*Book 2 of 3*
Ashley Harold demands answers. It has been a little over a year since Y/n Astley, Catherine Slater, One Direction, and 5 Seconds of Summer defeated Jaloshin Bungebob. Catherine, who is Ashley's best friend, still hasn't told her what happened. It is now February of 2023, which is Ashley, Catherine, Mack, and y/n's senior year of high school. The bands were just beginning to heal from the events of the year and the tragic loss of their friend, Antouis, when S*mon Cowell uproots their lives and sends them back to high school to attend Degrassi Community School, to Ashley's delight. While the bands are adjusting to the new climate with the help of Catherine, y/n, and Mack, Ashley's life is also forever changed when she discovers her true roots: she is not American, and she has a half-brother who just so happens to be one of the members of 5SOS. The gang tries to process this information and deal with Ashley's persistent fangirling when they discover that Conrad Cowell, S*mon's ratty evil son, is trying to bring Jaloshin back from Ultimate Custom Night with the help of Bartholomew Bath. Despite Ashley's miserable, insufferable personality, One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, y/n, and Catherine are forced to help her after they deduce that her life is being threatened by Jaloshin himself, who wants to deport her for being a fake American and take revenge on everyone who had wronged him the year before. Can they prevent Jaloshin's return and save Ashley?
Made by two friends who may or may not have been writing this joke taken sort of seriously for three years that the New York Times called "Gloriously Odd" (not actually, don't sue us).
// A W2S Fanfic //
If it is true that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results", then Alex had been living in insanity her whole life.
Alex feels like she as been going through the motions for way too long. Like she had been stuck living as a supporting character in someone else's story-- often playing roles like the less attractive friend, the older hardly-present sister, the annoying younger sister, the girl you go out with before you meet the love of your life. Feeling like an extra in your own life is not fun, but she realized that there is only one constant in her predicament and it was her.
If anything was going to change for her, she would have to change. So she made a resolution: to do the things she won't normally do.
It was when she started on this quest to push herself to do things she normally wouldn't that she meets Harry. An awkward chance encounter that quickly grew into an undeniable attraction. And Harry, with his outrageous stunts and youtube popularity, that something Alex would've never thought she'd go for.
Best Rankings:
#1 wroetoshaw - 10 Sept 2021
#3 w2s - 7 Oct 2021
#2 sdmn - 4 Jun 2022
#1 sidemen - 11 Jun 2022
Official Playlist for Things We Don't Normally Do:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Cpvm1BF7VOr9MKMENF5Z6?si=NXxapirgSFyWuOIAsYUGAQ noypi