LINK ON AO3 || Golden Poppy State - Chapter Two

LINK ON AO3 || golden poppy state - chapter two

Instead, the sight of Cary on screen only serves as fodder for his overactive fantasies. By the halfway point, when the popcorn is long gone, he can't stop imagining himself and Bill in the place of Cary and Alexis Smith, switching places each second so the image never sticks beyond the knowledge of the fact that it's definitely Bill he'd rather see on the screen. More than once throughout the film’s runtime, Jay glances over to Bill to watch the angles of his face lit up under the screen’s light and to take in the way his expressions fold and change in reaction to the story, and he finds it impossibly hard to tear his eyes away.

what level of whipped is it to think your boy best friend looks better than cary grant.