Fic based off this prompt: "The prince is forced to meet a bunch of girls to find one to marry and he gets bored and flees to the kitchen to meet a serving boy his own age and they start hanging out and fall in love PLZ"

He couldn't explain it, couldn't tell anyone that it was so achingly familiar, somehow.

Patrochilles AU Patroclus and Achilles were best friends as children, but when they got to high school they drifted apart. Achilles made lots of new friends, while Patroclus is the loner, with Greek foreign exchange student Briseis as his only friend. Now Achilles needs his help, but, afraid of getting hurt again, Patroclus is reluctant to let him back into his life.