#I want to be MJ and the Wonder Years level bad with Paramore fics

[the-teddy-bear-butch]

YALL

I have been sitting here asking myself why I, Lo, number one Paramore stan, would sell my soul for Paramore tickets, have not written a fic and used a Paramore song for the title

But then I realized the perfect one

FUCKING DUH

Nancy Wheeler who has never seen or experienced true love. Nancy Wheeler who has watched her parents’ loveless marriage crumble, taking Karen with it. Nancy Wheeler who tried to love Steve Harrington and only hurt them both in the process. Nancy Wheeler who tried again with Jonathan, only to find what they shared wasn’t true love and understanding, just a trauma bond. She loses her belief in romance after that. Decides it’s not worth the heartbreak.

Nancy Wheeler who meets Robin Buckley and falls slowly. Nancy Wheeler who has the realization months after the fact, having milkshakes with Robin after the defeat of Vecna, watching this girl through new eyes and realizing oh. Oh. THIS is what life feels like. The hours long phone calls. The nights spent tangled in each other’s beds. Robin doing something so simple, so small and yet so significant as to share her milkshake because they were out of Nancy’s favorite.

That’s love, she realizes. Robin is the exception. Just when Nancy accepts her loneliness, decides she’s content, Robin messes it all up—and Nancy decides it’s worth the risk.