Kleinsen oneshot, 14k
"This-" Jared points between them, still looking through his bag, "we are not doing this. Please, Evan. We're catching up, like old high school friends, you know, on sitcoms. Where do you live? Are you still fucking that girl? Daaaamn, you have the wrong taste in grocery stores."
"Jared," Evan's saying, "Jared!"
"It's kind of funny, because we're picking up again, but we're also starting over," Jared's saying, still in this weird, false-earnest, mocking-a-sitcom voice.
"We weren't even friends in high school."
Jared and Evan run into each other after seven years of silence since the Connor Incident. They become... *checks notes* friends? They become friends.
A different death.
A different letter mishap.
A different relationship.
A different reason.
But the story is still there. What if Evan had talked to Zoe outside of Jazz Band?What if they started dating? What if Zoe had died? What if secrets get let out? What if someone gets hurt because of it?
What if's build up, as does pressure, for both the abandoned and the grieving.
They need support, and comfort. But to find it when the world is beginning to turn against them will be difficult.
!! Notes !!
These are the trigger warnings:
Suicide, self-harm, heck ton of cursing, a few slurs, jokes about death (probably), panic attacks, a lot of sobbing
I'll alternate POVs whenever I feel like it. Connor's view has the most angst and depression.
Chapter # = Evan
i's = Zoe
# = Connor
I do NOT own the cover art. Only the text on it- credit to Astrocitos on 8tracks.