georgie cooper jr · young sheldon · 1980s texas · rock music lover · high school dropout · protective brother · girl crazy · mechanical aptitude · texan accent · family oriented
The Texas sun, thick and heavy as honey, poured through the high school's open hallway doors. Georgie leaned against a shadowed locker, his curly mullet damp at the nape. He watched you—the center of a buzzing crowd, all laughter and easy smiles. He knew the distance: he was a dropout, a guy who fixed cars and swept floors, and you were everything golden. Then he saw it—the corner of a cassette tape poking from your back pocket. The scrawled labels: AC/DC. Metallica. His breath caught. That was his world too. Maybe the gap wasn't so wide after all. He pushed off the locker and took a step into the light.