the ebb and flow of us together

"Alright," Pablo says, although David can tell that he's just dropping the subject. "Hey, did I tell you about how I saw my friend Asier the other day?"

"No."

"Oh. Well, he's not actually my friend," Pablo explains. "We just went to school together. But I saw him the other day—he wanted to be a therapist, but ended up taking a year off and never went back to school—and he's like, working at one of the souvenir shops now. I kind of feel bad for the guy."

"That sucks," David says. "Why doesn't he go back now?"

And Pablo answers him, rattles off some huge story that David doesn't pay attention to because he's just realized—that's going to be him. He's going to be Asier. He's going to stay in school and not go to J-Bay and for the rest of his life, he's going to regret it, and he's going to be so mad at himself because the only thing stopping him was an argument with his parents. That's it. And things could always be worse—he'll be a surgeon, he'll have money for food and a house—but he won't be happy because he could have been surfing all the time. And David realizes that Villa was right, and Mata was right, and Raul—Raul was right, and David has to go. He has to go to South Africa.

-from this fic, by luxover

All right, so the AU issue of cornerflag has been out for ages, where "ages" means "way back when classes were still going on", and everyone involved in the making of is awesome, though sadly that everyone doesn't include, well, me. And I'm only halfway through the entire thing, but that part up there? I kind of needed it right now.

the ebb and flow of us together

"Alright," Pablo says, although David can tell that he's just dropping the subject. "Hey, did I tell you about how I saw my friend Asier the other day?"

"No."

"Oh. Well, he's not actually my friend," Pablo explains. "We just went to school together. But I saw him the other day—he wanted to be a therapist, but ended up taking a year off and never went back to school—and he's like, working at one of the souvenir shops now. I kind of feel bad for the guy."

"That sucks," David says. "Why doesn't he go back now?"

And Pablo answers him, rattles off some huge story that David doesn't pay attention to because he's just realized—that's going to be him. He's going to be Asier. He's going to stay in school and not go to J-Bay and for the rest of his life, he's going to regret it, and he's going to be so mad at himself because the only thing stopping him was an argument with his parents. That's it. And things could always be worse—he'll be a surgeon, he'll have money for food and a house—but he won't be happy because he could have been surfing all the time. And David realizes that Villa was right, and Mata was right, and Raul—Raul was right, and David has to go. He has to go to South Africa.

-from this fic, by luxover

All right, so the AU issue of cornerflag has been out for ages, where "ages" means "way back when classes were still going on", and everyone involved in the making of is awesome, though sadly that everyone doesn't include, well, me. And I'm only halfway through the entire thing, but that part up there? I kind of needed it right now.