Here is part 4 of the High School AU, with many thanks to @andrewminyarrr for cleaning up after my literary bad habits!
Warnings for underage drinking and two very brief references to Drake and a previous foster family of Andrew’s.
Part One / Part Two / Part Three
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A month into their deal and Andrew still doesn’t know where Neil
Josten goes after they say goodbye on the corner of Andrew’s street.
Tag: high school au
Could you elaborate on their first kiss (if ur not gonna write it in a different post?)
tbh, this ask is psychic. i was actually going to do it on a text post but like, i barely had enough time to do b&r, much less that. so like, you’re a fucking lifesaver, anon.
- at this point, neil hatford has changed about pretty much all of andrew’s rules apart from the jock thing. neil has made andrew:
- bring someone home for something other than a group project
- eat someone else’s cooking (not after the incident in first year)
have a crush on a jock- andrew’s reputation around the school counts for him being in the gsa (people think he’s there to mooch up on renee), having hospitalized that dude at the freshman mixer (which was actually aaron’s doing), taking unknown medication in the middle of the day (pain meds because he doesn’t wear his hearing aids to school), and being the MVP of the debate team (him and aaron are a roasting in a package deal, okay)
- in all the weeks that came after andrew’s realization of his crush, neil has:
- improved his grades
- been to at least two of the debate team’s events
- invited andrew to all of his games (”what makes you think i want to go there” “well it wouldn’t hurt to ask, wouldn’t it? it’s not like we have anything apart from tutoring on fridays”)
- stayed over to keep andrew company on more than one weekday (which only renee used to do)
- once, neil even barged into a debate meeting to have a silent freak out about his A- on biology while andrew just looked on not-fondly
- aaron: that is bull
- andrew: shut up, your girlfriend makes you look stupider than this
- aaron: you may not know this but you just played yourself
- andrew’s pretty much screwed the pooch, especially with how he gives neil Special Treatment, or so aaron calls it.
Maybe something about Andrew’s deaf ear
okay, now that the issue of The Ginger Peach Thief is out of the way, sj is now assured that y’all are ready for some Serious Shit. before everything, i would just like to give @still-waiting-for-godot a big s/o for this because really, this was what got pre-nicky talks going on.
- here’s a list of facts:
- andrew joseph minyard has been deaf in one ear since he was thirteen. aaron michael minyard has bad eyesight due to blunt force trauma to the head since he was thirteen.
- according to the police reports, phil higgins, foster parent, and andrew doe, foster child, were out on a drive for the day when a car side-swiped them, passenger-side to driver-side.
- according to the accounts from aaron minyard, he and tilda minyard were on the way home from a doctor’s appointment.
- the medics found bruising on aaron that were there prior to the event, along with tilda’s dead body. andrew doe was found unconscious with multiple fractures to his right side and a concussion that cost him the hearing on his left side. phil higgins was the only person who got out of the wreckage, in shock and conscious.
- the police found prescription drugs inside the minyards’ car, in a bag sitting safe between the driver’s and passenger’s seats for an illness neither minyard had. there was also a smashed bottle of whiskey in the back that had almost cost aaron more than his 20/20 vision, had the authorities arrived later than they did.
- with that, phil higgins was left with two identical twins and no idea about if aaron had any relatives left to care for him. higgins used to work for social services, but even he didn’t know what to do with this whole mess.
Just write me some andreil my man on that hs au pls
i am assuming all of these consecutive messages came from the same person and honestly, as someone who has nothing better or productive to do in her time, i agree
apologies in advance but, the story behind andrew’s deaf ear will have to come at a later date. like the andreil. this one’s just pure comedy. i’m sorry to disappoint
- that weekend, neil comes into the minyard-hemmick household a man and comes out a slightly more knowledgeable man who has a penchant for peach thievery
- let’s look at the facts:
- he’s running a little late bc he had to give kevin a tongue-lashing for forgetting to take out the trash when trash day was yesterday, twllt din
- focal leat
- oh, real mature, kevin
- anyway, neil got the text of the address about half an hour ago and he kind of maybe got lost on the way because damn, the american suburbs and their stupid cul-de-sacs and nice parts of town
- when he gets to the minyard-hemmick residence, everything is prosperous, and andrew actually opens the door on the first knock
- hey, people wait on knocks all the time. expecting guests is very hard.
- they’re as civil as they could get.
- neil apologizes for being late and asks if he could come in
- andrew leaves the door open and stomps down the hall
- neil tries not to be a little against not leaving his shoes out by the doorway, but he has to Appear Normal
MORE HS AU!! (Ily)
SJ IS HERE, SAM IS SLEP, SO PREPARE FOR SHAKY POST-CAFFEINE INTAKE WRITING
- here’s the thing with andrew tutoring neil on weekdays: neil doesn’t actually tell him that he’s always fresh from practice when he pops into the library for tutoring
- like, it’s not like it ever came up in conversation. andrew was too busy looking to see how to improve neil’s grades, bc if he’s gonna charge a cute guy $10 per hour, he sure as fuck gotta have to step up his game.
- the trick to neil is: he’s not stupid.
- in the span of three tutoring days, andrew finds out that neil knows about five languages so well he sounds like he’s local all of them. he also finds out that neil does not need help in other subjects and neil actually lets him know
- neil: the maths teacher teaches like he needs everyone to know how smart he is. literally all i do in that class is sleep
- andrew: you’re telling me this like i care
- neil: no, andrew, listen, he thinks i don’t listen. i’ve never failed a quiz in math since i was nine.
- andrew: good to know. not another thing you’ll be paying me extra hours for. the faster we finish the better.
- neil:
- andrew: don’t stall. the gall bladder. endocrine system. focus, hatford
HS AU
and how everything revolves around our soft boys, Andrew and Neil
before this begins: neil is not a josten, but a hatford. this is set in a remote town in california, and andrew has pink hair because he wanted renee to test it on him
(part two)
- andrew joseph minyard, for all intents and purposes, does not want to associate himself with Anyone, if he could help it.
- he does his group projects so efficiently, his classmates deem him the lifeguard to all group projects
- he avoids having to sit in lunch with anyone save for renee and aaron, if he can
- he’s always on the rush to get home because he can’t take just using pain meds to get rid of the horrible, horrible feeling of disorientation
- he also has this long-standing dislike of jocks bolstered by either of 3 things: a) he’s a natural genius, b) he’s gay, and c) aaron had to assault one for getting andrew roofied at the freshman mixer.
- ENTER: neil abram hatford
- neil and kevin are new to The States. being friends since neil was eight (when kayleigh finally settled down from bumming around in ireland), kevin and neil were basically stuck to the hip.
- they transferred to the US when kevin finally landed himself an exchange program in california, neil because he could, kevin because of his dad, and both because they were tired of the ravens at their old boarding school
- as soon as the school year starts, both of our lovable idiots join the soccer team (sorry, no exy 😦 ). they take the same spanish class, the same history class, and even have the same lunch blocks. so basically, they do everything they did back in the UK
- so technically second year debate team genius Andrew Minyard shouldn’t actually care about first year exchange student and jock Neil Hatford
- here’s the kicker
Nothing but My Aching Soul 