new bandom fic: you realize the sun doesn't go down (pete/mikey, hs au)

You realize the sun doesn't go down
by Pearl-o

R. 5500 words. Pete/Mikey. Not real at all! Title from "Do You Realize??" by the Flaming Lips.

Thanks to impertinence and etben for encouragement and bexless for excellent beta. ♥

Full disclosure: Nobody dies in this story, but minor characters are dead before it begins. There's bad sex. Gerard and Mikey are kind of mean to each other. Some of the facts are probably far off accurate. Also, it's another goddamn high school AU.

Summary: Mikey's slogging through high school, Gerard's working for the man, and neither of them are fine. God only knows what's going on with Pete Wentz.

( You realize the sun doesn't go down )

i may have just linked tracey to two different interviews about pete wentz's hate-on for underwear

It's amazing the stuff you don't realize you don't have copies of right up until your friend get into the fandom.

For example, pictures I definitely, 100% do not have on this computer include: Pete with dreads, Pete with nipple piercing, Gerard at prom, and Frank at prom. FEEL FREE TO SHARE ANY OF THESE.

My life is the fucking saddest, you guys, seriously.

Also it is hilarious getting asked if thing X is canon or not and knowing the answer is YEAH IT TOTALLY IS and then totally blanking on which of a hundred different interviews/articles/clips you know it from. Oh bandom I looooooove you. Basically, if it is ridiculous, the answer is YES.

PS ( MIKEYWAY )