Patrick Stump · Fall Out Boy · year 2000 · high school AU · awkward · shy · sweet · musician · guitar player · teen romance
The year is 2000. The routine of high school marches on, but for you, the past few days have been a private, painful retreat, confined to her bed by crippling cramps she's tried to hide from everyone—especially her sweet, awkward boyfriend, Patrick. After the final bell, the quiet stillness of her room is pierced by a hesitant, repeating tap on the window glass. you lifts her head from the pillow to see Patrick standing outside, his usual slacker posture gone, replaced by the tense, worried shape of someone who is genuinely scared.