The way you capture the overwhelmed/drowning feeling of the end of a semester is so authentic and visceral - takes me right back. Your poor brain is trying to handle so much - class material, sure, but also new ideas, new social practices, new emotions, new life skills, new causes and passions... All of this is tangled together so beautifully here. All I can say is POOR ALEX - it's bitterly unfair that you can make a superhuman effort but still come up short. The bar for immigrants is just so much higher and it's not right.
Laf, you are a hero among friends, and you totally deserved your I-told-you-so moment!
I am so happy that John was the one who initiated the kiss, That feels right. He's so overcome by love here, and not just the romantic kind - just overall love that someone cares enough about him to do something as massive as the whole house thing. My heart. I'm just going to leave it here because every time I try to take it back you just snatch it away again.
Way to go, giving us the sweetest possible kiss just so you can frying-pan us over the head with the news about the bill. And hang on, does John actually know that Alex is undocumented and would be affected by the law?? I seem to recall he's still in the dark there. Hoo boy...
Somehow, though, I think it's all going to... work out.
Oh my gosh, this fic has made me so nostalgic for college, I can hardly breathe! Even that overwhelming end of semester feeling - I miss being in academia! Ah well. I can just let my characters live it for me.
I knew all along it had to be John who initiated things - and not just because of his history. And thank you - you're exactly spot on! It's not just romantic. My poor boy John has rarely experienced love and support and care like this, and it was absolutely overwhelming to him.
And yeah, John definitely still doesn't know about Alex's situation. We'll see how that plays out! Thank you again - you're amazing!
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