and Eddie find something more than just classmates in each other.
Chapter Four
Eddie
Eddie rushed around his house, narrowly avoiding the toys and crutches and piles of laundry that had been sitting around all week. He had his backpack unzipped and clutched tightly in his hand as he raced from room to room, his eye’s quickly scanning the floors and surfaces and letting out sighs as he moved on to the next room.
He was going to be late. He could feel it. And, of course, that gave Buck every bit of ammunition he needed to tease and make fun of Eddie. He could already hear little quips like “I thought Eddie Diaz was never late to anything”, or “could it be that Mr Perfect isn’t so perfect after all?” escaping his lips. And he would raise those lips into that familiar smirk, and his eyes would sparkle with that glint of arrogance and anger towards Eddie. No doubt it would make Eddie weak at the knees and cause a flurry of butterflies in his stomach that he would have to spend the rest of the night trying to push down. Much like every other feeling toward Evan Buckley he had ever suppressed.
a collaborative au by @eddiesbuckaroo and @swiftiediaz
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read chapter 5 on ao3!
words: 19.3k
summary: Evan Buckley is failing all his classes and he needs a tutor if he doesn't want to drop out of college all together. Eddie Diaz ends up being the one who helps him. And Buck really wants to hate him. God, does he really want to hate him.
But then, Eddie ends up actually being kind of a nice guy.
And Evan may or may not be falling stupidly in love with him.
Or;
A college AU in which Buck and Eddie find something more than just classmates in each other.
Chapter Five
Evan
Evan ran his free hand through his hair in frustration, a heavy and exhausted sigh leaving his lips. As he snatched up the phone that was lying in his lap, a strong wave of the dreadful scent of the hospital he was lying in filled his nostrils and caused his nose to scrunch up. Trying to put off the call he knew he had to make, Evan decided to really take in the room around him. Three other spaces for patients were spread into the corners of the room, the beds all filled with other mildly injured people much like Evan. Each section of the room was closed off, the pale blue curtains that hung from the ceiling were pulled around, acting as if that would give the patients any kind of privacy at all. Evan wanted nothing more than to stand up and pull his own curtain around him, not prepared whatsoever for the conversation he knew he had to endure. The machine’s around him beeped and the blanket over his legs itched at the exposed skin through his torn jeans, but he tried his very best to swallow all of that down as he stared at the phone in his hand. He knew what he had to do. He just hated that he had to do it.
so i’m writing chapter 4 of the college au and i thought i was aiming for just over 4k a chapter but uh all the other chapters are just over 3k and now i’m worried chapter 4 is gonna be over 5k and the total wordcount is already almost 14k this fic is going to be so big omfg
