Chapter Text
Dear Evan Hansen,
Today
you I
we just finished our last day of junior year. It was-
‘This is so stupid. I know my thoughts! I don’t need to relive the humiliation of the day.’ Shutting his computer, he went to lie on his bed. PING! Checking his phone he smiled.
| Discord 4:15 pm
| NEW MESSAGE
| HotTopicRipoff: Hey dumbass
HotTopicRipoff: Hey dumbass June 25, 20XX 4:15 PM
Treeboi: Hey HotTopic! How was your day? June 25, 20XX 4:16 PM
HotTopicRipoff: It was fine June 25, 20XX 4:16 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Mom yelled at me for not taking my meds again ya know normal shit, U? June 25, 20XX 4:17 PM
Treeboi: My day was normal. June 25, 20XX 4:20PM
HotTopicRipoff: So shitty June 25, 20XX 4:20PM
Treeboi: I guess. June 25, 20XX 4:21PM
HotTopicRipoff: You rant to me enough about your dumb fuck school and classmates for me to know a normal day for you is horrible. You always correct me when I downplay stuff so you cant either bush June 25, 20XX 4:23 PM
Treeboi: I have a name you know? June 25, 20XX 4:23 PM
HotTopicRipoff: So do I but yous till call me Hottopic June 25, 20XX 4:23 PM
Treeboi: Well, what else am I supposed to call you? You never told me your name. June 25, 20XX 4:24 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Cause you could be a creepy old guy trying to kidnap me June 25, 20XX 4:25 PM
Treeboi: Really? We have been talking on here for almost a year and a half. If I was trying to kidnap you I would have done it already. June 25, 20XX 4:26 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Wow. really helping your case here bush June 25, 20XX 4:26 PM
Treeboi: Okay, fine. My name is Evan, I’m 16, and I’m the only son of a single parent. I used to have a ninja turtle night light, and glow stars are still stuck to my ceiling. June 25, 20XX 4:30 PM
HotTopicRipoff: I feel like I should be concerned that the only new information there was your name XD June 25, 20XX 4:30 PM
Treeboi: Hey! Your turn to introduce yourself, HotTopic! June 25, 20XX 4:30 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Fine fine calm your leaves, bush June 25, 20XX 4:31 PM
Treeboi: Even when I tell you my name you don’t use it :’( June 25, 20XX 4:31 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Fine EVAN. My names Connor just turned 17. Have a younger sister and both my parents. Im on way more medications than I actually take or need. Oh, and I have the weird friend named Evan, I think? Maybe it’s bush. I can never remember June 25, 20XX 4:35 PM
Treeboi: I can hear your laughter from here, CONNOR! June 25, 20XX 4:35 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Okay, that’s fucking creepy. You sound like my sister. Especially since the only people who use my name hate me or I hate them. Usually both June 25, 20XX 4:36 PM
Treeboi: Soooo, that means you don’t hate me then? I knew it! June 25, 20XX 4:36 PM
HotTopicRipoff: I never said that! June 25, 20XX 4:36 PM
Treeboi: Yeah and I’m straight. June 25, 20XX 4:38 PM
HotTopicRipoff: I doubt you could even type that with a straight face June 25, 20XX 4:38 PM
Treeboi: Fuck you, Nor. June 25, 20XX 4:39
HotTopicRipoff: So we’re back to nicknames. Two can play at that game... Bush June 25, 20XX 4:40 PM
Treeboi: I’m never dropping that nickname, am I? June 25, 20XX 4:45 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Never XD June 25, 20XX 4:45 PM
Treeboi: Fine, if you get to call me bush I’m continuing to call you Nor. June 25, 20XX 4:50 PM
HotTopicRipoff: That’s fine. I’m just waiting to see your red face when I call you that irl June 25, 20XX 4:51 PM
Treeboi: Wait, you want to meet up? June 25, 20XX 4:52 PM
HotTopicRipoff: I mean if you want to. I would like to meet the person I‘ve been talking with for almost a year and a half June 25, 20XX 4:52 PM
Treeboi: Well, let’s start off with what state we live in and see if we’re even close to each other. I’m in New York. June 25, 20XX 4:53 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Well, that means we’re a maximum of 10 hours apart since I also live in New York June 25, 20XX 4:55 PM
Treeboi: Did you just look that up? June 25, 20XX 4:57 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Did you just look it up to verify? June 25, 20XX 4:57 PM
Treeboi: I plead the fifth. June 25, 20XX 4:57 PM
HotTopicRipoff: XD June 25, 20XX 4:57 PM
Treeboi: Okay more specifically, I’m in Monroe County. June 25, 20XX 4:58 PM
HotTopicRipoff: SMAE! I mean that’s still 663.21 square miles of space, but we may have crossed paths before June 25, 20XX 5:00 PM
HotTopicRipoff: SAME!* June 25, 20XX 5:01 PM
Treeboi: Did you have to look up what county you are in? June 25, 20XX 5:01 PM
HotTopicRipoff: I plead the fifth. June 25, 20XX 5:01 PM
Treeboi: Okay, I have a summer job at Edison Park this year. Do you want to meet up there after my shift? June 25, 20XX 5:02 PM
Treeboi: *Ellison Park not Edison Park. Stupid autocorrect. June 25, 20XX 5:02 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Of course you do bush XD. Sure, what time do you get off June 25, 20XX 5:03 PM
Treeboi: I get off at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, does that work? June 25, 20XX 5:10 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Sure, seya then. Bush. June 25, 20XX 5:10 PM
Connor smiles as he puts his phone down to finish his dinner. “What are you smiling about, idiot?” His face quickly drops at the reminder that he was eating dinner at the table instead of in his room tonight.
“Just drop it, Zoe,” he continued to stare at his dinner knowing he had to finish it before he went up.
“Oh, must be in a good mood you’ve remembered we have names,” she responds dryly.
“Oh shut up. Can I just go up to my room?”
“Not until you finished your meal. You’ve been skipping dinner. The doctor said you need to eat more.” his mom responded.
‘ The doctor said this. The doctor said that. Your therapist wants that. You have to do this. Why can’t they see that the doctors don’t care? As long as you pay them they’ll continue to find something wrong with me. I’m fine! So what if I get angry sometimes? So what if I don’t really like food? It’s not my fault! Why don’t they see that?’ His chair scrapes against the floor. He grabs his fork and plate as he stands up. “I’ll finish it in my room.”
Marching up the stairs to the last bedroom down the hall. The plate of food was quickly forgotten on his desk. Not caring about how the sound of the door hitting the frame startled the other occupants. WHY DON’T THEY GET IT! He plopped down onto his bed, hearing its protest under the sudden force on it, and pulled out his phone to scroll through some app or another not really caring as long as he wasn’t downstairs anymore.
HotTopicRipoff: Hey, yous still up? June 25, 20XX 9:45 PM
Treeboi: Yeah, why? June 25, 20XX 9:50 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Family June 25, 20XX 9:50 pm
Treeboi: Do you want to talk about what happened or just jump on and play Minecraft? June 25, 20XX 9:51 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Mindecraft. June 25, 20XX 9:51 PM
Treeboi: Okay, let go. Your world or mine? June 25, 20XX 9:52 PM
HotTopicRipoff: Yours I destroyed mine earlier June 25, 20XX 9:53 PM
Treeboi: But what about my ender eye I got in yours? June 25, 20XX 9:53 PM
HotTopicRipoff: SOrry/ June 25, 20XX 9:54 PM
Treeboi: You better be, I almost died for that! June 25, 20XX 9:54 PM
Treeboi: I’m jumping on now. See you soon! June 25, 20XX 9:55 PM